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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY, DECEMBER . 1968 4 lil5;i)F0RD&TRIBUNI "Everyune is Soutbcrn Oregon Keaas ine mm iriuuitc Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North Fir SuPh SP 2-6141 nnRFBT w RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advel-tlsing Manager GERAIjD T L.ATHAIV1 DUI Big ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mnit Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor uipumn UPWFT-T Snnrti Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON.JrcuUtlon Mgr a inriMknHitnt Newsnaoer Entered as second class matter at Aledlora. uregon, urww March 3. 1897 . eiTDGnlDTIriN RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy ljj Dally and Sunday 1 year ilSOO Daily ana sunaay n u, Dally and Sunday 3 moi. Sunday Only One year M.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Aahland, Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Rlv , B,,4 An inntnr routes. Dally and Sunday 1 vear 118 JO Dally and Sunday 1 mo l-jo Carrier and Dcalera copy loo All Terms uasn innayi "ortfcTal Paper of City ef Medford tflcUlJperj!f.4i!!I!! .C,mJ United Press International Full Leased Wire rjP.l. Telephooewsplcttirea ""MEMBER OF AUDW BimBir OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising """"'"""Vmo r,, WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC Of. flees In New York. Chicago. De. trolt, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At. lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUIUSHEK J ASSOCIATION NATIONAt EDITORIAI ?rvUiniiuiM Him Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years. ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 8, 1950 (Friday) Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health doctor, this morning warned resident of the city against giving magazine sub scriptions to a woman posing as a public health nurse. A 2 '4-year-old Medford boy drowned this morning in a water-tilled pit at his parent's home. 20 YEARS AGO x Dec. 8. 1940 (Sunday) The Oregon Slate Horticul tural society was told at a meeting here yesterday that Argentina is the most im portant of the Latin American countries both Irom a produc tion and a competitive point of view. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Klks tom-cat is eight years old today, and feels every minute Of It. MUCH 01 HIS Kiueilioil- ness had faded, along with the lignung spirii "i "' 30 YEARS AGO . , ' Doc. 8. 1930 (Tuesday) Cannery owners have thrown up a solid wall of op position to plans by sports fishermen to close the Rogue river to commercial fishing. The Medford school board has announced plans to con struct two new schools In the city. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 8, 1920 (Thursday) One year ago tonight, Med ford had the severest snow storm in its recorded history. Stanley Sherwood, former substitute mail carrier local ly, has been appointed a regu lar mail carrier in the cuy. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 8. 1910 (Thursday) Citizens of Ashland will vole next Wednesday on measure to raise the monthly salary of the mayor to $125 and the salary of councilman to $25. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct il superior: even or eight U excellent; fire ix is good. 1. Who arranged the post election Florida meeting be Iwecn President-elect Kenne dy and Vice President Nixon? 2. Was Boris 11 the King of Rumania or Bulgaria at the outbreak of WW 11? 3. What is the naval rank of students at the Annapolis Naval academy? 4. Though "grand" means magnificent, is it a colloquial ism when used in the sense of "excellent 7 5. Should a United Slates Flag be flown night and day over a state capilol? 8. Do rose growers ever plant rose bushes in the fall? 7. Which U. S. president killed a man in a duel? 8. Who was the detective character in the novel "Hound of the Baskcrvlllc"? 9. Correct the following: "One of the houses were burn ing." " 10. From what historical document Is the following: "We whose names are under written, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord King James ..." Answers: Joseph Kennedy and Herbert Hoover. 2. Bul garia. 3. Midshipman. 4. Yes. S. No (day only). S. Yes. 7. Andrew Jackson, t. Sherlock. Holmes. 9. ". . . was burning." 