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4' Fri4y, January , 1 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MedfordWTribune "Everyone in Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ." ROBERT W RUHL, Editor PXRB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. IRIC W. ALLEN JB, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor ' OLIVE ST ARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mom. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4-25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. " TU Chai( Cmim Pnml Riv r. Talent and on motor routes. . ' Daily and sunaay l year io u Daily and SuriCcy 1 mo. 1.5C . r Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All lerms asn in aminre Official Paper of City of Medford Official Papar of Jackson Comity United Press International Full Leasea wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: ovcruaiiiK i. v ........ . WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago, De- ....... Cbm ltVonmuw Tt Anffelet. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver ba,. . (P NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASfebcSTie C7 O Z 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 Jan. S. 1949 (Sunday) : Two Ashland officials de posed by Mayor Tom Williams are reinstated -Dy me ciijr council. " " Dr. Charles Lemery is elect ed president of the medical staff of Community hospital. JO YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 1939 (Monday) Jackson county returns to the bounty system in an ef fort to decimate the local coyote population. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Law yers gathered at the court house the 1st of the'wjeek. They talked about being pars dversa, but didn't act like it." , 1 " SO YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 1929 (Wednesday) A drive is launched against Oregon vehicles with Cali- . fornia licenses. Bay Coleman is named justice of the peace in Jack lonville. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 1919 (Thursday) The state highway commis lion declines to make per - manent improvements for Pa cific highway over the Siski yous. Warm winds and rain break the cold spell. What's Yourl.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six Is good. . ' ' 1. A race in which teen-age boys and girls contest as driv ers of their home-built ve hicles, is called what? 2. Under which two Presi dents did "William H. Seward serve as Secretary of State? , 3. Of what race was Go liath? 4. What statue surmounts the dome of the United States . ; Capitol building in Washing- " ion? " " , 5. Two Presidents of the United States were West Point graduates; name them. , . 9. Who tried to fetch water In a sieve? 7. When the kingdom' of : Italy was established, what v-eity was its capital? 8. Between which two ; States does Lake Champlain : lie? 9. Name the theater where most of Shakespeare's plays were presented during his life time. . .... ' 10. The Sneaker of the U.S Bouse of Representatives this year is Joe. Martin; true or false? ... Answers: 1. Soap Box Derby; 2. Lincoln and John son; 3. Philistine; 4. Slalue of Freedom: 5. Ulysses S Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower; 8. Simple Simon: 7. Florence; 8. New York and Vermont; 9 Globe Theater; 10. False. " LIGHTNING HITS BUS AveDino, Italy-(UPD-A trol ley bus with 50 passengers , was set on fire by a lightning -holt Thursday night. A fire- : man who happened to be pass ing by seized a fire exun euisher from a gasoline sta tion and nut out the fire. Four persons received minor burns' and bruises. Tour de One of the most amazing: journalistic tours de force in recent years New York Times during strike m New York City, the city's major papers. Some of the effects scribed here the other day. But one of the most interesting results of the strike was what the Times did about it. ' In an edition a few days after the strike the Times published a two-page "edition" for each day of the strike. THE Times, while it is not the largest U.S. daily, is a wealthy paper, and regarded as one of the most conscientious and complete in the world. So, rather than laying off its news and edi torial employees during the strike, it kept them on the job. Each day a "paper" was prepared, through all the processes right up to printing. Editorials were written, weather reported, pages Much of this news -content was broadcast over radio and television stations, but that was less the--Times' objective than to continue its long tradition as "the newspaper of record," which car ries "all the news that s fit to print." THEN, after the strike was over, these phantom 1 papers were boiled down, condensed, and the most important stories picked out for the two page "make-up" editions. The result was 34 pages t)f pure fascination. The news local, national and international was printed just as it would