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Detroit, San Francisco, Lot Angelaa, SeatUe. Portland. Denver. NATION A I COITOIIAl Member California Newspaper Publlihere Auoclation Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 25, 1953 (Tuesday) The first step in establish' ine emergency radio com munication with the Apple gate valley will be taken to morrow, according to Jack son county civil defense di rector. Weather forecast: Partly cloudy with a few showers, Low tonight 48-50. High to morrow 70-75. 20 YEARS ACO August 25, 1943 (Wednaidiy) Herbert W. Mitchell of Med- ford said Japanese prisoner of war. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Pump kins are now gaining their autumnal rotundity and the first pumpkin pies made out of squash have showed up in the eating houses." 30 YEARS ACO August 25, 1933 (Friday) Relief board issues call for Strong, able-bodied workers. Marc Jarmin to open drug store on North Central ave. 40 YEARS ACO August 25, 1923 (Saturday) Jackson county exhibit ar ranged at state fair. Chlsholm group of quick silver mines in Gold Hill area to resume. 50 YEARS AGO August 25. 1913 (Monday) Iradell Phipps, one of the county's oldest pioneers, dies. Many exhibitors display products at commercial club show. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct b tueerler; seven or sight it excellent re a sis it good. 1. Prior to President Tru man, who was the last Vice President to succeed to the office of the President through death of hia prede cessor? 2. Which state borders on onlv one other state? 3. Do the arteries carry blood to the heart, from the heart, or both? 4. Is riposte a term used In music, bridge, fencing, or polo? S. Sovereignty over south ern Sakhalin and the Kurlles was promised to Russia at what WWII conference in the Crimea? 6. How many red, and how many white stripes are there on the U.S. flag? 7. If a cattle boat carries cattle, what does a pig boat carry? 8. Two trains on parallel tracks leave at tne same time, travel the same speed and arrive at the same desti nation. One takes 80 minutes, the other 1 hour and 20 min utes; why the difference? 9. In boxing, which of these is the lightest weight lightweight, bantam weight flyweight or featherweight? 10. Which state covers the largest land area? Answers) 1. Coolldgt. 2. Maine. 3. From the heart. 4. Fencing. 5. Yalta. . 7 red, white. 7. Men (submarine). 8. No difference. 9. Fly weight. 10. Alaska. SJAMOCIATION SUNDAY. AUGUa f 25. 1S63 Teacher The real test of the effectiveness of a n y change in an educational program, especially the method of teaching, comes from the pupils and the parents of those pupils. If the reaction to change is good, if enthu siasm is expressed by both pupils and parents, and if the pupil learns better, then the change can be considered a success. This was demonstrated in Medford at a workshop for 25 teachers on how a team of teachers would instinct elementary school students. THE workshop was RIlPPPRSflll. Vindicated that the team approach to teach ing is perhaps part of the answer to educating future generations more economically, without losing the student's individuality, and of pro viding the student with an opportunity of learn ing more, faster. There is virtually no value of the workshop; mensely to the wealth teaching methods and area educators through tricts throughout the country. Its value will become evident over a pe riod of years in developing team teaching sit uations in this area. Its ultimate value, of course, will be a better educated member of society. 1MANY of the parents who were briefly ex posed to some of the basic principles of team teaching Thursday expressed the hope that such a teaching method could be adopted in the Medford district. Such a program will be used, but it will be another year or so before a full-fledged team of teachers is organized. Some organization along the lines of a team is planned this year through teacher cooperation and partial departmentalization. Team teaching has, cal educators, been approached and adopted rather slowly. Even in Lexington, Mass., where teams of teachers have taught for six years, all elementary or secondary schools do not utilize teaching teams. It would be almost full operation with a teaching team in one year; it takes more organization than that, not only in class scheduling, but in organizing teachers into groups in which there would be no serious personality conflicts, or other problems to pre vent the team from operating smoothly. TEAM teaching is not a cure-all for education al ills. There are problems for which there is not yet a solution. One of the major problems is when a pu pil transfers from a team teaching situation to a conventional-type classroom and finds himself a grade or two more advanced than the group into which he is transferred. The workshop conducted here was well re ceived, well organized and well conducted. It provided the finishintr touches for many local teachers on what the teaching team is supposed to do and how it is supposed to do it. Dr. Leon Minear, state superintendent of public instruction, visiting the workshop, said he felt the workshop was one of the brighter spots in the Oregon Program. UAD IT NOT been for A Vmurovov QllrVi a wnvlrclmr YnicrVit Ttnt- Viavo been possible. As Dr. Minear pointed out: Most (school) budgets are so closely plan ned that there is no money for experimentation. The Oregon Program has tation possible, and Dr. and his staff are making a valuable contnbu tion through experimentation to the education of our girls and boys. Cooperation between Southern Oregon college and the state depart ment of education is responsible for the success of the workshop. CONCERNING the Oregon Program here, Dr. Minonv snirl "Medford operates tern. The leadership of and his stair is well recognized throughout the state. 