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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 30. 1951 (Friday)
: A committee of radio indus
try representatives, including
Jennings Pierce, manager of
radio station KMED, Medford,
was to call upon Gov. Douglas
McKay today to urge him to
proclaim daylight saving time
in Oregon this summer.
Police chief cautions all
Medford dog owners today
that dogs must be on a leash
or penned up during April,
May and June.
20 YEARS AGO
March 30. 1941 (Sunday)
scheelite-the ore from which
tungsten is refined - having
been found In southern Ore
gon. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot'' column: "Com
munists are busy throughout
the nation pulling Uncle
Sam s whiskers. The commu
nists are funny people. If out
of a job they protest vehement
ly, and when they get one
go on a strike, forthwith."
30 YEARS AGO
March 30. 1931 (Monday)
City Superintendent Schef
fel is at work on a survey
for the proposed sewage dis
posal plant which will be
voted on by the voters soon.
The road to Crater Lake
park was cleared, ot snow last
week.
40 YEARS AGO
March 30, 1921 (Wednesday)
The Ashland Chamber of
Commerce voted 67 to 59 yes
terday in favor of the Com
munity Chest principle of han
dling charitable fund drives.
. Orchardists are being urged
to have their thermometers
tested before frost season
starts.
50 YEARS AGO
March 30. 1911 (Thursday)
Excavations for the new
grade school building on
Queen Anne St., were com
pleted this week; the base
ment for the new Jackson st,
school is also finished.
The local post of the Grand
Army of the Republic will
help celebrate the 45th annt
versnry of the GAR shortly.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine er ten correct li superior;
seven er eight Is excellent) five or
six it good.
;'. 1. Are strikes by workers
permitted in Soviet Russia?
2. Did General Douglas
MacArthur ever serve as
Chief of Staff ot the U.S
Army?
3. The U.S. Secret Service
Is a division of the Depart
ment of Justice, Treasury De
partment, or Department of
Commerce?
4. Correct the following
sentence: Neither the Ambas
sador not his wife are in
vited. 5. A bottle and cork cost
$1.10; the bottle cost $1 more
than the cork. How much did
the cork cost?
6. All foreign born persons
are aliens; true or false?
7. Which of these amphibi
ous animals has the more valu
able pelt; sea lion or sea otter?
8. Is the principal food used
in Ceylon corn, wheat or rice?
9. Do shamrocks have
three, four or five leaflets?
10. Do you associate the
Grand Prix with auto racing,
horse racing or Slooplochas-
ing?
Answern 1. No. 2. Yet, 3.
Treasury. 4. Neither ... IS
' Invited. 5. Five cents. 6. False,
7. Sea otter. 8. Rice. 9. Three.
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Medfo:
THURSDAY. MARCH 30. 1961
Transcontinental Notes-IX
Our last glimpse of
airport limousine, and Irom the Capital Airlines
Viscount plane, was on
which clothed the beauty
aura or approaching spring.
The flight was a pleasant one, much of it over
clouds, and we both liked the plane, a four-engine
turbo-prop model not frequently seen on the west
coast, but very popular among airlines in the east.
We stopped briefly in
wind was blowing over
blizzard of the week before, and then on, over
the southern part of Lake brie, over Michigan,
and then across Lake Michigan to Milwaukee.
THEORETICALLY, we
fanf r$ T .nra TVT i aVi I nro
flew across it that the actual size sank in. It must
have taken better than an hour to cross this huge
inland fresh-water sea, and even from high in
the air,' there was a period when no land was
visible m any direction.
As we flew west, the clouds gradually disap
peared, permitting an excellent view of the wind
driven whitecaps far below. As we approached
Milwaukee, the bright blue of the lake turned to
a dirty brown, for reasons we never did learn
authoritatively.
Milwaukee, too, and the surrounding country
side, was largely covered with snow from an
earlier storm, and the wind was bitter as we
deplaned, despite the bright sunshine.
