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O O M&Lir'Ofttf MAIL TtUMUMii. MfcDr'OHD, OttbtfON B MEDFORDJfcTRIBUNK "Evciunt (ii Suuuiern Oregon " Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dolly except Soturdayby MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St.. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL,' Editor HERB GREY Advntlslni! Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus Msr ERIC W ALLEN JR Mill Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teles Editor . RICHARD JEWF.TT Sporil Editoi OLIVE STARCHER Womin'l Editor DALE ERlCKSONCIrculatlon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as -lecond class matter at I Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Uy Mall In Advance. Copy 10c . Dally and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Dally and Sunday 6 mos 8 00 Dally and Sunday 3 mos 4 25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier- In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. 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A proposed action by the civil aeronautics board that that would raise airline fares between Medford and eastern points was denounced as un fair today by the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce. ... 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 17, 1941 (Friday) ' The Works Projects admin istration notified Senator Mc Nary (R-Ore.) today that Presi dent Roosevelt has approved allocation of. $78,451 to im prove the municipal airport ut Medford; this, money Is sep arate and In addition to the $122,000 previously allocated. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Weed control is now fretting county asents. The best way to con trol weeds is to build a service station and spread cement all around it." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 17, 1931 (Saturday) Admiral Byrd, famed polar explorer, has arrived in Med ford for a series of lectures accompanied by pictures of his recent expeditions. The Oregon stale gnme corn mission ruled yesterday that steclhead is a trout. 40 YEARS AGO' J Jan. 17, 1921 (Monday)' Four Jacksonville men plead guilty to charges of fishing illegally at Gold Ray dam yesterday and received 30-day Jail sentences apiece. . The Oregon state legislature yesterday passed a law mak ing Armistice Day a legal holiday in the state. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 17. 1911 (Tueiday) A builder of trolley lines In cities up and down the West Coast was In Medford today and proclaimed his In tention to build a trolley line here soon. . The Oregon stale senate to day passed a resolution pro hibitlng smoking in the Sen ate chambers. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or tan correct is superior; seven or eight ii excellent! five ei six is good. 1. Is the U.S. national debt approximately 44, 91, or 120 billion dollars? 2. Who said, "Am I my bro ther s keeper? 3. On which continent is Kenya? 4. Which state of the Union has the greatest area? 8. Which amendment of the Constitution provided lor di rect election of Senators? 6. All varieties of lizards are venomous; true of false? 7. Of which state Is Jeffer son City the capital? 8. Did Hawaii become an in tegral part of the U.S. by an nexation or by purchase? 9. Are Import duties col lected by the Office of Internal Revenue, or the Bureau of Customs? 10. Who is known as the "Father of the Navy"? Answers! 1. Ninety-one. 2. Cain. 3. Africa. 4, Alaska. 5 Seventeenth.)). False. 7 Mis ourl 8. Annexation treaty. 9. Customs. lO.PJohn Barry. 4 ' In the face of vocal demands for benches on downtown streets for the use of those waiting for buses, plus the backing of the Crater Lions club, it took courage tor Mayor binder to veto the ordinance which would have allowed the benches, to be supported by advertising signs painted thereon. He took most of the sting out of his veto by encouraging the donation of benches, and iridi cating his plan to donate the first one himself. But he may still be subjected to criticism. If so, it is to be hoped that the criticism takes into consideration the fact that the veto was based on principle, not on expediency, and that the mayor had more to lose than to gain, personally, by his action. . "THE council some time ago turned down pro- posals to place advertising messages on park ing meters. The proposal for advertising on benches is in the same category the us'e of city property for the purposes of commercial gain. That's one business the city has no business get ting into. Add to that the fact that income to the city would be negligible, compared to the overall in come expected from such a project, and we fail to see how the mayor could have followed any other course and still have upheld the city's rights in the matter. We hope the council will back up the mayor's forthright and courageous action, and then pro ceed to approve the plan for the use of donated benches. E. A. Back To "... We find ourselves