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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 26. 1952 (Saturday)
Lumber retailers in Med
ford plan to move their hours
one hour earlier to conform
with other retail establish
ments in the city.
The 1952-93 estimated an
nual budget for Jackson Coun
ty's Aid and Welfare depart
ment is $132,500 less than
that for the current fiscal
year.
20 YEARS AGO
April 28, 1942 (Sunday)
Total of between 3,500 and
4,000 Jackson county men be
tween the ages of 45 and 64
register for draft with local
draft boards.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "No
mention can be made of the
weather under wartime regu
lations, but what it lakes to
make May flowers fell
30 YEARS AGO
April 26, 1932 (Tuesday)
Registration figures show
that Medford Republicans
lead Democrats; total of 17,
302 persons registered in the
county.
Rogue Valley traffic asso
ciation asks city council for
patrol of packing house dis
trict following $250,000 in
cendiary fire.
40 YEARS AGO
Aoril 28. 1922 (Wednesday)
George Neuner, Douglas
county district attorney, ap
pears here to assist state at
torncys in bootlegging inai.
Federal roads department
and Oregon slate highway
commission appropriate $300,
000 for construction of Crater
Lake highway.
SO YEARS AGO
April 26, 1912 (Thursday)
Medford named terminal of
Hill system railroad for pro
posed Oregon Trunk line con
nection with Pacific and East
ern railroad.
Medford realtor sends 1,000
postal cards throughout mid
west in effort to interest peo
ple in moving to Rogue val
ley. What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superieri
seven or eight It esctlltnl; five) ei
six it good.
1. What country's postage
stamps bear the name Helvet
ia? 2. Who were the co-discov
erers of radium?
3. Does human hair grow
fastcr in winter, or in sum-
ume?and day"me r
4. Name the building in I
Philadelphia where the Dec-
laration of Independence was;
signed
5, Is water compressible?
6. What was the name of
the forest In which Robin
Hood's band lived?
7 Does the likeness of Lin
coln on the penny face toward
the right or the left?
8. It is laid that Monday -
child is fair of face; what n
Tuesday'! child?
D. Dogs bark, horses neigh,
elephants trumpet, wha
eminri Hnea e elraffe make'
io. Name the author of
"The Robe."
Answers: 1, Switterland. 2.
Pierre and Marie Curie. 3. In
summer and ntghtime. 4. In
dependence Hall. S. No. (.
8herwood Fcrett. 7. Toward
the right. I. Full ef grace. 9.
None. 10, Lloyd C. Douglas.
THURSDAY. APRIL 28, 196J
A Woman For President?
In Salem, the Oregon Statesman notes that
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, is making
noises like a Presidential candidate.
Well, why not? the Statesman asks, and adds:
". . . There is nothing in the constitution to bar
her from seeking the highest office. What better time
can there be for a Republican woman to shatter the
brittle precedent which has kept women from the
presidential contest?
". . . Her active entry Into the race might provide
the very 'shock treatment' the Republican party seems
to need. Even without hope of acquiring the nomina
tion for herself, she might shame her recalcitrant col
leagues into more active political campaigning."
It would certainly add a lot of interest to to
day b politics if a woman actually did get into
Presidential politics.
WE HERE in Oregon have had more experi
ence with distaff politicians than moststates.
Our junior senator, Maurine Neuberger, is one,
and so is the representative irom the lnirn Con
gressional district, Edith Green.
Dorothy McCullough Lee was one of Port
land's better mayors. Eve Nye was one of Jackson
county's best legislators during her service. Other
women have made excellent records in a variety
of elected positions.
The odds are heavily
elected President in any
the odds were against a Catholic being elected,
until John Kennedy proved one could be. And
with women's increasing
fluence in public affairs,
that bar, too, will have
Still Far
"Only a patient' and informed mind, only a mind
which literally never stops growing, is prepared to
contribute to modern democratic society. Never has
there been so much to learn, unlearn, relearn." ,
This quotation from
thought. :
Never has the world
Never has the sheer mass of available information
been so great. Never have communciations been
so fast or so voluminous.