have been had the papers been published, in a condensed version. Each was dated as of the day it would have been printed had there been no strike. The stories were written in the "today" style familiar to newspaper readers. ) The result was eerie. Here were fresh, new stories, immediate and important, just printed, which had happened nearly a month before. Here was today s weather report chronicling long- 1 j ... i TT gone raimaii iigures ana temperatures, nere were editorials extolling the virtues of Christmas and New Year's printed fresh in the first week of January. pROBABLY no other paper in the free world could-have done what the Times did. It showed again that newspaper's sense of respon sibility, of dedication to what it feels is its role in recording history as it happens. It showed to what lengths and to what expense the Times is willing to go to fulfill that function. ,1 7, And it is another example of the enterprise which has made what calls the good, gray Times ' one of the great newspapers of the world. E.A. He Was. Consistent Gov. Holmes was consistent this week when he commuted the death Nunn to life imprisonment. Earlier in his term, which the death sentence repealer was defeated, he had commuted - the death sentences of two other convicted murderers, George Sack and James Norman Jensen. Had he allowed Nunn to die, there would have been a gross miscarriage of justice, for each of the Whatever may be term in office, it would be difficult to maintain that he has lacked courage, or high principle. " And whatever one's as a governor; one will have to grant his con sistency, and his adherance to his own Christian beliefs in commuting Nunn's sentence. E.A. Whose We're used to California trying to swipe Cra ter Lake away from Oregon. , But we're darned if we're going to let Klamath Falls swipe it away from Sure, Crater lake is we also acknowledge that closer, to the national park than is Medford. BUT that doesn't give Florence Jenkins, a mem ber of the staff of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, the right to the hill from the Kogue lhis statement is contained m a little piece she wrote for the Klamath paper the other day, commenting on an article in the Oregon Business Review, which in turn industry m the Rogue valley. (The latter article, incidentally, will be re printed in the Mail Tribune shortly.) ET'S not belabor the point Crater Lake Na " tional park belongs, not only to Medford AND Klamath Falls, but to the entire nation. But about this "over the hill" business, Flor ence, remember that park headquarters are lo cated in Medford during the winter, that Bound ary Springs in the park itself are the headwaters of the Rogue river, and that available statistics in dicate that more people enter or leave the park through the southwest (or Medford) gateway than through the southeast (or Klamath Falls) gateway. . .. But we'll not be chintzy, Flossy. You're wel come to visit our park any old time you want to. E.A. Force was accomplished by the the 17-day newspaper which closed down all of the strike were de stories covered, the laid out. Time magazine snidely sentence of Billy Junior before the election at three is equally guilty. said about Bob Holmes' views about his success Park? Medford. in Klamath county, and the Pelican city is a bit claim that it s "way over Kiver Valley." reported on the tourist Dennis the y0i UKE SPINACH. CARROTS Washington Report By WILLIAM STRAUSS AND THE BUDGET Washington-Behind a great deal of loudly dramatic-and undeniably important-maneu- vering over Senate filibus ter rules and iso on, the op- p o s ing forces are marshaling for the quiet, ireal, "gut" bat tle of the new Congress. This is the battle of the budget. It is dull, yes; but it is the pay off. President Eisenhower is represented as determined to hold Federal spending for the new fiscal year, which opens next July 1, to around $77,- 000,000,000. This is a figure of conservatism-and even of retrenchment. It reflects the President's sharp turn, late in his Administration, toward the old-fashioned rather than the liberal Republican view he used to lead. As is usually so in the bread-and-butter issues, the coming struggle is bipartisan rather than strictly between the two parties. The greatest single force on the President's side-if he goes through with his resolve to hold down Fed eral spending-will be the pow erful right-wing Virginia Dem ocrat, Sen. Harry Flood Byrd. Byrd has the great virtue of really meaning it when he clamors for economizing. rpHOSE who will contest with the President, on this, that or the other item of spending, are more numerous than those who will totally defend his budget. The anti budget group will include a probable majority of the Dem ocrats in. both Houses and practically all of the liberal or modern Republicans. But, though the higher- budget forces have more peo ple, the