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4 A "Everyone In Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St.. Ph.77a-61 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverUilng Manager r.vmi.n T LATHAM. Bus Mir BR1C W ALLEN JR., Mne: Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor varrv rHIPMAN Telee Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporta Editor OMVE STARCHEB Women's Edltok DALE ERICKSON. ClrculaUon Mgr An Inrfenenrient NewiDaDei Entered aa second claaa matter at Medtord ureaon unaer us March 3, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES tt Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday I year $18 00 Dally and Sunday A moa 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year $5.00 Simla Cony (Mailed) 30 era rnmr And Motor Route Dally and Sunday I year $21 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. L75 - Sunday Only 1 mo. 50o Carrier and Vendori Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International lull Leased Wire TJ. P. I Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDtf BUREAU vEi!Rtensuroc?. .ire nfricM in New York. Cm- ; eago, Detroit. San Francisco, Lot Angeiea. oeaiuc. - w . . - -Denver. NEWSPAPit PUIIISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL ML NATION A I EDITORIAl ASftbcftTian J v J Member California Newspaper Publishers AiaoclaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 2, 1953 (Sunday) An Oregon Public Utilities Commissioners' hearing on a California Oregon Power com pany petition lor rate in creases has been set for Aug. 18, County Judge Coleman re ports. Mayor Flynn next Tuesday evening will ask the city coun cil to approve his recommend a 1 1 o n s for administrative changes In the Medford police department. 20 YEARS AGO luemat I. 1913 (Monday) Local girls recruited for IT. S. Coast Guard Spars. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Many of the fair sex report they have painful but lovely sun tans and are as b.own as a nut, Indian or berry." 30 YEARS AGO August 2. 1933 (Wednesday) City ordinance tightens rules for selling milk in city. Central Point goes on NRA basis. 40 YEARS AGO August 2, 1923 (Thursday) City engineer surveys cross ing across 6th st. Valley pear crop estimated at 1,500 cars by Southern Pa cific agent. SO YEARS AGO Auautt 2, 1913 (Saturday) Deposed Crater Lake park superintendent still considers self in office. Local doctor credits water supply for health of citizens What's Your I.Q.? iJIha m t carreer l turjerler even or eight It excellent; five or six It good. 1. Ten million is what part of one billion? 2. Name the author of the book "Meln Kampf." 3. G.L. are the initials of which popular orchestra lead er who raced speed boats for relaxation? 4. What are the odds on guessing the three numbers in proper sequence in the policy or numbers game? 5. A passage in the Bible quotes a King as saying "all men are liars;" true or false? 6. Is an abridged dictionary larger or smaller than an un abridged dictionary, all other things being equal? 7. The tangelo is a cross be tween which three . citrus fruits? 8. How many singers com prise a septet? 8. Which character in the Biblt, is said to have lived 869 years? 10. What is the plural ot larynx? Aniwern 1. On hundredth. 2. Adolf Hitler. 3. Guy Lorn bardo. 4. 999 to 1. 5. True (Psalms UBill.) 8. Smaller. 7. Tingitint, orange, and grapefruit. 8. Seven. 9. Melh uselah. 10. Lerynges or lar. ynxei. Fruit Growers Tell Of Damage To Crops Portland-WPD-A group of fruit growers testified in Fed eral Court here Thursday that serious damages has been done to peach and prune cropj since Harvey Aluminum Co. began operations at The Dal les. Id' FRIDAY. AUGUST 2, 1963 Non-Aggression and Rtmta "The most avowedly aggressive state may conclude pacts of non-aggression with some states in order to free rear and flanks for an These accurate and prophetic words were uttered almost 30 years ago. Ironically, they were spoken by Maxim M. Litvinoff, then Foreign Commissar (as he was Union. - He is here quoted interview of June 24, 1934, in which he rejected military alliances and the policy of the balance ot power as tending to vent war. The irony was that five years later, plus only two months, the Soviet Union was to sign a non-aggression treaty with Hitler's Germany that most certainly unleashed World War II. World public opinion tor the announcement that Foreign Minister Ribbentrop was flying to Moscow within two days to affix his signature to a non-aggression treaty. That Ribbentrop had been the artisan of the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 only made the shock more dismaying, the irony more complete. THE specific effect of - pact was just what His rear and flanks secured, Hitler gave the order to march and Nazi troops invaded Poland by land and air on Sept. 1, the day after the Kussian supreme boviet tions of ratification. Less than two years uerman troops poured Vyacheslav M. Molotov, vinof f as Foreign Commissar in time to negotiate the pact with Hitler, said : "We had not deserved this." That the Soviet Union a new non-aggression treaty alter so traumatic an experience is surprising. In any event, a pact in the specific terms proposed by Soviet Premier Khrushchev "between the two main military groups of states, the NATO countries and the Warsaw Treaty states" now