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It. 1141 (Monday) Medford connected directly with Washington, D. C, by United Air Lines. From Arthur Perry's "Y Smudge Pot" column: "Italy is now willing to plead guilty to stabbing France in the back if she can keep all her Axis pals and write her own peace terms." 30 YEARS AGO . sua. ll. ISM (Wedneeday) William Grenbemer endors-1 ed by Democrat as Ashland I postmaster. I Lightning starts eight for est fires in Dead Indian dis trict. ! 40 YEARS AGO Aug. II. 1I2S (Thursday) Rich territory to be opened by proposed Natron cutoff. Prospects bright for ending coal strike following firm stand by government. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 1IS (Saturday) Sale of Jesse Richardson stock ranch In Sams Valley brings 122.000. Recently ousted superin tendent of Crater Lake Na tional park continues fight for reinstatement. mat's Ycsr I.Q.? Nhte at fan tame Is eaeartefi eeveai at a if tit la emtelleirtl Hire at sis la faad. 1. Is the Alaskan Brown bear or Griszly the larger? 2. According to astrologers, ' persons born between Oct. 23 and Nov. 21 are governed oy what sign of the zodiac? 3. The New Testament tells us that Jonah spent how many day in the belly of a whaleT 4. Madagascar was former ly a colony of which Euro pean nation? 5. In reference to the quo tation "Sugar and Space and everything nice," what are lit tle boys made 01? S. How long Is a fortnight? 7. Are spiders insects? 8. Was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation estab lished under the admlntatra tlon of Hoover, Roosevelt or Truman? 9. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place; true or false? 10. Do the piston in an automobile engine come to a standstill before reversing their thrust? Aniwarai 1. Brew a. 1 Scorpio. S. Three days. 4. France. Si Nails and snails nd puppy deg tails, li 14 days- 7. No (arachnids). I, Hoover, t. raise. 10. Ye. SHOP ENTERED Central Point - C. V. Bow er. S39 North Fifth St., Cen tral Point, reported to police that hit shop at S10 East Pine ft. had been entered and small tools were taken some time recently according to Centra Point police. FRIDAY. AUGUST It. IMS The Letter-Writers We have long suspected, without any proof but with considerable evidence, that the John Birchers and others of the ultra right have a pretty well-organized letter-writing system. Several who espouse this radical point of view write to the Mail Tribune's Communications column on a regular basis, so that the voice of the far right appears there quite consistently. Wheth er there are writing "assignments" or not we do not know, but the results are the same. There is an amazing consistency of point of view, too. But that is to be expected in the tightly knit ranks. Robert Welch issues his dictum as to what line to take, and almost immediately it is parroted the length and breadth of the land. THE current "word from on high" is opposition to the treaty banning nuclear tests in the at mosphere or water. Samples can be seen on this page today. It seems unlikely that such letters are spontaneous. They are too similar in outlook and phraseology. Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Re view, recently wrote an editorial in which he recounted an experience which tends to substan tiate the suspicion that the letter-writers of the far right are, indeed, well organized. After a talk in Portland, in which he support ed the United Nations, he was approached by a woman who said she opposed his views, and scoffed at his appeal for letters to U.S. officials supporting the U.N. gHE said: "Last week alone, Just by myself, I wrote 500 letters against the United Nations. I wrote them to the President, Senators, Congressmen, businessmen who advertised in newspapers or magazines that sup ported the U.N., to letters-to-the-editor departments. And more than 30 people in my group have been doing the same thing." Cousins added this comment: ' "There is good reason to believe the lady was not exaggerating. For many months, the mails of public officials and periodicals have been flooded with angry letters on a wide variety of subjects, of which peace in general and the United Nations in particular seem to be prime targets. . . . Whether the Portland lady and her group are part of a nation-wide systematic effort I have no way of knowing. But there can be no doubt that the malls have become a battering ram for extremist views." COUSINS' theme was less to disparage the let-ter.wr-irmor nr-tivitirxi nf (ho rio-rit.wino- py. tremists (it is, he carefully points out, their right) than to deplore the lack of such activity on the part of the educated, members of the community. His title, indeed, was "The Default of the Educated Man," and he says, "By and large, edu cated people can be counted upon not to write on important public questions." He confesses bafflement : "One of the attributes of a truly educated man in a free society is his awareness of the way that society functions. Yet an astonishing illiteracy exists among otherwise intelligent, educated people about the work ings of public opinion. Letter-writing to officials Is part of the phenomenon of public opinion not the only part and perhaps not even the most effective part but it Is a part nonetheless. Yet this fact doesn't seem to make a dent in the thinking of many well educated persons. And so they become part of a mas sive default a default gleefully exploited by