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Newspaper Page Text4 A .Medford&.Tribuni Everyone In Southern Oregon n ! Tk Mall THhnnn" Published Dally except Saturday by , MEDFORD PRINTING CO. ''" North Fir St.. Ph 1 SP 2-6141 ROBERT W HUHL. Editor KERB GREi Arfuaf-tl.lnn Manaeer r.mAi.n t .ATHAM. Bus. Mar. ' FBIC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teles. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor , OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor ' DALE ERICKSON, ClrculaUqnMgr -. & rnHm.niint NewsoaDer Entered as' second class matter at Medlord. urenon. unaw t, u March 3. 1897 CTTUCmmTTnN HATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Eaily and Sunday mos. 8.00 . nnllw and Sunday 3 mos. - 4.35 ' i nlu On. veflr S4.20 Bv Carrier In -Advance Medford . Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold hiii Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Rlv. .... TnlnntnnH nil motor rOUtCS, Dally and Sunday 1 voor S1B.00 Dnlly and Sunday 1 mo.- I SO fni-i-lor and Dealers copy 100 '.! All Terrnsasjv lnJWvance :" ."oftlciaFPapcr of City of Medford ' otflclaJPaperofcln ounty - r-'uniterPpress International . .irnil lneri Wire . v"0.P.l Telephoto Nrploturmr -. Member or audit biikeau or UlrHJUljH.Wl., Xdvcrtlslne Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of flees In New York, Chlcnso. pe. ..: .--I. en w.n-li-ri Aneeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At- -, lanta, Vancouver, B.C. , NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford "and Jackson County. History from the fllo of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO 'yarn ago. 10 YEARS AGO ' . ,, An Tall IFfffrtavl . - Arguments on the legality of Gov. Douglas McKay s proclamation of Daylight Sav ing time will be heard Mon day In Marlon County circuit court auer uHyiigm, """ into effect. ' An estimated 3,000 visitors are expected to attend the Camp White Domiciliary here Sunday for the 1951 Arts and Crafts Hobby fair. , 20 YEARS XGO April 27. 1841 (Sunday) rrewa will start laying base pavement" on' Uhe) main ...... .i McAtnrA'n munici- ruuwaj sv nni nlrnort tomorrow. From Arthur Perry'i "Ye I smurltfA Pot" column: "Na tional leaders continue to ad monish the people to wake up, face the international sltu- n nn bravely, display ..uia spirit of 1776, and forget cam paign promises about staying out -of the European war, made last summer." ' 30 YEARS AGO April 27. 1831 (Monday) The Rogue river ran red yesterday after an irrigation ditch flume broke and the water washed red clay soil , into the stream, ''' 11 ''.'.' Medford has been asked to submit a proposal site for a veterans home to be built In western Oregon. 40 YEARS AGO April 27, 1121 (Wednesday) : The local post of the Ameri can Legion has promised to back the police force in liquor law enforcement. . Twenty new members have ; been added , to .the chamber of commerce in that group's recent membership drive.. , SO YEARS AGO : April 27. 1911 (Thursday) George E. Boos has been elected manager of the Med fold Commercial club to suc ceed Charles E. Malboef, who resigned. r, ; The majority of the citizen ry appears to favor the instal lation of cluster-type lights on : Main st. ' ' ; VMs Your I.Q.? Nina er ten correct It superior; seven or eight la excellent) five or six la flood. 1. Who issued the Emanci pation Proclamation? 2. Correct the following sentence: "She dove grace fully into the lake." 3. Do the Maoris inhabit Yucatan, Peru, or New Zea land? 4. What do the initials S.P. on an armband worn by some , Navy men mean? 5. Which state Is nicknamed "Tar Heel State"? . 6. (The city once named Byzantium and later Constan tinople now bears what name? 7. Poi Is a native dish of what islanders? . .. . ' 8. Is the circumference of the earth greater when mea sured around the poles, or around the equator? 9. Does a Lieutenant Gen eral in the Army rank higher or lower than a General? - 10. Was Ann Boleyn shot, hanged, beheaded, or guillo tined? - Answers! 1, Abraham Lin coln, 2. "She dived , . ." 3. New Zealand. 4. Shore Pa trol, i. North Carolina. 6. Istanbul, 7. Hawaiian. 8. Around the equator, 9, Lower. 10. Behead THURSDAY. APRIL 27, 1961 Fol-de-rol or Necessity? What does one think of the organized "civil defense" establishment in this country? Is it alert, up-to-date-minute, knowledgeable as to the nation's needs, and a force for good in event of emergency? ' Or is it, in -the words of Maj. (Gen. Joseph Hicks, county CD director, largely a bunch of fol-de-rol? Or, in the words of Portland City Commissioner Stanley Earl, "not based on the realities of 1961," and only serves "to lull the people into a false sense of security"? COMMISSIONER Earl's remarks were motivat V. ed by the civil defense "alert" (which, like so many official activities has been given an asinine nickname OPAL, standing for Operation Plan Alert) which begins today. He said it is "based on the bow and arrow." - General Hicks largely concurs, saying that virtually no preparations have been made for de fense .in case of nuclear attack which, in this area, would be about the only kind we'd have to worry about immediately.' Even if we weren't the target for an H-bomb, we still would be subjected to radioactive fallout in this area with no defense, s v.