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SUNDAY, "Everyone Id southern Orcgoa Reads Tin Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Tir St. Ph. 17S-SH1 " ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising, Manas GEnALJJ I LAlllrtJa, oua mer ERIC AUJEN JR. Mne. Editor RICHARD jewetT, Sports Editor DALE ER1CKSON. ClrculaUon Mar A - tr4snanrinl N.wananel Fntri1 na aecond claaa matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES Daily and Sunday 1 rearttj Daily and Sunday moa 10 .00 DO umtiy mini duhu., - Sunday Only One year 15 uauy ana Dunuw-w S.0Q 9.00 J0C 'jally and Sunday 1 year 121 .00 jauy ana ouihibj a " 7H SOe r,rlar nrt Venrlnra CoDy t tuo Official Paper of City of Medford umciai raper m ' United Preaa International lull Leaaed Wire U. P I. Telephoto Newpleturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Qt CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS a, ASSOCI ATES Of'lcea In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francieco, Loa AnsKloa Seattle, Portland Denver. RATION At lOITOtlAl Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tn files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 24, 1953 (Tuesday) -over week end dumps 3.89 inch es of rain on Medford; Crater Lake reports S.07 inches of rain in 24 hour period. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 24, 1943 (Wednesday) District OPA examiner says no relief in tire shortage can be expected in Medford area until late 1944. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Older girls who optimistically report ed two weeks ago they had awaited the last fly of the sum mer are still at it. The last fly sure lasts. , 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 24. 1933 (Friday) Judge Earl Day returns from Salem where he. attended ses sion of state legislature. Mrs. A. P. Weiss, who came fo Southern Oregon in 1864, dies at her home in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 24, 1923 (Saturday) Medford School District cen sus expected to total more than 2,200 compared with 1922 figure of 2,169. Albert Hoppen, Medford, speaks in Minneapolis at 50th anniversary. 50 YEARS AGO ' Nov. 24, 1913 (Monday) Local men's clothing store ad vertises semi - bosom shirts, wilh cuffs which are guaranteed not to crack. Medford City budget reveals monthly salaries for city offi cials Include chief of police, $85; fire chief, $90; city engineer $150; and street sprinkler with team, $125. What's Your I.Q.? Nina M tea M la akti aaakvtaaaia seven oi eight Is eicellent; five el iia la gooo. 1. According to the scriptures, Cain was the brother of whom? 2. In boxing, a short choDoins blow to the back of the neck or base of the skull is known as what sort of punch? 3. Who In the film world has won the most "Oscars"? 4. The lute Knute Rockne achieved fame as a what? 5. Which steamship was sunk first, the SS Titanic or the SS Lusitama? A. Must a citizen be older to qualify as a U. S. Senator or a U. S. Representative? 7. Docs a person suffering from nyctophobia have a morbid (car of nils, nuts, or night? 8. Adult moths do not eat fab rics; true or false? n. Joe Yule Jr. is the real name of which movie star? 10. Name the author of the novel, "Robinson Crusoe." Answers: 1. Abel. Z. Rabbit punch. 3. Walt Disney. 4. Foot ball coach. 5. SS Titanic. 8. Sen, alnr. ?. Night. 8. True. t. Mickey Rooney. 10. Daniel Defoe. Ordinance Prohibits Handbill Distribtuion A Medford City ordinance pro hibits the distribution of hand' bill advertising within or on mo tor vehicles, City Manager Rob ert Duff reminded residents to day. The city has received com plaints that such advertising has been distributed recently. It is in violation of city coda, Duff said. VjJAMOCIATION NOVEMBER U. 1W Shock, Grief, Outrage This editorial is being written shortly after the news of President John F. Kennedy's as sassination was Hashed The sense of shock, unoenei, is numoing. t-i- , Life of course, will President Johnson will take over, and after the ceremonies and speeches are over, gradually people will start to iorget. But the implications, tions, the change in the continue, like ever-wiaening ripples in a pond QNLY TIME will rleyeal what the conse- auences will be noliticallv. intemation- A - It is too early even But is not too early ghastly blow at order pen. Is it a reflection of tainties of the time? What sort of mad killing the leader of the any problems. What sort of warped ally, economically, socially. lieve any gooa couia come oi such an act ; THROUGHOUT the nation and the world the reaction is uniform shock, grief, outrage. The grief is intensely Americans look upon their President with a close and personal attitude. More, in the per son of the young and vigorous John Kennedy, the nation had a highly attractive personality, one with whom most people could actively as sociate themselves. Too, the thought of sters now left fatherless and uprooted from the only world they have known, the young wife so recently bereaved by the loss of her baby - these heart-wrenching considerations make the sense of loss even more VIE YOUNG serviceman, home on leave and in civilian clothes, was asked by a TV re porter for his reaction. . In effect, he said that, for the first time in his to be an American. This is a feeling of What is to be said permit the development hate so much that he