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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 7, 1850 (Monday
The annual shortage of box
cars which regularly plagues
the Rogue valley lumber in
dustry is worse than usual
this year, and will probably
get still worse, according to
lumber sources.
The Jackson county court
will invoke a stale law call
ing for the formation of dis
trict courts in county scats
of counties with more than
60,000 population.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 7. 1940 (Wednesday)
Burglars broke into the
Coca Cola Bottling company
plant; 601 North Grape St.,
last night and carted away a
safe containing $400.
From Arthur Perry's "Yo
Smudge Pot" column: "Af
firmative arguments were
filed at Salem this week for
a measure to be voted upon
In November, repealing the
state milk control board. Re
peal would result in more
contented water faucets."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 7. 1930 (Thursday)
Florenz Ziegfeld, famous
gtage producer of New York
caught a salmon in the Rogue
river yesterday.
A local fruit grower an
nounces he is going to revolu
tionize the pear Industry, but
hasn't yet said how.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 7, 1920 (Saturday)
Local fruit packers decide
to eliminate arsenate of lead
complaints by wiping and
all fruit.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 7, 1910 (Sunday)
The Japanese vice-consul
has been in Medford for the
past few days asking questions
about fruit growing and farm
Ing and it is thought that (he
Japanese may come to the
Rogue valley before long as
they have done in California
fruit growing centers.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct is superior:
even or eight Is excellent; five or
six Is good.
1. Is "Sortes Biblicas," in
troduced during the reign of
Charlemagne, a reference for
fortune telling, eccla.siastical
prayer, or law?
2. Over what country did
the House of Plantagcnct
once reign?
3. Is the original Rialto in
Venice, Wyoming, or Lon
don? 4. Does an atom of uranium
have a diameter of one-hundredth,
one-millionth, or one
hundredth - millionth of an
inch?
5. What Polish General was
a hero of our Revolutionary
War?
6. Name the author of "Tile
Gold Bug"?
7. Moslems shave the scalp
but leave a tuft of hair. Why
the tuft?
8. Does sound travel faster
In water than in air?
9. What is the opposite of
climax?
10. In what village in
France was Joan of Arc born
in 1412?
Answers: 1. Forflune-lelling.
2. England. 3. Venice, Italy.
4. On hundredth millionth.
5. Caiimir Pulaski. 6. Edgar
Allen Poo. 7. For the "angel"
lo graip lo carry the body
heaven-ward. 8. Yes. 9. Anti
climax. 10. Domremy.
New European Entente?
The United States is partly responsible for
and has a great concern in what appears to be a
new degree of cohesion among the heads of gov
ernment of Great Britain, West Germany, and
France. Chancellor Adenauer and President de
Gaulle conferred in Paris on the last week end
of July and then Adenauer invited Prime Minister
Macmillan for the forthcoming conference in
Bonn.
After the Paris discussions, the Christian
Democratic party press service in Bonn, which
reflects the Adenauer government's position with
exactness, stated: "They (President de Gaulle
and Chancellor Adenauer) have . . . made known
their intention of not leaving to the United States
alone the entire burden of initiative in dealing
with the powerful and dangerous Soviet Union.
WITHOUT flirting with a "third force" posi-
"T tion, Adenauer and De Gaulle obviously
want a greater say in Western councils and they
are going to try to convince Macmillan that he
should support them.
The timing of the discussions is a reflection of
the great distress throughout Western Europe at
the foreign policy "paralysis" that grips the
United States every four
Moreover,, the British Yorkshire Post reports that
Adenauer is known to
secret source, which he believes to be reliable, in
dicating that the Russians are likely to launch a
new phase of the war of
Communist East Germany on Aug. 1 the
15th anniversary of the signing of the Potsdam
agreement by the four World War II victors
warned that it would not allow the traffic arteries
to West Berlin to be "mis-used" by the Western
Allied powers.
