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Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY. MARCH 30, 1961 !n i I" mn THE FACTS OF LIFE When the President and the Prime Minister said at Key West that "the situation in Laos cannot be I allowed to con tinue to deter iorate." t h e v were thinking, we may sup- DOSP that tha WlwAl B 0 u n u m Yi 55 11 8 o ve rnment might, with- I out, putting ud Lippmann much of a fight for it, lose the capital city. After that, this govern ment which we support would have little standing and little bargaining power in a nego tiation about the future of Laos. Among the rebel forces, which would then be domi nant, there would be a dan gerous tension between the genuine neutralists under Prince Souvanna Phouma and the active Communists of the Pathet Lao. Some kind of cease-fire and standstill is, therefore, neces sary if there is to be a suc cessful negotiation, establish ing, as we now hope, a pas sive and neutralized Laos. There was a question whether this radically changed Ameri can policy in Laos, which has been adopted only in the new Administration, could still be carried out. But the accept ance by Moscow of the British proposals shows that the So viet Union trusts the Presi dent's purposes in Laos. . 'PHE crux of the Laotian problem is the fact, which no one seriously denies, that a military solution, a settle ment imposed by arms, is im possible. Against guerrilla forces nourished by Commu nist Viet Minh and supported by the Soviet Union, a mili tary victory would be impos sible. A French army of some 400,000 men has been unable to defeat the Algerian rebels. The strategical situation in Laos is very much more diffi cult for SEATO than was the situation in Algeria for France. On the other hand, the So viet Union and the Chinese cannot expect to win a stable victory by military force. The SEATO nations have behind them the sea and air power of the United States, and this power can be used to deny to the Pathet Lao an assured victory. There is, therefore, in Laos not a true balance of power, for the balance is decidedly against us. But there is a rough balance of the capacity to harass and frustrate. This balance is leading to a nego tiation, such as Great Britain, France, and the United States have proposed. IT HAS often been said these days that we are witnessing a test of wills between Mr, Khrushchev and Mr. Ken nedy. There may be some thing in this, supposing that any doubt existed in Mr. Khrushchev's mind that the President has a strong char acter. But since Mr. Khru shchev also has a strong char acter, what appears to have prevailed, over both these strong characters, are the facts of life. The facts of life have pre vailed upon us to recognize that Laos cannot be brought, as the preceding Administra tion tried to do, within the American sphere of military influence. The President was leaning over backward at his press conference when he credited the Eisenhower ad ministration with "his own policy of a neutral Laos. It is only now that we favor the neutralist Souvanna Phouma, whom we formerly opposed. And now we can count our selves lucky if he can come back to head the government. Mr. Khrushchev also has had to bow to the facts of life, and one of the facts of life is that no victory the Commu nists could win on the ground would drive the sea and air power of the United States out of Southeast Asia. Be cause we cannot subdue the guerrillas in the jungle, and because he cannot drive us out of that part of the world, the In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This modern world: Up in Seattle a while back a not too ultra modern family bought a residence out in the suburbs. There was a vacant lot in the rear. In the course of time, it occurred to the parents that this vacant lot would be an ideal place for their youngsters to build a club house. So they provided the materials and the tools and turned the Junior mem bers of the family loose. The erection of the club house proceeded happily - to the accompaniment, probably, of considerable hammering and sawing and a lot of laughter and shouting. Then . . . a few days ago ... a city official appeared and stopped the construction. It wasn't be ing carried on, he said, in ac cordance with the city build ing code. The hammering and the sawing ceased-along with the happy laughter and the shout ing. The mother of the family, Interviewed by a reporter, put it this way: "The shack provided whole- future is not going to be di cided by arms in the jungles, the swamps, and the moun tains of Laos. Copyright 1961, New York Herald Tribune Inc. SEARS -ffij DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR "V SHOP EVERY MONDAY AND FRIDAY TIL 9 P.M. EASTER FASHION SALE! Honey Lane Dress-Ups 98 Just Say "Charge It!" Charge It! In a Honey Lane dress from our large selection of styles and designs, you can feel comfortable and be "dressed up" at the same time. Hurry to Sears for a rainbow of colors. Sizes 7 to 12. OUR FINEST! Bright and Gay Country Inn Easter Baskets l29 to .$5 Brighten little faces Easter 'morn with Country Inn Easter baskets. Packed to the brim with our finest candies and toys and gayly decorated in fine Easter fashionl Other baskets from 79c. J i LOW PRICE HONEYSUCKLE easy-care cottons 1 98 3-6x well-known for their nicety of tailoring . . . french side seams, taped armholes and deep 'grow' hems. Hurry to this sale and you II save mm!; Charge it on SRC or Use as a 30-Day Charge and take months to pay. "Satisfaction guaranteed or your money 2-" SEARS -:: S01 t. Jackson SP 3 6661 in Mon. i Fri. 