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FRIDAY,. DECEMBER 23, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON 4 MEDFORDv!l-TRlBUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon Read i The Mail Tribune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 38 North Fir St. Ph SP 2-6141 RORPRT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manaeer GERALD T LATHAM BUS ftiRr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. MnR Editoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor mrHinn ip.wf.TT Soort Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women's Kd tor DALE EHiCKSUHuircuiauon ms; An YnHnnndenf Newsnaoer Entered as oecond class matter at Medford. Oregon unaer aci oi March 3, 1897 Rnn SCRIPT. ON RATES Uy Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 ynar 1B00 Daily and Sunriny fl mos 8 00 . Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 Bo rorrlnr Tn AH Vfl ncft MCQ fOfd Ashlnnd. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold hiii Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv ToUnt nurf nn motor TOTItei Dailv and Sunday 1 vear 818 00 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo i 50 Carrier and Dealers - copy 0e AH Terms Cash in Advance "fclii Paner of Cltv of Mfrtford Offlrlal Pnpr of Jackson County Unltprt Press Tntf rnational Full Leased Wire TJ P 1 Telephoto Kewnpictures - "5lEMnFROF AUDIT RTTREATj OrCIRCULATiONS , XrtvprtiM'nc Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CC. INC Of fices In New York Chicago De trr,it San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Pnrtlnnd St Lotii At. Inrta. Vancouver. H i. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI ASfsbCUn&TION c6T Flight o' Time Medford end Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 23. 1950 (Saturday) Both the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and tl.p Moclford Auto Dealers association have gone on rec ord favoring reactivation of Camp White as an armed forces training establishment. A total of 8,994 Jackson county people have signed the Freedom Scrolls during the Crusade for Freedom con ducted here recently. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1940 (Monday) The city of Medford must acquire all the necessary land itself before use can ba made of $282,000 allocated by the civil aeronautics administra tion for development of the municipal airport, It was an nounced by the CAA today. From Arthur Perry's "Ye ' Smurine Pot" column: "MER. 11 Y CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEARS, to everybody, everywhere, but Messrs. Mil ler, Stalin, and Mussolini." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1930 (Tuesday) Citizens of this area have beon urged by postal authori ties to keep their porchlighls burning tonight if there is fog to aid postmen in last-minute deliveries. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1920 (Thursday) Senator Chamberlain of Oregon underwent an emer gency operation in a Washing ton, D.C., hospital this week. Christmas mail this year is the greatest in the history of Medford. 50 YEARS AGO ' Dec. 23. 1910 (Friday) Mail at the local post office is breaking all records; total receipts during this December should end up at well over $5,000; last year during De cember receipts totaled $2, 400. What's Your I.Q.7 Nino or ten correct is superior: soven oi eight Is excellent; five or lis is good. 1. What do the letters "D.D.S." after a person's name stand for? 2. Complete the biblical quotation, "I will lift up mine ' eyes unto the hills." 3. Which cities in Minne sota are known as "Twin Cit ies"? P 4. Was the Gcigcr counter the discovery of a young Frenchman, Belgian, or Ger man? 5. Will an airtight drum support more weight in water if pumped full of air under pressure, or if exhausted of air? li. Of which political soci ety in a large American city is the tiger an emblem? 7. Where in the Crimea did the famous "charge of the ' Light Brigade" take plucc? 8. During World War II which large French steamship capsized at Its pier In New York harbor? 9. Which of the Virgin Is lands of the United States is the largest in area? 10. Did Mexico have com pulsory military service dur ing World War II? Answers: 1. Doctor of Den ial Science (Surgery). 2. ". , . from whence comelh my help." 3. Minneapolis and St. Paul. 4. German. 5. Exhaust ed of air. 6. Tammany Society of New York Cily. 7. Bala. 1 clava. 8. The Normandie. 9. . St. Croix. 