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Talent and on motor rouwt. r..li and Sunday I mo. 1 SO Carrier and Dealera copy 10c AUjrenruMMnAdvance "Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of JacltiM County, " "United Preu International O.PTejeprNewi picture! t 7' lirlttL.Ulirt!'"'' S AdvertlilM RenVeaentatlve: t WEST muuai iu flcea In New York, Chlcato. De trolt. San rranclaco. Lm Ansalea, Seattle. Portland. St touii. At- lOML rO (LIS HiS VjiASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAL aaaslBi Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hiitory from the fllei of The Mall Tribune 0, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. : 10 YEAR8 AGO May 9, 1951 (Wednesdar) Eleven youths, ranging in age from 13 to 17, were ar rested by city and county po lice during the week end and accused of crimes varying from car theft to petty thiev ery. Alf Mekvold took over hii duties as the new county school superintendent today. 20 YEARS AGO Mar 9, 1941 (Friday) Official word was awaited eagerly here today regarding a proposed army cantonment ' In the Antelope area. : From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: . "The rumor situation has calmed down a bit, until there Is only maior general behind every fence post as far north as the Umpqua divide." 90 YEARS AGO Mar 1931 (Saturday) The city council is con sidering the necessity for a new sewage disposal plant, and is planning a $200,000 bond issue to finance It. The Medford High school debating team has won the state championship, . 40 YEARS AGO Mar M1 (Mender) The city has hired a care taker for the municipal camp grounds at $50 month A revival here la attract ing record crowds. SO YEARS AGO Ma 9. 1911 (Tuesday) The city of Ashland has filed suit to compel the Rogue River Light and Power com pany to furnish the city with power. The Mexical civil war is still raging; U. S. troops are poised at the border. WhitYYcsr I.Q.? Nine or tea) eorreel h Maorio'i even er eleht h excellent; five er ai it feed. 1. In which state is Notre Dame University? 2. Does a spider have six or eight legs? 3. Is the planet Neptune larger or smaller than the earth? t , : 4. By presidential proclanv ation, what date In October is set for the observance of Unit ed Nations Day? S. The low portion of South America extends farther south than does the lower portion of Africa; true or false? 6. A young deer Is called f ? i ;, ' 7. Who was Secretary , of State when the U.S. declared war on the Axis powers? 8. Which state In the Union Is located nearest to the North Pole? 9. Ambergris Is obtained from amber, whales, or musk oxen? 10. What were the colors of the unfiorms worn by the Federal and Confederate sol diers during the Wsr between the States? Answers! 1. Indiana. 2. Eight. 1 Larger. 4. Oct. 24, 9. Tru, 8. Fawn. 1. Cordell HulL 9. Mlaaeteta. 9. Whales. 10. redtral bluei Confederate -gray. LIZ TAYLOR OKAY . Hollywood -WTO- Elisabeth Taylor was reported recover ing satisfactorily today from a brief fever which caused her husband singer Eddie Fisher, to cancel his part In a major Hollywood charity affair. TUESDAY. MAY I. 1981 Day of the The plans, now well nrt nencopters to wont on an experiment m t i 5 t-ii. 1-l i: J .tl,' aenai logging, are coin lmeieaung mm oignui' cant, Some of the details will be found else- where in today's paper, rettorted oreviouslv. The idea is not around as a possibility tical helicopter was developed. But it was always way off in the future. Now, due to the energy and determination of Medford's Glenn Jackson, the forest'service, defense department, and the Sikorsky Helicopter company are in agreement on a plan tor experi ment and development. 1 IT BEGAN during a between Jackson and ago, on a hill above Evans creek overlooking a logging operation, during aeement field trio. . - This resulted in a series of discussions, both here and in Washington, with various individuals and agencies at interest, and the results were first announced by Sen. Wayne Morse in a Sen ate speech a couple of weeks ago. In his speech, Senator Morse pointed out many of the advantages successful, and the use proves practical in woody, hilly country. THE advantages would be many. Thev include fire control (both direct by wa- ter or chemical "bombing" and in the rapid trans portation of men and equipment) ; in control of erosion, in protection of young growing stock, in esthetics, and, not least, in utilization of forest products which now go to waste because it is not economical to haul them out of the woods. Maybe the day of the legendary skyhook is actually near at hand. E.A. Succumbing to Pressures The current session seems to be in its closing hours as this is written (but which may drag on several more days), is, we believe, the most susceptible to pressure and influence of any we recall observing. There have been manv examples of this, but one of them most flagrant has been the way it kow-towed to Portland a ii ... . i i . i lion oi tne state to ODserve aayiigm saving time, 1. , ll 1 