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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
May 20. 1952 (Tuesday)
The Medford area 1052
pce.ii crop may be an much
as 20 per cent less than last
year, it was predicted today.
Fourteen temples of the
Shrine, all members of the
Pacific Northwest Shrine as
sociation, will participate in
the 1053 convention of the
association in Medford.
20 YEARS AGO
May 20. 1942 (Wednesday)
Jackson county budget com
millee slates work on 1942-43
fiscal plana; proposed budget
first in history of county to
contain civil defense funds.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "With
gasoline rationing soon to be
eticctive, the kibosh will be
put on marathon gadding.
There will be no more leaving
home Friday during the three
day Fourth of July celebra
tion, speeding to Pothole,
N.D., and getting hack in time
to go to work Monday-any-way
getting back."
30 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1932 (Friday)
Vcrn Shangle'a Junior
American Legion baseball
team trounces Talent, 15 to
1.
Rogue valley sportsmen re
quest that state fish and game
commission place fishway at
smith side of Savage Rapids
dam.
40 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1922 (Saturday)
Hogue valley group starts
collecting funds for construc
tion ot a radio station in Cen
tral Point "from which point
crystal sets In all parts of
the valley would get good
reception."
50 YEARS AGO
May 20, 1912 (Sunday)
Medford youngsters report
ed hard at work on gardens
In vacant lots throughout the
cilv: S159 in nrizes to go to
best gardeners.
Medford municipally-owned
public market has grand
opening; located on South
Riverside ave. near Main si.
Whal's Your I.Q.?
Nina et ten correct it superior;
seven or eight is excellent; live ot
lit il good.
1. in an old song, whose
"Ihroat is like a swan"?
2. What country did Na
poleon call a nation of shop
keepers'.' ;i. Whom did the spider
Invite into her parlor'.'
4. One U.S. Vice President
resinned thai office to be
come a Senator from South
ern California; who was he?
5. In the Biblical story,
when Lot's wife looked back
what happened to her?
6 In a legislature dues a
minority or majority leader
hold the higher parly posi
tion? 7. The army of what U.S.
General defeated the Mexi
cans at Bucna Visla In 1847?
R. The practice of polygamy
was once an article of re
ligion of the Shakers, the
Quakers, or the Mormons?
. What Is a baby frog
called1
10. In what city is there
famous section known as
the Left Bank?
Answers: 1. Annie Laurie's.
2. England. 3. The fly. 4. John
C. Calhoun. S. She turned to
alt. 6. Both the seme. 7. Can.
ZePhary Taylor. I. The Mor
mons. 9. A tadpole. 10. Paris.
France.
SUNDAY. MAY 20. 1962
". ..Serve His
We sat in Detective Lieutenant Lyle Perkins'
office in the Medford city police station for an
hour or so one afternoon recently, and listened
to him interrogate a burglary suspect who had
been arrested early that morning s he and a
companion prowled the city.
It was a fascinating experience. The burglary
suspect seemed a pleasant enough chap: he spoke
well, had a diffident manner about him and, on
the surface at least, appeared most cooperative.
Lt. Perkins was questioning him about his
past activities (this was the first time he had
been arrested in Medford), and in the course of
the conversation, the man casually said some
thing that sat us up straight.
a a a
LIE HAD been in prison in California a num-
ber of times and spoke with a knowledgeable
familiarity about the character and personality
of the various institutions.
He recalled that one time several years ago,
confronted with the mandatory choice of a trans
fer to one of two different prisons, he had asked
to be sent to Chino prison, an institution set up
to house felons in their late teens and early 20's.
Shaking his head a bit sadly, he said that had
been a real mistake. We asked him why.
He thought for a minute and then he said,
"There's a saying among the older cons that
every man must serve his own time. The young
ones, who haven't learned what life is all about
yet, all want to serve everybody else's time."
And there it was: every man must serve his
own time.
a a
TTHE man gave no evidence of realizing the
import of what he had said, but the im
pact of those few words with the enormous
truism about life that they expressed has been
with us ever since.
In an era in man's development in which com
mittees spawn indiscriminate subcommittees,
when group activity has supplanted individual in
itiative, when collective compromise and "coop
eration" too often win out over rock-firm prin
ciple, that man's statement came like a haunting
reminder of a bygone glory.
How instantly was evoked the pale memory
of the view of life held about a hundred years
ago by men like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph
Waldo Lmerson.
Their basic tenets
paramount, that there really is such a thing as a
majority of one," that a rugged independence
and self-reliance are to be vigorously cultivated,
that man must bear the responsibility for his own
actions and deeds are concepts as seemingly out
of date as a suit of medieval armor.
