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Medford end Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago,
. 10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 21, 1B51 (Wednesday)
The Medford city council
Inst night , received resigna
tions from Airport Manager
John Applegate and Building
Superintendent Manfred Ol
son. Uniform opening hourg for
. downtown stores were agreed
upon this morning at a meet
ing of the retail trades com
mittee of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce.
20 YEARS AGO - '- - , :
Feb. 21, 1941 (Friday)
The railroad station was
jammed last night with rela
tives and friends of 28 draf
tees leaving here for lervlce
In the Army.
From Arthur Ferryi "e
fimudae Pot" column
"The
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shine again yesterday like cl-l
it nl. I. ...WW. taln"
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 21. 1931 (Saturday)
A last-minute bill has been
Introduced in the legislature
to permit Copco to build a
new $4V4 million develop
ment on the Klamath river.
Knute Rocknc, famous ath
letic director of Notre Dame
university, stopped briefly In
Medford yesterday.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 21, 1921 (Monday) -
The entire county court Is
In Salem today to protest a
bill which would provide that
a portion of the county road
taxes raised in cities should
go for city streets.
A reapportionment bill has
cut two representatives from
Jackson county.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 21. 1911 (Tuesday)
Leaders of the Sisters of
Mercy and Providence have
arrived here to inspect noo
hill, the proposed site of a
new $100,000 hospital,
A buck deer, slowly walk
ing across the tracks, delayed
the morning train from Jack
, sonville today.
What's Your I.Q.7.
Nine ei Ian cerreel Is supeiiori
even or eight is excellent; five M
ii la seed.
1. Who wrote the book
;"Ten Years In Jnpan"?
2. Two presidents of the
' U. S. have been chosen by the
House of Representatives be.
. cause no candidate had a ma
jority In the electoral college;
name them.
3. Where Is the port of
Cheribon?
4. Which Is greater, the
polar or equatorial circum
ference? 5. What rank In the Navy
corresponds to Major In the
Army?
6. Which Italian city has
been called "The Bride of the
Sea"?
7. Bees will not sting a per
son while he holds his breath;
true or false?
8. Does the law require that
the Secretary of Defense
shall be a civilian?
9. In Dickens' novel "Dav
id Copperfleld", what was the
name of David's child wife?
10. The chemical composi
tion of the blood of all races
of people is the same; true or
false? . .
Answersi 1, Joseph C.
Grew. 2. Thomas Jefferson
and John Qulncy Adams. 3.
Island of Java. 4. Equatorial
5. Lieutenant Commander.
6. Venice. 7. False, t. No.
9. Dora Bpenlow. 10. True.
FEBRUARY 21, 1S61
A "Mockery" of Law?
Is it true that, in granting many "routine"
divorces, every circuit judge in the state is in ef
fect a party to a fraud?
Is it true that some half of all attorneys in the
state refuse to accept divorce cases because they
refuse to take part in fraudulent activities? And
that the other half just don't care because it is a
lucrative business?
We don't know the answers to these questions.
But they are highly disturbing ones, and arise
from hearing a talk last week by one of the state's
circuit judges, Virgil Langtry of Multnomah
county, who also is disturbed,
A REPORT of. his talk, printed in the Eugene
Register-Guard, set forth Judge Langtry's
worries this way:.
"It's hard to instill a respect for law In Juveniles
:, when divorce courts almoBt dally ridicule and flout
the law, Judge Virgil Langtry of the Multnomah Coun
ty Circuit Court declared in Eugene Friday . ,
"Divorce courts usually hear only one side of a
case, and not always the truth, he declared. Even
when perjury is discovered in testimony, something
Is not always done about it, he said, because juries
and the public think 'perjury isn't important because
it's just a domestic case.'
"The judge said It is a frustrating experience to
sit in Juvenile court during the mornings, trying to
build respect for law, then spend the afternoon hear
ing divorce proceedings and 'act a part' In a mockery
of law ...
"Judge Langtry said Oregon's marriage and divorce
laws need a thorough overhauling, yet a bill to set
up an interim committee to make such a study has
been tabled by the judiciary committee In the state
legislature ..."
