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4 A. " "Ivaryono In Southern Oregon R..d The Mail Tribune", PublliMd Dltly except Saturdw by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mgr ERICW ALLEN JR, Mn Editor EAKLH ADAMS. City Editor ' MARRY CHIHMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women a Edlto, DALE ER1CKSON. CircjdaUonJji! tntered second class ' mftt'r Medford. Oregon under Act ol March 3. IBM , SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday-1 year SIB Kl M Ki.nrtav a mot 10 00 nn i; . u..niava mot. 00 c i ... nmv-na vear S3 00 400 wng e.uF, By tamer . . o , Daily and Sunday I year 21 .00 75 pally ana aunuay ud PH'ClLT; cooy Ma 10C Ultlici oiiu - - official Paper ol City of Medtord SK!Jtperojlanounty United tress imei imn JU1I Irf3HCU mi" DPI Telephoto Newsplcturea crcCnsZZ. siiro-iE'RisurKssoc,: ATES Of'lcee in nt V" cYgo. Detroit. San Francitco Los Angelas. oeaiuB, " ' Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Memner California Newtpaper PubUthert Auociatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ego. 10 YEARS AGO August 4. 1953 (Tuesday) Approximately 100 men are battling a "good-sized" forest iire near Tiller in the Ump qua area. Rogue River Nation al forest officials reported to day. About 8,000 persons Jam med the historic community of Jacksonville yesterday dur ing the grand parade of the final day of the Gold Rush Jubilee celebration. 20 YEARS AGO i. 1843 (Wednesday) Steve Crippen hurls Med ford Craters to 16-3 victory over 81st General Hospital team for sixth victory in row. Prnm Arthur Perry's "Ye Pot" column: "Shot gun shells will be scarce this fall for bird nunung. mis means trespass signs in rural areas will not be blasted oftener than Hamburg." 30 years Ago August 4, 1933 (Friday) The trial of Jackson county judge charged with complicity in the tneft last February of 10,000 ballots from the court house there, was expected to reach the Jury today. Final arrangement are being made in preparation for the formal opening Saturday of the new, enlarged Safeway store at the corner of Main and Holly sts. 40 YEARS AGO August 4, 1923 (Saturday) Move launched for new high school. Movies taken of trout fish ing in Rogue River. 50 YEARS AGO August 4. 1913 (Monday) Articles filed with corpora' ilon commissioner for Unlver- sity of Southern Oregon at Medford. County court enters into contract with Southern Pa- cific and Sunset magazine to advertise Jackson county. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is eicellent; five or six Is good. 1. Napolean Bonaparte was defeated at Waterloo; va It in France. Belgium, or The Netherlands? 2. Is an amphibious plane designed to take off from land or from water? 3. He was the thirteenth President of the U. S. and his initials were M. F.; name him. 4. Is chemically pure saeh arin 5, 50, or 550 times sweet er than sugar? 5. If a heavy explosion oc curs outside a building, will the windows be blown out ward or inward? 6. From what is casein glue derived? 7. In the Roman numeral system. MCMXXX indicates what number? 8. Albert Einstein is famous for his formulation of the Theory of R ? 9. In what major British sport are the terms bov.lcr and wicket and over used? 10. Is barnyard golf played with golf balls? Answers! 1. Belgium. 2. Wa fer. 3. Millard Fillmore. 4. 550. 5. Outward. 8. Skimmed milk. 7. 1930. 8. Relativity. 9. Cricket. 10. No (horseshoes). --jjSf NEWSPAPIK 5I"AilOCIATION A Decade of Rivalry The agreement to ban atomic tests, if rati fied, will mark the end of a decade of hydrogen bomb rivalry. Having destroyed the atomic mo nopoly of the United States in September, 1949, the boviet Union announced to a dubious world on Aug. 8, 1953, that it had achieved the hydro gen bomb. The word came at the end of a long speech by Georgi M. Malenkov, then Soviet Premier, to the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament. He spoke of the "solace" the United States "the trans-Atlantic enemies of peace" had enjoyed in a monopoly of a still more powerful weapon than the atom bomb, the hydrogen bomb. This was no longer true, he went on: "The government deems it necessary to report to the Supreme Soviet that the U.S. has no monopoly in the production of the hydrogen bomb either. . . . Convincing facts are shattering the wagging of tongues about the weakness of the Soviet Union." A MERICAN and British scientists were skepti " cal. It was pointed out that evidence of a Russian H-bomb explosion would inevitably be carried through the atmosphere to the U.S. detec tion devices that had recorded three Russian atomic blasts between 1949 and 1951. The doubt was short-lived. The Soviet gov ernment on Aug. 20 announced that it had tested a hydrogen bomb within the past few days. The announcement was confirmed by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC said that on an explosion in the Soviet Union that involved both fission (uranium-plutoniuin) and thermonu clear (hydrogen) reactions similar to those in U.S. tests of H-bombs. .OREAT BRITAIN, as amount of backing and filling, did not ex plode its first hydrogen bomb until May 15, 1957, France is reported to be irom completing work on dent Kennedy obviously 26 when he spoke of the powers." Several other nations are believed near ly capable of setting off an atomic explosion, but they would still be several years away from a hydrogen bomb. