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4 A "Xvaryona In Southern Oregon 1 . .J - m.. Mail Tribunal Published DaUy except Saturday by 88 Worth Fir St., Ph. 8P8-6U1 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor BZRB GREY. Advertlilm Manner GERALD T. LATHAM. But. Mcr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL B. ADAMS, City Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport! Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Women'! Editor PALE KmcusuH, circulation mgr. An Independent NewsoSDer V Entered as second class mttter at V Medlora, uregon, under am ox I March 3. 1B97 HimSCRrPTION RATES ! By MaU In Advance, Copy 10; Dally ana Bunaay I year eio.vu , ', Dally and Sunday fl mm. 8.00 ' Dally and Sunday 4 moa. 4-33 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford . 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County History from th fllH of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 veer igo. : o Years a56 ' April 23, 1191 (Monday) Nearly 33 years after the battle of St. Mlhlel, a medal commemorating , the great American, victory hag been received from the French gov- ernment by Hang Sorengon of Camp White Company 1. There were 804 cageg of red measles in Jackgon coun ' ty during the week ending April 21, :, 20 YEARS AQO AprU 23, 1241 (Wdnday) Construction started thi week on the Medford Ice and Storage company's ice plant on South Fir at., and on a warehouse at Bear Creek or : ehards. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye udt Pot" , column: "Th ry -"nent, to the t n dollar tax- bill puu, list washing ma- cnineg as .a luxury. They should not be tolerated in the home until the little woman'! back plays out." . 20 YEARS AQO " April 23, 1931 (Thunder) . Some 600 delegates are ex pected for the state Christian Xndeavor union convention which' will open here today. A federal court in Port land is hearing a cage brought by the California1 Oregon Power: company against .the Beaver Portland Cement com- ' pany charging miguge of Gold Hill river property. ..(,;' 40 YEARS AQO .',"'.:' ' , AprU 23, 1221 (Saturday) ; . Some 25 additional indict ments, In connection with the failure of the Bank of Jack sonville 'are expected from the grand jury next month. Local Boy acoutg plan to : clear the road up to Table Bock for traffic! 50 YEARS AQO ' . April 23, ltll (Sunday) A Grants Pass newspaper report that a rich gold strike ' has been made near Kerby with assayg un to 2100 a ton. Fourteen hoboes were told to leave town yesterday or work on the railroad; with' out exception they left.'. Whit's Your I.Q.? Nine o fen correct Is lueerleo ' seven w eight Is excellenti live er . sis Is good. 1. What is the boiling point on the Fahrenheit thermonv eter scale? 2. What la the source of lin seed oil? . ' : . 3. On a man's coat, are the buttons on the left or on the right side? ,: 4. Is a hogftsh a machine, fence anchor or fish? 5. Which agency has the In ltlnls F.D.I.C.? ' 6, How much money does the slang expression "Jitney" denote? ' 7. There are 88 keys on a standard piano keyboard; how many are black and how many are white? 8. Which horse-drawn ve hicle has the same name as an English Queen? 0. If 8 cats catch 8 mice in 8 minutes, how many cats will it require to catch 100 mice in inn minutes? 10. Who was U. S. President when the White House was burned by the British in trie War of 1812? 1. 212 degree. 2. Flaxseed. 8, Right side. 4. Fish. i. Fed eral Deposit Insurance Corpo ration. S. Fir cents. 7, 31 black and 82 whit, t. Vic toria. I. 8 cats. 10. Janus Mad- SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 19B1 . Job For A Democrat State Sen. Bob Straub's announcement that he plans to resign as state Democratic chairman some time after the end of the current legislative session is neither unexpected nor surprising. There are limits to , what one man can do, and be expected to sacrifice, on behalf of the party., . . .:.;.'- . His announcement may or may not have any thing to do with it, but the fact is that the Demo cratic party in Oretron is in trouble -deep trou ble. It needs someone and that someone will extraordinary abilities . K. - . I W. FORRESTER ton East Oregonian, length and with considerable background, ise cause his comments are pertinent and interesting -1-1. - -1 - i Lf. J.