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4 ' A. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, I960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MEDFORDdttkTRIBUNK "Everyune in Southern Oregon Rends The Mall Tribune" Kbfished Dally except Saturday 6y MEOKOKU ftllJNJlNlJ i-u JJ North Fir St. Ph SP 2141 ROBERT W "rUHC. Editor HERB GREY Advetlislng Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus Mgr ERIC W AljLEN IR Mne Edltoi EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Spoiuj Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Ed tor PALE ERICKSONT Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at . Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 t SUBSCRIPTION RATES : By Mail - In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year S15TO Dally and Sunday 8 moa 8 on Dallv and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Bunday Only One vear ft 20 By Carrier-In Advance Med'ord Ashland. Central Point E agle Point. 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Portland St Louis At. lnpta-tccuorJC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI A SI Tim Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30 40 and 50 years aoo. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1950 (Wednesday) The city of Mcdlord has en tered into an agreement with other Jackson county cities to iurnish men and equipment to any city which is threatened with the loss 01 me anu piuK arlv Plans are being made by the slate highway commission in rolnnnte a rjortion OI mgn- way 99 so that it will no long er pass througn uoio. nm. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 20. 1940 (Friday) The Jackson county court i session yesterday took steps to eliminate the office f rtonutv district attorney. Prnm Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Let ters are now pouring, in upon Santa Claus, at both his North Pole and Washington, jj.i., addresses." . 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1930 (Saturday) Pacific coast states, includ ing Oregon, have been allo cated $22 million by the fed eral government for relief work. Several youths have been arrested by city police and charged with auto theft after they admitted stealing seven different cars last night. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1920 (Sunday) Paul B. Rynning has been named muster of the Med ford Masonic lodge. The price of turkeys lias Jumped to 40 cents a pound in Portland. , SO YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1910 (Tuesday) Construction is expected to start soon on two new grade schools in the city -one on West Jackson st., and the oth er on the east side in the Ouccn Anne district. The First National Bank of Medford has recently pur chased property at the corner of Main st. and Central ave., and rumor has it that a new business block will be erected there in the near future. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina at ten correct is superior. oven oi eight Is excellent, five ai in it good. . 1. Is "JATO" the name of a fuel, a device to assist take off of cargo planes, or a new international language ! 2. Bible: What was the most Important political movement during (he period between the O. T. and the N. T.7 3. Male kangaroo do, or do not, have pouches? 4. Name the capital of Maryland. 5. What fur of royally comes from the stoat? 6. Is Pegasus known In my thology as a winged cow, horse, or lion? 7. Is a flamingo a bird, in sect, or Siberian wolf? 8. Which state is nicknamed "Wolverine State"? . I). Was Anna Pavlova a not ed Russian dancer, painter, or poet? 10. Is the topaz, amethyst, or ruby the blrthstone for February? . Answers: 1. Device to assist takeoff of cargo planes. 2. The rise of Greek (Alexandrian) power and culture. 3. Do not. 4. Annapolis. 5. Ermine. 6, Winged horse. 7. Bird. 8. 9. Noted Russian dancer. 10. Amethyst. Secret How many people know what the state land board is? Not too many, we'll wager. It has the same membership as the better known board of control governor, secretary of state and state treasurer and is charged with the administration of hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the state, either in state owner shin or in trust for schools. This was the board which very quietly entered into preliminary negotiations with the Shell Oil company recently, looking toward the lease of some 600,000 acres of offshore lands for oil ex ploration. 