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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
to years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 19. 1948
(It was Tuesday)
"Mr. and Mrs. America," rov
ing reporter couple on tour for
the Philadelphia Inquirer, to
visit Rogue valley this week,
equipped with "durable" car,
typewriter, three cameras, nine
suitcases of clothes.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Te Smudge Pot column: An OSC
freshman was kidnaped by an
armed bandit and forced to
drive from Seattle to Port An
geles. Outside of a fine of $10
for speeding through a town the
victim got off with less punish
ment than usually meted at a
fraternity Initiation.
SO YEARS AGO
June 19. 1938
(It was Friday)
Active International chooses
Olympia, Wash., for next con
vention; meeting for 12th annual
convention today in Hotel Med
ford. Visitors invited to make in
spection of model home at cor
ner of West Main and Peach
sts.: sponsored by Jackson Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce.
30 YEARS AGO .
June 19. 1926
(It was Saturday)
Grand jury indicts 26 in Port-
jana on gambling and vice
charges after expose by Congre
gationalism minister.
State game board visits Sav
age Rapids dam on Rogue river;
makes plans for V-shaped screens
for turbines which will keep out
90 per cent of the fish.
40 YEARS AGO
.June 19. 1916
(It was Monday)
Local people see friends and
neighbors in action in moving
picture made and shot on local
streets; plot is chase of a tramp
by police chief, which runs
through railroad, library, and
picnic on library lawn.
What's the Answer?
1. Cultural, scientific, or
trade missions from the Soviet
bloc to other countries, and from
other countries to the Soviet
bloc, numbered in the hundreds
or thousands last year?
2. In many large northern In
dustrial states Negroes make up
more than 5 per cent of all vot
ers; right or wrong?
3. Mushroom poisoning deaths
in the U. S. average around (a)
50, (b) 150, (c) 300, or (d) 600
a year?
4. A scrimshaw is a piece of
fabric wasted in cutting out a
slip cover, a miserly person, or
a shell or whale's tooth engraved
by a sailor?
5. No steam locomotives have
been built in the U. S. in recent
years: right or wrong?
6. Jai alai is a city in Indo
nesia, a popular professional
sport in Latin America, or the
name of a Moslem prince for
merly married to an American
movie star?
7. Port Said is at the Mediter
ranean or Red Sea end of the
Suez Canal?
The answers: 1. Thousands
3.104 mission to or from Soviet
bloc in 1955. 2. Right. 3. Around
50 a year. 4. Engraved shell,
whala's tooth, etc 5. Wrong, but
50 ordered a year ago for India
ware the first sine 1949. 6.
Latin American sport, 7. Medi
terranean and.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Alsop Pessimism
We frequently hear complaints that the Alsop
Brothers are incureable pessimists and should lighten
up their column with a little sunshine now and then,
or quit.
We grant the Alsop Brothers are inclined to take
a rather dim view of the future as far as the demo
cratic world is concerned.
But if we had to choose between undue pessimism
and undue optimism at this time we would prefer the
former.
ITOR WE believe the danger of complacency as a
result of apathy and a refusal to face facts realis
tically, is far greater than any harm that could come
from being a bit of a bear on Uncle Sam's present pros
pects particularly in the cold war with Russia.
Moreover if anyone wishes to do some extensive
research and check the Alsop Brothers predictions
with later developments, we believe they will find
their batting: average considerably over the 300 mark.
Joseph Alsop after his
and western Europe sees a hard row ahead tor jnaiu
with France practically out of it, and Britain seriously
concerned about the financial strain of remaining in
it
ITTHOUT these two countries Uncle Sam would
be holding the sack and in all likelihood NATO
would soon go "where the
keeps.
Something may come
aster. But we regard it as
credit for the Alsops to recognize the seriousness 01
the situation, and come out
to solve the problem by ignoring it. R.W.R.
"Coat Tails'' NOT the Issue
In my opinion, there is no more liberal-minded Member
of this body today than Wayne Morse. There is no greater
student of constitutional law. No man has concerned himself ,
more fully, or with greater effectiveness, with legislative
procedures and legislative traditions, than has Wayne Morse.
No man has fought harder or more continuously and
constructively for human liberty, for equality and justice
for all men and women, regardless of race, color, or creed,
and for the dignity of the individal, than has Wayne Morse.
