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Medford and Jackson County
Hlnory from lh. tiles of The
M.ll Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40
and 50 veari flo-
10 YEARS AGO
n. 13. 1950 (Wednesday)
The sift fruit shipment
from the Medford area, now
. et its height, will be one of
the largest in history, a check
with shippers, the Railway
Express company and the post
office indicated today.
Jackson county will lose
close to $650,000 in tax rev
enue as the result of "arbi
trary and unexplained" action
by the .state tax commission
which reduced the county's
utility taxing ratio.-
20 YEARS AGO
Ve. 13. 1940 (Friday)
The Medford Flying club
hn nostcd a reward of $250
for the finding ol the bodies
nt Mr and Mrs. C. E. Walbert,
Medford, who disappeared in
thnlr nrlvate plane alter tan
Ing off from here on a flight
to Portland two weeks ago.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Pot" column: "Sci
entists have figured out the
probable age of 'human in
tfillieence' at 455,000 years.
There are times when it seems
small f.or its age. , .
30 YEARS AGO
Dae. 13. 1930 (Saturday)
r.mrn nlans to build a new
hydro-electric plant during
4V.A wnvt VPnr.
The state legislature will
n,ono npxt month and a
lively session is predicted.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 13. 1920 (Monday)
A total of 8.52 inches of
rain has fallen in Medford
tnr-n Rpnt. 1.
Trafiic between Grants Pass
and Crescent City has been
halted for nearly a week due
to heavy snows on Oregon
mountain.
B0 YEARS AGO
D.e. 13. 1910 (Tueiday)
Constable Singler has gone
to Visalla, Calif., to bring
back a man wanted for hog
atanllnc in Rutte Falls.
A former federal commis
sioner for southern Oregon,
who resided in Medford at
time, was murdered with
a crowbar in Chicago last
week.
What's Your I.Q.?
Ml., at ten correct il lupariori
liven oi tight it excellent) five ei
lis Is good.
I. WhHt is the United
States' highest award for
valor which requires per
formance "above and beyond
the call of duty"? '
2. Who baptized Saul?
s. Most roses now have
grafted roots: true or false?
4. In the sale of timber
which of the following usually
commands the highest price:
Ponderosa pine, Douglas fir,
larch, white fir or tngieman
soruce?
S. On how many islands is
New York principally built?
8. Which of the following
is most closely connected with
control of electrical volume:
Thermostat, reostat, photo-
slat, reconostat?
7. Has the noun burglar an
accepted verb form?
8. Frankfort is the capital
of which state?
9. There are no fish In the
Dead sea: true or false?
10. Name the man selected
by president-elect Kennedy to
serve as the new Secretary of
Commerce.
Answers: 1. Congressional
Modal of Honor. 2. Ananias,
3. True. 4. Ponderoioa pine.
8. Three. 6. Reostat. 7. No. 8.
Kentucky. 9. Fl$. 10. Luther
More Than One Danger
Ours is a society in constant danger.
It always has been. A democratic form of
government is the most dangerous there is.
We face the ultimate threat of annihilation
in an atomic holocaust. We face the danger of
imperial communism. We face the possible loss
of mends and allies throughout the worm, we
face the possibility of a devastating depression.
. And yet, somehow, the American people man
ace to face un to these dancers day after day,
live with them, sometimes ignore them, and con
tinue to carry on their
f")NE must, in surveying this dangerous world,
be concerned. Any intelligent person, from
time to time, stops to take stock of the dangers,
and to wish that he could do something to ease
them.
Some people concentrate on one danger, and
exclude, or forget about, or ignore, the others.
This, in our view, is what too many vocal
anti-communists tend to do.
In today's world, every patriotic, thinking
American can hardly help but recognize the dan
gers implicit' in imperial communism, and in its
domestic attempts at lnliltration and subversion.
DUT if one concentrates on that one threat to
" the exclusion of all
ing realistic. And by doing so, he leaves himself
open to tendrils or paralyzing fear which result
from obsessive preoccupation.
And fear, which never did much for the cour
ageous men who created this country, is a bad
basis for lasting and constructive work. '
. Fear can lead one into using the discreditable
methods of one's enemies.
And obsession, coupled with fear, can blow
up a threat into an all-embracing philosophy
which attributes all possible evils and dangers to
our enemies and none to anyone else.
y
COME people in this country have let their ob
sessive fear of communist infiltration and sub
version carry them to the point where they are
not above accusing people on suspicion, or dis
torting the truth, or assuming a person is guilty
until proven innocent, or assuming guilt on the
basis of association or connection, or even per
fectly innocent activities or appearance.