(OUR 24 hours in this
w was devoted in most part to family visiting,
and the loving warmth, affectionate hospitality,
the personal interest in the Medford visitors and
their experiences, and in the family in the west,
was like a benison after the hectic, hurried and
sometimes unhappy experiences in New York.
Aunt Amy, Aunt Marjory, Aunt Carolyn,
Uncle Reeder, and Margaret, who lives with
them, were the souls of kindness and thought
fulness, made sure we were comfortable in every
respect, and showed us as much of Milwaukee
as time permitted, with pride and affection.
We drove around the city, along the lake
front, and, among other things, visited an excel
lent art school and the city's War Memorial Cen
ter, houseing the Milwaukee Art Center.
.
THE memorial building
tectural achievement
Saarinen, high above the
the cantilevered, open and airy designs permit
ted by the use of concrete.
The murals on the face of the building, done
in mosaics and reportedly among the largest such
works of art in the world, are tastefully and sym
bolically done, commemorating those sons of Mil
waukee who died in World War II and the
Korean War.
The show featured at the Art Center was
entirely of portraits, done in every conceivable
style and medium, and constituted a tour de
force of the art exhibitor's skill. They ranged
from hilarious portraits of Elsa Maxwell (dead
ly realism) and Marilyn Monroe (deadly im
pressionism) to a moving
Albert Schweitzer.
THE evening was spent
nam oVinrminrr nnnrnr
Fields, a little shopping at the huge and colorful
store, and a family discussion, interspersed with
an Edward R. Murrow TV documentary with
the electronic voice of Murrow reminiscent of his
in-the-flesh voice we had heard two days previ
ously. A good sleep, a huge breakfast, warm and
fond farewells said, and we left, regretfully, for
the last day of travelling, which took us from
Milwaukee to Medford between 11 a.m. (Mil
waukee time) and 7 p.m. (Medford time).
The flight to O Hare held in Chicago was a
brief one, on North Central airlines DC3. At
O'Hare, we had only an hour until boarding the
west-bound United Air Lines DC8, and most of
the hour was spent in finding our way around the
immense airport terminal, busiest in the world,
and glancing through the Chicago papers.
THE flight west was uneventful, but, to the
neophytes, still an exciting experience, as
state after state unrolled 31.000 feet below. Our
attempts to keep track of where we were, assist
ed by maps and infrequent announcements by the
pilot, were only partly successful.
But once we got to the Rockies, rising in snow
clad splendor below, we knew we were "west,"
and getting closer. Our route took us over Des
Moines, Denver, across Nevada, and right over
Yosemite, which we could recognize even from
high above.
We began descending soon thereafter, and
skimmed over the new-green hills and fertile
fields of the great valley, and, still coming down,
broke out over the bay, circled, and landed
smoothly at San Francisco International airport
the cleanest and best organized of any of the
large airports we had seen.
A BRIEF wait for a connecting plane to Med
ford, and we were off again on the last leg
of the trip, flying first over the ocean, then back
inland again in a pattern that gave us the best
view we have ever had of San Francisco, Marin
county, the massive bridges across the shining
bay, and the building-clad hills of the east bay.
Darkness was descending as we passed the
white peaks of Mt. Shasta, and the final, descent
into the Rogue valley, from an unusually high
flight at 13,000 feet, was made through clouds.
Family and friends gave us a warm and lov
ing greeting at the Medford airport. We were
home again. E.A.
Washington, from the
a fresh, sunny morning,
of the city with a bright
Cleveland, where an icy
snow remaining from a
had known of the ex-
m Ktif if urna tint nfi1 lira
interesting, gracious city
is a spectacular archi-
by the noted Eero
lake front, and using
rendition in oronze or
in visiting a spectacular
fni' rlinnnr nr. Marshall
Dennis the Menace
' I don't know WHATk is.
IT ALL BY WSELrV
Communications
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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 letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent, the views of the paper; in fact the
contrary is often the case.
On VA Hospitals
To the Editor: This is in
answer to Oliver Lankford's
letter from White City. .
