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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 From what historical
document Is the following: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
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name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail
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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."
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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!'
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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.