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4 A ' "Iveryont In southern Oregon m..A. Th Malt Trlhtinan Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 13 North fir St, Ph. 773-8141 "' ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GRKV AavertlsiM Mantle CERAXD T LATHAM. But M XR1C W ALLEN JR.. kin;. Edll KARL AUAMB. -liy ""? RICHARD JEWETT, Sporta Editor OLIVE BiaBLMfl Homwi miiwi . DALE EKIUItauW. ircuiauwn An Independent Newipapei Entered aa aecond elaaa matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act oz March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES uall Tn Arfvanea. Daily and Sunday I yearSlS.OO Dally and Sunday mos 10.00 . xnuy ana a una ay o u.u-. Sunday Only One year M OO Slnele Cony (Mailed) ao .. r.rMar And M ft I fir RnUt. Dally and Sunday I year 2 00 nauy ana eunaay i mo. ' SunHav Onlv 1 RIO. DUO Carrier and Vendora Copy 100 Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coanty United Presa Internationa) full Leaaed Wire U. P. L Telephoto Neiplctures "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ai..(.1n A-nraaantltive: NELSON ROBERTS i ASSOC!. . aire riffle In New York. Chi- ', eaio. Detroit. San Francisco, Loi Anseiea. ooaww, r v i . . - u - ' Denver. 'ASSOCIATION NATION A I f DITORIAl Member California Newapaper Publlahera AaaocUUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ego. 10 YEARS AGO July 12, 19S3 (Sunday) Soap box derby starts to day; 100 youngsters pilot their race cars down the hill; win' Iter goes to Akron, Ohio. Jackson county's first polio victim of the year is a 5vi-year-old boy who has a mild bulbar case of the disease. 20 YEARS AGO July 12, 1943 (Sunday) One killed, two Injured In South Riverside ave. smashup. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Old timers report they never ran round in finer fall weather than experienced so tar this summer. ' 10 YEARS AGO July 12, 1933 (Tuesday) Young Democrats urge re peal of prohibition law. Valley apple and peach growers to study price con ditions. 40 YEARS AGO July 12, 1923 (Wednesday) Mr. and Mrs. F. Corning Kenley leave for auto trip to Victoria, B. C. Tourist car goes over bank near Rogue Elk. SO YEARS AGO July 12, 1913 (Saturday) Contract let for trolley ties for line connecting Medford and Siskiyou Heights. California Oregon Power , company offers electric range for sao cash, $63 on Install ments. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er fen correct la superior; even or eleht is excellent; five er ii b f 004. 1. Salem is the capital of which state? 2. Which of the original 13 states was the last to ratify the Constitution? 3. A derringer Is a short barreled pistol, a kind of dag ger, or a type of vehicle? 4. Would you keep birds or Decs in an apiary? 8. The John Day, McNary ana wannpum Dams are on which river? 6. Is hominy made from wheat, corn, oats or barley? 7. Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in the office of Presi dent? 8. What Is "Adam's Ale? 9. The magnetic comoasa always points toward the geo graphic North Pole; true or ttlse7 10. What Is the difference between animals that are; 1 herbivorous; 2. carnivorous; 3. and omnivorous. Anaworsi 1. Oregon, 2. Rhode Island. 3. Pistol. 4. Bees. 5. Columbia, t Corn. 7, Andrew Johnson. I. Water. False (magnetic north). 10. 1. Vegetation eaters; 2. flash aiers; 3. eat both. Equine Influenza In Portland Area Salem-fliPli-An equine Influ enza that has spread through out the eastern part of the United States has been report ed In the Portland area, the State Agriculture Department saia today. At present there Is no spe cific treatment for the disease and no way of Immunizing the FRIDAY, JULY 12. 18(3 Understanding the Constitution - We often wonder how many of the people who go about calling for "a return to the Consti tution" actually have read that remarkable docu- ment. Particularly do we the preamble, which in important part of it. It goes like this: "We, the people of the United States, In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice. Insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States , of America." . . The preamble gives the purpose of the Con stitution; it sets the tone; it explains what the Founding Fathers were trying to accomplish. e IMPLICIT in the preamble, and, indeed, through nut, tho pnMl'0 HflPllmpnr l'a trio nnz-lovorarirlirnr that the Constitution provides a framework of government which must meet cnanging circumstances and conditions. The "general welfare" of the people, of all citizens, is a continuing concern in the Constitu tion. It appears not only in the preamble, but elsewhere. There are certain passages in the Constitu tion