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MSDF(ffiOk.TlUBDNI "Everyone In Southern Onion - H.a Mull 1vlhiinr published Dally except Saturday by ,83 North fir St.. Ph, BP 3-8141 ROBERT W. HUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM. Bui. Mir. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mnj. Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARHV TMIPMAN TeW. Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'a Editor dale ehickson, circuiauon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Sntered aa second, class matter at , Meciora, urea on, unaer Act un March 3, 1397 . alllllSCRIPTION RATES ' By Mali In Advance, Copy 10c 1 bally and Sunday I year 113.00 Dally and Sunday- moa. 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 4 33 Sunday Only One year 34.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford .; Ashland. Central Point Ealjle Point, Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rofiub Riv-'-er-.-Talent and on motor routes, ' Dally and Sunday 1 year 318,00 s Dally and Sunday 1 mo. . 1.80 ". Carrier and Dealers copy . 10c ..- All Terma cagn in Aovance 'Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International t Full Leased wire TJ.P.I. Telephoto Newsplctures '; 'MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Xfvprttclna' Renresentative WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC. Of fires in New York, Chicago. Da. trait. San Francisco. Los Angeles, i Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At- -lanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATION A I EDITORIAL lAc6T,t Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the' 4113 'of Th Mail Tribunt.10, 20,' 30, 40 end 50 yurt igo. j''"''.' 10 YEARS At)0 7" . '. ''':; '! April 10, 1151 (Monday) : Surveyor fromlhe city ert gineer's department today were completing- surveys for i proposed Improvement of P . blind curve on ' the East Main st. . hill between Keene way and' Eastwood drs, ' "Twenty -one Applegate farm ers, have initiated an 'action in circuit court here to retain- a road rlght-ol-way they claim they , and their prede cessors have held since 1898. YEARS AGO .' . '-. , U 30, 141 (Wednesday) 3 ,'e first concentrated . t pt to aell war stamp an is here will start, fe or '.3 '':V-";.';; i . -n Arthur r --y SY lu. it Pot" colurwl "A aui. y .shows many. American J ,Tiya would not hold up panzer tank, in case of a 1 zl-j Invasion. In many in a incea, the same goes for a li rglng truck.". -, .j. ; SI YEARS AOO'O ''.' Jtorll 10, 1131 (Thursday) i A big electric storm hit the vrlley last night and at least o Medford home was struck t ' lightning; heavy rain fell .rich was gratefully received ty the farmers. .- Medford quit the ' Rogue r'ver Valley Baseball league t la week after suffering four consecutive defeats. O YEARS AGO .irll 30, 121 (Saturday) ' . .' The Medford Chamber of Commerce has offered to mediate a dispute between the city council and residents who object to rock crushing activities on North Riverside ave. f : ; " - A raid In the Beagle dis trict, yesterday yielded , one bottle of whisky. 50 YEARS AGO April 30, 1911 (Sunday) ; The census bureau has giv en Jackson county a popula tion of 25,756, compared to a 1900 population of 13,698; most of the growth has been in Medford. What's Your I.Q.? Nina m fan cotratt h tuMrier; Hvait r aljht Is acalln; flva r ix Is (eed. ' " : 1. Was the purchase price of the Louisiana Territory 10, 15 or 20 million dollars? ; 9. What was the Pharos of Alexandria? ' c ' ;- 3. Railroad mergers are considered by what federal regulatory agency? i 4. Before ' Herbert Hoover entered public life, what was his profession? '5. The Solicitor General of the United States is under what cabinet officer? , i 6. Lead is the heaviest known metal; true or false? 7. What Is metaphor? ' 8. '.The Big Inch and the Little Inch were built during W.WJI, what are they? . 9, Is Dally Double used in contract bridge, baseball or horsoraclng? ;0. Are there five, six or seven countries in Central America? t Answers: I. 18 million. 1. Lighthouse. 9. Iniwiats Com mere CommiMlea,' 4. Erni neering. . Aliorner Osneral. 6. False- (Iridium). 7.. Nfre of speech. I. Pip line, t. HorirclBj. 10. ini Oust mala, British Honduras,- El Salvador. Hlcaraflua. CosU Rica. I V-ASSOCIATION SUNDAY, APRIL 30. 1981 ' ; Voluntary President Kennedy was wrong dead wrong -r-in the , Cuban invasion. And -we think he is equally wrong in calling for "voluntary censorship" of the news by the newspaper industry, while at the same time re jecting a new agency along the lines of the office of censorship which operated during the war. ' Ini calling on newspaper editors to refrain from printing news which is not in the "national interest," he is asking them to do something they are not equipped to do. LIE DID say the administration would cooper- -ate with whatever present. And it certainly would do no narm, and perhaps much good, to study the matter further, with both news people' and government people in on the discussions. ;'., ., . But it would take quite a bit of talking to convince us that, in the war. voluntary censorship thing, except to reduce the amount of informa tion available to the people of the United States. The government of the United States should have nothing to hide, rnothing of which to be ashamed ' with the possible exception of cer tain" cloak-and-dagger type of activities1 which, we sadly concede, may be necessary in a. world as upset and dangerous as it is today. ', -ft ''.."" '4 . '.'