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toDFORD-i&&.TRIfiU "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reada The lallTrlbune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFGRD PRINTING CO 33 North fir St, Ph.77:l-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adverlltlnc Manager GERALD T LATHAM. But Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor F.ARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CII1PMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women ! Editoi DALE ER1CKSON. ClrculaUorMg An Independent Newspapel Entered al second class matter at Medlord Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year 118 00 Dally and Sunday 6 moa 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 5 00 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy (Malledi 20c By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Pally and Sunday 1 mo. 1 75 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier andVendora Copy 10c Official Paper of Cltv of Medford Official Paper of Jacksun County United Preta International 5 till Leased Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturea "weSibeTTop AUDIT BUREAU" or t;iKt.uLAiiun3 NELSON ROBERTS tt ASSOCt. ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi caco. Detroit, San Francisco, Loi Anielvi. Seattle, Portland Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Memner California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of The) Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AOO Oct. 20. 1053 (Tuesday) Burning permits are no longer required as of midnight last night. A resolution requesting city council action providing for a city meat inspection ordinance has been passed by the Medford Central Labor Council. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1913 (Wednesday) City council studies problems of growing city; population of 23,000 to 50,000 expected after war. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Hunters are more careful this fall. Due to the cost and scarcity of shot gun shells, no gay-colored O-Ce- dar mop, dozing peacefully on a rural backporch, nas heen snot for a Chinese pheasant rooster." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1033 (Friday) Business shift from Main st. seen unless improvements made. Farmers complain pheasant hunters ignore trespass signs. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1923 (Saturday) Idctity of Siskiyou tunnel train robbers now known and will be revealed in few days. Escapees from county jail at Jacksonville caught at Eugene. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 20, 1913 (Monday) Ashland visited by gang of robbers; check of "jungle" shows hoboes have left town. Tramp slain during quarrel in "jungle" near Talent. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct- li superior; seven or eight Is excellent; rival or six is good. 1. What common name may be applied to a weapon, container, large jail cell and swimming pool? 2. What famous document was promulgated at Runnymcdc in 1215? 3. In what comir opera is there a character "Little But tercup"? 4. I'sc of what common ob ject is partly governed by an V numbering system? 5. Correct the following: "John is the best of the two men." 6. Name the three states of the union that have four-letter names. 7. Give the Zodiac designation for the period from Sept. 24 to Oct. 23. 8. Which are the "one-eyed" jacks in a deck of plaving cards? 9. In a scaling triangle are all the angles the same, different, or more than 90 degree? in. United Slates light ships are normally operated by what branch of the service? Answers: 1. Tank. 2. Magna Charta. 3. II. II. S. Pinafore. 4. Cameras. 5. "John is the better . . ." 8. Iowa, Ohio and I'tah. 7. Libra. 8. Spades and Hearts. 9. Different. 10. Coast Guard. REAL- LAM) LOR!) NEW YORK (LTD - The U.S. government owns so much land in Alaska that if 1.3 mil lion acres (the size of Delaware) were taken aivay every day from Jan. 1, to Oct. is, the government would still have some left over, the Tax Foun dation says. v?5 miliums iJNAY. OCTOBER 20, 1S63 What Do The During the campaign iuesclays overwhelming lature's tax measure, so many arguments against it were put forth that no clear picture emerged of the most important prevailed. Some were against the "big spenders." Others were against "too high taxes." Still others wanted taxation, the most frequently mentioned were a general sales tax and a cigarette tax. THE PEOPLE have spoken, loudly. Let their will be done. But what, pray tell, IS their will? There are a number of alternatives possible, in the wake of the tax bill's demise. And already it is plainly evident that Legislature have no idea best suit the electorate. Should there be massive and destructive