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Medford and Jackson County
History from tha files of Tha
Mail Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1951 (Wednesday)
Medford's unscasonal win
ter weather continued today,
with snow flurries whitening
the ground and then melting;
the same conditions are ex
pected to continue through
Thursday.
The Medford city council
last night approved a five-cent
fare hike for Evergreen Bus
lines, bringing to 15 cents the
cost for one trip.
20 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1941 (Friday)
The administrative offices
of the WPA at Eugene will
be closed tonight and its 13
employees will be transferred
to the Medford and Salem of
fices. From Arthur Perry'1 "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
legislature is getting down to
real business. In accordance
with long established custom,
they will pass a fish bill."
30 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1931 (Saturday)
An election is coming up
soon In Jacksonville to deter
mine whether that town
wants to send its high school
students to Medford for
schooling.
The U. S. board of geogra
phic names officially desig
nates "Annie Spring" as the
name of a Crater Lake camp
site Instead of "Anna Spring."
40 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1921 (Monday)
A circuit court trial In the
bank of Jacksonville scandal
opened today.
The state highway commis
sion is investigating state
highway conditions in Jack
son county this week.
50 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1911 (Tuesday)
The fame of the Rogue; val
ley as a fruit center has been
widened by a recent publica
tion by the Toyal Agricultur
al college of Copenhagen
Denmark, which extolls and
praises this area.
Ashland citizens voted yes
terday to furnish $7,500 to
ward erection of a new arm
ory In that city; the county
and state will pay the rest.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nina st tan corner Is lupirlor:
liven or tight Is aictllent) five ar
liv is goad.
1. What is th name of
Grade Allen's husband?
2. Is it true or false that
the wind of a tornado can
drive a straw Into solid boards
and tree trunks?
3. In which South American
country Is the city of Caracas?
4. What is the antitheses of
the color black?
5. Water can be taken into
a locomotive tender while the
train Is In motion; trut or
false.
8. Name tha capital of
Greece.
7. The world's highest dam
is in the United Stales, name
It.
8. What is the D.A.V.?
9. Which two presidents
were associated with Gettys
burg, Pa.
10. How Is Rocky Mountain
spotted (over transmitted?
Answers: 1, Gaorg Burns.
2. Trut. 3. Vanaiueia. 4,
Whila. 5. Trut. 8. Alhant. 7.
Hoover Dam, Colo. (728 faat).
8. Disabled Amirlcin Veter
ans, 9. Lincoln and Eisen
hower. 10, Tha wood or ihatp
tick
'iUt.fc.DAi. MAriCH 7. 1861
1
The following statement, "Guiding Principles
for Public Education," was issued recently by
the Oregon Education Policies Commission.
llfHEN we believe the public education is the
T privilege of every child, then we will . . .
1. Provide the opportunity for every person
to have a quality education.
2. Recognize that education is basically, but
is more than, intellectual development.
3. Stimulate everyone to work toward lulhll
ment of his notential.
4. Recognize that
learning.
5. Maintain balance in the program in the
face of immediate pressures.
IXHEN we believe that people are different in
" abilities, interests, aptitudes and maturity,
then we will understand
1. Quality education
and interests of every child while providing excel
lence in the total school program.
2. Curriculums must
contain subject-matter content of depth and var
iety appropriate to pupils needs.
3. Different degrees of achievement are to be
expected.
4. the tools or learning are many a text
book is only one of them.
WHEN we believe that everyone is entitled to
inrlivirliial rlicmih' rVion wp will
1. Respect a variety
tions and understandings.
2. Assure that every
tunity to develop his capacity.
. 3. Encourage originality and creativity.
4. Prepare students for vocations, citizenship,
home, leisure, as well as for further education.
5. Recognize the importance of ability to
work with others.
6. Recognize that opportunity to work and
think alone is essential at times.
7. Provide counselors , who can assist students
in realizing their individual worth, assessing their
abilities and establishing
WHEN we believe that teachers are the vital
inrrrorlinnr in n o-nnrl orlnenrinn fVipn uro
will demand that they ...