President and his backers have much more pow-er-if they will seize it and use it. Congress, by the Con stitution of course, puts on the taxes and controls the size of the appropriations. Nevertheless, any adminis tration, any time, can always refuse to spend, even if Con gress has made all provisions for spending. What is the out look, then? No firm answer can possibly be given at this stage, because the decisive factor will be simply the fac tor of Presidential determina tion and1 Presidential will to fight. INQUIRY, however, among all factions indicates this tentative answer; the Presi dent can hold the line on the budget if he really de fends it-and if business con ditions continue to be good. fry and William S. White -By BENNETT CERF- AN ENGLISH ' VISITOR Chamber of Commerce once before in his life fully been talked into buying a tract of real estate in Van couver itself. "I hope the deal worked out advantageously for you," . said one business leader with some trepida tion. "Have you any idea where the tract is located?" "I'm not complaining," smiled the Englishman.- "I believe you now call the tract Main Street" " . "Poise," declares Colonel Duffy, "is the ability to re main calm and at ease in a barber chair, with your mouth full of lather, while the porter gives your brand-new hat to another customer." i Deep to Alabama there's a motel that-calls itself "The Supreme Court" v. . - 0 19 by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kiaf Stature Syadjatta, Menace i AND LOIS OF GOOD. MILK' S. WHITE enough so that there is no imperative businessman - de mand for more government spending to boost the general economy. Meanwhile, the Eisenhower Cabinet is. significantly more conservative than It was in the last Congress. The Secre tary of the Treasury, Robert B. Anderson, an erstwhile "Eisenhower Democrat" from Texas who is now an unquali fied Republican, is under stood to be increasingly in a budget-balancing frame of mind. He may well become, for these purposes, another George M. Humphrey with a Southern accent. (Hum phrey, a traditional Ohio Re publican, was Mrl Eisenhow er's first-and extremely powerful-Secretary of the Treas ury.) Perhaps even more impor tantly, a true Herbert Hoover Republican, Lewis Strauss left the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission to become Secretary of Com merce. He succeeded Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts who, though certainly no burning liberal, was neither so able nor so determined an econo mizer as is Strauss. TNDEED, Strauss-an old and unapologetic associate of Mr. Hoover and the first absolutely- authentic "Hoover man" to enter the Eisenhower Administration at the ton- may become the determining factor in the whole affair. He has not come into the Cabinet merely to "get along." He is quite rich enough not to have to keep any job. And he has a passionate belief in fiscal solidity-however out dated many may believe this concept to be. In short, his influence will be cast, always and without a tremor, toward holding the line. It would be an odd irony if this old Hoover admirer this trusted friend of the late Senator Robert A. Taft, Mr. Eisenhower's great rival for the 1952 Presidential nomination-should more nearly than any other personify the Eisen hower Administration in this, its last phase. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Tribunal Overrules Local English Vicar St. Albans, England-(DPD-A Church of England tribunal Thursday overruled the local vicar and authorized Mrs. Dith.Bandee to erect a bird bath as a memorial over her brother's grave. The consistory court action reversed a ruling by the Rev. Gavin Cooper who refused her permission to set up the memorial and said she should put up a cross instead. Stop Me to Vancouver confessed to the he had been in Western Canada forty years ago and had, in fact, Retiring Public Utilities Commissioner Discusses S.P. Rail Freiqht Dispute (Editor's note: The follow ing discussion of the back ground of the recent reduc tion put into effect by South ern Pacific railroad on freight rates from this area into southern California and Ari zona was written by Howard Morgan, who Monday will complete his tenure as public utilities commissioner for Or egon. It is part of a letter ad dressed to the editor of the Grants" Pass Courier in reply to criticism of Morgan's office in connection with the freight rate case.) By HOWARD MORGAN Beginning after World War II the Southern Pacific rail road, in company with all oth- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstance! the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. She Gets Frustrated To the Editor: While your paper is very informative and I enjoy it very much, I do have one complaint to make. Every night when I read the paper I get so darn frustrated! I always read the quotes from the news and the captions un der the