could, in cold blood and with deliberation, murder tion and the free world. Let us hold to the sheer insanity of the act may shock the hate mongers and lie-spreaders, if not into decency, at least into silence. E. A. The New Lyndon Johnson is the can history to take over the Presidency upon the violent death of a predecessor. The first also was a Johnson Andrew who became president after President Lincoln's assassination. What kind of a President will he be? We can only wait and see and speculate. The only sure thing is that he will different from John t . Kennedy. Generally, Johnson is as a pragmatic politician, as a skilled leader of men. For a time, at least, he can be expect ed to carry on the policies established during tne first three years of e BUT, DESPITE the semi-obscurity of the Vice a ivoiuviivyi uuituoirii jo mo uvii man it is inevitable that he will start making his own decisions, his own appointments, and setting his own "style" in office. Johnson has never made any bones of the fact that he would like what a shattering way And what an array him. They range from to economic to social to military. And decisions cannot be put off because of shock or grief. The business of the government must go for ward. AS PRESIDENT Johnson stands today at the pinnacle of power and responsibility, we all must needs wish him well wish him strength and health and knowledge and courage. We are indeed fortunate in this country that the powers of office can be transferred, swiftly and in an orderly manner, not only in emer gencies such as this, but perhaps even more im portant, through the elective process. It is tragic that this happened. But it is well that the founding fathers foresaw such eventu alities, and provided that the government would continue without more than a momentary pause. E. A. over the wires. of erief. of outrage, of no on. It alwavs does, the resultinp; disloca course of history, will f t to speculate. to wonder how such a and decency could hap ; the tensions and uncer mind could believe that free world could solve personality could be personal. Not only do the high-spirited young poignant. life, he was not proud shame we can all share. of a land which could of someone who could the leader of the na profound hope that the President fourth man in Ameri regarded as a liberal, the administration.. to be President. But of achieving that goal! of problems now face political to international "Look Out The Sky It Falling Down Whew I Saved You Again!" THE TWO EUROPES-IV . Turning now to European in ternational affairs, the main fact is that General De Gaulle got the jump on all his partners and allies because he was the first to realize and act upon the fact that the postwar era is end ing. Early in the day, he saw that, because nuclear war had ceased to be an instrument of Soviet expansionary policy, it had be come safe to turn away from the postwar arrangements. In the Gaullist view, this is not due to any change of heart in Mos cow, but to the decisive Ameri can superiority in nuclear wea pons. This estimate, they say, was confirmed in the Cuban af fair. If we are to understand the real calculation behind the gen eral's insistence on creating a French nuclear striking force, we must begin with the Gaullist conviction that, because of American power, the Soviet Union cannot launch a success ful aggressive surprise attack. No Frenchman pretends to be lieve that France can afford to match Soviet or American nu clear power. The candid Gaul lists with whom I have talked regard their small striking force as "independent" in a special and peculiar sense. Shocking though it may sound to Ameri cans, they expect this small force to give France the ability, on its own initiative, to press the trigger that would compel the United States to go into an all-out war. e STRICTLY speaking, what France is seeking to create is not an independent French nuclear force, but an indepen dent detonator of the American nuclear force. In these matters of the life and death of nations and of civilization itself, we can allow no such dangerous illusion to persist. However, I am not sure how seriously the whole business is to be taken. Thus, when I pressed the matter, pointing out that the United States would not surrender its independence to Paris and that we have many ways of asserting our Indepen dence, a Gaullist official with whom I was talking admitted quickly enough that France had no intention of pressing its trig ger. The French are just as much afraid of a nuclear holocaust as are the rest of us. The purpose of creating the trigger, he as sured me, is not to pull it ever but to negotiate with the United States and the Soviet Union on the basis that France possesses such a trigger and has a finger on it. I don't think this is going to deceive anybody very much, and there is no need, I conclude, to be too much excited in Washington over the French nu clear deterrent, or over the British. They are not military instruments. Thev are political instruments. Their main pur pose is to give weight to French and British diplomacy in all the steps that will lead up to an eventual accommoda tion. Though the accommodation is not yet in sight, it is believed to be not too far below the hori- IN the meantime, the security which results from the exist ing balance of nuclear power is so great that General De Gaulle