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San Franclieo, Los Anaeiea, oee.uv. - -- Denver. . UILMHIIS ASSOCIATION NATION At COITOIIAt Member California Newrpapar PubUihera AssodaUon flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha filar of Tha Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 11. 1153 (Tuasday) Construction of a primary standards highway connect- ine Medford and Klamath Falls by way of Lake of the Woods has been proposed to the state highway commission by State Representative Rob- ert Root. Everything possible is be ing done by the city council and mayor to alleviate Phoe nix s water troubles, accora ing to Mrs. Kathryn Stan cllffe, mayor. 20 YEARS AGO Auouat 11. 1943 (Wednesday) Four Camp White soldiers killed in auto accident near Red Bluff. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudae Pot" column: "The Older Girls are having a time cooking cabbage. They are disgusted with the rugged scent it sends forth, smelling four blocks in all directions. They would just as soon be . caught eating green onions as cooking cabbage. The gladioli is a member of the cabbage family. But it has no vitamins when cooked and can't be slashed into shreds and called cold slaw." 30 YEARS AGO August 11. 133 (Friday) Medford application for $100,000 for sewer Improve ments recommended. Price of alfalfa rises as shortage prospect looms. :. 40 YEARS AGO August 11, 1923 (Saturday) Brush fire raging on Roxy Ann. Vern Van Dyke catches even pound salmon near Bybee bridge. SO YEARS AGO August 11, 1913 (Monday) Three miles of grade fin ished on Grants Pass-Crescent City railroad. Famous scientists to visit Crater Lake. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or fan cerracf h superior) Sevan ar eljM is eacellent; five ar si re feed. TITToTIoTinuTstiJh'icnTs land of the Hawaiian group? 2. What is tha largest earn! vorous animal on earth today? 3. Unscramble the name of this great classic: VONIHAE. 4. From Seattle. Wash., would it take longer to fly in like airplanes to Alaska or Hawaii? 5. Is Cleveland the 3rd, 6th, 8th or ISth largest city in the U. s.? . 6. Victor Herbert was the composer of the famous "Merry Widow WalU": true or false? 7. A William Scranton, who would probably like to be Re publican candidate for Prosi dent is Governor of which slate? 8. Can alien residents' ut the U.S. receive retirement benefits under Social Secur ity? 9. Pliny the Elder was kill ed during the fall of what city? 10. The birthstone for Oc tober is the -? Answers! 1. Oahu. 2. Kef diak Bear of Alaska. 3. Ivanhoa. 4. Hawaii. S, Eighth, False. 7. Pennsyl Tenia. I. Yes. 9. Pompeii. 10, Opal. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11. 1963 Our Festival Stanford University, some justification "the greatest private univer sity of the west," is in the middle of a strong alive toward enlargement, inipiuveiiiem,, anu general excellence. As part of this, it is annual summer festivals It is of no little interest and significance that they have called upon the Oregon Shakespearean Festival to inaugurate the series next summer. . For this great educational institution to look to the Rogue Valley for is compliment and kudos of real magnitude. e THE announcement of this plan was made at a "press luncheon" in San Francisco on Thurs day, and was announced in Ashland simultane ously. Stanford spokesmen did some wholly justi fied bragging at the luncheon, and their plans were of interest to an auslander. But'to us the important point was ihe realiza tion of the true stature that "our own" festival has achieved. Dr. Virgil Whitaker, associate dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, director of the upcoming festival, himself a Shakespearean scholar of repute, made a point of praising the Ashland event, and in particular its founder and producing director, Angus Bowmer. TR. WHITAKER pointed out that the perf orm ance of Shakespearean drama, as it was writ ten and as it was performed, was pioneered by Bowmer and his associates. He also called atten tion to the fact that this is a West Coast phenome non. And, a bit wryly, he declared that he had never seen an Ashland production which vio lated the motivations and intentions or bhake speare in the manner he had seen them violated in certain productions in Stratford-on-Avon, England. The gist of Dr. Whitaker's remarks was that the West Coast has no reason to hang its head for cultural lacks, that Stanford is determined that this progress shall continue on all fronts, and that Ashland (in conjunction with the Globe Theater of San Diego and the Actors Workshop of San Francisco) will have a leading and promi nent role in this movement. His enthusiasm, and the backing that Stan ford, through a major financial grant from an alumnus, is giving it, made his remarks believable. WHAT does this mean for the Oregon Shake spearean Festival? No one knows for sure. There are potentiali