A BONN spokesman
nauer-De Gaulle talks
that the tvo "had the
haste but at an appropriate time a reform of the
Auanuc organization woum serve a useiui pur
pose." There was talk also of a new "body" to
align the foreign policies of Western European
nations.
De Gaulle has long wanted a greater voice in
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization director
ate. Adenauer, though promoting an ever firmer
understanding with De Gaulle, does not want
France to maintain nuclear weapons. These con
siderations lead the conservative Daily Express
of London to speculate that Adenauer will pres
sure Macmillan to give Britain's H-bomb stocks
to NATO, encouraging De Gaulle to forego his.
THE economic phase of the three-way talks
1 Macmillan is expected to visit the French
capital next month finds the British Prime
Minister on something of a stocky wicket. Britain
is the organizer and principal backer of the Euro
pean Free Trade Association or Outer Seven.
Jealous of its Commonwealth ties, Britain
stayed out of the European Common Market, or
Inner six, tor another good reason : Britain was
unwilling to sacrifice a measure of sovereignty
or European influence to the central trade bloc.
Now De Gaulle is talkinp; about a permanent
secretariat for the Inner Six in Paris, while Ade
nauer cherishes closer political integration for
the nations or the Six. So at Bonn Macmillan may
find himself literally betwixt the Six and the
Seven; either he accepts increasingly closer
economic and political ties with Geimany and
France, or Britain will be increasingly isolated
from Western Europe. E.R.R.
Central African Turmoil
Riots in Southern Rhodesia, coming at a time
when violence in the new Republic of Congo and
fear of new Mau Mau violence in Kenya have
riveted world attention on Central Africa, have
led a white settler government to take strong de
fensive measures. .
The disturbances near Salisbury and the sub
sequent riots around Bulawayo were in protest
against the arrest of three leaders of the Nation
al Democratic party, which is demanding greater
rights for black Africans. The membership of the
NDP has climbed sharply in recent months, draw
ing recruits from African leaders who formerly
worked with the liberal, bi-racial Central African
party.
THE disturbances in Southern Rhodesia came
of n.,i!n,.i u.....,,..,:.. i: .u r..:i
ai a jcnium iv emutu i rteoiiij; nine ui me
ish; they coincided with the opening in London
of a Nyasaland constitutional conference. South
ern Rhodesia, a self-governing British colony
since 1922, is linked in the Commonwealth
scheme of things with two British protectorates,
Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, in the Cen
tral African Federation.
The framework of the federation government
is already in place; the Prime Minister is Sir Roy
Welensky. On paper the federation makes sense.
OOWEVER, African nationalists suspect the
white-dominated federal government. They
fear independence for the confederation re
peatedly urged by Welensky on the ground that
European settlers would seek to solidify and per
petuate the control they now exercise over the
government and the lives of the Africans.
The British press, particularly since Belgium's
colonial difficulties erupted, like?o point to the
"natural pace at which the growth of self-government
should proceed." So far the British pace in
Central Africa appears unhi?rried, despite the
urgings of the ruling white minority. E.R.R.
years at campaign time,
have inrormation from a
nerves over Berlin.
at the close of the Ade-
told a press conference
impression that without
Dennis the
S& I LIKED COIV0OS WHEN I WAS A VOUNSSTEK. 6UT
1 DIDN'T MAKfi AW PAO LISTEN 10 THEM SING'.'
Drummond
(Walter Lippman is on vacation.
from Washington in his absence.)
Washington Unintention
ally Premier Khrushchev has
focused the attention of the
entire Western hemisphere
upon the central anxiety of
all the American republics
over what is happening to the
Castro regime in Cuba.
He did it by blasting the
Monroe Doctrine as outdated
and meaningless.
Khrushchev apparently has
thought that the Monroe Doc
trine was a United States de-
vice to impose the United
States' will upon Latin Amer
ica and that by attacking it
he would undercut the U.S
and make friends for himself
in Latin America.
