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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."