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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 5, 1949 (Tuesday)
Fireworks are blamed for
four local fires during the holi
day. Asa I. Arnsberg, new owner
of the Medford hotel, an
nounces redecorating plans.
20 TEARS AGO
July 5, 1939 (Wednesday)
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
stops at Medford on a solo
flight northward.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A na
tive democrat was r u n n i n g
around this morning, dressed
up like he was going to fly
back to Washington, D. C. and
whisper in the presidential
ear."
30 YEARS AGO
July 3, 1929 (Friday)
Peeping Toms climbed trees
along the Applegate to steal a
glance at fair bathers, the
sheriff reports.
Medford plans to iron out
Fir st.'s hump at the railroad
crossing, and save pears.
40 YEARS AGO 1
July 5, 1919 (Saturday)
An editorial urges station
ing state police along Pacific
highway to curb speeders.
Striking girl operators pic
ket the local telephone office.
50 YEARS AGO
July 5. 1909 (Monday)
The city council considers
purchase of a potential court
house site in Medford.
Talent area residents con
sider constructing a high
school.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five ot
six is good.
1. Independence Day com
memorates the end of the
Revolutionary war; true or
false?
2. In which year did the
observance of Independence
Day begin?
3. In what town did "the
shot heard round the world"
occur? ;
4. "Resolved that these unit
ed colonies are, and. of right
ought to be, free and inde
pendent states . ." are the
first words of the motion lead
ing to the Declaration of In
dependence; who said them?
5. What is inscribed on the
Tablet held in the left hand
of the Statue of Liberty?
8. Were the Whigs or Tories
in favor of American Inde
pendence? 7. In what city did the Con
tinental Congress convene?
8. Where according to the
Declaration of Independence,
do governments secure their
power? '
9. What city did Washing
ton capture when he crossed
the Delaware on Christmas
night, 1776?
io. wnat Datue was me
. ... A .
turning point of the Revolu-,
tionary War?
Answers: I. False. 2. 1777.
3. Lexington. 4. Richard Hen
ry Lee. (Virginia delegate to
Continental Congress). 5. July
4. 1776. 6. Whigs. 7. Philadel
phia. Pa. 8. ". . . itom the con
cord of the governed." 9. Trea
ton. 10. Saratoga. i
Opportunity
A few years ago, the
-
ber of Commerce sponsored a series . oi com
munity clinics," at which residents of the county
were invited to voice their-constructive criticisms
and suggestions as to what the community needs.
Many of these were incorporated into the
program of the chamber, which worked for their
achievement. Many of them have been done, by
one or another agency, and with the active sup
port of the chamber.
The series of "clinics" served as a shot in
the arm to the chamber organization, and gave
its members, and even non-members, a feeling
of identification with it. It was good for both
the county and the chamber.
. .
THE area has grown since then, and new prob
4 lems and new challenges face us.
A program under the title of "Keep Pace
With Tomorrow" is now being sponsored by the
chamber, a project in some ways comparable
to the successful community clinics.
We hope it will do as much good as did the
clinic project, for the chamber has not kept pace
with the growth of the city and the area in
general. As population has increased, so have
demands on the local units of government, and
on the chamber itself.
But the chamber has about the same number
of members, and about the same size of budget,
as it did several years ago. Without help, it can
not do all the things people want it to do.
THE chamber is, after all, an organization of
people. And for any such organization to
work, its members niust participate. No manager,
no president, no board of directors can accom
plish anything unless they have the support and
understanding of the members.
And the members cannot expect their desires
and wishes to be carried out unless they make
them known to their elected representatives.
Starting tomorrow morning, a series of seven
one-hour meetings will be held at the Jackson
hotel for the various divisions of chamber mem
bership, at which it is hoped members will voice
their "opinions as to what the community needs,
and what the chamber can do about it.
Naturally, it is hoped this also will stimulate
a revived interest in the chamber's work, and
the increased membership, and budget, which
is necessary for the chamber to have if it is to
be effective.
SOME 900 people, leaders in their own trades
If a majority of them attend, hear the pro
josals the chamber officials have outlined, and
et their own views be known, the results cannot
Dut be good. .
It is only in the give-and-take of such meet
ings, in the open discussion of problems of pro
gress, and m the frank determination what should
be done about them, as well as the willingness
to take part in' the job, that things can be ac
complished. E.A.