This type of activity
carried on by the House
committee.
Of all the organizations in this great and
powerful nation, this one
ognize that the threats
greater than those embodied in a tew communists
and fellow travelers.
TONIGHT at 7:30 o'clock at the Medford High
1 school, a film will be
seen by many people.
It 'is entitled "Operation Abolition," and
deals with the disturbances in San Francisco last
May, when a hearing of
protests from student groups and many others
who were concerned.
The committee alleges these disturbances,
which grew to -riotous proportions, were "com
munist led and inspired."
They may have been ; they may not have been.
The point is in dispute, and there is evidence on
both sides. ,
.
BUT the fact is that
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incidentally, and the TV
have yet to be paid), edited them to show just
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wnat tne committee warned snown ana nouung
to the contrary, added a
Lewis III of the committee
comment by committee
circulating them through
of a commercial outlet
It has not been denied that the film has been
distorted; it has been admitted publicly by Wil
liam Wheeler of the committee staff.
That communists may have participated in
the "riot" cannot be denied. But the film fails
to point out that the protests were widely based,
and also included church organizations, students,
organized labor, educators and some political
figures all motivated
committee s prior actions.
IS the committee seeking truth? Or is it seek
ivrr rnlir in Klnplrnri frirtda wnn nnnnco if?
If it is the former,
film to be distorted and circulated under Its.im
primatur? Distortion, in this context, is lying,
And it does not become a committee of the
United States Congress to participate in a lie.
And. if the committee's only legitimate func
tion in making investigations is to obtain infor
mation on which to base legislation, why is it
engaging in propaganda supporting its own activ
ities and lying propaganda at that?
a a
IT wasn't very long
fighting for its very
Fascism. With the defeat
all thought that threat was eliminated.
But the forces of reaction and suppression
are never through. We" now are facing the im
mense threat of communism both abroad and
at home. How ironic it
gaged in that fight, we were to be knifed in the
back and lose to home-grown totalitarianism!
Free government is
ilance is the price of that freedom. But vigilance
in one direction only is no vigilance at all.
We hear much of Lincoln's warning that if
this nation ever is conquered, it will be conquered
from within. Today it is
from the daggers of reaction as it is from the
daggers of radicalism.
day - to - day tasKa.
others, he simply isn't be
has been, and is being,
Un - American Activities
above all should rec
to the nation are tar
shown which should be
. .
the HUAC drew strong
the committee obtained
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stations which took them
commentary by Fulton
staff, and introductory
members, and then is
the country by means
at $100 per copy.
by the excesses of the
why did they permit the
ago that this nation was
life against the forces of
of the Axis powers, we
would be if. while en
dangerous. Eternal vig
in just as much danger
b. A. ,
Dennis the
'Howcovie you havem't told me to sw out of we attic
YET? OONT YOU KNOW CR$M1AS 3 COMiH'?"
... Communications ...
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The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication 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.
Mr. Howard's Comments
To the Editor: Could you
for once commend people like
the women of Tigard, who act
ed against extreme opposition
and in good faith by living up
to the God imposed responsi
bility of caring for their chil
dren? If in this particular case
they were overzealous. cer
tainly we would want you to
comment on it. However, the
principle involved here is not
your "blue-nosed or "busy-
bodies's" activity, nor even as
the Salem professor stated
"bookburning and witchhunt-
ng"; but the responsibility of
providing for the education of
our young. This is the SOLE
responsibility of parents. And
if our country is to survive,
many more parents will have
to become more, not less,
aware of this function, though
it be in opposition to many
commentators, editors, and un
fortunately, an indeterminate
number, of educators.
For you to take the U. S. At
torney General's list so light
ly is to consider the destruc
tion of civilization as being
unimportant. The Internation
al Conspiracy is real! Implant
ed in the "dirt" that makes up
a considerable portion of our
textbooks, and educators on
the Attorney General's list is
the seed of this conspiracy,
and it is beginning to bear
fruit. The student riots in San
Francisco against the House
Committee on Un-American
Activities bears witness to
this. Come to Medford High
school Tucsdny evening, Dec.
13, and see for yourself!
The recent meeting on high
er education held in Cottage
Grove bears further witness.