returning to the days oi tne saloon," Uov. Mark Hatiield said in his message to the legislature. He pointed out that to serve liquor by-the-drink are also reauired to serve food. And he went administration" (his) was the first to order, through liquor commission regulation, that these establishments must derive a specific minimum of their gross income from the sale of food. .t his regulation has been tested in the courts. and rejected. The governor now seeks specific legislative authority for such a requirement. COMMENTING on this, the Bend Bulletin "There's really only 'one answer to this problem. That is to do away with the food sale requirement. , Why not let the booze Joints serve booze and the res launints serve food? "The way it Is now, some of the larger booze joints which are required to serve a certain percentage of food, practically give It away. This causes an economic injury to legitimate restaurants which are trying to make a profit on the food they sell.. "Requiring bars to serve food In order to get a liquor license is old fashioned and foolish. And, it is hard to enforce, as any traveler who has stopped at a small town bar late at night to get a sandwich can tell you." . WE DISAGREE with Urn RlllloHn As pointed out here food requirement, as suggested by the governor, is enforced, it will force some taverns out of busi ness, with two-fold results: Patrons will either buy themselves a full bottle (which is much more apt to lead to intoxication work), or will patronize some other establish ment, which will in turn force up its percentage of liquor sales and force down its percentage of food sales, thus endangering its license too. Also, the "give-away" of food by some establishments would be encouraged. DUT the Bulletin's suggestions, that food service no longer be required sing spots, is equally undesirable. Food is the most effective antidote of alcohol, and should those wishing it, even if its only a sandwich or a hard-boiled egg. The present liquor control laws are not neces sarily perfect, but neither the governor's suoces- tion, which would work and tavern alike, nor the bulletin s, which really would bring back the salon, would improve the situation. E.A. Other Suggestions Good Another of the governor's suggestions, for a tamper-proof identity card for those between 21 and 25 years of age", "to eliminate many of the illegal purchases by minors, is a good one. This problem of liquor purchases by minors is one of the worst headaches faced by both law enforcement officers and liquor dispensers. Such an ID card would be a big help. His third liquor law suggestion, that the share of liquor rccipts received by cities be increased, also merits support, for the cities' law enforce costs, many of them due to liquor law infractions, has gone up sharply, and they need the added support by the state from this source of finds. E.A. Correction: In an editorial in this sn.ft'e last Sunday, it was stated that 3-1 states must ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The num ber actually is 88 or states. (Thanks, L. G. W.) E.A. Saloons? establishments licensed on to declare that "this both the governor and before, if the minimum than a beer or two after at all in liquor-dispen to the intoxicating effect always be available for hardship on restaurant three - fourths of the 50 Dennis the Menace ) lltf Igf 'I KNOW WE WERE PUYlNGaW0OY8UTA LITTLE BOY HAS HO BUSINESS CALLING HIS FATHER A 'AWSY OL' SON OF A H3KS6 1Hf '!' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of 3 pen name or iniial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensaton. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Eggs, Bikes and Songs To the Editor: January half gone and I haven't broken my resolution to be economical. I even drain the shells when I fry eggs. It's a great sav ing. Yes sir, I bet that in a whole year ye'd save enough to frost your birthday cake, I read in Sunday's Tribune that from 400 to 500 boys were killed while riding bicycles. Know why? They are required to ride on the right side of the road where traffic comes from behind them. . They look around, lose their balance and fall in front of the cars. I saw it happen three times during 1380. Luckily the cars were able to stop. Let us save lives by getting that rule, or law, changed. Thank you, F. J. Clifford. Shorty Rider often came to our house, also, and we krpew him as loyal friend and honest citizen. Though he did not attend church, he did believe in God and the last song he composed was a hymn about a Peaceful Valley. We listened to his funeral sermon, taken from St. Mark, 12lh chapter, lath to 28th verses. All of it about brothers were to marry their deceased brother's wives after which a lecture on alcoholism was given. Though part of it was spoken directly to Shorty, we know he was beyond being hurt by it. At the Senior Center Or chestra, 601 East Jackson, where we play from 1 til 3 p.m. Thursdays, wo opened by singing Shorty's