Music
Last Sunday evening, while listening raptly
to the Portland Symphony Orchestra in its ex
cellent concert here, we got to wondering just
what it- is about music that can hold people in a
spell, and influence them so strongly.
Music is, to put it crudely, nothing but or
ganized noise.
But since time immemorial it has had the
power to affect them in a dozen different ways,
and in a dozen different moods.
WE THOUGHT at the time that this puzzle
might make a subject for a few paragraphs
of comment. But Aaron Copland, the distin
guished American musician and composer, beat
us to it in the current issue of the Saturday EveT
ning Post.
He devotes a couple of thousand words to
how music affects people, and the different ways
it does so, on different levels. But he confesses
that neither he nor anyone else has yet been
able to explain the "why" or the "how" of the
musical' effect on humans. ;
How does this organized noise (or, if you
prefer a politer word, sound) do this? We don't
know.
WHATEVER the why and how, the effect
" that music does have appears to be height
ened by familiarity with (up to a point), and
knowledge of, music. This, too, is the case with
the other arts.
But practically everyone responds to the per
suasive beat of a brass band. Most people do to
the rythms of a dance band. Popular and semi
classical music have many ardent advocates.
And even the so-called "classical" or "serious"
music is gaining an ever-increasing number of
devotees.
Today, with electronic assistance, more peo
ple than ever bef ore have ready access to the
world's greatest music at a price everyone can
afford.
We can, it seems, pass up any worry about
the how and the why of musical appreciation.
ana simmy agree witn
1 1 (I
. . . .
xue varieties oi musical pleasure mat await the
attentive listener are broadly inclusive. The art of
music, without specific subject matter and little spe
cific meaning, is nonetheless a balm for the human
spirit; not a refuge or escape from the realities of
existence, but a haven wherein one makes contact
with the essence of human experience. It is an in
exhaustible font from which all of us can be replen
ished." v
E.A.
Jackson County Cham
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Dennis the
Hi,Mr.Mlscn.' Got a match?
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
SOVIETS IN NEW YORK
In his speech at the open
ing of the Soviet exposition
in New York, Mr. Nixon
spoke about
Soviet - Amer
ican relations
briefly but
pointedly and
with much
good sense
-Both countries
have gone to
a lot of trou
ble a n d ex-
Walter
Lippmann
p e n s e - the
Russians at the coliseum in
New York, we in the coming
fair in a Moscow park -to
show each other our most at
tractive faces. Yet we are
deeply at odds not only about
the future of Germany but
also about the future of Asia,
of Africa, and in some meas
ure, of Latin America. This
is not the result only, said
the Vice President, of "a lack
of understanding" which can
be cured by more contact,
more cultural exchanges,
more trade.
There are no doubt misun
derstandings which are based
on fear or false information.
But the root of the trouble is
not misunderstanding. On the
contrary it is the understand
ing that "there are basic con
flicts of interest and deeply
clashing ideologies that are
not easily removed. The
prime example here is Ger
many, where each side deems
is its own . interest o bring
the whole of Germany with-,
in the orbit of its own mili
tary and political system. '
But overriding these con
flicts of interest, there is, as
Mr. Nixon pointed out, a rec
ognition on both sides of "the
folly of allowing them to de
velop into a conflict which
would result in the destruc
tion of our civilization." We
have to co-exist with our con
flicts of interest unsettled be
cause, the balance of power
being what it is, there is no
way of achieving a victory
which could settle them by
war. Therefore, as Mr. Nixon
pu t it, "We increased ex
change and contact between
our two peoples so that our
differences can be discussed
in the . best possible climate
of understanding."
A CLIMATE of understand
V ing would not be possi
ble if there did not exist a
profound military stalemate.
This stalemate could conceiv
ably be dissolved if this coun
try did what the Soviet Union
wiU certainly not do if it
ceased to keep even in the
race of armaments. But
thanks to those who have
been ringing the alarm bell,
the fact is that this country
will keep the balance even.
Within this stalemate and
in part because of this stale
mate, the paramount fact in
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
AN IMPECCABLY attired Londoner sought to purchase an
expensive and exclusive automobile. "My dear fellow,"
expostulated the dealer, "we've been allotted only two of this
model all year, and there - ,
are already 174 orders on
our books ahead of yours.