ties for both bad and good. The Festival board, with some misgivings, decided that the potential for good outweighed the First, the iact tnat the 1964 season in a major metropolitan area, with built in facilities for both widespread ex posure and widespread tend to attract more future Second, appearing, as pices of a first-ranking educational institution with which it has long had close ties, the Festival may augment its already-substantial reputation as an academically-oriented organization which puts its greatest emphasis on showmanship in the best meaning of the word. A POSSIBLE danger foreseen by some mem- bers of the board is from home in a different in a different atmosphere, its essential characteristics, those which have stood it in good stead for so many years. Some lear an increase as opposed to the academic orientation it has so successfully achieved. Others see a possibility that by extending the length of season it may overreach itself, or pro duce a lack-luster season, or even come to a point where it is evident it no longer has any where to go. WHETHER the hopes or the fears will be borne out, only time will tell. But it is safe to say that the Festival, by con tracting with Stanford and entering into its "Plan of Action for a Challenging Era," is in itself ac cepting a major challenge. It could mean that it will go on to greater excellence in the mold it has developed for itself. It may mean a change in methods. But the chances quite the same again. Whether this is good MEXT year's festival 400th anniversary Shakespeare. This was his works were chosen of the annual events. And the Oregon Festival, as the first and still most authentic of all the ean Festivals, was logically chosen to lead the way. It is a tribute, not only to the genius of Angus Bowmer, and to all the talented and dedicated colleagues who have assisted him over the years, but also to the fact that "culture" is not parochial, is not limited to the great cities and universities, and that it can flourish when intellectual climate and remarkable leadership combine with hard work. While we acknowledged the risks of this sharp change in direction for the 1061 season, we wish the Festival well for then and all the ensuing years. E.A. and Stanford which calls itself with inaugurating a series of or tne arts. its first cultural attraction potential for bad. festival will open tne notice, will inevitably attention. it will, under the aus that, by opening away environment, and even it might tend to lose m proiessionalism, its own character and are that it will never be or bad will be seen. will commemorate t of the birth of Willi? the lam the principal reason why as the theme of the first burgeoning Shakespear MLDFORD Boarding Today & Tomorrow By Waller (e) 1BS3, The DR. ADENAUER'S MANEUVER The reaction in Bonn to the test ban treaty is a reminder on two points that are easily forgotten First, the thorny ques tion of the succession to Dr. Adenauer is not thor oughly settled. Second, Presi dent Kennedy did not reach Llppmaaa a firm under standing with Bonn on Ger man-American policy be cause, when he was in Ger many recently, the Bonn gov ernment was deeply divided. When the first news came from Moscow that an agree ment would be reached, the West German foreign minis ter, Dr. Gerhard Schroeder, welcomed it cordially and an nounced so it was thought, Bonn's prompt adherence to the treaty. In doing this, Dr. Schroeder was speaking for the post-Adenauer German leaders. But, when General De Gaulle decided that France would abstain. Dr. Adenauer and the old guard among the Christian Demo crats took steps to overrule the foreign minister. Since Dr. Adenauer is still the chancellor, he is able to re direct West German policy away from the Atlantic part nership and along a line which, while not identical with General De Gaulle's, is parallel to it. Dr. Adenauer will use what political influ ence he can exercise in the United States to exact a poli tical price before the treaty is ratified. The maximum gain would be to kill the treaty by in ducing the Senate to attach a destructive rider to it. The minimum gain would be to demonstrate that, whether or 'f eaaaadtakn In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Much of last week's news didn't shake any world foun dations, but it had its inter esting facets. For example: N NASHVILLE, Tennessee, two radio stations and a TV station suddenly went off the air. The traffic lights went dead, leaving motorists to wangle their way through street inscrsections as best they could. Elevators hung up be tween floors In the office buildings. A ND- rv THE RESTAURANTS RAN OUT OF HOT WATER AT THE PEAK OF THE COF FEE BREAK. Imagine that - if you can! It was catastrophe, com pounded. A ATOMIC attack bv our enemies? Nope, a pigeon alighted on a high voltage wire - causing, the news wires tell us, "a short circuit of considerable