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SUNDAY. JANUARY 1. llll MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON "Everyone to Southern Oregon :. D.,-,4. TUm Mail Trlhnna" Published Daily except Saturday by ' itonvnnn DnlKfrPlMIT CTi HERB GREY AdveitUInf Manager ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mnr EditOf KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telet Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women a Editor An independent nBwHH ' Entered a second data matter at UMIora. ureion, unoer ni March 3, 1897 . By Mai) In Advance, Copy 100 uany ana sunaay i !rm Dally and Sunday mos SOT . Dally and Sunday S moi. .JB Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medfort Ashland. Central Point E a fie Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rome Riv . er Talent and en motor rou'ei Dally and Sunday 1 year 18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo I JO Carrier and Dealara copy too AUJnneMM-dy -- ' "oftfclal Paper of City or MedforS , Official Paper of Jackwon Coniity United'PreM international rull Leaied Wire DPI Telephoto N'ewaplcturee TiiEMBER of AUDrTnimEAtr Advertlsini! RepraeiitattTi! WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of. flcea In New York. Chleafo. Da. trolt. San Franclaco. Loa Angeles, SentUe. PnrUand St. Louie. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NWAMt, rilBlKHIlS ASSOCIATION NATION Al IOiTOHAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackion County History from the filet ot The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEAHS AGO Jan. 1, 1951 (Monday) . , City and state police re ported today that the number of traffic accidents In Jack ion county over the New Year's holiday was among the lowest in recent years; no fatalities were reported. Mr. and Mrs. Graham H. Dean arrived here yesterday to assume ownership of the Ashland Tidings, daily news paper; today's issue will be the first under their owner ship. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 1, 1941 (Wdneday) 1 Two Medford youths, ages 18 and 21, were arrested by; Medford police last night and charged with a long series of local burglaries which started several months ago. , . From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "New Year's prediction-Tilings will be more pleasant for Jackson county Republicans. The only joy they got out of 1940 was going to Klamath Falls to see Wendell Wlllkle.' ' ; 30 YEARS AGO . . Jan. 1. 1931 (Thursday) ' A .plane search has been launched in southern Oregon for a man believed to have been forced down in his pri vate plane. Two Ashland Boy Scouts are in a Klamath Falls hospi tal today after being badly frozen on a skiing trip to Lake of the Woods. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 1. 1921 (Saturday) Rising waters In the Wil lamette river threaten to cut off the city of Eugene. Two large Grants Pass banks haVe consolidated. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 1, 1911 (Sunday) No paper today. Happy New Year. ' " Whal's YourT.Q.7 Nine oi ten correct ii luparlet! even oi eight ii ectllnt; five lie il good ... 1. Are more New Year resolutions kept or broken, ac cording to studies? 2. What part of a sentence normally receives the action of the verb? 3. Would you guess that the foreign claims against the V. S. gold reserves amount to one quarter, one half, or all of that reserve? 4. What State has both a Congressman and a Senator (no relation) by the name of Mngnuson? S. Bills pending before the Congress when It adjourned last summer will be called up for a vote by the new Con gress; true or false? 6. Twilight occurs when the sun is above, or below, the horizon? 7. The Guy Fawkes Gun powder Plot was directed against what governmental body? 8. Who wrote the novel, "Gone With The Wind?" 0. The Continental Divide runs generally along which mountnln range? 10. Which two offices were held In common by Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and F, D. Roosevelt? Aniwem 1, Kept. 2, Obect. 3. All of It. 4. Washington. 3. False. 6. Below. 7. British W xs jj j'Briiaruuiiii o mm ii i - chell. 9. Rocky Mount. m. 10. t Governor of Ntw York tnd preildanL tit a a. W....a ri. Copco - PP&L Merger Consideration of the proposed take-over .of the California Oregon Power company by Pacific Power & Light results in mixed feelings. There is regret, for one thing. Although it is based chiefly on sentiment hating to see a local, familiar organization, merged into a much larger firm with headquarters in Portland it is none theless real. And there is a certain amount of anxiety that PP&L will not be quite as responsive to local needs and desires as Copco has oeen. ' ' f"WER many years, Copco has built a great reservoir of good will in southern Oregon and northern California, and this despite the very natural resentment some feel for Copco's ad mittedly high rate structure. Its people employees and executives have been good citjzens and the public in many capacities other than their corporate roles. And, while