fl j J A J 1 wnue tne rest oi it, oy law, remains on stanaara tune '; What a farce! What . . e THE Daily Aetorian suspects that "popular de- , mana may iorce tne '.' j .at special session to correct their egregious error after the bemused and bewildered citizens nave 'endured this current nonsense for a short time." The Salem Capital Journal hopes that the legislature, "before it dashes oil in ao directions, would reverse itself on its time ruling. Or give us all daylight time, Greenwich Mean Time or Far East Standard Time anything, just so it s uniform within the state." And the Portland Reporter (which hasn't suc cumbed to the nonsense largely perpetrated by the Oregonian), points out, ,YWe had a majority in the state deciding we wouldn't have DST. Now we turn around and let the minority do what it pleases. Keep this up and we'll have two presi dents one of these days." -....- e JUST for the fun of it, we checked back on last November's DST election returns. Throughout the state, the vote was 893,652 against, 357,499 for DST. This isn't an over whelming margin, to be sure. But it is the au thentic vote of the majority, and the legislature has no business reversing it for part of the state. Only five counties Benton, Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington voted for DST. and only in Multnomah margin substantial. To cap it all, the counties which were allow ed to go to DST are not all the same ones which voted for it. 1 How on earth can the legislature justify this asininity? E.A. Forest The Oregon Grace (Berberis aauifolium) was desginated as the Oregon Now it s a nice little modest sort of way with its green, shiny leaves and 8maU, ragged yellow blossoms. I But on a dav in Mav when the dotrwood is in bloom in the tall forests of Oregon, one thinks that, if a state must have a flower at all, Oregon might well have thus honored the dogwood. The stately conifers of western Oregon really need no embellishment. But twice a year they are delightfully enhancedin the fall by the exquis ite colors of the vine maple; in the spring by the gay white blooms of the dogwood. E.A. Measures Signed By Gov. Hattnld . Salem -flJrD- Signed by the governor Monday; EB2S4 Indebtedness. 8B268 Court suthorlty In divorce, smiulment or separ ation. HB1 138 Mining leases HB1838 Boat operations. HB207S.2 100 Secretary of state, penitentiary budgets. Sky Hook advanced, to put high- and others have been new. It has been kicked ever since the first prac half - joking conversation this writer about a year a bureau of land man If the experiments are of a high-lift 'copter of the legislature, which interests to permit a por- ji it j. ; i.f - a mess I ' j L i. . lawmakers dck into and Washington was the Colors state flower in 1899. flower, attractive in a Kennedy's Platform Hank Goes To rih Dublin - HPS - A plank of President Kennedy's platform rested In Ireland today at the home of his ancestors. Kennedy sent One of the planks from his Inauguration platform to County Wexford in Ireland. Irish Airlines hos tess Macjorie Ryan delivered it here.T Dennis the Menace 'I'M WNfi T06 Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although .under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the sight 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 paperi in fact the contrary is often the case. : ' ' The Measure of Man . To the Editor: Enjoyable it Is for the favored one to bask in the bright light of success. tinged though it may be with luck. But the measure of man or woman is in defeat, If defeat it be. That great inventor, Thomas Edison, lent graphic understanding to it when he remarked to a female admir er, "Madam, my knowledge is not from the few successes I have been lucky enough to attain. It is, in 5,000 blankety- blank good ideas that just wouldn't work." Today we are disturbed wit nesses to one of those ideas that just wouldn't work. It concerns our youthful but equally s it c e r e President John Kennedy. The attempted return of refugee Cubans to their homeland, and attending disaster, is not a failure in the full sense of the word. For it does unmask the evil schem ing of Dictator Castro and his master, the Soviet of Russia, briefing up just what their intentions are, plainly for all to see, even their deluded pinkos and fellow-travelers here in the U.S.A. But the one bright opening in the clouded issue Is the way our President measures up to the occasion. The way he fair ly but also firmly censures those who would blame others for what happened, though it does appear to be much the fault of our CIA and its so opinionated leader, Allen Dul les. ' Neither docs Kennedy ap pear to take that handy out by way of what he did inherit from the Eisenhower admin istration. He is wise doing so, for he k n e w full well just what he was inviting himself Into, so well high-lighted by Joe Alsop In his Tuesday MT column. Still more revealing is "Where U.S. Went Wrong in Cuba," U.S. News and World Report, May 8. It shows a most graphic picture of then Vice President Richard Nixon in his three hour grilling of Castro in his "goodwill" visit to the U.S.A. From it, Nixon reported to Ebenhower and his cabinet that he found Cas tro a willing captive of the Kremlin and all that goes with it. Unfortunately, our CIA and others held to the wishful theory of "saving Castro" that President Kennedy Is manful ly trying to deal with today. And we're both still alive and normal, we hope, after listening in on the astronaut blastoff, for all the world to know and judge, so different from the dark secrecy of Rus sia. Congratulations, Presi dent Kennedy. Old Glory is flying out front. