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4 ' A "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readt Tne Mall Tribune71 . Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North JJiJSU Ph 771,-6,41 ROBERT "W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manage I GERALD T LATHAM. BUI Mar ERIC vV ALLEN JR.. Mrm Editor EARL. H AOAMS, City Editor HARRY L'HIPMAN. Telefl Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU EdltOi OLIVE S1AHLHKH Women's LOllOi DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgi An fndenendent Newsnapei Entered ai econd clasa matter at Medfoid Oregon under Act or March 3, 1H97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dailv and Sunday -6 moa 10 00 ' Dailv and Sunday 3 mo 5 00 Sunday Omy One year 15 00 Single Copy (Mailed. 20c By Cainei And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year 921.00 rally and Sunday 1 mo 17s ' Sundav Onlv 1 mo. 80c Carrie! and Vendora Copy 10c Official Paper of City or Medfnrd Official Paper ol Jackson County ! United Press International SuJl Leased Wire jy P l Telephofo Newvplcturei MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS V ASSOCI ATES Of'lcea in New York. Chi eaj?o Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angina Seattle. Portland . Denver , , . NEWS PA Pit PUlLISHfRS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Mimnr California Newspaper Publisher! Auoclallon Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 4, 19S3 (Saturday) 1 Work started on addition to the fifth floor of Sacred Heart hospital; the added space will be used for Burgery. Articles of incorporation for the Sams Valley Irrigation as sociation have been filed with the Jackson county clerk's of fice. 1. 1 20 YEARS AGO July 4, 1943 (Sunday) Fifty per cent of the apart ments In the Victory housing project near the Jackson school are now ready for oc- cupancy, and applications are on hand for more than half of the total number In the proj ect. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Today Is the 4th of July. Many mo tored to the hills and Die sea shore, in what, before gas ra tioning un pnllnH Jl 'hptflra.' What little screaming the ua gle will do, promises to be in a ladylike manner." 30 YEARS AGO July 4, 1933 (Tuesday) Arguments on the motion of county judge, charged with ballot theft, for a change of venue will be made Thursday. One of the largest cherry crops in history is now being harvested at the Wcstcrlund orchard here; the cherries were unharmed in any way by frost or other weather. 40 YEARS AGO July 4. 1923 (Wednesday) Southern Oregon Gas com pany advertises novel gas folding stove. . Subscription rates to the Med ford Tribune, including the Sunday paper, $8.30 a year. , SO YEARS AGO July 4, 1913 (Friday) Contracts have been let for paving the streets of Eagle Point. Arsenic poisoning for grass hoppers has been used by the Rogue River Canal company to save their orchards. ii:ai's Your I.Q.? Nina or ran correct Is superior; seven or eight Is escellenri live ei sis is good. 1. What common nickname Is shared by both type of oratory and a race? 2. Under which two Presi dents did William H. Seward serve as Secretary of Stale? 3. Of what race was Goli ath? 4. What statue surmounts the dome of the United States Capitol building in Washing ton? 3. Two Presidents of the United States were West Point graduates; name them. 6. Who tried to fetch water In a sieve? 7. When the kingdom of Italy was established, what city was Its capital? 1 8. Between which two states does Lake Champlaln lie? 9. Name the theater where most of Shakespeare's plays were presented during his lifetime. 10. The law requires dyed furs to be labeled as being dyed; true or false? Answarsi 1. Soap box. 2. Lincoln and Johnson. 3. Phil istine. 4. Statu ol Freedom. S. Grant and Eisenhower, t. Simple Simon. 7. Florence. I. New York and Vermont, t. UIOM. ID. Tim. THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1963 The Great We commend to all signed 187 years ago today, to which the signers pledged their support, lives, their fortunes, and It is the Declaration So important is it to tne day on which we honor it, July 4, has become our most significant national holiday. Sadly, too many of of the day, thinking of as the first major holiday of the summer season 1MAKE NO mistake iV was an act of high on it was a signature on And the pledge of life, fortune and honor was no idle one. These men stakes. When they won, great turning points. The revolution which they waged is still having repercussions throughout the world. Perhaps the most remarkable thine about this remaiKaDie document is tone. It has none of the phrases so otten associated with revolutionary pronouncements. THIS WAS the work who had given much only to their current crisis, but to the political philosophy Behind the 1 hese men were patriots true patriots, and not merely mouthy flag-wavers. Not only were