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Newspaper Page Text4 A - eada The MmU TriboM fnbllitMso Iuy except aortejr W MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 13 Morth fir at. Ph. TTj-tl41 ROBERT W RtJHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertllinl : Manager GERALtD T LATHAM, But ftr ERIC AIXEN J. MntjWIfir EARL B ADAMS, City CdrMt HARRY CWPMAN, T.1.I EdttOT RICHARD JEWETT SporU Ed tor OUVE STARCHER Women's Sttltee PALE fJUCKSON, Clmuatton Mir Sntered u second clams matter at lledford. Orcion under Act el M.rch a, l1 SUBSCRIPTION RATE Br MU In Advance ..--Dally nd Sunday 1 yearflSM Daily and Sunday moa lf.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 3 Ml Sunday Only Ona year 15.00 Slnele Cooy (Mailed) 0e By earner And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year I21.00 Daily and Sunday I mo. lji Sunday Only 1 mo. toe Carrier and Vendora Copy IQe Sfflcial Paper of City of Mtifori ffvi.i ppr ot Jacmoa Canaty United Preu International iuu beaiea wire TJ. P I Telephoto Newiplcturea "laXMBERb AUDlfBUjUeAO Advertising "-presentative: tITLSmf ROBERTS i. i AMOCl. ivve nnt-ma In Mm Vnrk. Chi- eago. Detroit, San rranciaeo, Los Anaeiea. ocaiuv, r , Denver. NiWIPAPlI ruinsHiit ASSOCIATION RATION At I0ITOIIAI N Member California Newspaper Publishers AisodaUon - Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tho files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 28. 19S3 (Saturday) City police reported today that a man has been attempt ing to sell a bar ot silver marked "US Mint, San Fran cisco, Calif.," to local Jewel ers. An explosion at the inter section of West 11th and Ham ilton sts., was caused when gas from a break in the California-Pacific Utilities gas line leaked into the city sew er line; the gas became ig nited by a flare on a man hole cover, city police re ported. 10 YEARS AGO August 29. 1143 (Sunder) Earthquakes rock southern California. From Arthur Perry's "Y Smudge Pot" column: "Word now comes to 'save the but ter,' u a shortage thereof looms. In these times slicing butter is a fine art. Many can slice it so thin they practically miss it altogether." SO YEARS AGO August 29, 1133 (Tuetdsy) Deer hunting season to tart Sept. 20. Increasing cloudiness and cooler, high 89, low 48 de grees. 40 YEARS AGO August 29. 1923 (Wednetday) City ordinance passed pro hibiting keeping more than two horses in city limits. Brush fires rage near Jack son Hot Springs. 10 YEARS AGO August 29. 1913 (Friday) Warmest night in history of valley as mercury hovers bout 70 degrees; warm wind worries fruitmen. Frederick H. Hopkins, val- jcy orcnardlst and ex-mayor of Central Point, visits in Portland. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ar ran cornet ia um aeen ar elaM h excel lent; tre at aii it aaod. i. inoreography concerns dancing, singing or map mak lng? 2. Is the average weight of standard bale of American cotton about 49, 490 or 4,900 pounds? 3. Is a diving bell open, or eiosea, ai uie bottom? 4. Name the city in the U.S. which is said to be the borne of the bean and the cod 9. If an automobile is driv en at 60 miles per hour, how many feet per second does it travel? 6. Was Robin Hood a legen dary or actual person? 7. Whom did Theodore Roo sevelt succeed as President of the U.S.? 8. What does a barometer register? 9. Who recently headed a fact-finding mission on the Communist threatened Asia mainland? 10. Correct the following; "The ccrd.emned man was hung." Answers) K fiWttflt 2 490. 3. Open. 4. Bottom Mltis. . leet. . Uganda! Willi ej.rii - . ,h.;u p,:;..7.'o; weii d. Tyior. io. ", . . wm ." I THURSDAY. AUGUST It. IMS March on We have had rather about the civil rights march on Washington First, we sympathize tivations of the march, Second, we fully believe in the Constitution al right to assemble and petition for a redress of grievances which is But, thirdly and on had some doubts not attaining the goals desired, but as to whether it might not actually damage the case for civil rights particularly if violence occurred. .' AT THIS writing, it appears evident that our fears we unfounded, our doubts base less, and our hopes well grounded. The crowd, almost twice as large as had been predicted, was orderly. And while it is too early to tell what sort of an impact the march has had on Congressional leaders, it is entirely possible that this huge, but restrained, outpouring of human emotion could help have the desired effect. ' Sen.' Maurine Neuberger, writing from Wash ington, recalls that in her youth she participated in a march in Portland, during the depths of the depression, to emphasize the need for a re covery program. And she added: "Whether our march did any good or not, it stim--ulated our own interest in the plans for recovery and had a definite psychological