Arctic Love Song. Why doesn't someone start a Songwriter's club here? One time John Duffy had a good group started. Ashlanditcs joined, finally became officers and moved it over to Ashland. I had just paid $6 dues, which isn't according to my economy plan. Fooey! Pearl Spackman, Jacksonville, Ore. Rails and Trucks To the Editor: In my latest letter to the Mail Tribune, In which I asked sonic pointed questions in regard to the Fish Hatchery Hill near Butte Falls, I mentioned "ten foot BUNKS" which came out "ten foot BANKS.'' "BUNKS" are what logs lie on when being transported by truck or train. "BANKS" are what some peo ple rob when they need money. May I suggest the Edi tor become better acquainted with terminology pertaining to logging and the lumber in dustry. As for the State Highway Commission's efforts to force removal of the Mcdco Rail road and the change to truck logging. 1 have, thus far, never heard of- another case where private hauling took preced ence over the public use of public roads. As for the cross ing over the new freeway, I think, and I have reason to do so, that the new freeway could be made to go over the Crater Lake Highway, and Mcdco Railroad. Aside from the enforced (?) removal of Modco Railroad (incidentally, an article in the Mail Tribune a month or so ago said the railroad was built as a logging railroad, but the railroad was built as a com mon carrier and named the Pacific and Eastern and as 1 understand the situation was to go from Crescent City to Ogden. Utah, to connect with U. P.) it would be very simple, relatively speaking, to put in the necessary columns of con crete and a couple of steel beams heavy enough to carry the weight of traffic over the railroad and Crater Lake highway. (They do things like that In California but evi dently can't do it here.) The idiots evidently are not all in institutions. Most of them are commissioners of this, that, and the other in the federal, state, county and var ious city governments. Maybe we need some new highway commissioners who are not so unfriendly to the idea of moving things by rail. The ones, we have now evi dently think railroads are out moded. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star rt.( Butte Falls, Ore. Medco's Trucks To the Editor: This letter is in regard to the change Mcdco plans to do in the near future, banning the train route and putting in a logging truck road. My house is situated about 20 to 30 feet away from the train track. What's going to happen to the value of my property when the logging truck road goes by my house? I'm going to be covered with dirt, grinding gears, howling motors from daylight to dark some 15 hours a day. I realize that our most im portant asset to Jackson coun ty is logging and that's where my own livelihood lies. If Medco cannot keep the train, let's put the trucks on the highway and within a few years we may get a much bet ter nignway lor our trucks and our tourists to travel. DarLcne J. Elder, Box 283, Route 1, Eagle Point, Ore. " He's Thankful To the Editor: Much has been said about the medical care in the valley. This letter is not meant to criticize any phase of the medical profes sion. Recently my wife has re ceived extensive medical care, both in and out of the hos pital. She required several operations and an extensive stay in the hospital, all of which cost quite a bit of money. Needless to say, as in tile case willi most families in the middle income group, we found that our insurance covered only a small portion of the cost. We have been trying to pay the bills as best we can, but it lias been an extremely slow process. Though we have been slow and infrequent with our payments, the doctors and hospitals have been very pa tient. Now my wife is again in need of medical care and is seeing several doctors who arc consulting together on her case. She has been under their care for several months and now is being referred to a doctor in Portland. Even though she has seen six dif ferent doctors in the past year, not one of them has refused to see her because of our past due bills. As a matter of fact the subject has not oven been brought up. I am very thankful to live in a community where the doctors and hospitals think of the CURE before the COST. My sincere thanks and appre ciation go to the medical pro fession of our community. Buckley W. Morgan 619 Benson st. Medford. Medco Praised To the Editor: I have just read the two letters in the Sunday paper, in which much opposition is made to the pro posed change over of the Med ford corporation's railroad to a private logging highway. Apparently the writers are not aware that the conversion of logging railroads to private roads is taking place very rap idly. In fact Mexico is one of the last to do soTThe cost of running a railroad is becom ing prohibitive and private highways are more flexible and economical. Medford corporation is our major industry and has cOi tinned to operate two shifts J