seems out of the question so long as Charles de Gaulle is President of France. In his mass press conference of July 29 De Gaulle offered his own "solemn declaration through the voice of the President of the Repub lic that there will never be any aggression by France." Therefore, De Gaulle reasoned, "a pact of non-aggression is hence without purpose." THE Russians in the past have been inclined to tear up treaties the moment th';se proved inconvenient. In the period between 1926 and 1933 the So viet government concluded a series of non-aggres sion treaties with neighboring governments. Yet in 1939 Russia invaded Poland and Fin land and in 1940 seized Bessarabia from Ru mania.' After the fall of Paris in 1940, Soviet forces hastily overran the Baltic states in viola tion of existing treaties. And after the surrender of Germany in 1945, Soviet forces invaded JaDa- nese-hcld territory despite Hggrcdsion ireaiy. Foreign Commissar Litvinoff back in 1934 had an alternative to non-aggression treaties that is at least tempting to consider: By a process of elimination we . . , arrive at an other means namely, pacts of mutual assistance, which must by no means be regarded as an attempt to encircle any one, since every state belonging to a region may loin . . . Havlne eaual rlehts and an eaual measure of security, not one signatory of such a pact should be considered encircled or subject to any danger if he shares the other signatories' desire for peace. j . E.R.R. Fourteenth Amendment The chief importance of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution today lies in the second sentence of Section I: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The Amendment was drawn up by the post Civil War Congressional Joint Committee on Re construction in 1866. Its ratification has always suffered under a certain burden of doubt. Legis latures in both North Carolina and South Caro lina had rejected the proposal, and the Amend ment was approved in these states only after the legislatures had been reconstituted. IN REGARD to civil rights the apparently in- tended meaning of the Fourteenth Amend ment was effectively nullified by the U.S. Su preme Court in an opinion handed down on a group of cases in 18S3. This declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional on the ground that neither the Thirteenth Amendment, abolish ing slavery, nor the fourteenth Amendment, re lating to rights of citizenship, gave Conrress Dov er to enact a law on public second sentence of tfcl the Court said, applitW oy state action, not by ftcigw ciCc'rjiWrrs. ATTORNEY GEN. Robert F. Kennedy in lead nff tpstimnnv nil trip artminiati-nf i'rn pivil rights bill on June 26 expressed the opinion that thcupjsT8ifiagj't would mac decision ui eu yeans tJ..,.. oe oto,,,lo nuncicii oa 11 niamu", Wi ,1 i i n a. n qua-tit mp igrm. . rvuri ft its hands and secure its attack on other states, called) of the Soviet from a New York Times unleash rather than pre was totally unprepared in Berlin, Aug. 21, 1939 e the 1939 non-aggression Litvinoff had predicted, went through the mo. later, on June 22, 1941, into the Soviet Union who had replaced Lit should now be pushing a Soviet-Japanese noiv vconiiitioiw. T I'owtMirth .kmevjimtti. utly i 4m US cJf almost certainly reverse ago, H, A-.,.:.. -i.-l .1.. mc uciiMuu is Mill luve - , m tw That Dirty Imperialist Warmonger Harriman? Well, He' A Dirty " Imperialist Peacemonger" 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 It permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tn adit all letters with 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 tr paper, in fact the contrary is often The Seventh Day To the Editor: In the I.Q. column, Friday, July 26, the question, "What is the fourth commandment?" was answer ed "Honor thy father and thy mother." The Good Word says that it is, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is with in thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that In them is, and rested the Seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. This is the most important commandment of the Deca, logue as it informs mankind that God is their Creator and the Creator of all animate and inanimate, beings and things; He commands six days for work and one day for holy purposes and blesses that day for it is holy; no other day could, possibly, take its place. We honor God, Our Heaven ly Father, by keeping the day he has named, the seventh day of the week. Have you looked at your calendar, late ly? James WiHiams P.O. Box 441 Jacksonville, Ore. Notes Contrasts To the Editor: Many call this Legislative session a "do- nothing" session. Not me. They did exploits. They gave us Daylight Time: It was voted down time and again. It took two ses sions, a loaded ballot title, but they had success. They even extended the length. They gave us a milk law which we had voted out. They gave us a nice big sal ary for them, plus expenses. They gave us a whopping big tax bill. Even allowed money for a special session. Will salary, plus expenses, apply? They gave us a poll '.ax which was outlawed for the South. Oregon is different. Theirs was for the right to vote. Ours is for right to pay income tax. They gave the governor ex penses allowance for $22,850 Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CIRF JOE GARAGIOLA, one-time big league