I am very glad indeed that Wayne Morse will be here
for the next 6 years, as I have no doubt of his reelection to
the United States Senate. He will continue to serve his
State and the Nation with great devotion, and with unusual
effectiveness, as he has served for the past many years in
the United States Senate.
" That is an extract from a tribute to Oregon's senior
Senator by his friend and colleague Senator Lehman
of New York.
The occasion was the news of Senator Morse's vic
tory in the recent primary.
Similar tributes extolling more specifically Sena
tor Morse's outstanding legal ability, tireless energy
and devotion to basic democratic principles were giv
en by Senators Douglas of Illinois, Anderson of New
Mexico, and Humphrey of Minnesota. One might add
the tributes were well deserved.
IN FACT we think it would be a pious idea if Douglas
McKay instead of trying so desperately to ride into
the Senate on the President's coat-tails would devote
some of his time to the record of the man he hopes to
replace. That in the past has been the usual procedure.
That record is plain.
that benator Morse changed his party label or dared
to criticize his former leader when he believed him
wrong but what principles and policies he supported
during his 2 terms, so the voters of the state, regard
less of partisanship, may decide whether they wish
such a record sustained or repudiated.
The more they know about the Morse principles
and policies, the more carefully they analyze them,
this department is certain the more determined they
will be to oppose their abandonment R.W.R.
No "Give Away?"
The Bend Bulletin can see nothing to criticize in
the Tidelands Oil bill. In fact instead of it being a
"give away" it was a most proftitable investment for
the United States, the government having received
$200,000,000 in royalties in 3 years or slightly less
than $70,000,000 per year.
Before the Bulletin celebrates the demise of the
"give away" charge and the liquidation of the na
tional debt via oil royalties it might be wise to figure
out how many millions the four states of California,
Texas, Louisiana and Florida received through the
passage of this measure which nullified the decision
of the Supreme Court that the government had a para
mount interest in the tidelands oil.
e e e e
1MOREOVER as far as the political angle is con
cerned it should be noted that but for an amend
ment to the bill brought forward and passed by the
Democrats even these royalties from oil found beyond
the 3 mile limit would have been denied the govern
ment. The point in this particular controversy is not
what, the government now gets thanks to the last
minute amendment of the tidelands oil bill but what
the American people including the people of Ore
gon would have received had the Supreme Court
been upheld and the "give-away" measure had never
been passed. R.W.R.
N.Y. GROUP MEETS
New York U.R The 300
member New York Democratic
state committee meets at noon
today to name 24 half-vote dele
gates at large to the Democratic
national convention, elect its
own officers and select a time
and place for the state Demo
cratic convention.
Tuesday, June 19. 1958
recent trip to the Near East
woodbine twineth" for
up to prevent such a dis
a credit rather than dis
with it, instead of trying
The important thing is not
GUARDSMEN SHAVE
Camp McCoy, Wis. U.R)
Weeks of faithful beard-growing
feU victim to the razor today
when the army ordered Wood
county. Wis., guardsmen in sum
mer training here to shave. The
men had been saving their whis
kers for the county's centennial
celebration next August
Civil Strife
Asian Nations' Growing Pains
By CHARLES M. MeCANN
United Press Correspondent
Internal disorders ranging
from riotous demonstrations to
small-scale wars arc plaguing
South Asia's
neutralist lead
ers. In India, up
border, Prime
Minister Jawa-
harlal Nehru's
army is fight
ing the primi
tive Naga hill
Charles McCann irirjesmen wno
demand an independent state.
More than 200 persons have
been killed in recent months in
demonstrations in big Indian
cities against Nehru's plan to
reorganize the country's system
of states.
In Partial Control
In Indonesia, rebels control
parts of Java, the main island;
Sumatra, and the Molucca and
Celebes island groups.
In Burma, the government has
been trying unsuccessfully for
eight years to suppress organ
ized rebels who are operating
within a few miles of Rangoon,
the capital.
In Ceylon, 12 persons were
reported killed last week in
riots called to protest Premier
Solomon Bandarnaike's plan to
make Sinhalese the country's
sole official language.
The disturbances all stem
from World War II and the
Editorial Comment
A PLEA FOR LIFE JACKETS
This is the beginning of the
dangerous season of the year
when people fish more, swim,
boat, water ski, and limber up
unused muscles.
