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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 10, 19S0 (Saturday)
More than 1.000 Lions club
members are expected to ar
rive in Medford in what prom
ises to be the largest state
Lion conclave in history.
The Medford Rogues down
ed the Klamath Gems 8 to 2
in a Far West league baseball
game last night.
20 YEARS AGO
June 10, 1940 (Tuesday)
Secretary of Oregon Coast
Highway association tells the
Grants Pass Chamber of
Commerce that tourist busi
ness will be poor this summer
because everyone has "war
litters." '
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A gen.
c-rnl thaw started yesterday
and the mercury soared to 9B
It was so hot they put oat
nicnl in the hay-hands' water
pail to keep it cool."
30 YEARS AGO
June 10, 1930 (Tuesday)
Mann's remodeled store
opens to public.
New city playground opens.
40 YEARS AGO
June 10. 1920 (Wednesday)
New city directory to be
published soon.
Petitions filed for recall of
two members of the Medford
school board.
50 YEARS AGO
June 10. 1910 (Friday)
Medford police arrest three
men for bathing in the nude
near the Bear creek bridge
and fined them $5 apiece.
Many Ashland citizens are
opposed to granting a fran
chise there for a proposed
trolley line.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or fen corrett it superior
even or eight is excellent; Nve er
til is good.
1. Is the color of a flag of
truce white, blue, or yellow?
2. What is the chief agricul
tural crop in Cuba?
3. Dues the average annual
temperature vary with lati
tude?
4. What word expresses a
thousand thousand?
5. Was the safety pin inven
ted before or after the birth
of Christ?
8 What is a vicuna?
7. Who was the U.S. Prcsi
dent during the "era of Good
Feeling"?
8. Did God Introduce life
on earth the second, third or
fifth day?
9. Who is known as the
"Father of Medicine"?
10. Who originally spon
sored the National Foundation
of Infantile Paralysis'
Answers: 1. White. 2. Sugar.
3. Yei. 4. Million. 5. Belore.
6. Llama. 7. James Monroe.
8. Third. 9. Hippocrates. 10.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Bng Honored as
Top Record-Maker
Hollywood - il'PH - Singer
Bing Crosby Thursday was
honored as the "first citizen
of the recording Industry" be
cause his records have sold
two hundred million copies.
A platinum recording of his
"White Christmas" recording
was placed in a copper cap
sule with other mementos and
buried in the sidewalk at Sun
set and Vine. The ceremony
was part of the dedication of
filmland sidewalks w 1 1 h
names of movie stars.
The capable was marked to
be opened in 2000 A.D,
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Triumph in the Making
Kansas saved itself $38 million.
How did it do it? By spending money.
Paradoxical? Sort of. But it is an example
of what can be done is being done in the field
of mental health these days.
Last January, Dr. William C. Menninger, one
of the nation's foremost psychiatrists, reported on
Kansas' progress in mental health to the Colo
rado legislature, which was considering a
stepped-up program in this field.
What he said makes interesting and cheering
news both for tax-conscious citizens, and for
those aware of the awful human waste caused
by mental illness.
J.JERE is part of what he said:
"The (Kansas) legislature acted by providing a 60
per cent increase in the budget in 1949; 118 per cent
in 1951; by 1955, three times what we spent in 1948.
We began to recruit a professional staff and set up a
training program. In addition to doctors, psychologists,
social workers, nurses and occupational therapists
were recruited and trained. The number of attendants
was doubled. Occupational and recreational programs
were started.
"A new philosophy about and understanding of
mental illness arose. A very extensive volunteer sys
tem was developed through the help of the citizens
of the community.
"Within two years the Topeka Hospital population
dropped to 1,500 (from 1,800). Today the population
is 116238 per cent reduction. Since 1959, 729 pa
tients have been discharged who had been in resi
dence in the hospital for 10 years or more, 128 of
them for 20 years or longer. A recommendation that
a new hospital be built was never carried out, saving
$38 million . . ."
AS A RESULT, Dr. Menninger said, Kansans
are proud that the mental hospital population
in that state is down 30 per cent, in contrast to
an average increase of 15 per cent in 15 other
states. Even with the hospitals not vet adequately
staffed, 74 per cent of
stay long. Most of them go home within six
months.