- ', '' '.' PRESIDENT Kennedy is undoubtedly smarting from the Cuban fiasco in making his censor ship proposal. United States support of the in vasion forces was an "open secret" for. months. ' '"Milch has been said of our own intelligence' and military advice, and more about the assistance which the American ress, notably the magazine press, gave to Cas ro's. intelligence officers. ;v" V $ But the press's obligation is to inform its read ers; It doesn't, always do ' fAnd we do hot believe Units efforts to do so by I.J-IJ' :.' i.-, 1- .11. ii aeciue, iiui wneuier an item la news, uui waeuiei it isf in the "national interest." There is a place for ment operations but should begin and end. It into the nation s newsrooms, which, unless they print the, news, are not ' Space Colonization No Answer .. ur. riarwu .ntkciiev is vice pietsiucui, w. vac Thlokol Chemical company (rocket fuels) and President of the American Rocket Society. , we nope ne is a oetter cnemist man ne is, a Satvemiucan or dembsrrapher. : '. iv r (IIe was quoted fth other day. in discussing foreasonB foi thfe" exploration- of space, thus: . ': i.r , l .1 , .1 . ... . . ...111 . " a ... ucucve wuv hid vuiitjucsb ui oyuu nm , solve our problem of , population explosion, which will have a serious effect on the human race within the I next 30 years. We might run out of food and raw mate- , rials, and thia would lead to a lower standard of living. , By . conquering space,' we can indefinitely delay this : -situation." '.-.'',''" '" 'f Not so, Dr. Ritchey ; not so at all, PRESUME, first, that the moon and Mars and V Venus can support lumari life in any quan tlty,' or eveh provide human food (which is ;not a valid presuhiption but let it go). ' Then presume the world is capable of con structing space ships big enough to carry 3,000 peopleroughly the number .of passengers which can be carried on our biggest ocean-going pas senger, ships., . ..s Xhira, presume tnat we nave enougn 01 tnem to blast one off into space every day. In one year, they could cany 1,095,000 people off the earth. MEANWHILE, in the United States ALONE, " the population will same year, by about a,uuu,uuu. . , i r On the earth as a whole, the population is now about 3 billion, and is growing at the rate of several hundred million a year. : f Even if the ENTIRE resources of earth were devoted to building and dispatching our hypo thetical space ships, they couldn't come anywhere near matching the population growth. There are two alternatives to "solve" the problem of the exploding population. One is wholesale slaughter by nuclear warfare. The oth er: is by widespread, perhaps even compulsory, birth control.' If there is a third alternative, we don't know what it is., E.A. "New Billboard Laws :"- On previous occasions we have expressed our disappointment with the current legislature. This does not mean, of course, that it's been all bad. Some good constructive legislation has been enacted, although the overall score is some where around a G-minus. v. One Of the good accomplishments has been the passage of two bills which will provide a start ..on billboard regulation. THEY ARE fairly mild, and only partly effica . cious. But they are a start in the right direc tion, and as the people of the state begin to re alize their benefits, they can be broadened. , Once more we should like to compliment the outdoor, advertising industry for living up to its promise last fall, to seek such legislation. f The day is coming when Ahe industry itself will realize it does itself more harm than good in marrintr Oregon's scenic beautv. These two laws bring that (lay closer. E. A. I Censorship plans the publishers may absence of a shooting would accomplish any about the ineffectiveness this very well. it should be hampered asking editors to try to i 1.-1.1 secrecy in some govern that is where the secrecy should not be extended doing their jobs. E.A. ; 1 : have increased, in that Dennis the SOT ANVtHlNS TO HAT? I SET WNSfty Matter of Fact (o) New York Herald AFTER THE ABSCESS BURST Parls-At about midnight last Friday, when he was getting ready for bed after attending a gala , per formance of Racine's "Brittanlcus," Gen. 1 Charles de Gaulle first received from Premier Mi chel Debre the ugly news of a military putsch in Al giers. The days of agonizing drama which followed were almost wholly dominated by this man of deep faith and Iron will. It now appears, for Instance, that General de Gaulle in person played the largest part In averting the parachute assault on Paris which the junta of rebellious military officers in Algiers had planned for Sunday eve ning. . According -to .rather well au thenticated reports, the air of ficers on the scene in Algiers were at first" uncertain about the course they ought to take -as well ,'tney might nave been, since they were under the guns of the military jun ta's troops. But their minds were