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point. 3. B. Matthews To the Editor: Honest de bate of public issues can be profitable. However, when an opponent refuses to give due consideration to factual evi dence submitted and, worse, chooses to indulge in person alities to cover up his own paucity of proved evidence or valid argumenU, the discus sion ceases to have meaning or value to Die participants or the reading public. Therefore, I wish to terminate my cor respondence with Robert Howard, courtesy of your par;es, with just a few com ments on his latest letter (MT 57). I leave to others to Judge it my earlier documented evi dence "exposes (my) almost complete desertion of common sense" as he claimed, As for Bob's desire to "fill in some of (my) intellectual void" by reference to J. B. Matthews, tblU Ja McCarthy's equal- SNUSASA 6USJ ly unscrupulous defamer of the Protestant clergy, I need cite only the following record. After the hearings before the H.U.A.C. in 1953, demand ed by-Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam to refute the wild and unsubstantiated charges against him and Prot estant leaders generally, the bishop was hailed by the country's press as a defender of our basic freedoms. Said the Louisville Courier-Jour nal: "Committee members ... , were revealed as grossly inac curate ' slanderers." And de clared the Detroit Free Press: "This spirited and patriotic fight of Bishop Oxnam . . should strike home to every one the basic un-Americanism of conviction by hearsay, of character assassination . . ." In his syndicated column, "Washington Calling," Mar quis Childs reported from Washington on July 22, 1953 that on J. B. Matthews' list of Protestant "fellow - travelers, espionage agents, party-adherents, and unwitting dupes" were Old Testament prophets, churohmen long dead, and "clergy" not found, on the of ficial rosters of tne cnurcnes with which they allegedly had been affiliated. The Christian Century of the same date reported that "there should be reassurance in the dramatic sequence of events which brought to such a spectacular end the 17-day career of J. B. Matthews as McCarthy's hatchet-man in the operation of the investi gating committee." A major ity of the H.U.A.C. voted to dismiss Matthews! And to top It off, President Eisenhower Issued his blast against Mat thews' defamation of the lead ership of the Protestant churches which I quoted in my letter in the MT of 430. And last week's verdict of "Not Guilty" in the trial of an alleged student leader of last year's disturbances at San Francisco's city nan inrows the film, "Operation Aboli tion," Into a cocked hat. Arnold Eugene Jenny, Rogue Valley Manor, Medford. You Figure It Out To the Editor: Will Russia start a third world war? No slrree. The first shot fired will be by some country other than Russia. From the point of view of the Soviet colossus, it is right, and advantageous that a de mocracy like the United States be goaded to the breaking pblnt. Russia, China, with their satellites, do not fear us. They believe themselves to be the stronger, ' and would not suffer nightmares at the thought that millions of hu man beings would lose their lives. How are we to combat such a society and such a coalition? You figure it out. David Frlsch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Cougars DO Scream To the Editor: For the bene fit of those who were wond ering if cougars really do scream I am writing this let ter to you, as I can answer this question. Yes they do scream) I have heard and seen one screaming. Also my fathers, Mr. C. H. Peyton, at McCloud, Ore., in the year of 1932 where we lived at this time. My father was at the barn some distance trom the house, with a sawdust pile between, at dusk when we first heard the spine chilling scream that made our hair seom to stand on end. We could see the big cat from the kitchen window. He opened his great jaws and let out two horrible screams that sent the hounds Into their houses with their tails tucked MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDrOHD, OREGON Evidence Shows Russia Hasn't Forgotten It's No. 1 By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Despite its preoccupation with Laos, Cuba and the May Day demonstration of Soviet military ana scientific ex cellence, the U.S.S.R. also has shown it has not for gotten its No. 1 problem -Germany. The evidence came In a for mal warning to