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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ol Tha
Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13. 1950 (Monday)
A 14-man delegation head
ed by Mayor Diamond Flynn
is representing Medford today
at the 25th annual League
of Oregon cities convention
In Portland.
A large semi-trailer truck
overturned near Ashland this
morning when It hit a cow
on the highway; the cow was
killed. . ,
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13, 1940 (Wednesday)
Rogue River National for
est headquarters will be mov
ed tomorrow from the Liberty
building to new offices in the
remodeled and enlarged fed
eral building.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Aux
iliary conches of OSC In t,heisc
parts have defeated Stanford
next Saturday, but both
squads and schools will bull
licadcdly go ahead and play
the game."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13, 1930 (Thursday)
Nineteen hogs were butch
ered at the annual commu
nity hog-killing day In Pros
pect. A public speaking class has
been started at the local high
school,
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13. 1920 (Friday)
A new Hope-Jones pipe or
gan has been Installed at the
Page theater.
The city of Jacksonville Is
making plans to celebrate the
defeat of the courthouse trans
fer proposal at the last elec
tion. 50 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13. 1910 (Sunday)
Literature will be dlstrib
tiled nation-wide from here
tjointinir out the fact that
Hogue valley apples have
captured t h e sweepstake
prizes at both the Canadian
National Annie show In Van.
couver, B.C., and the National
Apple Show at Spokane,
Wash.
The Grenter Medford club
will hold an educational art
exhibit at the new Natalor-
ium Nov. 15 to 17.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina or ten correct is superior!
seven or eight Is excellent) live ei
six is good.
1, What is a Gatling gun?
2. What President of the
United Stales broke the prece
dent forbidding the chief cxe-
cutivc to leave the country
while in office?
3. Of what two metals is
bronze an alloy?
4. Which has the greater
number of bones in its skele
tal structure, an adult or a
child?
5. From what plant is
lioroin made?
6. Under what range of
mountains is tile Simplon
tunnel?
7. What American city was
nearly destroyed by natural
calamity in 1906?
8. What famous character
In literature signed a contract
with the devil?
9. What Instrument Is play
ed by the "concert master" of
a symphony orchestra?
10. What is the English
name for Paternoster?
.nswrsi 1. Early typt ma
chin gun. 2. Woodrow Wll
iw. . . Copper and tin. 4.
Child. Some adult bones grow
iogelher. 5. Opium poppy. 6.
Alps; 64,971 it. long. 7. San
Francisco. 8. Faust. 9. First
violin. 10. Our Father - The
Lord's Prayer.
NATION A I
vSTl Ia
Religion and
We hope we've heard
issue," as it was present
paign, for a while or
is that President-Elect
himself that this ghost will be laid.
But religion as such will always be an issue
in America, which is divided and sub-divided
into hundreds of groups,
attitude ana approach.
In our view, this is one of the great strengths
of the United States, its
religion, but in politics
of endeavor and thought.
AN INTERESTING report last month told of
UlVJm7t,10Hlj; no HOtVyU wi lytic tCl
book of American Churches for 1961," published
by the National Council
1 he lurures are. of course. aDnroximate. since
church membership itself is subject to widely
varying dennitions.
but it indicated that,
people are classified thus:
Protestants (of about
about 62,534,000.
Catholics: 40,871,000.
Jews: ,550,000.
THIS brings those with some formal church
a ffiliofiM-i nn f o frvfal rP oKr-nf 1 flQ m illjrir.
What of the other 71 million or so Americans?
Some of them, presumably, are children who
have not yet reached the age of confirmation
and church activity. Others may adhere to other
beliefs Mohammedansim, Buddhism, and oth
ers. But even then, the number of those without
any religious affiliation, the "unchurched," to use
an awkward phrase, comprises the largest single
religious minority in America today.
What of them? Are
tians"? Or are they agnostics, atheists, or unbe
lievers of other sorts.'
have ho religious orientation at all?
No one knows. The
include religious beliefs in its list of questions,
and from no other source can such information
be obtained.
A SURVEY of the "unchurched" in America
fnrlair itmiili-l malra faapinaHntT anH wo VP-
lieve significant, reading.
It is the one huge
and attitude which is
mapped and undefined.
America has loner
"Christian nation." It undoubtedly is, in the main,
and its cultural patterns
Judeo-ChriBuan tradition.
