Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 26, 1963, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 26, 1963 Two More Sessions of Ecumenical Council EDITOR'S NOTE: The sec ond dispatch In a three-part review of the Ecumenical Council follows. Written by UPI's reliKion writer who has covered the second session since its s t a r t, ' the d 1 s patch deals with the outlook for further ecumenical ses sions.' .- Said To Be Possibili By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International VATICAN CITY (UPI) -There probably will be two more sessions of. the Ecumeni cal Council one in the fall of 1964, and another in the fall of 1965. , That forecast comes from one of the four moderators named by Pope Paul VI to pre side over the council. It evi dently reflects the Pope's own thinking. The council held its first nine week session in the fall of 1962 at the call of the late Pope John XXIII. It reconvened at the call of Pope. Paul on Sept. 29 of this, year, and is sched uled to recess Dec. 4, permit- Small Worlds Around Us ? By LYNN M. WATKINS tfir and Tribunal Simdkata mj) ' P. T. Barnum Was More Than Right The under -crust hardness of frozen earth prevented the melt ing show water from penetrat ing the ground, so it ran away, seeping into the litter of the river border, spilling out onto the porous river ice, already rotted by the brightening sun. For a few days the melted snow water timidly trickled into the stream, then, with the warm ing days, it became a little flood as a head of . water built up on the higher level. The sur face, Ice, rotted, rivulets of wa ter cut meandering paths in the already soft surface. The break-up proceeded, and every living thing responded, each in its own way. . At the bottom of the lakes and ponds, the family of fish known col lectively as "suckers," made ready to invade the streams; they would venture forth as soon as the ice went out. It was time for the spawning, and up in the rivers and streams was the pre ferred place. , Ail React The suckers, the red horse, common, the white-nose, and the stone roller, all hear the gushing waters of spring, or react to the biological urge of their kind! The impulse that possesses them becomes irresist ible, they begin moving. Even . -.nong humans,, the call be comes demanding. "The suckers are running" becomes the sig nal. One man whispers to an other. "The ice is breaking up; tlie suckers should be in the river) pretty soon." Armed with spears, nets, boats and torches, the folks who like suckers move to the river banks and prepare for the harvest. It is the one time of the year that' some species of suckers are fit for human food. The cold of the river water and the months at the bottom of a frozen pond have firmed the flesh, of the fish and imparted a little sweetness to the flesh. All admit there are too many bones, but that becomes a minor point, when the "suckers are running." . The spearing, the netting, even the battering at times with a club, goes on, sometimes dur ing entire nights when, lighted by the flickering light of a smok- Riderless Horse Tradition Dates WASHINGTON (UPI) - The dark, riderless horse in the Ken nedy funeral procession Monday represented a tradition dating back to the days of Genghis Khan. the Mongols and Tartars sac rificed a horse at the burial of a warrior, in the belief that the animal's spirit accompanied its master's to heaven. The sacri ficial practice later went into disrepute, giving way to the cus tom of having a riderless horse accompany the funeral of a fallen soldier. When Abraham Lincoln's body was carried from the White House to the Capitol Rotunda, the caisson was followed by the President's own horse with Lincoln's riding boots in the stirrups. A Negro trooper also led a riderless horse behind Franklin Roosevelt's casket. The horse bore a hood, it was sheathed in black and the stirrups inverted with a sword placed through them. Although FDR never rode, the horse as it did Mon daysymbolized the passing of the armed services ujmman der in Chief. The frisky animal that fol lowed the caisson bearing Presi dent Kenendy's body during processions Sunday and Monday is owned by the Army and is used exclusively for such solemn occasions. The horse is named "Black Jack." It is about 11 years old and is used frequently for mill tarv funerals at Arlington Na tional Cemetery most of them (or former cavalry officers or high-ranking officers. Pfc. Arthur Carlson of Ala- Kama led Black Jack during the procession Sunday from the White House to the Capitol, and again Monday for the funeral ing torch, men and boys gather into their boat, or landing on a spot on the stream bank,,- a string of suckers. Red Horse In the northern section of the U. S., when spring comes and the ice goes out, the red horse begin their spawning. Oft times the streams run almost solid with the, fish. Like nearly all the suckers, the red