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:..'.URSDAY. MEDF01 ,Tbibune ; 'Everyone in Southern Oregon ' Head! The Mall Tribune" Abolished Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St, Ph SP 2-6141 nnRPR-f w RUHL Editor HhRB GREY Adva-tislng Manager GERALD T LATHAM BUI Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Edltot EARL H - ADAMS. City Editor mrHAttn .IF.WR1T Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Ed. tor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter si Medford. Oregon under Act ot March 3, 1897 nnncr-mpT-inN RATES Uy Mall In Advance. Copy 100 Dally -nd Sundoy 1 year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday -6 moi 8 00 Dally and Sunday 3 mos 4.35 Sunday Only One vear $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ahlnnd Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Cold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove. 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I 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1941 (Sunday) , Three persons, all from Klamath Falls, were found by a Bearch party last night after they had spent hours trying to find their way oui oi "tor- bidden" ski territory In Cra- ter Lake park. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Port land was 80 years old Satur day. The metropolis does not show its ago except when us Coast league ban team is try ing to play." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1931 (Monday) The local school board has been asked to set a minimum wage of 50 cents an hour for workers on the new high school. ' .County Grangers have de cided to wage war on squir rels In order to save their crops. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1921 (Wednesday) The ' Elks lodge's annual minstrel show will be held here Feb. 22. Sheriff Terrill said he will defy an order of the county court to kill all dogs not hav ing dog licenses. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1911 (Thursday) 'The Oregon House yester day passed a bill reopening the Rogue river to commer cial fishing, thereby disre garding a mandate ot the peo ple at the last election to close the river to the com mercial interests. Liquor will flow in Grants Pass next Monday as many residents, of that city plan to aefy a court ruling that recent election voting the city we( was illegal. ! , Nine or ten correct is superior invert or eight is exce'lthf; Mve at i i it eood. 1. Carson Cltv Is the can- ital of which western state? 2. How long was Noah shut up in the Ark? 3. The Initials WCTU ident ity what women's organiza tion? 4.Who succeeded Will Hays as t,zar oi the film Industry? 5.Gcographlcally, is Mexico a pari ot North, or South America? 6. Are the young of moose called cubs or calves? 7. Catacomb is the name of a special brush for grooming cats; true or false? 8. Are there 28, 32, or 38 gills in one gallon? B. Name the author of Rob inson Crusoe. 10. What is the meaning of the name Philip? Answerst 1. Nevada. 2. 350 days. 3. Women's Christian Temperance Union. 4. Eric Johntton. 5, Norlh. 6. Calves. 7. raise. 8. Thirty two. 9. Daniel Defoe. 10. Lover of FEBRUARY 9. 1961 Winema National Forest? The Forest Service soon will establish a new National Forest east of the Cascades, comprised of former Indian reservation forest lands, plus smaller pieces annexed from the Eogue, Fremont and Deschutes National Forests. , What to name it? , It can't be Klamath, for a National Forest in California already bears that name. It couldn't very well be Crater Lake National Forest, despite the proximity of the lake. That would be too confusing the same confusion which led to the former Crater National Forest being renamed Rogue River National Forest. IT HAS BEEN proposed that it be named Wi- nema (pronounced Wy-nee-mah with the ac cent on "nee") National Forest. That's a good name, an indigenous name, one might almost say a romantic name, and a distinc tive name. We hope it is approved. Phil Brogan, the Bend Bulletin editorial writ er who is also meteorologist, geologist, paleon tologist, meteor expert, also something ot an historian. Here is the tale he tells ot Winema: Who was Winema? Not even residents of the Klam- ' ath country know the full story of Winema, "Woman- ; of-the-Bravc-Hcart" who some day will take her place beside Sara Winnemucca and Sacajawea in the annals ; of the West. Winema was a full-blooded Modoc. She was born In the Indian villape of Eulalona, located where Upper Klamath Lake pours its waters into Link River, adja- cent to Klamath Falls. She was called Winema as a ! child, because of her bravery. Winema served as interpreter when trouble broke ; out between the Modocs and the white residents of the Klamath country. She made every effort to achieve a peaceful settlement. : Even after war flared out in 1872 and bloody bat tles were being fought In the Modoc Lava beds, her devotion to the best interests of both reds and whites continued. It was Winema who warned the govern ment's peace commissioners that the Indians intended to massacre them. Had