But how, and whether, and to what extent,
some 00 or yu minion
this orientation is something that no one can say.
E.A.
Arbitrary Ruling
With two circuit court verdicts against it, the
Oregon liquor control commission's controversial
"25 per cent" rule is, at least for the time oemg, a
dead issue.
'Which is fine. It was a mistake to begin with.
Last Sept. 1 , the OLCC ruled that every estab
lishment which serves
derive a minimum of .25 per cent of its gross
receipts from the sale of food.
Several taverns were haled up for hearings,
and the licenses of some of them were removed
when it was shown they were, not adhering to
the ruling.
DUT in two separate cases which were taken
to court, one in Coos county and one in Mult
nomah county, the circuit judges ruled that the
commission did not have
enforce such a ruling.
State law specifices that each liquor-by-the-drink
establishment must serve food as part of
its service which is a good, reasonable require
ment. But the law set out no arbitrary percent
ages. The legislature, m
when the matter was
done bv the commission.
Its objectives may, perhaps, have been laud-
11. i- i .i A ......1. ! ' ...I..UI. 1
aoie. mil m eneci me
creates an unjust situation for a large number
of licensees.
PRESUMABLY the commission felt that such
a ruling would encourage temperance a
worthy aim.
But consider. In every community there are
taverns which cater m
Deonle who want a muck beer or drink after
.. .......
work, and in which food
of their business.
If these are put out
cent rule, their patrons
else, and thus boost the percentage of liquor
revenues at other establishments, thus subjecting
them, in turn, to the loss of their licenses.
We hold no particular brief for liquor licen
sees, but as long as they
ness, under state license, and m conformity with
reasonable regulations, they should not be sub
jected to capricious rulings which would make
it impossible for them to operate. E.A.
. . . Those who had time to look at TV election night
tell us the announcers never once mentioned where they
were getting all those reports from. And where do you sup
pose? Mostly right from the newspapers, whose editors,
reporters and thousands of especially-hired supplementary
employees provided wire services with the only spot cover
age of returns in the entire nation. Oregon Statesman.
Non-Religion
the last of the "religious
in the late election cam
forever. (Jur great hope
Kennedy will so conduct
each with a different
diversity not only in
and a dozen other fields
of Uhurches.
roughly, the American
226 different bodies) :
they nominal "Chris
Or are they people who
U.S. census does not
area of American belief
almost completely, un
prided itself as being a
stem directly from the
or its citizens concur in
liquor by the drink must
the power to make and
fact, refused to do so
under debate. Ihis was
nue is unwumaum, itnu
large part to working
sales are a minor part
of business by a 25 per
simply will go somewhere
operate a legitimate busi
Dennis the
'Ito Morwaay her ao fa&io. Sue just CALLS m that.
Matter of Fact y Joseph
A STARTLING ESTIMATE
Washington - There are all
too many things to be said
about the breathless and his-
toric moment
when the
United States
chose a new
course.
For instance
there is at
least one de
cided advan
tage in the
narrow mar
gin by which
Senator Kennedy was elected
to the presidency. It will
strengthen Kennedys long-
felt impulse to form a truly
national administration. The
chances are now very good
indeed that at least one high
post will be offered to the
kind of national-minded Re
publican typified by Under
Secretary of State Douglas
Dillon.
Again, quite aside from this
special bonus, one can also
predict that the new Kennedy
administration will set an ex
acting standard of human
quality.
To be sure, the next sec
retary of Defense is unlikely
to be president of General
Motors. But the most probable
candidate, the little known
chairman of the Citizens for
Kennedy, Byron White, is a
man of brilliant intellect,
strong judgment, and great
moral courage, who has worn
his country s uniform with
valor. He has, In short, all the
qualifications which Charles
E. Wilson so conspicuously
lacked.
YET again, there is the elec
tion's proof of the political
talent of Kennedy and all his
tribe. Consider, for instance,
the nationwide registration
drive organized by Robert
Kennedy. It was modelled on
the 1952 registration drive in
Massachusetts, also organized
by Robert Kennedy at the age
of 26. That time, 150,000 new
Massachusetts Democrats
were put on the rolls, and
Kennedy's winning majority
was half that number. This
time, the new registrants
were again essential.
Or consider the other great
practical factor in Kennedy's
victory, his choice of Lyndon
B. Johnson as his running
mate, which was so much
criticized at first. In the out
come, Lyndon Johnson not
only performed magnificently
in the campaign. In addition,
his presence on the ticket
meant the whole difference
between triumph and disaster
in the South.