10. Yes. ; , Highway The state legislature commission. When the 90 members of that body start attempting to draft highway plans, they are sub ject to multiple pressures (the same ones' the highway commission is subject to), but is in a far poorer position to withstand them than the commission. Highways then become objects of pork bar relling and log rolling, erate the greatest pressures are the ones which get the biggest highway appropriations whether merited or not. TWO sessions ago, 1 opened this dangerous session, in 1959, opened ing the highway commission to do thus ana so, in addition to, or instead up on a carefully considered list of priorities The chickens released by this invasion of ex ecutive functions by the now coming home to roost. - The Orecron coast by the legislature, and ceiving tar more than its highway iunds. DUT are they happy? - The editor of the usually is on firm ground a blast at the highway commission and the high way department for what he thought was dis- criminating against the arrogant attitude, etc., Now the highway commission and department are not perfect. But we enough to know that their people do their level best to be fair and impartial, and to allocate funds where they are the most needed. TPHE Kegister-Guard, in commenting on the World's blast, makes a few points that should be kept in mind. In part, it said : "Now the good Lord knows that highway develop ments never seem to come fast enough, anywhere, in this age of motorized masses. But the World's sugges tion that Oregon needs a bigger highway commission needs to be quashed before it results in calamitous damage to future highway developments,. . . "Implicit In its criticisms now is the suggestion that further pressures, brought through the 1961 legisla ture, are what is needed to see that southwestern Ore gon gets. Its just highway deserts. ". . . The legislature, sadly, has proved that It Is malleable under heavy local pressures. Neither the Highway 42 nor the 101 projects would be as far along as they are if the legislature hadn't been Induced to stick its finger in the highway coommlssion's planning . pic. . , "However, it should be clear to residents of south western Oregon and all other parts of the state that direction of highway planning, according to relative pressures placed on the state legislature, can lead only to chaos. If rivalry develops to see 'which community , can put the most heat on the legislature to get the most in the way of road funds, there can be no other result. ... "... The Coos Bay paper decries the fact that the now Pacific Freeway is being pushed to rapid comple- ' ; tlon. But It Ignores the fact that funds for Interstate . freeways do not come from the same source nor are they Interchangeable with those for either .primary or secondary stale highways. It overlooks the fact that in relation to usage and populations served, more state funds have been directed to the Highway 101 and Highway 42 Jobs than to any comparable projects elsewhere In Oregon. "The way to sound improvement of Oregon's high ways lies not in stirring a number of sectional inter ests, but In maintaining without further legislative Interference, independent and impartial administration of the state highway system." WF, WILL concede to the World that the ac linnc nf ilia Vnrrliurav enmmissinn nnrl rlp- partment sometimes seem arbitrary and high handed, and that in the past the department's concept of public relations and information was abysmal. But this is changing. And there is also the internationally, Oregon ministration which builds with respect and admiration. We'd like to keep it that way. E. A. Merry Christmas, PT-N Well doggone ! Here we thought we had Pacific Telephone Northwest all straightened out about Medford, They recently ran an tolled the glories ot Oregon, and mentioned about all the major cities in the iouith-largest Mediord. We took them gently located by making an apology, an abject one, and declaring that Medford is one of their fa vorite cities. CO NOW what happens? We get our monthly bill (including, incidentally, a charge for a long distance call we didn t make, but that s be side the point). The bill has an enclosure i copy of the same ad. Is Medford mentioned? As Oregon's fourth-largest city? Or as the capital of the "State of Jefferson"? Or even as one of PT-N's favorite cities? No sir, it isn't. Oh, well. Merry Christmas, anyway, PT-N. E.A. Problems makes a lousy highway and the areas which gen in 1957, the legislature door a crack, and last it a bit wider, by direct oi, projects long drawn legislative authority are was particularly favored has been, as a result, re really tair share oi state They are not. Coos Bay World, who in his editorials, let out coast, poor planning, an etc., etc. have watched them long fact that, nationally and s highways and the ad them are looked upon advertisement which ex state except the state's to task, and they recip Dennis the ' BB REASONABLE, H4RTHA ! rVOUlONT SPEND 12.98 ON Communications Letters to the Editor mutt bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name 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 pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed -in this column do not necessarily paper; in fact the contrary is Life in Placerville To the Editor: I wuz asked, "Where did we put the tele phone in Placerville?" We put it at the end of the wire. We lived upstairs over the store and the chimney went through the middle of the kitchen, like a chimney should. The first thing we hit when we got up in the middle of the night wuz the chimney, so that's where we put the telephone. We didn t have an exten sion on the telephone. We wuz lucky to gel enough wire to reach from the telephone pole to the chimney. We didn't have a telephone in every room, but ve hud v u n in efery County. They had one In Norwood and one in Naturlta. Central was in Tcl lurlde, but she didn't have a telephone. The one in Denver did, but we couldn't get Den ver. The wire wuz 200 miles short. The telephone maintenance crews didn't have snow-cats. They used Swevendorfer biscuits und old Peanuts. Swevendorfer vas der lazy burro vot used to stand on der railroad track und flag der passenger trains. Old Peanu.s never stopped anyting, und he never started anyting. He used to be der caboose on der pack train. He vas packing gold at $17.30 an ounce. Swe vendorfer und old Peanuts vas old burros ven ve left Colorado, but dey was still going strong. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Christmas Pets To the Editor; The board of directors and members of the Southern Oregon Humane Society wish to take this op portunity on behalf of our animal friends to extend sea sons greetings to all. Many homes will no doubt receive pels as Christmas gifts, and in view of this fact, we would like to offer a few suggestions for their care, feeding and treatment, so that they will be able lo adapt themselves into their new sur roundings and become a pleasure to own. 1. Immediately upon ac quiring a pet, have your vet erinarian make a physical check-up of the animal to de termine Its health and dis cover any symptoms of dis ease. 2. A very young puppy should not be given to a child less than six years old. with out complete supervision of older members of the family Puppies should not be con stantly fondled or held and should be given frequent rest periods. 3. Proper diet is essential for the health and well being of the animal. Puppies need to be fed four times a day until they are six months old, then twice a day until they are a year old, then once a day. Table scraps alone do not constitute a balanced diet The proper feeding and care of the first few months may well determine the life span of a pet. 4. A warm, dry place to sleep is most important, espe cially for puppies. A tempor ary bed can be made from even a cardboard box with an opening cut just large enough for the animal to enter and placed in a position to avoid drafts. Cedar shavings are ex cellent for bedding, helping to discourage fleas and other parasites. S. Disease prevention shots and worming are important to the health of your pet, not only for its own well being but because of its close associ ation with members of the hu man family will ensure a re- Menace SWTAOAUS HM&IP ueNNlSJ" represent the views of the often the case. lationship without fear of disease. Be sure to consult your veterinarian about any matters relating lo the health of the pet. 6. Keep your pet clean with daily brushing and occasional ly bathing, however, do not over-bathe. A small puppy should not be bathed in water at all until about three months old. After a bath, be sure to dry thoroughly in a warm room. Choose the right type of brush to fil the ani mals hair and skin. Brochures are available re lating to a variety of animal questions and we welcome in quiries from anyone with a special problem concerning nimal welfare and anyone is invited to visit our facilities at 2902 Table Rock road, Medford, or call NOrmandy 4-2406 for advice or informa tion. One last reminder, during winter weather our songbirds often have difficulty finding food so a little grain or .even bread crumbs placed., out for them will be a Dineip. William O. Herring, Humane Officer, Southern Oregon Humane Society Medford. Venezuela Back to Normal To the Editor: The Consul of Venezuela' in the city of Portland, takes this opportu nity to ca'U on the organiza tion which you represent, on the occasion of sending en closed statement In relation to the late incidents which oc curred in Venezuela. It would be very much ap preciated if the enclosed offi cial statement could be pub lished in your important newspaper. I think you in advance tor the courtesy you may give to this communication. Gustavo La Ice Consulado de Venezuela Portland, Ore. Communication fro m the Venezuelan Consulate in Port land: The rebellious attempt en couraged by extremist ele ments in Caracas, Venezuela, with participants of high school and university stu dents that for several days maintained In state of anxiety the capital ot the country, Caracas, is now completely under control. The government has sup. pressed the last focus of re sistance at University city. The rebellious attempt, by stu dents and vagabonds orlginat ed rioting in different sectors of the city of Caracas, which brought as consequence the burning of vehicles and loot ing some business. The rioters made of University city a fort for their rebellious attempts, The country is back to nor mal. The Industrial workers in Caracas, Maracalbo and Va lencia as well as the oil field workers and farmers, far from answering the call of the extremists, pledged their support to the authorities with the firm purpose of de fending t h e constitutional government. A scheduled bank's strike did not mate