cuts in state services and in be some cuts coupled increase; should an entirely new tax program be presented to the people for a vote? THE ROSEBURG News-Review, in an editorial entitled "The Voter's Duty Is Not Done Yet," stated that those who voted "no" last Tues day have an obligation of good citizenship to inform their legislators why they voted the way they did. The best way of doing this is to get in touch with them directly. Here are the names and ad dresses of Jackson county's legislators: Slate Sen. L. W. Ncwbry, Route 1, Box 253, Talent. State Rep. John Dcllcnback, 110 East Sixth St., Medford. Slain Rnn VAwarA RpnnnhfinlH Slni-lr Gt iVInrlfntvl State Rep. James Redden, 518 Barnes ave., Medford. Tell them why you voted "no," and what you expect them to do at the special session Nov. 11. w a. xtrvrp rrrn i i : i : A i ncjix, anu put naps easier, way iu vuiue your feelings about Oregon's fiscal prob lems is to complete and mail in the questionnaire which appears on Page 1 of today's Mail Tribune. They will be tabulated, and the results made known, not only to the members of the Legisla ture, but to the voters as well. The more replies received, the better able the Legislators will be to follow the "mandate of the people" what ever it is. To be counted, the Mail Tribune news room Wednesday, Oct. 23. You are invited to participate. E.A. Medford s ' 'Isolation Here in Medford with excellent airline serv ice, fine highways, bus service, radio, TV and newspaper coverage of events everywhere, tele phone and telegraph we are no longer as "iso lated" from the rest of the world as once we were. We can talk with almost anyone, anywhere, within a matter of seconds or minutes at the most. We learn of events within moments after they happen. We can be in New York in less than a day, in London in less than two. But, largely '..tie to we really are "isolated" 'TWERE are two major, overriding domestic problems in this nation today. One is the search for equality of opportunity in education, jobs, housing of the large Negro minority. The other is the haunting spectre of increas ing unemployment, resulting from the fact that 200,000 jobs are disappearing each year due to automation, while more than a million new work ers enter the labor force. The two are not unrelated, for the Negroes, many handicapped educationally, and often dis criminated against, have a far higher percentage of unemployment than do the whites. Both problems are increased in severity by school drop-outs, inadequate schools, lack of opportunity for job training, and a long list of other handicaps. JiTEDFORD is largely not entirely but in large part "isolated" from these two major prob lems facing the nation. We have unemployment yes. But not the massive and chronic unemployment that can deaden a whole area, like West Virginia, or parts of Kentucky. We have occasional flare-ups of racial feel ing yes. But, for a combination of reasons, the! most important of which is the lack of racial minority groups, we have no problems such as those faced by Birmingham, New York, Detroit,! Chicago or Los Angeles. ! How long can we retain this pleasant "isola-j lion" from our two most pressing problems? No one knows. But not forever. E.A. Condensation Frank Jenkins, our columnist, has a way with words. He pointed out in his column to day that Gibbon took 2700 small-print pages to explain the Decline and Kail of the Roman Empire. Then Frank showed how foolish and long winded Gibbon was. He said the reason for Rome's fall was simple. And he gave it in eight words "Rome bit off more than she could chew." That's a right smart job of condensation. E.A. Voters Want? which resulted in last defeat of the Legis- reasons the no votes a different program of many members of the which of them would education? Should there with a more modest tax ballots should be in the not later than noon, the quirks of geography, in one sense of the word. "And So My Old Man!' CHINA SEEKING NEW PARTNERS TOKYO In future, it will be well for Washington to remem ber that Communist China ex ercises a double pull on pros perous, bustling, capitalist Ja pan. On the one hand, the Japan ese feel that they did the 'Chinese people" an iniurv in the last war; and despite Chiang Kai-shek, they consider mat the Chinese people are to be found on the mainland. On the other hand, the Japanese vividly remember the era when China and Manchuria cheaply provided a large part of the ba sic raw materials needed by Japan's industry. This double pull exerted by Communist China also has a double effect. On the one hand, the Japanese who are reason ably realistic about Communist China Foreign Minister Ohira is a conspicuous example are considerably rarer than hen's teeth. Sentimentality and the want of good information