Similar miracles of healing are being per
formed elsewhere in the nation. A new concent
of therapy, accompanied by the development of
new drugs, is giving mental illness one of the
highest cure rates of any disability IF and
WHEN adequate treatment is provided.
uregon is sharing in
it has not yet gone as far as it should go.
DR. MENNINGER described the conditions in
fVio Tr.ni,n v,,;fi n.. t
iuiycn-a uuoiniai uciui c Hie cilclllgc a,
description which unhappily fits many mental
lnsuiuuons even tociay:
"Men endlessly pushing mops on already over
polished floors. Gloomy wards with old rocking chairs
lined up against the wall. Beds in the halls and mat
tresses on the floor at night. Uniform and drab, ill
fitting clothing. Inadequate and ill-prepared food,
unattractively dished out. Patients cooped up for days
on end or literally herded out in large groups on
park benches. Physical restraints straight-jackets
all over the place. Untrained and often brutal at
tendants." Not a pretty picture.
' "J .oh, ptci-- Ml V ItUOJJlMUO V 1111.11
are hospitals, clean, fresh, open, cheerful, not
iail-Hke custodial institutions Trip r.ih'n nf rlnn.
tors to patients is increasing. Intensive treatment
i i i , ,
is replacing nopeiess custody.
A ND the benefits resulting are staggering.
Oregon, now completing a new mental hos
pital not far from Portland, probably never will
nave to build another.
Instead of facing a lifetime in an institution.
most mental patients can now look forward to
returning home relatively soon, and continuing
to receive neip ana treatment there.
(Increasing use of "half-wav houses" insti
tutions which can help
was described by Dr.
What all this means in the general health of
society, in the rescue of productive, tax-paying
citizens, is snnpiy incaicuiaoie.
A LL this takes money lots of it.
But it is one of the cases where the exnen
diture of money will bring rewards far in excess
of the amounts spent, rewards which are both
visible and invisible.
Much yet remains to be learned about mental
illness, for the human mind is the most obscure
of all the organs of the
But cures do not have
prolession is m the midst of a ereat break
through in mental illness, and men and women
are being healed, even
their illness are not yet
It is a triumph in the
are here already. L.A.
Milking
v.. M. jucKor, whose inventive mind gave
birth to the internationally famous Sno-Cat, once
had another idea the manufacture of "glaciers,
by spraying water into
winter, where it would
available as run-off during the dry summer.
Despite some talk
came to anything, which
But now we read of
ning to nnd out whether similar use can be made
of natural glaciers, "milkinir" more water from
them in dry years, slowing their melting in damp
years, and perhaps speeding their growth in
winter months.
By using cloud-seeding, and various dusting
preparations to speed or
gree ot control may be
short western America,
considerable interest, and fltomise. h.A.
new admissions do not
this revolution, a thouch
convalescent individuals
Menmntrer.)
body.
to wait, for the medical
when the basic causes of
fully understood.
making, and the benefits
Glaciers
deep canyons during the
freeze, and then become
of experiments, it never
is a pity.
scientists who are plan
f etard melting, some de
established. In water
their experiments hold
Dennis the
I OON'T kmow her number. 6ut her name
IS AW&ARBT AN' SHE WEARS GLASSES
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Questions
To the Editor: Good Nightl
What next is going to happen
to the Jackson county proper
ty owners?
Now someone dreamed up
Home Rule Government possi
bility of County Bonding or
Bancrofting for county im
provements.
I am a college graduate but
I don't understand the mean
ing of the above. I would like
to know more about it.
Who are the people that are
on the committee, where do
they live and what do they do
for a living?
This Home Rule business
sounds like another "Booby
Trap" to me. The paper states
with the Home Rule for Jack
son County, advantages as
more central control through
a board of supervisors or the
county court.
Why, the two? One is
enough - the county court.
The board of supervisors
just means an added expense
to the county.
I would like to know about
"Bancrofting."
What is its exact meaning
and how and why it would
benefit Jackson county prop
erty owners?