Great Britain of the "pos sible consequences" of grant ing bases in the British Isles to forces of West Germany. The sharp Soviet warning demonstrated the versatility of Nikita Khrushchev's for eign policy In that it follow ed by less than 48 hours Soviet-British agreement on a Joint peace effort In Laos. A Soviet note accused Bri tain of supporting West Ger- between their legs, whimper ing . with fear. My father heard the hungry ' cat and came out of the barn with his 30-30 rifle in hand. He took aim, then fired at the cougar, wounding him, but he got away before he could fin ish him off, though he later tracked down and killed him. Yes, we have heard the cougars screaming many times during our residence at Mc Cloud. They sound like a hu man in excruciating pain and send darts of fear shooting Into the hearts of those who have had occasion to hear one screaming, I'm sure. Thank you for the oppor tunity of writing this educa tional fact. ' Mrs. Juanita Homsby 312 West Elm St., Falrbony, 111. ' The General To' the Editor: In Drew Pearson's column on Satur day, May 8, 1961, it is shown that the bungling in the re cent Cuban fiasco began long before President Ken nedy took office. The C.I.A. under Ike began hiring and recruiting refugee Cuban sea men. They even hired Amer ican merchant ships and orunKen snippers. This was long before Jack Kennedy was even elected to the Presi dency. ' I don't know who this Cen tral Intelligence Agency con sists of, but I'll bet two bits that President Ike knew who they were and what they were doing. According to Drew Pear son s report they had two flag ships and two separate commanders, but as I see it, I find only one. (I'll whisper his name to you only) SHhh He was GENERAL 100 proof ALUUHUL Jr. Malemute Slim White City, Ore, Wsr and Humanity To the Editor: The edito rial headed "Battle of the Giants" in last Thursday's Tribune is a modern version of the old maximum of a "vicious circle;" a method of wits to attain their ends. Probably without the aggres siveness of the human ele ment, all warring, including industrial, economic, person nel and greediness, the hu man race would be a much different society of creatures. Most of the elder genera tion have read some of the books written by the - late authors Jack London and Sin clair Lewis, giving the real answer for age old question, "Warl What for?" Even the natural elements we breathe, we are told by scientists, are not always in a stable en vironment but are eternally striving to find a state of enduring perfection. War is considered sin, re gardless of its purpose. According to Judges, 8:-20, James Moffit version, the stars In heaven were fight ing sisters from their spheres. War is a means of destruction. Bert Kissinger, S20 Boardman st Medford. Dan Smoot Approves To the Editor: On the whole I have found the members of the John Birch Society God fearing, Christian people who love their country as our fore fathers must have loved it. The foremost objective of this organization is to save our beautiful country from the communist slavery which at this moment is creeping ovct it. But their program also in volves everything concerning the returning of this nation to a Constitutional government. This means giving back to our citizens the rights, liberties, and freedoms which they have Problem - - The German man elements seeking revenge against Russia for Germany's defeat in World Word II, and said such a policy would lead only to "the continuation of the arms race and the sharp ening of tension and suspicion between states." Germany, in the front line of Western defenses against Matter of Fact jo..Ph ai.op (c) Naw York Herald Trtbuna Byndlcaf "THE GOVERNMENT WAS TOO HARSH" Some weeks ago, after studying the underground war in South Vietnam, this reporter passed a week in Hong Korg collecting- tht best available evidence -the evidence of recant refu gees - about the mysterious evolution of Communist China, The resulting reports from Hong Kong were pushed aside, however, by the pressure of events in Cuba and Algeria. Yet the Hong Kong evi dence is not merelr sensa tionally horrible. More sig nificantly, this evidence in dicates the clear possibili ty of an internal explosion which could deitroy or rad ically alter the Chinese Communist government. Hence the Hong Kong series saems worthy of belated publication. This is the first in the series. Hong Kong The articles which begin herewith mainly concern a crime almost past i m a g i n ing, which is be ing perpetrat ed upon - the Chinese mass es by their Comm u n i s t masters. In the simplest moral terms, the Chinese people are now being of Alloy fered as a blood sacrifice on the altar of the new Mammon of our times, industrial pow er. . But in hard political terms, the chief interest of this crime lies in the enormous politi cal risks which it Involves. For the sake of forced indus trialization, the Communist masters of China are now gambling their regime's fu ture. Although this view will seem widly eccentric to the more fashionable analysts, it is quite possible that the Com munists will lose their gam ble. Oddly enough, the best proof that this view is not eccentric is to be found in the following passages from the official Communist "Out line History of China." 