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RATION At E0ITOIIAI Member California Newipaper Publishers Aaaoclatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 1, 1953 (Saturday) The 1953 Jacksonville Gold Bush Jubilee opens today. in the historic community with parades, contests, entertain ment, church services, and speeches. Mayor Flynn and officials will meet to set up procedures for the city and the Veterans Administration station: with regard to handling of injured or sick members who may come in the custody of Med ford police. 20 YEARS AGO August 1, 1943 (Sunday) Mayor C. A. Meeker pro claims Aircraft Warning Serv ice week. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot column: "There has been a lack of fires in grass, brush or timber this summer. This is due to cigar ettes not getting careless after they are tossed." 30 YEARS AGO August 1. 1933 (Tuesday) Northwest fruit industry to seek'NRA aid. Grants Pass youth tries ex tortion and .is nabbed when he reaches for money. 40 YEARS AGO August 1, 1923 (Wednesday) State to vote on income tax bill coming fall. Henry Ford silent on run ning for president. : 50 YEARS AGO August 1, 1913 (Friday) See Oregon First club of Salem visits in Medford. More poachers arrested while fishing at Ament dam. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct h superior) seven er eight is excellent; five er sii is good. 1. Standing at the North Pole, in what direction would one face? 2. Is a gnu an insect, an telope, or reptile? 3. Gumbo is a soup thick ened with mucilaginous pods of what vegetable? 4. Of what South American country is Pedro G. Beltran the prime minister? 5. Would you guess that the gorilla has the same num ber of pairs of ribs as man, more ribs, or fewer ribs? 6. Do biennial elections oc cur every six months, or ev ery two years? 7. How many division has the Zodiac? 8. Is the moon self-luminous? 0. Do opponents in a chess game use the same or differ ent color squares? 10. Which sea does port of Bombay, India face? Answers! 1. South in all di rections. 2. Antelope. 3. Okra. 4. Peru. 6. More. 6. Every two years. 7. Twelve. 9. No. 9. Same 10. Arabian Sea. - KEPT 'TIGHT COUNT Detroit urn Recorder's Court Judge Frank Q. Sche manske offered John Abra ham, 58 a sporting chance Wednesday, telling him he could go free if he could recall how many times he had been brought in on a charge of drunken ness. "Sure, 240 times, your honor," Abraham answered promptly. The judge consulted the record and said, "You may go." ' VjAMOCIATION inunouAY. AOiiuai' i. ik3 Central American Conundrum The reported massing of Guatemalan troops on the border of British flare-up in an ancient quarrel. In the past the Guatemalans have pressed their claim to the British colony to the point of sporadic invasion, but Her Majesty's fleet has dis couraged any real attempt to establish the old Guatemalan aim by force. As long ago as 1763 Spain granted British settlers in the Central American territory certain restricted rights of occupation. After the battle of St. George s Cay in 1798, bpam abandoned sov' ereignty in favor of Britain. n UATEM ALA in 1821 British Honduras as the international successor to Spain, although Guatemalans had never A British-Guatemala treaty of 1859 finally established a frontier. Also, Guatemala was to abandon its territorial claim in return for a Brit ish agreement o open a line of communication from Guatemala s landlocked northeastern prov ince to Peten through British Honduras to the sea, This provision of the treaty was never car ried out. The Guatemalan Constitution of 1945 declared Belice to be a part of Guatemala, and in the same year Guatemala again repudiated the 1859 treaty. DOTH nations now agree that the issue is suit able for adjudication by the International Court of Justice, but Guatemala demands aa vance recognition of her sovereign rights. From time to time Guatemalan leaders have demanded that President Kennedy live up to a "promise" to mediate Guatemala s loan of training facilities for Cuban exiles prior to the April, Guatemala s territorial claims have been supported by the Presidents of Nicaragua and Honduras. At the same north, Mexico, has revived duras, again as the successor to Spain. Despite the geographical proximity, most British Hondurans do not want to exchange Brit ish colonialism for Guatemalan. The colony al ready enjoys a large measure of self-government. It is scheduled for complete internal autonomy by the beginning of next year. . THE present government of Guatemala was es tablished earlier this year by an armed for ces coup which displaced Miguel Ydigoras Fuen tes, himself a former general, with Col. Enrique Peralta Azurdia, former minister of defense. The presidential election scheduled for November was canceled, but elections "in an effective dem ocratic climate." were promised in due course. Inasmuch as the United States has had a hand in Guatemalan politics for more than a de cade, the March coup and the revival of the claim on British Honduras are both embarrassments. And the claim complicates further the British problem of the future destiny of the colony. As the Times of London has pointed out, the only in ternationally approved destiny for a colony is in dependence or absorption by a neighboring ex pansionist country. At one time there had been a plan for inclus ion of British Honduras in a West Indies feder ation. There is still a remote possibility of mem bership in a Central American union. ' But as the Times goes