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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 3-1951 (Saturday)
The possibility of locating
an air national guard unit
here is being studied, Mayor
Diamond Flynn reported yes
terday. Both houses of the Oregon
legislature next week will
again mix into the contro
versy over unrestricted sale of
colored oleomargarine in Ore
gon. 20 YEARS AGO ;
March 3, 1941 (Monday)
Claude C. Hockley, 62,
PWA northwest administrator
from October, 1937, to Sep
tember, 1939, died at his home
in Portland today.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A Uni
versity of Oregon athlete lcip-
cd 7 ft., one-inch, stralgnt up,
He couldn't have done any
better, if jabbed with a hatpin
or angered by Roosevelt."
30 YEARS AGO
March 3, 1931 (Tuesday)
A general construc.ion con
tract of $129,000 for the new
Medford High school was let
yesterday.
Optimism over business
conditions in the coming year
are seen in "prosperity day,"
to be celebrated here next
week.
40 YEARS AGO
March 3. 1921 (Thursday)
A fire at Gold Hill yester
day destroyed a store and
apartment building, a law of
fice, a merchandise warehouse
and the Comus theater.
Work has started on the
Medford Irrigation district's
construction of 41) miles of
new ditch and 300 to 400
miles of laterals.
SO YEARS AGO
March 3. 1911 (Friday)
A man was arrested for
speeding 35 miles per hour on
Main si. yesterday and was
uncd $5 despite his plea that
his car can't go that fast.
More than 5,000 letters and
25,000 pieces of Commercial
club literature have been sent
out by local residents in sn
effort to attract easterners to
the Rogue valley.
Mat's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct It suaariori
liven ot (tight il iceilenti five t
lis is good.
i; Who Is the United Slates
treasurer?
2. In addition to mileage al
lowances, U. S. Congressmen
also receive extra pay when
they attend special, sessions;
truo or false?
3. It is, or is not "correct"
to cat artichokes with the
fingers?
4. How Is the humming
sound produced by a bee?
9. According to Paul, what
are the abiding virtues?
6. The so-called Century
plant blooms only once in
every century; true or false?
7. Do stalactites or stalag
mites form on the roof of
limestone caves?
- B. What is the number of
the prohibition amendment to
the U. S. Constitution?
9. What Is the salary of the
President of the United
States?
10. What is concrete usual
ly reinforced with?
Answers: 1. Mrs, Elliabtlh
R. Smith. 2. Falsa. 3. li is.
4. Vibration of wings. S.
Faith, hop and charily. 6.
Falsa. 7. Stalactites. 8. Eigh
fo.nlh. 9. $100,000 a year. 10.
Slael XMe t
FRIDAY, MARCH 3. 1961
Varieties of Education
Over the years considerable wordage in this
snace has been devoted to education, its prob
lems, its successes and
levels, elementary, high school, at the college ana
university level, and in graduate work.
Education, we devoutly believe, is the single
most important facet of life today, providing the
basis for all our future.
We must have a literate, knowledgeable citi
zenry, able to make the life and deatn decisions
which face us. And it is even more vital to us be
cause we live in a country which (thank God) is
governed by consent of the governed, with the
ultimate and the basic decisions being made by
the electorate.
NO SINGLE phase of education can be set aside
nnd fai'Wi nr mrwa imnni'f out fVmw fVin ftfVlDIC
auu ti ujcu juui c iiiiuui iiv bum wit wvivi u.
In the early grades,
skills reading and writing and figuring, the les
sons of social intercourse, and the attitudes and
habits which will be with them the rest of then-lives.
In the middle grades,
school, they expand on
out for the backeround
successful, worthwhile
learn some of the details
surroundings, of our society.
And in college and
these, still further expanding the background
skills, knowledge and attitude, and at the same
time obtaining more detailed grounding in what
Will UK lUCU 11XC S WUlft..
""THERE is, however, a gap a major one in
1 this continuity which is provided for able
young people.
It was put in perspective the other day in a
United Press International article by Louis Cas
sels, one of the very best of UPI's reporters, when
he said:
"But very little national concern has been expend
ed on the boys and girls who don't go to college not
because they lack money, not because they can't find
room, but simply because they aren't blessed with
the academic ability necessary to do college work."
There are more of these young people in this
nation than there are those who are able to bene
fit by college work. And in them lies a vast po
tential for good good for themselves and their
families, good for their communities, good for
the state and nation and world.
