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V 1 Telephoto Newiplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU J OflHCULATIONS Advertising rlewVaentittvo: NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOCI ATES Ot'lcet In New York. Chi cago. Detroit, San rranclico. Los Angeles. . Seattle, Portland Denver. Memner Calllornla Newipeper Publlihera AnoclaUon Righto' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 23, 1953 (Wednesday) A larrsn tnlrk "camDed" Its side inside the "Camp With Us" grocery story and service station yesterday in a iruiv littered accident at North River side ave. and McAndrews rd. Rinhnrrl Harris. M e d f 0 T d smokejumper, injured Monday while fighting forest fires on Six Rivers National forest In northern California, was rescued yesterday. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1943 (Thursday) Per pupil costs of educating county students shown as $145.73. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Pear prices are now so good horti culturists face the rleors of struggling along next year in a 194') Cadillac u one couia De purchased." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1933 (Saturday) County court would have pow er to name representatives in legislature in bill to be pro posed. Keps. Earl B. uay ana Edward C. helly Dom resign Oregon State college defeats Ashland Normal, 21 to 0. 40 YEARS AGO -Sent. 23. 1923 (Sundav Prink Calllson, new Medford high coach, arrives to take over duties. Miss Doris Brophy leaves to enter university of Oregon. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 23, 1913 (Tuesday) Medford factory manufactur tno atiln nrressnrips. Mrs. Edgar Hafer drives round trip to Crater lake in 13 hours, 40 minutes, Including T, J ,J.. JI Slops, uecora lor iany anver What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; even or eight is eicellent; five or six ii good. 1. Reno is the capital of Ne vada: true or false? 2. Is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Sea, or Red Sea? 3. Vthat is numismatics? 4. Five presidents of the Unit ed States have borne the name of James; can you name three 01 them; 5. How many acute angles In every triangle; two or three, two. three, or one? 6. Who discovered the law of gravitation? 7. Who named the Pacific Ocean? 8. Who was the first vice pres ldent of the United States? 9. In the Bible story, who sold his birthright for a mess of pot tage? 10. Is the official height of 1 basketball hoop 8, 9, or 10 feet? Answers: 1. False (Carson City). 2. Red Sea. 3. Science of coins. 4. Madison, Monroe, Polk, Duchanan, Garfield. (: Two or three. 8. Sir Isaac Newton. T, Balboa. 8. John Adams, t. Esau. 10. Ten. Crash of Jet Plan Under Invettlaation PORTLAND (UPD-An Inves tigation continued today Into the crash of an Air Force F-101 Jet fighter Into a sparsely settled neighborhood east of Vancouver, Wash.. Saturday. The pilot, Capt. Philip H. Carmany, 32, Chattanooga Tenn., was killed. 4 - A- NIWSMMt y ruiuiHUi VSJAtSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAL SEPTEMBER 23, 1963 Partisanship vs. Statesmanship Nelson A. Rockefeller, who can be identified these days more as a candidate for president than as governor of the State of New York, said in an Illinois campaign speech : America is bogged down in terms of our world leadership, and It is bogged down at home. All of this has happened under an administration whose most vaunted boast was that it would get the country moving again. The nation is not as moribund as Rockefeller, for personal political purposes, would have his public believe. Great progress is being made in domestic and foreign affairs and in the broad field of human rights. YET ONE would be presumptuous to say the progress has been as rapid as it should and could be, or in fact as rapid as dreamed of by President John F. Kennedy himself. However, Rockefeller, rather than chiding or even ridicul ing the administration the goals of the New Frontier, might better evalulate the extent to which blind Republican partisanship has bogged down the nation in the dismal swamps of inaction. A strong and vocal opposition is essential to a Democracy, lest the smug and arrogant and A silent or stifled minority leads to dictatorsmp Equally as dangerous to the welfare of a na tion is an opposition which seeks to block every measure, good, bad or indifferent, simply be cause it was proposed by -THE PURPOSE, of course, is clear. After frus trating the administration's efforts to achieve what may be laudable ends, the spokes men for the opposition in the next election year of the incumbent party. Such a self fulfilling to the partisan extremists to be good political strategy. Maybe it wins good legislation for narrow partisan reasons can be dangerous to the progress of a nation. This is the philosophy of rule or ruin. And regardless of which political party is in power, if it were carried to its ultimate conclusion the nation could be brought which is moving swiftly not only in Washington, capital from Sacramento THE NATIONAL welfare must be put ahead of partisan extremism. This is a measure of true statesmanship. Honest opposition is one thing and is to be encouraged. But to contrive to bring the nation to a dead stop in order to gloat over the administration's inaction is good neither for the political "outs" nor the country. True political statesmanship in fact calls for doing more and doing it better than it is being done by the