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Telephoto Newsplcturcs lUBMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising RPraenUtlve: NELSON ROBERTS 4t ASSOCI ATES Of'icea In New York. Chi cago Detroit, San Francisco. Los Angei-e Seattle. Portland Denver. PUlllSHEIS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITOIIAl rAc8Tg M Memner California Newspaper Publlshera Asaociatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AOO mi.t a. 19S3 (Saturday) A unanimous vote of con fidence for ponce cmei g.c.. by Medford's city council at a meeting in the city hall yesterday bucwiuw". A steady flow of natural gas to about three to four feet above lis outlet was ch eated Monday on the Clltt Heeter home property in Sams Valley just north of Sams Valley school; the gas ..... .triirlc at B depth of 110 feet while Heeter was drilling a well for water. 20 YEARS AOO ...,.. a. 1943 (Sunday) Mexican workers arrive to harvest. Arthur Perry s Ye o.,jno Pnt" column: "Cow- men have been busy the past week packing salt to the well- known alleged Deei "'"--; summering lnineniBn 30 YEARS AGO Auguit 8, 1933 (Tuaiday) Earl B. Day of Sams Val ley is named county judge fol lowing conviction of incum bent for ballot theft. Lions club soup kitchen fed 13,397 last winter, report shows. 40 YEARS AGO August 8. 1923 (Wednesday) Screen Commissioner Wil liam R. Coleman reports thousands of trout killed in Applegate district by recent landslides. Cltv to pay its workers twice monthly hereafter. SO YEARS AGO Auguit 8, 1913 (Friday) Petitions request county court to call special election for issuance of $500,000 in bonds for paved highway from California line to Jose nhine counlv line. Gen. Felix Diaz, Mexico's special ambassador to Japan passes through Medford. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct It superior; teven or eight It eicellent; live or tii it good. 1. What Is the singular form of the noun scissors? 2. Samar is an island in which group of Pacific Is lands? 3. Which Is the better in sulator for electricity; glass, rubber, paraffin? 4. Who wrote the book "Please Don't Eat the Dai sies"? 5. In what month in 1945 did the atomic bomb fall on Hiroshima? 6. Is chives something lo eat, or a disease? 7. Was Jefferson, Franklin, or Madison the nation's first Secretary of State? 8. Was Plato or Pluto a Greek mythological charac ter? 9. There are two, three, or four umpires at World Series games? 10. Would you say that fin gernails or toenails grow faster? Answerii 1. Scissors. 2. Philippine Islands. 3. Paraf fin. 4. Jtan Ktrr. S. August. 8. Eat. 7. Thomas Jafferton. 8. Pluto. 9. Four. 10. Finger-naili. I -iS2? NfWSPAMI THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1963 National The desirability of charging a fee for the use of public recreational facilities is now in the process of reexamination. And a good thing, too. We hope that the National Park Service will join in this reexamination. It is our view that the Parks are "giving away" too much, and not receiving enough in exchange. The parks belong to everyone in the United States. But not everyone in the United States uses them although the total is getting larger all the time. Why the federal taxes collected from a little old lady in Duluth should be used to pay for the operation and maintenance of a National Park in California escapes us. "XE RECENTLY returned from a five-day T camping trip to Mt. less than a five-hour drive from here. When we entered, we paid a $1 fee, which entitled us to enter or leave or stay in the park any time we wished during a 14-day period. For $2, we could have obtained a permit The $1 fee is paid by those who just drive through the park, the same as those who use the campground facilities for two weeks. The campers are allowed to use wood (of which more later), the restrooms, the campsites all without further charge. I here is, thus, the inequity between the little old lady in Duluth, who helps pay for the park but doesn't use it, the one-day visitor who does use it but pays a small fee, and the two-week camper who uses it extensively, but pays a fee small out of proportion. "ORIGINALLY, when the National Park Service was being organized, the idea was that the parks would be self-supporting. It took only a few years for this to be found to be both impracti cable and impossible. We make no suggestion that they should be self-supporting. But we strongly believe that those who use them should pay more than those who don't, and that those who use them extensively should pay more than those who only make casual visits. A $1 per night tee is charged by state parks in both Oregon and California. No one seriously objects to this. Nor would tional Parks, if they were would be devoted to operation, maintenance, de velopment and preservation of these great scenic inheritances of ours. A sliding scale of charges, along these lines, makes sense and is considerably more equitable than the current one. INURING our recent visit, a companion figured out that a camper there for two weeks paid less than 8 cents per night for the privilege. In our case, the five days (and four nights) we were there cost about 20 cents per day. This hardly covered our use of the for our share of the costs of operation and main tenance, or the longer-range costs of development and preservation. Too, the National Park Service is pressed, lacking both funds and adequate personnel to do the full job they would like to do. For example, policy at Lassen is that camp ers may use down wood exceptions). But, close