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Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Juno 24, 1953 (Wednesday)
Confirmation that Secretary
of State Earl T. Newbry will
be a candidate (or the Repub
lican nomination (or governor
in IVOt luuuncu un esrciuia-
tion today as to who will be
his opponent!..
Mann'i Department store of
ficials announced today that
1.. 1. !.,,. ,IIU Ik ,4n nnl.
icy of furnlihing latest and
up-to-date merchandise they
have added a television de
partment, to bo located on the
lower floor, .
, 20 YEARB AGO
June 24, 1943 (Wednesday)
; Riverside USO to open Sun
day,
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: "There
are onlv 120.000 cases of lla-
uor left In the Oregon supply.
Old Paw Hubbard reached for
his hip pocket and found noth
ing there."
30 YEARS AGO
June 24, 1933 (Friday) '
Nearly 1,000 CCC enrollees
arrive for assignments in this
area.
County taxes show decrease
past year. . , , , t
40 YEARS AGO
June 24, 1923 (Saturday)
Contract let for building of
' bridge across Applegate river
at Applegate.
Kitten ball league may be
formed In city.
: SO YEARS AGO
' Juno 24, 1913 (Monday)
' European scientists to visit
.Crater lake and inspect for-
' csts.
Postal Telegraph enlarges
office in Nash hotel building.
What's Your I.Q.?
. Nina or fee correct It euparleri
.seven or elaftt la eiceltentl live
il ll food.
1. Docs the U.S. produce
. 25, SO, or 73 per cent of the
world s sulpherT
2. Four states border on
Lake Erie: name them.
a. (.avboliydratcs are
found in what food sub
stances?
, 4. Did President Truman
ever have a face to face con
ference with Stalin?
5. What part of speech
must always agree in number
and person with its subject?
6. Of these three Islands
In the Mediterranean, which
is the largest: Sicily, Sardin
ia. Crete?
: 7. Is the recognized name
; for Persia now Iraq cr Iran?
8. Obcrammergau is most
famous for what?
0. Name the famous Kan
sas newspaper editor who was
known as "The Sage of Em
.porla.
10. Correct the following
"Each of us have our own
problems."
V Antwtrsi I. ?S per cent. I,
Ohio, Pennsvvenla, Michigan,
Naw York. 3. Sugar and
starch. 4. Yes (Potsdam), ft,
Verb. (. Sicily. T. Iran I. The
Passion Play. 9. William Al
Ion Whits. 10. " . . . has his
problems. -
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Strengthening the Churches
There is considerable evidence at least some
churchmen believe the ruling of the U. S. Su
preme Court last week regarding religious obser
vances in pulic schools will be a longe-range boon
to the nation's churches.
The ruling should strengthen, not weaken,
American religion.
The court's ruling was not unexpected. The
eight justices who signed the majority opinion
were true to the American constitution and to the
court's previous decisions on related matters.
e e o o o
THIS NATION HAD, at last count, 258 differ
ent religious sects, and even then nearly 70
million American people have no formal affilia
tion with any religious group. In view of these
facts no other court ruling was possible. 1 here
was no other manner of preserving the freedom
of conscience of our people, and preserving the
constitutional separation of church and state.
There are some things the court's decisions
does, and some things it does not do. Among
the latter:
1. The court does not prohibit the reading of
the Bible in the study of literature or history in
public schools.
2. The court does not impair the right of any
American in or out of school to pray and read
the Bible.
Message To Congress
W
HAT THE court decision does do is to :
1. Curb the authority of public officials
in the area of religion, just as they are curbed in
many other areas by the constitution.
2. Prohibit authorities from selecting a prayer
and requiring it to be &aid in schools. Nor can
they require regular ceremonial reading of the
Bible.
There has been, in recent years, a tendency
for some churchmen to use schools as a crutch.
The court's decision will once again bring the
proper relationship between church and state into
clear focus.
IN THIS CONNECTION a recent policy position
- of the Presbyterian church is w o r t h y of
some note. Adopted prior to the court's ruling,
the Presbyterian statement puts that church
firmly into the position of advocating further
separation between church and state.