catcher, has be come an accomplished after-dinner speaker, though his name is frequently misspelled in the banquet programs. Governor Faubus had oc casion to question Joe's name. "In the hills where I was born," averred Faubus, "we would take a name like that, get two girls' names out of it, and have enough left over for three boys." Joe Garagiola says he played football, too, when he was a boy un6l he mearly drowned in one game, Hjiw's that again, I aa krar you ask. Well, vaas playing on a field f wen that it was covered with mud puddles. He was thrown for a loss on one play right in a puddle, face down, and the entire opposing line fell on top of him. When they untangled the mess, Joe was about to go under for the third time. After that, he stuck to baseball. In the huge batch ot fan mail received by one of Hollywood's moat calllpygian sirens, her press agent unearthed this classic from an Impressionable young gentleman: "Dear Jane: I seen you In a pikshur today. You are gTate. My mommy lays if I am good and we can afloat! (K, I mite get a, "'" '"' W,Ura UM eaawuer c . iv, . o lag. ty smbui r,wi 'JHnbut4 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON the case. more. He has one already, but it couldn't take care of his travels. They opened over 1800 new State jobs. Fought all session on how to pay for what we had. It's OK though, they'll cut the school budget. They gave Senate Bill 287, which I'm told changes the School Reorganization Bill that was voted in. Many other bills help everything but the pocket book. They gave us a Cat Bill; after the office and rules are set up it can be ignored like the others except Civil Rights and taxes. Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, Frank Wilkinson, go everywhere stirring up trou ble. No protest by radio, paper or TV against anarchy encouraged by the adminis tration. Kennedy calls over 250 "Ministers," all liberals and modernists. Bobby sits at a telephone taking collect calls from Negro, refusing calls from Whites. J.F.K. asked Congress for control of busi ness under a Civil Rights bill. A Negro and Bobby on oppo site ends of a telphone wire will control all business. White men are fired to hire Negroes. Yet none of this is discrimination. Maybe that's why Kennedy needs 10 helicopters, an $8 million jet liner, two cars at $65,000 each, among other jets, ships, yachts, automo biles, planes and a train. To assure a quick get-away. Quite a contrast to the man who campaigned on a plat form, "of people who didn't have beans to eat." Ella Powell Box 621 Central Point, Ore. Bodies of Molalla Couple Discovered Molalla - WPD - The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Tilton were found in their home here Thursday evening by Molalla Mayor Ossie Marson. Police said the 68-year-old Tilton apparently shot his 70-year-old wife while she was preparing breakfast Wednes day morning and then turn ed the gun on himself. Marson was called to the home after a friend, Al Nord blom, failed to receive an answer to his calls. .,U WOIW 14VC bjr Ku features SndKate Ci Polls Show Goldwater Has Considerable Support in All Parts of United States Br LYLE C. WILSON United PfMi International If it is a fact that Sen. Barry Goldwater is the presidential choice of what Gov. Nelson A. R ock feller cahs the radi cal right then there must be a great many more radical righters than anyone has suspected. ' Goldwater's national fol lowing is no Wilson mere fringe, lunatic or not. The polls show that the Ariz ona senator has substantial n a Ch inese Community in India Insignificant, But Harassed By MICHAEL T. MALLOY United Press International New DelhMUPII-The Chinese community in India is prob, ably the most insignificant but the most harassed in all of Asia. Chinese residents number only 17,219 in a total India population of 450 million. Some 3,000 members of this small group have been jailed or deported in the past year. Thousands of others have suffered socially or eco nomially for being Chinese. Persecution was the inevit able result of Communist China's border raid on India last autumn. The invasion led to spy scares, anti-Chinese riots and rigid controls on the movements of Chinese residents. But before the Red inva sion, the Chinese here prob ably met with less prejudice than in any other Asian na tion. They lived quietly and well, as carpenters, shoemak ers, dentists and small businessmen. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Mishmash in the news: Back in Milwaukee (Wis consin), a small foreign car was rolling along the high way behind a big truck. Sud denly, the truck slowed sharp ly. The driver of the little car stopped with squealing brakes and smoking tires. He took a monkey wrench out of his tool kit, went forward, smash ed the truck driver's rear view mirror and remarked in a casual tone of voice: "Since you don't use it, you have no use for it." He then went back, climbed into his midget car and went on his way. IN CORVALLIS, two horses were passing a bee colony. One of the horses knocked over one of the beehives. The bees issued forth and stung the horses. Whereupon one of the horses kicked over two beehives. The owners of the horses rushed out to protect them. In the ensuing melee, one of the horses was killed, the other 'was critically stung, three persons were hospital ized with bee stings and horse