'THIS is not weltschmerz. It is frighteningly
true.
Modern man does he not? grabs for aspirin
at the first sign of a headache, phones quickly
for a plumber when his
istens to demagogues to
think, gratefully submerges his identity in a com
mittee, a lodge, a political party.
National observers who rant about the drift
of this country toward the welfare state do per
haps have a piece of a point. While we would
be hard pressed to disagree with many pieces of
social legislation passed
in toto it does seem there is a danger that, in
wanting to help our fellow man, we may be in
viting him to help himself less.
We seem at last to be discovering this in our
foreign policy. We have come to the costly con
clusion that "dollar diplomacy" is a failure; one
simply can't buy friends not real friends. We
would hazard the estimate that the current ap
proach that of offering to match, in general,
funds raised by a country seeking our aid in its
effort to improve will tie eminently more successful.
X7E don't really digress. Those examples are
" germane.
The point is that while, finally speaking, it
is impossible to ever stand completely alone (no
man no nation is an island), we must, none
the less, strive toward that ideal.
We don't derogate cooperation or collective
activity per sc. It is inconceivable that much
worthwhile could be accomplished without it.
And surely it is vital that each of us learn to work
in harmony with others for the over-all welfare
of society.
But sometimes when we see a child in school
assigned to a committee of his classmates to
make a report on something -from which" ex
perience lie IS certain lO Oecome lailllliar Willi! have the privilege of free
only a fragment of the whole area of knowledge I ,rad'' wi,hin the market and
being examined we cannot help but feci h(lWlhT!r,Mnh,,J!:,,w,.,,,' '
i , ,, , . , -iii , . , , the world by a customs union
much better the youngster might be served if he (i might .say that the rccip-
Wei'C given the eiltli e
dividual piece of work.
True the child is part of the group, but he is
also a separate entity, who will someday come
face to face with the reality that he will succeed
or fail as a result of his own individual efforts
and initiative.
TTUK unfortunate man
office, once again in
law, had learned only a
what he had said.
Contemporary man as
or unwilling to apply
oi me.
Rut the truth of it remains, o
Each man'nuist independently live his own
life. o
Each man must serve his own time. (i. 11. B.
Own
lime
that the the individual is
faucets begin to leak,
find out what he should
in the last few decades,
responsibility for an 111-
who sat in Lt. Perkins'
serious trouble with the
limited application of
j
a whole seems u.iahle j
tV principle to his way
Dennis tfi
'Auydu SAI0 WAS KEEP W aw
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
BRITAIN AND THE
COMMON MARKET
Friday, I tried to describe
how the relations between the
English-speaking nations and
the Common
Market (offi
cially known
as the Euro
pean Econom
ic Communi
ty) are affect
e d by the
American nu
clear monop
oly and Brit-
M&4
Lippmann a 1 n's special
connections with it. There lies
the fundamental difficulty
confronting the grand project
of British membership In and
of American partnership with
the European Economic Com
munity. For we must bear it in mind
that while the Common Mar
ket, as established bv the
Treaty of Rome in 1957, deals
only with economic relations,
it has been agreed by all six
members that they will soon
sign another treaty, which Is
now being negotiated, to
establish a political union.
Their object is to create a
new great power which is to
he known not as France or
Germany but as "Europe." lt
Is in the formation of this new
political entity (hat the issues
of the British-American nu
clear connection arise.
A LL of this is not, however,
the subject of the formal
negotiations which have just
begun In Brussels. They are
concerned, we may say, with
whether and how Britain can
be admitted to the Common
Market. They are not avowed
ly concerned with British
membership in the new politi
cal entity which has still to
be created. Nevertheless, the
political and strategic issues
are, I feel sure, controlling, at
least in France, and how they
are to be resolved no one now
knows.
We can be sure that, un
resolved, these problems will
not make it easier to solve the
economic issues which in
themselves are very difficult
indeed. To understand the na
ture of the economic difficul
ty, around which (he Brussels
ngotiations revolve, we mvM
realize what is the basic com
part of the Common Market.
