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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1S4S (Thursday)
A second tryout for parts in
the Civic theater's production
of "Male Animal" is scheduled
tonieht.
Skilled craftsmen and la
borers are reportedly needed
at the new Camp White domi
ciliary.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1938 (Friday)
The 62nd annual reunion of
the Society' of Pioneers of
Southern Oregon will be held
next week at Jacksonville.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
predominating ill df the com
munity seems to be colds, a
number having same about
their person."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1928 (Sunday)
Klamath Indians are ex
pected to gather this week for
the U. S. court session here.
C. C. Althouse, local rabbit
raiser, has an order for a ship
ment of cottontails to Japan.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1918 (Monday)
The Medford Irrigation dis
trict's bond issue passed by a
141-120 vote.
The annual three-day coun
ty teachers' institute was con
vened today at Medford High
school.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or fen correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
sis is good. u
1. An encephalograph is an
x-ray photograph of what in
the human body?
2. Beavers use their tails as
trowels in dam building, true
or false?
3. Which New England
State is the only one that has
no seacoast?
4. In which indoor sport
do "keglers" participate?
5. How many tentacles does
a starfish have?
6. Which king of England
was unable to speak English?
7. The standard U.S. 5-cent
piece contains a greater, or
lesser, percentage of copper
than does a standard U.S.
copper cent? . .
8. A funambulist is a rope
walker, cigar maker, or a ma
gician? 9. In which State is Nor
folk Navy Yard? &
10. Name the American
humorist and philosopher
who said, "I never met a man
I didn't like."
Answers: 1-Brain. 2-False.
3-Vermont. . 4-Bowling. 5
Five. 6-King George I. 7
More. 8-Rope walker. 9 Vir
ginia. 10-Will Rogers.
WILL SWEEP STREETS
Singapore -flJPD- Mayor Ong
Eng Guan said today he will
lead city councillors and 1,500
white collar workers in "Ope
ration Big Sweep" Wednes
day. They will kick off the
mayor's anti-litter week by
sweeping the streets from 8
ajn. to noon. ,
Would Ease The Job
The sum of $22,500,
sounds like pretty good
average citizen.
This is the sum earned bv members of Con
gress. But it must be said that most of them earn
the money what they have left of it after all
the demands made upon them.
Sen. Richard L. Neubersrer of Oreeron. in
recent interview with
mond of the New York
interesting outline oi some oi inose aemanas.
FIRST of all, he says
generous. And he continues:
"Yet much of it is drained away by essential but
unreimbursed expenses of Congressional service. Some
months I pay as much as $350 out of my own pocket for
extra stationery and office supplies. I am forever buying
airmail stamps for my office because I, from distant Ore
gon, receive the same airmail Allowance as a Senator
from Maryland, a mere mashie shot away. My wife and
I have a weekly radio program on 26 Oregon stations.
They commendably donate the time, but cutting the
tapes costs us $30 a week. A visit to the national capital
is a rare treat for many families from Oregon, 3,000
miles away. Taking constituents to luncheon in the Sen
ate dining room costs us about $150 monthly, with anoth
er $100 for dinners in downtown Washington-an ex
pensive realm in which to eat.
"Other personal expenses sky-rocket with public
life. My office is constanly besieged for autographed
pictures, and we have invested some $330 this year in
photographs alone. The demands upon us for charity,
for gifts of my books to hospitals, to auctions and bazaars
for worthy causes are legion-and we try our best to
meet them.
"Not intending to become Washington expatriates,
Maurine and I maintain our roomy old house in Oregon
as well as an apartment in the capital. With 3,000 miles
between them, this means a car at each end of the line.
Even our modest 1953 Buick and 1954 six-cylinder Ford
cost a good deal to insure and operate. Only this year
has Congress provided more than one annual round-trip
between home town and capital, and no travel allow
ance is made for a member's family."
IN THESE terms, a Senator's salary doesn't
sound so impressive.
And it is the expenses and more important
than the personal ones,
which Senator Neubersrer
A political campaign
traveling, advertising,
appearances, costs thousands upon thousands of
dollars, even m a small
The temptation to campaigning members of
Congress more, the necessity to accept cam
paign donations, simply to put on effective cam
paigns, is irresistible. He
a campaign out of his
vanishes just taking care
erating expenses.