-.- ,; ..:.,. . :.,, :",';. v ;W' -: '''.'(' 1 IN COMMON with most of the rest of the popu- lation, we suffer from crashing apathy on the subject of civil defense in general. This may be because of a sneaking hunch that it's all valueless, or hypothetical. We don't know. But Mr. John Q. Public could hardly care less. . . The program of shelter construction has got ten nowhere. This, in turn, may be because, (a) we all think "It can't happen here or to me", or because (b) we subconsciously feel that if it ever came to a point where, we needed-defense, from H-bombs, all would be lost anyway. THE whole subject of civil defense needs re fVnnlrinrr txnA rorlfifiniTiflr ' . We can see value in set up to supplement and welfare agencies in emergencies such as fire, flood, and explosion. We can see value in preparing for the hand ling of evacuees in case anyone is still alive in populated areas to be evacuated. . ,X; vS..'; ;;;;' we can see vaiue in emergency communica tions networks. ... . U. : " ;:' .,. But we are inclined Hicks and Commissioner Earl that the evacua tion of buildings, plans, for abandoning: major cities, tooting sirens, and rushing around with red lights, are 'both "fol-de-rol" and a "complete waste of time and money." THE CD setup, as it is now, is both confused nnrl nnTifnamor lnrlHor in woll.rlofinorl ,nnr. pose and in public understanding and support. If it is determined that shelters -are Vital to national defense capabilities,, they should be push ed on the federal level, perhaps 'even through sub sidies or at least tax incentives; ' ' " - If they are not, the agitation for them should be abandoned. : .- The role of the military in civilian defense should be defined and . And perhaps the distinction now made inter nationally between, "major wars" and "brush fire wars" should be extended to the civil defense field, and responsibilities assigned. v : As it is, we're caught between urgency and fol-de-rol; between scare tactics and apathy; be tween H-bombs and high water. And we all look pretty silly in the process. E.A. Republican Resolution We noted with interest the action of the Mult nomah County Republican Central Committee the other day, in passing (unanimously) a resolution criticizing the John Birch Society. ' ,(lt seems to be a sort of national pastime.; these dasy.) . ' ; Anyway, their resolution took exception to "any unethical methods and any untrue or sland erous charges which may have , been adopted, ureed or leveled bv officials or members of the John Birch Society." XE' DON'T know just how much courage it " took for the Multnomah G.O.P; to do this. But two G.O.P. candidates for. Congress in Ore gon last year (Wallace ming) were or are associated with the Society. And we are led to wonder whether the Jack son County Republican be motivated to take similar action. This might be a bit difficult, inasmuch as the chairman of the committee has identified himself as a member and supporter of the John Birch Society. E.A. Time To Try Again? The Public Health Service and the American Dsntal Association have reaffirmed, in strong terms, their support of the fluoridation of water as a major dental health measure. It is, thev repeat, simnle. inexrjensive. effec tive, safe, and badly needed. The proven evidence in support of these state ments is overwhelming. ; Fluoridation was voted Mown in Medford a few vears aero, after a marked by the use of scare literature, misrepre sentation, and smears. In view of its success elsewhere since then, isn't it time for another go-around here? Or shall we permit a small core of scare-artists to prevent us permanently from taking this steD forward in our children's dental health? E. A. ; a skeleton organization conventional police, fire case of relatively minor to agree Fwith General made known. Lee and Leslie P. Flem- Central Committee could bitter election camrmie-n Dennis the Menace WE'LL TURN THE Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen. nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do. not necessarily represent the views of the paper) in fact the contrary is often the case. Don't Put Up With Them To the Editor: I surely thank God for the people like Mrs. Ernest Santo and Pete Logan of Dark Hollow, who take time to object to things being done wrong. . First, Mrs. Santo, she is so right. Whiskey, beer and vod ka are cheating children of good clothes, education, health and mental control. It is the most to blame for divorce of all causes. I ought to know, because I'll have to fight it from the cradle to the grave, How I wanted oranges, apples and other good things to eat, And I was always cold in the terrible Montana winters, but whiskey bottles had to win. We talk about the rise of crime in our young set. If we investigate they are most likely children of good old divorced