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Hisiorv Irom the tiles ot int
Mail Trlbuna 10. 20. 30, 40
and 50 vear ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1950 (Thurtday)
A federal Judge In Portland
tnrinv ruled that the govern.
ment had failed to prove Its
charge ot restraint and mo'
nopollzation of prepaid medi
cal care against Oregon doc
tors.
. An emergency call for pear
nickers was sent out by in
state employment office here
today to help a "serious situ
ation" In the orchards.
20 YEARS AGO
Sent. 28. 1940 (Saturday)
Jacksonville and Gold Hill
scored victories Friday In
opening games of the Jackson
county six-man lootoaii con
i nrence.
. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
SmudKC Pol" column: "Pio
neers met at J'vllle Thursday
and let their memories drift
back to the days when there
was a livery stable in Asn
land, and a faro game In the
county seat.
30 YEARS AGO
Sent. 28, 1930 (Sunday)
': Employment in both the
county and city has showed
an Increase during the past
month.
Jackson county 4-H clubs
won a number of prizes at the
recently concluded state fair.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 28. 1920 (Tuesday)
Harry Howard, newcom
er to the city, has announced
he is a candidate for mayor
and will try to unseat Mayor
Gutcs.
Mcdford will play Its first
game of the Season Oct.
against Klamath Falls.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 28, 1910 (Wednesday)
The Mcdford Commercial
club will meet next week In
Its new quarters at the recent
ly completed Natatorium.
The Jacksonville city coun-
i ell last night issued a call for
bids for the city's proposed
$30,000 water supply system.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten camel li superior
teven or eltht It eactllenli Ht at
i lii it good.
' '1. Docs arid refer to dry
ness, acidity, or bitterness?
2. Helsinki Is the capital of
which country?
- 3. Lard Is a product of
what animal7
'4. What Is the singular of
axes?
5. Name the smallest
planet. ' .
8. At which "Mount were
the Ten Commandments ' Introduced?
7. How many years are
denoted by "three score and
twenty"?
8. Only three States In the
union have four letters In
their names; can you name
them?
' 8. Is Midway Island In the
Atlantla or the Pacific Ocean?
10. Docs r oss thrive In
well drained, or In damp soil?
Antwerii 1, prynwt, 2.
Finland. 3. Tht hog. 4. Ax
or axis, S, Mercury. 8. Mount
Sinai. 7. Eighty. 8. Iowa,
Ohio, Utah. t. Pacific. 10.
In damp soil, ,
SEIZES NEWSPAPERS
v Tokyo -tun- The Indonesian
government today seized two
more newspaper printing
plants, Radio .Republic In
donesia reported ' today. ' The
radio said eight plants now
have been taken over by the
government.
We were nleasantlv surprised at the presi
dential candidates' debate Monday night We'd
expected a fairly cream-puff affair, from the
advance billing, but it turned out to be a good
show a revealing one, in fact.
No strong supporter of Vice President Nixon
was, we suspect, motivated to switch his support
to Senator Kennedy.
And vice versa.
But we wonder what impression it made on
the undecided and uncommitted voter of whom
there a lot this year.
IMMEDIATELY following the two party con-
ventions, we were pretty well depressed, feel
ing that both candidates were sort of gray-flannel-suit,
machine-made, precision-ground, calcu
lating automatons.
We felt it would be difficult to work up any
degree of enthusiasm for either.
Our bias, frankly, was against Nixon. But we
found it hard to see John F. Kennedy as a man
who fitted the crucial needs of the time; a man
who would give this nation some intelligent, ag
gressive, spirited, dynamic leadership after near
ly eight years of what Joe Alsop calls "soothing
syrup." '
AS THE campaign has progressed, however,
anrl as trio nnnrliHnrps havo mjulfl r.hpil' nn-
sitions, their personalities, their approaches more
clear through speeches and statements, our orig
inal reactions have changed.
As a result, it was with an unabashed liking
for Kennedy that we sat down Monday night to
watch the debate.
What happened strengthened our impressions
of both men.
Nixon, who obviously was suffering f r o m
nervousness and tension, and who looked thin,
almost haggard, and far from well, was still his
old skillful, fast-on-his-feet self, and acquitted
himself with poise, dignity and reasonableness.
But he was (in these eyes at least) on the
defensive from first to last.
Kennedy, on the other hand,, was master of
himself and the situation,' had done his, home
work well, looked fit and self-confident, and was
frank in his appeal to the American people to
move forward into the adventurous 1960s.
