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4 Sur.day, September 14, 1958
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Flight 'o Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 14, 1948 (Tuesday)
The Oregon State Medical
society convention opens here
tomorrow.
The Jackson county fair
opened this morning . with
swine showmanship the first
event.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 14, 1938 (Wednesday)
Central Point citizens will
vote Saturday on whether the
city should issue bonds to fi
nance repair of water mains.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
well-named flannel cake has
made its appearance on a
number of local menus."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 14, 1928 (Friday)
An estimated 4,000 people
visited the Jackson county
fair yesterday for "Medford
Day."
Chamber of Commerce
members visited the new
Montgomery Ward store on
South Central ave. at Eighth
st. today.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 14, 1918 (Saturday)
The Salvation Army is
opening a fund drive here
next week.
.. The Radcliffe Chautauqua
opened its war - preparation
program here today.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct is superior;
seven er eight is excellent; five or
sis is good.
1. If described as a mono
dent, how many teeth would
a creature have?
2. The U. S. Constitution
forbids the election of a wom
an as president; true or false?
3. A dermatologist special
izes in the treatment of dis
eases of the feet, skin, or
heart?
4. In direct sunlight, black
and white clothing is equally
cool; true or false?
5. What is the plural of
the word fungus?1
6. Asuncion is the capital
of which South American
country?
7. Which automobile manu
facturer is now located at
South Bend, Indiana?
8. Did the late Babe Ruth
throw baseballs with his right,
or left, hand?
9. Who was the Republican
presidential candidate in the
1936 Presidential election?
10. Normally, how many
U. S. Senators are elected bi
ennially? Answers: 1. One tooth. 2.
False. 3. Diseases of the skin.
4. False. 5. Fungi or funguses.
6. Paraguay. 7. Studebaker. 8.
Left hand. 9. Alf Landon. 10.
32.
$52 Million Contract
To Soeng Aircraft
Dayton, Ohio-TCPD-The Air
Material Command at Wright
Patterson Air Force Base yes
terday announced that an esti
mated 52 million dollar con
tract has been awarded to
Boeing Aircraft Co., Seattle.
Th Boeing contract, part of
the AMC's 178 million doUar
government defense contract,
lie fnr the construction of
tCUM -
aircraft, parts and ground sup
OSES! I
port equipment.
Eye-Opener
The reporter who covered "Business Educa
tion Day" told us, "Everyone I've talked to seem
ed to think it was a tremendous success.'
We got the same impression.
This project where teachers visit half a
hundred Jackson county business establishments
in. small groups, tour the premises, have lunch
with the executives, and then confer on problems
of the business involved undoubtedly 'did a
great deal to give the teachers a wider under
standing of the problems, the, solutions (and the
motives) of the business community.
THERE are two sides to the coin.
" We also have a hunch that the business
men and women were impressed at what may
have been their first face-to-face meeting with a
group of teachers. y
What they saw was a group of highly intelli
gent, vocal, presentable people, who know their
profession, and are willing and eager to learn
more about the community in which they live and
work in such an important field.
(At the luncheon, it may not have been over
looked by the business people, sort of incidentally,
that the teaching profession in the county repre
sents several million dollars in payroll. They do,
indeed,' constitute one of the best groups of cus
tomers that the business people have.)
S FRANK J. Van Dyke, the luncheon speaker
(who is a man who
teaching and the profession through his service
on state boards and commissions and the legisla
ture), declared, teachers constitute a vital group
in any community, and if they are satisfied, re
spected, and accorded the dignity to which they
are entitled, they exert a stabilizing and a crea
tive force in any community.
One of the difficulties in today's fragmented
civilization is a lack of communication between
groups between parents as a group, say,- and
the school community. Or between the "town"
and the "country." Or between the "professions"
and the "businessmen."
This lack of communication between the
school community and the business community
has never been a serious one in Medford, due
largely to a progressive and articulate administra
tion. But whatever lack there may have been was
in some degree satisfied during "B-E" day.
,
IT WAS a successful
ycnnicixv viic mat
annually.
We hope the return
will be invited to visit the schools sometime in
November, is just as successful. We think that
those businessmen who had their eyes opened by
the high caliber of the teachers during the visits
around town last week, will have their eyes
opened even further when they see them in action
on their home grounds, the schools.
Both groups, basically, have the same aim
a better city, a better county, a better chance for
the younger generation.