'Til 9 P.M. FREE PARKING some activity for all the grade school boys in the neighbor hood. It has kept quite a few youngsters out of trouble. I can't believe that when our city fathers formulated the building code they intended to deprive small boys of the age-old pleasure and whole some activity of building a club house." Hmmmmmmmmm. D'ya reckon our mod ern world could be getting TOO MODERN TOO FAST? lllORE modern world: The thousands of East ern students who have flock ed to Fort Lauderdale (Flori da) for their annual spring vacation got a little obstreper ous. So the Fort Lauderdale cops put a ban on night-time beer drinking and ocean-front necking. The ban was unpopular. So there were riots. Some 350 cops were assigned to handle the riots. They were deluged with beer cans, firecrackers and shouted insults. As this is written, the mayor is threat ening to call for the National Guard. Kennedy Expected To Sign 15-Month Sugar Act Extension Washington -IliPD - President Kennedy was expected shortly to sign into law a compromise 15-month extension of the Sugar Act, which expires at midnight Friday. The Senate and House rush ed the bill to passage Wednes day night and sent it to the White House. It was not cer tain when Kennedy, who re quested the extension, would sign it. Amendment Knocked Out Within minutes, a Senate House conference committee ironed out differences be tween tlie two versions, the Senate shouted approval and the House followed suit. The Senate originally had approved a 15-month exten sion of the act with a last- minute amendment to favor U.S. sugar beet and cane growers in splitting the 3.3 million ton quota taken away from Cuba. The conference committee knoc'.:cd out the amendment. The House had voted a 21 month extension, without the special consideration for American growers. House con ferees then agreed to the shorter-term extension, in re turn for killing the favored- growers amendment. To Quii Officials The measure would give Kennedy power to cut off the 800,000-ton share of the Cu ban quota earmarked for the Dominican Republic. The congressional news: Aid: House investigators were planning to quiz govern ment officials about the $200,- 000 Peruvian cattle business holdings of the man who headed the U.S. foreign aid program in Peru. The man in question, John R. Neale, was found guilty of "conflict of interest" by a board of in quiry of the International Co operation Administration. ICA officials were summoned to testify at the House govern ment operations subcommittee hearing. Jobless: A House - Senate conference committee Wednes day okayed a $700 million ap propriation to finance imme diate jobless payments. 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THEN There's the American multi - multi - millionaire and his $2.8 million ex-ducal residence-he bought it a while back from the Duke of Suther-land-in the pleasant English countryside south of London. IT'S QUITE a place ... as these English ducal seats are apt to be. It has a LOT of rooms. So the new owner invited in a LOT of guests. Al though the walls are ancient, the interior is modern. Among other things, each room has a telephone extension. Which brings us to the nub of our story. His guests are as modern as the interior of his house. Which is to say, they are great users of the telephone. So . . . every day, and more or less every night . . . they CALL UP THEIR FRIENDS. Not Just friends in the surrounding English shire and the adjacent city of London. Friends ALL OVER THE WORLD. From Edinburgh to Hong Kong. THE new owner is not only rich. He's prudent, as well. So, when he got his first month's phone bill, he acted decisively. He had PAY PHONES Installed .all over the house. He explains: "People are funny about telephones. They'll come as guests and make long distance calls all over the world. When you speak to them about it, they'll look surprised and say: 'I spoke 30 minutes? Why, it's impossible. It couldn't have been more than three minutes'." A THOUGHT in closing: D'ya reckon he might have been a little careless in his choice of guests? There was a period in the world when people were more graci ous than that. I'm so old fashioned as to believe the general run of people are still gracious. This fellow just has the wrong kind of friends. Pendleton Fire Station Too Small Pendleton-(UPIt-The new fire station at the Pendleton Air port is nearly completed. It cost $25,000, it's modern, and it's too small. The fire station was built With some federal assistance to serve the Pendleton area near the airport. It was recently discovered to be too small for any fire fighting equipment the city now has. Several fire trucks were brought in from nearby areas, but all of them were too big. A councilman said Fire Chief Rlnrkv Unlrhplnr nnH I others had Inadvertently been bypassed during the construc tion of the station. City Manager Mel Gardiner said Wednesday that the city administration would soon come up with an estimate for lengthening the station by four feet. THEY'LL BE BACK Nottingham, England UPD "It looks like courting is much more Interesting than saving," Sir Gwilym Williams, vice chairman of the National Savings Committee, told de spondent bankers Wednesday. "But after youth has had Its fling, they'll come back to us," he prophesied. EXPANSION ESTIMATE New York -flJPH- The steel In 'uslry spent $13.8 billion on expansion In the period 1940 through 1800. American Iron St Steel Institute said expendi tures In the record year of 1957 were $1,722,997,894. 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