magnitude." THE pigeon? It's gone where you and I would be if we were hit by a nuclear bomb. BIG news from Oroville: There's a new GOLD STRIKE In the Feather river! HOW come - after all these years? Well, as everyone knows, they're building a huge dam at Orovllie so that the Feath er's surplus waters can be im pounded and sent down below the Tehachapi to relieve the perennial drought down that way. SOME time ago, they turned the river from its old chan nel into a new one made by man and crews started clear ing gravel from the river's MAIL 'IMlbUNfc, MfcOrORD, OrlLGON Hou. lippmann Waahinston Poit not he retires in October, he is still the master of German foreign policy. a IITE have to remember that ' Dr. Adenauer's maneu ver is concerned With inter nal and external West Ger man politics and has nothing to do with nuclear tests. Whether the Federal Repub lic does or does not sign the test ban treaty, the fact is that the Federal Republic has already signed a test ban treaty a solemn treaty not to do anything whatever about nuclear weapons. If Bonn now decides to abstain from signing the treaty, it will make no difference to the nuclear situation. In this, West Germany dif fers from the two other prin cipal abstainers, France and Red China. For them, all test ing will remain lawful, be cause they will not have signed the treaty. The case of East Germany is theoretically, though not practically, an interesting and even an amusing one. If East Germany were not al lowed to sign, this unrecog nized piece of territory would be free, indeed would have a license, to test; if West Germany refuses to sign, it will still be forbidden to test. This is, I hate to say, the kind of anomaly which is of interest only to the pro fessional nit-pickers. NLY on the surface is Dr. " Adenauer's maneuver concerned with the nit-picking dilemma: if East Ger many adheres to a treaty, is the partition of Germany recognized in international life? The East German govern ment has adhered, so I have been told, to about 11 inter national conventions, and that fact has not altered the situation. East Germany is not recognized by the three natural bed in order to pour the concrete footings for the huge new dam. THEY FOUND BITS OF GOLD in the old channel, and off-duty workers are washing out as much as several ounces in gold dust, chips and tiny nuggets. At $35 an ounce, that isn't to be sneezed at. The dispatches report that the old river bed is crowded with amateur argonauts work ing like beavers. THAT brings up an ancient tale. Back in the days of old, the days of gold, somebody got the idea of short-cutting the river at a huge bend back up in the mountains where the river described almost a com plete circle. So they drove a tunnel through a ridge at the narrowest point, the objective being to divert the river through the tunnel and thus uncover the riffles in the stretch left bare by the diver sion. S THE legend goes, they dug the tunnel, at huge expenditure of labor and cash. When it was finished, they turned the river's waters through it and laid bare a long stretch of promising rif fles. But- They made the shocking dis covery that in STILL EARLI ER years someone had beaten them to the idea, had in some manner diverted the river's waters and had TAKEN OUT ALL THE GOLD. They found the old works - wing-dams and such - that hid been used to do the trick. But the gold was gone. 'THIS thought in conclusion: In the days of the Argo nauts, only gold had value. Now WATER IS GOLD. - Matter of Fact joPh aip (el Now York Herald Tribune Syndicate . (Joseph Alsep will be en vacation this month and gathering malarial both in this country and abroad for future columns. During his absence, top members of the staff of the New York Herald Tribune will substi tute for him.) By RICHARD L. MADDEN THE HARRIMAN BALLOON New York The recently signed treaty to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere has already started some fallout in New York politics. The trial balloons are going up. all carrying the banner of Averell Harriman, the man who led the American treaty negotiating team, for United States Senator. Mr. Harriman, .a former New York Governor who now wears the title of Under Sec retary of State for Political Affairs, has not exactly gone out of his way to deflate the balloons. In fact, the tall, lean, some times sad-faced Mr. Harriman has been having some fun over the idea. He is not known for his levity in pubr lie speeches, but in talking about the possibility of run ning for the Senate, he says: "The only people who are worrying about whether I'm going to run are the Repub licans." e a OF COURSE, he disclaims any "immediate plans" to run for elective office, but that's standard procedure for anyone who might have such plans. There are many reasons whv President Kennedy might like to have Mr. Harri man campaigning in new York state for the Senate next year at the same