And never has the need for a thoughtful, in
formed and concerned citizenry been greater.
DUTTING it in a slightly different way, Manley
T Wall cfiiforl "Rv oYiifli'innfifl an-. r,Koi'va
tion, I have satisfied myself that evil is another
name for ignorance.
Ignorance, in this sense, not only includes
lack of knowledge, but
ing understanding of people, of their motives,
of human relationships and needs, and of the
complexities of government and social organiza
tions. Mankind's curiousity has led him to conquer
ignorance in some fields, but not, oddly, in others.
And it not always has been possible to jniss on
to others the knowledge that some men have
acquired.
THE great problem of our clay, it seems, is how
to dispell ignorance and increase understand
ing among all people. It is
problem, and the surlace
It is easy to generalize, and say that only
education more of it,
only true solution. Like
much truth to it.
Some of the wisest,
'
human beings have had
Conversely, some of the
men have been men of little understanding and
human compassion.
Rut, other things being equal, an individual
who has been exposed to the writings of our great
thinkers, philosophers,
entists has a better chance of attaining an in
formed understanding than one who has not.
IT IS a sad anomaly of life today that, where
men are pressing on the frontiers of knowl
edge, it is in the fields of the physical sciences
not in the fields of philosophy or religion or hu
man attitudes and relationships.
The contributions of a Freud are of a differ
ent class and stature than the contributions of an
Einstein.
We know less about the workings of our own
brains and emotions than we know about the in
terior arrangements of invisible atoms.
a
IS formal, organized, and widespread education
which is a relatively recent development
! in the climb of mankind
nation the answer to this queer emphasis on
material, tangible things?
This much can be said: If it is not the whole
ailSWCl', it is a Step toward it.
Rut jt R u, ()ny
advanced nations, and only recently, is univer
sal education for all children commonly accepted,
to say nothing of more advanced education.
And m the less-developed and poorer parts
' OI Me WOl'Kl Where OV
jthe uinian nu.e resides
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--ru.nl, uui me iuii
vve nave a long way to go, even m our own
"enlightened" land, before the evils of ignorance
succumb to a rising level of literacy, knowledge
and understanding. K,
And then there was t h e Czechoslovakia!!
midget who fled the Communists. Bursting
through the iron curtain, he ran to an American
soldier and asked him if would please cache a
small Czech. Eugene Register-Guard.
against a woman being
foreseeable future. But
participation and in
the day may come when
been removed. E.A.
To
Go
Elmo Roper merits
been so complicated.
also lack of understand
a fantastically difficult
has only been scratched.
for more people is the
all generalizations it has
most understanding of
little or no education.
most highly educated
poets, statesmen and sci
from savagery to civili-
tar the largest part of i the Columbia are found in
education is the ox.ierrtaln parts of the river and
not in others. The areas
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contrary is often the case.
The Peace Movement
To the Editor: No one in
this counlry has faced the
realities of nuclear war. The
spiraling weapons race con
tinues. As one citizen said,
we look at more weapons like
insurance that can save our
side. But a nuclear war is
suicide for both.
We believe in the fact that
Russia is strong, and deter
mined; but do we believe our
antagonist is ready to com
mit suicide? Dr. Edward Tel
ler erroneously and emotion
ally predicts this in three
Post articles. Such objection
came to the editors from
across the country in letters
that the Post agreed to print
An Answer To Teller." This
rebuttal was written by eight
leaders in Science from Har
vard, Cornell and Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.