parents and got the "booze" from their own base ment. 1 We all know that the men and women leaving drink joints are unfit to drive cars, or go home to frighten the children, to death. What of the mother and five children who ran from- their house out into the mountains of Montana and perished In the cold night. The husband and father came home from town (in what con dition) to find the house emp ty. Did this mother run from brutal blows? I think so. Please don't compare a drunk with nice usable hogs. Now add Mr. Logan s so true remarks about coffee breaks, with thousands of little cancer causing ciga rettes, filter or no filters, and you have a dismal recipe for brains. for future progress. Let's back Mr. Logan and Mrs. Santo in their good Ideas. In short let's not put Up with wrong things. Harrlette Glbbs 1375 South Columbus i -.: ' ave. , Medford Cougar In The Siskiyous To the Editor: The year was 1907. The place was Sis kiyou Summit at Eileen, be low the Blue Ledge Copper Mine, I was 4V4. My ' father worked at the mine, and my mother was the -cook at the Eileen hotel. There was a high back porch on the hotel from which one looked down upon a little glade. Half way across the glade stood a seldom occupied log cabin. A white log formed a fence, and beyond, a dense thicket of willow brush and large , trees covered a down hill slope. ' One nice day in early sum mer, while taking a stroll, Mother and I' discovered a patch of Lady Slipper orchids, growing in the shade a short distance beyond the white log. Those beautiful flowers In trigued me very much, and we did not pick them. When the evenings became warmer, groups awaiting sup per gathered on the back porch. One such evening, just before dusk, I was present when we were surprised by the terrifying, prolonged scream of a cougar. They were also called North American Mountain Lion, and known to mountaineers as "the big yel low (yellar)- cats." The stealthy animal was Just beyond the white log. We surmised that it had smelled food from the hotel and had crept up as close as possible without being observed. I was cautioned and even threaten ed by my parents and others not ever to wander alone near the white log. Thus ended my desire for Lady Slippers, but I never forgot the awesome screams. Cougars were plenti ful in the Siskiyous then as earlier. A few years later there were two more interesting itorlea about cougar in the MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Oil SPBEDBOKT same area: : v ' "A colt of the Blue Ledge stage horses that had been turned out to pasture on wild grass, came in one spring with a cougar's scratch on its hip, a scar it carried all its life." "Eric Anderson, caretaker at the Blue Ledge mine, mar ried; and was bringing his wife home in an old model Ford car, when an 8-foot cou gar, scared from the upper side of the road, leaped over the car's engine and cleared the narrow road, disappearing among roadside brush." Miss Venlta Daley, : 343 North Grape st., ; Medford. ' Olympics for Deaf ' To the Editor: Will you help us send four deaf boys from Oregon to the Deaf Olympics to. be held in Finland this summer? These boys are the first ever chosen from this state to compete. Approximately $5,400 is needed , and already three fourths of it has been donated by interested individuals and organizations in , the whole state. The boys are Jerry Buyas and Brian Powers of Portland, David Wood of Stayton' and Leo Reld of Springfield. Jerry and David are students at Gallaudet Col lege, Washington, D.C. Brian and Leo are attending the Deaf school in Salem. , Time for raising the funds has been extended from April 1 to June 1 and we are hoping you will want to have a share in sending these boys. Any contributions will be grate fully received and acknowl edged. . Donations ' may be made through the Oregon State School for the Deaf, Salem, Oregon Olympic Fund (Supt. M. B. Clatterbuck). '. Mr. and Mrs. Leylan T. Wood, Stayton, Ore. Filtration Plant Questions To the Editor: With refer ence to the question, "Should We or shouldrt't we have a filtration plant In Gold Hill?" let me ask the water buyers of Gold Hill a few questions and, also, give them a few more facts that have not been brought out in previous re ports to the paper. Gold Hill has about 220 water users so let's ask our selves this question: Can Gold Hill (population approx. 