The fact is that Mr. K. is
being quite a help. His tirade
is backfiring. It is not the
Monroe Doctrine which is out
of date or out of favor. It is
Khrushchev's views of the
Monroe Doctrine which are
out of date. '
1 WAT'S why his effort to
hurv the Monroe Doctrine
are having a different effect
than he expected.
There's good reason. The
Monroe Doctrine is not a uni
lateral United States fiat
against foreign intervention
In the Western hemisphere.
It used lo be. It isn't any long
er. It is a multilateral com
mitment by all the Western
hemisphere nations to join in
common defense against any
outside intervention in the
Western hcimsphcrc.
Thus, in attacking the Mon
roe Doctrine, a collective bul
wark against outside inter
vention, the Soviet Premier is
suggesting to the Organiza
tion of American Slates that
the Western hemisphere
ought lo be open to outside
intervention.
rpHIS latest Khrushchev
A blast 2ives most Latin-
American leaders, at least
those outside Cuba, cold shud
ders. By condemning the prin
ciple of non-intervention, im
bedded in the revised Monroe
Doctrine, and written into the
charter of the Organization of
American States, Khrushchev
is to them advocating the
right of Soviet intervention.
This is the last thing they
want. And Mr. K., by trying
lo spread fear of the United
States in Latin America, has
increased Latin' American
fears of the Soviet Union.
Further, the Kremlin at
tack on the Monroe Doctrine
conies at the very time when
the Castro regime is provid
ing the answer to what until
recently has been this unre
solved question: Is Castro
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
DEFINITELY BOUND for big things in the world
of finance is the tireless youth who spent an entire
week going from store to store in midtown Manhattan
changing a dollar bill
into two half dollars,
the half dollars into
four quarters, the quar
ters into ten dime,s, the
ten dimes into twenty
nickels, and the nickels
into a hundred pennies.
Directly he had the
hundred pennies, he re
versed the process, end
ing up with a dollar bill
again in his jeans. His
boss ventured to inquire
what on earth his ob
ject was.
"Some day," explained the crafty youth, 'somebody
is going to make a mistake and it isn't going to be I'L
A native of Lo Vegaa, making his first visit to Cone Island,
was entranced with the merry-go-round, sat watching it intently
for a full hour. Finally he was led over to the operator and re
marked, "New York parent must be out of their mlnda, gamb
ling away their children like that!"
O I960, by Bennett Ctrf. Distributed by Ktnf Features Syndicate
Menace
Reports
Roscoe Drummond reports
simply conducting a reckless
revoltuion that may only
wreck the Cuban nation or is
he being led into fanning ha
tred and fear of the United
States in order to turn Cuba
into a Communist satellite?
The reason the Western
hemisphere Foreign Ministers
are meeting twice this month,
first in Washington and later
in Lima, is that the evidence
is mounting that Cuba is fall
ing steadily into the hands of
Communists whose first loyal
ty is to Moscow or to Peking
or to both.
CASTRO promised free elec
tions and has refused to
hold them.
Castro promised a free
press and has outlawed all in
dependent newspapers.
Castro promised the right
of habeas corpus and has sus
pended it.
Castro promised land to the
landless farmers and instead
has put them in communes
patterned after the Red Chi
nese. Today the Cuban nation is
a full-scale dictatorship infil
trated by Communists and
dominated by secret police.
rpHE consensus of every ob
X ipntiv. account coming
frnm rcDorters who have been
in Havana, as Thomas Wolfe
summed up in his series for
the "Washington Post" is:
Thnt Pnha is now denend-
ent upon Communist coun
tries economically.
That Castro is now depend
ent upon the Cuban Commu
nist party politically.
If Fidel Castro did not
want to bring this tragic
plight upon his country-
which he probably didn t-no
wonder he is a sick man. And
when his vnunecr brother.
Raul, gets his hands fully on
the government, anything can
happen.
Tf Puha nuts Itself under
Communist control, then
Cuba will have to be quaran
tined by the Organization of
American States until the dis
ease has run its course.