Hans Bethe, the scientist
advisor of President Eisen
hower, also has an Interview
published in which he says
that the little knowledge that
could he gained by further
testing is outweighed by the
fotir caused around the world
in the continuation nf an arms
race. President Eisenhower
agreed with him. Has Presi
dent Kennedy been pressured
into more testing, by the mili
tary industrial complex and
Congress, or by political con
siderations? As citizens, we
can free him from a feeling
that citizens are not aware of
the realities of the atomic ago
we can tell him that we dif
fer from those who believe
In more testing, and that we
want to negotiate with Rus
sia on a nuclear treaty as a
part of a total and general
disarmament plan.
Information on this subject,
as well as the other issues
of the peace movement, Gcr-
'"""v a,Kl Berlin, strengthen-
: ' I 1 1Ui(nJ M nl Inna-' -.AnrA
ing the United Nations' peace
keeping machinery, and the
development of world law and
order, is available at the
Peace Information Center, 12H
East Main st. This material
has taken much labor to as
semble, and will be dis
mantled Friday, April 27, un
less a new home is found. Has
any citizen or group an offer?
Marie M. Bosworth
Route 1, Box 62
Jacksonville, Ore.
Article Disputed
To the Editor: In the Mail
Tribune Friday, April 13, an
article by Hank DeVoss is in
general devoted to urging
signatures to petitions for the
so-called Coiumbii River
Steelhead initiative.
The article contains definite
misstatements of fact and sev
eral very misleading as
sertions. The Stale Supreme Court
has upheld our claim that this
measure is not so much a mea-;
sure to regulate steelhead
fishing as a measure to ;
cripple the Columbia River I
commercial salmon fishery bv j
depriving it of 50 per cent, or j
more, of its usual catches. I
Mr. DcV'oss also says, "Any j
commercial fisherman who
catches steelhead when he is '
li.shing for salmon should
not be in the business." 1 do j
not know what Mr DeVoss1
knows about commercial fish-
ing, but his statement is ridi- j
culmis and completely false.
He also says, "Steelhead in ;
where they are most plenti
ful are not the same as where
the salmon are." The f:i:t is
that all species of jalnion ;
are found in certain pints of
he river, but in general, well
mixed as to time and loi-ation. ,
so that no prartlral fishing op
eration could be earned on to
avoid taking any species. j
Mr. DeVoss says "The (act I
thai steelhead average less
than ha'f the i;e of salmon
means that the gillnet must j
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORC. OREGON
Menace
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be of a mesh size that will
hold a fish that small. The
same net will not catch a sal
monr" The Columbia River
steelhead is the biggest of all
known steelhead species on
the Pacific Coast. They are
often larger than many Chi
nook salmon and better than
90 per cent of the time, larger
than silver, chum, or blueback
salmon taken in the river,
thus a net that will catch a
steelhead will catch a large
proportion of salmon, and a
net that will catch Chinook
salmon will also catch a
steelhead.
In view of the stale's need
for payrolls, jobs, and taxable
property, we do not believe
this bill makes good sense.
We do not feel that the
very small group of people
who are actively behind this
measure have any God-given
or other right to be the sole
group of Oregon citizens that
can enjoy the Columbia Ri
ver steelhead resour.ee. At the
present time, the cdmmercial
catches are less than those
taken by the anglers of Ore
gon, Washington, and Idaho,
.tames H. Cellars
Executive Secretary
Columbia River Salmon &
Tuna Packers Assn.,
Astoria, Ore.
The Steel Dispute
To the Editor: As one
views the mass quantity of
editorial material that has
appeared recently In relation
to U.S. Steel's abortive $6 per
ton price increase, one real
izes that many points have
been ignored.
It was stressed by the ad
ministration that this abortive
price increase would add to
the inflationary spiral in our
economy. Indeed, this sounds
strange coming from an ad
ministration that has succeed
ed in spending a record
amount of funds, along with
over-riding the national debt.