1. Be dedicated to- the larger purposes of
education.
2. Accent the responsibilities inherent in the
professional status.
3. Meet high standards of preparation and
receive proper remuneration.
, 4. Are provided with study time to keep
abreast and prepare instruction materials.
5. Study to explore
in learning and methods of teaching.
6. Be assigned to class loads appropriate to
the teaching-learning process.
7. Be charged with the authority and respons-
iblity of leadership within the classroom and
within their profession.
o. Be accorded status
ate to years of specialized study and practice.
,
IXHEN we believe that the future of this coun-
try depends on education, then we will . . .
1. Establish conditions that will assure ner-
sons-of the highest caliber for the teaching pro-
iessioit.
'2. Provide sufficient and appropriate build
ings, facilities and equipment.
3. Maintain a balanced curriculum in the
light of long-range, local, national and interna
tional concerns.
4. Recognize that intelligent and construc
tive criticism is an asset to the schools.
5. Extend financial support for educational
research.
6. Continuously evaluate the curriculum in
the light of new knowledge and research find
ings. 7. Encourage and give tribute to evidence of
intellectual achievement in the community.
8. Encourage people to learn to question and
discuss issues, to seek facts and to make de
cisions based on study and understanding.
9. Provide opportunity for the study and
evaluation controversial issues.
10. Provide for experiences in group deci
sions and activities.
11. Provide for acceptance and evaluation of
the consequences of one's decisions.
Nature of the Crisis
"The climate of the second half of the
twentieth century is somewhat
hostile to liberty. If liberty survives
in this climate it will be'bocause the
daily press perceives the nature of
this crisis and' struggles to imbue its
leaders with a sense of this challenge."
J. R. Wiggins, Executive Editor of the Washington Post,
In a speech at tha Sigma Delta Chi Awards Dinner, I960
Arizona Picking Udall Successor
Tucson, Aril. - ruri) - A
light turnout of voters was
expected today In a special
primary election to choose the
Democratic party's candidate
for Interior Secretary Stewart
Udall'i vacant scat in the
House of Representatives.
Six Democrats were seeking
t h c nomination, including
Udall's brother. Morris, to op
pose Republican candidate
Max Mathoson In the May 2
runoff election.
Morrti Udall, lik his broth-
I,
Believe...
there are many ways of
that . . .
means meeting the needs
be flexible and must
of attitudes, apprecia
person has the oppor
realistic goals.
and make use of research
and prestige appropri
er, is a former University of
Arizona basketball player who
became an attorney. He was
former Pima county attorney.
Others seeking the nomina
tion are former Rep. Harold
Patten, attorney II. Deal
Rogge Jr., state Rep. Conrad
James Carroon. William Neth
erton and William Hendrix.
Stewart Udall was elected
for the fourth time to the 2nd
Congressional District seat
last November, but resigned
when President Kennedy ap
pointed him interior secretary.
Dennis the Menace
When yon -nrav 'm outvie window yco ,
eont HAveio paw mm you m someooyi '
Matter of Fact
THE CRUNCH -
Washington - The Kennedy
Administration's first real
crunch - its first rough deci
sion between
raising the
stakes and
slaying in
game or
throwing in its
hand and get
ting out -may
well come
soon in re
mote and dis
ordered little
Aisop Laos.
This ugly possibility now
stares the American policy
makers in the face, because of
the nature and obvious pur
pose of the Soviet movement
of military supplies into the
dissident provinces of Laos.
