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Chi- K is:'rt...t NIWI'AMt UllltHIII AilOCIATION llvc6T,3'; ManboT California Newspapar PubUehers AaaaoUUoa Flight o' Time Madford and Jackaon County Hi-tory from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yaara ago. 10 YEARS AGO August It. IMS (Tuesday) Shakespearean Festival at tendance record reaches 902. "Element x," Just Uble salt, county's cloud-seeding pilots reveal. . 10 YEARS AGO August It. 143 (Wednesday) Stanford university quits football for duration ot war. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Up state residents, particularly In the metropolitan area, are worrying about what will happen to Oregon when the war 4a mmr. At least they are not laying awake nights fretting about xne xuiure oi India or the Utopian happi ness of the Hottentots." . 30 YEARS AGO August 13. 1133 (Friday) Price of Bartletts Jumps to $27.80 a ton in valley. Jacksonville "Gold Rush" celebration starts. 40 YEARS AGO August 13. 1133 (Saturday) Travel record to Crater Lake park to date 33,808 people. Ashland-Klamath Falls highway to be finished soon. 10 YEARS AGO August 13, 1313 (Monday) Fair arrested at Ashland charged with decoying young Medford girls. Several Medford people va cationing at Colestin springs. Wktf s Yexr I.Q.7 Nlae ar tee) eatress Is sapefiet) save ar eight It excoflewtj fhre er st is aaad. 1. Have spiders four, six, or eight legs? 2. Name the west coast re public in South America, astride the equator and bounded on the north, east, south and west respectively by Columbia, Peru and the Pacific ocean. 3. What is the zodiacal sign for persons born between July 23 and August 23T 4. Which state is nicknamed "Cornhusker State"? 8. Which federal agency is abbreviated I.C.C.T 6. Are bats blind 7. Was the Lend Lease Act enacted by Congress before or after the Marshall Plan was effected? 8. When is Bastille day cel ebrated in France? 9. Slitting a crow's tongue improves its ability to talk; true or false? 10. A drowning person al ways rises to the surface three times before sinking; true or false? Answerst 1. Eight 2. Ecus. dor. 3. Leo the Lion. 4. Ne braska. 8. Interstate Com merce Commission. I. No. 7, Before. 8. July 14. 8. False. 10. False. Draft Goldwater Chairman Selected Portland - dm - Philip N. Bladlne, publisher of the Mo Mlnnville News Register, Fri day was named Yamhill Coun ty Chairman of the Draft Goldwater Committee, It was announced here. Bladlne will be responsible for the committee's activities In Ysmhill county, Everett Rake, Oregon chairman, said. SUNDAY, AUGUST II. 1113 Society of Innocents "Today we are a society of innocents." Is this statement, made by the very knowl edgeable manager of the Medford Chamber of Commerce, true; Don McNeil makes a emptor" (let the buyer beware) may have held water in Roman times, McNeil says, but no more. And he adds: "Our trust has been enhanced through the years by brand names, high quality, gilt-edged warrantees and guarantees. Nowadays a purchaser can even get his money back if a product is unsatisfactory. Merchants bend over backwards to keep customers happy, even though no law requires that a dissatisfied customer be refunded his money." a ASA RESULT of these, McNeil indicates, to day's buyer no longer is sufficiently wary of the slick gimmick, the fast buck boys, the sly underworld where man's essential honesty (or gullibility), and his modern-day "innocence " are turned to costly advantage. . An example : Jackson county people in considerable num bers have been receiving lopes, labeled "official adjusting" outfit Inside bargains, sold in quantity at $3.40 per case together with other seeming bargains in appliances, radios, and so on. So far so good. DUT the Portland Better Business Bureau re ports that those who attempt to take advan tage of one of the coffee or similar offers are told the supply is "temporarily exhausted." How ever, those ordering the appliances do get deliv ery. In one instance reported by the BBB, the device is a food blender. The BBB said : ". , . The blender Is a flimsy, plastic device of un certain parentage and even more questionable perform ance qualities. There may also very well be some seri ous doubt about the safety of the article. . . . There is not a single Identifying name or address of a manu facturer on the blender itself, the packing carton or the 'recipe' and instruction booklet enclosed. . . . "Of course it should be mentioned that purchasers have this assurance the blender carries a 'war ranty.' . . . This could be somewhat assuring if it gave the name and address of the manufacturer that so generously offers this meaningless guarantee!" Anyone taking advantage of such an offer is, to put it kindly, an "innocent." A harsher word is "sucker." Buying brand names, patron izing local merchants here to back up their mer- -1 3 At Al. A 1 11? cnanuise uiese are sun slickered. E.A. Covered Covered bridges have a special