A NUMBER of differing attempts to solve this
dilemma have been
those by Senator Neuberger himself, who has
given considerable thought to the problem.
He has suggested that
allowances tor legitimate
one thing. And for another, he has suggested that
memoers oi uongress snould be subjected to the
same conf licts-of -interest
pointees m the executive
. And as to campaign
repeatedly suggested that funds be made avail
able for this purpose from public sources, to free
office seekers from depending on large, privately-
given funds, which always tend to place the pub
lic otlicial m a position of debt actual or psych
ological to an individual or group.
JHE senator concluded:
"The cost of democratic, representative self-government,
in a modern industrial nation of 175,000,000 peo
ple, makes reforms such as these essential if the public
is to retain confidence in the integrity of those who as
sume the public trust of which Jefferson spoke."
The pressures on public officials are fierce.
these days, and it is difficult for them to satisfy
all the demands, and still do the vastly imDortant
jobs to which they are elected.
We doubt that Senator Neubererer's proposals
would completely solve
appear that thev would
holder's human worries
ces, ease the burden of
his job but not now chargeable to "official" ex
pense, and ease the burden of conducting; a cam
paign without becoming
ed to an individual or group, who may, some day,
attempt to "cash in" on that obligation. E.A.
Ahhh-Choo!!
The first cold of fall
Is worst of them all, x
I swear it, I swear it, I swear it.
Your nose is all runny,
Your stomach feels funny,
Can't bear it, can't bear it, can't bear it.
Your chest is on fire,
More Kleenex acquire,'
Don't tear it, don't tear it, don't tear it.
The cough or the sneeze
Just add to the breeze;
Ensnare it! ensnare it! ensnare it!
Nothing is tasty,
Your skin is all pasty.
Beware it, beware it, beware it.
Oh autumn's first cold
Is a thing to behold.
Forswear it, f orswear it, f orswear it. E.A.
as an annual salary,
take-home pay, to the
Columnist Roscoe Drum-
Herald Tribune, gave an
he believes the salary is
But his expenses do. .
the political ones to
refers.
these days, what with
brochures and television
state like Oregon.
can't begin to finance
salary, which pretty well
of his personal and op
proposed, amoner them
congressmen's expense
costs be increased, for
rules which apply to ap
department.
expenses, the senator has
this problem. But it does
tend to ease the office
about his personal finan
expenses connected with
overwhelmingly obligat
Dennis the Menace
AN YOU SJT THERE 'TIL I
Cause mBIGGEffff M?tf.
Matter of Fact by
QUEMOY
Quemoy The cliffs of
Quemoy seem to be formed of
alternating layers of palest
pearl and
deepest coral.
Under the
bright early
sun, the em
battled beach
would be the
pride of any
sea resort. In
truth, the
jr. ed building on
the island, the hospital, was
built on the beach with the
idea of peace-time conversion
to a resort hotel.'
ine rule is that you run
across the beach from the old
C-46 transport to the shelter
ing caves in the cliffs. But this
time, there is no shelling
(The methodical Communists
seem to be accustomed to no
more than one arriving plane
daily; and they had done
their shelling, very thorough
ly ineed, for the plane that
arrived a little earlier). So the
runners slow to a fast walk
before the cliffs are reached
Behind the cliffs, there is a
moon landscape of bare and
eroded gullies and draws; and
here the battalions have dug
themselves and their guns and
all their weapons dumps and
living facilities right into the
cliffside.. Any enemy who
gained the grimly enfiladed
beaches would find a worse
hell awaiting him behind the
cliffs.
rpHE weapons carrier climbs
the gully-side, along a
sandy road that has been cut
down eight feet into the earth;
and at last it comes up onto
the center of the island.
Northwards is the tumble of
dark purplish stony hills,
where the Chinese high com
mand occupies a central re
doubt cut deep in living rock.
Southwards is Quemoy Town,
which must have been a pret
ty little place, full of its own
little local bustle and life, be
fore the unending shelling
marred the gracefully curved
tiled roofs, closed most of the
shops and all but emptied the
streets.
The Quemoy landscape is
doubly strange to those who
know China. On the one hand,
U.S. aid counterpart funds
have been used to plant in
numerable trees on Quemoy.
