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SUNDAY. JUKt 30. 183 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON i i I i. i -KvirroM la aoutaern Oregon r.ui. Ttu Mall Tribune Published Dally except Ssturdsjr bjf MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North rirtPn7,i-l "DnoinT is R1THI. Editor HERB GREY Advertutna Martens CERAUJ T LATHAMru. Wr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Mn. ealtor EARL H ADAM ww ""i HARRY CHU-BA ItW M' RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHEB Women's MUM nALEEBICKSON. Circulation Mgr ATtadependent Newspspei Entered second den matter M Medford Oreion under Act of March 3, 189' . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance 'ally and Sundey-1 "' Daily and Sunday- moe 10.00 Dall and Sunday-3 moe. J M Sunday Oniy-pne year IS 00 Sinfle Copy (Malledl ' By earner And Motor "outa. Dally and Sunday I year $21 JO Dally and Sunday 1 me-. Ijs Sunday Only I mo. 9 Carrier and Vendors Copy 10c OlflcUTrsper of City ol Md'nrd OHIclalPaper of Jacsaoa County United Press International lull Leased Wire g p Telephoto Nswptcturee ATES Otlcea in New York. CM caeo Detroit. San rrenclsco. Los Angelis? Seattle. Portland Denver. VJJJ-aIiociation NATION a I EDITOIIA1 Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of The Mall Tflbuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 30, 19S3 (Tuesday) Th office of the Oregon Cooperative Snow Surveys, which has been in Medford since the surveys were estab lished, will be moved to Portland. Construction ol the trans mitter for television station KBE3 la on schedule; it Is planned to put a test pattern on the air for the first time early In July. 20 YEARS AGO June 30, 1143 (Wednesday) Tomorrow will be an inv nortant day tn the lives of Medford canines; after today they will be allowed to run at lane. Jackson county's budget for 1943-44 accepted as proposed at a public hearing In the courthouse at which no one appeared except county oltl cials. 30 YEARS AGO June 30. 1933 (Friday) Prlmo Camera, heavy weight champion, defeats Jack Sharkey. Local apricots to be ready in 10 days. 40 YEARS AGO June 30, 1923 (Saturday) Southern Oregon Rodeo at Klamath Falls, July 2, 3 and 4, to offer $4,000 in cash prizes and 700 bucking horses and bulls. The new F. P. Straw Gas Refining machine, which re duces straw, aawdust or rub bish to a high grade gas for cooking, heating, lighting, and power has been Introduced in this area. SO YEARS AGO June 30. 1913 (Monday) . Becauso the Rogue valley has the most advanced mcliv ods in fruit raising In the world, Dr. V. P. Nelmeti of the department of agriculture of Russia, asks for a descrip tion of methods of spraying and pruning, so that he can in struct his people. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan carract n tueerler; seven or slant Is Snellen!; tie at sis Is food. 1. Name the capital of Washington state. 2. An unexpected legacy, profit, or other piece of mone tary good fortune is called 1? 3. Against which country was the slogan, "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tributu", directed? 4. Which city Is nicknamed "The City of Roses"? 8. The name of the 1082 World's Fair was what? 6. What State does Barry Goldwater represent In the Senate? 7. The term "great white plague" la applied to what disease? 8. A clock ticks more loud ly when lying on a flat sur face than if standing up; true or false? 8. Name the capital of For tugal. 10. David and Bathsheba were the parents of whom? Answerst 1. O 1 y m p I a. 2 Windfall. 3. France. 4. Port land. Ore. 5. "Century 21.' t. Arisona. 7. Tuberculosis, I. True. 9. Lisbon. 10. Solo mon. The Undiscovered Bourne How does one ever reconcile himself to the inevitability of death? The omnipresent question was given startling immediacy a week ago last Tuesday when we learned of the death of the young Air Force officer from Kingsley Field whom we had known slightly. We sat next to Capt. Harold H. Smith at the dinner honoring Sen. Barry Goldwater a few weeks ago. Seldom have we met such a vital, totally "alive" person. He was interested in his job, devoted to his family and absolutely fasci nated with the outdoors of Oregon. One day about two weeks ago his Voodoo jet developed trouble during a flight near Sprague River. His radar observer parachuted to safety, but Captain Smith's body was found a short distance from the wreck of his plane. e e e e e WE WOULD not presume on so brief an ac quaintance to say that his death was a deep personal loss, for it wasn't. We were shocked mainly, perhaps, because if ever someone was livine life to its fullest, and enjoying every min ute of it, it was