Medford Mail Tribune from Medford, Oregon • Page 4

MEDFORD. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD. OHEGOII THURSDAY. JULY II, IN "Oh, Sorry We Thought It Wat A Gold water Rally" DistrustcdNowSecn Brainwasher 6raso ress in Latin American Uncle. Sam Good old Uncle Sam nameless bureaucrat in ministration has gone business.

the President Kennedy-announced BBSl Complaints have been registered by certain residents of California about "girlie" magazines on racks in federal buildings. So the GSA, which operates most government buildings, set out to censor the magazine racks most of -which, in cidentally, are operated, by blind businessmen. They didn't call it censorship. Oh my, no the program. Betancourt time- in government so far has been a succession of crises.

The real triumph is that he and alec-tlv democracy ever got this far. No 1 ei Venezuela ever has lasted to long. In four and a nau years; he has had to: -Put down four; major mili tary rebellions. -Ride out the disintegration of a three-party coalition when the second largest part-ner in his government left the party in a squabble over Cuba -Endure two splits witnin They took the "positive approach putting out a list of "acceptable" magazines. The fact that .1 ii 4- 17J a -a no oiners coum De soia stitute "censorship," in crata.

a X7ELL, why get excited about that? What's one or two girlie magazines more or less? point is that when the dead hand of the Matter of Fact censor moves, no one knows where it will stop, Yesterday, the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that the list of "approved" magazines has been trimmed of such tion," "The New Republic" and "The National Review, among a number of others. Communications These staid journals a mrlie picture among den to any who would Letter, to'th Editor must bear tha nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances tha us of a oen nam or initial that, friends, it brainwashing. It is censorship. for publication I. permissible.

The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all latter, with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the view, of tSe IS TRUE that the elsewhere. But the denial of freedom of choice, of freedom of the press to print and to circulate. It is a limitation on the freedom of citizens to read what they will, think what they will, say The.

Nation7' and "The New Republic" are magazines with a liberal Review" is a spokesman for the far nght Is the GSA fearful that some citizens might become contaminated with an idea? If the GSA can ban it can bah magazines devoted to political debate so what assurance do it won't be Time. Saturday lar Mechanics? Knock it off, ritory. E.A. 'Sundown" Medford has long had down" town. The reputation once was justified.

Isit This question was broueht un at a recent meeting of the Human In the person of some General bemces Ad into the brainwashing am not, 01 course, con the eyes of the bureau a a a publications as The Na- of opinion with nary them are thus forbid wish to read them. And magazines are available principle remains. It is a what they will. slant: "The -National trirlie macrazines. then we have that next time Evehine Post or Popu You're in dangerous ter No More a reputation as a "sun Rights Council.

It is a attention is being given either through official pressures, it is a town restaurants. And it was and eating places by race individuals with there are more Negroes thus more of them are and courteous treatment the money spent by a that spent by a white the Orecon laws which places of public accom- by without the sight of good, question, and one that needs answering, in inese nays wnen so mucn As Leader By JAMES ft. WHELAN United Pr International Caracas, Venezuea (UN) -Romulo BetancouTt Is a symbol of changing times. Once, neary 10 years ago, Betancourt was sniffed at by the U. S.

State Department as a "radical Now 55 and approaching the end of his term as presi- Strictly Personal Sydney J. Harris (e- field gnterprteee. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES People who frequently feel they are being "Insulted are highly insultable they unconsciously provoke situations in which they can feel rebuffed and rejected, in or der to justify their deep sense of grievance against the human race. Nothing In the werld is as ul as a moral generalisation that everybody believes: it vary unanimity allow to give it complete verbal assent without bothering to put it into practice.

