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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.
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