IP what Judge Langtry says is true, and we have
no cause to doubt it, the Oregon legislature
should dust off the plans for such a study, and get
it going. (Even if it has been tabled in the Senate
judiciary committee, there are a number of ways
to get a similar bill back under consideration.)
The Oregon Bar Association recommended
that such a study be made, but apparently little
if any pressure for its enactment has been applied.
And if, as Judge Langtry says, our circuit
courts , and about half our lawyers, are, in effect,
forced to participate in "a mockery of law," simp
ly because of unrealistic statutes, it is a shocking
thing one which should be cured as soon as
can be done. E. A.
Economic Upturn Due?
Is Oregon, hard-hit by unemployment and a
depressed lumber market, going to make a come
back in 1961?
No one can say for sure. But there are indica
tions that it will.
One of the indications is contained in the very
substantial amount of new construction which is
in the works construction which will put some-
wnere around $igu million into circulation, em
ploy thousands upon thousands of people, and
nma fha anMin Vs.,-, VI my,.
give the entire economy
F)ON McNeil, the manager of the Medford
Chamber of Commerce, became interested in
these prospects the other dav. and compiled a nar-
tial list of construction projects planned in nine
of Oregon's cities.
He boints out that thev are "haatilv e-atherfid.
incomplete, and undoubtedly inaccurate ..."
" But he also declares that they "do reflect an
upturn in Oregon's economy this spring, at least
in the construction picture."
His list does not include dams, federal forest
work, or even highway
the total figures would
IN MEDFORD alone, the total of planned con-
ofi.iiitinv. (nnA 4-V.tr, In , . U. ..
ow UV.WUJ1 vauu WHO iO
major projects, and does
of smaller ones, nor some which have not yet
been announced,) runs to
In Jfortland, the total is about $54 million.
Other representative citv totals include T.nkeview.
$1 million; Eugene
rails, nearly $5 million; Koseburg, more than $6
million; McMinnville, more than $1 million; Ashland,-
$1 million; Grants Pass, more than a half
million dollars; Salem, $2 13 million.
It should again be emDhasized that these
figures are not the result of an accurate, com-
prenensive survey.
But, with these totals
struction, other public works projects, and new
state building, the total amount of expenditure,
much of it private money, speaks well for an
economic upuirn cms year. ti.A.
Waste in the Navy
Waste in government? Yes indeed, there is.
Yesterday we received 11 envelonos from the
Navy's Fleet Home Town
Lakes, 111.
One was mis-sent to
cause of a faulty address.
Une contained a blank sheet of paper.
The other nine were identical news releases.
except that each had the name of a different
local serviceman who was to participate in cere
monies marking the 19th anniversary of the Pa
cific Fleet Amphibious Force.
1"HE cost? Not counting
iciiio iw cntn ciiveiuue mm eni'iosui e, 01
77 cents for one day's mailing to the Mail Trib
une alone, when 7 cents would have done it.
And this should.be multiplied by the number
of men in the Pacific Fleet Amnh'ibious Force.
and the number of newspapers in their home
towns, ine total could be several thousand dollars.
It isn't much, in a multi-billion dollar defensp
budget. But it's irritating
n unnl
construction. With these,
be far higher.
uuiy iui suuit: Ul LUC
not include a number
about $6 million.
$16 million; Klamath
added to hitrhwav con
News Center at Great
the Mail Tribune be-
clerical help, about 7
at tax time. E.A.
a real lift.
Dennis the Menace
"Hi, Mom ! I was just shown' Joey that was utue
ohcb,7ooi"
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The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation, Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The lellers
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
100 Per Cent, Full Steam
To the Editor; This is an
open letter to Congressman
Edwin R. Durno.
Dear Congressman Durno:
By now you are undoubted
ly very unpleasantly aware
of a powerful movement both
in and out of Congress to
abolish our House Committee
On Un-American Activities.
The Reds, Pinks, and Fellow
Travelers in our country call
this program of theirs "Opera
tion Abolition".