How naive docs Mr. Kennedy
think the American people
are? Had the steel industry
been left alone to iron out
its own price stability, a true
economic balance in the steel
industry may well have been
achieved. However, with
government intervention,
new precedent for industry as
a whole may have been set
Now, will industry have to
look with one eye toward gov
ernment everytime it consid
ers expansion or price move
ment? To quote from an editorial
from the Toledo, Ohio, Blade:
"Before the shouting dies
down about what a great tri
umph he has scored over Big
Steel management, we would
like to susgest that this may
prove to be the costliest vic
tory Mr. Kennedy has ever
won. Indirectly, by setting in
motion the train of punitive
and coercive actions, from
grand jury probes to congres
sional investigations, the Pres
ident moved to assert a pow
er to dictate manasement
price decisions that he does
not legitimately possess."
Whether this action on the
part of Mr. Kennedy was fa
thered by a great desire to
protect the American people,
or because the move by the
steel companies upset the
presidential chess board, is a
question that remains in the
minds of a great number of
Americans. And yet, there is
still another question: Why
hasn't this awesome power
been used aqainst the unions
and the controlling grip they
exercise on the industries of
this Hintry? Perhaps if the
union.i were punished in like
manner industry1, as a whole,
would not deem it necessary
to increase prices.
Robert J. Famous.
.WIS North Commercial.
Portland 17. Ore.
Swede s Raply
To the Editor:
Dear Mr
Prime Min
Macmillan
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
When Prime Minister Har
old Macmillan sits down with
President Kennedy to discuss
world affairs
this week, it
Is p o is 1 b 1 e
these two as
tute politici
cians also will
touch on a
problem Mac
millan is hav
at home. This
will be the
fact that Mac-
millan's Conservative party,
which has ruled Britain for
the last 10 and one-half years,
has been losing favor stead
ily with British voters.
In the last seven by-elections,
the Conservatives have
lost votes, and lost them, sur
prisingly enough, to the sud
denly resurgent Liberals.
Public opinion polls show
that Macmillan's popularity
has slipped to the point where
less than half the voters ap
Jackson: This Is my answer to
your letter so generously pub
lished by the Mail Tribune
without checking to see If it
was signed by a person actu
ally living under that name
at the address given.
Your one man's opinion let
ter shows that possibly you
had been tilting the "fiasco" a
little too freely to get the
golden brew to screw your
courage up enough to write a
letter of this nature, dripping
with so many inaccuracies and
with only one intent which is
so evident from the tone of
the letter.
Thank you for using my
name so many times in the
letter which I have as yet
not received, this gives me
more reasons for the belief,
of its intent.
In your letter you not only
mixed your information and
got your facts wrong, for you
couldn't have skipped the din-ner-you
weren't even invited
but had you been hungry
you would have been fed.
I wish first of all lo ask
who in all this world would
have, if they could have, ap
pointed you the Emily Post
of political discretion and
arbiter of social niceties which
you so graciously omitted in
your letter. Personally I
don't think any self respect
ing Democrat would have
chosen you.
Your letter sounds a great!
deal like a part of the "hatchet
squad system so long used
by the opposing political par
ty. They dearly love to have
strangers sign their names to
ghost-written "poison pen"
letters to further their politi
cal ends.
As to my discrediting any
one now in political office,
may I say that this I have not
done, nor will it ever be done
by me.
I believe the only mention
I have thus far made to any
one at all is when at the
Eagle Point rally I stated, "I
filed for County Judge only
when I knew that Miller was
going lo file", and "I felt that
the people of the county
shouldn't have to be 'Miller
ized or Wentized' for another
4 years".
You say you are a regis
tered voter. If so, then your
nom-de-plume is just that, or
a deliberate attempt to mis
lead the readers was perpe
trated as to just who you are,
for a diligent personal search
of the registration records
fails to show a Charles Jack
son residing at 35 Second
street in Ashland, Oregon, as
a registered voter. The only
Charles Jackson in the county
registered as a voter lives in
the Northern part of the coun
ty and I know him to be an
honorable man, and he isn't
the one who wrote the letter.