those who are using every trick In the democratic book, as is their right, to create the impression that their view is the dominant one." IN SIMILAR vein, the editorial page of the Eugene Register-Guard not long ago had cause to complain that many of the community's best informed citizens, and notably faculty members at the University, often default in failing to communicate their views either by not writing to or by being stuffy, pedantic and long-winded when they did. The situation has improved in recent months, the K-U commented with bull, Uousins thesis that many literate people, schooled in history, political science, philosophy, literature, the sci ences people who are acutely aware of the dan gers of the time do not bother to lend then voices to the cause of political and social sanitv. The "great debate" is not served when the best minds fail to communicate, and leave the field to the extremists. E.A. New Fire There have been great strides in fighting nres in tne lorests and on the ranges in recent years. Better access, better and more specialized vehicles, tighter systems of detection, and more widespread use of aircraft, all have contributed One of the more notable of the improvements has been the development of "bombing" fires from the air. Borate has in recent years. Borate's big drawback has been that it stcri lizes the land, killing for that reason, new experiments with other materials are of interest. THE state department of forestry has started to experiment with two other materials, both of them fire-retardant in nature, but which do not sterilize what they hit. Rather, they have some of the effects of ferti lizer, and actually encourage regenerative growth on burned-over areas. One hopes the experiments will be successful. that new techniques can fires will not only be contained and extinguished, but where the land will be prepared for new growth, rather tharf sterilized. E.A. I intelligent and informed were guilty of a similar the "Letters " column. approval. is valid, and it is true Retardants been used successfully vegetation where it hits. be worked out whereby MEDFORD "At I Was Saying, A Test-Ban Agreement Might Have Resulted In A Fatal Gap" Communications Letters to tha Editor must bear tha name and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances tha use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves tha right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent tha views of I." paper. In fact tha contrary la often tha case. Signing tha Treaty To the Editor: The follow. ing letter has been sent to both our senators: Dear Senator: I am writing this in regard to signing the test ban treaty. I am very much concerned because I feel the moral aspects in volved are being completely ignored. Should we ever sign any agreement with our mor tal enemy? For the present Russian government is our mortal enemy. Furthermore is it becoming on the part of Mr. Rusk and our other rep resentatives to carry on as though they were attending a convivial party among friends? Should not such an occasion be a time of gravity and responsibility, and not one of hilarity? There is also another aspect that should be considered, namely: What advantage do the Russians expect to gain because of this treaty? For if they do not expect to gain from it they never would have signed it. After having signed It how long will they Keep u.' For the record shows they will keep it only as long as it is advantageous for them to do so. The last time they kept It only long enough for them to evaluate data from previ ous tests. Then they broke their agreement in order to obtain new data. We kept our agreement and so lost valu able research time. How many times are we going to be suckers? Anna M. Streed 36 North Peach st. Medford. P.S. When are we going to cease being suckers? Birch View To the Editor: What of the 'Treatv Ban'? Many thanks to those who have requested this letter. Yes! I will answer as a member of the John Birch Society. The self proclaimed organ of the Communist Party U.S.A., the "Political Affairs", the "Worker" and the "Na tional Guardian," all Com munist newspapers, are step ping up activities for passing of the (a) Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, (b) The planned Aug. 28 'March on Washington' and (c) the President's "Civil Rights" legislation. They are all related. What is really being de manded, is that all progres sive and 'left' forces and es pecially all Communists, throw themselves fully into these battles which lie ahead, and mobolize all possible sup port for Kennedy's Civil Rights bill, which is part and parcel of the Communist drive to destroy the sovereignty of the U.S.A. It Is pure folly to enter into any treaty with barbarians who boast that they make treaties with no slightest In tention of keeping them, but only as a means of gaining strength for themselves. The preamble of this treaty commits the U.S. as proclaim ing as their principle aim, the speediest possible achieve ment of an agreement on gen eral and complete disarma ment under strict Internation al control In accordance with the objectives of the United Nations. The Reds and their allies throughout the world are a! ready shouting that the U.S. will sign and MUST sign this treaty, because of our fear of Soviet might. Walter Rcuthcr has joined Hobson Reynolds, head of the 400,000 Ncern Elks organiza tlon, calling for massive par. ticipation in the Aug. 28 march