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Chi. Loa Angeles. Seattle. Portia Denver. nd NATION A I EDITOIIAl AtfSbCteTltiN C W v- Member California Newspaper Publlihera Anoclatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the- file, of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 year ego. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 3, 1953 (Thursday) East side fire hall plans may bring law suits, owners state. The special police investiga tion being conducted by Howard I. Bobbitt will be completed within the next several days. 20 YEARS AGO Kant 3 mis (Frldav) Bert Slater named manager of farm labor supply center at rnn Prpspfltt. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: 'Prema ture Halloween havoc was wrought Tuesday night in the biz area, some being covered by insurance. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 3, 1933 (Sunday) Rigid tests for school bus driv ers ordered. Bonded whiskey shortage looms. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 3, 1923 (Monday) Tokyo destroyed by fire fol lowing earthquakes. Sam Jennings of Medford Fur niture and Hardware store takes job with a tire company. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 3. 1913 (Wednesday) Siskiyou land in Illinois river area to be opened for settle ment. Edison talking pictures prove sensation at Page theater. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It superior; seven or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. The game of polo is played with a ball made from ivory, cork or wood? 2. Is the obverse side of a coin the front or back? 3. How mnny times does the word "America" appear in the stanzas ot "My Country 'Tis of Thee"? 4. In what historical novel Is an exciting chariot race de scribed? 5. Namo the capital of North Carolina. 6. What species ot bird can fly backwards, and stand still in midair? 7. Would you most likelv ex pect to meet a Pasha in Yugo slavia, tgypt, Indonesia or Peru? 8. How brig? many masts has a 9. If some one gave you a stir rup cup, would you get a hunt ing horn, drink, or a prize award .' Answers: 1. Wood. 2. Front. 3. Not at all. 1. "Urn llur." 5. Raleigh. 6. Hummingbird. 7 Egypt. 8. Two. 9. Drink. Morse Sees Passage Of Bracero Measure Salem -(UPI)- The bill ex lending the Mexican labor act for another year will pass Con gross despite the opposition of American labor. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) predicted at 'the Oregon State Fair Monday. Organized labor in Cakfornt and other areas has opposed tie importing of Mexicans on the grounds that it takes Jobs away from American workers. 0 "American labor is noCliurt one iota." Morse said. "Th(W isn't an American who would do this type of stoop work." 4 A VjASSOCIATION SEPTEMBER 3. 1963 New Accident Thinking There is a whole folklore in the field of traffic safety. Some items: The fast driver rl river. That strict enforcement of speed laws, and AU ml., .v npiolp in 1-nanmrr rrottlsi accidents down. That holiday week ends are relatively more dangerous times on the highways than other neriocls. That continued warnings to the motoring nublic are a factor in nnnrovintr highway satety, ' That conservative hiehwav safety. That the hitrhwav get worse before it gets better. I TP UNTIL recently, most people have assumed these things to be they are being challenged. "Case for Fast Drivers." an article in the new Harper's magazine by Robert L. Schwartz, chal lenges many of these assumptions. He says tne fast driver is actually safer, both actually and relatively, than the slow driver. He also says that higher speed limits based on how fast about 85 to 90 per cent of drivers actually drive tend not only to improve safety, but to decrease the average speeds used on that section of highway. He based his article on close study of a Bureau of Public Roads report, issued in 1958, but little noted then or since. LIE ALSO gave statistics to show that emotional warnings about safe driving tend to increase, rather than decrease, traffic accidents. And he showed that, relatively as well as actually, the toll of traffic fatalities is declining, despite the increased number of vehicles on the highways. He also demonstrated fic accidents, two or more factors combine to cause the crash, and that too often a single cause" is listed by investigating officers. His most telling point, however, is that we simply do not know very much about the causes of traffic accidents. He reports that federal offi cials spend some $100,000 per passenger investi gating fatal aircraft accidents, but that the aver age for traffic accidents runs only to about $5. tif i ii i i. ? ; we Know mat trainc lives and property (our ways are far safer than there are lots ot other things we must know be fore we can make any real progress in finding, and curing, the causes Mosquito We printed a sincere from a White City woman the other day, appeal