The supply movement, by
truck out of Communist
North Viet-Nam and by air
lift from Communist China,
is massive by Laotian stand
ards. All necessary arms for
fighting full-dress manned
battles, including fairly heavy
artillery, have been brought
in and are still being brought
In. The nature of the arms be
ing imported in turn reveals
the supply movement's pur
pose. Tha purposa is to con
vert the Communist Pathet
Lao forces from light guerilla
units into conventionally
equipped infantry, capable of
taking on the Royal Lao army
in major engagements.
a
fTHIS is an old stunt of the
-- Southeast Asian Commu
nist jungle fighter. A sudden,
unexpected guerilla into - in
fantry conversion produced
the first major French disas
ter in the Indo-Chinese war,
the so-called "night of Cao
bang." The French defenders
of the Cnobang fortress were
utterly unprepared for the
former guerillas' attack with
heavy weapons.
On a much larger scale, the
same conversion also produc
ed the same wars' final dis
aster, at Dienbienphu. There
is almost no disagreement
among the Kennedy policy
makers about the need to be
ready for the gucrllla-lnto-
infanlry conversion in Laos
But there is a wide divergence
of views about the timing and
the probable results.
The more optimistic school
holds that the new Laotian
Communist army - for this is
what It will be -.cannot be
ready to strike a major air
blow before the rains come
later this spring. If a cam-
paign in the rainy season is
also ruled out, which is again
optimistic, the time of real
danger will come a the end
of this summer. The optimists
believe, further, that the dan
ger can then be contained if
the time available Is used to
straighten and sharpen the
Royal Lao army and the local
anti-Communist guerillas
1M1E pessimists foresee
quite different time sched
ule. It Is entirely possible that
most of the Pathet Lao forces
have already been quietly re
trained as organized infantry
across the border in North
Viet-Nam, Just as the attack
ers on the "night of Caobang"
had been quietly re-trainod
across the border In Commu
nist China. If this Is the case,
a serious (.omniums, often
she. aimed to win a clean cut
military victory in Laos, can
quite easily be launched in
the next 30 days. The supply
stockpiles for such an offen
sive are already In place at
the main Communist base in
the Plalne dos Jarres.
This projected time sched
ule gains credibility. It must
be added, from Nlklla S.
Khrushchev's rapid retreat
into the wilds of Siberia at the
very moment when the U.S. i
Ambassador to Moscow, Lie-
welly n Thompson, was re -
turning lo his post with a
ler to Khrushchev from Presi-1
dent Kennedy. Obviously, if I
Khrushchev is planning an of-1
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORE.
By Joseph Alsop
fensive in Laos in the imme
diate future, he will prefer to
execute his plan before he re
ceives K e n n e d y's letter.
Otherwise, his answer to Ken
nedy will seem to be the or
der to march given to the
Laotian Communists.
Yet the question about the
lime schedule is really less
important than the other ma
jor question, which is wheth
er the non-Communists in
Laos still have the power to
control the situation there.
If the non-Communists do not
have this power, or if they
cannot be provided with this
power, then a naked choice
will eventually have to be
made. One possible choice
will be to surrender Laos to
effective Communist control,
perhaps under cover of a ne
gotiation to "neutralize" the
country, such as the British
have been pleading for. ..The
other possible choice will be
to escalate that is, to
raise the slakes in Laos by
sponsoring intervention by
the Thai army, by intervening
ourselves, or in some other
manner.
TN other words, Laos Is per-
ilously close to becoming
another Korea, in slow motion
and on a much smaller scale.
The --worst of It is that the
smallness of scale is merely
local. The price of surrender
in Laos will be hardly less
llian the price that would
have had to be paid, if Presi
dent Truman had ducked the
Korean challenge. A rapidly
ensuing Communist victory in
South Viet-Nam, and a more
gradual but relentless Com
munist take-over in South
East Asia is the lowest expert
estimate of the price.
Thus far, there is not the
smallest discernible inclina
tion, in the State Department,
in the Pentagon, and above
all in the White House, to
pay the price of comfortable
surrender in Laos. But if this
is the final decision when and
if the crunch is no .longer
avoidable, some remarkable
rough weather may now be
in the making. .
(c) 1961. New York Herald
Tribuna, Inc.
