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nd 50 vein ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Mar 18. 1951 (Tuesday)
The state highway depart
ment has resumed the task or,
. clearing snow from the mgn
way to Diamond lake.
Reoubllcan groups will wel-
come home Jackson county's
legislative delegation Thurs
day at a dinner. i
SO YEARS AGO
Mar IS. 1941 (Thunder)
Plans and specifications for
a large Army base for Med
ford were being prepared to
day by architects from Ban
Francisco and Los Angeles.
.From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Clark
Oable of the movie, et ux, and
friends Indulged in piscatorial
pursuits In the Rogue the first
of the week. The fish didn't
bite -any better than for the
local masses and classes.
30 YEARS AGO
Mar IS. 1131 (Friday)
Approximately 1,200 school
children marcnea in me annu
al Health day parade here.
The Southern Pacific rail
road has announced a cut in
freight rates for fruit shipped
from the Rogue valley.
i ' 1 ,
40 YEARS AGO
Mar is, 1131 (Sunday)
' Local churches today will
ho?d the first In a series of
complimentary luncheons for
tLe city's business women.
Two flight lieutenants, who
are to fly forest fire patrols
this summer, arrived here to
day. . , '
SO YEARS AGO
Maris, 1911 (Monday)
The Medford post office has
been authorised to open postal
savings accounts. -
A large number oi gold
strikes have been reported in
various parts of southern Ore
gon recemty.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine ei ton correct It suMrle'l
even or eight h excellent! (Its er
l It geed.
me the aviator wlv
flew the "Spirit of St. Louis."
2. What is the largest car
nivorous animal on earth to
day?, i
-3. When major sports
events are televised, only one
camera la used; true or false?
4. Name the former profes-
slonjl football player who was
nicknamed "The Galloping
Ghost."
S. Was the Irish Free State
. (Eire) neutral during World
WarrJI? ,
fl. -Victor Herbert was the
composer of the fsmous "Mer
ry Widow Walts"; true or
false?
7. A gross Is twelve dozen;
how many dozen is a great
' gross?
8. Can alien residents of the
U.S. receive retirement bene
fits under Social Security?
0.' Pliny the Elder was kill
ed during the Fall of (what
city)?
lOr The blrthston for Octo
ber ts the ? J
Answersi 1. Charles A.
, Lindbergh. S. Bear. 9. False.
4. "Red" Grange. S. Yts. 6.
False' (Strauss). 7. 144 dozen.
9. Yes. 9. Pompeii. 10. Opal.
APPOINTED
Salem - (WD - Lawrence W.
Rulien of Salem has been ap
pointed assistant division en
gineer In Roseburg, the Ore
gon highway department said
Saturday,
MONDAY. MAY IS. 1961
"Operation Abolition"
In the Communications column today, a reader asks
about a Herblock cartoon printed In the Mall Tribune
last week.
Herbert Block, winner of many cartooning prizes
including the Pulitzer prize, does his work originally
for the Washington (D.C.) Post. It Is also syndicated
to a number of newspapers throughout the country.
Perhaps the best brief explanation of the cartoon
In question is containted in a Washington Post edi
torial, entitled "Fabrication," which discussed the same
Issue. Major excerpts from it follow.
Another major distortion in the film "Opera
tion Abolition" has now been firmly nailed down.
The movie was put together by the House
Committee on Un-American Activities by select
ing and re-arranging film clips taken at the time
of the student riot m San Francisco just a year
ago. It purports to show that the riot was instigat
ed, organized and led by Communists a favorite
theme of the Committee which seems to feel that
all criticism of its own activities is necessarily
Communistic. ' '
In the course of the film, the Committee an
nouncer, or narrator, says:
One student provides the spark that touches off the
violence when he leaps over a barricade, grabs a police
officer's night stick, and begins beating the officer
over the head, .
A GREAT many people have wondered why
"none of the newsreel cameras recorded this
interesting incident and why it was not shown
in the movie. The answer appears to be that the
incident never occurred.
The student accused
was tried before a rury of 12 in San irancisco;
and after hearing all the evidence the jury came
in with a verdict, of acquittal.
In Doint of fact the Committee version of what
nappenea was not supported even Dy tne tesu
mony of prosecution witnesses ... -
m
I ET us try once more to set the record straight.
Students in and around San Francisco en-
firatred in an entirely legitimate political demon
stration against the
mittee, The demonstration got out of hand in
some decree because of
duct and the students
The police, reacting with more, force, than pa
tience, turned fire hoses on them.