suffering ated by any sort of monopoly, it has earned both respect anda sort of local-pride affection if such a word can be applied to a utility. , MOW, what of the future? One assumes the merger will go through, for the offer of. 1.2 shares of PP&L stock for one of ; Copco will undoubtedly meet the approval of the stockhold ers, as it has of the board, And we see no reason why the various regulatory commissions should object. : - When completed, will the merger draw away from Medford many of the executives who have made their homes and reputations here? And will many of the functions of the utility which have contributed to the local economy eventually be handled in Portland? Only time will tell. ' ' THERE are several concrete advantages which OWVII CV 111 W !. VVlii WlaMg lyV C- lt 1IUIIVYVJI One is the hope that eventually it may be possible to adjust the southern Oregon and north ern jaiitornia rate structure to coniorm more closely with the far more favorable rates PP&L charges in the Willamette valley and to the north and east. y , Another is that the financial resources of .the enlarged firm will enable it more easily to pursue construction of added generating facilities, to keep up with the growth of the area, and to keep up with technological developments in the utili ties field, including nuclear power which eventu ally may make hydroelectric generation obsoles cent.. ., . ; . .; ,-. . v'M ; . " TN'ANY event, it appears that the die is cast, 1 and that completion of the merger is only a matter of time, and favorable, action by stock holders and. regulatory bodies. The general public in this area can, as a result, expect both advantages and disadvantages. And, while we dislike to see Copco swallowed up' by the bigger firm, we rather suspect that, in the long run, the advantages will outweigh the disadvantages. We hope so, anyway. E.A. Chilly Meetings "Board of control meetings are going to be sort of chilly affairs for a while," our wire editor commented Friday. . His remark was motivated, by a story which reported that Howard Belton, state treasurer, had voiced objection to Gov. Mark Hatfield's govern mental reorganization plan in several specifics. Belton's criticisms followed by one day simi lar ones from Howell Appling Jr., secretary of state. ;;. . - IT IS of particular significance that Appling, Belton and Hatfield are all Republicans, that the three of them make up the board of control, and that Appling and Belton were both Hatfield appointees before being returned to their offices at the last election. Thi ia svrvmf nmatiA nf tho KniMmrr Aiinnoi. ... VJ .w .u..t v.. bill. Nl..V.l tion to the reorganization plan mentioned We Pour n.YQArvpre nnplnrlinrr it min-lit Ua aAAaA this newspaper) have any flat, overall objection to all aspects of the reorganization plan. But many object strongly to specific provi sions. And there are enough of these, and their opposition is scattered over such a large number vi ji uijuBiua, uii' U is uegiuiiiiig lu ctuu lip iu massive opposition. IN THE Communications column today, Travis Cross, press secretary to Governor Hatfield, takes us sharply to task for the objections voiced here recently to aspects of the governor's plan. So we repeat that portions of the plan are good. Our main objection is its implicit rejection of the concept of responsible citizen participator! in state government the major boards and com missions which have served Oregon so well for so long, provided continuity and stability in admin istration, and protected many vital services from the vicissitudes of partisan in-fighting, and from the corruption and graft which have plagued many states. , , Improvements in the efficiency of govern ment can and should be made. But thev should not be made at the cost of ing the services of some ing citizens. E.A. good neighbors, serving from the resentment cre rejecting and repudiat of Oregon s outstand Dennis the ' I GOT A HAT 'N A HORN TWSTIME! NEXT Today fir Tomorrow By Walter STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN The civil war in Laos is an example, which may be cited in the textbooks of the future, of the kind of p r o b 1 e m which can arise in the in terval when there is a change of Ad- fpai I ministrati on. Tne immedi ate problem is how in the Lippmann last few weeks of office the outgoing Admin istration is to refrain from making any irretrievable com mitments. In Laos the present duty of the Eisenhower ad ministration is to freeze the situation until the Kennedy administration ' has had a chance to study it. What must be avoided, if il is humanly possible to avoid it, is another Spanish Civil War, or another Korea, or another Congo, with the Rus sians and the Chinese backing one faction and the United States backing another. ': We are not far ' from this today. In the civil war our government ' has backed the General, who has captured Vientiane from the Commu nist Captain who seized it not long before. We have a situa tion in which our clients hold the city and the clients of the