pictures and usually there is something there which catches my interest. I search frantically through the paper for a long time try ing to find the story, which I usually don't. I realize that you are not always at fault, or that sometimes you cannot obtain the story. However, it would be par ticularly helpful if you could include the page number of the story with the picture or quote, when you have it. Nancy Jane Duncan Age 14 1500 Terrace dr. Medford. Thanks for Blood . To the Editor: I am writing to express my sincere appre ciation to the many friends from Jackson, Klamath and Lake counties who have do nated blood for me during the past few months. Many have given at the lo cal Red Cross blood bank, 16 giving Dec. 17, and others who have donated at the Vet erans hospital in Portland. To all of you I say, thank you. Haskell O. Holt Veterans Administration Hospital Sam Jackson Park Portland 7, Ore. From Ex-County Clerk To the Editor: Political de feat and death have one dis tinction in common; i.e., they are both so final. Thank you for my "percentage" of the postmortem eulogy in the editorial column of Jan. 7. This I would like to convey to you and the people of Jack son county. Of course, there are heartaches, a little heart break; many frustrations, countless disappoin t m e n t s; there is much disillusion. One discovers that in politics as it is practiced, one never quite realizes that he has yet to completely plumb the depth of "man's inhumanity to man," or the utter "small- ness" that infests some of the human race. But the complicated prob lem of local government, its weaknesses, its inequities; the demands of "the people" and subsequent cost, will not be solved by the shrugging of the shoulder with an excusing "that's politics." It has been a rare privilege, for which I am profoundly grateful, to have had the op portunity to take over a pub lic office and do what so often in past years I declared I'd "do if I were in that office." In spite of misinformation "floated" by the uninformed, and antagonistic opposition displayed by a reactionary few, I was able to carry to a satisfactory culmina tion a well-balanced program of re organization and moderniza tion. I know that what I accom plished was worthwhile and of lasting benefit to my coun ty. I also know, and can prove, that this good has been achieved at a minimum cost to assure a continuing maximum saving to the county, regard less of who occupies the clerk's position. To you, the editor of one of the three Jackson county pa pers that supported me; to your courteous and intelli gently sympathetic reporters; and to my many friends in both political parties, thanks very much! Bereth P. Hopkins Citizen - Taxpayer VESSEL PRESUMED LOST Kingston, Jamaica-flJPD-The 40-ton motor vessel Summer Rose and its five Jamaica crewmen are 12 days overdue on a voyage here from Grand Cayman island and are pre sumed lost, port authorities said today. er railroads, requested a se ries of freight rate increases from the Interstate Commerce Commission which in the in tervening period have now to taled something like 125 per cent increase above the im mediate post war level. These rates were granted by the I.C.C. on a permissive and not a mandatory basis. This means the railroads were freeto apply the in creases or to withhold the in creases depending on the rail roads estimate of the competi tive situation. Thus, for exam ple, the railroads adjacent to the Columbia river withheld all such increases on west bound grain and eastbound petroleum products because of the competition of barge lines operating on the river. The Southern Pacific, how ever,, saw fit in its wisdom to apply all of the rate increases on lumber out of southern Oregon into the southwest territory. It thereupon re quested the California Public Utilities Commission to in crease California intrastate rates between the northern California lumber districts and the housing markets in the vicinity of San Francisco bay and Los Angeles. Increase Refused The California Public Util ities Commission refused to grant these increases for the obvious reason that it wished to give northern California lumber producers an advan tage over southern Oregon producers, thus giving the California economy an added shot in the arm by keeping lumber prosperity confined within the state. Now no one can blame the Southern Pacific for stum bling into a situation of this kind the first time it happen ed. But the first instance of this kind should have been and was a warning to the Editorial Comment IT HAS BEEN FREE OF SCANDAL When Robert D. Holmes was elected governor of Oregon in 1957 he was the first Dem ocrat to be chosen for the office since the election of Gen. Charles Martin in 1932. As the conclusion of Gov. Holmes' service draws near it is interesting to consider what he accomplished as against the goals he set for his administration. Between