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4 A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON ,TR1BUNI : .-'-fcveryune in Southern Oregon Read! The Mall Tribune'1 ' Published Dafty except Saturday by JS North Fix St Ph SP 2-6141 BOBEBT W RUHL. Editor HERB OREV Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM BU Mgr ERIC W ALLEN IR . Mn Editoi EARL H ADAMS CMtsr Editor harrv CHIPMAN Telee Editor nir-HAnn jewett SDorla Editor OLIVE STARL'HER Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSON. circulation war "An Tndenendent NewSDaoer Entered ai .econd class matter at MMTord. ureiton. unner c. wi March 3. 1897 simsrRIPTION RATE9 .: r lly Mail In Advance. Copy 10c ? Dally and Sunday 1 year S15 00 .. uauy ana sunasy n niu , Pally and Sunday 3 mo 4.2J Sunday Only One year g4.zo By Carrier In Advance Medjord ;.. Ashland. Central Point til Point, Jacksonville. Cold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rly .- r Talent aiid on motor routes . Dally and Sunday 1 rear tlBOO -.- ua ly ann ounaoy i .iiw Carrier and Dealra copy 10c AH Terma Cash Advanc t?icial Paper" of Cltv of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International . ; '. Full Leased Wire - OP J Telephoto Kewsplcture "tlEMBER OF AUDIT" -BUREAU OF UIHUULATIUNS . A"Hvjrllalnff Renresentatlve WEST HOLIDAY Ci5. INC 'Of ftcef in New York ChlcaKO De troit. 8an Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis .At lanta Vancouver BP NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION NATION Al EDITORIAL "ajstt ' Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file! ot The Mall Trlbun. 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 veari ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1951 (Fiiday) Medford Superintendent of Schools E, H. Hedrick began work yesterday to prepare all public schools against the pos sibility of air raids. ... This week's storms have left more water .standing on the valley floor than any lime since the floods of 1927, Coun ty Engineer Paul Rynning es- timated today. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1941 (Sunday) ' A cigarette butt tossed in a pile of waste paper was blamed today for the fire that last night did several hundred dollars worth of damage to the Medford center building. from Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Albert B. Fall of Teapot Dome scan dal fame, is seriously 111 with pneumonia in a New Mexico hospital. In his day he was a senator and cabinet member. Ho was cussed by Democrats before their wrath turned to Andy Mellon, and then Her bert Hoover." . . 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1931 (Monday) A delegation of local fisher men left for Salem today to urge the legislature to prohib it net fishing In the Rogue river. ' Coal diggers in Sams Val ley have discovered a gold de posit. 40 YEARS AGO ' Jan. 19, 1921 (Wednesday) ' A visiting tourist expert said here yesterday that the city needs a tourist camp. Motorists who have not ac quired their 1021 license plates before February will be arrested, according to the Weal chief of police. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1911 (Thursday) ' The Rogue river has risen six feet since 8 o'clock this morning and is expected to set a new record high water mark for itself before it crests later today. : The government has an nounced that Medford's new $200,000 federal building will be located at Sixth and Holly ts. ' Mai's Your LQ.7 Nina ot ten correct is superior: seven or eight it eictllenti five er il Is food. 1. Docs a cubic foot of wa ter weigh more than, less than, or the same as a cubic foot of ice? 2. How long did it take Noah to build the Ark? : 3. What docs the word poll tax mean? 4. What is the principal ag ricultural crop ot Egypt? 5. How many ciphers added to the figure one produce the cardinal number qulnttlllon? 6. Which State was once known as the Territory of Orleans? 7. On which famous docu ment is John Hancock's signa ture the boldest? 8. Which animal can sleep suspended upside down? 9. Which day of the week il named for Thor, the Norse God of Thunder? 10. Which sign of the Zo diac li for persons born be tween June 21 and July 23? Answtrsi 1. More. 2. 100 years. 3. Head tax. 4. Cotton. 5. Eighteen. 6. Louisiana. 7. Declaration of Independence. I. The sloth. 