"Too bad," murmured the
Londoner, seemingly not too
dismayed by the tidings. As
he exited he ostentatiously
tossed a hefty bundle of
ten-pound notes into the
trash basket. The very next
morning the precise model
he was seeking turned up in
some' mysterious fashion,
and was delivered to him.
A few days later, the
dealer, very agitated, called
him on the phone. "Those
ten-pound notes!" he groaned. "Every one of them has proved
to be a counterfeit!
"Of course," agreed the Londoner blandly. That's why I
threw them in the trash basket"
- -".
Herb Stein noted this sign on the windshield of a snaB foreign
apecta cart "Fleas kelp stamp out US. 6ags."
Menace
Lippmann
the world situation is that
not only in Russia and the
Umted States and Canada
but aU over Europe both East
and West, and in all the other
continents a period of swift
and fascinating and all-ab
sorbing industrial and tech
nological change has begun
There is no important power
capable of waging a big war
which does not see its best
future in its own internal de
velopment. The post-war era
with its ruins and its desper:
ation is over, and the world
has come into an age, in some
ways like the second half of
the 19th century, when there
have opened up visjtas of
great progress in the rise of
the popula'r standard of life
What, the Russians are say
ing ; by - their exposition in
New York is that their own
internal development is their
paramount interest. If this
is true, as it appears to be,
how is it to be reconciled
with the idea, which undoubt
edly prevails also, that Com
munism is on the way
towards world supremacy?
CJINCE 1917 there has been
a phansp in t.hf Commu
nistic doctrine. The original
idea was that the workers of
the world would follow the
Russian lead and would rise
up "in a world revolution
They tfid not do that. This
was followed by the idea that
the Communist realm would
expand by the entry of the
Red Army into adjacent coun
tries which had been . sub
verted by local and imported
Communist agents. This idea,
though not abandoned en
tirely, has been largely frus
trated by the Western policy
of containment.
The current idea is that the
example of the spectacular
development of the Soviet
Union will be contagious in
the backward countries of
Asia and Africa. For the
present day Communists are
able to say that Russia has
proved by its example what
a backward country can do
and how it can do it quickly;
the United States, on the
other hand, though it is an in
dustrial ' and technological
marvel, is not an example
which a crowded and back
ward country can follow,
Therefore, in the peaceable
competition, the Soviet Un
ion win gain influence ' and
the West wiU lose influence.
This is the inner nature of
the Soviet challenge, and the
sooner the professional anti
Communists among us under
stand it, the better it win be,
For when we understand the
real challenge, which in the
perspective of history is enor
mous, we shall be asking our
selves some very searching
questions about whether we
are paying enough attention
to our own internal develop
ment.
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Box Cars
To the Editor: Every year
for 10 years we've appointed
a new committee to study box
cars. They came up with
some startling information
this year. We are using box
cars to store surplus wheat
in, so they concluded there
ain't no use puttin' wheels
under box cars which ain't
going no place.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Wordkrafters
To the Editor: This Is to
the business people and those
who are working to bring
people into our valley during
this centennial year. I wonder
how many of you know that
there is a national contest
club and that it is meeting in
Portland next month! Or that
there is a State Contest Club
hat meets in Portland every
year! Or that there is a local
contest club that meets every
month!
Of , course our local has
quite a struggle to keep going
partly because some of our
local merchants do not under
stand what they are missing
when they refuse to bother
with blanks for the contests
that are put on by many large
companies.
Did you know that right
here in Medford quite a lot
of money as well as nice
prizes have been won through
contests of various kinds? A
few years ago a lady won $10,.
000 and I'm sure she spent
much of it right here in Med
ford. Just last year a family
won several thousand dollars
worth oi goods and some
money on another national,
and they are still here and
interested in contesting. Many
members of our Wordkraf ters
have won radios, washing
machines, electric or gas
ranges, freezers, refrigera
tors, TV sets, and wrist
watches.
The local dealers who give
out contest blanks are to be
congratulated for their co
operation and help, but I say
"Shame on those who hide
the blanks and tell us they
never heard of the contests."