Docs any one else think the
same as I do?
Mrs. Lillian Green,
2411 Sunset Court,
Medford.
Editor's note; These are le
gitimate questions, deserving
an answer, which we shall
attempt:
1. "Home rule' is a plan
whereby county government
can be adapted to the needs of
the particular county. A con
stitutional amendment was
passed by a vote of the people
in 1958 permitting counties to
draw up and esta blish,
through a vote of the people,
such home rule charters. The
county court here plans to es
tablish a committee to STUDY
such a proposal, but they have
not yet been chosen.
2. '"Bancrofting bonds" is a
phrase derived from Oregon's
Bancroft law. This simply pro
vides that bonds issued to pay
for local improvements
(streets, sewers, etc.) can be
retired over a period of years,
with the assessments against
property paid over the same
period of time, rather than all
at once. It enables residents to
pay a $100 assessment, for in
stance, at a rate of $10 per
year for 10 years.
3. The form of "home rule"
in county government is not
specified, and can take any
one of several forms. For in
stance it could be an adapta
tion of the county court sys
tem, or a county manager sys
tem, or a board of supervisors
system. In any case, it would
have to be voted on by the
people before being adopted.
2 Bridges at U-2
To the Editor: Less knock it
off! Less knock it off! Drop
the U-2 deal now, that's his
tory. The UP and the AP and the
YP and the HP have really
racked Uiat one up.
Let the freelancers dig out
something else now, or fill
that space with something like
that Eighth st. bridge! It'll
have to be widened and
straightened out next year,
won't it?
And I notice the curve on
Uic new 10th st. bridge is to
the South, that's some kind of
harneony Isn't it? New things
every day, shows how we real
ly get along: one curves North,
other curves South, wcq al
ways have plenty of time to
analyze the traffic problems
after wpbulld the bridges.
(Name on file)
lirdford.1-
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Menace
Emergency Service
To the Editor: My husband
and I operate a neighborhood
grocery store. One of our
friends came running to the
store looking for something to
revive her husband who was
unconscious. She and a neigh
bor had tried without success
to contact several doctors, as
they had no family doctor. It
was Saturday afternoon and a
doctor could not be located
who could come to the house.
My husband went home with
her and upon seeing her hus
band realized that he was in
desperate need of help. He
called the fire department for
a resuscitator and ambulance.
Promptly the fire depart
ment arrived and we were as
tounded to see a regular Fire
Engine with firemen in full
dress and equipment to fight a
fire instead of the emergen
cy rescue truck we had ex
pected. The firemen plus am
bulance crew did a wonderful
job trying to revive the pa
tient, but he was beyond help.
What bothers us is, could
this life have been saved if a
doctor had been reached in
time?
The same situation came up
again the next week when a
young man had a heart attack
and his family after repeated
attempts, secured a doctor. De
lay In this instance also could
have been disastrous. -
In talking this situation
over with our personal doctor,
I was informed that in the yel
low pages of the telephone
book, under Physicians and
Surgeons, is a boxed-in notice
of what number to call if
doctor is needed in an emer
gency. In the years that I have
lived in Medford and vicinity,
I had not known of the serv
ice. Upon inquiring among
friends and customers, I found
no one else who did either.
Above our telephone on a
card written in large letters
(easy to read when excited)
are these numbers:
1. Doctor's office.
2. Doctor's home phone
3. Medford ambulance
4. Hospital
5. Fire Department
6. Police Department
7. Doctors' Exchange
Emergency Number
If you do not have a doctor
of your own, call Doctors Ex
change (SP. 2-7644) or call an
ambulance or take the patient
to the hospital. There is al
ways someone to help and
each doctor donates so many
hours each month so a doctor
is always available.
Our doctor also Informed
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A BEARDED BEATNIK occupied a one-room Hat in a
cold-water apartment whose furniture consisted solely
of a rickety bed and one chair. A visitor appeared one
evening and discovered
two old magazines on the
floor. "So," she sneered,
"you hired a decorator!"
Disneyland hotel receiv
ed a phone call from an
ebullient Texan, who de
clared he was headed in
that direction with a few
friends and would require
14 double rooms. He added
that he waa traveling by
car.