9. Thursday, 10. Cancer In Crib. '- Medford, Ike's "Last Good Night" President' Eisenhower's "last good night" to the people of the United States as their chief executive was one of the best talks he has ever delivered It was calm, rational and, balanced in tone, both optimistic and cautionary in nature. Mr. Eisenhower stood revealed, once again, as a nice man, a staunch patriot, a dedicated public servant, and one who has always, throughout his 50 years of public service, has been a little re moved, from, a little above, the hurly-burly of politics and everyday life. - THE. most surprising thing about his talk was his warning of the possibility of dancer to 'the- 'democratic process implicit in an indus- tnal-military-scentific to tne cnaiienges ot the Ana he also deviated trom the evervthine- I 1 1 a , a js nunKy aory". theme- to grant, and to warn, serious dangers race America, . . . T .... . We do not believe that he painted the dancers arid the challenges in since he personally is wnat nappened in the ing the past eight years, mm to ao so. QNE Washington columnist put it this way. "(Eisenhower) first promised to balance the budget , ., . he has had four deficits in seven years , ; ; He promised to unify the Penlagon-he didn't; end in- ; 1 flation-he didn't; bring prosperity didn't ... "His 'eight years saw the U.S. lose its atomic as cendancy, NATO decay and Cuba defect; his man Dulles showed the bankruptcy of brinksmanship and his chief of staff Sherman Adams retired under a a cloud ... He attempted nothing in eight years to improve relations with . Red China leaving the proba bility that ,lt will be admitted to the UN next year ... At home he followed a program of economic con traction covered by fatuous optimism that produced three recesions in seven years, hobbled national growth and squeezed the vital interests of the country ... He vetoed housing, unemployment, distressed areas and river pollution bills . . , He declined to-give moral ' "-leadership against McCarthy , or for the Supreme ' Court's ruling against school segregation ... He made the country look silly in the U-2 incident and ended his Administration with the hysterical Anderson gold mission to Bonn and the severance of relations with Cuba . . . He left office with 5 million unemployed , .... For all this the public loved him as it.has no other ; President and he retires now to Gettysburg with the . felicitations and goodwill of "an entire nation." . How will history judge his presidency? No one Knows, But despite ...l:l i i i which are largely true, i.iv.. i ittigcij' uuu, we JUlll lilt! 1CSL Ul lllc auntry in wishing Dwight Eisenhower a happy nd productive retirement. E. A. . y CO an Ski Area andr Stadium Two local proposals public eye and mind these davs. One is a skiing development on Mt. Ashland, The qther is a grounds property just south of Medlord. Both proposals have merit, it seems to us) and should be-closely considered. " Of the two, the skiing -area, which would serve probably several thousand valley people and tourists each winter, is nearer to final appro val and construction' -than the stadium, which would serve tens of thousands of people in the spring, summer and fall. TTHE county court has been moderately to en 1 thusiastically receptive to proposals that it keep a hew road to the skiing area open through out the winter, and that with a group of Ashland sevice in working out the details and financing. This is as it should be. We sincerely hope that the skiing development will be possible." The only, reservation we have there is enough snow on the ground, for a long enough period of time, to justify it. "Apparently there is'. And in this case we hope it can be constructed and successful, although some of our winter sports-minded friends are in clined to believe that Brown Mountain, near Lake of .the Woods, is a better location. - "THE county court has been less approachable an tho atnrlinm muttni" They have rejected the saying that only a vote of the people would con vince them that it should be built. Thus they have cut themselves out from anv further thoughtful consideration of the stadium iroposal on its merits. They have in effect re used to make anv real investigation, tn find out whether it would be economically feasible, whether there would be widespread use or sup port of the project, and even whether similar projects in comparable communities have been assets or liabilities to the areas involved. XE HAVE not given all-out support to either T the ski area proposal or to the stadium, sim ply because we have, up to this point, lacked the information on which to base a decision. But if either, or both, can be shown to be feasible, practical, and of potential benefit to the community, they would receive our strong support. In this situation the county court seems to be in the position of giving aid to a relatively small group wishing to cater to winter sports enthusi asts (a growing band, but