I his experiment is serving to show each fac
tion that the other is going about working toward
that goal, only in difierent ways. h.A.
Out in the
One of the, solid satisfactions in living in Jack
son county is the fact that, no matter where one's
home, it is. only a few minutes away from the
peace, the quiet, the isolation of tall trees and
hills; from fresh-water
panses of forested ridges
Many people (we are
freshment in this magnificent outdoors of ours.
The chief regret is that it is so infrequently pos
sible to find the time to go there.
We are neither hunter nor fisherman, so lack
that excuse to get into the forests (and we suspect
that hunting and fishing is, in a way, just such an
excuse for some of the outdoor fraternity).
,
AN EXCUSE .in the
AlAd-i, (All. AllOVVUUU 11 S Vlli VUgM AVl V11V111
Josephine and Jackson counties with Curt Nesh
eim, southwest district warden for the state de
partment of forestry, came our way last week.
The trip, despite rain and low clouds, was an
immense success from our standpoint.
The northwest part of the county was the one
corner we hadn't yet visited, the tour was inter
esting as well as beautiful, the company was good,
and the scenery, while of a different variety than
that seen at Crater lake or the Wallowas, was
spectacular.
FROM Sexton mountain, with its weather bu
raon anA 1riLrinf anrl ite -Pnrosf rvP TV and
radio antennas (including repeater and relay sta
tions for a half-dozen different organizations),
we went to King mountain near the Jackson-Josephine-Douglas
county border junction, where the
construction of an Air Force "gap filler" (radar)
station is nearing completion.
Then we went down into the Grave creek
area, up over Battle mountain, down into the val
ley of the West Fork of Evans creek, then up Rock
creek to the Umpqua-Rogue divide, and along
the crest of the divide to the Tiller-Trail highway,
and home.
This journey should not be taken lightly or
without guidance, or in a standard car, for por
tions are rough and obscure. But the mountains,
in any direction from Medford, offer great re
wards to those who take the trouble to do a bit
of exploring on the back roads. E.A.
himself knows a lot about
and forward-looking ex-
ucocivca tu uc icpcatcu
visit," when businessmen
Boondocks
streams, from great ex
and canyons.
among them) find re
form of an invitation to
"THgCOOWg J4fZ IS EMPTY"
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
THE DULLES FORMULA
At his press conference, Mr.
Dulles sent up a trial balloon.
He hinted at a formula which
was to extri
cate this coun
try from its
tanglement in
Quemoy. But
because he is
so deeply en
tangled, he
could not say
clearly that
Walter
what he would
'like to do is
Lippmann
to trade a withdrawal from
the offshore islands for a
pledge that the Red Chinese
will not use force to take over
Formosa. This would indeed
be a convenient arrangement
in that it would validate our
Formosa policy while it got
us out of our foolish and un
popular commitment in the
onshore islands.
But there is no eood reason
to hope that the Dulles formu
la can be agreed upon. ADart
from the Communist opposi
tion to it. there is the Drior
fact that Chiang will almost
certainly oppose it. It is most
improbable that Mr. Dulles
can get authority from Chiang
to make such a deal, or even
to make a serious proposal.
'
UOR at the barest minimum,
and taking the rosiest pos
sible view of Red China's atti
tude, the Dulles formula
would require Chiang to make
two very painful concessions.
One would be to withdraw his
troops and to abandon the
islands, which are the symbol
of his intention to return to
the mainland. The other con
cession would be to renounce
publicly the use of force in
order to return to the main
land, to renounce-that is to
say the fiction that the real
China is in Formosa and that
it will recover the rest of
China.
Were it proposed seriously
by us in a serious negotiation
with Red China, the Dulles
formula would almost certain
ly mean the downfall of Chi
ang's government. For under
the formula the Chiang gov
ernment would lose the reason
for its existence, and the main
land Chinese who are In For
mosa would find themselves
exiles from China and pris
oners on the island. There
would be no good reason left
why they should not make
their peace with Peiping, ac
cepting some one of the tempt
ing offers which reach them
publicly and through private
channels.
.
FOR these reasons alone, the
Dulles formula is not real
ly a negotiating proposal. It is.
a debating position, good for
a few public speeches, in that
it suggests the attractive idea
that the Chinese civil war and
the Chinese-American conflict
can be resolved without shoot
ing. This is what ought to be
made to happen. But it cannot
come to pass because of our
entanglement, which has en
gaged our honor, with Chiang.