The happiest marriages are those between a husband who knows how to listen and a wife who knows when not to talk. A fine semantic definition wa mad by Proust, whan observed that "Everybody 'cleat' ideas which have tha same deore of confusion as his own." Those discontented souls who are perpetually searching for someone to "under stand" them would be most discomfited if truly under. stood; what they are really looking for it someone to mis understand them in a way they find acceptable to the ego. Animals react to our tone of vole, nt to our werdst and children, who rightly pay' mor attention to th way aay things than to what say. Speaking of animals, I have long relished the anti senti mental remark by Karl Kraus, after hearing about the "loyalty" of dogs.

"To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take hurt as an example? He is loyal to men, not to other dogs It Is a singular fast that obscene literature aria only In highly civilised se-eietiee. and weuld be in-comprehensible to primitive societies; rather than a vice, obscenity it a disease of cultural aid age. A philospher in love is just as ridiculous as anybody else and even more so when he tries to philosophize about it. A servant may work In a house a month without knowing where the spoon, are.

but not for a weak without knowing where the (ksletons are. It is a dangerous half- truth to believe that "history repeats in a more profound sense, history never repeats itself, and each age commits great follies by wrongly applying some lesson of the past to a Unique event of the present, which it only loosely resembles. Biographies st second-rate men ar alway mora illuminating than biographic of genius. th reason being that it Is precisely the easenc of genius to be indefinable, uncaptura-ble, and mysterious. No cook ever thinks his own finger docs anything but Improve the taste of the dish conservation of national and international resources of waterfowl and because maintenance of assured safe habitat for these migratory fowl is in best interests of great majority of affected agriculturists.

Department of Interior in reference to these proposals stated: "We believe that these amendments are unnecessary, undesirable and not in accordance with the purpose of 5.793. "The Klamath Straits unit is essential to the manage ment ot waterfowl within the Pacific Flyway. "These proposed amendments would eliminate these management features. "We believe that provi sions in patents reserving public hunting, public access, and prohibiting the erection of structures would be difficult, if not impossible, to administer properly." If this land goes to private ownership this public hunt ing grounds, only one of Its kind in Oregon, will be lost forever without any chance of replacement. Support S.

793 as passed by a and oppose any amendment that would dispose of Klamath Straits unit Paul H. Weiland 2431 East Main st. Medford ao-T)t SaturHay ta H1HTIHO UU. Hath Wr BU rn, CVculauon 10 00 1.0 C-7 (Mai IX) si unU 1 Taw J100 ane unay ma. ana Ttawn vf? at rtfiTSTBtfiara JKMai WW i International" Vull Laaaea Wlr 9, 1 Tarana.

Nawaaeturaa lUraantattv: AftEKTS ASSOC! la Mta Vara. Chi ml Ian rrancteco. Lea Itamaar California Newspaper ful Ushers Association flight o' Time MMfferd and Jackson County Mlsnw-fromth tile or in Mail Tribune. 10. 20.

.30, 40 rW SO yr YA AOO jwr laVitM (iur) An entry of 0 driver and to '75' boat It ntieipatod fr the speedboat race Sun-)ty it Emigrant lake. Rogue River woman died ytrdy.tternoen following apacUcular accident which involved two heavy truck nd other vehicles north Gteld WU. YEAB.1 AOO' Jty V1 1 California Oregon Power company receive award of honor for war effort. i tram Arthur Perry "Ye IntxaaaeVPoV' column: "An- drew. Jackesn Bimpton of the hUIi towned' Fr.

When a youiig aptout he played Injun with toe Brown ooya ot e. Pt. and' was generally the red' myEaiib aoo Jlrt.lf. IMS (Tuaaday) iAufht. by city to fight' 'earwigs on Sl.klyou TeighU'v; i OwenrOregod mill re time dictation.

i i 44 YEABS AOO Jtjtr IMS (WediMedar) T. EV Daniel buy Interest In, MeCurdy Insurance company. etcher Fish and Don Lamb to have roles in pageant I 5YEABI AOO It la. 1M3 i I Dr. H.

