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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 8. 1948 (Thursday)
A total of 365 students at
Southern Oregon college for
summer session is the largest
in SOC's history.
Don Henderson, son of E.
A. Henderson, 854 East Ninth
st., was governor of the Bea
vers Boys state last week.
20 YEARS AGO
July 8. 1938 (Friday)
Reter Fruit company,
which will handle general
business of Rogue River val
ley fruit packing and market
ing, is organized.
Frdm Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Tests
conducted by Columbia uni
versity of New York show
women fail at fishing due
to temperamental defects. It
seems the fair sex want to
talk about something else, do
something else, and not make
fishing their life work."
30 YEARS AGO
July 8, 1928 (Sunday)
Miss Mae Shepard will
come to this city next week
to interview southern Oregon
women on beauty problems.
Aom Local and Personal
column: "Federal Prohibition
Officer Terry A. Talent left
last Friday for Portland to
spend a few days. He will re
Gturn with a new Auburn car."
40 YEARS AGO
July 8. 1918 (Monday)
Ashland's roundup and cel
ebration period ends with a
dancing and confetti carni
val. Sixty-nine autos and 280
people were reported to be
at Crater Lake July 4, com
pared to only "two or three"
autos a year ago.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. Which percussion musical
instrument is named for its
resemblance to a cooking
utensil?
2. There is a Hollywood
comedy team known as Ab
bott and Costello; what are
their respective (popular) first
names?
3. What were the colors of
the Nazi flag?
4. What are tSe names of
the four oceans whose names
end in "ic"? N
5. Which of these French
ports is nearest the English
coast; Cherbourg or Dun
querque? 6. In which State is Ft. Bol
voir? 7. Will an electric motor op
erate in a vacuum?
8. Is "Be Prepared" the
' motto of the U. S. Marine
Corps?
, 9. Does Bolivia have a coast
line on the Atlantic or the
Pacific?
10. What two words de
scribe the cry of a horse?
Answers: 1. Kettle Drum.
g.. Bud (Abbott) and Leu
(Costello). 3. Red, white and
black. 4. Atlantic, ' Pacific,
Arctic, Antarctic. 5. Dun
querque. 6. Virginia. 7. Yes.
8. No (Boy Scouts). 9. Neither
(Bolivia is landlocked.) 10.
Neigh and whinny.
Editorial Correspondence . . .
Campsite 22, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, near
Orick, Calif. An experiment in fire-by-friction, conducted
by the two teen-age boys in the party, is underway near the
camp stove.
Earlier today, it was a walk up to the prairie to see if
the herd of Roosevelt elk was nearby. And in the morning,
it was aii inspection of the "swimming hole,"- a wide and
deep spot in the creek, to see if there really were any fish.
Yesterday, it was a 4Vi-mile hike to the beach which,
for some reason, to these old bones, at least, seemed twice
that far on the way back. We recalled, with a start, that we
hadn't hiked nine miles since our army days some 15 years
ago. And, believe us, we felt it!
California, as we have remarked in this space in prior
years, does a magnificent job with its state parks.
Take this one for instance. It is comprised of some 10,000
acres of Redwoods (Sequoia Sempervirens), open meadows,
tangled undergrowth, all interlaced by a system of seemingly-haphazard
trails which actually are designed to show
"nature" as nature a living, creative, lovely thing.
Over this Fourth of July week end, the camp had many
people. Most of its 100-odd campsites were filled (although
the weather, which in many parts of the state has been un
settled, kept attendance from the usual overcrowding on this
most popular of all summer week ends).
There are parties from all three Pacific states and British
Columbia, many from Iowa, and a scattering from Texas,
Idaho, Nevada, and other western states. They come in auto
mobiles (most of them of relatively recent make), some with
luggage racks on top, in station wagons, and a number of
them dragging trailers either the small jobs which hold
only luggage, or the larger one which open into sleeping
quarters, or the still larger ones which are in truth small
mobile homes.
There are a few Negroes in camp, and they seem to be
accepted for what they are apparently decent people, en
joying the outdoors, and asking only the same facilities as
those accorded to others. Which, of course, they receive in
this state-owned and operated camp.