ONE OF our favorite Washington political com
mentators the other day described the dif
ference between Nixon and Kennedy more or less
as follows:
"Kennedy is saying to America 'Wake up! ;
Nixon is saying 'Kelax !
This is an oversimplification, and a lot of
people will disagree with some heat.
But that was the net impression which we
received from the television "debate," and if
Kennedy can reinforce this "image" of his, keep
Nixon on the defensive, continue to call out to
the best instincts and ambitions and hopes of the
American people, he will wind up in the White
House next January.
ONE THING which was notable by its absence
v was the fact that not once during the hour
long; TV program was the word "religion" used.
The "religious issue," as a matter of fact, has
drooped out of public view m the last lew days,
and we hope it stays ounea, ior it is a nuiiui
IHSIIP. IT IL IK ail 1MHL1C UL illl. -
Perhaps, havincr been raised so early in tne
campaign, and having been bruited about so vi
ciously, people are just plain tired of it, and will
icrnore anv further attempts to inject it into what
should be a campaign based on lar more im
portant issues those of survival, of prosperity,
of equal justice, of health, of education
AS TO THE "debate" itself, it didn't really
strike the sparks nor define the positions
and issues as sharply as it might have with a
treer-swinginc iormat.
But it most certainly did more to illuminate
these things than just about anything in political
history.
If the next three sessions are as good, such
face-to-face confrontations should be permanent
ly adopted as an American political tradition.
One thing one great thing that stood
out:
Because the opponents were both physically
present, mere was little ot the slum-bang, eye-
gouging sort of campaigning (nor the smear by
innuendo) that one has seen in the past.
it was a gentlemanly encounter, and did both
participants credit.
We can hardly wait for the next one
Dennis the Menace
'Who vwits to give my mom a seat
'fopz i stand on his shoe?'
Congo Is Second Time U.N. Has Foiled
Communist Aims; K Wants aKeover
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Editor
Twice in the last 10 years
prompt United Nations action
has thwarted imperialistic
c ommunism's
ambitions t o
expand.
The first
time was in
Korea. More
recently it has
been in Af
r i c a, a a r
richer prize.
Back of this,
then, lies Ni- p'hil newsom
klta Khrushcnevs vioieni at
tack upon Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold and his
determination to destroy
United Nations usefulness
even if it must be at the cost
of some popularity among the
uncommitted or neutral na
tions he seeks ultimately to
win.
So far as Korea was con
cerned, the Communist attack
there was a line-straightening
operation designed to remove
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Tha Mail Tribune reserves the right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent tha views of tha paper; in fact the
contrary it often the cata.
-E.A.
Who Is "Shocked"?
Elmo Smith. Republican candidate for t h e
United States Senate, was oiiotcd vestordav bv
United Press International as saving. "I was
shocked to hear my opponent say she would not
nsK a nuciear war to protect free West Berlin.
Politicians, of course, are easilv "shocked"
by their opponents' statements.
nut biruth s statement actually did shock us.
WE WONDER if Smith has carefully consid
mnl llin iin,ilirt.,i!nn nf ...Ur.1 I. I
v vi, v. iiiii'iiiaviuna ui wiuiv nil sum.
We suggest he think about the words "nuclear
war," which he bandies about so easily, and re
member that implicit in them is the certiiin end
of civilization as we know it, hundreds of mil
lions dead combatants and innocent, hvstanrl.
ers ali!:e - and very possibly the end of the hu
man race. E. A. t a
Later Than Wa Think
, To the Editor: After Mon
day evening's talks by our
Presidential candidates, I feel
a deep sense of pity and re
vulsion for a group of people
who are so obviously desper
ate to hold their grip on the
voters of America, they have
the unmitigated gall to offer
us a pathetic, sick, weary little
man as prospective leader of
our country.
Naturally, being the com
passionule people we are, we
feel sympathetic with Mr.
Nixon's .sincere efforts, his
willingness to be "used," much
as they used that dear old
well-liked General.
However, sympathy and
compassion will never, never
lead us out of the miserable
mess the Republican party has
gotten us into already.
This statement of "guard
ing Federal money to force us
to use our own initiative ' re
veals their objective exactly.
Those of us who labor for a
living pretty well know how
to do that already.
There is nothing that con
niving Russian leaders would
like better than to see the
American working class in a
further state of depression and
confusion, than we already
are.