less than a majority of the population), vfhile at the same time re jecting, rather rudely and without study, a pro posal which, if it is all its backers say (and they make a pretty convincing case), would be of reaMienefit to a large body of county voters. It's an odd position to be in, We wonder how the court justifies it? E. A. elite, created in response continuing cold war a " O ot the campaign months that serious problems and . ' ' vivid enough hues, but responsible for much of nation and the world dui one could hardly expect the wry comments above, ... . ,i , ,, ' we join tne lest OI the are very much in the multi-puraose stadium on fair it work -cooperatively people and the forest had is whether or not proposal out-of-hand, Dennis the Menace 'Tommys outside waitin' for me. CbuLt) i have MY BREAKFAST AFTER LUNCH? . . .Communications . Loiters io lha Editor mul certain' circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edil all letters with a -view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must nol exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper:, in fact the contrary is often the case. The Editor a Traitor To the Editor: This is a little late but still pertinent to a very, live issue. Referring to the editor's reply to the letter of Mr. C. L. Williams, Friday, Jan. 13, the Tribune published a rather lengthy list of names of peti tioners for the dissolution of the Un-American Activities Committee. Who wants to abolish the Un-American Activities Com mittee? There is a war on. This country is under attack by a relentless foe determined on our destruction by bullets or by ballots or by both. The Un-American Activities Committee is one of our most effective defense agencies. striving diligently to protect us against the enemy within our gates, right here in Ore gon as elsewhere. Those who seek to abolish the Un-American Activities Committee are giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy, which is treason, and punishable as. such. That v list of petitioners: Most of them are unknown to us, but a few are recogniz able' by the man in the street as such prominent and per sistent leaders in the Com munist Party Line that genu inely p a t r i o ti c Americans would not want to see their names associated therewith As for the remainder of petitioners, all (save a possible few befuddled dupes) are suspect of Communist sympa- tiues by reason of their socialion, -and all, includine dupes, are giving aid and com fort to the enemy by their act in signing the petition. Incidentally, what became of that petition? Present at the hearing and bearing the petition was Jimmie Roose velt, worshipful idol of faith ful followtravelcrs; but also present was a much larecr acicgauon or anti-Communist supporters of the Un-Ameri can Activities Committee. See ing where the balance of sen timent lay, cannie James, like a Judns Goat, eased himself out of the melee without pre senting the petition, leaving the bleating herd milling around without a leader. Why did the Editor rise in defense of sueh an obviously pro - Communistic activity? Only he himself can answer that. But the results are not hard to see. One result was to create a feeling in the minds of readers that that impressive list of notables" could hardly be wrong, and that the Un-American Activi ties Committee should be abolished. All this is Aid and Comfort for the Enemy treason. This correspondent charges that the act of the editor is giving aid and comfort to the enemy, which is treason; and respectfully suggests that he change his course, cease and desist from aiding the enemy and join the fight against this enemy which is more implac able than the public yet sus- spects. A. E. Bliss Route 2, Box 34-A Jacksonville, Ore. Bad Rabbits" To the Editor: Every once in a while, we, the conscientious parents who struggle to rear our young to respect the moral laws, are appalled at various news Items that re count the torturing of de- fenselrss animals by children. Sometimes it is extremely dif ficult to realUc that so young a child In tins, a reputed Christian society, could com mit such barbarous actf. Last Sunday night thou sands of children throughout our area were sctt'ig down lor me ucnni inr menace program w hich, I add In fair ness to our 0,cal station, is a children's program well chos- hear thai nam. and address of en. The program immediately preceding it was not! I refer to the Sportsman show. Laughing,. . boasting", b l g brave hunters with high powered, scope-sighted rifles . . . NOT out to kill a moun tain lion or some other fe rocious beast . . . but rather, in the eyes of my young chil