lime ine President would be running for re-election. The White House undoubt edly would enjoy seeing Re- nrinciDal allied powers France, Britain and the Unit ed States which have au thority in regard to the so lution of the German ques tion. The President of the United States has, moreover, declared publicly that East Germany's adherence to this treaty will not bring United States' recognition. And if the President says it will not bring recognition, It will not bring recognition. For this reason, we must. not treat the nit-picking as the real thing., The real thing is the Gaullist drive. In this drive, D,r. Adenauer is col laborating while his succes sors are not. The object of the drive is to take into French and German hands the politi cal leadership of Europe and to do this by diminishing the influence of the United States. That is the reason why the West German for eign minister has been re buffed and why the next chancellor, Dr. Erhard, has so long been ignored. The object of the maneuver is to see how many stumbling blocks can be put in Presi dent Kennedy's path during the long process of ratifica tion. It remains to be seen whe ther any substantial number of senators will lend them selves to a maneuver which is not concerned with the vital interests of the United States, but only with continental European politics. A Visit to Bv ERIC SEVAREID Bretton Woods, N.H.-A lei surely drive from Manhattan up through the Berkshires and 5 jj!"" on through 4 called Green in Vermont and White in New H a m p shire is, like con f ession, good for the soul, even though the c a r b u retor may require a little adjust ment. My soul ought to be improved twicc-fold, obliged as I am to confess that it is still possible to drive a car for pure pleasure in parts of the corroding but still mag nificent American landscape, that the oldest settled region of the country is still largely green and young - fresher in visage than much of the dis sipated young West - and that not all American communities have buried their heritage of beauty under a neonlighted headstone. Granitic, clean and sober sided New Hampshire, now celebrating its bicentennial In a flurry of statistical "firsts" -first state constitution, cog railway, steamboat, public li brary - remembers on state occasions that its motto is "Live Free or Die." is but ob viously having a struggle with its famous Yankee conscience, and here and there is winning the struggle. Certain forms of gambling are now state ap proved, and the thrilling geo logic explosion known as 'jijitifsjl Sevareld publican Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, who faces re-election again next year, move back to Rochester from Washing ton. The Kennedy administra tion hasn't forgotten the wounds inflicted during the Cuban crisis by Senator Keat ing, who blossomed into na tional prominence as an ex pert on Cuba. Mr. Harriman armed with the credentials of a man who helped negotiate treaty which could lead to an easing in cold war tensions, could be a potent antidote against Senator Keating whom the Democrats have accused of fanning cold war flames over Cuba. MR. KENNEDY picked up New York's prize 45 electoral votes in 1960 by th. relatively slim margin of 383,666 votes out of nearly 7.2 million cast. He naturally would want the strongest pos sible help on the Democratic state ticket in 1964, particu larly if Governor Rockefeller somehow should be his Re publican rival for the Presi dency. To be sure, Mr. Rockefeller beat Mr. Harriman and won New York's Governoship in 1958 by a margin of 573,Ono votes. But since then, Mr. Harriman's star seems to have risen while Governor Rocke feller's has waned. Mr. Harriman might also be the happy solution for the not- always-united New York Dem ocrats who will be faced with the problem of nominating someone for the Senate. The logical candidates at the mo ment or at least the ones mentioned most often are New York City's Mayor Wag ner and Samuel Stratton, a Schenectady Congressman. Mr. Stratton, who seems to have the knack of winning in normally Republican areas, clearly has his eyes on the Senatorial nomination. Mr. Wagner hasn't said yes, out he hasn't said no either, on whether he would like to go to the Senate where his fcth- er, the late Sen. Robert Wag ner, served. e BUT each has some liabili ties. Mr. Stratton, for ex ample. Is not too well known in New York City. Mr. Wag ner's strongest support is in the city and not upstate. Mr. Harriman seems to have state wide support. At 71 and an adept hand in the field of diplomacy, which he appears to enjoy, Mr. Har riman may not want to get back into New York's politi cal wars. But in the meantime, he is basking in the national lime light generated by the test ban treaty. He is a willing candidate for interviews and has scheduled a number of stops on the chicken-and-peas dinner speaking circuit. Mr. Harriman may not speculate on