they willing to die for their new country; they were also willing to work for it, think for it. strive throughout busy and achieve the best for it. Unlike most revolutionaries, these men were constructive. While tearing down the fabric of one government, they were carefully and thoughtfully and prayerfully preparing the fabric of a successor. Those times that try men s souls. But the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence measured up to the great challenge. a or that we must surely all be grateful today. E.A. A Comparison , It is an interesting exercise in imagination to compare the super-patriots of today with the brave, calm men who signed the Declaration of Independence. The earlier breed of iocs : "We must, therefore, sity which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war; in peace, friends." , Men who could write like that saw the world whole and clear, not fears and suspicions. THE NOISY, self-proclaimed patriot of today's tlltru-rifyrit la a rlifforanf Kiaa4 He is not a conservative, for a true conserva tive is a man who values the institutions which have served us so well over the last century and a half. He is, rather, a true sows mistrust, suspicion and hatred of our politi cal leaders and of our institutions of government. Ana ne certainly is noisy. Out of all propor tions to his numbers, he shows up in newspapers' letters columns, in denunciations of Congress men, in public meetings. COME Congressmen who have felt the lash of the Birchers and the others who cry "Trea son! at anything with which they disagree, or do not understand, have started to talk back. Senator Thomas Kuchel of California recent ly made a major speech in the Senate denouncing the smears and drivelings of those who see a Communist behind every government desk. Oth ers have taken other means of defendinc thpm- selves and their colleagues from such slanders and libels. One of these is Congressman Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.), brother of the Secretary of the Inte rior. In a recent report to his constituents, he spells out some facts of life in 1963, although he says he's a little ashamed that it is necessary. LIE SAID: "The President, his Cabinet and members of Con gress are patriotic Americans. There Isn't a Socialist or Communist in the lot. The vast majority of them are overworked, underpaid, ainccre and effective public servants. "The Slate Department is not filled with Com munists, Socialists or One Worlders. Ninety-five per cent of these employees served under President Eisen hower. The backgrounds and loyalty of every State Department official have been checked and rechecked by the FBI. "There isn't going to be any unilateral disarma ment on the part of our country, and there is no Dlot to surrender our sovereignty to the United Nations or anyone else. "Dwight Elsenhower, Earl Warren and John F. Kennedy are sincere, dedicated and loyal Americans voting for the best Interests of our country. No one of them Is a party In any way to any scheme to deprive us of our liberties, transform our way of life or turn our country over to some foreign power. "The U.S. Army is not training cannibals in Georgia to Invade our country and enforce Integra tion and intermarriage." Anyone who could believe the lies and slan ders so well exposed by Congressman Udall is one or more of three things: ' (1) Wildly misinformed and appallingly rail able; (2) incredibly stupid, or (3) nut. L.A. Declaration our readers a document, and to each other their their sacred honor. of Independence patriotic Americans that us ignore the significance "the 4th of July" merely signing the Declaration courage. One's signature one's own death warrant. were plavinrr for hieh it was one of history's ' its calm, even, reasoned violent, rabble-rousing of mature, seasoned men. agonizing thought, not crisis. productive lifetimes to days were, in truth, the patriot could say of his acauiesce in the neces smudired with icnorant tradition, custom and subversive, in that he "Now, Let's Not Carry That Independence Day Spirit Too Far" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, althouah under certain circumstances the use of a Den name or initial for publication Is permissible. The edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters 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 otten the case. Worth Passing On To the Editor: I received the following poem from my daughter for Father's day and thought it expressed thoughts worth passing on. My daugh ter is Lorna Fowler. Why does time pass, Ever ceasing on Long winging path? Only the sages know. Very long narrow straits, Ever rushing, crushing waters of Young, anxious pearls Only seeing near, never far, Until parents like archers , ,Set them true. Loran Fowler, Route I, Box 332, Talent, Ore. As Ha Sees It To the Editor: I would like to write a few words about books and murders. Is the Bible (King James) good book? The first book of Moses, called Genesis, Moses was a murderer. As L. G. Weaver of Med- ford says, approximately one billion people are under the heels, the whips, the guns of murderers. I do not know how many were under the teachings of muraerers. The Lord God chose a murderer to be a ruler and a deliverer of his people. And Jesus, the son of the living God, chose Saul of Tarsus, known as St. Paul. I do not know where St. Paul got his education. Moses got his education from the Egyp tians, who were of the off spring of Cain or the Gen tiles. We live today In the davs of Cain, the steel age. Iron is the mother of steel and the beautiful music we hear of the brass band and in many churches, are from the offspring of Cain. I do not know how many people live in cities today. The first city built on earth was built by Cain who was a murderer. And when that day comes and Jesus will take over for thousand years, it will be the end of the Gentile or Cain, and it will be brought about by murderers; or that Is the picture as 1 see it. Marshall H. Waggoner 3719 St. John rd. Vancouver, Wash. You Could Turn It Off To the Editor: Most of the forced tunes used in radio commercials (tunes, did I say'.') causi me to feel very sad. Songs sed to have love, humor, patriotism and the higher emotions as their themes. Now all kinds of ma chines, edibles, fluids, adorn ments, spray and detergents you name them - so that it is a relief to hear someone speak rather than attempt to sing about them. Do these singing com- mercials really help business establishments to sell their wares? David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. A Currency Proposal To the Editor: The only hon- est currency would be based on a labor unit, would be backed by the entire available labor capacity of the whole country. It would therefore never go broke, and its possi bilities would be practically unlimited. It could guarantee a welfare pension for the aged, and even infants up to 20 or 21 years of age, the housewife, the crippled and the infirm. All of these bene fits could be had practically free, and more. If all our pro ductive Industries or instru ments ot life were owned and, of course, would be controlled by the government, except your private homes or private property. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, Mail Tribune reserves the rioht to Of course, in order to adopt such a system we would have not tonly to maintain our political democracy, but also an industrial democracy. As an example of this system we have only to look at those things that are already social ized, such as our public schools, our public roads and streets, water, works, canals for irrigation, etc. They are good and useful. We only want to extend that principle to our other many needs and conveniences. This is all we Socialist and working people want - jus tice. There can be no justice where the system is profit- taking, exploitation, easy mon ey, getting something for nothing, such as undeserved high . salaries, and even too high wages. There are too many that get too low, and tod many that can't even get a job. Nor ever will there be full and adequate wages as long as "hoggish" capitalism is in existence. Too large a per cent of our people live on the profit system and prof it alone. Profit dues not add one whit to value, only serves to enable those that are able to exploit others to live off those that are exploited. That is nice for those that are in a position to do the exploit ing, but very sad and hard on the ones that are exploited, Besides, I thing it is very un christian, if that means jus tice. So dear brother worker, if this would notssuit you, just go to church and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. John P. Wirth 3022 Butte st. Klamath Falls, Ore. Firestorms To the Editor: What is a firestorm? The overwhelming majority of Americans, in cluding those who naively dig fallout shelters in metropol itan target areas, haven't the least inkling of what the word "firestorm" means. A firestorm is a phenomenon fa miliar to forest-fire special ists. There were several fire storms produced by incendi ary raiding on German cities In World War II, and an atomic bomb created a fire storm in Hiroshima, but not in Nagasaki. When a Civil Defense offi cial speaks with apparent can dor about t h e explosion of a 10-megaton bomb causing frame houses 25 miles away to burst into flame, he is not telling us about the firestorm. The firestorm occurs after multiple fires are burning in an area with a certain pcr acre density of flammable ma terial; and it takes up to 20 minutes to gain momentum. When the multiple small fires become annuclcatcd into one gigantic pillar of miles-high flame, it burns with the in tensity o! an enormous blow torch. Winds of high hurri cane velocity rush in from the periphery of the colossal blaze, sucking every inflam mable thing