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Medlord and Jackson County
H,siory fro.n th. til" ot The
Mall Trlbun. 10. 20. 30. 40
and 50 veara ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Frank Van Dyke, Medlord
attorney and former speaker
of the state house of repre
sentatives, Tuesday was elect
ed new president ui
tora imn.
of
The second presemaviu"
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Tne sbuuiiu w-" -: ---.
Tu.,io Knnprs and Mln
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gliel show will be staged to
night at Medford High school.
20 YEARS AGO
Another national defense
course, this one in avlat'on
sheet metal work, will start
Wednesday and run Indefi
nitely at the Medford High
school,
A -tun Pui-rv 8
"Ye
rrom mvimi - -
j tint" rnlurnni ' Paul
Rynning, the county engineer
is back frbmN.Y.and reports
the dogleg In the Pao. Hgwy
at Ashland win nave w w"
until the country gets caught
tip with Its cannons aim u.v
ticships."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 15, 1931 (Sunday)
, The State Grange lias come
out In favor of a tax on oleo
margarine. The Jackson county grand
Jury will resume its probe
into the death of a man dur
ing a sheriff's raid on an Illi
cit still in the Reese Creek
area last fall.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. IS. 1921 (Tuesday)
A child expert told local
parents here last night "not
to spare the rod, but to use It
with discretion."
Check artists have horn
swoggled local merchants out
of some $500 recently, accord
ing to the police department.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 15, 1911 (Wednesday)
The Medford city council
last night called a special
election for March 2, at which
time citizens will bo asked to
approve a $30,000 bond Issue
for improvements to the city's
sewer system.
Mai's Your I Q.?
Nina er ten correct is superior:
Sevan or eight Is eaeallanri five ei
tlx Is good.
1, The branch of zoology
that treats of insects is called
e y.
2. What wore the names of
the three musketeers in Alex
ander Dumas' novel of that
name?
3. Which Presidential nom
inee in American history used
the phrase, "It is not best to
swap horses while crossing
the river ?
4. For what plant, the
leaves of which are used for
making a beverage, is Ceylon
famous?
5. Which of these does not
have wings: bees, flics, fleas,
mosquitoes?
6. When are blackberries
red?
7, How many electoral
votes docs the District of
Columbia cast In Presidential
elections?
8. Name the American
newspaperman, killed in the
Pacific theater during W W
II, who wrote "Here Is Your
War.
9. Was Thomas Jefferson
President of the U. S. before
or after John Quincy Adams?
10. When it is summer In
New York City, what is the
season In Buenos Aires, Ar
gentina?
Answers: 1. Entomology, 2
Aramis, Porlhos and Athoi.
3. Abraham Lincoln. 4. Tea,
5. Fleas. 6. Before ripening,
7. None. 8. Ernie Pyle. 9. Be
fore. 10y Winter.
4
FEBRUARY 15. 1961
Dr. Durno s "Four Ways "
When Congressman Edwin R. Durno voted
against enlarging the House Rules Committee,
to by-pass a coalition of conservative Republicans
and southern Democrats so that forward-looking
measures could be considered by the whole house,
he explained his vote, in part, by citing four other
means by which this can be done.
At the time we said these are, for most pur
poses, unusable. But we wrote Congressional
Quarterly, the factual, non-partisan Washington
agency, for some facts on these four methods.
The information they provided follows:
"Three principal methods are available to pry
legislation out of the Rules Committee:
"1. Suspension of the Rulei Any Member recog
nized by the Speaker may bring up a bill by asking
for suspension of the rules. This requires approval by
a two-thirds vote of those voting. (A bill refused a
"' rule would ordinarily be too controversial to win a
two-thirds vote, however.) .
"2. Discharge petition If the Rules Committee
does not grant a rule to a bill within seven legislative
days of a request for it by the chairman of the legisla
tive committee that reported the bill, backers may
move to force a rule from the Committee. They do
this by introducing their own rule for debate, then
filing a petition ... A successful petition needs the
signatures of a majority of the House . . . The House)
then votes on whether to discharge the rule (not, then,
on the bill Itself).
