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4 A ' "Everyone In Southern Oregon Beads Th MaU Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFOPD PRINTING CO. 83 North Fir St. Ph.m-611 ROBERT W RUItt,. Editor HTRB GREY AdverUslnlManaier GERALD T LATHAM, sua Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Una Editor EARL B ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Toleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Edltoi DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgl An Independent Newspapei Entered aa second claia matter at Medford. Oregon urer Act of March 3, 1-97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance ... Dally and Sunday I year 111.00 Dally and Sunday mca 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 3.00 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy (Mailed) 300 By Carrier And Motor Route. Daily Sunday 1 year Ml 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 75 Sunday Only 1 mo. soc Carrier and Vendor! Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or jacmon ,uumj United Press International full Leaied Wire U. P I Telejihoto NewsplMuree 'MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising R"preen"tatlv: NELSON ROBERTS 4. ASSOCI ATES Of'ices In New York. Chi cago Detroit, San Francisco. Loi Angeles. Seattle. Portland ' Denver. 'ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL V i . - - . rv . Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 1. 1953 (Tuesday) William A. Whilelaw, 80, founder ot the Whilelaw Candy company, dies. A barn raising party was held at the Korby Tanl home on Highway 99 north ol Med ford. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. i. 1943 (Wednesday) Rainfall totaling .128 Inch falls on valley, first since June. From Arthur Perry's "Ye fimudec Pot" column: "Miss HUM nounces she bedi9nycar Jacques Colton announces will be four years tember 18. It will before tho young lndy quits freely confessing her age. After that it will be nobody's business." 30 YEARSAGO Sept. 1, 1933 (Friday) Epidemic of fire Biid gns thefts break out in county. Members of 4-H clubs of county hold achievement day at courthouse. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 1. 1923 (Saturday) City files brief in applica tion for Sixth si. crossing. Pear shlpmenls lo date iolnl 853 cars. 50 YEAHS AGO Sept. 1, 1913 (Monday) Frank C. Riggs. driving a Packard, leaves Portland Fri day and reaches Medford Sat urday morning; expects to be in San Francisco Sunday, av eraging 250 miles daily. Talent Commercial club calls meeting in effort lo form cooperative creamery. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is eicellent; live at sis is good. 1. Before blotting paper was invented, what substance was used to take up excess Ink? 2. Who said. "I am not Virginian but an American"? 3. Doct the warden of a prison have the righl to re pricve or commute a prison er's sentence? 4. Lake Chainplain lies be tween which two Statosf B. Correct the following: 'The hook sets on the table." fi. On what sort of surface Is the game of curling played? 7. What form n popular sport Is played Willi disks and cups? 8. Are polar hears found In the North or South polar re gion? 9. In what city Is the famed St. Peter's Basilica? 10. Is ambergris, principal Ingredient of expensive- per fume, obtained from musk oxen, amber, whales or skunks? Answers) 1. Sand. 2. Patrick Henry. 3. No. 4. New York end Vermont. 5. The book its . . 6. Ice. 7. Shuff leboard. t. North. 9. Vatican City. 10. Whales. Highway Department Aecepti low Bids Salem -fllPD-The State High way Department accepted 12 low bids for highway projects and rejected two others at its meeting here Thursday. Rejected were bids for re location ot Cove Palisades State Park and for a Linn County rock production project. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1963 Highways and Esthetics Up in Portland, members of the city's art commission have protested to the highway com mission and the Governor that the design of the new Marquam bridge, now under construction, is ugly. It looks as though it were being built with an erector set, the commissioners maintain, and does not come up to the high standard of beauty achieved by many other bridges. Over in Jacksonville a few months ago, only massive protests prevented the highway commis sion from cutting a four-lane right of way through the middle of town for a relocated high way. These are two instances where the commis sion has come under fire for neglecting esthetic considerations, and relying wholly on engineer ing. CUCH situations, plus the fact that the commis- sion spends millions or tax dollars every year, and does so much to alter the landscape, have resulted in the suggestion an excellent one that the commission name an advisory commit tee to which it could turn for recommendations in this field. ' "J Such a group could include