other party. High In some Oregon high schools almost twice as many seniors will graduate next June as last June. That's because 1964's 17- or 18-year-old represents the first wave of the real baby boom, the bumper crop born the year after the old man trudged home from the wars. Many of these graduates will want to go to college. But the way things are shaping up, many of them, able enough, just won't be able to go. This was spelled out in letters a foot high at the recent meeting meeting of the State Board of Higher Education. The board is already in a bind because the Legislature gave it barely enough money to operate the colleges and uni versities. Now it faces the possibility that voters may repeal the last Legislature's tax program. That would mean the board would have to cinch up its belt another notch. THE ONLY answer: Educate fewer kids. J Tint Inn rnnlrl lin Oregon already has the West. 10 raise it to $-4-15 a year is to say that only the children of well-off families can go. Already we're pricing many boys and girls right out. Standards could be raised again. But this would deprive many a so-so student of a crack at college. And the so-so students also need it if they are to play a role in an increasingly com plex world. Furthermore, some students who are only average, or less, in high school, bloom late. In college they make brilliant records. This is one price of the referendum next Oct. 15. Eugene Register-Guard. In Balance It's an old story: The squabble of the day blots out the achievements of the age; what is wrong with the world takes precedence in the headlines over what is right; what divides men and nations, no matter how trivial or transitory, tends to conceal the much larger objectives that united them. This us usually true, is probably inevitable and not necessarily bad. Few great objectives are reached without a fight, but it is more true than ever now partly because most of the free world is riven by internal election campaigns and partly because of the way we debate ana report great issues in this country. . . . Keeping tilings in balance is the problem, for the day-to-day concentration on details makes public affairs ominous and depressing James Keston in The for its failure to achieve administration become the people uninformed, tne in political party, can take to the hustings to point to the failure maneuver may appear some votes. But stymieing to a halt in a world forward. And this is true D.C., but in every state to Augusta, Maine. bacamento Bee. Price iico - . a train Rut of highest tuition in the' look and sound more than they probably are. New York Times. "Who Do You Think You Are Indonesian?" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear tha name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a oen 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 th views of r paper. In fact the contrary is often the case. Negroes and God To the Editor: I will start by saying I am not opposed to Negroes having their rights as Americans, but only when they are ready to accept those rights as Americans, and a small mi nority are ready now. But the majority is not, for they want not equality, but su premacy. I am ready to give them their rights with some reservations. Hotels and motels can provide rooms and cabins for them equally furnished so that they would not be sleeping in the same beds as whites, and also passing a law that would prevent blacks and whites from marriage or even keeping com pany. I have lived 60 years among the Negroes and I know them quite well. There will be an awful lot of sad whites in Medford, Grants Pass and Ashland if we encour age Negroes to come here to these towns. It will only be the riff-raff that we will get, and property owners will see their property turned into slums, their lawns and houses will be ruined, because this class of Negroes Bring tneir own bed-bugs, cock roaches and head-lice, the head lice being spread through out schools. Property will decrease In value very fast just as in other places. Take a trip and inspect property In other cities. Then too, I suppose a lot of Medforditcs will be pleased to have Negroes make vulgar pass es at their wives and daughters. It will happen, and often. Mr. Ralph McKinnis was speaking the truth. As for Mr. and Mrs. Glen Allison, I would not offer one cent to see you out of the coun try as this is your country too and you have a right to speak up, just as Mr. McKinnis did, but you should investigate be fore you speak. We as Ameri cans all have that same right. Do we not? And now Mrs. George Guthrie, I am afraid you are wrong. You see, Mrs. Guthrie, the word of God plainly says. Call no man your father upon the earth: for no one is your Father, which is m heaven. Matt. 23:9. Ca va .-. finhi r glwave 1 Pj1'51 Wr not as FauVr or Rev. Lewis Perry 910 Valley View dr. Medford. Can't LI In Him To the Editor: Many are now concerned with the question, "Are we, or are we not. a Chris tian nation?" Christian means a follower of Christ, but many of our cltitena don't believe in Him. Yet our constitution em phatically statea that they are as much American as those of us who do, majority or minor ity. Our Lord's constitution is even more adamant, with no amend ments, no repeals. It is the Ten Commandments, plus one: that we love one another, our neigh bor as ourselves, our enemies, everyone. Supposing we were to ask Him what He thought about It. It Is very probable that He would reply, "My concern is, are you a nation of Christians? Who are my mother, my broth ers, my nation? Those who keep my Father's Commandments, plus one." Our question would be an swered, we can lie to ourselves but we couldn't lie to Him. could we? Mrs. Margaret Roseborough no Oakdale dr. Medford. A New Day Dawns To the Editor: What 1 miser- ably distorted view of the civil ; of Bear Creek, "Medford City rights Issue Ralph McKinnis Memorial Park." presented in the MT of 9 16! Oh, NO! To most folks (tour And what a tragic and pitiful 1 Istji this would indicatt city. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, OREGON I exhibition of his own extreme racism mat prompted it! His violently anti - Catholic, anti Jewish, and anti-Negro prejudice was revealed in almost every sentence. Not one of his ac cusations against these groups of fellow-Americans has any basis in fact. Indeed, the whole piece constitutes a vicious libel against them. The most rabid Ku-Kluxer, Nazi, or Bircher could hardly out-do this preverse and wicked diatribe. What a striking and truly heart-warming contrast was pro vided in your issue of 92 by Nancy Duncan's magnificent declaration of true Americanism and Christian witness! Daughter of Congressman Robert B. Dun can and recent honor graduate of Medford High School, Nancy movingly described her partici pation in the March on Wash ingtonwhich Time Magazine in its issue of 98 called a "tri umph ... a day that would never be forgotten:" and which an editorial in the Christian Cen tury of 911 called "a religious event of first importance (whose) effect will be felt far beyond the political arena." Wrote Nancy, among other things: "I was a part of the 200,000 believers in equality and digni ty of man. I helped to express this belief by adding my own dignity as a human being to the dignity of others, who have long been striving to have this dignity recognized. The pride which I knew was Bursting in side of me, I saw reflected in the solemn eyes of every glis tening black face, every flush ed white face . . . There was a strange bond, a feeling of kin ship, between every marcher. Such a feeling is unparalleled for it is the kinship between Negro and white man which is a rare thing today, yet very precious ... I can say, in all honesty, that I had reached the point where I could not see color anymore." On Aug. 24, 1855, Abraham Lincoln wrote to Joshua P. Speed: "As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal, except Negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, It will read 'all men are created equal except Ne groes and foreigners and Cath olics.' When It come to that, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty." Mr. McKlnnis wound up his doleful dirge: "It is Evening. Good Night." Let me counter: H is Morning, the Dawn of a New Day! Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford Anticlimax To the Editor: What an anti climax that our President could spare only 15 minutes for the whole state of Oregon. Yet he has days for red carpet recep tions honoring Tito, Sukarno and Mme. Nhu. There are three inferences one may draw from this first cla.4 snub: either he is sure Oregon is in the Democratic pocket for '64; or our few elec toral voles are too insignificant to be noticed; or can It be Mr. Morse does not have the prestige in Washington ha would like us to believe? Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Ellis Route 3. Box 57t Central Point, Ore. Whose Memorial? To the Editor: In Triday night's Tribune (9 20) a news item suggests a possible name for the curving park alongside Fall Arrives; But Congress Shows Little Hope of Civil Rights By ARNOLD 8AWISLAK United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD-Fall'S official advent brought horn to Congress today a chill realiza tion it probably can't complete action this year on both the lax and civil rights bill labeled 163 "mut" by President Ken nedy. Final action on taxes this year has been a prime target of t h e Kennedy administration since January. Three months ago, the President added civil rights to the priority list for this year. It might have seemed pes sible back in June to get both In the Day's News ly FRANK JINKINS There's NEWS today. Maybe BIG news. A T UNITED Nations, In New York, President Kennedy calls on the communist world to BURY THE COLD WAR and engage the West In a contest of achievement instead 01 a con test of intimit'- 'm. Speaking before the 18th Gen eral Assembly of U.N., he said he welcomes such f contest be tween "those who envision a monolithic world and those who believe in diversity." He outlined the areas where the Soviet Union and the United States, together with their al lies, could achieve further agreements agreements which spring from our mutual inter est in AVOIDING MUTUAL DESTRUCTION. IN THE field of space, he said, where the United States and Russia have a spe'-al capacity, there is room for new coopera tion Includ1 the possibility of a JOINT EXPEDITION to the moon. Pointing to the fact that by resolution of the U.N. General Assembly member nations had foresworn any claims to terri torial rights in outer space, he asked rhetorically WHY MAN'S FIRST FLIGHT TO THE MOON SHOULD BE A MATTER OF COMPETITION. "Surely," he said, "we should explore whether the scientists and astronauts of our two coun tries indeed, of ALL the word can not WORK TO GETHER for the conquest of space sending '0 the moon, some day in this