Communists command the countryside. il something is not done to stop it, there is every prospect that the intervention from China and Russia and the in tervention of. the United States will mount, each pro voking the other to go closer and closer to the brink of war. rpHE SITUATION is danger--! ous. For Laos is as close to China as Cuba is to the United States, i The State De partment must not forget what happened the last time, which was during the Korean war, when it disregarded the warnings that China would intervene if American forces approached the Chinese fron tier. Failure to take ' that warning seriously turned Gen eral MacArthur's brilliant vic tory in South Korea into a costly indecisive war. The situation in Laos has now reached the point where it must not be allowed to de generate further. In ways which have never been ade quately reported or explained to the American people, the Administration has involved itself deeply in the Internal affairs of Laos. The proof that It has in volved Itself more deeply than was wise is that its policy is under severe criticism in Great Britain, in France, and in India. These three coun tries have a longer knowledge and a greater Interest in Southeast Asia than we have. We should listen to them. We should have listened to them long ago. We should now work with them to avert the international crisis which hangs over us. 1MIE WAY to do this Is to support the government of Great Britain and the govern ment of India In persuading the new government In Vien tiane to agree lo the recall of the International Control Commission. This agency was set up by the Geneva Conference of 1954 at the end of the war In Indo-Chlna. The task of the Commission, which consists of Canada, India, and Poland, would be to mediate an end to the elvll war, and to promote the formation, as the original settlement prescribes, of. a neutralist government in Laos. It will be said such a gov ernment will quickly become Communist. The first answer ii that it will not necessarily Menace tippmann become Communist, as we can see in Burma. The second an swer is that Laos is not a pri mary Interest of the United States. For we are not the arbiters of human destiny in every cor ner of the globe, and we can not do more for Laos than In dia, Britain, and France think it necessary to do. Copyright 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS End of the year business note; ' . The new compact automo biles that came on the market a little more than a year ago made up 30 per cent of 1961 production of autos in the United Stales. They are re ported to have had some un expected effects on business in general. For example: Their manufacture requires less steel, less rubber and less of other materials than the bigger cars that have been popular during the past dec ade. To that extent, -they are hard on the producers of steel, rubber and the other mate rials that enter into the man ufacture of cars. They use less gasoline than the bigger cars and so, to that extent, they are hard on the gasoline industry. TJUT- The economists tell us the savings in operating cost, cap ital cost, etc., STAY IN THE POCKETS of the purchasers of the compacts. These sav ings can be used to buy OTH ER THINGS. Thus they are good for their owners. They are good for the producers of the things whose purchase and ownership is made possible by the operating savings of the compacts. So, you see, we can't say that the compact automobiles will be bad for business as a whole. CONCLUSION: What we call "business" is a curiously complex thing. What is one man's poison be comes another man's meat. And vice versa. FROM the automobile indus try to the tourist industry is a natural step because the majority of the tourists who visit our area travel by auto mobile. And, in Oregon, what is coming to be called tourism is our third largest industry. It is exceeded only by lumber ing and agriculture. So let's take a look at our tourist in dustry. In 1936, Oregon initiated a modest program of national advertising of its tourist at tractions. In that year, its ad vertising budget was $50,000. Its tourist income was $35, 000,000. In 1937, the adver tising program was increased to $100,000, and the tourist income rose to $40,000,000. The advertising program re mained at $100,000 until 1941, and in that year the tourist income was $51,000,000. BECAUSE of World War II, tourist advertising was dis continued from 1942 until 1946, when it was resumed with an appropriation of $150,000. In that year, the tourist Income rose to $83, 500,000. The advertising ap propriation remained station ary until 1952, by which year the tourist income had risen to $121,000,000. By gradual steps the adver tising appropriation was rais ed until in 1959, the Oregon centennial year, it was In creased to $400,000. In that year, the tourist income amounted to $176,000,000. In 1980, the advertising appro priation was reduced to $350,-j i Matter of Fact jWh ai,0, ARMING AND PARLEYING Washington At least two predictions about , the Ken nedy