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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
' 10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 3, 1948 (Sunday)
A box of Medford gift
pears, addressed to a non
existant San Diego street
number, was sold at auction
In the lobby of the San Diego
post office last week.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Lance
Offenbacher of the Apple-
cate towned Wed. to get a
haircut and two plowshares
sharpened."
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 3. 1938 (Monday)
A. Frederick Stennett
begins 28th year as foreman
of the Mail Tribune compos
ing room.
On the last two days of last
year, about 50 citizens collect
ed bounties on coyotes and
bobcats, according to county
clerk.
30 YEARS AGO
Jan. 3, 1928 (Tuesday)
Three Rogue Rive- high
school students and their
science teacher climbed Battle
mountain 15 miles north of
Rogue River.
b. Double holiday of Sunday
iand Monday which ended last
night made the people of Med-
ford unusually befuddled to
-day as to their dates.
-40 YEARS AGO ',
Jan. 3. 1918 (Thursday)
The Applegate Lumber
company in 1918 plans to use
:3,500 cars of logs, 16,000
-irom Jackson creek and 7,500
-from Butte Falls.
From local and personal
column: "Chief of Police Hitt-
,on warns Medford dentists
Ho lock up their .gold supply
-as it is about time for the an
nual raid of burglars on the
.dentistry offices in this city.
I What's Your I.Q.?
JSine or ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is excellent; five or
ix is good.
- 1. Name the author of "The
: piuebird"?
r : 2. Bible: Who was the fa
: ther of Cush, Misraim, Phut,
: Canaan?
r 3. The American Red Cross
- was founded in 1861, 1881, or
; 1901?
- 4. Is a person capable of us
; "ing both hands with equal fa-
. cility known as amphibious,
'. -ambiguous or ambidextrous?
- - 5. The Pilots association is
" a union affiliated to the AFL
' or the CIO?
; 6. Does the common house
' fly have 8, 10 or 12 legs?
7. What famous automobile
engines are built at a plant
"in Derby, England?
8. During World War II, F.
Von Papen served as Nazi
ambassador to which coun
try?
9. Complete Ben Franklin's
famous couplet: "Early to bed
and early to rise."
10. Who wrote "The Song
of Marion's Men?"
Answers: 1. Maurice Mae
terlinck. 2. Ham. 3. 1881. 4.
. Ambidextrous. 5. AFL. 6. No.
(six). 7. Rolls-Royce. 8. Tur
key. 9. "Makes a man healthy,
wealthy and wise." 10. Wil
.liam Cullen Bryant.
THE DREAMERS
Paris HP) Penal author
ities reported today that the
books in French prison li
braries that get the most wear
ere travel books.
The Losing Team Wins
Time marches on. But sometimes it sprints.
This is what Time did between New Years
Eve and New Years night. On New Years Eve the
Oregon football team wasn't rated in the First
Ten college teams at all. In fact the sport-scribes
in Los Angeles declared its Rose Bowl date with
Ohio State, was one of the greatest mis-matches
in football history.
Oregon, they cried in chorus, rated no better
than third or fourth in the coast conference, and
if the conference had not adopted some silly
back-woods rules, the University of Oregon would
never have come closer to the Pasadena classic
than Petaluma.
AS FOR the smart-money boys in the coast
" metropolis, they would not look at Oregon,
unless they were given anywhere from 19 to 21
points. Practically the only money that did back
the "Webfoots" came from a few Eugene fanat
ics, who wrere supposed to have more enthusiasm
and college loyalty, than sense.
OUT what a transformation 24 hours later!
Assuming that as advertised the Univer
sity of Ohio was the No. 1 college team in the
country, then by unanimous vote those who saw
the game either "in person" or over the air,
would agree Oregon could be rated no worse
than No. 2.
In fact many perhaps slightly prejudiced
would point to the net-yardage and first downs
gained, and stoutly maintain that the best team on
New Years Day at the Rose Bowl at least, lost
for as everyone knows the final score was 10 to 7
in favor of the eastern visitors.
UOWEVER that may be, all the people of Ore-
gon are justly proud of their 1957 football
team, and the people of Medford have a special
reason to feel proud, for one of the stars of the
team all season was a local boy, and former stand
out on the High School football team, Jack Morris.