600) , grow substanti ally within the next 20 years to compensate for an expendi ture of $240,000? Does It seem logical? Practical? Will more people move into our city if water rates and taxes are too high? Do you irrigate? How much extra will you have to pay per lot besides the present $1 charge? Will the added cost andor additional taxes be fair and good for the majority? . At present, It takes three days to get our water report from Medford. With the plant, we'll have to wait seven days for one from ForUand and if the water is contaminated we'll have been drinking it for seven days and will con tinue using it until it s gone from the reservoir. This was brought out at the last meet ing which I attended, April 12, Also, besides the $4.75 charge per month we'll have the 50 cent monthly sewage charge. There Is absolutely no rea son for 220 water buyers to go to the expense of a filtra tion system meant for a much, much larger city. Is the filtration plant the only answer? Couldn't a city well or wells be drilled at much less cost? Wouldn't It be more practical and fair to the majorityt since a well could be used for quite some time-even If the city should double its present population? Those who feel they want .4 Bitter PHI for U. S. Seen in Laos, No Matter What the Outcome of Cease-Fire By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst The United States Is being forced to swallow a bitter pill in Laos. No matter what may emerge now from the agreed upon ceasefire o r from any Ge neva confer ence of the interested na tlons, the United States has suffered a major de KlWN feat tor all the world to see. And the end may be not yet. Militarily, the U.S.-support-ed pro-Western forces of Premier Prince , Boun Oum and Gen. Phoumi Nosavan proved no match for the jungle fighters of the Communist-backed Pathet ,Xao, and with 'the military ad vantage also went the diplo matic advantage. : Today, the Pathet Lao hold fUtered water could put in a system of their own. There's always more than one solution to any problem. Why can't the city wait until the population at least dou bles? It might- be practical then! ' . Give this some thought so that when you vote May D you'll . know how and why you're voting as- you are. - Don't, say this doesn't con cern youTif you're a water buyer, it does! Why chance the possibility of paying $10 or $15- or more monthly for water? . After the milk is spilled is too late, for - you'll end up crying because it's too hard to clean up. Investigate-then vote the 9th! Mrs. R. P. Corona, ' 904 Fifth ave., - Gold Hill, Ore. ; Started Again .' : , To the Editor: Well, they have started it again) They treat us as if we were an inanimate object. '. They say, Medford and Phoenix got together and de cided . we should still be In Phoenix school district. . They speak of 97 children, and $700,000, as If they were theirs exclusively. In the first place when they (Phoenix) so strongly did not want to be included in Med ford district, most of us in the Barnett area reasoned with ourselves, believing -if we voted that Phoenix and Talent united that would def initely stop any further at tempts to take that entire district into Medford. Now we knew all along that we, the Barnett area, did want to go to Medford schools, and knowing our own reasons so well we understood Phoenix people who did not want to travel so far to a school when they , could have one there close. : '-. vy . . Now why ,-cari't' they, in turn, look at the situation on our side. It is our 97 children, it is our $700,000, and we are only asking to go to school close at hand instead of spend ing more of our money, as well as their money, going farther away than is neces sary. . We have always considered our country as being very democratic. Surely -we should be free to do what 100 per cent of this area want to do, when it is a reasonable request. We can't . believe we . are so Important to Phoenix that they can't do without us. They probably would hard ly miss us once we leave. Mrs. Horace L. Root, 1025 Ellendale dr., . Medford. Try and Stop Mo By IENNETT CERF OLIVER WALTON, well-known Boston horse dealer, agreed to buy fine steed from a Maine breeder for $900. "How are you going to lead the horse away?" the breeder inquired. "With the halter you have on him," answered Walton, counting out the $800. "Nothing; doing," pro tested the breeder. "I didn't sell you the halter. That'll be $3 extra." "Okay," said Walton. "Here's $3 for the halter but I've decided not to buy the horse." And oft he walked with the halt er. . The next time the breeder wasn't so greedy. V A grumpy boss hired a young man and told nun. Tour first job will be to sweep out the office." "But rm a college graduate," protested the young man. "All right," grumbled the boss. "Pass over the broom and I'll show you now." O UO, ty Xeaattt Cert, DistsOated by Xnf feature Sjadkate - I 1 or can control' approximate ly half of Laos. In . P e I p i n g, : neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma and Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai announce that Laos and Red China will establish dip lomatic relations. Prince Snubs Washington The Soviet Union and Red China support Souvanna Pho uma as the legal premier of Laos. Souvanna Phouma snubbed Washington last week after earlier expres sing a desire to explain his position to .President Ken nedy. - . In this the hand of Mos cow appeared evident. It seems likely the Soviet told him he had only to wait until the whole of Laos came into his hands without the necessity '- of compromising with the pro-Western forces, or perhaps even of Including them in his government.. , ; ' In any event, if or when the 14-nation conference on Laos opens ; In Geneva, the Communist