architects, both building and landscape; historians, artists, and others whose background and training make them knowledgeable in the field. Thus, when the engineers' plans threaten a building or site of historic value, or threaten the destruction of natural beauty, or are lacking in the grace and style which are possible, the ad visory committee could step in to help prevent such irreparable mistakes. IT would be to the commission's advantage to have such a group, too, for it could thus avoid one source of criticism, meet high standards. The Oregon highway the best in the nation. The percentage of state freeway system in the nation. The department has never had any instances of graft or the misuse of funds. Its sys tem of allocating funds does not indeed, can not make every highway-hungry section of the state happy, but it has satisfied the majority that needs are being met in an orderly manner. The state parks division is probably the best in the nation, providing excellent parks, and more of them per capita, at below-average costs. The tourist promotion program is nationally known for its excellence. rJPHE commission, in the past and made splendid use of advisory i one on state parks, another on travel informa tion. Thus an advisory committee on historical and esthetic matters would operation. The commission, in recent years, has become more and more conscious of considerations in volving esthetic matters, and is -a leader-inappropriate highway landscaping. If it would now carry this one step further, and seek out the advice of qualified citizens in matters of this nature, it would again be demon strating its leadership and responsibility to the citizens it serves. E.A. Political Crystal Ball A group of Oregon editorial writers got to gether for a bull session recently, and the talk, inevitably, turned to politics and political spec ulation. , Oregon's current generation of political leaders is a remarkable one, it was concluded. But peering into a crystal ball to determine who is going to run for what, and when, while an amusing diversion, is also frustrating. The fact is that few if any of "the current office holders and prospective' candidates now know for sure what their next moves will be. There are too many intangibles, and too many things could happen to alter circumstances. QOVKUNOR Hatfield's term of office has an other three years to go, and he is not eligible to run for iveleciion. There is speculation that he may run for the Senate seat now held by Maurine Neulierger, whether or not she seeks reelection. Hut his future could also be decided by the Re publican national convention of. next summer, Howell Appling Jr., now secretary of state, is a logical candidate for governor, but he is still undecided, and his decision rests in large part on his private business plans. On the Democratic side, both Howard Mor gan, retiring as a federal power commissioner, and Congressman Bob Duncan, are known to be interested in the governorship, but the time is still too earlj for either of them to make a de cision. Bob presumably will run for another two year term in Congress next year. IN Portland, Mrs. Edith Green has a firm grip on j her Congressional district, but she too has cved 1 the Senate from time to time. Senator Morse and Representatives UUman and Norblad can be expected to continue running for their current offices, with a reasonable ex pectation of being reelected. And, inevitably, new names and faces will enter the political arena. There are many polit ically ambitious men in the current legslaturc. Jt's a great game, and the only thing certain about it is that there will be changes, and that no one can accurately forecast them. E.A. and be sure that its plans commission is one of completion of the inter Oregon is the highest in and present, has committees fit the existing pattern of "Thanks A Lot Matter of Fact (Cl New York HcraM (Joseph Alsop is on vaca tion and gathering mater ial both In this country and abroad for future columns. During his absence top members of the staff of the New York Herald Tribune will substitute for him.) By RICHARD C. WALD OF MUSIC AND MEN New York When 1 was very, very young, I used to think that the men who made recordings must be perfect. Their music, the singers 1 heard and the pianists, was al ways perfect. Somewhat later I learned that you can make a perfect recording by cutting out the bad parts and doing them over. The men who made them were just as fall ible a.s anyone else. It will come as no great surprise to discover that in the process of growing up I found the fallibilities on the increase, perfections on the WiDic. I married the only per fect sperson 1 ever met and in the course of a reporter's life which was nourished. early on church news and crime stories I completely lost the hope that our public men could be private paragons. It wasn't wisdom; just repetition. Still, there remains