"3. Calendar Wedneiday On Wednesdays ... the
speaker can call upon the chairman of the legislative
' committees . . . and each may call up for a vote any
bill previously reported by his committee. This pro
cedure is open to dilatory action and is rarely used. . . "
..'
THE fourth method cited py Representative
Durno is the "Consent Calendar," when by
unanimous consent a bill can be called up for
consideration. One obiection can block this the
first time it is tried, and
members the second time.
Triiio uVinn TV' Tliivrin indipar.fls that these
four methods are effective ways of getting leg
islation onto the floor for debate, he either (1)
doesn't know what he's talking about, or (2) is
deliberately misleading his constituents.
in eitner case, ne cioes nimsen no creaiu
Tr urniilrl hova hoon mni'P Vmnesr. if hp'H simnlv
lb YtUUlU T J V. V. 1 1 ...u. v . . -J . . ' I"
said "I had to go along with the Republican
leadershiD." or "I'm aerainst the House debating
and voting on bills."
Tnrlnv'n minf.P "And
fVinf I'ulps fliatio-p -never
majority rale in the house
I hope they will be held to
ator wayne u. morse.
Names Old and New
One of the interesting things in living in a
state wnere tne population is growing rapiuiy is
the appearance of new names on the land.
For example:'
On the UPI wire the other day there was a
story saving that the "Territorial highway" was
one of those closed by high water or slides.
No one in the office had ever heard of the
Territorial highway, nor had anyone in the United
Press International bureaus in Portland or Salem.
. . 4 1 ,
. S A result, inquiries were made to the High
wav Debartment. which identified it as the
road which runs south
way 99 west), down to
Fern Ridge Reservoir, through Elmira and Veneta
to Lorane, and then easterly to Cottage Grove.
' We were vaguely aware ot tne lact tnat sucn
a road existed, but had no idea that it had been
dignified by designation as a highway, let alone
ma nl-Vi flm Imnvocciua naiYip (1Tpri'ir.npial "
But this led, in turn, to a realization of some
thing which had occurred to us brifely before,
that there are a lot of names which are relatively
new in the state.
t
ON THE list of incorporated communities in
the 1960 census, most of the names are fa
miliar, particularly those
sized towns, or wnicn nave long Deen arouna.
But we must confess that we were not fa
miliar with Fairview, or Wood Village, or Pres
cott, as examples.
Other names, old ones, have increased in
prominence considerably in recent years, while
others have vanished, or are receding.
Garibaldi. Gold Beach, Mill City,- Oceanlake,
Winston, Brookings, are all examples of what
were mere villages 20 or even 10 years ago, but
which are now thriving communities of a thou
sand or more people.
Hermiston, 803 people in 1940, today has
4.402.
But anyone who has
dozen years remembers wnen vanport was one
of the lartrest communities in the state. Wiped
out by a flood on Memorial Day in 1948, it is
now just a memory.
IN EASTERN Oregon,
munities are now gone, or almost gone.
Granite, which had a population of 86 in
1940," today has two. Shaniko, once a railhead, a
major wheat-shipping center, and a booming
prairie town, had shrunk to 55 people in 1940,
revived slightly by 1950 to 61 people, and last
year dropped to 39.
Antelope, population 90 in 1940, dropped to
60, and then to 46 last year.
And so it goes. As the trends and tides of
population, governed usually by economic tac
tors, shift and waver, so do ihe fates of cities.
But in Oregon, the long-term trend is up, and
will remain so. There will be still more new names
on the land. E.A.
objections from three
E. A.
those who voted against
forp-et voted aerainst
of representatives, and
an accounting, sen
; .
from Monroe' (on High
Cheshire, to the west ot
that are now fairly good-
been in the state for a
some once-thriving com
I,
Dennis the Menace
'Didn't he evep hear ofws? how com he's always
SOfiA STICK 7HE MEDCINE IN MB 7"
. . . Communications . . .
