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History from the filet ot The
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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
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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
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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. ,
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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.)
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