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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 14, 1951 (Wedneiday)
Roy J. Rogers, the peren
nial harbinger of spring in
Jackson county, will arrive
here Friday to begin prepara
tions tor his frost warning
service to orchardists.
Fire, possibly starting from
a carelessly thrown cigarette,
did several hundred dollars
worth of damage last night to
the historic Jacksonville
building now housing Taylor's
Drug store.
20 YEARS AGO
March 14, 1941 (Friday)
Medford led the entire Pa
cific northwest in tha percent
age of gain in residential con
struction during February of
this year compared to the
nmn mnnfh n venr affOj .'.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge rot ' column: - j Ben
son Frost paid his first visit
of the year to the valley this
a.m. He caught a number of
the Older Girls with their lace
curtains washed, and orchard
ists ready for him."
30 YEARS AGO
March 14, 1931 (Saturday)
Two Medford youths have
been named to offices in the
state Epworth league, which is
holding a convention here.
. County relief road jobs will
end next week.
40 YEARS AGO
March 14, 1921 (Monday)
: E. O. McCormlck," vice
president of the Southern Pa
cific railroad, was a Medford
visitor this past week end.
A group is being formed
here to tour Alaska this sum'
mer.
50 YEARS AGO
March 14, 1911 (Tuesday)
The Medford post office led
all other post offices in the
PRciflc northwest in the per
centage increase of Its bust-
ncss over the last five years;
It was 33 per cent.
The county court is study'
Ing the possibility of issuing
bonds for county highway
construction.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ran correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Which of these Is part of
a sarncss: tripods, trices,
traces, triolets?
2. For 23 years May, 1795,
to July, 1818) the American
Flag had more than thirteen
stripes; how many stripes did
it have?
3. Docs the number of
points on the antlers of a deer
give a reliable Indication of
the animal's age?
4. In which South Amerl
can country is the city of
Lima?
5, What color is used for
printing the back of the $1.00
U.S. Sliver Certificate?
! 6. Is Ecuador on the eastern
or western const of South
America?
. 7. Where is the Eustaccan
tube?
; 8. Which Is more brittle,
cast or wrought iron?
9. Is Hamilton the capital
of Jamaica, Bermuda, the Ba
hamas or Puerto Rica?
10. Was Luther Burbank
most famous as an actor, poet,
plant breeder or author?
Answers: 1, Tracts. 2. Flf
leen. 3, No. 4. Paru. 3. Gretn.
6, Western. 7. Connects the
ar and the pharynx. 8, Cast
Iron. 9. Bermuda. 10. Plant
breeder.
Durno Unifies Opinion
In scuttling the Dunes
session of Congress, Hep. bciwin uurno nas aone
more to unify opinion behind the proposal than
i -e Ia J
nave any 01 us auvucaies.
Instead of just attacking the plan as an in
vasion nf nrivato nrnnertv or as unnecessary in
view of the present recreational development of
the area, he contended the dunes seashore doesn't
possess the scenic grandeur to warrant federal
park status.
CAY what you will about
don t say it lacks scenic grandeur. Mitonai
opinion, whether it favored the park or no, has
iiimnerl to the defense of the state's beautv. The
Coos Bay World says of
mm to ne more temperate ana logical in nis op
position than to brand us or our Oregon Coast
unworthy."
We hoiift Ren. Durno cets an onnortunitv to
visit some of the national parks in the Eastern
half of the United States while he is serving in
Washington, D.C. If he does, he won't be nearly
as willing to condemn Oregon's coastline as be
ing "unworthy" of national park status. Oregon
Statesman.
American
Guerrilla warfare, Webster informs, is "An
irregular war by independent bands." It is a
technique that has been
United States military since the days 01 the old
frontier. Appropriately
a more than casual concern ot President John r .
Kennedy's new frontier.