rialize, only a small branch of a bank closed for two hours. The police and Venezuelan arms forces actions have been carried out without excess or violence. The circulation of the extreme leftists newspa pers which systematically en courage rebellious attempts has been prohibited, some buildings have been seized for the purpose of confiscating arms and subversive propa ganda materials. The situation is normal in the Republic. Primitive Still Important in Southeast By PHIL NEWSOM , UPI Foreign News Analyst As a piece of real estate, Laos has no railroad, scarcely more than footpaths for roads and a few grassy strips that pass as air fields. Its wild moun tains work against large scale military m a n e u v ers either for or Newsoro vasion. Its people have no great political consciousness such as in, say West Berlin. Yet in Southeast Asia, Laos has a morale value approach ing the equal of Berlin or South Korea in the battle to contain Communist aggres sion. SEATO Reaction And how the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, of which the United States is a charter member, reacts to the attempted Red take-over of Laos could well have just as much effect on Asians as would be the effect on Eu ropeans in a similar situation against Berlin. This is an effect well recog nized In Washington and other SEATO capitols, most ' of which already have declared their willingness to act either on a call for help from the Laotian government or in case Today and Tomorrow By Walter Llppmann THE CABINET COMPLETED With the Cabinet complet ed, the most debatable choice is that of Robert Kennedy. In many ways, however, the most signifi cant is Doug las Dillon. It has been said by the "New York times" that Mr. Robert Llppmann Kennedy would "certainly not be named for attorney general lfh'e were not the President's brotherl1 In ..my view, the fact .that. he is the brother canjiot have been the deelsive reason. Moreover, it is n o t really Important. Robert Ken nedy could not have been named just because he Is the brother. In the main he was named because he had been the successful manager of the campaign, v He has been named to the Cabinet for the same reason that Farley was placed in Roo sevelt's Cabinet, Hannigan in Truman's, Brownell and Sum- merfield in Eisenhower's. In American politics it has long been the rule, to which I can not think of an exception, that the President keeps in his official family his chief political organizer. This is not done merely as a reward for past services. It is done to keep at the cen ter of things the man who knows best where are the sources of the President's po litical power. For while the presidency rises far above party politics, it has its roots deep in party politics, and to be a successful President a man must be a successful pol itician. For these reasons it would have been unprece dented if Robert Kennedy had been excluded from the Cab inet because he is the Presi dent's brother. THE really debatable point Is that the campaign man ager has been placed at the head of the Department of Justice. The more usual prac tice has been to make the chief politician the postmas ter general. It is certain that in the sensitive office of at torney general, which con trols law enforcement and the FBI, Robert Kennedy will be compelled to convince the country that he is not playing politics. As attorney general he will be judged by higher standards than as PMG. There Is, however, a nota ble precedent for his appoint ment. President Eisenhower chose Herbert Brownell, who organized his nomination and election, as his attorney gen eral. Among those who have worked closely with Robert there is no question of his ex ceptional competence as an administrator and as a law en forcer. There are some who say that he has a certain ruth less efficiency, and that he has not yet acquired a suffi ciently highly refined and mellow sense of due process. We shall see. rPHE selection of Douglas Dillon confirms the view, which some of us expressed during the campaign, that in , Iff m Laos Is Asia of proven outside aggression. It is recognized by Red China in its pledge of its "utmost efforts" to stop "U.S. imperialism's intervention and aggression in Laos. And it also is recognized among Laos's neutral neigh bors who are snowing increas ing nervousness over the pos sibility that in Laos another Korea may develop. In New Delhi, Prime Min ister Nehru called for re-establishment of the international truce commission in Laos and noted with alarm that both United States and Communist arms are pouring into Laos. Arms Flow Cited Nehru noted that the flow of Communist arms to Laotian Reds was through Communist North Viet Nam, run by Ho Chi Mirih. In 194S, Ho proclaimed the "Independence11 of Viet Nam from France and at the same time received a call for help from Laotian nationalists led by Prince Suphanu Vong. With Ho's help Suphanu Vong organized the Pathet Lao (Free Laos), which today is the Red arm in Laos and which 'today is making its most energetic bid to take over the whole of the nation. Washington Report By WILLIAM THE OLD ENDS