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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON teDFORIM&&.TMBUNK "Everyone m Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO JS North Mr St.. Ph SP 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor RERB GREY Adveitiilng Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mgr fRIC W ALLEN JR.. Mns Edltoi ARL H ADAMS, City Editor ,nnv fWTPMAN Teles Editor RirHARn JEWETT. Soorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Womtn'a Editor DALE KKU:rtauw. uircuiauon wsj An Independent Newspaper Entered as .econd clasi matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act or March S, 1S37 RTmsrRrpTTON RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $15 00 . Dally and Sunday mos 8 on Dallv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 C..nau Onlv On VCSr S4.20 w nrrtmr Tn Advance Medford Aihland. Central Point Eagle ' Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv iPalant ami Ml .TintnT rOUtCf Dally and Sunday 1 vear 18 00 Dallv and Sunday I mo I SO Carrier and Dealera copy 10c All Terms Cash in Aovano "Official Paper 0fCltT of MedfofS Official Papar of Jackson CountT United Press International Full Leased Wire O P.l. Telephoto Kewaplcture. "TreMBF.R OF AUDlTTiirREAU- VF LIKLULAlIuno WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York. Chicago. De : frnlf Ran PYnnelneo. Los Angeles. .- Seattle. Portland St. Louts. At- lanta. Vancouver. B.C. m !6ai PUdU,he,is NATION A l EDITORIAI Asg)CTQ Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1950 (Monday) Twenty a d d 1 1 ional cm' ployees have been added to the stall at meaiora pusi ui fice to handle the Christmas rush this year, according to Postmaster Moore Hamilton , Publisher Samuel I. New- house, Newark, N. J., has pur chased the Portland Oregon- Ian news paper for a sum In excess of $5 million, it was announced today. 20 VEARS AGO Dm. 11, 1940 (Wednesday) The Jackson county public welfare commission announc ed today it had approved adoption of the federal gov ernment's food 'stamps plan and it will be put into effect hftre about Feb. 1. From Arthur . Ferry s "Ye Smudge Pot" column; "These be bracing winter days, when dressy young men wear scans Thev remove tnem -wwi -w-i-s-h from around tholr necks, and make them pop like a buggy whip." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1930 (Saturday) ! The U.S. forest service an nounced a plan today for building the Diamond Lake road. i . An investigation and re count of votes in Medford s mayorality election found no indication of fraud as alleged by;the losing candidate. ' . 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1920 (Sunday) i Bobby. Pelouze,, former Medford High school.- athlete, now a Stanford halfback, has been given honorable men tion as an AU-America foot ball player. 1 The Oregon Slate supreme court has ruled that Jackson county's road bonds are valid. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 11. 1910 (Sunday) The Socialist party of Med ford yesterday at a convention adopted a platform on which its candidates for city office will run at the upcoming election. . Burglars entered the Duf field Shoe stor on East Main It.- last night and took eight pairs of new shoes. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; Mvan or eight is excellent; five or fa is good. " 1. Correct the following: "If he drives slow, he will drive only 100 miles by ten o'clock. 2. What Is the popular armed forces meaning at tached to the initials S. P. and M. P.? 3. What disease has been called "Hie great w h i te plague ? 4. In what county is Chi cago, Illinois?- 8. Name the author of "The Man Without a Country." 6. Are convenient and com modious synonyms? 7. Was the design for the first American Flags specified by the C grcss as to the ex act placement of stars, stripes, etc.? 8. Did the War of 1812 end in 1812? 9. Name the capital of Port ugal. 10. During W.W.I the "Cen tral Powers" were Germany, Austria - Hungary, Bulgaria, and what other country? Answers: 1. "If he drives lowly, he will have driv en . . ." 2. Shore Patrol and Military Police. 3. Tubercu losis. 4. Cook. 5. Edward Ev erett Hale. 6. No. 7. No. 8. No. 9. Lisbon. 1G. Turkey. Polly anna and Others o , In common with a lot of other Americans who don't like to be bossed around in their personal lives, we've always taken a dim view of people who try to tell other people what not to read. We don't like censorship except "family" censorship, where parents take the responsibility for screening what their growing children shall ...,, 1, tVi fniTniit ivn nnrinri nf t.Vipir lives. This kind of "censorship," if it can be called that, is good; the kind where some blue-nosed busybodies attempt to dictate the morals and habits of their fellow humans we dislike intensely. SO WE sort of wondered what went on the other day at a meeting of the state textbook commission, where a group of people from Tigard showed up to protest a book or, rather, parts of a book which had been approved for ninth grade student reading. Did this fit the classic pattern of the busy body censor? Or was it more along the lines of parental guidance? We obtained a copy of