on Washington. Behind all of these plans are the socialists and liberals such as Sens. Paul Douglas and Jamb Javits and Reps. James Roosevelt and John Lindsay, who have invited 38 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON senators and 80 representa tives to meet with A. Phillip Randolf, who is president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, who Is to explain to these senators and repre sentatives the March on Wash ington and its aims . . , for tbe rights nf the whites ... if you please? These are facts, which the readers will have to decide, whether they are for or against, such traitorous trea ties and decisions coming out of Washington. Write your representative and senator. Edith Phetteplace 3939 Hilyard st. Eugene, Ore. Test Ban To the Editor: This is an open letter to President Ken nedy. Dear President Kennedy: If the American people knew the truth about the test ban treaty, there would be an angry outcry across our land that would frighten our Sen ators into throwing this mon strous treaty right back in your teeth. But our "managed news" has very cleverly and very carefully kept from the people the frightful danger In this "slick deal" with Moscow. And that is the fact that it takes many, many months of preparation for a series of atomic tests, and that Russia is- again being given an op portunity to do this work in secret and betray us for the second time, as she did before. with massive tests in the at mosphere. That this Is the fatal danger is proven by the first test ban which Khrushchev brazenly broke, making massive gains in nuclear technology while we lagged dangerously be hind. In 1961 you soundly de nounced the Soviets' prolong ed preparations to betray the test ban while going through the motions of negotiations with us. Where is the common sense you displayed then? Why are you now leading America back into the very same trap again which, ac cording to Admiral Chester Ward, former judge advocate in the U.S. Navy, could be-a fatal national disaster? He declared on the Manion Forum, Broadcast 462, that ratification of the test ban treaty "will freeze the U.S. into second place to Russia in the technology of strategic was heads. U.S. nuclear strike capability will be reduced so fast, relative to the Soviets' super weapon strength, that within 18 months we will have lost our power to deter a Soviet surprise attack, or to retaliate effectively against the overwhelming military power of their super weapons of annihilation. If this is al lowed to come true, it will be the end of our country." President Kennedy, I thoroughly believe Admiral Ward. Therefore I'm wiring the "gist" of this letter to my Senators, and praying to Al mighty God In the name of His precious Son that they and their colleagues will recognize this treaty as a trap set to weaken us for the final kill. I'm sorry for you. It is pos sible that you may go down in history as the U.S. Presl den whose stupid test ban treaty betrayed the American people into the hands of one of the most cruel, most cold- blooded men ever known. Nikila Khrushchev, "the Mass Murderer of the Ukraine" and "the Bloody Butcher of Buda pest." You may go down in history as the man who stupid ly put the brutal yoke of Communist tyranny on the necks of your own children. There is only one word for your test ban treaty, and that word is "surrender." L. C. Powell. 318 SE Eighth si.. Gran Li Pass, Ore. N Perez Jimenez Leaves Mark on Despite Swindles and Later Overthrow By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Whatever the rascalities of one-time Venezuelan dictator Marcos Per- It z Jiminez, the d 1 u m d Sv I and pompous f I frmer army I co'one' left I his mark up- I I and upon its m im J people. It has n.w.. een near'y five years since he gathered his family Strictly Personal By Sydney (ci Field Enterprises. Inc. THE USES OF HUMOR The most devastating crit ique that can be made against extremist movements is a very simple and yet dead ly one: with out exception, they lack a sense of hu mor. What ever the polit ical, econom ic, or intellec tual flaws in Harria such doctrines as communism and fascism, the really telling charge against them is a kind of fer ocious solemnity that is at bottom alien to the human spirit. No humor, no satire, no nonsense, can flourish in a country, or in a movement, that views life in black-and-white only. A few weeks ago, for in stance, the official Commu nist Parly newspaper in Italy attacked the American comic strip, "Peanuts," for its de piction of characters ranging from the "suicidal" to the "stupid." One of the cartoon characters was even stigma tized as a "fascist." And, of course. In Nasi Germany and Fascist Italy, no real humor was ever permitted. For genuina humor is tha eternal enemy of all pomposity, all offic ialdom, all fanaticism, all tha political creeds and doc trines and dogmas that strive to become, in on way or another, stai re ligions. We all know that artistic expression dries up in a totalitarian country; writ ers and painters and music ians, who are by nature rebels, cannot produce in response to official decrees. What is even more signifi cant, however, is that the sense of humor atrophies in such an environment: peo ple are afraid to be funny. This is a worse enslave ment than the economic in justices that Marx in veighed against. The slav ery of the intellect, of the spontaneous emotions, is more killing than any of the capitalistic