The result is that some drown
and some get battered up.
Linn county has been lucky
so far. There have been no rec
reational deaths. But areas just
to the north and south have had
drownings already this season
Two men drowned last week
in the lake above Lookout
Point dam. Their boat overturn
ed while fishing. They weren't
wearmg life jackets.
It's a rare person who can
stay afloat while clothed, es
pecially in cold water.
Some people consider life
jackets cricket only for women
and kids. But jackets are re
quired by law in motor boats
and they're just plain common
sense. Coast Guardsmen always
wear them when in small boats,
they are accomplished swim
mers and boatmen.
Jackets are cheap and they
no longer are bulky. Besides,
they keep you warm. Albany
Democrat-Herald.
A LITTLE NONSENSE NOW
AND THEN
Commenting on the election
the Oregon Voter takes a sly
dig at Charles A. Sprague. em
inent editor of The Statesman,
Salem, who was first in the
state to espouse the cause of
Phil Hitchcock in the race for
the GOP nomination as " the
man to beat Morse." The Voter
says:
"No doubt some of the editor
ial drift away from McKay was
due to ... the Statesman which
may have influenced those ed
itors who followed ex-Governor
Charles A. Sprague. Some of
those editors must feel 'let
down' by the Salem editor and
doubtful of his understanding of
the rank and file party philos
ophy. For several years it has
appeared the ex - governor,
through the Statesman, has spo
ken somewhat like an oracle
from Republicanism . . . The ex
governor was not the oracle in
this instance even for the voters
of his own county ..."
We recommend the Voter for
this year's blue ribbon for driv
el. The Courier cannot speak for
any other editors. We can say
truthfully that we have never
tried to guess what the voters
might do as the guide for an
editorial opinion or recom
mendation. We don't give a
tinker's damn whether we are
on the winning or losing side.
Ex-Eugene Paper
Publisher Passes
Eugene (U.PJ Joseph H.
Koke, a former newspaper pub
lisher here and a partner in the
Koke-Chapman Printing comp
any, died yesterday at the age
of 7S.
Koke was a co-owner of the
old Eugene Morning News dur
ing the 1930s and was long ac
tive in community and commer
cial affairs.
He was a past president of the
Eugene Chamber of Commerce,
the Lane County Credit assoc
iation and the Security Savings
and Loan Association.
SCREEN ATTRACTION
Indianapolis (U.R) Week
end patrons at a drive-in movie
heard some sounds not on the
sound track when fire engines
rolled up to put out a blaze in
the screen. The flames were ex
tinguished and the show, "Day
of Fury," went on.
Marks Southeast
surge of nationalism which
brought independence to the
four countries concerned..
Soma Represent Resentment
Ironically, some of them at
least represent resentment by
large sections of the people
against "colonialism" by the
same neutralist leaders who de
nounce colonialism by the West
ern powers.
Nehru's Naga hillmen, for in
stance, want a state of their
own. The hillmen are a back
ward people, and proud of it.
They like to fight, usually with
bow and arrow. They go out on
head - hunting expeditions and
spend their leisure time drink
ing. Nehru put the hillmen under
the Assam state government,
which tried to ban head-hunting
and drinking.
A rebellion resulted. Nehru
sent the Indian army against
the tribesmen in mid-April after
Assam state forces failed to sup
press them.
Raiding Persists
The army seems to have had
little success. More than 100
tribesmen have been killed. But
they still sweep down on vil
lages and ambush military col
umns. They are now armed with
automatic weapons, which they
found in depots abandoned by
British forces at the end of the
war.
Occasional reports come from
Indonesia of the various rebel
movements there. These move
ments are all aimed against the
We prefer to think that most of
the brethren are equally indif
ferent to "what others think" in
their recommendations. And
Brother, you can put it deep
down in your pipe that we are
not a bit impressed with the
type of so-called leadership that
manipulated McKay's last min-
ute entry after McKay himself
had given Hitchcock to under
stand he didn't want to run.
The Voter betrays a lament
able ignorance of political par
ties in general and of the Re
publican party in particular, if
it assumes that all who come
under its banners accept one
creed or any single interpreta
tion of "the gospels." And the
Voter is NOT rendering McKay
any help when it sneers at
Sprague who lifted the Re
publican party in Oregon out of
the ditch into which Joe Dunne
et als drove it in 1934.
