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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 15, 1948 (Sunday)
Petitions naming Frank C.
Bash a candidate for a five
year term as director of the
Medford school board are
filed.
The new total of the Med
ford band festival fund Satur
day was 81,809.78.
20 YEARS AGO
May IS, 1938 (Sunday)
' The water commission is
asking cooperation of water
users in observing rules vital
to the water system.
From Arthur Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: "Haying
has started. Showers, and ' a
shortage of hay-hands are pre
dicted." 30 YEARS AGO
Mar 15, 1928 (Tuesday)
, Mayor O. O. Alenderfer re
ceives word that the final al
lotment of a 77 millimeter
gun and carriage captured
during the World War has
been made by the government
for Medford.
For 50 years, Mrs. S. J.
Hessler, 327 North Grape st.,
pioneer of Jackson county,
has carried the same purse.
40 YEARS AGO
Mar 15, 1918 (Wednesday)
, Medford's home guard com
pany, comprising 100 citizens,
will be mustered into the
state militia tonight.
From . local and personal
column: "The ist of delin
quents in the Red Cross cam
paign drive of a year ago was
given by Mayor C. E. Gates
this afternoon and will .be
published later."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; rive Of
six is good.
1. In tennis, what is the
term for no score?
2. Bible: Name the parents
of John the Baptist.
3. A pintail is a deer, wild
duck, or western saddle
horse? , ' ,
4. About whose life did
Plato write in "Apology" on
the future life?
5. Upon what two articles
of food and drink were the
Greek gods supposed to live?
6. What is the customary
fuel of rural Ireland?
7. What type of naval vessel
is an E-Boat?
8. Is an armadillo a biped
or a quadruped?
9. What river flows for
1,765 miles through Alaska?
10. Name the Secretary of
Commerce.
Answers: 1. Love; 2. Eliza
beth and Zachary; 3. Wild
duck; 4. The death of Socra
tes; 5. Nectar and ambrosia;
6. Peat; 7. Motor torpedo
boat; 8. Quadruped; 9. Yukon;
10. Sinclair Weeks.
Concrete Anchorage -
Erected at Brownlee
' Brownlee, Ore. flP) A mas
sive concrete anchorage for
Brownlee dam's permanent
fish - handling facilities has
been completed, Idaho Power
Company announced today. '..
; The company said 'the an
chorages, first portion built
on the multi-million dollar
migrant fish facilities, also
are . tnfi first of their kind
ever built.
M. T. JUDICIAL SELECTIONS
JUDGES, SUPREME COURT
GORDON SLOAN, No. 37
GEORGE R0SSMAN, No. 39
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES
JAMES M. MAIN, No. 42
EDWARD C. KELLY, No. 43
m
DISTRICT JUDGE
E. ROY
TTie Tumult Dies
The 1958 primary ends today and this is for
sure, the "letter-hox editor" will be glad of it.
Never before have there been so many com
munications of a political nature received at this
office, and never before so. many lengthy ones
which had to be cut down; or so many heated
ones which had to be cooled off a bit to come
within police regulations.
It meant a lot of extra work.
We are not complaining. The soundness of
this paper's policy regarding FREE expression
of opinions in its columns during a political cam
paign, regardless of party, we believe, was never
more clearly demonstrated than during the clos
ing weeks of the present free-for-all. Practically
every one had a chance to be heard, and no
favors were granted or special restrictions im
posed on either side. ' '
DUT it will be a relief tomorrow to return to
normalcy. And we believe few in the com
munity will not feel similarly, including most of
the candidates.
But all this is what is commonly termed
"democracy in action." And in this direction we
would like to pin an orchid on radio -station
"KYJC" for supplementing the Mail Tribune
free service to the voters by giving many hours
of time to the candidates over the air, without
charge.
We can extend this tribute with proper mod
esty, for while KYJC is owned by the Mail Trib
une, we had nothing to do with, this excellent
extension of its activities in the important realm
of the air and public service. (Manager MacLeod
take a baw!)-
A ND now with all this information and some
misinformation of course the electorate in
the county should be better posted than usual, on
what various Candidates have to offer ; also some
thing about their records, their respective dispo
sitions, and how well they are fitted or unfitted
for the jobs to which
" "As usual, except in the
no specific recommendations as to the various
and sundry candidates. Such selections will be
reserved for the election in the Fall.