the hope that public men will act in the public good and not from questionable motives that erode our iaith in the men who run our country. WHICH is all jlist a prc--irmblf'tofy-M.?ft-t-rJi A"l lorney General of the United Slates recently put on a pub licity show that was certainly one of the best staged nf re cent limes and prnfjably one of the nastiest. Early this month there sud denly burst upon the scene Joseph Vnlnchi, for B0 years Ihe kind of thug who puts the lie to Hollywood's version of the underworld, loo stupid to rise high in Ihe ranks of or ganized crime bul suddenly, according to Official Sources, which can here by translated into the Justice Department, a kingpin of American crime. A newspaper reporter and a magazine reporter were both fed tl'ie startling facts of his disclosures. Apparently as an incidental gesture, the District Attorneys in areas af fected by their story were al so sent a 22-page report of what he had told the Justice Department. The private document held "nothing new to anybody," one D. A. said. rMIE headlines were faint- Ions. Although Ihe Attor ney General wasn't saving so DIRKCT.LY. a briefing by Of ficial Sources told the piping masses ihat Valachi was worth $1(10,(101) dead pay ahlt in a Swiss hank. That he had blown the "iri""uT "tlir" I'nsn Nostra, a name so secret NATIONAL SAFCTY COUNCIL TaAffiC '.OIL ESTIMATE "Poor guy-I knew he couldn't get through another big holiday week"eftcn" KLUtOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON But No Thanks" By Joseph Alsop Trlhune Svnrtlrate Ihat not even some of the peo ple in it seem to have 'known about It. The merry-go-round was go ing 'round. There is a pretty reliable story that Valachi, a man ad mittedly involved in more than a dozen murders, was ac tually first tapped as a source by an agent of the Narcotics Bureau. They heard he want ed to talk, they started listen ing, they got interested and told Ihe FBI. That was their first mistake. The FBI and the Attorney General snapped him up like Publicity from Heaven and nobody but their little man ever saw him agnvn:- " The names being thrown around arc redolent of dirty doings. They are not redolent of court cases. Neither Valachi nor anyone he seems lo have talked about will be appearing in court soon. Next stop is the Senate committee room and Another spate of headlines. IiHE D.A.'s and the assistant D. A.'s and the State At torneys General and the as sistant State Attorneys Gen eral are all lined up waiting to talk to Valachi and their chances of getting anything meaningful out of him are nil. If there was anything mean ingful to have been gotten, it would be out by now. They weren't considered important enough to consult before the news stories broke apparent! 'rfjiecause the news stories are more imporiant man iney are and the United Slates Attor neys General do nnl make their reputations on court cases brought by assistant D. A.'s. The charitable suggestion has been made that maybe the government brought the sub ject up in such a precisely planned publicity-stunt way because it wanted to prepare public opininn for new laws. What new laws" What about using some of Ihe old laws that let law enforcement de partments cooperate with each other so that each little piece in the national jig-saw-puzzle can be put together coherently with the idea of putting the bad guys behind bars and not worrying which of the gulxt guys gets the credit? And the example of Ihe na tion's leading law officer seems to be catching. The Queens D A travelled lo Washington with a loud hoo hah about Ihe big things he was going to do. He called Ihe usual press conference. The usual press showed. His assist ant had to make the apologies that he had nothing to show. rrilK. District Allorncv of I N;tss;iu County c.illcri tho "chief hf.xis of his locale in for a niyht-tinie grilling. Big I I'! GREAT IDEAS... (c) 1963, Dear Dr. Adlers In my reading I occasionally come across the word "existen tialism." I find it difficult to get a clear definition of this trend of thinking or philosophy. What exactly is existentiaiism, and how does it differ from other types of philosophical think ing? M. L. Kuipers R R 4 Kelowna, B. C. Canada. Dear Mr. Kuipers: Thinkers lo whom the term "existen tialist" is applied often against their will have a central concern with human existence and Its problems. These for them arc the prob lems of becoming one's true self, and of undergoing the anguish, despair, and always imminent death that are the lot of all human beings. Ex istentialist thinkers find meaning, truth, and value in personal existence and com mitment, rather than in ab stract thought about the na ture of things. A concern with Jiuman problems is no new tiling in Western thought. Socrates, Augusline, and Pascal are good examples of thinkers who were intensely concerned with the eternal questions of the human condition and des