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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ot Thi
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27. 1949 (Saturday)
Bliss Heine's Juniors are
sponsoring the appearance
soon of Charlie Barnett's fa
mous band at the armory.
Harold H. Corliss, 938 South
Holly st., blames a fly and
a wasp in his car for dis
tracting him and causing an
accident.
2a YEARS AGO
Aug. 27. 1939 (Sunday)
Dr. Robert W. Sleeter an
nounces he will open an of
fice in the Fluhrer building
to practice here.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Great
has been the war talk all the
past week. Some got their
news from the papers, some
from the air, and some made
up their own, as they went
along. Thus, they were able
to report the peace treaty
was signed, before tha war
started."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27. 1929 (Tuesday)
Betty Jean Frey wins $5
for the best decorated doll
buggy.
. Central Point votes down a
school bus proposal in a spe
cial election. ,
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 27. 1919 (Wednesday)
The American Legion de
clares war on Bolshevisks in
Jackson county. .
City police warn children
not to run and yell during
band concerts in the park.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 27. 1909 (Friday)
A survey party sets out to
finish worR for the F. and E.
railroad.
Word is received the Modoc
orchard may be perpetuated
and not subdivided into small
tracts.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina at ten correct fs superior;
seven or eiyht is excellent; five ot
sis is good.
1. All U.S. Senate commit
tees have one more member
from the majority party than
from the minority party; true
or false?
2. If the wind is blowing
toward the north, which way
does the arrow of the weather
vane point?
3. What five States border
on the Gulf of Mexico?
4. What do oil men mean
by a "wildcat well"?
5. In bas-relief sculpture,
are the figures raised or sunk
en on the flat surface? '
What four letters of the
English alphabet look the
same forward, backward and
upside down? ;
7. What three duplicated
surnames are in the list of
Presidents of the U. S.?
8. On the Lincoln penny,
what kind of necktie is Abra
ham Lincoln wearing?
9. Name the river boundary
between the TJ. S. and Mexico.
10. The name of which
month of the year has the
most letters in it?
Answers: 1. Falsa. (Select
commiiees have an equal no.
of each). 2. South. 3. Texas,
La-, Miss., Ala., Fla. 4. One
in an area not known to be
productive. 5. Raised. 6. H,
L O, X. 7. Adams, Harrison,
Roosevelt. 8. Bow tie. 9. Rio
Grande. 10. September. 1
Morgan on Party Politics
Sometimes we think that Howard Morgan
was (and is) the most
Oregon politics in a long time.
It will be recalled that he was a member of
the House in 1949, and chairman of the Demo
cratic party during the crucial years of 1952 to
1956 the time of the party's renaissance. Later
he was public utilities commissioner under Gov.
Robert Holmes.
. Morgan has never minced words, never run
away from a fight, and never failed to state his
position with clarity and force.
IN POLITICS, where there are many mealy-
mouthed words, his vigor and bluntness come
like a sniff of ocean air.
Recently he addressed a meeting of the state
central committee of his party. It went largely
unnoticed in the daily press.
The quotations below are for the edification
of Republicans, Democrats and indepedents
alike. His talk was a criticism of his party and
a prescription for its health.
. e
QUOTE, in part:
". . . Prior to remedial measures taken in 1952, the
(Democratic) party was fatally burdened by crooks,
drunks, has-beens, never-wases and stumble-bums. Our
party was not taken seriously by the voters in those
days.. Too many of them knew that it served as an
auxiliary to the Republican party, drawing its finan
cial backing from moneyed Republicans, who thus
guaranteed themselves a docile adversary which could
be either defeated or managed . .' .
"My job as state chairman . . . consisted mainly,
then, of riding the bums out, recruiting first rate
candidates and giving the public competing points of
view to choose between. The merit of this approach
shows in the election results . . .
"The party is in danger ... of falling back into
its old ways because certain of its elected representa
tives in the Legislature are appeasing rather than
competing with the opposition ..."
MORGAN'S strongest criticisms were aimed at
Walter Pearson, president of the Senate, but
he also sniped at other unnamed members of the
legislature. Then he goes on:
"If people discover they're going to get conserva
tives no matter which party they support, they'll vote
for real conservatives Republicans rather than for
carbon-copy conservatives.