"TOO often this potential good is ignored, or,
at best, merely nodded at.
In some cases, active, aggressive steps are
being taken to give these young people the sort
of training from which they, ana the larger com
munity, can benefit. ,
But the effort is neither widespread enough,
nor in sufficient depth. A start has been made
in some areas to provide adequate vocational
training, adequate counseling, work-study pro
grams and the like. But more must be done to
focus the attention of society itself, and of those
charged with educational responsibility, on the
potential.
THERE is, of course,
1 IClly VV 111 lb WOlf iU JLJ
John Gardner, president of the Carnegie Cor
poration, who has made a study of this problem
and who is quoted in
this :
"It would be an added expense to the schools, but
not necessarily to society as a whole. Young people
who fall to get Jobs or who become juvenile delin
quents arc a costly burden on the whole community,
and every boy or girl whose abilities arc not developed
is a loss to society.
"II is better to spend money preventing such out
comes than to spend it later picking up the pieces."
IT BOILS down to this question:
"Shall we spend our
and guiding young people into worthwhile,
wholesome, productive lives? Or shall we spend
: ... ,l i i : i j ....?
it, uu juveinit! uuiA-iiuun iiumusg jaiis ana prisons,
police forces, and welfare relief?"
There is, in each human born on earth, a po-
nnli'..1 J. .. ... . ,1 .. 1 i .' . 1 t 1 HTl 1.
iLMHuu iui j;uuti auu u juiciumi mi oaci. vvnicn
potential will triumph is a matter of utmost con
cern lor us all.
Gardner adds:
"The root of the difficulty Is our bid habit of assum.
Ing that the only meaningful life is the 'successful'
life, defining success in terms of high personal attain
ment in the world's eyes , . . Human dignity and
worth should be assessed only In terms of those quali
ties of mind and spirit that are within tht reach of
every human being."
QUR nation was founded on the premise that
"'each person should have an equal opportun
ity- . .
This is denied in our
day in many ways.
One of the most sitrnificant is in the denial
of opportunity for those
worth as a human beirg is just as great as any
one else's, despite color or race or educational
background, or social milieu, or academic ability.
In erasing this denial we need to pay far more
attention than we do at present to the oppor
tunities which society can provide to those vounir
Eeople who may not meet the requirements to
econie doctors or lawyers or scientists, but who
do have the potential to
good workers, productive and constructive mem
bers of society in a hundred different ways.
eV I
its failures, and at all
youngsters get the basic
junior and senior high
these and begin to reach
of knowledge needed bv
citizens. They begin to
of our heritage, of our
university, they build on
the age-old question
OUV.ll IUU I
the Cassels article, says
money buildincr schools.
social framework to-
citizens whose essential
become eood citizens.
Dennis the Menace
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AN' ONLY CN THINS WB REAlLyM
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contrary ts c-tten tha cat.
"Operation Abolition"
To the Editor: It may be
well to call attention of your
over-zealous s u p e r-patriots
who have written you in de
fense of the House Un-Amer
ican Activities Committee's
un-American film, "Operation
Abolition" that an investiga
tor for the H.U.A.C. has ad
mitted that this film contains
inaccuracies and distortions,
as evidenced by the following
quotation from an editorial in
the Feb. 1 issue of the coun
try's most outstanding unde
nominational weekly, "The
Christian Century:"
"The brief, monthly publi
cation of the Illinois division
of the American Civil Lib
erties Union, reports in its
January issue an interesting
conversation between Burton
White of the University of
California faculty and Wil
liam Wheeler, an investigator
for the House Un-American
Activities Committee. In a TV
debate White tried to point
out some of the distortions in
the film 'Operation Abolition.'
Wheeler said, 'What are you
trying to prove by this?
White replied, 'That the film
has inaccuracies and distor
tions. Wheeler then said, 'I've
admitted that.'
"For what purpose does
H.U.A.C. circulate a film
which one of its own investi
gators admits has been doc
tored? Toward what end it is
sacrificing truth for propa
ganda? The film's thesis is
that all efforts to abolish
H.U.A.C. are communist-Inspired.
This, then, must be the
end for which the committee
is willing to distort the facts
and misrepresent as communist-influenced
the students
who last May in San Fran
cisco disapproved of the com
mittce and its works.