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), chair man of a Senate disarmament subcommittee, said early in 1962 that Communist China might ex plode an atomic device year." Under secretary of man brought back from tic point of view. On July 29 he told reporters that Soviet Premier Khrushchev was "not overly concerned" about Red China's nuclear capabili ties in the foreseeable that since 1960 the Soviet Union had discon tinued all technical assistance to the Chinese nuclear development program. A SIMILAR view is expressed by The Times of London in analyzing a statement by Kuo Mo-jo, chairman of the China Peace Committee, that the present attempt of a small number of countries to control the means of monopolizing be smashed in the not too distant future. The newspaper argues that in the light of China's revised priorities nuclear program, Kuo's tant future, was by no A Petition In Boots More than 1,000 persons are expected in Washington for a legislative conference of the National Association for Colored People, but this curtain-raiser for the huge march on Washington scheduled for Aug. 28. Mass petitioning is NAACP, which calls a the nation's capital at least once a Congress. Two years ago, when the NAACP held its annual con vention in Philadelphia, of freedom train from Where delegates from more than 40 states spent the day button-holing senators and representa tives and urging immediate action on civil rights measures. The NAACP is of course one of the sponsors of the march on Washington in late August. This "petition in boots" is beginning to take on some thing of the aspect of an assembly rather than a demonstration of protest. PRESIDENT Kennedy the sting of protest out stration by his endorsement of the "peaceful as sembly" which he said flatly was "not a inarch on the Capitol." Sen. Barry Goldwater on July 29 said he regarded the civil rights demonstration as "perfectly proper" as ful." The sponsors of the greatest pains to insure ing the use of 1500 nvii-shals specially trained by the "Guardians," a private association of New York policemen skilled in crowd control. Wash ington police and other lav.' nforc ottktt began planning six weeks thtewl. Nevertheless, with, raoit thin SS8,tt townee and Whites expected to demonstrates, tAt itirtti of violence continues to be real if 8a$fwi ti marchers from the inevitable crowds tB iH draw. And for all the drama of the denied)- tionvhether it will have as much effect on legi lation as the energetic lobbying of thgNAACP and similar groups is highly dubious. E.R.R. Aug. 12 it had detected the result of a certain at least three years away an H-bomb, but rresi meant France on July "four current nuclear "anytime within this State W. Averell Ham- Moscow a more optimis future. Hamman added destiny of the world by nuclear weapons would and the costs of a crash phrase, the "not too dis means casual. fcj.K.K. the Advancement of will be only a kind of nothing new for the legislative conference in it organized a new kind that city to Washington, on July 17 took much of of the Aug. 28 demon long as it "stays peace assembly are taking the against violence, includ w&utOnu "Naturally, 1 Would Have Ts Consider Carefully Any Limitation in Outer Today & Tomorrow By Walter ) 1963. The THE GENERAL'S PRESS CONFERENCE Although, as expected, General De Gaulle will not himself sign the test ban, in his press conference on Monday he gave it his blessing: "The Moscow agreement . . which has been conclud ed between the Anglo Saxons and . appears sat Llpnmana the Russians isfactory to us, and we even share in the joy so eloquent ly expressed by President Kennedy . . . concerning this event." The rest of the press conference was an explana tion of why he can rejoice in an event in which he will not participate. The explanation began with an acknowledgement, more explicit than any pre vious one, that at the present time and for some years to come the peace of the world rests on the balance of nu clear power between the So viet Union and the United States. That is why the Mos cow agreement to stabilize the existing balance of forces is an event in which every country, including France, is bound to rejoice. IT IS within the shelter of the USSR-USA nuclear truce that