fascination for a lot of people. A few vears arm. the Mail Tribune ran an illustrated feature story about Jackson county's covered bridges, and over the ensuing months we received letters from all parts of the country requesting copies. One of the most supfpssfnl nnhlimrinns nf the Oregon Historical Society was a pamphlet devoted to the covered brideres of the state. It too, was widely requested. WE ARE rather fond An nnt. renpf in fVinm the real covered bridge a new book entitled "Covered Bridges of the west should prove highly popular. It is a well designed, colorful book, which not cally every covered bridge in Oregon, Washing ton and California, but also gives pictures of them, some in color; maps showing their loca tion; detailed descriptions of construction meth ods; tips for photographers; and a discussion as to the "why of. covered (The book is bv Kramer A. Adams. Dublished by Howell-North Books, 1050 Parker St., Berke ley 10, Calif., 149 pages, $5.95.) rJHE book has numerous anecdotes. Here is one : "Officials ot Jackson County, Oregon, were begin ning to wonder what was so damned historic or senti mental about a bridge built in 1927. Since the Wlmer bridge had been ordered closed to vehicles as unsafe in 1960, it was more like a playground than an historic landmark. The barricades planted across the bridge approaches had been knocked over four or five times by car bumpers or uprooted by pickup trucks and rope. Horseback riders occasionally clomped across the rotting floor planks. And a man was rescued from one of the buttresses after apparently trying to cross the bridge on the outside. "Finally, the Jackson County Court came up with the funds and the troublesome bridge was rebuilt in 1963. Officials still wonder whether certain patrons of a nearby beer parlor had embarked on a calculated campaign to preserve the bridge or merely had been playful." JACKSON county's six covered bridges are listed, with name, location, length, year built and type. Each is pictured. The oldest, the book says, is McKee bridge (not now in use for vehicles), built in 1918. The newest are the two bridges spanning Evans creek at Wimer and Minthorn, both built in 1927. The Lost Creek bridge near Lakecreek is the shortest covered highway bridge in the west Near the Antelope bridge and the Yankee Creek bridge, less than a mile apart, is one of four places in Oregon and California where two covered bridges are located within sight Bridee buffs should this book. E.A. good case for it. "Caveat important-looking enve notice" from a "claim are lists of incredible such things as coffee me way to avoid getting Bridges of covered bridges, but tn trio aamo A a err o a tViat fan does. Among them. thorough, complete and only describes practi bridges. of each other. have a fine time with "After All, I have My e viae vywfT4 r"' Matter of Fact y Joseph aip e) New YoHeJJerajdJYUjuneSjindleate (Joseph Alsop will be on vacation this month - and gathering material both in this country and abroad for future columns. During his absence, top members of tha staff of tha New York Her ald Tribune will substitute for him.) By DAVID MILLER MOSCOW TODAY Moscow - Most Americans who come to Moscow for the first time are entirely unpre pared for what they see. The main terminal at Sheremety evo Airport, the main interna tional gateway, is small enough to fit into a corner of New York's Idlewild Airport, but beyond lies another world. Block after block of eight and twelve-story apartment houses line the main road to downtown Moscow. The road from the airport is four to six lanes wide and divided by a central island much like super-highways in the United States. There are even under ground tunnels so pedestri ans won't have to fight the traffic. Moscow seemingly bursts with activity. Each year a city one-third the size of Old Mos cow rises to help alleviate a crushing housing shortage which makes privacy a thing ot the future. The subway is being extended. A major ur ban renewal project is being cut through the heart of the city. a a DUT to an American who " lives in Moscow the year round a different picture emerges. The Voice of Amer ica broadcasts in Russian are no longer being jammed, and American movies were shown inside the Kremlin during the film festival. But the Soviet Union still has a very long way to go before it can offer what most Westerners take for granted. Shopping is a daily ordeal. Soviet bureaucracy is an in credible obstacle to even the simplest request. Secretive ness has been part of the So viet outlook for so long that Western correspondents are sometimes Invited to press conferences and not told the subject till they arrive. Gas stations as Americans know them do not exist. To buy gasoline suitable for a foreign car, a Western resi dent must first estimate his needs for the month, buy cou pons at a single office, and then handle the gas pump's nozzle himself when he final ly gets to the station. No one checks