As evidence, the rentagon announced on
March 8 that the head
Branch at Ft.-Bragg, N.C., Col. William P. Yar-
brough, was being raised a rank to Brigadier
General, And the administration authorized a
500-man increase in the strength of our 1800
man guerrilla and counter-guerrilla forces.
The new emphasis on
flect increased concern for the worsening situa
tion in -Laos, where the Communist Patnet Lao
forces have operated up until recently chiefly as
irregulars. News reports indicate that this concern
may be tardy. ;
The rebels are now
massive supplies of relatively heavy weapons,
and tne artillery or iuo mm type is not consistent
with the usual concept, of guerrilla warfare. On
the other side, the monsoon season is now at hand
in Laos, and the rains
guerrilla tactics.
THE Kennedy administration has shown a new
lnfovoof in mnnnrl wjavfova in oronorol AA'Vlllo
denying a leaked story
m emphasis from nuclear
ons, Secretary of State
affirmatively mentioned
non-nuclear aspects" of
And the general suspicion in Washington was
that the leak was an Air Force "extremist" move
to forestall an Army build up. The N.Y. Times
on March 2 carried a dispatch about an Army
study recommending combat-ready units deploy
ed to "toward areas of the tree world" which
was supposed to have found favor with the new
regime.
As for guerrilla lighting, the semi-onicial
macazine Armv has begun nublishing a three-
part abridgment of a manual on the subject by
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Fidel Castro's field com
mander during the successful Cuban revolution.
And this is no dull technical publication, but, as
described by Mark S. Watson, military corres'
pondent of the Baltimore Sun, "a brilliantly rea-
soned and highly readable work on how and
where and wnen to organize secret guerrilla
forces, and then to employ them with maximum
effectiveness for destroying order.
A RMY special forces
"been given instruction and training in irreg
ular fighting as have Marines but most of it
has been sporadic and not
War II Tank Destroyers, for example, were given
courses in "dirty" fighting and pioneer tactics
which proved largely useless once .they were
blooded. More effective was training given ranger
and air-borne forces.
But for the most part, Americans have con
sidered guerrillas only an adjunct of "legitimate"
troops. Now in Bavaria as well as at Ft. Bragg
the toughest kind of "special forces" are being
drilled in irregular tactics.
For good reason : Moscow has translated Che
Guevara's manual into several languages. Red
China is furtively pushing Mao Tse-tung's equally
brilliant book on tne same subject, in translation,
in Latin America. And Fidel Castro makes no
secret of his determination to export Cuba's brand
of revolution to disturbed nations in the Western
Hemisphere. E.R.R.
Nixon Resumes Practice of Law
Los Angeles - IWIl - Private
citizen Richard M. Nixon goes
to work ns an attorney today
for the first time in 20 years,
planning to leave plenty ot
time to the business of poll
tics.
The defeated presidential
candidate Monday Joined the
Los Angeles law firm of Ad
ams, Duque it llazrltlnc.
"Actually, the most profit
able thing I could have shrdl
able thing I could do was set
up my own law firm," Nixon
snld " but that would take a
commitment of time I was not
willing to make."
Ht said hi deflnetly would
Park proposal for this
Oregon's coastline, but
Durno, "We do expect
Guerrillas
largely neglected by the
enough, it is becoming
of the Special Warfare
guerrilla war may re
supposed to be receiving
would favor Communist
purporting a switch-over
to conventional weap
Dean Rusk on Feb. 28
'strengthening of . . .
defense.
have from time to time
comoat-proved. world
open a separate office from
which to operate his political
affairs and stressed that he
will scrupulously avoid ped
dling his influence to clients
of the firm.
"I will not take any mat
ters using my Influence on' a
government department to get
something for a client," he
said.
Two local registrants of Lo
cal Board No. 17, Medford,
were recently Inducted into
the Armed Forces at Portland.
Inducted were Michael O.