For example: item B of the
recommendations, as you re
ported them, is a contradiction
in terms. To remove the dis
claimer affidavit from the Na
tional Defense Education Act
would be to destroy our de
fenses in the area where the
conspiratorial opposition is
concentrating its attack. Rath
er strengthen the provisions
of this act to include institu
tions of learning and their fac
ulties. Robert J. Howard,
828 B West 14th st.,
Medford.
Save the Salmon
To the Editor: I would like
to call your attention to the
fact that one of our more val
uable resources is rapidly di
minlshing to the point of no
return. I am speaking of Pa
cific salmon and stcclhead
trout.
Students ask what is being
done to conserve the salmon
and steelhead. My answer Is
always not enough.
The salmon is second to no
other fish for eating. The
salmon provide employment
for many people in the com
mcrcial fishery. I don't think
one can have a greater sport
ing thrill than the surge of
a salmon on the end of a light
pole.
The time for talk slum Id be
over, for the numbers are
dwindling so fast there won t
be anything to talk about if
some action isn't taken
Where docs the responsibility
lie for the necessary action?
The gnme commission, the
state legislature, or the fed
eral wildlife service or some
other influential group must
move. The power companies
and some lumber companies
have contributed some aid,
but not enough.
The money could come
from an increase in fishing li
censes or salmon tags. Some
money should come from the
sale of state timber, for log
ging is the worst enemy of
the salmon. The government
can surely spend some to help
propagate our salirum. The
state might provide ui with
some aid in propagation.
There is no one easy way of
Menace
solving the problem. Logging
must continue and our rapid
run off and sedimentation
will only increase as time
goes on. There are restrictions,
but how closely are they ad
hered to?,, Stream pollution
and debris restrictions must
be more closely enforced.
Why has our hatchery pro
gram been geared to trout in
stead of salmon? The salmon
can be raised and released
with less trouble. Millions
upon millions of fingerling or
fry should be raised and re
leased in all the streams, es
pecially coastal streams.
Stock trout only in streams
where they might propagate
themselves, such as the Ump-
qua, Rogue, McKenzie, Des
chutes, and in the high lakes.
The hatcheries are too few
and far between. We need
salmon hatcheries on all our
major and some of our small
er streams, such as Elk river,
where a hatchery site was se
lected, purchased, leveled.
but no funds provided for
construction.
The time to act is now if we
are going to save one of our
most valuable natural re
sources. Or are we to place
the Pacific salmon and steel-
head in the extinct class for
our future generations?
Ernest L. Neal
P.O. Box 124
Bandon, Ore.
Free Country
To the Editor: I was under
the impression this was still
a free country where people
can express their thoughts
without ridicule.
Sunday in your editorial
you called the ladies from
Tigard "blue - nosed busy-
bodies" when they objected
to certain books being used
as textbooks in some Oregon
schools. Our government and
schools are supposed to be
by and lor the people," and
yet you ridicule people who
don't believe just as you do.
I feel that It is everyone's
privilege and rcsponsibilty to
voice their opinion on any
thing they feel is not in the
best interest of their children
and their country.
In Russia they squelch by
force, but here you try to
squelch by ridicule. Do you
believe the Russians would
allow the use of a textbook
in their schools that contains
stories written by someone
advocating the overthrow of
their government? Apparently
you think Americans should.
Why should we support any
one who advocates the over
throw of our government?
According to your stand
ards there must be two colors
of noses, the blue-nose and
the red-nose. I would rather
be a blue-nose.
Bill Brawn,
507 Kenwood ave.,
Medford
Editor's note: The point,
which our correspondent
misses, is that the textbook in
question does NOT advocate
overthrowing a'nythlng, - let
alone our form of govern
ment. Nor do the authors of
the pieces, despite the allega
tions of various compilers of
blacklists. If Mr. Brawn had
an enemy, who reported him
to a list compiler, who put
him on a list, and he there
upon lost his job, he'd won
der where freedom had gone
in this country. This is the
sort of thing the Tigard ladles
are supporting through their
hysterical character assassina
tion.
UFOs. GOPt and Writers
To the Editor: I am writing
to you about the item that
appeared on the front page of
Friday's, Dec. 9, Mail Tribune
concerning UFOs (Unldentl'
fled Flying Objects). That
strange phenomenal things
have been seen in tne ikies
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
Time Running Out as Red China Nearing
Nuclear Power Status; Russia Concerned
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Ten years ago amid razor
sharp peaks that stand out
like steel etchings against the
Korean sky. this correspond
ent watched
Red Chinese
troops ad
vancing down
a valley
southeast o f
Seoul.