(c) 1960 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
REPORTS DEATHS
Munich, Germany - (UPD -One
out of every seven Chi
nese Christians has lost his
life under the Communist re
gime on the mainland, Dr.
Theol Vianney Hsin, Chinese
theologian, said Thursday. He
told the 37th International'
Eucharistlc Congress that 500
priests have been martyred
since the Communists took
over.
Sfop Me
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papars in fact the contrary is often the case.
Political Philosophies
To the Editor: Perhaps E. A
of the Medford Mail Tribune,
whose guest editorial appear
ed in the Eugene Register-
Guard, had better brush up on
his political philosophies. It is
the liberal, not the conserva
tive, wno believes that gov
ernment rights are superior
to human rights. Although
the "liberal" is the last to ad
mit it, the facts are that "lib
eralism" is a disease that can
be easily identified, through
syndrome. It is simply social
ism without Marx. William
F. Buckley, in his new book
Up from Liberalism," con
clude that "liberals" are intel
lectually bankrupt since their
denial of principles makes
any consistent philosophy im
possible. Since E. A. is enamoured
with this socialism, let us con
sult a writing of the Rev.
Francis E. Mahaffey called
"Was Karl Marx Right." He
said, "Socialism is a false re
ligion. Socialism stands con
demned as opposed to Chris
tianity. It defies the laws of
God, and hence is bound to
result in chaos, war, and pov
erty. If it succeeds, Christian
ity will not." When enough
people recognize the fact that
its basic principles are in open
defiance of God s law and in
valid, socialism will no longer
be the menace to our exist
ence it is today.
The thing called "conserva
tism" although misnamed, has
a time-honored and definitive
literature from John Locke to
the present and, our newspa
per editors should acquaint
themselves with it before go
ing all out for a system that is
immoral in concept and a sys
tem that has never worked. To
say that "those days are gone
forever" when Christianity
and morality are involved is
brash.
The issue is individualism
versus statism. The Ten Com
mandments stand today as the
greatest document of individ
ual freedom in the recorded
history of man. -Each of the
Ten Commandments is ad
dressed to the individual as
a self controlling person re-
sponsible for his own
thoughts, words, and acts.
Each of them recognizes lib
erty and freedom as inherent
in the nature of man. The
eighth and tenth affirm and
reaffirm the rights of owner
ship that the socialist takes
away. Human rights are prop
erty rights and property
rights are human rights. To
deny this is to deny life a la
Cuba, Russia and China. Con
versely, "conservatism" stands
by the guarantee of life, lib
erty, and the pursuit of hap
piness. But, says the Medford Mail
Tribune, the system of liberty
is not geared to do the job in
the present era. Let us look
then to "Mainspring of Hu
man Progress" written by
Henry Grady Weaver: "At
one time or another, every
conceivable form of authority
(government) has been tried,
but each has failed for the
simple reason; (1) Only an in
dividual human being can
generate energy and (2) Only
an individual human being
can control the energy he gen
erates. The lack of under
standing o f these simple
truths has, for over 6,000
years, stagnated human prog
ress and kept the vast major
ity of people underfed, poorly
clothed, embroiled in wars,
and dying from famine and
pestilence."
I ask you, why leave the
right system that we call "con-
servatism'' for a system that
has never worked?
Mert Folts,
350 Fairway Loop,
Eugene, Ore.
Thanks Expressed
To the Editor: I have just
returned from Camp Low
Echo where I spent 10 of the
happiest days of my life.
I wish to take this means
to thank the wonderful peo
ple who made it possible for
me to go - the Kiwanians who
gave me my campership, Dr.
McGeary who gave me my
physical and Mrs. Evelyn
Large, my girl scout leader
who submitted my name and
gave me a "plug" so that I
was chosen.
I wish that more girls could
go to camp in the summer as
it is a rewarding experience.
Kathy Haertle,
1455 So?ith Wage rd.,
Medford.