gener ally combine to produce re markably mushy estimates of the Peking regime and its fu ture. ... riN THE other hand, the first two factors noted also com bine with the last-noted, to make trade with Communist China seem both attractive and virtu ous in the eyes of the Japanese. This is very important indeed at the present juncture, when Pe king has started a major drive to replace its former Commu nist bloc industrial suppliers with new trading partners out side the Communist part of the world. It cannot he too often empha sized that this substitution is a life and death matter for Pe king. The causes of the Chinese Communist purchase of British Viscount aircraft are directly in point here. In brief, the Chinese internal air transport system had been almost exclusively equipped with Russian llyushins. But since 11159 the Russians have nut mere ly refused to deliver any more llyushins to China; they have also withheld deliveries of the spare parts to keep the existing llyushins operational. Hence most of them are beginning to be grounded, and the British Viscounts are desperately need ed. Without them, in fact, Com munist China would soon have no domestic air transport. 'PHIS is the model, as it were, ! -- of the present situation of the entire Communist Chinese industrial plant and, it must be added, of all the units of the armed forces using more ad vanced weapons. Hence Peking has eagerly invited visits by "trade delegations." Britain, France. West Germany, Japan, and others have all scented prof its and responded. Two factors will determine the outcome. The first factor is whotlior any major non-Commu nist industrial power sets tne i example of extending long-term credits to China. This example ; may be set by the French, who may also set the further exam- pie of selling arms to Peking. In 1 the present phase of French poi lev -making, anything is possible. li nil' ririiin M-i una Mini m example, the Japanese will be both impressed and influenced to put the matter very mildly in deed. But even if we leave out this still speculative possibility or probability, we hate still to deal with the second factor, which mainly concerns Japan. CINCE the commercial export - of human beings is now for- j hidden, trade with Communist China has few attractions for most of the really developed na tions unless, like Gen. de I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (Cl New York Herald Tribune Svndltale Gaulle, they see this trade as an other good opportunity for stick ing a loving thumb into Presi dent Kennedy's eye. But this is not true of Japan. China's shortage of goods that other non-Communist industrial nations arc likely to want to buy can be judged from the fact that current Chinese trade plans seem to be keyed to increased exports of cheap textiles and third quality canned meat not exactly gold-mine-style earners. But to Japan, China can also supply with profit the same raw materials as in the old days, such as soybeans, coal, and iron ore. The recently made "private" trade agreement will probably increase Sino - Japanese trade from an estimated two-way ex change of about $120 million this year to $160 million two ways next year. Additional soybean purchases, which will hurt American producers, are a con siderable factor in the increase of Japanese purchases from China to around $75 million for 1964. a 1JUT in order to resume trade " on a really big scale, the Japanese must invest heavily at long term, in order to re-equip the Chinese coal and iron indus tries, both for larger production and for production of coal and iron ore of much better quality. Only thus can the pre-war trade pattern be restored. At present, the Japanese lead ers are strongly disinclined to take the political-commercial risks of this kind of investment. The forecast here, in truth, is far more hopeful than the fore cast for France. But the central point for Wash ington to remember is that pres sure on Japan in this situation will almost certainly be counter productive. Patience is once more the watchword. Editorial Comment BIG DAY In case you didn't know, Tues day, Oct. 15, was Poetry Day in Oregon, as well as election day. Some insist there was nei ther rhyme nor reason in the way the people voted. Oregon Statesman. Salem. Common By ERIC SEVAREID (DMMtiutrd 1983, llv Thr Hall Syndicate, Inc.) ( Ml Rtchts Keservedl The second session of the Vat ican Council is now deep in its work and interested observers everywhere seize upon each for al statement that emerges, each reported portion of debate, each "ipflk " to form their own est imation of what mav ultimately come from this century's for- rnidable exercise in ecumenism. jn universalism. ... Impatience mav poorlv com- Mr, wh ihe nnifiinHiiv of the issues and with