which are not, on and specific, and require interpretation, particu larly when applied to specific cases. So the Su preme Court, in which "the judicial power of the United btates is vested, become the final au thority of the meaning of the Constitution in those cases which are appealed to it for decision. THE ultimate authority ment, as contrasted states, is also made clear : "This constitution, and the laws of the United ' States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding." Also, long before the Fourteenth Amend ment was ratified, to provide the "equal protec tion of the laws" to all citizens, the constitution declared: "The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens of the several . states." THE states righters, who continually claim that 1 the federal government is usurping their pow er, cannot have made any real study of the con stitution, even though they keep citing it as the basis for their arguments. Their chief reliance is ment, which says, "The powers not delegated to lliA ITU.J Ct.l.. V.. 4.U- uic uiuicu otatea uy me nioitea Dy it to tne states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." But the constitutional grant of power to the federal government is a large one, far larger than the states righters are willing to concede. e THIS grant of power is whifh are snpllpH nut also those which are implicit, as in the preamble. The government, in other words, may do whatever is necessary "in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, pro mote me general weilare, and secure the bless ings of liberty ..." If, in exercising these powers, the federal government is in conflict with one or more states, it is the national .,.1,1 nnl.. .L! yau. iiui umy iB mis speueu out in tne constitu tion, in several places, but it was reinforced in the blood of civil warfare, when the Confederate states attempted to make their authority superior to mat oi me nation as a HERE is currently under way an effort to destroy the whole intent of the constitution. as it was written and as it It is a states righters' attempt, which was moving along very quietly until just recently, when it has received nationwide attention. The attack on the constitution and its historic prin- cipies is in me lorm ot menus, iney would: 1. Deny federal courts any jurisdiction over the apportionment of state legislative seats. 2. Allow the state legislatures to amend the constitution without the approval of Congress or a state or national consensus of any kind. 3. Create a "court of the Union," composed of the chief justices of the 50 states, with power to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court in all cases involving federal-state relationships. THESE amendments could, in the words of one 1 observer, "cripple the system of federal pow ers which Alexander Hamilton advocated, George Washington helped to establish, and Abraham Lincoln fought to preserve." These three amendments together with the even more ludicrous "Liberty Amendment," which would effectively emasculate the United States government represent an attempt to un dercut both the government and the constitution under which it operates. As such, it docs vio lence both to the concepts of the Founding Fa thers and to the laws of the land which have grown out of them. If anyone tells you he wants to "return to Constitutional principles," ask him which consti tution he means the one we've lived with for 176 years, or one he imatrincs but which never was. E. A. T wonder if thev have read some ways is the most be flexible enough to the face of them, clear of the federal govern- with the powers of the on the Tenth Amend cuiisuiuuuil, not pro- not only the actions wni'rl f urm-rl hut will which shall pre- L 11. ... whole. has developed through three proposed amend "Oh, He's a Great Anti-Communist It's Just That He Finds the Buddhist Are Easier To Get At" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer. although 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 printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper, in ract tne contrary is often Still Boiling To the Editor: I'm still boil lug. On July 4, of all days, you had the nerve to write that the "patriot of today's ultra-right (meaning Birchers and Dan Smoot and Dean Mamon tans) is not a con servative," that, "a true Con servative ; . . values tradl tions, customs, and institu tions which have served us so well over the last century and a half." Just what do you think the Birchers and Smoot and Manion fans are doing? Are we trying to socialize this country? Or trying to disarm it unilaterally and surrender lis sovereignty to a Commu nist controlled world