to campgrounds, it is scarce. And the wood pile provided at the largest camp consists solely of huge logs that no camper is equipped to buck and e IN THEORY, the Park unscrupulous campers hack away at trees and shrubs in the camping area, to its considerable detriment. One solution would concession to some college student during the summer, and let him buck and split wood and sell it for a modest charge to campers. Another would be to encourage the sale of Presto-Logs or wood at the concessioner's store in the park. ' Either of these would accommodate the camp er, relieve the Park Service of a headache, and eliminate the problem of scrounging burnables in the camp areas. E.A. Waste Wood Survey Completion of a survey of the amounts and kinds of wood "waste" available in this area was announced the other day. A report based on the survey will be issued soon. We shall await seeing a copy with interest. How significant this survey will prove to be remains to be seen. But it could be exceedingly significant for the forest products industry of southern Oregon and for the average house holder, too. One of the industry's biggest problems is a twin one: The fact that wasting of wood fiber (sawdust, mill ends, bark, and so on) is uneco nomic, and the fact that the only readily avail able means of disposing of it burning causes air pollution, smog, and an irritated citizenry. IT IS our sincere hope that this survey will dis-i 1 close some way in which this problem can be I soiveu, in wnoie or in part. Acinen cionars in tne pockets of lumbermen and mill workers will benefit us all. So, Lord knows, would be a diminishing of the air pollution problem. The industry deserves praise for supporting the survey. If new markets or new uses can be developed for these by-products now going to waste, it will be a big step forward toward economic well- being and a cleaner, pleasanter area. E.A. Park Fees Lassen National Park. good for the full year they object in the Na- assured that the income facilities, let alone paid for firewood (with some split for firewood. Service provides the fire- be to grant a firewood Matter of Fact c New York Herald (Joseph Altop will be on vacation this month - and gathering material both in this country and abroad for future columns. During his absence, top members of the staff of the New York Herald Tribune will sub stitute for him.) By DON COOK DE GAULLE'S ISOLATION Paris - Far from the mad' ding crowd of Anglo-Saxons and Russians signing their nil' clear test ban treaty in Mos cow on Monday, the Presi dent of France was relaxing in splendid Isolation - physi cal as well as political - at his country home at Colom- bey-les-Deux - Eglises east of Paris. Isolation, however, is a fa miliar, historic, and some times heroic posture for the tall, austere, and imperious Charles de Gaulle. He is not only used to standing alone. He prefers it, plans it, ma neuvers it, strives for it. For de Gaulle the word is not "isolation" but "indepen dence." A position which other diplomats and poli ticians may regard as nega tive, regretful, and weak simply looks to the General himself as. a position of strength. TT IS ironic that, while corn 's- plaining forever about the exclusion of France from Yalta and Potsdam, de Gaulle should now be isolating him self from what looks to be the beginning of a new and historic East - West dialogue. As his press conference last week showed so amply, de Gaulle himself is fully aware of the "breakthrough" po litical implications of the Moscow test ban treaty. But his only contributions so far have been purely nega tive: a refusal to join in either the nuclear agreement or any non-aggression decla ration, and a warning to nis allies and to the rest of Europe to be wary of Anglo Saxon deals which "might once again commit Europe's fate." N e v e r t h e less, Gen. de Gaulle has made so much his tory in the past from positions of lonely and splendid isola tion that it is difficult anci indeed dangerous to write him out of the picture. It is even more difficult to fit him in. "PHE French President en l joys a number of advan tages in this game of isolation which he plays - most ot them rather irritating lo those who must deal with him or try to figure out how to deal with him. De Gaulle is never sub jected to any public cross examination or political pres sures of the electioneering or "report to the nation" kind. He has far less to say pub licly about his policies or thinking than Khrushchev. Twi"e a year he holds a press conference, and the rest of the time he ponders, while the world picks up the pieces nnd tries to figure out what French policy is. Moreover, just as it was in 1940. de Gaulle enjoys the luxury of playing this role of "isolation" or "independence" well behind the lines of se curity provided by his allies. He is perfectly safe in de rlaiminc as he did at his last oress conference about the necessity tor "important ms; of our participation in the al liance." because he knows that in the nuclear stalemate his country is secure. He risks nothing except that which he is not in the least concerned about-friends and enthusiasts. He has been alone far too often to worry about whether other people think he is right or not. 