Stearns, Medford, and Larry
M. Perkins, Roseburg.
Dennis the Menace
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Expresses Appreciation
To the Editor: We want to
express our sincere appreci
ation to our friends, acquain
tances and the many people
we have never had the pleas
ure of meeting for their gifts
of clothing, food and the many
other things that makes life
so worth while.
We want to especially thank
the . good friends who took
time out to solicit and gather
all this in the good old fash
ioned way, when sudden dis
truction came and fire took
our home.
' Greg Scarborough
and family.
Route 2, Box 195
Central Point, Ore.
Thank Lions Club
To the Editor: Dear Lions
club: I don't know how to
thank you enough for what
you people have done for me,
At any rate I thank you very
much from the bottom of my
heart for the eye-glasses you
people bought for me.
Last Monday night by an
accident 1 broke my eye
glasses into two pieces. Being
pretty near-sighted I have
been much careful to my gla
ses since these glasses meant
my two eyes, especially as a
student.
The very next day I didn't
know what to do, since 1 was
completely broke and with
out glasses I could not go to
classes. But fortunately you
people arranged everything,
and I could go to doctor's and
get a new one within a few
days. I'm really grateful for
you people's kindness.
Here I thank again to all
the members of the Lions club
In Medford and personally
to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L.
Shoop who recommended me
at the Lions club.
In Suck Bak
Korean student at SOC
Ashland, Ore.
Where There's Smoke
To the Editor: O, for Pete's
sake, you've done gone and
left the Star Gazer's Daily
Guide outta Friday's Tribune!
How in the dickens Is my hus
band going to find his to
morrows activity doings?
Generally speaking, I know
that I don't intend to be very
active nohow regardless of
any stars. It's cloudy now; no
stars in sight, and I never
learned to read 'em.
I never even ask what the
weather Is; I simply look outta
the window. If it is too dark,
I listen to the weather man
and believe what he doesn't.
As for my tomorrows: The
Bible tells us we aren't sup
posed to know what's cook
ing ahead of time. Who cares?
I don't.
I just read a communica
tion entitled "Be Informed."
As it happens I am, I've not
only traveled over Mexico,
I've worked In a factory with
Mexicans and know many of
them personally, and I'm nil
for Mildred Engninn. She, too,
has seen them work; I know
Mildred personally.
Know that Mexican song
that has a line that says,
"When my mother looks for
me, I'm sle-eping In the
'yeard'?" Well, he is, and with
his siunbiaro pulled down
over his nose.
That ombre runs true to
form. I stayed a while at a
natural gas plant where both
Americans and Mexicans were
hired. The American men had
calloused palms, while Isau
ro's and Pedro's were soft as
a child's.
Try buying cheap clothing,
cheap labor or cheap anything
and you'll get exactly what
you pay for.
There are good people In
any and every country and I
have personal friends in Mexi
co, but I've worked in a fac
tory among all sorts of hu
mans and I've yet to see one
Mexican who can do the work
RECEIVISG
BORROW SWtMONW:
of three Americans. I still say
"Hire local help and have
your fruit handled carefully."
Last week I met a woman
who took a cigarette out of
her mouth long enough to
say, "Soon they'll be lighting
those sickening smudge pots
again." Just then, I got
smoked but I'd rather have
faced a smudge pot, for they
bring fruit.
Yep, where there's smoke
there's fi-er "humans."
Pearl F. Spackman,
P.O. Box 33
Jacksonville, Ore.
Abbreviated Excerpts
To the Editor: Answering
"Bishop Pike's Views" (your
editorial March 2) I present
abbreviated excerpts from an
article "Is The Bible True?"
by my father.
Peace is recognized today
as the world's greatest need.
He who could banish war
from the earth would be ac
counted the greatest benefac
tor of mankind that ever liv
ed. The Bible would do this
if men would accept and prac
tice Us teachings. Matt. 5:44
Matt. 7:12.
The supernatural source of
the Bible Is attested by its
possession of supernatural
power a power that reach
es and changes the human
heart, that transforms char
acter, that gives to the indi
vidual a new creation.