"The nature of politics is that it is a substitute for
war the use of persuasion in place of armed force.
The function of the opposing political sides is to
provide competition. People like a fight and they are
wise to do so, because lack of competition means
sloppy government at best and corrupt government
at worst ...
"The Republican party has been far more respon
sible to its philosophy and far more hard-working
since it got whipped a few times. Democrats might
have to learn this lesson the hard way, but they need .-'
not if they will get busy now ...
"There is only one reason to be a Democrat be
cause, our party is for the people. All other reasons
(memberships in good fellowship groups such as serv
ice clubs, acceptance in high society, accumulating of
business fortunes, etc.) impel people toward the Re
publican party. If our party fails in its historic obliga
tions to the people, there remains no reason why they
should support us . . ."
MORGAN then went on to offer his prescrip-
tion for the party, which sounded remark
ably like the program which he, as state chair
man, instituted and fought for.
It is, in many ways, a shame that he has now
retired from active politics to ranching.
Like him or dislike him, agree or not, it can
not be denied that he is one of the more colorful
and stimulating figures in Oregon's public life.
And 1962 isn't far away! E.A.
What About the Ditches?
Last Friday near Ashland, a little boy toddled
from his yard, tumbled down an embankment
into an irrigation ditch, and drowned.
The ditch was not fenced. Within Medford's
city limits, there are at least three miles of un
fenced irrigation ditches.
There are also numerous unfenced drainage
ditches, trickles in summer but potential torrents
in wet months. And there is Bear creek.
IN THE interests of 'public safety, the Medford
city council last month passed an ordinance
requiring that private swimming pools and fish
ponds be fenced or otherwise enclosed.
The ordinance was not, and could not be,
extended to require fencing of irrigation district
ditches. Nor do state regulations or other local
laws require such fencing.
But if the drowning of a little girl in a Eugene
swimming pool June 13 brought home one dan
ger, surely the drowning of the little boy near
Ashland brings home another.
.
TMANY of the irrigation and drainage ditches
1T1 within Medford's city limits run through
recently-annexed areas that are only now seeing
concentrated residential development.
As new houses spring up in these outlying
subdivisions, more and more children are going
to be playing or wandering near these ditches.
The chances of tragedy will greatly increase.
1 While the ppol-fencing ordinance was before
the city council, we questioned it on several
counts. We believed, and we still believe, that
swimming pool safeguards should be a moral re
sponsibility of those who own the pools, rather
than an expensive legal obligation.
DUT if nothing is to be done about the city's
" other water hazards, this ordinance becomes
both a double blow to the pool owners and a half
service to the public.
t It is now the turn, and the moral responsi
bility at least, of irrigation district officials and
owners of property crossed or bounded by drain
age ditches to consider positive steps.
What about the ditches? E.W.
refreshing thing to hit
Dennis the Menace
...THE 01HER S0HAO ONE
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More Clarification
To the Editor: We should
briefly reply to a letter from
Mrs. Beulah Dusenberry con
cerning a family that she said
was refused aid by The Sal
vation Army.
After talking with Mrs.
Dusenberry, we understand
she personally had not talked
with this family to find out
if we had or had not helped
them. Thus, her information
was not complete in respect
to aid they had received.
Our records indicate that
this family has received aid
from The Salvation Army as
far back as Dec. 2, 1958. This
included meals and lodgings
at our Shelter, some. 60 ar
ticles of clothing from our
clothing department, a Christ
mas basket and grocery order.
Also, they were referred to
the welfare commission for
transportation back to their
legal residence of St. Louis,
Mo. (which they refused).
Due to insufficient funds
we were unable to offer help
to this family for the full
year for them to establish
legal residence in Oregon, nor
are we in a position to pay
doctor fees or hospital ex
penses. As a private agency our
funds are limited, but, it can
not be said that all aid was
refused this family of eight.
We welcome any inquiry
concerning any family - that
is in need as we keep com
plete records as to the aid
that is given. By calling SP
3-7335, we would share this
information with those in
terested. Thank you for helping us
to make this information
available to those who may
have wondered about this
situation after reading Mrs.
Dusenberry's letter.
Captain Wm. Ricken,
Commanding Officer,
Salvation Army,
Medford.
