Today and
Tomorrow
By Walter Llppmann
SALUTE TO DE GAULLE
Having been one of hit Am
erican admireri since June of
1940, when be raised hli flag
In Britain ana
summoned the
French to go
on with the
war, I cannot
pretend to
write dispas
lionately about Gen. de
Gaulle. But
Walter c w
Llopmana coming back
to Washington In triumph, I
have been asking myself what
is the secret of this famous
man?
The secret is that he is more
than a great man. He is a
great man in the sense that
he has taken a great part in
historic events. But there
were other great men in the
war days. In addition to being
an historic man, he is also,
which is rarer than greatness,
a genius. This is the special
quality which he, and I think
only he, shares with Church
ill. His genius consists in the
capacity to see beneath the
surface of events, to see
through the obvious and con
ventional and stereotyped ap
pearance of events to the sig
nificant realities, to the ob
scured facts and forces which
will prevail. This gift, which
Is more than leadership as
such, la second sight into the
nature of history. It brings
with it the gift of prophesy
ing what is going to happen
because to the seeing eye it is
Blready there.
The ability to see truly the
ilgnificant reality carries with
it the ability to convey what
his vision brings him. Men
like Churchill and de Gaulle
do not sign ghostwritten
books and they do not read
ghost-written speeches. For
the vision is their own and
they alone can communicate
It.
rpHUS, in the bitter days of
1940 when France had
fallen and Britain stood alone,
it called for a great man, for
brave man, for a resolute
and faithful man, to go Into
exile and from there to orga
nize the French resistance,
But it took genius to see how
this noble but desperate ven
. ture) would end, and to see
that France, defeated, demor
alized and prostrate, remained
one of the great powers, to
aee that in the end she would
be-as is now the fact-among
the principal shapers of the
settlement with Germany.
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THINKING of all that has
happened In these 20
years, it occurred to me to see
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Sunday April 24, 1960
Public May Take
Part in Program
The public will be invited
to participate in "Adventures
in Medicine" over station
KBES-TV at 3 o'clock this
afternoon, according to Mrs.
C. Ivan Burton moderator of
the bi-weekly program.
The series of programs on
health is produced by the
Jackson County Tuberculosis
and Health association in co
operation with the Jackson
County Medical Society.
"Cancer - Fact and Fiction"
will be the topic for discus
sion by a medical panel com
posed of Dr. Robert n, buck,
pathologist; Dr. Brian D.
Stringer, general surgeon; Dr.
Duane I. Glllum, radiologist,
all Medford; and Dr. R. Ray
Johnson, general practitioner.
Grants Pass.
Dr. Aubrey M. Hill, Ash
land, will assist members of
the Jackson County Unit of
the American Cancer Society
in taking and relaying tele
phoned questions to the panel.
Persons wishing to ask
questions about cancer may
telephone Btntlon KBES-TV,
SPring, 3-4581, beginning at
2:30 o'clock this afternoon,
Mrs. Burton said. The physi
cians will answer as many as
possible In the order in which
they are received.
Cub Scouts
Cub Scout Pack 4
Cub Scout Pack 4, Oak
Grove and West Side schools
will hold their monthly pack
meeting Thursday, April 28,
at 7:30 p.m. at the Oak Grove
gymnasium.
Den 2 will conduct the flag
ceremony and a skit will be
presented by Den 6. An In
spection of all Cubs will be
held, awards will be presen
ted, and other business con
ducted. - 1
whether or not my memory
was deceiving me. Was It true,
as ever since I have believed
that in the darkest days of the
most desperate of modern
wars, Gen. de Gaulle had com
municated his vision of an en
during and an undefeated
France?
I find that about three
weeks after the fall of France,
I had learned enough to be
able to write that "In the mis
fortune of France It should
be our fierce pride to be the
last to forget the greatness of
France. We must wish to be
the first to remember . . . that
France Is Indispensable, as in
dispensable to the maturity of
Western civilization as Hellas
was to its birth-and as imper
ishable.
I learned to say that only
from Gen. de Gaulle,
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Matter of Fact y joph ai.op
NIXON AND THE
CONSERVATIVES"
Washington - Vice Presi
dent Richard M. Nixon and
his campaign staff are visibly
delighted by the result of the
New Jersey primary contest
between Sen. Clifford Case
and Robert Morris, the for
mer associate
of Sen. Jo
seph R. Mc
Carthy and
self -styled
Republi
can candidate
for Case's
scat.
A 1 1 ho ugh
iuhCPH alsOp mue nouceo,
this New Jersey primary was
nearly as Important for the
Republicans as the West Vir
ginia primary is for the Dem
ocrats. It was the major effort
by the extreme right wing of
the Republican party to prove
the existence of a "powerful
conservative ground swell."