the general is con ducting French policy. Giv en the nuclear truce, the cri tical question for him is how subsequent relations within the Western alliance and re lations with the East are to be conducted. The burden of the general's remarks was that while the specific nu clear agreement 'could be made, indeed had to be made, by the "Anglo-Saxons" and the Russians, nothing else pertaining to the future ol Europe should be left to the British and the Americans to negotiate. The general, there' fore, is opposed to a non aggression pact and to any thing else relating to accom modation or settlement in central Europe. This rejection of British and American leadership in European affairs arises from the general's experience with that leadership since the early days of World War II The principal disqualifica tion of the Anglo-Saxons as leaders of Europe is that, since they are not Europeans they do not understand Europe and cannot be relied upon to defend and promote European interests. The general, who has the memory of an elephant, has not forgiven or forgotten the unhappy story of our rela tions with France during and after World War II. Al though he acknowledges that the United States has pro tected Western Europe since the end of that war, and is still for some ears to come an indispensible protector of Western Europe, he is con vinced that the time is ap proaching when the United States cannot be relied upon to provide adequate protec tion to Western Europe. fN this crucial point, the " convictions of General De Gaulle and the assurances of President Kenedy conflict. When the President an oaccd in Germany that the Uaiteel States would risk its aties to defend Euncan arise, the response of Gen eral Gaulle was that no mBrttl) Prcsid- nt can' ut a promise of that kind thi$ bind-.his successor. v must remember that t aiykWi'al is not talking aetoauD l&t or even about ltjt. Ha is thinking about the lsersFKMi after, and sure ly he 4g jjW ifgd In saying asssaA ftafceai Ihaiu imsuuii, miiifiuniJ, Onc.GGi'i the Atmosphere or Space" lippmann Washington Post that John F. Kennedy today can make no effective pro mise for that far In the future. Nevertheless, it is that somewhat distant future which must concern a French statesman who is only doing his duty by looking ahead. General De Gaulle is not worrying about the Kennedy administration even if It goes into a second term. He is looking beyond John F. Ken nedy for several reasons. For one reason, at least 10 years will be needed to devlop a respectable French nuclear force, but that force must be worked on now. For another reason, France cannot blind ly trust its future to the American statesmen of the 1970s, because no Frenchman can possibly know what United States relations with Europe will be 10 years hence. I70R my own part, I can x find no fault in the logic of the argument. There is, however, a serious blaisk space in the policy which goes with the argument. Supposing that it will take France 10 years to become an important nuclear power. what is to happen to East West relations during the 10 year interval? Does the West have to stand still, does it have to remain diplomatical ly immobilized, until France and the Europe she leads arc properly armed? Are the Anglo-Saxons, working with the West Europeans, forbid den to explore and if possible to negotiate about the secur ity of Europe? Jf the general says that we may not do this. will he take the initiative in exploring and negotiating? As I read the general's press conference with its ar ray of things which he will not do and of the things he docs not want us to do, wish someone at the press conference had had a chance to ask him whether he thougt East-West relations could re main frozen and in suspense until he is ready to deal with them. Difficult Access as Admission By ERIC SEVAREID Aspen, Colo. - An aus landcr from the steaming cities and the baking plains is a little startled when i -j ,i SURl - Ulllt- IL idents in this 8000 - foot high valley say, "Hot enough for you?" as the mercury bare ly creeps past Sevareld Clgniy. in 11115 dry climate nobody sweats and at night one hears the thcrmostai controlled heat go on and reaches for an extra blanket. Aspen is one of many American Shangri-las. above not only the sweltering of summer, but for many of its people, beyond the Age of Anxieties. The air-strip is be ing lengthened to accommo date DC-3's, and the dusty gravel road winding over the 1 gref,t divide at Independence Pass is likely to be entirely paved, so one cannot vouch for space and serenity in the future. But there remains a certain peace in this kind of; )ite and it dawns on one at lsl that a reason for it is that so many of the permanent residents are here by deli - berate, often difficult choice, Not all American profes- sionai,ind business people are -i . 