French ofefrs to deed city 20 seres en Brne- burt hill for park. i Judge Kelly and Attorney Newbury to vie In beautiful awl centeat at Elka picnic. TOd't Ttsr I.Q.? i 1. Name the American Ad. mirai who said he wanted to ride- through Tokyo on the Bmperor's white horse.

la Montpelier the eaniul of Conn ticut, New Hamp- snlre, or Vermont? What de th following have common: pica, die 4. According to the Biblical stery, who rutted up the ser pent if the "fuiapsody in Blue" was the fithY version ot the life of which composer? i t. Correct the following: "He has a great capacity to 17. Name the leading port in renutai. Are aofl-shallee crab a different species than hard-availed crabs? Who.

was th author of the novel "Crapes of The clipper ship first mad its appearance about what year? i Answer.) 1. Admiral Hal aey. 1. Vermont. 3.

All are kind of tree. 4. Moms. I. Oeerg Oerahwln.

for wtk." T. Lieben. g. Ne. -H4aa SceUkeek.

10. KM. Bull tiQ, Clreulanan MP ajTlM--Ken Newa-ape. 'W 5 'MllMHtM-VVjtalOCIATieM ftrtawAt tDireiiAi to civil ngnu ana equauty oi treatment ana opportunity for all. his own party.

-Battle continuing subversion and violence at first largely from the rghtlsts rem-' nants of the Perez Jiminez clique, but lately from th Communists with vocal and activ support of Fidel Castro. -Survive at least two at tempts on his lit one of which -nearly succeeded and. left his hands and face scarred for life. Perhaps even more remark able than the mere fact of survival is what Betancourt has been able tq accomplish despite the pressures on him. He has steered the whol through a sever economic recession into a dear recovery.

ly Jaseph Art) tribune Syndicate, The full, horrendous lm pact of Mao Tse-tung's megalomaniac Stalinism was then felt in the years 1959-62. And the terrible new fact revealed by the Soviet letter to Peking is the fact that In these years the Chinese leaders were actively pressing the Soviets to precipitate a third world war. This, seemingly has been the true essence of the bewildering Sino-Soviet argument about peaceful co-existence. Seeing no. other way out for themselves after their the Chinese evidently wish to reduce the world- to smoking ruins, in the desperate, expectation that among the ruins China would at last find her proper, predominant place; Soviets actually make that charge: 5 a a a- MQUCH posing of the ques-'O 'tlon (about world war) by, the Chinese Communist comrades may engender a well-justified suspicion that this is no longer a class approach in the struggle for the abolition of capitalism, but Is for some entirely, different If both the exploiters and the exploited are buried under the ruins of the old world, who will build th 'bright future'? In this connection, it is impossible not to note that.

Chines comrades stubbornly propagate a. slogan devoid of any class 'The wind from the East prevails over the wind from the West'." It is pretty hair-raising to discover that one of the two great governments in th Communist bloc has been angrily urging the other to risk an H-bomb war; but that is what the Soviets now tell us has been It explains many mysteries, furthermore, such as the strangely hysterical character of tha Chinese reaction to the Soviet refusal to go to war over rpHE fact that this. kind of Siuo-Soviet argument has been going on, in deadly earnest, should be a warning to some of the advocates of th high-risk policy in this country. But that is not th end of the matter. The Chinese still have no way out of the situation they have plunged their country into.

Everyone says things are better in China this year. But if this Is true, the explanation of the improvement Is that Chinese industry has been 50 per cent shut down and Chinese industrial' and other Investment has been stopped almost dead. Improving the con- dition of th people- by sacrificing all hope of national growth, is hardly a long term out. Hence the Chinese leaders must' still be regarded as desperate men, who are capable of irrational acts. And this consideration should enter into all our calculations, concerning our dealings with th Soviets as well as th Chinese It.

lady. Just had for th by th sUent gartinr I dent of. Venezuea, he has won the a 1 a I of the United States. When he was received at the White House last Feb. It President Kennedy told him: "You represent all that we admire in political leader." Years ago Betancourt flirted with Marxism, but when he went to Washington Kennedy called him the "number one enemy of interna-t i a 1 Communism in this hemisphere." The United States, impressed with the reforms he has achieved -in always-explosive now Is reported considering him as the man needed to help bolster the sagging Alliance For Progress program once his term expires next Betancourt has said nothing about post-presidential ambitons (under the constitu- on he would not even be li- rible to tun for another 10 years) beyond expressing the wish to take an extended vacation and do some writing.