If we were at all interested in
"an oracle," we would certainly
prefer Charlie Sprague to many
we can think of. Port Umpqua
Courier, Reedsporz.
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Although under certain circum
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initial for publication is permls
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the right to edit all letters with an
eye to clarification and condensa
tion Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words
Ocean Pipeline
To the Editor: Enclosed is a
recent letter clipped from the
San Diego Tribune. The sugges
tion sounds fantastic, but so did
the idea of an Atlantic cable,
when it was first proposed.
Someway, Somehow, Californi
ans are still scheming to get Ore
gon's good water supply. Don't
think people take these sugges
tions lightly. Is Oregon going to
lock the barn door after the
horse is gone?
I'm living in California for the
time being, but I'm still an Ore
gonian at heart. I would hate
to see the time when water-hungry
California taps Oregon
streams, depriving Oregon of it's
most valuable heritage.
Carma McCarty,
690 Lincoln St.,
El Cajon, Calif.
Editor's note: Excerpts from
the letter mentioned above fol
low: Editor: I see by the papers
that, if we wait 20 years and
spend $1,500100,000 we will be
eligible for some Feather River
water. Somehow I don't have
much stomach for this plan.
Being, a part-time inventor, I
should like to present what pos
sibly is a new water plan. My
plan would lean heavily on the
word surplus.
To carry it out, we'd need two
average surplus aircraft carriers,
one surplus government syn
thetic rubber plant and thou
sands of bales of surplus cotton.
The aircraft carriers would be
converted into factories to manu
facture, say, a three-foot-diameter
hose.
" The carriers would fabricate,
vulcanize and lay this hose on
the ocean floor, much like a
cable-laying ship.
If each carrier would vulcan
ize and lay from one to two miles
of tubing per day, in a relative
ly short time they could be at
the Oregon border, where we
could easily get water.
There would be no right of
way to buy, rock mountains to
bore, mountain ranges over
which to pump the water, and
ditches to dig, line, fence and
bridge.
Yours, for a good drink of wa
ter in our lifetime.
central government by groups
which want independent states.
In the Moluccas, the rebels long
ago set up their own republic.
They maintain a headquarters
in New York, seeking United
Nations support.
In both Indonesia and Burma,
there are strong Communist par
ties. Communists dominate the
Indonesia labor unions. In Bur
ma, the Communists tripled
their representation in "parlia
ment in the recent elections.
They won 42 seats out of 250 in
the April 27 election.
All the rebel movements, and
the riots, may be attributed to
growing pains incident to inde
pendence. But it looks as if the
pains will persist for a long
time.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
If enough signatures are ob
tained on initiative petitions
that are now in circulation the
people of Oregon will vote this
fall on a proposal to reapportion
the Oregon legislature oh what
is known as the federal plan.
Under this plan, each county
would have one senator. Mem
bership in the house of repre
sentatives would be apportioned
according to population. That
follows the pattern of the U.S.
congress in which each state has
two senators and as many mem
bers of the house of represents
tives as its population entitles it
to under the formula established
in the constitution.
As of now, membership in
both houses of the Oregon legis
lature is apportioned according
to population.
VITHY change the present sys-
" tem? "
That question was answered
in 1789, when the constitutional
convention assembled in Phila
delphia to write our national
constitution. Virginia had
plan under which members of
both the houses of congress
would have been elected on
population basis.
The smaller colonies objected.
They said that would give the
larger colonies complete control
of the congress. The debate went
on for weeks until Benjamin
Franklin eventually produced
the compromise that resulted in
the present system of equal rep
resentation in the senate and
representation according to pop
ulation in the house.
"OREGON'S present system
" could result in exactly the
situation that was feared by the
smaller colonies. That is to say,
its legislature could be dominat
ed by a small number of the
larger counties of the state.
The purpose of the proposed
"federal system" measure is to
prevent such a situation from
arising.
T ET"S take a look at the West.
Li In general, it has been the
U.S. senate that has brought to
the West the development it has
enjoyed. If the congress of the
United States had been appor
tioned among the states accord
ing to its population, it is prob
able that the West would still
be a sagebrush area populated
chiefly by jackrabbits. Irriga
tion and reclamation in the West
were at first opposed in the pop
ulous Eastern states. It was in
the SENATE that they made
headway.