1 "In the year 209 B. C. a group of 900 conscripts on their way to the frontier for already lost; and giving back to our sovereign states all states' rights which the Fed eral government has uncon stitutionally usurped; and the returning to our Federal gov ernment 100 per cent sover eignty over all things whatso ever upon which the United Nations has infringed. Khrushchev has said, "We will bury you." The John Birch Society is going to do everything in its power to see that this bloody butcher and mass murderer and his One World Government, which has already sunk Its cruel talons deep into America, does not succeed in carrying out his orutai tnreat. Dan Smoot, in his April 24, 1961, Report has given a h e a rt y , spine-tingling ap proval of JBS. He says, "I am FOR the John Birch Society, Thomas Jefferson would have been for the John Birch So ciety, too." mere are already many hundreds - of the ablest and most highly regarded patri otic leaders in America who -despite all the tremendous work of other groups-be lieve that the John Birch So ciety now offers the one lr::, best hope of saving our coun try and civilization from com munist-destruction. And the communists believe it even more firmly, you can be sure. The way the . communist newspapers of America leap ed to obey Khrushchev's or ders to destroy the anti-com munist groups in the U.S., by spearneaaing tne attack on the John Birch Society as the No. 1 target, is definite proof of that. And the "liberal" writers of the American press, like wolves who have caught the scent of blood, joined in the most savage attack ever made on a minority group of pa triots in the history of jour nalism. Could it be that they naa pressure put on them from sinister source? Were they following orders, too? Thank God the Society weathered the storm and came through, battle scarred, but more bravely dedicated to the fight for freedom than ever before. 5f 1 L. C. Powell 316 S.E. Eighth st Grants Pass, Ore. expanding communism and a full member of NATO, is hard pressed for training areas for her growing army and air force. NATO allies, Including France, have been figuring ways to give West Germany military bases, rocket testing grounds, training camps for guard duties . . .. killed the officer in command and re volted . . . These were the first to raise the cry for the overthrow of the Chin em pire. . . i "In less than a month their army had grown to more than 1000 cavalry and several tens of thousands of infantry and owned some 700 war chariots. Inspired by their uprising, peasants all over the country took up arms." THE official history goes on to describe how the pow er of the Chin empire ef fectively collapsed, almost within a matter of weeks, aft er this sudden, desperate strike in a chain gang of wretched peasant conscripts. As explanation for this as tonishing collapse, the offi cial history also approvingly quotes an ancient author, as follows: "The more powerful the armies of Chin grew, - the more its enemies multiplied. The government was too harsh towards the people and punishment was too severe." The lessons of the past are supposed to be utterly out moded nowadays. Yet any one who reflects upon, the real meaning of the foregoing quotations will undestand why the crime the Chinese Communists are now perpe trating is also a perilous gam ble. It is a gamble in their own terms, moreover. The harshness of the Chin govern ment towards the people was as nothing it was the mere est milk and water stuff -compared with the present harshness of the Chinese Com munists. '.. A SSUMING the harshness " ei a fact for the mom ent, what are the other reas ons why the foregoing quo tations have so much current meaning? The first and sim plest reason Is the inherent proof that even the most awe insirini? facade of monolithic authority can be remarkably aecepiive. The Chin government was founded by a ruthlessly to talitarian power originally Dasea in northwestern China. This state of Chin owed its strength to the iron program of the world's first Stalinist, Shang Wei-Yang. The Chin empire was Stalinist in char acter over two millenla before Stalin. The Chin conquest of the rest of China, completed only 12 years before Chin's sudden downfall, not merely produced the first phase of the historic, long enduring imnese empire, it also pro- aucea tne most powerful sin gle government ever found ed in any part of the world, the whole long period since the first man-ape had first used a rock as an offensive weapon. Such was the state which came to an end be cause of a strike in a chain gang. . THIS gigantic police state of thp nasi ttnlH )-,., Great Wall of China to euarrl against external enemies. But the remedy was probably worse man the disease, be cause of the internal enem ies created by the remorse less conscription of countless labor gangs to build the wall. The enemies who "multi- piled" were certainly inter. nal. They were the Chinese people. And China really fell becau.j of the first of those sv.'