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;1 fc-aVf T MONDAY, MlDTORDvlWrBIBUNI ""Everyone io southern CTrexon Beaaa The Mail Tribune" PubllVned Dally except Saturday by MtUHJHD PKlNTliNU CO. Ill North Fir St, PrL712-Dl4i ' BOBERf-W RUHL, Editor HERB UHEV Adverting Manager ERIC w ALLEN JR., Mne. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Spuria Editor OLIVE SI ARCHER Women'! Edltoi DALE ER1CKSUN, Circulation Mr An Independent Newspapei Entered n tecond clan matter at Hearoro. uregun ui ... March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES IJaily and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Daily and Sunday moi 10 01) " Dailv and Sunday 3 moi. .V0U aimriiv Omv One year 13 00 Sine Copy IMalledl J0 la"lly and Sunday 1 year 2100 r,,,.. Siinrin I mO. l-'O Sunday Only 1 mo. 50o Carrier and Vendori opy 100 - ' . -.. , ,i1,nrH offlrlal Paper ofJacltmn County United Press International lull Leased Wire U P I Tclopho'o Newsplcturea TiEMBER-OF AUDIT BUREAU advertising Rpresentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC. . ATES Ol'lcel In New York. Chi calo Detroit. San rranclnco. Lot Anselia Seattle. Portland Denver. RATION At EDITORIAL l.'.li'.'.M Memner California Newspaper Publlihen Association Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from in files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, IS53 (Wednesday) Articles of incorporation filed In Salem for Beaver Sales Co., Inc., Medford sawmill business, with capitalization listed at $15,- 000; they were signed by Glenn I,. Jackson, 0. B. Waddcll and J. I,. Carver. Claude D. Morgan, son of .I D. Morgan, Gold Hill, arrived home after receiving a dis charge from the Navy; lie served for three years including duty in Alaska and Korea. JO YEARS A(iO Dec. 30, IIHII (Thursday) Carlos W. Morris purchased ene-half interest in Conger Fun eral Parlors and the name of the firm was changed to Conger-Morris Funeral Parlors. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column; "Horses are using East Side lawns for pastures. None of the homo owners to date are mad enough to solve the alleged meal short age with a .;iO-.;iO rifle. They, however, threaten to point the district attorney nt the equine trespassers." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 30. Iti;i3 (Saturday) Jackson County Sheriff Wal ler J. Olmsehcid and District Attorney George Codding serve notice on local madhouses, speakeasies, and "resorts" to Stop illicit sales of liquor. W. M. Clcmcnson, member of Medford City Council mid pro prietor of Jackson Hotel, dies. 10 YEARS AGO Dee. 30. I!i:'3 (Sunday) Amos R. Willits, young Med ford businessman and volunteer fireman, dies in $100,000 fire at Modford's Page theater; Fire Chief Roy Elliott injured Medford Hotel advertised "tluee elaborate dinner cele brations" (or New Year's Eve. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. ,'lo.l!it:i (TiicMlny) Item in 'Eagle Point Eaglets' column of tho Mail Tribune an nounced the birth of Lewoll I)u pray at Butte Falls. Advertisement otters five room house on good lot, assess ments all paid, near paved street, for $000 with easy terms. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct tt tuperior; seven or eight It excellent; live or sit is good. 1. What Is the C. A. P." 2. What, according to the proverb, is the "mother of in vention"? 3. Name the General who was George Washington's rival (or command of the Continental Army. 4. Who was Sigmund Freud? 5. Why is Holland called The Netherlands? 6. From what is agar derived? 7. Flalbush is a section in one of New York City's boroughs; which one? 8. The name of which day of the week has tho most letters? 9. Shinloism is the principal native religion of which country? 10. Was the message, "What hath God wrought?", the first to be sent by telephone, leleslar. telegraph or radio transmis sion? Answers: I. Civil Air Patrol. 2. Necessltv. 3. Horatio Gales 4. German psychologist. .1. Much of II is heluw tea level, fi. S f I r f d. 7. llimiMyn. A. Wednesday. 0, Japan. 10. Telegraph. 