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Danrar. itPaTrH Member California Nawtpapar PutIlbara Aeeeclatvea Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tKa tiles ; The Mail Tribunal 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ate. 1 'YEARS AGO Sept. 14, IMS (Tfcarsdey) A violent hail itorm which hit lower Klamath basin Monday resulted in an "almatt 100 per cent loss" to (rain crops in that area. Pear harvest continues In full wing in this area. 2 YEARS AGO tout. id. iau (Friday) Three to (see chart ctUt rustling. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The OPA warns irocers, 'no mat ter what the provacation, not to throw canned seeds at af' gravatlng customers.' Your corr. insulted Peoria Bill Gates yes. in hopes he would heave a can of Alaska red salmon but be reached for a basebelMsed onion." M YEARS AGO Sept. 24, lttt (Saadav) Ernest 1 Hueners shoots tot pound buck near Jacksonville. Attorney George M. Roberts elected president of Southern Oregon Bar association. 44 YEARS "AGO Sept. 24, 1(12 (Monday) Attorney Qua Newbry give talk on constitution at Xiwsnis meeting. Sugar goes to $. per ewt, an advance of 2S cents. H YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1(12 (Wednesday) Bagley Cannery offers priiea for finest tomatoes. S. P. president sees sign of prosperous times In local talk. Whals Yocr I.Q.? Nine ar tan aarraat la eveefiefj seven er eajfct la eneflaitti frre a alt h 14. 1. Werner Von is a United States rocket expert 3. A wooden frame er tripod for supporting a painting can vas is called an T 2. A measurement denoting a fourth of a bushel is identically the same as the surname of a popular movie star; what is it? 4. President Eisenhower's principal reesdenea is now at 5. What is the chemical sym bol for gold? C Principal charges of Com munist infiltration in the Tru man and Eisenhower adminis trations were made by what Senator? 7. In measuring gold, would you get more if it was measured under the troy, er avoirdupois scale? S. Would a buxom person most likely be plump, er thin? t. Many states have laws pro hibiting open stores on Sun day; these laws are called what? 10. t a w regulating stock sales are commonly celled what? Answers! t. Braen. 2. Easel. 1. Peck. 4. Gettyiborg. Pa. I. Aa. . Joseph McCarthy. T. Avolrdspet- - P1mf- Brae lews. 1(. Bloe Sky laws. 37 Oregon Sfwcftnf s To Hudy In holy PORTLAND (UPI) - Thirty. seven student will leave here Thursday for a year's study at the Italian awdios tamer in fa via. Italy. The center was esUbllshad by Portland state cornea wis yaar tn cooperation with the Unlve eltv of Pavia. the students win return to Portland M 4 A BV WS pWIUINIII SEPTEMBER U. IW Mean and Petty Oregonians who would like to see President Kennedy during his visit to the West this week have two choices, unless they want to travel out of the state. They can go to Astoria, where he is to spend 15 minutes or so looking over Tongue Point, in an obvious attempt to call attention of federal agencies to the desirability of making use of the now.abandoned Navy base and getting Sen. Wayne Morse off the hook. Or, given a little luck and the right kind of weather, they might be able to see his 707 jet plane fly overhead or, perhaps, a contrail from it HIS OTHER scheduled appearance in the state a speech dedicating a Portland Housing Authority aDartment house was cancelled in the wake of threats by the Portland chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to picket the apartment when the President appeared. This is plain and simple pumicity Dy DiacK- mail. It was unworthy of threat It. was painful that Mrs. Edith Green, Portland's Conirresswoman, felt constrained to advise the President to And it was unworthv of prestigious office in the world to meekly quit fn the face of the picketing threat. a a AS IS WELL known, voiced sympathy for tions of the Negro race in their fight for dignity and equality of opportunity. But the tactics of the NAACP in this instance and a few others harm than eood, and make it ever more difficult for their friends and supporters to rally around. This petty and shameful attack on the iresi- dent one of the best friends the Negroes have or ever have had and on Mrs. Green, whose civil rights bona fides need no defense stands in marked contrast to the dignity, the self-restraint, the determination and pride evidenced by the "March for Jobs and Freedom" in Wash ington last month. THE THREAT to picket wasn't even germane. Ostensibly it was to nrotest what some NAA CP leaders consider discriminatory practices on the part of the housing authority.. But no one has shown that they have been. In fact, an investigating team from the San Fran cisco FHA office gave the Portland Housing Authority