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o 4 SUNDAY. JANUARY 8, 1861 MbJsFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON WEDFORDvTRIBUNB "Evcryune in Southern Oregon Reads JThe MallTribune" Published Dniiy except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St. Ph SP2-6141 " ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB CREV Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus Mgr ERIC W AM.EN JR Mng Edltoi EARL H ADAMS, City Editor -HARRY CH1PMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oreiron under Act or March 3. 1897 RimSHHIPTION RATES ' Uy Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year f iouu ' Dally and Sunday mos 8 On Dallv and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 c.inHnv Onlv Hnt vear S4 20 By Carrier- In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point EeRie Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove. 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A total of $315 was raised here in a one-day effort to raise funds for relief of Ko rcan refugees Saturday. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1941 (Wednesday) There are 5,706 registered voters in the four wards of Medford eligible to vote in the special airport bond elec tion Jan. 17. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The President, in his dramatic and masterful address to Con aress. urging aid to Britain, declared: 'As a nation we lake pride In the fact we are soft hearted; but we cHnnoi anoro to be soft-headed.' Neither can the nation afford to be 'soft- soapcd'-much-ln the serious months to come." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 8. 1931 (Wednesday) A special prosecutor has been named by the governor to conduct the probe Into the Reese creek liquor raid death near here. The county court Is consid ering a proposal to levy a dog tax. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1921 (Saturday) Oil speculation In the Mon tague, Calif., is booming and an oil well Is now being drill ed. The federal government has launched an investigation Into the Pacific Northwest lumber Industry. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 8. 1911 (Sunday) The cily now has over 20 miles of sewers and water mains; 8' 2 miles of paved streets; 29 miles of sidewalks and most of it was done last year. Business at the Medford post office during 1010 In creased by 65 per cent over the previous year, a good In dication of the city's amazing growth. What's Your I.Q.? Nine et fen correct is suesrler: seven of eight is excellent! five el ill is good. 1. Who was lite author of "Jane Eyre"? 2. The new Queen of Bel gium Is a native of what coun try? 3. What persons settled and built Salt Lake City? 4. Is the ladybird a bird, beetle, or worm? 5. "Pelican Slate" is the nickname for which state? 6. Who created the fictional character "Tarzan"? 7. In Poker the chances of Rotting three of a kind (noth ing wild) are 12 to 1, 16 to 1, or 46 to 1? 8. All tissues of,thc body are completely renewed every seven years; true or false? 9. How much does a cubic fool of water weigh? 10. Which country In the world is the largest producer of etiffee? Answers: 1. Charlotte Bron te. 2. Spain. 3. The Mormons. 4. Beetle. 5. Louisiana. 6. Ed gar Rice Burroughs. 7. 48 to 1. 8. False. 9. 62.4 pounds. 10. Bra.U. All Sorts There are all sorts of tragedy. There was one here last week. Everyone con cerned with it was hurt. . A small girl (while she was unharmed physi cally) received a shock which may remain with her for many years. A man who is known to his friends as kindly, decent, a good husband and father, succumbed to unnatural desires he could not control and was arrested. The widening circle of tragedy affected the family of the little girl, who was completely inno cent; and affected the equally innocent family of the man in question. TTWO STORIES concerning the incident ap peared (as they should have) in the paper. But they were not quite complete, were suscepti ble to misinterpretation, and as a result did not give an accurate description of the situation. . The word "molesting" was used. Technically, it was correct, but gave the implication of physi cal action, even violence, which wasn't so. The complicated procedures of our legal ma chinery went into motion. It was the decision of the then district attorney to bring the man into district court on a misdemeanor charge, rather than into circuit court on a felony charge. IT WAS also the district attorney who failed to 1 inform the district judge that the man had been questioned regarding similar incidents be fore, and the judge did not find this out until af ter the case had been disposed of. The authority of a district judge is limited. In this case, he knew the man needed medical and psychiatric help so that he might once again become a good citizen without danger to society. But the district court cannot commit a man to the state hospital, where he could receive the treatment he needs. .What the judge did He placed him on years. Under the terms report each two weeks to ficer, is prohibited from child, and is