The result was a riot. But though some Com
munists may have been among them, and though
the behavior of the Btudents may have been rep
rehensible, communism had no more to do with
the origin of this case than with a .springtime
panty raid on a girls' dormitory or the uprooting
oi a pair oi goal posts
Bad Management
A good deal of throat-clearing has been go
ing on in the electrical manufacturing business
since the big fish, and
as well, of that industry were caught rigging
prices. Corporate images
aged. The electrical manufacturing world's pub
lic relations men have been grappling1 first, to ex
plain away the damning
on large fines and jail
tives, and second, to restore public confidence.
GENERAL Electric Co. ("where progress is our
. most important product'O has come up with a
"study" of its prices through the rigging period
in comparison to prices for other commodities,
It has found other commodities show "striking
similarities? in price levels to GE's electrical
equipment, and also that, considering product im
provements and other factors, the prices for which
GE was punished weren't really out of line.
The rigged prices
other words. ' .
Reallv? Do you mean
the conspiratorial meetings, secret codes, and oth
er trappings of underground price rigging, the
electrical equipment manufacturers were so inept
they came up with prices which weren't over
charges? Rotten management, we'd say. .
Holders of stocks in
firms had better consider
field, where if one is going to be crooked, he 11
at least profit by it! Coos Bay World.
Junk
President Kennedy said, when he appointed a
Los Angeles insuranceman to be postmaster gen
eral, that he hoped the
it takes eierht davs for a
ington to Boston, and do something about it.
While the man is at it we'd like him to find
out why a daily newspaper office gets so much
man that is of absolutely no interest to anybody.
IF YOU become exasperated when you reach in
your mail box and come out with nothing more
interesting than a fistful of junk mail, you
couldn't work in a newspaper office ...
Any business or industry that is worth men
tioning has a public relations man. In order to
justify his salary the guy writes stuff that he
sends to newspapers. The public relations man
knows (and hopes his boss doesn't) that the stuff
never will be printed. No editor possibly could
become so desperate for copy that he'd use the
tripe that he gets from those public relation guys.
JWOST is unpaid advertising. But it wouldn't
" have very good readership. '
.Editors feel that somebody must look at all
the junk mail because there might be something
worthwhile tucked in with all the iunk. But most
of the time it is wasted effort. And the man who
goes through the stuff is in a bad mood when he's
finished. He feels as if he has been insulted to
think that anybody thinks that he would print the
junk. Pendleton East regonian
of assaulting the officer
, 1 IjIii
Un-American Activities Com
the Committee s own con
became noisy and unruly.
at a iootoan game.
some of the smaller fish
have been gravely dam
evidence which brought
sentences for tof execu
weren t overcharges, in
to admit, GE, after all
electrical manufacturing
getting into some other
man would find out why
letter to tret from Wash
Dennis tha Menace
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Communications
Letters to the Editor must
certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible.
The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted tor publication must not
printed in this column do not
contrary Is often' the case.
Why That Cartoon
To the Editor: I noticed
your cartoon on the front page
of Monday's Medford Mail
Tribune concerning the award
of a "Fishy Trophy" for the
movie on "Operation Aboli
tion."
If my analysis of your m
tlve for publishing this car
toon is correct, I take it that
you are either in sympathy
with communistic agitation in
this country today, or you are
not fully informed as to what
this movie "Operation Aboli
tion" was about.
As an American citizen and
an Oregon taxpayer and a vet
eran of World War II, I re
quest that you print in your
paper your reasons for pub
lishing this cartoon. I just
don't see the point in it at all.
If I have, misinterpreted the
meaning of this cartoon, I of
fer my apology now as to your
motives. If my analysis is cor
rect, I feel that you are obli
gated to the readers of the
Mall Tribune to state your rea
sons for publishing this smear
ing cartoon. By smearing I
mean smearing those Ameri
can citizens who are trying to
put before the public evidence
of how the communist move
ment is working in the educa
tional levels of our country
and working to undermine
our morale as a republic and
our American way of life.
I would appreciate, your
publishing this letter and your
answer to same as soon as
possible.
Howard Commons
. 8302 Downing rd.
' ' Central Point, Ore. f
Editor's note: See comment
in editorial columns. -
Full of Lore I
To the Editor: Recently
Gold Hill has come in for
some adverse publicity in the
Communications column and
elsewhere. Some of this may
be justified. But I would like
to take this means to tell what
a wonderful group of people
I have found there. I am go
ing into my 80th year and
have seen some of the world,
although I have spent a good
many years in Gold Hill.