4 VjjJJ-AMOCIATIOM DECEMBER 30, 19B3 Doctors' Attitudes Organized medicine in the United Slates, meaning in essence the American Medical Asso ciation, has always been successful in its lobby ing battle to kill federal health services that are not designed primarily to henefit doctors. The AMA has gladly supported aid to hos pitals for facilities and equipment to be used by doctors, and federal subsidies for educating doctors. But it has balked at ed to help patients pay lor medical attention. The cry against such medical assistance is "socialism." IiHE contradiction is obvious, but the reason for it is not. What the AMA really fears, but it hides its fear behind the "socialism" facade, is a national health service which would, without question, make the practice of medicine some what less remunerative. It is interesting, then, to note the contrast between the attitude of American doctors and that of their British counterparts. The British Foreign Office has recently re ported that not only has its National Health Service been a complete success from the patients' standpoint but it has not doctors. Medical schools are overcrowded, says the Foreign Office. In Britain; widespread healing is considered a good thing, apparently. Capital Press, Salem, Male Perfumes Call them colognes, after-shave lotions or what you will, the latest and hottest item in the toiletries world is men s pertumes. the advertis ing copy writers arc using every subterfuge in the book to tell about their products without com ing right out and saying that effeminate word perfume. The whole emphasis is rugged masculinity. "Mark II is a man's essence, expressed in no uncertain masculine terms," the copy says. It is pictured with a black panther. Gillette is spend ing $2 million this year introducing Sun Up, its new cologne. Recognizing that women are more likely to buy perfume for their men than men are to buy it for themselves, Moustach cologne makes an outright pitch to women buyers. X7E WOULDN'T be poking so much fun at ' male perfume if it was really authentic. The trouble is that all these scents leave a man smell ing like a drugstore instead of like a man. There are some really wonderful male smells, but so far they have not shown up in perfumes. Anyone who has had a working man or an outdoorsmart -for a father knows what these smells are. Take Old Sawmill, for instance. The clean, pungent smell of freshly cut wood which clings to a millman is something a child will remember all his life. The smell of Fresh Hay. There is a nostalgia of summertime, the security of farm life, in this male aroma. COME of the smells may not conform with the acceptability standards of the perfume indus try, but they arc masculine and genuine Wet Leather, Well-Oiled Rifle, and the most virile oi ineni an, naro uays worn. It isn't likely that any of these will be bottled, and even if they were, they wouldn't have the aura of authenticity. We sympathize with the copywriters who have the task of convincing men they must buy a bottle of perfume in order to smell like men. Oregon Statesman.Salcm. America, the Beautiful nillliojiri! nllovs j.lnn.v much nf ihc n:itinn's $10 billion interstate highway system appear to have semi-permanent, if not permanent, status. According the the Bureau of Public Roads, only 21) slides have agreed to limit their use on in terstate roads in return for federal cash bonuses. Congress in .1 !)(!, extended the six-year-old bo nus authorization for two more years. Hut Road Bureau officials say it is not likely that many more slates will come in at this late day. All in all, l'.MiH was not an auspicious year for America the Beautiful. Legislation to estab lish tt National Wilderness Preservation System and protect virginal lands against depredation still remains tied up in the House Interior Com mittee. The Senate has tw ice passed it since 1!HU by comfortable margins, but mining and timber in terests have been able to block its consideration on the Mouse floor. rIRTY AIR is mounting a smelly assault on the nation's nostrils, even in the countryside. Congress cautiously approached the air pollu tion problem by authorizing !!'" million over four years for a research program. Water pollution continues to render more and more of the nation's streams unfit for man or aquatic life. The right to peace and tranquillity and to quiet enjoyment of property has been invaded by the cacophonies from motor vehicles, airports, industrial parks, even the power mower next door. City fathers in Baltimore attracted nation al notice when they outlawed the use of transis ter radios on public buses. And that Federal Communications Commis sion proposal to limit the number of broadcast commercials which offend both eyes and cars has been left for dead. F.R.R.' federal programs design driven away potential "Mind If I Look Over ' Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (C) Field Enterprises. Inc. WAS LINCOLN WRONG ABOUT CIVIL WAR? Although I yield to no man in my admiration (or Lincoln's character, I have sometimes of late been beset by the uneasy notion that he was wrong about the Civil War. Supposed he had allowed the South to secede when it wanted to? What might the results have been, for both sections