Eric Allen should be ashamed
of himself for letting this one
slip up.
As to the statement that
you know where to put jour
vote it should probably be
put Ihe same place that your
letter should have been.
Yours for the DEFEAT of
Ihe Home Rule Charter.
K. C. (Swede) Wernmark,
Democratic Candidate for
County Judge,
Medford
Agriculture Career
Day Planned at OSU
Corvallis - An Agriculture
Career day will be sponsored
April 28 by students majoring
in agriculture at Oregon State
university.
The day is designed to ac
ouaint Oregon high school
students with carrer opportu
nities in agriculture. Students
can register to attend through
their county extension offices
or with high school vocational
agriculture teachers.
ister, President May
s Domestic Political
prove of him as prime min
ister. No very logical explana
tion has been advanced for
this change in political for-
Drummond
Reports
(Walter Lippmann is en vacation.
Roicoe Drummond reports from
Waihinqton in his absence.) (c)
1962 New York Herald Tribune
Inc.
DEMOCRATIC NO-ANSWER
Washington The most
revealing aspect of the cur
rent House debate on HR 570
to correct the extreme im
balance in the professional
staffing of Congressional com
mittees is the failure of
the Democrats to answer the
arguments for reform.
As the debate proceeds, the
Democrats remain, for the
most part, mute or they care
fully skirt the point.
Evidently the case for re
form is so strong and so un
answerable that the only
Democratic tactic thus far is
to pretend that it doesn't ex
ist and to hope that the
storm of protest will subside.
It won t. It is going on un
til the rights of the minority
to a fair proportion of pro
fessional staff is granted. The
injustice of a situation so one
sided that the minority party
does not have adequate com
mittee staff assistance will
simply not stand when enough
people become aware of the
facts.
TTR 570 SIMPLY states
that whenever a majority
of the minority members of
a Congressional committee so
decide, it must be allowed to
employ 40 per cent of the
committee's professional staff.
When the debate on this reso
lution first began, no Demo
crat ventured to take the
floor. More recently one or
two have briefly raised their
voices. Here is what they
have been saying:
DEMOCRATIC ARGU
MENT Some Republicans
have over-stated the imbal
ance between majority and
minority committee staffs.
The imbalance is not as bad
as they say.
REPUBLICAN ANSWER
The latest figures prepared by
the sponsors of HR 570 show
that the Democrats have con
trol of a total staff on all
House committees, subcom
mittees, and joint committees
of 531 while the minority
party has 45. Maybe the ma
jority party has only 5'27 and
the minority has as many as
49. Maybe the imbalance is
12-to-l against the minority
party or maybe it is only 10-to-1.
It is still an intolerable
imbalance.
D E M O C R ATIC ARGU
ment There are several
House committees like the
Foreign Affairs committee
and the Un-American Activi
ties committee where the
balance and personnel of the
professional staff are satisfac
tory to the minority members.
Why do the Republicans want
to upset what is so satisfac
tory? REPUBLICAN ANSWER
We don't. HR 570 provides no
change of any committee staff
when a majority of the minor
ity members are satisfied. But
there are many committees
whose staffs are so lop-sided
and unresponsive to minority
needs that reform is urgent.
Take the House Labor and
Education Committee. When
Republicans were in charge,
it was a 10 majority staff, 2
minority staff. That was bad
enough. Now it is 40 majority
staff and 2 minority staff.
D E M O C R ATIC ARGU
MENT It is unfair to label
the experts on the committee
staffs as Republican or Demo
cratic. They are non-partisan,
professional people, many car
ried over from the Republican
Congress of 1953-54.
REPUBLICAN ANSWER
So long as the experts on the
committee staffs, theoretically
assigned to the minority, are
named by the committee
chairman and the continuance
of their jobs conditional upon
his approval, the minority
party is rarely well served.