Letters to the Editor must bear ihe name and address of the writer, although under
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The Mall Tribune reserves the right lo edit all letters with' a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent ihe views of the paper; in fact the
contrary is often ihe case.
View of Cuba
To the Editor: E.A. has been
doing some wondering about
what is going on in Cuba. It
has been said that we cannot
believe anything that we hear
and but half what we see.
Regardless of how strange
that might sound, there is
much truth to the statement.
We learn to do by doing' and
we learn to believe by learn
ing. Believing without learn
ing is credulity. Believing by
learning is logic, and believ
ing from logic is conviction.
When a person arrives at the
point of conviction, he has
established a h a r monious
whole or unity of logic. A
grounding in psychological ex
perience is the basis for social
science.
A knowledge of social
science will enable a person
to appraise a social situation
by hearing reports from both
sides. And like a detective,
the social scientist searches
for motives for false witness,
or reasons for discrepancy,
neiween trie various reports.
In other" words ther social
scientist judges by the evi
dence. I have sifted all the evi
dence available and have come
to the conclusion that Cuba
has established a full-fledged
social revolution, and judged
by other such social up
heavals, it has been done with
the minimum of slaughter.
Castro is in full control and
has liquidated all private en
terprise of any magnitude in
cluding foreign and domestic
Institutions. His social order
is patterned after the Soviet
Union. As it Is essential to
have a menace in any drama
to hold public Interest, Uncle
Sam is "it" because he is the
leader of the anti-Communist
forces as well as an old time
friend of Batista. Even though
the U.S. has been undiplo
matic in its relations with
Cuba the end would have been
the same eventually.
Lastio has the moral and
financial backing of every
country in the world, except
the United States and its few
close dependents.
Cuba is being polished and
buffed as a Communist show
piece to impress the Latin
Americans. Cuban world
trade has broken all records
with 46 ships in the pbrt of
Havana at one time.
Housing, education and liv
ing standards got high prior
ity. With unlimited credits
from Communist nations, the
sky is the limit for Castro.
Walter Reece
Galiee rd.
Merlin, Ore.
Exploitation
To the Editor: I am firmly
convinced that if the United
States follbws the Kennedy
program, a large part of which
really amounts to "spending
ourselves into prosperity," it
will cause the final collapse of
our free enterprise system
within a short time.
Our taxes have already
reached such a high level to
pay for the fantastic schemes
which our federal bureaucrats
are already operating that
they are causing the very situ
ation which this new plan
seeks lo cure.
Many small businesses sim
ply cannot afford the extra
expenses on top of wages,
which they have to pay when
they hire help, so Instead of
growing and creating more
jobs they stay small enough
to operate without hired help;
also there is not much incen
tive to progress beyond the
point of making a bare living:
for if you do take a chance
and expand, should you be
successful most of your profit j
will be taken from you in the
form of taxes.
For a long time I have tried ;
to understand the motives of
the "liberals" who to a larRe
part have been in control of
government, schools, ad la-
bor unions for many years
and the only way they make
any sense is to consider them
as an extremely well planned
attempt, to destroy from with
in the American free enter
prise system, despite the fact
that this system has made our
high standard of living pos
sible. . If we wore exploited by the
capitalists in the past, as most
liberals claim, I found it far
less painful than being ex
ploited, as we are at present,
by the evergrowing bureau
cratic system of the Federal
government. -
Lyle Hartzell Sr.
Box 35
Florence, Ore.
'A Handy Man'
To the Editor:
Some one you've been looking
"for
And needing mighty bad?
Just take a short White City
tour,
He or It can be hadl
Ex-laborer, cook or lawyer,
' Maybe a farmer toot
Top loader, clerk of sawyer,
Or is it all the same to you?
It had better be the same to
you,
And get him If you can,
There won't be much search
ing to do,
I'm talking about the same
old man.
Malemute Slim,
White City, Ore.