Highway Crews
To the Editor: Did you efer
vatch der No. 'On Highvay
MainttiTnance Crew at vork.
putt der yellow lines on
der highvay? Dey vis a'fjyiys
iouoweo. oy rugnvay (jrew
No. . ftt puts der yellow
lines under der pavment. und
ve drive dorn der highvay
oy raciar.
Everett Acklin, 0
Ashland, Ore.
'Dog-in-the-Manger'
To the Editor: It would
seem beyond the point in go
ing way out on a limb as you
did in Monday's MT, blaming
home people here for failure
to support the 20:30 Club plan
in providing vacation jobs for
teen-agers.
Quite like this writer, the
home people don't want to
feel humiliated in offering the
price they can afford for baby
sitting, yardword, washing the
car, etc. Teen-agers may not
read much beyond the funnies
and sport pages, but they are
well aware of the S3 to S4
per hour demanded and ob
tained by organized union la
bor. So, they feel entitled in
proportionate pay.
An elderly friend said to
me, "Don't you think that 50
cents is enough for mowing
our tiny lawn that does not
take a young strong boy more
than 15 or 20 minutes at the
most. My goodness me, they
want a $1 to a $1.50 to do it.
We don't know what to do.
Daddy and I are old and just
don't have the strength to
push that mower."
A rather new angle was
presented recently by a young,
but hard thinking friend who
remarked: "How can you ex
pect our young people to be
good and efficient workers
when our laws demand that
they be raised as drones until
they are too old to rightly
learn to work?"
An orchardist at a Grange
meeting remarked on the dif
ficulty of hiring local labor:
"We don't make a practice
of hiring teen-agers. All too
often they arrive late and
languid. So discouragingly in
different to the how and why
of the work to be done. They
work fairly well for about an
hour. Then we find them sunk
back in a tree-crotch or in the
grass, yelling for a hotdog and
coke break, seemingly having
had no kind of a worker's
breakfast. Somehow, they
don't seem to know how to
work. We do gladly hire the
few who prove to be good
workers and show interest in
what they are doing."
Some boys are born work
ers. Like an orphaned one
vacationing with us at our Oak
Grove home south of Portland.
He was overjoyed to get an
errand running and watching
job at the new B-47 bomber
gas station nearby. But it was
short lived. He came home
wet-eyed, crying: "A Union
business agent said it was ille
gal for me to have the job,
that my boss must hire a un
ion man or have pickets out
front." The boy would not
stay without a job so went
back to the orphanage. The
union man could not take
the small pay job, resulting
in a modernization of that
ancient but proven guide-post,
dog-in-the-manger.
F. J. Clifford,
Route 2, Box 200F,
Central Point
'Last Frontier'
To the Editor: A phrase we
heard, made some years ago
by a traveler about southwest
ern part of Oregon and north
ern half of California, now
comprising the mythical state
of Jefferson was, that the in
terior was "wild and would
always remain wild."
Perhaps it was a true ex
pression at that time, but
thanks to the helicopter and
plane for the modern day
method of traversing the
rough contours of the wilder
ness. Probably the inaccessibility
of reaching every inch of the
last frontier and vacation land
by automobile is a blessing in
disguise, for that barrier
alone will help preserve the
last remaining primitive area
of northern California and
southwest Oregon, a rugged
wilderness of enchantment
for future generations to
wonder at.
Some 100 years ago the
same area was a scene of
many a gold mine including
both placer and quartz dis
coveries. Only the easily and
accessible locations were
found and worked with profit.
According to tradition much
of the area is a virgin para
dise of mineral bearing for
mations.
Bert Kissinger,
520 Boardman St.,
Medford, Ore.
Seeks Fishing Stream
To theQEditor: I thought
maybe some of your readers
might know where this place
is:
"Once, while fishing with
home-madejjjlies, and thinking
of several, great big lies,
which I could tell the boys at
the home, about the miles of
brooks over which I'd roamed,
tho' I hadJigured on the lies
and the trip for months, I now
decided to tell the truth, for
once.