1XHETHER or not T T secret may be debatable. But Ken Johnson, the editor of the weekly Capital Press in Salem, who first broke the story, said they were, indeed, secret. And he makes a good case, citing earlier the subject, both Ar and 6 used the word ' secret unnamed oil exploration But neither followed copyrighted story held heated denial irom Governor natheld that se crecy was involved. A ND the wire service stories about the Shell "negotiations, while they quoted Hatfield as denying any secrecy, were based on Johnson's story as to the details or Probably the story the light of clay sooner to Johnson s journalistic that he was the first to And the question of How can the state land board justify dealing in secret with one hrm on property which is own ed by all the people of the state? "THE question has been made academic by the ruling of Attorney General Robert Y. Thorn ton to the eriect that existing laws do not author ize the land board to make an oil exploration lease for offshore properties. But, under an interpretation of law onlv slightly different, the board could have gone on and concluded a lease arrangement, secretly, with a single firm, without bids, public hearing or any of the other safeguards erected for use in a gov ernment which rules by consent of the governed. They might have felt they were acting in the best interests of the state. And perhaps they might have been, as far as the provisions of any actual deal are concerned. DUT the fact remains that the public's business is the business of the public. Secrecy should have no place in it. . And, granting that Governor Hatfield, Secre tary of State Appling and Treasurer Howard Belton are all honest men fact that they might have bargained away im mensely valuable rights, to public property smacks of the old scandals surrounding the dissipation of school lands earlier in Oregon's history. We hope the legislature, which will convene in three weeks, will take a . close look at this situa tion, and erect some safeguards to protect the property ot the people Irom deals, however well intentioned, which are conducted secretly. E.A. Come Back, Faith McCullough, an who writes a column m the state, recently put one of the things that irritates us about the Christ mas beason. Namely, phoney Santa Clauses. She says, in part: ""Someone should start a nationwide movement to ' save Santa Claus. The venerable saint of song and story has so many spurious imitators that his reputa tion suffers in consequence at least with those who count the most, the children. "Everywhere lurk Santas fat ones, lean ones, masked men, painted zombies. Bewildered small fry stand mute or retreat terrified before each confusing version, as parents prod fatuously, 'Tell Santy what you want him to bring you.' "Dicky peers skeptically at flapping mask and phoney whiskers and is dragged off to encounter another version In another store, there to be embraced by an odorous old character with grimy hands and booming voice. "Politicians, once coined the phrase, 'You can't kill Simla Claus,' but we've come mighty close to finishing off the old man for the kids. "It's about time the public boycott the pseudo Santas and demand a return to that old-fashioned un seen mystery man who is loo busy at Christmas time . to loaf around street corners and toy departments. and who comes but once a year and that after all boys and girls arc sound asleep ... "The uniform of Santa Claus is not one lightly to be assumed. It carries with it a grave responsibility. Let us restore the Christmas saint to his rightful place, and relegate his imitators to carnival sideshows." A HEARTY Amen! to you, Mrs. McCullough. We, too, at Christmas time, like to have those "occasional sentimental twinges" and agree that that "even the most cynical have their mellow moments." One of these is the recollection of the mystery and excitement of Christmas eves long gone, when "Santa Claus" was a story half-believed and half disbelieved but never sullied by the dozens of phoney Santas one cannot avoid today. E.A. , The United Medford Crusade has collected 99 per cent of its goal. All it needs to go over the to)) for the eighth consecutive year is $1,469.90. It would be too bad if it failed this year for lack of the equivalent of about six cents for each Medford resident. E.A. Oil Deal the negotiations were wire service stories about Url dispatches on Dec. in describing certain leases. up. Johnson did. And his up well, too, despite the the proposals. would have emerged into or later, but it is a credit skill and determination break1 the story. propriety remains. of integrity, the very Santa Claus Ashland newspaperwom for several weekly papers her linger squarely on Dennis the Menace ' I'LL TELL HIM SOU BEEN OOOO, AN' VOL! TELL HIM J BEEN GCOD.OW?' ... Communications . .. Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for 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. Dim Prospects To the Editor; I want to compliment you for your re cent editorial concerning the indecision of the present county court. On numerous occasions, particularly in the field of county zoning, I have observed them in their agoniz ing search for the "right way" and it is, as you state, enough to make a strong man cry. Unfortunately, the prospects of future improvement seem to be rather dim. However, in my opinion, a far brighter aspect , is the clear, simple fact of your edi torial. As one who, over the years, has tended to feel that your editorials have lacked decision, I am now extremely pleased to voice a solid vote of encouragement. Whether it be in the area of government, public welfare, or just plain human interest, yours was the kind of "call-them-as-you-see- them expression for which there is currently a howling need. May we have more of the same. Ronald M. James, 1748 Cottage S.E., Salem, Depression Lesson