But he long has been an open and fervent admirer of the alliance and had launched Venezuela on major social and economic reforms envisioned by the alliance before In the Day's News FRANK JtNKINS The big news? As this is written, it seems still to be the alleged split between the Russians arid the Red Chinese. At the moment, their appears to have been a definite and WIDE split -and the Russians appear to be relieved and RELAXED by what has happened. The Red Chinese appear to be glum and angry. THE dispatches say: "Joking and bubbling with enthusiasm, Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev launched the Kremlin talks en a nuclear test ban agreement in a 3Vj hour conference with special U.S. and British envoys.

He jovially suggested signing th agreement right away. 'Red China, whose feud with Khrushchev has reached the point of a split, angry note of the talks. A Peking broadcast charged that the negotiations were based on what is called the 'utter hy pocrisy' of President Kennedy's strategy for peace." ijOT only Khrushchev AT In jovial mood. Th Mos cow dispatches add: "Newsmen saw W. A.

Har-riman (US. negotiator) and Lord Hailsham (British- nego tiator come out of th. Kremlin in apparent good spirits. Leaving in separate cars, both were laughing and smiling, as they talked with their associ QUESTION: Can there be a SAFE agreement with Russia? WELL, some pretty good neoole have thmie-ht an John Foster Dulles, who in his way was a pretty good man, said many years sio: 'The time may come .1 believe it will come when Russians of stature will patriotically put first their na tional security and the secur ity of their people. They will be unwUling to have that security and that welfare sub ordinated to the worldwide ambitions of I 1 1 national Communism.

"If their point of view should- prevail, then indeed there could be a basis for worthwhile negotiation and practical agreement between the United States and the new Russia." rNE more question: If there should be a World War II, would It be possible to wage it without using nu clear bombs? TnAi dtfficult ques- A tinn Rut ua a tne rutur By the past. The mans Introduced the use of poison gas when they sent clouds of chlorine gas against the allied forces at Ypres. It wasn't too successful The wind changed and blew the gas back into' the German ranks. But poison gas was Ways were found to make it more dependable as a killer to be used with relative safe ty against an THERE'; cam then World A War U. The warring countries stockpiled gas masks and manufactured vast quantities of highly perfected poison gas.

No one knows how close th Germans (ltd at that time by' a. MADMAN) cam to using it. The Allied high com mend was prepared to FIGHT BACK WITH POISON GAS But even Madman Hitler never used it. OO Maybe it will be possible to ban the use of nuclear weapons In any future war. Who knows? At sny rate, it may be worth a trial.

A "sundown" town, of cdurse, is one where people of colored minorities are hustled out of town py sundown action, or Dy more subtle where the human risrht and need for accommoda tions and food is denied, out of prejudice and lEDFORD once was just such a place. Negroes and other racial minorities were definitely not welcome here. In some cases of record, many (ci New yerk Heral AT LAST WE KNOW! Washington A flood of lurid light is cast upon the origins and cause of Peking's row. with Moscow, by the astonis 1 Soviet denunciation of the Chinese leaders ip which: was published Sunday. At last we or at any; rat easily- recon- iff we; struct, the actual course of this bitter Sino-Soviet quarrel which is probably the central event-of current history.

lt is now" plain; that the has had two distinct phases The first phase is not much discussed in the! new Soviet letter to Peking; but it Is well documented and --often been obliquely referred to by the Chinese. In this first phase, probably beginning rather early in 1957, the Chinese and Soviet leaders had a sharp falling about Chinese internal policy. 'THEChinese we'ri then" plan ning tneir disastrous ex periment with super-Stalinism the "great leap forward," and the accompanying organization of all Chinese agriculture in rural "communes." The Soviets were already turning away from Stalinism, and they foresaw from experience the disasters the Chi nese, were preparing for them selves. They are- known to have indulged ih fruitless warnings and When these were not heeded, the Soviet leaders did hot trouble to conceal' their feelings. Even here In America, both Nikita.