Peace Corps Plans
Reviewed by Head
Of New Program
By DICK WEST
Washington-ltlFU-R. Sargent
Shriver, a brother-in-law of
President Kennedy, is the
latest member
of the First
Family to re
port for duty
on the New
Frontier.
At the mo
ment, he car
ries the un
official title of
of the
West
President's newly announced
Peace Corps program.
As I understand it. his cur
rent status is something like
that of a non-commissioned
general lending an unborn
army on an Indeterminable
mission.
j
who is young,
and crispy as a
Shriver,
handsome
ginger snap, endeavored to ex
plain some of (he plans and
specifications for the project
ed Peace Corps at a news
conference Monday.
He was confined to a rather
generalized recitation because
the program at this point has
not, as they say at the Penta
gon, "firmed up."
But for someone who Is not
even on the payroll yet, Shriv
er has tackled his assignment
with a great exuberance. I
got the impression that he is
the Ivpc of fellow who will
1 gel there, even if he is not
let-isure where he is going
Although it did not pro-1
dure much in the way of solid
Information, tha newi eon-l
Communications
letters to tha Editor must
Dear the name and address of
tho writer although under cer
tain circumstances the use ot a
ficrr name oi initial for publlca
ion Is permissible The MaU
Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with an eye to
clarification and condensation
LiClLCII UIJIIHilCU IUI ;
tlon must not exceed 400 words j
Needed Defenst
To the Editor: If you will
permit further needed de
fense of the House Commit
tee on Un-American Activities-necessity
demands the
clarification' of misleading
statements by Mr. Jenny
(Mail Tribune 3-3-61). If Mr.
Jenny has a case let him
point out more specifically
the errors contained in the
film "Operation Oblition"
that have not already been
corrected by HCUA.
Because Mr. Jenny seems
pre-oecupied with reading the
left-wing press of the country,
he may not have had time
to read the Congressional
Record of 1-9-61 containing
the lestimony of a group of
ministers (interdenomination
al), present in the hearing
room in San Francisco who
are quite unequivocal in their
statements about the commu
nist agitators leading the
riots.
, Why Mr. Jenny insists on
using the word doctoring
is not apparent. The original
film ran for 5 hours. The
distributed film runs for ap
proximately 40 minutes. The
HCUA maintains most of the
5 hours contains repitition
If this is true, the film was
not "doctored." No more than
Mr. Jenny would accuse Eric
Allen of "doctoring" the news
for not printing every item
off the news wires. Further,
there is the outspoken testi
mony of Mr.- Christopher,
mayor of San Francisco who
has stated: "The film 'Oper
ation Abolition' speaks for it
self." The mayor's office is
across the hall from the room
where the HCUA hearings
were being attempted.
Finally (and in this Eric
Allen admits it is the job of
the F.B.I, to investigate), the
F.B.I, through its director
J. Edgard Hoover has pre
sented testimony before the
HCUA pointing out the spe
cific known communists who
were leading the demonstra
tions. This testimony has
been published in a small
pamphlet that all may obtain
by writing their congressman.
Ask for the HCUA pamphlet
titled:
"Communist Target,
Youth.'
Robert J. Howard
828 B West 14th st.
Medford.
Tha Crucible
To the Editor: "The Cruc
ible," Arthur Miller's thought
provoking play produced and
performed by members of the
senior class of Medford High
School this past week, con
stituted for me one more of
many pleasant surprises since
coming to Medford a few
months ago. Brilliantly staged
and superbly acted by the en
tire cast, the show was an
impressive display of excep
tional dramatic talent and ob
viously also of expert coach
ing and direction.
But it was more than a
splendid performance and
first-rate entertainment. Ar
thur Miller had something im
portant to say (one wishes
this were true more often of
the works of contemporary
playwrights), namely, as the
announcement stated, "that
man's integrity is his most
fcrence did serve to clear up
several misconceptions about
the Peace Corps.
For instance, I had the idea
that it was going to be a sort
of CCC program for Ivy
League graduates. But Shriv
er said members of the corps
might range in age from 18
to 60.