govern ment? Is it the ultra-right who are destroying the Declara tion of Independence, our Constitution, the patriotism of our children, and the Chris tian heritage of America? You know full well that it is the rightists who are fight ing tooth and nail to hang onto our Independence, our sovereignty, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our great Republic, our armed forces, our national self respect, and every Institution, custom, tra dition, and freedom that our Forefathers handed down to the American people. I'm a member of the "ultra right", and when you call me "a true subversive" I see red. In fact your whole paper takes on a red tinge. Let me tell you something. You and Congressman Udall. It was Earl Warren who sowed mis trust, suspicion, and hatred of himself, when he voted ap proximately 40 times in favor of the Communists in the Su preme Court. It was Presi dent John F. Kennedy who sowed mistrust, suspicion and hatred of himself, when he withdrew promised air cover from the Invading Cuban pa triots at the Bay of Pigs; when he invaded and crushed the state of Mississippi with federal troops instead of in vading and cleaning up the Cuban Communist cancer on our doorstep; and now, when he is actually protecting Cas tro wtth U.S. armed forces, wh..e his spokesman, Assist ant Secretary of Defense, Ar thur Sylvester, tells us to our teeth that the government "has the inherent right to lie" to us. And President Eisenhower? He sowed his own seeds of suspicion and mistrust when, by an executive order, he stopped a Senatorial commit tee from investigating Com iruinism in our defense de partment; and by other star tling and revealing acts and statements which wore re ported in the American press and gathered together in one book, "The Politician", by Robert Welch. If you want your eyes opened to the ter ror that is now closing in on our beloved America, get and read this infuriating book of incredible, but painstakingly documented, statements of Mr. Welch about Eisenhow er's role In the betrayal of America and the enslaved mil lions behind the Iron Cur tain. W. F. Murray, 1S SE L St., Grants Pass, Ore. Jcksonvllle's Gold To the Editor: Some time ago an article credited the town of Columbia, in Tuo lumne county, as one of the best preserved of the early mining towns of California. We believe that Jackson ville also can very well boast of the best preserved town in all of Oregon's former min ing towns since discovery of gold In 18M-52. After more MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, Mail Tribune reserves the riaht to not exceed 400 words. The letters the case. than 100 years some placer gold is yet panned, rocked or sluiced out of the remaining ancient gravel in the sur rounding creeks. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside ave., Medford The Hereafter To the Editor: Speculation about the Hereafter is futile. Man tries to envision life in Heaven in terms of life on earth, during his century and in his limited sphere. But life changes from century to cen tury as per customs and be liefs. In the world beyond per iods of time will be unknown. There won't be days, weeks, months, etc., because there won't be any need for them. Since no one will suffer from hunger, thirst, heat, cold or sickness, no one will need any of the necessities of life he experienced on earth. I Imagine that Heaven a mighty big place with room enough for all of us. See you there some day. David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Fellowship of Reconciliation To the Editor: This is writ ten on behalf of The Fellow ship of Reconciliation, re ferred to in brief as FOR. FOR is an international or ganization which is dedicated to non-violent opposition to wrong. Their influence of non violent resistance has had its impact upon the present con flict over the racial question. They are preaching their doc trine of reconciliation and love because it is the only hope of elminating the tur moil in the world and the dan ger of war and destruction. One has only to stop and re flect to realize that nothing is more urgently needed in this world today. Gifts to the FOR have been declared tax-exempt for 37 years, but now, at this ex tremely critical point in our history, the IRS would deny this support, thereby restrict ing their work. Such action forces one to question the wis dom and sincerity o f those having the authority to make such decisions. Senator Neu- bergcr and others have of late drawn our attention to organ izations less worthy who are enjoying such privileges There are some churches which are not as concerned about world peace and such vitnl issues that are not treat ed in like manner. To qualify for such deduc tions an organization must teach the existence of a divine deity and improve the charac tcr of the public, thus reliev ing the government of that much expense. With this ade quate standard to go by we hope that FOR will be given the honest treatment which is unquestionably deserved. If you are one of those who would like to have a hand in preserving life upon this earth, or in making it a better place for all to live in, write FOR, Box 271, Nyack. New York, and ask for the bro chure "Where Do You Fit In?" Bert Harr Route 2, Box 77 Jacksonville, Ore. Posfor Will Present. . Gifts To Parishioners Warwick. R. I.