S. I Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan, spoke of the Chines rural com munes with brutal and open In -addition, Khrushchev personally encouraged the effort to reverse Mao Tse-tung's policy, which- was made by Marshal Peng Teh-huai at the Lushan conference in the summer of 1959. This encouragement of Peng Teh-huai was the Soviet interference in the "inter nal affairs" of the Chinese Communist party, which the Chines are always complain ing about. It was wholly fruit Mao's policies were sus tained. Peng Teh-huai was placed under house arrest.

And China plunged onward, to the total disaster the So viets had forecast. a a a FROM the disaster-was born the. second nhas of the dispute. Which'the Soviet doc- so horrifyingly describes. As early as 1958, be fore the full disaster occurred, the Chinese were already tempted by' a high-risk policy.

They mad their- attack, on Quemoy that year, with Soviet consent. But; the. consent was cautiously given on condition that the Chinese pull back at a word of command, and the Soviets ordered a pull-back when the U.S., became involved. "Th eh? You can't mis. rear th Uan.lsler.

used n-. wAartiwiTM Ayr the ease. in the gold rush days, you had better arm yourself with a camera before taking off on any adventure trips. Bert Kissinger, 322 South Riverside ave. Medford.

A.k Apology To the Editor: The execu tive board of the Liberty Amendment Committee respectfully requests Rep. James A. Redden of Medford to apologize to the Oregon people for the false and dis torted charges made by htm in a public letter against the proposed Liberty Amendment to the United States Constitution. Among some of the charges made without foundation are: Take Government out of all business." The truth the Liberty Amendment would not effect the Post Office or any other business author ized by the Constitution. "All business activities will be sold." The truth many business activities, particularly federal dams, would be trans ferred to state governments.

further distortion in his charge, "The businesses to be liquidated would be TV A Bonneville, Atomic Energy Projects, Rural Electrification Projects, the Patent Of fice, Camp White." The truth the Patent Office is a function authorized by the Con stitution and would be re tained. Camp White is a part military defense and would be continued under the Defense Department. Representative Reddens reference to Willis Stone, author of the Liberty Amendment, was discourteous and without just cause. Liberty Amendment Committee By: Will W. Henry, Chairman 310 S.W.

Stark st. Portland 4, Ore. Pre.erva Flywav To the Editor: Duck and goose hunters should come to the rescue of their public hunting grounds by contact ing their Congressman, Rob ert B. Duncan, House Office Building, Washington, D.C. A telegram of 15 words can be sent for 75 cents.

Land in question is known as Klamath Straits unit It contains famous "Firing Line" which extends 5W miles along Oregon-Califor nia line on North boundary of refuge area of Lower Klamath lake. S. 793 has passed the Senate. Its purpose is to promote conservation of wildlife re sources of Pacific flyway in Tule Lake, Lower and Upper Klamath National Wildlife refuges. Bill declares policy of Congress to preserve in tact necessary habitat for ml gratory waterfowl and to prevent depredations of such birds on agricultural crops in Pacific Coast States.

Klamath Drainage district tried unsuccessfully for many years to have Klamath Straits unit ot 6,366 acres homesteaded into private ownership. As a compromise they now propose that this land be sold or exchanged Into private ownership. As an inducement they propose that hunting right be reserved for the public. Senate turned down their ideas so now they will try to get th House to go for them. Basic question Is whether to preserve the area primarily for conservation or to per mit agricultural purposes and management techniques to limit conservation purposes in certain respects.

