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P I Telephoto Newaplcturei "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising NELSON RinmintlllM anftRRTS & ASSOC! IPC In NiD VOrk. Chi' caiio, Detroit. San Francisco. Loi Ancelea. Seattle, Portland. Denver. NIWSPAMi IRS 'ASSOCIATION RATION At (DITOtlA. Member CalUornia Newipapor PubUthara AnoclaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jsckion County History from tna flies of Tha Mail Trlburw 10, 20, 30, 0 and SO yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Tin-. 22. 1953 (Tuesday) Ray Clark elected president of the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce at ma jacuson Unfnl tnpalint?. Fred Parkinson, manager of Central Point Drue Store, ap. pointed to the Central Point Citv Council to fill vacancy created by resignation of V. 1 Noel. 20 YEARS AGO iw. 22. 1M3 (Wednesday) Kasper Kubli, 75, ton of pio neer Jackson County resiacnis prominent merchant and form er speaker of Oregon House of Reprcscntatlvea, dies in Port land. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "John C. Mann had Grandpawhood con ferred upon him Monday and has returned from a trip to (he stratosphere. .10 YEARS AGO Dec. 22, 1033 (Friday) Rogue River man arrested by federal authorities on charges of operating unlicensed still. Total of 14,000 pounds of gov ernment pork arrives In Jack son County for distribution to needy. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1923 (Saturday) Sheriff Tcrrill of Jackson County states: "I am running the sheriff's office, and the first dry enforcement officer I catch hack of the counter, I will throw Reports received ' that T)eAu- Ircmonl brothers, wanted In connection with Siskiyou tunnel railroad holdup and murders, have been in Minnesota. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 22, 1913 (Monday) S. S. Bullis reports that South ern Oregon Traction Company has received a carload of rail way rails for line on East Main Street into Siskiyou Heights area. Medford City Council sched ules Inst ditch fiuht for salaries for councllmen and mayor; City Attorney McCabe says they will sidestep recall pennons. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or fen correct li luperler even or eight li aicellent; live ei ik it good. 1. Congress created which of our armed forces in 1798? 2. Which tribe of American Indians were engaged in the bat tle at the Little Big Horn River? 3. Correct the following sent ence: "His eye is keen as a hawk " 4. What Is the name of the hal cutomarily warn by a Mexican peon? 5. Of which religion were Ihe Moors? 6. Which is the capital of South Carolina Columbia, Sa vannah, or Atlanta? 7 Is lead heavier or lighter than quicksilver? 8. Which branch of our armed forces would most likely make use of a BBzooka? 9. When water freezes, docs It expand or contract? 10. A baked pudding of apples and bread crumbs in layers is called i B B ? Answers: 1. U. S. .Marine Corps. 2. Sioux (Custer's Last Stand). 3. "His eye Is is keen as a hwak's." 4. Somhern. S. Islam. 3. Columbia 7. Lighter, ft. Army. 9. Expands. 10. Brntvn Betty. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22, ItlQ On ChoosingRight and Wrong With the nation's tragedy still fresh in mind (the one-month mourning period ends today), and with the advent of the season traditionally devoted to "peace on men." the nation s nerrenial introspection re mains heightened. What kind of a people are we? Are we in a period of moral decay? What are the causes of the increase in crime? In juvenile delin quency? Do we, as a nation, no longer know right from wrong? These are valid questions, and they deserve thought. Answers, of course, will vary accord ing to who provides them. 1MARYA MANNES, a noted social critic and author, believes we have gone too far down the road of blaming others for our own short comings. In a recent article, she said : "It's Society. It's Environment. It's a Broken Home. But it's hardly ever You. "Today no one has to take any responsibility. The psychi atrists, the sociologists, Uie playwrights have gone a long way to see to that. "A fellow commits a crime because he's basically inse cure, because he hated his stepmother at nine, or because his sister needs an operation. A boy takes a bribe be cause his mother didn't love him (or overprotocted him) or his brother bullied him. "A policeman loots a store because his salary is too low. A city official accepts a payoff because it's offered to him. Members of minority groups, racial and otherwise, com mit crimes because they are economically deprived or socially estranged." MISS MANNES'S biting indictment has a of truth in it. It is true that often we tempted to blame the ills of society on society itself, and thus exonerate the individual. It is also true that each individual is and must be responsible for his own actions, and, because, to differing