As to the National Contest-
ers who wUl meet in Portland
the first week in August, they
wUl be coming from all over
the U.S. It would be wonder
ful if our valley could be represented-
Some of us know
from - past participation that
it wUl be really something if
we in Oregon do our duty. A
few years ago some of us went
to a National Convention n
HoUywood and there was
never a dull moment. Some
kind of contest was under
way whenever business and
speeches were not in session
and for each contest prizes
were given (they had been do
nated by people all over the
country). There were more
than 400 people at the ban
quet
All of this is leading up to
our big question. Are any of
our good business people will
ing to donate something for
that big affair? It could be a
picture, a dish, candy, fruit,
table decorations, or good ad
vertising matter of any kind.
We would have to know soon
in order to contact our state
chairman very soon. You may
caU SP 2-9102 or SP 3-4376
and let us know if you wish to
join us in doing our part.
Mrs. Mane E. Dizney,
President of Wordkrafters
6 Corning Court
Medford.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Hazards of modern life
note: r
Two young brothers were
electrocuted as they tinkered
with the aerial of their TV
set in the basement of their
home in Blen Burnie, Mary
land, the other day. Police
theorized that they ignored
or failed to notice a printed
warning that the set should
be unplugged before the
aerial was handled.
The authorities said a damp
concrete floor and .steel
frames of nearby beds appar
ently acted as conductors of
the fatal current.
Fi OLKLAHOMA CITY, a
seven-year-old boy w a
found dead m an electric
dryer at a self-service laun
dry. Piecing together the evi
dence, including a wish the
child had expressed several
days before, it was speculated
that he had climbed into the
dryer because he wanted to
ride In the drum.
ADD to these the tragic
number of children who
have perished as a result of
locking themselves into aban
doned refrigerator that ap
pealed to their childish minds
Matter of Fact By Joseph AIsop
ADOLPH KHRUSHCHEV
w ashington - The inner
circle of the American Gov
ernment has been shaken and
alarmed by a
"Hitler - like"
interview giv
to W. AvdreU
Harriman by
Nikita S.
Khrushchev.
The crude
threats that
the Soviet
leader indulg-
loftph Aisop ed m, the bru
tal tone and the unprintable
language that he employed,
are considered to mark a new
phase in the world situation.
Khrushchev, in fact, seized
the opportunity of former
Gov. Harriman's visit on Tues
day of last week to say things
to the U.S. government that
be could not have said in any
other way. ,
The U.S. Ambassador to
Moscow, Lewellyn Thompson,
was not a possible channel,
according to government
sources here, since no accred
ited representative of the
United States could have per
mitted himself to hear Khrush
chev out to the end. As a pri
vate person, former Gov. Har
riman was under no obliga
tion to break off the conversa
tion. Beginning in Khrush
chev's Moscow office, . the
meeting was even prolonged
at the Soviet leader's country
viUa, where Anastas Nikoyan
and others joined the group.
VET THE fact that Khrush
chev was really speaking,
not to former Gov. Harriman,
but through him to President
Eisenhower, was made abun
dantly clear. At one point,
when the Soviet leader was
emphasizing his readiness to
use military force to get his
way at Berlin, he said to Har
riman, "You must teU your
President what I have said."
Harriman replied that he was
travelling as a private per
son, with no right to receive
messages for the President.
"Well, then,'.' said Khrush
chev, "I win teU him."
But in fact the former Gov
ernor did exactly as Khrush
chev desired, immediately
sending an account of all that
Khrushchev said through the
Moscow Embassy to Washing
ton. He requested that this
account be closely held for
the time being, apparently be
cause he is under contract to
publish Jiis own story of his
trip to Russia. Meanwhile,
however, the impact was
sharp here. Grave concern
spread" from gfoUp to group.
Consequently it is now possi
ble to describe at least the
purport of this Harriman-
Khrushchev meeting, which is
bemg compared to Lord Hali
fax's famous meetings with
Hitler and Goering in the time
e
before Munich.
THE decidedly misleading
first reports of the Khrush
chev's "inflexibility," gave
pride of place to Khrushchev's
alleged desire to improve re
lations" with the United
States. As is his habit, Khrush
chev mingled a good deal of
sweet talk about the charming
possibilities of peaceful co-ex
istence with the hectoring and
the menaces. But Khrushchev
also indicated only too plain
ly that the first step towards
improved Soviet-American re
lations would have to take the
form of a series of sweeping
concessions to his viewpoint
and wishes.