WE HAVE only one
to the polls tomorrow they will "stop, look and
listen" sufficiently long to disregard any vague
rumors or insinuating whispers they may have
heard in the final moments, make up their own
minds on what they KNOW rather than what
someone else has said, and vote for the man or
woman they. consider
regardless of all other considerations.
In that way, and only
there is a representative
assurance the candidates next November will
represent the considered
the members of the two
.- K.W.K.
"What Have I Done?"
"One stands in awe" before the unfolding scroll of
human destiny' . v , .
The above was uttered by Sir Winston
Churchill at the "zero hour" in British history
when a channel invasion by Hitler's hordes" was
threatened.
We believe many people reading the head
lines from Venezuela, Lebanon, Algeria and
Paris, yesterday and the day before, experienced
a similar emotional reaction.
riNE does stand in awe, as mobs over a large
section of the world attack not only official
representatives of the United States on a peaceful
tour of good will ; but burn US libraries and con
sulates in many parts of the Near East, while
other street moos curse the U.S.A., desecrate its
flag, accuse it of being pro-Israel oh one hand,
and pro-Arab on the other! It is an extraordinary
and awesome spectacle.
And in all this vicious violence and confusion,
not an official word, as far as noted, of condem
nation, or more than perfunctory and half-hearted
efforts to prevent what comes close to being
an outrage on; an international scale against de
cency and a proper regard for civilized behaviour.
WHAT IS the answer?
. Why should the United States be so unpop
ular, so despised and hated, not only by the gov
ernments, as in the case of Soviet Russia and Red
China, which is understandable, but by the mass
es of the people, apparently throughout South
and Central America, the Near East, and parts of
North Africa and Southern Asia? In fact, we
might as well face it, pretty much all over the
world. . . . ..: .. .. , -- . ... ....
JVe don't know. In fact, we feel a? certain
BASHAW.
they aspire.
judiciary race we make
-
final suggestion and
best fitted for the job,
m that way assuming
vote can there be any
and best judgment of
major parties concerned.
Dennis the Menace
'Her me is Gma. Sues seen
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
Pressure vs. Relaxation
Washington The latest So
viet note, which arrived on
Sunday, seems to show that
Mr. , Khrushchev has not
missed the point of the NATO
communique, which was pub
lished on Wed
nesday. It is
that for the
time being at
least there is
no compelling
demand on
either, side for
a meeting at
the summit,
both sides
waiter Lippmann there is a com
pelling interest not to let ne
gotiations be broken off. In
order that negotiations may
continue, Mr. Khrushchev has
agreed to the original Eisen
hower proposal, which . was
adopted at the NATO meeting
in Copenhagen, calling for ex
pert studies of the means to
"detect nuclear explosions."
If past experience is a guide
to the future, this concession
by. the Soviet .Union will once
again pose the question which
haunts our Western diplo
macy., This is whether to raise
the ante, and to press for
more concessions, or to play
for a little and limited agree
ment. There are powerful ar
guments both for and against
such little and limited agree
ments, and in the discussion
which the Soviet note will
now open up these arguments
will call for a number of very
important decisions.
THE biggest of the argu
ments will turn on the issue
of a policy of pressure versus
a policy of relaxation. There
are those who believe that
the Communist order in Rus
sia and in China will change
its fundamental international
character only if it is encir
cled and subjected to a mount
ing pressure of military pow
er and economic non-intercourse.
There are, on the
other hand, those who believe
that the policy of encircle
ment and near-boycott, while
impotent against the authori
ty of the central governments,
is a great support to them in
regimenting their peoples .and
compelling them to accept the
sacrifices of the totalitarian
system.
When these two points of
view are argued, the believ
ers in the policy of pressure
are likely to say that the
other school is gullible and
pacifist. Those who believe
in a Dolicv of relaxation are
likely to say, or at least to sus
pect, that the others regard
war as inevitable, and pre
ventive war as conceivable.
Both are extremist views, and
the real question is, it seems
to me, whether . on the as
sumption that a -"balance of
power is maintained, which is
the wiser political policy? Is
it to exert the maximum pres
sure, maintaining high ten
sion in the world? Or is it to
moderate the pressure in or
der to encourage the peoples
on both sides to believe that
there will be no war?