a clean bill of health. Later investiga tions may or may not turn up violations of racial Dolicv. but they haven't yet. , Arid . to use this as an excuse for picketing the President of the United States on an all-too- rare visit to Oregon smacks of pettiness and meanness. No one looks very good on this one. E.A. A Call for Speaking of the hopes Necroes. we thought that NAACP leaders to request the city councils of southwestern Oregon to pass resolutions of "wel come" to' Negroes who may wish to come here showed the same type of adolescent thinking as the picketing threat. This was not asking for "equal" treatment; it was asking for "preferred" treatment. And no city council can, in all conscience, do anything of the kind. Oregon laws pertaining to equality of treat ment in places or public accommodation, in the sale of real estate, in employment, and so on, are explicit. The penalties are heavy. They should and will be enforced. DUT THIS implied threat to "test" if not insulting, at the very least i taste. We hope that the Nesro citizens of this state, in their understandable upgrade their own conditions, to seek the equal ity of treatment which is their due, will not re sort to tactics which can only alienate friends, and set back the movement that is so important to them. Let citizens no matter what color visit here if they wish. And let them be treated in a way in which all American citizens have a right ' to be treated. No more: r"PHE WHOLE nation was shocked anil out raged at the horrible murder of Negro chil dren attending Sunday school. It has, in fact, given pause to many who, pre viously, had inclined to side with the segrega tionists. If the be6t that they have to offer is murder, lynching and bombing, they have a poor case indeed. The anguish which has come from Birming ham, the inspiration which has come from the Washington march these have caught the hearts of many who never before gave much thought to the plight of Via f.a Let this not be vitiated by pettiness and in- suits There is a vast reservoir of good will waiting to be tapped by men of all races. And there are froblems ahead which may now appear to be nsuperable. Given patience and fortitude and faith, the good will snail be tapped and the problems shall be solved. E.A. the NAACP to make the cancel his appearance. the most powerful and this paper has oiten the hopes and asipira- do their cause far more Good Will and aspirations of the the plan of the same the area, poor is in and laudable desire to no less. Negroes in this land ofimm,v ppi" ,h purchased candy minis- from our mem- "Somehow, This Campaign Jutt Doesn't Have The Old Zing" yffrjj 1 H ' lifeipp 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 printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tte paper, in fact tha contrary It often the case. Traffic Problems To the Editor: This letter was sent to the Honorable James Dunlevy, Mayor, Medford, Ore. Dear Mr. Mayor: When I came to Medford a year or so ago I was confused, as many others have been, by the traffic patterns at our many angling intersections. I found that in some cases a driver must keep to the right if he is to go straight ahead: in other cases he must use the center lane. I soon learned to look for the over head arrow directional signs, but in some places they do not exist. On Jackson Street approach ing Riverside from the west, and again at Eiddle Road the pat tern is to move to the right lane if you want to go east on Jackson; but the only signs to tell you are painted on the pavement, and nine times out of ten cars preceding you cover tne signs, i nave been trapped in the wrong lane until I learned from experience that you must be in the right lane. Another spot is on Hawthorne as it approaches Main street. Signs on the pavement direct traffic but here again the signs usually are under other cars where Ihey cannot be seen. Why can't we have overhead directional signs at these places? A. Ray Neplune tnao Rogue Valley Manor Medford. Shucked anil Mortified To the Editor: We have sent the following letter to the Rev. A. L. Wood, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala.: Dear Reverend Wood: The Sunday morning meeting of the Rogue Valley Unitarian Fellow ship on Sept. 22 was devoted chiefly to a discussion of the recent bombing of jour church and the resultant deaths of four innocent and precious human I victims. ! Our members have asked that I express to you their feeling re- garding this event. They are shocked and mor- ; lined that such an act could ; have been conceived and o.v lecuted by any member of the I human race. They regret that this further crime has been perpetrated ! against your people. They deplore the whole chain of events starting with the