required to obtain psychiatric treat ment (at his own expense), with the medical re ports to become part of his probation report. TTHE ONLY other choice was to commit him to jail for a maximum of six months. And what good would that do anyone? lhe three bases for rehabilitation of the offender: (2) protection of society, and (3) retribution.' It seems to us that the judge has, within his authority, satisfied all three although in the nature of the ' event s the penalty . is worse for friends and family than anyone else"' (The $5 mentioned by several correspondents was not a line at all, and to the $300 (plus $5 court costs) paid for a dif ferent violation ; it is simply court costs, assessed all district court violators.) a THUS the tragedy: A om oil vJ il irif Vi i cli n. oiuuii ft"1 vviwi a 3.i.i,iiii initials iuliu- ory; her parents justifiably hurt and angry; a man struggling with impulses he cannot control; his family subjected to anguish; his livelihood damaged, perhaps beyond repair; a community upset; the processes of justice questioned. Other communications received we shall not publish. They are in a vein similar to those already printed. We are sorry about the Mail Tribune's perhaps unfortunate part in it; sorry for the girl and her parents; sorry for the man; sorry for his desperate family; sorry for the judge who has And sorriest of all that we live in a still-im- perfect society where such tragedies can still hap pen. E.A. Here s How To Burn Mr. Robert C. Ingalls, Editor Corvallis Gazette-Times Corvallis, Oregon Dear Bob: Congratulations on what disorganized, Sounds like fun. Come to Medford next Here the Moosr lodue gets its members and other volunteers, including Boy Scouts, to go around the curbs along all Medford streets. Our used car dealers help by loaning pick-up trucks, and other truck owners, including pitch in to help. lhe trees are taken of town, and burned at dark. Quite a blaze they And the ln einen stand by. Perhaps best of all, cooperating householders in an envelope on their old trees containing a donation (from a few cents up to one generous $200 check this last time) for some charity. Results: The trees are burned, the firemen are happy to get these potential hazards out of homes, the Scouts, Moose and other volunteers have fun doing a community job, those who like to watch big fires have a fine time, the garbage company doesn't have to worry about trees on its regular pickups, and a worthy cause benefits. Sacred Heart Hospital's building fund is about $1,000 bigger as a result, this time. It's a grand way to do it, Bob, aif?l we com mend it toAou, We're proud of the folk that do it. of Tmgedy do was this: strict probation for two of his probation he must a supervising parole of being alone with any court sentences are (1) should not be compared rinL-1 n rr unlin m-it m on the subject we have the whole incident, and been criticized, unjustly. Trees your impromptu, some tree-burning after Christmas. year. oroitnizos the thintr. It picking up trees left on the garbage company, to a haiulv spot outside a public gathering after make, too ! fMlllTMOUBi Dennis fine teiomsoa O 151 dAODy, 1W DO 1 ASK Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE RULE OF MAJORITIES In each House of Congress there are formidable ob stacles to the rule of simple m a j o r i lies, and the ques tion is how far these ob stacles are to be reduced or removed. But the problem in the House is diffe rent from the prob- Lippmann 1 e m in the Senate, and the difference in volves an important differ ence of principle, and indeed of the spirit and the intent of the constitution itself. The problem in the House of Representatives does not, as it does in the case of the Senate, arise from the power of a minority to prevent leg islation by a filibuster. The House does not have unlimit ed debate. The problem there arises from the fact that the Rules Committee has almost absolute power of life and death over bills before they can be voted upon. There may be a majority in favor of a bill. Unless the Rules Commit tee permits it, the majority cannot bring the bill to a vote. IN RECENT years the Rules Committee has had twelve members-eight of (hem Dem ocrats and four of them Re publicans. But two of the Democrats, Howard W. Smith of Virginia and William M. Colmcr of Mississippi, have formed an alliance with the four Republicans, thus divid ing the Committee six to six. This prevents it from acting affirmatively, and enables the conservative coalition to block not only civil rights legisla tion but all manner of so called progressive legislation. It is Impossible, I think, to defend this arrangement on lhe ground of principle. For the House of Representatives represents the people of (he United Slates and its spirit is that there lhe simple numer ical majority shall ' prevail. The bi-partisan deal in the Rules Committee is in fact a usurpation of power, depriv ing the majority of its rights, and thwarting the will of the people. The House can, and we may hope that the House will, break up the deal and re cover the right of majority rule. THE problem