feels quite free to dismantle the postwar structure. He does be lieve in the alliance between Western Europe and the United States in the commitment to go to war together if war breaks out and he insists that he proved it in the Cuban crisis. But he does not believe in the NATO establishment which Gen eral Eisenhower once command- MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (C) 1963 The Washington Pelf ed. He regards it as obsolete and as an undesirable prolonga tion of American hegemony in Western Europe. He does not believe in the ideology of the Common Market and in the political aspirations toward European union which accompanied its birth. And so he may break up the Common Market if Chancellor Erhard does not sacrifice the German farm bloc to the French farm bloc. He does not believe in the United Nations as a peace-keeping organization, and he has lit tle respect for it as a debating forum, because it contains so many new and weak govern ments. He does not believe in nego tiating with the Soviet Union now, because he does not think anything wilr be lost if we do not negotiate. a e MOREOVER, there is a pro found difference between his views of West Germany and the current American view. We tend to think of Germany as purged and recovered and as the lead ing power of Western Europe. The real Gaullist view, so I have come to realize, is that West Germany, after the criminal orgy of Nazism, after the shock of defeat and with the open wounds of partition, is a big, deeply - perturbed invalid who must be nursed, guarded and tranquilized lest he relapse into his old illusion.. That is why the generafthinks that our attitude toward West Germany is simple - minded and dangerous. So one may say that he dis likes practically everything that Truman and Acheson, Eisen hower and Dulles constructed when Western Europe was poor, prostrate and defenseless. And now that Western Europe is prosperous and feels itself se cure, the general rejects entire' ly President Kennedy's assump tion that he is the leader and protector of the Western society General De Gaulle is not very kind about it all, and he does nothing to make it easier to come to an understanding to agree, let us say, on the idea that the postwar structure was the salvation of Europe, but that it has served its purpose and must be radically transformed before we shall begin to see the permanent shape of European American relations. But however lacerated our feelings, the evidence is, I think, unmistakable that 'the Euro peans have turned a corner and that the postwar era is over. Seen from Europe, our own ef forts to revive the Western al liance as it was in the 1950s "It's a major crisis a shortage of alcohol In Russia means ill the hooters will be defecting to the West!" OREGON ' In the Day's News By FRANK President John F. Kennedy has been shot and killed by an assassin in Dallas, Texas. He had just arrived in the city, and was on his way from the airport to the downtown area to deliver a luncheon speech sponsored by Dallas trade organization. He was riding in the famous Bubble Top car, which had been sent from Washington. It was designed to deflect bullets. But the top was DOWN. There was a sudden burst of gunfire, and the President slumped over in the back of the car. He was rushed to an emergency hos pital, but never recovered con sciousness. T'HE killing of President Ken nedy raises to four the num ber of American Presidents who have died at the hands of assassins. The first was President Lin coln, in 1865. By way of relaxa tion after a grinding day, he had gone to Ford's Theater, in Washington. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth. He was car ried unconscious to a lodging house across the street from the theater and died early the next morning. At almost the same moment. Secretary Sew ard was attacked and severely wounded at his home. ON HARDWARE AND PHOSPHATES WASHINGTON The Soviet anti-missile-missile, so ostenta tiously displayed in Moscow on the recent anniversary of the Russian Revolution, is a re markably interesting piece of hardware, for a whole series of reasons. Simply as hardware, to be sure, this new weapon is not in timidating. Its characteris tics have now been analyzed, with minute care, by the American experts; and there is little re maining doubt that it is at least marginally inferior to its Amer ican equivalent, the Nike-Zeus. The shape of its fins proves (only the experts know how!) that the Soviet anti-missile-missile is designed for last minute interception, after an enemy ICBM has already entered the atmosphere and is therefore very close to its target. Its con figuration also proves that its acceleration from take-off is poorer than that of the Nike Zeus. a AS MAY be recalled, Secre tary of Defense Robert Mc Namara some time ago decided that Nike -Zeus was not good enough to be put into large-scale production. He therefore ordered the research-and-developers to go to work on Nike-X. This more advanced missile will be much more foolproof than Nike-Zeus; it will intercept outside the atmosphere; and it will have other advantages as well. There is no reason whatever to suppose, however, that Mar shal Rodion Malinovsky has the the same views about his new anti - missile - missile as McNa mara has about the Nike-X. Parade display of a new wea pon in the Soviet Union has gen erally