To the Editor: "Where do you get your wide range of lettcrs-to-the-eidtor?" is a com mon question coming my way, from friend and foe alike. Thanks be, they appear to be evenly divided. It's a fair question and deserves a fair answer. There is no lack of material, far more than the space-concious editor could allow, realizing there are many others wanting to be heard. One example: We were happy receivers of Christmas cards from the Al Bates and Max Wopschall out Eagle Point way, with the near petal-perfect cadenced verse of the feminine membership. We fell to speculating at our early morning breakfast, just how much inheritance there would be In the Wopschall three girls and boy of such outstanding talent that Dr. Alvarez points out so factual and graphically via the Mall Tribune. For there is also Al Bates, retired engineer of the Hoover corporation back east, and last but far from -least, Max. Max Is ot that enduring sur vival type you could never possibly imagine being among the "I give up" down and outers. We well remember of his pictured relating of de pression days in Manitoba, Canada. He was Inveigled into a job for a large wheat ranch er who was "depression sick- abed," as Max put it. Now Max Is not of large stature but he docs have what it takes to get things done, and there was much, much to be done. So much so that Max found daylight hours near the lesser part of the day's work. Being iong hardened to that, he kept grimly on, till shaky weak ness warned him he was ncar ing nature's limit. He had gotten into the habit of chew ing on wheat from the big bins. But It wasn't enough to make up for lack of food on the meal-time table. So, in an ultimatum to the depression-sick wheat ranch er, he stated. "I don't mind doing two men's work for a questionable one man's pay. But by the great horn-spoon, 1 do want and demand table feed for one man at least." To which the sick man agreed. Max proceded to dress out a beef, also a hog and sheep, deep-freezing It in the zero temperature wheat bins. Four horsed a load Into town and traded for ground feed for stock and groceries for the family. This, with easing o'. depression days, gave a new lift and life to living. All of which constitutes quite a guide-post to Max, also to yours truly. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Christmas Present To the Editor: All Jackson county taxpayers got a half- million dollar Christmas gift last week when the county court rejected that fool-hardy plan for a white elephant sta dium. If this proposed stadium is the 'pregnant idea the spon sors say it is, why don't they build it themselves and we taxpayers will be happy to let them harvest these fan cied fantastic profits they rave about? This stadium plan is in the same category as the Medford off street parking plan of two years ago. This also was a half million dollar plus idea and fantastic profits were promised if only the Medford voters would underwrite the plan. A few of us exerted our selves and brought the truth to the voters and they reject ed the plan at the polls. With in 30 days, experts made a sur vey of this so-called "plan" and announced that the voters of Medford could thank their lucky stars that they voted it down. These egg-head plans of get ting their hands in the tax payers' pockets are becoming more frequent, therefore it is suggested that future wise guys with big money making ideas of spending tax dollars, back up these plans by under writing and guaranteeing the results with their own funds. After all, if they believe their own propaganda they have nothing to lose and the tax payers will be protected. With this plan in force our county court would seldom be both ered with Idiotic get-rich schemes. M. J. Olsen Route 4, Box 325 Medford P. S. On second thought, why leave four and five hun dred thousand dollar ideas up to three men? Its our tax money so let's let the tax payer decide any expensive future ideas at the polls. Any way county court thanks for the Christmas present. Thank You, Ladies To the Editor: -That there are many wonderful people in Medford and vicinity is prov en by the hustle and bustle of activity throughout the long halls and sections of the V.A. Domiciliary these days as the Ladies of the Volunteer Corps (God Bless them all) go on with their decorations for the Holiday Season. It can never be said that the Veteran has been forgotten by these wonderful women. They have made hundreds of beau tiful evergreen sprays, each one an individual beauty, dec orated with a green, red, yel low or blue bow ribbon and pine cones, spruce cones, shells, bells and a grand var iety of flowers. It is hard to visualize the great amount of work this has entailed making and placing these about, and these Vol unteer Ladies deserve every praise and the thanks of every veteran. It- is easily seen that these ladies are out to make this a Merry Christmas for every veteran and I speak for all veterans when I say God Bless you all and please accept our thanks and appreciation. Happy Holidays to you Ladies! Malcmutc Slim While City, Ore. Businessmen's Responsibility America Cited by Executive of Oil Firm