The Presbyterians expressed their belief that
Bible reading and organized prayer in school is
wrong. Even if it is not wrong, they say, it's not
a worthwhile religious exercise.
Ihe church expressed concern over tax
exemption for church properties, and said
churches should seek some method of making
i..:u..a.I i i i . it i
cunuiuuiiuim to guvernmeni in neu 01 laxcs.
THE REMOVAL OF religious observances such
s prayers oeiore luncn and onenirur
prayers, irom the public schools should serve to
strengthen religion in this country, rather than
weaken it.
The court's decision should help spur a stronrr
eiiurty uy me entireties 10 give religion a cieeper
J ,1 B M 11 ,1 ,. , .
meaning in me iamny ana nome man it nas had
in many families and many homes in recent years.
And it this can be done our churches will all
be better off than they are at present. The Bul
letin, Bend. '
Man the Predator
Looking cautiously into the future the late
Carl Jung once said that we had nothing to fear
except man.
Man is the giant predator. In a brief historical
period of rapicity. he can d e s t r o v the natural
riches that millions of years have created.
It would be foolish to dismiss this destruction
as only carelessness or ignorance. For we face a
fact of awesome size. The natural growth of
human popuation makes natural demands on
natural resources. Three billion people in the
world will be six billion in 2,000 and their needs
will be incalculable. Brooks Atkinson in the
New York Times.
Commercials
To the Editor: Radio an
nouncers are very gracious.
They warn listeners of com
mercials to come, so that they
may use that precious minute
to do some little chore. Many
minutes a day are saved in
this way. A few examples:
One moment, please.
I'll be back in a moment.
More news after this mes
sage.
Now listen to this.
Just one moment.
Hint to housewives and oth
ers: Learn to time yourselves.
Question: What in your
opinion would be the ideal
number of commercials per
hour?
David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Big Project
Most of the attention paid to the United Na
tions is paid to the news of conflict, what "they"
say about "us and what we say about "them.
However, much of the real worth of the oriran
ization lies in its daily, uiulramatic programs for
a better world. A case m point is the UN s pro
posed campaign to reduce illiteracy.
In the United States few realize the true
magnitude of the illiteracy problem. More than
700 million people, probably half of all the adults
in the world, are illiterate. In Haiti and Sudan,
0 per cent of the people are illiterate. Other
countries w here more than two-thirds of the
adults are illiterate include Afghanistan, Paki
stan, Iran, India, Turkey and the United Arab
Kepublic.
I TNESCO, WHICH IS promoting the attack on
w illiteracy, thinks that within 10 years two
thirds of the world's illiterates can be taught to
read and write. The program would cosi just
snoiT. oi oiiuon.
It has Hlways been essential to decrease illiter
acy if the 8 1 a n d a r d of living is to be raised.
Illiteracy and poverty always go hand in hand.
So do poverty and unrest
But the urgency of the problem is greater now.
So many of these illiterates vote, helping guide
thea programs of new and potentially powerful
nations, Eugene Register-Guard.
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iiisji 1 1 -tsj L-g-st
Foreign News: Kennedy-Adenauer Talks;
Tory Outlook Dim; Japanese Politics
Br PHIL NEWSOM
UP1 Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign news
cables:
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer,
althouoh 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 the contrary Is often the case.
citizens is treated as if he
were almost human.
You can have $1,000 in the
bank, own your own home,
automobile, cows, chickens,
hogs and what have you, and
you can make up to $1,200
above your pension and you
are not penalized, and what
you own does not go to the
stale when you die. And there
is no snooping to see if you
had a few bucks left out of
your last check.
I go along with the educa
tional program in Oregon 100
per cent, but don't forget the
Senior Citizens are here too,
and like segregation will have
to be reckoned with sooner
or later.
Ray Prichard,
414 South First st.,
Central Point, Ore.
