Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
THURSDAY. MARCH 30, 1961
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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
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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
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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. The
House later concurred witn
the item, which is part of the
administration's plan to con
tinue payments to unemploy
ed persons who have ex
hausted regular state benefits.
OUT OF PRINT
New York -IUPD- The U. S.
government has stopped print
ing $5,000, $10,000 and $100,.
000 bills, according to Parado
Magazine, and the highest de
nomination now available in
crisp new bills is $1,000.
MEDAL FOR HOOVER
New York (LTD Former
President Herbert Hoover
will receive the Explorers
Club Medal at a dinner in
his honor April 26 at the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel, it was an
nounced Wednesday. '
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Buenos Aires - Agricultural
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Argentina's normal exports.
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820 Crater Lake Ave.
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Personally, I'm Inclined
to think our Far Western fad
of trundling beds along the
highways from here to there
is a more admirable manifes
tation of the college spirit than
the Fort Lauderdale method.
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.
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1957 were $1,722,997,894. The
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