Ever since Chief Justice
Earl Warren and his Supreme
Court handculled and practi
cally destroyed our F.B.I, with
the Jenks" and the ' Wat-
kins" decisions, the American
peqple have looked upon this
Congressional committee
the last bulwark between the
Communist conspiracy and the
survival of our country. By
fearlessly exposing all manner
of vicious, treasonous subver
sion wherever found, this
brave little group of men has
earned the undying hatred of
the Reds,
So they and their allies have
frenziedly smeared and villi
fled, and now are determined,
by putting every conceivable
pressure on Congress, to com
pletely destroy this heroic
Congressional committee. And
the infuriating part about it
Is that the very Constitution
and form of Government,
which they so bitterly hate,
and are so mercilessly deter
mined to destroy and over
throw, protects them from the
wrath of the American people.
Therefore, Dr. Durno, we,
as your constituents, must
look to you and your col-
leagues to fight this battle for
us, right there in Congress.
It'll be a rough fight. You'll
have tremendous pressures
put on you by every left-wing
organization in this nation
But, as everything that is pre
cious in the American way
of lite is at stake, we are all
hoping to see you "go in
slugging with both fists".
I'm betting that your home
town people will back you
up to the very limit all the
way. And I've got a mighty
strong hunch that some of
thorn will clip this letter out
and mail it to you there at
the House Office Building,
Washington, D.C., telling you
so.
Be assured Dr. Durno, that
an overwhelming majority of
us wnnt our gallant House
Committee On Un-American
Activities LEFT STRICTLY
ALONE, and kept functioning
100 per cent full steam ahead
L. C. Powell,
31B S.E. Eighth st.,
Grants Puss, Ore.
Two Articles
To the Editor; There have
been two articles in your pa
per recently that were of par
ticular Interest to me.
The first was your editorial
In which you so enthusiasti
cally placed your blessing on
the new dally paper that has
started in Portland.
In the first place It is a
spite paper that was started
by tile unions because the
courts would not uphold them
in their suit for the employees
that caused the trouble at the
Oregonian and Oregon Jour
nal. In the second place it is
not a free enterprise business.
The union members have
to support it whether they
wish to or not.
The rest of us Irfive to ac
cept the Judgment of the
courts when the decision goes
against us, but apparently not
the unions. They will spend
millions of the workers' mon
ey Just to save face and up
hold a few radical members.
The second Item of interest
was the story of the people
that were arrested for refus
ing to return their library
books.
Did you know that the Com
munists systematically loot
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ommumccKBOEis ...
the libraries of anti-Commu
nist books and lose or destroy
them? And pretty soon they
are out of print. The vandal
ism is much worse in the large
city libraries.
The John Birch Society has
had special printings of many
of these books.
They are available to the
public.
Society members can sup
ply you with a list and tell
you how to secure any copy
you desire.
Leila A. Morrow
S31 North Bartlett st.
Medford.
More About Hunting
To the Editor; In answer
to Mrs. Henrietta Bergh, on
Tuesday, Feb. 14, I feel she
doesn't know the full mean
ing of sports, as she was prob
ably raised in some big city,
and had to run for her life
every time she crossed the
street. It is these people in
high powered cars that worry
me.
I have no argument against
the YMCA, or the Scouts, as
they are good activities.
I have hunted the biggest
part of SO years and have
never killed anyone. I think
that is a pretty good percent
age in favor of the hunters.
I know a lot of other people
who agree with me. My wife
and three sons fully agree be
cause they go hunting with
me all the time.
Most of the people who en
Joy outdoor life, and especial
ly hunting and fishing, arc
the safest people of all. Those
handling guns are taught to
handle them safely.
I'll toke my chances, any
day in the week, out inthe
woods with these people who
shoot jack rabbits and digger
squirrels. I hate to see those
old jackrabblts eating high
priced feed from our livestock,
as eight jackrabblts will con
sume as much feed as one
beef. Twenty digger spuirrels
will eat enough grain to feed
30 laying chickens all winter.