Strange Values
To the Editor: Perhaps
there has already been too
much publicly written about
the lady whose desperate sit
uation Mrs. Dusenberry de
scribed in Tuesday's Tribune.
It does, however, seem unfair
to let yesterday's (Wednes
day) summary of the case by
a Red Cross worker pass with
out a brief comment.
I have seen the woman, I
have talked to her and she is,
I hope, my friend.
Doesn't it take some special
brand of raw courage to hold
together a family of six little
children to feed, clothe and
love them dearly when there
is no income of any kind ex
cept from the generosity of a
few neighbors? Doesn't it take
a little resourcefulness when
one is eight months pregnant,
without electricity because the
bill wasn't paid and no food
is in the house, to keep hope
fully planning a future? Isn't
there anything special at all
about a woman who can make
one bed and one blanket do
for five children and still
thank the human race for the
bed and the blanket?
It is true as stated that she
was offered a ticket to Mis
souri some months ago before
all aid to her was cut off. But
other things are also true. Had
she made the trip with her
six little children it would
have been on the very general
unspecified assurance that
"somebody back there would
look "after them," it would
have left behind 2000 miles
the husband and father they
love, and it would have, she
sincerely believes, risked the
life of her unborn child. May
be she should have gone. I'm
not prepared to judge.
Much has been said about
various agencies and what
should have been dona or
wga, weU pay for tub conn,
OUT Or YXR SAPOEJ .. . "
shouldn't have been done, but
vindictiveness can only be de
structive and there is a more
important thing to consider.
Namely, her future.
We live in a world charac
terized by some strange sets
of values, but let us hope that
here in our Centennial year
we wiU be remembered for
the covered wagon trek from
Missouri to Oregon and not
as the people who used the
weapon of starvation to force
an innocent woman to make
the return trip.
Good people live in this
valley. Some have come forth
to help this woman who are
hard pressed for means of
their own. Others, unfortun
ately, seem to forget just what
it is the Bible says composes
the kingdom of Heaven. But
practically all who have met
her think she is a very gal
lant lady ... and we hope
she stays.
Jane Gillaspie
636 West Fourth st.
Medford.
Medford Praised
.To the Editor: I wish to con
gratulate Medford on its fine
parks and attractive business
district street trees.
During a recent drive
through Medford I noted the
clever use of a motor scooter
to haul quick coupler sprink
lers to speed up the work of
irrigating large park areas. I
noticed how organizations con
tribute gifts to Medford parks.
It was very much in evi
dence that Medford is pro
gressive and has real com
munity pride.
Merritt A. Nelson,
Director, Redding
Recreation and Parks
Redding, Calif.
What About "Exchanges"?
To the Editor: Your editor
ial, Mail Tribune, Aug. 25,
1959.
About Senator McCarthy
we feel a need' to be brief.
You, as a newspaper man,
have aligned yourself with
that group which has poured
upon the people of this coun
try a flood of material con
demning McCarthy, the MAN.
But for nine years the idea of
infiltration of our govern
ment of subversive individu
als, whose sole purpose is the
complete destruction of our
American Way of Govern
ment, has been avoided. For
now, suffice it to say there
exists a wealth of evidence
to prove the stand taken by
Senator McCarthy. We, as ra
tional brings must at least
investigate both sides of the
case.
Again briefly, for now,
your criticism of American
Mercury, and McCarthy, has
been conspicuous in the ab
sence of one word. And that
word is truth. Why?
Now, then,, some words
about your comments on athe
istic communism. Your . rea
sons for declaring commu
nism dangerous must remain
wholly inadequate because
"manpower, submarines, new
land-based weapons, H-bombs
and the missiles to deliver
them," are only some of the
means used by the Soviets.
Except for H-bombs and the
missiles to deliver them, the
other means were used in part
to conquer most of the back
ward nations, and it is be
cause of the fact, as you say,
Americans are made of "stern
er stuff," that the Soviets
have had to employ other,
new means. They are trying
to gain control of men's
minds. May we point out here
that Russian communism is
more dangerous if we contin
ue to choose to be ignorant
of it in all its false ramifica
tions.