made up when they saw de Gaulle on television, a tow ering figure in a towering rage, and heard him give his famous orders with all the for midable force at his command to "bar the road" to the in surgents, - Some 3,500 paratroopers de ployed on the . Algiers air fields that night, for the plan ned descent on Paris. But the responsible air officers "bar red the road" most effectively,' by the rather simple expedi ent of leaving the paratroop ers with no means of trans port across the Mediterran ean. . A MORE curious instance nf npnprnl rip naulle'fl Impact Is the story of General Gouraud. On Saturday, when visited by the courageous Min ister for Algerian Affairs, Louis Joxe, this important re gional commander swore un dying fidelity to the govern ment in Paris. On Sunday, General Gouraud received one of the junta leaders, Gen eral Zeller, with full military honors and at once rallied to the junta. But after the week end, having reflected on what he had seen and heard on television Sunday evening, General Gouraud briskly ral lied all over again, this time to General de Gaulle. It is easy enough to smile at the effects on a weak man of this terrifying and prim ordial figure who leads France. It is wiser to be im pressed by the air force offi cers, who were stirred to an action of very considerable courage by de Gaulle's ex ample and command. It is not good enough, ei ther, to say what many peo ple are now saying, that Gen eral Challe and others failed because they made all sorts of miscalculations about the mood of the conscript soldiers Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF FROM A LONG LIST of "definiUons" being circulated surreptitiously In Washington's huge Pentagon Building: A program: An assignment that cannot be completed by a .single telephone call. To activate: To make ' carbons and add more ' names to a memo. Consultant: Any aver age man more than fifty V mil.. hnmn - To Implement: To hire more people and wangle additional office space. : Reorientation: Getting used to working again. Committee: The un willing, recruited from the unfit to do the un necessary. . . (Which reminds me of Vie made by a committee.) . MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Menace By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate In Algeria- and other such matters. The plain truth Is that these miscalculations would most probably have proved extremely superficial, without de Gaulle to "bar the road" and order others to do SO. .. .',: rPO de Gaulle, therefore, France owes an incalcul able debt for the preservation of her free institutions, and to de Gaulle, so often an un comfortable partner, all the other Western allies owe an incalculable debt for prevent ing the kind of result in France which might, quite lit erally, have proved the be ginning of the end of the West, So much is obvious. It is obvious, too, that the neo-Fas-cist abscess which history in flicted upon the brave French army has now burst for good and all. The neo-Fascist mili tary threat, which made all Paris and all France tremble over the week end, which has repeatedly intimidated French governments of every politi cal coloration, will, not cause any further loss of sleep to anyone for a very long time to come. . That, In Itself, is a great gain. But the aborted coup in Algeria was none the less a tragic business, because it somewhat has .weakened Gen eral de Gaulle's hand and has somewhat restricted his pow er of maneuver in his" deal ings with those other' Alger ian rebels who 'constitute a far sterner problem for him, the F. L. N. From the way people - even informed people - are talking in Paris today, you might sup pose that the collapse of the military putsch in Algiers had removed the last obstacle to rapid negotiation of an Alger ian peace. In reality, however, the outlook for early and fruitful negotiations is fairly discouraging. The curious fact of the mat ter is that the F. L.,N.'s al leged moderates, the political leaders including Ferhat Ab mas himself, have become re luctant to negotiate. Having the bazaar bargaining insticts of most Arabs, they see that General de Gaulle is eager for negotiations, and they there fore hope for better terms if they hold back. Meanwhile those who wish to negotiate are the supposed hard-nosed types, the F. L. N, military leaders like the leg endary Kabyle, Krim Belka. cem. They want peace be cause they fully understand the grim lot of the F. L. N. guerrilla units still in the field in' Algeria. What ithls unexpected yet highly logical political pat tern may finally produce is as yet unpredictable. But the pattern at least indicates that if negotiations are not soon agreed to, the countless West ern quarterbacks of General de Gaulle will have to be pa tient and to understand that he cannot throw In his hand In Algeria all at once if he desires a bearable peace there. . -yf Jr aT" CAgtoNs '7i definition of a camel: a horse f"' 4" Today By Walter (c) New York Herald AFTER THE REBELLION . On Thursday," the day be fore the insurrection, the po sition of Gaullist government was that lor France the Al gerian ques tion is decid ed. ' The re maining prob lem was when the Algerian Natl onallsts would find enough unity