degrees, each individual has free choice and will power, each is capable of choosing whether to do right or wrong. Still, it appears to us, Miss Mannes goes too far in her blanket indictment, and for two rea sons. The first is that the vast majority of hu man beings DO know right from wrong, and choose to adhere to the right. The second is that environmental factors DO make it far more difficult for some to make such a choice than it is for others. ONE is tempted to suspect that Miss Mannes line. rart; l-innn hiinm-v nr pnlrl ni ncrrarM'firl because of her color, or been a member of a family of six or eight or ten jammed into one room, or out searching vainly for a job, or tried to subsist and maintain a family on a welfare hand-oul after her husband has left her- It is true that a number of individuals have overcome these and other handicaps to become productive and respected citizens. And the more credit to them. particular combination determination which is How much easier it combination to make a time, he does not have which are the lot of the THE ancient argument environment, and how much each affects each life, is part of the same picture. Some people simply are blessed with more intelligence, more drive, more ability, than others. And some people have had the advan tage of loving homos, of superior education, of the assurance of three square meals a clay. When these two happy conditions coincide, the result is more apt than not to be an out- stanflinR individual When the opposite chances arc that the result will be one of the unhappy many who are fated to remain for ever at the bottom of the ladder. w OTILL, Miss Mannes has a point, and we agree with her when she says that too much of the blame for social evils is foisted off on the near est handy excuse, and that not enough emphasis is put upon personal responsibility, personal will ingness to see the difference between right and wrong, and willingness to make the right choice. She said: "If the line between right and wrong Is erased, there Is no defense against the anarchy of evil. Before this hap pensand it is by no means far away it might be well (or the schools ol the nation to substitute for the contro versial prayer a daily lesson in ethics, law and respon sibility to society thai would fortify conscience as exer cise .strengthens muscles." Such teachings have long been the province of the church and, more important, the home. If these abdicate the responsibility, should not the schools attempt to lake up the torch? E. A. Sen. Morse Replies Elsewhere in this section today appears a longish letter from Sen. Wayne L Morse, in reply to a Mail Tribune editorial of Dec. 10. We are glad to publish it Still, bavins re-read the editorial in ouestion in light of the Senator's comments, we see no reason to make any change in our opinions, We disagree on the necessity for condemna tion in any effective Oregon Dunes National Seashore bill. We disagree on his position on the foreign aid bill. Despite the disagreements, we retain a high respect, and considerable affection, for Senator Morse, whom we have known for some SO years. To us, however, he remains an enigma, and ti the degree that he has failed to fulfill his brilliant potentialities a tragic figure. E. A. earth, good will toward lot are They did it through a of brains and guts and not the lot of all men. is for one with the same success if, at the same to combat the handicaps poor. between heredity and conditions coincide, the Temporary Visa 11 BODIES DRIFTING IN MIST WASHINGTON - "It's like watching bodies drifting through a mist. We can see the direction of movement. We know the movement has been going on for several months. But we can't measure this movement, much less be quite sure of its Imme diate or ultimate purpose." In this suggestive but non committal manner, one of these who man the local watchtowers recently described the Soviets' gradual but persistent reinforce ment of their Chinese frontier. The region to which the rein forcement is mainly directed is the border of the most remote and vulnerable of all the prov inces of Communist China, Sin kiang, in Central Asia. Attention was first concentra ted on the Sino-Soviet border last September, when one of Moscow's more violent denun ciations of Peking included a bitter complaint against "5,000 border violations" by Chinese Communist troops and citizens. An intensified watch has been kept since then. By Oie normal rules of demo nological interpretation, it must be added, the Moscow statement of last September was mainly i.nificant for another passage warning the Peking leaders that they could count on no support from "the armed might of the socialist camp" if they pursued certain Chinese "aims and inter ests" which did not deserve that support. At that time, there seemed to be some possibility that the Chinese might be considering another attack on