4' Fri4y, January , 1
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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and
40 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
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. . -
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Menace
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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