Upnmann among' them selves to assume the powers that would follow the inde pendence which France had decided to grant them. ' On Friday the Generals re belled, and almost certainly the government In Paris had little or - no advance notice. For 72 hours it was a ques tion whether the government of General de Gaulle had mis judged its power. During Saturday and Sun day the rebellion had spread widely in Algeria and by Sun day evening, when General de Gaulle spoke to the nation, the mood in Paris was des perate. One Cabinet Minister, for example, was saying pri vately that Paris was defense less against the paratroopers, that neither the Army, nor the Air Force, nor the Secret Service, nor the Police, could be relied upon to defend the government. Only the Navy was reliable. Sunday night in Paris was an anxious time, what with the reports that the paratroop ers were already in their planes and would be dropping on Paris between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. M. Debre, the Premier, had told the French people that , when they heard the sirens announcing the inva sion, they should take their cars and drive to the airports and argue with the paratroop ers! This was a measure of how desperate was the mood. NEVERTHELESS,' during that Sunday night the situ ation-changed radically. For reasons which are not clear as yet, but can perhaps - be Inferred, the paratroopers did not start for Paris, or they were recalled; From then on the insurrection began to fail. Earlier that day I had heard Ambassador Gavin ' say that nobody could judge the situ tlon until he knew whether there was- a strike against Paris, it . lv' ' ' . ; '' ' " The big "reason, I beHeve, Why the attack on Paris failed is' that the" pessimists around General de Gaulle had under estimated his personal power and resourcefulness, When he had said on Thursday that for France the Algerian question was decided, he was speaking with the certainty that while the dissidents in the armed forces were strong men, the Gaullist measures during the past year or so had succeeded far more than most people realized, in weakening and breaking up the solidarity of the rebellious officers. The second reason, and no doubt a : smaller one-though I do not know this for certain-was that President Ken nedy, acting on the advice of General Gavin - who is a mighty good man in a crisis like this one-had rallied to General de Gaulle, had offer ed him help if it were desired. The American presence in the Mediterranean of the air forces of the Sixth Fleet, which were quite capable of intercepting an invasion, may have done something to dis suade the rebels from taking s aVit. Castro High, U.Se Low, In Latin 'Recife, Brazil - as these words are written in the capital of South America's most blighted, potential 1 y revolution ary region - half starved feud alists north east Brazil -aU the evi dence avail able here sug gests that President le-arel Kennedy's newly launched Latin American policy has been badly gashed below the waterllne on the Cuban reef. Castro's prestige has . been enormously Increased every where. The left wing is jubilant. In propaganda terras they have carried the day. However re mote Washington's responsi bility for : the invasion at tempt, the well-meshed Com munist propaganda apparatus operating out of Mexico City and Havana has successfully shouted down Washington's disclaimers. Scarcely a news paper below the Rio Grande has come to the defense of the United States, and here In Brazil I have not encountered a single important politician, however anti-Communist, will ing to speak out publicly In fir Tomorrow lippmann . Tribune Syndicate off for Paris. It was widely remembered in Paris on Sun day night, and perhaps also in Algeria, that on a previous oc casion when the paratroopers were threatening Paris Presi dent Eisenhower had rallied to General de Gaulle with an offer of American help. I repeat that I cannot prove this but I believe that the American presence in ' the Mediterranean was a factor, and that Ambassador Gavin's visit to General de Gaulle late Sunday evening marked an American decision in which we can take a certain quiet satisfaction. .- . THE prospects of an Algeri an peace have almost cer tainly been Improved some what. General de Gaulle has now had a showdown-hither- to something he has avoided -with the sworn enemies of his policy. In the aftermath, he will presumably take stern measures to break the back of the armed and organized mili tary rebels, including that of the' foreign , mercenaries among' them, and then will have a free hand to impose the terms of a settlement-if one can be agreed upon. We must not, however, go overboard. A settlement in Al geria is exceedingly difficult. For nowhere in the world has any Imperial power, succeed ed in creating a workable bi raclal independent state. The British, with all their success in liquidating their empire, have never succeeded in doing this in their colonies where there are two different religious and racial communi ties. This problem of the dual communities extend s.from French Algeria down through to British Central and East ern Africa to South Africa. If General de Gaujle can now succeed in establishing