that young officer. Nearly on the instant of reading the news paper account of his death, we were moved nav. impelled to consider once again what a totally haphazard matter this business of dying really is. Man has always, we suppose, attempted to discover some rhyme or reason to why certain people die untimely ("only the good die young"), while others, by common judgment much less worthy, continue to live a normal allotted span. But the frustrating answer seems to be that there really is no explanation to it all. It would seem, at least from a mortal point of view, a situation of complete happenstance. CINCE it is, obviously, an eventuality that all men of all times have had to deal with, the various civilizations, cultures and religions the world has known have all worked out individual answers (perhaps "responses" is a better word) to the dilemma. It is not our purpose here to survey those widely differing attitudes toward death, but rath er to point out that most of them have been pre mised on the notion that his last breath on earth is not necessarily the end of the individual. Valhalla, the Elysian fields, the "Happv Hunt ing Grounds" are all creations born of man's necessity to be able to confront the prospect of death with equanimity. Mostly, it Beems, man has need of a convic tion of the possibility of a "new" life to help him pass out of this one with poise, Too, the hope of an afterlife is often used in some cultures as a lever to encourage moral conduct during life on earth. 1X7HEN for some reason a culture fails to pro vide an afterlife, efforts are frequently di rected towards making death appear to be a phenomenon that need not be feared. The Roman poet Lucretius, whose irreligious philosophy had some currency during the transi tion period between the decline of belief in the old adopted Greek gods and the Impending rise of Christianity, summed up his point of view in a poem entitled "Why Fear Death; " We quote m part: "But to be snatched from all the household joys, From thy chaste wife, and thy dear prattling boys, Whose little arms about thy legs arc cast, And climbing for a kiss prevent their mother's haste, Inspiring secret pleasure through thy breast Ah! these shall be no more: thy friends oppressed Thy care and courage now no more shall free; Ah 1 wretch, thou criest, ah I miserable me ! One woeful day sweeps children, friends, and wife, And all the brittle blessings of my life! Add one thing more, and all thou sayest is true; Thy want and wish of them is vanished too: Which, well considered, were a quick relief To all thy vain imaginary grief. For thou shalt sleep, and never wake again, And, quitting life, shalt quit thy living pain." "Never Mind the Fine Print, Son - How Would You Like To Win That Girl?" GREAT IDEAS... l From the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler 1963, Publishers Newspaper Syndicate Mi EiTLJ Matter of Fact joPh au lei New York Herald Tr;bune Syndicate Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann 1003, The Waihineton Post THE PRESIDENT IN GERMANY Tne President's German speeches must have been pre pared as a scries which was to reach a 1 o g 1 cal and dramatic c 1 i max in West Berlin. At the airport near C o 1 ogne and In his press conference at Bonn, Mr. Kennedy talk- Llppmana ed to the Old Guard in Germany. He did his best to convince Dr. Ade nauer and his followers that the United States in general and he as President are relia ble - which for the Old Guard means that not only are we prepared to defend West Ger many with nuclear arms, but also that the United States will give West Germany the veto on any negotiations about Germany. After this opening phase of reassurance to the Old Guard, the second phase took place in the address on Tuesday at the Paulsktrche In Fra n k f u r t. Here the President was calling upon the liberal opposition, which Dr. Erhard represents, to look abroad across the Eng lish Channel and across the Atlantic Ocean. In the third and climactic phase, at the Free University in West Berlin, the President himself looked across the Iron curtain. In words that derive from Pope John, the Presi dent looked forward to "rec onclllation" and then, assum ing to speak for the West said that, provided the Com munist states do not interfere with freedom of other states, we arc not hostile to any people or system. INDEED, in some cultures, death under certain conditions, such as on the battlefied, has been glorified to such an extent that it is actively sought, or at least approached without the slight est evidence of dread. Probably the best con temporary example of this were the Japanese K'amilr!i7a nllnra .In, U,',.l 