Another Compliment
To the Editor: My compli
ments to the Medford Senior
High school on their produc
tion of "Finian's Rainbow." I
enjoyed every moment of it,
and believe professional com
panies could take a tip from
them on their use of only the
piano and organ for the solos
and chorus instead of full
orchestra.
Of the many, many musi
cals I have seen, this is the
first time I've been able to
understand every word sung.
Let me add the orchestra
couldn't have been better,
especially in the overture and
dance numbers.
Medford is indeed lucky to
have a high school with' such
a fine music department, and
so many talented young peo
ple. Mrs. John L. DuBay
2368 Thornoak rd.
Medford.
Would Shut Water Off
To the Editor: I am very
certain that the water should
be shut off at Emigrant Dam
at once, in order to see what
will happen to the numerous
crevasses one block above the
dam.
It was noted Monday, Feb.
13, that additional crevasses
have opened up to a deptli
of appro.ximalcly 125 feet and
10 feet in diameter. This in
dicates to me that these
crevasses could continue to
open up toward the dam and
could cause untold damages.
It appears that there is a
double amount of water in
the dnm at this time which
should serve the valley suf
ficiently this year. This would
giva the dam time to settle
and make investigations as to
the continuing action of these
crevasses. I feel certain that
the tremendous weight of the
dnm alone and the added
amount of water would be 8
to 10 times greater than pre
viously, which undoubtedly
caused the sinking of the
mountain walls and now
could continue toward the
dam.
We have been told that
this dam is one-half mile wide
at the bottom and 35 feet at
the top, but in my way of
measuring the dam, I find it
is approximately one-fourth
of this width or less at the
bottom.
Wc were also told that it
would be impossible for (.wa
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
Wilson Claims Tax Withholding Greatest
'Pain-Killer' Since Morphine or Ether
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington - HIPB - This
essay will assert that the with
holding tax system of col
lecting federal
revenue is the
greatest pain
killer since
morphine and
ether.
But for the
with holding
system, the
citizens would
be shooting
wiiion iax collectors
on sight. That would be the
citizens' alternative to getting
up in one great bundle the
annual tax levy against mm.
There might even be a tax
rebellion in this country if it
were not for the relatively
painless withholding system
of separating the taxpayer
from his money. The citizens
have become accustomed to
the withholding tax, however,
and scarcely are aware of the
government's take, although
the figures are reported regu-
ter to flow over the top of the
dam. This all sounds fantastic
to me!
I would certainly like to
see a group of capable engi
neers investigate this serious
condition at once, and also as
I recommended above, that
the water be shut off at least
until the formation settles.
E. M. Tucker Sr.
Tucker Sno-Cat Corp.
Medford
O
Editor's note: Emigrant dam
was designed to be approxi
mately 1,100 feet at the base.
A reporting error in the Mail
Tribune last week indicated
it was thicker. Detailed geo
logical surveys before con
struction noted the crevasses
Mr. Tucker mentioned, check
ed them carefully, determined
they were due to water ero-sion-on
that particular forma
tion, and were of no danger to
the dam. The section may
some day fall into the lake,
but poses no threat to the
structure. An overflow struc
ture some distance from the
dam will keep the water level
12 feet below the top of the
dam at all times.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
A Moscow dispatch informs
us that after a spectacular
PIGGY-BACK launching on
Sunday, a Soviet space station
is hurtling toward a mid-May
rendezvous with the planet
Venus.
I As this is written, there is
no indication as to whether
the "space station" will HIT
Venus, or will scoot right by
it and on out into space, or
will go into orbit around this
planet neighbor of ours that
we call both Evening Star
and Morning Star.
About all we have been
told after the first piggy-back
load took off the original
rocket went into orbit around
the earth.
MHAT'S a piggy
back
" laun
nching?
Well, a multi-stage rocket
carried a sputnik into orbit.
At a certain point, another
rocket was fired from the
sputnik. This second rocket
then fired off what the Russ
kies call "an automatic inter
planetary station." The job of
this automatic inter-planetary
station is either to hit Venus
or to go into orbit around it,
presumably sending back pic
tures and other information
from the relatively close
range of its orbit.