im portation ot ftcgroes as slaves a"d ,ne subsequent treatment oi them as despised inlru d e r s which has led to the present violence. They look forward to the day when the last racial barrier will have been removed and the brotherhood of man will have been achieved in this country and throughout the world. They extend their wholeheart ed sympathy to you and your congregation. Ernest Wander. Chairman J Rogue Valley Unitarian Fellowship Medford. Votrn Don't Count To the Editor: I see where the Slate of Oregon is figuring on buying some volmg machines. For what our votes count in Oregon, we mignt as wen buy a train load of one arm bandits Everett Arklin Ashland, Ore. t'nmly Sale To the Editor: We want to say a great big "Thank You" to the j candy sale, held each fail, goes directly lo tne i nppien (.nil dren's Hospital School in Eu gene. This vrar our Southern Oregon District bus civen $1,010- to the school, thanks lo vour ! wonderful reception of our sale, This school provides therapy and education lo handicapped youngsters from .1 lo is years of age. Many of them later at- lend public schools. One young MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON exceed 400 words. The letters businessman in Medford bene fited by attending the school for several years. Epsilon Sigma Alpha chapters in Oregon give 100 per cent sup port to the school, and have given over $10,000 yearly for several years. Last year it was $11,700 and we have set a goal of $12,000 this year. Thanks again from all of us and the Crippled Children's Hos pital School. Mrs. Arthur Pollard, Candy sale chairman for Southern Oregon District, tpsiion Sigma Alpha, International Sorority, Medford. Not Masters To the Editor: Our forefathers founded a nation on the novel idea that the power and right to rule was inherent only in the people, all the people equally, and therefore our nation is called a "democracy." For con venience that power is tem porarily delegated, and only temporarily delegated, to elect ed representatives. Therefore our country is also called a "republic." This experiment has now endured 176 years and must be preserved at all costs. Even ancient Greece had only a part of this system. Personally I am very thank ful that I live in one of the states that can quickly take back this power to rule from our representatives who some times seem to forget that they are not our masters, but mere ly trusted servants. So in spite of theatened dire results, I shall vote "No" in the October refer endum election on this much despised tax law. Also I am hoping that those few senators who refused to refer the proposed new consti tution for the people to decide, will "see the handwriting on the wall." That was an unwarrant ed, high handed procedure. I hope that this also will be cor rected soon. Horace W. Thompson, 3M2 Hilsinger rd., Medford. Anathema To the Editor: Responding to a Central Point resident s friend' ly criticism (in Sept. 20 issue) of my letter to you in the Sept. 16 issue, I must needs protest;. no, i am myseu not quite nu man, though, being a white man, I cannot explain how. Though her letter does not convince me mat, as we as individuals are not all the same (not equal), nei ther are the races (breeds) all the same (or equal), even as the animal species all differ in de gree and quality. As for science theories disproving it, are they not always changing? She writes: "The Negro is a human with a heart and soul, who feels love, hate, sorrow, and happi ness, just as a white man does. No one can change the color of his skin or his nationality. To judge him because of these things is stupid and ignorant." All of these qualities a Negro has, and all of them also a pet dog or an anthropoid ape has, with the exception of a soul, al most, which is a psychological equivalent of consciousness or ( goal. Though we did not make , ourselves, we most certainlv make future generations, as we were ourselves made by our forebears. Although this writer sympathizes with "all races" it is obvious she docs not prefer ner own race. ere she a South' ern resident the inference is ob vious. The very great difference between a white and a black though within Ihe same general species, is too much lo permit natural fraternization. The dtf ference between identical twins ' practically non-existent, be- lween blood brothers and sisters, somewhat more, and between cousins considerably more, but not enough to negate laws against incest. The difference between families wilhin a tribe is enough to allow for healthy I Mounting France's Economy; New Taxes Possible . . . i it. a m i -t A .... m r ha By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst When Gen. Charles de Gaulle devalued the French franc shortly after coming