tiny. However, "existential ism" in its current usage re fers to a type of thought that originated a little over a cen tury ago and which became prominent only in the past 35 years. Soren Kierkgaard,..a '.".My century Danish religious phil osopher, was the father of modern existentialism. He re belled against the systematic, rationalist philosophy of Heg el as Irrelevant to his per sonal condition and spiritual needs. He sought to illuminate the human condition and achieve inner transformation and integration by investigat ing his own existence, stress es, and strains. And he held that it is onl.9 through such an inquiry that man can grasp the truth, insofar as it is available to the existing individual. Kierkegaard's thought was centered on particular per sonal existence, which he doings promised. He averaged about five minutes each with Jhem, half-an-hour with the press. No news of court aclionjosophy. yet. The law officers of several communities now seem en gaged in the ridiculous pur suit of insisting that their local hood is really the lop man of the organization- what ever its name is. And this nitwit antic will' probably soon be bolstered by Officia Sources reporting that Ih hoods are all heads of little organizations and the Attor ney General of the United States has the big head of the big organization. No one has the right to ask perfection. But a little less cynicism and manipulation from on high might increase rather than decrease the store of faith the citizenry deposits with its leaders. America Cah'-tSave Everyone With Money By ERIC SEVAREID For the first time. Congres sional Republicans in an or ganized, partisan attack, have broken with the President on the sie of .he f o r e i gn aid authonza t i n n. But there is little reason to think that this is the begin n 1 n g of the end of I'CMiti- cal unity on basic foreign pol icy. It is not rven the end of unity on the foreign aid pro gram which is still accepted in principle on both sides of Ihe aisle. Nevertheless, the phenom enon contains various implica tions ot consequence, one of which is that there no longer exists in this country a popu lar consensus about foreign aid In regard to this matter. ' as in regard to various do Imcstic ar-fo-m movements. 7-Trcsident Kennedy happened to take otfiee on an ebbing i tide. I It swills clear that the mood ' for consolidation and tidying up, symbolized o-y the rela tively placid Eisenhower years, has not vrl run its cy cle. In any case there is al ways a rr, ig1" orHvr of priori ties tor the nalie.ial attention spanr and it is not possible for an old. familiar endeavor like foreign !d. no maimer how grand In fur httnric- sense, to retain its hold on From the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler Publisher! Niwipaper Syndiritt saw as dependent on its rela tion lo God. This relation in volves personal risk and com mitment, and a "leap" faith, which transcends rational thought. According to his view, God exists only for the existing individual in his uniqueness, not for men as church members or officials, Kierkegaard's religious em phasis is echoed by some con temporary existentialists, bul is rejected by ethers. Martin Buber and Gabriel Marcel, for example, are God-centered ex istentialist thinkers; while Martin Heidegger and Jean Paul Sartre are agnostic or atheist philosophers. Athe istic existcnliaiists have taken Kierkegaard's idea of the sol itary individual who can trans form himself through his per sonal decision, and have devel oped from it the view of man as alien and alone in the uni verse, "thrown" inlo exist ence, and forced to be free. Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most influential forerun ners of contemporary existen tialism, was a convinced op ponent of Christianity and even proclaimed, though with considerable anguish, that "God is dea" Another dmerence between existentialist thinkers is that some of them enfjTnasize the community of men, while others stress their scparate ncss. Still another difference is that some of them try to construct systematic exposi tions of existence or being, while others consider this an impossible project, and prefer more modest and fragmentary Existentialism has undoubt edly had an energizing and renovating effect on philoso phical thought since World War II, especially in Europe. It has recalled philosophers to a concern with the human condition and destiny, illumi nated aspects of experience that were not adequately ex plored before, and contribut ed a renewed interest in metaphysical questions. The main charge that may be brought against existentialism is that it scorns objective, ra tional thought, with- its uni versal categories, and hence undermines the very basis of 5 1-Auman knowledge and com munication. Even the ambi tious system-makers of exisl- itntialisl thought, it is chare- cd, are writing autobiography or poetry disguised as phil- You can win a 