.tfen, unpredictable, over whelming general strikes, for wnicn me uninese people have a curious knack, as meir later History Droves The key to the success of the rising against China is also to be found in the quota tions irom tne official Com, munist "Outline History." The Chinese peasantry in 209 B.C. couia not muster the cavalry and war chariotry mentioned above, any more than the toiling masses in the Commu nists' peasant communes pos sess armored cars and tanks today. In fact, the Chin arm. les, being peasant armies, Joined the peasant rising. Without this, the rising would have been quickly crushed. With this, the rising was ir resistablc, and so will a mod ern rising be irresistable, if ii occurs ana rail es th armed forces. The real Question. In mm Is not whether the Chinese Communist government can be brought down bv the nM. pie. The real Question i whether the conditions exist in which the driven to brin down th government. Issue tanks and supply bases. The British offer of bases was part of that move. Russia charged that Bri. tain "Is linking the fat? of her country with the mili. tarlst and revenge-seeking circles of Western Garmany and with their aspirations." The protest led to a sus picion that Khrushchev is about to return to his favor ite subject. Berlin and a sep arate peace treaty for Com munist East Germany. Of all the people on earth, It Is probable that the Rus sians fear the Germans most, not only for their technical skill but for their amazing energies and recuperative powers. The Russians fear that the Germany which was levelled in 1945 and has rebounded to become the most prosper ous nation in Europe also eventually will resume her drive for living space in the East. . - That the Soviet' Union's own aggressive policies in be half of expanding commu nism has forced Allied sup port of German rearmament does not enter ln(o Soviet considerations. Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (e) General Featurea Corp. FREE TRADE ESSENTIAL Those silly "Buy American" stickers are back on the bumpersof a good many auto. mo ones mesa days. I recent ly saw a sign on one car that read: "Unem p 1 o y- SMl.-N ' ment - Made Vy'ST"'1 1 in Japan." If anything encourag i n g has happened in world af fairs in the last 30, years it has been the increase of free trade among a 1 1 nations throughout the world. Trade between countries today is at a higher level than' ever be fore in history. , "Buy American" is one of those slogans that sounds lm presslve and patriotic and sensible - until, you examine the fallacies on which it rests. For one thing, we made al most 20 billions in exports last - ear," while paying less than IS billions for Imports. - This five billion dollar ex cess in our favor would not have been at all possible if we had not purchased goods from abroad. If we tighten up our quotas and restrictions, foreign nations will do the same, and nobody will' benefit in the long run. As for "unemployment," that is caused by the Importa tion of cheap foreign goods. There would be just as much, if not more, unemployment caused by our shrinking ex port industiy. I know these facts are dull, but we must be willing to endure dull facts to gain understanding. Quite apart from the eco nomic aspects of the problem. It is psychologically desirable that we trade freely with oth er countries. We cannot co operate on the political, mili tary and cultural levels if we refuse to compete on the open market. One test of our hon esty and friendliness in inter national relations is our will ingness to buy and sell with out "protecting" our own do mestic producers. Besides, unemployment is rarely caused by a flood of low-priced imports; rather, it is much more likely in a country which does hot have goods to export, or cannot find foreign markets for its products. So long as our pro ductivity remains high, our unemployment problem can be solved by domestic meas ures. One argument of the "Buy American" people Is the for eign, labor Is so cheap, by our standards, that our own in dustries cannot compete while paying relatively high wages. uut we have other advantages to exploit: better and newer machinery, improved produc tion methods, and marketing techniques. If foreign coun tries didn't have cheaper labor, it would be utterly im possible for them to compete in world markets. The anti-foreign feeling ex pressed In the bumper stickers is a regression to our national provincialism of the early twentieth century. In the 1960s, it is impossible that anyone can think he believe in a free world if he denies the necessity of free trade. School Superintendent Appointment Cleared Salem - (ITD - A bill making the superintendent of public instruction snnnlntive by the board of education Instead of elected was approved by the Senate Monday. It went to the governor. 'A
