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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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scarcely begun.
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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.