future plans, but others are. And the white-mancd Sen. Keating may have been a lit tle too prophetic back in April when he introduced Mr. Har riman before a Senate com mittee. With an assist from Shakespeare, the Senator turned to Mr. Harriman and said: "Age cannot wither him nor custom stale His infinite variety." Imperishable New England Franconia Notch, frozen in eternal stone, is all but ob scured in a ghastly forest of billboards. If New Hampshire still owns its own soul, it doesn't quite own its body, anymore. After all, uh-granitic foreign ers in orange colored slacks from such alien ports as New York and Boston have estab lished some 32.000 seasonal residences in this sparsely settled state, with more added at the rate of a thousand a year. An annex is only home, sweet-and-sour home. Still, the fish are jumpin' and the travelin' is easy, and for this voyageur, unburden ed save for one suitcase and two fly-rods, New England, including this slate, remains astonishingly new and un spoiled. Maybe it's the Eng lish inheritance - the English know how to care for their countryside - and gratitude is in order and hereby deposed. A sentimental traveler, ab sent from these parts since wartime, finds much altered by time and affluence. The Mount Washington hotel, set ting for Secretary Morgcn thau's famous monetary con ference of 1945 (after which the United States became chief trustee for half the world and after which the: local ncip lound dozens of rusting typewriters in the surrounding woods for rca- suiia umi-imut-u uy History! still spreads across half a mountain, mastodonic, turn of the century elegance. Once upon a time a local chambermaid rose to wife - hood with an American mil-1 GREAT IDEAS... 7-1 From the Great Books Vivu By Mortimcr J" Adler .eW J (c) 1963. Publishers Newspaper Syndicate WORLD GOVERNMENT , Dear Dr. Adler: In our cantury we art becoming conscious of the necessity of soma kind of an interna tional society, such as tha League of Nations or tha United Nations, as an insti tution of control for tha preservation of peace in the world. What did the great writers of the past think about a world-wida commu nity, and in what way did they believe such a commu nity could function effec tively for the good of man kind? Reverend Joseph A. Zube 1714 W. Antoinette Street Peoria, Illinois (Saint John's Rectory) Dear Mr. Zube: We can find advocates of world govern ment as far back as the 4th century B.C. At that time, the ancient Stoic philosophers argued that since all men share in a common nature and reason, they should be united in a world-wide politi cal community - a "cosmo polis." All men, in this view, are citizens of the world, of the City of Man, as well as of their local communities. Another important expres sion of the thesis that men should be under the adminis tration of a world govern ment came in the 14th cen tury from the pen of the great poet Dante. Only a world state, he held, could bring the blessings of justice, order, and liberty to the human race, and thereby enable it to fulfill its cultural and in tellectual tasks. In Dante's view, the expected result of world government is not merely peace, but the cul tural development and pro ductivity which peace makes possible. At the end of the 18th cen tury, the German philosopher Kant wrote a little work call ed "Perpetual Peace." In it he condemned - international warfare as irrational and saw the means of preserving peace in a federation of nations united in an alliance against war. Actually, Kant proposed not a world government, but an agreement among sover eign states to keep the peace. Since Kant's time, the great catacysmic wars involving whole continents, and accom panied by the increasing de structiveness of armaments, again aroused the call for a supreme government above the nations to secure peace and order in the world. The League of Nations and the United Nations, approaching the type of "compact" en visioned by Kant, were steps in that direction. After World War II, however, as mankind confronted the imminent dan ger of nuclear destruction in a third World War, the call came for'a world government with real legislative and ex ecutive powers, involving some surrender of national sovereignty by the member nations. lionaire, then to the status of a European princess. She im ported Italian craftsmen to decorate this castle, and the rich with their silk hats or ostrich feathers came by train and carriage. The area lost the train service not long ago, then the air service; but the middle classes now come in droves, the remaining note of elegance and romance concentrated in the names of their shining carriages - Im pala, Galaxie, Falcon, Fury, Belair, Valiant - affixed by those reckless romantics, the automotive vice presidents of Detroit. e The people of the ry grow more affluent, t.. gov ernment of the country grows poorer. Be it noted by history that 18 