the age and massive bulk of the Roman latholic Church, hut men no longer have generations at their disposal; time, like space, has been terribly foreshortened. The Council of Trent, four centuries ago, could spend 18 interrupted years at its work of revitalizing the Romiin Church to face the (orce f protestantism. But this Council has no such luxury of time in the (ace of Communism. the explosion of non-Christian populations and the inner debil itation of the entire Christian GREAT IDEAS... from (c) 1063, COMMUNISM AN OLD THEORY Dear Dr. Adler: Was the theory of Communism an orig inal thought in the minds of Marx and Engels or has it not been an idea in the minds of great thinkers as early as Plato and Aristotle? Marilyn Pearlman 2418 Jackson ave., Memphis, Tenn. Dear Miss Pearlman: Com munism is no new thing in the Western world, either in theory or in practice. The common owner ship and use of wealth was ad vocated by such thinkers as Plato, Zeno, and Thomas More. It was practiced among the early Christians, in later Christian sects, and in the Utop ian communities established in Europe and America in the 19th century. The collective farms in present day fsrael are "commu nistic" in this broad, general sense. Communism as a revolution- arv movement intended to transform radically the whole of society began with certain doc- trines preached during the French Revolution. It became a practical force in the 1840's, when it was proclaimed by rev olutionary groups in France, who are credited with coining the term "communism." It re ceived its historical and decis ive expression in the "Commu nist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, published in 1848. Their little pamphlet set forth the principles of commu nism in the form that it has taken down to our day. "A spectre is haunting Europe the spectre of Communism," the "Manifesto" begins. It then proceeds to set forth a theory of history, and social revolution. History, it says, has been shaped by the struggles between the exploiting and exploited classes master and slave, lord and serf, capitalist and workingman. Mankind has ad vanced in each successive stage of history as a new class has emerged to dominate and trans form the social and economic system. The last and most not able advance occurred when in dustrial "capitalism supplanted agrarian feudalism. All previous social transfor mations, however, said Marx and Engels, have worked to the benefit of a minority, for they have consisted only of new forms of exploitation by a new ruling class, which obtained profit and power for itself. The coming communist revolution, on the contrary, according to them, would work for the bene fit of all mankind. It would in augurate a classless society, where no group dominates and exploits others. "In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms," they assured the world, "we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." Mark and Engels foresaw a transitional period of dictator ship and inequality in which the new society would be built and the former owning classes e vented from regaining control. After that, though, they envis ioned that the state would "dis solve and disappear," or "with er a w a y," and that society would proceed on the principle, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." However, we see no evidence Christian Ground Need of West establishment in this age of ! worldly furies. The Council of Trent began 1 with an impetus toward re-ab-1 sorbins the Protestants but quickly became a process of in- j nor renewal, which ultimately ! became, however, one of restor ation. The herald of this Vatican Council as proclaimed by the late Pope John was Christian ' Unity, but the process has be come chiefly "aggiornamento" or renewal. This has to be the road, no doubt, toward the far distant goal of unity, but the roadblocks are formidable The ' most immediate is the rigidity of that ultra-conservative, mas sive bureaucracy, the Roman Curia The Council of Trent tried but failed to ventilate the Curia It will require a con tinued act of w ill by Pope Paul i as well as the continued spirit of the late Pope John if this louncu is iruiy to iioeranze tne tuna. It is the nature of anv estab lishment to be at least a little out of date. If the Church be- came modernized to the point of worldliness it would betrav its very meaning It must constant ly seek a true balance within a permanent dilemma; but the feeling has grown nearly every where that today the Christian Church as a whole has fallen far. far behind events and the needs and thoughts of men It o 4 the Great Books j jr mommer j. Adler Publishers Newspaper Syndicate of such a surrender of state power or the advent of perfect equality in the Soviet Union, where a communist