been the prelude to quan tity production. And it is just about certain that the Soviet De fense Ministry is now pushing hard for quantity production of the new anti-missile-missile just as the U.S. Army pushed for mass production of Nilte-Zeus. tend to sound like the old soldier fighting all over again the bat tles of the wars he went to stop. And our speeches often sound like those of the old actor who is playing a return engagement in a hole which once made him famous. JENKINS 'THE next President to die by an assassin's bullet was Gar field. He was shot at the Wash ington railroad station by Charles J. Guiteau, a mentally unstable and disappointed office seeker who boasted that be wanted Arthur for President. PRESIDENT William McKin ley was shot while attending a reception at the Pan Ameri can Exposition in Buffalo. He was shot on September 6, 1901, and lingered on until September 14, when he died. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt imme diately took the oath of office as our 25th President. NOW comes the fourth assas sination of an American President. It is a terrible indictment of a nation that claims to be the most enlightened nation on earth. Why this record? PERHAPS there is a clue in the derivation of the word. It comes from ASSASSINS or HASHISHIN (hemp-eaters), the name of a twelfth-century band of Moslems in Persia and Asia Minor who smoked a drug call ed hashish, and under its influ ence murdered their enemies. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop le) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE estimated price -tag on mass deployment of the new anti-missile-missile is a cool 10 to 12 billion dollars. Further more, since the missile inter cepts only at relatively low alti tudes, mass deployment would not make sense without another three billion dollars or so, to be spent on shelters giving protec tion from the fallout of the inter cepted enemy missiles. If the Soviets decide to pay the staggering price for mass deployment of their new wea pon, the U.S. will merely have to invest a bit more in fooling devices, to help our Minuteman confuse the defense, and on more Minutemen to saturate the defense. But the record shows, as noted above, that this kind of argument has little weight with the Soviet Defense Ministry, even if it impresses the civilian leaders of Russia. Hence, it is also just about certain that the Soviet anti-mis sile-missile is not just a new weapon, but also a gigantic bone of contention. It has to be a bone of contention since Soviet resources are gravely over strained. A decision to go ahead with mass output of this new weapon will in fact increase the strain to the point of producing dramatic political effects. THE need to make this de cision coincides, moreover, with the need to make another even more grave decision. In order to solve the increasingly acute Soviet agricultural prob lem, Nikita S. Khrushchev has been talking about a crash pro gram to increase Soviet arti ficial production to 35 million tons per year, at a cost, accord ing to Khrushchev, of $20 billion. Thus the Soviet leaders are now confronted by a clear choice between an immensely costly investment which is des perately needed to correct the growing imbalances in the So viet economy. It is a case of do ing one thing or the other, for it is certainly impossible for the Soviets to do both. The final Soviet choice will become known soon after the agricultural plenum of the Cen tral Committee convenes in Moscow on Dec. 9. Meanwhile, it is already clear that the choice is proving difficult and even agonizing. e a rpHE Chinese Communists even appear to hope that the agony may spur the Soviet mili tary leaders to overthrow or overrule Khrushchev and his al lies in the Politburo. In truth, the latest Peking attack on Mos cow, which has been widely mis interpreted, is an almost open incitement to the Soviet mar shals. Khrushchev is viciously denounced for wanting to "dis integrate" the Soviet armed forces. The intention is obvious. On the other side of the bal ance sheet, there are reports that Marshal Malinovsky may shortly be replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal S. S. Bir yuzov or another Soviet leader more pliable to Khrushchev's will. Whether or not this extreme expedient is adopted, Khrush chev is on the whole expected to get his way by the American demonologists. But no one can be sure, as yet, about the out come of this Kremlin debate which really affects the whole world. GREAT IDEAS... HOW TO SPEND TIME INTELLIGENTLY Dear Dr. Adler: The Ameri can worker of today has more hours of leisure and more money to spend for pleasures of travel, play, or relaxation than ever before. Yet we all know Individuals who feel so guilty about having this "free time" that they will engage in any activity no matter how foolish or dangerous in order to be "busy." Did the great philosophers have anything to say about leisure time and its use? Marion Adams 1741 South Main St. Hopklnsville, Ky. Dear Miss Adams: Most ma ture people, if they were asked whether they would be happy idle all the time, would reply in the negative. Their answer would be the same, though per haps more hesitant, if they were asked if they would be happy playing and amusing themselves all their lives long. Yet doing nothing and playing represent for most people the main