It was tough luck Jack missed that goal from
the field. But he did more than his share in other
directions and even "Woody" Hayes the famous
coach and "good sport" of the Buckeye aggrega
tion said he thought the goal was good so it
must have been powerful close.
THE undersigned has seen many football games
" but we can't recall any important one where
the losing team received such universal acclaim
and enthusiastic praise as was tendered the Ore
gon, boys by friend and
ended Wednesday afternoon.
As was indicated by Coach Casanova the
credit for this tribute should go partly, at least,
to the sports-writers of
the time the "Ducks arrived, heaped scorn and
ridicule upon them.
The Oregon boys did
were the underdogs , but there is a great differ
ence between being called an underdog ' and
being kicked and cuffed
"Okkie" pooch.
The boys from Eugene DIDN'T like it!
And undoubtedly when they ran out on the
field that typical "Sunny California" afternoon
they were determined to show it.
They did And How!
All credit to them. Oregon will not soon for
get probably it never
played Oregon s fighting Rose Bowl team of
Nineteen Fifty Eight ! R.W.R.
New States in the World
It's called the British
Islands; it gets going
the first Governor General is installed in of
fice; it holds its first elections on March 25;
and already it has a quarrel with the United
States. This is about our active air and naval base
on the northwest tip of Trinidad, at Chaguaramus,
near Port of Spain. Another U. S.-Federation-British
conference about it has been set for Jan.
13.
We got the base in 1941 'on a 99-year lease
from Great Britain, as part of the payment for
50 overage destroyers. The Federation says it
must have the base because this is by far the best
site for its new capital. We say our title is per
fectly legal and just, so we want to be reimbursed
if we build a new base to replace our present one.
THE Federation is composed of 13 British is-
overpopulated and poverty-stricken. The largest
and most important are Jamaica (sugar and baux
ite) and Trinidad (oil refining). On the main
land, British Honduras and British Guiana de
cided to stay outside the new Federation for the
time being, as did the British Virgin Islands.
The islands hope that
will mean less competition among themselves in
exports. Maybe they can now go more effectively,
too, after the U.S. tourist trade. However, certain
aspects of foreign relations, currency and defense
remain with London, as represented by the Gov
ernor, so full Dominion status is something for
the future. E.R.R.
BRITAIN RATIFIES PACT
Geneva, Switzerland (IP)
Britain has become the first
country to ratify the new
forced-labor convention, the
International Labor Office an
nounced today. The conven
Friday, January 3, 1958
foe, when the contest
Los Angeles, who from
not need to be told they
around like a flea-bitten
will as long as football is
West Indies Federated
formally today, when
their new political unity
tion, which will go into effect
one year after the second rati
fication is deposited, was
adopted at the June, 1957,
international labor conference
here after two years of preparation.
' Don't tell mom wme
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
THE FUNDAMENTAL
CHALLENGE
The American people are
at the beginning of what is
certain to be a year of the
highest d r a-
ma. The theme
of the drama
will be wheth
er our gov
ernment and
our so c i e t y
can rise to
the great chal
lenge which
- jtoat a - wife i ,
Walter Lippmann naS now been
put to them.
The challenge lies in the fact
that, as compared with our
great rival, we are a declin
ing power, destined if we do
not meet the challenge to
know the frustrations and the
insecurity of nations which
have achieved and have then
lost their sense of mission
and of greatness.
rpHE true nature of the
challenge has been defined
with brilliant insight in an
article in the current 'Tr-
eign Affairs," written by
Lloyd V. Berkner of the Pres
ident's Scientific Advisory
Committee. I hope 1 am not
distorting Mr. Berkner's arti
cle in the following summary
of his central thesis.
Military power, he says,
has tended to become abso
lute in its destructiveness and
yet relatively easy to acquire.
"Both the United States and
the .U.S.S.R. have acquired
the power to destroy a people
and all its wealth by a single
blow." Such absolute mili
tary power is so dangerous
that it cannot be used, as has
military power in other days,
as an instrument of foreign
policy.
cAt the same time, we are
living amidst the rise of the
nations of Asia and of Africa
to a new sense of what they
need and are entitled to have.
"Two sources of capital or
its equivalent seem open to
them: from the West, with its
traditional system of free en
terprise, or from the Communist-dominated
Soviet bloc."