'mHE view of the world fron A coiombey-ies-Deux Engiis MLDr'OHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MLUt OHD, OREGON By Joseph Alvop Tribune Syndicate es this week, therefore, is prob ably one of Gaullist self-satisfaction. The Anglo Saxons and the Russians are having their get-together as they did at Potsdam and Yalta, with out France, but France does not subscribe and hence re mains the true custodian of Europe's personality and fu ture. Will it be that way? Will it work? This much seems to be true, A majority of governments in Europe are perfectly happy to have de Gaulle carry the ball in opposition to a non-aggression pact, in opposition to any "deals" which freeze the European situation too solid ly, too historically. From this the General and his Foreign Office are currently deriving a certain sense of usefulness. But in the larger scheme of things - the Gaullist concepts of Europe's uniting on the model of the Franco-German treaty, agreeing on an agri cultural market formula by the end of the year, being sus picious, wary, and resistant to Anglo - Saxon talks with the Russians - things look pretty empty for the General. THE suspicions are not - shared. The European sympathies for the plight of the French farmers does not seem to be very strong. Even the Germans are not inclined to put the model of the Franco-German treaty ahead of the concepts of NATO or the Treaty of Rome. From his isolation, de Gaulle has turned up the corner of one small card. He proposes to call his own dis armament conference, before the end of the year. But hav ing isolated himself for 2'V4 years from the "disarmament dialogue" (how ever fatuous the Geneva conference might have been), he is not exactly in a position to assume the mantle of leadership and statesmanship. In any case, suppose the Russians suggest that as a first step toward disarma ment, before Russia would attend de Gaulle's conference, France adhere to the Moscow treaty? A French sponsored disarmament con ference at this juncture in history does not look like much more than a small pair in a high-stake poker game. Meanwhile, the French President seems to be expecting somebody to deal him an ace. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THE MUSICAL, "Mr. President," suggests that a chief ex ecutive feels lost after he leaves the White House for good. Several actual Presidents of the U.S.A., however, seemed to be rather re lieved when they retired from their exalted office. George Washington, for instance, declared, "I'd rather be in the grave than in the presidency again." Said Thomas Jef ferson: "Never did a pris oner released from his chains feel such relief as I shall in shaking off the shackles of power." And James Buchanan whispered to Abraham Lincoln, "If you are as happy, dear Sir, on en tering the White House as I happiest man in the country!" ! e e ; Nat Wartcls. a 2-handicap golfer, stopped in at a sporting (roods store iust off Times Souare and bouc-hr a dnzn pnif hall. : "Shall I wrap them up?" asked Wartels. "I'll just drive them Jack Fuller would have you believe that a Peace Corps worker from the deep, deep South reported to his superiors via. transat lantic phone, "What we're trying urgently to plant here is peace and harmony." A month later a freighter arrived loaded down with split peas and hominy grits. C ISM. by Bennett Cerf. Dutrlbuttd by Kins rtatures Syndlrate ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor mutt certain circumstances the us of a pan nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the light to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do contrary is often the case. Betraying America To the Editor: The picture of the A-bomb of Hiroshima (Sunday, Aug. 4, Page 1) was appealing but what became of the picture of the battle ship Arizona with its 700 dead inside who answer the duty roster each morning? You should have completed your story and printed the faces of the 300,000 men whose lives the A-bomb saved, or you could have printed the pictures of the faceless, nose less and eyeless men that were subjected to the hands of the gentle Japanese. Then there is a picture you could have used of the attack in December when Pearl Har bor was. Who are the people who precipitate this stinking legend? I heard a professor once say people only think they think. Now I understand what he meant. You, whoever you are, are betraying the men who once had faces and noses and ears, hands and feet but who now live out of sight in some veterans' hos pital so as not to offend your sight. Why not let them tell you of the gentle Japanese and show you their nanas where once bamboo sprouts grew? You blythly betray Amer ica and most of all her chil dren by repeatedly pointing to her mistakes. You proudly foster skepticism in our young when you should be working to restore their faith and purity in the American way of life. The young must not be left unarmed in this fight for the future. Confu sion is rampant among our young people. They no long er know what to believe. Yes, the crumbs of self criticism are gobbled by for eign countries, but we who live here in America know that as rotten as America has grown, as long as the stars and stripes flies over head, we as Americans are fairly safe. As you pass down the cor ridor of memory let us not forget completely the long hospital trains or the air con voys or that long march that handful of men still remem ber of Corregidor. We still owe that much courtesy. Genevieve Briggs, Whitewater Ranch, Wilderville, Ore. Age of Tension To the Editor: "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." (I John 4:18.) In a time when tensions run hign Decause oi rapiu world chance, the Christian is caught and carried by tides of patriotic and spiritual thinking. Armed with pro phetic knowledge and a' strong nstinct for