hand will be in finitely stronger than, last August . y . It was on Aug. 9" that a young American-trained para troop -captain, Kong Le, . top pled the government in - a bloodless : coup and ' called upon Souvanna Phouma to form a neutral regime. The people, hesaid, were tired of civil war.' ,' , . U.B. Bent Aid . The - Unltetd States denied support to Souvanna Phouma and, instead, began supplying military aid to t pro-Western and bitterly anti-Communist Gen. Phoumt Nosavan. When Souvanna Phouma. fled the country it quickly recognized Prince Boun Oum -premier. Souvanna Phouma bitterly accused the United States of sabotaging his efforts to bring Vocational School Need 7 To the Editor:. We have nu merous programs ,and educa tional facilities for our young people and children in Jack son county. These range from welfare-foster home programs to scholarships for- those who wish to enter college. With all of this, there is an area we are neglecting. We know that compulsory hiah school training has many good points, but they are not all good. In talking to irienas and neighbors, many feel there is a great need .for a vocational training center in this county which doesn't re- aulre a high school education. Some believe that a large por tion of youth-power in skins is being lost 'because we do not have such a school. . There is also a feeling that some juvenile delinquency can be prevented if a child who can't or won't learn his academic work, could attend a vocational school and learn a skill he enjoys and be better equipped to earn a living. ' Eugene has a technical vo cational school which Is a unit of the Eugene school system.' It has proved very successful. This school offers technical and occupational training key ed to the present and future. It started small in rented and donated buildings, it opened this school year in a new modern plant. Some of the courses offered are diesel me chanics, machine shop, auto motive repairing, aircraft, car pentry, electrical appliance repair, photography, electron ics, radio and T.V. service, business education and prac tical nurses training. Students must be 16 and over to enter. A tuition fee of $12 is charged district residents and $15 for non-residents per month. An alarming number of stu dents drop out of high school for various reasons. Many of them oould further their edu cation and usefulness it a trade school were established here. A start In this direction can only grow. The young peo ple of Jackson county should not be deprived of such an opportunity. . Mrs. Grover T. Mulkey, I ' Route 1, Box 262, -Gold Hill, Ore. about the only real solution possible for Laos. U.S. policies in Laos were opposed not only by the Com munists but , by Britain and France as well. Now, the three-nation Truce Control Commission is to be Strictly Personal By Sidney (o) General REASON IS A TOOL, - ' NOT A FINISHED PRODUCT It Is true that we should be guided by the rule of rea son, but it is equally trUe that reason cannot teach us to reason only emotion al experiences can do that; for no man is more unreas onable than he who tries to live his life on the plane of logic, suspect that Karris Those who most are usually those who know the least; suspicion goes hand in hand with ignorance. When we are young, we wish we had a crystal ball to enable us to look into the future; as we grow older, we recognize that foreknowledge of the future would be a ghastly gift, giving us hot a moment's peace if we knew the date of our death or the times when catastrophe would visit us. ' v." ' '" - Those who scorn the pomp of the world before they know it are really suffering from premature envy rather than exhibiting simple righteous ness. It is easy to deride what you do not, or cannot, have; much harder to dismiss what already belongs to you. - ; When lovers make vows, they have already , begun to doubt their love. I have sympathy and ad miration for those pacificts who march, demonstrate and Matter of Fact y Joseph aip (e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate ' THE NEW ALGERIAN 1 TRAGEDY Paris - It is easy enough to give a superficially ; rational explanation of the terrible, ir rational trag edy which al most overtook France. The e x p 1 anation lies in the re cent formation of the French army , and especially i n the formation of the ..para Alsop chute and Foreign Legion regiments which were .the prime movers of the coup d'etat In Algeria. , : i , In the long, grim, fruitless war in Indochina, .and again in the fighting in Algeria, and yet again during the various Algerian crises, this reporter has spent , a fair , amount of time with French soldiers of the sort who rebelled against their own government. Man for man, they are prob ably the best foot soldiers in the Western world, being dash ing, ' hardy, ing'enious, and brave. -. - : Their trouble is, "quite sim ply, that history has uprooted them. - a. a rpHE parachute and legion -- regiments, particularly, be ing entirely professional out fits, have been at war in one place or another ever since the- Germans