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0 O G3 g:d 0 O 0 o O u o J MAIL TtmUMt, MeaW, Or. h Swear, May . 1e) "Everyone In Southern Oreto Headi The Mall Tribune" tuHished Dally except Saturday ay 21 North rir St.. Ph SPMUI ' ROBERT W" RUHU Editor HERB GREY AdvertUlnt Manx rRRALD T LATHAM Bua Mkt. ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mns tdltoe EARL H ADAMS. City Editor varrV THIPMAN Telee Editor KirHAHD JEWETT. Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ER1CKSON. areulauonsjr Vn rndenendent Newspaper aTnterrd aa second elaia matter at Medtord. uregon. unner ci oi March 3. 1897 KtmsrnlPTinN RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year US 00 Daily and Sunday S moa. 8 on Dailv and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sundav Only Ono year 84 20 m f;rrmw In AriuinW McdfOfd Ashland. Central Point Eaale Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv -r Talent and on VTiOtor rnilCt Dally and Sunday 1 year 818 00 Da.lv and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AllTermaCasn In Advance "iltflclal Paprr ol City of Medfori Olflrlal Paper of Jackson CoujtT " United Press International Full Leased Wire rr p 1 Telephoto Newsplrturea ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF cmciiLATiuna V J..ar.l ...r.0 Dnnrfcpntfltlvp' WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In Now York Chleapo De rni Ran Frnnrlwen. Los AlUteles, Seattle. Portland St. Loula. At lanta. Vancouver, h. fV NEWSPAFCt y 8xf5? PUgLISHEtS S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOMAl AsCsbciHTi(o Flight o' Time Medford end Jackson County History from the tiles ot The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 29, I960 (Monday) Cave Junction Mayor El wood Hussey narrowly escap ed death yesterday when he picked up a hitchhiked who tried to set off a bomb in his car; the hitchhiker later com mitted suicide. Medford's fourth parade in J 5 days will mark the observ ance of Memorial day tomor row. 20 YEARS AGO May 29, 1940 (Wednesday) Earl B. Day, Jackson coun ty judge, yesterday mailed his letter of resignation to Gov. Charles A. Sprcgue, who accepted the resignation, and appointed J. B. Coleman to fill the post. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Re ports from Paris declare the roads of France have been all but ruined by the passage of motorized Nazi war machin ery, and look like they had been used by logging trucks all summer." 30 YEARS AGO May 29. 1930 (Thursday) Main street was enlivened last night by four noisy charivaries; two groups invad ed residential districts and police were flooded with com plaints. County Humane society plans $5,000 hospital and cottage. 40 YEARS AGO May 29. 1920 (Saturday) A new Central Point pub lie library opened here today. A new foreman has been elected to take charge of as we stop to think that there is another side drilling at the Tilgonia oilWn tu:s m.inu-f;iept(rl America of ours. well in Fern valley. SO YEARS AGO May 29. 1910 (Sunday) County court planning to split the city of Medford into nix voting precincts instead of Hie existing two. The agricultural college at Corvallis is considering a pro posal tn establish an agricul tural experiment station near Tnlo What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct il lup.rlar; seven or eight it excellent; five at rlt is good. 1. What country is called "Land of the Rising Sun"? 2. Name the Mohawk In dian chief's daughter who res cued Cnpt. John Smith. 3. W h a t famous writing originated at Mt. Sinai? 4 Mrs. Clare Booth Luce served as American ambassa dor to what country? 5. Who "emceed" the re cent Oscar Academy Awards event? 6. Name the queen who had Hie longest reign in English history. 7. What happened to Lot's wife when she looked back on tile city of Sodom as. escorted by two angels, she was escap ing from its destruction with her husband and two unmar ried daughters? 8. How long did the Hebrew patriarch Methuselah live? 9. Name the three sons of Adam and Eve? 10. The Protestant Refor mation was started by whom? Answers.! 1. Japan. 2. Poca hontas (daughter of Powha tan). 3. The Tea Command ments. 4. Italy. S. Bob Hope. (. Queen Victoria (1137-1901). 7. She was turned into a pil lar of salt. t. 9(9 yean. f. Cain, Abel, ela. IS. Mareia Luther, The M'Ts New Press There wasn't an employee of the Mail Tribune who didn't feel a little thrill of excitement Fri day afternoon. That was when the big new press was first used to print a full issue of the Mail Tribune. It was the fulfillment of a long-time dream for many of us. As usual, when a highly complex piece of machinery is first placed in service, there were a few minor "bugs" to be ironed out. But in the main the big unit performed smoothly and beau tifully "Like a clock," as Press Foreman Dick Greene said. DICTURES of the press and of the new build- ing which houses it will be found elsewhere. An "open house," to which our readers will be invited, is planned in the near future, after we are all a bit more familiar with the operation. Meanwhile, spectators are welcome to watch the press in operation through the big windows of the new building. We are, to put it bluntly, proud of the new