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and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1952 (Wednesday)
Jackson county's budget for
the next fiscal year was ten
tatively agreed to last night
by members of the committee
and county court.
Approximately 100 south
ern Oregon high school stu
dents are expected to visit
Southern Oregon college to
morrow during the annual in
spection program, according
to Dr. John A. Schulz, chair
mun of the activity.
20 YEARS AGO
April 23. 1942 (Thursday)
Yrcka gardener finds can
containing $1,000 in gold and
currency while spading "vic
tory" garden in back yard.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Kmudiic Pot" column: "This
is 'Know Your Neighbor'
week. Willi rationing coming
up you might want to borrow
a cup of sugar from mm.
30 YEARS AGO
April 23, 1932 (Saturday)
Instillation of Jail equip
ment and elevator under way
as new Jackson county court
house nl Main st. and Oakdale
ave. ncars completion.
1 Number of marriages In
Jackson county decreased 6.5
per cent to 570 In 19111, coun
ty clerk reveals. Divorces
riown 10.5 per cent during
year.
40 YEARS AGO
April 23. 1922 (Sunday)
Fifteen cases of smallpox
reported in Thompson Creek
area as epidemic feared.
Former viceprcsident of de
funct Jacksonville bank tried
on charge of making false
report to bank examiners.
SO YEARS AGO
April 23. 1912 (Monday)
William Howard Tad de
clares Theodore Roosevelt
"seeks a dictatorship." be
lieves it would be impossible
to dislodge him from White
House if elected president.
Southern Pacific announces
it will name new station near
ttock Point "Rosey" in nonor
oi A. S. Iloscnbaum, general
manager of the Medford di
vision. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight it etccllent; five or
sis is good.
1. What is the body of wa
Irr lying brtwiv.i Great Bri
tain and Eire?
2. Which musician was
known as the March King?
3. Animals that live on a
meat diet are known as car
nivores, herbivores, or omni-vuro.--?
4. Do the leaves of the clo
ver told up at night?
5. Are the Falkland Islands
in lhe South Pacific or South
Atlantic?
6. niuchor, Mule, Moccasin
Alio nioguc arc hji i.vprs m
what'
7, Which Is the only slate
whose name bears the name ol
its founder?
8. All fleas require blood
of birds or animals in order
lo reproduce; true or false?
0 The White Sands proving
grounds arc located in Ari
zona. New Mexico, or Colo
rado? 111. Is the word scarves or
trails the correct plural form
of SCHrf?
Answers: 1. Ir'sh Sea. 2.
John Philip Sousa. 3, Carni
vores. 4. Yes. 5. South Atlan
tic. 6. Chocs. 7, Pennsylvania.
8. True. 9. New Mexico, 10.
tills ward la,
MONDAY. APRIL 23. 1962
It Isn't
From the current uproar, at least every now
and then, one might suppose that federal aid to
education is a strikingly new idea. The reverse
is true. It goes back to
federal government. It
stitution by four years.
In 1785 the Congress
adopted an ordinance for disposing of govern
ment land "in the Western terrtory" and set
aside one section in each township for the en
dowment of schools. And when Ohio was admit
ted to the union in 1802, Congress began desig
nating land for school support at the time of
admission of each new state.
The first federal institution of higher educa
tion was, of course, the Military Academy at
West Point, established in 1802. The first Morrill
Act in 1862 initiated a policy of aid to states for
agricultural and industrial education through
land grants for colleges, lhe second Morrill Act,
in 1890, made federal money available for college
instruction in specified subjects.
IN 1919 Washington adopted a policy of federal
surplus property disposal to educational insti
tutions. In 1920 it established the Reserve Offi
cers Training Corps in colleges and universities
in almost every corner of the land. In 1937, under
the National Cancer Institute Act, it began to
grant public health service fellowships.
In the field of higher education, there has
been a great increase in federal-aid programs
ever since World War II.
The G.I. Bill of Rights (1944) enabled hun
dreds of thousands of veterans to attend the
colletre of their choice, public or private. In 1946
the government established what is essentially
a full federal scholarship program in one special
field the "regular" Naval Reserve Officers
Training Corps. In that same year the Atomic
Energy Act initiated fellowship awards by the
A.E.C! In 1950 the college housing loan program
betran (it totaled $1.4 billion in its first ten years
alone), in 1952 new fellowship programs for the
National Science Foundation, in 1958 the Na
tional Defense Education Act established new
federal policies on education at all levels.