1 1 ... -1 mm ' .LekeaT i the rat-race of I O INUfAl up lit 111 Matter of Fact (CI Nw York Herald (Editor's note: Joseph Al sop will be on vacation this month, and gathering ma terial both in this country and abroad for future col umns. During his absence, lop members of the staff of the New York Herald Trib une will substatuie for him.) By ROBERT BIRD FUND FOR EQUALITY Washington - A new racial issue which seems to be shap ing up for the Presidential campaign next year is a de mand from the Negroes for sizable special federal funds to help them achieve the equality they are seeking. The idea is being referred to as a kind of Negro Marshall Plan. The Issue could be a touchy one for the candidates, be cause the proposal in the form it will be taking by next year probably will carry with it a price tag with a figure much too big and specific to be easily talked off in cam paign oratory. And it will be rjrtain to arouse hot opposition in cer tain white quarters where it will be denounced as a Negro grab for special treatment. and as discrimination in re verse. UP TO now no specific fund figure has been mentioned, and the only thing that has taken shape in concrete form has been a ten-point policy statement by the National Ur ban League and the appoint ment by its annual convention in Los Angeles this week of a committee to draft a plan. But all the Negro civil rights leaders have talked por tentously about special fund demands to be made on the Administration, Negro intel lectuals have discussed the matter extensively, and there has been amassed a powerful and diverse body of rationale for it. Unquestionably there is great pressure for such a proposal. The Urban League's policy statement embodied many of the arguments being advanced in the Negro world for what is frankly acknowledged to be indeed a demand for spe cial treatment. In effect, the Negroes are saying that the gap in their educational, so cial, and economic environ ment is so great compared to the white population's that most of them could not grasp equal opportunity even if it were honestly offered to them. rpHE words that are being used by Negroes to de scribe the financial assistance which they want are "com pensation" and "indemnifica tion," the idea being that Ne groes have been subjected to such an inferior status for so many hundreds of years that they are entitled to spe cial funds to catch up. Dr. Martin Luther King has likened the position of the American Negroes to that of the Untouchables cast in In dia before it was emancipated in 1948, and compares the de mand for federal funds to the situation where the Indian government appropriated mil lions of rupees in order to prepare the Untouchables to live in the society from which they had been excluded. Negro writers and intellec tuals have been calling for payments to the Negroes not only on ordinary moral grounds, but as a special our time. Here one finds a group of exceptionally able young doctors who have de liberately turned their backs on far more lucrative big city practices to build their little frame houses here, keep their Jeeps in gas and grease, their fishing gear cleaned and find time to sit on a verandah at evening and watch the gold turn to purple on the peaks. One meets the man who quit Wall Street and started the title abstract business on Main Street, the ?nnple who sold their prosperous busi ness in upper New York, headed west in a trailer with no specific destination and ended here in the real estate business. None is likely to get rich; all are likely to live longer, have a lot more fun watching their tanned and ac tive children grow, and all seem to wear the air of people who know they have won the battle. In time, of course, even the Aspens of this country can create their own rat race and there are signs of it now. ' Here one confronts the deep dilemma of this onoespac- , ions country: the affliitnt pp- ulation grows while the open ! spaces cannot grow. How -ay ! more and more Amcritjslis to j make use of their national heritage without spoling the the heritage for everyone? The good plaies where one may breathe cannot be left By Joseph Alsep Tribune Syndicate method whereby the white majority and the nation itself might find a way of "redeem ing'' itself from the guilt in curred through the enslaving of the Negroes and afterwards from the denial to them of their full rights and privi leges as American citizens. The Negro position is, in short, that they have suffered from a negative kind of spe cial treatment for so long that it is now time they got posi tive special treatment. The problem for the candi dates next year will be to deal with these forceful argu ments from the Negro side while at the same time offer ing some equalizing satisfac tions to the underprivileged whites. For in a city