the oil, no one fills the battery. It's do-it-yourself liv- ing multiplied a thousandfold. a WESTERN correspondents are not supposed to tele phone or call on Soviet of fi cials without first requesting formal permission from a committee that only possibly will say yes. When one cor respondent went directly to a school where an American Negro girl was enrolled, that was offered as one of the rea sons for his ultimate expul sion. Perhaps the new era dawn ing In Soviet-American rela tions will change this. Perhaps increasing Soviet awareness that most Americans are gen uinely curious about Soviet life will mean easy access to even routine news sources. But because of the wall that exists today, many Americans know very little about the largest country on earth. One American doctor, a vis itor last summer, told me he was amazed to find stores that offered everday things for sale. He said he imagined there were warehouses of tome sort where people bought up whatever was avail able. Another recent tourist said he was surprised to find apartment houses or even peo ple walking aimlessly on the sidewalks. He thought he would find a more regimented existence-people going from apartment to work, from work to apartment. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Pride Too, You Know" AMERICANS who visit the Soviet Union find Soviet citizens primed with up-to-date information on American unemployment, discrimina tion, crime, the high cost of medical care, the circus atmo sphere that sometimes sur rounds cultural events and scandals involving high of ficials. The average American is not equipped to explain that not everything back home is as black as it appears in the Soviet press. Few Russians understand that an unemployed worker in New York state draws $90 per week-a fact never fea tured in the Soviet press be cause the average worker here earns 90 rubles a month ($100 approximately at official ex change rate). While the Rus sian knows rents are high In the United States, he is never told that low rent public hous ing also exists. Sometimes this lack of knowledge is deliberate So viet policy and sometimes it's the fault of the United States itself. The United States Em bassy in Moscow, for example, is bound by a State Depart ment regulation that limits the cost of official cars used in Embassy work. As such, the lowest-priced cars, stripped-down six-cylinder model Fords, Chevrolets, Studebak ers, and Plymouth, are the only ones used -and many Rusians believe this is typi cal of the United States. a a ABETTER long-term invest ment would be buying cars typical of what the work er in the United States can afford-cars with some of the verve that reflects much of American life. Not Cadillacs or Lincolns, but low and med ium-priced cars with striking colors, seat covers, and other accessories Americans think of as ordinary. What better showcase for America could there be than small Russian language sticker on the windshield with the name of the car, the price, and how long an average American has to work to buy one? A Russian once asked me how long a waiting period was required to buy a car in the United States. I told him five minutes, if you saw what you wanted on the showfloor, and ten minutes if you want ed a different color. He walked away shocked. Hope and By ERIC SEVAREID The extreme right wing In American politics is not like ly to prevail in the debate over the nu clear test trea ty with Rus sia, in spite of the respect able doubts of such open- minded men as Senator J a c k s o n, in spite of the stvtrei. ciear irum that the treaty by no means implies the end of the world wide contest with aggressive Communism. The long reach of history is accomplished by such short, often unpremedi tated steps; and this seems to be one of those times when it is better to move than to stand, however impossible it may be to identify the next move after that. What we are engaged in with Russia is a game of poker, not chess. a Before this current argu ment is over, the United States will have again demonstrated to the world that it there is any basic flaw in the Ameri can world stance, it is a lean ing toward trust rather than distrust, a deep seated pre dilection toward lowering our guard, not toward rigidity and ingrained hostility, in spite of the clamorous, guilt-ridden claims of all those groups GREAT IDEAS... ml IMS, SHOULD WE BREAK UNJUST LAWS Dear Dr. Adlart Recently the South has been alive with racial demonstrations. Wholesale arrests have been made by the local au thorities with the local seg regation laws as tha basis for these arrests. Tha ques tion I would pose is as fol lows. What do the world's great thinkers say about the breaking oi one law in order to secure the bene fits of another? Should a law be obeyed even though it is unjust? Charles H. Murphy 1233 Morgan ave., Louisville 13, Kan. Dear Mr. Murphy: "Unjust laws exist; shall we be con tent to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have