THESE questions, which are
xrucial, are extremely dif
ficult on both sides of the iron
curtain. Thus it is careless
and untrue to suppose that
the policy of relaxation is a
Soviet device, calculated to
divide and disarm the West
while Moscow and Peiping ad
vance to the domination of the
world. The truth is that the
policy of relaxation is feared
by many leaders on both sides
f ll
kinship for Mr. Alec Guiness in the "Bridge oh
the River Kwai," when he discovered those hid
den wires on the river bank, leading to the bridge
and in despair and anguish, sensing the complete
defeat of all his efforts and hopes raised his
hands in desperation to inquire as. Uncle Sam
might do today . . . .
"WHAT did I do SO wrong ? " R. W.R,
i&wuR'ne d mt mo tsm
of the iron curtain. It is feared
on our side on the ground that
it will diminish the support of
NATO and encourage the de
mocracies to follow their nat
ural bent toward isolation. It
is feared on the other side of
the iron curtain for what at
bottom is the same reason
that with peace rather than
war on the horizon, it will be
necessary to relax the intern
al pressure of the Communist
system which compels the
Russian and Chinese people,
and the satellite nations, to
work, to save, and to obey.
The temporary relaxation
of the tension after the sum
mit meeting in Geneva had its
unfortunate and inconvenient
consequences in the West, but
we must not forget that the
Geneva meeting was followed
by what happened a year
later both in Hungary and in
Poland.
a
A S between the two lines of
policy, it seems to me
that our true interest is in a
policy of relaxation, given an
effective and astute manage
ment of our foreign affairs. I
realize that there is a strong
tendency in Congress "and the
other NATO legislatures to
retrench in military and for
eign affairs, once the fear of
more or less imminent war is
removed. But this is a risk
that good leaders and a' vigil
ant press could mitigate and
overcome. On the other hand,
I do not believe that the
Western democracies can be
frightened enough to cause
them to support an indefin
ite and cumulative race of
armaments.
The policy of pressure is,
as regards the NATO democ
racies, subject to the law of
diminishing returns. The rea
son why the military object
ives of NATO are not being
met is that the European de
mocracies are not really very
much afraid that war is im
minent. Frighten them enough
to make them want to arm
more heavily, and the chances
are very great indeed that
neutralism will be the result.
On the other hand, it seems
to me likely that the Commu
nist orbit would be profound
ly affected if the world's main
tensions, were reduced. It is,
no doubt, a gamble to say so.
But on the assumption al
ways that the West remained
armed and that its diplomacy
is alert and realistic we
have more to gain than we
have to lose by going forward,
as and when we can, towards
little and limited agreements.
The most likely agreement
would be an agreement to
suspend nuclear' tests once
the present series of tests are
concluded.
(Copyright 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.)
Budget For Fair
Being Considered
Salem IF. The Oregon
State Fair Commission is con
sidering a $82,567 budget for
the 1958 fair. -
Fair Manager Howard
Maple said the figure was an
increase of $13,629 over the
1957 budget.
Part of the increase' is for
addition of two extra days to
the 1958 fair and additions to
various departments.
Maple announced that the
Oak Ridge Atomic Energy dis
play had been secured for the
fair this year. .
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
HOW MUCH BOOD? 1
Washington. - The strange,
grim churning in the Kremlin
is beginning to show a clearer
m pattern.
On the one
hand, Nikita
Khrushchev
is still strug
gling to con
solidate his.
enormous
power. The
sign of the
struggle is the
. Joseph aisop cuiiunuing, in
creasingly venomous public
denunciation of the. so-called
anti-party group. Apparently
Khrushchev is preparing, to
take stricter disciplinary meas
ures against Malenkov, Molo
tov and- the other men whom
he defeated and drove into ex
ile a yar ago.
On the other hand, the
whole Communist bloc is also
passing through an acute cri
sis. With the enthusiastic sup
port of the Chinese Commu
nists, the Kremlin has again
excommunicated Yugoslavia.
Moscow, and Belgrade are
close to open rupture; and this
development in turn threatens
the limited independence the
Poles have ,won for them
selves. THE pattern of the Kremlin
struggle has not been clear,
precisely because .these two
sets of indicators seem to point
in opposite directions. Khrush
chev was the great renewer
of Soviet ' friendship with
Marshal Tito. The excommun
ication of the Yugoslavs .has
therefore seemed to suggest a
setback for Khrushchev,
which is indeed being reported
in Warsaw. But if Khrushchev
has sufered a severe setback,
why are his fallen enemies
apparently : about to suffer
even more than they have
suffered already?