Through the" presentation of
its message in the darkest
strongholds of heaUicn savag
ery, whole tribes have been
lifted from the lowest depths
of physical and mental degra
dation and changed into mor
ally upright, sober, studious
and Industrious people. Try to
convince one thus rescued
from heathenism that the Bi
ble is anything less than the
Word of God.
The Bible is the only book
in which history was written
in advance. The prophecy of
Daniel 2 gives an outline of
the political history of the
world from the days of the
first king of Babylon to the
end of time. Compare its
statements with secular his
tory and note its unerring ac
curacy,
Unlike any other book, the
Bible Is the product of many
different writers, spanning In
time of Its production a per
iod of more than 15 centur
ies, yet its 66 books consti
tute one harmonious whole.
Christ and His divine plan-of
salvation are the central
themes from Genesis to Rev
elation.
The Bible differs from all
other books in that it posses
ses the quality of being al
ways up to date. Compare
our dally news with such
texts as Matt. 24:7, Luke 21:
25, 26, 2 Tim. 3: 1-5. Were the
Bible of human origin it
would not be today, 19 centur
ies after Its last chapter was
written, the world's best sel
ler. The Bible alone gives an
adequate explanation of the
sudden and stupendous
change that has swept over
the world In recent times,
summed up in the word
"speed" (Dan. 12: 4, Nahum
2: 3, 4) and of present world
conditions resulting from the
emergence of the smaller na
tions ("Let the heathen be
wakencd"-"let the weak say
I am strong," Joel 3: 9-14). It
is the day of God's prepar
ation. The gospel message is go
ing swiftly to the remotest
parts of the inhabited earth,
in preparation for the great
est event of all time - the
second coming of Christ. The
direct fulfillment of Bible
prophecy, on a world wide
scale, testifies today that this
book is not a product of man,
but the work of God.
Dorothy Swan
L. B. Star Route, Box 53,
Eagle Point, Ore.
MLUfUnu mail, irtiouiic, Mbui wi; onb
Matter of Fact
ON THE RAZOR'S EDGE
Washington The past
week's most important and in
dicative American events took
place behind
closed doors.
On Thursday,
at an unan
nounced White
House confer
ence, P r e s i-
dent Kennedy
approveda
long series of
pre parations
Alsop for hard ac
tion to prevent Laos from be
ing absorbed into the Com
munist .bloc.
The occasion of the confer
ence was the return for con
sultation of the U.S.- Com
mander of the Pacific, Adm
Felt. With the exception of
the Secretary of State Dean
Rusk, who had to send a rep
resentative, virtually all the
members of the Kennedy Ad
ministration's defense - and-
foreign high command were
present at this cruicial meet
ing, which lasted for several
hours.
Some of the decisions taken.
such as the decision that It
was urgent to provide the non-
Communist forces in Laos
with better means of trans
port and internal communica
tion, can be counted on to pro
duce immediate, open results,
Other decisions, , calling for
practical preparations for
mucn graver ana sterner ac-
Injected Into Scene
To the Editor: Robert J.
Howard is Improving. The
acid into which he had been
dipping his pen in recent
months appears to have been
diluted somewhat. Perhaps
he'll soon learn to use ordi
nary writing fluid.
And I'll say this for him:
misinformed and mistaken
though he often is, at least he
has the courage to sign his
name to his communications;
whereas some people who
have been sending me their
fear and hate "literature"
haven't had the decency to
identify themselves.
In Sunday's communica
tions in MT, Bob said, "Mr.
Jenny was asked to be more
specific in his charges against
hCUA (sic). He chose not to
be." I hope it is purely coin
cidental and without unhappy
signiticance that my anony
mous correspondents similar
ly got HUAC's letters out of
order.