So I feel it would be far
better to give these teen-agers
a gun and fish pole so they
can grow up to be sportsmen,
than to give them high pow
ered cars that will get them
into trouble, either by killing,
or being killed, or crippled
for life. I think Mr. Conway's
TV show is tops.
Marlon Hulse
P. O. Box 893
Jacksonville, Ore.
A Clobbering
To the Editor: Pity the poor
R e p u b 1 i can contemplating
running against Senator Morse
in 1882. What a clobbering ho
will get!
David Frlsch
P. O. Box 2112
White Citv, Ore.
Argument
To the Editor: I have been
crowding you a little lately,
with my junk, so, like Leo
Townsend, I'll submit the en
closed and lay off for a while.
Some letters are like the first
chapter of a book, a Sunday
sermon, etc., anyway.
I would Just like to say
that if the enclosed clipping
from the Portland Journal of
Feb. 16 is not the best argue-
ment against abolishment of
capital punishment, 1 will
never write another word.
What do you think?
Malemute Slim
White City, Ore.
F.ditor's note: The clipping,
In purl, said:
Redding. Calif. - The bodv
of 8-year-old Vlcki Lee Morris
was found Wednesday and
Sheriff John Balma sajd she
had been slain and apparently
raped.
We Must Stop
To the Editor: In the last
few months a great many ofiby the rest of their Ameri-
our people, for the first time I
Germany
Foreign Aid Contribution by &a Diinon
By . PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
For many months, the Unit
ed States has been trying to
persuade its orosperous allies
that they must
ereater share
zJ of a burden
3 which since
3 World War II
has been borne
by the United
States, almost
alone.
This was the
question of for
iewsom
eign aid which was running
at a clip of $4 billion annual
ly, and which, even for a
nation of the United States'
great wealth, was more than
it could afford.
The result was the "save
the dollar" campaign insti
tuted dramatically in the clos
ing days of the Eisenhower
administration and since pur
sued by the new Kennedy
administration.
Foremost among the nations
which the United States be-
in their lives, have taken a
long, hard look at our gov
ernment, our schools and at
politicians, and they are both
shocked and angry at what
they have seen.
The vast majority of our
citizens do not want our Re
public turned into a socialist
state, but, without our realiz
ing what "was happening, s
comparatively small group,
usually calling themselves
Liberals, have already push
ed our country a long way to
ward this evil and unwanted
system.
If we would save our Re-
public we must stop and then
reverse this trend at once as
we are already very close to
the point of no return.
Fred Buss,
Westlake, Ore,
Drop Ike
To the Editor: Why can't
you drop old Golf Ball Ike
from your paper? "
- The nation is heart-sick of
reading every day of his lux
ury living and golfing while
the working class are starv
ing. , - C. W. Corey,
Phoenix, Ore,
Snow Job
To the Editor: It is curious
the eminent Sir Charles P.
has been able to "Snow" you
into accepting the argument
that "motives don't matter"
(editorial 2-17-61). What, if not
motives, have brought the sit
uation to its present enorm
ously complex and critical
state?
Now disarmament of itself
not unworthy of sincere
men, and "foolproof arms con
trol presupposes a sanction.
First sincerity: The exist
ence of a world-wide commu
nist conspiracy is no less real
than Sir Charles' scientific
certitude. This conspiracy op
erates under a moral code of
its own, its fundamental tenet
being the denial of God. From
here the way is left open for
the implementation of their
most effective tools, deceit
and force. Only their motives
could justify their methods.
Under deceit must be listed
the frustration of all truth,
and the encouragement of all
harmful fallacies. Empirical
evidence reveals , the use of
force includes all forms of
homocide (genocide murder,
etc.), atso subversion unlimit
ed, extortion, torture, all hu
man depravity.
Against such a degenerate
adversary, and in light of the
marvelous yet fearful develop
ments of science, the right of
any state to self-defense can
not be denied, unless we are
prepared to accord free move
ment to international crim
inals. This in no way disturbs
the fact that unjust war is to
be considered the gravest of
crimes, for which internation
al penal law must proscribe
tile heaviest penalties, no such
sanction exists today.
