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19 YEARS AGO
April , 1181 (Monday) ,
Propoged clgaret tax con
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ApiU . U41 (Wednesday)
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From Arthur Perry's "Ye
r nudge Pot" column: ;"The
1 iiaourl draft director has
j Ued that draftees who have
tth pulled to avoid wearing
r .mlf n henceforth will be
...ed, teeth or no teeth. This
ilrma the flrsV World War
ort; You're going to tight
n-not bite em."
u years aoo
April t, 1991 (Thursday)
Uantrtt mnnwm all TllAmnfld
lake will delay opening two
w tnree weeas.
Mushroom picking season
tegins in villey.
V YEAF.I AOO
l ,tU t. 1121 (Saturdar)
Orchardltis In valley enjoy
food night's sleep for first
time in a week, there being
an orchard heating last night.
v Former cashier at Bank of
Jacksonville sentenced to 10
years in state prison. . i
U YEARS AGO
April 9, 1911 (Sunday)
Federal bureau of census
reports for 1910 show Med
ford population at 8,840; Ash
land, 5,020; Jacksonville, 788;
Central Point, 761; Gold Hill,
sisters of Providence to
submit plans this week for
new $100,000 hospital - on
"Nob Hill."
Whil't Year I.Q.7
Nina ar ten cornet la luperlorl
even er eliht h eieallanrj (iva ar
pis l seed. - ' - - -
1 1. Where Is Fenway Park
2. When angry, a porcupine
has the ability to throw his
quills; true or falser
S.Ocean passengers are
called "polllwogs" if they
have never crossed the equa
tor; what are they called when
thev have crossed It?
4, A g a i n s t whom did
Charles Evans Hughes run tor
the presidency in 18167
5. After his defeat at Water
loo, ' to what Island was Na
poleon Bonaparte exiled?
6. Osteology is the science
which treats of what?
7. Is West Point's mascot
a goat or a mule? .
8. Does sound travel faster
at freezing temperatures or
at room temperature?
9. Is a stereoscope some
thing through which to hear,
see or speak?
10. Name the large Island
' of the West Indies which has
been called "Pearl of the An
tilles." ; ' -
Answers) 1. Boston. 2, False.
3. "Shellbacks." 4. Woedrow
Wilson. S. St. Helena. 6. Bones.
7. Mule 8 Room temperature,
t. See. 10. Cuba.
CAT NOW, PLAY LATER '
t Phoenix, Arlz.-WPD-Arlzon
Republicans have adopted the
Installment plan. Sponsors of
a fund-raising "Dinner with
Barry Goldwater" said party
members low on cash could
pay the $100 tab at $10 down,
$10 a month. For the .loyal
party workers who find that
too steep there is a "Brunch
with Barry" at $10, for $1
down, $1 month.
I SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1961
Land Use Debates
The National Parks are the subject of increas
ing debate these days. So are the National
Forests. ' . ;
The debate concerns the best way in which
our great publicly-owned outdoor resources of
forests, streams and mountains should be man
aged for the maximum
both now and m the long
' Take the parks, for
the middle of a monumental squeeze.
", On one hand, increasing population, greater
mobility of people, more leisure time, and a
greater interest in outdoor recreation, has put
the Parks under tremendous pressure from hordes
of visitors.
DUT the basic law governing the management
of the parks says
not only be made available for public use, but
shall be preserved as
natural state for the benefit of generations yet
unDorn. - . ...
The first pressure has
opments which some feel
of asphalt parking lots,
the park reservations,
what were originally designated as wilderness
areas, and other evidences of people in the form
of litter, dirt and carelessness, which do much to
destroy the intrinsic value of the parks.
There are many, and
ing, who feel this is not
assigned to the National
WE WERE delighted to note the other day
that the new Secretary of the Interior, Stew
art ; Udall, is apparently iully aware ot this
problem.
yTZ was quoted as saying: , ; .
f ' "The easing of the visitor flood at the national park '
gates is absolutely essential in solving the problem of :
v passing on the national park system unimpaired to V
future generations. . .. . '
"Personally, I am a strong believer in wilderness "
' preservation, and you can depend on me to scrutinize ,
1 all programs and activities of the National Park Serv- ;
ice with this viewpoint clearly in mind. .