- 1 . taaiewiue, we reprint, nis comments nerewiui; , THIS HARD JOB MUST BE DONE . . You won't find the job listed in the classified ad vertising section of your newspaper. But it's probably a 'more important job than any you will find listed there. What is it? Somebody is needed to put the Democratic Party back together in Oregon. " The longer the job goeg unfilled the tougher It's . going to be for the man or men who finally under take it. It is not an attractive job now. It's going to " get less attractive the longer it waits for a taker. It wag only a few years ago when this was a very , attractive job. The Democrats were riding high. Dick Neuberger and Wayne Morse were in the United States Senate. Edith Green, Charlie Porter and Al Ullman were in the House of Representatives. Bob Holmes was " in the governor's office. The Democrats had control of one house of the state Legislature and an even split ' in the other. There was wise and efficient leadership ,' at the top. Everything looked so good for the Democratic Party In Oregon that only the dourest pessimist could have predicted that there was trouble ahead for the th party, But there was trouble ahead and it was not long , coming. It started alowly and then It snowballed. Not necessarily In chronological order nor in the order of their importance, these events occurred: ' ' : Monroe Sweetland and Howard Morgan, the men ' who had rejuvenated the Democratic Party in Oregon, . . had a falling-out. Wayne Morse and Dick Neuberger split. When they did Al Ullman and Edith Green join ed Morse and Charlie Porter sided with Neuberger. Intra-party fights began to spring up all over the state. ' With this running against him as well as an attrac tive opponent, Bob Holmes lost the governor's office. Then came the death of Dick Neuberger. This was followed by the defeat of Charlie Porter. And that was ' followed by a fight among Democrats as to who would . . be the President of the State Senate, which resulted ... in Harry Bolvin getting the job with assistance from Republicans in return for promises to those Repub licans. Through this session of the Legislature the Demo cratic Party has been torn apart. Soon after Boivln became, President of the Senate it became apparent 1 that h intended to reward his friends and punish his ! enemies, principally his opponent for the Senate presl- 1 ' deney, Alt Corbett,, and all those senators who had sided with Corbett. Boivln appointed to the Senate committee on State and Federal Affairs, Democratic Sens. Walter Pearson, i . Mahoney and Boyd Overhulse, among others. There 1 he began to send legislation that required special atten , tlon, according to committments he had made on it. ', , : This has been going on throughout the session and Pearson, Mahoney and Overhulse have beei voting '; as frequently with the Republicans as with the Demo i: crats. . . . . . , ; : . It is much more sticky than this in Salem, how , ever, because Democrats in control in the Senate and Democrats in control in the House don't , like each other. As legislation moves from one chamber to the -- other it becomes involved in a recriminatory process that is deadly. It has resulted in the death of much ; good legislation in committees, legislation that might ' have been defeated on the floor but nevertheless should have been sent there. 7 If you were a Democrat in this Legislature and had ' to stand for election next year, what would you say" to the voters? How would you explain the perform ance of the Democrats in this Legislature? Now, with the Legislature in session, an onlooker can't tell from -one day to the next how Demoorats will vote. The j Democrats are completely disorganized. Every man goes his own way. ; The result is that the Democratic Party will have ; to be disassociated from the records of Democrats in the Legislature when the terribly hard job of rebuild-' Ing the party is undertaken. Somebody has got to do this job. But, who? No ' Democrat at the Washington,- D.C., level can do it. Nobody in the Legislature can do it because all Demo-. ' crats In that arena have been too deeply involved In Intra-party feuding. Th Democratic national commit- . teeman, C. Glrard Davidson, can't do it because he is too closely identified with one wing of the party. ' ' Whether Monroe SweeUand could do it again becomes , irrelevant with his announcement that he will not be a candidate for reelection. Why must the job be done? Why not just forget about It? It must be done because Oregon will have good government only so long as both parties are strong. There are more registered Democrats than Republicans in Oregon many more but they can be effective In government only lf they are organized under strong leadership that will clearly identify in the minds of all Oregonians exactly what the Democratic Party In thl state stands for