54-volmue set of the Great Books of the Western World by writ ing a letter, not to exceede 150 words, incorporating a question of general interest for Dr. Adler lo consider for inclusion in this column. Each week he will select as first prize winners the writ ers of the three best letters. He will use ONE of these letters as a basis fbr' a fu ture column and will an swer it in terms of the in tellectual heritage of the Great Books-443 works by by 74 authors, spanning 30 centuries of thought. Ad dress the letters to Dr. Mor timer J. Adler. in care of this newspaper. popular Imagination or Con grcssinnal devotion in the era ! of a space race and a mass Negro revolt. j In the history of foreign t aid, we have reached a middle j stage of stock-taking and1 searching for a second wind. ' Basic promises are being re-' examined. The total result of: foreign ti id has hern just eon-! fused and contradictory i enough so that any number of Congressmen feel quite un-i certain whether an appropri- j atio.n cut of even a billion dol-! lars (or, for that matter, an , addition of such an amount; would leave the world, the! cold war and America's posi-1 tion in any measurably dif- j fcrr-..' mdilion ten years. from now. It has become very difficult lo sell the program any longer as the "keystone" of Ameri can foreign policy, just as it is hard to convincingly de scribe the United Nations that way and the same statesmen have used tl,e same label for both institutions. It has be-; come just as plausible to dc-; scribe the protection of the American dollar, now threat-: died hy the foreign drain on sold reserves, as the keynote cf our policy. All thc--.e en deavors sit together, foreign aid has simply been moved a notch above the salt from Us position at the policy table. No aouht, the niggling par ticipation hy our European al-j iivrlhemselvrs made nros- peroui in good part by Amer-j I Today & Tomorrow By Waller ' iffi3. The THOUGHTS ON WEDNESDAY MORNING This is being written as the i march in Washington is form ing, and I am telling myself that if any thing goes wrong, it will be due to an unforeseen ac cident. The gov eminent and the Negro leaders h ave worked close ly tog ether. Lippmann starling with agreement thai this is to be a demonstration nf protest for the redress of legitimate grie vances. They are agreed, too, that it will be more impres sive and persuasive if the marchers have the discipline In refuse to be provoked to violence. This fundamental meeting of minds differentiates the demonstration sharply from all other massive protests In other parts of the world. As Mr. Roy Wilkins of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People has pointed out to the Chinese Communists, the Washington marchers are not in rebellion against the government of the United States. Apart from the eccentric fringe, the over whelming mass of the Ameri can Negroes are asking only for their lawful rights which are the nprmal prerogatives of non-colored American citi zens. The American Negro move ment is not at all revolution ary as have been the anti colonial movements in Africa and Asia. The American Ne groes are demanding Ihe rights which have been le gally theirs since just after the War Between the Slates. They are not trying to oust and re place the white man, but to join him inside the existing American social order, lF. MUST never forget, " however, that if this thor oughly n o n r e v o 1 utionary movement is repressed loo long, if the redress of griev ances is denied too long, it could and probably would be come clandestine, violent and ugly. Looking back, it now seems clear enough that the position today would be quite differ ent if the Southern Stales had in fact provided separate but equal educational opportuni ties for Negroes and whites. The compelling reason for the reversal by the Supreme Court of the old rule was that for HO years the separate schools have been grossly un equal. There have been some exceptions. But by and large the schools for Negroes have been very bad. Those who now deplore the complications of more than token integration in the Southern schools should ask themselves what would have happened if the public schools, though separate, had for the past 60 years really been equal. All this illiislrales th" rule that the longer you put off the redress of reai grievances, the harder become the Reme dies. rrHK grievances of the Am- erican Negroes are coming in two successive and over lapping waves. The first wave is the unfinished business of abolishing what Mr. Justice Harlan called in 1B83, "the ican aid -has had something to do with the Congressional loss of patience. It has finally dawned on many that so long as America shows its willing ness to take up the slack vir tually everywhere, the Euro peans will sit on their hands, or ai least on one hand. A good many plain travelers as well as sophisticated students of Machiavrlli have