equipment as fine as that of any newspaper. THE decision to make the investment (and it A is a considerable one, in the neighborhood of a half-million dollars, all told), was predicated on the Mail Tribune's faith in the future of south ern Oregon and northern California. We know that the growth of the area (and of the Mail Tribune) has been solid and soundly based. We know that this growth will continue, and we intend to grow right along with the area. The new press is only one step, although a big one, in our continuing program of growth, improvement and service. This has included such things as additional staff members, the addition of UPI telephoto "pictures by wire," establish ment of a regional news page, expanded cover age, and many top-grade features. We confidently hope and plan to continue serving a growing area with an ever-improving product for many years to come. E. A. Try It, We have just finished reading an editorial in the Coos Bay World by a man named Robert L. Leedom, an editorial writer we admire. He is not happy with the state of American morality, and he cites an appalling list of ex amples to make his point the Van Doren TV Quiz scandal, the Dick Clark payola scandal, the lies of the administration to the people of this nation and the world about the U-2. He could have added a lot of others, too, if he'd wanted to. Such things as shoddy leader ship in unions, the spreading cancer of juvenile crime and delinquency, cheating in schools and colleges, government agencies which don't do the job they are responsible for doing. DOB must have been feeling a bit depressed when he wrote that piece, and we can sympa thize, for there are times when we, too, get down in the mouth, and wonder where in the world we are going. Is this America of ours turning rotten, deca dent, and depraved? Are we going the way of Sodom and Gomorrah? Or Rome? These are questions as one scans the headlines, and thinks of the virtues to which we all pay lip service honesty, integrity, rectitude, chastity, sobriety. 17ELL, perhaps. But the sun is shining as we write these words. And the depressing thoughts die down There are, we amrm, dishonest ones. There are, we affirm, pie than there are "delinquents." Ihere are, we atiirm, on their income tax than there are those who fill it out, laboriously, to the last cent. There are more people who earn their living, and pay their bills, and raise up their children with ideals of honor, than there are of the poor souls who seek the fast buck, duck the bill col lector, and let their kids run wild. A ND we affirm this even after watching four young teen-age girls make absolute nuisances and fools of themselves in a motion picture the ater the other night. We affirm it even after hearing an insolent, fuzzy-chinned youth demand that his name be kept out of the paper for his arrest for excessive noise because, he said, if his folks found out they'd really crack down on him. We affirm it because we have seen too many fine young people; too manv honest citizens; too many hard-working and dedicated public ser vants in city, county, school district, state anil federal government. WE know they are in the vast majority. It is they who constitute the strength of America, thev who keen in their hearts the ideals of America; thoy who practice self-discipline; they who carry in their hearts the courage it takes to do a job and keep upright and live a blame less, wholesome, helpful life. When things look gloomy, when the Russians bluster and bluff and threaten, when our leader ship looks shaky and dowdy and ineffectual and inept, when we worry over crime and traffic deaths and payola and general stupidity, it is the thought of' such people that brings us back to an even keel. Try it, Bob. E. A. Bob which sometimes arise more honest men than more decent young peo lewer people who cheat Dnni thr M HI Trfflf 'I'M TAKIN ALONG A BOTTLE OF CATSUP'. 0 NEVES eETAAV SANDWICHES RED ENOUGH J - Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addreu of the writer, although under certain circumstancei the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. It's a National Problem To the Editor: I have read, with a great deal of interest, Mrs. Nye's article on the school finance problem. This is a real problem as those who pay the taxes on our schools so well know. At the present time there is a terrific turmoil over ed ucation and the taxes neces sary to supply the money for educational purposes. Each parent desires for his children a broad education; but many are unwilling or un able to pay the terrific tax load. This tax load is heavier in some areas than others, em phasizing the statewide nature of our problem, yet many are too wrapped up in their own petty problems to see the broad aspects of local, state and nationwide problems with relation to their children's ed ucation. Some areas are able to give their children exceptional ed ucational facilities; while others must make-do with either inadequate, or, at best, minimum standards. With our present fluid pop ulation and increasing den sity, this inequality of educa tion is of concern to the en tire country. The penalties to society which accompany these inad equate educational products follow these walking produc tion examples wherever tiiey go and become a burden to the local taxpayer. Until the basic FACT is ac cepted, that each child's ed ucation affects everybody in the country, and as is now, in the world, we will never have equal educational opportun ities for our children. 