A truly national approach;
a knack for discovering and
using very able men; a great
political talent - these quali
ties of Kennedy's are reveal
ed by the foregoing brief, dis
connected notes. They are
qualities of utmost value for
any American President,
YET Kennedy's possession of
these qualities is only part
of the answer to the central
question. One still wants to
Try and
ill 1 1 iw
If mm
JOSEPH ALSOP
-By BENNETT CERF-
A WELL-LOVED MINISTER always placed his Sunday
morninc sermon in his pulpit a half hour before the
congregation assembled. A
cna time and removed
the last page of the manu
script. The minister gave a
fine rendering, as usual,
of the sermon, till he
reached the last page,
which concluded, "So
Adam said to Eve ..."
Turning the page, he was
dismayed to discover, of
course, that there simply
wasn't any more. He
fumbled through the
script, distractedly re
Deatine. "So Adam said
to Eve . . .," then added, very angrily and very distinctly,
C&JUSWd appear
Menace
Alsop
know what sort of man the
American people have now
chosen to lead this country
and the free half of the world.
This reporter's worst mis-
judgments have always been
on the optimistic side. That
must be said as preface, be
cause my estimate of the man
we have chosen is so supreme
ly optimistic. In brief, after
nearly 30 years of political
handicapping and 15 years of
fairly close observation of
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
believe he is the only new po
litical entrant in my time
who has shown the promise of
becoming a President of the
first rank.
One of the marks of the
true masters of men is com
plexity, and Kennedy Is in
deed too complex to be neatly
summed up, even on the evi
dence of a decade and a half,
One can only record some
other obvious Kennedy quali
ties.
His mind, then, Is unusually
richly furnished, and he has a
sense of the moment in his
tory that can best be compar
ed to Theodore Roosevelt's.
He detests cant, whether the
fashionable, damp cant of the
liberal left or the smug, self-
righteous cant of the right.
He observes the world, and
himself as well, with an odd,
detached, sardonic humor,
Humorous style means much
to him, and he is almost too
afraid of anything that
corny - this fear prevents him
from showing his feelings in
public, as a politician some
times needs to do.
TJE has strong feelings, none-
iA theless. The deepest of
them, I would guess, is a pas
sionate feeling for the great
ness of America, an intense
sense of the high destiny of
this nation.
Next to this, there are his
ambition, which is fierce, and
his competitiveness, which is
also fierce. But his priori
ties are proven by the
gamble he took, when
he keyed his presidential cam
paign to an honest description
of America's real posture in
the world, at a time of seem
ingly unshakable national
complacency. No one who put
personal success above every
thing else would have taken
the gamble of challenging
that complacency.
In these last years, in truth
we in America have reached
a condition like the condition
of Theodcn, the rich old king
of the Mark of Rohan, in Tot
kiens' saga of "The Lord of
the Rings. As he did, we
have grown self-indulgent and
timid; and as he did, we have
taken too much to hoping for
the best without preparing for
the worst.
But a fresh breeze like the
clean air that roused King
Theoden is blowing in Amen
ca now. And one now remem
bers the cry at Theoden's
awakening: "Hope there is
still, if we can but stand un-
conquered."
(Copyright I960 New York
Herald Tribune, Inc.)
Stop Me
mischievous junior sneaked in
w lea nussingr
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Th Only Fair Tax
To the Editor: As I have
been a reader of the Medford
Mail Tribune, yes, even sold
it on the streets as a boy, for
many, many years, I would
like to send you this clipping
from the Herald-Bulletin of
Burley, Idaho.
It is on the question of
taxes, and I believe it to an
swer some of the writers who
have been writing in your
Communications.
Thank you and keep up the
GOOD work of printing the
news as you see it.
Jean H. Neimoyer Jr.,
736 West Lennox,
Yreka, Calif.
Editor's note: The clipping,
from a communication in the
Burley paper, follows:
"After due consideration
and much thought, I have at
last decided that the type of
taxation we need to solve our
monetary problems, both per
sonal and federal, is real sim
ple.
"Sales tax is the answer,
everyone pays, and only on
the money they spend. But-
we have a small business, we
would have to collect the
taxes, keep books on it, and
be responsible to the state for
it. And we really spend a lot
of money, maybe that isn't
such a good Idea.