to power five years ago, the action had two main re sults: It enabl ed French ex porta to be come competi tive on foreign markets. And it brought out of hiding millions of dollars which thrifty Frenchmen had been hiding under the mattress. It was the beginning of a new era for France which had known years of trade deficits Strictly Personal 1 Sydney (c) Iltld Enterpriief. las. WORK PATTERNS The words "nervous tension" and "modern living" have be come almost synonymous these days, but I wonder if it isn't some thing more than the relent less pace of in dustrial society that is respon sible for those sagging sour faces on the home bound train. This may astound those who are unacquainted with the facts of history, but the serf of the despised Middle Ages worked less hard and less intensely than the modern American, with his high standard of living and bis eight-hour day. A good case could be made out, in fact, for the contention that we work harder than any other free people the world has ever known. During the last 300 years, the number of holi day in the Western year has shrunk to almost nothing. in the ancient Greek calen dar, there were more holi days than working days. The early Egyptians and the Jews had an abundance of feasts and festivals throughout the year some of them extend ing for a full week. The Roman dies festi were of three kinds, and were quite In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In a radio and TV address in Washington last week President Kennedy appealed to the con gress and the nation for an $11 billion tax cut. He said that if their taxes are cut the Ameri can people will be able to spend for things they want the money they would otherwise have had to pay out in taxes. This added spending, he said, will create prosperity, and the prosperity thus created will pro vide tax income sufficient to en able us to reduce and eventually pay off our present staggering debt. IN other words: The more we spend, the sooner we'll get out of debt. Question: Did YOU ever try getting out of debt by SPENDING MORE? If so, you may be inclined to doubt the President's statement. IN Washington last week Rep resentative John W. Byrnes, of Wisconsin, senior Republi can on the tax-writing ways and means committee of the House of Representatives, presented the Republican rebuttal to the President's plea for an immedi ate tax cut. This is his proposal: That the tax legislation con tain a provision VOIDING THE perpetuation of the tribe. The difference between sub-tribes within a breed Is permissible, as "The Children of the Twelve Tribes of Israel." or the Norse Celts, and Alpines within the Caucasians, though with this the Nazis disagreed. But the intermixing of the dif ferent breeds or races of men, differing on the basis of color, other physical and psychological (emotional) characteristics, has been called miscegnation, and laws were established to prevent it. These had a rational basis despite Christian dogma from the standpoint of the natural in stinct of peoples to prefer and need tneir own kind, and na ture's sttempt to preserve that breed of man which could pos sibly result in a superior "spe cies (not man). The present unwnruhpiry of miscegenation lows aad af "seg regation" (natural in the North, legalized In the South) or the breaking of this taboo is Ana thema, as the future will dem onstrate. Ralph McKinnis P.O. Box ftt Ashlsnd, Ore. Signs of Trouble Appearing in and a rate of inflation higher than that of any Western power. Within a year, France, the former sick man of Europe, was on its way to becoming the most healthy, with money in the bank. By May of this year France's currency and gold re serves amounted to more than $4 billion. But in the midst of plenty there also were mounting signs of trouble. In the last year the cost of living had jumped roughly 7 per cent, French manufactured goods once more were pricing them selves out of the market. Even in the nationalized in dustries the government had not been able to carry out its own announced intention of Urn- V. Harris umerofls. The first kind was observed regularly, like ear Sunday; the second kind was observed aitanally, on d a y s fixed by the authorities, like our Thanksgiving; and the third kind was publicly pro claimed as occasions called for them. The latter were ex tremely frequent. Daring the Middle Ages, one-third of the days in the year were given over to feasts and festivals; so that, while the workingman may have labored 12 or 14 hoars a day, he rested on one day out of three. a The average life, then, was comparable to that of a mod. ern train conductor, who may work a long run from Chicago to New York, and then lay off tor a couple of days. As we learn more about the complex operations of