1 do not like to see the government take over business which should be handled by the states. How ever, in this instance, this problem is a NATIONAL problem and NOT a local one and should be financed by the government so that each pupil will have equal educa tional facilities. The weight of the unequal lzed tax burden and the wide spread consequences of inade quate education, both dictate that some relief must be ex tended to the local taxpayer. Robert H.' Worrall, E.E. Route 1 Box 265-A, Rogue River, Ore. Thanks for Rescue To the Editor: On behalf of Pete Schoening and ourselves, all members of the Mt. Mc Kinley climbing party, we want to express our heartfelt thanks for the tremendous ef for made by so many people from Anchorage and the Pa cific Northwest in our rescue from the upper area of Mt. McKinlcy. Our party fell 400 to 500 feet down, an Icy slope. Jim Whittaker and Pete Schoen ing were knocked uncon scious for a day and a half. John Day had a broken leg. Serious frosbite followed in the next few hours. Fortunately another partv on the mountain saw our fall and helped, and could radio for rescue. We are completely over whelmed by the scope of the rescue effort that developed on our behalf. We are grieved by the death of two great men. We find it impossible to express sufficient thanks to the great number of people and merchants who sacrificed their time, money and special skills,, and the families of these men and their em ployees, who all contributed to this rescue. So to you all we give thanks for our lives. John Day Jim Whittaker Louis Whittaker 1 Seattle, Wash, Menace Back to the Wall? To the Editor: The scribes are, in this great crisis, "kid' ding us" just as during nor mality. They boast "here's the News behind the News, behind the news." Verily they are worse than useless now. We may laught at them and get to earnest thinking and acting. The issue now is one of power, spelled P-O-W-E-R. The West versus the East. And, (here is the main point) in history the strong power on paper usually attacks the strong power in living fact. The South was the power rid ing high in the saddle at Washington. But the North was the power that was really getting the strength of the West up to the coats, while the South soon learned that west of Texas, cotton slavery was impossible. They had to fight; try desperately to down Lincolnism. Yet the North was four times as strong as they. Now we are in desperation. Our policy has led to us be coming out-classed in almost all endeaver. Our policy is ono of standing still. But there is no "standing still ' in history. So another power has inched ahead of us. Our back is to the wall. We have to forget "to the brink" and fling ourselves wildly on. What we pray for individual ly .. . PEACE ... is already outdated. High-level aerial photography is like Lexing ton, the shot that is heard around the world. We, the people, will not recognize ourselves after this thing gets going. We will find ourselves being the obvious aggressors and the initiators of the stage of mutual destruction. Folks, it's going to be rough. Pity our poor, innocent chil dren! Walter Gabriel Howells, Neb. P.S.-There is yet a way out, of course! Screwy World To the Editor: A news item in the Mail Tribune of May 25 says, "Living costs soar to record height, Portland con sumer index hits 127.9." We are living in a screwy world. God has given us the Sunshine and the Rains in their seasons. And our store houses are filled to overflow ing. But still the price of food is soaring from month to month. At any rate it would be very hard for the low income people of Medford if it were not for the thrifty trading stamps we get, and the many advertisements that end with the figure 9. That way we save the dollars. Also the full page ad's, circus size letters of the bargains, so there is no excuse for us to overlook them. No doubt Mr. Everett Ack lin's screwy letters will soon make sense to us also. John F. Peterson 1113 South Oakdale ave. Medford. Annexation Objection To the Editor: I get so burn ed up when I read in the paper about the City Council of Medford pulling "booby traps" on the suburban people by annexing their property to the City of Medford without their consent. If that is a state law. then it is time it was changed. The city people of Medford have no business voting on something that does not con cern them and they know nothing about. Those 179 people in those two districts should have had the right to vote alone wheth er they wanted to be annxed or not. When people go suburban In the Diys News By FRANK JENKINS On the political front. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller joint Adlai Stevenson at a Barkis who is "willin'." Ht tells reporters in Al bany (capital of the state of New York, of which he is governor) that he would AC CEPT A DRAFT for the Re publican nomination for Pres ident. But He added "I want to make one point certain. I will accept the Presidential designation but I WILL NOT RUN FOR VICE PRESIDENT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES." THE New York state Repub lipan ni0ani?atinn immAt. iately rallied behind Gover nor Rockefeller and agreed that its 96-vote delegation would go to the Republican convention uncommitted to Vice-President Nixon. Rockefeller supporters pointed out that while his an nouncement was not surpris ing it made certain his avail ability in the event that Mr. Nixon should stub his toe or that there was a drastic change in Republican think ing before the convention del egates meet in July. HMMMMMMMMM. Mr. Rockefeller is a good man. No one denies that. This is a free country, and Mr. Rockefeller has a perfect right to do exactly as he pleases in the way of being a candidate or not being a candidate. If his decision is that he must be top man or nothing, it is his right to make that decision. But here's a thought: Our attitude toward the vice-presidency is changing. There was a time in our his tory .... a rather long time . . . . when just ANYBODY who could swing a lot of votes was good enough to be a can didate for vice-president. THOSE days are gone. No loneer can we afford that attitude toward the man who in the event of death or disability of the nation's Chief Executive will BECOME PRESIDENT by constitutional succession. 11HE Presidency of the Unl- ted States is the biggest job in the world. It is so big and vast and so complicated that the man who is to fill it competently needs to SERVE AN APPRENTICESHIP. The vice-presidency is a natural apprenticeship. I think most of us stand ready to concede that Mr. Rockefeller is a good man, But I think a lot of us will feel a sense of disappoint ment as a result of his flat announcement that he must be top dog or no dog at all. He is young enough to serve an apprenticeship as vice president, and the experience of the past few years indicates rather clearly that EXPER IENCE comes in mighty han dy in the Presidency. Mr. Eisenhower is a great President. But he himself is probably ready to admit that he could have been an even more successful President if when he came into the office he had had back of him a term in the vice-presidency. Matter of Fact y THE COMING REAPPRAISAL Paris - In the bizarre hurly burly of the last fortnight, an event of real significance has escaped notice. Not long be fore the summit, Secretary tlense mas S. Gates came to P a r i s to present the new American proposals for a NATO de terrent. The idea of NATO de JOSKPIl ALSOP terrent, be longing to the alliance as a whole, has lately been gain ing wider and wider currency. It is the idea, for instance, that the leader of the British Labor party, Hugh Gaitskell, offers as his alternative to the unilateral nuclear dis armament advocated by so many members of the British left wing. The same idea has now been approved, at least they want to get out of the city and the high taxes. If they didn't they would have stayed in the city of Medford. We don't want to be an nexed to the city. The city tried it before and the people turned it down. A great many people will lose their homes as they are retired and living on Social Security if this area is in the city. They would be forced to move elsewhere if the city decides to take their property bo, Dear People, get busy Write your senator and have that state law changed. Next time, the city council might want your suburban property in the city without your consent. Are we free or aren't we? Mrs. Burton Green 211 Sunset Court Medford. tSl To Today fir Tomorrow y Wejhejf THE SCNATC INQUIRY By joining the Democrats in voting for the kind of in quiry which Senator Fulbright has proponed, the Republi can! on the Senate For eign Relations C o m m i ttee have shown great good sense. They have bruched aside those who in their innocence and their ignorance have hoped they could si lence the critics and shout down the opposition. In doing this the Republi can Senators have acted in the best American tradition of public life. They have act ed according to the principles and in the spirit so excellent ly described by Governor Rockefeller, Had they failed to provide for a responsible and intelli gent inquiry, the causes and the consequences of the fiasco would inevitably have be come the subject of ruthless political demagogy. Not to in quire and not to debate the issues soberly and responsib ly could mean only that the alley fighters would take charge of them. National un ity and the public interest will be better served by the example of Governor Rocke feller than by the example of Senator Dirksen. WITH Senator Fulbright the chairman, the inquiry is in very good hands. It is a most difficult inquiry in that the big issues are unique. They have hever before been posed publicly in this country or, so far as I know, in any other. To understand them clearly and to judge them ac curately calls for a degree of sophistication and of world liness which must seem cyni cal and Immoral to those who are inexperienced in the dark and seamy side of interna tional life. All governments, at any rate all groat powers, live