10. Mayflower Compact. Suggestion: Go Slow A recent state tax commission order instruct ed county assessors to see that all property of fraternal groups, except those "exclusively oc cupied or used" for charitable or educational ac tivities, is placed on the counties' tax rolls. Already there is sentiment among some fra ternal circles for action by the 1961 legislature to exempt them from such assessment. We suggest they go a bit slow. IT IS almost universally acknowledged that property taxes are "too high," even while local governmental services that depend on prop erty taxes (schools and cities, chiefly) are pinch ed for adequate financial support. Property tax relief was one of the great cries during the recent election and it was a cry with substantial voter appeal. Assessment and taxation of the millions of dollars of property ovned by fraternal organiza tions would go far toward lowering, or keeping down, the taxes on your house and mine. A ND, while state law exempts property used for charitable or education purposes, it is a pretty dubious extension of this principle to apply it to the bars, restaurants and game rooms operated chiefly for the pleasure of the organizations' members. There is no doubt at all that many fraternal groups do great good with their charities. But to use this as an ment or taxes on properties in no way related to such charities (except as a source of their funds) is neither good morality nor good law. A ND we're inclined to doubt that the run-of-the-mill property taxpayer would look favorably on a law exempting palatial lodges, with their bars and card rooms and lounges, while contin uing to pay his own oversized tax bill. As a matter of fact, there is increasing sen timent toward a "new look" at the entire field of tax exemption, including church properties. Reluctance on the part of the fraternal organ izations to pay their share may hasten that "new look" to arrive. E.A. ' , Goose Livers and "One World" What's that you say? thia "nno urni'lrl" talk? Well, now, that's its may be. But in geography we were taught that it was, really, just one world, and that it was round a hypothesis strengthened by the voyage of one Christopher Columbus, and confirmed by Ferdinand Une world. And it s IN FURTHER proof thereof we submit the fact that a ruling of a United States agency has up set the practice of veterinary medicine, to say notning or goose-tarming, in i ranee. -. Doubtless other examples of the interdepend ence of modern civilization could be educed, but this one took our fancy. The story begins in August, 195-7, when the U.S. Congress passed a bill entitled the Poultry Products Inspection Act, Article 17, of which established uniform inspection of poultry sold in, interstate commerce, including both ante (be- tore) and post (after) mortem inspection. , lUrELLi and good. T The law went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1955), and our story gathers momentum. ii. .1 ; in , . , i i , . . , , . i it was discovered mac, interpreted nterauy, it applied to pate tie foie gras the zestful paste created irom the livers largely originating in the French districts of Alsace and Landes. By 1957, the exports of this delicacy from France amounted to $1,600,000 annually, with some 20 per cent Kointr to the United States. And Article 17 wiped out this trade overnight. The geese which provided the livers for pate de i ' 1 1 1 11 . 1 1, n. toie gras were traditionally inspected out atter death, not before. rISTRESS in pate de foie gras circles became acute. Not only were the French farmers unhappy, but so were the gourmets in the United States who had come to look upon pate de foie gras as part of their way of life. The sequel to the tale, the Washington Post reports, is that help is on the way. After much negotiation, intercontinental telephone calls, and shuttlintr back and forth across the Atlantic bv American and French officials, an agreement has been worked out whereby veterinarians in Alsace and Landes will make regular circuits of the goose farms to perform ante mortem inspections. And, presumably, the pate de foie gras situa tion will revert to the status quo ante. THE moral of the tale, if any, is that when the the United States sneezes, half the world catches cold. The reverse isn't quite true yet, but it's be coming: more so. A riot in Panama, an an assassination in Tokyo, an election in Great Britain, a border incident m Berlin, a speech in Algeria, an execution in Havana all of these have become of immediate and pressing impor tance in Medford, Oregon. They are immediate and pressing because each could trigger off a war, at worst, or seriously complicate the role of the United States in world affairs. And what affects the world affects the United States, and what affects the United States affects every soul in Medford. E.A. excuse of escaping pay There's too much of Magellan's men. round. ot over-ted geese, and arrest in Leopoldville, Dennis the Menace Here's the difference: if r spill food.m Mom says B CAF(l!', mtM&WWMA SAYS 'DENNIS IOOK5 6000 IM ANYTHWa HE EATS'." Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Equality Under Law To the Editor: What exactly is the Oregon Correctional In stitution? is it the Oregon penitentiary? If so, why is it not called that? If not, please tell me why a man in his fifty's is being put in a cor rectional institution! It seems to me that a man of his age and has had the education to become a lawyer has had the time to build his honesty and integrity to the point of not stealing! If he docs this, he is in no way better than a man or woman who works for him, or as us plain working people! Surely the laws here are equal for us all? We try awfully hard to believe this. I'm fairly sure that Mr. Bengtson needs white wash ing but fully believe after do-s ing what the courts have proved he has done, he should be in a penal institution or penitentiary the same as we would be if we had done the same. Lauretta M. McPhersonj Williams, Ore. Editor's note: The Oregon Correctional Institution is used chiefly for first offend ers, with more hardened crim inals usually going to the penitentiary. Waste of Money To the Editor: In the Dec. 5 paper, an article said work had started on the Battleship Arizona making il into a $500,000 Memorial lo Pearl Harbor. What a terrific wasle of money! Do you think the men on that ship, if they could voice an opinion, would want the money spent in this way, when there is a crying need for fund for . medical re search? 1 don't think so. This is just pagan worship ol the dead, and that Isn't what these men died for. Do away with monuments and use the money for re search to find cures for the diseases that kill and cripple our children, then that would be a good way lo remember Pearl Harbor! Ella L. Fitzsimmons, Route 4, Box 400, Medford. Another Matter To the Editor: In the inter est of accuracy, I would like to point out that J. Verne Shanglc's objection to the Herblock cartoon concerning the film "Operation Aboli tion" is evidently based upon a false premise. Mr. Shangle protests that the cartoon "con veys the impression that the film was edited by the Un American Activities commit tee itself." So far as 1 know, the Un American Activities commit tee has never denied that it edited this film purporting to show the communist-led stu dent riots against the commit tee hearings in San Francisco last May. This would be hard to deny, since the narrator is Fulton Lewis III, a commit tee staff members whose voice is also augmented by those of chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pennsylvanin) and mem ber Gordon Scherer (R-Ohio). The film footage was taken by KRON and KPIX in San Francisco and shown in the Bay area at the time. It was later subpoenaed by the com mittee and made into the con troversial film by a commer cial company. (Without pay ment to the TV stations who shot the film, incidentally.) The controversy arose when Bay area viewers saw the results and realized that sep arate sequences were run to; gether in such a way as to distort certain facts. Whether this was done deliberately or inadvertently has not been decided and is the real issue involved. We are agreed that the Reds might like to undermine the Un-American Activities com mittee and that this should not be permitted to happen. Anyone who reads the Con gressional Record also knows that both the continuation of the committee and its budget ($50,000 in 1945 when there were 64,600 known commu nists and $327,000 this year when known Red membership has fallen below 10,000) are still being approved by voice vote in the House. The Un-American Activi ties committee serves a useful purpose. Whether the com mittee should adopt the Big Lie technique popularized by the groups it is trying to de stroy is quite another matter. Vern Wolthoff 1125 Winchester ave. Medford. P.S. What Is the John Birch society? Democracy on Trial To the Editor:' Today In Miami, Florida, democracy is on trial. More than 40,000 refugees from satellite Cuba have fled the growing tyran ny of Premier Fidel Castro's Communist government, and have demonstrated their be lief and faith in America by coming here. These people fled from Castro's dictator ship to find American democ racy. Instead many are find ing hunger, disease, and pri vation on the streets of lux urious Miami. All over the world, millions of people are watching to see what America will do. They recall the Hungarian revolt, when refugees were hospita bly received by Austria and other free European nations. This time the refugees are coming to us from an enemy only 90 miles away. The world wants to know whether Americans just talk about de mocracy or whether we are prepared to do something about it. This is an unequalled opportunity for free Ameri cans to stand up to the chal lenge of communism. Although the White House is acting on the situation and some long-range solutions are in the offing, the fact remains that the Cuban refugees are in immediate need and face a bleak Christmas. It is AM VETS feeling that this is one case in which the American people ought not to rely on the government to find a so lution. These individual Cu bans showed faith in Ameri ca by coming here and it is up to us as individual Amer icans to show them and the world that we will not let them down. AMVETS has decided to launch a "Christmas for Cu bans" campaign, hoping to raise funds to assist needy cases immediately, and to pro vide long-range funds for re- location and employment services. ' We have consulted with Mr. Tracy Voorhees, the Pres ident's personal representa tive