Some of those in the camping area are "old hands" at
the outdoors. They maintain neat camps, set up with a mini
mum of confusion and with a maximum of efficiency. Oth
ers, of course, are newer to this way of life, which has grown
so tremendously just in the past decade. The latter are those
whose possessions are strewn around with no particular
thought as to neatness or cleanliness, and which are not or
ganized for the easiest way of doing things.
The camper must, of course, face the fact that there is
no hot-and- cold running water, nor steam heat, nor push
button stoves, nor refrigerators which hold frozen food and
cold beer. But at the same time there are a multitude of de
vices on the market which make living in the open , readily
bearable' for the most sybaritic.
Camp stoves will cook food as rapidly (if not more so)
than an electric range, and camp lamps cast a light compara
ble to that from a 100-watt bulb. And the little portable ice
boxes, while they don't do the job that a Copco-powered box
will, are sufficient for the needs of the day.
And, in these well-financed California camps, there are
flush-toilets (a big attraction to the family secretary of
health, education and welfare) which are lighted at night.
Showers are available at a little distance, and there is a tele
phone at headquarters in case of emergency.
But these trappings of civilization are but the frosting on
the cake.
The real attraction is the out-of-doors and that at its
most propitious. !
We first met the Redwoods as a small boy in the days
when Highway 101 was little better than a wagon road.
And while the road is now a highway, in places four
laned, the Redwoods, stately, tall, huge and magnificent, are
the same. , "
This is rain forest nurtured by nearly 100 inches of rain
each year (mostly, happily, in the winter) and by a verdant
and proliferating vegetation which has to be seen to be be
lieved. It is cool in the tall forest, even on the hottest of days
and quiet. ' ;
On that nine-mile hike yesterday," even as the muscles
ached and the joints protested against the unaccustomed exer
cise, we stood occasionally and marveled at the quiet a
quiet in which the few noises melted into nothingness the
call of a jay, perhaps, or the modest chatter of a squirrel, or
even the subdued whine of a far-off jet aircraft: But even
these sounds tended only to emphasize the absence of noise.
It is, in a way, like the quiet of a church which admits noise
only to subdue it and convert it to silence. ' .
,
The first day' of our sojourn here, it rained. The pave
ment was wet, and looking up at the tall trees across a
clearing, one could see the mist drops pelting down. But in
Campsite 22, surrounded by the forest giants and protected
by their overhanging limbs, only a light fog drifted to the
ground.
Since then we have had sunlight each day usually in the
afternoon only, but on some days in the morning, too. But
never have we been uncomfortably warm, and even xn the
warmest afternoons a sweater or jacket has been welcome.
In the morning we huddle by the driftwood fire (the fuel
for which was gathered on the beach a few miles away) and
warm our hands on steaming cups of coffee or chocolate.
And, in the evening, after the three women-folk have
done the dishes, we sit around the fire and talk, or sing soft
ly (so as not to bother other campers nearby),' or listen to the
snatches of news available over the battery-powered radio.
Blue-jays are beautiful birds.-They are perky and noisy
and confident. And while they are a little shy, they are still
bold enough to come into camp to steal crumbs of bread.
. The big gray squirrels are among our favorites. There is
one which has taken bread, or peanuts, or popcorn right out
of our fingers, as we hold them out to him along the top of
a big Redwood log.
But I think our favorites are the shy little chipmunks,
who are so eager and so diffident and yet so tempted and
seemingly-hungry.
They creep up, peeking and peering at us, sitting still
for a moment, then moving so fast one can't see their little
legs move, and taking up another position of advantage, wait
ing hopefully. When a tidbit is tossed their way, they scam
per toward it, watchful and wary, and when they are sure
the way is clear and safe, they dash to it and grab it, then
scuttle away. At a safe distance, they pause, sit on their
haunches, and, holding it in their hands as a human holds a
cob of corn, proceed to munch away until it is gone either
into their rounded stomachs, or, in the case of peanuts,
stowed in their capacious cheek-pouches for later use.