4 Mr.,., it ... im.w fitwio timing iiui m n ft ii. Whatever the a priori intellectual set, what ever emotional preparation the deceased may have had before he died, one thing is certain. The pain of death is with the quick who must go on living and not with the dead. And while it is no consolation to someone who is suffering from the knife-edced iain o losing a dear one, it is also certain that life always goes on. And death, however one regards it comes to be for the mature person just another part of lite. u.H.B. A P a WAS, of course, unavold- blc that In none of the speeches was there a hint of how reassurance, llberaliza lion and the reconciliation arc to be brought about. In his news conference, the Presl dent seemed to Imply that the solution of the practical prob lems was not near enough to talk about it. For the reunlfi cation of Germany, he seemed to rely on "time." For the reunification of Europe, he relied on "the winds of change." But the real difficulty in making a western policy for the unification of Germany and of Europe is not that these problems are vague and dis tant and shrouded in the fog of Eastern Europe and Com munist Russia. The real diffi culty Is that there Is an un- THE UTOPIANS Dear Dr. Adlert What did the framars of Utopian so cieties inland to prove by their theories? War they applauded or viewed with alarm? What have been the main arguments for and against Utopian thought? Are there any Utopian thinkers at tha present time? Mrs. Eileen Sharps 1207 W. 97th st Chicago 43. 111. resolved conflict in the West ern Alliance over whether the Initiative shall lie in Paris, with the support of Bonn, or in Washington. e e BECAUSE the President was , acutely aware of the fact that his leadership of the West is challenged, he could not and did not go beyond ideals and his general assurances to any kind of definition of the policy which might achieve what he Is talking about. - The fact is that there can be no definition of a Euro pean policy without an under standing with General De Gaulle. For there is not the smallest evidence that the cheering German crowd means that there is In West Germany the will or the pow er or the political courage to challenge General De Gaulle's primacy on the western con tinent. And even if there were such an inclination on the part of the Germans, France's strategic position and econom ic power are such that she is an essential partner in any Western Alliance. The President, who was walking a slippery path, was sure - footed in Bonn and Frankfurt, and he was bold in Berlin. But there is less doubt than ever that a seri ous discussion of transatlan tic affairs will have to lie between Washington and Paris. see BEFORE such a discussion could become profitable, the President will have to dispel the idea that our con ception of Europe and of the Atlantic Community is bound in the end to prevail over the false ideas of General Dc Gaulle. It is intoxicating to believe that the tides of his tory are with you, that you are the wave of the future. But history is not often a sure thing, and men living amidst it rarely know which way it is going. General De Gaulle, who has now acquired a very im portant following all over Western Europe, may not be, as the administration likes to think, a mere voice of the past. For while his haughti ness and elegance are by mod ern standards archaic, his Judgment about the cold war and his estimate of the role of alliances in the nuclear age may be prophetic. For myself, I have come to think more and more that the revival of the Western Alliance depends upon a very good understanding of the new ideas that are coming out of France. Dear Mrs. Sharpe: Utopia the ideal state of human af fairs has been a perennial theme of Western thinkers ever since Plato's day. Through their descriptions of Imaginary societies, authors have presented their views of the imperfection of our pres ent state and how it should be changed. Plato's "Republic", for example, provides a mag nificent vision of the good society, in which justice and harmony pervade the indi vidual soul and the political community. This type of literature is more closely connected with speculative thought than with entertaining romances of the science-fiction variety. The Utopian thinker has a defi nite idea of the nature of man and society, of what they can be and should be, but are not now. Hence, he presents us, not in abstract theory, but in concrete imagery, with a fic tional society which embo dies human reality more fully than the actual society in which we live. The argument for Utopian writings is that they enable us to get a fresh picture of man's nature and