But, he goes on to say, "The
methods of Communism are
suspect because they substi
tute a new form of even more
drastic slavery for the old
imperialism. Foreign invest
ments by the West is also
suspect, not only because it
is reminiscent of imperialism,
but also because historically
it has been used as an instru
ment of policy."
nPHIS brings Mr. Berkner to
A his main point, one which
no one else has as yet, I think,
so clearly grasped. "In view
of the reduced effectiveness
of both military power and
national wealth as instru
ments of policy, a kind of
power vacuum has appeared.
Clearly, the side that can ef
fectively develop a new in
strument will enjoy a power
ful advantage. The Soviet Un
ion, seems to have found one
in scientific achievement as
a basis for claiming intellec
tual leadership."
At this point, Mr. Berkner
pauses to point out that "the
potentialities of intellectual
leadership which we enjoyed
after World War II were
never fully recognized or ex
ploited. The most conspicu
ous example of this failure
was .m connection with the
extraordinary development of
nuclear energy out of the
most abstract processes of hu
man thought coupled with su
perb experimental skills. The
discovery captured the imag
ination of men everywhere,
coming as it did at a time
when the world's sources of
fossil fuels were dwindling.
But we did not understand
the political significance of
this intellectual attainment
and failed to capitalize fully
on the opportunities. The dis
covery of nuclear energy
could have brought a flood
of leaders and students from
abroad to the feet of our
teachers, and thus could have
va got it
provided unbounded oppor
tunities to developments in
a shroud of secrecy, imposed
by our preoccupation with
ture of the Administration
has also changed markedly
since the days of the Humphrey-Wilson
j u n ta, which
ruled when you left. A lot of
good new men have been
brought into the Administra
tion it begins to seem pos
sible, for example, that the
soap industry has miraculous
ly given this lucky country a
first-rate Secretary of De
fense. But the change has only
been a half-way change. The
old cliche about the country
being ahead of the govern
ment has never been more
true. The theory that has
colored all policy in the last
five years that we can't
afford the price of survival
lingers on. So does Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles,
stubbornly convinced that he
alone possesses the key to na
tional salvation.
Finally, there is the central
question whether the Pres
ident, a good man, but a man
who is old now, and has been
very sick, has the energy to
lead the country in the direc
tion it so clearly wants to be
led. And yet I think it is too
early to discard that other
theory, that the United States
will always do what it cannot
do. The next few months, per
haps even the next few
weeks, will tell the tale. As
ever Stew.
(c) 1958 New York
Herald, Tribune Inc.
Electric Group
Plans State Agency
Salem Oregon voters
will have an opportunity to
vote in November on crea
tion of a state power agency
if plans of the Oregon Elec
tric Consumers Council ma
terialize. With the announced objec
tive of seeking "more power
for more jobs for Oregon,"
OECC today filed with the
Secretary of State an initi
ative measure designed to au
thorize the agency. OECC
President James T. Marr said
the council will begin collect
ing the more than 35,000 sig
natures necessary to place the
initiative on the ballot, as
soon as the Attorney General
supplies a ballot title.
"The proposed Oregon
Power Development commis
sion would consist of three
members elected by the peo
ple," Marr explained. "It
would have authority to de
velop new sources of electric
al energy by constructing
dams and transmission lines,
and to purchase power from
federal dams and sell energy
to new and expanding indus
tries and public and private
utilities."
"Because the federal gov
ernment is not providing ade
quate power supplies for new
industry for Oregon," Marr
declared, "a state power ag
ency is needed now to pro
vide low cost power to new
and diversified industry that
will help solve the state's des
perate unemployment prob
lem." The OECC president com
mented that the proposed de
velopment commission "will,
insure that the power de
mands of Oregon consumers
will be met. The initiative
measure will provide the com
mission with adequate au
thority for multi-purpose and
full development of the state's
water and power resources
for the benefit of the people."
WELL. IT'S LIKE THIS . . .
Rushville, Ind. P Mrs.
Gerald Gilbert has a twin
boy and girl whose ages are
separated by a year. She gave
birth to a daughter 12 min
utes before midnight New
Year's Eve. Three minutes
after midnight she gave birth
to a son.