Look to the other end of
the Soviet empire, ( and you
find a possible answer. In the
first place, any Soviet ruler
in Khrushchev's shoes must
always think first about the
Chinese Communists when he
adjusts his imperial policies.
In the second place, he owes
the Chinese a lot. After he vis
ited Piking with Bulganin
and MiKpyan, the Chinese sup
ported Khruschev in the 1955
convulsion in the Kremlin
that inaugurated the Khrush-and-Bulge
phase of Soviet pol
itics. ' -
The situation bf the Chinese
Communists can in turn be
rather simply summed up, in
a single terrible sentence
They are in fact trying to do
what Josef Stalin did, with
many fewer assets to facili
tate their task.
CJTALIN'S achievement was
J the rapid, massive indus
trialization of his country, fi
nanced by a ruthless cut in
the Russian standard of liv
ing, and enforced by bloody
massacres. Yet in Stalin's Rus
sia, the standard of life was
far higher than the Chinese
standard today. Russia had a
wealth of untapped natural
resources, both in land and
minerals, that China cannot
boast. And Russia's popula
tion was not growing at the
fearful rate of 15,000,000 souls
per annum.
Like Stalin himself in the
first five-year-plan period, the
Chinese have done their best
to do without massacres. They
have raised their agricultural
output and improved their in
dustry in a dramatic manner.
Yet the increase of China's
national product has not even
kept pace with the increase of
China's population. The Chi
nese people are still growing
poorer, not richer. This fac.
has been gloomily admitted by
Chinese leaders themselves, to
the Yugoslavs among others
before Chinese - Yugoslav
friendship began to cool.
In this painful situation, the
Chinese leaders can modify
their ambitious plan so dras
tically that it will amount to
a modification of the system
itself. Or they can do what
Stalin did in 1932. '
IN OTHER words, they can
get a standard of life with
complete ruthlessness, in or
der to gain more investment
funds. And they can make a
starving nation both work
and obey by . strewing the
land with corpses. But the
20,000,000 corpses that, were
enough in Russia will prob
ably not be half enough, or
a quarter enough, in China.
The trend in Peking is
clearly indicated by the pow
erful Stalinist revival that
has been going on, by fits and
starts, ever since Mao Tse
Tung's "hundred flowers' had
their heads cut off. Nikita
Khrushchev cannot ignore the
trend in Peking, which means
that he cannot any longer tol
erate the degree of freedom
enjoyed by the Yugoslavs and
Poles. And if Khrushchev ad
justs . his imperial policy to
suit the Chinese, why should
not the Chinese help Khrush
chev in the unending struggle
in the .Kremlin? - v -
This is one reading of the
France Weathers Parliamentary
Crisis; Instability Continues
By CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Correspondent
; France weathered another
parliamentary crisis Wednes
day when the National Assem
bly confirmed. Pierre Pf limlin
as Premier by a vote of 273
to 124.
While such crises in Parlia
ment have become the rule
rather than the exception,
this last one. raised the dis
tinct question whether the
days of the Fourth Republic
were numbered. The calls for
a regime headed by Gen.
Charles de Gaulle became
louder than ever.
It has been said that France
is administered, not ruled.
Even, at times when there is
only a caretaker government
in Paris, the routine adminis
trative processes of republi
can government throughout
Washington Report
By William S. White ",
' Washington The "mili-,
tary mind" is at its lowest
point of public influence in
the West since I
the 1930s
the years that
brought wish
ful pacifism, a
refusal to be
come strong,
and then Hit
ler and all the
rest.
Military
wiiiam s. White men do have
minds, some of them very
good ones. But to some self
elected intellectuals, and cur
rently to many others, the
"military mind" means closed,
sterile thinking. It is this
mind that is suposed to be
foolishly standing in the way
of happy accomodation with
the Russians.
The military mind does in-;
deed reject any such arange-
ment or would if it could
For the idea of nuclear dis
armament, without any other
kind of disarmament, terrifies
many military men.
They have, however, been
firmly put in their places - by
the political leaders here, in
Britain, and in the North At
lantic Treaty Organization.