In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Prehistoric man note: Archaeologists report the finding of a new cave in the Middle East that contains much new and interesting ma terial bearing on man's past. Plans are being made for additional excavation . and evaluation of the cave's ma terial. Hmmmmmm. Let's get closer home. At a social gathering in Red Bluff a few weeks ago, Monte Snavely, of Tehama, related to me that he has in his pos session two seemingly ancient stone carvings. They are crude, but they clearly depict an elephant. In both, he says, the animal's trunk is unmis takable. They were found, he adds, embedded in the ice in one of the caves in the Lava Beds monument. ' WHY is that interesting? Well, it might have a bearing on the time when man came to the North Amer ican continent. Obviously, this primitive sculptor had seen an elephant. Where did he see it? It is known from fossil re mains that elephants once in habited this area. Was this primitive sculptor contempo raneous with the elephants that once roamed this land? Did he inhabit the cave where these carvings were found and chip them out in his odd lei sure moments? It would be interesting to know. ANOTHER question: Did Melba,. one of the great operatic singers of all time, once live for a period in our state of Jefferson-in Linkville before its name was changed to Klamath Falls? There is a tradition that she did. As the story goes, her married name was Arm strong. She and her husband are said to have lived on the east side of Klamath's Link river. The story goes that they had an orchard and a garden there. Leo Houston recalls that Mr. Armstrong was a kindly man, generous with his ap ples. He pointed out to Leo the tree where the best fruit grew and urged him to help himself. Others recall that the Armstrongs grew delicious rhubarb, which they shared with their neighbors. The im pression was that they were well off. The story goes that Mrs. Armstrong was seldom seen and ONLY in the summers. It was vaguely understood at the time that she was an im portant theatrical personage. WAS she Melba? A recent inoulrv to the Metropolitan Opefa Associa tion, Inc., in New York, brought this answer: "In answer to your letter, we must report that we have been able to find no reference to any singer by the name of Melba except the well known Australian soprano. This ar tist came to the Metropolitan Opera company in 1895 and remained there at irregular intervals during five seasons. In 1888, she married Charles Nesbit Armstrong, said to have been the son of an Irish baronet." 1MIERE is another link in the evidence. Some time during this entire period of depressed lumber markets and prices. Not only that, they are spending several million dol lars in the construction of a new plywood plant which will employ several hundred more workers. This company is noted for it's fine safety record and cer tainly all phases of traffic safety will be effected in the operation of their new type of log transportation. We should all thank the fine people who operate Mcd co for all the good things they have done for our community, and hope that they will be with us always. Henry F. Padgham Jr. P.O. Box 294 Medford. Complaints To the Editor: I read Mr. David Frisch's letter In your paper. It brought to my mind an incident almost of the same kind that happened to me last July at the Veterans Hospital at Vancouver, Wash. I'll not go into all details at this time about all the things that took place. But here is one of the things that did happen. The steam pipes clanked and banged all night. The next morning I made a remark saying, "What is this supposed to be, a hospital or a boiler factory?" I was sent to see the head shrinker. After he had questioned me I nm quite sure he went to find one himself. So Mr. Frlich, you and I and any others that have any com plaints to make had better be careful what we say. Be cause they have big Iron cages at all government hospitals. Leo J. Townsend Route 1, Box 620, Eagle Point, Ore. France Retains Keen Interred In Affairs Throughout Africa By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Paris-UPD-In the sprawling gray stone Qua! D'Orsay along the left bank of the Seine, French For eign Ministry officials watched care fully the antl French speeches - d e- livered at the meeting of Af rican neutrals in Casablanca Newsom morocco. For France, although pre occupied now with President Charles de Gaulle s supreme effort to restore peace to Al geria, still is not so preoc cupied that she does not keep a sensitive finger on the pulse of other events in Africa where her interests still are huge. One reported Incident at Casablanca especially created a certain wry amusement. It came when a Moroccan representative denounced French atomic tests In "our" Sahara. Bill To Eliminate TB Patient Charges" Salem -JUPD-Rep. Grace O. Peck, (D-Portland) said Mon day she will introduce a bill eliminating all patient charges at the tate Tuberculosis hos pital in Salem. . This