handling this problem In a wire to AMVETS, Voor hees consented to be the sole disbursing authority and to administer the funds, as the President's personal r e p r e sentative. We urge your newspaper to assist us in this campaign. Either collect funds in your community, or ask your read ers to send them directly to "Christmas for Cubans," AM VETS, American Security and March Toward Atomic Might Control Recounted; Disarmament Still Lacking By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst On Sept. 22, 1940, sensi tive U.S. devices testing the earth's atmosphere picked up j I n f o r mation 'iM which Ameri can BWldlliakB had known was inevitable sooner or later. Russia had exploded its first atomic bomb. It ended the monopoly on PHIL NEWSOM United States the weapon and catapulted the world into a terrifying Matter of Fact y jo.ePh ais0P PEOPLE WORTH TALKING TO Paris - A grisly but hilari ous tale of an encounter be tween two high officials, one English and one American is worth tell ing at the mo ment, because it helps to ex plain the cur rent maladies of the West ern alliance. Setting the joitph aiiop stage, the en counter occurred a couple of years ago, at a time when the Eisenhower administra tion was under attack for basing its defense planning on enemy intentions instead of enemy capabilities. Both the Englishman and the Amer ican had important responsi bilities for disarmament pol icy and this was the subject of their encounter. The American began by re marking that intelligent dis armament planning was pain fully difficult, because plans were constantly being ren dered obsolete by the con stant advance of military tech- n o 1 o g y. The Englishman agreeing with h i s opposite number, cited the fact that President Eisenhower's pro posed "open skies" inspection agreement would be out of date whenever a reconnais sance satellite had been built. TUT this, said the American, was not what he had had Trust Company, Washington 13, D. C. Harold Russell National Commander AMVETS ' Washington 6, D. C. Equivocal Views To the Editor: Perhaps this is not of general interest, but I would like to hear the re actions of some of the local clergy to the statements made by Dr. Douglass of the Congre gational church in New York, in the article on church mer ger, Page 5 of Tuesday's Trib une. He states, in effect, that 'modern problems" are too complex to be solved by pre cept of Christianity as pre sented in the Bible. When I was confirmed in the Episcopal church I defi nitely promised through re newal of my baptismal vows, to "follow Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior." I know little about the other two faiths mentioned in the merger, but as an Episco palian or as a practicing Christian I feel I would be 'keeping strange company In deed, with a church holding such equivocal views as Dr. Douglass expressed in the ar ticle. Mrs. Edmund Ramsay Route 1, Box 45 Jacksonville, Ore. Editor's note: The portion of the story mentioned in the letter above read as follows: The Rev. Dr. Truman B. Douglass, noted Congregation al leader of New York, said the role of the church in so ciety is to guide men "in the choice of objectives and goals" rather than to "pre scribe pat solutions for com plex problems." "I think it must be madden ing to responsible laymen when ministers tell them that the complex problems of our society can be solved by nar row 'religious' methods - by a little more prayer, a little more Bible reading, a little come application of the teach ings of Christ," Dr. Douglass said. "Do not misunderstand me," he said. "I am in favor of all these activities." "But the Bible and the teachings of Christ have very little to tell us specifically about how to improve agri cultural productivity In a technically retarded area. From the Bible and the teach ings of Christ we may derive the principle of equal educa tional opportunity for all peo ple, but they tell us very little about how to improve instruc tional methods in our schools and universities." He said the church must learn to "listen" to its compe tent laymen lo find truly Christian answers to the high ly technical questions facing modern society. . era where friend and poten tial foe each held in his hands a weapon of total destruc tion. There were other impor tant dates. On Aug. 12, 1953, the So viets exploded their first hy drogen weapon. On August 26, 1957, Mos cow Radio announced the suc cessful test of an intercon tinental ballistic missile. Scarcely a month later, on Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviets launched their first successful earth satellite and Western experts admitted the U.S.S.R. had missiles with the power to hit any spot on earth. in mind. "I was thinking about the truth drugs," he explained with owl-like so lemnity. And he then pointed out that when the truth drugs had been really perfected, It would be possible to call all nations' chiefs of state to the U. N. once or twice a year; to make them take