Under the federal plan, every
state has equal representation
in the senate. In every battle
for Western development, thin-lv-setUed
Nevada's voice in the
senate is equal to huge New
rones voice.
That fact had helped im
mensely in brineinff develon-
ment to the West.
T ETS take a close look at the
state of Oregon. The situa
tion that exists here is not dis
similar to that which existed in
the United States as a whole a
couple of generations ago.
Oregon's population is concen
trated largely in the Willamette
valley. Southern Oregon and
Eastern Oregon are as yet rela
tively thinly populated. In an
Oregon legislature whose repre
sentation was apportioned in
both houses by population only,
the Willamette valley could
dominate the entire state.
That is what was feared by
the smaller colonies when the
constitutional convention assem
bled back in 1789.
IDONT want ot intimate that
the Willamette valley would
be unfair to the rest of Oregon
in a legislature so composed.
Willamette -valley people have
been fair and reasonable. I
think they will continue to be
fair and reasonable.
But in Oregon a legislature
controlled in both houses on a
population basis is a lopsided af
fair. It is to cure this lopsided
ness that the' so-called federal
plan is being proposed.
I hope the petitions, which are
being sponsored by the Farm
Bureau Federation, get signa
tures enough. to get the meas
ure on the baUot at the general
election in November.
Matter of Fact sy iPh
ELI'S PLACE
El Auja, Palestine At Eli's
place, the landscape is positively
Uttered with the withered
stumps of
time. And no
wonder, for
Eli's place has
been a strate
gic key point
since history
began, be
cause the two
roads out of
Egypt join
useun Aisop here with the
southern road into Israel and
because here, incomparably pre
cious in this grim, arid Negev
Desert, there is a good well.
At the moment, U.N. observ
ers (for here we are in the theo
retically demilitarized zone be
tween Israel and Egypt) are
housed in the headquarters built
for Turkish generals during Je
mal Pasha's ill-fated drive on
Suez in the 1914 war. But the
Turks were a mere episode: Sa-
ladin and the Marmelukes, the
Romans and Byzantines and
Rameses the Great himself have
all held and fortified the place.
But despite all the ghosts of
the past and the U.N. observers
of the present, this is still Eli's
place and by right of conquest,
too. Some time ago, the Egyp
tians were the first to send
troops into the demilitarized
zone. In a brilliant action, the
Israelis drove them out. And
again because of the crossroads
and the weU, and despite heavy
U.N. pressure that was recently
renewed, the Israelis have stay
ed on at El Auja.
17LI, or Eliahu if you give him
his full name, is the hand
some, wiry 28-year-old Israeli
colonel who is in command at
El Auja. He looks a pattern sol
dier. But talk a while with Eli,
Be careful to make allowance
for the curiously poetic effects
produced by his literal transla
tions from his native Hebrew
into English. You still find that
Eli is a soldier of a rather novel
breed.
Concerning being Jewish, he
says simply, "I once asked my
father why he left comfort for
hardship when he came to Israel
from Germany more than 30
years ago. He told me that he
came for reasons that I could
never understand as a Jew born
in Israel, and that it was for this
he came on my behalf. But now
I think I do understand, and
am grateful.
Or concerning the Israeli re
sistance movement, which he
joined when he was 18, Eli asks
amiably, "You have never fought
in any underground, have you?
Too bad for you, I say. From
such experiences, you may learn
much of men and war."
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QR CONCERNING the fantas
" tically difficult agriculture
which the Israelis are attempt
ing here in the Negev, he de
clares defiantly, "Here there is
land. Here men have farmed the
land before our time. AU that is
needed is water, for where there
is water there is life. Remember,
in our Israel, the forecasts of
the cautious have always been
wrong and the hopes of the
youth have always been right.
So speaks Eli, who has known
much hardship and danger. As
Congressional
Quiz
(Copyright, I95S
Congressional Quarterly)
Q Appropriations bills orig
inate in the House of Represen
tatives because (a) the Constitu
tions says they must: (b) it's
been a custom since 1813; (c)
President Eisenhower, in, an
executive order, said they
should?
A Ca). Article I. Section 7
of the Constitution says. "All
bills for raising revenues shall
originate in the House of Rep
resentatives; but the Senate
may propose or concur with
amendments as on other bills."
