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SUNDAY, MtDTORDwlkTlIBUMI ""Everyone In Southern Oregon Heaaa The MU Tribune" Published Daily excepfSaturday by MKDKORD PRINTING CO. S3 Norlhr!rJil.. Ph;J72-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM, Bui Mfr ERIC v, ALLEN JR.. Mna Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporu Editor OLIVE STARI.'HEH Women's Edltoi DALE ERICKMON. ClrculajorMgr An Independent Newipapel Entered at second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advanca Dally and Sunday 1 year US .00 Duly and Sunday (I moi. 10.00 Dillv and Sunday 3 mo. SOU Sunday On.'y One year $5.00 Single Copy (Mailed! JOo By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 21 .00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 175 Sunday Only I mo. CirrlerjndVendori opj 10c official Paper of City ol Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International lull Leased Wire U. 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From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pol" column: "Seizure here of (U eases of liquid, used extensively in backfiring against the flu, caused considerable mixed emotions, without any mixed drinks." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1933 (Friday) John J. Murphy, horn in Ash land in 1HG0 and a lifelong resi dent of Jackson county, dies afler a brief Illness, Medford City Superintendent Fred Schcffcl receives telegram from Senator Frederick Stciwer stating Medford sewage system loan application is being pro cessed in Washington. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1923 (Saturday) District Attorney Newton W. Borden investigating alleged .1" ' -on County peonage case. Elizabeth Mnry Evanson well received in musical recital at St. Mary's academy. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 15. 1913 (Monday) Ruguo valley automobile own ers meet in attempt to have state automobile licensing de clared illegal. Local grocery store offers "fancy" potatoes for 90 cents a hundred pounds. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is eicellent; five or sii is good. 1. In which city of Louisiana Is Tulane University? 2. The milky way Is a cloud of meteors: true or false? 3. Identify the German breed of dog that is noted for Its short legs, long body and ability In enter badger holes. 4. Name the capital ol Cali fornia. 5. Was it Uin 1,1th, Nth, or lMh Amendment that abolished slavery? H. The human body Is made up of seven elements; carbon is one, can you name (our others? 7. Who was President of the U. S. when the Panama Canal Zone was acquired? 8. What is the largest city in area in the United States? . Cirrostratus, Cirrocumulus. Altostralus. and Stratus are all types of what? 10. Are Icebergs ever formed fiom salt water? Answers: I. New Orleans. 2. False (('loud of start), 3. Dachs hund. 4, Sarramenlo. S. 13th. 6. Hydrogen, oiygcn, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus and iron. 7. Theodore Roosevelt. ft. Los Angeles. 9. Clouds. 10. No. 4 A JJ-AfSOeiATION DECEMBER IS, l!3 Defense and We are now witnessinp; a classic example of the meaning of Martin all depends on whose ox It is easy very easy omy in government, stopping wasteful spending, and the elimination of needless programs. It is a popular tune. But let an economy movement eliminate something in which such pie are interested, and anguish. THE Defense Department has announced the -1- elimination or the cutting down of 33 military installations in many parts of the country. I he objective is to save a portion of the overwhelm ing military budget. But the move is now Congress and elsewhere as "false economy," and hands are wrung at the adverse effect it will have on the local business scene. Oregonians, by and large, can sit smugly and watch other people's military installations close, for we have few in the state. But the anguish is real for those who have lost a job or must accept a transfer. 'PHIS is one reason we -1- view of the complaints that Oregon has not received its "fair share of military and defense spending. It provides a quick shot in the arm for the economy, but it is not a good base on which to base a long-range plan for the future. A splendid example is Seattle, home of the giant Boeing company. when Boeing sneezes, Seattle runs a fever. And it' is true that when Boeing loses a big contract, or is involved in a labor dispute, the effect is immediately felt throughout the city. This in turn is one of the reasons we haven't been able to get very excited about the Boarclman deal with Boeing. It may (or may not) turn out to be important to the state, and particularly the northeast corner. But if it does become an im portant part of the economy, and then, due to the vagaries of military needs, closes, the results could be painful. THE closure of the military installations, and the fluctuations of Seattle's economy as Boeing's fortunes fluctuate, (and both represent only a tiny portion of overall defense expendi tures,) arc but graphic reminders of how much of the nation's economy is based on defense spend ing. There are economists who will argue that the United States cannot afford an end to the cold war, simply because it would so jolt the economy that a serious depression would ensue. We don't wholly agree with that, but we do believe that any major reduction in the defense budget would require a massive effort by the federal government to case the economic shock. f")NE of the uncomfortable realizations about the cold wiir is that so many hundreds of thousands of people have what amounts to a vested interest in its continuing. Workers in defense industries, career mili tary men. stockholders and officials of the thou sands of firms with defense-related contracts all would feel the blow should there be any marked reduction in