effect. "I can think of no recent -event since then which has had a similar impact upon the nation. That is, until now. The march on Washington to emphasize the feeling of thousands of Americans ... "People are more meaningful than slogans. Peo ple ar the essence of the march on Washington. "I am asked what will be the effect of this mass demonstration. It is hard to gauge, and I can only . surmise, but I believe that this question is irrelevant as I remember my own experience of long ago." a HHHAT comment, that the question is "irrele- vant," is an interesting and revealing; one. coming as it does from a member of the Sen ate who has long been involved in the struggle for civil rights and civil liberties. Perhaps it is irrelevant: perhaps the more relevant question might be what the demonstra tion has done to and for the participants them selves, in terms of tion, human dignity and Negroes in America with very little help; they: still have a long way to go. It may be that the will do much to assist them on their way E. A. Where Is the A reader called us the .other day to complain about the use of the phrase "far right" or "ultra right" to describe the particular segment of the political spectrum where she resides. ' "Really," she said, "we're in the middle, with anarchy to our right and left. We stand half way constitutional principles." We know this woman she honestly believes that the John Birch so ciety members and their political and emotional cohorts are in the "center, QURELY, any rational convincing inai mere is totalitarianism ot tne right as there is of the left. World War II amply demonstrated that the dangers of Fascism and Naznsm were (and, incipiently, still are) as deadly as those of communism. And the John Birchen et al have, throunrh their own actions and tnemseives to be far closer to the ends of the spectrum of political belief than to the center Both ends fight against the center, and the issue is freedom. Those who would compel others into their own narrow channels of thinking i ; ....... oy lniuirauon, coercion, intimidation, torce or whatever cannot honestly claim; to be on the side of freedom. IN THE Coos Bay area the other day a group 1 of citizens (including the Rev. William Wal ker, formerly of Medford) planned to meet to show their sympathy for the freedom march in Washington. , When the meeting convened, a group led by a John Birch coordinator attended in sufficient numbers to constitute a majority. They "took over" the meeting, elected their own officers, and made a mockery of the rights of citizens to assemble, and to organize for any purpose. This is one of the tactics of totalitarianism, as practiced by both Fascists and Communists. It certainly is not in the tradition of America, which was founded on the proposition that "the right of the people peaceably to assemble" shall not be infringed. If the Bircheis can infiltrate and take over a group of sincere citizens and pervert their ef forts, what comes next? t fTHE radical rightists lay claim to the hon- ored title of "conservative." They are not conservative, for they do not wish to conserve what is good in America, but to destroy many of its institutions and traditions. They are truly subversive, both in objectives and in tactics, and they are "radical" in that they would make fundamental changes in American government and politics. They are not at the center of the political Anectrum. TtlPV ar in J"' . ... . ' nght a8 such theJr Wt part of the main stream of American thought and tradition. E. A. Washington sharply mixed feelings completely with the mo and with its objectives. exactly what this was the other hand, we have only as to its efficacy in self-confidence, determina self-respect. have come a lonir wav march on Washington 'Far Right'? totalitarianism to our between them, and on - to be sincere, but if she is sadly mistaken. ! reading of history is pronouncements, shown that imnr.riaa Kiit naofiil ....f..vr udv.m. l i 1 ass saj aaaai aaaaa i . . . Conceived In Liberty Proposition That All Men Strictly Personal y Sydney (el Field Enterprises. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES The basic difference be tween the artist and the en tertainer which is a vague distinction in most people's minds is that the former works to satisfy himself, while the latter works to please his audience; great ar tists rarely command the pop ular appeal of talented enter tainers, because they do not give the public what it wants, but what it ought to want. , Same people are so hope lessly utilitarian in their outlook that they can't buy a hurricane lamp without half hoping for a hurricane. What bigots never under stand is that any group treat ed like inferiors BECOME in feriors (try it with children); as G. L. Dickinson observed long ago, "Every kind of dis crimination is a protection of the incompetent against the competent, with the result that the motive to become competent is taken away." Does anyone join me In admiring my profound self restraint at being almost the only Journalistic com mentator in the United States to have thus far re frained from writing a sin gle word about the Pro fit mo easef a The four most dangerous words in any language are "U," "none," "always" and "never" for the basic test of any civilization (as of any man) is its capacity to qualify and modify its judgments and decisions; and the beauty ot democracy, despite its de fects, is that it makes modify ing the main political process. Nearly everyone uses the word "preposterous" aa a mere synonym for "ab surd," which is iha lost for In the Day's News By FRANK In Sheppton, Pennsylvania, Wednesday morning, two coal miners were rescued from a cold, dark chamber more than 300 feet underground where they have been trapped for two weeks by a cave-in that cut them off from the bright, beautiful world above them and apparently sentenced them to a horrible death. As they came out, they were jubilant. As they came up the shaft that had been drilled 309 feet through dirt, clay, rock and coal to reach them, one of them sang "I'll be comin' round the mountain," and the other danced a happy jig as he came out into the air and the sunshine. As this is written, there is joy throughout ALL OF AMERICA, tempered only by the grim fact that another miner trapped 19 feet away from the lucky two is still unheard from. INTERESTING question: How much did it cost? The answer is that nobody has the faintest idea. As of now, NOBODY CARES. Cost was never an object. CC1ENTISTS sent costly ra- dioactive material to the rescue site. Texant shipped up huge drilling bits to cut through the rock and the coal to rush the shaft down to the trapped men. Much of the drilling equip ment at the rescue site, its value estimated as high as a quarter of a million dollars, was owned by a big tool com pany. No q,uetrnwere asked as to who would pick up the tab. Countless hours of TIME were spent-much of it over time. How many hours? No body knows. Nobody stopped MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. W'', Wffl&fr ..in. j.i.i . i, And Dedicated To The Are Created Equal . . . i. Harris a useful word) "preposter ous" means a special kind of absurdity, such at put ting the cart before the horse, or sentencing a man before hit conviction. The conflict between the generations was succinctly put by Lyman Bryson, when he said: "The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience; while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence." Architects customarily look more harassed than any other group of profes sional men because theirs It tho only profession In which the client usually thinks ha knows mors than the ex pert) no surgeon is told by the patient where to make tho incision, nor Is any lawyer ordered to rearrange jurisprudence but archi tect often have to satisfy bad taste more than their wn canons of esthetics. Business letters that are sent out with the bumptious inscription, "Dictated but not read," should be promptly re turned with the notation, "Re ceived but not necessarily be lieved." Water lapping against the shore ai night outside one's window it the great est soporific in the world; to me, a land-locked vaca tion, nowhere near a coast line. Is waste of time and money. Almost all history is paro chial: my little boy's book on ships tells him that Robert Fulton, an American, "in vented" the steamboat but it fails to add that his "in vention" was anticipated by about 30 steamers built in England and on the Continent. JINKINS to add make a up the hours or to note of them. A SPOKESMAN for the Pennsylvania Department of Mines told an inquiring re porter that no matter what the cost may be he State of Pennsylvania is ready to pick up the tab. If the State of Pennsylvania picks up the tab, the taxpay ers of Pennsylvania will have to pay the bill. It's a good bet that they will pay it willing-ly-for the money was spent in a good cause. SO MUCH of the news these days is SO BAD. For example: The U. S. News tt World Report, in its latest issue, says that by every measure Amer ica is on the brink of a major crisis in crime. It says the rise in crime far outstrips the population Increase. - ( In the years from 19S8 to 1962. it points out, the U. S. population is up SIX per cent, whereas CRIME is UP 27 PER CENT. WHY? Well, the U. S. News tt World Report says, a BASIC CAUSE is too much worry in America about the RIGHTS OF CRIMINALS and too little worry about the RIGHTS OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS. AND SO ON. It causes us to wonder if wc are on the down-hilt side of our development as a na tion. Are