1 m certain that members of the state board of education feel that if we've been able to help in achieving excellence here through the Oregon rrogram we win "It is our hope that provement of the quality of education can come from the local districts. It is our responsibility to foster it and encourage it. The kind of lead ership the department can give is relatively meager when you consider the potential of the local districts. We encourage this leadership wnerever we can. jVflEDFORD school district and Southern Ore gon college now demonstrate tne practical application of knowl edge received through visitations and workshops to improve tne quality of education. The workshop completed Friday will give them the practical experience and confidence to proceed more rapidly toward organizing and utilizing new methods of teaching in this area. Some rather apparent changes will be noticeable this year, but because of activity in the Oregon Program, changes will be more pronounced in the future. E. H. A. Workshop a group 01 aoout iuu small, but it was highly way of measuring tne but it has added im of information about techniques acquired by visitations to other dis in areas visited by lo impossible to go into the Ford Foundation, made this experimen (Leonard) Mayfield the school district and a very fine school svs Dr. Leonard Mavfield all be quite happy. leadership for the im have an opportunity to Tribal Matter of Fact (c New York Herald (Joseph Alaop is on vaca tion this month - and gath ering material both in this country and abroad for fu ture columns. During his absence, top members of the staff of the New York Her ald Tribune will substitute for him.) By DON IRWIN BEFORE THE MARCH Washington - As President Kennedy told his last news conference, the civil rights issue won't "stand or fall" on the outcome of next Wednes day's march on Washington by some 100,000 advocates of "jobs and freedom" for Negroes. But without hard headed planning in which the President played a part, the march might now be looming as an unmitigated disaster for the cause of equal rights. Blueprints for the demon stration are focused on one purpose: driving home de mands advanced by six lead ing Negro organizations. There have been painstaking efforts to insulate it from vio lence and from any sugges tion that the marchers are doing more than exercise the Constitution right "peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Planning for the march could well have taken other directions. There was no firm shape for the venture when the idea of a "March on Wash- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Probing question: What is the BIG problem in the Senate hearings in Wash ington on the test ban treaty? It may be this: Are the Russians farther ahead in the race to develop an ANTI-MISSILE MISSILE than we are? DR. TELLER thinks they are. SDcakine at a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, he said: The Soviet union, througn their magnificent test series in 1B61 and 1962, may have gained the knowledge to en able them to PERFECT such a missile." He conceded that he doesn't know whether such a weapon has been developed by Rus sia, but he noted that "they claim they can shoot a fly from the sky TVR. TELLER has been joined J in his objections to the test ban treaty by Dr. John Foster. Jr.. director of the Lawrence radiation laboratory at Livermore, Calif. He t e s 1 1 f i e d that "from purely technical military con siderations the test ban treaty appears to be disadvantageous to us. He added that one of his starkest worries is that the United States will not be able to PROOF-TEST ITS WEAP ONS $YSTEM because of the lack of atmospheric tests -particularly as they relate to ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE and protection of the U. S. missile sites. YOU MAY ASK?" What is an anti-missile missile? Well, it is a missile that can be launched up into the air to seek out and destroy the missiles that an enemy may have launched again.tt us. 2 DO NOT have such a DEVELOP such a weapon, we must be able to tost it in tne air. The treaty bans such test ing. What the Russians m.iy have learned about anti missile missiles we do not know. But thev did a lot of atmos pheric testing back in 1961 and 1962 in the course of which they developed MON- STER missiles. These monster missiles may be what it takes to destroy enemy missiles. That is the basis of Dr. Tell- er s contention. hicutOtxO MAiL, 'inliUni, MtDrOHD. OHtGON Ritual By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate ington" to protest joblessness among Negroes was first put forward in May by A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. As tensions crackled in racial incidents from coast to coast, Negro leaders scram bled to back the project. JUST AS the President sub m i 1 1 e d his inevitably explosive civil rights program to Congress on June 19, friends of civil rights were jolted by a suggestion that the marchers concentrate on Capitol Hill and possibly stage "sit-ins" in Congressional offices to under score their determination that the bill must pass. There was concern among the rights program's Congres sional backers and at the high est levels of the Administra tion that any such pressure