the book, and have read all the stories and poems which they found objectionable for one reason or another. HAVING read the suspect passages, we are at a complete loss to understand what the shout ing is all about. We found them, at worst, unobjectionable, and at best, amiable, amusing or thought-provoking. We would have no qualms about having any ninth grader of our acquaintance or first grader, for that matter read any of them. "If our rapidly-dimming recollections of our own ninth grade days are any criterion, the stuff is mild as milk toast compared to some of the stuff we and our contemporaries used to read. And we suspect the' same is true with today's ninth graders. IN READING the innocuous stories and poems in f ,wf iilr iirl-iiMi ic nnf nanrl in ihp Mprl- ford schools, incidentally not because it is ob jectionable, but because they prefer a different text), we began wondering just what kind of mind could find any objections to it, let alone objections strong enough to bring before a school board and then the state textbook commission. And we were reminded of the old saying to the effect that evil lies in the eye of the beholder. If you-look for dirt you can always find it'. The other objection these folk raised was that, allegedly, some of the authors had, at one time pr another, belonged to organizations on the attorney general's list. ' '.. . ' ' CAINTS preserve lis! Evervone. everywhere, at every time in his tory, who had announce of spunk, or an original thought, has beejv'on somebody or other's list. ; If we were only to read noncontroversial words, froiri noncontroversial authors, our read ing fare' would be pretty slim. ,. The Bible, the Declaration of Independence, any of the great charters' and documents by which we euide our lives and mold our aspirations, at one time or another was suspect, it not notiy attacked. They were subversive, by Jingo! It these Good Laches ot Tigard wish to pro tect their ninth graders, let them look to the comic books, under the mattress, and not hound conscientious educators who are trying to give their, children a vague idea that all literature is not contined to Mother uoose, roiiyanna . or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. E.A. 1 ' Congress and jhe Dogs Every time we've seen him for the past several months,' a man we know takes us to task for "having so many stories about the clogs." "Give it a rest," he declares emphatically. "Devote that space to more important things." More important things than dogs?! Well for heaven s sake, there aren t any. -At least there aren t judging by the reactions of dog lovers, dog haters, and their respective neighbors. It's a constant source of friction and controversy. And nobody, but NObody, is ever going to settle it. CO, AS each new development in the dog con trol battle has come along, the Mail Tribune has recorded it, as news, and will continue to do so. For news is what interests people (that's one deiiniuon), and dogs surely do. We've lone: felt sorrv for those public offi cials who must contend with the rival factions in the controversy. And this controversy, we now learn with some surprise, is about to land in the lordly laps ot members ot the United States Congress. rUE to an anomaly of our government, the District of Columbia is not run like other cities, but. is the responsibility of the Coneress. which operates through committees and commis sioners and such, but which is, in fact is not in name, the actual ' city council ' for the District and for Washington, D.C. The district commissioners have decided that some teeth should be put into existing dog-control laws for the district, and will ask Congress to do so. So now the Congress, in addition to worry ing about the outflow of gold, troubles in Latin America and Africa, the race for space, and the need for economic growth and a balanced budget, must needs worry about whether Washington dogs must be leashed. Why does anm& want to run for Congress? 0 E.A. Dennis t&e Menace 3 "HEXAtaM! 'MEMBER WHEN "OU SAIDVOU'D BET THAT , MR5.WUU.ER WOULD PUT ONTHE DOS ? HEtt; SflES CARRYIN T Matter of Fact y Joseph Alsop De GAULLE'S ENORMOUS BET Algiers - The airplane was crowded with obvious plain clolhesmen, sent to Algiers on a special mission to arrest sus pected plotters. The airport swarmed with news paper men, who had heard a ru mor that more plotters were due to arrive from France at any moment, like illegal pack ages dropped tinues. And he was waiting for the evolution of opinion in metropolitan France and in the army. Without this evolu tion, any decisive action was altogether impractical, and de Gaulle, who is a great poli tician as well as a great man, has no fondness for impracti cal gestures. JUDGING the time ripe, he if Alsop from We sky. The kind civilian who had a car going into Algiers said, sadly, "The odds against Gen. de Gaulle are almost insur mountable." The new arrival's bags were hardly unpacked before the beginning of a spe cies of informal siege, by pleasant, outwardly ordinary persons whose eyes none the less flashed with apostolic fervor while they explained Gen. de Gaulle's profound mistakes. The experience of a single evening summarized