"Property tax must be the
one. Farmers have lots of land
and almost everyone has prop.
erty, and that way the cost
would be spread over every
one. But we own a business
in town, ad our taxes are too
high now, and any more along
that line will really hurt us.
So I guess I don't like that
either.
"Income tax, now there is
a fair way to tax, our help
takes more money home than
we do, and they don't have
the investment or the head
ache that we do. We just hold
the money out of their pay
checks, and they never miss
it. Of course, we do keep rec
ords, pay Social Security on
their wages, send records to
the state every three months,
and just generally it's a nui
sance. And, besides, my hus
band is a salesman and his in
come would be taxed, and
that isn't fair to us.
"I guess that the only fair
lax method Is the kind that
taxes everyone but us, and I'm
going to vote for the party
that come up with a promise
like that.')
Mrs. Charles Twitchell
Further "Musings"
To the Editor: Your editori
al "Musings" of Nov. 10 pretty
well express my own reac
tion to the election results, es
pecially with regard to your
three points on the Kennedy
victory and the Puerto Rican
voters' repudiation of "their
bishops' ill-advised entry into
politics."
It would appear that many
of my fellow-Protestants who
followed the equally ill-advised
counsel of their pastors
could learn something of true
Americanism from our fellow
citizens of Puerto Rico. Let us
hope that this lesson may be
well learned - by those pas
tors as well - by the time an
other election rolls around.
The actual performance in of
fice which we can expect of
President-elect Kennedy
should go a long way to set at
rest the ungrounded fears of
SevareicTs
By ERIC SEVAREID
Tuesday n i g h t's drama
wrung out the spectators as
well as the principals. In the
greyearly
hours of Wed
nesday, when
these words
are being writ
ten, the spirit
can hardly
match the size
of the event.
So these words
may be poor
companions in
the general parade. But all
professional observers imag
ine thcmslvcs addressing a
new leader in person, and my
own communication, in its
bits and pieces, goes about
like this:
You have done an astound
ing thing, considering that
your face and name were ob
scure until one night in the
Chicago stockyards four years
ago. But perhaps this is
astounding only in traditional
terms. Communication is in
stant, now; instant reputations
can meet the times.
Anyway, the country has
not responded to what you
were, did or did not do in
the past. In your case the
country considered the past
"a bucket of ashes." Your
past record was no more than
the record of a hundred oth
ers. You were neither hero
nor sage. The people have
taken you at face value, voice
value, first value; that is,
those Protestants who voted
against him on religious
grounds.
One further musing I should
like to add to-yours. The de
feat of Congressman Charles
O. Porter is, in my opinion, a
grievous loss to the nation as
well as to the people of Ore
gon. Throughout his two terms
in Congress he proved him
self an uncommonly able,
courageous and devoted public
servant .
Although evidently highly
respected here as physician
and neighbor and not with
out honor as a public servant
himself, Dr. D u r n o-I felt
stooped to some very unfortu
nate mccarthyite slanders
against Mr. Porter, quite un
worthy of one aspiring to that
high office. None of the false
accusations leveled against
Mr. Porter would stand up in
any objective and honest re
view of his record in Congress.
Talk of "Mr. Porter's pre
empting the duties of the ex
ecutive branch of .govern
ment" (an obvious reference
to foreign affairs) is really
rather silly. If he doesn't know
it already (though surely he
must be well aware of it), I
would like to remind the good
doctor that a Congressman's
responsibilities are not re
stricted to domestic affairs but
very definitely embrace our
foreign relations as well - in
short, all that has to do with
our country's welfare and se
curity and peace and freedom
for the whole world.
We may count ourselves
fortunate if our Congressman-
elect will perform anywhere
near as well on all counts dur
ing his term in Washington as
has our distinguished member
from Eugene.
Incidentally, how about our
Republican Governor's pres
ent trip to Argentina and Bra
zil? I'm for it! Foreign af
fairs are very much the con
cern of everyone of us, in or
out of public office.
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Lest W Forget
To the Editor: Since the
election is now over, I would
like to quote from Kipling's
"Recessional," written at the
height of England's fame and
power,. (There is not a living
man so perfect that he cannot
be benefited.)
"The tumult and the shout
ing dics
The captains and the
kings depart
Still stands thine ancient
Sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite
heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with
us yet
Lest we forget lest we
forget."