The professional staff serving
the minority should continue
to be professional but should
be named by and under the
direction of the minority mem
bers. IT IS welcome that the lead
which Rep. Thomas Curtis
of Missouri and Rep. Fred
Schwenwl of Iowa have taken
in behalf of HR 570 has now
won the Influential support
of former Speaker Joseph
Martin and the Republican
National Chairman. Rep. Wil
1 liam Miller of New York.
! That's good. But I suspect
, that the 174 Republicans in
the House are wondering
whether the voices of their
; elected leaders Reps. Charles
! Halleck of Indiana, John
Byrnes of Wisconsin. Leslie
Arends of Illinois, Charles
Hoeven of Iowa - are going
to be heard in their behalf
and in behalf nf correcting
this offense atainst the two
party stem of government.
tunes except that the British
voters are perhaps tired of the
old faces and are equally un-
enthusiastic about the Labor
party, whose ranks are iihot
through with pacifists and
Communist sympathizers and
which has been unabe to come
up with a solid political pro
gram. Therefore the swing has
Matter of Fact uy Joseph aiop
to New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
LET IT SEGASHUATE
Vientiane, Laos-Unless the
American policy in unhappy
little Laos is soon reviewed,
the next stage
is easy to fore
see. Gen. Pho
umi Nosavan
and the other
Laotian a n t i
C o m m u nist
leaders are
going to be
strangled b y
the exis t i n g
cut -off of
Alinp
American financial aid, or by
an additional cutoff of mili
tary aid, or by both methods
combined. The political
corpse of Laotian anti-Communism,
garroted "for its
own good," of course, will
then be added to a new coali
tion government in which the
local Communists will be the
strongest element. And this
coalition will then be relied
upon to enforce the strict neu
trality which is the avowed
American aim for Laos.
These proceedings will be
excused on the ground that
an all -party government
pledged to Laotian neutrality
was the best bet for Laos,
when Gen. Phoumi first re
fused to enter such a govern
ment last summer. It may
well be true that Phoumi then
missed a good bet. But the
question now is not what
would have been the best bet
last summer. The question
now is what is the best bet
today; and this question must
not be obscured by the re
markably intemperate feel
ings aroused in some U.S.
quarters by Gen. Phoumi's
obstinate refusal to do the
bidding of the Americans who
pay the bills.
llflTHOUT regard-to person
' ' alities, then, what are the
current factors in this obscure
but dangerous situation? In
the first place, the odds on a
neutral, coalition governed
Laos were perhaps reasonable
last summer. But the odds to
day are astronomically against
anything remotely resembling
Laotian neutrality, if a coali
tion government is now cre
ated by forcible prior strangu
lation of the anti-Communists.
This difficulty is pooh
poohed, on the ground that
the Soviet negotiators at Ge
neva gave the strictest pledges
of Laotian neutrality to Gov.
Averell Harriman. But sup
pose the local Communists
or the Communist North Viet
namese or the Chinese Com
munists are not prepared to
honor these Soviet pledges. Or
just suppose - perish the
thought!-that it proves to be
unwise to place our sole reli
ance on Soviet good faith.
What happens then?
The answer is too simple.
The U.S. will then be des
perately but quite fruitlessly
longing for the considerable
assets in Laos which will be
automatically flushed down
the drain by a coalition cre
ated by main force.
S a symbol of these assets,
consider Col. Vang Phao,
the Meo officer of the Royal
Laotian army whose regional
command embraces the most
important territory now held
by the Communists. In the
last year, he has successfully
created scores of guerrilla
companies composed of his
Meo fellow tribesmen. And in
the key area of Laos, the Meo
guerrillas are now giving the
Communists some of their
own medicine, reducing them,
in fact, to the position of the
French in the Inriochinese
war.
In other words, the Com
munists now hold only the
roads and the strong points
in this area, and in some
parts of the area not this
much. The Meo guerrillas can
lay down, and have laid
down, mortar fire on the
main Communist supply base,
Xicng Khouang, with its air
field where the Soviet trans
ports land. They have already
interdicted the key road for
ward from Xicng khouang to
Vang Vicng. so that all sup
plies for this main forward
base threatening Vientiana
are now carried in by air.