dren, defenseless little rabbits, ("Bad rabbits," the narrator called them) tearing up the ground, the sagebrush, the rabbits . . . leaving them in pieces or still kicking on the ground. My children wept. My children do not know about "bad rabbits" and so they wept. This was a TV program pretty soon the hero would come along and stop these cruel men . . . only the hero did not come along. The heroes were the killers - this my children could not under stand either. Now we adults know that hunting goes on, many of us participate in il, we know that the elimination of a pest is a must. But It does seem to me that we are far prouder of our being able to kill wanton ly than we are of our being able to control a pest. We teach kindness to animals at one end of the yardstick while at the other we flaunt our "Sportsmanship" with no less bloodthirstiness than the glad iators of the Roman days. The most children could have possibly gotten out of it was that it was smart to blow the hind legs off a rabbit and then leave it lying in the sun, still kicking, until it died. But of course-there is the other school of thought; let the child know what life is all about-let him see tiny things dying slow deaths so as to con dition the child to the world of the adults. Only this de pends on what you have ex plained to the child before and after . . on the age of the child . . and on the child itself. Few little children in this area, I'm sure, were fully prepared for the exhibition of sadism of last Sunday night Charles Hall, 20B0 Table Rock rd., Medford. Recreation To the Editor: If E.A. checks in at the Conrad Hilton, as W. J. Olsen suggests, would he please inquire about a reservation for me? After a couple of days of washing dishes in the bath room (my husband is install ing a new sink in the kitchen), as far as I'm concerned, camp ing is for the birds. Going for recreation where people are as thick as flics Is not only, in my opinion, hardship, but you can also get a lot of stress and strain. The best place I have found fur recreation since the ocean, rivers and lakes have become so populated, is our acre, with its tall pine trees, oak, laurel, cedar, small red woods and firs. If I only had a creek, and my new sink installed. 1 would probably be like some of the people, not content. Mrs. Dclbcrt Casey, Route 1, Box 358, Central Point, Ore. Apology for "Cowardice" To the Editor: I wish to apologize to Mr. Caldwell for being a coward. When the Tribune ran its big spread on (he Med co Log Road from Butte Kails to Medford Uie whole idea seemed so pre posterous 1 felt certain Com munications would be swamp ed with letters of protest. But the overwhelming silence led me to think 1 must be a crack pot to feel so strongly against scheme that wasn't disturb ing others. But, behold, a light shining out of the wilderness. Mr. Caldwell said it all so apt tnerc i little I can add extept Terror, Uncertainty Mark Beautiful City In Turmoil: Algiers Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst From the waterfront, the city of Algiers rises tier on tier - of winding streets, fig palms, bloom i n g bougain villia and rich cream and yel low structures reflecting the Med iterrane- an sun, Directly ahead lies the forum, seat of Newiom g o v e rnment series of long reached by a stone steps broken by terraces and green parks. To the left, beyond the street where the blind Arab story-teller weaves his magic and flies buzz about sides of meat hanging in the open-air shop, the Casbah rises steeply toward barren hill tops. lhe writer, although under to mention that elsewhere in this vast nation expensive projects are constantly being undertaken to eliminate the sort of hazards and bottle necks that the log road will create. Heavily populated areas are struggling to over come short-sighted planning that may have been conven ient -and most economical for the moment. They're tunnel ing under, elevating over, and detouring around in desperate costly attempts to find a means whereby commerce and the populace can function side by side. And let's make no hasty denials of the popula tion expansion and "light" in dustrial potential of this area, There seems to be exceed ingly good relations between Medford Corporation and the people in general. If this is really true and not merely the obsequious mumbling of a frightened few, then surely a compatible solution can be found that will not pass the brunt of Medco's and the Highway Commission's econ omy onto the property owners along the route and force ad ditional hazards on every driver in this corner- of the valley. Mr, Caldwell asked to be heard before it was too