My husband was discharged
from WWII with the rank of
TSgt. He was given his mus
tering out pay.
He was then a member of
the Oregon National Guard
until going back on active
duty in the Korean War. He
was discharged , before the
mustering out pay was passed
in 1952 by Congress. I don't
believe any mustering out pay
was paid until November,
1052. When he was discharged
all the Korean Vets received
was traveling pay.: That is
what the $33 was for.
My husband is receiving
$100 a month non-service con
nected pension. The rest of
our income comes from the
county.
As for epilepsy being in
herited always, that is folk
lore. It can be caused from
a blow on the head or from
fever that my husband con
tracted In service that has
damaged the brain.
As for a non service con
nected veteran entering a hos
pital for any kind of nervous
disorder, , you just don't do
this in the state of California.
We have over 8,000 veterans
in California state hospitals.
We have over 4 million vet
erans in this state. The money
from the federal government
is allotted by the amount of
overall population, not the
amount of veterans in need.
He has been on the waiting
list since 1054.
Enclosed is a letter from
the head of the Veterans Ad
ministration In San Francis
co, also one from Congress
man John Moss stressing the
need for more hospitals. There
has been a hospital bed short
age in the veterans mental
hospitals since 1947.
The Truman administration
did nothing. President Eisen
hower's administration did
nothing.
Most of our veterans die in
county hospitals.
(Name withheld)
O
Editor's note: Enclosed with
the letter printed above were
letters from the VA hospital
at Palo Alto, showing our cor
respondent's husband was No.
898 on their waiting list; the
letter from Congressman Moss
which says, In part, ". . . for
many years there has been
an acute shortage of facilities
to care for our deserving and
incapacitated veterans"; and
a letter from the VA office
In Sun Francisco, which said,
In part, "It Is true that VA
nouropsychlntric hospitals in
California have had extreme
ly long walling lists for the
admission of non-service-connected
veterans. This condi
tion existed prior to 1952 and
continues to exist." This let
ter was dated March 7, 1961.
Missed th Point
To the Editor: Helen B.
Townsend of Eagle Point
seems to have missed my
point: Shoring up our civil
liberties while tolerating
American communists' prat
lugs Is a better way to fight
communism than to make
martyrs of the fools and un
dermine our own civil liber
ties In the process.
This, she says, Is the kind
of "sleeping, dreaming and
saying it enn't happen here,
it won't" that led to Commu
nist gains In the Congo, Laos,
Cuba and Korea.
I think the situations In
these countries substantiate
my point perfectly; the Com
munist gains were made there
after the breakdown of civil
liberty, such as there was. I
don't think any one of these
countries would be in trouble
today If it had had our Con
stitution and a history of free
people backing it up.
I don't say It can't happen
here. I say It can't happen
but i AWpb
here if we strengthen our free
institutions; but it can happen
here if we panic and throw
out the baby . with the bath
water.
I think, too, that Mrs,
Townsend does a disservice
to the Rev. Billy Graham in
saying that he advocates that
communism be taught in
schools as a religion. The
Rev. Mr. Graham advocates
that communism be STUDIED
in schools as a religion.
There's a great difference in
connotation.
Whether as a religion or
as a political or economic
force, communism SHOULD
be studied in our schools. It
would be to our great advan
tage to know our enemy's
goals, techniques and strate
gems in order to cope with
them better.
Anyone who .fears that our
schoolchildren would be taint
ed hasn't much faith in the
basic attraction of our free
system with its obviously su
perior tenets.
Ken Johnson,
. 1150 Shamrock St.,
Salem, Ore.
Story a "Blessing"
.To the Editor: Your front
page story about the "Assem
bly of finri" missinnarv wan
a blessine to mv heart. This
is a real life story of a once-
sinner now converted to
Christ, serving his Lord Jesus
wholeheartedly. I would have
been very happy to meet this
saint of God and shake his
hand and have real Christian
fellowship with him. This
man has riches much greater
tnan a worldly billionaire.