regime has ruled for nearly 50 years. Apol ogists for the regime argue that Russia is still in the first or "socialist" phase of commu nism, and not enough time has passed to develop the fully communist society envisioned by Marx and Engels. Marxist critics of the regime, such as Leon Trotsky, argue that a truly free and classless society can not be established in one country surrounded by an other wise capitalist world. The true reason, however, for the discrepancy between theory and reality, may be simply that Marx and Engels were com pletely wrong in their view of man as a political and social animal that, despite their claims to being hard-headed realists with a scientific know ledge of society, they were Utop ian visionaries. The lesson of events in the communist coun tries of our day seems to be that I when men take over complete j economic and social power, the ! new rule is tar more oppressive than the old, while the age-old drives for privilege and profit are satisfied in new and more dangerous forms. You can win a 54-volume set of the Great Books of the Western World by writing a letter, not to exceed 150 words, incorporating a question of general interest for Dr. Adler to consider for inclusion in this column. Each week he will select as first prize win ners the writers of (he three best letters. He will use ONE of these letters as a basis for a future column and will ans wer it in terms of the intellec tual heritage of the Great Books 4-1:1 works by 74 authors, spanning 30 centuries of thought. Address the letters to Dr. Mortimer J. Atllcr, in care of this newspaper. Try and By BENNETT CERF OBVIOUSLY, states P. G. Wodehouse, the Soviet's top comic is Khrushchev, and if you don't believe it, you have only to watch him on TV. His material usually consists of some obscure Russian proverbs and how he delivers his punch lines! Wodehouse says, "Mr. K. glares at the Presidium and says, 'In Russia, we have a proverb. A chick en that crosses the road does so to get to the other side, but wise men dread a bandit.' Then his face sort of splits in the mid dle and his eyes disap pear into his cheeks like oysters going dowa for the third time in an oys ter stew, and if the com rades are a second late with the big belly laugh, their next job is likely to be running a filling station out Siberia way." v a Walter Vanger tells about a doctor who was awakened at 3 a.m. by his wife, who reported that the bathroom was flooded. Ho nmmntlv Tthnnpd his nlumhcr. "This Is a hark of an hour to wake me," protested the plumber. "Do you realize it's three ia the morning?" "I cerutinJv do," never hesitate to call me at that hour when you've been drinking too much and your head hurts. Jsow what am I going: to do about that overflow-in? bathtub?" "Tell you what you do, Doc tor," proposed the plumber after a moment's pause. "Take two aspirins and drop them in that tub. If it isn't better in the morn ing call me again.1' 19t3, by Bennett Cet-f. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, seems the culmination of a pro cess now several centuries old. a period in which the vitality of the Church has faded further and further from the quality of its first millenium. Perhaps, too, Christianity has reached and retreated from its outermost phvsical limits. Only some 28 per cont of humanity is Christian, and the countervail - ing forces, including the great nnraitntinn cmu-th in the East and the SDread of Islam in Af- rica. show no signs of slowing down Yet our chief concern must be with the Western world, the decisive arena for the immense contest between philosophies and ways of life. It is the decis ive arena because the general cultural and intellectual contag ion of the West has been the dominant contaeion for cen turies now. and marks the rest ' 'r " r uitiu man the rest of the world marks the West. It is hard to see how the W est is to find its way into the future if it makes an essential break with its Christian base of strength and cohesion. We do not seem to be finding a sub stitute. If only the great cur rent schism in the ranks of Com munism couut now be met by a great act of union to heal the sp "Why tell 'em you support Kennedy's wheat deal? We might want to attack It in '64. It's cynical, but that's politics!" In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Mishmash in the news: In Pennsylvania, Governor William W. Scranton says he will block any move to draft him as a Republican Presiden tial candidate. He adds: "We're no longer living in the era where your friends surprise you with a draft." NOTE, please, that he doesn't go as far as General Wil liam Tecumseh Sherman who, when it was proposed that he be drafted as a Presidential can didate, put it like this: "If nominated, I WON'T RUN, and if