11 doesn't take a very smart
person to know that.
1 would most sincerely urge
those who have the voting
privilege to consider t h e
above facts, and to remember
that only we, the voting pub
lic, can prevent further dam
age to our great country, by
"voting out" the present pow
er of greedy weaklings.
We now have a young and
vital statesman as a leader
that has our full confidence.
We know his intelligence is
both desired and necessary
He has the Integrity, the cour
age, to do the Job, and we had
best grab him while he
available.
It is much later than we
think.
Mary A. Williams
357 Orr dr.
Central Point, Ore
reau of Land Management),
Well, folks we still have
the freedom to take a pauper's
oath. Be joyful. That is the
Freedom for which my hon
orable ancestor fought for at
the Battle of Brandywine.
We live at Galice. The Bu
reau of Land Management is
planning on taking all free
dom over below Hcllgate for
its private empire. It plans on
being the trail boss. But we
have plenty of company. We
are all in the same boat. The
rich and poor alike.
Oon't feel slighted folks,
your time will come. The
ghost of Hitler is moving 4n
While Mr. K moves into Cuba,
Hitler's ghost enters the land
of the free. Make way for
State Socialism. Ours appears
to develop into Big Business
and Big Government.
There is an issue for the
boys that want to be presi
dent. Walter Recce,
Galice rd., '
. Merlin, Ore.
Lott Fraedomt
To the Editor: Good morn
ing. What freedoms have you
lost lately? .As for me not
many but a few.
However this has been our
best season for losing free
doms. First we lost our free
dom to talk to the county
court of Josephine county,
Next we lost our freedom to
bargain. Then we lost our
freedom to bargain. Then we
freedom to protest the
Inking of our land. Next we
lost the freedom to collect re
muneration on private proper
ty for public use. Next we
were restrained by the county
sheriff while our property
was being destroyed.
But that was only a be
ginning, because the hard
wallop came when we lost our
freedom to earn a livelihood.
Due to economic conditions
the mill where we worked
shut down because they could
not buy logs from the govern
ment that had a monopoly on
the timber. The mill lost its
freedom to operate. We lost
the freedom to work. The free
dom to sign checks. The free
dom to pay bills. The freedom
to buy groceries and shoes.
Next, the Bureau of Land
Management began to con
test our freedom to live in our
home where we resided for 13
years, a home that cost us
$3,500.
Next we lost our freedom
to appeal. Get a load ot this:
". . . It, an appeal is taken,
the amount of . . . filing fee is
J5 . . . Your letter was not ac
companied by a filing fee and j
therefore cannot be considered
as an appeal
Can Lova Ba Bought?
To the Editor: In regard to
a communication about unjust
taxation, the poor paying less
and the rich paying more
would our writer have us be
lieve that capitalism is true
equality?
Let us suppose that the gov
ernment is taxing the farmer
of his substance. One has a
thousand bushels, another has
fifty, and a third person has
thirty-five. The taxer sets the
quota at fifty bushels per per
son. The first has 950, the
second has none, the third is
left in debt or put in prison
for failure to pay. And this is
lust?
Our government has had to
lean toward socialism to keep
a few from monopilizing the
entire country. For every rich
man there are tens of thous
ands of poor and there always
will be. If a rich man was to
be taxed according to how
much a poor man could pay,
his wealth would greatly in
crease. Eventually the rich
would be fighting each other
to see whose slave you would
be. You can look at it in many
ways, but they all have a
slight curve and when pur
sued they go in endless cir
cles. To a true capitalist this
Is heaven, but to the socialist
and the poor it is hell.
The Lord only asks that we
live in peace with one anoth
er. If we seek to out-do one
another, shall we be at peace
with one another? Can love
be bought?
T. M. S.
Rogue River, Ore,
that think more of the dollar
than fair play they had bet
ter stop and think about their
being a party to the same
thing they accuse this Mrs.
Naples of. For" instance to il
lustrate: I have had business
with attorneys in California,
Oregon (perhaps 20 in Ore
gon). Washington and Canada
and have found the majority
of them fair and square-shooters,
but have been robbed by
some. Several times I have
called to have a legal paper
made when the attorney was
not In, and office lady was
a notary public and wrote out
the papers and completed
them for me, and yet had
never been inside a law
school.