Senate resolved issue in favor of conservation, primarily water fowl management purposes. because such a priority Is in public Interest for reasons of years ago, police officers were assigned to see that no such individuals were permitted to remain here overnight. Later, overnight Iodjrine. was denied them. They were not welcome in paper.

In tact the contrary It often Editor's nott A recent letter in thl. column erltl-olid th operation of the coneeiilen at Howard Prairie Lake. A reply and tatamant of policie and operating procedure ha been prepared by Conces-aionairo Bob Johnston. It appear en Page IB. Deficit Spending To the Editor: An economic fallacy has gripped our na tlon; unless Its grip Is broken, we will soon be living in bankrupt America.

Th fallacy with which we and our government are enthralled is deficit spending. better known as the "spend yourself rich policy." Despite federal deficits in 27 of the last 33 years, we are still not rich and we have a debt of $300 billion. Still our government persists in deficit spending and plana another deficit next year. You and I who elect the government, must bear the blame for this. We.

elect men to office to do what desire and it't high time; that tell them to get the government' back on a sound financial basts. I will now pause, so our liberal friends may say, "It's not so bad, we owe it to our selves." But we ask your liberal friend now much he has loaned the fed eral government? The answer is usually nothing. And you yourself, how much have you loaned them? Again notmng. So you see we don't owe it to ourselves. We do owe it to the banks and moneylenders both here and abroad.

These peo ple rightly expect to be re- oaid. Do we pay them? no, we are even forced to borrow to even pay them the Interest on what we already I pause again so our liberal friends. If any are still with us, may say, "It's not so bad, our gross national product is $500 billion and our deDi only $300 billion." Another fallacy, the gross national product does not belong to the non-profit federal govern ment. It belongs to the na tion's business firms and their stockholders. The only claim the federal government has to the gross national product Is the taxes on it, after expenses.

And despite what our liberal friends may say, the federal government doe not have an unlimited claim on the earnings of business or Individuals. So we still have a $300 billion debt and com' paratlvely little income to pay it. We all know what happens to a business, a family or an Individual who lives beyond his means. The same fate awaits the nation that does so as well. Even if John F.

Ken nedy himself should tell you It Isn't so, don't you believe It. Write your semttors and reDresentatives, tell them to get the government back on a sound flnsncial footing or next time we'll elect men who will. Remember, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. James K. Shafer Route 2 Box 210X Medford Camera "Must" To the Editor: Trobably of the most valued treasure as well as Useful item among all Oregon tourists Including any scenery-Interested indt viduals on pleasure trips Is a camera.

There have been moments in the writer's time when not hiving a camera along, he could not have taken some most unusual scenes of wild life as well as still life. So if you are a tourist or visitor going to Jacksonville to view th "Old West" as it looked A of rare indeed that any found a way to stay here. What is the situation today? Desoite some lincerinc evidences of m-eiu dice, Medford hoBtefries and large accept minority out any fuss. -And increasing numbers of them are staying here, partly as a result of this chance. and partly simply because on the west Uoast, and passing through, on business or as tourists.

A MAN in Portland who is close to civil rights matters in the state recalls that at one time colored people coming through Medford would recount to their friends the difficulties thev had here. Today, however, the discussion is more apt to be about the kind of accommodations thev had and the unemotional they received. What has been responsible for this turn enlightenment and decency? Most likely it has been a combination of things. Ihese would include an ever-nsinc leve of education, a new spirit of tolerance and rood will, a realization that megro is just as good as man, an understanding of forbid discrimination in muuauon oecause 01 a a a a- a 17HATEVER the cause, it is good to know that Medford 's long-standing reputation is no longer entirely justified, and to hear from people who should know that the "sundown" taint is fading. As recently as a decade ago, it was a rare thing to see a colored face on Medford streets.

Now hardly a week goes a iNegro tourist entertainer. And why not? We're all Americans. Those who would deny their fellow-citizens the privileges and rights they demand for themselves only betray the ideals on which this nation was founded and has prospered. E. A..