survival, tne De- liever is motivated to warn and judge the uninformed of the impending disaster. A step further would be to join every wind of discouragement which points to the disintegration of our freedoms and to cry foul concerning the duly elected officials, whether they be school board members or the leaders of the country. Curi ously enough, one of the basic concepts of the Christian faith is that the believer in Christ shall not resist the higher powers, and not to be afraid of the power, but to do that which is good. (Romans Ch. 13.) It is also a lime when emo tion prevails over reason and knowledge, and suspicion is rampant, thrusting its dismal head into homes, churches, or am on leavinc it. vriu are the i the clerk. "Don't bother." said home.' 8 3 bear the nam and address not necessarily represent the ganizations, and perhaps life long friends. A frame of ref erence, a relation of activi ty, a job, a liberal thought, or perhaps an independent spirit, may be interpreted to the left, or to the right . and it is cowardly to remain in the middle. This atmosphere harks back to our Puritan heritage which scorned believers such as Roger Williams for wanting to accept all men as fellow citizens and not wanting to dance to the tune of any or ganization or sect. The fram ers of our constitution were under high suspicion and ridi cule for providing the free doms which all citizens could worship as they please or not worship if they please. We cherish the freedom of not having to pay ten shillings for missing a worship service as once was the custom under the "Christian" code of liv ing. It is discouraging to the alert believer to see the bit ter sheet of rebellion and rev olution attached to the cause of Christianity. It is even more discouraging to watch those who do not do their "homework" attack educa tion, legal decisions, etc., with no depth of understanding . and fly the Christian banner. Who should be running scared in times of tension? The Christian? Did Paul ex hibit the hysteria concern ing Roman domination? What is the true fruit of the Chris tian spirit spoken of in Gala tians Ch. 5? Certainly not fear, suspicion, hate, rebel lion. Look it up. (Name on File) Medford. Veterinarians To the Editor: On Sunday, a friend's dog was seriously injured and no veterinarian in the valley could be contacted at their office or at their home. Watching the dog suffer, I couldn't help but wonder why the Veterinarian's association doesn't see that at least one veterinarian is "on call" on week ends. With 10 or more veterinarians in the valley it would seem this wouldn't be difficult. Do others agree? Thelma Ritter Route 4, Box 23 1C Medford. Questions To the Editor: Some ques tions: If you believe that man was created in the image of God or that Jesus was the Son of God, then you will believe that man will assume human form in the Hereafter only much improved. I know nothing about Heav en. What do you know? I have the feeling that sci entists are on the verge of making a discovery that will set Creation back another mil lion years. Question: What do you know about the origin of races? David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Fluoridation Again To the Editor: The other day I had a call from a friend in Ashland which disturbed me very much. It was in re gard to a move on the part of the U. S. Public Health Service to secure vast sums of money from Congress for the sole purpose of propagan dizing fluoridation throughout the nation. The plan calls for 57,000,000 for fiscal 1964, in creasing gradually to $17,000, 000 for 1968. In the Senate the bill. S-1208, is in the Com mittee on Labor and Public Welfare of which Sen. Lister Hill is chairman. In the House the bill, H.R.-5482. is in the committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of which Mr. Oren Harris, congressman from Arkansas, is chairman. This is a particularly per nicious move on the part of USPH Service. The source of the money asked for is from our income taxes. It is appar ent to anyone that such a move on the part of USPH Service is unnecessary for it has been proved over and over again in cities across the nation that wherever the opponents to fluorida tion have been able to get their facts before the public. Americans have defeated the proposal. For such facts are available from research lab oratories all over the country. Even here in Oregon in our medical school there is enough information on the harmful effects of fluordiation to for- ever stop agitation for it if onl' Dean Baird would per- mit its release. Read "Hello Test Animals" by Cox. Another had feature of the proposed law is that since I opponents far outnumber its proponents, most of the mon ey used would come from them. It is increasingly evi dent that more and more of our money is being wasted by bureaucrats in Washington who spend money as though the public supply is Inex- of the writer, although under views of the paper; in fact the haustible. Economists and oth ers who have given this sub ject much thought and study say that the only way to stop this waste is to dam up the supply by repealing the 16th, or income tax, amendment. This the so-called Liberty Amendment proposes to do. I therefore urge all who are opposed to this mad scheme to so write each of the Ore gon members of Congress as well as the chairmen of the two committees. In addition next year vote only for can didates who can be trusted to work for the repeal of the 16th amendment. Anna M. Streed 36 North Peach st. Medford Theology Versus Bible