Robert J. Howard,
828B West 14th St
Medford.
O
Editor's note: A question-
Is "self defense" another
phrase for "mutual anihila-
tion In a world containing
multi - megaton hydrogen
bombs?
Asks Other's Views
To the Editor: I want to ask
what the other people in this
Rogue River Valley think
about the trouble they are
having in Southern California
with the imported Mexican
Nationals who have been im
ported into the Imperial Val
ley to work in the lettuce
fields, etc., and take the jobs
away from the American
laborers who have by now ex
hausted their unemployment
compensation and are now on
welfare, being taken care of
can countrymen, who like
3
Finally Agrees To Increase Its
lleved could increase their
contributions were booming
West Germany and Japan.
Last week end pleasant news
came from West Germany.
Billion Dollar Offer
A .delegation headed by
West' German Foreign Minis
ter Helnrich Von Brentano
informed President Kennedy
that West Germany was ready
to up Its contribution of aid
to underdeveloped nations to
about $1 billion a year.
It was an unexpected 'climax
to a situation which threaten
to put the severest strain on
U.S.-West German delegates
of any time since the end of
the war.
For the West German gov
ernment it also represented
an about-face.
Last January, when Robert
B. -Anderson, President Eisen
hower's secretary of the treas
ury, took the problem to Bonn,
the Germans refused to ac
cept the view that the gold
shortage was more than short
range. They contended that the
outflow of American gold,
leaving the United States with
a 1960 deficit of nearly $4
billion, was a temporary situ
ation which quickly would
correct itself,
Mutual Rejections
The Germans rejected a
U.S. demand that they take
over $600 million in NATO
troops supply costs. The Unit
ed States, in turn, rejected
a one-time offer of German
help to the extent of $972
million, mostly in advance
payments of German war
In the Day's News
By FRANK
... From Washington:
Secretary of Commerce
Hodges will head a commit
tee named by President Ken
nedy to study problems of the
U.S. cotton textile industry
and suggest solutions. The
White House says the panel
will look Into such questions
as the industry's ability to
meet mounting imports, cot
ton subsidy price levels and
technological developments.
Possible federal help for
textile plants and workers
hurt by import competition
will also be considered by the
committee.
HMMMMMM, Let's see if
we can get a straight look
at the facts in this cotton
textile business. Here is what
has been happening:
We subsidize the cotton
growers, thus bringing about
SURPLUS of cotton. In
order to get rid of the sur
plus (when we begin to run
out of storage space) we sell
it abroad at a CUT price,
themselves, have always sup
ported this country, its schools
and institutions and its armed
forces.
I would especially like to
hear what our patriotic Camp
White veterans and any others
who have ever been unem
ployed and forced to go on
welfare, think about the situ
ation. Southern California has
now been declared a disaster
area, and some of the most
depressed have been arrested
for attacking the Mexican
labor camps and attempting
to force the Mexican laborers
out of the country, The ones
they should have attacked
were the ones who brought
them into this country and the
ones who hired them.
We have the same situation
right here In this valley and
I'm wondering how long our
unemployed are going to s.tond
for it. The agents go around
to the pear orchards and get
the owners to sign up with
them to have their pears
picked and then they go to
Mexico and get the Mexican
laborers to sign up to come
and pick the pears for so much
a box. Of course the orchard
ist likes- this because he not
only gets his pears picked
cheaper than an American
union laboring man can pick
them, but he doesn't have to
pay any social security or un
employment, etc., because his
employees are not American
citizens. They just come over
to this country and get as
much as they can from it and
take it back to Mexico. And
what does the orchordist get?
He gets his boxes filled up
with all kinds of crumby old
pears, sticks, stones, leaves
and anything else the picker
can gets his hands on. includ
ing the refuse from his lunch.
I hope the people of this
valley wake up and get busy
to prevent tins from happen
ing again this year. Write to
your state senators and repre
sentatives and U. S. senators
and representatives and I be-1
lieve something can be done
about it. for this is going to
be a year for the laboring
man and a year for all of us
to do what we can to get rid
of this 5.5 million unemploy
ed. Let's do our part.