the still - un defended Indian border. Thus the September statement had to be interpreted primarily as a deterrent reminder that the Chinese might have trouble on i their own border if they made further trouble on the Indian border. i What is so striking about the Soviets' reinforcement of their! border with China is the fact that it has been communing, without remission, ever since last September, and therefore long after there was any like lihood of another Chinese ad venture against India. The frontiers of S i n k ia n g which are now being reinforced. are just about the most remote and least penetrable area of the Soviet Union. Thus it has been learned only within the last year that quite serious border fight ing broke out in this area as early as 1960, just after Sino So iet relations soured for good. It is not exaggerating, in fact to say that there was a brief border battle between Soviet and Chinese troops, (or organized iff Snr.rs.v; a- :w "I ilnn't like all this snnl-searrhing Amrrirs Is tnlns thrnush f have no Idrs WHAT we'll rome up ith!" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop c) New York; Herald Tribune Syndicate) military units were engaged on each side. Since news of this battle took nearly three years to seep westwards, it can be seen why the present position on the Sinkiang frontier is hard to estimate precisely. As to the Soviet troop build up on this remote frontier, there can be little doubt any longer, even though the watchers only see "bodies drifting through a mist." Soviet military publica tions have printed warning hints. Soviet troops are known with certainty to have been re moved from Poland, and other troops are thought to have been transferred from East Ger many. As to the motive of this So viet troop build-up, however, there are almost no limits on speculation. One sugg e s t i v e item of evidence is the fact that the Poles recently made a fair ly desperate effort to damp down the Sino-Soviet dispute. Wladyslaw Gomulka sent per sonal emissaries for this pur pose, to Moscow, to Peking, to Rnlnrarle. and to Rome and Paris for meetings with the French and Italian Communist leaders. Judging by the ever-mounting venom and hysteria of the Peking attacks on Nikita S. KhriMirhev Ihe Gomulka effort has got nowhere, at least as yet. Moreover, tne l'oics, use an tne other Eastern European Com munis!,: nninv and hpnefit from the freedom of action conferred on thorn by the Moscow-Poking split. Hence it seems likely that r.nmnlka was Irvine to prevent something worse than a mere split. Again, the area being rein forced by the Soviets is decided ly suggestive. For a sustained border conflict in Sinkiang. so rnmntn fmm the renter and so hard to supply, would certainly impose a maximum strain on the crazy Chinese Communist ocntmmir - military m a chine. even if the border conflict were carcfullv limited. If Moscow wants to test the possibilities of causing an economic - military collapse in Communist China, the Sinkiang border is a good place for a modest experiment of this sort. The great majority of analysts until very recently pooh-poohed the smallest suggestion that really bad trouble might be ap proaching on the Sino - Soviet boidcr. Very likely, this con servative view of the matter Is still the correct one. But it has to be noted that border trouble has lately begun to be regarded as "a real possibility' not a probability, mind you. but a possibility serious enough to be weighed with vivid, somewhat anxious interest. GREAT IDEAS... (c) 1063, LOVE OF FELLOW MAN Dear Dr. Adler: Today we hear much about love discuss ed In uur churches as related to God and our fellow man. In Ihe movies, on the stage, and on television, love Is pro trayed for us daily. We hear songs of love in opera, sung by singers on the stage, on our radios and on recorded music. Yet the following ques tion is asked by many people today: What Is love? What is the basic teaching In our tradi tion about the love between man-and his fellow man? Mrs. Lucille Hlllin HIS Stanley Stillwater. Okla. Dear Mrs. Hillin: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This simple precept in Leviticus sums up the essential moral message of Bibical faith accord ing to Jesus of Nazareth and the Talmudic sages. From it we may derive guidance as to the proper relation among men in our present situation. The precept is, indeed, a sim ple one, but like many seeming ly simple Bibical injunctions, it presents knotty problems of in terpretation. If we take the say ing literally, it seems to mean that we should take the attitude of self-regard and self-care as a model for our attitude toward others that we should look upon the life and welfare of another as if it were our own. Then the commandment becomes, "Love your neighbor as if he were yourself." Certainly empathy and sym pathy with the other person is plied belief that all men