Kennedy Trip
France's President Charles
de Gaulle wiU seek to pull
some of the sting out of Presi-
ident- Kenne-
dy's trip to
Europe when
the gen eral
visits Bonn
July 4 and 3
- after Kenne-
ix." I y leaves, ue
I VsJi I Gaulle will
I 57 1 I try to con
vince me uer
H" mans that
their real interests lie with
Europe rather than with the
United States. However,
French officials concede that
Oe Gaulle will be talking
somewhat in a vacuum since
there is no guarantee that
Chancellor Konrad Adenau
er's successors will follow the
line laid down by the old
man before he Is forced into
retirement in the fall,
British Outlook
The poor Tory electoral
outlook has caused dissident
Conservatives to rally around
embattled Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan. But look
for Macmillan to step down,
probably just before next Oc
tober's annual Conservative
party conference, in order to
make way for a new leader
to take the party into the
general election which must
be held before October, 1964.
Young, 48-year-old Chancellor
of the Exchequer Reginald
Maudling is now the front
runner in this contest. But
this edge could turn quickly
in favor of Deputy Prime Min
ister R. A. Rab) Butler or,
more remotely, Lord Hail-
sham, lord president of the
council and minister of sci
ence. Look for Macmillan to
Strictly Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fo Field Enterprises, inc.
Prayers and Smoking
To the Editor: We hear so
much of Evangelist Billy Gra
ham s criticism of the Su
preme Courts decision on
prayers in public schools, lie
must have read Dr. Norman
Vincent Pealc's book "The
Power of Positive Thinking."
How else could he get that
way?
He says, "I am shocked at
the supreme court's decision.
Prayers and Bible reading
have been a part of American
public school life since the
Pilgrim's landed at Plymouth
Rock. Now a Supreme court
in 1063 says our fathers were
all wrong all these years." If
that proves anything, accord
ing to his line of reasoning,
then the fact that white men
had made slaves of the black
people and have mistreated
them so badly all these years
must make that right, too.
It is tills form of immatu
rity which our courts contin
uously have to remedy to pre
serve the freedoms that our
fore-fathers fought to gain in
the first place. In my opinion
the insisting on prayers in
public schools can be com
on smoking in someone's
home when he knows these
people don't care to smoke
themselves, nor to inhale the
smoke from those who do. He
is free to smoke somewhere
else, but he is so selfish, he
reasons that anyone who
doesn't like his smoking can
leave the room.
John P. Glascom.
Route 1. Box 310-B,
Central Point, Ore.
Youth Incorporated
To the Editor: The office
for Youth Incorporated is now
open at 7 South Bartletl
street, and the phone is 773-
6154.
As you know, youths, this
is your organization and you
arc supposed to run it and
make it a success. The adults
are there to help you get
started, and then you will
do the job yourself with
adults ready to help you when
needed,
We had a boy do some work
for us and will say he was a
real gentleman and so good a
worker we paid him a bonus.
All efforts of youth that
have been sent out by Youth
Inc. have brought back good
reports.
So, men and women, we ask
you to give Youth Inc. a try
So fur we had good re
sponse from boys but not so
good from girls, so ladies, do
try to give the girls a boost.
P. G. Pederscn
701 North Modoc ave.
Medford.
Colorado Senior Citistns
To the Editor: Enjoyed your
editorial on Colorado, 621,
very much. I spent 30 years
of my 67 in and around Den
ver, Golden and Greeley. I
agree with you wholeheart
edly on the newspapers in
Colorado. There Is not a news
paper in the state that ran
compare with the Medford
Mail Tribune.
SOLEMNITY
One of the Interesting psy
chological sidelights on Gor
don Cooper's space flight is
that he nearly
didn't get to
make it. After
his flight was
s u c c e ssfully
completed, a
u, I r p sprvice
t story from
Cape Canaver
al reported:
"His kidding
Harna on the ground
since the program started is
such that some of the humor
less members of the National
Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration were against his
selection for such a serious
assignment. It was only the
"strong intercession of oln
crs, the story went on, that
eventualy won him the assign
ment. 1
It is a common mistake of
ponderous and humorless men
to equate mere soimenuy
with "seriouncss." The Rev.
Sydney Smith, one of the wit
tiest and most erudide clergy
men of his time, once explain.
ed why he never attained a
bishopric while inferior men
did: " I sink by my levity," he
marked, "while others rise by
their gravity."