Washington - The old year is ending in Washington in a special nostalgia for the de parting past and a special sense of hope and excite ment for the oncoming, fu ture. For it is not merely the last days of 1960 which whits are now pass ing. In his twilight space is passing also an administration, a whole governmental era. And a new phase of national life is close upon the horizon of time. It is auld lang syne, of course, for the Republicans; it is hail and hurry-up tomor row for the Democrats. The Republicans are going out without sadness or bitterness. They had a long run of it here - eight years - and they are for the most part now ready to depart. Already, well before the inauguration Jan. 20 of John F. Kennedy as a Democratic President, their ranks are shrinking as this or that old official puts . his resignation into the mall. They, the Re publicans, are gathering in the evening time in small, reflec tive, sober parties. The guest lists for these affairs are short now, where a little while ago they were quite long. FOR this town likes a win ner rather overmuch, and is a bit quick to say a brusque farewell to a loser. But the losers are stolid in the face of this ancient reality of Wash ington. Their defeated leader, Vice - President Richard M. Nixon, sets the tone for the quite modified gaiety with which they are saying good bye to the power and the glory. Mr. Nixon has small groups to his house for "receptions." The faithful - salted here and there by an unpartisan guest present more as a minor ob server of history than as a participant - gather round the retiring Vice . President and hash over the late campaign. Some grow angry. Mr. Nix- general economic philosophy there is no serious difference between Kennedy and such modern and progressive Re publicans as Rockefeller. Mr. Nixon, I think, under stood this. But President Ei senhower did not, and when he intervened in the cam paign he misrepresented whol ly the economic philosophy of Kennedy in regard to the budget, spending and saving, gold and the balance of pay ments. The truth, as was evi dent to anyone who cared to seek it, is that Kennedy is a conservative of the age he lives in. His views are ad dressed to the contemporary scene, not to the dead past nor an imaginary future. Mr. Dillon is also a modern man, as are Governor Rocke feller, Senator Case,- Sen. John Sherman Cooper, and a very large number of Re publicans. H i s appointment does not signify that the new administration means to be more conservative than It would like to be. It means that the Cabinet reflects the fact that there is a concensus in the country, which may work out as a coalition in Con gress, among the modern and progressive members of both parties, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Ine Matter of Fact WHAT THEY WANT FROM KENNEDY Washington - It was both a disheartening and an oddly stirring experience to test the atmospnere on the other side of the Atlan tic after the American e 1 e e tion, as this reporter has just been doing. It was dis, heartening be- cause the test revealed, for the first time, the full extent of the alarm ing loss of ground by the United States in the last eight years. While officials and pol iticians in the other capitals of the Western alliance still had to count on doing bust, ness with the Eisenhower ad. ministration, they did not speak frankly to vagrant re. porters. Now they do. Their verdict on America's recent leadership of the West, whether it be just or unjust, is certainly cruel. The Presl dent's moral virtues of course continue to be respected. But that is about all there is on the favorable side of the bat ance sheet, except perhaps in the case of some British offi cials who reflect the personal views of Prime Minister Mac millan. "A vacuum of leadership when only America could lead, is the thing most com plained about. After this S. WHITI on smiles, hunches his slightly rounded shoulders, and tells them to relax and "wait for 1964." He no longer looks weary," though Mrs. Nixon's face still bears faint traces of the strain of the recent au tumn. He is "not mad at any body." (He is not the first combat leader to find, after the battle, that the noncombat forces are more belligerent toward the late "enemy" than those who had stood long in the firing line.) THE scene at Democratic -1- parties could not be more different. Here all is turned not toward the recent past or the distant future but to the here-and-now and or Immedi' ate tomorrow. These DemO' cratlc parties-and it is in the nature of the Democrat to be a bit gayer always than the Republican-are full of breath' less chatter. ' There are more cocktails. And sometimes an enthusiastic partisan will suddenly stand, without advance notice, and call upon all present to drink a toast. To whom? Well, " to Jack meaning Mr. Kennedy, or "to Lyndon," meaning Vice-Presl. dent-elect Lyndon B. Johnson Or maybe to some lesser known Democratic character whom it seems, at the mo, ment, most important to hon or. THERE is an immense amount of the passing back and forth of rumors and inside