It Is . a bargain between
French agriculture and Ger
man industry. The key to this
bargain is that French agricul
ture is being modernized and
is becoming increasingly pro
ductive. At bottom the' Com
mon Market enables France to
sell the bulk of the basic food
- wheat and meat - protected
against Canada. Australia,
New Zealand, the Argentine,
and the United States by a
common variable levy which
would prevent Imports, no
matter how low in price, from
competing in the European
market. In return, German in
dustry primarily, but also
Italian. Belgian, and notch,
;rocal relation between French
agriculture and German in
dustry is comparable with the
economy of our own political
union. The I'nitcd States is a
rommnn market in which
there is
s an economic compact
n the industrial North-
bctwee
east and t h e agricultural
South and West. On a smaller
scale, of course, the Common
Market in Europe rests on a
similar system of reciprocal
advantage.) ,
' '
IS'nrii"' "T"
c'('mmonP m
see why the
cation to join
arket raises
such difficult questions on
both sides of the negotiating
table For Britain buys most
of her essential food outside
of Europe, The food romes
into Britain at Ihe low world
1
Red
Menace
a. a t(,
price and there is no signifi
cant tariff imposed upon it.
As a result, the British people
enjoy the advantage of cheap
er food than do the continen
tal people. The French pay
their farmers $2.25 a bushel
for wheat which brings only
$1.60 on the British market.
Thus, in Britain wheat flour
costs at retail about 18 cents
per kilogram (2 15 pounds);
in France, Germany, and Italy
the wheat flour costs about 21
cents. Beef costs the British at
retail about $1.66 a kilogram;
it costs the French and Ital
ians about $2.16.
The biggest economic issue
in the negotiations arises from
the fact that France and what
might be called the funda
mentalists of the Common
Market in Brussels, Bonn, and
Rome, say that, to be admit
ted, Britain must open her
market to French agriculture
and in effect close it to Aus
tralia and New Zealand, North
and South America. Britain
must impose, probably after a
transitional period of about
seven years, the common agri
cultural tariff of the Common
Market-. If Britain does not do
this, she may be excluded and
then her industrial exports
must face the common indus
trial tariff of the Common
Market.
a
fPHIS poses a very hard
1
choice both in Paris and in
London. How much the
French will wish to sharpen
the issue depends, as I have
been saying, on great political
and strategic questions. But
there are powerful economic
interests in France which,
leaving all political considera
tions aside, will press for very
hard terms. France is in the
midst of the same kind of
agricultural revolution which
has created our own farm
problem. For example, the
yield of wheat per acre has
increased by more than half
over the pre - war levels.
France is able not only to
feed her people but she also
has surpluses to export. In
the years 1959-'60-'61 France
exported about one-eighth of
her total wheat production of
32 million tons. About a third
of that total export went to
Germany.
The French farmers, like
our own, are a powerful po
litical force. They are inter
ested In exports at high prices,
and Britain seems a natural
market for French agricul
ture. French and other con
tinental industrialists view
higher food prices for British
workers as a wage-equalizing
factor. It would thus be most
difficult for any French gov
ernment to allow Britain to
enjoy cheap food front over
seas, thus excluding French
exports to Britain, and at the
same time to enjoy a free run
of the big common industrial
market.
VOn the British, the terms
for admission present a
truly agonizing decision. If
the Rrilish must shut out the
old dominions, which are the
producers of temperate agri
cultural products such as
wheal and meat and butter,
Hie old political and human
allegiance of the empire and
the commonwealth will suf
fer a rude and painful, if not
a fatal, shock.
The issue is deep, momen
tous, and hishly chained with
5l""mlm' "'on m u
"ow. in ''8'1'-
to una a solution, tne con
tinentals will have to move
into a much more generous
and flexible position than
General de Gaulle and Dr.
Adenauer now occupy. The
British are not so hard-pressed
that they can be brought
to a kind of unconditional sur
render to Pans and Bonn.
Thus the immediate fate of
thfogrand project drp.ds pri
marily on Tarts and Ponn.
I KNOW that this sounds
gltximy. For the short run
the prospect n gloomy if we
1AIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD.
M offer of Fact By Joseph Altop
(e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE PRIME MINIST1'S
PICKLE
London With ostentatious-
I ly stiff upper lip, Edward
.Heath, the able minister
charged with
securing Bri
tain's admis
sion to the
European
Common Mar
ket, has now
returned
from the
practical
n e g o tiations
in Brussels.
Alsnp
Despite Heath's public re
fusal to be discouraged, lt is
transparently obvious that
the Brussels meeting was ex
tremely discouraging. All the
Europeans reacted badly to
some of the British proposals
for safeguarding the Common
wealth. Furthermore, the
French, supported by the
Germans, rather openly re
sorted to delaying tactics.
On the highest level of the
British government, the ugly
fact is just beginning to be
faced that General de Gaulle
is positively hostile to British
entry into Europe. The fur
ther fact is also beginning to
be faced that although the
French may not be able to
close the door of the European
club in Britain's face, they
can at least keep the entrance
fee so high that it will be al
most impossible to pay.