The idea of the piggy-back
is to. get more power into
action.
rjlHIS is for the book: '
-'This complicated jigger
was fired off into space on
Sunday, Feb. 12. It is ex
pected to hit Venus (or start
orbiting around Venus) about
the MIDDLE OF MAY, when
Venus will be only 26 million
miles from the earth.
That ought to give duck
hunters something to talk
about. If it works, it will be
a new world record in the way
of "shooting 'em where they
ain't to hit 'em where they is."
It will be roughly equivalent
to firing a shotgun on a south
ern Oregon marsh on the 4th
of July at a duck due to take
off from the Arctic circle In
late September and HITTING
THE DUCK!
THE purpose of tills piggy
back space station is to in
vestigate conditions on and
around Venus, whose per
petual mantle of clouds has
made it a mystery to scien
tists. Venus, like the earth,
has an atmosphere. It was
long supposed to lack oxygen,
without which human beings
can't exist. But a new tele
scope about a year ago yo
vided Information Indicating
larly to each individual.
The tax lifted from the
citizens' pay envelopes by
their employers and paid into
the treasury has lost its iden
tity as income. The citizen
calculates his income now in
terms of take - home - pay,
which is the sum remaining
of his wage after federal, state
and, sometimes, municipal
governments have taken their
cuts.
Something for Nothing
Tax withholding by the em
ployer so dulls the tax bite as
to foster the belief among
citizens that they are getting
something for nothing in the
way of services and benefits
when the federal government
pays the bill. This state of
public mind is well known to
politicians. The politicians
take advantage of it when
confronted with a crisis of
almost any kind almost anywhere,
Colombia
Economic,
By PHIL NEWSON
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Cadi, Colombia (UPI) In Co
lombia there is a bitter jest
that Latin America should im
port 50 million
Communist s,
and then i t
would receive
the same at
tention which
the United
States now
gives to Eu
rope and Asia.
An educator
Newsom lens oi me
need to reduce Colombia's
greater than 50 per cent illit
eracy, and he recalls standing
beside a Colombian air force
man who watched with pride
an American-built Colombian
jet fighter streak through the
skies.
"I thought of the cost," he
said. "One million dollars. For
that I could have operated the
university for one year."
A businessman tells how
Colombians followed the Unit
ed States elections.
Faithful Ally
"Every radio in Colombia
was tuned to the results," he
says. He hopes the new U. S.
administration will recognize
that Colombia in particular
has been a faithful U. S. ally,
but "last in consideration be
hind Europe and non-Communist
areas."
A coffee grower asks U. S.
help in stabilizing coffee
prices whose fall has led to a
cut in imports of U. S. ma
chinery. A sugar grower asks a part
in the U. S. quota for Colom
bia's growing sugar industry,
just now reaching the export
level.
These are not necessarily
conflicting interests.
Rather they are representa
tive of a Latin American na
tion in a hurry.
Colombia is attempting to
that both free oxygen and
water vapor may be present
in the atmosphere of Venus.
Late observations indicate
that Venus has seasons. Venus
is closer to the sun than we
are. So it's HOT. Current
estimates put its daytime tem
perature at about 212 degrees
(the boiling point of water at
sea level.) That's on its sunny
side, in the day time. On its
dark side, at night, the tem
perature is believed to drop to
about 10 degrees Fahrenheit.
'l'ENUS circles the sun every
225 days, so its seasons are
shorter. It isn't known defi
nitely how long it takes
Venus to turn on its axis.
Some astronomers believe it
turns only once on its axis in
its 225-day circuit of the sun.
Others think it may turn as
often as once every three or
four weeks.
That would mean a LONG
day. We carthlings would be
bushed long before quitting
time. But - on the other hand
- think of the binges people so
inclined could go on in a
night three or four weeks
long!
There's another drawback.