The graceful cedars, with
their long, dark, frond-like
needles, oddly transform this
morsel of Chinese country
side into an Italian country
side. And while this new fea
ture has been added, on the
other hand, an invariable fea
ture of every Chinese country
side has been subtracted by
the Communist artillery.
There are no peasants tilling
the little fields, behind the
tall windbreaks of , silver
plumed esparto grass.
WHEREVER you go on the
island, the shelling is a
background noise. Even on a
quiet day, it is always going
on, with one of Quemoy's
guns very occasionally bark
ing its answer to the heavy
crump of the enemy shells. It
must be pretty bad on the little-islands,
Erh Tan, Ta Tan,
and little Quemoy, which
have been the targets of half
the huge total of rounds fired
by the enemy.
But big Quemoy is as large
an island as Hong Kong. The
Communist artillerymen are
singularly inefficient. They
have been using air burst and
super - quick - fused shells,
which do very little damage
unless you happen to be in the
immediate neighborhood or
unless they hit a fairly fragile
structure like a Chinese peas
ant's house. So Quemoy looks
a bit pocked here and there,
but Quemoy does not look and
has not been really badly
hurt, even by more than 150,-
000 rounds of enemy fire. As
it is a big place, and the
chances of being in the imme
diate neighborhood of any in
coming round are trifling, the
SAY YOU CAN SETUP'
SBBV
Rowland Evans Jr.
slow crump-crump of enemy
shells almost ceases to be no
ticeable after a while (unless
you hear the shell-whistle,
which means that they are
aiming fairly close). . ,
OESIDES this slow crump
ing, the place has its
other characteristic sounds
and sights. There is the odd
sight, for instance,, of a school
of . small amphibious landing
craft, looking like a stranded
school of porpoises. They
wait in a sheltered gully to
lumber back across the beach
to swim to their mother LST.
It will come soon, and a new
school of supply-laden small
craft will repace these that
one sees.
There are the gun positions
every visitor is shown a
gun position with the 155s
Housed in all but impregnable
casemates. The seasoned, effi
cient gun crews, mostly main-
landers and getting older now,
have made their casemates al
most homelike in their long
spare time'. Little Capt. Peng,
commanding the battery,
talks wistfully of "my prov
ince," which he left some 17
years ago; and he talks proud
ly of his battery's success with
time on target fire against the
enemy guns, which he cannot
maintain as he ought to do,
because an iron ration of am
munition has to be conserved.
Then there are the villages,
like North and South Moun
tain, near the beach where
the invading. Communists lost
15,000 men in 1949. Poor oys
ter fishermen who also grow
millet and sweet potatoes live
here; but South Mountain also
has its big houses built by re
turning immigrants who made
money overseas. It cannot
have been a bad place before
the- shelling. Now however, it
takes a full five minutes to
find a single civilian inhabi
tant.
VOUNG Li Pien-chin, who
has lived here all his life,
explains that another member
of the Li clan was killed that
morning by a chance shell
that got him when he was
bringing in his horse. He
shows the way about the
place its great peculiarity is
the innumerable massive pig
pens, all granite, built before
the Quemoy reforestation.
Children seem to spring from
the ground to look at the for
eigners, but most of the vil
lagers are huddled in the
damp tunnel-shelters.
"Many will come out tomor
row, when they have forgot
ten today s death," says young
Li. "We have not lost, many,
but it is bad that we dare not
go out for oysters or work the
fields properly any more."
In this fashion, by conver
sations more or less casual,
and by visits more or less ar
ranged, one's impressions ac
cumulate. At length the visit
draws to its close, the moment
of the dawn takeoff for Taipei
arrives. And this time there is
shelling on the beach, but
nothing much to worry about.
And so one leaves with a
sense of the human reality of
this little, besieged, bravely
defended place that so many
people who are comfortably
distant from the human re
ality would like to treat as a
pawn on a chess board.
Copyright, 1958, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Sputnik Rocket Not
Visible in Oregon
Portland -IUPD- Mrs. Robert
L. Boardwell, co-captain of
the Oregon Moonwatch Team,
said Monday that for this
week the passages of Russia's
Sputnik rocket would not be
within the viewing period.