above in capsule form, gives an idea of the extraordinary gulf which now divides Paris and Algiers. A week of many meet ings with all sorts of people in Paris had passed without a single encounter with a French man or woman who genuinely opposed the enor mous bet on peace in Algeria which de Gaulle is now making. NO ONE in Paris had failed to condemn, in bitter terms the illegal flight from trial of the youthful "French Al geria" plotters, Pierre Lagail- larde and his group. Here no one talks about them but many hope for them. . The contrast is cruelly sharp, in short, between this moment in the tragic Algerian story apri the moment of this reporter's last visit to Algiers. Two years ago, after the tense eVents that brought Gen. de Gaulle to power, one merely found in Algiers the same emotions (although in more violent form) that had throb bed up and down the Champs Elysees on that evening be fore the Chamber of Deputies voted the end of the French Republic. Now the emotions could not be more different, Without doubt, one of the reasons why Gen. de Gaulle now feels able to make his enormous bet is the enor mous evolution of metropoli tan French opinion which is revealed by the contrast above - noted. Equally cer tainly, the other factor behind do Gaulle's hH is the change in the army. TWO years ago, the army commander in Algeria was Gen. Salan, the non-hero of the Indochinese war who has sought refuge in Spain. Today, or so it Is hoped, the spirit of the army is the spirit of the disinterested and far-see ing Chief of General Staff. Gen. Paul Ely. If this view of the spirit of the army proves to be correct, de Gaulle may easily win his enormous bot. despite the mophitic atmos phere of this unhappy city. For us in America, then, it is important to understand both the timing and the na ture of this bet by de Gaulle. A great many foolish people in the U.S. and other West ern nations have been saying, during these past two years: "De Gaulle took o f t i c c to solve the Algerian problem; but what is he doing about it?" He was in fact doing 'vo things of cardinal importance during this period, lie was strongly sponsoring the fine work of construction ojq the French army, which ha al ready begun to change Al geria while the battle still con- has now made his bet. He has spoken of an "Algerian Republic" as a definite possi bility. He has re-emphasized his belief in "auto-determination" for Algeria. He has an nounced a nationwide refer endum, to be held about a month from now, in which all Frenchmen will be asked to vote for or against active prep arations for Algerian self-determination. If the referendum produces the heavy pro-de Gaulle ma jority suggested by the cli mate in Paris, the General will then proceed to organize all the normal structures of Algerian self - government, with the fullest possible Mus lim Algerian representation. And when this machinery of self-government is in place, the Algerians themselves - all the Algerians, including the great Muslim majority -will be permitted to make their own choice of the kind of future they desire. One can cite half a hun dred reasons ' why Gen. de Gaulle may lose his bet, rang ing from the danger of plots to the possibility of dissidence in the army, not forgetting the balancing violence of many of the French Algerians and the leaders of the F.L.N. All the same, it is a grandiose act, this bet of de Gaulle's, courageously aimed to bring eventual peace to unhappy Algeria, and aimed as well to avoid chaos and needless traE- cdy at the moment of transi tion which must come some day. In a very real sense, this bet of de. Gaulle's is also the bet of all the Western allies, and it should be so treated in Washington. , (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News IV WWtJr Jt(rN --! ' t H 1 Interesting note in the news: A Strategic Air Command (SAC) spokesman at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha reveals that on Oct. 5 (two months ago) instruments at Thule, in Greenland, MIS TOOK THE MOON for a mis sile approaching the United States. The signal sent out at Thule was picked up at a Stra tegic Air Command control center in the U.S. The spokesman adds that the error was detected in less than 60 seconds. Which is to say that it took about a min ute to tell the difference be tween the moon and an ap proaching hostile missile. He adds that several optional plans short of committing the nation's bomber and missile fleet might have been follow ed if there had been reason to believe the alert was gen uine. He says SAC command ers have emphasized that just one enemy missile would NOT send our strike - back force into action. WHAT happened? Presumably signals de signed to detect approaching missiles bounced back from the moon. Presumably these bounced-back signals indicat ed only one approaching ob ject. But . . . what if at the same time signals had been bounced back from some of the numerous satellites circl ing the earth? What would have happened then? IT'S A ticklish era we're liv ing in. We need to be very, very sure indeed' of the discrimi nating accuracy of the robots we must depend on to warn us of an enemy effort to de stroy us when. we aren t