During my illness this
spring I have fully appreciat
ed the warm-hearted, generous
people In Gold Hill. My neigh
bors and friends have done so
much for me that I would like
to thank them all in this way.
Particularly the members of
the Grange in Gold Hill have
been most thoughtful.
Perhaps the air Is full of
cement dust and the water
full of dirt, but we old timers
don't notice it because the
hearts of the people are full
of love.
' Mrs. Llllie MacKay
, , 3873 David dr.
' North Highlands, Calif.
Brothers' Keepers
To the Editor: Well, it looks
like daylight saving time is
headed our way. I have my
own personal conviction over
the matter but see no reason
for getting angry if they set
the clocks up. I do think that
the city boys, "professional
and business" as a Portland
paper put It, could go to work
an hour earlier and close
shop earlier without trying
to force the cows to come in
to be milked earlier. I've al
ways thought that if a person
gets up at an early hour and
retired early that he'd be bet
tor off.
Yours truly Has been doing
chores lately for a neighbor
who was In a accident. If the
milk truck xomea an hour
earlier, the driver can help
me milk or can wait tor sour
milk the next a.m.
Sometimes I wonder who
the professional and business
men really are? H seems now
day that when you move Into
town, hang out your shingle,
and start a business that you
aii - ma no tub kinam
bear the name and address of
necessarily represent the views of the paper in tact the
voice is heard above and be
fore the fellow who feeds you
in the country.
Some of these bulsness and
professional people seem to
be braver than Jessie James,
He at least used a gun. Yours
truly walked into a certain
place not long ago. Needed a
few nails. The lumber yard
was closed. The sign read
25c a lb. I walked out, wait
ed till the next day and
bought my nails for 16c. Re
cently Investigators found
some 1800 per cent profit on
items on California druggists'
shelves. More recently the
writers' daughter required
some stlches on a torn lip.
I still tremble when I think
of the bill. In fact it scared
a relative into using adhesive
tape to close a severe cut the
other day. It healed beauti
fully, too, without the aid
of any shots either. Why is
it that some people feel they
have to require the public to
keep paying over and over for
their professional education?
Sometimes, the tramp with
the pack on his back is look
ed down on. Some of those
who look down on him might
be surprised to know that in
God's sight they themselves
could be worse off.
Maybe we robbed that In
dividual by withholding wag
es or by selling him a prod
uct that robbed him of his
manhood. Yes, we are our
brothers'- keeper.
Henry Johnson, Jr.
2315 Highway 66,
Ashland, Ore.
DST Mess '
To the Editor: So far as
juggling of the DST (New
Deal mess) Is concerned, I am
in sympathy with B. F. Smith
(Friday's letter). This mix-up
of time within the state is
quite evidently ' deliberately
planned to make our people
so disgusted they will vote
next time for the Idiotic
change. '
Mr. Smith wonders if there
is any use in voting on any
measure at all. Well, perhaps
not. But when these same of
ficers come up for re-election,
it might be wise to select a
bit carefully the sort we put
in office.
Jack Flnel
. 3710 Hilslnger rd.
Medford.
Beauties of Shady Cove
To the Editor: In traveling
around these United States
and Canada, I have passed
through and somtimes linger
ed awhile in a good many
small towns. In one way or
another they all have a cer
tain amount of charm, but of
all the towns I have known
Shady Cove, Oregon, is my
favorite.
The very name Itself Is In
viting and then when ap
proaching 'the town from the
south each tree-lined curve
In the road lures you on. Then
when you cross the bridge
over the Rogue river and see
the business section lining ei
ther side of the highway you
feel that here is a town whose
citizens are glad they live
here.
Did you ever look at the
neat white fire station, and
farther up the street, the post
office on the right hand?
Then on the left or west
side of the street have you
noticed the well kept business
places and stores, some with
beds of beautiful flowers in
spaces between the buildings?
Maybe the buildings are not
precise or uniform In size or
type of architecture, but they
are well cared for and above
all are run by friendly peo
ple. '
The homes of Shady Cove
are not pretentious but are
neat and homey. They are set
among the trees In "Oregon
Green" lawns and almost ev
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Foreign News: Laos Conference May Take
In Other Areas; Red Burma Theat Seen
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from the foreign news
cables:
Communist Taetics
The Reds are expected to
go to work early in Geneva
to widen the scope of the Laos
con ference,
Britain and
t h United
States have
agreed to keep
the c o n f e r
ence limited
to the one
country,
but with
trouble brew
ing in neigh
boring Viet Nam and with the
Communists looking for fresh
hunting grounds, the Geneva
conference might develop Into
a free swinging review of the
entire area.