They ad
vanced blind
ly, like sol
dier ants, in
Newsom ODedience t o
some higher comnand into
everything the United Na
tions 8th Army could throw
at them, mortars, 105s, ma
chinegun fire.
This was the human wave
attack.
The Korean conflict was a
war fought with conventional
weapons. The newest thing in
it was the jet fighter. We are
told that it probably will be
the last such war ever fought.
The next one will be nuclear.
no one can deny. I am ust
one of many who have not
had the experience of behold
ing this unusual, and strange,
and as yet unexplainable,
manifistation.
But if I should see such an
extraordinary sight I would
be most interested to know if
others might have seen it also,
and if I could find no one
who could say they had seen
this strange thing I had be
held, and should some writer
put an item in the local news
paper hinting broadly per
haps I had just taken a jour
ney into the twilight zone, I
would just brush it aside and
think only about the reality
of what I had seen, and stand
firmly on my own convictions
regarding the matter.
I suppose one would call
this being somewhat of an
individualist. It is my opinion
that more people should be a
little individualistic - but of
course it is my opinion that
more people should be Re
publicans and more local writ
ers use less snide, and deroga
tory remarks concerning
UFOs.
Thanks for listening.
Ida L. Kelly,
1141 Pinecroft ave.,
Medford.
Dogs for Congress
To the Editor: I have been
mulling over your editorial
about Congress and the dogs
of the District of Columbia.
For a so-long time I have
thought there was something
wrong with Congress but I
could not put my finger on
the key. Now the suspense is
ended, the mystery solved.
Now I know the answer. I
know what is wrong. Con
gress has gone to the dogs.
But I wonder which group
will be affected the more.
I have an idea that might
help the matter. Why not
elect the dogs to Congress
and let them adopt home rule
for the District? I am sure
they would not bark up the
wrong trees any more than
some of our Congressmen do.
Furthermore, the dogs would
serve at much less expense
They would not try to starve
out their supporters by per
iodically voting themselves
increased salaries and travel
budgets.
Besides, the dogs would all
migrate to Washington, D.C.,
and that would solve the dog
problem for Medford and
Jackson county as well as
other localities.
So long, and a wish for bet
ter government and less ex
pense. L. G. Weaver,
106 South Ivy,
Medford.,
The Enemy Within
To the Editor: In reply
to J. Verne Shangle's reply
to Vern Wolthoff's reply to
Mr. Shangle's outcry against
a Herblock cartoon on the
suppression of some facts by
the Unamerican Activities
Committee (deep breath)-Mr.
Shangles distress over com
munist inspired student riots
is understandable; his assump
tion that this makes truth un
important, criticism unneces
sary, and all disagreeing
Americans "bad", is not.
The distortion of facts is
always more destructive than
any specific incident, the cor
ruption of truth and justice
a more significant defeat of
the democratic ideal than any
"demonstration."
It is the prerogative of
youth to rebel; it has been the
tradition of university stu
dents to express that rebel
lion vigorously, if sometimes
unwisely. (Time quenches the
fires-most of these students
will be Goldwater Republi
cans In another IS years any
way.) No matter how much one
OREGON
The Red Chinese govern
ment said its fighters in Korea
were "volunteers". They were
volunteers only in the sense
that their own government
had offered them up as can
non fodder in the Commu
nists' limitless , ambition to
rule.
New Nuclear Power
Week end reports from
Washington said the adminis
tration was concerned by re
Matter of Fact y jo.ePh aiSoP
ON COURAGE
Tlemcen, Algeria In the
bleak main square of Ain
Temouchent, in bitter cold
weather, the
people sullen
ly waited. Ear
lier, a tiny,
lonely band
of s t u d e nts
tried to raise
a banner with
the legend,
"Long Live
De Gaulle." A
dozen furious
Alsop
women had torn the calico
into tatters while the rest of
the crowd growled. '
Now the crowd vented its
anger in hoarse chants of "Al
geria Francaise." Once there
was a threatening movement
into the cordoned empty
space around the Hotel De
Ville, which was only halted
by strong reserves of security
police. The French settlers,
who own the big, rich farms
around the town, had brought
in their well controlled farm
workers to show De Gaulle
just what they thought of his
grandiose gamble for peace in
Algeria.
Within the half - besieged
Hotel De Ville, meanwhile,
high officials accompany
ing De Gaulle on his Algerian
tour milled about in helpless
gloom, while the General
himself serenely went through
his prescribed routine of
meetings with local leaders,
an address to the city counsel
lors and so on and on.