looking. "IVIORE interesting news: 1TJ- A dispatch fr,om Sacra mento this morning relates that a new battle over Cali fornia's $1.75 billion water program is brewing for the 1961 legislature and threat ens to cause a North-South split similar to the battle that tied up adoption of the pro gram for years. The dispatch adds: "The KEY point is who should control the purse strings for 'the gigantic sys tem of canals and reservoirs to take water from Northern California to the Southern part of the state?" T TP HERE, it seems to most - of us, the KEY POINT is how much of our water (the water of the California coun ties of origin and the water that flows down from South ern Oregon into California) will be SURPLUS? We don't know - yet. We don't know how much water, for example, will be necessary for the develop ment of our industries in the future. We do know we have a lot of pulp timber. We know that will eventually be one of our LEADING indus tries. It will require a LOT of water. Before it is committed per manently for export to other areas we want to be very sure indeed as to what OUR OWN water needs in the future will actually be. Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann Llppmann IS KENNEDY ELECTED? The President's reception of the President-elect was at once notice that the transfer of power will be orderly and a recogni tion that the results of the e 1 e c tion, al though close, are indisput able and de cisive. Once again President Eis enhower has shown his ca pacity in great and simple matters to do what is (neces sary and right. By his action Tuesday the President disas sociated himself from the ma neuvering of certain Republi can politicians who are chal lenging the result in certain states and casting doubt upon Senator Kennedy's election. This was a great public serv ice by the President. For while there is not in fact any way, practical or even theo retical, in which Kennedy can now be declared the loser and Nixon or anyone else the win ner, the partisan charges, like any whispering campaign, do have their effect both at home and abroad. It is of the highest public importance that there should not be any cloud on the title of the President of the United States. FlOR THIS reason it is useful, I think, to examine the sit uation created by the Repub lican challenge in Illinois. To do this I have consulted Mr. Lucius Wilmerding Jr., au thor of "The Electoral Col lege," and a leading authori ty on our constitutional ori gin. Illinois is entitled to choose 27 electors, and the question raised by the Republicans is whether there was enough ir regularity in the voting pre cincts of Cook County, which is the city of Chicago, to wipe out Kennedy's small majority over Nixon in the whoe state. Thus far there is no evidence of any such abnormal irregu larity in Cook County. There are not even, I believe, any formal and responsible Re publican charges. But even if there were enough irregulari ty, this would not be enough to give the Illinois electors to Nixon. Before that could happen there would have to be a re count for the whole state, In cluding especially the rural Republican . districts where there are no voting machines. A statewide recount would take a long time, far beyond Jan. 20, when a new Presi dent must take office. The most that can happen in Illinois is to prevent Ken nedy from getting the 27 elec toral votes. Illinois, in other words, would be unable to cast its electoral votes, and the Illinois voters would be unable to participate in the election of the President. WITHOUT Illinois' elector al vote Kennedy, who now has 300 votes, would have only 273. It has been widely (By M-T Staff and Contribufb) Down the treet a way there is a gigantic bilious looking candy cane attached to a light pole. Tawdry tinsel and soiled cotton masquerading as snow fill many a shop window. The radio (or, we should say, certain stations) continues to blare "musical" obscenities which use the word Christmas in contexts which violate taste, reverence and good will. One watch company marks the spirit of the Yuletide by offering a modest bauble - a wrist watch, encrusted with 197 diamonds, for a mere S25,000. The joy of Christmas, mark ing the birth of Jesus Christ, and of the Yuletide, which in pagan lands marked the win- supposed that this would leave him with only four votes over the 269, which is a ma jority of the electoral college. But this is not true. If Illi nois cannot cast its 27 votes, the size of the electoral col lege shrinks from 537 to 510. To elect a President a ma jority would then be 256, which would leave Kennedy with a margin of 17 votes. The constitutional reasons for all this are to be found, as Mr. Wilmerding has ex plained to me, in the 12th amendment which says that "the person having the great est number of votes for Pres ident shall be the President, if such number be a majori ty of the whole number of ELECTORS APPOINTED." Today we are likely to think of the electors as being elect ed, and the word "appointed" is not clear. But in the minds of the authors of the constitu tion "appointed" meant "chos en" in whatever manner each state chooses its electors. THE constitutional conven tion dealt with the