Contagious
An American official who
lived in Burma for two years
in 1956-97 and recently re
the writer, although under
exceed 400 words. The letters
ery one has Its share of beau
tiful flowers.
Usually a stranger in town
sees the faults, if there are
any, ' without having them
pointed out to him by some
citizen who Is lacking in loy
alty to his community, but
even after reading the com
plaining little note by "Name
on File," I failed to see the
faults. If this is a junky town
there should be more like it.
I can't imagine that anyone
lucky enough to live in Shady
Cove might ever be so blind
to the genuineness and beauty
of the town that he or she
could ever see anything un
lovely about It. Truly, I would
be happy to be homeowner in
this community.
"Homeowner in
Los Angeles"
Mrs. Wayne Conkey
co P. O. Box 62,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Too Far, Too High .
To the Editor: I guess they
must have turned them durn
rockets up-side down like I
suggested. We got 115 miles
into the stratosphere, but we
still got 239.88S to go. Of
course, the first hundred is
the worst. After that, put the
rocket in neutral, coast to
within 100 miles of the moon
and slam on the brakes.
Someone said to me: "You
ain't had no experience with
ruciteie. ja. ie,uii ,xi yuu
wuz sitting on a box of dyna
mite in a grocery store talk
ing on , o chimney telephone
which wuz being struck with
lightning and a window full
of rockets got on fire, and
wuz . whizzing all over the
store, I'd say you had some
experience with rockets.
After this happened to me,
someone said: "BOY! Wuz
you lucky the dynamite didn't
let go and blow you to the
moon." It it had, we'd be S3
years ahead of the Russians.
I wuz! gettin' a little dis
gusted with the planet on
which we live, so I wrote a
letter to a Florida Chamber
of Commerce to see what they
had In outer space. The cheap
est trip they had wuz to the
moon. A ticket to the moon
wuz only one billion five hun
dred million dollars and 98c.
I wuz not that disgusted. May
be that wouldn't bother a
Florldonlan, but it - does an
Oregonian. It's 240,000 miles
to the nearest grocery t.ore.
I'm spending my vacation on
Rogue river; they probably
ain't got no salmon on the
moon anyhow.
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
Public vs. Private Road
To the Editor: In Friday's
issue of the Mail Tribune was
a letter from Perry Wood,
Dark Hollow rd., Medford,
describing the danger from
log trucks on the Butte Falls
road.
It is parUy the very hazards
mentioned by Mr. . Woods
which we along the present
railroad right of way fear
most.
And more than that. Mr.
Woods does not like to meet
log trucks on a public high
way, even when he Is protect
ed by regulations against ex
cessive speed, dust, noise and
unsafe truck conditions. We
along the route, the many
whose children would be af
fected in various ways, and
all who hope to at least hold
the line in keeping this love
ly valley a pleasant place to
live - esch would face a prob
lem Immeasurably worse than
that described in Mr. Wood's
letter.
The trucks which would
travel the 40-mile route from
Butte Falls to Medford would
do so on a PRIVATE narrow
road, surfaced. In the cheap
est way possible, through our
own yards and farms, often
within several feet of our
visited there says Burma also
is slipping into the Chinese
Communist sphere. He said
more and more Chinese Com
munists are moving Into Bur
ma and are wooing Premier
U Nu with, of all things, their
common Buddhist back
grounds. The Communists use
any gambit, whether It be re
Strictly Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
(o) General Features Corp.
PRACTICALITY AND
FASHIONS
A friend stepped into my
sports car the other day, and
his hat was promptly knocked
to the floor,
As he pick
ed it up, he
glanced at
the cap I was
wearing, and
-murmured, "I
get it."
He explain
ed he had al
ways thought
Harris
that the caps
worn by sports car owners
were an affectation, an identi
fying badge of motoring snob
bery. It had simply never oc-
cured to him that the reason
caps were worn was that a
hat was too tall for a low-
slung roadster.