; "On the other hand, I feel very strongly that the
people do have a right to visit their parks." ;
WHAT is the way out
' There are several.
struction of visitor facilities just outside of parks
not inside. "
In most parks, the lodges and other facilities
were constructed back in
a day's journey just to
modern cars and roads,
for putting housing facilities in the parks them
selves. . -
If adequate accommodations can be provided
(by private enterprise, be it noted near but not
in the parks, part of the solution is at hand.
.- . . e .
A NOTHER is a more adequate degree of devel
fr oped recreational facilities in National For
est 'areas.
Mahv of the people who visit parks do so for
the inspirational scenic
did areas. They should have no impediments put
in their way. . .
But a great many more visit the parks simply
because they are available, as outdoor recreation
areas. There is a good question as to whether
the parks were or are designed to accommodate
these people, who . would, in all truth, be just
as happy, if riot more so, to take their outdoor
enjoyment at other spots, , perhaps not quite as
grand scenically, but certainly better adapted to
Handle the outdoor recreationalists in their boat
ing, hiking and camping activities.
TTHE Forest Service has long operated under
the philosophy of "multiple purpose use" of
the areas under its jurisdiction, giving weight to
recreational values as well as to consumptive use,
watershed management and so on.
The Bureau of Land Management has been
coming closer and closer to this concept in recent
years, and now, with Secretary Udall in office,
it is adopting a similar concept for land manage
ment.1 .. . ' ',
In western Oregon particularly this is impor
tant, since so much of the area is in O & C lands.
administered by the BLM.
TIED in with this whole discussion is the sub-
ject of wilderness lands.
Few people, if any) will dispute the "wilder
ness principle," for even lumbermen, avid for
supplies for their mills, say it is valid, and that
they support the principle.
. The dispute is largely how much land shall
be preserved in its untouched-by-human-hand
character, and how strontr shall be the safe
guards set up for its preservation.
mere is only a comparlVto' small amount
of wilderness area left in this country, and pres
sures are strong to chop it down to an even
smaller percentage of our land area.
1I7E FEEL strongly that a maximum of wilder
" ness should now be set aside, and that the
strongest possible safeguards to prevent its de
spoilment should be enacted.
If it is found that "too
been set aside, action can always ba taken to
surrender it to economic use.
But once it is p-one.
decision is irrevokable. '
God knows mankind
ly his environment. We
as it was created for the
daughters, forever. E.A.
: . ,
benefit of the people,
years ahead.
instance. They are in
distinctly that they shal.
much as possible in their
resulted in some devel-
are deplorable acres
motels burgeoning inside
more roads cut through
their number is grow
in line with the mission
rark Service.
,:., v vvyw
of this dilemma? " x
One of them is con
the days when it was
get there. Today with
there is less justification
grandeur of these splen
much" wilderness has
it is pone forever. The
has done enough to sul
should leave some of it
benefit of our sons and
Dennis the Menace
lGOftA QUestlW,MRMU30t4: IS IT 'STAR LISHT, STAR
BRIGHT' OR STAR BRIGHT, STAR LIGHT'? ,,. ,
Matter of Fact
DAY AT VANG VIEMQ -
Vang Vieng, Laos-The vet
eran French pilot stops talk
ing about his garden, stubs
out his strong
smelling clg
a rette, and
concentra t e s
on t his job.
S w erving
sharply, the
little .plane
enters a pass
between two
needle -like
crags. The
Aliop .
pass is narrow and one can
see birds flashing in the roof
tops of the nearer slope.