I also know that many le
gal papers are handled by
banks and mortgage compa
nies by personnel who never
attended law school. There
fore it would appear to me
that it is about time the State
Bar association had a split
and the attorneys who believe
in fair play and want to be
fair with their clients have
their association and the oth
ers theirs, and let the public
choose which class they de
sire to deal with.
The big unions seem to pro
tect the crooks in their un
ions and I wonder if the bar
association wants to be guilty
of the same action.
Jerry Smith
Talent, Ore.
Two Bar Associations?
To the Editor: I want to
congratulate you on the un
usual daily paper you put out.
I doubt whether there is a
town the size of Medford in
the United States that can
compare with the over all
news and special articles your
paper has.
Another tribute is to your
wonderful Southern Oregon
with Its beautiful mountains
and streams. I am surprised
at the number of modern mo
tels from Ashland to Grants
Pass, and this goes to prove
that your tourists have to stay
over to get a better look at
what is here.
I had my attention called
to a front page Item in your
paper last week and also Sun
day's paper of Sept. 25 In re
gard to the State Bar associa
tion attempting to get an in
junction against a lady in Cen
tral Point by the name of
Naples tor making legal pa
pers for her clients.
I was also told mat a cer
tain attorney was recently In
dicted but still practicing law.
without any action trom the
.The claim do- Stat Bar association.
scribed Is null and gold, (Bu I If soma Jealous ittoricyi
Tribes of Israel
To the Editor: Surely you
are old enough to remember
back when there were Derro-
crats as national leaders. Cuba
was 90 miles off our shores
at that time also.
American influence really
ousted one ruler there and re
placed him by a man that
soon outgrew the britches we
gave him, as did rulers of
other countries where our
dollars placed puppets.
Just about any confidence
man can come here and pre
tend that he has the backing
of all the people and by so
saying, secure "Federal Wel
fare aid. ,
There was a Communist
college founded in Chicago
37 years ago and to date the
FBI lists at least 28 more.
Our laws protect them from
abuse by any group of people.
We as a nation are fully pre
pared to furnish well edu
cated full - fledged Commu
nist leaders from among the
rich and the poor, to aid in
ruling any government that
is In need of trained leaders
Our millions of dollars,
given to the world, have.
never bought us any friends
and not even a better class
of enemies. Church groups
say we should give also, all
of our extra food and goods
God's chosen tribes of Is
rael were forced to buy sur
plus foods from one of the
leaders of His tribes, as he
acted as a man of power in
Egypt.
Rev. A. Gllman
322 South Riverside ave.
' Mcdford.
a free-world thorn sticking in
the aide of the Asia mainland
between Red China and Soviet
Siberia.
The U.N. scarcely was five
years old then and never be
fore had it supplied troops
against aggression.
Inspired by America
It is doubtful if it would
have acted at all except by
United States initiative, and
it did not have the unanimous
support of all nations outside
the Communist bloc.
Ia contrast has been the
strong world support for the
U.N. action in the Con",o
which has triggered Soviet de
termination to destroy it.
The three - man presidium
with which Khrushchev pro-
nosps to replace the office ot
secretary general had Us
counterparts in Korea and
later in Indo-China where
Com munist representatives
armed with veto power suc
cess;u!ly hamstrung both the
armistice and efforts to re
unite divided nations.
The United Nations secretary-general
is the world's
chief troubleshooter, instruct
ed both to carry out United
Nations mandates and to warn
the U.N. Security Council of
potential trouble spots.
He has no veto.
The Soviet Union, with one
veto already in the Security
Council, now proposes to add
another.
Would Increase Power
By setting up a presidium
in which the membership
would consist of one Corn,
munist, one neutral and one
representative of the West,
Khrushchev would take over
one-third control of the entire
world organization in contrast
to the approximate 10 per cent
he now has.
His veto power effectively
would prevent any such ac
tion as the U.N. has been able
to carry out in the Congo.
Thus, Khrushchev would
gain his free hand to swallow
up young and confused na
tions one by one as they
emerged and would turn the
U.N. into a futile debating
society.
Proposals To Revise Electoral
College System Meet Defeat
swung well over the line,
and we got a scare we will
not easily forget. I am sure
most of the drivers are more
considerate.
The "Hot Potato" letter
amused me. We "shemales"
do have the name of being
catty at times, so we can't
blame Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt too much for throwing
th? word "Bigotry" around
Mrs. R. travels a lot, and
while doing so, has time to
think up things. Remember
when men thought they had
discovered the North Pole
they were about to stamp
their mark on it when they
found in large letters ... no,
no "Kilroy," it read "Eleanor
Roosevelt was here." Any
how, that's how I "heared" it.