If we were free of that en
tanglement, Ve could have a
Formosa policy which, though
unacceptable to Peiping,
would command wide support
in this country and in the
world. The principle of our
policy would be that the island
of Formosa is not under the
law of the Japanese ' peace
treaty as yet a part of China,
and that in fact Formosa has
for many generations not been
governed from the mainland.
The American national in
terest in Formosa is not that
it should masquerade as China
but that the Formosa people
should have autonomy and
that in a military sense the
island should be strategically
neutralized.
If we were free, we would,
in short, go to the United Na
tions and purpose that For
mosa be constituted an auton
omous territory, neutralized
and demilitarized under inter
national supervision. It would
be a corollary of such a pro
posal that the bulk of the
mainland Chinese in Formosa
should be repatriated to the
mainland and that Chiang and
his lieutenants should be giv
en asylum in some safe place.
ALTHOUGH such a policy
would truly serve our na
tional interests in this area,
and would be respectable in
the opinion of mankind, there
is no hope now that it can be
adopted. Both Chiang and Mao
will oppose it, and we are not
free to propose what Chiang
opposes.
There will remain the ques
tion of whether we are com
pelled to do what Chiang de
mands. Quemoy is in fact be
sieged and blockaded, and it
can be only a question of time
when it wiU surrender or it
will have to be evacuated. For
the siege and blockade if this
island cannot be lifted ,xcept
by an attack on the Chinese
mainland, an attack which
would precipitate, at the least,
a local war.
The alternative is for the
President to break off this
action, thus disengaging this
country from the offshore is
lands, and to use the power
of the 7th Fleet to evacuate
Chiang's troops. That this will
be a defeat and a retreat is
only too obvious. But, as com
pared with letting Quemoy be
starved out, or with starting
a general war over Quemoy, it
is the least of the evils. For
we must not deceive our
selves. There is no good way
out of this dead end into which
the President and Mr. Dulles
have led us.
TN THIS connection we can
do well to read and to pon
der Winston Churchill's final
conclusions in the chapter
called "The Tragedy of Mu
nich" in his book "The Gath
ering Storm."
His central point is that the
tragedy of Munich lay in the
fact that France and Great
Britain sacrificed Czechoslo
vakia at a moment when "hon
or pointed the path of duty,
and when also the right judg
ment of the facts at the time
would have reinforced its dic
tates." But what is "often over
looked is a passage which pre
cedes this judgment: "Those
who are prone by tempera
ment and character to seek
sharp and clear-cut solutions
of difficult and obscure prob
lems, who are ready to fight
whenever some challenge
comes from a foreign power,
have not always been right.
On tHe other hand, those
whose inclination is to bow
their heads, to seek patiently
and faithfully for peaceful
compromise, are not always
wrong. On the .contrary, in
the majority of instances they
may be right, not only mor
ally but from a practical
standpoint. How many wars
have been averted by patience
and persisting good will! Re
ligion and virtue alike lend
their sanctions to meekness
and humility, not only be
tween men but between na
tions. How many wars have
been precipitated by fire
brands! How many misunder
standings which led to wars
could have been removed by
temporizing! How often have
countries fought cruel wars
and then after a few years of
peace found themselves not
only friends but allies!"
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
Truck-Driver Presley
Heading for Germany
Fort-Hood,-Tex. -(IIPD- Pvt.
Elvis Presley, now a truck
driver in a tank company,
will leave this Army post Fri
day for assignment in Germany.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
A colleague of ours re
marked the other day,
"When I was a youngster,
I used to think that 46 was
old. Now that I'm 46, I
know it is."
We were entranced by
K-DOVs "roll - with - the
punch" advertisement in the
Mail Tribune the other day,
the one which started out
"Notice to Cropdusters," and
advised them that Pear Trees
are Green.
Which reminded us of the
story, undoubtedly apocry-
pnai, wrucn was going the
rounds just after the plane
clipped the guy-wire and sent
the tower to the ground. It
goes like this:
You seen the banner Billy
Rosenbalm's plane ' is towing
around these days? No? It
says, "K-BOY sent me."
American science has tri
umphed. It has come up
with a toothpaste which is
STRIPED! Russia, you bet
ter watch out!