. "American citizens have the
right to criticize their gov
ernment and to protest any of
its actions; no officer, branch
or committee of government
from the President and the
Supreme Court on down to
the sacrosanct. Before this de
ceptive film was produced,
the methods used by the
H.U.A.C. to perpetuate its ex
istence had convinced the
'Washington Post,' the 'New
York Times,' the 'St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,' the American
Civil Liberties Union and this
paper that the committee
should be abolished. The clr
dilation of 'Operation Aboli'
tion,' which is now reported
to exceed 2,000 copies, con
firms our opinion."
To which this writer would
add an emphatic Ditto and a
fervent Amen.
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Editor's note: Hopes to abol
Ish the committee, or even to
curtail its activities, have
come to naught, at least for
this session of Congress. The
committee was reinstated, and
its requested appropriation
of $331,000 was approved by
the House yesterday, with
only a handful of Representa
tives voting no.
Th Musa Strlkts
Gold Hill Again
To the Editor: Willi apolo
gies to Gold Hill Billy 1 sub
mit these few verses (?):
Here's a silly little dittv
All about our Cold Hill City;
Not as clever as Gold Hill
Billy
So I'll sign it Gold Hill Lilly.
There is beauty all around.
Up above and on the around.
The hills are dressed In lovely
nucs
With the sky of different
blues.
But we have our problems,
too,
Just as other peoples do.
And we want the people here
To wake tipl Stand up! Give a
Our city is among the old,
Once named for a hill of gold,
So why not start in findln'
clues
To help it lose the civic bluet?
We have air pollution now,
This is nothing new some
how, But the big-wigs like to claim
There is somethin' else to
blame.
This white stuff both high 'n'
low
Cannot be God's own true
snow.
And we've learned with much
disgust
We're not to blame the ce
ment dust.
Then there's the odor on a day
When the wind comes down
our way.
Ohl Hold yer nose and dare
not breathe,
Or you'll find there's no re
prieve.
In the autumn, eatin' turkey,
We find the water awful
murky,
Ugh! We can't stand chlorine's
taste,
And the settlin' that is waste.
There are many people here,
Some of them enjoy their
beer,
Others play a different game,
But I won't tell you it's
name.
All the people here are good,
They'd be better if they could,
But their need is not a chair,
But start in lettin' down their
hair.
Some of them are in a rut
Cause they never leave their
hut.
They should get into the
groove
To see what they can help
improve.
Now this little ditty's ended
You know I could not have
pretended .
To be as clever as Gold Hill
Billy,
So now I'll stop this beln' .
silly.
This is to be sung "more or
less" to the tune of "Twinkle,
Twinkle Little Star".
I may never be able to
write another poem such as
this and I imagine some are
hoping I never will. It's my
first attempt but it Just rolled
right off this pen so i can't
be blamed.
Gold Hill Lilly
Gold Hill, Ore.
"Winama"-Yes
To the Editor: Truly a good
name for the new National
Forest from the Klamath In
dian Reservation and adjacent
lands, memoralizlng a good
and noble character. Protect
ing and conserving forests
sacred to American Indians
should please the Klamath
and Modoc people.
Wlnema's life was Indeed
romantic, -.stinctivc, historic.
Every high school student
should read A. B. Meacham's
book, "Wigwam and War
path." He was the man whose
scalp and life Winema saved
at the Modoc massacre.
Meacham devoted the rest of
his life to promoting better
understanding and humMne
treatment of American In
dians by palefaces. Needless
cruelty, bloodshed and hate
would have been avoided and
white man's standing now on
all this planet far better had
Winema s counsel been heed
ed.
Winema. also called "To-
bey" - "Woman-Chief-of-the-
Bravc-Heart," and Captain
Jack. Kirntcpoos, young son
of the slaughtered Chief In
the V right massacre on Lost
River, were cousins - full-
blooded Modoca, who still
wanted to live in beace. They
showed a real spirit of intent
tor "free enterprise, co
existence, as compared with
white man's greed and gloat
" stUuutex h th mod
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
Red China
Into Economics; Famine Aid Said Lacking
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Red China's irritation with
the Soviet Union now is re-
Dorted to have extended from
jSfSBs the political
SM iieia 10 me
iM econom
1 have
t two
been
openly at odds
over interpre
tation of Com
m u n i s t doc
trine since the
Red "summit'
Newsom meeting in
Moscow last fall.
That was the meeting at
which Niklta Khrushchev's
"co-existence" theme won out
over Red China's demands for
a hard line against the West.