In our lime, Bernard
Shaw was pot haps the
most deadly serious of writ
ers yet in many quarters
he was considered flippant
and frivolous because he
wrote in sardonic and hu
morous manner. At the oth
er end of the philosophic
spectrum, G. K. Chesterton
was long suspect tor his
mirth, while being a pas
sionate and profound religi
ous commentator.
"A solemnity of behav
ior." wrote La Rochefou
cauld, "is often a trick to
diguise the deficiencies of
the mind." Most of the serious-sounding
men I have lis-
Tax Relerendum
To the Editor: I wonder
how many voters, especially
those on very limited Incomes,
are familiar with the provi
sions of the asinine tax bill
passed by those bright shining
lights in Salem.
It this bill is the best they
could come up with after 141
days of nuidslinging, the good
Lord only knows what they
will hatch up if allowed to
return. Frankly, if I had a
two-year-old with such tend
encies I'd be tempted to stake
him out with the pigs till he
gut over it.
This bill is designed to
catch everyone, regardless of
how small their income, as it
applies to all income which
will be taxed from the first
dollar, and added to that is a
$S filing fee. The $500 per
sonal, the credit for Federal
tuxes, in fact all exemptions
went down the drain so a
tumi'.y of five will be taxed
Mcrifnrd l a small c.tv
comparatively speaking, with ; the same as a single person
a newspaper mat any c 1 1 y
should be proud of. I am not
saying that I always agree
with you for I don't. I have
been unhappy with you sev
eral times. But good news
papermen like good poli
ticians don't "always" say
what they think.
Yes, water Is what keep
Mr. Howard, publisher of
the Albany Greater Oregon
weekly, has filed a referen
dum petition in Salem so if
Mark-O doesn't act on the bill
by June 26 he plans on get
ting enough signatures to
place il on a relerendum to
be voted on O- t. 15.
I hope ihosc who read this
Colorado green and most otj '" Interested enough to
the time there U plenty of " " "m ou,,,k- w.r"B '"r;
water. They always start cry
log before they are hurt. You
Howard for a petition, and
have all the friends and neigh
y perhaps we don't know ! rs "gn il. As Sept. 2 is the
how lucky we are in Oregon
that a majority of news
papers, despite disagreements
on other matters, support
education and educational ex
cellence at all levels. That is
fine, but I will tell you what
deadline, quick action is es
sential. Claude M. Hall
2860 Placer rd.
Sunny Valley. Ore.
Consistency! ,
To the t'ditor: Consistency
Colorado has that Oregon has been called a great virtue,
does not haw. and I doubt This section of the paper re
very much it It ever has any , veals the opposite condition
thing to compare with Colo-quite consistently,
rado's senior cltuens pro- In the Thursday. June 20.
gram. In Colorado senior I issue, an Editor's note states
British Demand
Recall of Czech
London -HOT- The British
Foreicn Office announced to
day it is demanding the re
call of a Czech diplomat for
attcmDtcd csDionaee.
A Foreign Office spokesman
said Parliamentary Undersec
retary for Foreign Affairs Pe
ter Thomas summoned Czech
Ambassador Zdcnek Trhlik to
the Foreign Office and de
manded the recall from Lon
don of Third Secretary Pre-
mysl Holan.
The spokesman said the re
call was demanded on the
grounds "Mr. Holan had been
detected in trying to persuade
a member of the public to ob
tain secret Information.
toned to, in various fields,
have used solemnity to con
ceal their po v e r t y of
thought; they apparently
feel that a heaviness of man
ner masks an emptiness of
substance.
There is no more serious,
educator in the United
States than Robert M.
Hutchins nor one who has
given deeper thought to the
basic problems of education
in a democratic society. But
because he has been a wise
cracker, an irreverent step,
per on academic toes, he has
sometimes been dismissed
as the mere Peck's Bad Boy
of education.
"A monkey looks terribly
serious and thoughtful," he
once said. "But the monkey is
just thinking where to scratch
himself next.
Mark Twain suffered much
the same fate for many years,
and was regarded as little
more than a high-grade parlor
entertainer, because of his
irony and jokes; while some
of the dullest and stuffiest
writers of his period were re
garded with hushed venera
tion for their pompous platt
tudes. At his life's end, he felt
quite bitter about this evalua
tion.