of the country, for Negroes and for Whites? Slavery would not have lasted very long, anyhow; il was dis appearing all over the world. The North would have flourished industrially, much as it did; the South would have remained an agrarian country. We would have been spared bloodshed and bitterness; and now, a hundred years later, we would not be resuming that fratricidal conflict. Wars solve absolutely nothing. We fought the First World War to rid the world of German militarism and inherited Hillerism. We fought the Second World War to check Naziism and Fascism and today there is more hatred, more violence, more revolution, more narrow nationalism than ever before. Anil, likewise, the Civil War solved nothing; It only post poned a decision (or a century. It (reed the Negro (loin slavery, hut it did not center full citizenship upon him. The Smith would have learned the error of its ways, would have repented anil reformed, or would have sunk Into back wardness anil poverty. For no nation that treats men as properly In the modern would can use its resources to the - fullest. Economically, psychologically, morally, slavery was doomed, for II goes against the current of human history. The Civil War gave the South a permanent sense nf in Jury and rejection; and it gave the North a false sense of superiority. The nation's wounds were not hound tip; they were merely covered with a flimsy plaster that quickly dried, curled up, and fell off. Men's minds cannot be changed by force. Indeed, force usually reaffirms their stubborn defense of principles and feelings. It makes them go to extremes they would not otherwise consider. It summons up all their virtues in the service of their vices. The South was wrong about slavery, but right in Us desire to leave the Union when it found it could no longer subscribe In the doctrine that all men are created equal. This desire should not have been denied them by force for it was this denial that bred in them the mass neurosis we are witnessing today. Lincoln's mistake was in believing in "unity" at all costs. Rut the "unity" achieved at the cost of civil war had no basis in fact or feeling. For, a century later, the wound is still suppurating. Everybody's lor Ike -And Vice Versa By Arthur Hoppe jcjrV' J The secret's out. Governor Scranton of Pennsylvania says he can now reveal the truth. Mr. Kisenhower has urged him "to give a good deal of thought" to running for the Republican nomination. So, he says, duty calls. And at great sacrifice he will reluctantly accept a draft. If he can organize one in time. It just shows you the tremen dous value all politicians place on that pearl beyond price j the endorsement of Mr. Kisen-i hower. Who, of course, has also publicly urged Mr. Lodge to re- : turn from Vietnam to run. And who thinks of Nixon as his pro tege. And who looks on Mr. ' Milton Kisenhower as his broth er. And who is also known to1 approve heartily of Mr Hal field, Mr. Pnkscn. Mr. Dewey, (Mr. Hoover and President Lin-' 1 coin. j Hut it docs cause problems. I Take the letter I received, per haps by mistake, from a Mr. Sammy F. llogan, tvo Grecnnlls Golf Club, Gettysburg, Ta. "Pear Ahhy." it begins, "I gut a problem. 1 been caddy ing here at Greennlls 17 years and the other day they give me the General. Now he's a nice old gaffer, 1 guess Hut just like us, he has his bad days. And this one was. j "He slices two out of bounds off the first tee, hooks a third i into the rough and w inds up 1 with an eight. On the second hole he hacks out a six and I think maybe things are going to ! improve Hut on the thud he ; takes a seven and on the fourth ( a dogleg to the left lie winds up with an eight. I am gelling a little tired mushing through the swamps hunting for his balls. So as I hand him his I driver on the fifth lee. 1 lake MEDKORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Your Shoulder, Swami?" the liberty of saying, 'General, you don't look like you got your mind on it today.' "And he says, 'Son, it is true. I have a problem. I don't know which of the 2H Republican can didates to support for the nom ination, seeing as how I have endorsed them all. And it is ruining my backswing. "'General.' I says, because I figure he should get it off his chest, 'leave you tell me whv this is such a problem.' '"Well, son.' he says, 'being President is the most awful job in the whole wide world. No body can imagine the terrible burdens and the horrible re sponsibility. So we must have some man in there who can stand the pressure, who can keep cool under fire, who knows how, above all. to (ace up to these horrendous decisions. Only I cannot decide which of the 28 