Reports from behind the Iron
Curtain insist that time has
not healed the breach despite
demonstrations of friendship
Now the Chinese are re
ported irritated because of So
viet failure to offer more aid
to help them overcome near
powerful, still whiteman's am
bition. Many American Indian wo
man, like Pocahontas, Sara
Wlnnemucca, Sacajawea, Wi-
nema were uncrowned
Queens. Chiefs Sequoia, Os
ceola, Little Turtle (mutual
close friend of George Wash
ington's), Sitting Bull, Chief
Joseph, Captain Jack, et al
showed superior human qual
ities in many ways, and out
generaled white big brass
time and again. Only by far
greater numbers and more
powerful war machinery did
white man crush a weaker,
home-loving, courageous people-in
their own "Land of the
Free and Home of the Brave."
Ever consider what a dif
ferent land this Continent
might be now-what a differ
ent world if white invaders
had absorbed and been ab
sorbed by the American In
dians .nd the good in both
aeveloped, instead of white
savages trying to exterminate
the Redman and exploiting,
wasting and destroying Amer
ica s God-given abundances?
Think 11 over.
John E. Cribble
, 139 Kenwood ave.
Medford
Ont Down . .
To the Editor: One down
and 1,799,999 to go. What
sort of unthinking, sniveling
person is this Mr. Sandwick
that would hand out an ulti
matum, "give us help or give
us Communism." If he is an
American citizen, he is cer
tainly unworthy of any of its
vast privileges. He reminds
me of another who sold his
birthright for a mess of pot
tage.
Now look, Mr. Sandwick,
why don't you Just catch the
next ship for Russia? There
Is always an opening in the
salt mines. .We pay about 50c
ior the garbage truck to pick
up our garbage. I am in favor
of letting my garbage go for
a week and starting a fund
Yes sir, if others would do
this over the state we could
pay this man's fare to Russia.
I have been out of work a
couple of months without un
employment benefits and If I
end up in a lean-to on a moun
tain side, this is my country,
my flag and my responsibil
ity, and I prefer America
without any qualifications to
communism.
There are still millions
who have not bowed their
knee to Baal. We may not be
as noisy as the commies but
we are here and determined
to stay free.
Andrew Slack
Route 2, Box 671
Central Point, Ore.
Stupendous Fraud
To the Editor: The so-called
"three-way workmen's com
pensation bill" presently be
fore the upper house of the
Oregon Legislature is one of
the most stupendous frauds
ever attempted on the people
of the state.
In Oregon, the cost of In
dustrial Accident compensa
tion is paid by the employers
of labor and from the record
of 1947 to 1957 there was paid
Into the fund $161 million. Of
this sum 93 cents of each dol
lar was prid out in compensa
tion or medical care, 7 cents
being the cost of administra
tion. Ninety-six private stock
companies filed insurance ex
pense exhibits in 1959 with
the New York Insurance de
partment. Their losses, ac
cording to their reports,
amounted to 65.7 per cent of
premium dollars, leaving
34.3 per cent for the cost of
administration.
Mr. Gerald Mendl, lobbyist
for the Associated Oregon In
dustries, said, among other
things, that the "key objec
tive" of the three-way plan
is not to compensate injured
marli -, hut 1 eravanl in
- Russian Split Now Extending
famine conditions brought on
by last summer's severe
drought.
No Soviet Cash
There is no sign that Rus
sia it helping to foot the high
dollar bill for Peiping's vast
grain purchases in the capital
ist West. Nor it there any sign
that Russia it sending any
more supplies to Red China
beyond those agreed upon un
der mutual trade arrange
ments. Red China hat placed or
ders abroad for more than
two million tons of wheat,
chiefly from Australia and
Canada. Grain orders also
have been placed with France
Political Genius Needed In
Handling NAACP's Demands
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington IUPD - President
Kennedy's genius for politict
will find a major test just
around the corner.
If he listens carefully, the
the President
can hear some
thunder o n
the left. This
thunder orlg
inates among
Negroes and
the leaders of
organized lab
or. They are
p r o t e s t Ing
what they re
gard as the Kennedy admin
istration's failure to do
do enough fast enough
A National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People official sounded off
this week in Baltimore. Clar
ence Mitchell, director of the
NAACP Washington ollice,
said:
"To date the new adminis
tration, which made so many
promises in the party plat-
dustrial accidents, which
seems intentionally confusing
and contradictory since the
three-way law would, in all
probability, bring more than
100 companies into Oregon to
share in the profits, and in so
doing would make a unified
rehabilitation program virtu
ally impossible.