"I would tell them I had
not caught a cockeyed fish,
though my home-made flies
were a tempting dish for any
Matter of Fact
THE IDEAS OF
J. K. GALBRAITH
Washington-John Kenneth
Galbraith is a tall, sardonic.
witty Harvard professor of
economics wno alarms aimosi
everybody.
He alarms other economics
professors be
cause he ob
stinately writes the
English lan
guage, which
is held to be
grossly i m -
moral in ev
ery proper
e c o n o mics
juski'h ALSoi' d e partment.
He alarms liberals because he
is not mushily humanitarian,
in the fashionable left-wing
way. But above all, he alarms
conservatives.
Galbraith is becoming the
new ogre of American busi
nessmen, because he. is
thought to be a dangerous
left-winger, and because he
is well known to be one of
Sen. John F. Kennedy's chief
economic advisers. America
sternly Galbraith-ized by a
Kennedy victory, with not a
single yacht, or quail shoot,
or dividend left in the land -that
is the grim vision which
now haunts great numbers of
prosperous persons.
IF READING books were not
hornminff snph an out-of-
dale pastime, the simplest
remedies for these nightmares
would be to read what Gal
braith has written. Just for
the jokes, it is well worth do
ing, as the following passage
on the nature of vested inter
est may perhaps suggest:
The nature of a vested in
terest has an engaging flexi
bility ... in ordinary inter
course it is an improper ad
vantage enjoyed by a politi
cal minority to which the
speaker does not himself be
long. When the speaker en
joys it, it ceases to be a vest
ed interest and becomes a
hard-won reward. When a
vested interest is enjoyed not
by a minority but by a ma
jority, it is a human right."
Maybe the jokes are the
real source of conservative
alarm ' about Galbraith. In
modern America, we do not
suffer wits gladly. At any
rate, if you take a careful
look at hit, "Affluent Socie
ty" and liis more recent "Lib
eral Hour," you will find a
system of ideas that logical
ly ought to enrage the left
far more than it aisturDs me
right.
TO BE SURE, the basic
nrnnosition of the "Af
fluent Society" is unsettling.
America, says Galbraith, is
now too rich and comfortable
to regard constantly unceas
ing production of increasing
ly superfluous con sumer
goods as our main end and
purpose. The time has come,
Galbraith suggests, to think
about buying more school
rooms instead of more tail
fins. And this of course re
quires much heavier invest
ments in what he calls me
public sector.'
This central idea, that it is
needful to increase invest
ment in the public sector, is
the source of the conserva
tive outcry against Galbraith.
But if conservative persons
will only read on, to discover
how Galbraith proposes to in;
crease public investment,
they are likely to have more
mixed reactions.
He is, to begin with, usl
about as anti-inflationary as
George M. Humphrey. His
reasoning is somewnat au
ferent. He says, for instance,
that inflation corrupts good
government, because govern
ment salaries never keep pace
with an inflating currency.
BUT GALBRAITH and
Humphrey stand four
square together, nonetheless,
on the subject of inflation. He
also stands four square with
Richard M. Nixon on the mat
ter of the budget. Like Nix
on in the 1958 recession, he
accepts the need for an un
balanced budget in bad times.
But he also insists on a strict
balance in good times.
Again, Galbraith stands
four square with Humphrey
and Nixon - or perhaps one
should say, very nearly four
square - on the problem of
the income tax. Some of his
sharpest jokes are directed at
old Rogue river fish. I'd tell
them that I'd changed to a
rusty, old hook and cast into
the waters of this babbling
brook, using a Red Bug, as my
bait, those acr-ebats would
not wait.
"The fish were jumping out
on the ground, with water
splashing all around. I picked
tl.m up, brushed off the flies,
wiped the sweat out of my
eyes, rested a while then
scratched my chin, threw
about thirty-five fish back in,
AND, a.?he water was being
whipped lq foam, crawled
into my car and drove back
home."