The rocket is expected to pass
over Oregon within the 90
minute period after sunset
sunrise, and skies at this time
are too light to permit view
ing, she said.
Mrs. Boardwell predicted
the condition would hold for
a week or 40 days.- - --
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clarification and condensation.
Letters submitted for publica
tion must not exceed 400 words.
Man vs. Bible
To the Editor: I have read
with great eagerness the let
ters relative to the local juve
n i 1 e delinquency problem,
and also your editorial.
The last letter printed,
dealt somewhat with delin
quency from a spiritual stand
point. We are living in a time
of corruption. The Bible says,
"Evil seducers shall wax
worse and worse." I have read
in the Mail Tribune accounts
of corruption in small local
politics up to almost the high
est position in the land. Law
nessness is prevalent at all
levels, not only amongst the
teen-agers, but in all walks of
life.
Society has one standard of
conduct, and the Bible anoth
er. These two are at disagree
ment one with the other. One
act may be legal, but does not
even maek it right. Let me il
lustrate: The court dissolves
a marriage and gives them
permission to remarry, but
Jesus said "What God hath
joined together let not man
put asunder." It also says "he
that marrieth her that is put
away committeth adultery,
and that an adulterer cannot
inherit the kingdom of God,
While there may be pros
and cons as to whom is to
blame for. juvenile delin
quency, there are a number
of contributing factors. Some
were printed recently in the
Mail Tribune. I feel the great
est factor is lack of Bible
teaching and acceptance of
God's way of life. As a text
book, the Bible has been re
moved from our schools. In it,
and it alone, lies the cure for
the sins of this life. The first
text book in the American
schools was the Bible. Our
founding fathers gave Ameri
ca the right beginning. We
have laid aside the wisdom of
God and have substituted for
it the wisdom of man. Where
as the Bible was the rule of
conduct, now it is man-made
philosophy.
We agree with Russia on
this one thing, if nothing else:
They do not have the Bible as
a text book in their schools;
neither do we.
We are reaping what we
have sown. The Bible says,
"Be not deceived, God is not
mocked, whatsoever a man
soweth that shall he also
reap." Also, "There is a way
that seemeth right unto a
man but the end thereof is
the way of death. Heaven and
earth shall pass away but my
words shall never pass away."
Put Bible Christianty in
government, in politics, in
business, in the teachings in
the churches, and in the
home. The result: Therefore
if any man be in Christ he is
a new creature; old things are
passed away; behold, all
things are become new.
Thomas White
Route 1, Box 344
Central Point
It's In The Book
To the Editor: In answer
to Mrs. Ragland's letter of
Sunday, Sept. 28, let me point
out that the registration "pub
licity" referred to should not
be attributed to that, but to
the cooperation of our local
news media in cpmplying with
ORS 247.011 (4). In discussing
mobile units, the material
portion of the controlling leg
islation is as follows:
"... In so far as practic
able, he (the registrar) shall
acquaint the public with the
location cf such place or mo
bile facility, and facilities av
ailable for registration and the
ease and convenience with
which registration may be ac
complished ..."
See you at the polls.
Jim Redden, Chairman,
Democratic Central
Committee
Buffalo and Elephants
To the Editor: Everytime I
go fishing I ; learn something
new. If you are too busy to
go buffalo hunting, you're too
busy. If you are too busy to
go fishing, you're lucky. I
thought Buffalo were extinct,
but they ain't. It's salmon
and steelhead. Buffalo are
coming back. I just saw seven
of them below Gold Rey dam.
Upon return home, I look
ed up the game laws on buf
falo. There ain't any, so I
looked in the encyclopedia.
In 1850 there were 20,000,000
buffalo in America, and you
were allowed 1,000 in your
possession at one time. With
out a Jeep, that's a darn good
day's hunting. In 1889 they
didn't run out of buffalo, they
ran out of ammunition. They
still had 541 left. That ain't
a half -day's hunting for one
good buffalo hunter, so the
government closed the barn
door.
In 1850 we had a buffalo
for every dollar national debt.