The Vice President Is being
daily warned of this ground
swell by his party's right
wingers. But the warnings
can be ignored, now that the
Morris effort in New Jersey
has proved a flat, humiliating
bust. A vegetarian greenback
er with leanings to the views
of Henry George ought to
have done better than Morris,
if he had made a comparable
investment of time and money
against as languid an op
ponent as Sen. Case.
MORRIS literally devoted
two entire vears to an ac
tive, continuous drive for
votes. His personal bills were
apparently paid for him dur
ing all this time, judging by
his own statement on this
point to a friendly New Jer
sey newspaper. Certainly his
campaign bills were paid on
the most lavish scale.
Contributions were collec
ted from all over the country,
from the kind of Republican
who thinks the only salvation
is to repeal the Income tax
amendment. Morris was able
to use every expedient of
modern campaigning, down to
and including the costly ex
pedient of telephoning short,
recorded appeals to individ
ual voters.
In contrast, while Case was
not pinched for funds, he only
campaigned for two months.
Even in those two months, his
campaigning was intermittent
at best, because of the de
mands of Senate business
Though an incumbent, Case
also failed to secure the posi
tive endorsement of many of
the New Jersey county organ
izations. .Yet on a relatively
low poll of about only 350,000
votes, Case beat Morris close
to two to one.
THE MORRIS vote was not
much above 110,000, in a
state which cast
2,456,000
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votes in the last Presidential
election. If there were any
such thing as a "powerful con
servative ground swell,"
Morris ought to have been
able to ride its majestic tide.
By the same token, New Jer
sey ought to have provided
the proof, if there were the
slightest proof In the theory
that Republicans lose elec
tions because countless mil
lions of disgruntled conserv
atives refuse to crawl out of
the woodwork to vote for
over-liberal Republican nom
inees. Instead, New Jersey
showed the silliness of this
theory and the total hollow
ness of the talk about a "con
servative ground swell." No
wonder Vice President Nixon,
who is determined to follow a
moderate line, is pleased by
a result which so completely
confirms his own judgment.
This does not mean that the
Vice President will be free,
hereafter from pressure from
the Republican right wingers.
On the contary, the new right
wing hero, Sen. Barry Cold-
water of Arizona, will shortly
add the delegates from his
own state to the bagful of
South Carolina votes which
he picked up some weeks ago.
Go 1 d w a t e r ' s most active
backer, Roger Milliken, has
also been active in Mississippi
and Montana. As a result, the
Mississippi bagful and some
additional Montana delegates
will probably enter the Gold
water collection.
A S OF now, in fact the Nix-
on campaign staff thinks
that Goldwater will go to the
Republican convention with
from 50 to 80 delegates
pledged to him. The aim, of
course, is not to nominate
Goldwater. The aim is to push
Nixon further to the right, by
raising all the banners of the
Republican extremists on the
floor of the convention Itself.
The push would have been
pretty strong if Morris had
won in New Jersey.
The truth is that the aver
age Republican party hack (a
type well represented among
convention delegates) really
loves his own party's extrem
ists. At the recent Republican
giant clambake here, they
writhed with delight for Sen.
Everett Dirksen of Illinois
and Rep. Charles Halleck of
Indiana; and they gave Sen
ator Goldwater an ovation al
most equalling the President's
ovation. But after New Jer
sey, no Republican who wants
to win the election can have
much doubt that the Nixon
line is the best line, even if
he still hankers in secret for
the Goldwater line.
(c) 1980 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
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Column Writer Writes 'Home Town1
Letter to Radio Station; Gets Reply
White City - Walter Town.
send, who writes the "Plckln
Pears" column in the Mall
Tribune, has discovered there
is more than one way to tell
his story.
Townsend at one time was
successful attorney, but now
he has ambitions to do some
thing worth while as a writer.
He has already won several
prizes in the national Vet
erans Writers project.
Troubled with Insomnia, he
has become one of the fans
who tune in after midnight
to listen to Ben Hunter with
his homespun philosophy over
radio station KFI, Los An
geles. He decided to write a
"Home Town Letter" which
he says In his Introduction,
"probably you won't want to
read to the other 'night owls'
since I do not live In a regular
town or city, but stay in a
strange sort of place, a domi
ciliary of a thousand men."
Struggles at Writing
He then recites his strug
gles at the writing game and
tells of his experiences as a
columnist for the Medford
Mall Tribune.