and what It can be expected to do when It is in a position to make policy for the state. That's why the job must be done. That's why the Democratic Party In Oregon must be rebuilt Et Tu, Barry? We had never, we confess, thought of Barry Goldwater as "tainted" never can tell in these can't be too careful. - One Kent Courtney, Birch Society which has edly to save the Republic, has charged that the Arizona Senator drifted too far to the left when he backed Vice President Nixon as the Repub lican nominee last vear. What with all these alien ideologies floating around, it's mighty important to be warned about the radicals. And if this doesn't prize for creeping idiocy, , ,, Washington (V.V.) M , to pull it together again, have to be a person of if he is to succeed. , Jr., editor of the Pehdle discusses the situation at with socialism. But you matters, and a fellow an organizer of the John undertaken single-hand win the Birch Society a nothing will. Dennis the Menace "feu Drummond Reports (Walter Llppmann Is in Europe, Roicoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) ' REPUBLICAN TREND? Washington-Although Pres ident Kennedy dominates the headlines, the Republicans be lieve that the political trend is going their way. , Republican party fortunes are on the ' upswing. This year s crucial election test the Important New Jersey Governorship-will almost cer tainly add to , Republican strength. ' The primary victory of Elsenhower's Secretary of La bor James P. Mitchell In the contest for the Republican nomination in the New Jersey Governorship race is signifi cant for several reasons. It shows rank-and-file Re publican voters overruling the party organization with a can didate of their own choosing. It shows how an outstand ingly qualified man arouses the. interest of the electorate. New Jersey, Democrats could not themselves agree on a strong candidate and they were praying that Mitchell would be cut down in the pri mary.' Despite the fact that the Democrats have controlled New Jersey for eight years, a Mitchell victory this lau is now virtually conceded. SO MUCH attention has been given to explaining how Mr. Kennedy defeated Mr. Nixon that the Republican strength in the 1960 elections Is often overlooked. Titat bo Pra.lHnnt nMaAnfinur. I er's victories in 1952 and 19E8 concealed the weakness of the Republican party, so President Kennedy's .victory in 1960 tends to concel. the strength Of the Republican party. While Mr. Kennedy was winning by the margin of 16100 of 1 per cent in the popular vote, the Republicans gained two Senate seats, in creased their strength in the House by. 21, added two Gov ernorships, and made a net gam of 290 seats in the 60 state legislatures. I While Democratic strength was receding, Mr. , Kennedy ran behind his party. I ,e WHILE Republican strength was mounting, Mr. Nixon ran ahead of his party. He carried 26 states to Mr. Ken nedy's 23, The closeness of the Presidential vote is lllus trated by the fact that a switch of 11,874 votes in the states of Hawaii, Illinois, Mis souri, New Mexico,' and Ne vada would have reversed the outcome. Nothing could be more Im portant for Republican for tunes than for the party itself to gain strength. It has been the strength of the Demo cratic party as a party which has elected two Democratic Presidents since the passing of F.D.R. in 1945. Mr. Tru man was carried into office on the coattails of the Demo cratic party in 1948 and again last fall the party ran ahead of Mr. Kennedy. Every Demo cratic Presidential' nominee since P.D.R.-Truman, Steven son, and Kennedy-has been weaker than the party itself and every Republican Presi dential nominee has been stronger than the party. But under Mr, Nixon s ban ner last fall the Republican party gained strength at the polls for the first time after three consecutive setbacks in 1954, '56, and '58. THE Republican p a r t y's greatest need is for more qualified and attractive candi dates for public office. It usu ally requires a voter uprising against the organization to get them. That Is what happened In New Jersey. Th"e New Jer sey Republican organization was overwhelmingly against Mr. Mitchell and the Republi can voters overturned the or ganisation choice for the first time in many years in de manding Mr. Mitchell. What many Republicans hope - and expect Is that a Mitchell victory in New Jep-( MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON W&SiTUlY BIG -AND FAT . sey this November and the prospect of a Rockefeller sveep in New York next year will persuade Mr. Nixon that, in his own interests as well as that of the party, he ought to run for Governor of Cali fornia In 1962.' . Copyright 1961, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Washington Report By William S. White (ci United Feature Syndicate INVITING DESTRUCTION Washington -The Latin American nations are inviting the destruction of that equal place in di recting West ern hemi sphere affairs which took them so long to achieve.