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Newspaper Page Text4 A verjrone In Southern Oreson Beads Tin MaTi Tribune' Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North tit St., Ph. 8P2jjUl """ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertlalnf Manaser gerald t Latham. But. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mne. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Ed tor DALE ERICKSON, ClrculaUonjjg- An Independent Newspaper Xntered aa second class matter at laeaiora, ureeun, uuuvr nvt v. March 3, 1897 By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year S15.00 Dally and Sunday moa. 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. mM Sunday Only One year SO By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rorue Riv. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Duly end Sunday 1 mo. I SO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c "official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County . United Press International Fuu Leasea wire P.P.I. Telephoto Newplcturei MEMBER OF AUDVfBUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlslm Renresentauve: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in new lorx, vmcaeo, u--trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St Louts. At lanta, Vancouver, B.C. NEWSMFIR UkUtSHERi 1 ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL O Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the fllei of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. ' 10 YEARS AGO ' May 1, 1991 (Tuesday) ;.. The Medford, city council will consider a proposed re zoning of the city when it meets in regular session to night. ' ' ; A combination May day and health day program wag scheduled at all Medford pub lic grade schools this after noon. 80 YEARS AGO May 1, 1841 (Thursday) Mrs. Franklin Delano Roos evelt stopped here briefly to day en route to a Eugene speaking engagement. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The rain the past two days Is offi cially blamed on a low pres sure area 900 miles west of Cape Mendocino, and a farmer on Ross lane having some hay down." 30 YEARS AGO May 1, 1831 (Friday) Rnu .inline Meier has ap pointed Rufus Holman to suc ceed the late Thomas B. nay as Oregon state treasurer. Morifnrrf voters todav will decide whether the city should spend Z3,ooo to pur chase the former Washington school grounds for the new county courthouse site, 40 YEARS AGO May 1. 1821 (Sunday) The Medford Chamber of Commerce has appointed a greeters committee to wel come new arrivals, to the city. Joshua Patterson, pioneer resident of the valley and for mer county commissioner who was noted for his contribu tions to the county's road net work, died today. 60 YEARS AGO May 1, 1911 (Monday) Officials of the Pacific States Telephone company are meeting here this week to determine the advisability of establishing a divisional head quarters In Medford. Post office receipts here in April are up 14 per cent over the same month a year ago. Vhst't Ycxr I.Q.7 Nine or ran correct l aneerlet; eve er eight la excellent; five ei an is eeed. 1. With which Presidents do you associate these slogans: "The Full Dinner Pail," "The Big Stick," and "Back to Normalcy"? 2. The U.S. was the first country to grant nation-wide suffrage to women, true or false? - 3. Asuncion is the capital of which Latin American coun try? 4. A million Is how many thousai 1? 9. Are sheep born with long or short tails? 6. With what activities do you associate a peavy, a taw? ' 7. The movement that led to the organization of the Con federate States of America was begun in which Southern State? . w 8. The epithet, "the nine old men," was once applied to which body of officials? 9. What is the capital of South Dakota? 10. What Is a corsair? ' 1. MclCinley, T. Roosevelt, Harding. 2. False. (New Zea land). 3. Paraguay, 4. 1000. i. Long fails. Logging and marbles. 7. South Carolina, I. U.S. Supreme Court . Pierre. 10. Pirate. MONDAY, MAY 1. 1S61 Taking Liberty for Granted The following editorial, written by Gordon Ran dal Clark and printed In hit school paper, the Crater High School "Comments," was first prize winner In the Jackson county Law Day editorial contest spon sored by the Bar association. Young Clark, a senior, won a $28 prize for the editorial. We continually use course of a day that we take for granted. We go f reelv from dace to place and stop to meet with friends and associates when and where we choose. We criticize or praise our government at will. Seldom do we stop to consider that all our freedoms are made possible because we have "Liberty under the law." On May 1st we again recognize National Law Day. It is our desire to stimulate the people in the acknowledgement that they do have freedom through the laws. At no time in the world's history has a judicial organization been established that has equaled that of the United States. At no time have people been so free to say or do as they please ana at the same time been so well protected. INDEED, we mean PROTECTED. Too often people look at the laws as restrictions. Laws only become restrictions when we