SUDDENLY, as the routine
ended, there was a stir of
anguished protest among the
high military officers, pre
fects and ministers of state.
Brushing them all aside, the
enormous, pale, aging, terri
fying and glorious figure ap
peared on the Hotel De
Ville's high steps. De Gaulle
was going to confront the
crowd.
. The crowd itself, as though
momentarily i n t i m i d ated,
lapsed into an amazed si
lence. In this breathless hush,
the tall old man strode to
wards the people. Half blind
without his glasses, he can
noned heavily into an inter
vening lamp post. But he
gathered himself again and
reached the crowd's fringes,
where he began to shake
hands with perfect uncon
cern. Two old bearded Mus
lims bent low to kiss the prof
fered hand.
Around De Gaulle himself,
a melee quickly formed, of
chalk-faced security officers,
and high officials who had
hastened to follow their chief,
and people in the crowd press
ing forward to greet him. In
his immediate vicinity, the
curious hush still reigned. But
elsewhere in the crowd the
growling chant of "Algerie
Francaise" began again, with
a redoubled fury. From be
hind their carefully mar
shalled workmen, several
French farm owners, faces
contorted with anger broke
into the open and rushed to
ward the confused melee sur
rounding De Gaulle.
WITH heart in mouth, one
helplessly recalled the
extremists' pamphlet of the
day before, lauding "The ex
ample of Bonnier la Chap-
pelle, the assassin of Admi
ral Darlan. But De Gaulle had
accomplished his purpose. He
turned again towards the Ho
tel De Ville, still walking
slowly and calmly, but now
surrounded by many follow
ers.
One who followed was a
stocky farmer shouting curses.
Suddenly a young colonel,
one of the many army officers
may agree with the basic aim
of controlling communism in
this country, one has the right
-indeed the obligation - to
judge the means by which
this is done, and to offer hon
est criticism when necessary.
A communist inspired at
tack against something does
not make that something au
tomatically defensible - that
would be too easy for the
communists.
If Abraham Lincoln said
that this country would be
taken from within, rather
than from without, I do not
think he meant that the en
emy was that vile beast-"the
other," the deliberate traitor,
the fanatic spy. I think he
meant the greed, pride, fear-
the blind passions-that are in
all men. I think he meant the
enemy within us, not among
us.
Betty House
Box 722
Medford
ports that Red China soon
might become a nuclear
power.
As in September 1949,
when Russia exploded its
first atomic bomb and upset
the world balance of power,
it is inevitable in the present
court of events that Red
China must also possess the
atomic bomb.
By accident or design, Red
delegates to Moscow's recent-
with little sympathy for De
Gaulle's Algerian gamble, had
had enough of this. Moved,
one supposed, by simple admi
ration for an act of nanea
courage, the colonel rounded
on the cursing farmer and
roared at him, "Vive De
Gaulle!" Whereat the man
fell back, comically abashed,
as De Gaulle once more en
tered the Hotel De Ville.
This sequence of events,
with its drama and its tension
which no description can con
vey, occupied hardly more
than ten minutes altogether.
Yet it told more about De
Gaulle's Algerian journey, I
think, than all the generous,
nobly phrased yet sternly
resolute speeches he has been
making along the way.
THOSE ten minutes at Ain
Temouchent told, first of
all, everything one needed to
know about the venom of the
opposition which De Gaulle
must overcome in this unhap
py Algeria. One - may be
shocked by this opposition's
open appeals illegality.. One
may deplore its irrationality,
its rejection of all political
realism. But one must sym
pathize, none the less, with
these French men and women
oi Algeria who believe their
whole deep rooted way of life
is now at stake. De Gaulle's
own sympathy is plain, in
everything he does.
What else, meanwhile, was
told by those ten minutes in
the square? Above all, I be
lieve, they told why De
Gaulle can hope to win his
great gamble in Algeria, de
spite the heavy odds against
him. Living through " those
ten minutes, one felt at every
instant, with incomparable in
tensity, the majestic power of
De Gaulle s matchless cour
age combined with the special
human grandeur that is his
alone.
That statement is not senti
mental mush, either. What
De Gaulle did at Ain Temou
chent was a gesture, you may
say, but it was a gesture with
easily observable and far
reaching practical effects.