And now, in regards to your
'Foul Balls' in Uniform Constitute One
Of America's Big Problems Overseas
Tokyo-tCPD-TJ-S. Servicemen
stationed overseas perform a
vital duty for their country.
But sometimes they can be
America's worst ambassadors.
In most countries, particu
larly in Asia, there is little
quarrel on the higher level
over stationing of troops in
a nation, either as "defense"
forces or as a military ad
visory group training that na
tion's troops.
Most responsible leaders
recognize the service these
U.S. troops perform and the
reason for it.
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
EN ROUTE TO VIENTIENE
Washington - These words
are written amid the bustle
and confusion of homely
' I things that al
ways rise, in
any house
hold, when a
long journey
has to be pre
pared. This
reporter is off
to Laos, to
have a look
at the new
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aggression there.
Since this country has been
fed so long on patented, government-issued
tranquilizers,
the trouble in Laos has as yet
caused hardly a ripple. Maybe
the aggression will soon be
repelled, although it seems
more likely that the key city
of Sam Neua will soon turn
into another Dien Bien Phu.
In any case, what one will see
in Laos probably wUl not be
dramatic, if only because look
ing for jungle-fighting in those
particular jungles is usuaUy
far worse than searching a
haystack for a needle.
Nonetheless, just as a symp
tom, this trouble in Laos is
really dramatically serious. It
is bad enough as a symptom of
what the future may hold in
store in Asia. It is very much
worse a symptom of the ill-
concealed contempt for the
strength and will of the Unit
ed states and its President that
is plainly felt by the Presi
dent's prospective guest, Nik
ita S. Khrushchev.
rD prove this shocking point,
a comparison offered in a
previous report may perhaps
be repeated. In brief, when
Khrushchev first wanted a
meeting with President Eisen
hower, in 1955, he willingly
paid for the meeting with the
liberation of Austria and the
restoration of normal rela
tions with Yugoslavia. This
time, threats to Berlin have
got Khrushchev what he has
always wanted most of all-an
invitation to meet along with
the President, with no bother
some allies at the table. And
this time, the invitation to
meet was hardly extended by
Eisenhower, when the Com
munist attack on Laos was
launched with Khrushchev's
blessing.
What, then, is the explana
tion of this enormous and om
inous change in the manners
and methods of our enemy? In
part, perhaps, the explanation
lies in Khrushchev's consoli
dation of his personal power.
Yet even in 1955, he needed
very great personal power, in
order to persuade Vyacheslav
Molotov and the other Stalin
ists to agree to the ostenta
tiously "peaceful" Austrian
and Yugoslav gambits.
Nine-tenths of the explana
tion of the change in Khrush
chev must therefore lie else
where. It lies, beyond doubt,
in the massive, unfavorable
shift in the East-West balance
of power that has occurred
since 1953. In the Kremlin,
the prevailing estimate of the
power-balance is always the
mainspring of policy. Nothing
less than a great change in
this Kremlin estimate can ex
plain the great change in
Khrushchev.
THE stark fact of the change
in the power balance is
almost unbelievable under
statement . . . "It (commu
nism) is dangerous in its
sometimes-successful attempts
to infiltrate and take over
other countries." Since the
end of World War II the total
number of human beings liv
ing under the Soviet commu
nistic yoke of slavery has
swelled to nearly 900,000,000
souls. At this rate Mr. Allen,
they could soon own the
world (their avowed goal),
and they won't have to be
successful many more times
Robert J. Howard,
828 B, West 14th ;st.,
Medford.
INVESTMENT HEAD DIES
San Francisco-flJPD-Charles
R. Blyth, 76, head of the na
tionwide investment firm
bearing his name, died Wed
nesday night. Founded here
in 1914, the company now has
24 offices throughout the nation.
It is on the lower, person
nel level where the trouble
comes.
Let a U.S. serviceman get
in a drunken brawl, rob a
taxi, assault a woman or get
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
HALLECK'S AVAILABILITY
Washington - Charlie Hal-
leck's story is the Republi
can success story of this year
and
of
this
. y J session of
l Congress. It
has now also
become the
story of a
man openly in
search, 12
years later, of
a Republican
Vice P r e s i
dential nom
ination which until the bitter
end he had believed was his
in 1948.
