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In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS From Geneva: Western diplomats criticise the Communists for condemn ing the Western disarmament plan before giving it careful study. The plan calls for controlled scrapping of arms and armies and banning of military space satellites, nuclear rockets and OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION on a carefully supervised basis and built-in CONTROLS to make sure that everybody is living up to the agreement. Communist delegations ob jected to the controls. QUESTION No. 1: Is it possible to prevent the use of nuclear energy for military purposes - by "nu clear energy for military pur poses" meaning the use in war of atom and hydrogen bombs? gas hasn't been used to any extent since World War I. In every war since then, including World War II, every nation concerned has had PLENTY of poison gas on hand, including gases far more deadly than those used in the first world war. It hasn't been used. QUESTION No. 2: Can nuclear weapons of mass destruction be safely banned without built-in con trols and INSPECTION to make sure that everybody is living up to the agreement? The answer to that question Is a FLAT NO! T ET'S put it this way: Suppose you and your neighbor had been quarreling bitterly and threatening to shoot it out. Suppose you said to him: "Let's quit trying to destroy each other. LET'S THROW OUR GUNS AWAY." Suppose he said "OK." Sup pose you then said: "Sure, but we must have an INSPECTOR to make certain that the guns are thrown away." Suppose he objected. In that event, you would be EXTREMELY suspicious of him as you should be. Monday, March 21, 1960 A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. America, in Era of Soft Living Amidst Plenty, Appears To Be Heading for Fall 51 Editor's note: Has our abundant. comfort-filled way of life hit the top and started down? Will future historians write of our "decline and fall"? Or are there new paths to glory opening up to us, frontiers of greatness in the areas of living which count for most? We have succeeded in making a living. Can we now succeed in making a life? In this series. Howard Whitman, nationally prominent writer on hu man affairs, explores the new fron tiers for our time. BUT In order to get some where and do something to end the intolerable situation, suppose you agreed. Suppose you threw all YOUR guns away. SUPPOSE HE HID A GUN OUT ON YOU. ERE would you be then? You know where you'd be. You'd soon be under the sod and the dew. rpHAT'S about the long and short of these disarmament proposals. Unless they are made fool proof, they won't work. The way to make them fool-proof Is to provide inspection that will be rigid enough and com petent enough to make sure that NOBODY HIDES OUT A GUN. Goldwater Points To Labor Ruling Washington-(DPD-Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.) says that a ruling by Labor Secre tary James P. Mitchell would permit James R. Hoffa to keep "goons in power in the Teamsters Union. Goldwater charged Sunday that Mitchell misinterpreted one of the 1959 labor law's important anti-hoodlum pro visions. The section sets the bonding requirements for un ion officers. The senator made public the text of a letter and . legal memo protesting bonding rules made by Mitchell. The memo said both supporters and opponents of the law agreed that the provision re quired personal bonds listing union officers by name. Goldwater said a ruling by Mitchell that unions may bond jobs rather than individ uals show "an apparent disre gard for Congress' feeilngs in his matter." He said Mitchell's ruling means that Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union, "can keep his goons bonded, where not a one of them could get a name bond." Are We Riding for a Fall? We were flying across the country, looking down upon the seemingly endless pano rama of thriving farms, su burban homes and busy cities, when the man sitting next to me said -softly, "What a pity." Startled, I asked what he meant. "What a pity," he said, "that we've lived it up so fast. From up here every thing looks so right and ship shape. But down there life's gotten pretty soft and flabby. We've let ourselves get spoil ed. That's what I meant by pity. It's a pity to let a great way of life like ours take a back seat." Was this a crackpot, a crepe- hanger or worse, a Com munist sympathizer taking this dim view of the great, abundant civilization of the free western world? Not at all. The man sitting next to me was a businessman, a fath er, a home-owner, a good cit izen of his mid-west city. "I'm just trying to be hon est,' he continued. "We've made a great mark in the world. Our progress, our