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Opposes TV for 'Home'
To the Editor: Just read an
article in Sunday Mail Trib
une about the new juvenile
home. I think if the children
there have a good home and
plenty to eat and someone Jlo
keep them out of trouble,
some good books and some
clean games is all the recrea
tion they need. It was televi
sion and guns and dirty shows
that put them there. Keep the
television and guns out of the
juvenile home for the sake of
our little children.
Emma Perkins
243 North Holly st.
Medford
Band Supporters Thanked
To the Editor: On behalf of
the Citizens' Medford High
School Band Booster club, I
should like to thank all of
the loyal supporters of the
Medford Senior High School
Band for their contributions
that sent the band to the East
West game in San Francisco.
All those who saw the band
in action were proud of their
fine performance which was
made possible by the contri
bution oi their many friends.
So once more, a sincere
thanks from the Citizens'
Medford High School Band
Booster Club and from the
students and faculty of the
Medford Public Schools.
Glenn L. Linn,
Secretary,
Citizens' Medford
High School Band
Booster Club.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
It's now 1958.
WHAT of 1958?
I have a notion that if we
do our work efficiently, play
just enough but not too
much, worry as little as pos
sible over things we can't
do much about, treat our
friends and associates with
courtesy and consideration
and manage our personal af
fairs with reasonable wisdom
and foresight 1958 won't turn
out too badly.
A LONG with Sputnik, 1957
brought a new problem
PENGUINS and what to do
with 'em.
Here's a thought:
If the penguins had been
LEFT ALONE down at the
South Pole, where they be
long and where they un
doubtedly WANT to stay, all
would have been well with
them and we wouldn't have
to be worrying (and spending
tax money) about how to
keep them alive and partially
healthy.
TVf ORE New Year stuff:
xix The census bureau says
there are about three million
more persons in the U.S. than
on New Year's Day. 1957. It
has worked out this way:
About 8,200 persons were
born every 24 hours during
the past year. There was a
birth every 7V6 seconds,
There was a death every 20
second. A new immigrant ar
rived every two minutes
Some person left the country
every 20 minutes.
It all tots up to about 172,
800,000 persons in our coun
try.
Good?
Or bad?
It has possibilities of both.
ALL these new people will
need food to eat, clothing
to wear, houses to live in and
gadgets to make life pleas
anter and easier.
If they are io provide these
things FOR THEMSELVES,
they must have jobs. If we
can manage our national ec
onomy so skillfully and so
wisely that EVERYBODY
WILL HAVE A JOB, our fu
ture will be rosy. Everything
will be lovely and the goose
will hang high.
But
If we listen to the economic
crackpots and go chasing will
o' wisps through the some
thing - for - nothing swamps,
thus throwing our economy
Women's Minimum
Wage Now 75 Cents
Salem IP) Oregon State
Labor Commissioner Norman
O. Nilsen said today that a
minimum wage of 75 cents
an hour has become effective
for women and minor em
ployees of laundry, dyeing and
cleaning plants.
The new wage floor adopt
ed by the state wages and
hours commission will go to
80 cents an hour in six
months, under Nilsen's order.
Overtime pay is also required
for time worked beyond an
eight-hour day or a 44-hour
week.
Constitution Doesn't
Word About Democracy in U.S.
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Among
the bogus ideas which befud
dle the citizens is the belief
tnat back there in the 18th
Century the
founding fa
thers set up
the United
States with de
mocracy as its
form of gov
ernment. The Found
ing Fathers
did no such
. Lyie c. Wilson thing. There
is, in fact, no good word in
the United States Constitution
for the political system known
as democracy 'in which the
tellers count all the heads,
empty or not, and give the de
cision to the most numerous.
Political orators and others,
even including editorial writ
ers, continue, however, to
sound off with such deathless
phrases as: This great democ
racy, and so forth.
Democracy Was Rejected
The Founding Fathers de
liberately rejected democra
cy as undesirable and estab
lished the United States as a
representative republic, spe
cifically guaranteeing to each
state a republican form of
government (Article IV, Sec
tion 4).
In contrast to the demo
cratic or head-counting polit
ical form which the Constitu
tion rejected, the Republican
form is properly defined like
this:
A state in which the sover
eign power resides in the peo
ple (qualified voters) and is
exercised by representatives
elected by them.
James Madison was effec
tive in steering the Constitu
tion away from democracy.