ing for help from a menace of mosquitoes. But that is about the heard all summer, so far. cooler-than-normal weather, or perhaps the coun ty's mosquito control measures have been more effective than previously Perhaps it is a combination of factors, includ ing a wider understanding on the part of most people that they, too, have a responsibility in mosquito control by finding and eliminating pos sible breeding places. "NE place in the county where one might logi- cally expect mosquitoes is at Howard Prairie Lake. But, happily, there are few of the pesky little rascals, and even these do not constitute a problem. lliis was pointed out the concession operator there, last week end. Why? Because, he declares, there are numerous small frogs (or toads) vicinity, and they do not permit any mosquito larvae to survive to adulthood. They eat them. This theory interested us, inasmuch as it makes sense. 'PHERE has been a vastly caution in the use of effect they have not only whole ecological balance of nature, llus new caution also applies in the field of mosquito control. One man we know cline in the fishery at Diamond Lake of a few years ago wholly to the of mosquitoes. New methods of mosquito control are being researched. The Oregonian has noted that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is embarking on a massive control nroirram in the swamps of Florida, to work in space-age projects, the pests had to be eliminated. fpE Oregonian reported: ". . . To kill off existing mosquitoes and larvae, NASA is using spray planes, ground-fogging equipment, and even minnows dropped into potholes from helicopters. In the mean time, bulldozers and draglines arc reducing the size of the breeding grounds by cutting drainage canals and building more than 100 miles of dikes to impound rainfall runoff and thus keep the marshland permanently flooded so adults can not lay their eggs. A large staff of entomologists is hard at work experimenting on more effective rrnvs and larvacides. "Many a fcdcrii- tnavr way (he fact he is digging down t Wmm iMie;ti in Florida while res I! st-lfi eafci t esse mi bite unmolested. But A wn mkM v-. X enveloping ma make it )AfH ) - fcr e wle nation to afford the luxurv Of si.sufc j Mtrt on a sumfrer night, as Portland' ers dl. LA's kite saC- ( ) k Q M .... We hope so too, particularly on behalf of the White City woman and her beieagured children. -E.A. is the most dangerous speed limits contribute to death toll is going to true. But more and more that, in most fatal traf engineering can save 70-mile-per-hour free older, slower roads), but of traffic accidents. E.A. Control and impassioned letter only complaint we have Perhaps it has been the in other areas, that is. to us by bob Johnston, in the immediate lake increased interest and pesticides, and what on people but on the attributes the sham de sprays used to get rid where, to attract people MEDFOHD Hand Across The Sea , ..r: nrr ir aw-:-- :t. ; n !$fc Vacy unary. '? 1 i ' i ;cf Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end 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 end condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The fetters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tMe paper, in fact the contrary is often Heaven To the Editor: The main rea son that I am so greatly inter ested in Heaven is that I ex pect to go there. Upon arrival I anticipate being given a sim ple but highly efficient means of locomotion. If I had to flap pair of wings in order to get about, I would not feel that I really was in Heaven. It is the absence of exertion that appeals to me. I would imagine Heaven to be quite a large place. Another theory I have is that Heaven does not now exist, but will be created at some distant date. There is no particular hurry. A dead personality has no sense of time, anyway. So, spirits of tne dead will be kept in storage until the proper time for their release arrives. Be good and I will meet you in Heaven some day. David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Scries Liked To the Editor: May I express my appreciation for vour publi cation and display last week of me nve-story series of articles by Harry Ferguson, of United Press International, explaining mc lunctions ana services of the United States Post Office De partment. Al Bradford, Acting Postmaster Medford True Chrlstianitv To the Editor: The following lines are taken from a little 22 page booklet that just came in the mail. They were written bv my personal friend J. L. Tuck er, speaker on the Quiet Hour. This program is aired locally each Sunday at 9 a.m. on KRVC. Copies of the booklet in its en tirety are free. "The Christian life pays in hap piness, peace, contentment and hope. Happiness of life is an ex perience that we cannot beg, we cannot borrow, we cannot steal. It must come from within. When Jesus has been invited in to the heart, when He is an abiding