How," demanded tha
elerk.o'can you transport
14 rooms full of people by
car?"
Son," explained the Texan,
O
Russel C route, co-autrejv of
Sound of Mutie," confesses that he's partial to operettas-,
tourte," he adde, "I mean telephone operettas."
C Mtfc hr Buatlt Cert Dittributtl j King Features Syndicate
Man-of-thc-Week: Premier Kishi, Who
Faces Opposition From Friend
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
The man of the week:
Premier Nobusuke Kishi of
Japan.
The place: Tokyo.
The quote: "If I resigned
under pressure of violence.
Democracy in Japan would
be destroyed."
Democracy is a word used
often by Kishi, a small man
with protruding teeth and a
perpetual
smile, whose
World War II
record is a
favorite target
of his political
opponents.
Kishi was
one of those
who signed
eJ the dec 1 " r
PHiLNiswsoN tion of war
against the United States in
1941, and it was he who,
in 1939, designed the mili-
IS?
West Marks 20th
Milestone; First
News Job Recalled
By DICK WEST
Washington -IUPD- It was 20
years ago this week that I
first fell in love. That was
when I got my
first newspa
per job.
I know what
you think I
am going to
say now. You
think I'm go
ing to say I
fell in love
with my work.
But you've
been reading too many Hora
tio Alger books.
What I fell in love with was
a lady linotype operator
named Toulouse La Schwartz.
As for the job, I was ready
to chuck it the day after I
was hired.
Toulouse had a fiery artis
tic temperament. I doubt that
many newspaper composing
rooms have seen her equal as
a virtuoso on the typecasting
machine.
She was named after her
great great grandfather, Bene
dictine La Schwartz, an ob
scure Italian artist who paint
ed in a florid, fluid style. Art
critics denounced his style. In
France, they called him "Tou
louse." H Wat Sorry
This newspaper job I had
paid S12.50 a week. I was a
proofreader. I was Immediate
ly sorry I had quit my job in
a filling station. The station
job only paid $12 a week but
the hours were better.
I went back there a couple
of days after I started work
as a proofreader but the sta
tion had already hired some
one else. Had It not been for
that, I might now be president
of Standard Oil.
I worked from 4 p.m. until
1 a.m., during which time I
proofread the entire morning
edition of the paper. I also an
swered all the calls coming
into the city room and took
classified ads over the phone.
In a few weeks, I took on
an additional job as morgue
keeper, or librarian, and my
salary was increased to $15 a
week. Toulouse and I began
to speak of marriage.
I worked at a desk with an
older man who served as tele
graph editor, make-up editor,
us that several times some
form of emergency service has
been looked into, but has been
unsuccessful because it must
come through taxation and
people are against any added
taxes.
Can we do anything to im
prove this condition?
Mrs. Howard G. Davis,
1501 Prune St.,
Medford.
"It's a railroad car."
"Life With Father" and
O
"Tha
"Of
Dick West
taristic economy that enabled
Japan to build and maintain
her guns, planes and ships.
Kishi The Powerful -
His word was one of the
keys to the decision that
Japan could afford to attack
the United States, and it was
he who directed the huge in
dustrial complex in Japanese
held Manchuria that helped
Japan to carry out that attack.
But it was this same Kishi,
replying to Socialist criticism
in the Japanese Diet (Parlia
ment), who said 16 years
later:
"I have fully searched my
soul concerning my wartime
responsibility, and today I am
resolved to devote myself as
a Democratic statesman to the
building of Japan with the
people."
This week, Kishi, friend of
the United States, was in the
midst of one of his toughest
fights.
With the help of his Liber
copyreader and headline writ
er. He developed a habit of
pulling out his eyebrows, one
at a time.
Before the summer was
over, he became the only
newspaperman I ever knew
with bald eyebrows. This
made him neurotic. I offered
to let him pull my eyebrows
but he said it wouldn't be
helpful.
Skipped Classified
I had so much proofreading
to do, I began to skip over the
classified ads, which were set
in small type and hurt my
eyes. Toulouse was operating
the classified linotype and I
trusted her.