The only thing about which
I care, is I forgot how to get
back out there.
Malemute Slim,
White City, Ore.
By Joseph Alsop
the liberal delusion that all
bills can be paid by raising
the taxes of the rich. It just
will not work, he warns.
If Galbraith had his way,
the vast existing loopholes
would certainly be closed.
Personal and corporate tax
rates might perhaps be rais
ed toward the pre-Eisenhow-er
levels. But there would
still be yachts and quail
shoots in plenty.
-
Tlf EANWHJLE, G a 1 braith
coolly proposes to pay
the main part of the bill
for new public investment
with the tax which has been
the cherished darling, the fa
vorite lost cause of the Na
tional Association of Manu
facturers since time immemo
rial. Extended sales taxes, in
fact, are the expedient he)
proposes. And if this expedi
ent bears hardly on the small
remaining minority of the
truly poor, he says that in
vestment in the public sector
must dry up these sad remain,
ing areas untouched by
American affluence.
There are other Galbraith
ideas that the N.A.M., and
big labor too, will like less
well. Instead of the exhorta
tion practiced by President
Eisenhower, he favors posi
tive though moderate gov
ernment action to stop the
wage-price spiral at its
source, in the great adminis-
tered-price industries. He also
points out that the Federal
Reserve board's methods of
slowing inflation have not
been super-effective. All the
same, the equation of Gal
braith with Karl Marx seems
a bit questionable.
(c) I960 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Blanco, Texas, birth
place of Senator Johnson, the
Democratic nominee for vice
president:
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
told his home folks that the
nation needs a new foreign
policy of using food and fiber
surpluses to WIPE OUT FEAR
AND FAMINE.
He added:
"A little food for hungry
stomachs and a little clothing
for naked backs will have a
lot more influence than the
worn-out tanks we have been
sending overseas."
TS HE right?
A If we provide food for the
hungry stomachs and clothing
for the naked backs of those
who have suffered cruel ad
versity through no fault of
their own, we will be follow
ing a policy that is everlast
ingly right.
If we travel around over
the world shoveling out food
and clothing to those who
merely find it easier to accept
what somebody else is will
ing to give than to get out and
hustle for it themselves, we'
will be following a policy that
thousands of years of exper
ience have proved to be ever
lastingly wrong.
EXAMPLES?
Well, there was Lady
Bountiful. She scattered lar
gess wherever she went. She
used no discretion. She just
scattered it as she went.
She accomplished little
GOOD.
She left many people un
happy when her bounty wai
exhausted.
THEN
Tlmrp wac thp HnnH Sa
maritan, as described by
Luke. He came upon a man
who had fallen among thieves
who stripped him of his rai
ment and beat him, leaving
him half dead. This man had
been passed up by a certain
priest and a certain Levite
who took the other side of the
road and ignored him.
Luke tells us that there
came then a certain Samari
tan who had compassion on
the unfortunate one. He
bound up his wounds and set
the man on his own beast and
took him to an inn and took;
care of him. And on the mor
row, when the Good Samari
tan departed, he took out two
pence and gave them to the
host and said: "Take care of
him; and whatsoever thou
spendest wore, when I come
again, I will repay ths."
WE have food and fiber . . .
wheat and corn and cot
ton and what not. We could
profit by GIVING IT AWAY
- . . scattering it as Lady
Bountiful did. Amonj! other
benefits, we eould empty the
warehouses and make room
for more surpluses in the
event that we are so unwise
as to go on stocking up sur
pluses forever. .
u.Ve would do little good by
scattering it on all sides. We
might do great harm by lead-
ing people to think it would
go on forever and thus tempt-
gjg thOTi to quit scitching
ior tnwnscives.
SENATOR Johnson has a
good idea, but I wish he
would be a little mortQpecific
in his proposals to give our
surpluses away.