What the military mind thinks
is getting little public atten
tion. The emphasis is all on
the burden and danger of con
tinuing nuclear tests and arm
aments. PROFFESSIONAL o f f i cers
as a class are never asser
tive in political matters. Now
they are drawing into an
anxious and wistful shell
more remote than any they
have known in two decades.
Their self-expression, never
strong, is made apologetic by
awareness that in objecting to
nuclear disarmament they
seem to deny what millions
see as man's last hope against
holocaust.
The only alternative the
military men can offer and
this they have talked about
in private is anything but
nice or pleasant. It is toil,
sweat and tears, without the
blood.
This is what some profes
sional ' officers with high
Allied responsibilities con
sider to be the best the West
could rationally hope for:
. 1. At least 20 years , more
of cruel but unavoidable
cold war stalemate. In this pe
riod our side would be for
tunate to keep atomic equality
with, the Russians. It would be
mortallv endangered by stop
ping the so-called "atomic
armaments race.
2. A real possibility if
mystery, at any rate, which
both. 1 covers all the known
points and makes a kind of
grisly sense. -(c)
1958 New York Herald
Tribune, Inc.)
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
TF7ITH ALL THIS bestowing of TV, movie and theatrical'
" awards that's going on, Hal Kanter feels the following
picneers no longer can be neglected decently:
"1. Pliny the Younger, pro
prietor of a mammoth drive
in on Long Island. He in
creased his attendance 360
per cent in one . week by
simply not showing any
movies.
2. An usher at a new
smash Broadway musical.
She seated . 250 patrons in
136 seats with the aid only
of one burned-out flashlight
and a few crude remarks.
3. A special award for the
outstanding technologi-'
cal advance of the year to
Miss B. Overpass, candy counter salesgirl at the Acropolis
theater. She now can make 230 gallons of orange juice from
a single orange.
.
Sign posted in the office of Bill Cole, public relations expert for
a book publisher: "Anyone who can remain calm in the midst
of all this confusion simply doesn't understand the situation.
- C 1958 by Beanett Cert Distributed by Kiss restores flradkste.
the country are not affected
Civil servants carry on their
jobs, and the political crisis
does not make itself felt in
the prefectures which govern
each of France's 90 Depart
ments. Instability Inherent
Lack of stability in the Na
tional Assembly is due to the
lack of a majority. Every pre
mier must depend on a shaky
coalition formed from several
different parties.
In the confirmation vpte for
Pflimlin, 135 members ab
stained. Sixty-four others did
not vote. Thus Pflimlin fell
far short of getting an abso
lute majority," and could be
thrown out at any time' if one
or more groups in his coali
tion government failed to sup
port him on a vote of confi
dence. our policy follows this harsh
ly Spartan line that time
will produce changes in the
Rusisan people restraining the
Kremlin from setting off the
ultimate war. '
' J :
rpHIS reckoning does not ac-
-- cept the decent, but pos
sibly not sound, notion that
our spiritual superiority is it
self a measurable military
asset. Many men will remem
ber the Nazis as brutally
pagan but brutally effective
in battle.
But the military mind or
this sampe of it does give
something to the pro-negotiation
people.
Its watchword would be:
"To be tough always; to talk
tough never." Far from dis
couraging West-East relations,
this approach, would foster
personal exchanges. It would
be friendly to all peaceful
efforts to break the Iron Cur
tain. .
What has been reported
here represents probably the
bulk of Western professional
military thinking. Statesmen
argue as though the only ques
tion were whether a "depend
able" atom-hydrogen weapons
lay-down could be arranged
But a respectable military
view refuses the idea that any
such ararngement, no matter
how dependable within it
self, could be made without
terrible risk to the West.
i
?"CVDR, according to the au
thnrities anonvmouslv
quoted here, this is the real
power situation up to date:
ATOMIC The Russians
are fast approaching "parity'
or equivalent killing ability.
CONVENTIONAL (armies,
navies, air) The Russians
are "staggeringly" ahead and
will remain so. They have
enough divisions to press
down any satellite outbreaks
at their rear while sending
their attack forces across
Western Europe.
These forces, against all
conventional resistance we
have mounted or could mount,
would stand at the French
shores of the English Chan
nel within six days,- some say,
or 15 as others estimate, from
the hour of their jumpoff.