international tensions and a resulting drastic cut in defense spending. Federal officials, including Congressmen, are fully aware of this fact, although many are re luctant to admit it. Hut their realization is fully evidenced in the cries of "false economy" when a military installation vital to the economy of a specific area, even if not vital to national de fenseis phased out. K. A. Succession Proposals In considering the line of succession to the Presidency, as many people are these days, it is interesting to note that one proposal for revising it is a Constitutional amendment providing for a second vice president. Our women's editor thinks this is a good idea. She also thinks it would be fine to have a woman as second vice president. The vice presidency has often been described as being the most inconsequential office in the federal government. If this i so, what would the second vice presidency be like? A MOTHER proposal which has some mrit, and also the advantage of not requiring the lengthy procedure of amending the Constitution, is for Congress, upon the. death of a President and the assumption of that office by the vice president, to designate immediately an official who would be next in line. Probably he could not be designated as vice president, because the Constitution prescribes the way in which a vice president is chosen. But Congress is empowered to provide for the further succession, and in advance. It could create an office not entitled vice president for the express purpose of providing a possible successor. Whatever solution is devised, one hopes it is put into effect soon. E. A. T. S. Incidentally, the 2Und Amendment to the Constitution does not prohibit Lyndon Johnson from serving two full terms, after this unexpired term, should he be elected, lt would have done so if the unexpired portion of the term had exceeded two years. E. A. the Economy Luther's comment that it is gored. indeed to call for econ economy-minded peo listen to the howls of assailed in the halls of have always taken a dim The saying goes that "Onward! Bstd l THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION Sneaker McCormack, who now stands next in line to the Presi dent, is naturally enough diffi dent about discussing the prob lem of the Presidential, succes sion. But the country cannot take his view that the matter is too horrible to think about, much more to talk about. The problem Is of the highest importance, and there should be no more squcamishness about discussing it than there is when a man or woman makes a will. The law which has put the speaker so unexpectedly where he now nnus nimseit was pro posed only in 1045 during the emotional upset following Presi dent Roosevelt's death and passed in 1947. What It did was to insert into the line of suc cessionPresident, Vice Presi dent, Secretary nf State and so forth two members ol cong ressthe speaker of the House and the president of the Senate. The theory of the bill was that the man who becomes Presi dent should owe his place in the line of succession to an elec tion, not to an appointment. In fact, the 1947 law did not ad here to this principle. For after naming the Iwo members of Congress, it went back to the old line beginning with the sec retary of stale. DEFENDERS of the 1947 law appeal to the principle of election on the mystical ground that, because Mr. McCormack has been elected repeatedly from the (Uh District of Massa chusetts, he has become thereby anointed and qualified for Presi dent. Applied to the concrete facts, the "principle" is non sense, and it has no relation whatever to any real choice of the President by the will of the people. There are several very grave objections to the present law. One is that, because the con gressional system operates by seniority Hnd whatnot, it has provided a successor who is unprepared and unqualified to succeed. Nobody has ever given five minutes' thought to the qualifications of the man who may be the next President of the United Stales. Under the old law, where the next in line would be the secre- ' tary of state, the fact that he might become President would become a great consideration in ' his appoint ment and his confir : mation by the Senate. The rcal I ily of this was proved in 1945 ! when President Truman's acces sion left Secretary Steltinius as the next in line. I Though Edward Stettinius was a nice man. he was manifestly unqualified to be President, anil a great agitation arose at once which brought about his rcplace menl as secretary of slate by a man of vast experience in gov ttii i r 7!1 SEALS "Cnuldn't yon put off demonstrations, dnrlng the Christmas, season? Afler all, this Is the season. -n brotherly love!" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, Help! I've Been Stabbed!" Today and Tomorrow By Walter lippminn (C) 1963 The Washington Post ernment, James Byrnes of South Carolina. THERE is another radical de- l feet in the present law. In our svstem of government, it has happened many times that one or both of the houses of Coneress is controlled by the opposition party. It happened, for example, both to Presidest Truman and to President Eisen hower. Under the badly-considered 1947 law, the whole admin istration of the government can be transferred from one party to the other by the act of one sniper. There should never De sucn a premium on the assassination of a President offered to crim inal lunatics or conspirators to brood upon. The very thing that has sustained the country since Nov. 22 has been the continuity of the Presidency, the undis puted accession of a complete ly-qualified man. Had there been any intelligible purpose in me assassination, it would have been defeated. The sovereign principle of continuity is sacrificed in the law of 1947. and we ought lose no time in wiping it off the statute books. We should