geni us, our productivity will go down in history. But where do we go from here? Do we go down in history, too? We've soaked ourselves in luxury, we've taken to the worship of money and pleas ure. We've twisted moral val ues to suit ourselves, we've scoffed at integrity. In short, we've behaved like great civilizations of the past when they've become over-fat and pleasure-ridden just before they've crumbled." Fears and Doubts Many an average citizen has had a similar feeling, per haps not so pronounced, per haps just an inkling, a fear, a momentary doubt, a nig gling suspicion that perhaps our great culture has had it. Perhaps we have hit the top and started own. Could it be true? Will future historians write of our "decline and fall." ' Important leaders of our time have in recent months publicily voiced the misgiv ings which must be shared by millions. George F. Kennan, former U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, now a his tory professor at Princeton, gave this piercing warning: "If you ask me whether a country . . . with no highly developed sense of national purpose, with the overwhelm ing accent of life on personal comfort, with a dearth of pub lic services and a surfeit of privately sold gadgetry, with insufficient social discipline even to keep its major indus tries functioning without grievous interruption - if you ask me whether such a coun try has in the long run good chances of competing with a purposeful, serious and - dis ciplined society such as that of the Soviet Union, I must say that the answer is 'no.' " Fires Damage Two Buildings Portland (DPD Two sena- ate fires Sunday destroyed a barn south of Oregon City and damaged a building in north ea Portland. Oregon City authorities said the L. H. Larson farm suffered about $15,000 in damage to livestock and the barn, about five miles south of Oregon City. Larson lost 65 head of sheep, 9 hogs and 9 cattle in the blaze. An undetermined " amount c" damage was suffered by f.:3 Parkrose lockers and ad joining offices and apart ments in the northeast Port land blaze. Last November, Emmet John Hughes, who served as speech writer for President Eisenhower during the 1952 and '56 campaigns, brought out a book which he said was written "with much anxiety." One can understand why. He entitled it "America the Vin cible." A Charmed Life Vincible is an unusual word. We're much more used to in vincible, especially when ap plied to America. But Webster tells us plainly that vincible means "capable of being over c o m e or subdued," and Hughes tells us equally plain ly that America, as he puts it, is more vincible than at any point in its history since the Civil War. America has led a charm ed life up to now. But the charm has worn off. That's Hughes' thesis. Sen. John F. Kennedy, of Massachusetts, looked over the country which some voters would like him to lead for the next four years and gave this capsule impression. "The slow corrosion of lux ury the slow erosion of our courage already are begin ning to show. Our profits may be up, our standard of living may be up, but so is our crime rate. So are the sales of tran quilizers and the number of children dropping out of school." Coincident with his retire ment as commanding general of the Army Ordnance Missile Command, Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, perhaps irked at in cessant cirticism of American standards in missilery and rocketery, leveled a finger at other U. S. standards. Inadequate Standards "Have we engineered stand ards to take care of our agri cultural surpluses, our inade quate educational structure, our 'beatniks'?" he asked. "Our standards also seem in adequate in the fields of poli tics, religion, and basic re search." And, taking the long view, a sociology professor at Harv ard, Pitirim A. Sorokin, has stated, "At the present time, the magnificent sensate house built by Western man is crum bling and. the new integrated system of values is not yet built. Hence the crisis, ten A'ons and conflicts of this age." How do we react to these warnings? We know how we reacted two years ago when the Rus sian braggart taunted. "We will bury you!" We bristled. And we bristled again last fall when he "explained" what he had meant: that the march of civilization would tramp over us, leaving us in terred like feudalism. We bristle. But many of us also wonder in the quiet thoughtfulness of our own concern for our country, whether this could possibly be true. There is discomfort in our reactions. We see a determined vigorous, Machia vellian adversary, fanatical in its belief in itself, having only domination as its religion, challenging us to a duel for the future. The gauntlet has been hurl ed at our feet. Will we