Venus, like the earth, has an
atmosphere, but, unlike the
earth, its clouds seem to form
a complete and perpetual
wrapping around its surface.
In other words, it's cloudy all
the time.
TTMMMMMMMMMM.
"If it comes to the point of
calling for volunteers to found
a colony on Venus, I believe
they can count me out.j Day
time temperatures of 212 de
grees. Night time tempera
tures of 10 above - with no
assurance as to what kind of
fuel they have to heat the
house at night. And CLOUDY
ALL THE TIME!
All in all, I prefer our State
of Jefferson climate.
Palm Springs, Calif. - (UPII
Former President Eisenhower
is spending a considerable por
tion of his time while on vaca
tion here answering bundles
of letters from well-wishers.
A spokesman said Tuesday
that Eisenhower has received
"thousands" of letters since
leaving office last monfh.
,The political cure for trou
ble at home or abroad more
often than not is simply this
appropriate a lot of govern
ment money and spend it. If
the cure works, all is reason
alby well. If it doesn't work,
the cure is repeated.
The confused idea that the
U.S. dollar is a wonder drug,
a specific for all ills domestic
and foreign, has been a big
factor in runaway govern
ment spending over the past
30 years. The citizens have
become accustomed to a gov
ernment which cannot pay its
bills and must, therefore, go
into debt for the excess of
expenditure over revenue.
Deficit Financing
A by-product of this deficit
financing has been a steadily
rotting dollar which has lost
in the past 20 years or so
more than half of its purchas
ing power. The alternatives
Is Facing Controlled
Social Revolution
carry out a controlled eco
nomic and social revolution,
not far to the left as in Cuba,
nor under the same political
pressures as in Venezuela.
But, as in all of Latin Amer
ica's undeveloped nations, it
is a revolution with problems
urgently needing a solution.
Economic Problems
Discussions with business
and educational leaders dis
close general agreement on
Colombia's problems -a one
sided economy based on cof
fee, with illiteracy and low
health standards.
But solutions take time and
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
HIGH LEVEL DIPLOMACY
Secretary Rusk is said to be
under considerable pressure
to cross the Pacific in order
t o attend a
m e e t ing of
S E A T O in
Bangkok. Two
Asian mem
bers of the
South: East
Asia Treaty
O r ganizatlon,
the Philip
pines and
Thailand, are
Lippmann
are dissatisfied, it would ap
pear, with the unwillingness
of Great Britain and France
to hot up the Laotian trouble,
and they are threatening to
withdraw from SEATO. Only
Secretary Rusk, they say, can
dissuade them, and to do this
he must go to Bangkok. No
one else can dissuade them.
Only the Secretary of State in
person.
It will be a pity if so early
in the day Mr. Rusk allows
himself to be lured back into
the dreary and unprofitable
ways of itinerant summitry.
Nobody knows better than he,
no one has spoken more co
gently about, the weaknesses
of this kind of diplomacy.
It takes the Secretary of
State away from Washington
where he cannot be spared.
It subjects him to a physical
and nervous strain which he
should not be asked to bear.
It downgrades the authority
of the American Ambassadors
on the spot, and of the roving
Ambassador, Gov. Harriman,
who may be needed to repre
sent the United States to re
gional negotiations.
It sets a precedent. If the
Secretary must go to SEATO,
then in no time at all he will
have to go to the centers of
all the other pacts-to CENTO,
to NATO, to OAS. He must go
also to the neighboring states
whose prestige will be hurt if
he does not visit them. Before
he knows it, he will be visit
ing Formosa and Japan and
so on and so on.
lUIIS is as good a time as any
to turn over a new leaf
and to set new precedents.
The Philippines and Thailand
have Ambassadors, able Am
bassadors, in Washington. Let
them be asked to explain to
their governments why the
Secretary of State cannot
leave Washington when a new
Administration is just form
ing. Let them be told that the
A m e r i can Ambassadors in
Bangkok and Manila will
have instructions backed by
the full authority of our gov
ernment. Moreover, tel us begin to
untangle the error of high
policy, which has been to
treat pacts of guarantee, like
SEATO, as instruments which
the United States is trying to
sell. The United States guar
antee has been tossed around
very loosely. To an unneces
sary degree we have been pro
fligate with our guarantees.