are in danger nt onprnnrfiinc' nnnn snmflOnfi'fl liberties. At the same time these very preventing someone eise irom lmenenng wun our liberties. A basic principle that we should bnun In .ninrl in t.hnr. laws ara made to nrotect. not restrict. In America tfU i. -J sure iiuerty uui ueunvc Whenever we think nra aVinnlrl immArlintaiv we have liberty because 1 j. 1U .a , ana insure mat noei iy. Monroe Sweetland The annminf Amont. Tanrl (T.C,ai'kamaa t.riAf.ne will not be a candi date for re-election to . e i i . help creating a nonow ieenng among we many who have known of his years of service to hia follnur-mnn even thniitrh t.hpv mlp-ht heme that the announcement heralds a larger role in the national administration. Senator Sweetland is pfrrrifia Mr Health and Mr. Democrat to many, upon their strongest interest, ana nas oeen suit ahlv recognized save in one regard his efforts to serve in high public office. ... He will be greatly missed greatly missed when he leaves public life in Oregon. We have too few Monroe Sweetlands who are willing to give up financial rewards and time for themselves and families, to Buffer public attacks upon their actions ana their motives, ana to live wim irus trations over the ponderously slow public pro cesses. But, on the other hand, we should be grateful for having had his services all these years; and we are. Capital Press, Salem Safe for Ideas The president of the University of California and the Governor of the Golden State have given what seem to us model statements of the impor tance of exposing students to controversy. A furor had arisen because a man convicted of contempt of Congress for refusal to answer questions about communism was invited to speak on the camDUs at Berkeley. Asked to intervene, Gov. Pat Brown of California refused, comment ing: "Let the people say anything they want to. If they do anything criminal while they're speak ing . . ., then they can be prosecuted." TO THIS the University president, Dr. Clark Kerr, aided: "The University is not engaged in making ideas safe for students; it is engaged in making students safe for ideas." This is an attitude which ought to hearten more timorous administrators, for it goes to the heart of a main purpose of education. If univer sity training can t teach a student to be discreet and discriminating in his selection of ideas, arti ficial shielding won't help him. Washington (D.C.) Post John Birch The latest publicized fringe of American life is the John Birch Society. Lost in a world of fantasy, the John Birchera are busily looking for Communists in the White House, the Supreme Court, the classrooms, and, presumably, under the bed. In the process they lose sight of the real Com munists and of the real problems communism poses in Laos, Vietnam, Cuba and elsewhere. PRESIDENT Kennedy revealed his role in re lieving Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker of his po3t as commander of the Twenty-fourth Infan try Division, pending investigation of charges that General Walker was attempting to indoc trinate that division's soldiers with tho ideas of the John Birch Society. The President made it plain that General Walker, who has denied the charges, will get a fair hearing. - ' . Members of the armed forces are entitled to IVaIm sMtm vtaOi f a 1 riniAn a 4nof net fa tA all af Vl ttl citizens of our nation. But it is obviouHly wrong for any officer of the armed forces to attempt to indoctrinate his subordinates with the ideas of a particular political group. It is a fundamental of our political traditions that the armed forces serve all of the American people and play no indepen dent political role in our national life. New York Times ,f h many liberties in the same laws protect us by our laws are set up to in- it. . iu of "liberty under the law" rpcnonizfl that this means we nave laws to protect I . I hv Sen. Monroe Sweet- the Legislature cannot J1 Mr. Education, Mr. Civil Welfare. Mr. Labor and many people, depending . Fantasies addition to the lunatic Dennis th nW WHEN I SING I'VE BFfeN WDBC IN ONTHE EN I SIMS 'I'VE BF6?M HttMN'flNl Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pan name or Inilal for publication it permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condense ton. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters printed In hit column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in tact tne contrary it ettan Wild Dogs To the Editor: Before the curtain rings down on the cougar tales and experiences by the present numerous pio neers of southern Oregon of the last half century, I am certainly amazed and most happy to talk to so many people for having told me their own true accounts, al though some wish to remain anonymous at their own be hest. . Now, for a few words on wild half breed English shep herd dogs mixed with coy otes, that once were outra geous denizens of the forests adjacent to the Butte Falls area some 80 to 60 years ago. According to reliable infor mation given to this writer the "wild dogs," as common ly called, would attack a hu man being on least provoca tion. . . At one time there were a few "wild