IN THE magical name of "defense," some l,3fi0
colleges and universities (we have 1,934 in
all) and some 150,000 students participate in
this program; there are 2,500 three-year tellow
ships for graduate students planning college
teaching careers; there are 4b language and area
centers to improve instruction in languages not
commonlv taught; there are 532 foreign fellow
ships in modern-language study available to qual
ified candidates. And "defense" contracts in
research at the .university level account for a
large proportion of the annual budget of dozens
of institutions.
All these things cost money from $1.5 to $2
billion a year, by estimate of the U. S. Office of
Education. The great mass of our educators, not
to mention others, sav that it is not enough, not
enough even for defense
irger purpose of the national interest as a whole.
There are many reasons to support this view, not
the least of which is our unending population
explosion (meaning a college-demand jump up
to 70 per cent by 1 !M,), as does President Ken
nedy and apparently a considerable majority of
the Congress.
But let s not hear any more about it all being
"new." It goes right straight back to 1785.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Tax
The nation's taxpayers who filed their annual
returns on or before .Monday, April eontrib
uted more than mere money. They also contrib
uted an enormous volume of labor.
The preparation of the returns to say nothing
of the reeord searching and soul searching that
goes with it, must be one of the most massive
clerical operations conducted in the economy.
The value of the man hours involved, including
those of tax advisors and accountants, probably
runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars. The
paid efforts of the accountants and advisors of
course enter into the gross national product and
so contribute to economic growth and to the fu
ture tax base.
Those taxpayers who operate by the do-it-yourself
system must consider themselves fortu
nate that they are not yet required to include
the value of their labor in their taxable income.
DUT when the work
and done with, it
tive side. Taxes, as the quotation from Oliver
Wendell Holmes on the front page of the instruc
tions tells us, are what we pay for civilized so
ciety. And if the price is high and the value
rm,jv,,, nol awaV
at least has made some progress toward easing
the mechanics.
Iiy splitting form 1 it 1 0 into two parts, some
1 1 million taxpayers have been relieved of a
futile search among types of income they do not
have. The technical language of the instructions
has been brought lo the verge of comprehensi
bility. "Adjusted gross income," long a source of
bewilderment to the unadjusted layman, has
yielded to "total income."
These technical improvements are worth not
ing. The taxpayer will be grateful for them, so
lone as he can hope that the simplifying overhaul
of the entire tax .-tincture which so often has
been promised will finally get under wav.
"New
the very infancy of the
even antedates the Con
of the Confederation
purposes, much less the
Date
and the grumbling is over
is good to look at the posi
certain, Commissioner Caplin
Dennis the
1 HIM WU WAHTHP HIM TO
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmjn is in Europe. Roicoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
FINANCING ELECTIONS
Washington How much
money do you think was
spent by all candidates run
ning for public office in the
United Slates in 1360 $40
million. $8 million, $100 mil
lion? No, the total expendi
ture, as computed by the bi
partisan President's Commis
sion on Campaign Costs, is be
tween $165 and $175 million.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
At Geneva the other day,
the United Status offered a
proposal to cut the world's
armaments almost two-thirds
within six years and to re
place national armies with a
United Nations peace force
in about a decade.
The American plan was pre
sented to the 17-nation dis-
iirm.'imcnl conference as a
draft treaty "for general and
complete disarmament in a
peaceful world.'' In it. the
U.S. look a considerable po
litical risk by agreeing to ac
cept Russia's word on the
amount of arms and troops
the Soviets woulu have in
service at the start of disarm
ament. American officials said the
draft was an elaboration of
1 he disarmament program the
United States offered to the
United Nations last Septem
ber 25.
QUESTION:
Will complete world dis
armament ever come about?
I" ET'S put it this way:
When tigers are born with
out fangs and claw s. the
world may have reached a
point where complete disarm
ament is feasible.
Hut not, one fears, until
then.
Still
There is this hope for
PARTIAL disarmament:
Han NUCLEAR warfare.
That might be possible. Poi
son gas was used in World
iWar 1. It hasn't been used
since. What has been done!
once can olton be done again.
i HHOM Accra, capital of the
African Republic tu Ghana:
President Kwame Nkru
Imah has fired Industries Min
lister Kroho Edusei. who rc
jccnlly came under fire when
his wife purchased a gold
plated bed in London for
j which she paid SR. 400.