The sun has broken through the overcast; the fire-building
experiment has temporarily been abandoned in favor of
some short exploration; the secretary of HEW is napping in
the tent; the teen-age girl is whittling (a welcome change
from a constant diet of reading second-rate magazines), a
chipmunk is scuttling around searching for crumbs; and
there is peace in the camp, disturbed only by the clatter of
the typewriter and the far-off thunder of heavy trucks on
the highway a half-mile away. -
The smell of wood smoke drifts over to us, and as we
glance overhead we see the sunlight filtering through the
green tracery of evergreen boughs. The dirty coffee pot, the
cluster of unemptied ash-trays, and the jars and cans on the
sturdy Redwood table, the clothesline rope full of towels and
swimming suits, the unrolled sleeping bags on the ground,
the food hamper all these add up to what makes camping
the attraction, for us, that it is
It is, probably, its total dissimilarity to the bustling and
clattering newsroom, with its tempo, its deadline, its constant
stream of visitors, that makes this peaceful camp so idyllic.
The newsroom will come again soon enough, and will be
welcome when the time is here. But, for this short vacation
period, there are few things which can so fill the soul with
Dennis the Menace
'WllLYA StoPWRWlH',30BV? ?M HOT
Public Housing to
Face Crucial Test
In Senate
Washington (cq) Public
housing, the depression baby
which has never grown to
full stature, faces a crucial
decision in the Senate this
month.
The Senate must decide
whether to give the program
new stimulus or let it get
along as best it can. Several
public housing proponents say
the program will die if it does
not get new help.
Chairman John J. Spark
man (D-Ala.) of the Senate
Banking and Currency com
mittee is pushing a bill to get
public housing out of the dol
drums. It would transfer much
of the Federal authority over
the program to local housing
agencies.
His proposal-is opposed by
the Eisenhower Administra
tion and the powerful Nation
al Association of Real Estate
Boards. They see it .as chang
ing the public housing pro
gram to accomodate middle
income families instead of
low income ones.
Seek New Approach
But figures on the public
housing program have con
vinced Sparkman and others
that it is high time to try a
new approach to public hous
ing. Although more than a
million housing units have
been .authorized by Congress
since 1937, only 432,000 have
been built.
Various explanations are
forwarded for the building
lag: World War II interrupted
the program just when it was
getting fully underway, Con-,
gress keeps changing its mind
on how many units it will ap
prove, and the whole program
is bogged down in Federal
red tape.
. Sparkman's plan was re
ported, by an 8-7 vote, to the
Senate last month. It is ex
pected to come up for sharp
debate in the Senate this
month. The House will not
act until after the Senate does.
Could Set Rents
- Under the Sparkman bill,
local housing agencies could
set rents for their projects
and decide how much money
applicants could earn in or
der to qualify for admission.
The local agency also could
sell its units to families aP
ready living in them.
. Another major innovation
would enable local public
housing agencies to keep one
third of their profits. As it is
now," any money the agency
makes above its operating
expenses goes toward paying
off construction bonds on the
project.
For instance, if a local pub
lic housing agency owed $100,
000 a year to its bond holders
and made a profit of $10,000
from its rents, the Federal
Government would make up
the difference or $99,000.
The new proposal -would let
the local public agency keep
one-third of the $10,000 and
use the rest of the profit to
make advance payments on
the bonds. Proponents say
what the Federal Govern
ment lost in higher subsidies
would be more than compen
sated for by savings on inter
est and more economical op
eration of public housing pro
jects. . They contend project
managers would have an in
centive to operate more econ
omically since they would
have a stake in the profits.
A Local Windfall
The National Association of
Real Estate Boards is hammer
ing away at this profit-sharing
provision, calling it' a
"windfall" for the local agen
cy. The association claims the
new approach to public hous
peace and contentment, as the quiet, the chirping of the
birds," the nonsensical talk around the campfire, the aching
joints of the unaccustomed hiker, and, undoubtedly, the spe
cial savor that attaches to food cooked over the open, sooty
uneven campfire. .
Heaven," that's what it is. For a couple of weeks. E.A.
in July
ing represents a "reorienta
tion" of the public housing
program and a "debasement"
of the welfare function.
John C. Williamson, legis
lative director- of NAREB,
charges public housing back
ers "want to shift the target
rather than cope with the
problem of housing the low in
come group."
Not so, says the National
Housing Conference, long-time
proponent of public housing.
It seems the Sparkman plan
as a long overdue "bill of
rights" for public housing and
the recognition that local pub
lic housing agencies are ad
ults, not wards tied to' the
apron strings of the Federal
Government.