IU would have been, as it
turned out, a poor prize then.
For 1948 was the year Harry
S. Truman confounded poll
sters, pundits and his the
oretically unbeatable oppon
ent, Thomas E. Dewey, and
House. The Dewey running
mate, chosen after Halleck
thought he had it in the bag,
was Earl Warren, now Chief
Justice of the United States.
Still it is a prize Halleck
now seeks for 1960, and in
the most unabashed way. He
has let it be known that he
would be happy to take
second place on the 1960 Re
publican ticket no matter who
hedHs it, Vice President Rich
ard Nixon or Gov. Nelson
Rockef eUer of New York. You
can't, as the politicians say,
eet more "available" than
that.
TEP.
CHARLES A. HAL
LECK is. the hard-nosed,
iron-fisted product of the
touch and exceedingly realis
tic politics of Indiana. He is
not one to deny his own vir
tues as a politician - which
in truth are very considerable,
Nor is he one to hang about
and unduly defer to others.
At the opening of this con
gress Halleck grew tired of
the heretofore unavoidable
waiting on the aged Rep
Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Mass
aehusetts to step down as
House GOP floor leader. So
HaUeck simply moved in. He
organized an anti-Martin re
bellion - a revolt in which
the avowed "neutrality" of
the White House amounted
to a pro-HaUeck position. And
he ousted "Old Joe"" who
went down fighting with a
daily drowned, in this coun
try, in floods of official soothing-syrup.
Less than a year
ago, the then-Secretary of the
Navy was happily denying
that there were any indica
tions of Soviet missile-launching
submarines. Now Adm.
Arleigh Burke has announced
that the Soviets are building
a serious force of these ves
sels. Our "Polaris" submarines,
Adm. Burke added, will of
cdurse surpass the Soviet sub
marines when we finally get
them-several years from now.
The admiral did not add that
the program that could have
given us extremely useful missile-launching
submarines now
was cancelled because of the
administration's budget mania.
But Khrushchev then glee
fuUy boasted with all the po
liteness of an oncoming house
guest, that the new Soviet un
derwater craft, which he has
now, would cover any target
in the United States from the
waters of Hudson's Bay.
By the same token, the
chairman of the joint chiefs of
staff, Gen. Nathan Twining,
was telling all and sundry
only a few months ago that
the Soviets probably did not
have a true intercontinental
ballistic missile, because no
Soviet ICBM had been tested
at fuU range. With his usual
hearty bluffness, Gen. Twin
ing brushed aside the scien
tists' warnings that the Sovi
ets were using special instru
mentation to test their ICBM's
over reduced ranges.
These recent ugly surprises
for the administration's pro
fessional (one might even say
careerist) optimists by no
means convey the true extent
of the shift in the world power
balance. It would take a book
to tell that story in full. It
is an ominous but not yet
quite fatal story-a story of
diminution of our striking
power and weakening of our
deterrent, balanced by Soviet
gains in the same crucial
areas.
Much can yet be done to
give this story a better end
ing than now seems likely.
But if Berlin and Laos mean
anything, they mean that the
needed action should not be
delayed for another year, or
another month, or even an
other day.
(c) 1959 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
William 8-
K'hlta
involved in any numerous
other scrapes with Asians and
the "Yankee go home" spirit
gets stronger.
Latest Incident
Latest incident of this type
S. WHITE
melancholy gallantry but with
far too little support from
colleagues who owed him
much.
This was a typically harsh,
candid Halleck thrust. But
even those who took no
pleasure in it are now bound
to admit it probably was a
good thing for the GOP, even
if a cruel thing to Martin.
Martin as a party leader was
faithful to his party, yes; but
more faithful to the House
as an institution. He could
rarely bring himself to be
lieve that victory over the
Democrats, on any and every
issue, was his highest reason
for being.
.
CHARLIE HALLECK has
never been troubled by
such philosophic hesitations.
Once he joined the group of
Republican C o n g r e ssional
leaders who meet weekly with
the President, it was plain
that something very new had
been added. Martin used to
go to the White House and
return to the Capitol in total
calm. Halleck goes down
breathing fire against the
Democrats and returns hurl
ing large chunks of brimstone
at their heads.