'rMlE purchase of the gold
j 1 plated bed wasn't too pop
I ular among Ghana's newly
' eutranchised citizenry. News
I reports told us at the time
jlltat following disclosure of
! its acquisition by the wife of
la member of the Ghana prcsi
' dent's cabinet thousands of
Ghana women m arched
j around the government uild
I ings in Accra carrying ban
, ners inscribed "Send back the
;bed!"
j 'I'lte bed. incidentally, was
lhe centerpiece of lhe bed
; manufacturers' display at the
llntish Fnrnilu. S h o w in
London this year. After the
show, il was displayed in
: Selfriilge's w indow. Selfriilg
e s is the hit; department store
on Oxford Street. It was foun
ded several decades ai:o by
Harry Sclfpdce, an Ameri
can, and introduced the Am
erican department store idea
-to Londoners.
The till. ma minister's lady,
strolling atong Oxford street,
saw It, It'll "madly m lo e
w i t h it ' according to lhe
Hews di-p.ttches at l'ie time
'and Knight it Tr ihle start-
.
ed at home when the news
got out.
l'l'I.I.. tilings like that hap
pen w he;i c o u n t r les
whese people are not ready
lor democracy hecnie deiuoc-
Mi;
MEDFORD MAIL
Menace
CCWE HCWE MRS.MlTCHElX, BuT
The costs to the two par
ties for the Presidential and
Vice Presidential elections
amounted to $20 million. Both
parties went into debt as us
ual. The dismaying fact is the
scale at which campaign costs
arc mounting. National cam
paign costs in 1960 rose more
than 50 per cent over 1956.
If this trend keeps up, the cost
in 1964 would be $30 million,
in 1968, $45 million.
Talk about inflationary
price spiral. For political
campaigns, it .is a veritable
whirling dervish.
T IKE the weather, it is easy
lo talk about th unpleas
antness o f campaign costs,
but difficult to do something
about it. Th,e President's com
mission proposes to do some
thing. It offers some very sen
sible suggestions which Mr.
Kennedy said he would put
before Congress in the form
of legislation.
The worst defect of pres
ent methods of campaign fi
nancing is that too few con
tributors provide most of the
money. This tends to under
mine public confidence in the
way campaigns are financed
which itself serves to dry
up mass contributing and
to put political candidates in
the debt of big contributors.
The thing which impresses
me most about the approach
of the President's commission,
headed by Dr. Alexander
Heard, dean of the Graduate
School of the University of
North Carolina and a recog
nized authority on political fi
nance, is that it did not throw
up its hands in horror at the
magnitude of the problem and
then run for cover by offering
the easy, no think remedy of
"let the government do it"
charge it to Uncle Sam, who
is always the other fellow.
Instead the commission sees
it as desirable and attainable
to increase vastly the number
of contributors to national
campaigns. This would take
the financing of both parties
largely out of the hands of
wealthy industrialists and
wealthy labor unions.
.
rrilE principal steps pro
posed are:
I Tax incentives for small
contributors, such as permit
ting up to $1,000 contribu
tions n year tax deductions.
2- Encouraging civic groups
labor unions, and large cor
porations lo encage in "vol
untary bi-partisan political
activities" - helping to raise
funds, promoting registration,
getting out the vote, and pro
viding platforms, so that both
sides could more casilv get
their views before all the
voters. Reasonable costs for
all of these activities would
be tax-deductible.
3 Take off the meaningless
ceiling on campaign expendi
tures, which practically forces
party managers to perjure
themselves, strengthen and
j enforce the laws on report-
iug contributions and spend
ing. I Prohibit niu'tisan cam-
pnign contributions of all
kinds under all guises by cor
porations and labor unions.
There should be "no distinc
tion between corporat ions and
unions w ith respect to polit- : l",,r1-- and me police
ical contributions and expen-i'" " "llr 'ob Charac
diturcs" I think il is lair toj,,'r ,s ai home, and only
sav that in the past the law. al llonu'- Let u keep the dirty
as administered, has been I ,"oks m" nf children's
lough on corporations, as it I ,Kmd- "y all means, if we
snould be. and soft on union... Wi,m " b"' ''' "" not im
as it shouldn't be. iavime for a moment that the
4 KKW years at:o the Gallup
Poll conducted a survev
which showed that litrrallv
illup
millions of Americans ha e
never been asked for a c.i'.n-
p.iu:n contribution by either
parly, and tli.it a larse ni.t -
lenty would be willing to re-
i .pond under t!ic niiht ap -
preach
' On t;ood approach might
TRIBUNE. MEDFORO. OREGON
Foreign News: Britain Into Common
Market; Trouble in Czechoslovakia
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Naws Editor
Notes from the foreign
new cables:
The Big Plunge
British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan has order
ed full speed ahead in nego
t i a t ions for
Great Brit
ain's entry in
to the Euro
pean Common
Market, and
the final step
now is expect
ed to be tak
en by the end
of the year. It
would add
Britain's 52 million population
to the 170 million people al
ready in the Common Market
in France, West Germany,
Italy, Luxenmbourg, Belgium
and the Netherlands, and
mark the end of Britain's his
toric policy of alloofness from
the continent. .