a double life. In the one, which is avowed and public, they are the respectable husbands and fathers in the midst of a proud family. In the other, which is the various intelli gence operations, they have a variety of mistresses and their illegitimate offspring which they support but do not acknowledge. In the open life they practice monogamy and in their hidden life they practice adultery. And the assumption and the hope is that the hidden life will never have to be discussed in the open life. THIS was our situation, and indeed the situation of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France, until the week be fore the summit meeting, Then the U2 was unexpected ly brought down, substantial parts of the plane were un expectedly recovered, and the pilot survived. There was no doubt that an American plane had been caught in the act of spying. This posed a very embar Joseph Alsop in principle, by the American government. On behalf of the Adminis tration, Secretary Gates of fered to transfer to NATO control American ballistic missiles, or to arrange for European manufacture for NATO of ballistic missiles on American models. The trans ferred missiles would be man ned by missiles squadrons re cruited in the various nations of the alliance. But the squad rons, though national in char acter, would be under the op erational command of the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, who is of course an American, Gen. Lauris Norstad. THIS represents a major -1- step forward from the pre vious American offer of American missile squadrons which were to be stationed in Europe. Under the new offer, the allied nations are to have physical possession of the means of delivery. But the United States is still to keep the "key to the nuclear cup board." In other words, the warheads for the transferred missiles are to be separately held by American units, which will only release them on the President's word of command. The retention of "the key to the cupboard," required by the M a c M a h o n Act, has caused the Gates proposals to be rejected out of hand by the French. It is not as yet clear whether other NATO partners will proceed with the construction of the NATO de terrent while the French re fuse to budge. What is abun dantly clear is the French re fusal. Until the U.S. is ready to transfer complete nuclear weapons to French national control, with no ifs or ands or buts, France will continue Walter LloDsaaaa lipeie rassing problem for the Pres ident and his advisors. Should they take the conventional way out, which Mr. Khrush chev offered them, which the State Department in its first thought wanted to take? This was to say that the flight of Powers had not been ordered in Washington. This would have been a half-truth. But it was the kind of conventional half-truth which all govern ments employ when they find themselves in such a jam. Conventionally, too, such a way out would be accom panied, as Senator Kennedy has quite properly suggested, by a formal and perfunctory expression of regret. In view of the fact that the President had made the initial error of not suspending such flights before the summit meeting, it was a fatal error to reject the conventional way out, to let the President avow that he had full respon sibility and to argue that the flight was righteous and ne cessary, that by implication such flights would continue. This was an irreparable mis take. To be sure the half-truth would not have been flatter ing to the President, partic ularly because it would have fitted too neatly the world's picture of him as not attend ing wholly to his job. But there was no good way out of the consequences of this un lucky accident, and the way we did take was the most damaging of all. rpHE damage done by the -- policy of avowal was not confined to the effect on the summit conference. It is argu able that Mr. K would have broken up the summit meet ing, even without the U2, over Berlin. But what seems to me clear is that if the President had followed the conventions of the spy business, he would not find himself where he is to day. He would not find him self committing this country solemnly and publicly before the world to the doctrine that it will not do any more aerial reconnaissance over, any other nation's territory. Hav ing avowed too , much, the President has had to renounce much too much, more than was necessary. UNAVOIDABLY the affair raises a question which is political, although not neces sarily partisan.I say this be cause if Governor Rockefel ler were the Republican can didate, the question would not arise. The question is this. The U2 is a brilliant achievement in modern technology, and it has proved itself to be a marvel ous instrument of intelligence. The question is whether the ultimate administration of this delicate and dangerous and most useful instrument is in competent hands, and whether in even graver mat ters which may have to be decided, the country can have confidence that it is wisely and shrewdly and competent ly led. (c) I960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. the .immensely costly effort to build her own national de terrent. This policy originates in one mind only, the