on to suggest, British Honduras poses a problem : "What is to be done with islands and territories too small to be sov ereign, but prohibited by international morality from remaining colonial?" E.R.R. There Goes Another Theatre It comes as sad news to theatregoers every where not merely in the Nation's Capital that a long campaign for maintaining Loew's Capitol Theatre as a setting for Washington cul tural events has failed. Bids were received recently by the National Press Building Corp., which owns the theatre, to install office facilities in the space to be evacu ated. A bill to permit the District of Columbia Commissioners to lease the theatre for an arts center cleared the House last year but got no where in the Senate. The sponsor, Rep. John H. Kyi (R-Iowa), says: "It would be useless for us to pass the bill again if there is no support in the Senate." A measure of the loss is that the Capitol is the only theatre in Washington capable of re ceiving ballet, and opera companies, aside from Carter Barron Amphitheatre. The National is a handsome theatre, but it is limited to legitimate stage performances, and even then it is crowded by big-cast musical comedies. Washington has lost three other theatres suitable for professional performances since 1921. The trend is nationwide. In 1921 there were 560 such theatres in operation. As of recently there were 193 a loss of 347 good theatres in about 40 years. This, of course, is to say nothing of the even swifter disappearance of large motion picture theatres, particularly with the inroads of televi sion in the past two decades. But this trend seems of late to be bottoming out, as the economists say. At least new movie houses not the picture palaces of old are beginning to be built. The performing arts perhaps will have to depend on the cultural centers now proliferating. Washing ton's hope is the projected National Cultural Cen terbut that, alas, appears to be light vears away. E.R.R. ' Honduras is only another claimed the territory of which it called Belice occupied the territory. the dispute in return for 1961, abortive invasion. time, the neighbor to the a claim to British Hon "How Long Do You Think He'll Keep Going On This Basis?" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of t:- paper, in fact the contrary li often the case. Should Speak Out To the Editor: After fur ther reflection on the govern ment takeover of the rail roads; this would give JFK the chance to hire colored men. We will say that the owners will be paid off in long term interest bearing bonds, on agreeable terms. Af ter the takeover the operating personnel would all be gov ernment employees and as such would not be allowed tb strike. Excess workers would be provided for with pensions or getting rocking chair money. In other words the govern ment can and does pay its un employed a subsistence pay all along; whereas the private employer does so for short specified periods. The federal government is noted for its spending untold millions in gifts to foreign countries. This money as we all should know buys goods in America. But in the purchase of the railroads, even if it should take a billion dollars to reor ganize and revamp its opera tion, after a fair price had been paid, that money would create work for a large por tion of our unemployed and would stimulate business in general. Our labor leaders in Wash ington, being in the million aire class, keep mum on this matter. But here is a chance for the ministers of the gos pel to show their good will to men, by speaking out. John E. Ring, 1049 West 11th St., Medford, Ore. A Juggler of Words To the Editor: Truly, the English language, as juggled by our Administration, is a thing with which to conjure. The Administration throws the Monroe Doctrine out the window and allows the Com munist Russians to maintain a complete, aggressive military establishment 90 miles from our shores. This they call "Af fecting An Accommodation." How accommodating can you get? The effect of such an af fection for '"Affecting A Peaceful Co-existence" with the unaffectionate Commu nists is effecting a disaffection for the effectors. When it comes time to vote, this dis affection will have its effec tiveness! It takes more than a glib tongue to make a statesman. The Indians used to call this "speaking with a forked tongue." Bruce Y. KleinSmid, 1719 SE Portola dr., Grants Pass, Ore. In Disagreement To the Editor: This is one of the few times I find my self in disagreement with your ideas as expressed in your ed itorials. Why don't you stop panning the post office de partment when at last they are trying to do something to improve the mail service? Quotes From BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL London Dr. Stephen Ward, in an interview before his apparent suicide attempt and conviction on vice charges: "One or two people can still vindicate me, but when the establishment wants blood, you can't wriggle out." Skopje, Yugoslavia A baker, whose family lost all its possessions in Friday's disastrous earthquake: "Even if I have to sweep streets and live in one room someplace else, I will never come back." Washington One of 2,000 letters and telegrams TecevfSd by the White House on the signing of the nuclear test ban treaty with Russia: "It will be a black day for all people if we do not take (his first step (or peace." Hong Kong Lowell D. Skinner. 32. Akron Ohio, an American prisoner of war returning from China where he chose to remain after the Korean fighting ended: "It's about time to go back. My parents ire getting pretty old." MEDFORD MAU. TRIBUNE, M1.DFORD, OREGON fteU M-tWieSt-Oel-aV?