He also look exception to
charges that the Peace Corps
might become a haven for
draft dodgers. Nor will it be
a "Children's Crusade" man
ned by a bunch of overgrown
Boy Scouts, he said.
Work Without Pay
The basic intention is to
recruit Americans of assorted
skills who are willing to work
for a year or two in under
developed countries with no
pay except minimum living
expenses and a small terminal
bonus.
Shriver is now setting up a
pilot program to go into op
eration before the end of this
year under an executive order
of the President.
Later, when all of the de
tails have been worked out,
the program will be submit
ted to Congress with a request
for operating funds.
What got me Interested in
the program was Kennedy's
statement that Peace Corps
mon might also be sent Into
certain areas of the United
States, as well as overseas.
It is my hope that one will
he sent into the suburbs of
Washington and that he will
be an expert on crab grass
control.
Independent States
Commonwealth Are
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Naws Analyst
This week in London's Lan
caster House, the 11 independ
ent members of the British
common-
wealth meet
in an atmos
phere of dis
cord marked
ly at odds with
i'M their gracious
s u rrounauigs
At the
& a aiurin s L-cmei
is Prime Min-
Newsom isier n. r
Verwoerd of the Union of
South Africa whose stern pol
icy of "apartheid" denying
equal rights to non-white has
resulated in Asian and Afri
can demands that the Union
of South Africa be ousted
from its commonwealth mem
bership. Strongly allied with Ver
woerd is Prime Minister Sir
Roy Welensky of the Central
African Federation of North
and South Rhodesia and Ny
asaland. The federation is not yet
independent, but it is tradi
tional that its prime minister
attend commonwealth meet
ings. Welensky's policy of seg
regation has been described
as even more severe than that
of South Africa. .
Confusing System
The commonwealth system
is at once both irrational and
effective, and even the Brit-
precious possession, worth de
fending at any cost , and
these young people said it
with genuine sincerity and
moving power.
There was also a special
timeliness in this work of art
so beautifully and effectively
performed. Again quoting
from the announcement, "Al
though the, plot of the drama
is based on the witchcraft
trials of early New England .
it is a mistake to see 'The
Crucible' as merely an inter
esting expose of a particularly
sorry and remote part of
American history . . . Pres
sures lo conform are as great
today In many ways as they
were in 1692, and the decision
to resist is hard to make."
There is added pertinence to
this observation . when one
thinks of the character assas
sination of the McCarthyites,
past and present, super-patri
ots who would have us believe
that our churches, schools, col
leges and universities, even
government, are infested by
communists: and who label as
subversive or fellow-traveler
anyone who denies these pat
ently absurd and completely
unprovable accusations.
This laller-day species of
witch-hunting and defamation
of individuals (as, for in
stance, Chancellor John Rich
ards of the Stale Board of
Higher Education by the al
leged president of the "Order
of Patriotic Americans" only
this past week), and of organ
izations or institutions of
proved integrity and unques
tionable patriotism, is all too
prevalent and yet rests upon
equally specious grounds. One
must hope that all who saw
"The Crucible" at the High
School learned from it, if not
before, to make this pertinent
comparison and there highly
resolved to have no part in
any of this wicked contem
porary counterpart, but on the
contrary, to resist it whenever
and wherever it shows itself.
The principal actors in the
high school play were truly
outstanding, but indeed every
part was exceptionally well
played. It is no exaggeration
to say that in my fairly long
life and work with young peo
ple in various parts of the
country, 1 never have seen a
serious play such as this so
magnificently performed by
tccnagcrs-the match of many
college or even some profes
sional casts I have seen. The
whole show was a sheer de
light, as was also the excel
lent program of the high
school orchestra. The audi
ence's reaction indicated
every bit as deep appreciation
as mine. In the idiom of the
theater in New York and in
Europe, a loud and enthusias
tic "Bravo!" to one and all!
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford.