of the Senate, on the other hand, involves questions of high constitution al principle. The crux of the question is not whether the majority should rule but what kind of majority should rule. Shall it be a simple numerical majority of the Senators pres ent and voting? Shall it be two-thirds of all the Senators elected? Or shall it be some thing between the two? Here lies the crux of the argument. What kind of ma jority shall have the right to end debate in the Senate, and therefore to bring about a vote? The kind of majority that has the power to do this has the power to legislate. rMlE recognition that there - may be various kinds of majorities Is deeply Imbedded in the constitution. Simple ma jority rule-one more than half of a quorum-is by no means the general principle of the constitution. Cons titutional amendments, the expulsion of members, the over-riding of the President's veto, require two-thirds of nil the Senators elected. Treaties and Impeach mcius require two-thirds of those present and voting. Why these variations? Because these are questions which in volve the whole nation, it may be tor war. the constitu tion requires that surh gftve decision!! ghQI have a large, i 1 0 t:3a i '0'$ majoriga SO MANY QUESTIONS ? lippmann N MY view it is important ties, to preserve the principle that for great issues, for is sues that affect deeply great regions or sections of the na tion, there should be required more than a simple majority. For we must never forget that majorities are not always lib eral and that they may be quite tyrannical. It is, I have always thought, a short view of history to equate simple majority rule with the defense of the civil rights of Negroes. The civil rights of all Amer-' leans will be safer if within the Senate, which represents the Federal principle, we do not give absolute power to simple majorities. The practical conclusion which I draw from this is that the question of cloture in the Senate is not one of this or that but of more or less. Be tween the two extremes of a simple majority of a quoroum and of a two-thirds majority of all the Senators elected, there is plenty of room for compromise. The proper point at which to make the compromise is where moderate Southerners like Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn can live with the so lution, and feel that they are not being dragooned and over ridden. For nothing good can be done by persuasion and ed ucation if the moderates in the South feel that they are co erced. (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS We've broken off diplomat ic relations with the Castro government of Cuba - a step fully justified under the cir cumstances. Not only has Cas tro been calling us every foul name he can lay his tongue to. Not only has he been mak ing reckless and inflammatory statements, Including absurd charges that we are planning to invade Cuba within a mat ter of hours. lie is also making it plain that his purpose is to make of Cuba a communist MILITARY OUTPOST IN THE. WEST ERN HEMISPHERE. That, of course, we can not and must not tolerate. We have every possible jus tification for taking the step we have taken. ripHE BIG question: X NEXT? AN tlon comes from South America, where in Argentina and Brazil there is talk of a special hemisphere-wide con ference to deal with the situ ation created by the break. Raynumdo Padilha, chairman of the foreign relations com mittee of the Brazilian cham ber of deputies (correspond ing roughly to our house of representatives) says this morning: "Cuba has placed Itself out side the Pan-American system and has become a COMMU NIST BRIDGEHEAD AND STRONGHOLD In the Hemis phere. The Organization of American States should call an immediate meeting and take a collective stand against Cuba." 'IMIAT makes sense. It taRes us out of the po sition of the Big Shot who.ln sists on running everything. It makes of the Castro business in Cuba, with Its dangerous background of communist in trigue, a matter of mutual concern to ALL OF THE AMERICAS. 0 NE MOT5.E question: What of Guantanamo? I ERE IS Its background: Aloffer of Fact THE YAWNING DRAIN Washington - On more than one occasion, the outgoing Ei senhower administration has invited the in coming Ken nedy adminis tration to be come its Dart- M ner in manag- :S ina lha rricic -3f?M in Laos. The most recent invitation took the form of a Alsop suggestion of a joint statement accusing the Soviet and Vietnamese Com munists of military interven tion in Laos. The projected statement, when finally issued last Tues day, bore only the Eisenhower administration's sig n a I u r e. This was because the invita tion to joint action was refus ed for obvious reasons and with many precedents. But the overtures which have been made to the future sec retary and under secretary of state, Dean Rusk and Chester Bowles, are significant and revealing, nonetheless. In particular, they reveal the desperately grave estimate of the situation in Laos which now prevails in the inner cir cle of American policy makers. The truth is that this remote but crucial situation now shows all the signs of