"You need to know this
country to fly here," says the
pilot. - i' " . '
After the pass; there is an
other shelf of' hills, and then
the plane swiftly descends in
to the tiny bowl-like valley
of Vang Vieng. One reflects,
not for the last time, that
countrysides resembling the
more wildly romantic Chinese
landscape paintings,' moun
tains, mist, and all, are pleas
anter to look at than to fly
overBut the plane is grind
ing to a halt, and there on the
dusty airstrip is the stocky
figure of Gen. Kouprasith
Abhay, the only Laotian army
commander currently on the
offensive against the Commu
nists. ' '
-
AT 11:1B a.m. - General
Knurjr&sltk'tt riearlniinrtArn
is the best house In a little
bamboo village on a river
bank. The General,.' who
started fighting 16 years ago
against the Japanese, is burst
ing with news. Yesterday, he
explains, four Soviet Ilyu
shins made four sorties each
over his northwest flank, and
on each sortie each Ilyushin
dropped a group of 13 para
chutists and some supplies.
Total men dropped: about
300.
During the night, there
fore, the General brought
back two 105 mm. guns from
his point battalion to guard
against the new threat on the
flank. He gestures toward the
guns, well dug in and cam
ouflaged. "All the same," he says,
"those llyushins flying over
us - they make me angry."
The American liaison officer
from the aid group displays
skepticism about 1 the llyu
shins. The General shrugs and
remarks with some bitterness:
"I suppose this poor little
Laos will be the Ethiopia of
the next world war." But he
still grants permission to go
up the line.
AT 1:00 p.m. - The jeep-trip
down the tank rolled
track through a long cleft in
the hills is not easy, but it
Is marvellously lovely. The
needle-peaks soar upwards on
either side. "The Jungle walls
In the road, opening only for
an occasional village clearing
where naked biscuit-colored
babies play in the bright sun.
And there Is a swift running
Jade green stream, always
full of people briskly washing
themselves and their clothes,
which we cross and cross
again.
The American driving the
jeep gestures toward the
hills. "The General has got all
his men off the road and put
them up there," he says. "This
outfit was In poorish shape
before he took over, after
they got thrown out of the
road junction up ahead. But
it's better now."
As though to justify his es
timate, the commander of the
point battalion, Major Koka
Pomsopa, turns out to be a
very tough-looking customer
who seems in complete com
mand of his situation. Like
Kouprasith, this little, wiry,
bronzed' man with a thin
straggle of beard began his
fighting against the Japanese
when he was a beardless boy.
a
TUT IN FRONT of him, he
" says, there are three en
emy companies,, one Pathet
Lao, the other two halt
Lao and half North Vietnam
ese. There was a sharp fight
yesterday, but "today there is
nothing and the road forward
is mined. Come back tomor
row and I think it wiU be
worth your while goinsj fur
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE
By Joseph Alsop
ther forward."
So he ends with a grin, and
begins barking orders which
animate the hut-sheltered
command post. Sure enough,
the return to Vang Vieng is
difficult because troops and
armored cars are moving up.
At 2:30 p.m.-Gen. Koupra-
sith's headquarters, is more
animated. The Captain of the
flank company who reported
the parachute drop yesterday
has been called in and sternly
cross-q uestioned. He has
brought eye-witnesses - the
aged village headman speaks
for them all. Their stories are
consistent. The American
working with Gen. Kouprasith
is still dubious, but there is no
time for argument. A plane
from Vientiane has come and
gone, evidently bringing maj
or news. At any rate, a plan
ning session begins behind
closed doors in the General's
makeshift office; and from
time to time battalion and
company officers come in for
orders.
-. i a,-'.
AT 4:00 p.m. - The after
nnnn's snmnnlpnt Kilpnnp
is broken by the hum of an
other aircraft, bringing a liai
son group from Vientiane.
One of them, an American, is
a sad-faced man who para
chuted into France behind the
lines with this reporter's
brother before the Normandy
landing - and has been doing
the same sort of thing ever
since. He has spotted troops
moving In the next little val
ley-bowl, just over the hills
to the northwest where the
parachute drop was reported.