- In refusing to accept any part of the re sponsib i 1 1 1 y white wmcn m u s i march alongside the right to hold power, they are on the point of throwing away that right Itself. They are compelling Presi dent Kennedy to give 'Urgent consideration to a return by the United States to the Mon roe Doctrine. That doctrine says that' the United States will act on its own motion against any external threat to this hemisphere. It requires no consultation with anybody. e THE Latins now have a last chance to. .'.take up their share of the common duty. They have a final opportunity to consent to a common front against Castroism within the organization of American states. ' ' If they do not do so, Presi dent Kennedy will then have only one way open to him-to call up the great sanctions of the Monroe Doctrine. This is ho mere personal prediction; this is said on very high authority. So by leaving the United States isolated against the great peril to all the Americas ever-rising in Castro Cuba', the Latins are risking a new isolationism for themselves. The OAS is the only instru mentality ever raised within the Western Hemisphere to give dignity to the smallest nations. It may be dying, a victim of these very nations which had demanded just such a forum. PRESIDENT KENNEDY is now lonely among the leaders of the New World. Al most alone among them he in sists upon protecting a hemi sphere which would otherwise within months be mortally ex posed to Soviet - controlled rockets mounted in Havana. He has thus far permitted the hands of his country to be tied by the objections of other American nations and of our European Allies to any course in Cuba which would secure the whole free world's safety. But all of these people should now know that Kennedy will not remain handcuffed for ever. Whatever may be said, the President did not Initiate the counter revolutionary inva sion of Cuba which seems in Its first phase only to have come to grief. True, he looked kindly upon it. He wanted to give every opportunity for Cu ban natriots themselves to clanse their island of Soviet mastery. ... AS THIS correspondent re ported a short time ago, the United States itself for- Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald Editor's noiei Joseph Al sop is on a brief vacation. During his absence his brother Stewart will writ ih Alsop column. By STEWART ALSOP AMERICAN SUEZ ' Washington "Cuba looks like the American Suez." This was the assessment of one American official who knows as much as anyone which is not very much about what has actually happened in Cuba. "And Hungary, too," another American official added. . The first man meant ithat the United States appears to have suffered in Cuba a set back as disastrous as that Bri tain and France suffered in 1956 when their Suez adven ture failed. The second meant that, as during the Hungarian uprising, the United States has again stood aside while men who had been encou raged to oppose Communist tyranny were destroyed. These views may still prove too gloomy. But as of this writing the belief that the outcome in Cuba represents a genuine and major disaster for the United States is al most universal in the govern. ment. There are also those who believe that, in order to retrieve the disaster, Ameri can forces may yet intervene in Cuba, despite the repeated flat statements to the con trary by President Kennedy and Secretary of State rusk rpo understand something - ofi what has happened, and why, it is necessary to con- oiaaen to act on its own against Castroism in the cir cumstances then existing. But there has now been a vast alteration in circumstances, not least of which is the exe cution in Cuba of American citizens by Castro "justice.1 This Is the sort of episode which can change everything, ' And it was because the President foresaw the prob able failure of the invasion, it may be authoritatively stated, that he used precisely the lan guage he did use in his reply to Niklta Khrushchev's threat ening note. i .' . "In the event of any mili tary intervention (in Cuba)1 by outside force," Kennedy told Khrushchev, "we will immed iately honor our obligations under the inter-American sys tem to protect this hemisphere