horse isn't a pretty fish. It has thick lips, and a pouting mouth that points downward.; It browses along the bottom and often consumes great numbers of the eggs laid by other and often more desira ble fish. As tough as the - red horse sucker is supposed to be, it is however a fish that will only live in unpolluted water; even a muddy stream discourages its presence. Unlike the carp that it resembles, both in appearance and nabtts, it will survive only in relatively- clean waters. There are many other varie ties of suckers; they are all American species.' The common sucker of the eastern U. S. has flesh that-is reasonably firm in the early spring. This one has a protruding mouth, with thick lips, and looks as bad as any of its relatives. The so-called stone roller sucker - rolls stones over the river bottom and eats the aquatic larva it finds there. " Most- people' think of P. T. Barnum, whenever suckers are mentioned.- Once he said, "There's one born every min ute." When applied to real suckers, the fish whose feeding habits and method of food in take suggests the name "suck er" -in the first place'it is an understatement: ' ting the 2,000 bishops to scatter to their dioceses in ail parts of the world in time for the Chris mas season. Pope Paul has announced that there will be a third ses sion in 1964, but has not offi cially set the date. The unoffi cial word from Vatican inform ants is that it will convene Sept. 6 and run until mid-November, when many of the bishops will gu U1 inula lur a cucnaiiauu Congress. . . Agenda Is Long The agenda of unfinished business awaiting council ac tion is so long that there is no ield Adds To Proclamation SALEM (UPI) Gov. Mark Hatfield, who attended President John F. Kennedy's funeral in Washington, D. C. Monday, to day issued this postscript to his earlier Thanksgiving proclama tion: ' "May we be thankful for the provisions of our founding fa thers wherein the reins of gov ernment pass from leader to leader in death without revolu tion or disruption. , "May we be grateful the late President chose well his vice president and made of him a confidant so that he might as sume duties in tranquil but ef fective transition." real prospect of cleaning it up next fall. Thus a fourth session in 1965 seems inevitable. If the council tried to act on all of the matters which have been proposed for its consid- 'Taps' First Played During Mexican War WASHINGTON (UPI) The "taps" that' sounded over the grave of; John Fitzgerald Ken nedy Monday were first played during the Mexican war of 1846-47. The custom, accordine to source books, originated in the American Army, although its derivation and the very word "taps" are believed to be de rived from the closing of tap rooms or public houses for the night. . Historians have traced the or igin to an old signal known as "taptoo" or "taps-to" which was used, to announce the closing curfew. The bugle call now known as "taps'.' was sounded over the graves of dead soldiers in a few American regiments during the war with Mexico. The practice grew widespread in the Civil War, spreading first through the Army of the Poto mac and later through the entire Union Army. No research ever has disclos ed the composer of the tune. Nor are there any official words. eration, it would have to go on meeting annually for many years. But Pope Paul has let it be known that he doesn't want "another" Trent." This was a reference to the 16th century Council of Trent which met for 17 years. A marathon council like Trent is out of the question, Vatican officials said, because the church cannot afford indefinite ly the heavy financial drain of bringing more than. 2,000 bish ops to Rome from every corner of the world once a year. The plan to wind up the coun cil by 1965 also reflects a con viction that the fathers already have come to grips with the most vital issues confronting them. Debate At Length During their curent session, they debated at length two doc uments which could lead 'to a far-reaching decentralization of power in the Catholic Church. The first affirms the theological doctrine that bishops have a di vine right to share with the Pope in the government of the church. The second gives prac tical expression to that doc- Dennis the Menace tkN07-M SAME 1HIN6! THS ISNTA WUTHI$ISA UMl Restrictive Action Sought Following Assassinations WASHINGTON (CO) Pub-' lie anger at Presidential assas sinations in the past often found expression in demands for re strictive action -by Congress. At least two. successful assas sinationsPresidents James A. Garfield's and William McKin ley's gave impetus to new statutes. ' .. Attempts on the lives of Pres idents Franklin Delano Roose velt and Harry S. Truman brought demands for changes in the internal security laws. 'Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881. at the railway depot in Washington by Charles J. Glut eal!,, a disappointed office-seeker who wanted a foreign ap pointment., ; His death has been credited with giving a major push to civil service legislation to end the spoils systems under which Government job appointments were left to the whim of the party in power. In 1883, Con gress passed the Pendleton Act, which remains the basic civil service act. Competitive Examinations The Act provided competitive examinations, - established a Civil Service Commission and made other reforms to end the spoils system that had become rampant in governments alter the Civil War. McKinley's assassination by a professed anarchist on Sept. 6. 