Most of the .confusion
which attended the opening
of the one-way couplet of
Main and Eighth streets has
now subsided. But not quite
aU of it.
On the southwest corner
of Eighth and Bartlett streets
is a sign directing visitors to
the ' chamber of commerce
headquarters where they may
obtain travel information. An
arrow on the sign points
west. On the southeast cor
ner of the same intersection
is a street sign which says
"One Way," with an arrow
pointing east.
Maybe the chamber needs
some travel information it
self? With the end of bus serv
ice between Jacksonville
and Medford, we are told
that residents of that at
tractive little town are. hop
ing that plans to revive a
daily stage run between the
two towns, for the Cen
tennial year, are followed
through. "It would not only
be a picturesque sight."
one of them sighed to us,
"but would be a revived
convenience for marooned
shoppers and workers."
Members of a Medford
family were awakened at
about 6 a.m. one recent morn
ing by thunderous crashing,
then were further jolted by
incessant pounding on the
roof.
They scrambled out of bed
to investigate. No, it wasn't
a lightning strike from a
thunderstorm. It was just a
roofing crew which had been
ordered for the house, and
which had arrived early and
gone right to work.
Overheard:
"If you., aren't confused
nowadays, you just aren't
well-informed."
One of our reporters cov
ered a meeting of the plan
ning commission last week, at
which a proposed draft of a
new subdivision ordinance
was being considered.
He looked it over, and
came across the final section,
which he says is a real stop
per. Being of a statistical
turn of mind, he faithfully re
ported to us that it consisted
of one sentence, which in
turn contained 144 words, 20
commas, and one period.
A father recently repri
manded his young son for
leaving pieces of candy
cigarettes lying on the
floor of the patio. The son
turned back an injured
look. "Those are just the
filter tips," he said.
...
Also overheard: ,
Mother: "Son, don't do
that."
Son: "I already did."
Apropos of which, it has
been said that a pat on the
back develops character
IF administered young
enough, often enough, and
low enough.
.
The young man took the
clerk aside and said confiden
tially: "I am looking for a gift for
a girl. I want something that
will make her face light up;
something that will make her
eyes sparkle; something that
will rekindle the fire of love."
"WeU," the clerk said
thoughtfully, "If you're trying
to burn her up don't give her
anyuiing."
Block's Condition
Is 'Satisfactory
Portland (DPD Composer
Ernest Bloch, Agate Beach,
Orer, was reported in satis
factory condition at a hospital
here after undergoing surgery
for a malignant condition.
The 78-year-old Swiss-born
musician has resided in Ore
gon since 1940. '
Washington Report
By William S. Whit
COURT SCENE
Washington It was a scene
long to be remembered, one of
the great dramas of our na
tional history.
And perhaps
it was so sig
nificant, it was
a drama quiet
ly and dryly
u n der played.
This was the
Supreme
Court of the
United States
assembled to
wtuiiSrs vFhuf hear the peti
tion of the Little Rock school
board for a 30-months' delay
in integration, and a breath
ing spell to that city of pas
sion and crisis.
What was it like in this, one
of the gravest special sittings
in generations, as the court
was hearing the arguments
and moving toward its deci
sion? First, the setting: By early
morning long lines of people
-white and dark-were stand
ing in single file on the high
line of marble steps that leads
to the vast bronze doors of the
Supreme Court. Some had
been standing there all night.
THE court was to meet at
noonBy 11:30 every pos
sible seat including a few
movable chairs discreetly
tucked away here and there
is occupied. Many "persons
stand decorously in the back
of the room.
It is a huge, perfectly
square room with a vaulted
ceiling. Along each of four
walls there rise four giant
marble pillars. The rather few
seats available to the public
not more than 400 are
straight, stiff and covered
with red cloth, much like
pews in an old-fashioned but
elegant church.
The whole effect is somber;
the impression is of an im
mense, cool power.
By 11:59 a.m. this room is
almost painfully hushed; a
few faint whispers are heard
occasionally. At noon the nine
black leather chairs on the
high bench are still empty. A
small boy, a page, creeps
among them, arranging them
just so.
At 12:03 the court crier
calls out his traditional warn
ing that the justices are about
to come in. He ends his ritual
with the old phrase: "... God
save the United States and
s
Matter of Fact
THE BIND WE'RE IN '
Taipeh,' Formosa - At first
smell, the atmosphere here is
not eye-of -war like. The hope
is that the
Chinese Com
munists will
finally con
tent them
selves with
seizing one or
more of the
islets, such as
Tungti n g,
which are not
At TT 1
Jospb Alsop on me wasn
ington "must defend" list of
offshore islands.
