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Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann ADENAUER IN WASHINGTON After his talks with the President, Mr. Adenauer said in a speech before the Na tional Press club that one sent ence in the of f i c i a 1 joint state in e n t "con tains the basis for the West's attitude t o ward Khrush- V a xr'e rf f- IV alter ... LiopmanD mands with regard to Berlin and it is therefore of decisive import ance in the present situation." Dr. Adenauer asked us to read this sentence "most careful ly." Whet does the sentence, which is of such decisive im portance, say? It says that the President and the Chancellor "agreed that the preservation of the freedom of the people of West Berlin, and their right of self - determination, must underlie any future agree ment affecting the city." Any future agreement. If that sen tence is as important as Dr. Adenauer says it is, the Presi dent and he are agreed that there may be a new settlement in Berlin, which protects its freedom and its right of self determination. It means, moreover, that they can im agine an agreement on Berlin made before the reunification of Germany. It means, more over, that they are not com mitted to insisting that the freedom and the right of self determination of West Berlin can be protected only by the maintenance of the status quo. IF THE spirit and the letter of the Eisenhower-Adenauer statement express the authen tic considered view of the Chancellor, then he has been misrepresented in this coun try by his most ardent sup porters. They have been tell ing us that there should be no negotiations about West Ber lin, that any future agreement would be appeasement and a surrender to the Soviet Union. They have been insisting that the fate of the free world de pends upon revoking the promise made at Camp David to negotiate about Berlin. They have, it appears now from the official record, been more royalist than the king, more Adenauer than Aden auer himself. ''hat happened, quite evi dently, is that the Chancellor failed to persuade the Presi dent to revoke his pledge to Negotiate and having failed, he accepted the President's for mula. This formula contains the gist of the matter which is that, provided it protects the freedom of West Berlin, we are prepared to explore and consider and, if possible, to negotiate the new settle ment. This is all that the British government and all that the American critics of Adenauer's rigidity, have ever Vanted to do. IHK President has refused to tie his hands and he has freserved intact his right to Ifplore the. problem of the Aiture of Berlin. Will this mean that in admitting that thxre is a problem of Berlin nd that he is prepared to dis cuss it with Khrushchev, he is weakening the Western po sition? It will look that way to some. But on the whole, he will not, I believe, weaken the Western position and ra ther he will reinsure it for the future. To be sure there will be some Germans in West Berlin and there will be people else where who, having been taught to believe that any dis cussion of Berlin is appease ment, will be worried and frightened when Berlin is dis cussed. That will be too bad and they should be reassured. But the real question at the bottom of the argument is whether Wie- Western position in Berlin will grow stronger if .we postpone a negotiation or whether it will deteriorate. Secause I am convinced tht time is not on our side in Vest Berlin, I believe we should attempt now to nego tiate a new settlement which protects the freedom of West Berlin. Mr. K. may refuse to agree to such a settlement. It would not surprise me at all. But our diplomatic posi tion in Europe and in the rest of the world will be stronger if we have attempted to make it and if we have identified ourselves with a genuine at tempt to reach an accommo dation in Berlin. rpHERE are two main reasons -- why I think the Western position in Berlin will not grow stronger. The first is that Eastern Germany is play ing an increasingly important role in the upsurge of the Communist economy. It is significant, as Flora Lewis re ported in "The New York Times'' on Sunday, that the migration from West Ger many to East Germany is now half as large as the migration the other way. That reflects. the rising economic levels -in Eastern Germany. The stronger the East Ger many economy becomes, the more difficult and the more distant will be its integration with Western Germany. The second reason for wish ing to see a serious negoti ation about Berlin in the near future is that it would be very desirable that a political set tlement should bear the im print of Adenauer and de Gaulle. What does the West gain, what do Germany and France gain, by putting off serious negotiations until af ter Adenauer and de Gaulle have departed? Does anyone know what Germany will be like after Adenauer? Does anyone know what France will be like after de Gaulle? It does not seem to me wise and prudent to put off into the indefinite future the crucial problem of Ger many. (c) 1960 New- York Herald Tribune Inc. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins National Head Of Women's MOD Work Visits Here Miss Elaine Whitelaw, na tional director of women's ac tivities for the National Foun dation, sponsors of the March of Dimes, visited briefly in Medford yesterday. Miss Whitelaw is making a tour of the nation, stopping at cities which reported unusually suc cessful Mothers'. March cam paigns. The Mothers' March was held on Jan. 28 and consisted of a house-to-house canvass for funds to fight polio, birth defects and rheumatoid arthri tis, as well as a "door count" which complied statistics on persons afflicted with the three ailments. Medford was one of four cities in Oregon which Miss Whitelaw visited. Others were Portland, Salem and Eugene. An increase in the Mothers' March in Jackson county from $2,300 in 1959 to $6,001 this year prompted the national directors interest in visiting the area. Questions Answered Mrs. Vangie Brain, county Mothers' March chairman, an swered four questions which Miss Whitelaw is asking on her tour to aid in compiling a new Mothers' March cam paign guide. The questions were, How was the campaign organized? To what was your increase in funds due? How were volunteers obtained? What were questions asked by volunteers? Others meeting with Miss Whitelaw were Mrs. Herb Colley, Medford March chair man, Mrs. E. O. Graham, Jacksonville chairman, and Mrs. Harold Gilbert, Medford, chairman of the Jackson Puny Protector Was No Match for Storm i It was a 'glorious, late-summer day; the sun was warm and bright. There was a hint of fall in the air. The garden spiders had cast their shim mering webs from nearly every flower stalk and weed. Late-flying bees were gather ing what nectar they could from tardy blooms. The sum mer was passing. The homeowner looked out across his garden and watch ed the air-borne dragonflies as they zig-zagged for mos quitoes. As he watched, two gauzy ,winged tiger swallow tailed butterflies came flutter ing into the yard. One was flying a few inches above the other; the lower one was ob viously leading the way, the other adjusting its flight to correspond. It was apparent the "pair ing up" was being carried out for the purpose of protection. The one flying high was evi dently a male. Wherever the female flew, the other was always hovering a few inches away. He was ever ready to render aid or repel any or all enemies. Flew at Stick The man held a slender stick toward the pair, the male flew at the stick in puny rage. The female paid no attention, but continued to sip nectar from the late flowers. Think ing he had won the conflict with the stick, the male hov ered again in the female's vicinity; the man withdrew the stick. , A bird swooped down, changed its course at the last minute and sailed away, miss ing the two butterflies by a scant two inches. Once again the male seemed to take all the credit for saving his mate. He was her knight in spark ling gossamer; her protector and constant guardian. If a sudden guest of wind sprang up, he was affected by it be fore she was for he was a lit tle higher in the air. By his actions she seemed to know what to do, for at times like this she settled lower among the flowers and thereby escaped the sudden gusts. It seemed so futile, the pro tection he so willingly offer ed, for he would be powerless against even the lesser of the enemies. There were agenties of a hundred types that seem ed eager to destroy them. Storm Brews Suddenly a heavy mass of cumulous clouds rolled up overhead. The butterflies did I not appear to notice the gath- i ering storm, for the sun still shone and the willing flowers were still holding their color ful heads and faces up for the touch of the delicate butterfly tongues. With the suddenness of an opened floodgate, the rain fell in pouring torrents. It beat down the flowers and drove the two butterflies into the sodden ground. The frail wings were quickly tattered and torn; they became mere shreds in the downpour. Pro tector and protected had no chance against the shattering impact of water. Little rivulets formed as the water eddied in its mad haste to find its own level. To the helpless butterflies it was a raging torrent; they whirled j away together on its tiny crest, like two autumn leaves on a river of no return. Ailing Sgt. York Fighls Illness, Federal Claims Pall Mall, Term. -UPD-The ! red-haired . giant " from the Tennessee hills fought with 1 his conscience on a mountain j top before he could convince '. himself that duty to, his coun i try outweighed his convic i tions. i Alvin C. York, then'' 29 years old, prayed almost all night on the mountain. Then on a November day in 1917 he walked out of the hills and enlisted in the U. S. Army. A rifle had been his constant companion since boyhood, but he didn't hold with kill ing another human. A year later Ar gonne Forest of France, he wiped out a German machine gun battalion by killing 25 German soldiers and captur ing 132. The late Gen. John J. Pershing called him '"the greatest civilian soldier of the war." Now Bedridden Sgt. York, now 72, bedrid den by years of illness, fight ing a huge income tax claim from the federal government, hard-pressed to make ends meet, is asking the govern ment he served "to give him a Social Security pension. His present- income is a S60 monthly disability pension and $10 monthly as a Medal of Honor winner. York was hailed as the na tion's greatest hero on his re turn from the war but he steadfastly refused to sign sheafs of contracts that were offered. He finally agreed to a movie version of his life in 1941 in the belief it would be a "public service" with World War II approaching. That movie caused a lot of his trouble. In 1950 the gov ernment filed a tax claim against him alleging he owes MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. 7 Thursday, March 24, 1960 A S85.442 for an estimated $150,000 he received from the motion picture. The case has been repeatedly delayed, and I York says all the money went tor medical bills. 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