Beyond doubt he has put
partisan' steel into the spines
of the House Republicans. Be
yond much doubt, his example
of eager partisan combative
ness has often stiffened the
President himself. The wide
use of the Presidential veto
during the current session is
partly . attributable to Hal
leck's urgings. The recent Rfr
publican victory for a "tough'
labor bill in the House was
largely his victory.
While he has stirred both
the "downtown," or Admin
istration, Republicans and
those at the Capitol, he has
also moved partly to nullify
the large House Democratic
majority. -This he has ac
complished by a series of
coalitions with Old Guard
Southern Democrats. These
have gone along with Charlie
on several issues spending
and labor among them and
Charlie may be expected to
do them no great harm oh
issues like civil rights.
1ITHEN HaUeck was put into
" the leadership by bump
ing Martin it was widely said
among his backers that he
would be "more liberal" than
"Old Joe," who is 74. This,
as the saying goes, was a
laugh, indeed.
For Charlie himself, at 58,
is scarcely a very young Re
publican - this short, heavy,
compact, lined-faced Midwest-
erner. At heart he is a stncUy
Old Guard Republican who
is willing to bend a bit when
party necessity demands a
more liberal stance.
He is not, therefore, more
"forward-looking" than Mar
tin; .he is simply a brilliant,
if somewhat cynical, combat
leader in a party which has
few of such as these. This
quality, if he gains the Vice
Presidential nomination,
would be his real contribution
to the GOP ticket.
(Copyright, 1959, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD SNODGRASS, FUNERAURCTOtS
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came in Japan where a U.S.
Air Force officer was accused
of entering a house while
drunk and raping a 32-year-old
housemaid. '
This was an incident' that
a certain segment of the press
relishes. r - i
Whether the officer did or
did 'not rape the woman and .
whether he wUl even be for
mally charged was beside the
point. - :
To millions of Japanese.
the officer is guilty. News
papers have already quoted
the alleged victim as calling
him a "beast" whom' she
could never forgive.
The result-a drop in U.S.
prestige.-
Numerous Shootings Occur
in Korea, hardly a week
goes by without a report of
the shooting of a Korean by
American troops. Most' of
these have developed from at
tempted thefts by Koreans at
U.S. installations.
But even thoueh thefts
have been involved, there has
been criticism of trigger-happy
U.S. servicemen for shoot
ing first and thinking after
wards. If a man is fleeing, whv
shoot? And if the guard has
to shoot, why shoot to kill, is
the Asian view.
In the Philippines there is
a current controversv over
the alleged "murder" of Fili
pinos who were shot and kill
ed when they attempted to
escape after being caught pU
fering at the U.S. Clark Air
Force Base.
The pilferers actuallv were
shot by Filipino guards hired
by the Air Force. But this
fact is glossed over v Arnr.
ica's critics who blame the
Air Force.
Spends Billions Aiding '
The United States has spent
billions of , dollars in Asia
since the end of World War
II in an attempt to better
the life of the area's people.
But one irresponsible act
by one serviceman can5 de
stroy the benefits that thou
sands of others worked for.
One basic trouble is that
too many youthful servicemen
still retain the "gook" com
plex that once was prevalent
among U.S. servicemen , in
Asia.
Too many servicemen,
many too young to have
fought in World War. II or
in the Korean War, look down
on the people in the nation
to which they are posted.
A Classic Example
.A classic example of 'the
service man who seriously
damaged relations between
his country and the people
of an Asian nation was Wil
liam S. Girard, the soldier
who shot and killed a Japa
nese woman" on a U.S. firing
range.
This one action' brought
Japanese opinion of America
to one of its lowest points
since World War n.
It is the Communists who
greet such incidents ,with
glee.
Communist China's New
China News Agency, in. its
broadcasts ' beamed to Asian
points, takes great delight in
giving its listeners reports,
usually slanted, about the
Americans in Japan, Oki
nawa, Formosa or the Philip
pines. They are usually ac
companied by another de
mand for U.S. troops to f get
out of Asia.
Asians say that the U.S.
government, like most Ameri
cans, wants to be liked and
to be respected and perhaps
works too hard at it.
But it's a difficult ' desire
to achieve with foul balls in
uniforms walking around.
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It's tchats
leti'id our name
that makes
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