To the Editor: M.T. 7-31, Dr. Winrod's books and many others. No doubt they are wonderful stories. They have gone way beyond the reality of human society until they have left the people with a serious and wishful thinking expression, looking for their Gods. Not satisfied there, they have attempted to go way be yond the realm of God's sim ple laws to establish the vi sions to their own way of thinking. Here are some of them. They have Christ coming the second time before he has proclaimed Zech 14-4, his feet were seen thus, he is coming in 15 years, radio in the days of Noah took several months to get Noah settled before Christ comes in 7 years (Math 24-30). They had Christ com ing in 1844, now they call it atonement. What does Christ say? Math 24-26, believe it not, what do they see? Math 24-27, power, read carefully. They have given away our 1,000 years and promises by stating that there would be no human flesh on earth to tempt (Rev 20-3). Their in terpretation on this (Jer 4-23- 25). Read Jer 3rd and 4th chapters and you will find it the status of the holy land after it was captured by Ne buchadnezzar. Read history. You hear Germany rising in third war and will capture us (Isaiah 11-10-12), read it carefully. It is God himself that is going to capture Judah and Israel again. It is starting now. The gath ering and separating lost Is rael, England and U.S., and a few other nations. They well not join the common market (Math 24-31). On the other side (Rev 16-13) three unclean spirits, common mar ket headed by an ecclesiasti cal power (Rev 17-8), Arab nations including Egypt, and Russia. Three powers, three wars, one right after the other. The U.S. will participate in two and we will never be cap tured, that they are telling you. Story some other time. If you like this hope to move to Revelation next time. We are now in the 7th seal (Rev 10-10). The book is no fur ther than John's mouth. Are we going to accept theology or the Bible? R. E. McManus Routs 1, Box 339 Gold Hill, Ore. Astronaut Taking Few Days of Rest Kent, Wash. - (UPD - Astro naut Maj. Leroy Gordon Coo per arrived here Wednesday for a "quiet few days" at the home of his father - in - law, E. J. Olson of Kent. Cooper, who spent 34 hours in space last May, arrived at the Seattle - Tacoma Inter national Airport by private plane. "This is the first real vaca tion I've had in four years," Cooper said. The astronaut said he had been engaged in "round the - clock public re lations since his space flight. ( --TWITS'" "I doubt if it't any of your butinets, madam, but if you mutt know, yet, w wear bathing tuits under these things!" Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris c Field Enterprises, tne. PERSONAL PREJUDICES It is easy to tell when a woman cares for a man - if, while talking to her, he gazes away, her eyes will uncon sciously follow the line of his, to see if he is looking at an other woman. Watching a plumber at work in our kitchen the other day, I thought of Charles Dudley Warner's re mark: "Nothing can move a man who is paid by the hour; how tweet the flight of time seems to his calm mind." The greatest disadvantage of fame is that it compels the famous to live their lives ac cording to the opinions of others; and only the strongest characters can achieve the in dependence in fame that the ordinary person has in ob scurity. A man who has never made a fool of himself over some woman, and is proud that he hasn't, deserves (and usually gets) the kind of woman who makes a fool of him without his ever know ing it. Parents who are always "sensible" with their children - who do the practical, punc tual, reasonable things, even on vacations - are depriving their children of the joyful spontaneity that is so impor tant a part of growing up: and most of the depressed per sonalities in adult life arc the victims of such perverted 'sensibileness." Public attitudes have not changed much in the half cent u r y since William James observed that a the ory usually goes through three stages in its career from birth to acceptance: "First it is attacked as pre posterous; then it is admit ted to be true, but insignif icant; and lastly it is con sidered so important that those who once attacked it claim it to be their own discovery." A person without a highly developed sense of Nature can never be a first-rate creative artist; if he is not deeply in terested in, and moved by, the natural world, he is tem peramentally incapable of penetrating into the secret places of the human heart. Speaking of these "secret places," it has been my ob servation that hardly any one understands less about human beings than most of the "experimental psycholo gists" who work with ani mals and then project their behaviorisiic reactions into theories about people. There is a certain combina tion of piety and parsimoni- ousness that offends me more than vice; the flamboyantly wicked man is less a scandal than those conspicuous church goers who open their arms to God and close their fists against their fellowmen with out ever realizing the funda mental contradiction. Couples who are "blindly in love" need to be remind ed of Madame Recamier's comment that "lovers should keep their eyes wide open during the courtship and half closed after the marriage." In most cases, it's precisely the reverse. Most biographies are so bad because they are written by inferior men about their bet ters, whom they scarcely un derstand; it requires a certain affinity for greatness in one salf to write about a great man. o o o O o o CD C? O o 'o O