- Surely you realize that, post office people being human, they can't reasonably be ex pected to be perfect from the very beginning of a new sys tem at least they are trying to do something for you, so give them a chance. I have read of letters being addressed to "Frontier Days, Wyoming" and "Santa Claus," without the town names, pnd eventually reaching the des tination, but one would hard ly expect to get immediate de livery on such experiments. Likewise it would take some time for everyone to know immediately the correct destination for a letter con taining only the "zip" num ber; especially when postof fice Instructions request both the address and zip number. Continued criticism of this at tempt seems to me to be de structive rather than con structive. Frank H. Gray, 122 Valley View dr., Medford. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Big News today? It's President Charles de Gaulle of France. SITTING at the center of the stage of the beautiful Salle de Fetes (hall of feasts and festivals) of the Elysee Palace, the official residence of the Presidents of France, he re fused to join the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union in their Moscow agree ment for a limited ban on atomic tests and spurned the East-West idea of a non-ag- grcsion pact. He announced flatly that France will call for a meeting "among interested parties" be fore the end of the year to take up France's own disarm ament proposals (which, pre sumably, would be a confer ence of the four nuclear pow ers, the U. S., Soviet Union, Britain and France). He asserted disdainfully "the Moscow agreement has not lifted the atomic menace which weighs on the world. None of the signers has re nounced the use of atomic weapons and under these con ditions the world situation has not changed in any way." OO 0 He said id in substance A BETTER agreement must be reached. So France will lead the way to this bet ter agreement. That seems to have been about the size of the fantastic session arranged by France's fantastic Presi dent. IIE TOOK occasion to say that while differing sharp ly with Washington on policy, the News Dirksen Expresses Doubts About Veto On Amendments of Nuclear Test Ban By JOHN A. GOLDSMITH United Press International Washington - IUPD - Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen has expressed "doubts" about a Russian veto on amendments and other un specified provisions of the nu clear test ban treaty. The Illinois lawmaker, in a statement reminiscent of his sometimes flowery oratory, said he hopes Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees - and the congres sional Atomic Energy commit tee - "will give the treaty draft the closest examination relative to its impact on our defense posture and the future of our nuclear weaponry." The Foreign Relations com mittee invited members of the other two groups to sit in Monday when Undersecretary of State W. Averell Harriman outlined the treaty. Harriman was the U. S. negotiator who helped to frame the historic partial ban on nuclear weap ons tests and initialed the draft in Moscow last week. There were these other com ments in advance of the ses sion with Harriman: Ready To Go -Chairman John O. Pas tore (D-R. I.) told a radio television panel that the Unit ed States "would be ready to go within a moment's notice" if the Russians should secret ly prepare for tests and then abrogate the treaty. He said he is sure the United States would resume testing if there was a series of "suspicious' events in Russia. -Sen. Wayne Morse (D- Ore.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, declaring that mankind must have a test-ban for its survi val, said he does not expect Defense department opposi tion to a treaty draft. He re minded the Pentagon, how ever, that foreign policy "is determined by the civilian branch of the government and not by the brass." -Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R N.Y.), predicted that there is going to be a "very tough fight" on Senate ratification of the treaty. Javits, who said he is personally "predisposed" in favor, said "all kinds of as sorted John Birchers. and other members of the radical right are already bringing pressure on senators, claim ing in correspondence that any France's friendship with the United States is historic. What is his idea of what should be done? He put it this way: The French contention is that ALL nuclear arms must be JUNKED, along with their delivery systems, and all (nu clear) production halted, to bring all nations down to the non-nuclear level under IN TERNATIONAL supervision. TIE CONCLUDED: "If one day the Americans and the Russians DISARM and come to the destruction and prohibition of nuclear weapons, France will then re frain from procuring them herself, but the Americans and the Russians don't seem to be at that point yet." He rejected any non-aggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw Pact of Soviet bloc states of Eastern Europe. He said France would never consent to a deal by the Anglo Saxons and the Russians "over France's head." Furthermore, he added, "such a treaty would be com pletely needless as far as France Is concerned since France will never strike the FIRST blow against anyone." I ET'S not go off at half-cock. Charles de Gaulle is a strange and mystic figure. Be fore making up our minds, let's wait and watch a little longer. T ET'S get the picture