the time of his election and taking of office, Mr. Holmes told us, "I'm go ing into this with my eyes wide open. . Both the Demo cratic party and I will be on trial. Over many years the Democrats have critized Re publican administrations in ths state. Now we have, at last, been given an opportun ity to put into action what we've been preaching. I know that if I stub my toe any place along the way the Republican editorial pages of this state are going to crucify me. I am determined that there will be no scandal in my administra tion." ' Two years later, a review of the Holmes administration shows that editorial page criticism of the governor has been limited to what the press considered errors of judg ment. In some cases the criti cism was justified. In others it was prompted by politics and had little justification. But, most important of all, there has not been an iota of scandal in state government under the Holmes administra tion. We cannot avoid comparing that record with some stories that are coming out of the state of Washington. Under the administration of Albert Rosellini the state purchasing department is under investiga tion following discoveries by a newspaper staff of some serious irregularities. And in recent days another news paper has indicated that it is about, to "blow the lid off" some irregularities in state iiquor commission operations. What a contrast this is with the fine record of the Oregon Liquor Commission, all. of whose members were appoint ed by Gov. Holmes. Gov. Holmes is guilty of some arrors in judgment, as were all. of his predecessors. But he and those he appoint ed to administrative positions have been as clean as a hounds tooth. To those who answer, "Well, why shouldn't it be that way? Shouldn't we expect that of the people we elect and those they ap point?" we suggest that they consider the scandals that have been discovered In many state governments in recent ears and some that have oc curred in federal government under an administration that was pledged to be "as clean as a hounds tooth." Gov. Holmes isn't likely to get much credit from the Ore gon press for this record. But he will we hope, have con siderable personal satisfaction from it. Pendleton East-Ore gonian. railroad of what it could ex pect in any similar situations occurring in the future. In spite of this the railroad pro ceeded to apply every in crease granted by the I.C.C. in the face of repeated re fusal of the California Public Utilities Commission to grant a corresponding intrastate rate increase. The upshot was the creation of a disparity be t w e e n northern California producers and southern Ore gon producers, to the painful disadvantage of the latter, amounting to about $90 or $100 per carload of lumber. Producers 'Trampled' The net results were that (1) many Oregon lumber pro ducers were trampled half to death by the Southern Pacif ic's shortsighted program of rate increases , and (2) the Southern Pacific lost an enor mous tonnage of lumber traf fic to water carriers, privately-owned trucks, andfor-hire trucking outfits best describ ed as wild catters or gypsies. As a consequence of all this the Southern Pacific in early 1958 proposed an interstate rate reduction so drastic as to give strong indication that it was designed to trample the Southern Pacific's competi tion to death. There is abun dant evidence that this drastic reduction was intended not merely to recapture some of the traffic or to restore the parity which had previously existed, but was intended to eliminate all forms of compe tition in the movement of lum ber. This proposed rate was naturally opposed by north ern California lumber produc ers for purely selfish reasons and by both private and for hire truck operators and wa ter carriers for similar rea sons. Share Reservations It is interesting to note, however, that a good many JUST PLAIN DUMB Crooks, it has been our ob servation, are rarely "evil" in the sense that they are bad just for the sake of being bad. Most of them are just dumb, dumb like John Gilbert and Keith Wilkins. They are two prison trusties who walked away from their cushy farm jobs last week, kidnapped a Salem resident and then ter rorized 'a family near Seaside. And were they ever dumb! Wilkins term was two years: Gilbert's five. If they'd continued to be have, as they must have done for a while or they wouldn't have been sent to the prison farm, they would have earned their "good time." Thus, Wil kins' tern would have actual ly been 16 months, Gilbert's three years and four months. They might have been parol-ed-Wilkins after serving eight months, Gilbert after 20 months. Wilkins could have been jparoled as early as next April. Now, of course, they must serve their entire terms, with out a hope of parole and with out the good time bonus. They will serve inside the wall, not at the farm, and they will be "close custody" prisoners, af ter they are promoted to that estate from their temporary assignment to the prison "hole." At least a year will be added to their terms because of their jailbreak. And they face a kidnapping charge that could bottle them up for as long as 25 years. If their escape had been successful, and the odds were much against them, especially considering how dumb they must be, they'd have lived the lives of the hunted. Many times they would have regret ted that they hadn't finished their terms and been permit ted to return to the free life. But they were dumb, just plain dumb.