We have given the impression
to the world that they are to
be regarded as something we
are seeking rather than as
something that, carefully and
frugally, we occasionally
give. I
iKMcflSS m. v.sM
to more deficit financing and
further rotting of the dollar
are few and hard. They ara
(1) reduction in government
spending, (2) a hike in taxes
(3) or both.
There are starry-eyed citi
zens among us who consider
present tax rates and govern
ment spending levels to bo
outrageously high. These
starry-eyed citizens believa
this situation could be reme
died by amending the Consti.
tution to a top limit on in.
come tax rates - say 25 per
cent. The idea is no good be
cause no such amendment can
be had.
A better plan would be to
repeal the withholding tax
provisions of the revenue act.
That would put the pain back
into taxpaying. The citizen
taxpayer could take it from
there whether he wanted
spending and taxes reduced.
are not easily come by.
Suggestions that the United
States help stabilize the cof
fee market still make no pro
vision for excess production
which, as Africa comes mora
and more into the market, is
likely to increase rather than
decrease.
Brazilian attempts to aid
coffee growers by government
purchases simply made Brazil
the largest single owner of
coffee beans and did nothing
toward a world solution. Su
gar has been suggested as a
second income producer but
it also is in a crowded market.
lippmann
IN OUR relations with the
great powers of Western
Europe and the Soviet Union,
the firmest believer in quiet
diplomacy will agree that, fol
lowing his meeting with Mr.
Macmillan, it would be useful
if the President had a ehanca
to talk face to face with Gen.
de Gaulle, with Dr. Adenauer,
and with Mr. Khrushchev.
The real importance of face
to face meetings with those
men is not that It is a sub
stitute for quiet negotiation
but that it facilitates quiet
negotiation. The heads of
government need to know
what kind ot man their Am
bassadors are telling them
about. They need to see the
man and to hear him, and not
only to try to imagine him
from photographs and car
toons. But this act of getting ac
quainted, which is desirable
for the new President, must
resolutely be kept from be
coming inflated into summit
ry. One precaution is to have
it understood that a format
summit meeting is not now in
prospect. Another precaution
is for the President to avoid
travelling abroad at least until
he has finished with his legis
lative program, including for
eign aid and defense. This
would mean that at least until
next summer face to face
meetings would have to take
place in Washington or - in
New York.
jllR. Khrushchev has, it ap
pears, had explained to
him the reasons why the new
Administration needs time to
form its policy on the great
issues. Time is needed for
study and for debate and for
decision. Time is needed also
for public education. It is not
now possible, for example, to
have fruitful negotiation about
arms control or about new
ways of guaranteeing the free
dom of the people of West
Berlin. In these matters the
air is still too full of spooks.
If this is understood, it
would be an advantage if Mr,
Khrushchev could visit this
country, let us say in April
after Mr. Macmillan has been
here. He might come to the
U.N. and on to Washington.
Mr. Khrushchev and Mr. Ken
nedy had better get lo know
one another since they will be
dealing with one another on
such critical questions. This
will be a demonstration that
diplomatic intercourse has
been restored after the rup
ture of last May. If this
strengthens Mr. Khrushchev
at home and among his Com
munist allies, we can count
that as being to the general
advantage.
One of the prime lessons of
the Eisenhower - Khrushchev
dealings is, I believe, that per
sonal summitry cannot suc
ceed unless in the interval be
tween the big meetings there
is persistent and imaginative
quiet diplomacy. The reason
for the disaster in May is to be
found, it seems to me. in the
seven months of diplomatic
d r i f t i n g and inadvertence
which took Dlace after Mr.
Khrushchev's visit to Wash
ington. I (c) 1961 New York Herald
I Tribune Inc. I