As to Bob's charge, I can
only say that I was very spe
cific when I said that the
House un-American commit
tee's film. "Operation Aboli
tion," had been "doctored" by
so piecing together parts out
of context as to maKe it ap
pear, falsely, that the few
identifiable Communists in
volved in the San Francisco
affair had led those student
demonstrations. These are the
palpable distortions which
the Committee's investigator,
William Wheeler, had admit
ted. Perhaps it may help Bob
if I add that the few Com
munists present on that oc
casion were the noisy rioters
who had injected themselves
into the scene, but they were
not the leaders of the legiti
mate and peaceful student
demonstrators.
If this isn't clear enough to
Bob, I would suggest that he
enroll in the school district's
adult education program and
take a course in English to
improve his knowledge and
understanding of our langu
age; perhaps also in film
techniques, if available, to
learn how, by appropriate
splicing, film can be made to
falsify the truth.
An English course also
might help Bob interpret
rightly such terms as my ref
erence to "super-patriots," a
species of homo sapiens our
beloved America could do
well without. Plain and real
patriots of the order of Wash
ington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the
two Roosevelts, Eisenhower,
President Kennedy and hosts
of others as genuine, if less
well-known, we all honor and
desire to emulate.
Funk & Wagnalls defines
"super" as "Above In degree
or amount: usually denoting
excess." So, Bob, that's noth
ing to be proud of. It is these
super-patriot boys, in or out
of HUAC, who make them
selves nuisances with their
un-American brainwashing of
other citizens who have a
truer understanding of and
devotion to our Bill of Rights.
And that is why I proclaim
again, with earnest and patri
otic fervor, Let Freedom
Ring!
Incidentally, a patriot over
In Ashland has written me:
"Just a line to thank you for
saying (In your letters pub
lished recently In the MT)
many of the things about
'HUAC that I would like to
have said, and for saying
them very well. If I were su
perstitious, I would think It
more thnn an odd coincidence
that 'HUAC suggests the
name of some sort of blood
drenched Aztec god."
And many others, in vary
ing ways, have added their
appreciation of my efforts to
enlighten some of our misin
formed and misguided fellow-
citizens.
Arnold Eugene Jenny
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Reports From Moscow Indicate
Abolution
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
From Moscow comes the re
port that the Soviet Union is
about to abolish censorship of
aWni news dispatch
es written by
p ondents
there.
The immedi
ate result may
expect to be a
sharp increase
in the already
t h o usands of
Ntwiom w o r as wnicn
pour daily from the Soviet
capital, and a probable in
crease also In the number of
resident correspondents as
signed to Moscow.
At present, 16 American
newsmen work in Moscow un
der some of the severest re
strictions in the world. -
Censorship, a favorite wea
pon of dictators against a free
tion, may not produce visible
results in the end. The ac
tions being prepared for may
later be judged to be needless.
fNE must pray, in truth,
that these actions prove to
be needless. The details of the
program for meeting the Com
munist threat to Laos are not
known, and they had better
not be known at this tune.
But. it is clear that if the
program has to be put into
effect, the ensuing confronta
tion with the Soviets will be
very grim and tense.
The program can only be
discussed conditionally, as
above, because the Laos crisis
has now become a four-ringed
circus. In one ring, the anti
Communist leader in Laos,
Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, and
the neutralist ex-prime min
ister, Prince Souvanna Phou
ma, have negotiated an ap
parent agreement to neutral
ize their country with un
predictable results.
In another ring, situated in
the wilds of Siberia, the U.S.
Ambassador to Moscow, Llew
ellyn Thompson jr., has been
talking about Laos, as well
as many other problems, with
Nikita S. Khrushchev-report-edly
with fairly encouraging
results.
In still another ring, the
Communist forces in Laos are
mounting what could be the
previously predicted major
offensive aimed at clear-cut
military victory-with results
that are disturbing but not
yet clearly known.
.
AS CAN be seen, the action
in any single ring of this
bizarre crisis-circus can either
cancel out the action in the
other rings, or greatly in
crease its meaning. For ex
ample, the upshot of the
Phoumi-Souvanna and Thompson-Khrushchev
talks can per
haps be a status for Laos like
the present status of Cam
bodia. In that case, the con
ference at the White House
and the offensive in Laos will
both come to nothing in the
end.