late. If this decisive time has not already passed I wish some one with the knowledge of what to do about it would please, instruct the general public. Who knows how many cowards like me would pop out from behind their shyness and protest, "It s an outrage If we're to play dodging games with 100 more log trucks daily (50 comfhg and 50 going-crosswise!) why not just make this a real sporty area in which to live and allow our ranchers to drive cattle up 99 to the auction Throw in a little fog, and by golly life could be very ex citing, and we could give prizes for those who live the longest. Mrs. Gordon Peck, Rt. 1, Box 631, Eagle Point, Ore. Costs of Medco Road -To the Editor: Henry Padg- ham Jr. made some wrong in ferences when (in a letter to the editor published Jan. 17) he found it necessary to de fend the reputation of the Medford Corporation. His de fense answered a letter pub lished Jan. 15 expressing criti cism of the corporation's pro posed change of its logging railroad into a private log truck route from Butte Falls to Medford. The earlier letter did not question the value of tlv Medford Corporation to this area, nor suggest that the logging company has not a fine safety record. In addition, Mr. Padgham's comparison of the logging roads in other areas with that proposed by the local corpora tion is not sound. The plan ning technician employed by Jackson county says he knows of no comparable situation, i.e., where a log train running through residential areas and towns has been changes into a private truck route, or has the right of way over all pub lic roads it crosses. Locally, the private com pany plans a route for 100 extra-heavy log trucks daily through the city of Eagle Point and over many public roads between Butte Falls and Medford. Such private roads in other areas arc said to be confined to less public areas, and not with such amazing rights of way. Medco has heavy Invest ments and costs, yes, as Mr. Padgham pointed out. Resi dents in the area directly in volved - aside from drivers at the many Intersections who would wait for heavily-laden trucks to pass - Save invest ments in homes, farms and J Seen this way, in the bright sunlight, Algiers is a city of almost unbelievable beauty and contrast. Scenes of Terror What it. does not reflect Is the American consular offi cial's wife who is brought bolt upright in bed in the middle of the night, frightened by the nearby blast of a plastic bomb. The bomb was planted there by an "ultra," a Euro pean right - winger 'lighting President Charles de Gaulle's plan for an Algerian-Algeria and seeking to destroy a gov ernment radio station cable. It does not reflect the ter ror of the low-income Euro pean family who live at the Casbah s edge and who barri cade themselves in at night, Nor does it reflect the fear of poverty-stricken Moslems in shanty villages at the city's outskirts. - Talk of Exodus ' In Algiers, among many Europeans, there is talk of leaving. The question is where. Among the large land-own ers and businessmen, it is not question of money. Some began moving their money out of Algeria long ago. But they are among the minority of Algeria's one mil lion European settlers - shop owners, taxi drivers, hotel maids, porters and thousands of others. Many are third gen eration in Algeria. So the exodus is not great yet. But among them all there a common emotion - fear and uncertainly of the future. businesses which are as v'alu-1 able to them, as are those in vestments of Medco stock holders and employees. Mr. Padgham was correct that "we should all thank . . . Medco for all the good things they have done for our com munity.". Now. let us be sure that the owners of the cor poration weigh the cost of the present railroad operation against the cost of the pro posed log truck route, and also compare the price to be paid by those who live along the route, by those whose children want to live there and those who drive Highway 99, Crater Lake ' highway, Eagle Point Main street, Nick Young road, Gregory road, ad infinitum. Since it has taken the cor poration some years to reach this truck route conclusion, the question of comparative costs may yet be open to more consideration. Mr. Padgham speaks as part of the lumber, industry; long may it live! But some body in our poorly balanced economy must also speak for other industries on which we especially rely during periods such as the present lumber slump. The conversion of logging Tailroads to truck routes may be taking place rapidly. But there is something else taking over rapidly in many com munities in this country, and that is poor advance planning to assure the best