The gesture told the opposi
tion that this man would not
be frightened or turned aside
from his purpose. You could
see it on their faces. Of them,
De Gaulle said wearily, later
on: "There were some who
cried out-which is useless!"
PERHAPS more important
A still, this ffpsture sonke
volumes to those who must
work with De Gaulle to real
ize his great gamble. That
young colonel, with his sud
den access of enthusiasm for
a brave leader, surely had his
own special significance, in
this situation in which the
French army is the finally
controlling factor.
And surely there, was sig
nificance too, in the visible
emotions of the men of far
higher rank, who first pro
tested and then followed De
Gaulle towards the crowd.
Among these principal hu
man instruments of De
Gaulle's policy, after all
there have been natural
doubts about his gamble.
Their increase of resolve.
their strengthened confidence
in De Gaulle's leadership,
were all visible and tangible.
One of them, the able and
wise Minister for Algeria
Louis Joxe, put the point
sharply and well when he re
marked: "Courage becomes
easy when one is with De
Gaulle."
(c) 1960, New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
A ZEALOUS FATHER sneaked into his darkened parlor
i- late one night and found his daughter locked tight in
the arms of an unknown suitor. The suitor jumped up and
siammerea, "were not
making love, sir. I'm. an
actor studying the Meth
od, and I'm just showing
your daughter how we
portray the role of
Romeo."
"An actor, hey!" roar
ed the father. "Well, I'll
give you exactly eight
seconds to get out of this
house before my foot
lights."
The late Meyer Bereer
discovered a businessman
long-time typist. He squared account by sending out the messy
,1 !'? ?.1rd,n h" dMlt ,0r "P111""' rubb -tamping oTtna
ly concluded Communist sum
mit conference returned home
and allowed to leak concern
similar to that expressed in
Washington.
They were, they said,
shocked by Red China's disre
gard for human life.
They said the Red Chinese
delegate had accused Premier
Nikita Khrushchev of "cow
ardice" in pressing his coexis
tence theme.
Soviets Pull Back
There were reports that
Khrushchev had decided to
lend Red China no further
help in its atomic research
program.
These Communist reports
could be part of a new pro
paganda scheme designed to
frighten the West into a nasty
Uiiurmament or nuclear test
ban agreement ji ithout prop
er safeguards, as Khrushchev
has to repeatedly demanded.
But propaganda or not, the
West has reason 1o know of
Red China's aggrcsii-.e intent
by Red China's own an
nouncements. As Prime Minister Nehru
told the United Nations:
Time is running out.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Economic note:
A Washington dispatch this
morning reports that SAV
INGS are booming in tha
U.S.A. It adds: Government
statistics show Americans
have saved up at the present
time a total of 307 BILLION
dollars-a new record.
The report adds that in
July, August and September,
summer months when people
usually spend heavily on va
cations, the saving total rose
by 4.3 billion dollars.
IS THAT good?
rtr ic it had?
(When people save up more,
they are usually inclined to
SPEND LESS. When peopla
are spending freely, business
is apt to be active. When they
are spending less and saving
more, business tends to slow
down.)
WELL ...
At the present moment in
history, it is pretty hard for
conservative thinkers to be
lieve that -a rising level of
thrift will do the economy of
the United States of America
any damage.
pVDR example:
" At the end of 1959, just a
year ago, net PUBLIC debl,
including federal and state ob
ligations, amounted to 299
billion dollars. That just
about balances the 307 billion
dollars in savings the people
now hae.
At the end of 1959 (the lat
est date at which the figures
are available as this is writ
ten) total net PRIVATE debt,
including corporate, farm,
housing, commercial and con
sumer obligations, reached a
total of 547 billion dollars.
Adding the net public debt
to the net private debt gives
us a total of 846 billions-or
nearly a trillion dollars.
rPHE moral?
It seems to be this:
A little more saving up will
do us no harm.
QN THE lighter side:
Mr. Kennedy's tailor con
fides to the Washington re
porters this morning that ho
has fitted the President-elect
for an Oxford gray lambswool
cutaway coat, light pearl gray
vest, medium gray worsted
trousers with a faint stripe,
and a white semi-dress shirt
kwith French cuffs. This for
his inauguration suit.
The tailor adds:
Mr. Kennedy will wear a
high silk hat.
(Ike, it will be remembered,
wore a Homburg.)
TTMMMMMMMMM.
" Mr. Kennedy seldom
a hat at all.
The real break with tradi
tion would have come if ho
had been inaugurated BARE
HEADED. Stop Me
H. Hodges.