decade NOT the representative of a SINGLE nation, but the representatives of all humanity." OUR President told the hush ed assembly that for the first time in 17 years of effort a specific step has been taken to limit the nuclear arms race. He said: "I refer, of course, to the treaty to ban ' iear tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water, concluded by the Soviet Union and the United States and already signed by nearly 100 countries." MEANWHILE At th ralalivelv tin,, ct.ol and glass international enclave on the banks 0." the Hudson river in New York City where the representatives of NATIONS can meet with no guns in their nip pockets- Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko proposed vester- day that an 18-nation summit conference on disarmament be held before June 30 of next year. His proposal was made In a major speech delivered to the U.N. General Assembly. It was mud in tone and devoid of cold war language. owned graveyard! Any town in dry California would feature even a brook in a public park. Why not boast of a stream and call it Bear Creek Park or Streamside City Park? Please, let's leave out the memorial and give the grave yards a break. By the way whose memorial? Anne Fisher Rogue Valley Manor Medford. Try and Stop Mo By IINN1TT CERF AN INEXPERIENCED nursemaid, taking baby for a ride in the park, encountered a friend of the family, who peered inside the carriage and observed, "I see the poor little thing has his father s nose." "Good heavens," gasp ed tht nursemaid. "I thought that was a nip ple." a a "Living In America, la an expansive proportion e peeuUly lor a rruurlea man," prates la French actor Claude Dauphin. "Every time three wtvea a.r seen doing nothing, someone builds a department stora next to them." A chap In a big testing laboratory obviously a very busy fd kwnaj been davotinf quite soma Urn to figuring out just how loud a human anor is. He now announces that at its maximum. It la equal in decibels to the bellow of an angiy bull 1ML by Btuett Cert Ciatrteuted br Kli( Teaturea nllctl bills through the House and Senate in 1963. It doesn't look that way now. Congressional leaders havt been reluctant to talk about this. One reason la that the choice is a hard one and is certain, either way, to make a lot of people unhappy. Some civil rights backers cur Strictly Personal ly Sydney (1 rial KrtterprliM Irw. MODERN ART Attending the opening of an art exhibit some time ago, I overheard a sweet little lady protest to the painter: "Why la modern art th way it Is?" To which he po litely shrugged, and murmured tactfully, "Why is modern life the way it is?" But the best re- arrla sponse to this constant query has been given by Robert Beverly Hale, of the Metrooolltan Museum in New York, who once made the fol lowing explanation: "If our art seems violent. It is because we have per petrated more violence than any other generation. It It deals with weird dreams, it Is because we have opened op the caverns of the mind and let such phantoms loose. "If It is filled with broken shapes. It Is because we have watched the order of our fa thers break and fall to pieces at onr feet. "We have seen. In onr cen tury, the development of fan tastic scientific paraphernalia and much ill will. We live In the fear of some monstrous event which will bring, at best, a curious and distorted future; at worst, annihilation. The artist is in part a proph et. We should not complain if the shadows that have late ly haunted us have for some time been visible upon his canvas." He offered Moscow as a site for such a meeting. The cor respondents report that his speech was generally mild in comparison with Soviet declara tions, and add that he stressed repeatedly what he called the "changed international cli mate." GRIM question: Is Russia's latest proposal another Trojan Horse? TT COULD BE. - The word of a communist is subject to many reservations. But The world of today has reach ed a grim stage. Two nations possess the power to DESTROY THE WORLD. Their power is so nearly equal that if one nation starts it the other will have sufficient RETALIATORY Dow- er to DESTROY THE AGGRES SOR. The rest of the world at the same time. WHAT does it aU mean? It means that It's hioh time to begin to consider, seri ously and honesUy, ways to keep the peace. Communicable Diseases Listed Only nine cases of communi cable diseases were reported in Jackson county last week, ac cording to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, medical health nfficer. Three cases of influenza were reported in Shady Cove; two cases of pink eye In Phoenix to top the list. One case each were reported of impetigo in Medford and mumps in Ashland. Pneu monia was reported in Central Point and Medford, one case each. and Tax Legislation rently suspect that when and if the choice it maae, taxes wiu get the nod. That could set off loud and long objections from civil right supporter. The cards appear to be falling in favor of the tax legislation, and not entirely as a result of efforts by civil rights opponent. For example, the House will i. Harris In one sense, great art is timeless; in another, it is the product of its times. Bach's music could not have been writ ten except in an extremely re ligious atmosphere. Modern composers don't even try to sound like him, for they are looking at an entirely different world from an entirely differ ent angle. The long, leisurely Victorian novel is out of mode, for