like De troit, where white workers from the South and Negro workers from the South com pete for the same jobs, the special treatment accusation could stir up trouble. That is why this racial issue is beginning to loom large for the Presidential year, (c) 1963 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Secretary of State Dean Rusk and a bipartisan delega tion (meaning a delegation composed of members of two parties) left for Moscow Fri day night to attend the formal signing of the nuclear test ban treaty. The White House announc ed the plan Wednesday and named the senatorial dele gates as Democrats J. W. Ful bright of Arkansas, Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and John O. Pastore of Rhode Is land. The Republicans named are Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts and George Aiken of Vermont. WHY the delegation of sen ators? The answer is quite simple. Before it can become ef fective, the nuclear test ban treaty will have to be ratified by the U.S. Senate. Since the Senate must either ratify or reject the treaty, it seems log ical that members of the U.S. Senate should sit in on the final sessions at which the treaty will be signed thus getting an opportunity to draw their own conclusions as to the rightness or the wrongness of it. "Whartya mean, if you didn't do ii, somebody else would? You're rationalizing and you know ill" eternally to the private rich, yet they cannot be permitted to be overrun in the ghastly manner of Coney Island. Who is to decide whether or how the few shall enjoy a major good or the many enjoy what then becomes a very minor good? I would not pretend to know all the questions, let alone all the answers. But the more I have pondered this dilemma, the more it seems to me that the basic rule of thumb ought to involve a test of the in dividual visitor's or settler's will to enjoy the open places. The benefit must not be hand ed to him on a platter, by state or commercial facilities: he must prove himself will ing to endure some hardship for the privilege. The govern ing ought to be difficulty of access. This is a very different price of admission from the money price. It is not an un democratic principle, since the means of access, whether , the human foot, the pack i horse, the Jeep or the car are i as available to the millions of moderate means as they are to the limited number of ; rich. Only those willinej to utdcrje Uejl tue) tonBjej (nd ! siine fajtij'je e snter the n04-pa) of rrnaj ejtt i likely to trtt t&e bhrrt- I las with th)lov:fti (cT:t) tiy I must have if theyare to eh- dure for posterity. The polity GREAT IDEAS... From (c) 1963, SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION Dear Dr. Adler: On of this country's most mo tional, perplexing, and ma jor internal problems is segregation and integration. Was the mixing of races a problem in earlier times? What have been the main arguments for and against segregation? Has segrega tion been maintained only on the basis of race or col or, or have other' factors been the reason for the separation of people? George Korman. 64 Belvidere Way. Akron 2. Ohio Dear Mr. Korman: The cen tury between the Dred Scott THE dispatches add that the list notably omitted Sen ator Everett M. Dirksen, the senate Republican leader from Illinois, and Senator Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, senior GOP member of the senate foreign relations com mittee. Both of these Republicans have indicated that they did not want to attend the Mos cow signing and have left it open as to how they might vote on the atomic test ban treaty when it comes before the Senate for ratification. WHICH is to say: They weren't LEFT out. They STAYED out. QUESTIONS: Were they right? Or were they wrong? THOSE are difficult ques tions. The treaty, of course, has political overtones. It was in itiated (from our side) by a Democratic President. If it turns out to be highly success ful, it will be a feather in President Kennedy's cap. Price cian's banel bleat about "pro gress" has to be re-defined: it can no longer mean the best for everyone because the best then automatically and inev itably tends to become the worst. It has to mean the best for those who prove their love of the best, and proof of that is willingness to pay not in money but in effort. I do not see what other principle can be applied. So I would join those who oppose paving the rocky, dusty and dangerous road that winds over Independence Pass and those who would leave the Aspen airstrip for the little planes that fly with some hazard and many sickening blimps. For entering the moun tainous West, as for raising a child, the old rule of wisdom must prevail: what is easy to get is not worth the having. The Aspen region is not an exclusive problem; it is dup licated all over this country. One