getting wholly out of control It has been a sorry story. TTS m o s t recent chapter "originated, apparently, in the embittered, dog - in - the - manger attitude of the French in Laos. The almost pathologi cal results of this attitude were seen long ago in South Vietnam, when the French there tried to push out Presi dent Ngo Dinh Diem and re place him with the local AI Capone, the leading Saigon gangster, Bai Vien. to war with Spain. Our imme diate provocation to war was the sinking of one of our bat tleships (the Maine) in Cuban waters. We charged that the Spaniards did it. Our REAL reason was to free Cuba from j Spanish misrule. The war to liberate Cuba lasted 113 days. After the lib eration, Cuba was ruled for several years by American military governors. In 1901, what was known as the Piatt Amendment (to the army ap propriation bill before the U.S. congress) demanded from Cuba a lease of Guantanamo as a naval base. It included other conditions too volumi nous to be gone into here. The Cubans objected to the Piatt Amendment, but finally gave in and included it in their constitution, which was adopted in 1901. We finally repealed the Piatt Amend ment in 1934. That is the background of our claim to the Guantanamo base. rpHIS should be added: Back in 1901 we were planning the Panama Canal. If built, it must be PROTECT ED. The navy was then our big weapon of defense for the Canal. That made Guantan amo highly important to us. The situation has changed. First war in the air and now MISSILE warfare are our weapons for defense of the Canal. Under these circum stances, Guantanamo is less important. T.UT- -' We can't stand by and permit Castro to take Guan tanamo and then TURN IT OVER TO THE COMMU NISTS as a base of operations from which to extend commu nism throughout the Western Hemisphere. Lf- Jt i Leadership: Democratic Sine Qua NonT By ERIC SEVAREID Brussels in the early after noon - ten thousand Belgian socialist strikers marched and ''lfWSSJ chanted In the SjfSMk'l chilly streets, ifBSSiB' 3 j and the usual swarm ' of .hoodlum j sharks attract ' cd by move- tJM U1CIH lUIXL-U II '"STwl with mounted ponce, news Doured in of sv...d paradcfi shllt. downs, scuffles in Mons. Liege, Ghent. Half a nation was paralyzed hy unarmed, semipassive political insur rection. In the late afternoon a stocky little man with tired but angry eyes marched - it is the appropriate verb - into his office to see me, gripping his brief case like a club. An old picture flashed through my mind-the photo graph of the same tough little man, gripping the same brief case, marching off his plant in Lcopoldville last June. This time too he was positive that he was right - the brief case is full of facts - and that the sea of human events boiling around him was wr-QK, should flow away. ..and This was fO-t.m Fyskrns. I is min That attempt failed, since the French had little remain ing leverage in South Viet nam, even in 1954. They still retain leverage in Laos, how ever, in the form of a military group officially charged with training the Laotian army. Perhaps because this offi cial French responsibility has survived in Laos, the trans fer of the main responsibility to the United States has al ways been reseated with spe cial violence. In any case, it now appears to be well estab lished that the "neutralist" coup d'etat of the paratroop commander Kong Le was launched with French sup port. Kong Le's initial success in turn left the chief Western allies hopelessly divided. ri'HE French thesis, sup--- ported by the British, was that a neutralist govern ment in Laos ought to be wel comed. The American policy makers more realistically re plied that it was ridiculous to hope for a truly neutral gov ernment in disordered Laos, if the government was to be half neutral and half pro-Communist, with all the strong men on the Communist side. On this basis, the Ameri can government intermittent ly but effectively supported Gen. Phoumi and Premier Boun Oum. In the end, Phou mi and Boun Oum drove Kong Le and the neutralists out of the two capitals of Laos, Vietiane and Luang Prabang. But the success of Phoumi and Boun Oum in turn pro duced a result which Wash ington had not foreseen. The Soviets and North Vietnamese quite flagrantly intervened in Laos, to restore their pawns Co power. rpo this sharp challenge, Vthe -- first American response seemed forceful enough. The SEATO pact, which covers Laos, was invoked. The U.S. forces in the Pacific were alerted. There was discussion of counter - intervention in Laos by the Thai army, with American support. But this first impulse to re spond directly to the Soviet challenge now seems to be petering out. Instead, the present impulse is to hand the Laos problem over to the In ternational Control Commis sion, under suitable condi tions." This means, quite simply, that the drain now yawns for Laos. The Control commission, set up at Geneva in 1954, is composed of an approximate ly neutral Canadian, plus an Indian and a Pole, who will be the opposite of neutral. The commission's mere com position is indicative enough. In addition, if the commission