surround ings for our growing popula tion in an increasingly indus trial society. John Oustcrhout Dutton road Eagle Point, Ore. Stadium Poll To the Editor: As one who is heartily in favor of the pro posed new Stadium being constructed at the Fair grounds, a Stadium which will make the forthcoming ex cavation tor rut dirt a com munity asset instead of an eyesore, may I offer a sug gestion? If the Mail Tribune will put its shoulder to the wheel also and insert somewhere in its coming Sunday edition straw vote ballot which can be clipped out, signed and mailed to wherever it will do the most good locally, I feel sure the opportunity to be heard by those who are in favor of this project, will make a lot of those who arc concerned sit up and take no tice. With the prospects of such football teams as the 4!)'crs using the stadium for exhi bition games (incidentally bringing football fans from as far south as San Francisco; and they bring with them money and business for local motels, hotels, etc.). to say nothing of the saving to the local taxpayers in having one central stadium for the local high schools, such as Crater High. I strongly feel that we have a golden opportunity to do something that will bene fit directly or indirectly, everyone in the county. Dennis C. Vvyatt, Routcl, Box 30, Central Point. Ore. Editor's note: The Mail Tribune did run just such a coupon, last August. The re sults were 78 for the stadiu.n. 22 against.' While not conclu sive, of course, we judge these results to be indicative of pub lic sentiment. March of Communism To the Editor: We have Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERT WHEN EDWIN CORLE was collecting material for an authoritative book on the Grand Canyon, he visited at remote settlement of Havasupais '"I'ns, and being a thor ough and systematic worker, he made a de tailed study of Havasupal tribal rites and customs before he set out, Thus equipped, he was able to hail the first proud war rior he encountered with a hearty "Tchew Ko Mew!" The proud warrior, un fortunately, was too en ' grossed in listening to an Ella Fitzgerald recording on the radio to execute the elaborate Havasupin welcoming ceremony. What he said, in fact, and very casually, too, was, "HV Butch' ' : ; 'V- . i An important literary critic has been hitting the bottle harii of late. His wife now keeps several just-published novels open on the floor so he'll have something to read when he falls on his face, ; O 191, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate) Matter of fact INAUGURAL FORECAST Washington Tomorrow, John F. Kennedy will first speak out as the 35th Presi dent of the United States. He conceives j of his inau gural address as a .chance, above "all, to strike the note and set the tone for his A d m i nistra tion. And one Alsop can already predict what note will be struck, what tone will be set. The picture the new Presi dent will paint of the national situation will contrast sharp ly with the picture his" prede cessor has been painting for the past eight years. It will be somber, not rosy, realistic rather than reassuring. But this much altered picture will be left to tell its own story, without any addition of poli tical recriminations. .... The tone that is set will de rive rather directly from the now President's belief that this moment in history has a special, even unprecedented character of its own. He slated that belief, which is the real key to Kennedy's view of the world, in the key passage of his speech accepting the Democratic nomination'. "We must prove .all over again whether this nation . . . can long endure," he told the read the letter by Lyle' Harl zell Sr. of Florence, Ore., un der the caption, "Inform the People." He seems well formed on some phases of his topic and foggy on others. He seems unaware that there was a strong Socialist movement in the United States prior to 1017. That was in the good old days when America was still free. The politicians have had a field day since; "Fighting Bob La Follette" led the lib erals in the national capitol During the First World War the United States entered a new economic era. We got the eight hour day, mass produc tion of automobiles, ' general prosperity with jobs for every one. Witch hunters ran ramp ant, free speech was silenced and criticism of the govern ment was akin to treason. There was bootleg booze and bathtub gin to console the malcontents that did not take passage to Russia. Big Bill Heywood, the gen eral organizer of the Indus trial Workers of the World who was out of jail on a $10,- 000 bond, jumped his bail and went to Moscow and became the architect of the