the tempo of the times has changed. Our novels are staccato, charg ed with demonic fury, brutal, bitter and resentful. The artist, after all, only works with the material he finds at his dis posal. Even Shakespeare made most of his Greeks and Romans speak and behave like 16th cen tury gentlemen. The modern painter is no long er "realistic," in the old-fashioned sense, because the uni verse has taken on a different aspect of reality. All the ancient gods have been questioned; some have been overthrown; and nothing has yet arisen to take their place. The chaos in the frame is, in its own way, a realistic reflection of the chaos in the mind of modern man. EDITORIAL PEPARTMCNT "What's the sense in doing a Cartoon on the bombing in Birming ham? It'll only be seen by people who wouldn't think of doing such a thing in the first place!" Non-Violence Is Too Good for Us 6 Arthur Hoppe When I first read about the bombing of the Birmingham church I was sitting in the kit chen drinking coffee. I head how four Negro girls were killed by the explosion. And 1 was, like most of us, I suppose, filled with rage. As I read I tried to visualize the men who could throw such dynamite sticks from a passing car. I saw them as typical of the rabid segregationists I have met: justifying themselves by their doctrine of superiority, armored In their sullen right eousness. And I could hear the man who threw the dynamite saying defiantly to himself and humanity and God: "That'll teach them uppity Niggers." For that is how they justify what they do. But into a church. To kill children. And at that moment I wanted to kill those men. I wanted them dead. The very thought of revenge was a tremendous release. All the hate and frustration and rage I felt poured out, laced by the mere thought of violence. And I felt much better. But then, on an inside page. I read about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and how he was flying to Birmingham "To plead with my people to remain non-violent." To preach in the ruins of that blood-spattered church, the doctrines of love and peace and non-violence. And I wendered at the man. I don't pretend to know how the Negro In Birmingham feels. I haven't grown up in humilia tion nor lived In fear. Nor was It my children who were killed. But I do know how I felt. know how I relished the hate. I know the catharsis of re venge. ! know the simple, ele mental appeal of violence. And if I knew these things, sitting In act on the tax bill this week. The civil rights bill hasn't even been approved by the House judiciary subcommittee that has been working on it for months. The efforts of northern Demo cratic civil rights advocate to carry along Republicans, rath, er than delaying tactics by southerners, have taken the time. When the subcommittee, domf. nated by pro-civil right mem. bera, clears a bill, it must be considered by the parent judici ary committee. Southerners have a strong voice there and are not expected to pass it out quickly. Once that hurdle It cleared, the southern-led House Rules Committee must be by passed or prodded to act before the House can even take up the bill. One supporter of the the civil right bill says privately that he would be pleased to see final House action before Dec. 1. That, of course, would make it clearly impossible to get a bill through the Senate by New Year' Day. Southern filibuster ers could hold up a bill that long without extending them selves. In the meantime, the tax bill will be in the unfriendly hands of chairman Harry F. Byrd, (D-Va.,) of the Senate Finance Committee. Byrd has made it clear he will insist on lengthy hearings,' and he probably would suspend all activity on the tax bill if civil right action was impending. Thus, if congressional lead ers insisted on Senate approval of civil rights legislation before the tax cut, they might end up with neither. If they make it clear the tax cut has t clear track, they might be able to get that bill through before the end of the year. my white middle-class kitchen, how must the people in Birming ham feel? And I knew then that the beautiful doctrines we preach of love and peace and non-violence are too good for us. Most of us are not equal to them. Not yet. Sitting there in the kitchen I e remembered sadly what high hopes I had held for this strange non-violent movement. I re membered how moved I'd been when the Rev. Mr. King had said: "If the streets of Birming ham must run with blood, let it be our blood and not that of our white brothers." 1 remember how much I had admired those people of his who could with stand firehoses and police dogs and brutality without retalia tion. But most of all I mourned for the high hopes I had held. Tor I deeply feel that if our world is to survive this con fused, violent, destructive age, there must be a moral break through. And I honestly thought that this non-violent movement could well be It, that these Negroes were marching for us Yet how easily, in a moment of rage, I betrayed this whole concept. So at I sat there I feared what would happen in Birming ham, what would happen now to this movement. And I could only hope that if it shattered tit the coming days, someone would pick up the pieces and try again. Tor the good of us all. .. For I think each of us. de spite our failures, must go at aspiring te the beautiful doc trines of love and peace and non-violence. Not despite Um fact that thev are better thM most of us. But because they are. r .w r