drugs: and thus to ascertain their in tentions with absolute cer tainty - thereby eliminating the difficulties which were then being experienced by Secretary of Defense McEl roy. The American in question still holds office. He is one of the second-rate patronage appointees brought into the State Department when in competence in the lower eche lons naraiy mattered, since Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles made all the deci sions anyway. The story about him - the incredible but lit erally true story - has mean ing for a special reason. The smooth working of any alliance, and above all the smooth working of the large and cumbersome Western al liance, largely depends on the existence of what the French call "interlocuteurs valables" -which simply means "people worth talking to." Without people worth talking to on both sides of an alliance, nei ther side can ever know the other's mind. TN THE period of John Fos- ter Dulles, it did not matter so much that the American government was comprised of so many people who were obviously not worth talking to, like the American hero of the story already told. President Eisenhower had del egated Dulles the whole pow er of decision, and if our allies only know what Dulles thought,, that was enough. In the post-Dulles period, Secretary of State Christian Hertcr and Secretary of De fense Thomas Gates material ly raised the level of ability in their two departments. But ironically enough, this im provement bore few fruits, since authority was so dif fused and policy was so un clear that our allies could never be sure which way any particular policy would de velop. Consider, for instance, the secretary of the treasury's re cent maladroit mission to Eu rope. Behind this mission, as every European policy maker knew, there was a two-year battle by Anderson and Budg et Director Maurice Stans to withdraw large numbers of American troops from Europe. and thus hamstring NATO, in order to ease the strain on the dollar. The battle was nearly won once. The scars of the fight were apparent in Andersons extraordinary behavior over here. And knowledge of this fight left the Europeans In a quagmire of uncertainty about Ameri ca's long run policy towards NATO. Or consider disarmament. After talking disarmament for years, and after letting the unhappy Harold Stassen go rather far in negotiating dis armament, President Eisen hower appointed the commis sion headed by Charles Cool- ldge, to find out what our dis armament policy ought to be. The commission reported against any effective disarma ment. Secretary Herter got me president to override the uuiiumssion, hi any rate in part. But America's real dis armament policy still remains a largely unknown quantity, i QR CONSIDER even Berlin, the most urgent problem of the moment in Western Europe. On the present trin this reporter has been told by two officials, one German one French, and both on the very highest level, that they were never really sure that President Eisenhower meant to fight for Berlin if the Berlin crisis came to a real crunch. This is not sumrisinff since the President told the NATO summit meeting here in Paris that it was "unthink able to surrender Berlin hut also unthinkable to fight for it. The resulting sense of drift and uncertainty can be imag ined. Now that a new American administration is In prospect, in truth, the allied leaders A weapon may be used of fensively, defensively or as a deterrent. Has Deterrents The United States, behind on both missiles and satellites, still had its deterrents-the atomic bomb-carrying poten tials of its Strategic Air Force and its ring of bases around the Soviet Union which made any Soviet city vulnerable. In man's progress toward destruction, there was another important date. That was Feb. 13, 1960, when France exploded an atomic device in the Sahara. It meant that the exclusive atomic club now was less ex clusive and that its mei. ber ship could be expected to in crease still more. One new member would be Red China. Sweden announced it would develop its own atomic weap ons if world disarmament failed. Switzerland, another traditional neutral, also began looking toward atomic weap ons for its defense. These were some of the fruits of failure of disarm ament and atomic control talks which now have drag In the Day's News By FRANK The 40-million-member Na tional Council of Churches, which is meeting in San Fran cisco, hears a report by its Division of Foreign Missions. The report deals with condi tions and problems in two of the hottest spots in the foreign affairs field - the Congo and Cuba. Here are some of the high spots of the report: The -communists miscalcu lated in Africa (the Congo). They have gained a strong foothold in Cuba, but haven't necessarily WON OUT yet. THE Congo report is based on the findings of a mis sionary - Dr. George Carpen ter, of New York, who is one of the secretaries of the Inter national Missionary Council. He says: "The communists staked too