a little more sharply. It was a news conference at which he spoke. On the stage of the Salle de Fetes of the Elysee Palace (corresponding to our White House) a red velvet throne had been ar ranged for him. On the floor below were some 900 "jour nalists" (the French term for newspapermen) and assorted dignitaries. Just before he came on. three security guards lifted the velvet throne on which he was to sit. peered under the table to see that no as- ! sassins were hidden there and ' inspected the water pitcher I and glass to see that no poison 1 had been placed therein. At I the psychological moment, the I velvet curtains in the rear parted and he strode onto the ! stage. I That's President Charles de Gaulle - a strange character I if ever one lived. treaty would be a sell out to the Russians. Starts With Step In his statement Dirksen cited - as did President Ken nedy in his televised speech on the treaty - the Chinese proverb that the longest of journeys must begin with a single step. He cautioned, however, that "even the first step must be in the right di rection if the larger goals are to be ultimately reached." "Nothing is more natural than man's search for escape from the threat of his own Frankenstein," said Dirksen reflecting on radioactive fall out and the "fallout of fear and dread" resulting from the arms race and the threat of nuclear war. Dirksen praised Kennedy tor telling the nation of the "limited" nature of the treaty and what it will not do to curb the threat of nuclear war. He said: "Life will go on as before. If the treaty is ratified it could dissolve some of the fear and strains but little more. "But to mix a metaphor, if this is a first step when does the second shoe drop? Khrushchev already speaks of a non-aggression pact and other matters. The treaty must bi examined against the opaque curtain of the fu ture," Dirksen said. Directed At Clause His comments on a Russian veto were directed at a clause of the proposed treaty which would require that fu ture amendments be approved by a majority vote of all par ties "including the votes of all the original parties Rus sia, Britain or the United States." That, he said, would let the Russians veto an amendment just be abstain ing from votir j. Dirksen said that the veto provision was said to have been inserted in the United Nations charter in 1945 to protect the sovereignty of the United States but has been used "an exact 100 times" by Russia while the United Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fc. Field Enterprises. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES It is possible to argue fruit fully with someone who vi olently disagrees with you, but not (as in most cases) with someone who doesn't even un derstand the logical implica tions of his own position; which is to say, you can con vert someone who is wrong, but not a fool. It has always perplexed me what people can be talk ing about in public tele phone booths for such eter nities of lime. A woman who is proud of doing her "duty" is not a good wife, but merely a con scientious contractor - which is not at all what a man wants in a woman. Those ambitious charac ters who are panting after the goddess Fame ought to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's melancholy message in a letter to Sarah Bernhardt: "To become somebody is child's play; but to remain somebody requires the wits of Solomon." Successful people tend to forget how great a part luck has played in their success, which makes them smug; while unsuccessful people tend to overestimate the im portance of luck, which makes Uiem envious. Although I can admire the technical proficiency of a still-life painting, even a bowl of fruit painted by a great master tails to stir my enthusiasm - for what does not interest me in life does not interest me in art. Speaking of the arts, one of the loveliest pieces of mu sic ever written is the relative ly obscure "Suite in A" by Teleman. a contemporary of Bach, who deserves greater prominence. (Several fine LP recordings of this work are available.) I have never owned a car in which my "bright" highway lights didn't seem incomparably dimmer than the "brights" of every oth er car on the highway; is this a common optical illu sion? You can tell more about a person from the way he laughs than Irom almost any other mannerism; as Goncourt said, "Laughter is the mind's in tonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins." If all the hopeful-eyed girls who are waiting for the "right man" to come along would develop them selves and try to become the- right woman." their chances would increase a thousandfold; but young people never consider whether they merit the kind of love they are looking for, or would be able to handle it after they got it. States has yet to use it. "My preliminary examina tion of th. treaty draft also causes me to have doubts about other provisions which I want to examine further. Nevertheless it is clear to me that the United States Senate must engage in the closest scrutiny of every word of this treaty draft," Dirksen said. Ahead of Russia Pastore, in a panel with Pennsylvania Sens. Hugn Scott (R), and Joseph S. Clark (D), said "All of Lhe testimony before our (atomic Matter of Fact (c) New Vork Herald THE LOWER DEPTHS Philadelphia - For any fairly prosperous white Amer ican, who is also proud of his c o u ntry, on-the- spot re porting of the civil rights crisis in a big -eAT like this one is an almost unbear ably painful experience. If anything, the