If this is the outcome, the
crisis in the Formosa Strait
will finally simmer down
into a relatively harmless fire
of propaganda claims and
counter claims. But even if
we get off this cheaply, no
one should forget for an in
stant that the American armed
services intended to use nu
clear weapons lo defend Que
moy and the Matsus.
That is the present inten
tion. That is what is going to
happen if we are drawn into
serious fighting here, unless
Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles persuades or forces
the Pentagon leaders to
change their' plans. Dulles is
convinced that a firm sand
must be made. But Dulles is
also .convinced that every
thing possible should be done
to avoid fighting a nuclear
war for Quemoy.
YET Dulles will have his
work cut out for him to
prevent the . use of nuclear
weapons, if his firm stand
brings American forces into
the fight. For one thing, as
pointed out in a previous re
port, the armed services have
strong arguments on their
side. They have been gravely
weakened for budgetary rea
sons. And this weakness has
been theoretically compen
sated for by Presidential di
rectives authorizing the use
of nuclear weapons in almost
any sort of fighting.
For another thing, the de
fense planning based on these
directives has deeply influ
enced service thinking. One is
told that tactical nuclear
weapons "would really have
to be used" for the simple
task of interdicting the Com
munist airfields on the main
land which most directly
threaten the offshore islands.
Yet the much more numerous
North Korean airfields were
perfectly successfully, inter
dicted with the conventional
weapons, despite the rule
against attacks beyond the
Yalu. - r
this honorable court."
The nine justices file in.
neither stiffly nor easily but
in a manner in between. Their
black robes rustle a bit. The
arguments over Little Rock
are at last reached.
BRENNAN of New Jersey
sits eagerly upright, . with
the light shining on hair that
cannot yet be described as
gray. Next to him is Clark of
Texas, a tall, rangy man, in
finitely relaxed, slumped back
in his chair. .
Douglas of Washington
State half turns his head
away, holding a hand to his
cheek.
Black of Alabama, his face
an almost alabaster paleness,
seems lost in faraway thought.
Then there is Chief Justice
Warren of California, like the
head of a large family, up
right and alert, a powerful
man who looks as if he could
nearly lift up the whole bench
in his hands.
Of the slight figure of
Frankfurter of Massachusetts
only the head can be seen
above the bench. Burton of
Ohio, the sternest-looking
member, sits in absolute still
ness. Harlan of New York is
on the very edge of his chair.
Whittaker of Kansas, the jun
ior member of the bench,
looks remote down at its far
end.
AS THE lawyers' arguments
nnpn trip iiistirpa rtpffin to
interrupt, calmly, easily, be
ing neither friendly nor un
friendly but only casual much
as cultivated strangers might
speak to each other in a club
car. Here is a national issue
of a severity we have not
known since the -Civil War,
but everything being said in
this great room is hardly
above the conversational tone,
A whole era is passing be
fore the eyes of the people
here. .
Outside, too, the old is pass
ing and the new is coming in.
The air of summer is going;
already there is a faint nip in
it. Autumn is arriving and
the old green of the leaves is
giving way to new traces of
brown. This is a turn in time,
in tradition, in ancient prac
tices, a fork in the road of a
kind that the Supreme Court
has not often approached in
more than a century and a
half.
A GAIN, one is told, with
better logic, that it is "un
thinkable" for American
ground forces to confront the
formidable Chinese Commu
nist ground forces without
using nuclear weapons. Yet
the area of interest is Fukien
Province, a natural land is
land, largely cut off from the
rest of China by surrounding
mountains and easy to defend
once it is taken. For just these
reasons, an American landing
in Fukien was by no means
unthinkable in the last war.
In fact, it was actually plan
ned, although the Japanese
armies in Asia were also fair
ly formidable.
In other words, the pactice
has grown up of saying "we
can't do this, we can't do
that," when the speakers real
ly mean that it will be too ex
pensive or too painful to do
these things. But surely it is
an extraordinary delusion to
think that there will be any
thing inexpensive or painless
about a nuclear war with the
chief ally of the Soviet Union,
when the Kremlin already
possesses a plentiful stock of
nuclear weapons of all types.