they taken her advice, the bloody and costly Modoc Indian war would have been avoided. When the Indians attacked the commissioners, Wi nema saved the life of one of them. - i Winema's self-sacrificing courage has never been fully recognized by the whites. Now the Great White Father in Washington, D. C. and his aides have an op portunity to extend such recognition. Winema National Forest! It would be a musical sounding name and a fine tribute to the tribesmen who lived in the Klamath forest long before whites came Into the basin. Excellent! ! E.A. The Tree and the Supermarket A Up of our hat goes Luther. -: He is buildine a supermarket m Tigard. The area where it is p-niner tree, an old and graceful one, It was due to be cut down. Several residents, who have what may be a silly and sentimental fondness for the tree, pro tested to Mr. Luther. Whereupon he decreed that the tree would be saved. The dans for his shopping center were re drawn, and it will be built oak tree, making it the center of attraction. . . . , . i JVflR. LUTHER is a man with imagination. And he will have a far more attractive establish ment as a result. Would that more people would come to real ize that, in a day when acres of asphalt blacktop surround us, in more and the human spirit responds as never before. (By the way, what ever happened to those trees that, we were told, would line Jackson street in front of the Medford shopping center?) Fondness for trees may, perhaps, be silly and sentimental. But it's a good human trait shared by a whale of a lot of people. E.A. Wondering About Cuba We wish we knew the true story, the FULL story, oi what s going on m Cuba. Like Will Rogers, all we know is what we read in the newspapers (and a few magazines). And we don't think that the American public is getting the full story. ' We read of the horrifying executions, the bit ter fighting, the oppression, of the Castro regime, We read of his castigation of the United States, of the expropriation of American firms, of the jailing of newsmen, the build-up of weapons, and the inreacs to omer Ltaun American countries. THERE is no reason to disbelieve these stories, They come to us on good, authority. I But we wonder if they are the FULL story ; if they tell all there is to the Cuban revolution, which so captured the imagination of the people of Cuba and, indeed, the world a year and a half ago. Is it ALL black? Or is there something to those few-and-far-between stories which tell of land reform, of mounting farm production, of more widespread education, of less abject poverty and better hous ing? ' . ; '.'' -if A RE THESE the results of Castro's Red-tingod propagandists? Or is there something moire than just the mouthings of a tin-horn dictator who is leading his people to inevitable destruction? In a court of law, witnesses are sworn to tell the truth, the WHOLE truth, and nothing but the truth. In news reporting, the WHOLE truth is very often hard to come by. , We wonder if the WHOLE truth has been told about Cub?. V f . . among other things, is to a man named Bill UD contains a Targe oak around the massive old more of our activities, to beauty and greenery ' Dennis the Menace ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for puBiictiiion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is otlen me case. Emigrant Dam To the Editor: Relative to an article in Tuesday s Tribune, with particular refer ence to the Emigrant Dam, I wish to thank the Editor for the privilege of bringing this subject to the front of the people in the Rogue River valley, who I believe are most interested in their homes, families and property all lying under Emigrant Dam. While I believe the builders of this dam are responsible for this project, they are main ly free from any danger just in case we were to have an other terrific disaster, such as has been mentioned. I regret very much to have been the only person to criti cize this project so far; how ever, ; I am very . grateful to have the opportunity to dis cuss this matter before the people. I feel that all the peo ple of this valley, as taxpay ers, should be fully acquaint ed with this situation. It is my opinion that the statement made by Mr. Walter Jones, which has greatly con tradicted my judgment, when he stated that the construction at Emigrant Dam is stronger than concrete in case of an earth shock. If this statement is correct, then our great en gineers have wasted many millions of dollars in building concrete structures and haul ing it cross-country when they had plenty of dirt and rocks right on the job. Why then were dams like Boulder, Hoo ver and hundreds of miles of concrete canals, "a lot of miles" which lead into Emi grant Dam built of concrete? What s' wrong, wasting mil lions of dollars in concrete and building gravel roads mile after mile to get the he,avy stuff "concrete" into place and then dumping the so called good materials over the banks. I would be very happy to take any citizen of this valley up to Emigrant Dam and show him great cracks in the can yon which are only