The public housing propo
sal will probably split-along
party lines in the Senate, with
the Democrats for it. Insiders
see the Senate passing the
public housing program and
the House rejecting it, Over
all, they give the new ap
proach to public housing a
50-50 chance of becoming law
in 1958.
(Copyright, Congressional
Quarterly Inc.) .
Vesf Coast Shows
Truck in Accident
A truck-tractor of the West
Coast shows hauling a semi
trailer full of carnival equip
ment crashed yesterday morn
ing on Highway 66 several
miles east of Ashland, state
police reported.
James Earl Glore, 34, San
Francisco, attempted to shift
gears as the truck was
traveling downhill. The
truck's brakes failed, accord
ing to the report, and it turn
ed into the bank, striking an
outcrop of rock. The truck
turned over, on its left side
and both axles were broken,
the report continued. .
Police said there was "ex
tensive" damage to the truck,
but minor damage to the load
and no injuries.
Special Election
Next lor Alaska
Washington (UPD Only
a referendum stood between
Alaska and statehood today
following signing by President
Eisenhower of a bill to admit
the territory as the 49th state.
The president late Monday
signed the historic Alaska bill
in a simple White House cere
mony. He later issued a state
ment hailing Alaska .legisla
tion but adding he was "ex
tremely disturbed over re
ports that no action is con
templated by the current Con
gress" on legislation to admit
Hawaii as the 50th state,
The people of Alaska must
hold a special' election this
fall to ratify the conditions
under which their territory
will become one of the states.
Sfafe Civil Service
Commissioner Named
Salem (UPI) Reap
pointment of A. C. Newell,
Milton-Freewater, to the
State Civil Service commis
sion, was announced Monday
by Gov. Robert D. Holmes,' he
has -been a member of the
three-man commission for
seven years.
His new three-year term ex
pires June 30, 1961. Other
members of the commission
are Philip A. Joss; Portland,
and V. D. Kenworthy, The
Dalles.
De Gaulle's Supreme
Put France
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Premier Charles de Gaulle
has ; made it plain that his
supreme aim is to restore
France to the
first rank
among world
powers.
He wants to
end the Al
g e r ian rebel
lion which has
bled France
for nearly
four years. He
wants to estab
JTi I
.e
cnaries m.
McCann
lish
firm friendly relations
with France's former protec
torates of Tunisia and Moroc
co, adjoining "Algeria on the
east and west.
He wants to fix the future
Matter of Fact
, LET FREEDOM RING!
Westport, N. Y. In the
middle of the American holi
day week end, all comfortable
ease and easy
pleasure,' the
Polish ghosts
made their
uncomfortable
entrance. They
stalked into
1 our midst, as
it were, from
the pages of
an idly "glanc
ed at maga
zine. Jos-.ph Alsop
It may seem a little odd
that a young Pole grown to
manhood under Communism
should have far more to say
about freedom than all the
Fourth of July orators in all
our forty-eight states. But
there were his words, searing
as acid, glowing with a
strange, cold courage. His
words seemed a little out of
place in the fairly prim pages
of the English monthly, "En
counter", and most certainly
they sounded bitterly rebuk
ing to this complacent nation
that should be freedom's cita
del. If you doubt that freedom
is the most precious gift of
all, listen to these words of
Marek Hlasko, the most tal
ented and most strange of Po
land's younger ' writers. Pon
der well Hlasko's daring yet
superb cry of defiance.
. .
rpHE. worst thing about to-
-- talitarianism is that it
kills the imagination. (As a
Pole) what I feel most deeply
is the dramatic impossibility
of conveying one's own ex
perience. The intellectuals (in
the west whom I have met)
haven't that horrible daily ex
perience. That's why I have
the impression that it's quite
impossible for me to tell them
anything. If I told them that
the workers' "deepest dream
is to get drunk, in prder to
forget himself for two hours,
to forget himself completely,
they wouldn't believe me; but
it's a fact.
"The misfortune of the man
who lives in a totalitarian
country is the feeling, a feel
ing that never leaves him, of
the grotesqueness and ridicu
lousness of one's own self
the reduction of dreams
the reduction of desire the
moral atrophy the inabilty
to . react to the vileness one
sees at every step on every
day .' . . acceptance of the
truth of one's own life is the
hardest thing possible (yet' it
is .the only way) for a . man
who has no prospect before
him to defend himself, against
that truth."
