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Medford and Jackson County
History from the tiles of The
Mall Trlbuna 10. 20, 30 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 17, 1951 (Wednesday)
i Mayor Diamond Flynn to
day reiterated the city ad
ministration's policy of "strict
neutrality" on the proposed
reactivation of Camp white.
. 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
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BUSINESS CALLING HIS FATHER A 'AWSY OL' SON OF A H3KS6 1Hf '!'
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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.
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