we getting WORSE in stead of BETTER? INHERE ARE times when one wonders. But this trapped miner story from Pennsylvania gives us hope for the future. In th PINCHES. Ameri cans are still all right. Opposition to Czech Red Leader Mounts With Demands for 'Rehabilitation' of Foe By PHIL NEWSOM VPI Foreign News Analyst When the gallows ended the life of former Czech Commu nist party secretary general Rudolph Slan sky on Dec. 3, 19S2, one of the most en thusiastic ot those in the cheering let- t i nn uia. An. No I tonln Novot- 5r. I nv. Both had been mem- twioai bers of the Czechoslovak Com- Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (e) New YorJkJJrradrTlbunjBjSndlcate Joseph Alsop it 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 far him. By STUART H. LOORY THE REPORT ON IMOKINC Washington In a suite of borrowed offices at the Na tion Library of Medicine, built in a park-like setting in suburban Bethesda, Md., the duplicating machines whirl endlessly, turning out copies of all the reports concerning the association between ciga rette smoking and disease -particularly lung cancer and heart disease. All the reproduced mater ial represents the grist 10 of the nations most eminent medical scientists will mill into a final, concusive report on the extent of the relation ship between smoking, dis ease, and death. That such a relationship exists, few medi cal men will deny today. Whether or not the relation- ship-in light of all the other factors causing disease in the modern world - justifies ac tion is another matter. President Kennedy ordered the United States Public Health Service to conduct this authoritative review of the literature in response to growing public confusion. The report will be ready by the end of the year. BUT there are widespread indications that many are not willing to wait for the government report before taking official action to brand smoking a health menace. Just an incomplete sampling ot the actions taken this sum mer in the United States alone reveals: -Two New England hospi tals have ordered the removal of cigarette vending machines and a third has placed a sign near its machine noting the danger of smoking. -The State of Kansas has approved the sale of a life in surance policy which pays higher benefits on death of non smokers than smokers. The policy is written by the Great American Reserve In surance Co. of Dallas, Tex., whose chairman, Travis T. Wallace, Is also chairman of the American Cancer Society, the leader in the anti-smoking campaign. -The California State Board of Health has adopted a four point program to cut down on cigarette smoking, which it brands "a severe hazard to health." The report says, "The evidence now Indicates that cigarette smoking has such a profoundly harmful effect on health that it should be aban doned." -The tobacco Industry, which has consistently fought the validity of the evidence, suddenly showed signs of softening its attitude. Early in the summer the Tobacco Institute adopted volunt a r y restrictions on advertis i n g. that, in effect, cut out the in dustry's pitch at the youth of the nation. Tobacco companies will no longer advertise in college publications. They will no longer advertise on TV programs aimed primarily at teenagers, and they will I LI- vl I IS i m 1 1 n i - li i " m Ill r . i j i"i "With all this talk about schj dreeem karrli America. guy could grew up with d?Ut b&m fm t fctViMd a education!" -- munist party since its incep tion in 1921. Both had participated in the conspiracy which led to the downfall of the Czecho slovak republic of Eduard B e n e s and the Communist takeover. But the two were bitter enemies, and when Slansky's downfall came No- votny had a hand both in his arrest and in his execution. It was perhaps coincidental that the pace of Novotny's own rise to power as president of Czechoslovakia and first secretary of the Czech Com munist party quickened with drop all athletic heroes from commercials. TPHE tobacco industry earns over $7 billion a year sell ing smokes to more than 63 million Americans, and if there ever was an industry that advertising built, this is it. The industry will spend an estimated $200 million on advertising in news papers, magazines, and on television during 1963, or an average of about six cents for every car ton of cigarettes produced, produced. The Public Health Service committee, over which Sur geon General Luther L. Terry himself presides, will ignore the economic factors involved in reaching conclusions as it writes its report. The commit tee has 10 members, and each member has assumed respon sibility for a section ot the document. The sections will cover such topics as the chemistry of tobacco smoke, the pathol ogy of habit-forming drugs, cancer biology, genetics, the statistics of the cigarette