a block or so from the dam. Crevasses 20 to 30 feet deep and approxi mately 2 to 4 feet wide, which were created shortly after the construction of this dam years ago. The heavy weight of the water evidently caused these crevasses. , Although we do have a rea sonable amount of bed rock at each end of the earth dam, and I truly feel that this bed rock at each end of the dam is well capable of holding its position firmly, I am only try ing to bring out such condi tions which lead me to believe that loose rocks and dirt are not sufficient. The above mentioned soil, which was made by "Mother Nature," demonstrates that her dirt and rocks are not safe enough to hold a body of water which has approximate ly 10,800 lbs. pressure for each square foot of water -pressure against newly man packed earth. Please remem ber that "Mother Nature" dam walls fail to demonstrate to me again and again that she is not capable of insuring us against tragedy. Should we spend a few more dollars to try to work out a plan to give us more security for our valley? I have merely suggested a sim ple plan which would amount to only a few pennies or even mills or less to compare with a' possibility of a major dis aster. Yours for a greater safety measure. E. M. Tucker Sr., Tucker Sno-Cat Corp., Medford. O Editor's note: James A. Callan, project engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation's Talent project, yesterday was quoted in a Mail Tribune news story as saying that Mr. Tuck r's rtr. for tlie safety of MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. 1) I - Emigrant dam are baseless. Other qualified engineers who know the design, specifi cations and construction methods used at Emigrant dam agree with him. Walter Hoffbuhr, manager of the Tal ent Irrigation district, terms them "ridiculous," and said, "This is the same old cry that was raised when the original Emigrant dam was built in 1924, and it has since with stood many floods with no danger whatsoever." We respect Mr. Tucker's motives and sincerity. But to compare this dam, of a type which has been in use in this country for many years with both success and safety, to the old railway embankment which gave way at Vanport, or to the Texas Tower, is to do a disservice both to the engineers and to people of the area, whose fears might be aroused without justifica tion. Leo's Last Word To the Editor: Mr. Dan Smoot requests 25c per copy for the double talk that he 'puts out. All I ask Is tor the people to buy a Medford Mail Tribune to hear all the hot air I put oui. Of course any contribution that the G.M. corporation cares to make for all the free advertising I gave them in my itdsel poem, kindly send it to the county tax collector or the bank which I do business with. I am quite sure they will be willing to credit same to my obligations. Of course, I won't be expecting anything from the Ford Motor Co.. if you know what I mean. I have one more item to write and then I will zip the lip for a while. My nose is red And my eyes arc blue, You may not believe it But it's all very true I'll reverse the first two lines and then you will sure believe it. My eyes are blue And my nose Is red. The reason I'm nuts ' I've got rocks In my head. Leo J. Townsend Route 1, Box 620 Eagle Point, Ore. - Homework To Be Done To the Editor: Thelma Car son in a letter to the Editor tilled, "It Is Very Late," poses a few questions that seem worthy of consideration. She suggests that U.N. lift the torch of Freedom, Prog ress and Prosperity; in other words, beat the Communists at their own game. We have heard of the po litical expediency of, "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em," but her technique seems to be to beat the Communists to the draw or the punch. The way this writer understands her it is a case of "victory or sur render." "Equality" is the banner that she would hoist over the U.N. in her crusade to victory. It is doubtful if the U.N. or even Uncle Sam would buy that one. In fact that is what the "free" world wants to steer clear of, but for the sake of her argument let us assume that I am wrong. Her aim is to "block. Communist expansion ... by strengthen ing the U.N.'s economic, so cial and humanitarian aims." She implies that bread, the three Rs and human rights should do the trick. In the light of history we are skepti cal of U.N. or Uncle Sam being able to carry such an unwieldly load. In this parcel of progress the oil of the torch of truth and human dignity is too apt to spill and damage the sugar and flour of economics and wreck the edu cational program. What a catastrophe! It is not the intention of this writer to be a kill-joy or to disturb a beautiful dream, ' " - nvM b well ti study Showdown May Hang By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst The showdown has arrived in the Congo. The time has come for the United Na tions to take firm control of the situa tion, or leave it wide open for one of the world's major powers the Soviet Union or the United Ncwiom staies-to taice over alone. Quiet diplomacy is the or der of the