into its vortex. Although Civil Defense ad vocates have, for the most part, ignored firestorms, in those few instances where they have taken note of the phenomenon, they have ar gued either that the Soviet bureaucrats would concen trate on strictly military tar gets and avoid large urban arens (a wishful assumption In a war of extermination such as a thermonuclear war Is bound to be), or that, while the heat radiated by a nuclear explosion would ignite thou-1 sands of fires, the flames would be blown out by the ensuing blast wave. Replying to the latter argu ment, Mr. Philip Vylle4 an acknowledged expert on the MEDFORD, OREGON Grim Economic Prospects Facing Southern Rhodesia Because of Racial Policies By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Within sound of the roar of majestic Victoria Falls. noble experiment in partner ship of the races is com ing to a bitter but seeming ly inevitable end. It is the u n f o r t u nate lot of British Depu ty Prime Min ister R. A. (RAB) Butler to preside over the dissolution of the Central African Federa- tion, founded 10 years ago by the government of Sir Win ston Churchill without Afri can consent and foundering now on African opposition. With dissolution complete, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasa land go their seperate ways in independence. It is Southern Rhodesia Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fc Field Enterprises. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES People who instruct others on how to achieve success are in the same embarrassing po sitions as fortune tellers if they could really do what they pretend, would they be grub bing for a living like the rest of us? The reason that most par ents are so fond of the youngest child is that their hopes have already begun to dim for the success of the older ones. "The fool laughs at what he does not understand, and the wise man cries at what he does understand," is an old Persian maxim I have just made up. The health reasons given by nudists are mostly non sense, but a good psycholog ical argument for a nudist world is that it would elim inate much of the pomposity and hypocrisy on the part of public leaders. As Bismavck once said, "I have seen three emperors in their naked ness, and the sight is not in spiring." One of the unexplained od dities of social intercouse is that you may never have heard of a person until you meet him, or her, but immedi ately afterwards you hear about the person from a 1 1 sides. If any generalisation of this sort is true, it is that men largely live in the fu ture, and women in the past; only children live in the present, which is why w e become s o impatient with them for neglectingour distorted adult sense of time. Gossip causes more trouble in the world than vice-and it is so prevalent because it per mits us safely to participate in sin without suffering any of the consequences for it. In quest of love, the un happiesi are those who. like the elderly spinster in Lil lian Hellman's play. "Au tumn Garden," reflect sadly that they are too good for the ones who want them, and not good enough for the ones they want. Those who think that "world government" is a new idea ought to be told that it was proposed as the only so lution for world peace by Dante in the 13lh century; it takes that long for the human race to catch up with its great minds. Rhubarb lovers of the world, like me, ought to unite to get this deliciously bracing dessert put on more restaurant menus more often. Wives generally complain that men are sloppy about their personal belongings: but it seems to me that a man who is somewhat disorganized and careless about his things is a better marital risk than one who is neat and precise, and whose perfectionism In trifles can swiftly drive a woman mad. subject, said: "But that same wave would crumble enough skyscrapers, gas-storage tanks filling station, and homes as gas mains erupted to ignite the great fire that makes a city shelter, however sturdy or deep, the last place any informed person would want to be." Moreover, the blast wave would be spent long before it reached the outer ring of fires produced by the heat wave. When it is considered that a very substantial proportion of the U. S. population lives in the urban and suburban areas that would almost cer tainly be devastated by blast and firestorm - not to men tion drenched-ln deadly fall out - in the event of a ther monuclear war, we can see how criminally optimistic the advocates cf shelters are. Lydia Burnhsm, tin Warne St., Prescott, Ariz. where 233,000 whites rule 3, 600,000 Africans, that is giv ing Britain its greatest head ache of all the half dozen former African possessions it has eased to independence and others for which inde pendence is planned. The white supremacy gov ernment of Prime Minister Winston Field is demanding independence for Southern Rhodesia at the moment it is granted to either of the other two. Butler has served notice upon Field that there will be no independence until South em Rhodesia amends its con stitution to give Africans voice in government. In prospect could be an other Algeria or the bloody violence such as the Mau Mau unleased in Kenya before in dependence. The predominatly black governments of both Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland al ready have made it clear they will not cooperate economi cally with a Southern Rhodes- tan government dominated by white supremacists. Northern Rhodesia, with population of around three million and one quarter of the worlds copper reserves potentially is Africa's richest country per person. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Salem as this is writ ten: From all indications, the state of Oregon wound up its 1061-63 fiscal biennium Sunday about A MILLION DOLLARS in the black. Freeman Holmer, state di rector of finance and admin istration, said his department had predicted June 21 that there would be $987,000 left over from expenditures by June 30. He didn't miss it very far. TTIROM Washington: The federal government headed today (Monday, July 1) mto its fourth consecutive year of DEFICIT financing, and indications are the fiscal situation will get worse be fore it gets better. The 1963 federal fiscal year ended at midnight Sunday night with the government IN THE RED between $7 billion and $8 bil lion. The actual figure won't be available for about two weeks. The federal government is expected to go MUCH DEEP ER in the hole in the next 12 months. President Kennedy's $98.8 billion budget for fiscal 1964 projects a deficit of $11.9 billion-the second highest in peace time. Only the $12.4 bil lion Eisenhower deficit i n 1959 would top it. WHY the contrast? Well, here in Oregon government is CLOSE AT HOME. If it should go off the deep end in the way of deficit spending, it would feel the hot breath of the home town voter blowing down the back of its neck. The Washington govern ment is so far from home that it can kid a majority of the voters into believing that a nation can spend itself rich. That s about the long and short of it. rPHE big news today? It may have its grim aspects-but the big news a century ago was much grim mer. A century ago was the sec ond day of the battle of Get tysburg. At the end of the first day, General Lee was confi dent of victory. But, during the night, reenforcements ar rived for General Meade, bringing his total up to about 93,000 as compared with Lee s 70,000. Until 2 o'clock in the after noon, the two great armies faced each other, each seem ing loath to begin the awful work of slaughter, which they knew was to follow. Then the Confederates advanced, Gen eral Longstreet leading their right wing up the slope of Round Top In an effort to dis lodge Union General Sickles at the top. For two hours the battle raged. Longstreet led the Con federate charge, waving his men on to follow as if he were courting death itself. Union General Sickles, his leg shot off by a cannon ball, still di rected his men. The Confederates failed to take Round Top, but they carried Culp's Hill. The net results of the day were slight ly favorable to them, tending to balance the results of the first day, which had gone against them. BUT When fell the shades of night The losses were counted up. They were heavy. Each side had lost about 10,000 men-one out of each seven for Lee and one out of about each nine for Meade. The night was spent preparing for the bloody third day of the battle. 'THAT was 100 years ago. And another day vjis to follow. With dissolution of the fed eration, Southern Rhodesia will lose any share in income from copper exports which last year amounted to more than $300 million. African Nationalists' plans for economic boycott go all the way. , They will ignore Southern Rhodesia's textiles and other products and look for their re placements in India or Hong Kong. If Southern Rhodesia at tempts to hold back coal for Northern Rhodesia's copper refineries, then Northern Rhodesia will get it elsewhere. If there is interference with copper shipments, then North ern Rhodesia will move it out through the Congo. Matter of Fcrcf (c) New York Herald THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION Washington - On July 4, 1776, when a number of the boldest leaders signed the Dec laration of Independence, the American Revolution be gan in deadly earnest. Even then, a wiser government in London might perhaps have diluted or de ferred the Am e ri ca n Revo lution, Ajsop by bold generosity and shrewd, swift concession. But George III, Lord North and Lord George Germain were trio dedicated to disaster With Washington and Jeffer son and Adams, their names should also be inscribed upon our list of founding fathers. On July 4, 1963, it is need- ful to do something beyond commemorating the other, more glorious Fourth of July with