smoke - lung cancer relation ship, the physiology ot car diopulmonary disease, and similar topics. EACH one of the 10 men has organized a subcom mittee to help him evaluate the medical literature per taining to his subject. (In the past two decades, there have been thousands of scientific studies done relating to the smoking question.) The committee so far has held four meetings in Bethes da. At their last session, in May, the members discovered the volume of material would be far greater than they expected. But they are working along in an atmos phere undisturbed by the growing interest in the prob lem. The committeemen have de cided not to talk to the pub lic about the problem while they are writing their report. And the public has shown curiously little interest in the report. A staff spokesman at Bethesda reported the other day that the volume of mail inquiring about the study was very light. AWHILE back there was a spate of form letters writ ten by members of the Wom en's Christian Temper a n c e Union, and later there were a few inquiries as a result of a magazine article. But if the interest is light now, all that is bound to change when the report comes out by the end of the year. It will draw some conclusions about the evidence. Then, based on those conclusions, the Public Health Service will formulate a plan of action for dealing with the smoking question. That plan could effect mil lions of people - those who smoke cigarettes and those who produce them. The other side of the health problem involves an economic question of major importance. If smok ing is sharply curtailed, now will the economic slack result ing from a major dislocation, ranging from farmers who grow tobacco to producers making cigarettes to govern ments that collect taxes on them, be taken up? i hi !( Slansky's downfall. And it may also be coinci dental that a review of Slan sky's case, finding him inno cent of the conspiracy charges for which he was hanged, also could be a sign of trouble for Novotny. In any case, as "de-Stalin-ization" has spread through the Soviet Union and the satellites and it has become fashionable to "rehabilitate" party members executed in the bad old day s. Novotny has shown a marked reluc tance to initiate any such pro gram for Czechoslovakia, and particularly so in the case of lansky. In fact he renewed his de nunciations of S 1 a n s k y in various speeches in 1961 and 1962 and again last June. When Slansky and 10 co defendants were executed in 1952, the list read like a who's who of Czech communism. Besides Slansky there were Vladimir Clementis, a former foreign minister, and a hand ful of former deputy ministers of defense, national security, finance and other high of fices. As demands for their re habilitation mounted within the party, an outstanding voice in these demands was that of Rudolf Barak, a dep Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of t.-e paper, tn fact tho contrary It often the case. Not Trusting To the Editor: I have agreed with and always admired Har ry Truman for speaking out in plain spoken manner regard ing agreements with the So viet, or any subject. He said they would never keep their word or live up to any agree ment, if it were to their ad vantage to violate it. But on the question of the nuclear test ban agreement, those who advocate U.S. sign ing of it are not arguing that point, and have never made a statement that would give any of these wild-eyed, hair-triggered column communicants of yours the slightest grounds for intimating that they do trust the Reds. No one in high office in this nation is so naive as to be lieve the Russians would keep their word if it should serve them better to violate it. But the angles and situations that cause many to believe that it is proper to sign up with this test ban agreement are real; not imaginative. Russia and Red China be ing on the outs, as they are, is what makes Khrushchev want to sign with U.S., not only a partial test ban agreement. but a follow up non-aggression pact perhaps. He wants Red China to see two of the largest and strongest white nations in agreement. Khrushchev wants the effect such agreement would have, by suggestion, on Red China's thinking in re gard to their hostile attitude toward the West, in opposition to Russia's peaceful co-existence policy. It is the opinion of some of our nation's smartest people, who are ANYTHING BUT soft on Communism, that so long as we are still free to crack down any time they do violate the agreement, we should sign with Red Russia, for the reason that it might put a check-rein of fear, or at least of concern, on Red China, whose leaders wish to get control of the Western World via the hard way; by fighting. I mentioned Harry Truman in the first paragraph of this letter. Well, he has, in spite of his