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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
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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.
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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
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