"NEW" WEAPONS The
submarine-launching missile
may be decisive. The Rusisans
have a vast preponderance in
U-boats and are -approaching
the West in the "technical im
provements" for missile op
erations. If this be the chill and only
balance sheet, asks the mili
tary mind, is it really wise to
consider. lowering now the one
shield in which the West is
not clearly inferior the nu
clear shield? Is it wise, even
granting the pain and peril of
holding the shield aloft?
(Copyright. 1958. by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Stop Me
OBANGE-I
JUICE I Qrro
After a ministerial crisis,
the new premier forms a
shaky coalition cabinet which
has been reshuffled largely
from the outgoing one. Pflim
lin, for instance has been in
16 different cabinets.
France's entire position at
a world power has been weak,
ened by its political insta
bility. The only solution seems to
be between the firm support
of a constitutional premier by
a majority of the Assembly
or the emergence of a dic
tator who will rule as a strong
man. ,
Demonstrations Cause Alarm
. The- riots in Paris are one
sign that the situation cannot
continue. The politicians were
horrified when on March IS
thousands "of off-duty Parii
policemen, supposed to be the
guardians , of law and order,
demonstrated in the center of
the city and caused a paralyz
ing traffic jam.
Thousands of right -wine
demonstrators, demanding a
firm.poiicy in Algeria, tried
to storm the National Assem
bly Tuesday while it was de
bating Pflimlin's confirma
tion. ,
There have been plain signs
for several months that the
army was getting tired of the
situation. The profes s i o n a 1
army men, the career offi
cers, want to crush the Al
gerian revolt by force instead
of seeking a compromise that
would give Algeria home rule.
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
This piece is written about
mid-morning of the 13th day
of May of the year 1948. At
the moment of writing, there
seems to be nothing particu
larly unusual about the day.
The communists appear to
be as ornery as ever. The
chief of the U.S. secret service
has just received indirect re
ports that they will try to
shoot Vice-President Nixon
when he reaches Caracas, in
Venezuela - . . Nixon 'takes
the report in stride and says
he's going there, anyway.
THE politicians are carrying
on about as usual. Demo
cratic National Chairman Paul
Butler, speaking in Seattle,
says President Eisenhower's
antirecession plans are "not
only impractical,' but
CRUEL." He adds that the re
cession trouble is due to "lack
of cash, rather than lack of
desire to spend money." That's
good, standard POLITICIAN
doctrine. Start the printing
presses and give everybody
gobs of money and everything
will be hunkydory.
Oh, yes. Portland has just
reported something unusual
this morning was the coldest
May 13 morning in 82 years
which doesn't mean that
tomorrow might not be the
hottest May 13 in Portland in
100 years. Nobody knows
what the wewer finks.
COME to think of it, May 13
is quite a day in history.
It was on May 13, 1607,
that three little ships hove to
off the site-of Jamestown in
Virginia and prepared -to
found the first permanent
English -'-settlement in the
world. The colony was sent
out by the London Company,
and it was composed largely
of adventurers who were
greedy for gold and hoped to
make their fortunes in Amer
ica by the. always popular
process . of turning a quick
buck.
They didn't find any gold.
They had a terrible time. But
they stuck it out. Among oth.
er things, they discovered that
socialism won't work in Amer
ica. They tried it out and
nearly starved to death be
fore changing over to the free
enterprise system of every
body for himself, with his own
little patch of ground. '
FT WAS on May 13, 1940,
that another free enterprise
Englishman Winston Chur
chill made his forever-to-be-remembered
"Blood, Sweat
anrf Tears"-soeech that will
go thundering down through
ihe aees as lone as there are
English-speaking people on
this terrestrial ball.
Sometimes we are inclined
to think things are tough now.
They were tougher - MUCH
tougher when Sir Winnie
made that inspired speecn. .'
We came out of it then.
We'll come out of it now. .
rr WAS on May . 13, 1848,
that the U.S. Congress de
clared war on Mexico-an act
that alienateo; ail oi xaun
America from us but won for
us the Great American South
west, including California.
In the clear light oi nina
ffht. we know it would have
been-better to go slower and
get the Southwest by the proc
ess of peaceful annexation.
Isn't hindsight wonaeriui: .
ONE more:
On May 13, 1888,-Actor
Dewolf Hopper first recited
Casey at the Bat" in a new-
musical comedy in New
York."