much on a very small group of Congolese leftist leaders. But they underestimated the basic INTEGRITY and dis cernment of most Congolese leaders, who fear Russia and are aware of the danger of falling under communist domination. WHICH is to say: ' Dr. Carpenter thinks there are dedicated people among these Congolese leaders. He doesn't say so in so many words, but he obviously be lieves we should back these dedicated leaders with sym pathy and understanding - necessarily military force. THE Cuban report is based on the findings of Dr. Howard Yoder. He too is a missionary. His field is Latin America, He says: are more willing to talk free ly about their often curious experiences with the outgo ing' administration. The pic ture one gets from such talks is a picture of a Western al liance pretty close to open distintegration because of drift,' uncertainty, and the absence of firm leadership. The remedy is obvious. It is a combination of firm de cisions about the big subjects in the White House, plus the provision of plenty of people worth talking to, with whom our allies can hammer out the details of the big decisions on a lower level. One must hope the Kennedy adminis tration will provide this rem edy. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF Tf"HEN F. D. R. was in the White House, Herbert Hoover " was often given a rough ride by reporters, and he re sented this thoroughly. When he returned from Europe one f-n . . i jlciu, a snip news scriDe asked him how he evalu ated the New Deal. "If I just reeled off the Ten Commandments," replied Mr. Hoover bitterly, "you'd say it was a harsh criticism of the New Deal." Then he added with a twinkle, "As, of course, it would be." a The late Robert Bench ley once felt called upon to comment on the appearance of a HtUe girl who lived in the apartment next door to his. "She has her mother's nose," noted Benchley, "her mother' eyes, and her mother's mouth all ot which leaves her mother with a pretty blank expression." "Up In Maine," recalls Orson Beane, "mv grandpa always warned me to beware of folks in the deep South. I can hear him now aaying, 'Jut you keep away from Hartford, Connecticut!' O I960, by Burnett Cert Distribute bj Xing reeturea Syailcat JL f ged on for 15 years. Walk Out Last June, from a room in another monument to man's frustrating efforts toward world peace-the old League of Nations in Geneva-Soviet Delegate Valerian A. Zorin led Communist delegates out of the 10-nation disarmament conference. Behind him, French dele gale Jules Moch shouted angry charges of "scandal" and "hooliganism." The conference has not been resumed. This week, in a slightly more quiet atmosphere, the United States, Britain and Russia agreed to recess their nuclear test-ban talks until after U.S. President-elect John F. Kennedy takes office. A major stumbling block to agreement in the two-year-old talks had been Russia's refusal to agree to controls to prevent cheating on hard-to-detect underground nuclear tests. The West fears the Soviets have used an informal mora torium on the tests to perfect their own weapons at ths West's expense. JENKINS "A social revolution was long overdue in Cuba. The fact that Castro accepted (and solicited) communist aid and backing does not necessarily make him a communist." Dr. Yoder thinks Castro probably tried to use the communists to help him set up a dictator ship of his own (perhaps after the pattern of Batista, whom he overthrew) and got caught in the web he spun for that purpose. , : THE report (to the National Council of Churches, by its Division of Foreign Mis sions) concludes with these significant words: 'We must not write off: REVOLUTIONARY situations as lost to the Christian cause. THE GOSPEL ITSELF IS THE ROOT OF CREATIVE REVOLUTION." Can anyone doubt that? I think not. Jesus was the GREAT REVOLUTIONARY of all time. I CAN'T help thinking that perhaps 1 we need to rely more on the reports of these dedicated missionaries than even on our diplomatic serv ive. More, possibly, than on United Nations, which gov erns itself by diplomatic pro cedures. We need to be brutally realistic on that point. Of necessity, everything consid ered, our diplomatic services tend to operate in the rarif iedi upper atmosphere of diplo matic procedures. They sel dom get very close to the kind of people who start social revolutions as a means of bet tering the lot of the people who live at the lowest levels. THE missionaries (the real missionaries, the DEDI CATED m i s sionaries) get CLOSE to the people. They tend to be governed NOT by protocol but by the simp'e doctrine of Christianity. They feed the hungry. The medical missionaries among them minister to the sick. They mend broken bodies. Things like that IMPRESS the kind of people whose urge is to REBEL against what is, in the hope of getting for them selves something that is BETTER than what they have. This report to the National Council of Churches opens up some subjects that are worth thinking about.