has got it in him. And this is why I cannot keep my head down today.' " General.' I says 'you can't let problems like that ruin vour game. That's what golf is' lor. Why, the day my sainted mother passed on, 1 went out and broke SO, may she rest in peace. And when my wife left me I shot a Tti. Yes, sir, golfs the only an swer to your problems. Only you never want to gel the two mixed up.' "He thinks this over, nods, gets a grip on his club and pars the nexl live holes. As we come into the clubhouse he takes me aside (or a private chat, the details of which I urn not at liberty to divulge at (his time. Hut that gets me to my prob lem : "I know the General s ex perienced in these things, but is it really true that me being President would cut live strokes off my game'"' OREGON Foreign News: Cypress Settlement Seen; Chou To By PHIL NEWSOM L'PI Fnrelrn Newi Analyit Notes from the foreign news cables: Cyprus Settlement: Britain expects to be able to restore order in Cyprus, but foresees considerable difficulties in re-establishing a working re lationship between the Greek fc) New ROCKF.FELLKR VS. GOLDWATER NEW YORK, N. Y. - A ha rassed, far f''nm wildly enthusi astic Barry Goldwator has pass ed the word to his key support ers that he will seek the Repub lican Presidential nomination, even though President Kenne dy's assassination seems to have knocked the patented Goldwater strategy for Republican victory into a cocked hat. A word passed in this manner is, of course, very different in deed from a formal Goldwater announcement, irrevocably com mitting the senator to the rigors of the race. But it is pretty hard to see how Goldwater can go back on the word that he has passed. Indeed, his formal an nouncement is likely to be made at any moment. Senator Goldwatcr's problem is summed up in the rigorous impulsive person of former Sen. Wiiliam Knowland of California. Knowland long ago let it bo known that he would head the California slate of Goldwater delegates. The Goldwater can didacy, in fact, was regarded by Knowland, not just as a fine thing in itself, but also as a fine opportunity for a political comeback by Knowland. w HENCE the doubts about Gold watcr's willingnes to stand, arising from the radically chang ed national political situation, have caused Knowland to put on a fair imitation of an enraged bull elephant an animal he frequently resembles and can therefore imitate with great dra matic effect. All over the country there are other politicians like Knowland, who have been bombarding Goldwater with demands that he run because they, too, are com mitted and hope to gain from the commitment. Their bom bardment has been supported by a powerful barrage from the hot-eyed extremists of the Gold water movement, like the ultra right wing Young Americans for Freedom. The old political pros, who merely thought Goldwater was the most likely nominee and were therefore thinking about climbing aboard the bandwagon, are now holding back in droves. Even a good part of the inde pendent oil money, which had : been so lavishly pro-Goldwater, , is reported to be having shabby second-thoughts which irre I sistibly recalls T. S. Eliot's lines ! on the abandoned Burbank-Mark Antony: "Defunctive music under sea "Passed seaward with the passing bell "Slowly; the god Hercules "Had left him that had loved him well." 'PHIS retreat from Goldwater is happening, of course, be cause the Goldwater strategy rested squarely on the expecta tion that the southern electoral votes could easily he captured from President Kennedy, by making the Republican party into the "Lilywhite Party" in a strictly nice way. of course As the first southerner in the White House since Appomatox. President Johnson has damp ened that expectation, to put it very mildly. But the committed Knowlands and the hot-eyed extremists are still there, unchanged by the drastic change in Goldwatcr's prospects. So the word has re portedly been passed And this news that the word has been passed by Goldwater has in turn been received by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller with genuine re lief and pleasure. This last bit of news may surprise those who do not under stand that politics has close links with chess. Yet lor Gov ernor Rockefeller's personal chess game. Senator Goldwater is a positive necessity. Rockefeller cannot hope to overcome the effects of his re marriage on the delegate-owning Republican professional politi cians, except by proving himself Iz.l1: Paris?; Sino-African Trading and Turkish Cypriot factions. Mediation between Archbishop Makarios and Turkish leader Frazil Kuchuk will be required to set administrative machinery