suc ceeded, or shall we transgress them at once?" This is how Henry Thoreau put the ques tion of civil disobedience in 1847. His own choice among the three proposed alterna tives was for instant disobe dience to laws that conflict with one's conscience. Thoreau's doctrine is an un usually radical one. However, it would be difficult to find any serious ethical thinker who would counsel us merely to be content to obey unjust laws unquestioningly. Most moral and political philoso phers would agree that there are unjust laws-human laws which violate the moral or di vine law. Augustine, for ex ample, said that an unjust law is not a real law, and that we are not in conscience bound to obey it. Thinkers, however, differ as to just when and in what situation it is right to disobey an unjust law. Most of them advise a reliance on the slow processes of orderly change in customs, public opinion, and legal Institutions, and an avoidance, wherever possible, of the disorder that is engen dered by disobedience or re bellion. Thomas Aquinas proclaimed men's right to rebel against unjust laws, but he urged us to weigh the potential disor der involved in disobeying an unjust law against the evil en tailed in obeying it, and then to follow the least harmful course. Similarly John Locke urged that we use the legal means of redress available under a constitutional govern-ment-to change the law-rath- er than plunge the state into the anarchy which would en sue if we all resorted to in stant disobedience whenever we considered a law unjust. Thoreau dismissed all these cautionary qualifications. He believed that the only fully moral response to an unjust law is through direct, immed iate, personal action-disobedience. He considered the way of orderly, legal change as dilatory, futile, and an eva sion of personal responsibil ity. "Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it," he sald-it is leaving what should be a matter of personal choice and risk to the decision ot the insensate majority. The main thing for Thoreau was not to commit injustice by consenting in any way to iniquitous laws, institutions, and government actions-such Caution Mingle in Ban Debate which arrogate to themselves the desire for and the label of "peace." No, if from here on we are led into policy errors by rea son of domestic pressures, it will not be the pressure of the overly suspicious right wing minorities but the pres sure of the left-wing minori ties who persistently equate American with Communist re sponsibility for the dangerous condition of the world - those groups which would have us detach from Vietnam because its government happens to be nasty in right wing fashion and which would have us draw closer to Cuba because Its nasty regime happens to be left wing. Brutality itself does not bother these groups; they are concerned only with the words of the torturer's chant as he wields the whip. One can hope. One can hope, for example, that the tenor and outcome of this debate on the test treaty will demonstrate to these groups and their counterparts in Europe that, while the "military-industrial power struc ture" of which Eisenhower warned is indeed worth wor rying about, it is not deter mining the foreign and de fense policies of this country. The President and the Secre tary of Defense are doing that, as much, if not more, than ever. From the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler Publlahera Newepaper Syndicate as slavery, the fugitive slave law, or the war against Mex ico. When imprisonment is the consequence for disobeying unjust laws, he said, then the only place for a just man is in jail. If the anarchy that en sues does more harm than the evil against which civil diso bedience is directed, that is the fault of the government for not having done something about the evil Ions before hand. Martin Luther King is di rectly in the tradition of Thoreau. King advises "non violent direct action" and non cooperation - through sit-ins, demonstrations, and various forms of peaceful resistance as the best means of achieving political and social equality for Negro Americans. He be lieves that such actions bring about the "creative tension" which enables the community to break through the crust of entrenched custom and tradi tion, so that it may cease to do wrong and to begin to do right. The fact remains, however, that these actions, however non-violent they may be often violate state and local laws. How can King justify advocat ing breaking these laws when he calls on white Southerners to obey the law of the land as interpreted by the Supreme Court? King answers that he calls for obedience to just laws-those calling for equal treatment and rights for all citizens-and for disobedience to unjust laws - those that deny such equality. Moreover, he holds that whoever prac tices civil disobedience must be willing to suffer the legal penalty for his action. "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust," he