play would bring a formida ble Congressional counter reaction and nullify any chance of the bill's approval. The President, meeting with Negro leaders on June 22, explored with them the idea of calling off the march. He was told that support for the concept was too deep rooted; it couldn't be done. The President's brother, At torney General Robert F. Kennedy, told a television in terviewer the next day he thought "perhaps the an nouncement of such a march is premature." Congress, he said, "should have the right to debate and discuss this kind of legislation without this kind of pressure." Y July 2, the plan was fixed along less contro versial lines: a march "in" not "on" Washington, shorn of all overtones of civil dis obedience. The decision was reached at a New York con ference of leaders of the fix sponsoring organizations aft er considering the views of everyone in government who mattered, starting with the President. The toughest job of the or ganizers was to free the dem onstration from the taint of the "non-violent" disobedi ence that had touched off so many incidents from Birm ingham to Manhattan. To this end, the leaders reached these decisions: Restriction of the march to a one-day demonstration with arrangements for all marchers to return home using the transportation that brought them. Substitution of token calls by ten leaders on the President and influential Con gressmen for any mass dem onstrations at the While House or the Capitol. Closest liaison with Washington police, with the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and with t h e Interior Department, which has jurisdiction over the Washington and the Lin coln Memorial sites whore most of the marchers will gather. Arrangements for such a venture require logistic and security preparations on a military scale. For the past week, headquarters has been in the cavernous auditorium of a Washington Negro radio station where batteries of volunteers are working under the direction of the Rev. Wal ter E. Fauntroy, regional rep resentative of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer- I ence. I OG1STICALLY, the plan " ning extends all the way from public address systems to comfort stations, from box lunches for the improvident to parking spaces for those who disregard urgent re quests to use public transpor tation. On the security side, the i orcanizers have lined im a j plainclothes force of 2.000 "marshals "most of them ' off-duty Negro policemen j from New York to insure internal order. In case of trouble with outsiders, not- Today & Tomorrow By Walter (Cl 1963. The EXPERTS AND THE TREATY In reading what the mili tary chiftains have to say about the test ban treaty, we must not for get that the fundamen t a 1 issue is not military. It is not one on which a mili tary man as such has any special compe t e n c e. The fun damental issue Is one of Llppmann scientific method, whether continued testing in the at mosphere will produce signif icant, perhaps decisive, mili tary advantages either for the Soviet Union or the United States. The opinions of General Power and General LeMay on the probable results of future tests in the atmosphere are not one bit more expert than the opinion of Secretary Mc Namara. They are all laymen in this field, and their opin ions are at best like the opin ion of a judge when he has listened to the testimony and the arguments of both sides. The genuine experts in this field are scientific men who have worked experimentally in nuclear physics and in the ably the Washington area's little nest of neo-Nazis, the entire 2,900-man Washing ton police force will be on duty, along with 1.600 Na tional Guardsmen. If needed, 4,000 soldiers and Marines stationed around Washing ton are available for duty. Federal officials best in formed on the planning in cline toward the President's view that the rights issue won't "stand or fall" on Wednesday's outcome. But they will breathe a lot more easily if the day ends with out trouble. And if it does, it will be a special kind of vic tory for the marchers and their cause, for foes of the civil rights bill are waiting to pounce on any disorders in the wake of the march. A wholly peaceful demonstra tion will rob them of a wea pon that could be potent in the Congressional debates that still lie ahead. lis ttueat. Urns "A good paper is supposed to S'mailer. can't you stand yours?" No Easy Answers for Viet Nam Impasse By ERIC SEVAREID Henry Cabot Lodge is ei ther a very brave man or one astoundingly insensitive to the 1 risks to his g personal repu- 4 l a i i o n. ne 'j proves tnis oy H for J-1 King to Vict v . . A J Urtlll CI! "Kill- crican ambas- s a d o r at a lfUM wit'' the Diem Sevarcld gov eminent are rapidly corroding, a time that may well encompass the collapse of our undeclared war against the Communist Viet Cong. A storm is com ing and :! is permissible to think the President wanted a hostage to fortune in the form of a highly placed Republican against a day of political reckoning at home. - One can hope that Ambassa dor Lodge will be as frank with the Diem regime as it is with us - much more rank than was jenator Loose in a more complete, tne new am remarkably similar dilemma j bassador must deal with an long ago. Twenty years ago j imperious woman who exer this month he was coming out cises considerable power, is of Nationalist China with a furiously resentful of criti- senatorial investigating group as I was going in. My own friends, and entirely capable magazine report on the un- i of laying down the law - in happy