By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst An American businessman recently took a look at the social and economic up heavals cur rently sweep i n g Latin America and came up with a solution which he be lieves is both a responsibil ity of business and an an swer to ' en croaching communism. The man taking the look is no stranger to international industrial relations. He is L. J. Brewer, president of Esso Standard Oil S.A., Ltd. He delivered his findings at the 11th annual Conference on the Caribbean at the Uni versity of Florida. On the decisions which emerging populations will make between a free or totali tarian society, Brewer places Last Days? To the Editor: I doubt that any of your Tribune readers would say that we are not living in a perplexing and be wildering age. Each day news headlines proclaim new trag edies or that some new satel lite encircles our planet. The writer of these lines has, according to some of your subscribers, assumed the title of "Amateur Preacher," "Rev erend," and to top it one gentleman wrote a letter ad dressing me Holy Reverend, For clarification, I am not a graduate of any Divinity school. If I were I'd prefer the word Reverend" to be applied to God alone. However, with my limited education, I am thankful that we can turn in all of our per plexities to the Word of God. Our Lord through divine revelation has spoken by His Holy Apostles and Prophets. His unchanging words echo down through the ages and point with unerring accuracy to the fact that we are living in the last days. Many may scoff and ridi cule the idea but never the less the greatest event this world will have ever known is soon to come. Permit me io quote several passages from Holy Writ. I possess a Douay version as used by my Catholic friends. It was given to me by a priest. "Know also this, that in the last days, shall come dangerous times." "Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobed ient to parents, ungrateful, wicked, without natural af fection" (ever see poodle dogs loved in place of children?), "without peace slanderers, in continent, unmerciful, with out kindness, traitors, stub born, puffed up, and lovers of pleasures more than God." (II Timothy 3, 1-4.) Go to most any church on Sunday and compare the num ber . in the pews with those out involved in their pleas ures. The above paragraph is in no wise intended to convey the idea that I am promoting enforcement of legislation to change the picture. Instead would it not be far more ef fective if men who claim to be shepherds of the flock began to search their own souls. If the sheep are wander ing into forbidden paths per haps their pastures have be come parched. Is it not high time that our eyes were turned Heavenward? Only in obed ience to God's unchanging law will that real love enter our hearts. "Great peace have they who love thy law and noth ing shall, offend them." The psalmist David wrote these words. Henry Johnson Jr., 2315 Highway 66, Ashland, Ore. Problem To the Editor: Perhaps we should be philosophical about an ever recurring problem: The Napkin draped across the knee Even though with care: Is almost always sure to be, Found beneath the chair. H. W. Robertson 103 North Central ave. Medford Portlander Killed Portland-d'PO-Robert Cairn cross, 56. a Portland carpen ter, fell 25 feet to his death from the Multnomah County Courthouse Monday after npon. The coroner's office said Cairncross fell from a scaf folding. He was dead on ar rival at a hospital. himself on the side of the optimists. On Practical Side Speaking specifically of Central America and on the practical side, he says: "We intend to remain in these areas. So it is up to us to understand, as best we can, what Is taking place here and try to determine how we might contribute more to or derly economic develop ment." With that summation, Brew er recognizes two important sources of conflict in Latin America. One is that poverty-stricken, illiterate populations seek ing blindly for a better way of life now have before them the successful example of Fi del Castro's Cuban revolu Matter of Fact y Joseph am ON GREATNESS Paris-Variety is the essence of the itinerant reporter's ex perience. Between the bore dom of the plane to F r an kfurt few weeks ago and the boredom of the plane now go ing home, the emotions that Berlin always provokes, the Alsop fantasmagoric spectacle of Secretary Ander son in Bonn, the wild crowds in the streets of Algiers, and the last gasps of the Eisen hower administration's diplo macy, have followed each other in swift and somewhat lurid succession. But among these alternat ing experiences of fury and of folly, of courage and of decency, of political comedy and political exhaustion, one sort of experience is very rare indeed. Once, twice, per haps thrice, each generation of men is permitted to experi ence the sight of human great ness. When you have seen greatness close at hand, as this reporter saw General de Gaulle's greatness in Algeria, it fills the heart and demands to be celebrated. It seems a thousand years since that first meeting, in the obscure and rather squalid office which de Gaulle used in Paris in his years in