says, "and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. " You can win a 54-volume set of tha Great Books of tha Western World by writ ing a letter, not to exceed ISO words, incorporating a question of general interest for Dr. Adler to consider for Inclusion in this column. Each week ha will select as first prise winnera the writ ers of the three bast letters. He will use ONE of these letters as a basis for a fu ture column and will an swer it in terms of the intel lectual heritage of tha Great Books-443 works br 74 au thors, spanning 30 caniuries of thought. Address tha let ters to Dr. Mortimer J. Ad ler, In care of this newspa per. Corbeff May Run For Secretary of State Portland -UPD- State Sen. Alfred Corbett (D-Portland) said Friday he was consider ing a campaign for secretary of state next year, but said it was too early to be definite. Corbett, 47, a Portland at torney, is a 10-year veteran of the legislature. He has nev er run for statewide office. other than as delegate to Dem ocratic national conventions, One can hope that the tran- quilizing effect of the treaty agreement will not put the efforts to reorganize and strengthen NATO, already half paralyzed, into a coma. It is entirely permissible to believe that this prospect was one of Khrushchev's various purposes in welcoming the agreement. a a One can hope, also, that be hind Khrushchev's corollary desire to isolate the nuclear ambitions of the Chinese, there is not something far more immediate and frighten ing than a doctrinal disagree ment about the worth, in Com munist terms, of risking big war. With no hard evidence to support it, the nagging thought persists that the Chi nese may have been pushing, not merely lor doctrinal sup port from Moscow, but or sup port of Chinese plans for im mediate, overt aggressions, whether against Vietnam or South Korea or Formosa or India. It may not be merely the Chinese ideologues who left Moscow in disgust last month, it may be also repre sentatives of the Chinese gen eral staff. It is a scary notion. Wheth er or not aggressions do come on such a dire and drastic scale, what we cannot realis tically hope for is an end to small scale Communist ag gressions in the Far East or an end to Communist created Today & Tomorrow ly Walter (e) 1983. The RIGHTING AN OLD WRONG Although the civil rights bill is moving slowly through Congress, it is no longer the burning issue it appeared to be when it was first in troduced. The prevail ing American view, held, says the Gal lup Poll, by some four- Uppraaaa fifths Of the people even in the South, is that the substance of the bill is bound to be enacted in the near future. It is becoming impossible to uphold the dis franchisement of Negro citi zens or to uphold disobedience of the desegregation ruling of tne bupreme Court. As for the section forbidding dis crimination against Negroes in hotels, stores, public res taurants and places of amuse ment, it is hard to argue pub licly the right to discriminate. There is ample evidence that the blatant discrimination in public accommodations is an indefensible trespass on the rights of American citizens. a a WE MUST remember, how ever, that the current civ il rights bill deals with the redress of old grievances. The public accommodations sec tion, which is being denounc ed as "Communist" and what not, re-enacts the Civil Rights Act which was passed by Con gress on March 1, 1875, nearly 90 years ago. "All persons," says the act, "within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoy ment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and priv ileges of inns, public convey ances on land or water, the ators and other places of pub lic amusement; subject only to the conditions and limita tions established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regard less of any previous condition of servitude." In 1883, this act was de clared unconstitutional. But there was one lone dissenter, Mr. Justice Harlan of Ken tucky, the grandfather ot the present justice of the same name. a a a rpHIS dissenting opinion con tains, it seems to me, the fundamental argument for re enacting the law of 1875. The argument of Justice Harlan against it begins with the 13th Amendment, which abol ishes slavery. What did it mean to abolish slavery? "Something more," said the justice, "than to for bid one man from owning an other as property." Soon after the amendment had been pro claimed as ratified in Decem ber, 1865, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1868, which was directed at the "burdens and disabilities which constitute the badges of slavery and servitude." To make sure that this legis lation would stand up, the same Congress proposed the 14th Amendment which de clared that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jur isdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." a a a THE fact that Negroes be came citizens of the Unit ed States