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
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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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