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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, Dec 3, 1959 5 r"v mmtmnuM Matter of Fact By Joseph Aliop ON SOCKS AND SELF PITY Washington To the return ing traveler, the voice of Lyndon Baines Johnson of uexas sounos 1 rem arkably '.'4 r e f r eshing Along with mi some things Jthat poll- V';;S ticians na- JT.- ' turally say in H V the Texas Sen- 1 1 : I ator said t iiphisop few things that badly need saying. In particular, he made the forecast (not necessarily opti mistic), that our agitated world is on the verge of "the century's most dynamic dec ade." He added the warning that "America must not' stop, just as the rest of the world is beginning to move." And he offered the excellent summation: "In the next decade, our capacity for leadership will be as vital as our capacity for arms. (But) we cannot lead by wringing our hands and biting our nails and agoniz ing over the decline of Ameri can character." After a good many weeks in the Far East, peering through the bamboo curtain at the riurrent agony of the hundreds of millions of Chinese peas ants, ' one really hankered to ear some one or other say exactly what Senator John son said. It was a very curi ous experience indeed, spend ing all day, every day, talk ing to the pitiful refugees and escapees from the Chinese country side, and then going back to the hotel to read the orgies of self doubt! and Self pity in the news from home. A MINOR academic four flusher was revealed as less than honest on a tele vision quiz show. Judging by the reaction, you might have supposed that all morals and all decency were dead in the United States. There was some decline in the vast gold hoard at Fort Knox. Juding by the reaction, you might have sup posed that the richest and most fortunate nation in his tory was tottering on the brink of total bankruptcy. And so it went. "When you have studied the present cruel enslavement of the most numerous race on earth, you cannot really be lieve in the hopeless immoral ity of kindly America. It is also 9 little hard to believe in the imminence of national bankruptcy, when you note that the combined family for tunes of two of the current Presidential aspirants amount to about half of the unpledged gold and dollar reserve of the British Empire. Yet the spectacle of en forced effort and enforced sacrifice in China had its les son, nevertheless. For exam ple, as one crude way of meas uring the sacrifice being de manded of the Chinese peas antry, I took the price on the Macao market of the average ration of food, cloth, and the like, for an able-bodied farm er in Kwangtung Province. The total cost, using "low- grade rice, which is all the farmers get, amounted to the equivalent of three American cents per day. CHINA'S townspeople, in dustrial workers, soldiers, -and other more privileged groups live better than the Kwangtung farmers. But con sider that figure of three cents a day. Remember that it is at least highly unlikely that the peasantry in other prov inces live much better than the peasants of Kwantung. For the 500 million toiling Uhin- ese peasants, then, you get an annual maintenance cost to the state not much above $3.5 to S7 billions. Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist state is spending 27,000,000,000 yuan a year on capital improvements. Accurate- conversion is impos sible, but this sum devoted to national investment is hardly less and probably m o r. than half the total apparent maintained costs of China's teeming peasantry,- Even if this Draconic investment pol icy leads to an explosion, as it may, this kind of national effort is a truly awe-inspiring phenomenon. For surely the real source of America's self pity and ' America's self doubt, is a dim but growing sense that we cannot compete in the modern world without somewhat greater efforts and sacrifices. Because of our rich heritage, we cap get by with far less effort and far less sacrifice than any other nation. But we cannot grow as we ought to grow, and defend ourselves as we ought to defend our selves, and maintain our eco nomic leadership and pur po litical leadership, too, without rather more effort and more sacrifice than we are making now. And the sooner we pull up our socks' in the indicated manner, the sooner the wails of self pity will cease. mm i 11 rJ Powder Room I RATUDOHM I Vi TISSUE ' kif ll ,m.n(t nnrl m roll aai 4 I (9 GOPFEE SWIMS mm sauce Iyy Hershey's Instant Jjj C p Serve it hot or cold. It's good anytime. A store's name is a mighty im portant thing . . . that's why we're so proud of the name Piggly Wig gly. 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