against external aggression." npHIS passage was long gone over at the White House- and with all awareness of all its Implications., Deliberately, it did not limit our reaction to that organization's veto. The sentence was meant to be read by Latin-American nations as well as by Moscow. It repre sents the settled determina tion of this administration. It should be realized, more over, that this was the lan guage 'of a man who up to this climactic moment had avoided all "tough" words in cold war notes. As recently as the conference with British Prime Minister Harold Mac millan the President person ally struck out two references in their communique which seemed unwisely harsh. The point is that Kennedy does not lightly use language of the kind quoted above. Brazil Fightin g To Survive as Democracy ERIC SEVAREID Rio de Janeiro-History has not happened in world-affecting terms below the equa- t o r. Latin America has never made its mark on ,the world. But now history is beginning to happen here In convulsive, a w k ward heaves. The Brazil ian giant is lifting itself by its boot. straps toward the first world role ever played by a South American nation. Its stunted human Institutions are goading themselves to match the grandeur of . the country's size, and potentially Brazil is to South America what India is to Asia. If the Democratic method falls to lift India onto the, track- of mod ern self-sustaining economic growth, Democratic freedoms will block out in South Asia. If Brazil fails - and it is now touch and go for Brazil, as it is for India - President Ken nedy's hemispheric battle cry of I'progress, yes; tyranny, no" will become a faint and mock ing echo all across the south ern continent e e Brazil is not only trying to By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate ' sider . what President Ken nedy found on his desk when he took office. He found, first, an Eisenhower administration policy paper, known as "The Castro Must Go . Pane r." which ruled that the Commu nist infection in Cuba must be eliminated. With this rul ing the new President agreed in substance. As he remarked to an- aide, "We can't ko on living with this Castro can cer for ten years more." Second, the President found a detailed plan for eli minating the infection by force. The plan calls for a Cu ban ground contingent drawn from some 8,000 Cuban refu gee volunteers of military age, to be supported in an in vasion of Cuba by American air cover and logistic support. The plan had, in fact, gone well beyond the planning stage. Already some 5.000 Cu bans had been trained, and at one point in the autumn the invasion had actually been scheduled it was then called off by President Eisen hower, in consultation with the President-elect. . from tne first, the new President had strong doubts about the - scheme, and especially about the proposed American participation. His subordinates were divided. with the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency generally favoring direct ac tion, while the State depart ment favored the "give Cas tro enough rope to hang him. self" theory. . A S the weeks passed, events began to increase the pressure for action. Some 180 crated Soviet jet aircraft be gan arriving in Havana in February, and the ' intelli gence reported that by mid- May the 250 Cuban pilots be ing, trained in Czechoslovakia would be ready for action. The Castro regime had been starving out the anti-Castro guerrillas, especially the big force of 28,000 men in the Ucambray Mountains, and the guerillas were thus a wasting asset. In this situation, the Cuban refugee leaders called for ac tion before it was too late. Some claimed hopefully that the Castro regime would dis integrate, like the walls of Jericho, at the first landing of rebel troops. The intelligence services did not subscribe to this theory. But intelligence estimates indicated that there was a good chance that a landing would result in suffi cient mass defections so that at least ' a sizeable area of Cuba might be held, even without overt American in tervention. ., The rebel government, it was urged by the activists, could then be established In the area, -and quickly recog nized by the United States and other anti-Castro govern ments. Massive aid to this recognized government would then assure the defeat of Cas tro, without, the use of Ameri can arms. e SO ran the theory. President K p n n a rl v rlpunltA hi doubts, was at last persuad ed not to veto the operation. At the same time he was also persuaded, largely , through the influence of United Na tions Ambassador Adlal