an in dependent Algeria, he will be a pioneer in international re lations.. . . ' TTlOR us, bewildered and be- set by e v e n t s in Laos, South Vietnam, and Cuba, this French affair should be a salu tary reminder not to lose our perspective in world, affairs. By that I mean that we must continue to keep our primary attention fixed on what is cen tral and crucial and not be come divided, distrar-ted, and .engaged in the periphery; 1 ' Reading "the "clippings after being away - for a month, I am astonished at the number of responsible men who want Co use the Marines and the American paratroopers all over the world. They want to use them in Laos, in Viet nam, and Cuba. In my view, they have let their pride, their frustration, and their impati ence exaggerate fantastically the importance of these small peripheral countries. This ex aggeration is at the expense of a clear and steady and reso lute view of the strategy of our great adversary. I cannot imagine any course of action better calculated to lose the cold war than to be come engaged in the jungles of Indo-China or in an . occu pation against the guerrilla forces of Castro. Let. us never forget that the armed forces of the Soviet Union are not committed in any of these peripheral countries. It is our paramount duty in the strate gy of the cold war not to be come committed in costly little -Wars which cannot be won easily, if they can be won at all, while the Soviet Un ion and China have their hands free. : .""". Have the addicts of these favor of either the U.S. or the refugee Cubans. Fidelismo, which does not mean Commu nism to millions of Latin Americans, but a symbol of land reform and a living wage, has spread too far and too deep.. A pile of the State Depart ment's new pamphlet con vincingly demonstrating Cas tro's total betrayal of his own revolution lay on the desk of one American official in Bra zil. I asked him if he planned to give them to local Brazili an editors. Bitterly he an swered, "I wouldn't have a, hope of getting a line of It printed!" Brazil means nearly one-half of South America's land, nearly one-half its peo ple. Brazil was our firmest ally south of the border, the first in Latin America to join the Allies in both World Wars. But Brazil will not help us with the Cuban menace, how ever clearly its leaders recog nize that Castro means to in stigate revolution in many of the hemisphere's South Amer ican countries. For years Brazil and other governments argued against unilateral United States ac tions in Latin America and in favor of multilateral action through the orgnization of American States. Now they are telling us, Handle Cuba yourself. , (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Contributed: . . "Gone are the days when a fellow could indulge in a bottle of that good, old-fashioned beverage called Birch Beer without being consid ered an extremist. "I suppose Welch's Grape Juice is next on the road to oblivion.'? a It is said these days (not entirely accurately-but not without some accuracy, either) that tax-financed schools can hardly afford to flunk anyone out. At a result, some report card systems strain to see that each student gets a passing grade and some helpful comment., The height of something or. other, in the latter category, was report ed recently on a note at tached to a rather poor re port card. It said. . "He con tributes nicely to group . singing by helpful listen ing." . - A tvnn , nnntn- plished what a husband couldn't. sIt made a woman remove her flower-bedecked hat, and stick ' to : slightly more conservative styles. ., She was listening to a ser mon in a Jackson county church when the bee in ques tion flew, in through the win dow, and lit on the flowers on her hat. A tap on the shoulder by a fellow church member warned her. of -the bee in her bonnet..,. She snatched it off, nar rowly missing getting stung, and at last report hasn t worn it to church again. '-' ' ' . It is not unusual that someone who has been ar rested for tome offense or other asks the paper- not to publish hit (or her) name. These requesti are not little wars stopped to think what a little war in Indo China would be like? If not, let them study the British experience in Malaya where It took ten years and a very large army to subdue these Chinese guerrillas. Have they thought what a little war in Cuba would be like after the Marines had captured Havana and a few cities and had then to govern a revolutionary peasantry? " -" -- " fYUR people have'to fix it In v' their minds that the world wide upheaval which' has come to Laos and to Vietnam and to Cuba,- which will prob ably come to Iran and to cer tain countries in South Amer ica, that this world-wide revo lution cannot be stopped and settled by the United- States Marines, great fighters though they are. . ' . American armed engage ments n these peripheral countries, with the Soviet Union's power uncommitted, would be the height of strate gic folly. These peripheral countries, including Cuba, cannot pose a vital threat to the security , of the United States, and we must not ex aggerate their importance. What is vitally important to the future of the United States is the central bastion of Western power. This