I think it is nitifnl mhm
professing Christians are
ashamed of some of the Lord's
people because of their broken-down
trucks, trailers, or
patched clothing and humble
homes. There are many peo
ple nowadays professing the
Name of Christ who are mov
ing about in new ears in this
world with their broken-down
back-slidden. destitute snirit-
ual conditions-living in ac
tual disobedience to God-yet
feeling superior to our Spirit
filled brother in the "broken.
down truck."
God says. "Take heed, be
ware of covetousness, for a
man's life consisteth NOT in
the abundance of the thines
he possesseth." God also says,
"Examine yourselves to see
if ye be in the faith."
Your news storv about this
godly man might have caused
"moral damage' to Mr. Rav's
worldly church "organiza
tion' (as nis letter stated), but
it caused mv heart to hp
blesed, and I praise the Lord
lor the story.
Anna Jeanne Johnstun
P.O. Box 511
Central Point, Ore.
Conflict of Interest
To the Editor: I have writ
ten the following letter to the
chairman of the Jackson
County Republican Central
Committee:
Dear Mr. Shangle: After
reading a great deal recently
about the beliefs of leaders
and members of the John
Birch Society, I would like
to ask you how you can ef
fectively practice the precepts
of, and promote the growth
of. the Republican party In
Jackson county.
Since there appears to be a
wide difference In the two
philosophies, how can you
continue to hold the office of
Republican Central Commit
tee chairman while believing
Birch Society doctrine?
It would seem to me that
under the circumstances, your
resignation might be submit
ted In order that confidence
in the leaders of our party
here may be restored. I cer
tainly uphold your right to
hold and advocate any po
litical views you wish, but
since I am genuinely inter
ested In the promotion of the
Republican tenet, I am dis
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOhD. ORE
Prosperity, Poverty,
Anti-Communism All Present
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Mexico City - IUPB-- Fifty
years ' after its revolution,
Mexico is stable, prosperous
and anti-Communist.
Yet it is also
a nation about
which gener
alizations are
I'M dangerous.
One of Mex
ico's greatest
assurances of
future stabil-
Newtom i t y comet
from its growing middle in
come group which owns prop
erty, goes to school and will
fight to protect what it' has.
Even the poorest worker may
aspire to own his own home,
and the son of a street peddler
may become a distinguished
doctor or lawyer.
Among' Mexico's 39 million
inhabitants, the Communists
and their affiliated parties are
a distinct minority.
Yet, aided by a large So-
tressed about the threat of the
party suffering because of
your divided loyalties.
Marina S. Gardiner
P. O. Box 1148
Medford.
A Different View
To the Editor: After read
ing Mrs. Casey's letter of
March 28, saying we need
more men like Harry Shuster,
I would like to add my com
ment, "God forbid," and I
speak as one with "Voice of
experience."
As it was our car that was
damaged, and after hearing
Mr. Shuster's story, like many
others my husband had pity
for him and offered to let
him work a few days to help
pay the damage. We soon saw
that was a mistake. He first
informed us he would work
only if told what to do, then
leave him to do it his way
as it made him nervous to
have anyone around. Also he
never got up before 9 or 10
of a morning. We saw then
he was of no use to us and
urged him to get his car in
running order and on his way.
Two Medfo.rd Ministers
went to the jail to see him
and to the expense of calling
long distance to see if he was
deserving of help. They found
he was not connected with
any church but just a self
appointed missionary. I am
sure that a God-called mis
sionary would not break the
laws by traveling with the
equipment he had.
I agree with Mrs. Casey
we need God-fearing men to
work for Him, but they should
also be willing to work to
help promote the cause. Mr.
Shuster admitted to us he was
with no church, was not a
preacher, did not work for
the world and depended on
God to supply his needs.
We have worked for many
years in object lessons and
visual work in many denomi
nations, but never have found
anyone who had a religion
and belief that he has. It
seems he has one all of his
own. He may not have had
but a penny in his pocket,
but what else he had, and
where, could be a question.