Q What is a discharge peti
tion? A A discharge petition is
the method the House has em
ployed since 1910 to with
draw from a committee a
pigeon-holed bill and permit
the bill to be considered on
the House floor. A discharge
motion, or petition, requires
218 signatures before it can be
brought up for consideration. ,
Of 788 discharge petitions
filed, only 30 have received
the required number of sig
natures. Only one bill, the
Fair Labor Standards Act of
1938. has been approved via
this route.
Q Which would you guess
recent Congresses have passed
more of public laws (those af
fecting the general public or a
segment of it) or private laws
(affecting individuals or corpora
tions named in the law?)
Private. The 83rd Con
gress enacted 781 public laws.
1002 private laws. So far (as
of June 5) the 841h Congress
has enacted 546 public laws.
681 private laws.
if J:
he leads you on an inspection
trip, you discover the Eli's place
is a bit like Eli himself. Its cen
ter is Kibbutz Kziot, a rectangle
of wooden shacks on a small
mound that is' entrenched and
mined and guarded and dug
about with traps for attackers.
A stranger farm no man has
ever seen, but this is none the
less a new Kibbutz, another- of
the remarkable Israeli collective
farming communities. At pres
ent, the farmers are also mem
bers of the Israeli army. Their
fields are only a few acres of
struggling sorghum, alfalfa and
potatoes, that make a tiny aston
ishing -green patch in the land
scape's uniform dusty brown.
Life here will still be cruelly
hard, even when the Negev pipe
line brings more water for more
fields. Yet the lean young men
and- jolly, rather unfashionably
plump young women of Kibbutz
Kziot tell you In matter- of fact
tones:
Of course we will stay here
after our army service. Why
not? This is our Kibbutz."
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"IN THE scuffy, painfully irri-
gated grass in the Kibbutz
center, a mortar team of two
boys and two girls is going
through the team drill. "It is
theirs, so they will fight well for
it," says Eli. "But they will not
fight alone." And this is quite
certainly true, as you soon ief
when Eli takes you on a tour of
his positions.
Nothing but the shooting is
wanting to make this the front
line of a hard-fought war. Eli's
young, tough-looking troops may
not have quite the smartness of
good peacetime soldiers. But
that is because they live as war
time soldiers, always manning
their trenches and observation
posts, carrying out their stern
training routine as though the
enemy might be upon them at
any moment, and snatching their
permitted rest in their foxholes
and dugouts.
The training routine does not
end, either, when the brassy sun
sinks in a purple glory behind a
chalk white, eroded hiU. In the
dusk, Ezekiel's patrol assembles.
There are nine of them Moroc
cans and Yemenites, Kurdish
Jews and Poles and native born
Israelis, for "in the Omri that
great warrior' in Israel, an
Ehud, whose swift-drawn sword
tickled the fat ribs of Eglon,
King of Moab," and in truth
they look almost worthy of their
names.
AS THE . dusk merges into
night, Ezekiel organizes his
diamond formation with the
speedy-footed Maurice the Mo
roccan and Nimni the native
born Israeli at the point. He
commands silence, gives the sig
nal to march with a loud hiss,
and the patrol is on its way
along the Egyptian border.
There is no light but the pale
loom of the myriad stars. The
route of the patrol lies over
rocky hills, down through dry
wadi beds and across broad san
dy plains. It is not easy country
this, even in daytime.
But the patrol goes forward
at a steady clip of rather mora
than four miles an hour, none
speaking, none pausing, none
straying, as though the broad
light of day illumined every
step. Ezekiel ends the long hard
march with a perfect mock am
bush of an Israeli vehicle on a
side road. As the unsuspecting
truck rumbles away, Ezekiel
rises from the very gutter, dusts
himself off briskly, and remarks
cheerfully:
"Of course they might have
shot us if they had seen us. But
at night they never see, even
when you are so close."
e e
THE scene of the ambush is also
thi rfnrf7.vnne In a moment
Eli drives up, and rather anx
iously inspects a still somewhat
breathless amateur patroller for
signs of damage.
'Ah," he says, in tones suffi
ciently surprised to be somewhat
wounding, "I see you have come
through all right. Well, I am
glad now that you have seen tl
night patrol. For in our army,
we must always expect to fight
against odds; and one way we
change the odds is to make the
night our friend."
(Copyright 1956. New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
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