festive firecrackers. It is needful to face the fact that for good or ill, something like a second revolution has be gun here in America. rTHE symbolic figure, who -- warns ns when up nnw stand, is the dead Medgar Evers. When Evers took the leadership of the NAACP in Mississippi, he cannot have acted from ambition, or in the hope of gain. He must have known the risks he ran. He ran those risks to free his people; and in the end he was brutally and shamefully assas sinated. The assassination of Med gar Evers does not compel us to be piously sentimental. Just the opposite is what is wanted. The murder of Evers calls for indignation, of course; but above all, it calls for realism. Let the nine Americans out of ten who are white, be real ists as well. Then they must see at once that the Negro movement could not possibly produce such a man as Evers, to do the sort of thing that Evers did, without a strong tinge of revolutionary fervor. The emotion that induces self sacrifice is the heart of the matter. TN SOME other Negro lead- ers, like James Baldwin for example, it may be reasonable to suspect that the element of self-pity is stronger than the element of self-sacrifice. But that does not alter the equation. Any student of the risings of the subject peoples against the colonial empires, is well aware that the self pitying revolutionaries are generally more numerous than self-sacrificing ones. On this July 4th, these ris ings of subject peoples against colonial empires are the cases to consider. They are the cases to consider, moreover, not be cause our own American Rev olution was the first and the most fruitful rising, but be cause they tell us so much that we need to know about Fourth of July Published estimates have said that a loss of the North ern Rhodesian and Nyasaland markets would mean a drop of 30 to 40 per cent in South ern Rhodesia's output. In Salisbury, capital of Southern Rhodesia, office space already is going begging as businessmen adjust to the coming changes. Copper com panies are preparing to aban don Salisbury as their head quarters and move to Lusaka in Northern Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesia also could be left out of the com monwealth which now gives its tobacco a trade preference. Such are the grim pros pects facing Southern Rho desia, but its government shows no signs of change. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate the second revolution that has imperceptibly begun in our midst. For the nine Americans out of ten who are white, the ob ject of this new revolution is not to subvert or destroy or replace the American sys tem. The Negroes' object, rather, is only to gain the full American citizenship that the Constitution guarantees to them. . pOR the one American in every ten who is a Negro, the extreme peculiarity of the Negro revolution is the key point to weigh. This move ment, for all its kinship to one of the anti-colonial risings, is also set apart by a pro found difference. The Negro claims may be just, but those who make the claims are still a minority; and the suscepti bilities and even the preju dices ,of the majority must therefore be considered at all times. i ' Hence realism urgently re quires the Negro leaders and their followers to avoid ex cess. That does not mean avoiding the insistent presen tation of just claims. But it does mean refraining from pressing these claims by vio lence, or in other ways that can profoundly alienate the white majority. There is far more danger of this than many good people as yet imagine. By the same token, howev er, realism also urgently re. quires the American white majority not to blink at, or try to wish away, or blur over the harsh outlines of the prob lem confronting us. This is not the moment for carneying arguments that the Constitu tion puts property rights ahead of civil rights, or for wishful suggestions that ev erything would be all right if it were not for a handful of "agitators." OEFORE tney faced the truth, the British in India also talked about "agitators." As for the truth that the Brit ish in Indian finally had to face, it was bleakly simple. The truth was that they had only two practical choices open to them. One choice was to concede to the Indian people what they were clamoring for, with out weak half-measures or self - deluding compromises. And the other choice was to shoot enough Indians to make a new silence in the land, as Nikita S. Khrushchev later did in Hungary. The British did not make Khrushchev's choice, essen tially because they did not want to live in the kind of country that would do that kind of thing. What the Negro people of America are clam oring for is very different from what the Indians de manded of the British. But the practical choices open to the white American majority will surely be found, in the end, to be as limited as the British choices were, and for much the same reasons. -asESrW Celebration