Unflurrled, Gen. Koupra
sith tells his flank company to
move forward. The confer
ence behind closed doors Is
resumed. Then the command
radio starts chattering. The
flank company has run into a
sharp fire. The office doors
open. The General emerges
grinning. Another order is
quickly given. The 105's shat
ter the afternoon's peace, fir.
ing furiously beyond the near.
est hill to the area indicated
by the flank company com
mander. -At
4:30 p.m. - The closed
conference ends. The General
and his visitors walk down to
the liaison plane. The Amer
ican who had doubted the par
achutists' existence remarks
wrily,.. "I guess the intelli
gence was right after all, for
once." Kouprasith asks to be
flown over the area where the
parachutists have been lo
cated, "so that I can see for
myself." -
There follows a surrealist
half-hour. This neighboring
valley-bowl is smaller than
Vang Vieng and the surround.
ing needle peaks are even
higher. Gen. Kouprasith
bounces about at the rear of
the plane, wildly pointing and
shouting, "Fly there.
1)UT "THERE" is always an
other soaring crag, so it
Is often needful to remember
the highly practical rule that
it is better to look at a book
than a mountain when you
seem to be flying straight into
the mountain. Between
glimpses of swiftly looming
crags and snatches of Middle
Eastern history (which are
somehow not very gripping)
there are also passes over the
valley-bowl. These are made
with the plane heeled clean
over on its side and Gen.
Kouprasith braced over the
open door to get a better look.
At length the aerial moun
tain-dodging ends. Descending
from the plane, the General
says rather peevishly, "Didn't
see a thing-it's always like
that in this miserable war."
Then he adds more cheer
fully, "But I found out they
have no anti-aircraft guns,
which was what I really
wanted."
. So he goes off to push Tils
men forward as rapidly as he
can. At dawn the next morn
ing, a very big and novel op
eration is to be attempted, and
the General s outfit is to par
ticipate. A lot depends on it.
How it may turn out, no one
can predict as these words are
written. But one wishes all
the participants all imagin
able luck as dusk suddenly en
velopes Vang Vien.
(Copyright. 1961, New York
I Herald Tribune, Inc.)
A.
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmann It In Europe. Rotcoe Drummond reports from
Washington in hit abience.)
PITFALLS IN LAOS
Washington - It is danger
ous to assume that a "peace"
conference will bring peace
to Laos.,;
Of course negotiations are
desirable. But in light of our
experience in Korea and in
Indo-Chlna, we face a long,
tortuous road before we know
whether the freedom of Laos
can be secured at the con
ference table.
T h e r e is no evidence that
either the Soviet' Communists
or the Chinese Communists
really want an independent,
neutral Laos. We need to bear
in mind that the Soviets use
a conference as a tactical de
vice to achieve their ends one
way instead of another. The
most revealing statement of
Communist intentions is the
recent Moscow manifesto and
Premier Khrushchev's speech
expounding the manifesto. ;
TJERE is what they said:
i-"Wars of national lib
eration," as in Korea, Viet
nam, Algeria, and Laos are
"sacred wars, are justifiable,
desirable, and never ended
until there is a Communist
government. .
2-The Communists see the
anti-colonial movement as in
separable f rom ' the "class
struggle for Communism."
3-Any non-Communist re
gime is per se illegitimate and
therefore should be over
thrown. This means that the
Communists view the elected
government of Laos as illegiti
mate. ' Their aim is to over
throw it with pro-Communist
rebel forces supported by So
viet arms.
4-The Khrushchev version
of "Deaceful' co - existence"
does not 'accept the "status
quo" until a Communist re
gime is part of the status quo.
Therefore, the Soviet-backed
effort to bring down the elect
ed government of Laos is, to
Moscow and Peiping, not a
violation of "peaceful co
existence" but an expression
of it. '
The "differences" between
Moscow and Peiping on these
matters is that the Chinese
Communists may be willing to
take more risks.
.','''
OFTEN you hear people
comfortably say, "As long
as you keep them (the Com
munists) talking, they're not
fighting." On this point Dean
Acheson rightly warns in his
article in the "Saturday Eve
ning Post": r :
"Nothing could be more un
true. They are fighting. They
are adopting a tactic specifi
cally prescribed by Lenin to
delay the crises while demor
alizing and weakening the
enemy. To our, minds inter
national, negotiations are so
completely a means for end
ing conflict that we are blind
to the fact that they mav be.
and in the hands of experts
are, equally adapted to con
tinuing it."