functioning again. American "advice" may also prove a helping factor in the delicate forthcoming negotiations re-establishing a balance of rule be tween the Greek and Turkish factions. Chou To Paris? Insiders do not rule out the possibility of a Paris visit by Red Chinese Premier Chou En- lai before he returns home. Dur - ing his North African swing, Chou dropped a number of re marks recalling his stay in Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop York Herald Tribune syndicate in open combat against another admittedly popular Republican. For this purpose, Goldwater is the only satisfactory opponent in sight. TJENCE Governor and Mrs. Rockefeller are charging into the (ray in New Hampshire, the first primary state, only a few days after the new year. They will campaign there to gether every weekend until New Hampshire votes in March. And they really seem to enjoy this grisly prospect, because t h e governor is convinced he can beat Senator Goldwater in New Hampshire. Even so, the Rockefeller camp regards the California primary as the real test. Here, a pre primary poll, which has shown Rockefeller trailing Goldwater by several miles, now shows the governor only a few hundred yards behind. For the ebullient Rockefeller, any gain at all is almost a guarantee of victory. In the changed circumstances, it must be added, it genuinely seems more possible for Rocke feller to defeat Goldwater in these primary contests on which Rockefeller is building his chief hopes of being nominated. But between hopes and delegates, there is always a wide gap. ...Communications... Letters to tht Editor mutt bear the name and iddreit of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial (or publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not eiceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in (act the contrary is often the case. No Scat Belts To the Editor: When we were driving the old REO taxicab around Southern Oregon, we didn't have no scat belts. There wuzn't nuttin' to fasten scat belts to but the gas tank. No body wanted to get throwed through the windshield with a tank full of gasoline strapped to the seat of their pants. The only tiling wot ever went through the windshield wuz a jackrabbit chasing a dog. He j wouldn t have gone through the windshield if he had been wear ing his seat belt. Maybe his belt would have, but his seat wouldn't. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. All's Fair To the Editor: This letter has gone to the President of the United States; the House of Congress; and the Governor of the State of Oregon. Sirs: All is fair in love and war; business and politics? Whoa!!! Please save the Ten Commandments, the Constitu tion and the Bill of Rights, lladley A. Yow 109 Oak Drive Central Point, Ore. P S. Guns don't kill people people kill people! Money doesn't buy principles! Too many laws mean legal corrup tion! Poverty and Taxes To the Editor: As one who shared your feeling of uneasi ness at Christmas because many are not enjoying what we might call the American stand ard of living. I would like to call your readers' attention to two outstanding recent maga zine articles. In the Dec. 21 issue of the , "Post" there is for those who have never experienced poverty, or even observed it to any ex tent personally, a shocking pic ture of poverty amidst plenty in America. The question immedi ately arises as why should the richest nation on earth allow poverty that would never be tol erated in such countries as, say, Denmark and Sweden1 I Perhaps the January "Prog ressive'' (founded by the liberal Wisconsin Republican Bob La Follctto) provides part of the answer. We are told. e.g.. of a Houston, Texas, oil investment adviser who had an income of S.'.ntio.ooo in a single year but legally paid no taxes at all that Paris in the early twenties and saying he would like to see it again. It will be up to Presi dent Charles de Gaulle to de cide whether he should be in vited. If Chou does go to Paris, it will be a further sign that French diplomatic recognition of Red China is likely soon. Sino-African Trade: Aside from the possibility of diplomatic relations between I France and Red China, there al - ! so is talk of a sizeable buildup in Sino-French trade. In Paris it is believed that Chou is using i his African tour to step up Red Chinese trade with former fearing a possible U. S. protest. French African territories who ; Aside from some mild words of would pay for their Chinese caution, the protest has not goods with financial assistance been forthcoming so that Jap received from France. anese are going full speed French Referendum: De Gaulle who likes