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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
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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,
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tw That Dirty Imperialist Warmonger
Harriman? Well, He' A Dirty "
Imperialist Peacemonger"
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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,
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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