Not many nights ago, Ben
Hunter read his letter to the
thousands of listeners trou
bled with sleeplessness, who
listen in as he does. Then the
letters began to come to him
from quite a number of those
listeners who sought to en
courage him in his efforts and
to tell of their own difficulties
In the mastery of English com
position, suitable for publica
tion. Several were anxious to
subscribe to the Mail Tri
bune so that they could read
his column "Pickin Pears."
Another was interested in
what he had to say about the
famous Rogue valley pears.
"I've been a night owl for
a long time. It is my only
hope," Townsend's letter
reads.
Sleepless Nights
"I spend most of my sleep
less nights listening to Ben
Hunter. I love to hear him
read Home Town Letters in
the wee small hours. It gives
me a sort of relief, or maybe
you might say joy. I suppose
it Is because I do not nave a
'real' home to write about.
Anyhow, I love to hear about
people who do have home
towns.
"This domiciliary where I
sleep and eat good food and
have a little bed room of my
own, is a little world to Itself,
There are some very wonder
ful and great people here. One
is our librarian. She is highly
educated and downright bril
liant, and is dedicated to her
work.
She conducts a literary
class once a week in the after
noon. Those of us who attend,
discuss almost everything
from abstract art to Dickens
and Victor Hugo.
I came here In 1030 and
have been here ever since. We
are situated on a sort of flat
plain, with tall mountains all
around, Mt. Pitt and huge
Shasta In northern California
at my back door. In fact, I
can look out of my window
In Oregon as I write this let
ter and see 9,000 feet of ice
and snow jutting up like an
inverted Ice cream cone.
Famous River
"In the distance there is
a gleam of water In the bright
sun. It Is the reflection of the
famous Rogue river flowing
across the plain. Everything
is silent. The numerous long
buildings are brick.
"I am a veteran of World
War I and once saw Paris.
Somehow, these buildings re
mind me of Paris; long with
many little white windows,
they stand like something
from the Middle Ages, with
red sides and steep roofs.
Maybe it is because of the
buildings, I never go any
where. I look at the roofs and
start my work again.
"I write most of the time.
; Still I would like to go and
; see tlte great outside world.
I There is nothing to stop me
except, I do not earn enough
I money at writing to pay my
train fare. I teach a class in
I literature, too, and for years
have wanted to go to Holly
; wood. Some day my ship will
Marines to Explain
Program at College
Ashland-Opportuntties for
officer commissions In the
Marine corps will be explain
ed to interested students April
27 and 28 from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m., in Britt lounge at South
ern Oregon college, Ashland.
Both aviation and line offi
cer programs will be explain
ed and interviews will be con
ducted by Capt. Richard C.
Schulze. Training is conduct
ed during the summer at two
six-week instruction periods,
and graduation from college
is required before a candidate
may be commissioned.
Also offered by the Marine
corps Is an officer candidate
course and aviation officer
candidate course for senior
students. College graduates
also may apply for a commis
sion under the programs.
come In and there will be
time for me to go.
"For creative writing,
which I try constantly to do,
the government provides me
a neat, well-lighted office all
to myself and it is nice. In this
little office I do nothing but
write. Nobody tells me what
to write. I write poetry, short
stories and novels. None of
them are ever published, of
course. Still, I keep trying.
"Then, too, I write a news
paper column called Pickin
Pears for the Medford Mail
Tribune. This valley is famous
for its climate and pears. It
is said to be very similar to
a certain valley In France
where huge delicious pears
are grown. '
"There are only two places
In the world where such pears
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can be raised - in the Rogue
River valley and in France.
Hence, this column Pickin
Pears I write is all I have
ever been able to sell. It does
not take much of my time.
For my heart is In novels and
moving pictures and poetry.
"As a writer I am no great
shakes myself. The only thing
I've ever been able to get
neoDle to read is my news-
paper column. I appreciate
that. But what I want 'em to
read Is my poetry. More than
anything, I want 'em to reaa
my novels. They jusfwill not,
it seems.
Cannot Quit
"Still I cannot quit. 1 go to
my office, my desk and type
writer every day. Sometimes
I write an essay. Next day I
read it over and even can see
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throw it away. But my novels,
my poetry, I simply am un
able to cast aside. I think they
a wonderful. The trouble is,
nobody else does. This is the
first-home town letter' I ever
I have a bike and ride it
to the Rogue river sometimes.
Then, too, I ride through the
orchards in blossom
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I think, on earth, K the beauty
of this valley in pear blossom
time. Adiosl This Is not much
of a letter about a Home
Town, but being a night owl
of long standing, I'll be listen
ing to hear if Ben Hunter
reads it to the other night
owls."
Townsend, at present, Is
writing his reactions as regis
trar of voters for his forthcom
ing column "Pickin Pears."
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