to use national refcrendums as proof of the peoples' support for his policies, is said to want another for 1964. But he is having trou ble finding an issue of sufficient interest to bring out the voters. In the Day's News By FRANK From London: Secret reports reaching West ern governments from Moscow say there has been a sizable shift recently of Soviet army units from Central Russia to ward the Communist Chinese border. Receipt of these reports has been acknowledged in Lon don and Paris by high officials of several important Atlantic pact powers. According to informed offi cials, Soviet troops are under stood to be heading toward the frontier of Red China's Sin kiang province. rTHERE'S an ancient proverb to the effect that when thieves fall out honest men may hope to come into their own. Still Let's not go so far as to hope that Red Russia and Red China go to war. History tells us that when nations nf that size go to war to the knife and the knife to the hilt the rest of the world is pretty apt to get dragged in. TN OUR general time, there ! have been two wars to prove it: World War I. World War II. year. Not only for individuals, but for companies involved in the oil business, Congress has provided very favorable tax treatment in relation to most other business concerns. Among! the effects is the case of jh Paul Getty, who estimated the less ""Known souls witn wnoss value of his holdings at several j fate we are connected by a bond billion dollars, or H. L. Hunt ! of sympathy, (former sponsor of Dan Smoot), -Many tjmes a day I rcaliza whose estimated income is some how much , d SdO million a year perhaps $14 , ... . , .,, million of which is ta:: tree. i mncc We 15 hulU uPon u'8 If it would help end poverty labors of my fellow men, both I'm sure many of us would be livin8 and dead, and how earn glad to have our already high ostly I must exert myself in taxes raised, but at the same 1 order to give in return as much time a more equitable system of levying taxes should be in stituted. (Name on file) Ashland, Ore. Philosophy To the Editor: The beginning of a new year gives many peo ple renewed hope (or better things (o come than past years nave iHiuii-u. iu aian uie new year right, here is a bit of con - structive philosophy by Albert! MANITOWOC, Wis. (UPD Einstein: i Police searched (or a live sheep "Strange is our situation here ; which vanished Sunday from a upon earth. Each of us comes Nativity scene here in sub-zero for a short visit, not knowing weather, why. yet sometimes seeming to Officers were advised, "if you divine a purpose. From the see him. he's wearing a wool standpoint of daily life, how-1 coat." "And while driving home, slay He has ruled out the idra of a referendum on creating the of fice of vice president, which hs doesn't want anyhow. A refer endum on abolishing the senate, another pet De Gaulle idea, would stir up little enthusaism. It might be held on De Gaulle's plans for European political unity. Sino-Japancse: j Look for Japan's alreadv sub- ! stantial trade with Red China to make giant strides in 1064, especially in critical industrial machinery. The Japanese have been going slow in the last vear ahead. The Japanese industrial fair in Peking last October was a resounding success. Millions of dollars worth of sales were con cluded, including an agreement under which Peking will pur chase 57 industrial machines in 1964. JENKINS We had nothing to do with th starting of either war but ws got dragged into the fighting just the same. There's another proverb: HISTORY TENDS TO RE PEAT ITSELF. That also is worth remember ing. UROM Washington: Senate and House leaders hope to complete action on a final foreign aid bill to lay on President Johnson's desk this week. QUESTION: Why the strength of foreign aid in the congress despite its lack of popularity out in th hustings? This thought occurs: It's sometimes easier to keep the children quiet by giving them candy. TJUT " To most of us nut in Uia sticks, who PAY THE TAXES, this further thought occurs: The more candy the children get, the more they WANT. There's plenty of evidencs that it works the same way in the case of foreign aid. ever, there is one thing we do know; that man is here for ths sake of other men above all, ' for those upon whose smile and wen.being our own happiness ,,. " , . . ..' " ' Spends, and also for the count- ! as I have received. This kind of philosophy put into universal practice might help us to establish a peaceful world. Happy New Year to everyone. Lvdia Burnham 814 Warne St. Prescott, Ariz. Missing Sheep - ,, . , ... , ' cosily faennriea away (mm polire roadblock' O jo- re mine tonight: i