Ste venson, to state unequivocally that American forces would not be used in Cuba. r In the days since the land ings, as the news has become worse, some of the President's advisers, including a majority of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have urged American inter vention on the grounds that the alternative to stand aside while the men we have become a social democracy, it is trying simultaneously to be come a nation. It never was before. It was a feudalists coastal strip in semi-colonial economic dependency upon Europe and the United States. Like the startling glass and marble capital city of Brasilia, rising from the lost -and an cient interior plateau, the hew Brazil represents a fu ture unrelated to a past. Its leaders arguing for help in foreign capitals have only their vision to offer as collat eral. The President of the Brazilian Senate talked to me, over the little coffee cups, of prostrate Europe after World War U. and said, "We saw what Italy, France and Germany were able to do with your help, but their future was un derwritten by their past. We have no such security to of fer." e e e The only past Brazil can exhibit to . foreign ' govern ments and bankers is the last five years since the fantasti cally sweeping Kubltchek de velopment plan was launched, creating almost overnight new power, new Industries and the nucleus of a middle class and creating also a raging In flation, which the new Presi dent ' desperately fights to IPOTLUCCC ' (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A lady we know recently accqmpanied her husband on a- trip out of town. During the course of their visit, they entered a gift shop to look for small presents for youngsters and friends. He was at ner side for a while, then wan dered off unnoticed by her, to browse on his own. She was inspecting some key chains, and picked one up. She turned to the man next to her and asked, "Honey, do you think Ralph would like this one?" "Madam' said the plete . stranger, "I'm Ralph would love it." com. sure Hy-hey-hey! Did you know this month 'is "Peara dis in April"? No? Neither did we. Our pear picking friends forgot to tell us. It's also Cereal and Milk Spring : Festival month, as well as Rug Cleaning Month, America's Heartland Develop ment Month, National Auto mobile Month. National Weld ed Products Month, Ice Cream Time, ' and Spring Clean-Up Time (the exact dates of which vary regional ly, we are told). The: one we like best for April though. Is National Lad der Month, sponsored by the American Ladder Institute, Shouldn't that last on b held during June Na tional Elopement Month? ... e e - We've missed recording several such important na tional events in recent weeks, due to various preoccupations. But we Should back'track a bit to inform everyone that April 16 was Mother-In-Law Day (sponsored, incidentally, by the American Museum of Comedy, for heavens sake), and April 12 to 22 was Let's All Play Ball Week. e e- e And starting either today or tomorrow are National Coin Week, Realtor Wmk, Good Human Relations Week, National Retail Cre dit Week, National Secre taries Week, and National Photography Week. We're just plain weak from it all. . -, . i ''. -'. " - '. There are both advantages and disadvantages L to living with smart children around the house. a woman we Know was reading Peter Rabbit to her 6-year-old son the other nlght, and she recounts the fol- lowing: , "I guess he was dissatisfied trained and supported are de stroyedis intolerable. But the President's own Dublic promise not to use American force in Cuba has acted as a powerful brake, and as this is written the President and most of his chief civilian ad visers still strongly resist any open American intervention in Cuba. , Perhaps something will be saved from the wreckage. New efforts by the Cuban re fuge forces may yet succeed, where the efforts so far made have so unhappily failed. But there is no use blinking the fact that in the eyes of the world the United States has suffered a terrible defeat. And the , facts recounted above suggest that the new President may have broken his own rule, as laid down in his Inaugural Address "while hoping for the best, we should prepare for the worst." halt. That which causes men to lorm a people, Janio Quad ros told Brazilians in his first post-inaugural speech this win ter, is the remembrance of great things which they ac complished together and the will to carry out great new things in the future. But Janio -now furiously promulgating new laws for exchange con trols, land bank and income tax reforms for