Mildred Engman.
1107 East Main St.,
Medford.
debts and munitions pur
chases in the U.S.
Kennedy's rejection of a
similar German offer as fail
ing to meet either the "prob
lem or the opportunity"
aroused in West Germany the
same resentment as had been
Matter of Fact
-(Editor's note: Joseph Al
sop was married on Feb. 16.
and lo permit him a brief
honeymoon, his brother and
former partner Stewart Al
sop, who has recently re
turned from Africa, writes
the following column and
one to follow.)
By STEWART ALSOP
Khrushchev's Saucepan
Washington-President Ken
nedy has calmly but firmly
warned Niklta Khrushchev
not to intervene in the Congo,
If Khrushchev ignores the
warning, as he has threatened
to do. he will be taking an
enormous gamble of a sort the
Kremlin has not taken before,
And it is important to realize
that, if he takes the gamble
the odds are, or ought to be,
all in our favor.
If Khrushchev won h i s
gamble, the reward would be
a solidly established, disci
plined Communist satellite
state in the Congo.
Look at a map and you will
see how glittering this prize
must seem to 'Khrushchev.
Stanleyville, headquarters of
Communist Antoino Gizango,
is in the very heart of Africa,
and a Communist Congo
would be an enormous stride
JENKINS
which is absorbed by the sub
sidy. Then
FOREIGNERS buy the cheap
cotton we are dumping, spin
it into cloth with labor that
is much cheaper than our
labor and sell the cloth back
to us at prices that are lower
than our mills can meet.
That seems to be the long
and the short of it.
IJUSINESS note in the news:
" A round hot dog that
looks like a doughnut is in
the works. The president of
the concert that hopes to
start national distribution of
it' this ; spring says consumers
have long asked for a frank
furter- that fits circular ham
burger buns and BAGELS.
QUESTION:
What's a BAGEL?
It stumped this department,
which tends to deal more
with economics, sociology
political philosophies and the
lessons of history than with
new-fangled hot dogs and
such. So we fell back on the
dictionary, consulting first
Webster's Collegiate edition,
which doesn't take up much
space on a desk.
No soap. The Collegiate
goes from bagatelle to bag
gage, with no mention of ba
gel. So we tried Funk and
Wagnalls' New Standard Dic
tionary. Still no soap. We
went from there to Webster's
Unabridged, whlfth weighs
about 20 pounds. N6 mention
of Bagel.
So we asked our sports
editor - and he came across
without an Instant's hesita
tlonv A bagel, he said, is a
round bun, a little on the
tough side, and filled with
fish or anything that happens
to strike the fancy of the
maker. Bagels, he added,
have long been popular
around baseball parks.
Conclusion:
When you want to know
something, ask the sports
editor.
JETTING back to this entre
" preneur and his round
hot dog, he may have some
thing. The trouble with the
old-fashioned frankfurter is
that it tends to stick out over
the edges of the bun. So . . .
you're at a loss as to where
to begin when you tackle
one. Shall you bite off the
ends? Or sholl you tackle the
bun from the side, leaving
the ends of the frankfurters
hanging out for the last de
licious bite? It's a problem.
These round hot dogs will
present no problem. You'll
just wade Into them. You're
familiar, perhaps, with this
business proverb: "If you
write a better book, or preach
a better sermon, or build a
better mousetrap than your
neighbor, the world will
make a beaten path to your
door."
It sounds like the round
hot dog man may hit the
jackpot.
T)Y THE WAY, there's a lot
of controversy over who
wrote that classic bit of busi
ness advice. Some excellent
literary authorities credit it
to Ralph Waldo Emerson and
add that it was cribbed with
out credit by Fra Elbert Hub
bard about a generation ago
and used in his little maga
zine, The Philistine.
encountered earlier by the
Anderson mission.
Some of the German reluc
tance has been based on oppo
sition to raising German taxes
in an important election year.