truth about the Chiang j public - to the one govern-Kai-shek government and its mcnt which keeps the show war effort and aims was sue- ! cessfully killed by a nervous i State Department and the j truth did not burst on the I shaken American public until G e n c r a 1 Stilwell returned about a year later. Senator lippminn Washington Pout related fields and biology. of chemistry HPHE crucial controversy is over the probable value of more atmpospheric testing. On the one hand, there are those who, like Dr. Teller, be lieve that, if unlimited atmos pheric testing is allowed, the United States will forge way ahead of the Soviet Union and will achieve the absolute weapon, an anti-missile de fense which will disarm the nuclear forces of the Soviet Union. On the other hand, there is an array of eminent scientists who say that the more the two powers test, the more they will make the same dis coveries and unlock the same secrets. The belief In a unique breakthrough is a romantic form of self-deception. Dr. Teller's promise that Amer ican scientists will be able to do what the Soviet scientists will not be able to do is not a scientific judgment. It is a reckless pseudo-patriotic gam ble on the inherent superior ity of American over Russian scientists. TN the Soviet Union, there are, of course, the counter parts to Dr. Teller and the Air Force generals. These Rus sians would also be willing to bet on the superiority of their scientists, and they, too, would like to try for the de cisive breakthrough to an ab solute weapon. The great value of the treaty is that U takes out of the race of armaments which will, of course, con tinue most of the feverish gamble for supremacy which unlimited testing invites. The experiments are to be limited by the treaty to the labora tories and to holes in the ground. This will not preclude the discovery of the secret of the absolute weapon if there is a secret that is possible to dis cover. But limiting the ex periments will remove the hysteria, the violence and the poison from the competitive search for absolute suprem acy. give both lides of opinion. opinions that differ from Lodge was not subject to the censorship contract signed by war correspondents, but his report to the Senate was an innocent pacifier, scarcely hinting of the real conditions in China. As he arrives to survey the scene in Viet Nam, Lodge must have the sensation of "this is where I came in." He finds another government confronting, in alliance with America, a common enemy, while paralyzed by incipient civil war among its own peo ple. He finds a government badly alienated from the mass of people, a swamp of cor ruption, much popular apathy toward the military struggle. He must deal with a govern ment concerned, as was the Kuomintang in China, almost solely with staying in power at whatever cost, a govern ment run by and for a single family, and one unable or un willing to begin popular re forms. To make the analogy even ! cism even from foreign going, the government of the United States. Premier Diem's ' sister-in-law. Madame Ngo i Dinh Nhu. is the Madame i Chiang Ks'-shek of this gen- 1 eration's oriental woes, I One of the w retched fac- GREAT IDEAS... HUMAN NATURE Dear Dr. Adler: Today, n never before, the world in general and American so ciety in particular are seek ing new answers to the na ture of man. Is he born good, bad, or with a clean slate? What have thinkers had to say about the good nest or badness of human nature? Mr. and Mrs. J. Pat Donahue co Clayton College for Boys 3801 E. 32nd ave. Denver S, Cole. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Dona hue: The Greek moral philoso phers, on the whole, held that man can achieve virtue and happiness through the full use of his natural faculties, par ticularly reason. Although the Platonists regarded the hu man body as essentially evil, it was generally agreed that the mental or spiritual aspect of human nature is essentially good, and that human fulfill ment is to be reached through its cultivation. The early Christian think ers, however, developed the doctrine that an originally good human nature was perm anently corrupted by Adam's sin in the Garden of Eden. Ac cording to this doctrine of "original sin," the whole hu man race in all generations has been stained by this pri mal act and thereby is pre vented from achieving perfec tion without divine aid and mediation. Most traditional Christian theologians have accepted this interpretation of the Fall of Man from original righteous ness to an inherently sinful condition. However, they have differed considerably as to just how far human nature has been corrupted. Some of them have held that man's nature is utterly depraved, in every function and in every way that there is no whole ness in him and that what ever goodness he achieves is accomplished through divine action. Others have held that man retains his natural capac ities for rational knowledge and moral activity although in a weakened and imperfect state. Moreover, some Christian thinkers have dissented from the doctrine of original sin. The most famous challenge to this doctrine by a Christian came in the 5th century from a British monk named Pel. agius. In opposition to Augus tine, the most famous ancient expositor of the doctrine of original sin, Pelagius denied that human nature has been radically impaired by Adam's sin. fcach of us, he said, be. gins life with a clean slate, and with no inherent dispost tion either to good or to evil. Every man becomes good or evil through the right or wrong use