Mr. S. Bruce Black, chair
man of the Board of Liberty
Mutual, speaking on the sub
ject of rehabilitation of in
jured workers, said in port-
land on Sept. 13, 1960, A
good case in point is the State
Industrial Accident Commis
sion of Oregon, which among
its activities-, operates its own
rehabilitation center, a re
spected institution, and one of
the few of its kind under tne
administration of State Insur
ance funds".
Obviously the "key objec
tive" of the so-called three-
way bill is the profits of the
private insurance companies
without regard to who is in
jured thereby. It is not al
ways that the interests of the
employers and the employees
are identical, but this seems
to be a case in point. If this
bill becomes law the indus
trial accident program will
either pay the injured work
men less, or cost the employ
ers of Oregon more. Now is
the time to protest this impo
sition before it passes eithe
house of the Legislature.
D. Ivan Frltts
794 Fortner Lane
Ontario, Ore.
In Pure Desparatlon
To the Editor: I really don't
know if this will help any,
but in pure desperation 1
must again appeal to those
people who share our 10-party
telephone line, please, for hu
manity s sake, to use a little
consideration for the other
nine of us.
When you tie up this line
in long gab-sessions, or al
low your teenagers to do so,
you are seriously hindering
the rest of us from making
necessary calls or from re
ceiving long distance calls.
For instance, my husband
was on his way home from
a Far East post, and tried to
make an emergency call here.
from Guam, from Honolulu,
from San Francisco, and in
between. He was in Weed
Calif., before he got the call
mrougn, because of the "yack-
Ing people" on this 10-party
Talbot line.
I gues you know his feelings
toward the people who would
use so little consideration. To
day I have been trying for
2Vj hours to make a business
call, and as yet cannot get
the line free of talkers.
As much as I, myself, like
to visit with friends, I seldom
ever use my phone except for
business reasons, out of con
sideration for the other nine
subscribers, and I do appeal
to you people in "desperate
sincerity" to use the same
amount of consideration, so
that we may all use the privi
leges that we pay for-a line
to use when we most need It.
Whether you people realize
it or not, we are privileged
and lucky even to have our
phones, and we could very
easily lose that privilege by
abusing it, as there are a
goodly number of people In
In vftiiiat for these phones.
and negotiations are under
way to buy 180,000 tons of
corn from Argentina.
All these put a severe strain
on Peiping's limited dollar
and sterling reserves.
Coupled with these difficul
ties is the fact that Red China
it continuing the struggle to
hold her allies in the ideologi
cal struggle with the Soviet
Union and to win new friends,
notably in Africa.
Regardless of hunger at
home, she is helping some of
the African nations and Al
bania financially and econom
ically. She also will try to
meet barter commitments call
ing for shipment of large
form and during the cam
paign, has not issued a single
executive order protesting
civil rights and has not pro
posed a single civil rights bill
as part of its 'must' pro
grams." Action in the Works
There is reason to believe
that the President is hearing
some of that thunder on the
left. At any rate, he told his
news conference Wednesday
that he hopes "in the next few
days" to issue an executive
order aimed at breaking down
racial discrimination in em
ployment. He said his admin
istration also is studying how
it might strengthen safe
guards for civil rights in other
fields, such as housing and
education.
The AFL-CIO high com
mand has complained that the
administration was not doing
enough to employ the jobless
and to' boost the nation's
economy.
Labor recognizes consider
able right wing resistance in
Congress to Kennedy pro
grams on their own and other
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
DEAD STEREOTYPES
Washington - One hardy
stereotype - the cliche that
"the wild-eyed professors
would surely be the first to
embarrass President Kennedy
-is dead be
fore the ad
ministration is
two months in
office. Jt just
has not been
so.
Another
equally hardy
stereotype was
that, anyhow
White tne rresiaem
would be saved from profes
sorial folly by the profession
al politicians in his shop. The
pros on the whole have done
well. But there Is one glaring
exception-though this corre
spondent, as a pro-politician
writer who has held the live
liest suspicion of . academics
in public life, regrets he must
report it.
The one official of the Ken
nedy administration who has
thus ftr plainly embarrassed
it is t professional politician
former Gov. G. Mennen Wil
liams of Michigan. Williams'
behavior in his current Afri
can tour, as assistant secretary
of state for African affairs
has been almost incredibly ir
responsible. TN
h
THAT tragically cm-
broiled continent, where
any official has the plainest
duty to walk with care, he
has gone about on a dema
gogues holiday. It is as
though he saw the whole prob
lem as crudely simple as try
ing to catch negro votes in
Detroit.