are place and understanding how he feels. The reason for this sym pathy, however, lies in some thing more than individual feel ings; it lies in human commun ity and brotherhood. We are bound together in kinship, man with his fellowman: with his "brother," or "neighbor." or the "children of his people." Going still further behind these words, we discern the im plied belitf that all men are God's creatures and that we were all created in His image that "we all have one Father." If we hate, hurt, or vilify our neighbors, we are hating, hurt ing, or vilifying God's image and God's children. In loving and helping our neighbors, we love and serve God. We are doing his win on cartn. Love, then, is something more than fellow-feeling and good will. Love, let us remember, is com mandedas a duly to God and is grounded in the ultimate source and order of things. The reason given for Ihe precept in Leviticus is simply: "I am the Lord." Love is required of us as a matter of justice under the law of the Creator and Ruler of the universe. And justice is embodied in acts of loving-kindnessin the works of love. But what does the word "neighbor" mean in the pre cept? Does it mean, as the con text seems to indicate, a tribal brother, a member of one's own nation, somebody of one's own racial origin? Such an interper ation is belied by a later verse in the same chapter of Leviti cus: "But Ihe stranger that dwcllel with you shall be unto you as one born among you. and thou shalt love him as thyself." The love of "strangers" is en joined llti times in the Old Testament, and is often coupled with the reminder that the Jews themscli'ves were strangers in the land of Egypt, and hence 1UM The Day Breaks; The y ERIC SEVAREID Utlitrthittrd thi rty The mil Syndicate, Inc.) ( Ml nirhn RMerfl) Our period of mourning for the death of a good hut mortal spirit is ending as Ihe period of joy for the birth of the im mortal spirit of goodness itself is beginninc. It is as If we had need (or the happening of a I month ago to make us remem- ber that we ought to be in this i country, as well as for that of I two thousand years ago to make us remember what we ought to be in this life. I This is the second time in one 1 generation that such a concaten ation of events has scraped the Nines of our being The first time was the Decemtwr season 'of IfMl when we had to try to ; believe that all men are broth ' ers and that love shall rnnqurr hatred, hard upon the stunning act of organized lunacy known s Tearl Harbor. Twire this, From the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler Publithers Newspaper Syndicate should "know the heart of a stranger." In the wildest sense, then, the neighbor is simply our fellow man. He is the person living near us, one with whom we come into close contact in every day life, whatever his origin, background, or belief. Even our enemy, the Bible teaches the man with whom we are in ser ious conflict is our neighbor in this sense, one whom we are commanded not to harm, but to love and to treat kindly. We are forbidden to bear a grudge or to retaliate even against the man who has done us wrong, who has oppressed us, who has harmed us. We are commanded to help him when he is in need, for he is as we arc, to be treat ed as one "like thyself." The import of this doctrine is clear in the present situtation: that we are to act justly and kindly toward all men, and not to bear hatred or act hatefully toward any man, nor to feel scorn or enmity toward any group of men. Last January, the National Conference on Religion and Race spelled out the applic ation of love of neighbor to our tense racial problem thus: "Seek a reign of love in which Ihe wounds of the past injust ices will not be used as excuses for new ones; racial barriers will be eliminated; the stranger wilt be sought and welcomed; any man will be received as brother his rights, your rights; his pain, your pain; his prison, your prison." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Some interesting figures: In 1800, (he work week in the U. S. A. was 84 hours. In li)09, a little better than a century later, it was 52 hours. rPODAY, the average work week is slightly under 40 hours. The unions, seeking to spread employment, so that a larger percentage of our population I may be employed, are working lor a 35 hour week. Joseph Prendergrass, of the National Recreation Association predicts that within a century the average work week in Amcr- J ica will be SEVEN hours. TImmmmmmmmmm. " In the face of these figures it's beginning to look like one of the big jobs of the future will be to learn how to be happy and contented tnougn idle. IS ALL this new? The answer is NO. Herbert Hoover, one of our great thinkers, said many years ago: "This civilization of ours is not going to depend on what we do while we work, but on what we do in our TIME OFF." rpHAT'S what Mr. Prcnder grass