mind of Gen. De Gaulle. On the sur face it is an irrational policy. the unsuccessful British ef fort on the same line has al ready proved that only the two super-giant powers can afford the outlay needed to build a serious nuclear de terrent. DUT it is always unwise to call any action of De Gaulle's irrational, even if it seems all but lunatic at the time. Remember, for example, his famous memorandum of of two years ago, demanding an Anglo - Franco - American "directory" of the Western al liance. The American and. British governments some what haughtily made no ser ious reply. But today, by the force of De Gaulle's person ality, something very like a directory has come into be ing. In the present case. De Gaulle's obstinate, seemingly irrational French nuclear policy is in fact intended as a lever to shift American nu clear policy. The conditions already exist for a partial American shift. Our law permits a pretty free exchange of nuclear in formation and materials with any nation which has already entered the nuclear club. This free exchange is already ear ned on with the British Since France has now ex ploded her own atomic bomb, a mere executive finding by the President can put the French on the same footing as the British. It is not clear why the President is reluctant to make this finding. In the same way, it is also unclea why the Defense Department is willing to sell Polaris missiles to the British but not to the French. POTLUCIC (By M-T Staff a Ml Ceatributanw Spring scene, during tha rare and welcome sunhin Friday: The Sears store, with lews furniture replayed out ot doors, and with weary high school students, en rout home, sprawled all over it la various degrees of relaxation. At recent meeting of the Jackson county em ployee' association, one member remarked that one big fault of some employees is proceitinetion. "Yee," said another member, "and another fault is always put ting things off." CONVENTION ODE The politicians, kempt and slick, Are optimistic. But the joke is. They cannot breathe, the air's too thick In the room where all tha smoke is. a One of our young men aw a television program called "Open End" for the first time the other day. Be before he found out that it's sort of a protracted inter view show, he was under the impression that it waa a sort of soap box opera or at least a women's con versational program. We had sort of hoped that we'd hear from That Man In Phoenix last week, but he passed us by. The reason that we hoped he'd write us with his usual clipping and usual caustic comment is that be cause we're ready for him this time. The following (taken from the Capitol Christian of Sacramento, and brought to us with TMIP in mind by a thoughtful reader) is for his benefit: "If you find a mistake in thus paper, please consider it was put there for a pur pose. We publish something for everyone and some people are always looking for mis takes." There, Fletch! The county employees as sociation newsletter the other day quoted a weekly editor as writing, "Our greatest diiticulty in gather ing and reporting news lies in the fact that every item is either a matter of com mon knowledge, or has not progressed sufficiently is ' comment upon at the time we go to press." And do you know what our courthouse reporter said when he read this? He said "Amen." It also reminds us of the weekly editor that we heard about once from a fellow that used to work here. This editor's paper came out a day or so after every one finished digging out from the darndest snowfall in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. And not a word did his paper say about the storm. "Why should I?" he replied when asked why not. "Everyone knew about it any way." Our farm editor attended a recent banquet for a Future Farmers of America chapter, and he swears that he over heard the following: A local farmer was the guest speaker, and was tell ing about the proper practices for spreading fertilzer. Now, when you spread manure . . . he started out. Whereupon, his small daughter, sitting in the audi ence, turned to her mother and said, "But mother, he's supposed to say 'fertilizer,' not 'manure ! " Hush, dear," the mother replied. "It took me 15 yeara just to get him to say 'man ure..' " Nothing improves your driving like being followed by a police car. Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on people. T IS not to hard to foresee the moment when Ameri can policy will shift far enough to put France and Britain on a footing of com plete equality. Unless both Nikita S. Khrushchev and Mao Tse-Tung are as placid as dead mutton all summer, President Eisenhower is quite obviously going to need Pres ident De Gaulle's moral and political support at some time in the near future. Every thing, including the support of a loyal ally, may carry a price tag on occasion. But it also easy to forsee that mere equality of footing with Britain will not satisfy De Gaulle. Nothing will satis fy him, short of a complet and profound American re appraisal of the problem of the deterrent. Significantly, many of the wisest American strategists are already beginning te think that sharing the moral burden of the deterrent may not ba altogether uwiMb