presence, then there is happiness. He does not simply impart joy, He brings it. Every Christian has the right to be supremely happy and no one but a Christian can be truly happy- "Long - faced religion in not from God, for He talks of 'joy unspeakable and full of glory.' (I Peter 1:8.) If there is no radiance, sunshine, joy and hap piness in your religion, I would recommend that you get a new brand, that you come to know your Christ a little better. Judg ing from the countenances, too many have mistaken an attack of indigestion for religion. "There are far too many who. because of lack of understand ing and vision, complain like the brilliant young statesman who. when a lady friend was trying to win him for Christ, said 'You want mc to give up everything.' rso, she replied earnestly in deed not, I am asking you to ac cept everything in Jesus Christ.' The only things that a Christian gives up arc the things that it held onto would ruin and blight his life; that would mar his peace and contentment. The 'thou shalt nols' of the Bible are to protect us from the snare of the enemy, not to take away our happiness and joy. True Christianity not only pays in happiness, peace, con tent ment, and hope, but it pays physically. In the Christian life there is no dissipation, no drunkenness, no carousals, no sprees of Intomporenco. "The real Christian will be temperate in all things and his definition of temperance is 'a total abstinance from all that is harmful and a moderate use of that which is good.' " And I might add that in addi tion tAlhe peace of mind, true Christianity gives us a hope of a life beyond this vale of lears. Henry Johnson Jr. 2315 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON the case. Slugfest To the Editor: Recently, we heard a news item over the radio. We quote: "Governor Mark Hatfield says Republican party can win in 1964 if they resorted to a 'slugfest.' " Well, that quotation remind ed me of one of my old moun tain pals who quipped: "If you ever chance to meet a tough hombre that his spit bounces, always be on guard for trouble ahead, because they carry a big chip on their shoulders." (Name on file) Medford. Liberal Cleverness To the Editor: Cleverness is certainly an outstanding, per haps the dominating, character istic of the Liberal. Your edi torial MT 8-16-53, demonstrates your ability to reproduce ex treme cleverness. One would al most conclude the effort in your editorial was an attempt to make up in cleverness what was lacking in truth and wisdom. Norman Cousins and vou know opposition to those who feel the Nuclear Test Ban is bad for the United States and the world cannot be stimulated by merely pointing out these letter writers are nuts or worse. One must be clever. Say also that they are against peace! Now no reasonable man is against peace; therefore the let ter writers opposed to the test ban treaty must be discredited and the educated (?) man must take up his pen and participate in the great debate. The Liberal argument is quite simple (though of course, it has no re lation as to the merits of the treaty): Those who oppose the test ban treaty are only extre mists, assorted nuts, facists, hate - mongers, war mongers, demigagues, subverters, suspi cion spreaders and horrors of horrors they are organized! (psst. the great debate is end ed). Besides, the letter writers only parrot what comes from on higli (false), from Robert Welch. And what does Eric Al len Jr. do when he repeats the clever nonsense of Norman Cousins? But what of this test ban trea ty? Individual decision on this important agreement is very difficult to arrive at. President Kennedy: "The hopes of the world have been focused on this treaty." The hopes of the world have been focused on the League of Nations, the United Nations, the conferences at Yal ta, Tehran, Potsdam, the Spirit of Camp David, the Spirit of Ge neva, etc.; but peace is not forthcoming and the world's tensions have steadily increased until we have arrived at the Dresent nuclear edge. Let the clcbaic move aiong Mr. Allen, people should study and decide, and then write to Iheir senators. The senate is where the final decision must be made for us. May that de cision be truly representative of all of us, not just your "edu cated (?) elite," and may that senate decision also be wise. Robert J. Howard 702 Beekman St. Medford. Pnisons To the Editor: The old savins, "one man's meat may be anoth er man's poison" holds true in some cases. Some people can take large doses of poisonous food or drink, others very small amounts. Alcohol Is a poison that is in common daily use by millions of people and causes much de struction, because it has a drug like effect on the user who is un able to control his desire. And there is Ihe nib. In very small doses it may be good medicine. When alcohol is taken by a person, Ihe stomach immediate ly gets busy and the metabolic force absorbs and retains