present communist economic system. In fact Bill Heywood must be given more credit for the pres ent communist way of life than Karl Marx. Marx gave the world a slogan and an idea. Heywood gave the Rus sians a concrete plan. Marx is given credit for the slogan, "Workers of the World Unite, You have nothing to lose but your chains, but a world to win." Under that banner Lenin and Trotzky took political power of all the Russias and Lenin sent for Heywood to organize industry. Heywood had already formu lated a plan to operate indus try in a modern society. He called his plan "Industrial Unionism." The Russian Communists called Heywood's plan Com munism. An axiom of Marxian dogma is that "Capitalism produces nothing faster than its own grave diggers." It may not be too late to win against Industrial Union ism, but it Is later than we think. Mr. Hartzcll is correct about the Communists making rapid strides in the last 40 years while Capitalism is kill ing the goose that laid the golden eggs. Complacency is a characteristic of prosperity and the greatest peril of a so cial order is the absence of green pasture. Walter Recce, Galice rd . Merlin, Ore. 4 By Joseph Alsop somewhat startled Democrats in Los Angeles. "(We must prove) whether our society, with its freedom of choice, its breadth of opportunity, its range of alternatives, can compete with the single-minded advance of the Communist system." .... THIS deeply held belief, that that we are in the midst of a literally -mortal struggle which literally imperils our national survival, will no doubt be restated on Friday. From it will derive the main note struck. This will be a call to great er national effort and sacri fice to win this mortal strug gle. But this call will be bal anced, one can predict fur ther, with a' restatement of Kennedy's other deeply held belief. This is the belief that a truly united, re-invigorated America putting forth its full effort, need have nothing to fear even in these grave times. It is instructive, in this con nection, that "blood, sweat, and tears" was the Kennedy staff's short-hand summary of the President-elect's first rough sketches of the crucial inaugural address which will point a new direction for the nation. The implied compari son with . Winston Churchill was not intended, even by Kennedy's most loyal subordi nate, to suggest any similarity between the two men. But it was certainly intended to sug gest a . certain similarity be tween the attitudes and view points of the two men. In this limited sense, the comparison is far from irrele vant, except in the phrasing. Yet the phrasing is vital, be cause Kennedy does not take office, as Churchill took of fice, with the enemy audibly hammering on the gates. TMAGINE, rather, the retire ment of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in a storm of acclamation. Imagine that at this juncture, while Eng land "still slept" (in Ken nedy's own I phrase), Neville Chamberlain had been nar rowly defeated for the Pre miership, Imagine further that the new Prime Minister had been, not the great Churchill, but a much younger, less elo quent, more pragmatic man sharing Churchill's estimate of his somnolent country's future dangers. That exercise of the histori cal imagination gives the best insight into the imagining of Kennedy's election, as he him self is known to conceive it. It also gives the best measure of Kennedy's basic problem, which he will begin to try to solve in his inaugural address. There is another measure, too, of Uiat basic problem, or at least of the conception of that problem prevailing in the new Administration. An early Presidential proclamation of a state of limited national emer gency has lately been given serious consideration on a high level. THE idea of such a mation nrifinnlnj procla in the need to find some nromnt. nation-arousing substitute for the strengthened defense budget which Secretary of Defense-designate Robert McNa mara will not bo able to present until he has had time to make detailed decisions. In other words, the basis problem is (or at least is thought to be) the problem of arousing the nation to all the dangers and difficulties that now bristle on every side. The expedient of a procla mation of limited emergency has been set aside, as too ex treme. For all sorts of reasons, Kennedy does not wish to be flamboyant or inflammatory. Yet there is no doubt that ha will try to arouse the nation. There is no doubt, too. that the nation will instantly put forth greater efforts if Ken nedy's call can only carry con viction. That "if" holds the secret ol the future. Catjvaaakt lwl, Nw York . rilrni Inc. r r e Q
