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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
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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