return to the old law, which would put Secretary Rusk next in line, and then we should let Congress and public opinion make it known to President jonnson, as incy aia to President Truman in 1945, whether they are content. THERE is a way, undoubled A ly an organic part of the in tent of the Constitution, in which real deference can be paid to the principle of election. We know from James Madison that the authors of the Constitution meant to leave to Congress "a supply of the vacancy (in the office of President) by an inter mediate election of the Presi dent." Congress was to decide whether to call an intermediate election. It would be quite feasible, and perhaps desirable, to provide that, when the line of succession reaches the secretary of state or the other Cabinet officers, the man who takes over the office shall be only the acting Presi dent until a new election can be held at mid-term or at the end of the four-year term. I think, myself, that this an cient formula should also apply to the Vice President when he succeeds. It would not affect President Johnson, who must face the voters in less than 12 months. If we arouse ourselves enough to deal firmly with the problem I ot the succession, we should pro- ceed at once to repair the other great hole in our system, which I is what to do when a President i is incapacitated, as were Gar- field and Wilson and, for a time. I Eisenhower. Nobody will. I ; think, propose that the speaker I of the House should, on that constitutionally he could, serve ' also as the acting President. MEDKORD, OREGON JOHNSON'S WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON After a time of great pain and uncertainty, President Johnson 's White House is beginning to assume its own shape and character. Since few things tell more about a President, some notes on the subject are perhaps worth study. To begin with, one should not be misled by the impression of ceaseless, almost compulsive bustle that has been conveyed by the new Presidents office round of conferences, telephone calls, and ceremonial greetings. He still keeps the country hours of his youth in Texas, and a most significant part of his working day is therefore spent outside the office wing of the White House. A good many people may have gooseflesh at the thought, but it is nonetheless a fact that he starts work at 6:20 a.m. His young Texas aide and friend, Jack Valenti, wakes him for his morning tea and simultane ously hands him the morning papers and the new day's docket of official memoranda and other documents. IiHE WHOLE of the two hours helwpnn fi-nft anH 0.-30 a m are reserved for reading about one-quarter for the newspapers and the rest for the day's docket and for pondering the little notes about things-to-be-done- tomorrow that President John son has the odd habit of writing to himself. Only after these two quiet hours, the bustle begins with breakfast and continues as long as the President remains in the office wing of the White House. At the day's end, however, the pace slackens when it is time for 20 minutes or half-hour of exercise in the White House pool, which the doctors have in sisted on. Staff members are invited to the brink, so to say, and current problems are in formally discussed while the President not exactly a new Johnny Wcissmuller obedient ly wallows along as the doctors require. Dinner, often with a few friends, ends about 10 p.m. and that leaves times for another hour or more of quiet reading before the day's work ends in sleep. The schedule is only in teresting because it leaves so much more time for study and reflection than might be guessed from the Johnsonian frenzy of the more public part of the day but for this reason it is very interesting indeed. WHAT IS more interesting still is the fact that the continuity of the Johnson White House with the Kennedy White House really seems to be as sured at last. The symbol of this remarkable fact is the re sumption of his former duties as the President's appointments secretary by Kenneth O'Donnell, who gave his entire life to safe guarding President Kennedy's political interests, and is now charged with doing the same thing for President Johnson. This continuity, it must be added, was by no means as sured when the hopeful an nouncement was made that all President Kennedy's key staff members would continue on the job. Every one nf the men who served Kennedy was and still is like someone who has suf fered a battlefield amputation. Although they said they would continue on the job, there were hard days when it seemed ex tremely doubtful whether this man or that man could really manage to do so. THE ACHIEVEMENT of con- A tinuity in the White House is in fact one of those very rare Justice by By ERIC SEVAREID (niitrlhntril 1983, By Thr mil Svndlrst. Inf.) (All Rlrhts Rrsrrvrri) It was hatred concentrated to the point of paranoia that killed President Kennedy. About such a state of mind very little can be done: individuals like Os wald will always be with us. But it was sheer disrespect for the legal rights and processes which make civilized life pos sible thai killed the President's killer, and about this condition much can be done. The events in Dallas revealed in a blinding flash the degree of venom that has been poison ing the American society. They also revealed for all to compre hend the alarming degree of carelessness and callou s n e s s with which police, prosecutors and all the information media Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop lc New York Herald Tribune Syndicate political events that are dis tinguished from the common run by the creditable roles played by everyone concerned. Shabbiness and pettiness arc generally to be found some where, in every political proc ess; but for once they have been absent. The new President, who has rarely been considered a