matching example is that precious strip of sand near Manhattan called Fire Island. Thousands enjoy it now, with- out discrimination, because ! they arc willing to make ; long trip by ferry. Connect it i to the mainland by highway.as kglne authorrtits have wished to do, and millions will then enjoy it. But what they will then have to enjoy will be paltry indeed, a poor thing. i worthy only of the poor in 111 Spirit. r) o the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler Publishers Newspaper Syndicate ' decision in 1854 and the school desegregation decision in 1954 witnessed a revolu tionary transformation in the legal and social position of Negro Americans. In the Dred Scott case, Chief Jus tice Taney commented that the fathers of our country shared the prevailing view that "Negroes were beings oJ an inferior order and alto gether unfit to associate with the white race, except in a servile role. When the authors of the Declaration of Inde pendence, many of whom were slave-owners, spoke, of all men being created equal and having equal rights, they obviously did not mean to in clude Negroes. The Civil War decided ths issues raised in the Dred Scott case. Through the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, enacted in the period imme diately after the war, slavery was abolished and Negroes were given civil and political equality. Federal civil rights acts broadened the sphere of equality to guarantee equal treatment of Negroes in pub lic places and protection from violence in the exercise of their rights. However, a series of Su preme Court decisions nulli fied federal civil rights legis lation and permitted stata and local governments to in stitute segregation. Afteii the Court declared the Feleral Rights Act of 1875 unconsti tutional in 1883, many South ern states proceeded to estab lish segregated facilities in transportation, education, nfedical care, and recreation. And in 1896, the Court deci sion sanctioning segregation in railroad travel provided segregationists with the "sep arate but equal" doctrine. In that case, the Court ruled that segregation does not violate the 13th and 14lh Amendments, so long as equal facilities are provided to both Negroes and whites. It held that state laws whic'i separate Negroes from whites do not violate their political and civil equality or stamp them with a "badge of inferi ority." Such laws, the ma jority said, merely recognize an obvious physical and so cial fact, and take account of racial distinctions and the customs which have grown out of it. It insisted that so cial equality between the races cannot be established by law, and that racial prej udices cannot be overcome by legislation. Justice Harlan, however, dissented in a famous opinion which became the doctrine of a unanimous Supreme Court almost sixty years later. The 13th Amendment, he argued, not only abolishes the institu tion of slavery, but also "any burdens or disabilities that constitute badges of slavery or servitude." Segregation, in public facilities, is undoubt edly one of the badges of in ferior status. It is instituted to prevent a race that'is re garded as inferior from com ing into contact with a race that is regarded as superior. Such an arbitrary discrim ination, he maintained, is a violation of the personal lib erty and equality guaranteed to all citizens under the law. If it were allowed, it might be extended to other categor ies, such as Protestants, Cath olics, and Jews. However, un der our system, "there is . , . no superior, dominant ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind ..." So-called separate but equal facilities put "the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow citizens," and are therefore unconstitu tional. The majority in the 1898 case cited the common accept ance of segregation in the schools as an argument of its acceptance in other areas of "social commingling." But it was this kind of segregation which was adjudged uncon stitutional in the Supreme Court decision of 1954. and which has led to action against segregation in other areas. The Court relied on psychological and sociological findings to establish the fact that segregated schooling has a detrimental effect on the personal and mental develop ment of Negroes, and hence denies them equal protection under the law. You ran win a pt-v1v t f j world by mrinnr a leit?r. t rxrefa iao words, itrnror?'0 a question of oneml itrr?r (.r lr. Adler to rontiffr for inclu sion tn this column. Karft week h will select as (lrt prle wln"ra the wruers of the three het t ters. He will use ONE of these let ters as a basis for a future rnliirrr and will answer It in terms n the Intellectual her Hare of th Great Boks 443 works by 7 authors, ipannlnr 38 centuries of thouthL Address xkt letters to !r. Mortimer ,.Jr 4iJc, in care A m tS