Contrariwise, if the Com
munist offensive achives seri
ous breakthrough in Laos, the
program approved at the
White House conference will
assume urgent significance.
The Laos crisis, so much more
potentially perilous than the
better publicized places and
the crisis in the Congo, is in
fact balancing at this moment
on a razor's edge. Almost,
without warning, it can take
a rather hopeful or a deeply
somber direction.
This balancing act on a raz
or's edge, is a pretty breath
less business. It is not easy
to think about anything but
the short run results, when
the future in Laos will quite
certainly control the future of
South East Asia and may also
involve choice between peace
and war. For the long run,
none-the-less, the strictly in
dicative character of the
While House conference on
Laos may prove to be its best
remembered aspect.
What it indicates is the real
character of President Ken
nedy's approach to the appal
ling problems he inherited
from President Elsenhower.
When Kennedy was confront
ed with responsibility for
American policy in Laos, in
the Congo, in Cuba, and in
other, similar situations which
have not yet reached the stage
of open, acute crisis, the new
President might easily have
taken refuge in the complaint:
"This is a world I never
made!"
TN OTHER words, Kennedy
could have claimed that
situations had already gotten
completely out of hand before
he took office. And he could
therefore have argued that
there was nothing left to do
except, for Instance, to adopt
the British policy of politely
concealed surrender in Laos.
Kennedy would not have
been human if he had not
been tempted to take this
comfortable, politically easy
course. How much he was
tempted, none can say. At
any rate, he temporized for a
while, resorting to such de
vices as his proposal to make
Malaya. Burma and Cambodia
responsible for future neu-
of News Censorship
Dress, has existed in Russia
sinpf the davs of the czars.
Its abolition now would be a
mark of growing confidence
among Soviet leaders, begin
ning with Nikita Khrushchev.
and recognition of the fact
that even the strictest censor
ship seldom succeeds In sup
pressing news for long.
Dean of the American cor
respondents in Moscow is
UPI's Henry Shapiro who has
been battling Soviet censor
ship for more than 25 years.
Shapiro was the first of
the foreign correspondents in
Moscow to break through the
censorship wall and report
the death of Joseph Stalin In
1953, and his notable dis
patches before and since may
have been among the factors
leading to the decision that in
the long run censorship is a
futile gesture.
Shapiro foresaw the end of
Moscow censorship and while
on a visit to UPI's New York
headquarters last fall left this
memo:
"The death of Salin marked
the introduction of more lib
eral censorship rules along
West Airs Problems
Of New Department
Of U.S. Government
By DICK WEST
Washington - IUPD - There
has been some talk this year
of creating a new government
department to
do for the
city dwellers
what the Agri
culture De
partment does
for the farm
er. As a city
dweller m y
self, I view
this proposal
with some misgivings. I am
not certain that I want to have
done for me what has been
done for the former.
Most of the problems in a
city spring from surplus pop
ulation. If the government
tried to handle that the way
it has handled surplus farm
production, it could lead to
some rather involved situa
tions.
' For instance, I wouldn't
mind being paid for not pro-
Young Democrats To
Elect Delegates
Delegates to attend the state
Young Democratic convention
will be elected Thursday,
March 16, at a meeting of the
Medford Young Democrats
club at 8 p.m. at the Labor
temple.
County Clerk E. M. Madden
will speak on the duties of his
office.
In addition to the delegates
the club president Mrs. Ed
McGinty, also plans to attend
the state meeting.. Others
planning to attend include
McGinty and Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Poston. Keynoter will
be Gov. Grant Sawyer of Ne
vada.
Ticket sales for the annual
Roosevelt Memorial dinner to
be held April 15 in Medford
will be discussed at the local
meeting.
trality of Laos. By the be
ginning of last week, how
ever, it was apparent that the
temporizing devices could not
be counted on to work, par
ticularly in Laos.