administration can be offered with real confi dence. The de f e n s e effort will be inten sified. And very serious effort will be made to nego tiate arms con trol agree ments with the Soviets. Aliop Anyone who thinks the two efforts are contradictory should remember one of the President-elect's f a v o r i 1 1 quotations. This is Sir Win ston Churchill's dictum: "Arm to parley." A strong de fense is needed, not just, as insurance against an unsuc cessful outcome of arms con trol negotiations, but also to improve the always slender chance that such negotiations will succeed. Kennedy's pledges to strengthen the defense effort are on the public record. They were an important strand in the pattern of the Presidential campaign. His decision to make a really ma jor effort' to negotiate arms control agreements was taken in recent weeks; but it is al ready regarded as one of the key decisions of the pre inaugural period. THE importance attached to the future negotiating ' ef fort is indicated by the kind of man being sought to take charge of the negotiations. The specifications call for a man of major stature, both at home and abroad, whose reputation is justified by his energy and his abilities. The job has reportedly been of fered to one of the half dozen Republicans who were earlier considered for the very highest post in the Ken nedy Cabinet. The new job is being treated, in fact, as an appointment on the Cabinet level. 000 and the tourist income dropped to $170,000,000. ASA taxpayer, you may want to know where the money Oregon spends to ad vertise for tourists comes from. The answer is interest ing. IT COMES OUT OF THE POCKETS OF THE TOUR ISTS who are attracted to Oregon. How come?; It' works like this: " - The money to advertise Or egon's - tourist attractions, is appropriated by the Oregon State, Highway commission. It comes out of gasoline tax re ceipts. The tourists who visit Oregon by automobile pay the Oregon gasoline tax. In 1960 Oregon spent $350,000 for tourist advertising. The tour ists who visited Oregon this year paid $3,559,479 in gaso line taxes. IIHICH is to say: The tour- " isls who visited Oregon this year paid in Oregon gaso line taxes about TEN TIMES as much as the advertising cost and in addition they left 170 million dollars NEW MONEY in out state. As a business deal, that Is pretty hard to beat. A Defense of America's Good By ERIC SEVEREID A new year, a new decade and a new American captain command the horizons of the Western peo ples who are stumbling to gether as pro tection against the most rapid and most pro foundly revo lutionary up heaval in hu man affairs in s.T.r.ia (1 recorded time. In this process I do not know all the questions, to say nothing of all the answers. After 18 months of criss-crossing the Alliance countries I am most keenly aware of a paradox, and "most keenly wary of simple solutions. One must, with a sigh, agree with Dean Rusk that the recogni tion of complexity is the be ginning of wisdom. But statesmen must decide, and decision means selecting the dominant threads in the bewildering pattern and fol lowing them to their end. So good men disagree in their very premises. In the same week Mr. Joseph Alsop has told us that European states men yearn for strong Ameri can leadership and that the future of the Alliance is dark wjthout it; and Mr. Walter Lippmann has told us that the Alliance is now grown up, Europeans are now our part ners, not our clients, and this must be an alliance of equals. But leadership implies fol lowers and European coun tries are less and less able to follow our lead, however fresh and vigorous, because they cannot agree among themselves on problems that intimately concern them, whether it be th common 4 It is quite possible that the President-elect would have charted this court on his. own motion. Like every sensible man who believes in a strong national defense, he also sees the dangers of the arms race. But it is also true that Ken nedy's impulse to chart this course was greatly strength ened by the remarkable char acter of the Pugwash Confer ence, held in Moscow in No vember. This get-together of scien tists and military and politi cal theorists is a recurring af fair, largely financed by the Ford Foundation. This year s American delegation, which was generally impressive, also Included two men with links to the President-elect his close professional advisor on foreign police, Walt Ros tow, and the M.I.T. physicist, Jerome Weisner, who has been mentioned for the post of chief scientific advisor to the White House. 