Many men who seem to be
taking their subjects seriously
are simply taking themselves
seriously; they cannot afford
the luxury of laughter, which
would threaten to shatter fa
cade of their false dignity,
Solemnity is not an intellect
tual weapon, but a psychologi
cal armor.
work especially hard on get
ting a United States Soviet -British
nuclear pact which
would do two things: one, cap
his long drive for peace-througb-summitry
and shine
up his tarnished political
name, and, two, aid Tory po
litical fortunes.
Japanese Politics
Eisaku Sato, brother of for
mer Japanese Prime Minister
Nobusuke Kishi, has been
mentioned for the past year
and longer as Japan's next
prime minister. Sato's drive
for power, which is expected
to culminate in the campaign
for the Conservative party
presidency a year from now.
was accelerated with his re
cent statement demanding a
party conference before next
months annual cabinet re
shuffle. He also has demand
ed clarification of the party's
alleged election law violations
in the recent Tokyo mayoral
ty campaign and has criticized
Prime Minister Hayato Ike-
the one hand, the statement
alienated Ikeda and a lot of
party regulars. On the other,
it kept Sato in the public eye
and helped him with some of
the younger party men.
Buddhist Riots
No final settlement has
been reached between South
Viet Nam's Roman Catholic
President Ngo Dinh Diem and
the Buddhist majority of his
countrymen, who object to
what they consider restrictive
measures against their reli
gious freedom. Observers in
Saigon put the chances of an
other outbreak of ritual sui
cides or rioting, or both, at
better than even.
Hassan Visit
This week's state visit to
Paris by King Hassan II of
Morocco will mark a further
strengthening of French influ
ence in North Africa. Hassan,
who is due in the French cap
ital Wednesday, is likely to
leave with promises of addi
tional French economic and
da's low interest policy. On I technical aid.
A Soviet Challenge j j
We Must Meet, Baby
By Arthur Hoppe fil-n
Somewhere o-er Utah
Greetings, Comrade President,
from inner space. I look for
ward to embracing you, John
Fitzgerald, when I descend to
stand once more on the soil
of our great Washington, D.C.
Please shave.
As I sit here strapped to
the seat of my Boeing jet air
liner (tourist class), I am filled
with pride at the goal I have
set for me: to meet the new
Soviet challenge and rendez
vous high above the earth
with a true American woman.
Already, Comrade Presi
dent, I have made my first
historic attempt as she passed
close to my position. And
while it is still too early to
announce success, I have high
hopes. For she has opened
communications with me in
these epic words which will
be remembered by posterity:
"Coffee, tea or milk?"
Somewhere over Nebraska-
I am proud to report, Com
rade John Fitzgerald, that our
mission is proceeding accord
ing to plans. I, a true Ameri
can man, have her under con
stant observation. And I say
with patriotic pride that she
is a typical American woman.
About 36-24-36, I would esti
mate. And her trim tan uni
form is not alien to her beauty.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
news as this is writ-
The
ten?
There's nothing very excit
ing. So let's talk about tourists.
It's really quite an important
topic. If we could induce all
the tourists who will visit us
this summer to stay just ONE
DAY longer in Oregon, we
could add somewhere In the
neighborhood of SIXTY MIL
LION dollars to our state's
economy.
We could use the money.
that a certain letter submit
ted by a man in the Butte
Falls area cannot be printed
in this column because it
would use the Main Tribune
to express "vicious and pos
sibly libelous sentiments
about members of his commu
nity. Yet a few weeks ago the
editor of this paper defended
in the name of freedom of the
press a controversial novel
which places Jesus Christ on
the level of a sex pervert.
If Jesus Christ were one of
the residents of the Butte
Falls community would thi-.
paper defend the circulation
of a book which contains, and
1 quote, "vicious and possibly
libelous sentiments" about
Him? Would we have an
equal right under our free
dom of the press to circulate
novels that impugn and slan
der the characters of George
Washington and Abraham
Lincoln because they are not
here in person to take us to
court on the grounds of libel?