dogs" that roamed the Indian forest land on the Klamath county reservation around as late as 1929 and 30. But probably all are now ex tinct. , Bert Kissinger . S20 Boardman St. ; Medford. Humanities Miseries . To the Editor: That was a good editorial entitled "Di minishing Privacy." Mr. J. P. Wirth's letter on the same page aroused me, and I wish to comment on his letter headed "Something Benefi cial." : Mr. Wlrth makes a good many statements, some of which are good, and others that display a mind that is surely what is called con fused or "mixed-up." I wish to repeat a part of one of the paragraphs in Mr. Wirth's message. "Let us divert our attention to learning some thing useful and beneficial to mankind Instead of trying, the best we can, to destroy, etc." Now this, in my opinion, Is a sound and positive ideal Humanity's miseries, includ ing wars, disease and suffer ing, can be laid at the feet of those who have ignored the application of the Ideas contained in the question above. Most of the simple truths that man could live by to make the world free from fear, from untimely death, un necessary disease and suffer ing, have come from men at tempting to learn (and teach) something useful and benefi cial to mankind. Here, Mr. Wirth, is a point you seem to miss - the fact that most of the simple truths men need to live by can be found in the teachings of sev eral kinds of religions, some of which are older than the one commonly known as Christianity. Most of the world's anguish, since time began, has been caused by the failure of those with wealth and power to abide by the rules embodied in your quot ed paragraph. It is apparent to those who study history, that war was never caused by -the multitude of common people. Behind the maze of com plex causes lies the sinister amblUon to (as you stated) "exploit, for profit, one's fel low man." The Napoleons, the Stallns, the Hitlers and their henchmen, like Adolf Elch mann, were all victims of a lust for wealth and power, ignoring every law, every idea except what seemed to offer more personal gain to them. They are examples of a "mlxed-up" mind, bent on de struction. You'll find their likenesses in the headlines of every nation's news, where revolutions and armed strife arc the topics of the day, Philip Lee Burnt Ashland, Ore. Menace HUB tne case. "The Brewer's Big Hosses" To the Editor: Beer salesl Men and women, boys and girls, have their principles, their sense of right and wrong, their manhood s and woman hood's calls and duties, their morals, their graces, their all, crushed and trampled by the brewer's hosses. Radio, television, ; sign boards, magazines, and news papers all sing the praises of beers that "cheer," "exhila rate," and "create the life of the party." No hunting trip, vacation, or home party is complete without beer! Mar kets and eating-places must sell it! Who buys the alcoholic po tion? Alcohol, the anaesthetic, the opiate, the stealer of sense and equilibrium, the lncapa citor, the highway scourge, the wrecker, the murderer. the curse and bane, the coffin- fillerT Who buys the stuff? The deceived, the gullible, the careless, the prayerless, the sinner; the one who wipes his mouth and tries to look In nocent while he uses Cain's words after he had killed righteous Abel, "Am I my brother's keeper?" " Who sells the stuff? The de ceived, the gullible, the care less, the prayerless, the sin ner; the one who wipes his mouth and tries to look inno cent while he uses Cain's words after he had killed his brother, righteous Abel, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Who sells the stuff? The neighbor who runs the grocery market, the eating place, or others pur veying intoxicants. Who buys the stuff? My neighbor and wife, and drink it before the chUdren young and older, and my neighbors get drunk on that alcoholic potion! Drunk? What is drunk? Ever put alcohol on an egg and see it turn white and cook? Exactly what happens to the beer drinker's brain cells when alcohol gets into his stomach, his blood-stream, and to his brainl He gets beer- ed up, his eyes bleared up, and his brain fogged. He's anaesthetized, de energized, sense-robbed, and incapacitat ed, and let down. Let down from a lot to a lot: from sobri ety to inebriation, from good sense to bad foUy, from de pendability to independable ty, from honor to dishonor, from self-control to its lack and loss, from someone you are happy to meet to someone you desire to shun (especially on the highway). The conveyance the nearest like the famed Hindoo Jugger naut car of India, under which men and women were crushed to death in sacrifice, is hauled by "The Brewer's Big Hoes esl" H. R. Bulman Route 4, Box 316A Medford Hot "Fol-de-Rol" To the Editor: I have read your editorial "Fol-de-rol or Necessity?" with the feeling of amazement and alarm. One of the most valuable weeks of my life, I feel, was spent In March at the Ala meda Training Center for In structors through the Office of Civil Defense and Mobill zaton. We were given instruction by top instructors In the Civil Defense program in the Unit ed States. Ours was an all- round course. I returned to Oregon with a great feeling of urgency. The week's training proved to each of us that we are lack ing today in plans to protect the residents of our cities and our counties In the event of nuclear, biological or chemi cal warfare. We learned that It Is not difficult to plan for survival. We learned that each family, If properly edu cated, will be willing to pro vide for their own survival. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MZSFOIID, OREOOH Diplomats Crisis; Algerian Arrests To Be SF ; , thv Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Mews Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Tough Conference Diplomats in London say we can expect the Laos crisis to bo with us for months des pite any cease fire and even if the May 12 conf trne gets under way on sched- u 1 e. Russia and Red China will press to get the Com munists flrm- MIVMaft iy esiaouanea inside the Laos government from where they would push for a gradual bloodless take over. Already the Communist Pathet Lao have served no tice they will come to the conference as "victors." The Geneva meeting if there is one, promises to be tough for the West. The Communists will try every trick, legal or illegal. Algeria Aftermath Watch for surprises when the list of those arrested in De Gaulle's post- Algeria purge becomes known. For the time being It Is largely being kept secret and govern- ment . sources maintain that there are no "bigs" among the names. But other sources re port that the list might even stretch into the highest branches of the government after further investigation of information already in the hands of the French Interior Ministry. Bugs From New Delhi comes word that the Indians are hav ing trouble building their I do not agree that we are caught between scare tactics and apathy. Scare tactics, , in all probability, is a term now being used in connection with the effort to properly educate the people of the United States in the need for a strong Civil Defense program. I prefer also to believe that there is no apathy in the American pub lic, that there is, rather, ' a very definite lack of informa tion reaching our people to properly educate them in this program. I read with great interest the quotation of commissioner Stanley Earl. I agree with the commissioner that Portland's Civil Defense program today Is not based on the realities of 1961. Evacuation of any city today is highly improbable. I say this because notification in the event of attack may range from three minutes, to a half hour, or an hour and a half. I feel that perhaps General Hicks' remarks have been mis understood, as it seems ridicu lous that any person trained in recent Civil Defense pro grams could use the word fol-de-rol in regard to prepara tion for preserving the life of our American people. We in the United States are handicapped in the training of our people in the Civil De fense program. We cannot say to our citizens as Russia says to theirs, "This is your week, comrade, to take your com pulsory Civil Defense train ing." Russia began their train ing In 1955 and today almost every man, woman and child in Russia is trained in the pro gram of Civil Defense. Rus sia has gone underground. It is also true that if each of our target areas were hit, all but ten per cent of the surviving people in the United States would be affected by radioactivity in the fallout. Survival of the 90 per cent will depend upon prepared' nets. Yes, we are caught in ur gency, but I cannot agree that It Is fol-de-rol. Mrs. Earl BIgalow 104 King St. Medford Where From Here? To the Editor: (And Box 268). You are so right! We know there's an old lunatic who is tooth and nail after our side of the fence, tho' he did thump his fist at it. He is sly, but diplomatic in a behlnd-the-bush way. He visits the small coun tries, grins lovingly, shakes hands, gives gifts (some fire arms), slobbers all over them, while telling them the United States is to blame for all the world's woes, and he makes them believe it. Eventually, when he gainj enough friends - comes the 'grand slam'. He will draft them to his will and we will be outnumbered. What that big, blustering slicker is calculating is as plain as the nose on his phiz. 'War' is ugly Just to think of; but we'd better heed the handwriting on the wall, and get there 1furstest' with the 'mostest.' Better to fight than to be come slaves under someone who might make HlUer look like a dove of peace. The problem is - where do we go from here? ' Pearl Spackman Box 33 Jacksonville, Ore. See Continuation of - a first supersonic jet fighter. The prototype model failed to get off the ground In a recent test and crashed Into a bar rier even though it developed a ground speed of more than 150 miles an hour. The plane, designed by German scien tist and being built In Banga lore, had another accident earlier this year while taxi ing at the test site. Extent of damage in both accidents was not known. , , Lott to Space Despite Russian denials, for eign military sources In Tokyo Insist there is evidence beyond doubt that the Russians had Hope Seen in Final Actions Of United Editor's