One day the paper's largest
automobile advertiser ran a
sale on old cars. His ad came
out in the paper as "old cans."
The publisher came up to see
me and Toulouse and I broke
up.
So that's the story of my
first love, folks. Thanks for
listening. I figure that when
a man starts passing 20-year
milestones he is entitled to a
little reminiscing.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, with 80
per cent of California's pre
cincts heard from in part or
complete, these are the fig
ures: Nixon 1,017,764
Brown 922,636
McLain 437,391
THAT is to say:
As of now. Republican
Nixon has 10 per cent more
votes than Democrat Brown.
But Democrats Brown and
McLain, combined, have 36
per cent more votes than Re
publican Nixon.
What that means is that in
California (as in Oregon)
there are more registered
Democrats than registered Re
publicans. In the primary elec
tion, California voters voted
by party label. In the general
election next fall, they will
vote as individuals.
WHAT it amounts to at the
" moment is that y ester
day's election pledges Cali
fornia's 70 Republican CON
VENTION votes to Nixon and
her 81 CONVENTION votes
to Brown - who says he Is
not a candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination but hasn't
yet determined his choice
among the avowed Democratic
candidates.
SOMETHING new was added
to the situation when New
York's Governor Rockefeller
issued a statement calling on
Vice President Nixon to de
clare "precisely" what Nixon
believes and proposes to meet
GREAT MATTERS confront.
ing the nation. He adds that
he had hoped that anyone
aspiring to lead the Republi
can party would make such a
declaration, but it "has not
been done."
Mr. Rockefeller made his
statement to a closed-door
meeting of Republican leaders
a few hours after he had told
President Eisenhower at
breakfast that he planned to
make the statement and also
that he is critical ot current
national defense policies.
He also told the meeting
that he will lead the New
York delegation to the Repub
lican national convention In
Chicago.
rpHE Associated Press says
"The tenor of the state
ment Indicated that Rockefel
ler Is. STRIKING OUT ON
HIS OWN AS A REPUBLI
CAN SPOKESMAN INDE
PENDENT OF THE EISEN
HOWER ADMINISTRA
TION."
WHAT of that?
Well, this is a
free coun-
try. If Mr.
Rockefeller wants
al-Democratic party s huge
majority in Parliament, he
had rammed the U.S.-Japan
Mutual Security through to
ratification over the violent
protests of his Socialist oppo
sition. Unless he can be forced
from office in the meantime,
the treaty automatically be
comes law on June 19, the
same day President Eisenhow
er is scheduled to arrive in
Tokyo for his Japanese visit.
Kishl's difficulties come
from both left and right. The
Communists opposed the U.S.
treaty for obvious reasons.
The Socialists are committed
to support a no-war Japanese
constitution and profess to see
in the treaty a danger that
Japan will be dragged into a
new major conflict.
Within Kishl's own party,
there also is opposition-not to
the treaty but to Kishi him
self. These intra-party opposition
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
POLICY DANGERS
Washington -The party
platforms so solemnly adopted
by national political conven
tions usually
are about as
important t o
he subse
quent p r e s i
dential cam
paign as are
the limp post
ers left hang
i n g in the
hotel suites of
defeated can
didates for the nomination.
Things will be different this
time, specifically for the Dem
ocrats. For not only civil
rights will embroil them. It
is now certain that a far more
profound issue will bitterly
engage the Democratic na
tional convention in Los An
geles. This is foreign policy.
The Democratic party today
is deeply divided over what
line the convention should
take over the broken summit
conference and what cold war
policy should be recommend
ed for the future.
T
HE SIMPLE truth is this:
the less restraint and wis
dom shown by the Democrats
in handling this question the
more likely it will be that
whoever they choose for presi
dent will be beaten by Rich
ard M. Nixon.
A Democratic group center
ing about Adlai E. Stevenson
and Sen. John F. Kennedy,
the presidential front-runner,
seems determined to carry
summit criticism of President
Eisenhower past the point of
no return. Some of this criti
cism is valid, academically.
And it may wow the college
audiences and the 1 a d i e s'
study groips as Stevenson
losing presidential elections.