distrust of the Reds come out 100 per cent in favor of signing. He did not say he had changed his mind as to trusting the Reds, but he is in favor of signing for the sake of lessening of the fall out danger, and possible pro longing of the time before the next holocaust by slowing up production of deadly war instruments on the part of the Reds and the U.S. I my self am very much in favor of us signing. Ir closing this letter, I wish to give a tip of my hat to Howard Splane ot Applegate. Ore., for his very fine letter on this subject in Sunday 82S63 Tribune. I believe with him from start to finish of his letter. Pat Graham 17S Jeanette st. Medford Unfair Treatment To the Editor: Where were you when the family picnic was in progress on Sunday. Aua. Si fhg letter is written in pro test of tho unfatr publicity treatment accorded the Dem ocratic C e n tr a I committee sponsored non-political family picnic by the newspaper you are managing. Your news staff was fully informed on all phases of the picnic prior to the event and klttjw the time, schedule of uty premier and minister of interior who also was begin ning to challenge Novotny for leadership. Against Barak, Novotny carried out a stroke of Com munist genius. Novotny ran Barak out of office in 1961 on charges of embezzlement and other state crimes and got him sentenced to 15 years in prison. To this he added the further charge that Barak himself had ob structed the de-Stalinizatton program by hiding evidence. By this twin stroke it ap peared Novotny had not only eliminated a rival but also a potential threat to all old-time comrades tainted with Stalin ism. But it appears that Novotny has not been able to rid him self of all opposition. Slansky was hanged for conspiracy and spying for the United States. The fact that a review has cleared him of these specific charges over what must have been Novotny's opposition now is being interpreted as indicating a deep split within the Czech party. In Vienna, close observers of the Czech scene are claim ing that the Kremlin has in tervened directly to chart the course of Czech de-Salimza-tion. events and entertainment and the contests that were to be held and still in the week be fore the picnic was held no news items appeared. On the Sunday the picnic was held any announcement was withheld and the picnic was completely informed, even though all staff members had the information necessary for a story. Came Monday, came Tues day, came Wednesday and complete silence from our leading daily newspaper, and by now I know that 35,000 Democrats in this county know very well that they were accorded decidedly un fair treatment in not getting the news, and that the with holding must have been de liberate. My feeling is that with proper coverage by the M-T we might have drawn a crowd in excess of 3,000 but without news coverage we only drew short of 1,800, and fed 1,200. The radio stations must have helped on this as well as the' TV outlets. We had a well ordered, well policed picnic with protection and safety precautions taken and the people attending had a good time. Hundreds told me so in person. Today it isn't news when a man bites a dog. Today how ever in Jackson county it is news when a family picnic non-partisan and non-political at that draws a crowd seven times bigger than the Repub lican political picnic billed as a family picnic, especially when the picnic drawing 1.800 is sponsored by the Democrat ic Party. As you should well know the Republican political picnic was scare-headlined well in advance to feature Marcus Orelius Fortunatus as prepared to deliver a blister ing attack on the Democrats. Orelius did just as expected and on Sunday, Aug. 18, you and your staff did jus'ice io the story 3 columns wide big picture and double black headline saying "Democrats Failed." All this covering about one third of the front page. Well done Ericus. No we did not fail we put on a nice family picnic with no political speaking. Fed about 1,200 and estimated at tendance at just under 1.800. Now I ask this awkward question: "Was this deliber ately an attempt by withhold ing news and publicity to downgrade the Democrats in their efforts?" Or did you fail to cover the news thoroughly? K. C. (Swede) Wernmark 140 North Eighth st. Central Point, Ore. I Spart the Axe To the Editor: Where th; tax is' Dear neighbors, can't you see. That cutting off the branches Can stunt your family tree? (Name on file) Medford. Bigger and Better To the Editor: I was very much interested in the item in Friday's paper about the gladiolus that is 60 inches tall, as I have one that I have considered a freak that meas ure 72 inches and has a spike of IS blooms. It will be a little taller when the last bloom opens. Yours for bigger and better "glads." Mrs. R. L. Ray 674 Oak Grovs rd Medford.