So in this spirit I wish to
speak of a purely nonpolitical
subject. Although the citizens
of Jackson county now have
the splendid new Rogue Val
ley Memorial hospital, soon
to be even larger, I believe
that we will be doing our
selves a sad disservice if we
let the old Sacred Heart hos
pital, operated by those de
voted Sisters, "fade away",
This is all aside from mere
ly appreciation of their 50
years of splendid service. I
am considering the fact that
people of a free democracy
Letter to the New Leader
present value. We are the
most contemporary of peo
ples. Our youth is our oldest
tradition, as Oscar Wilde said,
and in that perfectly valid
sense you are traditional and
well rooted In the American
soil and story.
Like most political writers,
I am a romantic at heart; be
lief in heroes Is my secret
vice. It has been bad form in
recent years to reveal this
particular vice. I hope you
turn out to be a great man
in the book sense, in the his
tory professor's sense. But you
have to arrange about that,
yourself. Tuesday's vote didn't
prove it. I hope you discour
age press agents and quick
book biographers who try to
prove it a priori. They will
make things harder for you in
the long run.
e e
On lis face, the vote seems
to say that half the country
is against you. I don't think it
is. You have too much thrust
to be intimidated by the sta
tistical result, anyway. A
house divided statistically can
stand. But it can't move un
less you move it.
On its face, the divided vote
gives you no mandate. Forget
about that. Lincoln was a
minority president; so was
Truman. What the statistical
stalemate gives you is the
wonderful chance to write
your own mandate, and a
whole Congress of your party
persuasion is there to witness
and endorse your signature. I
roiriucsc
(By M-T Staff
Richard Todd, sixth grade
reporter at Roosevelt school,
gives us a hunting story. Here
it is:
We started up a ridge about
12:30 p.m. and about 2:30 p.m.
we figured we were lost.
We walked down hill awhile
then we came to a creek
with a trail leading up from
it so we followed it for about
a mile and it didn't go any
where so we turned back.
Then we followed the creek
for quite a way. At last we
came to a cave high in the
rocks. We went up and spent
the night.
We were quite hungry but
we lasted and we kept warm
enough because we built a
fire. About 8 a.m. we got up
and started off again. We were
headed for a logging road but
at the bottom of the hill was
another road and when we
got to it we followed the road
to a house and had a good
breakfast.
A man came and picked us
up.
I learned from my experi
ence to always go down hill,
don't think you're lost, and
don't be sure of what direc
tion you're going and to carry
matches and food.
The thing I didn't like about
being lost is that I ended up
with a bad case of poison oak
and we didn t get a deer.
.
W hav received enve
lopes addressed to th "Do-
realize that ALL human in
stitutions are benefited by
competition. I hope and pray
that means may be found so
that both hospitals, each
under its own management,
can continue to serve our con
stantly growing population.
Horace W. Thompson
3642 Hilsinger rd.
Medford.
Phtttl .
To the Editor: Ven ve vas
driving der old Chalmer's
taxicab around der Rogue
River valley, dere vasn't any
vhite stripes painted on der
pavement. Ven ve seen a
vhite 'stripe, it was alvays
vun yenuine Svedish Pole-cat
valking down der highvay in
der moonlight, und ve tried
to miss der skunk. Ven ve
vould miss him too close, und
he vould catch us vith der
side-curtains down, den ve got
someting to vorry about, und
we vould telephone ve vould-
not be home for a veek. Did
you efer see vun vhite stripe
go phttt, phttt, phttt und
stink up der whole car?
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
Th Right Man
To the Editor: Politicians
will long be talking about the
closeness of the election, and
trying to figure out where
they might have done better.
Most Republicans did not
believe that Kennedy could
win. If Nixon had won by the
same close margin, the out
come would have been con
sidered a moral victory for
Kennedy. The latter had to
overcome Eisenhower's huge
plurality in the previous ele
tion, and his strenuous last-
minute efforts on behalf of
Nixon.
The American electorate
has always had the knack of
electing the right man at a
crucial time in our history.
One feels proud to be an
American.
David Frisch
P. O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
On the face of the divided
vote, half the country wants
to "move forward", as you
have ' put in a manner that
makes even the emptiest
cliehes seem bursting with
meaning, and the other half
wants to sit where it is. This
isn't quite true, eilher.