day, and it shows signs that It might work Adlai E. Stevenson, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has been up to his neck In quiet diplomatic talks since last week when the Se curity Council took a long recess to let the diplomatic service go to work. He sees signs of a "consens us" emerging. the cultural nature of character before assigning him a part in a play. Or rath er, the actor should under stand the nature of the char acter he is to impersonate, even though it is not his ideal of a human being. In the light of reality we would not cast Uncle Sam in the role of a judge to dispense equal justice in an economic, cul tural or racial controversy. As they say in Hollywood, "He is not the type." Uncle fits better in the part of a manu facturer or trader. He is what they call a "butter and egg man." He may become more versatile with Jack Kennedy as tutor and instructor, coach and director,, but as yet he is hardly ready for the big time." He is better at block ing than he is at tackle. In tackling social problems Uncle is timid. It has been a hun dred years since the Emanci pation Proclamation and the record speaks for Itself. The lady seems to think that if Uncle is to be a leader in world affairs he should concentrate on his home work, We agree. Walter Reece Galice rd. Merlin, Ore. Speech Center To the Editor: We at the Southern Oregon Cooperative Sjpeech and Hearing Center would like to thank the Mail Tribune for last Sunday's story concerning the work of the clinic. Many comments have been received concerning the quality and content of the article. At this time we should like to praise Mr. John Stafford for his courteous interviewing techniques as well as for his other reportorial skills. We also wish to call the attention of Tribune readers to the ex cellent speech programs in op eration in Medford under the supervision of Mr. Henry DeVoss and in Ashland under Mrs. Frances Klein. It is our observation that an urgent need for similar speech programs exists in the other schools of Jackson and Jose phine county. We hope that in the near future no children in this area in need of speech assistance will be allowed to remain unaided. Leon Mulling, Ph. D., Director, Southern Oregon Cooperative Speech and Hearing Center, Southern Oregon College, Ashland Ad Criticized To the Editor: The Central Rexall Drug ad ("Milk Costs More Than Doctors") taken from your Tuesday's "Farm Edition" of the Mail Tribune strikes me as being inaccurate, unfair, and in very poor taste. When you try to build up one segment of your customers by tearing down another, you are indulging in a very risky prac tice, and one that will, endear you to no one. It is true that farmers are now in the minority, and dairying ranks only third in the farm economy of the coun ty, but why single out milk? Quite a few local people de pend on the dairy business for their livelihood, and I think if you will avoid generalizing on that mythical "average lamily" and check some fig ures, you will find that dairy products are one of the best buys today. An hour's labor will buy more good healthful nourishment in the form of milk than in any other food you can name. Did you ever consider that if one's state of nutrition is of Uie best, his health might be good enough that his doctor bills would be very low? Is that bad? (Mrs.) Ruth H. Clark, 3438 Madrona Lane, Medford. o Editor's note: The ad men tioned said: "Milk costs more tsn dT-tirs. The . .erase I! on Congo in Balance . That consensus appears to revolve about U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's proposal to take the manifold segments of the Congolese na tional army out of politicsand let the politicians get down to forming a stable govern ment without use of force. Everything hinges on agree ment between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although Congolese strong man Joseph Mobutu, the strong right arm of pro-Western President Joseph Kasa vubu, says that any attempt to disarm his forces would mean war, the United States is counted on for enough in fluence to whip him into line. Equally, the Soviet Union, if it can be brought to agree ment, is expected to keep un der control the sizable forces loyal to ousted leftist Premier Patrice Lumumba. If these premises are true, it leaves one major problem and it is a big one: A gentle man named Moise Tshombe who started the real territorial division of the Congo by de claring his Katanga Province an independent state. .. . Suggested Solution All indications are that Tshombe has powerful back ing from Belgium. He also has the largest and most cohesive Today & Tomorrow By Walter GOLD AND THE DOLLAR While the gold speculators have for the time being been discouraged by the firm pledges and dec larations to defend the dollar, it is evident from the President's message that all this is on the s u r face and not in the substance o f Llnnmann the problem. The problem has been posed for 11 years, since 1950, and it will take some years to solve It. Since 1950 we have run an average net deficit in our