There still are many ob
stacles to overcome since mem
bership in the Common Mar
ket requires some form of
political as well as economic
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fci General Features Corp.
VALUES AREN'T
FICKLE VARIABLES
In any discussion about
"pornographic" literature, the
people who would censor it
always make
a last-ditch de
fense of their
position b y
, bringing up
u u i i-iiiia-
- granted that
: adults should
be able t o
choose their
Hams own reading
ma'crial freely," they say,
"would you allow your child
ret, to be exposed to such
trash?'
I am quite honosetly puz
zled by their attitude. They
seem lo have such a low and
nasty opinion of children, and
little fi)ith in lhe training and
character of their offspring.
During my youth, all my
schoolmates and myself were
exposed to the most porno
graphic kinds of card and pic
tures and illustrated jokes.
We weren't amused, we were
not shocked and we weren't
corrupted: we were simply
bored by the graphic dirtiness
after the initial curiosity wore
off.
Children who arc at all af
fected by that kind of thing
are already the victims of a
poor upbringing at home. If
sex is portrayed as something
dirty, cruel, contemptible, un
natural or shamefully fur
tive, then the children will
respond to such attitudes by
taking a pathological interest
in the subject, pornography
or not.
Of course, if any commu
nity wants to "protect'' its
children from smut, it has a
perfect right to do so but
it should not be surprised if
the results are negligible.
Children reared in an atmos
phere of love and trust and
decent values are not "corrup
ted" by dirty books oi pic
tures and the others are
going to wander into the ways
of depravity no matter how
vigilantly we may guard
against il.
By the time a child is 6 or
7 years old. his basic atti
tudes have already been shap
ed If these attitudes are not
healthy and productive ones.
jhe is going to look for other
oti'letg in sex. violence,
lying, stealing or truancy. No
police power o r censorship
power can be a substitute for
the moral function of the par
ent and the family.
The parent-: who are so an
gry and worried about porn
ography falling into the hands
of their children are really
expressing deep doubts or
fears of their rwn effective
ness as parents. They feel
they have failed in some
way, and hope that some out
side diseiplin.- will lake up
the slack for them.
Wo cannot ask the M-hnoU
1 . .. j t. . ...
ic ensn i.imasies or an un-
""Pry or iinstahie child can
hi- i ll. lien nv nnrnnn. .
or prost-ccuting peddlers of'
; ynul1
be to put mass scale campaign
: fund raising nt the hands of
a distinguished bi partisan
: body headed by t lie- two most
liecrnt cx-Prcsiricnts of the
' t'-S.
1., :
unity. But the Britten are sure
these difficulties can be over
come, providing French Pres
ident Charles de Gaulle docs
not throw up an unexpected
rordblock. De Gaulle may
fear that British membership
might interfere with his own
plans for French leadership of
the Common Market.
Czechoslovak Troubles
Look for new severe meas
ures by the Cze.hoslovakian
government to meet growing
reports of a lack of discipline
among Czechoslovak workers.
The Czech trade union paper,
Prace. has criticized workers
for failure to observe the ob
ligatory six-day work week
and those who demand free
Matter of Fact a j
(o New York Herald
MAD HATTER'S
TEA PARTY
Vientiane, Laos - The best
way to understand the present
stage of American policy in
this distracted
little country
is to remem
ber the worst
moment of the
Mad Hatter's
tea party in
"Alice." This,
beyond doubt,
was the mo
ment when
the Mad Hat
Alsnp
ter rather crossly tried to stuff
the dormouse into the teapot.
The role of the Mad Hatter
is being played, with consid
erable panache, by the Assist
ant Secretary of State for the
East, Gov. Avcrell Ha'rriman.
The dormouse in this peculiar
charade is the Laotian anti
Communist leader. Gen.
Phoumi Nosavan. And as in
"Alice," the dormouse has re
fused to be stuffed - at least
as yet.
It is not all so comic, how
ever. Consider, for example,
Governor Herriman's last de
scent on Laos, which was in
tended to stuff the dormouse
into the teapot by main
force.