FBI, HUAC and tha Mayor
To the Editor: This is an
answer to Mr. Eric Allen, Mr.
Jenny, and all others who
have criticized the House Un
American Activities commit
tee. The statement has been
made by Mr. Allen that the
HUAC is not needed because
we have the FBI. But the
FBI must work in secret. It
cannot act otherwise without
exposing the FBI men placed
in Communist cells, thus rend
ing its work ineffective. The
HUAC can work openly and
docs do so. One reason for
its existence is to obtain in-
1 zl
It
formation not otherwise ob-
tamable, on which to bae
new leg,sla(ion. Neither the
FBI nor the HUAC can bring
legal action. They can present!
1
ish who invented it have trou
ble explaining exactly how or
why it works.
A vice president of India
once said of it: "Common
wealth means for us complete
independence and informal as
sociation, sharing of ideals,
though not of allegiance, of
purposes though not of loy
alties, common discussions . . .
though not binding decisions."
From a parctical standpoint,
the commonwealth works be
cause it provides economic
advantages both to Britain
and to her former colonies
through tariff and various
trade agreements.
Among the 11 members,
Ghana and Nigeria are attend
ing their first meeting since
attaining independence. Oth
ers are Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, India, Pakis
Washington Report
By WILLIAM
KENNEDY AND BUSINESS
Washington - As superbly
ironical as it may, sound, 1961
may go down as the year in
which a new Democratic Pres
ident struck
up a closer
practical part
nership in one
way with
American
business than
the old Eisen
hower Repub
lican adminis
tration ever
wmte oia.
The Kennedy administra-
their information to the at
torney general who can bring
action.
I have been privileged to
hear a tape recording of a
speech concerning the May,
1960, student riots in San
Francisco by Mr. George
Christopher, mayor of San
Francisco, to the Chamber of
Commerce of St. Paul, Minn.,
and later given over the Mu
tual Radio network in Fulton
Lewis' news broadcast. Mr.
Christopher spoke al length
of the riot, riis office is across
the hall from the chamber in
which the hearing was held.
He stated that the noise was
so great that no work could
be done in any office in the
court house. He stated that
known Communists directed
the proceedings. He also stat
ed that the film "Operation
Abolition" is a true presenta
tion of what occurred.
It would seem from the
above that every loyal Ameri
can should make it a point to
see this film the next time it
is presented in this area. I
can assure you from my own
knowledge that you will be
both saddened and shocked.
I could never have believed,
had I not seen it, that univer
sity students could be so in
fluenced by a few unscrupu
lous Communists, as to com
pletely forget all personal
decency and honor.
! Anna M. Streed
36 North Peach st.
Medford.
O
Editor's note: Mayor Chris
topher's views on the "riots"
are a bit clouded by the fact
that he wasn't even in town
when they were taking place;
he was attending a luncheon
in Burlingame, and did not
return until the trouble had
subsided. (Christian Science
Monitor, Feb. 15, 1961,
Page 3.)
Protected Jobs
To the Editor: For a good
many years now uregon s
voters have been sending a
Senator to Washington who is
a devoted defender of recipro
cal trade. Another name for
this program is no tariffs.
In the past, American jobs
have been protected by tariffs.
The American market is the
biggest in the world. In 1940,
when the great F.D.R. got his
reciprocal trade program go
ing, the American market was
50 per cent of the world mar
ket. The dollar an hour work
ers of that time In America
were protected by tariffs
against the 10 and 20 cent an
hour labor in Europe and
Asia.
No imagination was needed
to foresee what would happen
if tariffs were eliminated. The
growing numbers of unem
ployed people in America
have no one but Ihemsrlvps lo
blame for the fact thnn for
eign imports are putting IliPin
out of work. They rlrrtrd the
men who advocated lht pol
icy. Exports paid fur by
money supplied by the Amer
ican taxpayer Is not trade.
Neither arc gifts or military
supplies sent abroad rliihtly
classed as trade.