as pects of free time the wak ing hours in which they are free from work. In an era when the amount of free time has increased greatly, the common attitude that our "off" time should be devoted chiefly to idleness and amusement raises an alarming prospect. One envisions millions of people at their wits' end try ing to think of something to fill up their time, to "kill time," as the saying goes. The Greek philosopher Aris totle would have considered such an attitude ridiculous and irra tional. As he saw it, free time is the precious portion of our lives in which we can engage in tne intrinsically valuable activi ties of thought, learning, and public service. These are the activities that make life worth living and which fulfill us as human beings. These activities comprise what Aristotle called "leisure. As he uses the term, leisure is not synonomous with free time, as it IS for most of us today, but it is one of the ways in which we use free time. Play and idleness are among the other ways in which we use free time. Aris totle considered play a good tning, wnen pursued in moder ation, because it provides recre ation from the fatigues of work and thought and affords pleasur able enjoyment. If we apply Aristotle's recipe to our present situation, we would divide our time in the fol Editorial Comment John F. Kennedy The young President whom we lost yesterday gave at all times his best to the Nation. In the spirit of his Inaugural Address, he asked only what he could do for his country, and did it. It is the country he served which somehow failed him. For in their shock and sorrow, the American people must feel troubled and ashamed that in this 17fitli still have not learned to oi meir nignesi servant. No act can be more sordid and disgraceful than a political assassination. Who are we Amer icans, who claim the leadership of the Free World, that we should have allowed this kind of violent and insensate thing to happen to our na tional leaders four times within a century? The question is an accusation ; let us hope that others will be too charitable to hurl it at us. Often the young and vigorous are called upon to die in the service of their country. Somehow, in the distress and shock of the moment, it seems that America's young leader has fallen in battle. That is as useful and comforting an image as we can find for this profoundly sad and unnecessary incident. People everywhere were deeply attached to the forceful and vigorous personality of John F. Kennedy. Many have said since his death, "He seemed almost a member of the family." No doubt television had much to do with this. The voice heard so often in the family group, and the accompanying grin, will remain long in memory. The life and leadership of the Nation will go on under President Lyndon Johnson, without panic or interruption. But for the moment, the Nation centers its grief on its fallen leader, and extends its profoundest sympathy to Mrs. Ken nedy, her children, and the President's family. San Francisco Chronicle. From the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler (c) 1963, Publisher! Newspaper Syndicate lowing manner. First would come the economic activities which are necessary to provide us with the material means of existence. Then would come play and physical relaxation to provide us with recreation and recuperation. Finally, and most valuable, would come the leisure activities which help us to grow as individuals and as members of the community. In the latter category belong our cultural activities, such as serious study and artistic pro duction for their own sake, not to make a living. To the works of leisure also belong our social and political activities again amateur, not professional for the common good. Leisure is the productive use of free time, and its fruits are the de velopment and perfection of the mind and of the community. This Aristotelian analysis of the time of our lives, however, does not imply that we must al ways keep busy doing something during our waking hours. On the contrary, higher even than lei sure is what I call "rest," and what others have called "quiet," "silence, or similar terms. By "rest," I mean the great, prec ious, holy Sabbath - movement, when we have ceased from use--ful activity both the economic and the leisure kind and are simply open to the highest re ality, to the basis and core of; things. "Rest" is the time of contemplation, prayer, or wor ship those non-utilitarian ac tivities which all of us must re sort to in order to complete our selves. I would divide the time of our lives, then, into these five parts or activities: (1) sleep, (2) working for a living, (3) play, (4) leisure, and (5) "rest" in the Sabbath sense. It is the last two that are the essentially hu man activities, whereby we per fect ourselves as human beings. You can win a 54-voIume 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. Ad ler to consider for inclusion in this column. Each week he will select as first prize win ners the writers of the three of these letters as a basis for best letters. He will use ONE a future column and will an swer it in terms of the intel lectual heritage of the Great Books 443 works by 74 authors, spanning 30 centuries of thought. Address the letters to Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, In care of this newspaper. protect the life and safety
