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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.
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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.'"
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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.
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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.
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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)
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