The Berlin problem was the
most immediately crucial in
the wide range of problems
discussed: and the line
Khrushchev took on Berlin
was typical of the whole. On
the one hand, Khrushchev ad
mitted the existence of cer
tain limitations on Western
powers so they could not ac
cept any arrangement that
would mean the installation
of a Communist regime in
West Germany, or even in
West Berlin. He denied desir
ing this result.
IN THE other hand, so it is
V
stated, he was eauaUy in-
as fascinating playhouses and
the equaUy tragic deaths of
those who have pulled plastic
bags over their heads in play
ful simulation ' of space hel
mets. This thought occurs:
Is this modern world fan
tasticaUy dangerous?
Especially for children?
iNE wonders.
Reading these heartrending
stories, which are a tragic
part of this gadget world in
which we live, it is natural
that the thought should come
to us that this complicated
modern age holds more haz
ards for children than any
preceding age.
But history tells us this al
ways has been a dangerous
world. There were the saber
tooth tigers, for example, that
lurked in the shadows beyond
the protecting light of the
fires that burned before the
cave doors of our prehistoric
ancestors. If a child wandered
into these shadows, it was
pretty likely to be gobbled up.
ipHIS question is pertinent:
Vv1
sistent that he had made his
rock-bottom offer on Berlin.
This rock-bottom offer, he de
clared, was the Soviet plan to
make Berlin a "free city,"
with a Western presence in
the form of reduced garrisons,
but with aU control of the
right of access in the hands of
the Kremlin's East German
puppets. The. Berlin negotia
tions, he insisted, must be' re
sumed on the basis of this
offer. Otherwise, he said with
great emphasis, he would have
to carry out his threat to con
front the Western powers with
an accomplished fact, by sign
ing a peace treaty with East
Germany.
More important still, he
backed up the political threat
with the crudest sort of mili
tary threat. In strong lan
guage, he warned that the So
viet Union would give imme
diate military support to the
East Germans, if the Western
powers attempted to assert
their established right of ac
cess to West Berlin after a
peace treaty had acknowl
edged the territorial serenity,
of the East German govern
ment. FONE WAY or another and
in one ' place or another,
either Khrushchev himself or
the Soviet government has
said these things before. Most
notably, Khrushchev talked
of using force to sustain the
alleged serenity of East Ger
many at the very outset of
the Berlin crisis last Novem
ber. This was the speech
which caused the State De
partment to assert that
"Khrushchev had got himself
out on a limb," and to argue
that a "face-saving arrange
ment" was needed at Berlin,
to permit the Soviet leader to
retreat from this supposed
limb with reasonable dignity.
, But even with respect to
Berlin, there were two major
and ominous novelties in the
Khrushchev - Harriman inter
view. In the first place, it
proved to the hilt what the
Geneva conference had al
ready hinted - that Khrush
chev has no desire at all to get
off this supposed limb; and
that, in reality, he does not
regard himself as bemg out on
a limb about Berlin. And in
the second place, the inter
view was no mere speech, pos
sibly intended as propaganda,
but a personal discussion with
a highly placed American,
iraniciy intended to be re
peated to the American Presi
dent. At no time in the past,
has Khrushchev talked in this
manner to any American, in
cluding the American report
ers he has received.
FOR these reasons, the Inter
view has been compared at
the State Department to the
Khrushchev message to Presi
dent Eisenhower, sent , last
September at the height of
the Quemoy crisis, which the
White House found too offen
sively threatening and coldly
returned it to the Soviet Em
bassy. On that occasion,
Khrushchev wrote that "to
touch off a war against Peo
ples' China means to doom to
certain death sons of the Am
erican people and to start the
conflagration of a world war.
On that occasion, too, the
crisis subsided in the end
without an American retreat
or a world conflagration. But
today, the interview that can
not be returned is causing
more concern than was caused
by the returned note.
Besides Berlin, the inter
view covered many topics,
some of them even cheerful
topics, and touched on many
other grave problems, includ
ing the Far Eastern problem
Reasonably detailed outlines
of what was said about these
other problems are not as yet
available. But the main theme
that ran through the whole
discussion, including the dis
cussion of the Berlin problem,
can be reported on good au
thority.