hum ble man, has had the humility and good sense to see that he needed the trained Kennedy statt members to extend his grasp and reach. He has also had the human sympathy to deal correctly with these men in their amputated condiitons. With sympathy, it has also be be admitted, President Johnson has mingled astuteness. His irresistible rally cry to the human legacy of political spe cialists was the grim remark: "It would be a poor memorial to President Kennedy to see Richard M. Nixon in this house. THEN THE very small group A of men headed by Walter Jenkins, George Reedy, and Bill Moyers whom the new Presi dent brought into the White House have rather miracul ously but pointedly refrained from throwing their weight about. And. finally, the leaders of the former Kenendy staff O'Don nell, Theodore Sorenson, Law rence O'Brien, McGeorge Bundy, and the rest have seen they had a duty left to perform, not least to the lost President. They have discovered they still would have real work to do. And they have settled back into harness again, despite the ex pected flood of tempting offers to do otherwise. They are there now for use, not show. Every sensible judge of form has long known that President Johnson was a formidable poli tical leader; but the facts above noted make him still more formidable. In the Day's News By FRANK The big story last week? The headlines leave us in no doubt. It's the ransom of Frank Sinatra Jr. and the price paid for his release $240,000. OUR most famous kidnaping case, of course, was that of the infant son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh in 1932. But there was no ransom then. The kidnapers became fright ened and murdered the child. That prompts this question: What is the most famous kid nap and ransom case in his tory? IT IS probably that of Richard the Lion Hearted, of England. He was on his way back from the Holy Land, where in the Third Crusade he and Saladin had performed miracles of chivalry in the fighting. A truce was finally arranged, and Richard started for home. His ship was wrecked in the Adriatic Sea, and he tried to make his way home overland through Germany. He was cap tured by his mortal enemy, the Duke of Austria, and turned over to the Holy Roman Em peror, Henry VI, who held him for ransom. 1MIE ransom demanded? - It was 150,000 marks. HOW much is a mark? Well, the mark was an old European unit of weight for gold and silver. It was equal to eight ounces of either. At the present price of gold, a gold Publicity have for a long time and in many cities handled everything that is implied in that precious phrase due process of law." It is hard to disagree with the Civil Liberties Union, which asserts that Oswald could never have received a fair trial. He was convicted by the police and thereupon and therefore by the news media, neither of whom have any business convicting or acquitting anyone. It is hard to disagree with those who oppose turning the Ruby trial into a public spectacle, even though his guilt will be admitted at the outset. For a long time now, in this age of publicity, we have been debasing the very things by which we must live. We have debased the word "fame" by substituting "celebrity." We have elevated the athlete over the scholar, the police and pros ecutor over the judge, the pub lic arena over the courtroom. Justice hy publicity is not jus tice. We have reached the point where most of the ablest law yers in the country refuse to GREAT IDEAS... ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION Dear Dr. Adler: Do the great books provide the ans wer to automation? How will the average individual be able to share in the unlimited ma terial wealth our technology will be able to produce? Quintcn Topp 1963 Scarl St. Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Dear Mr. Topp: "Automation" is something more than a new name for the automatic opera tions which have played an in creasingly important role in manufacturing since the Indus trial Revolution. The term "auto mation" denotes not only the op eration, but also the over-all control, planning and informa tion for entire complexes of modern technology. Through de vices exemplified by the al ready commonplace electronic computer every phase of pro duction, from schedules to ac counting, can be handled by automation. Electronic controls do the work that was formerly done by human hands, senses, and brains. The new electronic revolution seems to fulfill the age-long dream of a time when all menial and routine tasks would be done by machinery. In ancient Greece, Aristotle foresaw the possibility of a situation in which "every tool could perform its own work when ordered, or by seeing what to do in advance." His words roughly describe the self-powered, self-controlled, and self-adjusting processes of our new technology. Yet automation has brought much unhappiness to many peo ple. It has "disemployed" hun dreds of thousands of men. That they are "disemployed" means not merely that they personally are out of work, but that their jobs and skills are no longer necessary to produce goods and services. Increased production has been accompanied by de creased employment in key pro- JENKINS mark would have hecn worth $280. At that rate, 150,000 gold marks would have amounted to $448 million. At any rate, Sir Winston Churchill tells us in his His tory of England, the ransom demanded for Richard amount ed to more than twice the an nual revenue of the English crown. They turned in and raised the huge sum and turned it over to the Emperor, and got their king back. Whether or not he was worth it is another story. Richard was a glamorous character, but he didn't possess much in the way of common sense. AT ANY rate " The ransom paid by the British people to get their king back amounted to somewhere, in the neighborhood of $450 mil lion