Even if one does not have
much money there is no need
not to be tidy and clean. I
believe the officers and min
isters will agree with me on
that. If Mrs. Casey could have
seen him and talked with him
she' would not be so anxious
to have him in her organiza
tion. He surely needs the
prayers of the Christian peo
ple. With his pleasing person
ality he could be very instru
mental in God s work.
Mrs. Ernest Santo
204 Lozier lane
Medford.
Legislative Watchdog
.To the Editor: Inclosed is an
article from the editorial page
of the Record-Courier, Baker,
Ore., which I believe should
have a wider circulation than
the Record-Courier gives it.
R. F. Lamb,
728 Newtown St.,
Medford.
O
The article follows:
NO NEED FOR SI PLATE
The legislature has a watch
dog in Beulah Hand, member
of the House highway commit
tec at Salem. Rep. Hand is of
no mind to let the legislature
authorize $800,000 extra to
pay a private firm for reflec-
torlzing auto license plates.
Present plates cost 38
cents, reflcctorizcd plates
would cost $1.05 and the mo
torist would pick up the tab
at a suggested $1 extra In his
license fee. Rep. Hand, Dem
ocrat from Milwaukie, has the
right idea. Who, except the
company holding a monopoly
on the rcflectorizing process,
wants a reflectorizcd plate at
$1 extra?
Surprising thing is that the
highway committee in a pre-
m
v n
mm
viet embassy which distributes
anti-American literature
throughout the whole of Latin
America, the Communists
work with a purpose, with
schools a special target.
Arnong Mexico's 90,000 uni
versity students, it is estimat
ed that nearly 10 per cent are
followers of communism, well
led, well organized and miss
ing no opportunity to agitate
against existing authority or
the United States.
Last summer they took to
the streets to protest govern
ment, ouster of some Red-line
teachers. At the peak of the
demonstrations, 3,000 of them
clashed with riot police. In
the ensuing battle more than
60 persons ware injured.
As a nation, Mexico is pros
perous. .
In Mexico City, tall, glass
encased new buildings arise
along broad clean avenues.
, It is a boom town, with
factories rising on the out
skirts, new workers' homes
going up and the former un
sanitary, open - air markets
now enclosed in modern, one
story concrete structures.
liminary vote failed to kill the
proposal so Mrs. Hand needs
help in stopping the nonsense.
Salem leadership should be
devoted to streamlining all
phases . of things which re
quire the expenditure of mon
ey. Lobbyists for special in
terests, tax-shifters and spe
cial pleaders get too far with
the legislature. The taxpayers
wonder what goes on, any
way. Dogs In Central Point
To the Editor: All of you
dog lovers, bring your dogs
and come to Central Point,
where they have the whole
town to run in.
Our council here seems to
give the dogs more provileges
than they do the people. They
pad along the streets and
spray the stuff the stores have
out on display.
We need dog control pretty
bad. The council neglects that,
but they don't neglect our
money.
All of you people who wish
to have dog control, please
contact me at 532 Maple St.,
Central Point, and further
more, if you want the low
down on the last meeting, con
tact me at the same address.
D. F. Perkins,
P. O. Box 514,
Central Point, Ore.
Voting Record
To the Editor: It is with
great interest that I have
watched Congressman Durno's
voting record in Congress.
His vote against expanding
the rules committee was
among his first votes against
the people of his district, as
this committee has in the past
years stopped legislation on
housing and other matters re
lating to us from coming to a
vote before the house.
And what of his promise in
his campaign to stop Japanese
imports of plywood? On T.V.
March 27 he said It is still a
problem, but NEXT year they
would talk about it in Con
gress.
His latest vote against a
$1.25 an hour minimum wage
law for an employee who
works for a company engaged
in intrastate commerce was a
real shocker. Even this bill
was a modified version of the
administration proposal and
was defeated by one vote.
Congressman Durno's one
vote could have helped mil
lions of people buy a little
extra food for their families.
It evidently was of little in
terest to him that the latest
Gallup poll published recently
showed 75 per cent of the peo
ple supported this bill.