streamlining the parasitical bureaucracy -also told his people it is inad mlssable that In the name of tomorrow's citizens those of today be stripped of their es sential assets. e e His problem is to stop the inflation without stopping the progress. Washington clearly believes his chances are good. Kennedy would not be ar ranging for further credits otherwise. Kubltchek printed more billions of cruzeiros to finance the standing leap to ward the future than were printed in all the previous history of this country, yet the Informed concensus of foreign ers here Is that a slower, more logical, step-by-step progres sion would have failed, eroded to death by the familiar ter mites of red tape, corruption, quick private profits and po litical jealousies. The only ' V' :V'-",'. ... '-f with the ending (where Peter escapes from Mr. McGregor's garden and arrives home ill and without his new clothes). Anyway, he said, muslng when the story was over, "i know how Peter can get his clothes back." "How?" I asked, hardly concealing my surprise. "Read the story back wards," he replied. He convinced me. We read it backwards and it ended with Peter at home, happy with his brother, mother and sisters, in good health, and with his new clothes on.. "I'm starting on Dr. Zhi. vago tonight, backwards this time." , Our courthouse man has sort of a standing joke with County Judge Earl Miller, lo the effect that any time the two want to swap jobs,, its ok with him. Our man says, "I might do it on my day off . and entitle the story on my experiences 'A Reporter's Day Off in County Government or 'County Government, Inside Out.'" ' ' I ' ' What really intrigues ug . about a possible job switch, though, is the unlimited pos sibilities it would' offer to educate Judge Miller on the problem of letting the public find out what goes on in county government. He'd also be apt to find out that the surest way to get a story into print is to forbid a reporter to write it. , We can just see our city editor assigning Cub Reporter Miller to dig out the low down on the operations of the county court, say, or on the progress (or lack thereof, in controlling air pollution. . Oh well.. Why dream? ' '. ' George' Dixon, a Washing, ton (D.C.) Post columnist, re cently reported on William S. White's difficulties with one small segment of modern life. (White himself is a columnist appearing In the Mail Tribune among other papers.) Anyway, Dixon reports that White had been dialling a special number in past weeks to obtain the correct time of day. He adds: "Recently, his beautiful wife,. June, overheard him thank the time-giver. " 'There's no need to be so polite, - said Mrs. White. 'That's a recording.' " 'It can't be,' argued. Mr. White. 'He always replies "You're welcome" when I thank him.' "Mrs. White said it was al ways a 'she,' never a 'he.' Mr. White insisted the voice was always masculine. "It developed the column ist had been dialing the wrong number and getting the right time of day from an almost superhumanly polite and patient telephone sub scriber." ... All of the new Navy atomic submarines h a v SINS on board. . -. e We should hasten to ex plain, before worried Navy mothers get on the warpath, that these particular SINS are Ships' Inertlal Navigation Systems, and have nothing to do with moral turpitude. Speaking of words formed from initials, Salem Column ist Vic Fryer's favorite orga nization is named Cannon Hunters Association of Se attle which is known al CHAOS. way, they think, for Brazil to break with its historv of boom and bust, as in rubber at one time, in cotton at an other time, was to push the development boom so fast and so far, involving nearly every state and municipality, that succeeding governments would be left with no choice but to push it further. . e What Janio is battling against now is a crisis of faith as Brazilians gasp to get their second wind. They can scarce ly ask North Americans to be lieve in Brazil if they do not believe in themselves, and the test is upon them now. To a man, informed Brazilians wanted Kennedy to win last November. To a man, they applaud his Latin American policy now. But they cannot expect more of us than they demand of themselves, and If they expect too much, suffer disappointment and yield again to their former habit of blaming their ills on the Yan- , kee, then the neutralism that Janio is toying with partly to get our attention and help can become a more uncomfortable reality than either State De partment or Pentagon likes to contemplate. (Distributed, 1961, By th Hall Syndicate, Inc.) 1A11 Rights Reserved) o