There is every danger that
the conference on Laos will
be used by the Communists
exactly as Mr. Acheson warns.
We will need to be extra-
ordinarily alert and firm to
prevent it.
There was no reason to be
surprised about the Soviet re
sponse to the proposal for a
cease-fire and negotiation. It
was familiar; they wanted to
turn it around - negotiate and
then maybe a cease-fire. Even
if the Soviets apnrove a
cease-fire, there is no assur
ance that the pro-Communist
forces In northern Laos will
cease firing. This Js what the
Communists did in Korea on
the eve of the Panmunjom
negotiations. This is what the
Communists did in Indo
china on the eve of the. Gene-
Mammoth
By ERIC SEVAREID
Trinidad, B.W.I. - Prime
Minister Macmillan has moved
gracefully from Trinidad
through the
other islands
of the British
West Indies,
congratulating
.'the descend
ants of import
ed slaves on
their Intelli
gent progress
towards feder
ation and self
they ; should
Savarald
government -
have independent, Dominion
status in another year - and
their leaders have replied in
tones of graceful gratitude.
But there is a giant joker in
the deck for this carefully
supervised political new deal.
This transaction, inevitable
and right, bears a not too far
fetched resemblance to the
Inevitable and right emanci
pation of the American slaves
a century ago, who were set
free to breed in squalor, beg
for work and migrate to dis
tant regions in desperate
search for a livelihood..
Macmillan promised that
Britain would continue econ
omic assistance, but a slight
chill ran through many in
his Trinidadian audience
when he added the comment
that the United Kingdom's
ability to help is not unlimit
ed. How they can help them
i-va negotiations. '
-
THERE are other pitfalls.
The Soviets may agree to
a cease-fire which the Red
Chinese take over the fight
ing. This may look like a con
flict of interest between Red
China and the Soviet Union,
but it will more likely be a
pattern of concerted conquest.
The Soviet airlift of arms
to the pro-Communist rebels
must halt as part of any mean
ingful cease-fire. Otherwise,
the negotiations will be a
cover for a military build-up.
. It is to be hoped that a
real cease-fire can be brought
about. But the cease-fire will
have to be thoroughly . policed
by mutual agreement and we
should be prepared to break
off negotiations if the cease
fire is violated. ' , v
(Copyright 1961 New York
Herald Tribune. Inc.)
In the Day's News
, . .. By FRANK JENKINS
From Salem:
A proposed amendment to
the Oregon constitution that
would lower the voting age
from 21 to 18 years has been
rejected by a 25-34 vote in
the house of representatives.
Representative Katherine
Musa, of The Dalits, sponsor
of the 18-year-old voting res
olution, told the members of
the house that youngsters of
today are better qualified to
vote than were persons much
older 30 years ago. ,
This was contradicted , by
Representative Ken Maher,
of Portland, who argued that
youths under 21 are not suf
ficiently mature to compre
hend the 1 issues they would
be called on to decide in these
modern days."
WHO is right?
Who is wrone?
There is considerable truth
on both sides. But the Musa
Maher debate raises an inter
esting question:
At what age ARE people
qualified , to vote in these
days?
IT IS true that the average
level of education is high
er now than three decades
ago. 'But, in voting, educa
tion isn't EVERYTHING. Ex
perience has a lot to do with
it.
1ITHAT is experience? ?
' ' Let's take a look at the
die t i onary. definition. Mr.
Webster says:
Experience . is "the actual
LIVING through an event or
events; actual enjoyment or
suffering; hence the effect
upon the JUDGMENT or feel
ings produced - by personal
and direct impressions, as to
know by experience. State,
extent or DURATION of be
ing engaged in a particular
study, or work, or in affairs;
the sum total of the consci
ous events which compose an
individual life." ,
LET'S put it this way:
Voting consists in study
ing proposals, evaluating the
evidence on both sides and
then MAKING A DECISION.