They are tested by a y ear in
1 combat. They have far great
er potentialities in Laos.
Best of all, the Meo guer-
i rilla movement can be car-
! ried into the enemv's home
grounds, the Men-Black Thai
I area in the mountains of
North Vietnam,
IA
PD that annihr-r evieert-
lngly promising guerrilla
j'T' jert
In- JZji
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Discuss
Problems
been to the Liberals who have
not been in power since 1915
and who today hold only 8
of 630 seats in the House of
Commons.
Macmillan Is a seasoned
campaigner unlikely to panic
at the first of danger,
but it is ottvjnB that he needs
some successful and dramatic
stroke to restore his position.
movement is under way in
southern Laos. Add that tha
Americans who train the Roy
al Laotian army and go into
combat with the army units
are unanimous that just one
year of serious training has
already worked wonders with
this force of 60,000 men. Add
that these same Americans be
lieve that far more can be ac
complished. It can be seen that our as
sets in Laos are not to be
lightly flushed down the
drain. And this is another
great change in the equation,
for all these assets either have
been created or have gained
their present value in the last
year.
But if these changes in the
equation demand a change in
the U.S. policy, what should
it be? Somewhere in "Uncla
Remus" there is a wonderful
word, "segashuate," meaning
lo allow things to simmer
along or lo develop naturally
without undue interference.
The thing to do would seem
to be lo let Laos segashuate,
continuing to work for a reas
onable coalition but holding
no further Mad Hatter's tea
parties to enforce an unequal
coalition.
And if anyone asks, "But
what if the North Vietnamese
Communists then invade Laos
in great force?" the answer
is: "Have you heard about the
irrevocable commitment the
U.S. has now made in Soulli
Vietnam?"
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(ci General Feature! Corp.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Ninety per cent of tha
world's problems would be
solved if the people with tha
proper goals had the practical
judgment nerWsary to reach
those goals, aRl if the people,
with practical judgment
could be persuaded to adopt
the proper goals.
The difference between
an adolescent boy's "es
capade" and his "delin
quency" lies in the social
status of his parents.
Speaking of boys, the surest
way to ruin two children is
lo hold up one as a "good
example" to the othcr-which
only succeeds in turning tha
first into a rebel and the sec
ond into a prig.
The chief benefit confer
red by always telling the
truth is lhat one can afford
the luxury of having a bad
memory.
The best and briefest slate
ment of our modern predica
ment, and the only rational
attitude toward it, was madn
recently by Stuart Chase
when he said: "We need to
realize that just as a soldier
formerly could defend his
nation, so now it is only by
defending mankind that wa
can save our own country."
Men are those Inconsist
ent creatures who want to
violate every attractive
woman they can - and then
become indignant when the
attractive woman they mar
ry turns out not to have
been inviolable.
The really intolerable thin
about poverty is that It Is so
frightfully expensive.
I don't mind people who
merely dislike modern art.
in any form; but I do mind
those who compare it un
favorably with traditional
or classical art, which they
don't really understand, ap
preciate or cultivate - and
would have disliked just as
intensely if lhey had lived
during the period it was
created.
When a woman announce."
that she's going to dress "in
formally," it means that her
husband has only a 45-minuta
wait for her to achieve tha
effect of calculated careless
ness. Virtuous people have no
right to preach) If all the
Pulpits were filled with re
formed sinners, the congre
gations would sit up and
take more notice.
The best deflating comment
on the subject of ancestor
worship I've heard is Herbert
Agar's; -Snobs talk as if they
had begotten their own an
cestors" Those sects in which piety
is allied with penuriousness
have always struck me as
quite alien lo the genuinely
magnanimous spirit lhat
mu' be at the root of all
true religious feeling.