the body and its relationship to the mind and tne emotions, we may dis cover that the ancients had a sounder view of the human or ganism than we do and that it is the unremitting pressure of day-after-day toil that cre ates weakness and breakdown, rather than sustained effort over a long number of hours- Most of the effective men I have known, in business, sci ence or the arts, work hard and long but take frequent and extended vacations throughout the year. Routine can be a dead' Her enemy of social develop ment than relaxation. CUT unless the President sub mits SPENDING plans for not more than $97 billion for the fiscal (money) year that began on July 1 of this year and not MORE than $98 billion for the fiscal year that will begin on July 1 of 1964. This, he said, would mean a cut of about a billion dollars in proposed spending for the cur rent fiscal year and probably several billion dollars under the spending levels now expected for next year. HE went on to say: "These are comfortable limitations which should not be impossible for a reasonably pru dent administration with a con gress pledged to spending con trol. This proposed spending figure for this fiscal vear is still $4 BILLION MORE than was spent last year." He then added: "Congress will be PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE with our national destiny if it doesn't at this time in our history require spending control." He uses a vivid simile, but it isn't far from the truth. When you play Russian roulette, you're taking long chances with your life. When a nation goes on, year after year, in time of peace, spending billion more every year than it takes in, it is taking long chances with its fiscal future. BUT You mav say WHAT CAN I DO? YOU can do this: You can write to your sena tors and your congressman and tell them in short pithy words just how you feel about it. IF you live in Oregon, your senators are Maunne Neu berger and Wayne L. Morse. If you live in California, your sen' ators are Clair Engle and Thorn. as Kuchel. Their mail address is Senate Office Building, Wash' ington, D.C. If you live in Douglas or Jose phine or Jackson county, your Representative is Hon. Robert B. Duncan. If you live in Kla math or Lake (or any county east of the Cascades) your rep resentative is Hon. Al Ullman. If you live In Siskiyou or Mo doc county, your Representative is Hon. Harold T. (Bin) John son. Their mail address is House Office Building, Washing ton, D.C. TaON'T think your letters will go unheeded. They WON T. King wage boosts to the 4.5 per cent which would correspond more closely to the national rate of economic growth. A nationwide coal miners' strike in March led to wage in creases which in a year would total more than 12 per cent. Increases of more than seven per cent went to workers in the state-owned railroad and gas and electricity industries. Farmers producing more than the market could absorb fought with police and renewed de mands for subsidies. Government warnings that the country faced a "last chance" to pursue economic expansion with financial stability largely went unheeded. In mid-month the government acted on its own. There were some bitter pills and it seemed likely that more would follow. On Sept. 12, the government administered the first of these. Down payments on automo biles and television sets now would be 35 per cent instead of 20. Prices of manufactured goods would be held to the level Matter of Fact e New York Herald THE CRUSADERS SAIGON The time was in the year 1944, a couple of months after the U.S. government first sent observers to the Chinese C om m u n i st capital at Yen an. The occasion, which is now worth recalling, was a dinner at the Chungking press hostel for Alma the first U.S. observer to return with on-the- spot news of that high-minded "agrarian democrat," Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Around the table the nice, virtuous American faces positively shone with in nocence and happy belief. The report from Yenan brist led with all the old familiar phrases. The Chinese Commu nists "wanted to be on our side, if we would only let them." They alone were "fighting the Japanese." The atmosphere, the morale, the speckless purity and disin terestedness of Yenan were "like a wonderful cocktail after the fetid corruption of Chiang Kai-shek's government." Mao Tse-tung, "a great man and above all a humane man," would remake China in a new, more perfect image. So it went. For a cynic, listening to this discourse and watching the shining-eyed response to it, it was like taking a bath in a particu larly sickening sort of goo. a THERE were a few American reporters in China, like the wise Arch Steele, who always kept their heads despite the in toxicating crusading