1 rpHE equally large and im-- pressive Soviet delegation seemed to have been chosen with the express purpose of putting the whole first team on the field at once. The great physicist, Kapitza, and the ' Nobel - piize-w inning chemist, Semenov, both at tended, together with a horde of other scientists and leading military theorists. The conference topic was disarmament, in all its as pects. The discussion was pri vate, as is customary at these meetings; but this year's dis cusion is now being analyzed in minute detail in every Western Foreign Ministry. This is because the Soviets, having put in their first team, then proceded to use the first team to impress on the Ameri cans,, and especially on Weis ner and Rostow, the fervor and sincerity of the Kremlin's desire , for practical arms control. . The means used were far removed from the normal gabble of propaganda. A typi cal Rusian contribution was the paper by the. chemist Semenov, mathematically proving that the chance of an acidental H-bomb war would Increase in direct proportion to the square of the number of nations possessing H bombs a chilling thought but brilliantly well developed, according to reports. OVERALL, the Russian theme was the urgent need to organize an arms con trol system while the .two giant powers, the U. S. and the U. S. S. R., still retained a practical monopoly of nuc lear striking power. The an swering American theme was the impossibility of arms con trol without effective arrange ments for inspection. For the first time on record, the rea sonableness of American in sistence on effective inspec tion systems was quite frank ly admitted by the Russians. The "how" rather than the "why" was the point most ar gued. As an American expert on Soviet problems has pungent ly remarked, "The ' Russians may have been giving the Americans a snow job; but if so, it was the best-done market, a strong or concilia tory line bn Berlin, the mili tary command of NATO -or the spread or stoppage of nu clear weapons. On such mat ters we can counsel and sug gest, as Mr. Herter has frank ly and boldly done on the question of the Polaris mis siles, but we cannot direct or even push vary hard. If we try to we will experience a fierce popular backlash against us, even In our stead iest ally, Great Britain. ' ' Yet an "alliance of equals," desirable in form and manner, is a myth in terms of fact and action. This is so not only be cause of America's over whelming greater size and strength but because our re sponsibilities are infinitely more complex and widespread than those ot any single allied nation. We are a world power; no ally is, any more. Only when he discusses generalities does a European say to an American, "Why don't you give us a lead?" When he dis cusses the specifics of any immediate issue he says, "Why don't you follow our advice?" And the advice is often in total contradiction, capital to capital. European governments can not move .very far ahead of their national popular opin ion, but they can try to guide it. The recent story of Euro pean popular opinion has been one of whipsawlng the United States with contradictory crit icisms. When we are quiet and prudent we are "sunk in complacency." When we bold ly respond to Communist chal lenges we are "reckless and trigger happy." The few bad boners we have pulled, as in our handling of the U-2 af fair, scarcely weigh in the balance against the truly re markable record of American j PTLUCK (By M-T Stiff and Contributors) a ailiv hut nulla human er ror caused a lot of confusion Thursday. Th. riatellne nn PaEe 1 Of that evening's oaner said Fri day, Dec. 30, instead of Thurs day, Dec. 29. U,., nn earth." it could be asked, "could anyone make an error like that?" Well, be lieve us, It's easy-far, far too easy. , W. all felt nuite badly about it, and hope that noth ing mnrA than 9 little COnfU- sion, and the usual number of jibes ("That blankety-blanic Mall Trihunp NEVER fiets anything right!") resulted. Anyway, as one of our co- urnrlrer . eairi ruefullv. the datelines on the other 27 pages were right, so that gives . . r en us a statistical average or. ti to 1. Not good enough. Oh, that wasn't the only error in the paper lait waek-not by a long shot. How about the story that re ported an event at a "dive in restaurant"? Parenthetically, it should be pointed out that our old friend, That Man From Phoe nix, pointed this out, and com mented to the effect that the dive-in restaurant must have had a underwater pool-room, where the management really soaks the patrons. Being a classy joint, he add ed, one goes there to be in the swim. Ohh. . e And the Tall Farmer sent ui a clipping by his Tall Wife which recounted how Paul Fngan one bought the San Francisco Seals by buy ing a on third interest, then another one-third in terest, then another one third Interest, "and even tually he gained complete ownership." How eventual can one get? But enough of our trou bles. Let us turn to those of the Salem Capital Press, which printed its issue of Dec. 23 on pink paper. In a note to read ers it said that this was to commemorate the holiday sea son. And then, with forth right honesty, it added: snow job in years." And the majority among the Soviet ex perts believe that it was not a snow job. . Whether this is correct will be tested by the active nego tiating effort that is planned by the President-elect. Care ful, urtra-hard-headed plan ning will come before nego tiating. Overnight miracles will not be sought. But the experiment will be both inter esting and exciting, nonthe- less. Copywright 