kicks and the bee colony was totally demolished. They all acted just like na tions, didn't they? Fi LONDON, Europeans launch an investigation in to U.S. eating habits. Why, they want to know, do Amer icans first cut part of their food, put down the knife and eat with the fork in the right hand, then start the cycle all over again. In Europe, it is considered elegant to keep the fork in the left hand, with the knife retained in the right hand. Queried as to the whys and wherefores, a visiting Amer ican replied: "We inherited the custom from our early ancestors, who found its advisable to leave the left hand free to grab the frontier rifle when the Indians got obstreperous. Be sides, history tells us that most of the Mayflower col onists were left-handed to be gin with." BOTH Richard Nixon and Governor Edmund Brown are traveling in Europe. Yes terday Brown took a crack at remarks made by Nixon in East Berlin last week. "I don't think." he said in Lon don, "that Mr. Nixon is doing anything to lesson world ten sion." Nixon, Governor Brown re marked, is traveling in a priv ate capacity. He got a laugh when he added: "He's not in public life for which I am thankful." IV'HY is Governor Brown in " Europe? He explains: "I am here to increase Cal ifornia's trade with Europe. My main purpose is to sell California. 1 hope to promote,! California trade. particularlW agricultural products, witt, j support in all parts of the United States. The latest Gal lup poll was an eye-opener. Goldwater appears to be the choice of about 31 per cent of the nation's political independents. He appears also to have about double the in dependent support which had attached itself to Sen. Robert A. Taft a few weeks before the 1852 Republican National Convention. It is a fact, of course, that the northeastern modern or liberal Republicans strangled Taft in 1952. But the stranglers had go ing for them more than their anti-conservative, modern or liberal point of view. That The Chinese community was too small to accumulate the kind of economic power which has created resentment toward them in other nations. Their preference for keeping ipart from the rest of the population, blended smoothly with the Indian s own system of watertight caste groups and religious communities. The Chinese began settling in India, 80 years ago. Most of them landed in Calcutta, where half of their commun ity still lives. 1 Smaller groups of Chinese settled in other big cities, or scattered through the grow ing, frontier state of Assam. By 1959, the rustic little As samese capital, S h i 1 1 o n g, boasted 176 Chinese restau rants. Every one of these restau rants has now been closed. All the Chinese have been driven from Assam. Many of these uprooted Chinese were imprisoned in the Deoli internment camp, in Europe and to encourage European tourist travel to our state." SHUCKS! Let's be realistic about it. Mr. Nixon is traveling in Europe (and making speeches when invited to do so) in an effort to get back into the limelight. As a salesman for Califor nia, Governor Brown is trav eling on expense account which is always rather pleas ant. IN CONCLUSION: Why do writers put stuff like this in columns? The answer is that at the moment there is nothing bet ter at hand and we have to have something to fill up with. End of Indonesia Aid Being Talked Washington - (UPII - Two members of the House For eign Affairs committee today considered an amendment to cut off completely all U.S. aid to Indonesia after it was re ported the administration might increase financial help for the Sukarno regime. Reps. Wayne Hays (ID Ohio) and William S. Broom field (R-Mich) attacked the administration after it was re ported that officials were con sidering providing $250 mil lion in new aid next year to Indonesia. Hays said lie would intro duce an amendment on the House floor to end U.S. aid to the Southeast Asia coun try altogether. "It will ban any aid whatever, any kind, shape or form - period!" he said. "I lik, to think eur voices war hoard. Ii proves indWdual citittns ian do lomeihing!" would not have been enough, Taft would have been easily nominated against mere op position by the northeastern Republican kingmakers. Two Factors Involved Two factors made the king makers' attack on Taft the deadly maneuver it was. First there was the fear among Republican moneybags every where that Taft could not win, that he had no voter appeal; that he was not an effective campaigner. This fear was In error but it was smartly nour ished by the northeastern Re publicans who finally did Taft in. They also had going for the Rajasthan desert. A total of 3,000 were locked up and slated for deportation. About 2,300 of these have left, or will soon leave, for Commu nist China. Prefer Labor Camps The remaining 700 say they prefer the Indian camps to the communist mainland. The Indian government was itself responsible for push ing thousands of Chinese res idents into the arms of Pe king, by making them choose between Communist citizen ship or the vulnerable status of stateless persons. While nationalist - Commu nist differences were break ing out in Calcutta street fights in the late 1950's, the government was publicily supporting Peking while or dering the explusion, in 1958, of a nationalist newspaper editor. This policy helped lump most Chinese together as of ficially pro-Peking. The pol icy of non-alignment contin ues to foster that impression. The non-aligned prooagan- da machine pours out daily attacks on "Chinese imperial ism," or "the dragon." It nev er mentions that the dragon is a Communist, or that mil lions of Chinese still oppose its regime. For the unlettered Indian masses, it is hard to believe that a Chinese can be any thing but an enemy. Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, inc. SMALL AS VILLAGE When people behave the way nations behave, we put them away - either in prison or in mental i n s t i t u -tions. No so ciety would permit any of its individuals to act in so arbitrary, ir rational and dangerous way. There can be no peace in the world until the same laws that apply to indi viduals apply to individual nations. No matter how many treaties we make, how many pacts we sign, how many al liances we form, how many disarmament conferences we attend, so long as each nation is a law unto itself, the world can have at best an uneasy truce, and not for long. How could mankind have even a village if each villager retusea to obey a common law, if he held himself ;.s a sovereign power, if he de clared it to be his inalienable right to wage war on his neignDor wnenever ne saw fit? Ytt Ihe world today ii as small as a village, and een mora inflammable. But wt do not hare a com mon police department, or a common lira department. them an ideal candidate of their own, a hero-general as corny as Kansas. It was these latter factors that finished off Taft's political career. The kingmakers urgently need an other hero. The elements of the Republican party who master-minded Taft'i r e j e c tion in 1952 are maneuvering now to cut down Goldwater. The guilt-by-association plot seeks to tag Goldwater as a member, advocate of or sym pathizer with the John Birch Society. That is supposed to be enough to lick him if tha accusation can be made to stick. Goldwater's answer to that is that he does not regard tha far righters as dangerous to the American way as are the far letters. And he makes the further point that the far righters are not in federal of fice whereas the Kennedy ad ministration is salted with representatives of the well left of center Americans for Democratic Action. Command In Northeast Since the nomination of Wendell Willkie in 1940 to run against FDR's third term candidacy, the command post of the Republican party has been in the northeast. Some of the Goldwater enthusiasm in the Midwest and mountain states unquestionably is an ex citement over the possibility of si 'fting the party's center of gravity westward. Goldwater fans claim they can elect their man with out the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and West Vir ginia in the northeast. They are willing, also, to concede to President Kennedy in 1964 Michigan, Minnesota, Mis souri, Oregon and Nevada. They call California doubtful. Objective observers have called Goldwater more con servative than Taft. But this does not imply membership in the John Birch Society or anything like it. There evi dently are some millions of Americans who want no part of that society or its leaders but who believe the senator from Arizona is the newly discovered prophet for a holy political war against over-centralized, big spending, deficit government. J. Harris or a common court. Nations today are no farther apart than Boston from New York in Colonial days much closer indeed in terms of time, in terms of tha cap acity for mutual destruc tion. What is insane about this situation is not that it exists, but that its existence is admitted by everyone -and yet everyone persists in behaving as though it did not exist, as though foot soldiers with muskets were still defending Bunk er Hill. What we call "mad ness" in tht individual, we call "statecraft" in tha as sembly of nations. We stand precariously with one foot in the 18th century, and the other in tha 20th. Our social, poli tical and cultural concepts are a mass of outmoded superstitions and slogans and fossilised attitudes; while our technology - our actual physical situation -is racing ahead faster than science fiction can keep up with it. And in this physical world, we can clearly see how things become obsolete year by year; what we refuse to see is how our ideas and our attitudes likewise become obsolete as the whole face of the earth changes before our eyes. The prime task of the hu man race today is not politi cal or social or economic -it is psychological. It is to force our minds to grasp the implications of these new concepts. It is to learn to think - and fast - in terms of the cataclysmic changes that have come over us in the last few decades. Among the most profound of these changes is the de cline of national autonomy; the single nation, or even the alliance of a few nations, is now as outmoded as the medi eval duchy. Wars con no long er be won by combinations of powers - for wars can no longer be won. This is the hardest lesson the human race will have to learn: that coun tries are now forced to adopt the same morality they en force upon their citizens, or perish. MOVIE GOERS FLEE New York -dTB- More than 6.000 movie goers, who had seateifthemselves in the huee Radio-City Music Hall Thur.T day night to see "ghe Thrift of It All," were forced to leave when fire broke out in an electrical generator in the basement. I