assuming that the value of the gold mark was anywhere in the neighborhood of the value ascribed to it by the his torians. So- The ransom paid (or Frank Sinatra Jr. doesn't set a new record for all recorded time. ONE more question: How did they find Rich ard of the Lion Heart who had been carefully hidden away by his captor? It's an interesting tale. HE WAS found by Blonde!, a famous minstrel, who was a favorite of Richard who was quite a minstrel himself. Blondcl wandered through all Is Not Justice take criminal cases for fear of taint by publicity, as we were once in the condition where most of the best lawyers were afraid to take loyalty cases. The late Senator McCarthy did not invent guilt bv accusation, we were getting there on our own, but he helped condition this so ciety to the strange and fright ening process. What the Dallas police did in the case of Oswald any number of other police in other cities have done in the cases of hun dreds of other suspects. Even the FBI which, by the uncanny I inversions of publicity, has be come more sacrosanct than our highest court, has declared men guilty before any trial was held. It has been common practice for police at all levels to announce confessions which ought not be revealed outside a courtroom. ; What ought to be our most : august law making body, the United States Senate, has felt unembarrassedly free to pro vide a national platform so that the cheapest of cheap crooks could broadcast accusations 4 From the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler (c) 1063. Publisher! Newipaper Syndicate cesses in certain industries. It may well be true, as son corporation executives assure us, that, in the long run, "auto mation will create new indus tries and new jobs, so that in the future everyone who wants to work will have a job. Yet now, in the short run, the hundreds ( thousands of workers who are. disemployed every year through automation arc paying the price of privation and humiliation for the increased efficiency of our industrial system. The glittering network of automatic controls which have helped to produce our "affluent" society have heaped suffering and degrada tion upon the disemployed who have been deprived of their formerly useful role in that so ciety. The phenomenon of disem ployment through automation raises significant issues for ths philosophy of work. Participa tion in the work process hither to has been essential for the psychic, as well as the econom ic, well-being of mature men in modern society. Thinkers such as Ruskin, Tolstoy, and Gandhi held that "bread labor" work ing for a living is essential In human dignity. And Paul Good man, the author of "Growing Up Absurd," has recently point ed to the lack of socially useful work as one of the (actors in the demoralization of present day youth. Yet technological develop ments have removed us farther and farther away from working on the soil or any kind of man ual activity, aside from sports and do-it-yourself projects. 1( the dreams of automation's ex treme enthusiasts come true, we will see a time when most work, is done by automatic electronic devices, with little or no hu man assistance. We will then see whether all-out automation will result in a permanent de fuse of morale and human dig nity. Perhaps the classic philoso phers of work are mistaken, and it is not necessary to take part in productive operations in order to live a fully human existence. Work, according to Aristotle, is only a means of providing us with our subsistence, so that we can pursue leisure activities. And these, as I have so often pointed out, consist in thought, learning, and communal serv icethe activities which fulfill us as human beings. If his Iheory about the rela tion of work and leisure is true, then automation could provide a greater opportunity than ever before to partake in humanly meaningful activities. Our prob lem would then be to devise a new system of distribution, which would enable everyone to enjoy a decent standard of liv ing, without having to work a good part of the waking day. Up to now, aside from the lucky few who have lived off their wealth, men made a living from their wages and salaries. Perhaps the problem of wide spread disemploymcnt might be solved by making every man a part-time capitalist, with part of his income derived from capital shares and pari from a job as suggested by Louis Kelso and myself in "The Capitalist Mani festo." of Germany. At every great castle, he would stop and SING, hoping that his voice would be recognized by Richard. He fin ally stopped and sang before the castle of Durrcnstcin. Richard heard him and recog nized his voice and SANG BACK. Blondcl recognized Rich ard's voice and so the mystery of where he was incarcerated was solved. From there on, it was merely a case of negotia tion, backed up by the threat of war if some kind of deal wasn't made. against men not yet tried and j found guilty. The news media l have simply gone along in most j cases. Indeed, we have endured " the spectacle of microphones 1 and cameras thrust at a suspect J freshly caught and handcuffed ; with the demanding question, : "Why did you do it?" A certain number of lunatics at large is something any so ciety has to endure. But a spreading disrespect for the le gal procedures without which the substance of law, and there fore of order, cannot be pro- tccted is not endurable and need not continue. This wretched con dition is not a helpless matter 'of human nature, lt is a matter formal codes of conduct. The organizations of police men, prosecutors, lawyers, and jour nalists have their own codes, written or understood They have only to live by them. Since Biblical times and be fore wise men have seen and acknowledged that power and money are corrupters. The 20th century has added a third factor i to the list publicity.