We ain't now. The Democrats
and the Republicans took
care of that. They shot three
hundred billion buffalo
through the ceiling. When the
Democrats ain't shootin' at the
Burmese Army Takeover Said
Surprise to Most Observers
United Press International
Southeast Asia Manager Robert
L'dick recenUy spent a week in
Rangoon, Burma, just prior to
the surprise army takeover
there. Udick, who is now in Ja
karta, reviews the Burmese situ
ation in the following dispatch.
By ROBERT UDICK
UPI Correspondent
Jakarta -(UPD-The Burmese
army takeover with Premier
U Nu's announced support
surprised many Burmese pol
iticians and foreign observ
ers. These sources earlier this
month were convinced the
army would not move unless
a post - election government
put Communists in cabinet po
sitions. The army earlier had an
nounced a position of strict
political neutrality-a position
which it still maintains, ac
cording to reports from Ran
goon. However, Burmese sources
made it clear that should U
Nu be forced to seek signifi
cant Communist coalition sup
port and as a result possibly
have to take Communists into
the cabinet, the army would
stage a coup.'
In Driver's Seat
If the army determined to
do that, there was no doubt
in any quarters the army
could take over whenever it
desired.
The army was virtually the
only organization in Burma
not severely weakened by
spontaneous splintering off of
factional groups. This splin
tering was daily taking its toll
in weakening both major fac
tions of the once all-powerful
Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom
League party (AFPFL).
The present pre-election po
litical strife was kicked off
when the AFPFL split into a
faction headed by U Nu and
a faction headed by former
Prime Minister U Ba-Swe and
U Kyan Myein.
It was clear to observers
Editorial
Comment
A TRIBUTE TO INSULIN
Thirty-six years ago Rus
sell Kohl, a New York fruit
farmer, looked forward to
only three more months of
life. His . body had wasted
away to only 95 pounds. He
was on a starvation diet of
690 calories a day. He had
diabetes.
And then in that summer
of 1922 he received a letter
from the Presbyterian hos
pital of New York City urg
ing him to come to the hos
pital to try a new treatment.
The letter ended, "Please do
not delay. You are one of the
privileged few."
The new treatment was in
sulin. By the end of the year
Mr. Kohl was released from
the hospital. In the interven
ing 36 years, he has received
over 40,000 injections. Last
week, at a healthy 66 years of
age, Mr. Kohl and his wife
revisited the hospital where
he was honored at a luncheon.
He was welcomed by Dr. Rob
ert Loueb, the only living
member of the team that in
troduced insulin to the hos
pital. Now, of course, further
medical research has made it
possible for insulin victims
to take medicine by mouth.
The "privileged few" have
grown to the multitudinous
many who owe their lives to
insulin and the group of Ca
nadian scients that developed
it.
The case of Russell Kohl is
not only a tribute to insulin,
but it offers a dim but real
ray of hope to those who suf
fer from diseases which, like
insulin in 1921, are consid
ered to be incurable.-Oregon
Statesman, Salem.
HE JOINED THEM
Los Angeles -01PD- If you
can't beat 'em, join 'em. Last
month Ross Puckett lost a
well-publicized campaign to
save one of his mother's rent
al m-oDerties from becoming
part of the Golden State Free
way. Now, Puckett has a new
job-in the Highway Depart
ment's eviction section.
ceiling, the Republicans are.
We should have kept the buf
falo and shot the Democrats
and the Republicans. Just the
other day the Republicans
shot the ceiling through the
roof. While they were doing
that, the Democrats were tak
ing their coffee break in the
Maine woods. Hunting ele
phants. They had darn good
hunting too. For the first time
in history, they got more
Democrats in Maine than they
got elephants. When the ele
phant hunters return, watch
your ceilings.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland
(Sassy?
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that the situation was deterio
rating into a multi-party
wrangle which could possibly
lead to the same instability
and coalition difficulties that
plagued the French National
assembly.
Delay in Elections
The army was believed
chiefly concerned in that such
a lack of stability would be
beneficial to Communist ma
neuvers and lead to a com
plete deterioration of Bur
ma's economy.
Another factor thought like
ly to have affected the move
Washington Report
By William S. Whit
POLICY CHALLENGE
Washington The na"sty
dilemma of the United States
in the Formosa Strait has pre
sented a high
opportunity to
the Democrats
to provide c're
a t i v e assist-
ance to tne
President,
The most
powerful o f
them are
aware of this.
wuiiam s. white And, it may
be predicted, when Congress
returns in January our China
policy will come under a con
structive review intended to
find a way forward rather
than to catch scapegoats.