O consistency-how rare,
and how precious!
Duane M. Corwin,
30 Portland ave.
Medford.
THIS year's slogan is WEL
COME TO OREGON.
The major gateways to Oregon-meaning
the 18 highway
entrances by which tourists
will enter our state-have been
painted with the green Wel
come mat, which you must
have noticed if you have driv
en across Oregon's borders
within recent days. In addi
tion, Welcome to Oregon
signs and displays are going
up at air, bus and train ter
minals. All of our major news and
advertising media have enter
ed whole-heartedly into the
project with donated time and
space. Eight outdoor adver
tising firms have DONATED
64 billboard spaces for the
summer. Daily and weekly
newspapers are telling of Ore
gon's attractions. Ninety ra
dio stations arc using daily
in their programs the attract
ive little jingle WELCOME to
OREGON that tinkles so
pleasingly in the ear.
Oregon's ten TV stations
will soon be in the act.
'What can I
YOU may ask
do?"
II
You can do a lot.
4
ow?
Well, just keep alive to
every possible opportunity to
step up to a tourist who looks
like he may not know just
what to do and where to go
to do it. and in your friend
liest and most hospitable man
ner WELCOME HIM TO
OREGON.
Just be courteous and
friendly. Make the visitor to
our state feel that you are
genuinely delighted because
i
to
he has come to Oregon
spend his vacation.
Just treat our tourist vis
itors as you would like to be
treated when you are touring
elsewhere. That will help-immensely.
Tourists are people,
and people like to fcer that
they are, welcome.
A NOIHER way to help:
" Write to your friends.
Tell them about Oregon -
especially about lovely South
ern Oregon.
nuT-
" You may say
Why should I go out of my
way to help bring tourists to
Oregon? I'm not in any busi
ness that caters to tourists?
How will bringing more tour
ists to Oregon help ME?
TRY this little experiment:
Unscrew your fountain
pen. Squeeze a drop of ink
from it into a glass of water.
Then watch how rapidly the
ink SPREADS through the
water in the glass.
Tourist dollars spread in
the same way.
Somewhere over Dubuque
We are in sporadic communi
cation, Comrade President, on
technical matters. "Please fas
ten your seat belt, sir," she
has advised me.
And: "Lower your tray,
please, sir." I can only say
at this point that I will do
my humble best for the great
er glory of the Republic of
the United States.
Somewhere over Kalama
soo - I have asked her, Com
rade President, if I may call
her "Valya."
She replied that this would
be unwise, primarily because
her name is "Miss Heggens
worth, sir." I wish to report
that, undaunted, I made four
more tentative passes at Miss
Heggensworth. Unfortunately,
I have now exceeded my ca
pacity for coffee, tea or milk.
Somewhere over Toledo
My blood pressure, pulse and
respiration have risen alarm
ingly. It was on the 24th pass.
Miss Heggensworth advised
me to "stop blocking the
aisle.". I was not, Comrade
President, blocking the aisle.
I was leaving sufficient room
for her to squeeze by. Barely.
You will notice, too, that sha
has stopped calling me "sir."
Somewhere over Wheeling
I regret to report, Comrade
John Fitzgerald, that despite
my heroic efforts we are still
miles apart. There is a grave
error in her attitude which
is creating havoc with my
calculations. I feel I must im
press on her the crucial im
portance of meeting this new
Soviet challenge. The outcome
of the entire cold war, I will
warn her, rests solely on her.
And me. Together. '
Descending into Washing
ton - I must advise you. Com
rade President, not to meet
me on my landing as planned.
For we have failed in our
mission. Allow me to repeat
her last message before she
broke off communications:
"What are you, some kind of
Nut?"
But I feel that from my
failure. Comrade President,
we have learned much of val
ue. For Miss Heggensworth
also advised me that true
American men have been at
tempting to rendezvous high
above the earth with true
American women in uniforms
for years and years. Or, as
she put it in her own words:
"There's always one of you
on every flight, Mac."
So have confidence, Com
rade President: This is one
field where we've got the Rus
sians beat all hollow.
"As one young American to another, I'd like Is
apologise for some ef the members of my race!"