Experience helps in making
decisions. Experience, as Web
ster says, is the actual living
through events. The longer
you live, the more experience
you accumulate.
So, presumably, the older
you are, the better equipped
you are to make WISE deci
sions. Representative Maher
presented a rather sound
argument.
The debate in -the legisla
ture was merely academic.
But it does raise some inter
esting questions. Questions
that deserve a lot of thought.
Vise Closing on Latin America
selves, how they could meet
the terms of a British equiva
lent of the new Kennedy
Latin-American aid program,
with a quid from the receiver
for each quo from the giver,
is very hard to see. Nothing
very far short, of the bold,
driving industrializat!-:i
thrust of the United States in
Puerto Rico is likely to save
these islanders from the final
ravages of a blight already
well advanced. ,
On Trinidad itself sugar
cane workers have been strik
ing for a living wage. A near
riot occurred when three
thousand Trinidadians lined
up to apply for a handful of
jobs as migratory farm work
ers in the United States. Three
hundred women jammed a
street In front of the office
where three dozen were to
be selected for jobs as domes
tic servants in Canada.
From my window nearby I
could see each evening the
weary plantation workers
trudging home through the
dust, past the clusters of the
unemployed idle squatting be
fore their shacks;. The farm
workers had earned approxi
mately a dollar and seventy
five cents apiece that day, and
prices for the important
things they must buy are by
no means low. (When a new
ly established American plant
er provided free shoes and
medical care for his work
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
We're very high on Dick
Moody this week.
Dick, as you undoubtedly
know, is the personable fel
low who handles local news
for KMED. : We don't know
whether he ever was a Boy
Scout or not, but he can
take credit for a good deed.
Last week Dick and. our
own man, Greg Nokes, were
at the country club to cover
a meeting at which doctors
were being given the latest
dope on a variety of heart
massage a life-saving meas
ure used in emergency cases.
Dick and Greg sat together,
and as the evening progres
sed, Greg became ill. He ask
ed Dick to come outside with
him for a breath of fresh
air. As the two got outdoors,
Dick saw Greg was pale and
leaning against a post. He
turned around to get a chair,
but before he could, Greg
collapsed.
e
He was, frankly, quite a
mess. But, since Greg is up
and around and fit again.
we can record that he .
mashed his glasses, cut his
face open in several places,
and badly bruised his chest.
-..
There's one advantage to
covering a meetine of this
kind. '
Dick hurried inside ' and
called, "Is there a doctor in
the house?" : ' , .
As one man, the audience
stood up. '. ,
Pretty soon, however, it
narrowed down to a couple -of
MDs. The first one io
get io Greg - leaned over
him, and popped out a con
tact lense. (There's more
than one happy ending; the
lense was found again, on
Greg's jacket.) .
Well, Dick took our boy
to the hospital, where he
spent the night, and later in
the week he underwent a
series of tests to see what
made him pass out.-
Right now he , and his
charming bride are taking it
easy over at the coast, lucky
people.
It might almost be worth
. No, never mind.
And many thanks for your
good help, Dick Moody. ,
. . v a - - . , ..
As someone said once,,
from the ridiculous io the
sublime - the sublime in
this case, being Mrs. John
F. Kennedy, about whom
much discussion is heard
these days.
Try and Stop Me
-By BENNETT CERF ' :
A COUPLE were driving their 5-year-old son home from
a day at the beach -when suddenly the car ahead stopped
short without warning; the father drove smack into it. No
body was hurt, but the
man in the car ahead was
shaken up a bit. Ha
turned out to be a mid
get from a sideshow on
the boardwalk.
The 5 -year -old re
mained discreetly silent
during the. entire pro-,
ceeding. It was only after
he got home that he
asked his father, "Hey,
Pop, was that man we
hit as tall as you before
the accident?" -
A venerable Australian Archbishop was interviewed on hit
ninty-slxth birthday. "To what," he was. asked, "do you ascribe
the fact that you have reached the age of 96?" "Primarily,"
mtled the Archbishop, "to the fact that I was born in 1865." .
force, the latent anti-Ameri
canism that seems to exist in
every British territory boiled
briefly on the surface.)