atmosphere of the wartime press hostel. Yet the crusaders dominated and, one must add, sometimes ser iously warped the news. And then, when the crusade was over, and they were older and wiser men, they were all very sorry about it except for two press hostel inhabitants, Izzie and Elsie Epstein, who revealed their role as Communist agents by retreating to Peking, where they still nauseatingly hold forth. This is not the only case in point, either. One need only recall much of the reporting from Cuba up to and including the triumph of Fidel Castro. Batista, no doubt, was every bit as bad as everyone said he was. But what stands out from that episode in American news paper history was the display of political acumen by that far seeing progressive, Herbert Matthews of the New York Times. It is high time to recall these episodes of the past, which were not without their influence on the course of events; for a good many of the newspapermen in Saigon have been carrying on another of these egregious cru sades for a number of years. UNLIKE China, there is Communist ' influence or ilk r i ,Stt??4t.VAWi.6 raft "I made money this summer as a baby-sitter, bet h i too dangeroai yoa're always being driven home by dranas." i of Aug. 31. Credit would be ro strlcted. , This week the French Nation' al Assembly takes up the new budget. It is for $11.5 billion, up three billion from the year before. It is supposed to serve the dual purpose of aiding ait expanding economy while also serving as a brake on inflation by sopping up excess money. But to finance the heavy bur' den of its independent nuclear policy, the French government needs money in ever increasing ' sums. A clue to government think ing may come from Premier Georges Pompidou, by trade banker. The difference between a Frenchman and an American, he said, is that the American pretends to be rich and tha Frenchman pretends to be poor. In plainer words he could have said that only about half the Frenchmen who should pay taxes, actually do pay. them.' Tax evasion is a game enjoy ed by all Frenchmen. But re cent government action sug gests the rules arc about to be changed. By Joseph Alios) Trlbuna Syndicate sympathy here; and there il no one quite like Herbert Mat thews either. But the general order of priorities was indicat ed the other day by one of the leading young crusaders, who announced that after many weeks of passion-charged anti government stories, mingled with descriptions of the poor morale of the Vietnamese forces, he was going to pay another visit to the fighting front. "After all," he said, "there's another enemy to think about, up in North Viet Nam." Most of what the crusaders have written has been true, or part-true although this re porter has run into at least one province-team of U.S. officers who were deeply indignant, be- vauc uicy nau own aeacriDea as thinking the Vietnamese sol diers of their province were not putting up a good fight when uiey an inougnt me precise op posite. But it is easy enough to paint a dark, indignant picture, with out departing from the facts, if you ignore the majority of Americans who admire the Viet namese as fighters and seek out the one U.S. officer in ten who inevitably thinks all foreigners fight badly. (The reduction of the percentage to 1 in 10 marks great military progress in large mindedness.) The same method used to report the doings of the Diem government has naturally been even more effective, since a great many of these doings have been remarkably misguid-. ed, to use the mildest possible word. '.,,-' TN SOME measure, it must bo added, the crusaders have contributed to the Diem govern ment's misguidedness. The gov-" ernment has asked for it, since its press relations have always been idiotic. But the constant" pressure of the reoortorial cru- .carta affatnet lh bmmmmhI ka. also neiped mightily to trans-, form Diem from a courageous, quite viable national leader,; into a man afflicted with gal loping persecution mania, see ing plots around every corner, and therefore misjudging every thing. Ti j, ... i : i .j .' make the foregoing points. It is also high time to ask whether American crusades to reform' foreign governments really are a good idea at any time. Was Chiang, with all his defects, so much worse for the Chinese peo ple and, above all, for the American people than Mao Tse tung? Has Cuba gained and, above all, have we in the Unit ed States gained by the Batista--' Castro exchange? What are we in Viet Nam for anyway? - Surely we are here only to win the war. And the most an noying feature of the whole situation is that we actually were winning the war this spring, until the Diem govern ment went right around the) bend with considerable belli from the high-minded crusaders.