I too have been around;
have seen 47 states and the
countries north and south of
ours, but I am Irish and I can
think up little meannesses to
say while all the tied-up dogs
are howling, the radio blar
ing and my husband hitting
his thumb.
Friends often wish I'd go
to the North Pole I bet yuh
Just now I am thinking
about Mr. K: Instead of all
the provocation and eyeing
the big chip on his shoulder,
we should remember that he
is our guest; uninvited, to be
sure, but here. We know he
hasn't an open mind when it
comes to Americans, but
surely it has room to recog
nize kindness.
He should be accorded
every courtesy. I believe
Christ would so handle the
situation.
Gram
Jacksonville, Ore.
Mrs. R and Mr. K
To the Editor: I am one of
those who wrote about one
of the log truck drivers. I am
sure most of them are very
careful, but I wouldn't be
foolhardy enough to pull
ahead of such a load with the
thought "if he bumps me, the
blame will lie with him." If
I were dead I wouldn't care
who was to blame. A heavy
load can not stop quickly.
Timber may support ' the
valley, as Mrs. E. L. F. wrote,
but it doesn't have to support
the dead.
We were In line to become
in that condition when one
truck driver passed us at
high speed on a sham curve.
tha back tnd ot that WU
Hunting Fever
To the Editor: With deor
hunting season almost here
the following, copied from a
clipping, may help us wives
realize we do not each suffer
alone; all hunters are alike
"When the first touch of
fall is in the air you're apt
to see small groups of men
clustered around their coffee
cups talking in an earnest
and mysterious fashion.
"These are the deer hunters
getting ready for a season
which never meets some ex
pectations but always chal
lenges them to one more try.
"They are the men who
have been complaining
around home all summer
about the overdrawn notices
from the bank and past due
bills at the store. They are
a peculiar breed. When hunt
ing time arrives they lose all
appreciation for the value of
a dollar. The urge to hunt is
a disease which affects rich
and poor alike.
"The first to recognize the
symptoms are .the wives.
They know it is inevitable,
yet each year they hope the
germ fails to take root. Their
hopes are in vain. Hunting
fever is a perennial disease
which thrives on the first
Autumn breeze and reaches
its peak the first day of deer
season. There is no preven
tion, no cure, except time. It
is a seasonal affliction.
"You can buy insurance
against some kinds of sick
ness, but there is no protec
tion against hunting fever.
The cost of the disease comes
out of the grocery money
The man who hunts is a per
fectly normal human being
nine months of the year but
his mind becomes warped and
confused as deer season ap
proaches.
"Fortunately, time has a
way of passing rather swift
ly. Ere long the deer hunting
season will be here and
gone and the fever will sub
side to normal. The victim
will hang up his rifles for
another year.
"But next year the same
guy will bite him and he'll
go through the same silly
notions. He'll make the same
mistakes, suffer the same
agonies, neglect the same
creditors, ignore the .same
wife.
It's hunting fever. Most
red-blooded men get it."
A Hunter s Wife
(Name on file)
al Point, f r.
t0 I be accon
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - MPD - Some
tinkering with the U.S. Con
stitution would be appropriate
rnuswai any time now
to c u t pres
s u r e groups
and b a r e
knuckled po
litical minori-
ties down to
size.
This could
accomplish-
devis-
Lvie c Wilson i n g anotner
method of electing presiden
tial electors. Any numerous
religious, racial or occupation
al minority in any state is,
under the present system, a
potential election-day balance
of power.
The objective of electoral
college reform would be to
give back to the voters the
presidential election and the
party platforms. Such reform
was proposed in the Senate in
1956 with the endorsement of
51 senators.
At present, a stale's entire
electoral vote goes to the can
didate who gets a plurality or
better of that state's popular
vote, no matter how close the
vote may be. The reform pro
posed in 1956 would permit
each state to choose between
two methods of allotting elec
toral votes on the basis of
popular votes cast:
Alternate Methods ' ' '
1. The state's electoral vote
would be divided on a per
centage basis among the three
presidential candidates receiv
ing the most votes.
2. Each congressional dis
trict would vote for one elec
tor of its own and for two at
large for the state. That is,
electors would be chosen ex
actly as members of the House
and Senate now are chosen.