In many similar cases, what
we think of as an idiosyncrasy
or a foppish habit had its ori
gin as a great piece of com
mon sense. Americans laugh
at pictures of Londoners going
to work on sunny mornings
with rolled umbrellas in their
hands; yet, the nicer the morn
ing in London, the more prob
able it will rain by early aft
ernoon, i
-,'
Contrariwise, the broad'
brimmed cowboy hat in the
west is regarded as a form of
exhibitionism by Europeans.
But the hat warded off rain
on the prairies, and was a re
markably effective piece of
headgear In the frequent dust
storms. The banadana, of
course, served a similar pur
pose, although its use has per
sisted as a mere decoration.
The whole history of dress
from the beret down to the
trouser cuff-is one of practi
cality that was much later
transformed Into "fashion." I
am sure that the Napoleonic
trlcorn hat had some function
in Its time, although today It
is regarded as an object of an
tiquated lunacy.
" Getting back to cars, we
find the same practical values
that come to be disguised as
"good taste." Why do the
French, Italians and British
have 1 smaller cars than' the
Americans? Because the price
of gasoline abroad is two to
three times- as high as it is
here. Only the very rich can
afford a gas-eating monster in
Europe; and thus comfort and
power have been sacrificed to
economy. It has nothing to do
with the Inherent better taste
of Europeans.
: Necessity ' and utility ac
count for the overwhelming
majority of our habits, cos
tumes and modes of living and
traveling. Sometimes, of
course, these persist long after
the necessity has vanished,
like the cuffs on men's trous
ers or the buttons on their
Jacket sleeves. Surely these
today are more of an "affecta-
homes and other buildings, in
the immediate area where our
children play, where we rest
and work, and over crossings
passed by our families and
school buses.
These are extra heavy
trucks, carrying twice as
much as an ordinary log
truck, and which can travel
at any speed their drivers
need to meet their schedules.
Our schools are Improving
tremendously, homes are un
der construction, and this part
of the county in general de
pends a great deal on con
tinued, well-planned progress.
Noise, dust and speed are
detriments to any residential
area, but excessive noise, dust
and speed In a rural area,
which has provided pleasant,
quiet living conditions since
before the white man came,
is unthinkable to those of us
who live here. And it ought
to be so to every resident of
the Rogue valleyl
In addition, we have been
dealing with a corporation in
Chicago, more interested In
profits of its stockholders
than it is in Oregon's future.
. Public roads are made to
carry ALL traffic. If they are
Inadequate, there are logical
procedures the people can fol
low to bring them up to stand
ard. The Craier Lake hlRh
way and the Butte Falls high
way have needed improve
ment for a number of years.
Let us hope that by work
ing together, all roads In this
logging country can soon be
come adequate to carry all
log trucks, and all other traf
fic, safely.
Mrs. Burton Jensen,
President, Jackson
, County Home Owners
Protective Association
Eagle Point, Ore.
ligion or guerillas.
Offshore Islands
American briefing officers
In Taipei are prepared to give
Vice President Lyndon B.
Johnson some plain talk about
the offshore islands of Que
moy and Matsu when he vis
its the Nationalist Chinese. In-
tion" than tSe cap worn by
sports car drivers. -
Most of our sense of superi
ority toward the "foolishness"
of foreign cultures would be
removed if we could know the
realistic reasons for their cus
toms. It is always the most
ignorant who laugh the loud
est at alien ways-not suspect
ing that they themselves are
the objects of laughter when
traveling abroad. ,
Washington Report
By William S. Whits
(oi United Fature Syndicate
FOREIGN AID AND
BUSINESS
Washington - The Kennedy
administration has made a
basic decision that its new-ap
p r o a c h for
eign aid pro
gram requires
most of all the
friendly help
of c o n s e r v-
a 1 1 v e s, and
business
man - conserv
atives at that.
So the Pres-
white - iaent ana nis
associates are now doing some
bland and high-level personal
lobbying in a good cause
among corporation owners
and executives. Mr. Kennedy,
in fact, is quietly trying to set
up two pro-foreign aid com
mittees within business and
industry, one of them willing
to support his program public
ly and the 'other willing but
in private only, to do the
same. -
In a curious way the wheel
has turned full circle since the
forerunner of foreign aid, the
Marshall plan, was first pro
posed a decade and a half ago.
What actually pushed the
Marshall plan through Con
gress-opart from the fact that
tha Soviet communists chose
that moment in history to- as
sault Czechoslovakia-was not
the support of foreign policy
experts or even necessarily of
politicians. -
. e .