is what checks the central power of the Soviet Union and preserves the peace of the world against a great war In this Atlantic bastion France is a key country, as our ac tions in the past few days have testified. For domestic reasons they dare not do otherwise, and their paralysis of will is likely to make the May meeting in Quito pf the hemisphere For eign Ministers a critical epi sode and turning point in the whole history of hemispheric relations. The Cuban Embassy in Rio De Janeiro is very big and intensely active among the university students, where not only Fidelismo but Com munism itself is rapidly spreading. . President Janio Quadros Is surely going to recognize the Soviet Union. This wUl mean, among other things, a big Soviet consulate here in Re cife, Soviet agents and agita tors will swarm all over this northeast region, where' the Communist powder train has already been laid by the rapid spread of the Peasants' Leagues, the first serious re bellion in four hundred years by the landless plantation workers against their Asiatic conditions of life.xConditions of death would be the more accurate phrase. If they sur vive the Gastric diseases of in fancy, they can expect to die by the age of thirty. Northeast Brazil was a sleeper in . the world's con sciousness. It is an immense area with some twenty miUlon people. What is now going on o 4 granted, except In extra--, ordinary cases. With thia,'. -preface we can recount the- ' case of the man who asked " district court official! to' withhold hit name from', publication in the court rec ords. Judge Sawyer had one of hit clerks call the man's-, home to explain thai his; name couldn't be withheld- After talking to the man's., wife for a few minutet, the clerk discovered the wife' was the reason for the re- quest, '.., T ". , , ' This has been quite a week" for altercations of one sort or another. There was the heated fearing on the proposed -build, ing code for the county. V Then there was the one about the . proposed Talent wrecking yard. .. And the one about the Barnett road area, and which, school district it should be iru Between times were the county budget he art n g s, which are usually orderly, but which sometimes break! out in displays of irritation as one budget or another feels the axe. : . . - ' rx" : , At the school district; boundary hearing. Lawyer Richard Cottle, represent-; ing the Phoenix school dii-" trict, wat heard to remark-, that It it rumored the Med ford tchool dittrict doesn't particularly want Rogue Valley Manor became therej are no football players up there. , -j - e e . -; The reporter who covered several of these meetings, ob served that they could have shut off . the central heating in the courthouse because the hearings generated enough heat for everyone. tie said two men offered to punch a planning commis sioner in the nose, declaring, a will only cost us $125 in, court, and it might be worth it!" And he also said that wives of participants were . kept busy keeping their husbands under, control. ' , a . .'..v Well, this it democracy v in action, and in a way it'a a, good thing, even though . people. do. sometimes, say.. , and do. things they'll he"f This week end marks the beginning of National Baby Week, Mental Health Week, National Home Demonstration Week, and National Invest-irr-America Week. Does anyone see a subtle connection between these, or is it just the Potluck editor' warped sensibilities? And a juicy bi'.l-of-fare be gins tomorrow, which Is the kick-off for the following: Butter With Corn-on-the-Cob Time, National Foot Health Month, White Bread Sales Month, Clean-up, Paint Up, Fix-Up Month; Better Hearing Month, National Orn amental Iron Month, National Tavern Month, National Ra dio Month, Personal Affairs Month, National Home Im provements Month, National Water Systems Month, Spring Milk Campaign, Cream Cam paign. Boys' Kite Day, Child Health Day, National Correct Posture Week, and American Camp Week. Whew! . What a sad, sad waste of time, talent, money, and, in this case, newsprint. Lands here is literally a race be tween long delayed economic development and a prairie fire grass roots political move ment that is thoroughly Com' munist. In leadership, ideas and oratorical accents. It is a complicated story of which I expect to write in further columns. But let it be said at once' and plainly, that in spite of Brazilian official demurrers there Is in the making a pos sibly violent test of whether the Brazilian union Is going to survive intact. The Brazilian; northeast is to the prosperous southwest, what our economi cally exhausted ex - slavery states were to the North iri the period that followed the Civil War. In our case the passions were spent; here they are just beginning to gather.' In this powder train Castro is the distant hero, the Yankee imperialist is the distant enemy. Preposterous as this devil theory is, on the factual record the recent events In Cuba have made Castro even more the hero, the U.S. even more the viUain, here in the sad and ugly setting of what may well be the next great, revolutionary convulsion in, the western hemisphere. (Ditiributed 19S1 by -. .The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) , .. . r