1960 New York Herald Tribune Ine. selflessness, risk-taking and sensitive concern over these 15 post-war years - the occa sional thick-skinned preach ments of John Foster Dulles notwithstanding. The Eisenhower regime has certainly not created a world image of confident, directed American leadership. But I cannot believe it is this that has produced the appalling results of the new opinion polls which show nearly half the British people unwilling to be partners either of Amer ica or Russia, and nearly half the Canadian people uncer tain whether they wish to be in the Western aniance at all. It is something muci deeper, including an impotent ic:ir of the bomb, a weary wish thought that history wou'id stop and the inevitable resent ment against Big Brother. . With this deep-seated and dangerous condition all Allied governments must . deal. Equality, of understanding at least, must work both ways. It is my own impression that Europeans are not so "sub servient" to America as Mr. Lippmann thinks they are. Often, they use the plaint of "no American lead" as a ra tionalization of their own In ertia in tackling matters they must, In the first instance, settle themselves. I am tempt ed to say that It is we who have been too subservient to our allies. Constantly they tell us that we "want to be liked", whereas we should want to be respected. But that, too, is a two-way transaction. Mr. Lipp mann says that Europe has recovered from the war; eco nomically it has, but psycho logically it has not. No matter what we do or don't do, the sub-strata of pure envy will persist, at least until world tensions relax. "Annthpr reason for thiji colorful idea is that we had three tons of this newsprint and didn't know what else to do with it.". The Hutchinson (Kansas) News reporti that a young wife, who has been in an in teresting condition for close to eight months, contends that science has let itself be distracted by trivial goals. The universal need, she -feels, is instant babies. . Today, in addition to being riew Year's Day (and a Hap py New Year to our five faith ful readers!) is also the begin ning of several other observ ances. They include: . - Universal Week of Prayer.. All-Year Nutrition Cam paign. National Colorado B e e I Month. United Cerebral Palsy Month. Wheat Bread Sales Month. Louisiana Yam Supper Sea son. -Hot Chocolate Milk Time. And 1 Winter Dairy Promotion. . I i Oh, yes. It's also the be-, ginning of Save The Pun Week, sppnsored by the So ciety for the Revival and Preservation of the Pun, Box 835, Grand Central Sta tion, New York 17, N.Y. , ' In view of the latter we may be forgiven , for reporting; that a San Francisco car club, whose members all own cars with automatic transmissions, calls itself . "The Unclutch ables." And Salem Columnist Vis F r e y e r observes that this would be a good name for an Old Maids' Society. ; On day last week, before the fog cleared up, and things were relatively im penetrable, a man we know tippy-toed up to th deik and deposited thereon the following: Listen to me, my country cousin, Wise men are plenty, a dime-a-dozen, . . Who can figure the weight of stars , And analyze the dust on Mars; Who are less familiar with making passes Than reconstructing solar gasses. ' Doctors, scientists and lay men, Glassblowers, sales men, draymen, - ,. Super-wizards, plain and fancy Who jolt us with their nec romancy. Men who tells us "Count lo ten!" And then say "Count on down again!" But I'll wager a king-saza grog They can't erase a Medford fog. Name If European leaders want a strong and respected America as leader or partner, they can help start the process at home. Anti - American neutralism festers and spreads in Britain, and Prime Minister Macmillan, leads no strong counter-offensive against it. . The kindly Scots villagers along Holy Loch are deeply troubled about the coming bf the American Polaris subma rine, partly because they ara uninformed about its accident proof security, and no British minister bothers to go there and enlighten them. Just once De Gaulle might acknowledge to his people that Washington has been in finitely patient with their Al gerian agony. The Belgians might be told that We reailv have nn Heeit-tt lo steal their remaining Congo asse.s. Tne well fed German might be reminded that Amer icans, so "rich and fat," hav five million unemployed among them and still pay three times more per capita tax for defense than do the imperiled Germans. Virtually every allied peo ple might be reminded that American boys do a longer military service than their own. t Our allies have taken us too much for granted. Their popular press and salon Intel' lectuals have moved much too far from justified criticism into abuse of our good name, our good record and our hon orable purpose. ' Many American readers wilt accuse me of chauvinism for saying this. That will be evi dence in itself of how extraor dinarily patient we have been with our allied friends. (Diitributed 1960, by Th Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) j