pick it up? How will we answer the challenge? Where Do We Go? The challenge is to go for ward. If we stand still the boots of new civilizations will surely tramp over us; history assures us of it. But ..where do we go? Which way is for ward? What are our new goals, now that -we already have accomplished so much? Are we like the poor little rich boy all dressed up and no place to go? To some our goal is a simple one: we're rich, let's get rich er. We hear of three cars to a family, instead of two; of installment credit plans for teen-agers; of four-day work weeks and three days a week for amusement and indolence. Is this the true frontier? It is questionable whether three cars will save a family from divorce, or from spiritual emptiness, or from boredom. It is doubtful that teen-age charge accounts will solve our youngesters' problems of civ ilized behavior, sex orienta tion, respect for elders, or serious preparation for adult living. And more time for pleasure-seeking than we al ready have would scarcely give us a greater sense of worthwhileness, as individu als, or a greater feeling of the purposefulness of our lives. Getting richer was yester day's frontier. We have stayed ahead in the past because we knew when to change direction, to break out into new territory. Once we had established de mocracy, we didn't simply loll in it while a rival nation threatened to catch up or overtake us. We expanded, opened new territories, built roads and cities. And when that was done, we didn't sit back either. We went on to produce goods, to create tech nological riches that have set the worlfi agape. Will We Stand Still? Are we going to stand still now, and let a boasting rival catch up and overtake us? Or will we move on to the new direction, the new step in our progress that will again be a trail-blazer to the world? So that when the rival does (if he does) catch up to our mechanical production of goods, we shall be far out ahead in fresh new territory still on top and still climb ing! The new frontier is what logically follows the job of making a living (which we have done so well). It is making a life. This is the new territory which this series will at:empt to explore: trying to find out how to live with all our prod ucts, our conveniences, our mechanical servants; seeking the success of the inner man, now that we have furbished the outer man so reDletelv. We shall search for new paths to family harmony, mar ried harmony, relatedness to God and fellow humans, in ner ease instead of tension. Somewhere in that frontier territory is a sense of the meaning of life. And out there, too, is mor ality, so long lost, and a pur pose which includes us all. Our work is cut, out for us. No one need look down and say, "What a pity." TOMORROW OUR GLUT OF PLEASURE (Distributed . by The Register and Tribune Syndicate) Ike Expected to OK School Plan Washington - (UPD - Educa tion Secretary Arthur S. Flemming says he is "optimis tic" that President Eisenhow er will approve a compromise federal school construction program. Flemming said Sunday; however, that any aid to edu cation would have to be con sistent with the principles of the administration bill. He said "we have not deviated" from the point of view that the administration has "the best approach to the class room shortage." The compromise three-year, $975,000,000 school construc tion plan approved by the House Education committee last week, he said, "is much closer to the philosophy of the administration" than a Senate-passed bill, which also would have provided federal funds to raise teacher salar ies. Flemming said inadequate teachers' salaries were "the most important problem" in education. But he said the ad ministration hopes that aid in building classrooms will help local communities meet the salary problem. Driver Dies; Three Injured in Crash Vancouver, Wash. - (UPD -Howard Peters, 40, Vancou ver, Wash., was killed instant ly and three other Dersons in jured, one critically, when his car collided with the rear of a truck on Highway 99 three miles south of Woodland late Sunday, the State Patrol re ported. Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, 41, the victim's wife, was listed in "very critical" condition at St. Joseph's hospital. Fred Parker, 42, and Otis Massey, 49, both of Portland, who were in the truck, were listed in fair condition at the hospital. BITING CHARGE San Pedro, Calif. (UPD Detective Sgt. Chester Bald ridge said a meek-looking man asked to have a complaint made out against his wife for stealing his false teeth be cause: "Someone stole hers and she said I couldn't have mine back until she got hers back or I bought her another set." 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