He expressed the fear that
democracy favored the self
seeking maneuvers of factions
or blocs within a political
party.
Not Bad In Itself
Thejournal of constitution
al discussion indicates that the
authors did not reject democ
racy because it was bad of
itself. They rejected democ
racy more because it was
deemed unsuitable to a nation
already so large in area and
numerous in population as the
combining 13 Colonies.
These facts are intimately
related to the national and
congressional discussion ex
pected this year seeking more
satisfactory processes of nom
inating and electing presi
dents of the United States.
There has been national dis-
saiisiaction witn tne presi
dential elective process and
agitated discussion of it for
many more than 100 years.
In establishing the present
Electoral College process,
some of the authors of the
Constitution felt that they had
disposed of the most difficult
of all the problems confront
ing them, but without much
confidence that they had done
it well.
out of kilter, there won't be
jobs enough to go around and
we'll have to support mil
lions of jobless persons on re
lief. That's about the long and
the short of it.
Good, Bad News of
Week Is Balanced
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
The week's good and bad
news on the international bal
ance sheet:
The leaders of the United
States and Soviet Russia in
terrupted their prosecution of
the cold war to exchange
friendly New Year greetings
and express the hope that
1958 might bring better rela
tions between them.
For Soviet Russia, Presi
dent Kliment Y. Voroshilov,
Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin
and Communist leader Nikita
S. Khrushchev said:
"We express the hope that
the forthcoming year will be
year of strengthening of
friendship and cooperation
between the peoples of the
Soviet Union and the United
States of America."
For the United States, Pres
ident Eisenhower replied:
"I earnestly trust that the
new year will bring a firmer
and better understanding be
tween the citizens of the So
viet Union, the American peo
ple and those of other na
tions." In addition, Khrushchev in
warmly toasting the United
States at a new year recep
tion in the Kremlin said:
"If the Soviet Union and
the United States can get to
gether and reach agreement,
most of the world's problems
would be solved."
The mothers of three Ameri
cans imprisoned by the Chi
nese Communists as spies
flew across the Pacific to see
their sons.
The three men are among
The direction of discussion
in recent years has been gen
erally toward more democra
cy and less representative re
publicanism in the election of
presidents. There has been
considerable support for aban
donment of the Electoral Col
lege and for a direct popular
vote.
A direct popular vote for
U. S. senators was established
Matter of Fact by
REPLY TO A SAD LETTER
Washington Dear Joe:
This letter, in reply to yours
of a couple of days ago, is a
difficult let
ter to write.
For in a way,
all I can
really say is:
"Dear Joe: I
agree with
you."
Like you, I
have for the
first time a
f o r e b oding
Stewart Alsop
feeling that the unthinkable
defeat for the United States
has suddenly become think
able. Like you, I have never
had this -feeling before, even
in the dark early period of
the war, when every day
seemed to bring some fresh
disaster. Like you I have al
ways proceeded on the as
sumption, which has been
basic to all our thinking, that
"the United States will al
ways do what it can not do."
Now, like you, I am no
longer sure. The other day, I
was leafing through some of
our old columns, and I came
upon one published in May,
1954. In it we predicted "first
tests" of "guided missiles of
intercontinental range ... in
1957-58." We also noted that
the Soviets were "ahead of
the United States in the im
mense task of guided missile
research," and pointed out
that "thus the Question is
raised whether the Soviets
may not be the first to
achieve an intercontinental
missile with hydrogen war
head." a a
THE column (you wrote it,
incidentally) has stood the
test of time better than most
such ephemeral efforts. In the
very limited field of the new
weapons, at least, we can
paraphrase Winston Church
ill's modest boast, and claim
that "we have not always
been wrong." But there is one
way in which we have been
dead wrong.
We always assumed that so
obvious a warning of a clear
and present danger to na
tional survival as a first So
viet ICBM test would be a
signal for a tremendous out
pouring of American energy
and inventive genius, spurred
on by America's leaders. In
stead, when last June, I re
ported the first Soviet ICBM
test, the report was elaborate
ly pooh-poohed by the Penta
gon. And when it was con
firmed a few weeks later in
Moscow and Washington, all
our leaders, from the Presi
dent on down, joined in tell-1
ing the country tnat it
changed nothing, and not to
worry. The country, wmcn
does not like to worry, glad-
the last six Americans known
to be under detention by the
Reds.