re-enters Laos, it will do so after a hurried American re treat from .a firm position. These two factors, taken to gether, are likely to insure Laos going down the drain in the end. SUCH an outcome in Laos will be comparable, in a smaller way, to the German occupation of the Sudeten- land after the Munich agree ment. The Geneva division of former French Indo-China in 1954 was always structurally similar to the Munich settle ment. With Laos finally going down the drain, the Diem re gime in South Vietnam will be in the exact position of the a m p u t a ted Czechoslovakia which briefly survived after the Sudetenland was seized. And after South Vietnam, the turn of the rest of Southeast Asia will surely come. What threatens in Laos, in short, is a major disaster. None of the Western govern ments involved has played a creditable role. But if this dis aster materializes, the root gians. (Prime minister at least as this is written.) He is tough as hard rubber, bellig erent when roused, a born party leader. But his behavior in the Congo crisis and in this strike crisis raises long thoughts about the nature of true leadership in the com plex, individualistic societies of the Western world. The tight little federation of quite differing peoples that makes up Belgium is not normally an arena of anarchy. These are literate people and shrewd. But twice within six months they have been dis organized like an ant hep by sudden shocks. All the modern arts of com munication are at the disposal of their government. But they were not given the slightest inkling last summer that the vast stretch of Africa which made them an empire, an area their leaders knew more about than even Congolese leaders, would blow up in total anarchy. Their sovtrn mcnt had triM, to deal ith an Immcnsst composite e at simple ct. Now it has essentflly r. pcated the same error. It trial a total reorganization of gium's public financiO In single legislative bill passed I at the Parliament. The bill is ; more than & hundred n? Wtn ri mnt i,r, an in. 35: fYlUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Whether or not something is funny often depends on wheth er you're on the outside look ing in or the inside looking out. So, when the lock on the men's room broke last week, leaving Wire Editor Harry Chipman effectively locked in, it was hilarious to some un feeling souls hereabouts, but Harry wasn't terribly amused. Until a bit later, anyway. This minor disaster occurred just at the tail-end of the noon hour, when many of the staff were out of the office. And it was just as deadline-time was approaching, and Harry was needed in the shop to super vise Uie make-up of Page 1 of the M-T's first edition. After several minutes of pounding on the door, some one heard him, and rescue op erations started. They didn't get anywhere for quite a while. The handle to the door was removed, but still the pesky thing stayed firmly closed. Efforts to take the door off its hinges failed, and before long three or four people were gathered around, fretting, fussing and fuming, prying with an assortment of tools, and finally deciding the door would have to be "jim mied" open. During the confusion, some one decided that the efforts of the staff weren't adequate, and (of all things) called the fire department. A truck drove up in front, and two polite but slightly amused firemen, equipped with wreck ing bars and other ominous looking tools, wandered in. Meanwhile, several other staff members were yelling through the door at Harry, asking him about his plans for the first (and second, if need be) edition, scurrying the copy down to the back shop, editing the stock list, and generally trampling over each other's feet dong the chores which Harry does calmly, quickly and efficiently. Well, it all turned out all right. The door was jimmied open, and Harry resumed his duties in time to get the sec ond edition to the press room in good time for the printing run. The firemen departed, their tools unused. The sad part of the whole affair, of course, was the fact that Harry was a perfectly in nocent party, but is the one that had to take the kidding which invariably accompanies situations of this kind. There were vulgar head lines written purely for his benefit. And the back-shop jokers thoughtfully made for him a great, big key and hung it around his neck. Made him look like a wine steward. And, there's a new door knob on the door now, with what is supposed to be a fool proof, unbreakable lock. . Our women's editor was as amused as anyone at Harry's plight. But she got the shivers just the same. , "If that happened to me," she declared, "I'd just stand there and scream." There was another npnasinn a year or so ago, when another stall member was in the ele vator when it malfunctioned and for a minute or two he cause will he this Wcfm weakness, originating in the Eisenhower defense policy, which invited the arrnirant Soviet-North Vietnamese in tervention. The Korea lesson might have been remembered for ten years, but it was not. (copyright 1961 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) uct of economic