-ilPP-The Rev. Carl W. Bloomquist. pastor of the Pilgrim Lutheran Church, will present orchids to the parishoners this Sunday. "This is not just a gimmick," he said. "Our people here have been really tremendous dur ing the years. They ought to have a little reward for it." MEDFORD, OREGON North Vietnamese Guerilla War Genius Masterminding Red By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Mews Analyst When France lost the bat tle for Indo-China with the fall of Dien Bien Phu in 19S4, the guiding genius behind the Commu nist attack was Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Giap, whose tactics gave new meaning to g u e r i 1 la warfare, now is the defense minister of Communist North Vietnam and chief strategist for the Communist Viet Cong Today & Tomorrow By Walter it) 1063. The THE POST-POSTWAR ERA Things are moving so fast in both the Communist world and ours that it is hard for the observer to k e e p up with them. Yet there is already suffi cient reason to ask ourselves w h ether, along with and no doubt a f f e cted by the runture in side the Communist orbit. there is not also, long before most people expected it, a pro- iouna cnange wiliiin the West ern system. We can begin to see dimly that events are overtaking the standard conception of West ern unity as preached for the past 15 years and preached again recently by President Kennedy. The standard conceDtion nf western unity is that of a' rally of beleaguered forces in a dire emergency. It origin ated in the years immediately after the war when Western Europe was devastated and disarmed, and there was noth ing but a meager supply of American atomic bombs be tween the Red army and Paris. In that climate of im minent peril, there were con ceived and constructed in a dazzling display of statesman ship the postwar institutions of the Western world, the Marshall Plan, NATO and the Common Market. e A S IS evident from the flour- ishing condition of West ern Europe todaly, these post war institutions accomplished wonders. But they contained within themselves an obvious, but unavowed, difficulty which wag destined to make them transitory. The difficul ty was that the Federal Re public of Germany is not "Germany," but the Western section of a divided Germany; the six countries of the Com mon Market are not "Europe," but only one part of the non- Communist part of Europe. And non-Communist Europe is only a part of Europe. Unless I am misreading the present course of events, we are looking backward when we base American policy on the revival of the partitioned, divided and fragmented post war "Europe. There is much ground for thinking that the main movement of affairs is away from a closer organiza tion of postwar Western Eu rope and toward a loose asso ciation and increasing inter course with the whole of Eu rope. The exclusion of Britain, together with Ireland and Scandinavia, from the six has been followed by many signs of stagnation and even frag mentation within the six. ' a IF CERTAIN indiscreet, of- the-record remarks of Gen eral De Gaulle have been cor rectly reported, he-as so often before - has been one of the first to see a new develop ment. He hns recognized that there is not much of a future in the Paris-Bonn axis within a very small Europe. In any event, as the recent visit of the general to Bonn showed. the two countries collaborate as well, but no better than most neighbors. The West Germans are not only looking to Britain and across the At lantic, but are looking also to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The post Adenauer Germans like Erhard and Schroedcr and Brandt are not interested in the small post war "Europe." They have no passionate enthusiasm for a close political integration of the partitioned Germany in a truncated Europe. In this connection, there is great importance in the chang ing relations between tne Catholic Church and the East European States. There is much evidence that in Poland and Hungary and perhaps in KENNEDY PLANS TRIP Washington - HOT -President Kennedy planned to fly to Cape Cod today to join his wife and two children for the week end. LlDDmarm in South Vietnam and the Communist Fathet Lao in Laos. Like Mao Tse-Tung, the Red Chinese leader whose tac tics he adopted and improved upon, Giap has set forth his theories of war in a book, Guerilla warfare causes many diffiiculties and losses to the enemy and wears him out," Giap writes. "To an nihilate enemy manpower and liberate land, guerilla war fare has to change gradually to mobile warfare." The change is made, he says, when scattered bands of guerillas can be grouped for lippmann Washington Post the other Central European States the church may be on the way to winning freedom for its pastoral, and perhaps even for its teaching, func tion. This is certain to dimin ish the antagonism between the peoples on both sides of the iron curtain. THE confusion and the dis array, the aimlessness and bewilderment, which are more or less prevalent everywhere, are the concomitants of the break-up of an established or der. We are living amidst the break-up of the established or der of the postwar world, and we are finding that much of our thinking is no longer able to explain the facts. This intellectual and moral upheaval is not caused by the intransigence of General De Gaulle. But he has been the first western statesman to re alize that the established post war order was breaking up, and he was the first to act upon this insight. It is a fascinating question now which western statesman, if any, will be the first to lead the way into the post-postwar era. Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises. Inc. WHITTLING THE LANGUAGE In a recent magazine ad, the company mentioned "the enormity of our effort" to ob tain a certain product. What the company m cant was " enormous ness," and not wick edness, which "enor mity" has al- w a y s meant. Why complain Harris aooui a muiui error of this sort, ask the modernists in speech? As long as people know what you mean, what difference does it make which word you use? Besides, words change their meanings from century to cen tury sometimes, almost from generation to genera tion. There is some truth in their position, but not enough to outweigh the disadvantages of using words loosely and slop pily. If "enormity" ceases to mean a kind of large wicked ness, and comes to mean the same as ' enormousness, then we have lost a valuable word, and gained nothing. One tool of language has been dulled beyond repair. Consider another more prevalent example the modern use of "disinter ested" to mean "uninter ested." Properly speaking, a judge it "disinterested" in a case that is. he is in terested In an objective and impartian manner. This is a most valuable word to de scribe the role of a "dis interested party." If, how ever, it it used interchange ably with "uninterested." we have limply given up something for nothing. I don't beiieve that words should be preserved mere ly for their antiquarian or traditional value: the only test should be whether they till a verbal need. When they do. we should resist all efforts to eliminate them or modify their meenlng. "Imply" and "infer" are also losing their distinction: I "imply" by whet I tay, and I "infer" from what you say. If these two are used interchangeably, then communication becomes even more confused. Since semantic confusion it al ready to great in our socie ty, loosening the bonds of meaning even further can only create greater mil chief. a We cannot prevent lang uage from changing, nor should we. But the changes should be gradual, sensible and advantageous. Purists, for instance, object to "contact" as a verb ("I contacted John yesterday"), and indeed it is an ugly construct; yet it Forces in swift, hardhitting attacks over a set battlefield. Arthur Domen, a UPI vet eran at reporting the war in Laos, says this is about what the situation has become there today. The Geneva accord by which it was hoped to turn Laos into a neutral state, gave the Pathet Lao guerillas army status by recognizing that there were three armed forces in Laos, the Pathet Lao, the royal Tightest forces under Gen. Phoumi Nosavan and the neutralist forces of Kong Le- In the past year, according to Domen, it has been dis covered that the Pathet Lao possess armed camps with their own supply dumps and field hospitals. In the strate gic Plain of Jars which pro vides access not only to South Vietnam but to Cam bodia and Thailand as well, they have fought in unit strength up to a battalion, carrying relatively heavy Sin Lines Us Up, At The Box Office By Arthur Hoppe There's no denying we're having a great moral revival in this country. You