excesses of the 191h century. It is one of the wry paradoxes of Marxism that it made men "free" for more dullness and drabness and conform- Linda Thanked To The Editor: I am un accustomed to writing letters to the editor of a newspaper, but I thought this would be the best way to thank a mem ber of your Medford Swim Team. On Aug. 9, 10 and 11. we held our Fourth Annual Invi tational Swim Meet here in Grants Pass. We had over 550 entries from teams throughout California, Oregon, Washing ton and Canada. As usual in most large meets, finding qualified officials is a big problem. Linda Hess, a long-time member of the Medford swim team, not only helped us throughout our meet, but has consistently helped whenever needed in all the meets we have ever attended. For those of you not familiar with swim meets, this in most cases, means sitting in the hot sun near the edge of a pool for many hours. The members of Grants Pass Aquatic club have fol lowed Linda's career in swim ming for many years and im pressive as it may be, we are sure with Ihe keen sense of competition and good sports manship, she is slated for even a better record at the University of Oregon. Lome Swcaringcn. Frcs., Grants Pass Aquatic Club 311 N. W. Laughridge Grants Pass, Ore. P.S. - G P. for sure in foot ball this year. In a Hurry To the Editor: It used to take me 5 hours to drive the old Brush car from Ashland to Medford. If 1 wuz in a hurry. I could push it to Med ford in 4 hours. Everett Arkhn Ashland, Ore. 1 about him and fled to the Dominican Republic in the face of the same sort of vio lent revolution by which he himself had risen to power. But in Caracas the people still refer to him familiarly as "P.J." "'P.J.' built It," one may remark. And the reference might be to the broad highway which sweeps up to Caracas from Maiquetia Airport, or j.0 the magnificent modernistic buildings of the University of Caracas. I. Ka.ris iiy than they had ever known before. The most effective way to combat the extremists is with humor and satire and parody; and a democratic nation that begins to limit and censor its satirists has already fallen under the corrupting blight of totalitarian attitudes. Mock ing selfcriticism in a nation is a sign of health, not of sick ness; the hand that salutes the flag must also he free to thumb its nose at those who wave the flag for venal or hypocritical reasons. Freedom of speech must In clude the freedom to speak impertinently, or it means nothing; it must include the freedom to laugh at, the free dom to deflate the important, deride the orthodox, and dis sect the "received wisdom" of the people. Otherwise, we lose Ihe capacity, and the will, to correct our national stance when it slumps or sways. The best method of testing the strength of a doctrine is by subjecting it to humor and irony and burlesque. The ex tremist movements invariably fail this test, for they are based on a grimly unyielding view of man's nature. Ex posed to shafts nf comedy, these doctrines turn nasty, brutish and violent. Which, of course, they always were in the beginning. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In New York the other day, a Spanish - speaking woman who holds U.S. citizenship through birth in Puerto Rico began a court suit against the New York state law requiring an ENGLISH literacy as a re quirement to vote. She is a citizen of the Unit ed States by birth. She has lived in New York since 1948. She says in her suit that as a reader of Spanish language newspapers and periodicals her understanding of govern ment and. politics is at least equal to that of the average New York adult. But because she can't pass an ENGLISH literacy test she can't vote. She asks the New York supreme court to direct the New York board of elec tions either to register her as a qualified voter or to provide a literacy test in SPANISH. T ET'S no some supposing. Mrs. Cardona alleges in her suit that as a reader of New York Spanish language newspapers and periodicals her understanding of govern ment and politics is at least equal to that of the average New York adult. Let's suppose she has read in Spanish-in which, of course it is available the great lit erature of the world. SO LET'S compare her with a New Yorker who READS ENGLISH and so is able to keep up with all the dirt and the scandal and the fluff that make up so much of our modern day-to-day reading especially in our modern meg alopolises, such as New York. Question: Which is best equipped to vote? One fears that a hrutally candid answer wouldn't be very flattering to us as a na tion. IN PORTLAND the other day, rules for the use of the Rogue River trail between Almcda Bridge and Marial, a distance of 26 miles, were an nounced. The decision was made by Bureau of Land Man agement Director Russell E. Getty after a hearing and a conference of interested fed eral and state agency people. It restricts use of the trail for these 2fi miles to hikers. Proofreader To the Editor: Docs the Mail Tribune have a proof reader? Mrs. E. J. Collins . 