the needed quantity for the body. The surplus is ejected. The hu man body immediately reacts to correct any injury that may happen, whether it be a cut in o Rival Political Leaders Dispute Aid in Polivia Plagued With Troubles By PHIL NEWSOM L'PI Foreign News Analyst Back in 1952 when Bolivian President Victor Par Estenssoro took office the first time it was with the sup- port of Bo livia's t u r b u lent tin miners whose Trotsky, ite leadership had aligned it self with Paz's national revolu tionary move- New.um ment. A first step of the Paz gov ernment was to nationalize the country's tin miners, upon which most of its wealth de pended, and give the miners unprecedented veto powers over Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald THE CITADEL Mycenae, Greece On high saddle amid crags, the citadel stands. Nowadays, young sunburned tour ists, three-quarters naked in the current M e diterranean tourist fashion, photograph one another in the lion gate where C 1 y temnestra falselv welcom- A1,np ed Agamemnon when he came home from the great victory over Troy. Yet the tourists, laugning ana posturing, count no more than flies might count before those great walls, giant-built as the old Greeks thought because of the hugeness of the rough-dress ed stones. Before those walls, the present fades into lnsubstan- tiality, and the remote past of the age of bronze becomes sua- dently substantial and real. Even before those walls were built, the saddle among the crags must have been a strong place. On one side, it breaks downwards into a deep, sunless ravine, so narrow you feel you could all but throw a stone to the mountainside opposite. The cliff that forms the wall of the ravine rears up in a high crest of rock; and here, on this rocky crest, was the place of the cita del from Mycenae's earliest be ginning. YET Agamemnon, or his fa ther Atreus, did not think these natural defenses and the old walls of their forefathers gave strength enough. So the people were called in their tens of thosands to hew stone and drag it to the citadel and haul the vast blocks weighing tons apiece up earthen ramps to the ever-rising crest of the new walls. Within the walls' wide circuit, on the highest part of the rocky crest, the new palace also rose, bright-painted and strong-columned. The brilliant Greek, Prof. George Mylonas, who is carrying on the excavations that Heinrich Schliemann began, showed us how this summer's work has revealed more traces of this proud house of Atreus and Agamemnon. Yet the traces of the palaces, and the great tombs that were later built all sink into insig nificance beside Mycenae's walls. Besides the lion gate it- the flesh, a broken bone or a dose of poison or poison virus. Lydia Burnham, in her letter of Aug. 30. stated that anyone can best get rid of a common cold by doing nothing, letting nature do it. I beg to differ with her there. I would say that, un less you know yourself, for sure, what to do, you had better call a doctor. If when you get that cold, you are a worker or a doer of any kind and you want to keep from getting real sick, you better take care. A cold can quickly turn into pneumonia and then, it could be "goodbye sweet world. There is one way by which I have averted colds and that has been that whenever I have sus pected a cold in the offing I have missed a meal or two or three, 'til I have felt hungry. But that way requires that you are careful so as not to overdo it. As to consumption of poison, most packaged foods nowadays contain additives to keep them from going stale. And that gives more works for the alimentary tract to do. Then some of those additives may be hard to throw off by the weak and the ailing. and be cumulative, that is. pile 1 up and cause what might be called a sort of constipation. The j F. and D. Administration has no t authority lo prevent use of addi-1 tives as long as they arc con-1 sidcred harmless. So it is up to the individual to judge for him self what is good or what is not. In others words, take up the motto of Socrales. the old Greek "Know thyself." Personally I have learned the hard way. in fact, been poisoned three times, arsenic twice, strychnine once. Was saved by doctors. Quite an experience, you would sny. So I will just say like Ripley "believe it or not." John Ring 1049 West lllh St. Medford the mine management. Back of this was the burly figure of a man named Juan Lechin, son of an Arab father and a Bolivian mother, said to have first been hired by the Patino mining interests for his ability as a football player. With this as a start, Lechin had advanced swiftly from ex ecutive secretary of the mine union in 1945, to senator in 1947 and to successful revolutionary leader in 1952. His was a pow erful vocie in calling Paz Es tenssoro from Argentine exile to assume the presidency. In Bolivia's present crisis, Paz and Lechin once more are central figures. Paz is serving his second