would apply to both voluntary and court-ordered patients, regardless of their ability to pay. - Patients now are charged $400 or more a month for care, if they can afford it. Mrs. Peck said this policy, adopted in 1959, has resulted in people shying away from taking the X-ray test for TB because they fear cost of com mitment at the state TB hos pital. The Oregon Tubercu losis and Health Association supports the bill, she said. Incentive Award Presented To Hess An incentive award of $19 has been presented to Hans Hess, forester with the bureau of land management s Med ford district office. . Ross. Youngblood, district manager, said the award was given for the suggestion of a method for recording road clocking data used in timber appraisal work. The award, together -.with letter of con gratulations, was presented to Hess by Youngblood. Hess has been employed by the bureau since April, 1959. He attended West Texas State, Canyon, Tex., and obtained his bachelor of science degree in forestry at Colorado State university, Fort Collins, Colo. He resides at 620 South Oak- dale st., Medford. , President Schedules Farewell Address Wnshinetnn - (UPI) - Presi dent F.ispnhnwer makes his farewell address from the White House tonight to the American people that he has served nearly all his adult life in war and In peace. Wllh lust four davs remain- ini hefnre he turns over the hurrions of chief executive o John F. Kennedy, Eisenhower will go on nationwide radio and television at 8:30 p.m. (EST). Fiery Meteor Flashes Across California Los Angeles - IDPll - A huge fiery meteor flashed across California Monday night. The bright flash was sight ed from San Diego to north of San Francisco, a distance of about 600 miles, and as far as 300 miles inland in Ne vada. It was the second bright flash sighted on the west coast in two nights and it brought about a scries of near-panicky reports that fires were raging in much of California, caused by falling embers. ago, Howard Johnson' bought a house out on Hope st. in Klamath Falls. On the back porch when he bought it was an old cupboard, which he moved into his garage. Decid ing later to move the garage, he removed the old cupboard. On the back of it, he found a board nailed on as if for a brace. On the board, painted with a brush such as shipping clerks use, was this inscrip tion, obviously an address for delivery: E. A. Armstrong, LINKVILLE, Oregon, by way of Portland." The initials are different, but the shipping clerk might have made a mis take. WAS Mrs. Armstrong THE Melba-one of the all-time greats of grand opera? Who knows more about this fascinating tradition? m Ferhat Abbas, premier of the Algerian rebel provisional government, begged his par don. The desert, he said, was Algerian, The French, begging no one's pardon, say that partic ular stretch of Sahara is French and will remain so. France looks to Saharan oil and minerals for help in ' re storing her to a place among the world's great powers. Mo rocco, Tunisia, Mauritania and the Algerian rebels all look with equal longing at these riches and each has claimed them. But as De Gaulle leads Al geria toward an independent future which he hopes also will include close ties with France, there is no intent on the part, of the French to give up the Sahara where they have invested hundreds of millions of dollars and which just now is beginning to pay Matter of Fact THE COOK-OUT Washington-In his farewell message to the Congress, Pres ident Eisenhower declared that he and his ad m 1 n istration had "carried America to un p r e c edented height i." Since the Pres ident is nei ther a fool nor a hypoc rite, this summary Alsop of the present national situation is at first somewhat bewildering, After all, unemployment has now reached a level un. precedented in the last 20 years. The dollar, whose soundness has so preoccupied the President, has reached a low on the world markets un precedented for 30 years. Ac cording to the suppressed soundings taken by the Presi dent's own subordinates, the standing of the United States abroad has also reached a low unprecedented in recent his tory. Add Laos, Cuba, The Congo, Berlin and a few other criti cal situations, which form an unprecedented pattern of aro- gant Soviet challenges on every front to U.S. and West ern interests. In these unhappy circum stances, what did the Presi dent mean? , rpHE answer, or perhaps a - considerable part of the an swer seems to be indirectly provided by the story of the cook-out. It has taken almost a year to seep outwards, from the closed administration in ner group into semi-general circulation in Washington. But it is an authentic and remark able story, which still casts much light. The time, then, was the tense evening after the great explosion of the Summit meet ing in Paris. Long previously, a private dinner for the Presi dent had been scheduled at the American Embassy on the Avenue D'iena and now, with the Strategic Air Command alerted and Khrushchev's