s 1 t 11 atinn of Alton the Negroes here in Phila- oeipnia is rather better than in mOSt Of the ffreat Nnrlliwn cities. But go into Philadel phia s Negro slums, with their countless blocks of half-ruinous row houses, in which it is not uncommon to find 20 or 30 people living in six filthy little rooms, with a cinol. unspeakable common toilet. You find squalid, teacher short hirh fiphnnlc frnm iirhinlt more than three-quarters of me cnuaren drop out before completing the course. You are led to one 12-hlnrk arpa where 80 per cent of the young were found to be job less by a recent survey. You hear such tales of slum landlordism as the case of the resoectable and harH.wnrltino Negro woman who is fruitless ly trying to collect damages, because the floor of her anart. ment gave way, dropping her into the next apartment, where the floor also gave wav. drnnninir h o r nnfn another unfortunate woman in the cellar and gravely in juring them both. "rpHINGS are belter," peo pie tell you. But when you ask' how much better, you get such an answer as I got from one of the leaders Of the PhilaHplnhio ATinic-c Conference, The Rev. Amos Brackeen. He had been ex tilainins hnw I lis Miniciarc Inference was using the weapon of the boycott to break job discrimination in large local industries. "You can't imacrina what it means to my people," he said very simolv. "to see the ca meter being read or a few cases of soft-drinks being de livered by men of their own race. Those are jobs involving money, receipts, paper work. They weren't jobs for Ne groes before lust the other day." Of SLIch data, a fnw Have' work will Droduce eunuch In fill a book. And on every page of that book will be written the shame, the dis honor, the failure of Ameri can society. rpHE nine Americans in tpn who belong to the affluent America should be sentenced by law to spend one day a week in that "other America" that you find in the slums of North Philadelphia. See at first hand, and the actual physical impulse to cry out for i n s t a n taneous, radical remedies is not easy to re strain. See the situation at first hand, furthermore, and you will learn the bitter truth that although discrimination Actually, if Goldwater ran. it wouldn't be the knnd of campaign we're accustomed to. No attacks on religion, family, personality - just a contest between political philosophies!" energy) committee" gives as surance that the United States is, on the whole, ahead of the Russians in nu clear power. He said, how ever, that the Russias are ap parently ahead in the large) yield weapons such as the ones they tested last year. He said, however, that ha thinks President Kennedy :s con 'inced that "wa're at a standstill" and that tha treaty is in the public inter est. Effects of the treaty on weapons development h e r a and in Russia "can be argued both ways," he said. By Joseph Alsep Tribune Syndicate is being worn away by daily pressure, the underlying prob lem is still growing more dif ficult rather than more easy. Already, the earnings of Ne gro women are estimated to exceed the earnings of Negro men by as much as 80 per cent. There are more unskill ed jobs open for women than for men; so the men rot in idleness and the women keep them. Every building that installs automatic elevators abolishes four or eight or ten Negro jobs. Ever., industrial process ini. roved to eliminate raurh. strong - backed work elimi nates 30 or 40 or 50 Neern jobs. And in Negro ghettos educational deprivation has always gone hand in - hand with economic deprivation; so those who we their jobs as common laborers are never able to find iobs as siriiierl workers. rpHIS is not just a Negro 1 problem, either. In tha "other America" of economic! and educational deprivation the national statistics show that more than half the in habitants are white men and women and children in H. pressed areas or unlucky ciues or impoverished rural regions. The tune has come -indeed, the time came long ago - for a massive national effort to help all the inhabi tants of this "other America" to escape into normal Ameri can society. For the Neern npnnle ih. end of racial discrimination is tne most essential part of that effort. For all the inhabi. tants of the "other America," huge investments are also needed, in education above all, but also in job-retraining programs, in some sort of re vived CCC to make a bridga into normal life for the job less young people, and so on and on. Even then, the problem will not be solved for tha Negro people, unless their leaders quickly begin to recognize an additional duty besides the duty to be mili. tant against discrimination. Resignation, hopelessness, tha feeling that "it's no use learn ing to do jobs that aren't for Negroes," have played and still continue to play as largo a role in Negro educational deprivation as the shocking badness of so many segre gated schools. QNLY the Negro leaders can w combat these ingrained at' titudes of their own people. Only the Nesro leaHr ran stimulate the block-by-block organization that is needed to combat slum conditions, and to insure better schools by strong parent-teacher organi zations, and in many other ways to work from the grass roots to make life better. Only the Negro leaders, in short, can make sure their people are readv tn nu through the doors when tho aonrj open at last. As for tha rest of us. our task is in in. sure that the doors open wida ano open last; and if we fail, we shall be derelict in nnr duties to our country and our God. " - aa i i i "r. i L