been try ing In make this point for qui'e a while. ... Rut the phenomenon in Congress represents, or so th:i writer thinks, a deeper, if less specifically measurable, shift of teeling hy informed and responsible men. It rep resent the beginning of America's coming to terms w ith the reality of the world's size and complexity and with the true pace of history. We are adjusting in our sense of time., We have tend ed to act as if the tragedy of the human condition in many land'.. ;. just recently dis-covered-by American explor-ers-as if the tools for progress were invented by Americans, and as if some kind of world w ide collapse was about to oc cur "Inch would be averted by the rapid spending of American dollars. We know now that h r proposition is not really one of foreign aid at X number of dollars per year or a world collapsing into Communism; we know that Soviet economic aid is not everywhere danger ous and undesirable; we know lippmann Wa&nlneton Post badges of slavery and servi tude." These badges consist of PUBLIC discrimination on the basis of race. The Su preme Court decision in the school cases, the civil rights measures against disfranchise ment, the public accommoda tions measures are part of the unfinished business of mak ing American citizens out of chattel slaves. The succeeding wave of grievances is economic and has to do primarily with the inferior jobs and the inferior housing to which most Ne groes are condemned. In con siderable measure, though no one can say exactly how much, this kind of inferiorily is due lo the fact that the Negro is poorly educated and poorly trained and that, for a hundred years since his an cestors were emancipated, he has still had to wear the badges of their servitude. But it is even more Import ant to realize that the econom ic grievances of the Negroes are due preponderantly to the fact that they are so poor. They are poor, not only be cause they are Negroes, but because the1 American econ omy is operating well below full capacity and employment, In fact, there are more poor and unemployed whites than there are Negroes; but rela tive to their numbers, the Negroes have a greater per centage of unemployed. Be cause of their race, the Ne groes tend to be the last to he hired and the first to be fired. But if there were not a chronic surplus of labor, they would have much better jobs. THE economic grievances of the American Negroes can not be redressed without series of measures which will make buoyant our sluggish economy. The candid truth here is that this is not likely to happen soon. For measures are required to stimulate our .economy which are distrusted find opposed in Congress and, it would seem, in the coun try as well. It is probable, therefore, that while the Negroes will prevail in regard to the first wave of their grievances, the removal of the badges of slav ery, no substantial improve ment of their general eco nomic situation is likely to come soon. For this will require the conquest of dire poverty, and the country is not now ready for such an undertaking. Combine Apparent Low Dam Bidder East Wenatc'.ice, Wash-tOT-A five-company combine led hy Morrison-Knudsen, Inc.. ot Boise, Idaho, Thursday was named the apparent low bid der at $50,878,375 for the Wells Dam project on tha Columbia river. Construction on the hiign Douglas County Public Utili ty District project, 50 miles north of here, is scheduled to begin in November. The joint bid also included Ulah Construction and Min ing Co., Peter Kiewit and Sons, the Kaiser Co., and Perini Corp. The government estimate for the project was $51,343, 090. There were four other bids. that in some countries-Vene zuela for cxample-the heav iest American dollar infusions will not guarantee an end lo the Communist threat. We know that the ability of one nation to alter deeply rooted social and class struc tures in an alien nation is ex tremely limited. We are he ginning to know that the ac cumulation of capital and skills that required genera tions In America or Europe cannot be done in semi-primitive societies in a decade, mod ern science or no modern sci;. ence. We are a relatively young people and we are only now coming to terms with the true pace of the long pilgrimage nf the human race and the im mense variety of the human condition, Europeans inher ited this knowledge from their total race experience; we have had to learn it for ourselves, the hard way. That is the sig nificant result of "crash" programs-the result in our own thinking. And by product of all this, thank heaven, is the realiza tion, at long last, that Ameri can inefficiency or bumbling lanorance arc NOT the real reasons why progrr-s in alien lands conies slowly It is a re alisation that is going to put a lot of fervent after-dinner speakers and writers nf quickie bonks out of business. (Distributed 1963. by The Hal! Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) r t 1,