The central problem is to
develop a policy, in our re
lations with the Nationalist
regime of Chiang Kai-shek
and with the Chinese Commu
nists, that will:
Unite the people of the
United States, who seem deep
ly divided and deeply con
fused. Draw our Western allies
Britain in particular far
closer to us in Asia.
Reduce that part of our
commitment to Chiang that
is merely sentimental.
Strengthen both our de
termination and our ability,
however, not ever to see For
mosa fall to the Communists.
fFHE real need, in short, is
to prepare what we have
never yet had a strictly
rational approach based upon
practical American and West
ern interests. But, as though
all this were not quite enough,
many complex and passionate
barriers must be broken down
before we can even make a
start.
First of all, it must be rec
ognized that never on a for
eign issue have we had the
emotionally empurpled public
and private partisanship that
so long has cursed us over
China. The right-wing Repub
licans years ago made bitter
attempts to prove that the
Regulus Tested on
Sea To Shore Shot
Brunswick, Maine-UPD-The
Navy has fired a Regulus I
guided missile in a bull's eye
accurate sea to shore shot.
The 30-foot missile was
launched Monday from the
cruiser Macon, about 50 miles
off Boston. The missile made
a perfect landing in a 100
foot circular target at the
Brunswick Naval Air Station
here.
Five jet airplanes guided
the Regulus on its 150-mile
journey. The missile landed
on its retractable landing
gear.
Regulus I has a top speed of
738 miles an hour and a range
of about 500 miles.
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which put army commander
in chief Gen. Ne Win at the
control of government was
the apparent desire of most
politicians to delay the elec
tions well past the supposed
November deadline.
Postponement of the elec
tions by several months would
presumably allow some sort
of knitting together of the
AFPFL factions into a bloc
which might have a chance
of forming a fairly stable gov
ernment not dependent upon
any Communist parliamen
tary support.
Democratic administrations of
Messrs. Roosevelt and Tru
man deliberately turned
mainland Ohina over to the
Communists.
This was the silliest of par
tisan melodrama. Nationalist
China was lost by Nationalist
China, and by nobody else
and all that is water over the
dam, anyhow.
But incalculable harm was
done. For the irrational vio
lence of those who love
Chiang far too much has been
matched by the almost hys
terical vehemence of those
who hate and scorn him be
yond all reason.
The all-out Chiang people
are really arguing that he
ought to be permitted to in
volve us in major war, if only
for his own purposes. The
all-out Chiang antagonists in
substance are really contend
ing that because Chiang him
self is an ally of doubtful
value we should just give up
the whole show to the Com
munists. TT SEEMS not unreasonable
to suggest that the truth
lies somewhere in between
and maybe even about as fol
lows. 1. Chiang himself is certain
ly not so useful an ally 'as,
say, the British in any case,
and we must not do anything
in his aid that will leave us
naked and alone in the West
ern alliance.
2. Formosa, all the same,
is truly vital to Western se
curity, just as the President
and Secretary of State Dulles
have been saying over, and
over. , '
3. Just as it was irresponsi
ble to destroy public confi
dence in the old Democratic
civil and military leadership,
so it is irresponsible now to
do the same thing to the ctn
rent Republican leadership!
4. Because we simply can
not let Formosa go, we can
not afford publicly to throw
Chiang to the wolves. What
ever he is otherwise, he does
at present represent Formosa;
Formosa is power and pres
tige; this power and prestige
is indispensable to our Asian
allies from Manila to Seoul
in Korea to Tokyo.
5. Thus, in summary, we
must keep the position of
power Formosa without
mortally alienating our West
ern allies and in such a way
as not to destroy the position
of prestige with our Eastern
allies.
All this defines the emerg
ing challenge to the Demo
crats. No doubt it is a very
hard thing. But it will not be -impossible,
granted adult
magnanimity on both sides in
wiping the partisan slate
clean and in calm, sensible
planning for the future. What
is needed is to look at the
thing for what it is, a great
security problem, and not
merely as an opportunity
either to canonize or to smash
John Foster Dulles.
(Copyright 1958. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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