Actually, the eounlry wants
to, go somewhere, it lust
doesn't know the adt'res; It
has in mind. It knows it wnls
something different b'lt
doesn't know how to label it.
You are in the position of the
advertising man-you can "cre
ate wants." A trial offer is
all a President can give us,
anyways - returnable after
four years if not fully satis
factory. I am persuaded that you
are one of the men in politics,
one of those who want posi
tion in order to do something
with power. Not one of the
boys who want position in
order to be something with
title.
So the place ought to be
jumping for months to come.
Covering Washington in re
cent years has been a bit like
covering an endless conven
tion of certified public ac
countants. Most of us have
been turning out noiseless
copy from our noiseless type
writers. The exclamation
mark key is rusty. Most of
us will love to bang on it.
praying the finger for that
key hasn't totally atrophied.
This isn't just our problem;
and Contributors)
It-Yourself" editor, in th
past. They usually contain
a publicity blurb about a
book on "How To . . ." do
this or that. But we were a
bit punled th other day
to receive an envelop ad
dressed to th "Do-It Edi
tor." Do what?
e
County Commissioner Ches
ter Wendt was a half-hour late
for a session of the county
court not long ago.
When he finally arrived to
meet with his waiting col
leagues, he was asked why
he was late, and he said he'd
been pheasant hunting. He re
ported that he hiked all over
the fields of his farm near
Medford, and couldn't find a
single bird.
Giving up, he came into the
house, and as the screen door
slammed, two pheasants flew
up out of the nearby shrubs.
There was a paragraph
In on of our school newt
columns recently which we
liked so wall we can't re
sist repeating it her. It
said, "Linda Casper brought
a large sugar beat so that
we could see how sugar
looks before it is ' really
sugar."
e
Back to Commissioner
Wendt for a minute.
What with all the fuss over
bats with rabies, the county
court, in a jocular mood,
heard Chet reporting on the
difficulty he has had getting
rid of the bats in his barn.
Whereupon they immediate
ly appointed him Bat Control
Officer for the county.
Well, with dog control be
ing voted down, we see no
reason why we shouldn't have
bat control, even though Com
missioner Wendt attempted to
decline the appointment.
There is some talk of ask
ing the district attorney's of
fice for an opinion on wheth.
er or not Chet can turn down
an appointment duly made
for the betterment of the com
munity by the court, acting
officially.
When John Ragsdala re
cently resumed operation of
his cigar, candy and snack
stand near th switchboard
in the courthouse, wa heard
it on good report that the
switchboard operator was
forced to give up her diet,
because th didn't hav th
will-power to swear off
candy bars when they were
so readily available.
The election, as everyone
knows, is now over, and every
one is glad. Political bruises
usually heal without too much
fuss.
There's one bruise, though,
that we're not so sure about.
Congressman Elect Durnd
had a few brittle comments
to make about the Mail Trib
une on television the night
before election, and we have
wondered whether they were,
in part, motivated by this:
Our newest staff member,
John Stafford, arrived at
work during the heat of the
campaign. He'd been here
about two days when his tele
phone rang, and a voice said
"We have a 500 word state
ment by Dr. Durno and won
dered if you would use it in
the Mail Tribune."
Stafford, in all innocence,
replied, "Who's Dr. Durno?"
The woman promptly hung
up. We can hardly blame her.
But we can hardly blame
John, either.
unless you stir our glands,
you aren't likely to stir the
glands of the nation.
Still, while you seem very
young yourself, many of us
are getting along and with
age comes inconsistency as
well as caution. So we want
you to be impatient with
many of the hideous, haggard
problems still cluttering up
the place; but we are also
cT-aid of your impatience
wlicn It comes to the explo
sive problems like Berlin or
China or Cuba.
When we were a kid coun
try we could blunder around.
Now America has large feet
and the yard is full of land
mines. Hire at least a few
scared worriers to help guard
your mind, if not your body.
It's strange how the world's
image of America always be
comes the Image of the single
individual who sits in the
White House. So you can't
create a new image of Amer
ica until your own image is
completed. All we've got so
far is the outline sketch. Be
lieve me, a lot of us want to
fill it in and we're reaching
for our strongest, brightest
colors. Water colors, right
now, that will wash; but we're
hoping we can switch to oils,
worthy of being hung, one
day, in all the best galleries
at home and abroad, includ
ing the Hall of Heroes.
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