science. It affects virtually everyone in the country from postal clerks and their pension payments to bankers and their transactions taxes. The defiant Mr. Eyskens bangs his desk and declares that the overhaul is right, overdue and will benefit all in the long run, including the striking workers. And he is probably right. But the lump was indigestible in that form. His regime did not try to educate people about it. Eyskens resorted to simplicity to explain complex ity - "It means austerity only for the state, benefits for the people, jjui it was Just as easy for the Socialists to do the same in reverse. "The loi unique." they shouted to the union, "is the law of misery." Since only a nation-wide sem inar conducted over a period of weeks would have clarified the bill's effects, people sim ply rescted for or against ac cordinj to their temperament soW tStir vwliticil affiliation. In ill !ir coiritfi the twj'ii tf gublif efrtir irufir.iri 1J HOSSite ofiDremifr nnr its tins ia,-rn, tft t4 bu. tot,, j prchcM them. Mir techniques for Oeducaiic spn-v flnnisacpyices for future SB ns. deepen. : it Is.-omc hslrtfer 5 was hung, up eerily between iiuors. It didn't bother him too much, for there was plenty 0( air, and an escape hatch- if necessary, and he hopefully believed that somebody could ngure out now to get the ele. vator going again-as happen, ed. But our women's editor, on that occasion, remarked, -it that happened to me, I'd just stand here and scream." See what we're up against? Occasionally, anyway. Let's just hope she never gets trapped. During the late (we hope) and unlamenied hassle be tween the two limousine companies over their respec tive airport licenses, one city official (who shall re main nameless) came up with a solution. Cancel both licenses, he said, and use city police cars for airport limousines and taxi service. That would end lhe dispute, and besides, the city could use the money, We wonder if some peopla felt sort of a nostalgic thrill last week, when it was an nounced that much of Howard Prairie lake had frozen over, that the north end of it was' suitable for ice skating, and that certain f;iriHlin: mnM u in operation there? Ice skating is largely un. known to the younger genera, tion in these parts, partly be cause of our salubrious cli. mate, and partly because they just don't know how In skai or where to go. ' It was not always thus. There's a Utile lalro i much more than a pond, real. iy - orf the road which winds up toward the Dead Indian country. It Is called Ice Housa Lake, due to the fact that be fore electric refrigerators were develonprf th pro 1r3t? -i n ice house there, which fur nished ice for ice boxes in the valley durine winter mnnth and on into the spring. lucked down in its canyon, it was well shaded, and slay ed frozen much of the year. And fiaV VOUtlff hlnHnc frnm Medford and Ashland strapped on ineir blades and away they'd go across the ice. More recently much of tha surrounding timber has been cut, and while the lake still freezes, it isn't nearly as good for skatinc as it user! in h although we understand a few iiaray souis sun try it from time to time during the win ter months. Anyway, we hope that How. ard Prairie lake is a success as an ice skating lnr-afi nn aii ft that the ancient and honorabia sport is revived. If it is, wn have a hunch that it might well be some of the folk fur ther along in years than olh. ers who make it popular, for thev are the ones uhn Vnn, how. And it may even be that there are snmp irr v9i. hanging in some attics, which can oe taken down, sharpen ed, polished, and put to tha use for which they were in tended. Our photographer some times is handed pictures which have minor flaws for retouching, so they will ap pear more natural when they show up in the paper. He was handed one such last week, wilh the request that he "doctor up the eyes a bit." He accepted the print, then quietly remark ed. "I think I'll put up a shingle and open a practice for eye, ear, nose and throat treatments." pie, upon which democracy must rest. And so, baffled men everywhere look for a single human being to make up their minds for them. If they cannot offer informed scrutiny and criticism, they can offer simple trust. So tha great personalities come up, the Eisenhowers, the Aden auers, the de Gaulles. And the smaller personalities such ai Gaston Eyskens find they cannot fashion events, but ira fashioned by them. They can not lead, even when their path is the proper path. The nagging thought re curs: Can any modern, com plex society be truly govern ed any more through the dem ocratic institutions a thousand years of blood have produced, without the presence of that simple, pre-democratic insti tution of leadership - tha strong, appealing, single hu man personality? Like the Belgians, Ameri cans must deny the private sector of their economy in order to refashion the public .soctor. Unless our new Prcsi- oent acquires th moral au- inority that neither Belgium J quired. I much doubt Ameri- 9a s canity to make present (CiilribuCfeft by The trll Syndicate, Inc.) t$'l tt Reserved) I 03 0$) (J) (Si