2224 East Main st. Medford Editor's note: Yes. a couple. Between them they read up to 85.000 words a day. Like to try it? V. Or it might be to the gaudy, skyscraper apartment build ings which P.J." built as a slum - clearance project but which quickly became merely vertical slums under condi tions of anarchy worse than that from which its inhabi tants came. Ironically, that district meant to be a monument to Perez Jiminez today is called "January 23rd," commemor ating the date of his fall. "P.J." left Venezuela $400 million in debt despite its oil riches which pour $3 mil lion a day into a country whose population is only about six million. And beyond the monuments of stone and steel which Perez Jiminez left behind, few of these six million had bene fited. But besides the hatred which he also left behind, one may also detect a note of grudging admiration in those references to "P.J." The Girl Who Saved the World By Arthur Hopp Let us pause today In our busy rounds to salute the most diligent peace worker of our time. As a hundred nations rush to sign the nuclear test ban treaty, as mankind basks in a new era of good feeling be tween East and West, as we rejoice in renewed hope for peace in our time, let us not fail to pay tribute to the un sung toiler - behind - the scenes primarly responsible for this breakthrough at last in the long, grim Cold War. I am speaking, of course, of Miss Christine Keeler. May she win the Nobel Prize. I know that others would see the prize go elsewhere. The Americans would give credit for the test ban treaty to Ma. Kennedy; the British Horses, other trail stock and MOTORIZED WHEELED EQUIPMENT, including mo torcycles of all types, will be barred. One reason for bar ring horses is that forage is rather scare in that area, thus necessitating the carrying of grain for the saddle and pack animals. r"FHE reason, presumably, for the barring of "motorized wheeled equipment" is that the region will be set apart as a wilderness area, for the use of those who like to get as far from civilization as pos sible. It must certainly be conced ed that these snorting, smelly "motorized wheeled" mon sters destroy any illusion that one is far from the madding crowd and back to the forest primeval. A LL of this, of course, brings " sad memories to those who can remember the dear de parted days when a wilder ness was a wilderness and a trail was a trail, to be nego tiated solely by back-packers and saddle and pack outfits. In those great days the wilderness trails were busy places. But no more. One can go for days on the mountain trails, including the magnifi cent Skyline Trail, and never meet a back packer or a pack train. The modern generation hasn't much use for the WILDERNESS. It wants PAVEMENT. C?.SJ'''iv,Aus -arts ' "The lyndieate takei in billions every year, and the cheapskates offer a mere $100,000 to 'rub out' lhat squealer now, if wj had union ... I" t Country, For in many a Latin Amer ican nation the successful swindler is regarded as no great criminal. Former Argentine dictator Juan D. Peron retained mil lions of followers despite loot ing his country of amounts whose estimates run as high as $600 million. A one-time Cuban minister of education made off with $172 million and aroused no great indignation. In Rio de Janeiro, U. S. cit izens urgently wanted b y Uncle Sam to answer for a fast shuffle with the dollars of American investors travel freely in the best cafe society. Perez Jiminez himself was the first such former high ranking figure permitted to be extradited from the United States. Other guests have in cluded Fulgencio Batista of Cuba and various members of the Trujillo family of the Do minican Republic. . would hail Mr. Macmillanl the Russians, Mr. Khrushchev. But this is no time for crass nationalism. - Oh, I confess that at first I felt the same way. When the treaty was signed I was filled with gratitude toward Our Leaders. It made you realize, I said, how ordinary human beings like Mr. Ken nedy, Mr. Macmillan and Mr. Khrushchev could set asida domestic political squabbles) and rise above petty person al ambitions in order to achieve universal good for all mankind. And personally, my hearl overflowed most in Mr. Mac millan's direction. For of all three Leaders, it was he who pressed hardest for the treaty. It was he, obviously, who selflessly thought most of hu manity, who stood ready tn give his all for the happiness of men everywhere, And it was he, I said, who should be awarded the Nobel Prize. At least that's what I said before I read what experts a e saying. But do you know whu ; the experts say? They say the reason Mr. Macmillan pushed so hard and successfully for the treaty was to lake ths British voter's mind off the Profumo scandals. So thai ha could get re-elected. Which makes sense. And thus, if there be any justice, the prize should go not to Mr. Macmillan, but to the little lady responsible for his dedication to peace: Miss Keeler. Who can deny that night and day she, too, devoted her self to the happiness of men everywhere? Who can deny that she, too, gave her all? And who can view newsreels of her striding into Old Bail ey without paying silent tri bute to her Movement? It may save the human race yet. So it is due to her dedica tion and devotion to her work that all of us are a little safer from war today. If it wern not for Miss Keeler, the Brit ish Empire might not havo thrown its prestige behind: the cause of peace, So I say that when it comes to peace work among Our Leaders she takes the prize. Oh, I know some cynirs will argue that while Miss Keeler may indeed have saved the world, it wasn't precisely the first thing on her mind at the time. And they're go ing to contend that it was all personal vanity and status building. But I say if we're going to start getting into the motive of the candidates, we're never going to pick a winner.