The need to "face facts," as
Khrushchev likes to put it,
was the main theme. The cen
tral "fact" to be faced, in
turn, was the great change in
the world balance of military
power. This point Khrushchev
apparently stressed in an ex
treme manner, brandishing
his missiles, fondling his H-
bombs and generally flexing
the Soviet Union's military
muscles and claiming their in
vincible superiority. It was
mainly this aspect of the in
terview which has caused it
to be called "Hitler-like" in
official circles.
THE interview was further
marked, according to re
liable reports, by Khrush
chev's violent and unrestrain
ed attacks on certain Western
policies and personalities. In
these passages, Khrushchev
used the language that is de
scribed as unprintable by
those who should know. Final
ly, former Gov. Harriman was
Why didn't ALL the chil
dren f aU victim to these dang
ers? THE answer, I think, is sim
nle. The children were TAUGHT
how to avoid these dangers.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
' Contributors)
There are several boys in
town who ran afoul of the
ancient (but hardly admira
ble) tradition of hazing not
long ago.
If our teen age sources of
information are correct, the
boys were ninth graders, who
next year will be sophomores
at Medford High school. The
villains in the piece are high
schoolers, who, banned by
school regulations from the
bullying tactics of traditional
initiations, have to conduct
such activities in the summer
time.. Anyway, we hear the older
boys set upon the younger
ones, and shaved their heads,
right down to the skin. A
couple of the "initiates" also
had their heads painted. One
of them, in fact, is now re
ferred to as "Chrome Dome."
And all, we understand, are
now wearing close-fitting caps.
This, we suppose, comes un
der the category of "good,
clean fun."
e e e
Overheard, small girl to
teen ager the admires: "I
like you better than I like
me."
This office receives a con
stant supply of promotional
material from television and
radio networks, movie studios,
and other parties at interest,
each of them designed to wan:
gle a "plug" in the paper for
some forthcoming movie, or
TV or radio show.
Some of these are ingenious,
others are plain silly, and
most of them are mighty un-
interesting.
One of them which arrived
last week intrigued us, how
ever. It was a jig-saw puzzle
(yes, we "bit" and took the
time to fit it together) that
when completed showed a
see n'e from a forthcoming
film.
I wonder what the publicity
department of the studio ex
pects" to gain by this rather
expensive procedure - expen
sive when one considers that
the mailing probably went to
most of the 1,700 or so daily
papers in the country.
We got a telephone call
last week from a mend
who saw the Oregon Jour
nal's headline over the story
about the Haxfields' new ba
by. He said it really meant
that the governor became a
grandfather, rather than a
father. It iaid:."First Arriv .
al for Hatfields Daughter."
And it WOULD have meant
that, had one little apostro
phe been in the line. Who
says punctuation, isn't im
portant e e e
And speaking of headlines,
our friend from Phoenix
makes his reappearance this
week.
He clipped and mailed us
an M-T line which said "Curry
Grand Jury To Study Shoot
ing," and commented: "Craps?
Traps? Archery? Or just
shooting the breeze?"
One of our young men
dug up an item from a 1859
issue of the Oregon Argus, -copied
it, and laid it approv
ingly on our desk. It saidt :
"'Fellow ciliiensl said a
North Carolina candidate, 'I
am a Democrat and was
never anything else. There
are three topics that now
agitate the state: the United
States Bank, the tarrif, and
the penitentiary. I shall pass
over the first two very
briefly, as my sentiments
are well known, and come
to the penitentiary, where I
shall dwell for some rime!' "
A friend of this column.
eyeing askance some of the
Centennial sartorial oddities,
comments as follows:
Today when a beard I be
hold, It makes me pause and won
der: Is it a young man trying to
look old
Or an old man trying to look
younger?
See a lady in a poke bonnet
And a long Centennial
dress:
Grandmother or grand-'
daughter?
It's anybody's guess.
reportedly much impressed by
the extreme self-confidence,
amounting to downright arro
gance, that Khrushchev dis
played from start to finish.
One sign of this self-con
fidence, apparently, was the
air of good humor that seldom
left Khrushchev, even when
he was making his most ex
treme claims and uttering his
crudest threats. In short, so it
is said, "this interview was
not Hitler-like because there
wasn't any screaming or froth
ing at the mouth; it was Hitler-like
because of the hard
substance o f Khrushchev's
words."
(c) 1959, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.