ON THIS head there are im
portant technical argu
ments to consider. One of
these arguments concerns the
gain or loss to us of using nu
clear weapons, if the continent-based
Chinese forces are
given similar weapons to use
against us. Another argument
concerns the effect on the
Western Alliance of a nucleaf
war starting on Quemoy.
Still another argument con
cerns the effect on our own
nuclear striking power, if our
allies deny us the use of our
overseas airbases for such a
war, and thus cripple the 80
per cent of Strategic Air Com
mand squadrons that are
equipped with medium range
bombers.
But it is clear that these
technical arguments are being
lightly weighed. It is clear, in
fact, that all the .Pentagon
thinking about the use of nu
clear weapons in this wretch
ed conflict is dominated by
the conviction that the nu
clear striking power of the
United States is still superior
to the nuclear striking power
of the Soviet Union.
This is true, of course. We
are now near the end, but we
have not reached the 'end of
the period of the American
lead. We are now close to the
period, but we have not yet
entered the period when our
defense plans will flaccidly
permit the Soviets to acquire
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Spiritual Side
To the Editor: Recently.
I've been reading the letters
in communications on "Ju
venile Delinquency," several
points have been discussed
and I too agree we need more
recreational areas and work
for teenagers, but I believe
there is another point that has
been left out. That is the spiri
tual side.
I beiieve that the main rea
son for delinquency of teen
agers is lack of spiritual- and
moral training in the home. A
lot of parents are doing pret
ty much as the delinquent,
(marriage vows and such
things as virtue are laughed
at as old fashioned) then they
are shocked to find their chil
dren doing the same things.
TV programs, movies and
magazines pour filth into our
children's minds, drinking
and promiscuity are made to
look attractive, as modern
and sophisticated. I believe as
parents we should do some
thing about these things.
As a Christian I would like
to give, my own personal tes
timony every teenager
needs Christ to help them
through the snares of this
modern age. I am a young
mother and it hasn't been
many years since I was a teen
ager. My only regret is that
I didn't know Christ as my
Savior then. How much Am
erica needs real Christian
homes and family altars. As
J. Edgard Hoover has said,
"A child brought up in Sun
day School and church is sel
dom brought up in court."
Eleanor C. Anderson
1287 Woodrow Lane
Medford
Our Present World
To the Editor: Since read
ing your excellent editorial of
Sept. 9, "Neanderthals and
Others," I have been thinking
how wonderful it would be if
we could follow it up here in
Medford with a study of "Our
Present World."
I think it is time for us to
re-examine some of our un
realistic treaties and commit
ments. ,
Esther Robinson,
29 Ross Court,
Medford.
Other End of the Needle
To the Editor; The follow
ing reply has been sent to Mr.
James Redden, chairman of
the Democratic party in Jack
son county, in response to his
to me, published in the Mail
Tribune recently: :
Dear Mr. Redden: Thank
you for your kind letter in re
gards to registration. Your in
terest in this important civic
activity is to be commended.
There is another related im
portant civic affair you could
take interest in. That is to
help defeat High Tax Bun
gling Bob Holmes and elect a
governor both Democrats and
Republicans can be proud of.
Mark Hatfield. ,
Donald L. Stathos,
Chairman, Jackson . :
County Republican
Central Committee.
an enormous superiority in
nuclear striking power.
'
THERE are strong indica
tions that certain key
figures in the armed services
have just these grim facts
very much on their minds.
Hence they are not averse to
having a nuclear showdown
now. If such a showdown is
tragically inevitable, it is
certainly better to have it
now than later. To this extent,
this view is logical. ' '
But it is altogether illogi
cal to suppose we are going
to get round the next corner
or the corner after that, if we
get safely round this corner
of the offshore islands. The
leaders . of the government
and the leaders of the serv
ices may tell themselves they
are going to be very bold and
firm in the future. But they
are lying to themselves. They
will not be bold and firm
about such issues as the off
shore islands, and they will
not risk nuclear war for much
more important issues either,
when the Soviets have been
allowed to gain commanding
superiority in nuclear strik
ing power.
Any fool can foresee that
much. At a minimum there-'
fore, this offshore islands
crisis is as a glaring revela
tion of the bind we are in. It
should also be taken as final
proof of the need to make the,
greatest and most urgent
efforts to escape' from this'
bind, by radically altered and
boldly expanded defense
plans. -