term as president and Lechin By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate self, between its grim, protect ing bastions, only posterns and secret sally ports pierce these gigantic ramparts. rpHE walls that Atreus or Aga - memnon may have built were strengthened further in the last age of the citadel. The frowning circuit was extended, to cover the steep descent to a cistern built far down in the living rock; and water was led into this deep new cistern by a secret channel from a hillside spring. Thus Mycenae's water supply was insured against the longest siege or so it must have seemed. Nonthcless, the insurance pro vided by the cistern was not sufficient in the end. Even the great walls were not sufficient in the end. How such walls fell to men who had no siege en gines is a question that still troubles the imagination. Yet somehow the walls were storm ed, and the citadel fell, and the palace was put to the torch. It happened just a bit more than three millenia ago, by Pro fessor Mylonas's careful calcu lation. And after it happened, this famous stronghold of the Greeks' war leader against Troy all but vanished from the pages of history. a WHEN the Great King of Per sia led his army which drank the rivers dry against the Greeks, there was still c town here, a brave town though small. Through that same lion gate, where Clytemnestra once welcomed Agamemnon from the war, the warriors of Mycenae marched forth to do battle at Plataea, where the host of the Great King was vanquished and destroyed. In those days, the warriors of Mycenae numbered only 74 men. Yet they too bore their part; so Mycenae's name was dutiful ly inscribed along with such great names of power as Athens and Sparta, in the list of saviors of Greece on the gilt-bronze serpent-tripod that the victors of Plataea dedicated at Delphi. That rankled sorely with the men of Argos, the rich city down on the plain, whose people had not dared to resist the Great King. And this bad taste in the mouth of Argos played its part, or so it is said, in the decision of the Argives to attack little Mycenae and bring it into sub jection. ONCE more the walls were stormed, the Mycenae ceas ed to be an independent city. Then, as the centuries rolled by, the site was gradually abandon ed. And so when Schliemann came, in search of relics of Agamemnon, there was nothing to mark the place that once was strongest in all Greece, except the never-fallen lion gate. Since that day, with unending, tireless industry, the excavators have uncovered all of this strong place among the crags. So the walls of Mycenae now tower over its approaches, almost as they did when newly built. And still they ask their ter rible, unanswerable question: "Is the effort of greatness worth the making, when all greatness has its appointed term? ' SWiaQ rTtrV537 ou ain't doing anything? Hardly any bodv getting thrv're just watching the oortr run!" has risen to vice president, but the two are in bitter conflict and the outcome could deter mine whether the moderate left-of-center government of Paz is to continue or wheth er Bolivia is to become the first Communist-controlled na tion of the South American con tinent. Paz, long-since disenchanted with his former Communist sup porters, now relies upon the Bolivian peasants who have benefitted from his land reform program. For Paz, as for Hernan Siles Zuazo, the in-between presiden tial office holder, the job has been to stabilize t h e Bolivian economy and by development of its other rich mineral and agricultural resources to rescue it from its one-sided reliance upon tin. It has been uphill going. In the 11 years since the revo lution, what little stability Bo livia has enjoyed has been pos sible only through U.S. aid and amounting to around $20 mil lion per year. A constant opponent of Un Strictly Personal By Sydnuy to Field Enterprises. Inc. MANNERS Visiting some new acquaint ances recently, I was impressed with their teen-age son, who seemed to me one of the best m a nnered young persons I had met. Thinking over this impression, it occurred t o me that really good manners require a com- narrip bination of two qualities diffidence and can dor. The young man was diffident about himself, but not reticent about his tastes and opinions. He was disarmingly frank, but not offensively opinionated, be cause he never spoke out of self esteem, but only out of self expression. Most persons suffer from the fallacy that good manners are mostly a matter of diffi dence, of hiding one's true convictions under a blanket ef polite hypocrisy. But this is really a subtle kind of rude ness, a denying of one's per sonality for the sake of others' approval. And this Is why young peo ple, on the whole, have such a huge contempt for polite grown-up society, which seems to them merely an organized conspiracy to keep the truth In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The White House - Kremlin "hot line" intended to provide instant emergency communica tion between the chiefs of state, is ready for use, the Pentagon announced last week. A terse one - sentence an nouncement said only that the "direct communication link be tween Washington and Moscow is ready for operation." In re ply to a question, a spokesman said this meant that both the land wire and radio circuits be tween the capitals now aro ready rpHE theory is that the "hot A line" will be used only by President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev. That prompts an interesting question: What will the Premier of the Soviet Union and the President of the United States say to each other on the momentous occasion when they first try out this rather fantastic (not to mention expensive) piece of equipment that has been pro vided for their use? A FRIVOLOUS suggestion: How about what the gov ernor of North Carolina is re ported to have said to the gov ernor of South Carolina when U.S. supported stabilization programs has been Lechin, who today joins the Marxists and Trotsky, ites in accusing the government of bowing to the dictates of the U.S. State Lepartment. At the core of the dispute are the efforts of the Paz govern ment to rehabilitate the mining industry through $38 million in aid from the United States, West Germany and the Interl American Development Bank. The industry is heavily feath er bedded and production has fallen steadily since nationaliza tion. The history of the state min ing corporation is . one of woe ful mismanagement and cor ruption so that not even expert auditors have been able to trace income and outgo. The miners, with guns left over from the revolution, aro resisting government efforts to reduce the work force by 6,000 and introduce modern efficiency to the mines. Upon the outcome of the struggle depends the future of the $65 million in promised U.S. aid. i. Ha.ris under cover. Now, good manners are fundamentally an appreciation of other people's personalities. A man who argues violently with people (as Chesterton bnce observed) is paying ho mage to their intelligence; but a man who mouths polite platitudes in society is actual ly insulting; he is not inter ested in the other person, but only in winning the other per son's good opinion of him. A really well-mannered per son, by this strict definition, is extremely rare. I myself (in common with most writers) err too much on the side of candor, and possess not enough natural diffidence, which is a grave temperamental defect. But it is wrong to make tha mistake of assuming that peo ple who are polite are well man nered merely because they mask their true beliefs. Lack of candor, generally speaking, implies deep hostilities and re sentments beneath the surface; and some of the best-liked men I know are quietly contemp tuous of those who like them most. Samuel Johnson, often ac cused of rudeness, was actually the most generous - spirited of men; a heated controversialist, he was passionately interested in pursuing ideas, no matter who got knocked down in the process. Including himself. they greeted each other on a similarly momentous occasion quite some time ago? That seems to be about as approproiate as anything else they might say to each other. BUT let's be serious. You may ask: How will this "hot line" work? WELL, one end of it will be in the Kremlin. Vu.e other end will be in the Pentagon. From the Pentagon, connections relay the circuits directely through to the White House. The preamble to the U.S. Soviet agreement to install the line specifies that it is "for use in time of emergency." The discussion which led to the un precedented agreement between the two nations which have been engaged in a cold war for a decade and a half made plain the primary purpose of the set up. The hot line will be used in the hope of heading off through direct and quick com munications between the chiefs of government incidents which could "escalate" in a matter of minutes or hours in MAS SIVE WAR. THAT is to say: If there should be a series of events that began to look critically dangerous, the Pres ident of the United States at this moment in history. Presi dent Kennedy would call tho Premier of the Soviet Union on the hot line and sav to him in effect: "WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT?" Whereupon In theory The Premier of the Soviet Un ion would say WHAT DO YOU MEAN? HEREUPON In theory The two heads of state would Iron it all out between them and instead of war there would be peace. IT SOUNDS wonderful. But there's a catch to it. The Premier of the Soviet Un ion is a communist. The ninth of Lenin's Ten Commandments reads: "Promises are like pie crusts: made to be broken.'' So the Premier of the Soviet Un ion might say to the President of the United States over tho hot line: "There's nothing to it. Go to bed jOaOorget about it " WhereM he might TURN TKE MISSILES LOOSE. "3 O C30