Long ago, the Chinese Com
munist government invited
relatives of all six prisoners
to make the visit. But the
State Department had refused
permission the United States
is still technically at war with
Red China because of its in
tervention in the Korean War.
There was no hint that the
Chinese intended to free the
prisoners. If ,they did, it
would be a most important
gesture. It might prove to be
the first move toward even
tual American recogniiton.
Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles announced that
he would fly to Ankara, Tur
key, to attend a meeting of
leaders of the Middle East
ern Treaty Organization .
the so-called Baghdad Pact
on Jan. 27. The alliance in
cludes Turkey, Iraq, Iran,
Pakistan and Grea Britain.
The United States sponsor
ed the alliance, formed to
combat Communist aggres
sion and subversion, but re
fused to join it.
TfueVLEtorje
DAIRY-SMITH
East Main St.
Now We Have Brown
Eggs, too
Contain
by the 17th Amendment in
1912. They had been chosen
by state legislatures. That
may indicate a trend. Regard
less of the 17th Amendment,
however, and talk of direct
election of presidents, there
is no doubt what the Consti
tution's authors thought of
political democracy.
They did not trust it and
they were against it.
Stewart Alsop
ly obliged
The story does not, praise
be, end there. In your letter
you referred to the dramatic
scene in which intelligence
chief Allen Dulles briefed the
frightened Senators on the
real facts of our situation.
When the Senators asked
Dulles why our own defense
effort had been cut back in
the face of such facts, Dulles
replied, in effect: "Thank
God for the Sputniks."
a a a
WE CAN indeed thank God
for the Sputniks, in th
same way that we can thank
God for such other rousing
disasters as the Korean ag
gression, or Stalin's rape of
Czechoslovakia, or even Pearl
Harbor. At first, the Admini
stration tried to pooh-pooh
the Sputniks, as it had pooh
poohed the Soviet ICBM. But
this time, especially after
Sputnik II which still races
above us, carrying the bones
of its pathetic passenger
the country would have none
of it.
You know the way you
have to smell the atmosphere
of a country really to sense
the trend indeed, ' that is
why you choose to become
our foreign correspondent.
The smell of the atmosphere
here has changed in a way I
think you would immediately
recognize.
You remember in the old
days how everybody wonder
ed why we wrote such a lot
about such dreary dreamstuff
as missiles. Now everybody is
writing about missiles, and
everybody is thinking about
missiles.' Indeed, missiles have
become one cf those curious
obsessions which seize this
country from time to time.
The obsession has its ob
vious danger. But it is also
true that, when we have one
of our obsessions, we tend in
the end to do something
rather startling about it.
a
AN OBSESSION about mis
siles, of course, won't
avert the dangers you out
lined. What is needed is bold,
imaginative, energetic execu
tive leadership to exploit the
country's new mood. The na
military security. Although
the secrecy has gradually
been lifted, the opportunity
for us to exercise real leader
ship in this field has mean
time been seriously limited."
rpHEN Mr. Berkner goes on
A to say that the Soviet Un
ion has seen "an ODDortunitv
for leadership based on rec
ognized intellectual stature-
It has already expanded its
science teaching and its re
search institutes, an action
that the West misinterpreted
as relating solely to military
po ver . . . Leaders of the
Soviet bloc are not capitaliz
ing on intellectual leadership
as a means of acquiring an
essential element of what
Milovan Djilas calls i'the in
herent need of those in pow
er to be recognizable proto
types of brilliance and might.'
Their ready political and
propagandistic exploitation of
the great achievement of So
viet scientists upon launching
the first earth satellites il
lustrates clearly their recog
nition of the advantages that
scientific leadership can con
fer."
a
THIS describes the funda
mental challenge. The
challenge is not whether we
can maintain or restore the
balance of military power
necessary as it is to do that.
The challenge Is whether we
can restore the intellectual
greatness of the West, if not
to its old preeminence, at
least to a new equality.
This will not be easy to
do, and we cannot expect
President Eisenhower to be-
come the leader and inspirer
of an American renascence.
The renascence will have to
come from men of learning
of the stature of Mr. Berkner,
men who know, because they
live the intellectual life, what
a renascence would be.
Copyright 1958. New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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