years after Washing ton spent nearly a million to bring the foreign financial delegations here (and to in stall most of the modern fur niture still gracing these cor ridors of football field pro portions) the American gov ernment finds itself obliged to ask for some of its bait back from the institutions of world finance it conceived and subsidized in these cor ridors. A few miles away at Fran conia lies another symbol of aristocratic elegance gone to middle class efficiency. Hie "New Mittersill," a wartime memento to the od Austrian j castle, is now replete with . pool snow -making machi-jjump; i nerv and the Drix fixe meal i and operated by chain hotel i management, though still j owned by Baron von Pantz, j now plain Mr. Psntz. Neither he nor his place was so plain The United World Federal ists, for instance, proposed a world government with ade quate but limited power enough to prevent the nations from going to war, but not enough to interfere in their domestic affairs. The Com mittee to Frame a World Con stitution, on the other hand, envisioned a world govern ment with very broad powers - to deal not only with inter national conflicts, but also with the economic problems that often give rise to wars. Recent discussions of tha problem have pointed to vari ous alternatives between a super-state, which virtually blots out national sovereign ty, and the interntlonal an archy of sovereign national states. Justice William O. Douglas, for one, has pointed out that world law, like local law, may grow out of com mon ways of acting out of communal customs and man dates. Law, in this view, is not a set of rules enforced by a sovereign state - nation al or world-wide - but a pat tern of conduct that may ex ist before and apart from the state. Hence Douglas be lieves that the various acts of international mediation and co-operation, under the aus pices of the United Nations and similar bodies, have pro vided the solid foundations out of' which may evolve tha rule of law in all internation al disputes. The success of such limited international arrangements as the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community has sug gested to some thinkers that similar agreements might work as regards war and peace. Walter Millis, for ex ample, thinks that "a fairly simple form of international organization should suffice" to preside over disarmament and the keeping of the peace. He assumes that if the nations of the world agree to disarm and to establish "a world without war," only simple ad ministrative problems would require solution, rather than, the complex political prob lems of political power whicli a super-state would present. Such an agreement, he con tends, is a real possibility in our present urgent situation. It appeals both to the peoples and to their governors, who realize that a nation may give up the right to maka war without losing its inde pendence and sovereignty in a world in which war has been outlawed. You can win S4-volume art of the Greet Books of the West ern World by writing a letter, not to exceed ISO words, In corporating a question of gen eral Interest for Dr. Adler to consider for Inclusion In this column. Each week he will se lect as first prize winners the writers of the three best let ters. He will use ONE of thesa letters as a basis for a future column and will answer It In terms of the Intellectual herl tage of the Great Books 143 works by 74 authors, spanning 39 centuries of thought Address the letters to Dr. Mortimer J. 'n care of this newspaper. 15 years ago, on my first visit. Then Count Haugewitz Reventloy lounged on the ski terrace; then the Archduka Otto (or was it Francis?) com manded the chairlift to halt in mid-ascent and gave me a baleful glance as I sprawled, protesting, into the drifts; then the Baron's great Dana dogs freely romped the ski runs in disdainful disregard of human life and limb. I like to think that tha transformation to democracy began with an ex-GI of my acquaintance. He figured thi wasn't what he had fought the war for. So one evening, after four martinis, he flung open the door of the lounge, banged on the floor with his alpenstock and shouted, "Vere is mine old frient, Pantz?" qold looks received him. He sftfed the former Ma dame Patino, niece of King Alfonso, beautiful and haughty beyond compare. The GI flung himself onto tha sofa beside her, gave her a pentrating stare and demand ed, "Baby, didn't you and t once take ukelele lessons to gether in Schenectady?" Thus, I suspect, did tha new democracy of aMluenca come to the New Mittersill, or vice versa. What precise word or deed did the same for the Mount Washington I have no idea. New England absorbs the changes in i.s stolid stride. The trnut lill the winter snows still tall. I d give the place anoth er 300 years, at the least reckoning. (Distributed 1963, by Tha Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Referred) r