That reluctance now seeming
ly has been overcome.
By Stewart Alsop
towards Khrushchev's dream
of Communist control of Af
rica, the last great storehouse
of unexploitod natural re
sources, OUT look at the map again,
and you will see what
risks are involved in an at
tempt by Khrushchev to arm
and supply the Glzenga re
gime, n order to enable it lo
conquer the Congo. The Com
munists have often armed and
supplied Communist move
ments on the periphery of -the
Iron Curtain, as ifi Korea,
Indo China, Laos, Greece, and'
Azor Baijan. But the Congo is
not on the periphery of the
Iron Curtain.
Stanleyville is nearly 3,000
miles from Soviet territory.
The only practical way for the
Soviets to supply the Stanley
ville regime with important
quantities of military materiel
is by mounting an air lift, us
ing Cairo as the staging area.
The landing facilities in Slan
leyville are primitive, and the
Soviet air lift would have to
over-fly the Sudan illegally,
as well as Greece, Turkey, or
Iran. Surely this would bo a
very risky undertaking.
It might be worth the risk
if Khrushchev could be sure
that the West would stand
idly by while he built up his
Communist rump regime. But
he cannot be sure, as Presi
dent Kennedy has made clear.
At the least, Khrushchev must
assume that if he intervenes to
support and supply Stanley
ville, the West will support
and supply the U.N.-recog-nized
regime of President
Kasavubu in Leopoldville. To
fall to do so would be to hand
the Congo, and ultimately Af
rica, to the Kremlin on a
silver platter.
ASA third glance at the
'map will suggest, if Khru
shchev forces a show-down In
the Congo, the military logis
tical advantages will be all on
the side of the West. But the
gamble might still pay off for
Khrushchev, if the political
advantages were all on his
side.
If it were true that the Con
golese rrmsses worshipped the
late Patrice Lumumba as a
hero and'patrlot, Gizenga, as
Lumumba's stand-in, would
have a great political advant
age. With mass popular sup
port, and aid from the Soviets
and the Egyptians, the Gizen
ga regime might then burk
the military-logistical odds to
conquer the whole Congo.
But the notion that Lum
umba is or was worshipped
by the Congolese masses is a
myth. Lumumba was an ac
complished demagogue, when
he found the time between
bouts of gin-drinking, hashish
smoking, and amusing him
self with his harem of doxies.
He had a certain following
among the small minority of
de-tribalized city dwellers.
But he was also roundly hat
ed. On two separate occasions,
the anti-Communist Col. Jo
seph Mobutu saved him from
assassination.
Lumumba was hated for
many reasons, most of them
good. But the main reason was
that his attempt to establish
a unitary state cut across the
tribal loyalties which are the
Congo's central political real
ity. Thus Gizenga and com
pany are certainly not going
to conquer jon the cheap, sim
ply by invoking Lumumba's
name. Furthermore, the plain
fact is that the Gizenga re
gime, economically blockaded
and plagued by warring fac
tions, is in very bad trouble.
1VE MUST get over our in
" feriority complex about
Africa. We must not be so ter
rified of being called "imper
ialists" that we are paralyzed.
Khrushchev is going to con
tinue to use all means, from
bribery to the threat of force,
to bring Africa into the Com
munist orbit, as is his sacred
duty as a Communist. But we
do have the power to persuade
Khrushchev and his frient's
that certain measures, includ
ing unilateral intervention 'n
the Congo, involve too great a
risk and too small a chance o
success.
To that end, it is important
to realize that, if Khrushchev
does force a show-down in the
Congo, the odds are in our
favor.
"We are going to make the
imperialists dance like fishes
in a saucepan," Khrushchev
boasted recently. We are the
imperialists, of course-United
States and its allies-and Af
rica is the saucepan.
If we do not want to dance
like fishes in Mr. Khrush
chev's saucepan, we must have
tne courage to let him know
that there is a real risk that he
might get scalded himself.
That is what President Ken
nedy has quietly but boldly
done.
(c) 1961. New York Herald
Tribune Inc.