International transactions of nearly two billions a year. Over the whole period this has amounted to a deficit of 21 billions. In foreign capital investment, in military ex penditures abroad, and in foreign economic aidrwe have paid out about 21 billions more than we earned in the world. By doing this we pro vided the reserves on which the post-war monetary system ot the free economies rests. During most of these years. for all practical purposes in all of them until 1958. the foreigners who held the dol lars were satisfied to hold most of them, and not to cash them into gold, as they had every right to do. But in the past three years not only have our deficits sharply increased, but our creditors have been demanding gold. THE demand for gold signi fiprl thnt fnrpicm hanlrarc corporations, and private in vestors had come to think that it was more profitable to move their funds out of the United States and that it might be safer. In effect they were saying that the United States could not go on for ever, or much longer, running a balance of payments deficit of three to four billion dollars a year. Nor can it. And that, is why the Administration is now at tacking the problem of the deficit by a wide array of measures. The President's messages contain proposals to provide attractive short term interest rates for foreigners while avoiding a rise in long term interest rates for American public and private investment. The range of these measures extends to far reaching plans, which will take time to re alize, to improve the competi tive position of American in dustry. HPHE basic premise of the Administration policy is that underlying the specula tive movement away from, and for the moment back to, the dollar, there is a basic deficit which, without effec tive measures to reduce it, will average around two bil lion or more a year. This basic deficit cannot be dealt with, as can the speculative, by psychological means, by pledges, warnings, and the ike, or even by adjusting in terest rates. The basic deficit arises out of our over-all foreign policy out of our military expendi tures abroad, out of our desire to encourage American for- family spends more than twice as much for milk as for doc tor bills. . .$152 for milk and S66 for doctors. The family bill for medicine is only $38. Health is priceless, yet costs less than ever. Did others get the impression that this was designed to run down anyone? We rl-r- '. Is Here; Fate of U.N. In Next Few Weeks . i i ti i v.onn m-i.rv in fhr inner wt of the half-dozen "armies op erating in The Congo. One suggestion at the Unit ed Nations is that Tshombe and Katanga should be isolat ed temporarily while the rest of The Congo is dealt with. Then, with United States and the Soviet Union cooperation, Tshombe's turn would come. A U.N. diplomat who has In the Day's News By FRANK Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who was one of the featured speakers at the annual convention of the Cali fornia Newspaper Publishers association in San Francisco last week, is one of the inter esting figures on the Ameri can political horizon. Here at the beginning of the decade of the 60s, he is definitely (and apparently purposefully) stepping into the position held by Senator Taft in the decade of the 40s. Which is to say, Senator Goldwater is definitely dram atizing himself as Mr. Con servative. Lippmann eign investment, out of eco nomic aid to foreign coun tries. Some may think that the basic deficit could be over come by stopping all foreign military and economic aid, or by instituting exchange con trols. But such a revolution ary policy would be. impos sible in the world as it is to day. The Administration has taken a firm decision that it will defend the convertibility of the dollar at $35 an ounce for gold, and it will maintain, and probably even enlarge our foreign economic aid, and that it will not resort to the restrictionist measures which weaker countries without our banking responsibilities use when they have an interna tional deficit. This decision to stand upon an expansionist or liberal foreign policy has with it corollary which is indicated but not spelled out .in the Presidents message - that the liberal policy requires inter national cooperation among the advanced industrial coun tries. Alone and by ourselves we cannot maintain a liberal economic foreign policy if the countries which are now run ning a surplus in their balance of payments as against our deficit, do not cooperate. The surplus countries are Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, and above all West Germany. - rpHERE is no question of our " asKing them to help The very suggestion is odious in view of the fact that the United States is incomparably the richest country in the world. The American case is simply this. Beginning with the Marshall Plan, this coun try, which then had an enor mous surplus, has deliberately and as a matter of national and international policy run a deficit in order to overcome the dollar shortage abroad. This policy made possible the recovery of