notes The follow ing are excerpts lion I newsletter lo chapters of the American Association for the United Nations, writ ten by Clark M. Elchelbes ter, executive director of the AAUN, conunenticg on the actions of the recently closed General Assembly meeting. . . . The other outstanding crisis of the closing days of the Assembly was the Cuban situ ation. There was confusion as Washington Report By William S. White (ci United Feature Syndicate FORCE AND RIGHT Washington - In this large American corner of the Allied world a thrill of pride and a sense of res cue from dan ger is stirring from Charles de G a u He's triumph over the rebellious French gen erals in Al geria. To the high- white esc omciais here last week had been a week of Utter gloom. It was gloom so unrelieved as almost to recall the black time at the turn of the year 1941 when the American disaster at Pearl Harbor had been followed by the fall of Singapore and it had seemed that American and British power was to be driven by the Japanese from the whole of the Pacific. In the American hemi sphere, the Cuban patriots' invasion of pro -Communist Cuba, which the United States had indirectly supported, had bloodily failed. The life of Charles de Gaulle's France, which stands at the heart of the whole western defense system, had been brought into question by the revolt of the right-wing French generals in North Africa. . . e e . . THERE seemed a real possi bility that France itself might be ravaged by civil war and thus that the whole North Atlantic Treaty organization might be deeply shaken if not destroyed. Today, however, official Washington rejoices that If the position in the Caribbean remains dark, an even greater period has been lifted from all the Allied world by Presi dent de Gaulle's unshakeable firmness In dealing with the rebels. So tightly and totally Is the West bound together, all for one and one for all, that this escape from common danger has been scarcely less wel comed there than it is wel comed here. President Ken nedy had arranged to go to see De Gaulle in late May in what was to be by all odds both the most important and the most decisive of all his high-level conferences. rpHE core of the Kennedy plan for strengthening the inairai , i i Li Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CERP- A POIGNANT MEMOIR of Sir Cedric Hardwicke concerns the evening that Ellen Terry, then close to 80, elected to have another go at the demanding role of Portia in "The Merchant of Venice." When the time came for her to deliver the familiar "quality of mercy is not strained" speech, poor Miss Terry's face suddenly blanched. She cudgeled her mem ory in vain for a moment, then moved down to the footlights and said for lornly, "I ara a very silly old lady and I cannot remember what I have to say." Members of (he audi ence shoutel tho lines to her, Mist Tarry smiled her thanks and the show went on. In Palm Beach, a socialite told a bridge columnist quite serf, eualy, "My wife scree the game of bridge passionately. It tWt kr something to occupy her mind while she's talking!" asieti w m rw, TM-n-4a wp f rm,,,, , nUMt M several failures before tney nut Vnri r.aoarin into orbit around the earth and returned him safely. What's more, they said there also Is evidence that one Russan still is out there in space. The Russians never recovered him. K and K Meeting The Soviet Communist Party is planting the propa ganda basis for a Khrushchev Kennedy meeting, though not necessarily a friendly one. In a memorandum sent to satel lite parties, it opposes the Communist Chinese vicr: thst such a meeting would contra dict Marxist principles. The Nations Assembly n tha extent of the landings of the Cuban exiles and what support they had received from the United States or any i-.ntral American reoubllcs. The Communist bloc and a few others made bitter critt clsms of the United States. But tha eeneral mood Of most of the delegates was to evniri rritiriam 01 tne uniiea States and to try to agree upon mild resolution intro duced by seven Latin Ameri can nations reminding United Nations members of their ob- western defensive system lay in his purpose to bring the old French' leader into a closer relationship' with the rest of the West But only days ago it bad appeared very doubtful that much could come of a Kennedy mission to a Paris in chaos. ' It had even been distinctly possible that the mission could not be under taken at all. But now, this nightmare, aV least, has been lifted. And surely the morale of all the West has been lifted, too; beyond doubt this is true in Washington. For De Gaulle has given to all the West a memorable lesson. When his senior officers mutinied in Algeria, ho inn faced a cruelly dangerous di lemma, should he, act with ruthless force, though for all he knew then to act might be to bring shooting to his coun try - and also that ha mloht fail anyhow and so bring a clamor of criticism and second-guessing upon his own neaur Or should he wait, and tem porize, and negotiate? The generalissimo did not hesi tate. He acted, and he never looked back. ' MR. Kennedy in spirit had u.,c umi-ij uie same