-Eugene Register Guard. Newsmen Rescued From Kentucky Cave Whitley City, Ky. (UPD Searchers Thursday night res cued three newsmen who were lost for more than eight hours in a cave which one of them believes might be the biggest in the country. Sheriff Herman Hamlin of McCreary county said he and seven local residents found the three men at 11:10 p.m. (SCT) wandering aimlessly more than half a mile back in the cave. The extent of the cavern, known as "Eureka Cave," is not known. It is located about 17 miles - northwest of this southern Kentucky commu nity. The trio, John Fraim, news director of radio station WSAI, Cincinnati; Jim Jor dan, a free lance writer, and Jim Brown,, a professional photographer, were safe and sound except for a sprained ankle received by Brown in a fall. All are from Cincinnati. thoughtful lumbermen both on the coast and at interior points, shared the reserva tions of these competing car riers for one simple reason: There are a few businessmen who after more than a cen tury of transportation history are aware that when compe tition in the transport field has been obliterated they may look forward to the certainty of increased rates, and these thoughtful individuals are not so prone to bet their shirts that the short-run advantage of a rate designed to destroy competition will not turn into a long-run disadvantage to the shippers. The Interstate Commerce Commission failed, within the time legally at its disposal, to determine whether the pro posed reduction was in truth beneficial or destructive to Oregon shippers and only time will tell. The answer rests, like the responsibility for the entire situation in the first place, with .the policies of the Southern Pacific rail road. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JAN. S. 1880: Violent snow storm de stroys telegraph lines in southern and eastern Ore gon; sweeps into Portland, unroofing many houses, blowing down several. One man is killed and others in jured when the Bremen Hall saloon collapses. Prop erty damage is estimated at $75,000. JAN. 9, 1853: An unknown number en board the bark Vandalia, in bound from San Francisco, are lost at sea off the Co lumbia oar. The Grecian, last to see the doomed ship, standing in, supposes that the Vandalia has missed stays while beating in and is caught in the breaking surf. Several days later the hull is found on the beach near the mouth of the Co lumbia. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The congress that is as sembling in Washington faces a big problem. The problem is this: It is obvious that we shall have to spend a lot of money. How shall we get it? Shall we tax the people NOW? Or shall we BORROW it and add it to the debt and leave payment to future generations? The first way is the hard way. The second way is the easy way. The first way is theway of the statesman. The second way is the way of the politician. VirHAT will the congress do? " A good guess is that it will choose the easy way. A POINTED question: - Which way do YOU pre fer? Would you rather PAY IT NOW, in cash out of your pocket? Or would you rather put it on the cuff and leave it to your children to pay? YOUR opinion is important. If ENOUGH people in the United States took their pens in hand and wrote to their senators and their con gressmen URGING STRONG LY the raising by taxes, in stead of by borrowing, the money we shall have to spend to meet the cold war problems that face us, THE CONGRESS WOULD DO IT THAT WAY. In our country, public opin ion is tremendously effective. There is no better way to ex press public opinion than by SINCERE and thoughtful let ters from the people to their representatives in the con gress. MAYBE you're not SURE in your own mind. Paying now is hard. Paying later always seems easier. We're all pretty sure that times will be better in the future. How shall we know what is right? ABIT of advice: Take a look at France. For generations, France has been doing it the easy way. That string is about played out. The French are being told by no less a person than Gen eral De Gaulle, now PRESI DENT De Gaulle, that they must face AUSTERITY now or BANKRUPTCY a little later. WHY bring that up? Well, the only way we can judge the future is by the PAST. In France, the mistakes of the past are coming home to roost. i