VTHERS may not be so af
" fected, but as I read those
words of Hlasko's the pleas
ant sights and sounds of the
present the speedboat with
the water-skiers swooping on
the lake, the sun gilding the
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Among Top Powers
of France's remaining African
possessions, above all in the
Sahara Desert region where
exploitation of vast natural
resources is just starting.
He wants to give France
a strong government and to
end for good the succession
of cabinet crises which along
with the Algerian and Indo
chinese upheavals have weak
ened France's world position.
- De Gaulle's week end con
ference with Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles was
a success. De Gaulle and
Dulles .agreed almost com
pletely on every phase of Al
lied policy.
Wants Nuclear Weapons
But on one thing De Gaulle
was adamant. He is deter
mined to make France the
By Joseph Also
water, the ice in the pre-lunch-
eon drink cheerfully rattling
in the shaker suddenly be
came curiously insubstantial.
Another vision obstinately in
truded, of a dreary bar in
Warsaw, with a circle of ad
mirers surrounding a young
man, who was flushed with
drink and angry with the
world, who quite astonishing
ly resembled the dead movie
actor, James Dean.
That was Hlasko as I briefly
saw him. Because his brutally
realistic, bitterly pessimistic,
yet somehow moving and
stoically noble . novels and
short stories have made him
the hero of the Polish youth
and a chief villain of the Com
munists. Now, moreover, as I saw
Hlasko in my mind's eyes,
that picture of the past
brought back another War
saw picture. I saw the fine
boned, hawk-like face of the
young Polish philospher Ku
lakowski, a face alight with
intelligence, earnest with mor
al purpose, but made strange
by the black steel teeth that
the dentist behind the Iron
Curtain supplied all but the
most privileged. I sought out
Kulakowski in Warsaw, be
cause he is surely the most in
teresting and original philoso
pher writing about politics in
our time and he has the cour
age, the considerable courage,
to talk at some length with a
Western reporter.
17-ULAKOWSKI is interest
"ing, above all, because he
so boldly and confidently in
sists upon the reality of good
and evil a reality that is
oft forgotten in the free half
of the world. And the good of
this professed Communist
philosopher is human free
dom; his evil is enslavement;
and all of Kulakowski's writ
ings is an outstanding, daring
trumpet call to freedom's de
fense. '
It is odd, it is disturbing to
find oneself obsessed by the
memory of these two men in
the midst of an American holi
day week end which commem
orates the American experi
ment in freedom. But these
two, brave and gifted as they
are, are good to speak about
when we sing, "Let freedom
ring!" They have seen what
it is, they have known what
it is, not to be free. They
speak as experts. They can
put a price on this freedom
that we take for granted. Or
rather, they can tell us this
freedom is beyond price,
worth any pain and any risk.
These two have indeed ac
cepted pain .and risk beyond
our calculation, to assert their
own individual freedom. Hlas
ko for example, gave his in
terview in Paris. Yet he was
already preparing to return
to Poland, to accept what fate
might be in store for him in!
his own land, without flinch
ing, and without compromise,
(c) 1958, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
YOUR MIND'S ON
VACATION TOO!
That's why in case of an acci
dent it may be difficult to
remember the name of youf
insurance agency. Of course
when it's "MR. INSURANCE"
or "MEDFORD INSURANCE"
you recall the name before you
know who's to blame.
Bill Fish
jfir i mir; jf
Aim Is To I
world's fourth atomic power
believing, as does pretty
nearly everybody else, that in
these days only a country
which possesses nuclear weap
ons can claim to be of first
rank.
The United States and Great
Britain are strongly opposed
to this aim.
This is due primarily to the
increasing urgency attached
to the necessity of reaching
an agreement with Russia first
to suspend nuclear weapons
tests under proper saeguards
against cheating and secondly
to stop the production of such
weapons. .
But De Gaulle can hardly
be blamed ,for demanding ad
mittance to the club. Where
would France be had it not
been for him?
When World War II started,
France was supposed to have
the best army in the world.
It collapsed utterly before
Nazi Germany's blitzkrieg at
tack. Symbol of Resistance '
De Gaulle was the sole
symbol of French resistance
when he went to Britain, an
nounced in a historic broad
cast that France had lost a
battle and not a war, and or
ganized Free France.