mat ter on Sept. 5, 1787. Original ly the clause did not have in it the word "appointed." It said simply, "a majority of the whole number of elect ors." Madison objected to this on the ground that the Pres ident must be elected and that no state or group of states should have the power by re fusing to appoint electors to nullify the election. So, on a motion by Dickinson, the existing formula was adopt ed. : It said that a President must have a majority of the electors who have been ap pointed. When the electors have not been appointed (that is chosen by a state) they are not to be counted in the to tal. That this is the rule has been demonstrated several times, in the election counts of 1865, of 1869, and of 1873. In the electoral count of 1877, as between Tilden and Hayes, Tilden would have won had not the Republican Senate in 1875 repealed the rule for the first and only time in our history. This action was a scandal, a deliberate violation of the intent and meaning of the constitution. TlHERE is no theoretical and no practical possibility of a scandal of that sort being repeated this year, and there is no doub't that Kennedy is tne .president-elect. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. ter solstice as a time for fes tivity and joy, sometimes stem to be almost overpowered. But Christmas and Yule tide (and in our own half, pagan, half-Christian society they are inextricably mingled) sometimes shine through with the joy and sincerity which once was theirs. We have an example, ani are glad to present It here. It was written by Johnny Huiloege, a third grade stu dent ef Mrs. Ruth Cum mins' in the Hornbroolc grammar school, and wk forwarded to us by our good friend and correspond ent in Hornbrook, Mrs. Katharine Chapman. Here is Johnny's story, just as he wrote it, spelling and all. . A CHRISTMAS STORY On Christmas Eve Mary and Joseph came to a inn, They knocked at the door of the inn the keeper came and open ed the door of the inn, Joseph asked' for a room at the inn, The keeper said he was sorry but he had no vacansy, But he did say that he could let them sleep in the corral so they slept in the corral, And can you guess what Mary had that night? Yessir a baby and can you guess what she called the baby? Why she called him baby Jesus and do you know what Jesus I'm talking about? Yes Jesus up in heaven, and he was born in a manger, and do you know where all the Christmas songs come from, Yes from the time the baby Jesus was born, and heres some of the songs that we have now, Silent night, Away in a manger, O little town of Bethlehem, Deck the halls with boughs of holly. All through the night, And that is just some of the Christmas songs, and the sheperds and the three wise men came to see the baby Jesus, And al most everyone around there came to see the baby Jesus, In those days they didn't have trucks like we have now in these days, and the three wise men had to follow the star all the way. On Christmas Eve when your asleep theres somebody awake, Yessir Saint Nickolas is awake in your house. Part 2 The wise men came and kneled down and gave him their presents, Everybody sat down and just thought that the baby Jesus was just won derful, The three wise ..men came a long way to see the baby Jeusus. Now maybe we're wrong, but it seems to us that Johnny is a lot closer to the true meaning of Christmas than a lot of people we could name. And for tome of our minister friends we could offer no better a text for a Christmas sermon than Johnny's story. ; "Everybody sat down and just thought that the baby Jesus was just wonder ful. ..." The Road to Africa Lies Through Europe Rv rmr spuinnn I -r , i ...... ... . . , tt; Savsrcid By ERIC SEVAREID The distant observer has the impression that the head of the family-elect jumped up j'ymnxmrm from the Sun- taole and ex claimed, "Any one for a fast game of touch Africa? Where upon Brother Ted i n ii tu nit: rlrwpt fnr Ihp butterfly net in which to snare the "facts," and G. Mennen Williams sent out a rush order for a polka dot pith helmet for the his toric moment when he would say, "Mr. Lumumba, I pre sume." Mad dogs and New Dealers go out in the midday sun, which has been a good thing for most people; but it has not diminished the sun. It might be wise for all latter day Tugwclls, rolling u their sleeves to make Africa over, to understand that the infesta tion of Africa's eelitical, economic and emotional mo quitos is old. in places immune even to patented American DDT, and Joves fresh, ejposed flesh, however muscular. What I am expressing .here is not the spirit that ouilt America; but it is, I think, the spirit of the wisest Euro peans and Africans who are trying to buim Africa. And if Mr. Kennedy's New Fron tiers lie in equatorial, north to appear, I hope Mr. Wil liams will let the earlier scouts trace at least a rough map in the dirt by his camp fire before his safari treks toward the hinterland. I am glad there is at least one enthusiastic, unwearied democratic country left in this world so stained and soiled with public problems, and I am glad it is my own. Most other peoples, if forced, would confess they too are glad. But let us not risk the fate of another Children's