NOR was it primarily a na
tional desire to extend
charitable help to ravaged Eu
rope, though this motive was
not absent. Most of all it was
simply the careful fostering in
the United States of a recog
nition of enlightened self-interest
among the business and
agricultural communities.
This job of fostering an
awareness that a Europe still
broken would be a very poor
market for American goods
and farm surpluses was done
by a limited and otherwise far
from .pally' partnership be
tween the Truman administra
tion and a private but potent
pro-Marshall plan .committee
of business leaders, publish
ers and so on.
President Kennedy is re
turning to much the same ap
proach in his gathering effort
to save his new foreign aid
program. He is going out of
his way to -disassociate the
thing from politics as sUch.
Most of all he is avoiding iden
tifying it with the Democratic
party. It is no hushed secret
to the President that most
businessmen are not enchant
ed Democrats. And, for his
present purposes, this circum
stance is absolutely all right
with him.
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FOR what he faces here Is
the foutfhpst lclnH nf nrnVi.
lem. He must get $4 billions
Try and
-By BENNETT CERP-
ARICH IOWA FARMER was such a hi-fi enthusiast that
he Insisted on taking some elaborate hi-fi equipment
with him on a European tour. His favorite platter recorded
a variety of railroad
sounds whistles, chuffs
and clangs. He had just
played it full blast in his
stateroom in mid-ocean
when a female voice in
tha next cabin was heard.
"You idiot," screamed
the lady in said cabin.
"My first sea trip to
Europe and you have to
pick out a stateroom next
to a railroad yard!"
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Limerick drp&rtment!
A gallant young blade from Duqucsne
Went home with a girl In the mesne
Said she with a sigh
"I wonder when Igh
Shall see such a rain beau aguesne."
O lttl, by Bennett Cert. Dieuibuted by Kla Features IrsaUeata
formed sources say they will
Impress upon Johnson tha
fears of the Nationalists about
possible changes in American
policy toward the islands. The
officers will tell Johnson that
the islands can be defended
without committing American
troops.
Peace Talks
Both President Charles da
Gaulle and the Algerian rebel
leaders are anxious to avoid
a propaganda war - in tha
peace talks scheduled to be
gin at Evian on May 20.
Therefore, the talks probably
will go into the "expert" stage
almost Immediately, with ai
little publicity as possible.
Moscow Invite
Soviet diplomats In East
Berlin are hinting that Khru
shchev may Invite President
Kennedy to visit' Russia. The
Reds are asking Americana
Informally, "Why does not
Kennedy visit the Soviet Un
ion? Khrushchev has been in
the United States."
for foreign countries from a
Congress already fed up with
some of those countries;
alarmed and confused at the
state of the world, and sick
and tired of what has undeni
ably been a good deal of bunle
in the old foreign aid pro
gram. Worse yet, he is trying to
persuade Congress to give up
its traditional power over tha
purse to the extent of permit
ting him to make foreign aid
commitments running over
several years rather than only
one year at a time.
He has concluded that it is
extremely hard to make a
good political argument for
all this. But there is a perfect
ly sound case for his program
if it be treated as strictly a
business proposition.
For he can truthfully show
that the fundamental revision
of the whole enterprise which
he is asking would be far
more efficient - and far less
wasteful than before. He can
truthfully show, too, that even
apart from the overriding ne
cessity to keep the free world
in economic health for its mili
tary security, American busi
ness itself could not afford tha
world-wide economic convul
sions that would follow any
sudden, withdrawal of foreign
aid.
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CO, SINCE his problem is not
w really soluble through the
ordinary political approach,
he is calling for the business
men to come forward. Though
fully aware that most busi
nessmen probably wish the
President's name were Nixon,
Mr. Kennedy is also aware of
other things about business
men. They can add and subtract
with no difficulty at all. They
know the value of long-term
and carefully thought-out as
distinguished from hasty
short-term investment. And
they go at a banking problem
-which is just about what for
eign aid is now to become
without bothering much about
their private political views or
whether they agree in every
way with the fellow who Is
running the bank.
Policeman Wears
Wife's Clothing
Pittsburgh, Calif. - (DPIU
Ex-construction worker Wil
liam Qulgley, who is now a
rookie policeman, has been
strolling the streets In hi
wife's clothing the past tew
weeks on assignment to end
a wave of purse snatchings.
The assignment ended
Wednesday, when a 16-year-old
grabbed his purse and
was grabbed In return. Tha
youth admitted the series of
thefts and Quigley was able
to shed his disguise.
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