Now that he has voted
against the working people,
there is little doubt mat ne
is preparing to vote against
our elderly people by voting
against medical care for the
aged under Social Security,
when this bill comes before
the house.
During the campaign Con
gressman Durno said "Let's
wake up with a doctor in the
house." But a doctor is sup
posed to cure the majority of
his patents, not make them
sick.
Now that spring training Is
about over I am hopeful that
he will change his brand of
antibiotics, and improve his
batting average in the interest
of the nation and our district.
Neil Rayburn,
814 Sherman St.,
Medford.
Commodity Inspection
Lowesf in Five Months
Salem - Perishable com
modities inspected by state
federal shipping point service
in February has dipped to the
lowest figure of the past five
months.
Total number of carlots
checked in February came to
2,775. The last low count was
in September, 1960, when
2,150 carlots of produce were
counted. Figures for Febru
ary of 1960 totaled 3.465
about 690 carlots more than
were counted in the same
month of 1961. The February
count this year was almost 600
carlots under January.
Communism, and
Yet Mexico City is not the
whrle of Mexico.
For instance, take what
President Adolfo Lopez Ma
teo found on his first "work
tour" of 1961. -
In the central Mexican
state of Zacateeas, he found
91,000 persons unemployed
out of a total of 741,000. In
addition, some 60,000 men had
emigrated to the United States
to work as transient "bra
ceros" in U.S. agriculture.
- The government is press
Matter of Fact by Joseph ais0P
IF IF IF -
Bangkok The first thing
to remember about the Laos
crisis is that this was not
grwtrrnr mere summer!
tl;r " o
without tnreai
of any serious
storm. The
storm could
have been
very serious
a? indeed it m-
klta S. Khru
shchev had
Aisop not changed
the signals at the last
moment. ,
The U.S. Pacific Fleet was
on a war footing. The U.S.
Marine helicopter company
that recently moved into the
Udorn airbase on the Laotian
border here in Thailand was
only the advance guard of
much larger American forces
that were steaming toward
the scene of potential action.
Thai army units were moving
into position. The Pakistanis
were to contribute a conting
ent. On Sunday, President
Kennedy asked Prime Minis
ter Macmillan for men from
the Commonwealth Brigade
that is stationed in Malaya.
In other words, there was
the grimmest sort of hard
meaning in the .President's
decision to intervene milita
rily in Laos if Khrushchev
did not promptly agree to a
ceasefire and negotiations on
the basis . proposed by the
British. It was not an empty
decision. There was no bluff
about it. And when this re
porter left Washington on
Saturday, the highest Ameri
can authorities were giving
even odds on negotiations of
intervention, either way.
MAYBE the odds then
given were overpessimis
tic, since the Soviets kept up
the ugly test of will until the
last possible minute. They
planted "authoritative" warn
ings, sent through satellite
sources, for instance, that a
ceasefire was unthinkable
and that President Kennedy
could have a war if he want
ed one. These reached the
American policy makers Fri
day evening and Saturday
morning, almost concurrently
with the news that Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gro
myko wished to be received
by the President.
Now, however, those who
bet on negotiations have won
the wager. They would not
have won, and the Commu
nist military conquest of Laos
would have proceeded to its
long-planned conclusion, if
President Kennedy had not
made the harsh decision to
prepare to fight. In this way
at least what has happened is
a textbook illustration of the
rule that guts are needed for
successful dealings with the
Kremlin.
But although the accept
ance of negotiations effective-
CIRCULATION RISES
New York - IUPD - Daily
circulation of newspapers in
the United States last year
rose over 1959 by more than
a half-million copies, accord
ing to Editor & Publisher. In
the past two years the gain has
been almost Hi million, it
said.
ZINC FIELD
St. Louis - About one-third
of the zinc needed for U. S.
arms during World War II
cames from the mh'es located
in the Missourl-Kansn ; Okla
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-By BENNETT CERF-
TRITZ KREISLER, groat violinist, also fancies himself as
a penormer ot difficult card tricks,
his genuine skill in that department at
guest said, "I'd like to
engage you to perform at
a banquet I'm hosting
next month."