He has offended our maior
allies, notably Britain, by
passing harsh, off-the-cuff
judgments on matters neither
who will appreciate them.
and avoid abusing such a con
venience.
Please use discretion, and
don't tie up the line. There
is a definite 5-minute limit
on calls, and If you will re
member that, it would cer
tainly be appreciated by the
other subscribers, who arc
waiting to make or receive a
necessary call. Thank you.
Mary Williams
Central Point, Ore.
Talented Mankind
To the Editor:
The crickets chirp with their
hind legs.
Men do as well:
For though their legs refuse
to chirp,
Their feet can smell!
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Medford
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amounts of ricr to Ceylon and
Cuba.
Policy Pressure
In the meantime, Red China
continues to press Khrushchev
for a tougher policy line.
The hardened Russian stand
on Laos is believed, at least
in part, to be the result ot
Chinese pressure. Similarly,
the Chinese appear to be try
ing to force Khrushchev's
hand in the Congo.
Without waiting for Mos
cow, Pelping formally recog
nlzed the pro-Lumumba re
gime of Antoine Gizenga In
Stanleyville and followed it
up within 24 hours with an
exchange of ambassadors.
fronts. Labor leaders evi
dently believe they can help
overcome that resistance by
pressuring the administration
to go further and faster to
ward labor's goals.
Tough Problem Presented
The NAACP's Mitchell indi
cated that Negroes are more
agitated by Kennedy's actions
or inactions than are labor's
leaders. This presents a tough
problem. Negroes are im
portant among the minority
groups that put Kennedy In
the White House. There are
many urgent reasons for Ken
nedy to avoid offendin? Ivegro
voters.
There is an equally urgent
reason for delaying proposals
for new civil rights legisla
tion. The Senate's rule 22 to
protect Senate minorities is in
force. It permits filibuster
tactics.
To bring civil rights legis
lation before the Senate now
would arouse instant filibust
er. That would mousetrap all
other Kennedy legislative pro
grams. The problem posed de
mands political genius.
S. WHITE
his business nor remotely
within his competence. His
warmest friends could hardly
say that he has made tha
smallest contribution to any
solution of African difficul
ties. He has only rubbed up
more ill-feeling between
white and black. '
This sort of conduct in his
case was perhaps predictable.
For he is a special, and hap
pily rare, kind of politician
an automatic reactor to pres
sure group interests. Still, it
is a great disservice to his
fellow professional politicians
within the administration. But
for him their side would have,
to this point, a perfect score
in responsible service.
TT IS just such a perfect
score, however surprising
this may seem, that "the wild
eyed professors" have thus
far run up. They have turned
out to be not wild-eyed, after
all. Instead, they show as
quiet and competent and,
above all, responsible men
fully aware of the gravity of
the problems before this
country.
And they are-to this corre
spondent, at any rate-une.f
pectedly tolerant of disagree
ment from the non-academic
types around here.
Indeed, one begins to sus
pect that though they were
brought here primarily as
"idea men" their ideas do not
stop with glitterinc visions.
They are actually pretty prac-
iicany ienows not given to
the either-or approach. And
though mostly political liber
als they are, in my judgment,
true llbcrals-not so doctrin
aire by half as one mieht hava
feared.
VV ELL representative o t
" them is Prof. Walt Ros
tow, late of Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, and he
win illustrate the point.
As a White House adviser,
Rostow has much on his plate
-Including the Cona-rv the
North Atlantic Treaty organi
zation, the foreign aid pro
gram. But when you talk to
him you find no knee-jerk
professional ".liberalism," no
eager, dogmatic saver of this
world by tomorrow morning
at 10:32.
You find a man who -hir.
fully aCCCDlS Iwn onlornm.
One is that when you art not
in power you can afford much
grand rhetoric, but when you
are in power you must cut
your talk to fit the coat of
reality. The other is that
while reformers can do many
things they can t do them all
at once, and shouldn't. Ymi
can't, so to speak, raise the
minimum wage and "fret
Tom Mooney" all at once.
miooney, while Imprisoned
in California half .,,,.
Hon ago as a laborlte bomber,
ws a special martyr to the
professional lihpraiic, '
that period.)
(Copyright. 1981, by United
Feature Syndics!., IncJ