He returned home in tri
umph when the allied armies
started driving the Germans
out of the country. He assum
ed leadership, only to retire
in disgust because of political
bickering. Year by year, he
watched F r a n c e's prestige
tarnish until, five weeks ago,
he was recalled to power.
De Gaulle has made a strik
ing success so far. The loud
Communist threats of revolu
tion have proved empty. The
French people have accepted
him. He apparently succeed
ed, in his visit to Algeria last
week, in asserting his com
plete authority over the right
wing extremists and army ca
reer men whose revolt : put
him in power. He has won
Allied approval by his mod
eration. But it is evident he will not
be happy until France has re
gained its historic glory.
Beaverton Youth
Victim of Wreck
; Portland (UPI) Stephen
James Grider, 15, Beaverton
was - killed and four other
teen-age boys were injured
one critically, early today
when a car failed to negotiate
a curve and struck a . power
pole near the west city limits
of Portland. '
Dan Linebaugh, Beaverton,
was hurt critically. Others in
jured were Danny Chambers,
15: Ralph Combs. 13, and
Daniel Richards, 14.
Police said Grider and Line
baugh were thrown from the
car, which rolled over on its
top down a 12-foot bank after
striking the pole.
It was the 11th traffic fa
tality of the year in Multno
mah "county outside of Port
land. ,
LOSE TEETH EARLY
Dundee, Scotland (UPI)
Dr. Mary I. Lamb, a lady den
tist, told a British Dental As
sociation conference that den
tal hygiene in Britain is so
bad that young women are
losing their teeth. "It is al
most a tradition for many
girls in industrial areas of
Britain to get a set of den
tures for their 21st birthday,"
she said Monday.
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FRIENDLY,
in the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
On the Fourth of July, in
these days (especially when it
falls near the end ol the week
and is stretched out into a
three or four day holiday)
Americans take to the high
ways and a lot of them are
killed and even more are
maimed.
The next day the editors all
write pieces about it, deplor
ing the recklessness of the
American people and IM
PLORING them to be more
careful.
After that, we forget all
about it.
MODERN madness? -I
douht it.
In earlier generations, we
ganged up in the county seats
and shot off firecrackers (in
cluding the cannon kind) in
the public square and burned
blisters on various parts of'
our anatomy and from time
to time blew off fingers.
Whe nthat palled on us, we"
tamped gunpowder into sec
tions of gaspipe and touched,
it off by means of firecracker
fuses, frequently killing our
selves. I think Americans
just like to live dangerously.
A T ANY rate
Out of it all this maxim
can be deduced: .
Our pleasures are more'
dangerous than our labors. "
SO MUCH for our domestic
affairs. T.pt's talro a lnnlr
at what's going on overseas.
In Brussels (capital of Bel
gium) Friday night Former
President Hoover told an au
dience that the anti-American
propaganda that is in evi
dence all over the world could
SEND THE UNITED STATES
BACK TO ISOLATIONISM.:
"False legends" about
America, he said, are being
spread throughout the world.
This propaganda, he added,'
has led to physical attacks on
U.S. citizens and officials. He
said he doesn't at present feel
that America will retreat to
an isolationist policy. . .
. But
-' He added
"THE DANGER SIGNAL
IS UP."
HE IS right. ;
The signal IS up. 1 '!
Americans are getting tired
of spending their treasure on
the rest of the world and get
ting nothing but brickbats'
and sneers in return. We are
aware," of course, of. the
ORIGINS of this anti-Ameri-.
can propaganda. It originates
in the Kremlin. It is spread
throughout the world by the
Kremlin's communist agents;
It is spread for a purposed
The purpose is to further the
conquest of the world that is
the goal of the leaders of
communism. t
UE AREN'T dumb.
' We know all that.
But we know also that com
munists don't have too much
trouble spreading this anti
American propaganda. -It has
been taken up rather readily
in too many countries where
our dollars have been .poured
out lavishly in a sincere ef
fort on our part to help the
people to make life better
for them. ' . 5
Human nature is human
nature. If you were pouring
out your substance to help
other people in your block and
everybody in the block was
telling you, to GO HOME,
you'd be likely sooner or later
to go home.
Mr. Hoover is touching on
a very real possibility. '
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