and his National Rec reation Association are thinking about when he savs that within a century Ihe American work week will he down to seven hours. What he means is that if and when the American work week gets down to something like seven hours it's going to be nec essary for Americans to learn how to spend a laree share of their time in WHOLESOME PLAY. Otherwise our nation will go to the dogs. American generation has been struck from behind and twice it has tried, in the name of j Christ, if not to forget and im-j mediately forgive, at least to save itself from the poison of hatred. We are an immature people j in many minor ways; there arei cancer spots of venom and panic ! in our system. Yet. when the major tests have come upon' us. the world has observed that we stand steady in our shoes, j It is this steadiness that leaves room for goodness. In the American hierarchy of values, it is not brilliance or strength or even success that crowns the structure, but goodness This is the true secret of America, and if so many foreign observers miss it. it is not only because goodness does not make news.! but because we do not know, how to talk about it except now and then in mawkish embarrass ment. Foreicners are not alone in their misapprehension There are more than enough native Americans, including the re maining Communists. Ihe white supremacists and the Birchitrs, who do not understand that the. real force which u driving, FRUGALITY AND RETRENCHMENT In supporting Secretary McNa mara's efforts to cut back mili tary spending on superfluous in stallations, President Johnson is no doubt improving the pros pects of his tax bill. But at the same time he has lifted the cov er on a contradiction in our pub lic life. The contradiction is be tween what we do and what it is proper for public men to say out loud. For the fact is that govern mentfederal, state and local buys about a fifth of the goods and services produced oy tne American economy. To cut back this public spending substanti ally would produce a strong re action in employment and in business. Thus, the two Republican sen ators from New York reacted at once when they heard that seven installations in New York State might be closed down or their operations reduced. ACTUALLY, the McNamara economies are a mere nibble at the immense costs of the de fense establisment. The economy administered by the Pentagon is over two-thirds as large as the whole economy of Great Britain. Our military supply system is now some 17 times larger than the largest private enterprise, namely gigantic General Motors complex. In seven states, employment in defense industries is from 20 per cent (Arizona) to 30 per cent (Kansas) of total manufacturing employment. In fact, then, the United States economy is no longer a plain private enterprise system. Un der the impact of the second world war and of the armanents of the cold war, the American economy has become an organic mixture of public and private money, public and private man agement. Any serious reduction of public spending must, there fore, have far-reaching effects on the whole economy. T'HERE are some who say they - think that government and big spending can be reduced by cutting down civilian expendi tures while leaving alone or even increasing military e x p e n di tures. This is a device of politicians who are merely pandering to popular prejudices. There is only one way by which serious and substantial retrenchment can be made, and that is by a reduc tion of armaments. Desirable, but comparatively minor, savings can be had by re ducing the amount of some of the civilian subsidies. But the amount will be much too small to make itself felt in the bur dens of the taxpayer. The immediate military cut backs we are hearing about are really concerned with waste. They will not reduce in any way the military power of the United States. They are directed only at useless expenditures, those which employ men and materi- QUESTION suggested by reading a lot of newstapes and listening to a lot of radio and TV broadcasts: How can you pass a law that will prevent the spread of ju venile delinquency of which we ; read and hear so much? j pERSONALLY, I doubt if it I can be done by passing a j law or a whole batch of laws. I The prevention of juvenile delin I quency starts in the home. If the j home training is right and sin- cere and honest and effective, ! there will be relatively little ju I venile delinquency. Shadows them to defeat is this simple one of good will. It ic why "isms" do not take hold in this country, why our economic sys tem is so flexible, why social stratifications, even those of race, break up. It is why, one might observe in passing, the j attempt of the Birch Societv. a u i in a Z t,?, t , V- official mourning period was Ufl IIIHIUl.t'U nun f Mlrillie than anger. Where lies the root nt this constant groping for goodness'' To Jacques