AT a meeting with all the
leaders of the present
anti - Communist government,
Governor Harriman's last de
ed the salubrious character of
the teapot in question. This is
a neutral coalition govern
ment which the Governor de
sires to form, with the "neu
tralist," Prince Souvanna
Phouma, at its head, with Lao
tian Communists included In
the cabinet, and with the anti
Communists also included -but
only and above all after
the anti-Communists have sur
rendered their vital control of
both the army and the police.
After expatiating on the
teapot, Governor Harriman
gave a preliminary shove. The
economic subsidy of S3 mil
lion a month, which the
United Slates has long paid
lo Laos, was suspended some
time ago as a pressure move.
This has already caused infla
tion here. But other pressure
moves were easily possible,
the Governor reminded the
Laotian cabinet, thus hinting
at future suspension of mili
tary aid as well.
Governor Harriman then
looked at the Laotian leaders
one by one: pointed a stern
forefinger at each of them in
turn; and told them that he
wished them to know they
would be "responsible for the
destruction of their country"
if they refused to do his bid
ding. There was a brief si
lence, and Gen. Plioumi then
replied:
"You know. Governor Har
riman, we in Laos have many
years' experience of colonial
rule. But we were never
spoken to in quite that fashion
in the colonial times."
IT CAN be seen, then, that
rather passionate feelings
have by now been generated
on both sides. Yet the Ameri
can policy here most urgently
needs cool, dispassionate re
examination. The existing policy was
somewhat hastily adopted at
the low ebb of the Kennedy
administration, just after the
Try and
PI
By BENNETT CERF-
A YOUNG WRITER who hit
t i- surprise best-seller, and a
the property to Hollywood,
now ne was contemplat
ing a trip to Las Vegas.
"I've invented a system
fcr beating the roulette
wheel," he announced,
"that I believe is infal
lible." Director Anatol Litvak,
no stranger to the gaming
aD!cs himself, cooled off
the young writer s entnu-
I siasm somewhat by re-
minding him. "Las Vegas
welcomes all gamblers
with open arms when
they blow into town. But
for gamblers u-i!) a sys
tem, my boy they scad an airplane!
Saturdays. Low morale
among workers is estimated
to have cost the state $11
million so far this year.
Crystal Ball
For those who like a quick
chance to test the accuracy of
predictions, her? is what the
Western diplomats in Moscow
expect of this week's meeting
of the Supreme Soviet. A
foregone conclusion is Nikita
Khrushchev's confirmation as
premier. Then will come a
foreign policy speech in which
the premier will launch a bit
ter attack against United
States nuclear tests. How
ever, Khrushchev is expected
to approach the situation in
Berlin with caution. The re-
Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
Cuban debacle. The aim was
to secure a strictly neutral
Laos, with no North Viet
namese Communist troops on
Laotian soil, and with the
North Vietnamese blocked
from using Laos as a transit
route for its attack on South
Vietnam.
At Geneva last spring, with
his customary industry and
ability. Governor Harriman
negotiated an agreement with
the Soviets which on paper,
at least, promised the desired
neutral Laos. All the require
ments for strict Laotian neu
trality were to be met, as
soon as a coalition, all-party
government could be installed
with Prince Souvanna Phou
ma at its head. The Chinese
and North Vietnamese dele
gates at Geneva gave their as
sent; and the Soviet delegate
made important personal com
mitments to Governor Harri
man. At this stage, last summer,
the agreement that Governor
Harriman had negotiated
looked like the best American
bet in Laos, even though it
was obviously a long shot bet.
Any contraption basically de
pending on Communist good
faitli must always be a long
shot bet. But its real flaw was
its dependence on stuffing the
dormouse into the teapot.
Prince Boun Oum, the
Prime Minister, and Gen.
Phoumi, the real leader of the
anti - Communist government,
never felt enthusiasm for the
coalition teapot. But they
would have entered, nonethe
less, if the price of the coali
tion had not been their sur
rendering control of the po
lice and the army. Such a sur
render, they understandably
considered, was tantamount to
cutting their own throats
with a blunt knife.
17OR just this reason, despite
month after month of
maneuvering and mounting
pressure, the dormouse has
obstinately refused to be
stuffed. Meanwhile, the pas
sage of time and changing cir
cumstances have transformed
what used to be a reasonable
long shot bet into a totally in
defensible gamble.