elected I WON'T SERVE." XTEWS note from Berlin: 11 The Russians clamped an other squeeze on Berlin's high way lifeline. For nine hours, they held up a British military convoy on the outskirts of West Berlin, where they blocked a U.S. convoy last week. IVHAT'S in the wind? ' Well, the Washington the- ory is Stop Me a-sserted the doctor, "but you this epoch a truly memorable American life, it is not applied one. so strictly to undergraduates (in So far, no overarching move : college). . . Graduate students appears in progress. The things i are usually as studious and seri that unite Christians are greater : ous as lno freshmen are feck than the thines that divide them loss and foolish. . . As soon as ' bul the things that divide them nave swollen to fearsome pro- I portions by the encrustations of 1 age and habit. 1 Renewal of both Catholicism ; a"d Protestantism will proceed 1 with small and hesitant stens. but it is movement nevertheless, 1 and 'here is excitement in the air. tne dialogue in the at- ican's corridors between men of the Papal Church and men of the Protestant Church is not dwindling but growing in inten sity. Among other things a com mon English Bible could come out of this, and, perhaps far more important, a declaration from the Vatican in support of full freedom of religious con- science for all believers. " " But deep in the fastness of this great confrontation lies the bedrock of the schism the dif- ference in the sources of revela- tion. Yet here, at the heart of the difficulty, there is a uni- ersal tool at hand. It is the science of archeology and mod- cm Biblical research. With this tool the rock of difference can yet be taken apart, chip by chip, and the original and common ground rediscovered, on which! somehow got MIXED UP and stopped our convoys by mistake. So They got mixed up again yes terday and stopped a British convoy in the same way. QUESTION: H wh hat are they really up to? Here s a guess: They're probing to find out HOW FAR THEY CAN GO and what they can get away with without a fight. FROM Washington: Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, the "independent" communist who seeks friendly ties with both East and West, arrives for an informal but highly signifi cant visit with President Ken nedy. DISTURBING thought: When Rome was mistress of the world, they came from EVERYWHERE to Rome. They came to get Rome to build their roads. They came to get Roma to help them to defeat their enemies. Thev came to ect a,u ilUllIC IUI IUUU when they were hungry. Rome was then the dispenser of all good things as the U.S. claims to be in these modern days. WHAT finally came of it? Well, as Gibbon tells us in some 2700 pages of small print ROME DECLINED AND FELL. lUHY? ' The answer is simple. Rome bit off more than sha could chew. Do you reckon we might be doing the same thing? Communications No Compassion To the Editor: The following from the periodical, "Atlas tha World Press in Translation," Oc tober 1963, by Pierre Aubrey (a Frenchman): "The struggle for life in tha United States is so ferocious that it is often difficult to look at it squarely. . . "American universities ara primarily concerned with sing- . ng the praises of existing cap- italist society in order to pre pare tneir students to accept that society without even being tempted to criticize it. . . "In most cases the professor depends (for his faculty posi tion) upon businessmen, wealthy lawyers, and prosperous church men, who sit on the boards of trustees of the universities." (and decide school policies) . . . "Although the law of compe tition rules every aspect of 'ht,' enter graduate school, the law lot competition) rules lero- ciously. . . "In the United States it is necessary to act, to do some- ,nmB moreover, it is not tha artist, the thinker, the scholar, 'he statesman, the writer, or the man of wit. but the millionaire businessman who is the ideal of American Society. . . "(Americans think) of what use, really, are those people who ask questions, raise em barrassing problems, wish to Probe deeply, interfere critically and stand on principle'' Amer- cans are impatient to act, to get ahead. Toward what goal? Of- ten they are not quite certain. . . They are busy doing! . . . and doing in an astmosphere of fever, uneasiness and the fear that is permanently maintained by the pitiless competition which sets the individual against the whole world. . . 'The United States (is) an ex- hilarating country for the younj and the strong who mav use their fresh energies there but also a country' with no compas- sion for the weak and those defeated bv life " ' R.lnh MrKinms old schism in the ranks of all Christians may stand as they P O. Box :tl Christianity that would make . stood long ago. I shland Ore e 0 ' ' ' " ' v.