"See my agent," sug
gested Kreisler. A satis
factory deal was made,
and Kreisler turned up
at the appointed time
with his precious violin
under his arm.
"Say," said his admir
ing patron, "you're pretty
versatile, aren't you?
Play the violin, tool"
a a
A man who thinks ahead like a champion chess plaver is
Walter Bliss of Paramus. N.J. For her birthday he gave his
Wife the costliest set of china ho coulU find. Now h. not only
doesn't have to wash the duhes any more; she won't even allow
him in the kitchen.
C 1961, bjr Btnnttt Cerf. Dittrltmted by Kln Feature Sj-ndicats
in Mexico
ing hard its campaign to open
up new lands and to place
peasants on their . own farm
plots.
Yet evidence of unrest may
be found in the steady stream
of peasants seeking the higher
wages of the big cities, and
the charge that huge landed
estates have been disguised
as "ejidos" (community farm
sections), defeating the gov-'
ernment's program and hold
ing peasant farmers in a state
of peonage,
ly disposes of one of the fairly
awe-inspiring sets of "ifs"
which have been hanging
over the future, the other set
is by no means disposed of.
The point is that the kind of
conference on Laos proposed
by the British can be very
dangerous indeed; and the So
viets will no doubt do their
best to make it more danger-.
ous, both at the conference
table and on the scene in
Laos.
THE Soviet aim, now, is
quite obviously to secure
a diplomacy plus some politi-'
cal maneuvering and pressure
in Laos, what they had pre
viously been trying to secure
by military means. They want
a Laotian government under
effective Communist control, .
which will of course be called
a "neutral government" at'
the outset. And here is where"
the other set of "ifs" comes
in. '.!,.
The other set of "ifs" com-)
prises all the reasons which;
remorselessly drove Presi-"
dent Kennedy to his decision'
to fight for Laos if need be.;
For if Laos falls under effec-:
tive Communist control
I (which is the main "if" now)
the consequences are almost
mathematically predictable. :
Politically, Laos may be;
pulpy and insignificant; but.
geographically, Laos is the!
key. It is the high road to.
Siam, to Cambodia, and to
South Vietnam where the
government of courageous
President Diem is already
under heavy Communist guer-'
rilla attack.
If Laos falls under effective -Communist
control, South .
Vietnam will be automatical-'
ly doomed. Cambodia's capri
cious but genuine neutrality,
will turn into something very
different. Thailand's present
Western orientation will be
all but impossible to maintain
And if these things happen,'
the process will not end in the
countries that border on Laos..
-
npHIS kind of disastrous;
chain reaction in South--east
Asia, if it is ever permit
ted to happen, will not only .
affect all the other Southeast ;
Asian nations like Burma, '.
Malaya, and already - dis-.
ordered Indonesia. In the rest;
of Asia, it will produce vol-"
canic repercussions in Japan,.'
in South Korea, and in the'
Philippines. And from all :
this, if it ever happens, there -will
be a rapid, terrible;
feedback in the Middle East,
in Africa, and in South.
America.
Last Friday in Washing
ton, a list was circulating in
the government of four Latin!
American countries, two in
the Caribbean, where early
Castro-like explosions had to
be expected as a result of this ;
process which threatened
and still threatens to get'
underway in Southeast Asia.:
The Thais and the Filipinos,
who pressed for the decision
that Kennedy made, did so :
for Asian motives. But this is
a drama which cannot be lo
calized if it turns sour. .
Hence the result of any ne-.
gotiation about Laos has to
be weighed with the same",
toughness that was shown;
when the Pacific Fleet was
ordered onto a war footing."
But although the need to be'
tough-minded is still as great
as ever, Die first fruits of
tough-mindedness are at least:
pretty encouraging,
(c) 1961 New York Herald '
Tribune Inc.
Stop Me
He was showing
a party when a