destiny, un distorted by our customary way of looking at things. The Utopians do not describe how human affairs are conducted in Athens or Podunk, but how they might be handled in Utopia, which literally means "nowhere." This is a true pic ture of the human commu nity, says the Utopian, not as it is today, but as it may be tomorrow or the day after to morrowin "the journey of ten thousand years. The opposition to Utopian thought is also of ancient lineage. Aristophanes wrote a play making fun of Plato's Utopian ideas of feminine equality and communism Rabelais, Swift, Aldous Hux ley, and George Orwell have also contributed satires to the anti-Utopian tradition. The burden of these works is that Utopian thinkers pre sent an unrealistic and un realizable picture of man and society. In striving for an irn possible imperfection, they achieve instead a ridiculous or horrible state, much worse than before. It Is better, says the anti-Utopians, to start out from the customary way of doing things and work for their improvement rather than to attempt to imitate some imaginary ideal. Karl Marx's criticism of the nineteenth - century Utopian socialists, such as Fourier, Proudhon, and Owen, was somewhat different. He agreed with them that a per fectly free and equal society can be established in which man will achieve perfect ful fillment of his capacities. But he considered them unrealis tic visionaries because they proposed to accomplish this purely through voluntary and pontancous activity, inspired by reason and justice. Marx, on the contrary, held that the new age would come through inevitable historical processes, determined by ma terial forces, and marked by cataclysmic wars and revolu tions. He himself, however, was open to the charge of be ing Utopian, since he pointed to a state of affairs that had never existed and which re quired a radical change In hu man nature. The death of Utopian think ing in the past few decades has alarmed reactions from commentators who feel that this points to a dangerous lack of vision in our age of con formity and affluence. One noted or notorious present day Utopian thinker is Paul Goodman, a sort of post- Freudian Thoreau. In a re cent work, "Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals," he vigorously scorns the view that Utopian thought is im practical. It is the Utopians, he says, who are the practical realists, and who believe in really useful machines, really productive work, and in poll tics aimed at the common good. (You can win a 54-volume sat of the Great Books of the Western World by writ ing a letter, not to exceed ISO words, incorporating a qutstion of general inter est for Dr. Adler to con sider for inclusion in this column. Each week he will select as first prixe winners the writers of the three best letters. He will use ONE of these letters as a basis for a future column and will answer it in terms of the intellectual heritage of the Great Books 443 works by 74 authors, spanning 30 centuries of thought. Ad dress the letters to Dr. Mor timer J. Adler, in care of this newspaper.) 1 LILY WHITE VS. LIBERAL Washington - Civil rights long since divided the Demo cratic Party into hostile north ern and south e r h wings. And now the mounting ra cial crisis promises to an equally bitter division in the Repub lican Party. As yet, only the first grumblings and mutterings of the coming battle are to be heard in various Republican quarters. But on present form, it is a reasonable pre diction that the next Repub lican convention will be dom inated, and its outcome may be decided, by a knock-down-drag-out fight about the Re publican stand on civil rights. There are three reasons for this prediction. In the first place, the recent Republican rally at Denver rang with sanguine discussion of the Re publican Party's chance of victory as a "white man's party," with the hero of the Southern conservatives, Sen. Barry Goldwater, as its standard-bearer. Secondly, both sides have already thrown down their gauges of battle although surprisingly little attention has been paid to this striking fact. e e e . SENATOR Goldwater, for his part, while saying that he was for some sections of President Kennedy's civil rights bill, has taken his stand four-square with the South ern Democrats on the guts of the matter. In other words, he has attacked the proposal to desegregate public facili ties as an offense against states' rights, and he has sworn that he will never vote for cloture to get a civil rights bill through the Senate. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York has responded to Goldwater by coming out for the entire civil rights bill without qualification, and urging all Congressional Re publicans to support it. In In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Over on the other side of the fence, in California, Governor Brown wanted a withholding tax as a device to raise money in the seemingly least painful way. The California legislature refused to give it to him. He indicated that he will be willing to "retreat" from the withholding tax plan if the legislature (at a special ses sion to be called to begin on July 8) presents him with "alternate financing methods which will achieve long range budget solutions." which seems quite logical and as it should be. WHAT is a withholding tax? This is how it works: Withholding takes it out of the paycheck meaning that on each payday the employer withholds a certain amount from the employee's wages and turns the amount with held over to the government. WHAT HURTS. So The recipients of paychecks demand an INCREASE so that their take-home pay may be the same as it was before TJUT- " There's a catch to it. The increased wage (to give the employee as much take- home pay as he had before the withholding started) in creases the employer's UUoio. s- Having nan his costs in creased, the employer is com peiiea to raise his prices Whereupon the employee when he begins to put two and two together, discovers that while his TAKE HOME pay (after his wage increase) is the same as it used to be before the withholding rig marole started his KEEP AT HOME pay is considerably re duced by the higher prices for the things he has to buy. rFHE remedy if any? Well, it would help if gov ernment would SPEND LESS, If government didn't spend so much, it wouldn't have to TAX so much. reality, Governor Rockefeller now conceive hi fight for the Republican Presidential nomination quite largely in terms of a fight against thn white man's party" theory of Republican strategy. Third and most important of all, the presidential aspir ants are not the only leading Republicans who are squar ing off for the fray. The ex tremely able and astute Gov. William Scranton of Pennsyl. vania is a declared non-can. didate. But he is also erimiu determined to use every Penn. syivania delegate to block the Republicans who want the 1964 election to ho lily white versus liberal fight." see rpHIS was a primary motive, in fact, of Governor Scran- ions decision to become a favorite son candidate. anH thus to establish iron-clad control of Pennsylvania's large convention delegation. The other motive was the Governor's desire to teach a lesson to the Republicans who have been saying the "north east can be written off" who are precisely the Repub licans talking about a "white man's party." In every one of the states with large convention dele gations - California, Michi. gan, Illinois, Ohio and so on down the line - the need to make the choice already made by Governor Scranton Is also causing heart-searching and position-taking. In California, to name the most notable example, a pri mary fight is rather plainly shaping up. A pro-Goldwater delegation is already in for mation. And the more mod erate California Republicans are already pressing Sen. Thomas Kuchel to stand as California's favorite son at the head of a moderate dele gation, if this is needed to whip the Goldwaterites. Every kind of attempt will of course be made to blur the issue which has just begun to divide the Republicans, as it has already divided the Democrats. It will be pointed out, with pious indignation, that Senator Goldwater is no racist, which Is certainly true; and much will be made of the fact that as a young man, he helped to desegregate the Phoenix, Ariz., school system. BUT In the present context, thpsp far-f arp almrtct ai irrelevant as the fact that Goldwater is an extremely pleasant human being. He advocates a Republican strat egy primarily keyed to an appeal to Southern conserva tive votes. He wants his party to put states' rights above civil rights. He is against cloture, even if needed to pass a civil rights bill. That adds up, nowadays, to being against civil rights. If the Republican Parly nominates a standard-bearer who is against civil rights for all practical purposes, the Re publican Party will then, quite unavoidably, assume the role of the "white man's par ty." The practical temptations to do this are obvious. Indeed, they have been forthrightly underlined by Senator Gold water himself, who has often pointed out that "the Repub licans can never get Negro votes anyway." But this is a moral decision as well as a political decision; and it is to be hoped that a majority of Republicans will see it that way. ftf Lt-J'fi j toe ws "What are you, some kind ef a a Intellectual nut