dope. Nearly everybody has "an idea" for the new state department, for the new de fense department, and even sometimes - for the new treasury, though this is a de' partment from which the Democrats ordinarily back away as a slightly dull and forbidding place. But here, too, nobody is any longer "mad at anybody." President Eisenhower is not now such a bad fellow, after all. Even Mr. Nixon draws some sympathetic comment, For as the new year - the po litical new year as well as the calendar one - now draws near, there is an extraordi nary phenomenon at work in this ordinarily hard, coldly political town. Almost, one might say, It is a touch of Christmas spirit. (Copyright, I960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ml Alsep Try and Stop Mo ; By BENNETT CERF trpWAS THE NIGHT after Christmas, and a wealthy pay A chiatrist, father of five children, at exhausted in h' easy chair. "You might say," he advised his wjft, "that I am suffering from a se vere case of Santa Claus trophobia." Morey Amsterdam telle about a Scotch couple he overheard discussing the coming birthday' of their young hopefuL "Angus," said the mother, "tells me he'd like either a bicycle or a tricycle." "Why don't we wait tin January," suggested the father, "and gat him aa icicle?" ..-- Miss Chou Chon Horn- toot buttoned a diamond-studied vicuna coat around her miftta hire poodle and took him for a walk up Bast River Drive one frigid January afternoon. When she came home, she was ! dlgnsnt. "You won't believe this," Chou Chou told her maid, "but do you know that 90 of the dogs on thi drWe don't ma have overcoats ?" ' comes "the difficulty of find ing anyone In Washington you could talk to." In the Allied capitals, in fact, the American government of these last years) is thought to have been feeble. unimaginative, and sadly de ficient in men of first class ability with whom great is sues could be effectively thrashed out. rE ONE man President elect Kennedy has kept on, Under Secretary of Stat Douglas Dillon, is the one Ei senhower policy-maker who has earned the kind of uni versal, enthusiastic admira tion abroad that was given, in the old days, to such fig ures as Robert A. Lovett and John J. McCloy. Secretary of State Herter and Secretary of Defense Gates are also ad mired and respected, though somewhat less widely; and there the human credits end. The debits include a good many Eisenhower policy-mak ers who have-simply become public laughing stocks. If this estimate of recent American performance is de pressing, and perhaps unfair, It is at least balanced by our allies' hopes for American per formance in the time ahead. These hopes are stirring to any American with natural pride. Yet they are, quit frankly, fairly desperate hopes. Allied officials and leaders at all levels are con vinced that the future of the Western alliance will be very dark indeed unless there is a powerful rebirth of vigor and intelligence in Washington; and having this conviction, they are forced to hope. Towards President-elect Kennedy ehimself, there is a decided attitude of wait-and-see. The shape of his person ality, the force of his charac ter, the tendency Of his poli cies, ,are alike unknown to most of the leaders in Bonn and Paris and even London. Before anyone hurries to the rooftops to raise a cheer for the Kennedy administration, everyone wants to know what fne new Administration's po sitions are going to be on a whole series of crucial issues. The basis of our Allies' hopes Is- not confidence in Kennedy, in fact, but confi dence in the United States. The other nations of the West by no means accept the sometimes-heard thesis, that Amer ica is now "a tired nation." They do not believe that the deficiencies (as they saw them) of the Elsenhower yean have been anything more than temporary phenomena. They are convinced that this coun try has plenty of stuff in it, still, to provide the rebirth of leadership which they long for so greatly. THE Intensity of this longing for more vigorous Ameri can leadership Of the West is the measure, in turn, of the scope of Presldent-eleet Ken nedy's opportunity. Through out history, the strongest pow ers in wide-spreading allianc es have most often been the object of jealousy and suspi cion. Instead of being begged to lead with vigor and deci sion, they have usually been obstructed by the lesser allies who feared and disliked their strength. But tn this case, it is different. All the Western allies acknowledge that Amer ica must lead, if anyone is ta lead; and all acknowledge that leadership it badly need ed. . The tangle of critical prob lems Kennedy will inherit from Eisenhower is downright appalling. His leadership will be particularly hampered by the long neglected, then hys terically ventilated problem of the balance of payments. Wealth is what gives America authority, and the balance of payments problem therefore tends to undermine American authority. . Yet Kennedy has the ball at his feet, as far as the West ern alliance goes, if he only knows how to kick it hard and fast. (e) New York Herald . . . Tribune Inc. A SICyCLK 0 i J