If it goes much further in
its present waspish tone, how
ever, there will be two cer
twice wowed such groups in
tain consequences: (1) the
to be a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Pres
ident, he has a perfect right
to be a candidate. If he dis
agrees with the so-called Ei
senhower-Nixon policies, he
has a perfect right to disagree.
Besides, if he decides to be
come an active candidate for
the nomination it will remove
from the Republican conven
tion the onus of being a cut
and-dried affair. This nation
ha; been built on the founda
tion of free competition, and
free competition never hurt
anybody.
BUT
U i
One hopes
If Mr. Rockefeller decides
to become an active candidate
he will make perfectly clear
his reasons for differing with
the Eisenhower-Nixon policies
and will outline sharply what
HIS policies are.
That will give us rank-and-file
voters something to get
our teeth into.
,m---mi t
in
William 8.
White
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If you are wearing that look of
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petite, digestive disturbances,
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If to, you need suffer no more.
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322 EAST MAIN STREET
and Foe
leaders see the present anti-
Kishi and anti-treaty demon
strations not as a national
crisis for Japan but rather
an opportunity to oust Kishi.
Some of these resent the U.S.
imposed limitations on Japa
nese trade with Red China.
But the same Kishi who
stood up to the warlord Tojo
in World War II, today is
standing against the mobs.
Questions arising from Kishl's
strong-arm tactics in ramming
the U.S.-Japan treaty through
Parliament, now have been
superseded by a more impor
tant one.
To bow to the mobs might
not mean the end of Democ
racy in Japan.
But to bow to their de
mands that the treaty be nul
lified and Eisenhower's trip
to Japan cancelled could, in
the eyes of the administration
in Washington, mean the col
lapse of Japanese ties with
the West.
S. WHITE
country itself will be made to
appear unduly divided amid
a world crisis. (2) the Demo
cratic party will seem too
much concerned with what
Khrushchev and others
abroad think and too little
concerned with what the
voters at home think. Every
time that Khrushchev hits
Nixon makes all this the more
inevitable.
A SECOND Democratic
group centers about such
wholly diverse figures other
wise as Sen. Lyndon B. John
son and former President Tru
man. Mr. Truman is no sup
porter of Johnson's own presi
dential ambitions. He is how
ever, much closer to John
son's position in this one mat
ter than to that of the Tru
man presidential choice, Sen.
Stuart Symington.
The Johnson-Truman group
believes extreme foreign pol
icy criticism of any, repeat
any, president while this na
tion is in trouble abroad is
neither right nor politically
sound. (Mr. Tfuman is some
thing of an expert. Remember
the partisan attacks made on
his policy while the Korean
war was in progress?)
But it is the Kennedy
Stevenson forces which are
more likely to control the
platform committee. Its desig
nated chairman, Rep. Chester
Bowles of Connecticut, is a
Kennedy man all the way.
Any suggestion that any of
these gentlemen is an "ap
peaser" is, of course, non
sense. But the undoubted fact
that they are sincere and hon
orable does not alter the fact
that they are most unwise.
THE CENTRAL Democratic
necessity is somehow to
mute the Stevenson-Kennedy
line in the platform commit
tee - for the sake of Kennedy
himself should he emerge the
nominee. Who can keep the
committee at least somewhat
on the track?
The finger points to the one
elevated Democrat who led a
tiny minority which always
opposed the summit - Dean
Acheson, Mr. Truman's secre
tary of state. Most of the
Democrats now belaboring
Mr. Eisenhower were the
loudest advocates of just such
a meeting.
Acheson, indeed, may turn
out to be Indispensable at Los
Angeles. He need not actual
ly be on the committee. But
many Democrats hope his
voice will be strongly heard
there. Nobody could charge
him with being "soft" on the
E I s enhower administration.
But nobody could suspect him
of proceeding from a need to
Justify a personal pro-summit
bias of the past by harping on
the errors of others.
And whatever he might say
would come from a man who
knows what it is to be actual
ly responsible for foreign
policy, rather than to criticize
from the side lines.
(Copyright, 1960. by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
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