in his own dilemma. He had to decide whether tn sfrnnsla the counter-revolutionary ac tion or me smi-caatro Cu bans, which seemed then in fair prospect of success, or tn let it go on. He let it go on. Ana u aid not work. His command decision, therefore, earned the cold re ward of failure. De Gaulle's, however, has won the warm reward of success. So the free world has lost on one front, but won on another. Thus it would appear, su perficially, that the Jutt use of power is justified by suc cess but is condemnor! whan it falls. All the same, the central lesson of De Gaulle stands like a rock of truth above all thie rririn , quibbling. It has been put in a Drier sentence by Max Freedman of the Manchester (England) Ouarlun In Mi-nll. Ing a quotation from the philosopher Pascal: "Force and right rule this world; force until the right is resdy." Laotian at. - ' surprise I SSiif Imt Vttp aeve rw Soviet letter says personal contact between East - West leaders Is urgently necessary, East uerman diplomats re ported. . V. " OaUskeU Reversal ' British Labor Party leader Hugh GaitskeU has suffered another rebuff in his attempt to get his party to renounce its official position demanding unilateral disarmament for Great Britain. He had railed heavily on leadership of the million-member Amalgamated Engineers Union to lead the way for him but lost out at the union's annual conference. : ligation to settle their disputes by peaceful means and urging all members "to take such peaceful action as is open to them to remove existing ten sion." . We must face the fact, how ever, that in the Cuban matter the United States was on the defensive. Let me say that the value of the United Nations has never been better demon strated than in the confusing situation of the last few days. It was very healthy to have the Cuban Situation aired in the General Assembly. If the confusing events had taken place In a world of anarchy, much greater fear and Suspi cion would have gripped the world. In the United Nations one feels that in debate, often ill-tempered and where Issues are grossly exaggerated, the searchlight of truth helps. Draws Conclusions There are several conclu sions that I should like to draw. One Is that the dire pre dictions that the United States would be hopelessly outvoted and could not hold its own in an Assembly where so many new states have been admitted have not been realized. The positions of the United States were maintained quite well. I firmly believe that where United States polices are right and clearly expressed and as long s it treats all nations with equal dignity and respect the United States will find that it will hold its own very well in the growing Assembly. I should also like to point out what I believe is a grow ing sense of responsibility on the part of many of the Unit ed Nations members. . There was a realization of the world catastrophe that would result if the Congolese operation was permitted to fail. We must remember that there are ninety-nine members of the United Nations with varying backgrounds and degrees of sophistication. But in the col lective action and reaction of many nations, a sense of re sponsibility is growing. Third, the Soviet Union was less effective in its attack on the Secretary-General than in the sessions of the Assembly last fall. In an Important reso lution passed on the Congo, there was this phrase refer ring to the General Assembly: "Considers it essential that necessary and effective meas ures be taken by the Secre tary General immediately to prevent the introduction of arms, military equipment and supplies Into the Congo, ex cept In conformity with the resolution of the United Na tions . . . " The Communist bloc wished to strike out the reference to the Secretary General. On roll call vote they were defeated by eighty-three votes for referring to the Secretary-General and only elev en against, with five absten tions. Those voting for the deletion of the reference to the Secretary General were principally the Soviet bloc states. Enhanced Position Fourth, the United States enhanced its position of lead ership by voting in sympathy with the new states against the colonial system in the An gola dispute. And finally, In the three great crises confronting the world at the present time Laos, Cuba and the Congo- it is noticeable that the one issue in which progress now seems to be made Is in the is sue before the United Nations the Congo. Here the collec tive will of many nations pssses judgment based on UN principles. There ara those who some times talk about the cumber some machinery of the United Nations, the irresponsibility of some of its members, and the length of Assembly debates. The fact remains, however, that unilateral or bilateral ac tion has little to recommend it In comparison. The slutation In CuWa is se rious and Communist penetra tion there is dsngerous. It is of the greatest importance that the United States main tain Its moral position by re solving that any action it takes must be multilateral ac tion consonant with the Char tar and the machlney of the United Nations and the Or ganization of American States.