The fact Is. our foreign
trade is only 4 per cent of
our gross national product and
it is not important. Tariffs
however protect the great ;
American industrial complex. I
without which half the work-!"1"
'Hg men in America would be
out of work.
O. L. Brannaman
3970 Sierra Vista v.
Sacramento 20, Calif,
l1
of British
in Discord
tan, Ceylon, Federation of Ma
laya and, of course, Great
Britain,,
Whites Outnumbered
Once a white man's "club"
the commonwealth now h a S
fewer than 100 million whiles
against 500 million Asians and
Africans.
The commonwealth system
has no mechanics for remov
ing a member.
But in October, 1960, whita
South Africans voted to be
come a republic instead of a
constitutional monarchy un
der the British crown.
According to custom any
commonwealth member
changing its status must ask
permission to remain in the
commonwealth. South Africa
has been unable to obtain as
surances that her request will
be approved.
S. WHITE
tion is preparing to attack tha
basic problem of this coun
try's unsatisfactory economio
growth by help to business
where it cdunts-in taxes. Its
plan to give tax relief for ex
pansion and modernization of
American industry lies, in
fact, at the heart of its whole,
economic program.
This will be shown beyond
doubt in the recommenda
tions, now being prepared,
which will be sent to congress
in the President's tax mes
sage late this month.
IAX write-offs for updating
our industrial plant will
be demanded in the face of
gathering opposition from
two groups which did much
lo elect the president, tha
labor leaders and the ultra
liberal Democrats.
The thing, moreover, is not
lo be sloganed through on the.
mere claim that it would
ease the current recession.
Trie administration is pre
pared to say frankly thnt
while lax relief of this sort
might be helpful in this
short - term connection, it
might not be. For, actually,
the administration, while re
solved to take all needed
shot-in-the-arm measures here,
is quite confident that an up
turn will soon arrive.
And it probably will arriva
before any new tax relief
could really be fell. This, tha
current sluggishness, is not
the bedrock concern, and
never was.
This bedrock concern is lo
improve the whole competi
tive position of American en
terprise in the world's mar
kets. This can only be done,
it is felt, by sharp improve
ments in our industrial ma
chine. It is costing our busi
ness people more lo make
things than it ought to ba
costing.
OEVERAL of our world trada
'' rivals, notably the West
Germans, have more modern
industrial facilities than ours,
for the simple reason that
after the devastation of the
second world war they hart
to start again, from tha
ground up.
Once our world compelitivfi)
situation is improved, nearly
every present economic prob
lem including the unduly
large amount of American
money which goes abroad and
stays will be on the way lo
solution. For the more we sell
abroad, the more money in
cluding American money now
held abroad will coma
home.
This kind of thinking with
in the administration is im
proving the climate between
the White House and busi
ness. By and large, of course,
business did not support tha
president last year, and prob
ably won't next lime. But Ilia
businessmen are increasingly
ot a mind In give him a full
chance in the meantime, for
two fundamental reasons.
JjNK Is that he has now
wholly proved that he nev
er had any Intention of restor
ing any Roosevelt new deal.
The nlher Is Hint in his eco
nomic program he is demon
alrnlily not so much interested
In pm llannshlp as in perform
ance. II Is not accidental that his
chlrf economic adviser. Secre
tary of the Treasury Douglas
Dillon, is an authentic Wall
Slreel Republican. And it n
noi unimportant that the pres
ident is a well-known bene
Ilciary of the free enterprise
system .
Now, all this does not mean
thai the president has become
"Pro Republican'' or that
business will soon be found
rlamoring at the doors of tha,
Democratic National commit-
,cc ,0 )oin thc Part'- 11 si,1,P1-v
mci"ls t.hal on ,hls 0110 Poi,,t
m$ "mc lnc President
"n0 e ousiness communi y
l"rp ,md"'K an increasingly
common interest.
(Copyright, 1961. by Unilad
Faalura Syndicate Ine.)
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