1901. in Buffalo. N. Y., as sisted the eventual adoption of the statute which bars anarch ists from the United States. He was shot by Leon Czolgosz, a factory worker. Theodore Roosevelt, McKin lev's successor, said in his first annual message: "We should aim to exclude absolutely . . . all persons who are known to be believers in anarchistic prin ciples or members of anarchis tic societies." . Roosevelt himself was the vic tim of an assassination attempt in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1912, during a Presidential campaign. He was shot and" wounded by a saloon keeper, but no new legislation- resulted. The assassin, John N. Schrank, opposed a third term for Roosevelt. Schrank, like the man who kil led Garfield, was declared to be insane. An attempt was made on the life of Franklin Delano Roose velt in 1933 at Miami, Fla., by Guiseppe Zangara, a bricklayer. The shots, however, killed Chi cago Mayor - elect Anton J. Cer-mak,- who was with the Presi dent,' and wounded .five other persons. Zangara's assassination at tempt brought demands for anti Communist - measures. Zangara said he was not a Communist, but before his electrocution he said he was against "all capi talists." . ' - The attempt on' the life of President Truman, in' 1950 by two Puerto .Rican nationalists who tried to shoot their way in to Blair House produced specu lation that major: tightening of immigration and subversive ac tivity laws might result. This did notv occur, however. What might have happened during the period after the Civil War had Abraham Lincoln not been assassinated in 1865 has been a matter of much specula tion.. There has been no dis agreement, however, that the reconstruction period was made more difficult for the South than it would have been had Lincoln lived and been able to implement his own reconstruc tion plans. (Copyright: 1963, 'Congression al Quarterly Inc. ) trine, enhancing the powers of bishops to run their own dio ceses without undue interfer ference from the Roman Curia. Although the fathers register at this session their overwhelm ing support of the basic princi ples of these documents, voting on their detailed provisions was deferred until next year's ses sion. : There seems little doubt that the liberal bloc, which favors these documents, will prevail when the showdown comes. But the conservatives, who fear that the changes may jeopar dize papal supremacy (and the vast power which the Roman Curia now exercises in the name of the Pope) will fight to the last ditch to sidetrack, wa ter down or qualify the drive to ward decentralization. ;' New Battle Looms Another battle will be fought at the third session over a doc ument of interfaith relations. It has been hailed by liberal bish ops as "the end of the counter Reformation" meaning that it marks a complete reversal of the 400-year-old Catholic cam paign against Protestantism, It speaks kindly of Protestants, urges Catholics to get to know them better, and commits the church to work unceasingly to remove obstacles to reunion of the whole Christian family. It also contains . an unequivocal declaration in favor of religious liberty, roundly condemns anti Semitism, and says Jews are not alone to blame for the cruc ifixion of Christ which was a sin of all mankind. . . This document also has been debated at the current session, but voting will await the 1964 session. ' Although it seems' certain to command a : large j majority when the chips are down, there could be a sharp tussle especi ally over the section on Jews. Middle Eastern bishops ; fear that any kind words about the Jews will irritate the Arabs and make life more difficult for Catholic minorities living in Arab lands. . , , ; , . The only document remaining on the council .agenda which compares in long-range impor tance to those which already have been taken up) Is the fa mous "Schema 17" which is be ing drafted by a special com mission headed by Leo Cardinal Suenens qf Belgium, leader of the liberal wing and close con fidante of Pope Paul VI. It is entitled "The Church and the Modern World,"' and is sup posed to go into a whole range of topics from communism to population control which are current subjects of controversy. This document may not come up until the 1965 session. 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