A Chinese Communist gen
eral, thinly disguised as a consul-general,
has turned up in
the northern province of
Phong Saly, at the head of a
division of Chinese troops
rather better disguised as
road builders. The Communist
North Vietnamese have been
pushing in troops, until they
now have between 12.000 and
14.000 soldiers in Laos, of
which half are in regular
army battalions. The transit
routes to South Vietnam,
which were supposed to be
abandoned, have been persist
ently used and improved.
For these and many other
reasons, if the Laotian anti
Communists are now driven,
by main force, into the coali
tion that has been so eagerly
promoted, it will be equiva
lent to handing Laos to the
North Vietnamese with a red
ribbon prettily tied around il.
No doubt this can be done, by
withdrawing U. S. military
aid for instance, which Gov
ernor Harriman apparently
told the British Ambassador
here that he intended to rec
ommend. But it is certainly
I time to stop and think again.
Stop Me
the jackpot this year with a
subsequent six-figure sate of
allowed at a cocktail party as
T'
I call of Soviet East German
Commander Ivan K on lev.
who gave the East Germans
moral support In the erection
of the Berlin wall, and the
U.S.-Soviet talks In Washing,
tion, have given continuing
support to speculation that
Khrushchev would like a
peaceful solution of the Ber
lin problem. The Western ob
servers foresee no major
shakeup in the Soviet Coun
cil of Ministers.
Washington Report
By William S. White
c United Feature '
Syndicate
"SUCH FOLLY"
Washington The shoddy
moralizing of the world's neu
tral powers has now stirred
' j"W?S" ' S American pa
cifists and
half - pacifists
to a last hyp
nosis of hope
less hope. En
couraged b y
the cruel hoax
of a "compro
mise" propos
ed by-ihe neu-
Whita tralists, which
would in fact mean no kind
of enforced ban, these earnest
Americans have set out upon
one more campaign to force
the United States to abandon
its plans to resume nuclear
testing and so to take at long
la.- some regard for its ca
pacity to survive on this plan
et. Not all the long story of
neutralist hypocrisy can show
a more cynical fraud than
this alleged "compromise" of
fered at Geneva by the eight
"nonaligned" countries sitting
between West and East in
disarmament discussions.
EVDR the eight have put for
ward a brazen phony
which make3 a mockery of
three years of patient West
ern efforts to reach a genu
ine agreement with the Rus
sians for an enforceable end
to testing.
Their "compromise" would
sell out to the very nation
which long ago broke a gen
tlemen's agreement with us
on testing, the Soviet Union.
For what it says is that there
should be inspection of possi
ble test violatio but with
out international control posts
actually to test ' such viola
tions and without any on-the-spot
Inspection of Soviet
blasts, unless the Soviets'
should "invite" it.
This appalling r u L h i sh
amounts to saying this: where,
as murder is h ireafter lo bo
against the law, there is to be
no adequate police force to
prevent it and no method even
for investigating it after it
happens unless the mur
derer should "invite" the de
tectives in.
"THAT, theoretically, respon
sible nations could offer
so fraudulent a "compromise"
should astonirh no one who is
aware of the actual standards
of ethics and candor of the
self-nominated "moral lead
ers" of our era, the neutralists.
Nor is there any surprise
whatever in the make-up of
this particular g.oup of eight
"moral leaders." Inevitably,
there is the India of the saint
ed Nehru, fresh from its na
ker1 aggression upon th- tiny
Portuguese colony of Goa.
There is the pro-Soviet Uni
ted Arab Republic, which re
cently won a great victory bv
having t h e United Nations
condemn Israel for the crime
of "retaliating" against persis
tent assaults from Syria.
There are Latin-American
neutralists like Brazil and
Mexico, which have long been
unable to see too much evil
in Castro-Communist Cuba
but have most lively memor
ies of every single fault of
the United States of the last
century and a half.
AND, there is, of course,
Sweden, now grown rich
and fat by happily selling
marked-op weapons to both
sides, while itself remaining
righteously "neutral." through
two bloody world wars. And
so on.
Put what, even in this kind
of world, is difficult to under
stand is that Americans of
th- greatest decency are still
subject to influence from
sources such as these. There
is the "National Committee
for a Sane Nuclear Policy." It
urges upon President Kenndy
this "important compromise
proposal" from t' neutralist
p wers. And there are groups
taking ads in the papers ap
pealing to the president to
call off all nuclear testing, no
matter what the Russians
might do, and so assert "mor
al leadership."
No one can question their
right thus to act. This corres
pondent does not for a mo
ment question their motives,
either. But what is to be said
for such folly, in the face of
a record overflowing with So
viet double-dealing and of
neutralist double-talking?
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