Marilain. the French philosopher, it was re vealed in the remark of an American friend "We are bruised souls." He meant the effect of the whole cargo of ancestral sorrows and wounds, and the present cargoes of moral distress and physical poverty that arrive with each arriving ship. Our bruise, said Maritam. is of an evancelical nature: it has produced compassion. It is "The deepest reason for the sense of mercy and pity, and the sense of responsibility toward all those in distress, which are rooted in the collective Ameri - Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (CI 1963 Tha Washington Port als for no real military purpose. ALTHOUGH this kind of fru gality will not effect tha budget importantly, it will have a salutary effect nevertheless. For it is demoralizing to ses public employes assigned to waste the public money. But beyond the tidying up of waste, including a certain amount of lush and conspicuous extravagance, there ie visible on the horizon the prospect of much more substantial retrenchment. I do not myself regard it as likely that we are anywhers near a general disarmament treaty. The fundamental issues of principle are stubborn, and their reconciliation is probably too embarrassing to all partici pants. But while what is under way is not a negotiated agree ment, there are parallel trends toward the stabilization and then toward the reduction of military spending. rpHESE parallel trends am activated by a common reali zation, acknowledged in the test ban treaty, that neither side has anything to gain by spending hugely in pursuit of the will-o'-the-wisp of the absolute weapon. Once that point has been reach ed, there is a balance of power which, though relatively favor able to the United Stales, ia tolerable to the Soviet Union and cannot be changed seriously by gigantic military expenditures. This is the origin of the present trend toward stabilization in both countries. At the same time, the Soviet Union has found that the burden of the existing armaments inter feres with the vital needs of tha people. It has been impossibla to carry out the program for the modernization of Soviet agricul ture by chemical means without cutting down the military bud get. We can be reasonably certain that the Soviet arguments for a reduction of armaments are sin cere. They spring from neces sity. The United States is under no comparable pressure, and it can be argued that we could exploit the Soviet predicament by ac celerating rather than reducing the race of armaments. This is a conceivable line of policy, which can be held in reserve, "if the Soviet government took a provocative line, say in Latin America. TUT if it follows the present line, which appears to be one of gradual disengagement, tha American people will, quite rightly, allow themselves to be come conscious of the real bur dens of our defense establish ment. We are paying for our necessary and invaluable mili tary power by a failure to pro vide the facilities of civilian liv ing to keep pace with our needs. Cutbacks in defense expendi tures would cause difficulty to the economy and encounter less political resistance if the econ omy were running at a good pace instead of sluggishly. When ;5'i per cent of the labor force i is unemployed, and the national product is 35 or 40 billion less than it could be, the prospects of subtracting any part of the i demand for goods and services is disconcerting. i It is not too soon, therefore, to begin thinking about what j we weald do with the resources released by a cut in defense ex- penditurcs. We must prepare ourselves not only for the minor j readjustments to the first Mc- jNamara cutbacks, but also for the larger readjustments which will become necessary if and when we enter upon an actual reduction of armaments. Flee Away . can psyche, deep beneath the ; hardness and harshness of the hunt for material interests. This spark of the Gospel lying deep in people who more often than not do not think at all of the Gospel, is not a thing that one speaks of. . . . n exists, however, and is active in the Preiat mace nt fU t .1 what ls mme valuable in this "!i. an to find a trace oi uospel fra among men''' of Gospel fraternal love acme nong men?" We shall not soon forget No vember twenty-second; hut it ia December twenty-fifth tnat en dures of itself. To the suprema cists of any color, to the Castro lies and Birchites and all of their spirit, this writer wouid like to direct some farmilar words of uncertain authorship but certain meaning: "o hpavpn ran rnma In ,, ann. mir hfiarrn ftnri met in it today Tak(1 h.aV(,n No i, m thc flIlure wnich js not hidden in this present instant. Take peace. The gloom of Ihe world is but a hadow; behind it. yet within reach, is joy. Take joy. And so. at this Christmas time, I greet you with the prayer that for ou, now and forever, the day breaks and the i shadows flee awav." O