of his will. A hu man being has the capacity to choose the right and to live a life without sin. He may ap peal to God for aid, instruc tors for stalemate in China, is not, let us pray, present in Viet Nam. There seems to be no powerful and popular American military leader working through the palace at cross purposes with our diplomats as did General Chennault in China. One Am erican policy toward Viet Nam, even a bad one, is bet ter than two. Has our Viet Nam policy been a bad one? Its failure would not necessarily prove that it was a bad policy; more likely, that there was no good alternative policy possible. This is my own fear about the mission Mr. Lodge now em barks upon, and why I sus pect his career as statesman will be buried in those eastern swamps. If it is brutally frank . ... pressures from the United States that will retrieve the situation, then Lodge is the man. He is forceful enough But subtletv and the snnhiti caled arts necessary to Eradu- ally lead an errant regime into the palhs of common I""' "pcmiiv wnere sacri-1 using iorce, is extremely lim jficcs are involved, are notjited. Latin America and Af ; conspicuous in his nature. ! rica arc littered with the evi- One is by now driven to 1 dence of this conclude that the Viet Nam 1 I can see no alternative to i w-ar cannot be won this side ; the present American policy of a fundamentally different of the carrot and the stick in j government - people relation-: Vict Nam. this side of con- i f.i .?, ex,sts at Prespm- frominS the awful and alwavs I But the dilemma is so painful latent alternatives of with ; because such tight, closcd-eir- drawal and defeat or full cle regimes as that of Diem j scale intervention are all but incapable of scri-' (Distributed 1963 by The ous social reforms, to sayl Hall Syndicate, Ine.l nothing of providing a new (All Rights Reserved) From the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler (O 1963, Publisher! Newipaper Syndicate tion, and forgiveness, but the initiative is his. Many secular thinkers dur ing the Renaissance and En lightenment were thorough going Pelagians, rejecting any notion of an inherently corrupt human nature and ex tolling human creativity and rationality. Rosseau, for in stance, held that human na ture is inherently good, and that whatever corruption it has undergone has been caused by civilization, and is not ineradicable. It may be re moved by an education which takes us back to human na ture, and by a new culture which is true to nature. In the present century, John Dewey provided us with an American, pragmatic type of Pelagianism. He criticized previous moralists for having libeled human nature as in herently weak, "evilly dis posed," and even depraved. Instead of ascribing all the ills of human existence to a cor rupt and vicious human na ture, he said, we should look to bad habits, customs, and social institutions. These are the causes of the evil in the world, and they can be changed for the better by a redirection of human im pulses. Pelagianism, in its old and new forms, has been chal lenged in the present era by such Christian theologians a Karl Barth and Reinhold Nie buhr. Barth adheres to the orthodox tradition in its ex treme form, seeing man's na ture as completely corrupted, and all of his culture, includ ing his religious institutions, as vitiated by original sin, Niebuhr is closer to the mod erate traditional view, insist ing that vestiges of the image of God and of original right eousness remain in man and give him an insight into his condition and the way in which it can be repaired. You can win a 54-volume set of the Great Books of the 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 he will select ai first prise winners the writ ers of the three belt letters. He will use ONE of these letters ai a basis for a fu ture column and will ans wer it in terms of the intel lectual heritage of the Great Books 443 works by 74 authors, spanning 30 centuries of thought. Ad dress the letters to Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, i in care of this newspaper. A CHEAT THINKER LOOKS AT LIFE Dr. Mortimer J. Adler is recog nized as one of the great original thinkers of the 20th century Alter receiving his Ph. D from Colum bia University in 1928. Dr. Adler joined Robert M. Hutchins at tha University of Chicago where they introduced courses based on read ing and discussing the Great Books. In 1946 this activity wa extended to adults throuch tha Great Books Foundation. Dr Ad ler now is director of the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco. Copyright I9SJ, Publishers Netra paper syndirat theme and sniril that i,-n,,M make the people fight-and, because no promising alterna tive regime seems to be pres ent for the making. Those nice American min isters and others who now demand that we refuse to deal with the existing Viet Nam regime or who think Wash ington, our financial institu tions and our military estab lishment can deal directly with "the people" are terribly innocent and of no help. Any such grotesquerie would al most surely produce anarchy or an anti-American stance by at least part of Diem's armed forces, and in either situation the war would be lost. . There simply are no easy answers. The current of petitions and lettcrs-to-the- , . uu,la ou ieucrs-to-the- : editor have failed to absorb one of the prominent lessons ! of recent history: that the ca pacity oi one government, even a friendly and powerful government, in alt,-. .i, j ! mestic policies and ethos of I an alien government, short of G