Japan and West ern Europe. wow the time has come when continuing American deficits are not only not need ed but a positive danger to the stability of the inter national m o n e tary system. What is needed now is that the surplus countries, fore most among them West Ger many, take measures of their own to bring the international balance of payments into equilibrium. Once the Senate has ap proved United States mem bership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, we should, as the President indicates in his message, argue for a new principle. It is that the sur p 1 u s countries, principally West Germany, should not ac cumulate reserves out of the deficits run by countries like the United States, which spend so much abroad for the common defense and for the less developed countries. TN THE OECD, and private ly. we shall be persuading the West Germans that, hav ing acquired a very large sur plus, they, have an interna tional duty to behave like a responsible creditor country. Little of their surplus is now used for foreign aid or investment abroad. The West German interest rates, which attract the gold, are among the highest in Western Europe. The West German wage rates, in relation to their productivity, make them over-competitive in the inter national export markets. Fur thermore, their foreign assis tance is being given largely in been privy to the inner work ings of the Congo operation from the start says Soviet American cooperation is im perative. "If The Congo operation fails, Africa will go down the drain and so, likely, will the United Nations," he says. "Three weeks from now may be too late." JENKINS AT A PRESS conference be fore his formal address to the newspaper people, he said former Vice President Nixon . had lost prestige as a result of his election defeat but he offered the hope that Nixon would run for public office before 1964 and get a plat form from which he could influence the Republican party. He then added: "Maybe I'm a bit too con servative to have beaten Ken nedy last year, but I'd have given him a much rougher go around than Nixon did." This prompted the reporters to ask if he would take on Kennedy In 1964. He parried that one. "I'll be fighting then to keep my seat in the senate," he replied, "and I happen to LIKE it there." This could be interpreted as indicating that he is in no hurry to get into the Presi dential race, believing that the swing toward conserva tism will tend to grow as time passes. SENATOR Gold water is strikingly handsome in a lean, ascetic way. He is tall and is on the slender side. He has abundant gray hair above a youthful face. He smiles readily, and winningly. It isn't the smile of a profession al politician. It is genuine, and conveys a positive quality of friendliness. He is a high-ranking officer in the Air Force reserve and flies a jet fighter. He looks the part of a jet fighter pilot. As a public speaker, he is far above average. He speaks readily and clearly and is never at a loss for the right word. He has a quick mind. When he finishes, he invites questions. He gets the import of the questions quickly and accurately, and his answers are courteous and friendly direct and to the point, and with no hedging. HE DODGES no issues. In a luncheon address to the newspaper convention, he said he plans this year to introduce in congress "a broad new labor program to ease the straight-jacket of millions of forgotten Americans in or ganized pressure groups with which they disagree in whole or in part." - The right to strike, he said, is in his opinion one of the basic human rights. It must not be limited or interfered with. Without 4he right to strike, he asserted, workers would be little more than slaves. But, he said, he believes the decision to strike must be kept MORE in the hands of the rank and file of union membership and LESS in the hands of top union leader ship. TJE ADDED: Whatever is wrong with labor unions in these days is largely the result of too much power held in too few hands too long. What is needed is to get the power back into the hands of the rank and file of union membership." SENATOR Goldwater is an interesting character. ', His career will be worth watching. CROSS SET AFIRE Shreveport, La. -fflPD- An eight-foot-tall cross was set afire Wednesday night on the lawn of the home of Rep.', Overton Brooks (D - La.). Brooks has come under in tense criticism here for his vote to increase the member ship of the House Rules Com mittee. port credits. The President made no mention of the Gerj man problem in his message. But the German problem is very much in the minds of all serious students of the prob lem of international payments.. Presumably, if not imme diately then after the coming German election, the Ger mans will move into line and play according to the rules of the game in the world of free economy. Those rules imply a special obligation on sur plus countries. For not to observe these rules would precipitate eventually a ser ious international monetary crisis. (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