This was a compromise pro
posal combining in one pack
age two alternative proposals
which long had been pending
supporters of
in deadlock.
both proposals joined in sup
port of the compromise. Sen
ate approval seemed assured.
Thereafter, a favorable two
thirds House vote would have
enabled submission of the
proposed amendment to the
states for ratification.
A weak spot was alterna
tive No. 1 which seemed to
invite third or splinter parties
into every state although sup
porters of No. 1 insisted it
would riot have that effect.
No. 2 unquestionably would
discourage splinter group poli
tics and surely would yank
the rug from under pressure
group minorities. The objec
tive of the reform proposal
was to distribute the electoral
vote more equitably between
the major parties in relation
to popular vote returns. The
overall advantage would oe to
the smaller of the two major
parties, the Republican party
as of now.
Affect on Truman .
A shift of less than six
tenths of one per cent of the
1948 vote from Harry S. Tru
man would have thrown that
presidential election into the
House and, probably, in dead
lock. If the proposed amend
ment had been in effect in
1948, the electoral vote would
have been: Truman 258 (less
than a majority); Thomas E.
Dewey 221.4; State's Righter
Strom Thurmond 38.6; Prog
ressive Henry A. Wallace 9.4;
others 1.8. Under the pro
posed plan, in such circum
stances, the Senate and the
House together would choose
the president, each member
casting one vote.
The actual 1948 electoral
vote was: Truman 303; Dewey
189; Thurmond 39. Truman
polled 49.5 per cent of the
1948 popular vole.
This proposal looked like a
sure winner in the Senate un
til minority group leaders got
the word. They put the pres
sure on and the 51 senators
committed to the proposal be
gan to melt away.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Portland the other day,
the Agriculture Division of
tne American Cyanamid com
pany sponsored a recognition
and award luncheon to honor
the county agents of Oregon
for their outstanding service
to agriculture and their con
tributions to the common good
of all people.
The luncheon was one of
live neid in the United States.
It was the only one held in
the West. The award went to
C. A. Henderson of Klamath
county as the outstanding rep
resentative of Oregon's coun
ty agents. The implication is
clear. Charley Henderson is
regarded as the most distin
guished county agent in the
tar west.
IT MUST be added here that
this hnnnr rlnaen't UH1
uuoi, V UCiUIlg
to Kt nth countv alon
Chaney Henderson is known
- :C respected and consulted
all over southern Oregon and
tar northern California. In
mis wnole area he is Mr.
County Agent.
TN THE nearly four decades
he has been on the Job, no
single individual has influ
enced more effectively the ag
riculture of our whole region
than C. A. Henderson. This
is particularly true of t h e
Klamath Basin. When he took
over, the Basin's agriculture
was raw and new and untried.
He has shaped its develop
ment. His leadership is large
ly responsible for the fact that
the Klamath Basin is now not
only one of the West's newest
agricultural districts but one
of the most promising.
YTHER than the conferring
v of the distinguished serv
ice award, the highlight of the
luncheon was an address by
Dr. Robert H. White-Stevens,
manager of the nutrition,
physiology and biochemistry
agricultural division of t h e
American Cyanamid compa
ny. - !
He gave hit hearerl togii
startling new Ideas of the im
portance of the American
farmer in the future of a
world in which food - because
of an explosive increase in
population - will be perhaps
the most important survival
factor.
FIOR example:
1 Not TOO long before
Charley Henderson took over
as county agent in Klamath
county, one American farmer
fed four people. One Ameri
can farmer now feeds 24 peo
ple. We are presently Inclined
to think of that as merely an
evidence of overproduction.
Mr. White-Stevens gave us a
picture of it as checkmating
the grim theory of Malthus
that population would In
crease faster than food pro
duction and so the people of
the world would starve to
death.
WHAT to do about it?
" Well, he said, the world
as a whole will have to do
what t h e American farmer
has been doing in these years
when we have been shivering
in our boots bcause of In
creased agricultural produc
tion PER ACRE and the sur
pluses that have been piling
up as a result.
That Is to say:
The WORLD AS A WHOLE
will have to learn in the fu
ture how to GET MORE
FOOD from each productive
acre. Either that or STARVE.
T WAS a challenging
A speech, and very well
worth listening to. It gave all
of us who listened to it some
thing new to think about.
Maybe, over the long pull that
lies ahead, .jrpluses will -be
nothing to worrv about. May
be, over this long pull, the
heavy production that now
results In agricultural over
production will save tha
world from ttarvation. t
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