can't go anywhere without hearing everybody angrily condemn ing Mr. Burton and Miss Tay lor for their appalling con duct during the filming of Cleopatra. Never has our Na tion been more staunchly united on such a burning moral issue. Where will such indignation all end? Well. Mr. Darryl F. Zanuck now figures happily that the picture ought to gross better than $100 million. So I guess it's another smashing example of the old law that everbody's four- J. Harris avoids the cumbersome "got in touch with" and does not muddy the waters of mean ing. The other evening, a friend mentioned the phrase "the lion's share." Everyone uses it today to mean the larger part, when actually it means the whole part, in Aesop's fable. By distorting this phrase, we are left with no expression to indicate the sit uation in which the lion grabs the whole part. We are continually whit tling down the language in this way, and it is up to teachers, writers and other guardians of speech to protect us from the consequences of our verbal folly. Ike Denies Report Of Excluding Names Washington-UIPD - Former President Dwight D. Eisen hower has denied a report he excluded Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and Sen. Barry Goldwater from his list of ac ceptable candidates for the 1964 GOP presidential nomi nation. It had been reported that Eisenhower considered only Gov. William Scranton of Pennsylvania, Gov. George Romney of Michigan, Sen. Thruston B. Morton (R-Ky.) and former Gen. Lucius D. Clay as potential candidates for the Republican nomina tion. It was learned that Eisen hower's denial was relayed by a friend to both Rockefeller and Goldwater as well as to GOP congressional leaders. . ?v 7"t i; "When I grow up. I wan to topple governments!" Laos Fight weapons and working with radio equipment. Giap's advisors work right up with Pathet Lao forward units. '- In addition to training; Pathet Lao officers in North Vietnam and building up local military units, the Commu nists are proceeding rapidly with the indoctrinatfon of populations under their con trol. In Laos' capital of Vietiane, Western observers concede that a hard-core regiment of North Vietnamese veterans of the Indochina war could sweep the Plain of Jars now if they wished. By the end of the current rainy season or by May of 1964, the Pathet Lao may ba ready for the job themselves, thus maintaining the fiction of Laotians fighting for Laos. The Communist countries then might call for another international conference to ratify the battlefield victory. square for morality. But no body's going to pay out good money for it. And all that wor ries me now is how such a smashingly smashing example is going to affect Hollywood. I shudder to envision the scene. e : (The scene: The Idea Room of Wonder Westerns, Inc. -"If it's A Good Western, It's A Wonder!" Seated around the inlaid Formica idea table afa Producer Cecil B. DeCecil and his brain trust of Idea Men, headed by Copley S. Plaza.) Mr. DeCecil': All right, lel'i have it. It better be good. Mr. Plaza: You'll love it. Chief. First of a,ll, we. shoot it in the Middle East. . Mr. DeCecil: A Middle Eat em Western? What's wrong with good old Lonesome Pine? Mr. Plaza: No .romance. This one we film in the mys terious Casbah, with side trips to Capri, Venice and Coney Island. Mr. DeCecil: It'll cost mil lions! . Mr. Plaza: (proudly): Scores of millions! The public will decry such extravagance. With luck, we'll upset the gold balance and hit the financial pages, too., Mr. DeCecil: Good thinking. Who's the cast? Mr. Plaza: We figure Shir ley Temple as the lead. She's just a simple American house wife, see? But she is overcome by the heady mystique of the Casbah and then-bang-o!-she meets Walter Brennan. , Mr. DeCecil: Walter Bren nan! He's old enough to be her father. ' Mr. Plaza: Right, Chief. It gives us the Lolita angle. It'll outrage housewives, fathers, little girls and the League of Decency. He wants her to fly off to Venice with him, see? Illicitly. But shall she leava her children? What conflict. Mr. DeCecil: And in the end she forsakes her lover, eh? V Mr. Plaza: Gosh, no, Chief. She forsakes her childrej. Mothers everywhere will be up in arms. But in Venice sHe takes up with this Italian gofl dolier driver, which will of fend American male pridf. Then, addicted to heroin she . r . j Mr. DeCecil: Marvelous! Let's start production. It'll outgross "Cleopatra." Yoji men are to be commended fqV coming up with such a grejt story line for what happens off the set. By the way, have you given any thought yet to what the actual movie itself will be about? . 1 Mr. Plaza: Oh, we'll thinjt of something. i iiiinau. - 1 t