or something?" New Role for West Germany Emerging By ERIC SEVAREID Berlin -The bizarre be comes the customary in time. familiarity breeds boredom 1 i f not con J tempt, so there mi! ii u w uni l1 ' ' or two stations fF ;T'l at the infam- i m,s Wal1 " '"' V-- c 1 u d i n g the place where the Fiesideiu stood - which Berlin friends strereia win dfscrl bc to one as "just tourist trap." History moves rapidly in this century; what may be the first city wall to be construct ed In Europe since medieval limes already looks old as sin as well as ugly as death: each stretch and turning of the grey cement is already invest ed with story and legend: the Wall has a sated air of perma nence about it. see Still, it does not hint of the future half so explicitly as it rails up the past To stand by it In the grey gloom of eve ning, at the Potsdamer Plan. once the bright, busy heart of greater Berlin, to sec the ce ment blocks, the tangles of barbed wire, the rows of stccl studdi ' tmk traps beyond is to be transported back to the war and the Sirgfrivd Line In the twilight and the rain the rials is an island of deso- lation, a sick dre-m from the past of the European insanity, hanging on in the rational present. At American University, just before he came here, the President intimated that the cold war might begin to end if men would begin to alter their habitual thinking about it - Westerners as well as the Russians. Our thoughts must be liberated before the world car. ue liberated, he seemed to say. But for Berliners the co'd war is the structure of their physical lives and no thought of theirs can make the Wall come down. The Berlin ques tion cannot be settled until the Germnn question is set tled, and there can hardly be an end to the cold war until that is accomplished, what ever the agreements on nu clear testing, however un bridgeable the gulf between Moscow and Peking. Where the first real breakthrough to ward an East West reap prochem :vA will come no mor tal man can say. The Pots damer Plan in a drizzling twl light seems a poor candidate lor the honor. West Berlin has become a state of mind to a surprising degree. When a uniformed soldier turned our car away from one western approach to the Wall, my Berlin born driver. 23 years old, snorted. "Those Germans:" he tx- plained. I said, "well, you re a German, aren't you?" "I'm a Berliner!" he stated firmly. He was convinced the people of Berlin were different, su perior to the generality of Germans, even those in the western Republic. He did not feel a spiritual identity with them. "Would they give up their TV sets and their new cars if that were the price of re-unification?" he said. "I wonder!" I suspect he would be proved wrong, were that test to come about. In spite of ap pearances, the Germans are not essentially a materialistic race: materialism happens to be the only Ism around for the following at the moment. They have shown their capa city for self-conscious sacrifice before, to everybody's sorrow, often enough. This country is struggling toward a new role in the world, truncated though it is: and it feels the strength, more and more. It is perfectly aware that it provides most of the conventional defense against the East; that its bank balances are bulkier than any otners in Europe; that it is shoving Great Britain out of her third place among the world's Industrialized nations. It remains Intensely aware of what it owes to the United States, even if Britain and France have forgotten, but it X is not likely to continue for long as a completely obedient policy client and ward. The American military presence is more intensely im portant to Germany than to France or Britain, but there is less worry here than there that the Yanks will suddenly decide to pull out one day. There is probably less worry about an American "deal" with Moscow and much less fussing about the so-called "Americanization of Europe. (Air.crica, after all, has been Europeanized for 300 years.) It is impossible to think of this country submitting to a French leadership of Europe. Germany is becoming the most vital nation in Europe and knows It; she is becoming willy nilly, America's key ally in Europe, and she knows that, too. It remains only for an anti-nuclear Labor govern ment to replace the Conserva tives in England and for a patched-up political coalition - possibly Popular Front in structure - to replace De Gaulle in France, for Ger many's new position in the Alliance to bc revealed to everybody, the Russians not included, since they go to s'ecp with this thought on their minds every current night. (Distributed 1963. by Tha Hall Syndicala. Inc.) (All Rights Referred) a avwnn an