Crusade Let Teddy understand that the "facts" about modern Af rica already fill volumes and innumerable wiser heads than his, that statistical methods will not lay bare the hidden source-springs of much Afri can behavior. Let Mr. Wil liams 'avoid the gossip fate of tne lady emissary to whom Pope Pius supposedly said. -Bill, Mrs. Luce. I AM a Catholic!" - snd not be told by some African chief equip ped with Oxford accent and degrees. "But, Mr. Villiams, we JsIAVI bwm discovered!" I trouUM by the PrR-dent-electa jfsnent that Africa (like Asia and LatinJ America) 0 nas Been 1 Short changed." I do not like the suggestion of guilt and moral races of man continued to re side at the poor addresses, whether equatorial Africa, the Aleutians or the Australian bush, I am troubled by the con comitant reports that Mr. Kennedy tends to regard Europe and Africa as two sep arate sets of problems, that American energies and ideas can, in large measure, be switched from the former to the latter. This is surely il lusory. The American road toward massive amelioration of the dangerous African chaos runs through London, Paris, Bonn and Rome. The direct and exclusive American opportunities for effective work in Africa are sharply limited. Americans in Africa must move through the corridors and around the ob stacles of European invest ment, institutions, procedures and attachments almost every where they set foot; and they will find that nearly all, if not all, their brightest ideae have been thought t and oftea tried, eore. 'hat Americans cm do and nust do, first at ay, is to make Africa nationalists abandon their comfortable hatreds and acknowledge dhat the British and the French, if not yet the Portuaese? truly ho e not been short cnanged by America, and only in de gree ind in places by Euro pean colonists. Africans were short changed by fate, accord ing to the iron law nf nnlhrn. American climes, as it beginQ poiogy by which the weaker rosponsibilityon this. Aiftcant, ARE moving out of ftrica truly DO seek free and viable African states. By no means must they be given to think they can play off the United States against its European alii. The ex-colonial powergjof Europe are now eeltinir rir-h Their politics are now dom inatcd by a whole new nlti. tude toward Africa. African leaders ought to rejoice at the mougnt ot what a combining and co-operating Europe could oo wnn us new money, its old talents and experience to lighten the gloom and griefs ui me uarK continent. For this reason - this mid wifery at the birth of the new peoples into the 20th century -a wen as ior tne latetul rea- aun ui me worlds power balance, the overriding objec- uve oi me bus must be to ac celerate the movement toward a new and unified EUnnPE inis movement is now en uangerea oy the Browine trade split between the con tinental 'Six" and the British. led "Seven." Let Mr. Kennedy, and ail of us, .remember the anxious worcis ot Gladwyn Jebb upon his retirement as British Am bassador to France: "Unless a real eitort is soon made to achieve the poiitico-economic unity of Western lurope. c shall ALL-and I mea with out exception - go into a slow decline in comparison vith the bloc of the Eastern coun tries. And we know in our hearts wfcere such a process must inev)bly lead." It will lead, of course, to the remorseless spread of Russian influence and control, with the new Africans among the earliest and easiest victims. (Hstribuled I960 by The Hall q Syndicate, Inc.) Q (All Rights Reserved) Last Wednesday was the 19th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, and all across the land it brought back memor ies to people who are no longer young. Dick West, who writes springtly columns from Wash ington, D.C., for the United Press International, waxed reminiscent last week. He wrote of having lunch with Harold Russell, national com. mander of AMVETS, who lost both hands in the war, and Stan Allen. In part, he said: ". . . It was obvious that Russell and Allen are no longer of draft age. Both, by coincidence, had recently had their automobiles banged up by their teen-age offspring and they spent most of the lunch lamenting it. This is 'old soldier' talk for sure. "As for myself, I like to think that I am still in the bloom of youth. But this may be because the teen-age driver in my family hasn't hit any thing yet. I guess his aim is poor. "Most of us World War II vets were products of a pe culiar generation, which grew up without ever making a name for itself. We were too young to have been membere of the 'lost' generation and now we are too old to be mem bers of the 'beat' generation. i don t know how we skip ped the generational nomen clature unless it is 'bcu.- we went directly frecu a dr. pressioei into a war. . . . The three of us sat wwjr4 fot about hour. hnrirtS ech other with our wn experienc es, inis set me te nfoneWin whether the is toeyteody ejho was past tlfe am of puberty at the time vho doesn't recall in excruciating detail just what he was doing when he first heard the news about Pflrl ndi uor. "To the generation now of siiering age, all of thi,may seem a on coejty. But ft tne need ever arises aeain. I just hope there are few Russelli among them."