If the problem, were moral
ly and economically tidy -white
exploitation of black -it
would be far easier than it
is to rectify. But the exploit
ers themselves are in trouble,
and that invariably means
the exploitees are in double
trouble. The foundation for
these islan-s rested on cocoa,
coconut and coffee, as Weill
as sugar. Total world con
sumption of cocoa is now 850,
000 tons each year while total
production is 1,050,000 tons.
Already prices are virtually
even with production costs,
while Ghana, Nigeria and New
Guinea push strongly into
this field. Much coconut rots
on the ground and many cof
fee growers this year, are not
bothering to pick their crop.
All over Trinidad itself the
signs are up, advertising plan
tations for sale.
Hundreds of Jamaicans
pour into London from the
Southampton boat trains every
month, creating a new Har
lem in north London. Leaders
of the West Indian Federation
are organizing pressures to
enlarge their immigration
quota to the United States,
now held to 1,000 a year, and
they demand this as a matter
of moral right,
The story of the West Jn-
Our story begins last week
when E.A. and O.S. got into
a debate about the First
Lady. O.S. claims that Jac
queline isn't really beautiful,
although she concedes she's
attractive, in an odd way,
E.A., however, agrees with
a colleague of his in Eugene
who, maintains that Mrs. K
is "absurdly beautiful."
Who is right?
Well, in the good tradition
of Elmo Roper and George
Gallup, we took a poll of the
newsroom, and received sev
eral responses although one
grumpy chap refused to par
ticipate. "Why should I
waste my time?" he asked.
And maybe he has something
there.
Anyway, we did get a
representative sampling of
newsroom opinion regard
ing Mrs. Kennedy's exter
ior appearance. Staff mem
bers were given a choice
of these adjeciiv es io
check: Gorgeous, beautiful, .
attractive, ugly, pretty, un
impeccable, sloppy, taste
less: They also were allow- .
ed io add their own words,
; which two people did: In
teresting, well-bred, fashionable.
. Here's how the voting 1
went:
Attractive-three votes (two
male; one female).
Well-bred-five votes, two
male, three female). s
Fashionable .. two votes
(both female).. :
Beautiful and impeccable-
one vote each (both male-of
course). . ' . ,
Interesting one vote (fe
male of course).
, ' I
. :, All this seems pretty
pale stuff when one con-
Kennedy is having on fe
male (and male) America.
One flier we received in
the office says "Already our
now First Lady is fast on
her way to becoming a liv
ing legend. She has been
written about, discussed,
admired and imitated to an
extent unprecedented in
American history, even to
the point the female pa
tients of plastic surgeons
are having their noses
changed to make them look
like her. . ; "
., ,-
And what's that you say?
What - is the opinion of the
Potluck editor?
Mrs. K, he thinks, is fine
But his first choice is Caro
line. dies is the faithful foreword
to the whnlp Lntin Ampi-lnn
book of modern horrors, in
volving in its thickening plot
virtually every country in the
vast continent which begins
across the narrow strait from
Trinidad. The lesson is near
ly everywhere the same: Most
of the rich are getting richer
and most of the poor are get
ting poorer. The major
threads Of causation nrp -tun
the surplus of basic export
crops and the surplus of hu
man beings.
Human nroeress does nnt
move by logical, progression.
Man has acquired the hydro
gen bomb before he has ac
quired the discipline to con
trol nationalist fears and ag
gressions. And widespread
success in lenathpntnir Ufa
has come to the southern hem
isphere before any widespread
experiments in oreventina
new life through birth con-
iroi. i
The population of these
West Indies will be doubled
in 30 years. Commensurate
education facilities, jobs and
homes are not even in sight
among the most vigorous and
hopeful planners. For Latin
America as a whole, today's
200 million people will be
come 300 million, 14 years
from now. Time is short. A
mammoth vise Is closing.
(Distributed 1961 by The
Hall Syndicate, Inc.)