exile from power. The gigantic figure, towering over his in terviewer, all but intoned his forecast of the future. As this forecast then seemed almost comically irrelevant to the facts of the late forties, the meeting left the impression of a visit to an ancient oracle prophesying for an age long past. rpHE joke (played on how -- many other people too) was that the prophet s seemingly strange, seemingly unreal forecast has now been realiz ed in exact and practical de tail. This strange man who seems, in modern France prehistoric and improbable as a surviving mammoth majes tically marching down a superhighway, lias none the less been called by history to do the work which he fore saw that France would need from him. Wherein, then, docs his greatness lie? Its foundations, surely, are the same on which Winston Churchill also built his greatness - a clear histori cal vision and the courage to remain true to that vision at all costs. Churchill in the thirties, foreknowing the com ing disaster and being called a superannuated drunkard be cause of his foreknowledge, Thornton Enlarges HS Crime Committee Salem IUPD Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton an nounced Monday that five Riddle High school students have been selected to serve on his High School Advisory committee on crime preven tion. They are Mike Patrick Jean Armagost, Diane Foster, John Brown and Steve Gad dis, all of Riddle. The Riddle High school committee joins similar groups in High schools through the state in Thorn ton's experimental crime pre vention program. December Is Worst Month for Crime Salem 0!P The crime pre venion division of the attor ney general's office Monday issued a reminder that crime takes no holiday. - Division director Phil Ave rill said statistics show that December is the worst month of the year for burglaries and other crimes and said it was particularly true during Christmas time. Averill called for residents in the state to exercise in creased vigilance. tion, which professional Cas tro or Communist agitators hope to spread throughout all of Latin America. The other is ingrained Latin American suspicion of the United States which ex presses itself in outright con fiscation of U.S. property as in Cuba or in legislation mak ing a fair return on foreign investment difficult if not im possible. Business Responsible How the Latin Americans proceed in their attempts to break through from the mid die ages to a modern society Brewer believes, depends in large measure on the business community. Brewer goes on the theory that, while large industry helps to strengthen a nation's was like de Gaulle in the years of the Fourth Republic, insisting on his own foresight and being called a superan nuated mystic for his pains. But vision and courage and carelessness of conventional opinion are not enough to make a truly great man. To these, must be added other things. For one, there is need for that strange power to cap ture the imagination and re store the confidence of other men, which one saw de Gaulle using so dramatically in Al geria. rpHE men who accompanied - him on his painful journey - General Paul Ely, Louis Joxe and the rest -were not trivial, or inexperienced, easily frightened or impress ed. Yet you could all but see hope, and resolution, and en ergy to act flowing out from de Gaulle to these men around him, like a powerful electric current. In the same manner, though necessarily more faintly, he appears to communicate with the nation he leads. Part of his power of communication, one suspects, is precisely that quality of being a total in dividual, of having no style but his own, which so strong ly marks de Gaulle. Again, this is a quality that also marked Churchill; and in the case of both men, it has its comic side. The Churchillian comedy is hearty, almost rollicking.. The comedy of de Gaulle is iron ical and olympian. Think of the famous story of one of his adherents in the years of exile, who had taken a few glasses too few and was angry witn the world. "Death to all fools! Death to all fools!" he began to shout again and again. Whereat the door of the adjoining office opened. The towering figure appeared upon the threshold. The strangely carplike mouth opened. Three words, "An am bitious program!" fell into the silence. And the door closed again, fR consider the classic en- v counter between de Gaulle and a somewhat vain subor dinate to whom an important post was about to be given. Expecting all sorts of agree able reassurances, the new appointee pleaded, somewhat verbosely, that he was not "big enough for the job." De Gaulle replied, with perfect solemnity, "No doubt you will grow bigger. This irony and skepticism this courage and this faith and vision, are not the whole story, either. Gigantic, pre historic as de Gaulle always seems, he can also seem warmly, even touchingly, hu man. In his speeches to the groups of officers he address ed in Algeria, for instance, he spoke with an intimacy, a frankness that is rare in pub lic discourse. "You know, gentlemen, that a man of my age" - thus began one paragraph of his superb speech at Blida. From this start, in phrases at once