Medford mail tribune., December 18, 1958, Image 20

4A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ore., Thursday, December 18, 1958
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ON TRIAL Industrialist Bernard Goldfine enters the
Federal District Court in Boston, where he pleaded inno
cent to charges of criminal contempt for failing to sur
render business records to the Internal Revenue Serv
ice. His plea was heard by Judge Charles E. Wyzanski.
The Family Council
Editor's note: The Famll) Council consists ot a Judge, a psychiatrist,
three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writer!
Each article s a summary ot an actnal report. The Family Council does
not give advice; It merely reports on problems tnat nave oeen aeaii
wltn by responsible agencies ana counselor.
Elizabeth G. - My husband
and I are having a big con
troversy about what to tell
our children about certain
financial problems we are
now having.
Several months ago my
husband went into a rash
venture which now seems on
the verge of collapse. As I see
It now, unless some miracle
happens within the next few
months, we are going to lose
everything including our
home.
The children, who are 8,
10, 12, and 14, are used to
having the best of everything
and I think we'd better start
getting them accustomed to
the idea that they'll have to
do without a lot of things.
Even now, we should be econ
omizing much more than we
are. My husband thinks we
should say nothing unless we
have to. I would rather not
break it on them suddenly.
Michael G. Liz always
thinks in the blackest pos
sible terms. She has seen
doom twice before and yet
I've been able to pull myself
out of it. I may yet be able
to do the miraculous. Why
upset the children when it
may not be necessary?
I feel tnat a sense of se
curity is the most important
thing in the world to kids.
They should feel that their
Dad can take care of every
thing. They'll have enough of
their own troubles when they
grow up.
Another factor Liz doesn't
consider is what this thing
does to my morals. I realize
I've made a mess of this par
ticular venture. It doesn't do
me any good to let my chil
dren know that I am incom
petent. It won't make much
difference in the long run if
we spend more than we
should now.
The Council We agree
that a sense of security is a
very fine thing for children,
but we doubt whether lies
or evasions will help them
to get it. i
EDe "Gaulle's Emotional Side Dmagines
France dedicated To Exalted EDest any
Editor's Note: France electa Gen
Charles de Gaulle president on
Sunday with the greatest presiden.
tial powers in the history of the
French Republic. This is the first
of two dispatches by a veteran re
porter on French affairs providing
a cioseup study or De Gaulle as he
prepares to take lormai leadership.
By ARTHUR HIGBEE
Paris -TCPB- "All my life 1
have thought of France in
certain way. This is inspired
by sentiment as much as by
reason. The emotional side of
me tends to imagine France,
like the princess in the fairy
stories or the Madonna in the
frescoes, as dedicated to an
exalted and exceptional des
tiny."
So begins volume I of the
memoirs of Gen. Charles de
Gaulle. It continues, "instinc
tively I have the feeling that
providence has created her ei-
Children gain a sense of
security from learning that
tney ana tneir parents can
cope with events both good
and bad. it does tnem no
good to be told that "Dad can
take care of everything" and
then learn that this isn't the
case at all. It does them no
harm to know that Dad some
times makes errors and that
he could even be conquered
by superior forces. It is a fact
of life they should learn to
take in stride.
Children ought to know, in
general way, what their
family's circumstances are,
They don t need to worry
through every twist and turn
of the dial of fortune, but if
drastic changes are in the
offing it wouldn't hurt to let
them know. It is often bene
ficial and highly stimulating
to children to know that they
share their parents problems
adversity and can make
some contribution toward im
proving things.
We so feel, however, that
Elizabeth and Michael ought
to face their own problems in
a more mature manner before
presenting them to the chil
dren. Elizabeth's ways of see
ing things in "the blackest
possible terms" and Michael's
view of himself as "incom
petent" should not be trans
mitted to the children. These
are not facts but emotional
overtones. The children
should know only the facts
that there have been busi
ness problems and that they
may have to adjust to a come
down in their standard of liv
ing.
(Copyright 1958,
General Features Corp.)
ther for complete successes or
for exemplary misfortunes . . .
To my mind, France cannot
be France without greatness."
This is the testament of De
Gaulle. The testament' of a
man who has done deeds to
match his words.
A Lonely Prophet
It is a coincidence the
name Charles de Gaulle
means Charles of France, re
calling to his countrymen
Charlemagne, who unified
Europe a thousand years ago,
and Charles Martel, who
drove the Moors from French
soil.
It is a happenstance that
De Gaulle is tall in stature
and aloof in temperament in
a country where neither char
acteristic is especially com
mon. But it is De Gaulle's own
doing that he was wounded
three times in the First World
war before capture, from
which he tried to escape five
times; that he was the lonely
prophet of mobile, armored
warfare in the Maginot line
mesmerized France of the
1930s; that he was the only
French general and the only
member of the French cabinet
to refuse surrender in 1940;
that he is that rarest of states
men: one who voluntarily re
tired at the pinnacle of his
power and was called back
years later to rule again.
Of Norman Stock
Charles Andre Joseph Ma
rie de Gaulle was born Nov.
22, 1890, in the Flemish city
Lille. His family was of Nor
man stock.
His father was Henri de
Gaulle, a reserve officer. His
mother was the former Jean
ne Maillot, of a family with
a strong military tradition,
a strain of scots (Maccartan)
and Irish Fleming blood and
a tendency to grow tall.
Long-nosed, long - limbed
Charles de Gaulle entered the
French military academy of
St. Cyr in August, 1909. Giv
en his choice of regiments up
on graduation, he picked the
33rd infantry.
The commanding officer
was Colonel Philippe Petain,
later to lead his countrymen
to victory at the Battle of
Verdun in the First World
war and to preside over them
in disgrace as the chief of the
Vichy government in the sec
ond war.
"My first colonel - Petain-
showed me the meaning of
the gift and the art of com-
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ten.
In May, 1919, De Gaulle
married Yvonne Vendroux.
They had three children -Philippe,
now a lieutenant
commander in the French na
vy; Elizabeth, the wife of an
army officer, and Anne, who
died as a child.
In 1921 De Gaulle was a
graduate student at the Ecole
de Guerre, France's military
staff college.
At' that time the French
general staff was steeped in
the Maginot line concept of a
defensive war.
Toward the end of his stud
ies Captain De Gaulle, com
mander of the "Blue Army"
in maneuvers, put to the test
the spearhead-offensive tac
tics that he was beginning to
developed and routed the
"White Army" which was us
ing the tactics of massive de
fense. -
The victory started a fur
ious debate which raged all
the way up to the chief of
staff - Petain. The marshal
summoned De Gaulle, listen
ed to his arguments, and said,
"De Gaulle is right."
But he let the matter drop
there - perhaps the first offi
cial act of omission that led to
the defeat of France in 1940.
Goes To England
On May 15, 1940 - the day
after the German armies
knifed through the Maginot
Line and began rolling into
France - De Gaulle was given
command of the newly or
ganized 4th Armored Divi
sion. De ' Gaulle's division
launched the only successful
large - scale French counter
attack in that dismal cam
paign, at Abbeville, on May
28.
On June 6 De Gaulle was
summoned to Paris by the
new premier, Paul Reynaud,
to be.come undersecretary of
state for national defense. But
the battle of France was al
ready lost.
On June 17 Renaud re
signed and Petain was asked
to form a government: "That
meant certain capitulation.
My decision was taken at
once. I would leave as soon as
morning came."
The following day De
Gaulle flew from Bordeaux to
London in a British aircraft.
It would be four years before
he would win his way back to
France.
"I seemed to myself, alone
as I was and deprived of
everything, like a man on the
shore of an ocean, proposing
to swim across."
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