The result was the White
House conference. It indicates
that Kennedy is prepared to
be' exceedingly tough, to sub
mit to the harshest sort of
test, in order to avert any
great, potentially decisive up
set in the precarious equili
brium between the two world
blocs.
(c) 1961, New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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-By BENNETT CERF-
T7ROM THE CLASSIFIED SECTIONS:
1- "Wanted! An incompetent stenographer to fill in
until we find a really good one."
2. "Will the upnt nilin
kissed me in a Paradise
Lake canoe last Saturday
nighht get in touch with
me immediately. Other
wise I shall be compelled
to marry my present
fiance."
3. "Wanted! Lion
tamer seeks tamer lion."
4. "Pianos moved! We
are famous for the loving
care we lavish on valu
able Instruments. We also
sell kindling wood."
LYRICIZES SAM HIMMELL:
"He wrecked hi. car, He lost his job,
And yet throughout his life
He took his troubles like a man:
He blamed them on hia wife."
C 0. tX Beanett Cert. Clstrlbut.4 br King Feature. SmiicaW
with the elimination of tha
restrictive Soviet instructions.
"Restrictions were gradu-'
aly relaxed, delays in trans
mission reduced and balanced,
objective reporting, even if
critical and unflattering to the
Soviet regime, became easier.
More Harm Than Good
"Now the Soviet authorities
apparently have decided that
censorship, on balance, does
more harm than good and
have resolved to abolish it al.
together." i
As with other nations prac
ticing censorship, the Russians
have consistently denied that
it existed.
It was administered under
an organization known as
Glavlit, meaning roughly tha
Administration for Literature.
Soviet officials maintained
that its sole function was to
hold "erring", correspondents
in cheek.
Correspondents still would
be held accountable for their
writings and a dispatch dis
pleasing to officialdom could
result in expulsion, even
though its accuracy might ba
unquestioned.
ducing any more children,
not producing crops.
But on the other hand, I
wouldn't be especially keen
about plowing under the ones
I've already got.
Suggest Name
Some of those who propos
ed setting up the new agency
suggested that it be called the
"Department of Urban and
Municipal Problems." Then
they abruptly withdrew their
suggestion.
They did so after someone
observed that the abbrevia
tion for "Department of Ur
ban and Municipal Problems"
would be "DUMP."
As you can see, the spon
sors of the proposal were not
in step with this age of the
organization man. Had they
been in step, they would have
known that they were doing
things backward.
Nowadays, it is considered
bad form to give first consid
eration to a name. What you
do now is start out with an
abbreviation. Then you think
up a name that will fit it.
The "initials first" trend
started, as best I can tell,
about 15 years ago with the
formation of a post-war relief
program. Someone apparently
decided that "CARE" would
be a fine abbreviation for tha
organization.
So, after a great deal o f
brain straining, they managed
to come up with a name to
match the abbreviation, "Co
operative for American Re
mittances to Europe" was tha
result.
Initials Stay
Later the name was chang
ed to "Cooperative for Ameri
can Relief Everywhere."
which broadened the scope of
the program while preserving
the original initials.
Since the advent of CARE,
all sorts of initialized groups
have come into being. None,
I suspect, was named until
after it had been abbreviated.
We have a medical relief
ship project called "HOPE"
(Health Opportunity for Peo
ple Everywhere), which is not
to be confused with "COPE"
(Committee on Political Edu
cation). Good Samaritan physicians
go overseas for "MEDICO"
(Medical International Coop
eration Organization) and the
National Council of Churches
Sponsors "CROP" (Christian
Rural Overseas Program).
The custom of initial nam
ing was confined to national
organizations until last Octo
ber when it reached the re
gional level. That was when
some people in Atlanta form
ed an anti-integration group
named "GUTS" (Georgians
Unwilling to Surrender).
Stop