marmoreal and deeply person al, he went on to explain his own nostalgia for the easier world into which he was born; his enduring preference for the ways of that time; and the pain which it sometimes cost him to face the harsh facts of historic change. Thus the great old man seemed to offer his own most private experience as a kind of sacri fice, to instruct and to ab solve the young men who heard him. rPHE sight of de Gaulle in - action not merely fills the heart. It also fills notebooks; but the time has come to set a term to this essay, there is only one more thing to say. In the time that is ahead, there may be disagreements, irritations, even sharp divis ions between Charles de Gaulle and his allies. But America and every other Western nation must none the less be deeply grateful for de Gaulle, as a man who greatly serves, not France alone, but the whole commu nity of free men. (Copyright 1960. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) in Latin economics, basic stability and economic health depend upon active and growing small businesses in the hands of a prosperous middle class. He reasons that since Latin America suffers a seri ous shortage of trained tech nicians and business man agcrs, it is part of the respon-. sibility of big business to sup ply them through training' programs and with invest-' ments to help Latin American' nations diversify. "We are," he says, "not' just guests of a , country j abroad. We are corporate' citizens with the full respon-1 sibility of citizenship except the right to vote." i In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President-elect Kennedy has named all of the members, of his cabinet. He completed, the job by appointing J. Ed-' ward Day of Los Angeles to be postmaster general. He had just previously ap pointed his brother Robert to be attorney general and C. Douglas Dillon, a Republican, to be secretary of the treas ury. Day is a business man, an insurance - executive, with no particular political back ground other than that he has been a friend of Adlai Steven son. His job will be to man age one of the biggest busi ness institutions in the world -the U.S. postal service. Dillon's job will be to keep our nation solvent. f)F ALL President-elect Kcn " nedy's cabinet choices, tha selection of his brother to be attorney general probably in volved the most soul-searching. T.Parlinc- Tinmnnrafc i .. " - nu p.c Buy ing privately they think he may nave indue a mistake. Ganalni. ai.n11 0l i Democrat, goes a little farther. , Boya; - III not opposing the ,. appointment. I merely nues- ' Ttfpnntism utiinh io tliDn.nn. tice of giving political or busi ness positions to members of one's family, became common centuries ago, especially dur- ing me Middle Ages. Rulers appointed their nephews (tha word nepotism comes from the Latin word for nephew) nnrl nlhai. nlatiimD , v.n-!- tions of strategic importance, ..,. .imcaaiug uiuir own power and influence. . Pnr that hictnin nnr.n the practice is still regarded with considerable suspicion. A nPAVF. rocnpneihilil., ' uiiaiwunj LLl- tainly rests on the shoul ders of young Bob Kennedy. (He is in his middle 30's and looks at least ten years young er than he is.) He HAS to be good. If he slips . . . ANY WHERE alone the line in the' years to come ... it will ba rough. There is little doubt that he IS good. He was chipf . counsel oi tne senate rackets ivillllll ncc, UL WIUUU Ills OI 0111-- nr ,nn n u II. J IJt - Enlnnin inV, Un ....... nUI. II tm ism iln, uc wcta eni:i:--. t u , t i:i: live, in me tuuciiy .aiia poilll pallv rlnniiprniic Unffn Huci- ness that occupied so much of the senate racket's com mittee s time, hp nullprl n punches. Because of his dili- apnnp ha annnipiul In, ' powerful enemies, who will remain nis enemies. It took political courage to appoint nis oromer, out prcsi- guutrini in tne years to come, inuai iihic auiuuuiit: ill whom he had COMPLETE - cuiiiiuence. IT TOOK some courage to ap-" point a Republican to tho post of secretary of the trcas-' ury. Dillion has been a rca-' cnnshlv ni-nminpnt RnnnKli.. can. He has been an assistant secretary of state. He and his will UUUll lUULUU d lllldl UL $9,550 to the Nixon campaign. But ... he is a former! investment banker. He was Dorn a bwiss-and the Swiss. lend to be hard-headed in business matters. For too'. uiuiiv years, wp nnvp nppn - putting out more dollars than we have been taking in. Tn the ' future, for quite a while, wo- must take in more dollars than - we put out. Presumably, President-elect., Kennedy feels that Dillon is the man to do the job, even ' if he is a Republican. OF THIS much, there can be no doubt- We are entering a period in our history when politics must be subordinated to oa- triotism. Grave dangers face i our country. These dangers are both military and fiscal. We face a powerful and ag gressive enemy who is dedi cated to our destruction. Fir reasons it is not necessary to ' go into here, our financial house is not in very good. order. in me liiuilc ui nis caoi-: net, President-elect Kennedy , seems to be seeking to meet . this trying situation with a minimum of politics and a maximum of common sense,