laid down their arms. The same holds true for almost the entire officer and non - commissioned officer corps of the French army as a whole. Thus the roots of these French soldiers are not in France any longer. Their roots are in the war which is their life. When you talk with them, you find that they seem as ' remote from their own country, as wholly out of tune with modern French life, as foreign mercernaries might be- Yet their uprooted state is deeply painful for them, precisely because they are not foreign- precisely because they are Frenchmen by birth and passionately p a t r i otic Frenchmen at that. Add to this a further fact -the extreme narrowness of their experience; for unending war is an exceedingly narrow, Intel lectually cramping ex perience. Because their ex perience has been so narrow, even the ablest of them are capable of almost inconceiv able mistakes about the real world outside the war which has become their world. - GENERAL Challe, for ex " ample, was not only the real leader of the rebellion. He is also a soldier of excep tional capacity, who made a brilliant record when General de Gaulle named him to the I reinstalled In Laos, giving the Communists a built-in veto over the West.-' And It seems certain that any new government in Laos will demand withdrawal of U.S. military advisers and all U.S. influence. ; J. Harris Features Corp. sacrifice for their beliefs; they may be wrong, but they are devoted to their convictions, they are motivated by love rather than by hate, and they are profoundly activated by some ideal greater than their own personal welfare." Would that we non-paclf lets could demonstrate the same courage in behalf of our passive be liefs.' - ...a -. a. x . A pedant turns to the classics to escape- from his contemporaries; an educated person turns to the classics to shed more light upon his contemporaries; and this is the chief difference between pe dantry and genuine learning". - It used to be that a man was known by the company he keeps; now a man i known' by the company he works for. ' , ' ... ; ''The fox ; condemns ; the trap, not himself" observed William Blake; and likewise, a man does not blame his own greed, but curses the tax laws. (Despite stringent tax laws, more new million aires have been created in this country since the end of World War II than at any other time in U.S. history.) r Men of science often sug gest that religion keeps peo ple from thinking; but sci ence can keep people from thinking too most scientific advances have been dogmat ically opposed by the prevail ing scientific trends of their own time, as r men like Pas teur and Freud quickly found out. chief command in Algeria iri 1958. . : Yet not long aeo. when rfic cussing some articles which he admired by an Itinerant Amor. lean reporter whom he knew, this same General. Challe ac tually offered the following explanation. This reporter, he said, had a "network" of over a hundred "agents," also itin erant, whom he sent on ahead Of him tn rfr lkA Aa gathering informatinn tm. concluded General Challe, waj wny tne reporter was worth reading when on the road, It reminds you of the story of Dr. Samuel Jnhnnn' sponse to the unfortunate man- wno approached him with h- remark, "Mr. Smith. I be lieve." The great doctor Indig-" nantly tenlier). "Sir i can believe that, you' can' be. iieve anyming." Undoubtedly Challe and his co-plotters believerl thaf trtov might well secure American support by "playing the antl- v-uiumumst card," to use their common phrase. Undoubtedly, thev also believer) tw th American government had lost patience with General de Gaulle because of his hostility ra xnaxu. undoubtedly, they made a whole series of other fantastic political miscalcula tions. i . , Thus genuine patriotism, and moral displacement, and the warped views of war blinkered eyes all combined to produce this tragedy. Lis tening to General de Gaulle's speech to the nation the other night was precisely like heari ing a personage from a drama of Aeschylus's, heart-rending-ly reciting his part in real life.- a , . J; TT is hard to believe that this Is real life. And even though the rebellion was ouicklv renre.Merl the horrl fact of the army's rebellion win always remain a heavjr defeat for De Gaulle. 1 It is too early, Indeed, id begin toting up this tragedy's cost. But it is not too early to note a Doint whleh mnv hnva even greater long range slg- nuicance. in brief, a super ficially rational explanation of the behavior of the Algeirs rebels is not really a suf; ficlent explanation. '' One may cast Ileht unnn the seemingly irrational behavior oi sucn individuals as General Challe, but this does not ex plain the general tendency to wards Irrationality that seems to mark the present juncture in history. The course of his tory in the post-war era has been characterized by vast, violent,' self - damaging erup; tions of. Irrationality air over the world. In truth, the tidy, optimistic Victorian view about the rules governing the human political animal is nd longer supported by the facta of our time.