is the foundation of their right not to be, as Jus alarms and excursions in Lat in America, which could easi ly snowball. The coexistence Khrushchev has In mind is an intensely competitive coexist ence, both political and eco nomic. There is no reason whatsoever to think that he any more than the dogmatic Chinese, has revised his dec laration that 'socialism is working for history," which is a program of action, as dis tinguished from the old Marx ist slogan that "history is working for socialism," which was an intellectual abstrac tion. a It is generally and histor ically true that tyrannies do pass away in time, that doc trines are always diluted by realities, that any church mili tant tends to become, "with prosperity, the established church. And it is also true that these processes, like all social processes, move through their cycles at a faster rate than they did before the mod ern revolution in communica tions. But the worst mistake we could make would be to assume, on the evidence of the test ban treaty, that these processes have come to com pletion, even with the Rus sians. With the Chinese, of course, the processes have if aaaaafUiiL scarcely begun. (Distributed 1S3 by Tha Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) lippmann Waihington Port tice Harlan said, deprived "be- ise of their race of any civil right granted to other persons in the United 818168." To realize the revolutionary significance of this declara tion that Negroes are Ameri can citizens, we need to be reminded of the legal status of Negroes before the Civil War. This is the declaration of Chief Justice Taney declaring that Negroes do not "compose a portion of" the American people, were not "included and were not intended to be included under the word 'cit izens' in the Constitution;" that, therefore, they could "claim none of the rights and privileges which that instru ment provides for and secures to citizens of the United States;" that, "on the contrary, they were at the time con sidered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominent race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet re mained subject to their au thority and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them." Segregation In public places is a badge of slavery and serv itude, and the obligation and the power of Congress to erase the badge derives from the decision to abolish slav ery. Because our people feel the deep justice of this principle, the civil rights bill is going to pass, probably in this ses sion of Congress, almost cer tainly in the next. In the Day's News r FRANK JENKINS This modern world tale: Down in the Bay area the other day, a gentleman named Norman Perry Anderson was thrown in the pokey for a list of offenses against the laws of the state of California. He blamed California wom en for his downfall. If it hadn't been for their "ineffable" charms, he con fided to the cops who took him into custody, he wouldn't be in durance vile, charged with bigamy and grand theft and held in lieu of $8,450 bail. IT ALL came about like this; Accnrrlfn0 tn tho nnllM Anderson wooed two Califor nia women - both at the same time, the story goes. One was a 53-year-old widow. The oth-' er was a 48-year-old divorcee. TIE MARRIED the divorcee. A few days after the wed ding, she gave him $500 to invest in a vending machine company - which, apparently, he recommended rather high ly. A little later, she gave him $1,000 to invest in a steel company. .fJOT only that. She also staked him to set of false teeth. MUCH for the divorcee. Now for the widow: She reported to the cops that last January she gave the dapper Mr. Anderson $3,500 to invest in a San Francisco apartment house. "He prom ised me that we would live forever in a lovely pent house," she reported a bit tearfully the other day, "and right after that he vanished." WHAT about Anderson? Well, it appears that ha forgot to tell either the di vorcee or the widow that all the time he had a perfectly legal wife down in San Luis Obispo - whom he had mar ried back in 1958 - just after getting out of San Quentin, where he had served a term for forgery and grand theft. He told the San Jose cops: "I want to get back to San Quentin and serve out my full term and then GET OUT OP CALIFORNIA. I never got Into any trouble in my life until I met up with California women." TIE HAD another complaint, " His new false teeth don't fit. "They HURT,' police. he told the QUESTION: Can we really blame the teen-agers too bitterly for some of their antics in an age when old folks carry on like that? Funds Allocated for Four State Airports Washington TOPD The Fed eral Aviation Agency has ap proved an allocation of $276, 328 for Oregon airports under the Federal Airport Act for the 1984 fiscal year, members of the Oregon congressional delegation said Friday. Under the allocation for air port improvement, Eugene will get $201,901, Portland $23,000, Joseph $36,429 and Powers $14,998.