bel lows of rage ringing in every ear, the invited high officials somewhat haggardly assem bled in accordance with the unchanged schedule. But the President, although his policy lay in ruins all around him, was very far from haggard. On entering, as though to prove his easy nor mality he genially suggested to the Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton that it would be nice if he cooked steaks for the whole dinner party with his own hands. SINCE French chefs do not admire deep freezes, the Embassy contained no steaks to cook. But the vast machine of the Eisenhower staff went into rapid action. A PX officer was found. A PX was opened. Steaks were provided. The President cooked them. There was only a single Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THE LATE JOE FRISCO, invited to a hunting lodge, wai impressed by a huge moosehead over the fireplace "S-s-say," stuttered Joe, "that m-m-moose must have been going like heck!" Frisco declared that the biggest tightwad he ever met hailed from Texas. "One day a c-c-cyclone blew a skyscrap er onto this b-b-bird's ranch," elaborated Joe, "and he raised h-h-hob because four of the of fices weren't r-r-rented!" e When the University of Texas football team played , Oklahoma In 1959 (Texas won, 19-12), Wilbur Evan, of the Texas athletic de partment told sports scribe Terry Rice in all sincerity, "We ougf to be favored by two points, after all, Texss Is starting wim eleven Texana. Oklahoma has only nine!" Overheard ittan exclusive girls' finishing school: "everybody knows she gets htr good looks from her father. He's a plaatio surgeon." C 1M1, bjr Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndic! off. The independent Algeria which De Gaulle foresees in cludes only the fertile belt running about 200 miles back from the Mediterranean. The Sahara departments will ba administered as always from Paris. Western observers were not popular at the Casablanca meeting where heads of state ' of Morocco, Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Mali and Libya con ducted their sessions in secret and allowed to leak to report ers only that which seemed most advantageous. Unpublished in the final communique but believed here to have been among se cret agreements was one for a boycott of France in an effort to force recognition of the Algerian rebel regime. However, this was believed more psychological than real and no date was set for when it should take effect. y Joseph Alsop hitch. One lady in the com pany found that the steaks were somewhat too strongly seasoned with political disas ter, thus she displeased the President by her poor appetite for his culinary handiwork. At first glance, there is something downright surreal ist in this general picture of the President of the United States passing the tensest sin gle evening of his eight years in office cooking steaks for his chief subordinates. But in fact, this episode was no more than an exaggeration of many other episodes of the Eisen hower years. President Eisenhower, it is plain, is one of those men who prefer to deal with diffi cult problems and dangerous situations by displaying mas sive unconcern, and mean while hoping that time will remove the difficulties and denature the dangers. This hope, of course, is sometimes justified. It was justified when the Summit collapsed. The en suing Soviet move at Berlin, which the high American offi cials thought entirely possible and the British positively ex pected, was never made after all. IN FORMER eras - even in the formative years of Dwight D. Eisenhower - the tactic of refusing to be greatly stirred by events was also a sound - conservative tactic. "Wait and see, and look as though it did not matter mean while," was far from a foolish watchword when the tempo of history was slower, and his tory's tendencies were less catastropic. ' But this watchword ceased to be safely applicable in the years between the first and second world wars. Truly con servative leaders - men who truly wished to conserve the good things of the existing order with a minimum of change-were forced to adopt a different style of action. ' Confronted by forces o change too strong to be wholly resisted, the truly conservative leaders had to become more agile. They had to make small changes in order to avoid great changes. They had to recommend small sacrifices in order to avoid great losses. It was no longer prudent, no longer conservative, to stand pat. . This is the reason, of course, why Winston Churchill will be remembered as the great conservative of the Twentieth Century, whereas Stanley Baldwin and Neville Cham berlain, the alleged conserva tives who led Britain to -disaster, will never again bo called conservative in the hon orable sense of the word. This is the reason, too, why the creed of American conserva tism badly needs re-thinking at the end of the Eisenhower years and not by Senator Goldwater either. Copyright 1961, New York Herald Tribune Inc. I t O