TjVDR Prime Minister Mac-
millan, these newly
dawning facts are exception
ally unpalatable. On the one
hand, he could hardly lead
Britain into Europe on the
basis proposed by the French,
which is that "Britain must
either give up the Common
wealth or give up Europe."
If Macmillan tries to do so,
the leader of the Labor party,
Hugh Gaitskell, will make
the vote a party matter; and
only two score Conservative
defections will then defeat
the Prime Minister in the
House of Commons.
On the other hand, the
Prime Minister and the Con
servative leaders who are
closest to him not only regard
entry into Europe as essential
to Britain's future. They
have also been counting on
their entry into Europe as the
expect a full solution in which
Britain "joins" the European
Community of General de
Gaulle and Dr. Adenauer.
This is so difficult that we
may count ourselves fortu
nate if the negotiations are
not broken off and if a way
is found to continue them,
perhaps for some years.
For in the long run, the
grand project will, I believe,
be realized. There is a very
large popular momentum be
hind it, based on the manifest
economic advantages of union
and - on the great hopes of
peace and security which go
with union.
For ourselves, we shall be
dealing with the bigger reali
ties if we keep our hopes and
our policies bound up with
the will to get on with and
to achieve the grand project.
For the Europe of 1962 is not
the permanent and final shape
of Europe. It could change in
a few months.
In tomorrow's article, which
will conclude this series, I
should like to return to some
of the political conditions In
Europe which are of special
interest to this country.
National Apathy Bogs Kennedy
By ERIC SEVAREID
The Congress is now com
ing into the home stretch.
What it docs in the next
Sfrni couple of
.'jirlj?V 3 months will
4 at det ermine
whether this
will be a tri
umphal year
for President
Ken nedy or
the year of
one of the
strangest pres-
srvarrid I d e n tial de
i feats on record. He had mark
i cd out this year on his calen
! dar of action as the year of
fundamental domestic re-
forms, but, save for the job
retraining bill, his dramatic
and dramatized - proposals
have gotten virtually nowhere
with the Congress. The con
cept of an Urban Affairs De
partment is dead, the move to
j abolish racial discrimination
through literacy tests is dead,
the school-aid bill is mori
bund, the enormously compli
cated renovations of trans
portation, conservation and
farm support programs ran
hardly be dealt wilah In this
1 session.
I a a a
Congress traditionally gets
dow to actual legislating as
the dog-days of summer c,
j in; this is. after all. an elec-
I tinn year. ?ne pressures of
1 which are just beginning to
1 be felt, and if the tax and
Tiediral rare hil!s en through,
'the President will h.ae rea-O
It ' -
OREGON
big coup, the grand restora
tive, the powerful shot in the
arm, which will revive the
Conservative party's waning
fortunes in time for the next
British election.
The urgent need for a pow
erful political restoration has
been sharply underlined by
the series of defects and set
backs the Conservative party
has suffered in the last
month. The Prime Minister,
in sum, is in an ugly pickle,
which is made all the worse
by the problem of timing.
rpHIS Is an acute problem, in
-- the opinion of the British
leaders, because they see
their present attempt to enter
the new Europe as a last
chance, They may perhaps be
wrong in this; certain wise
American observers hold the
opposite view. But the British
believe that it is now or
never, because they think that
if they do not manage to get
in now, General de Gaulle
and Chancellor Adenauer will
soon mold Europe to their
own ends, with no one to stop
them. And a Europe molded
In the de Gaulle-Adenauer
image would leave no room
for British entry later on.
These being the main
factors of the problem so
strangely unforseen in Lon
don or Washington until just
the other day unusual inter
est attaches to Prime Minis
ter Macmillan's scheduled
meeting with General de
Gaulle at Champs early in
June.
Obvously, the Prime Minis
ter will try to win the French
President over to a more
friendly stance. But except
for his personal charm, Mac
millan has virtually no cards
to play but one. The British
already possess the nuclear
know-how which General de
Gaulle passionately wants for
his French nuclear program
but has been unable to obtain
from Washington.
TO BE sure, the British are
pledged to the American
government not to pass on to
any third party any of the
data obtained from the U.S.
as a result of their special
classification in the McMahon
Act. It will be a very terrible
step for the Prime Minister to
take, immediately jeopardiz
ing the revived Anglo-American
partnership, if he offers
to share with de Gaulle the
data he is pledged not to
share. But what if this ap
pears to be the only way of
persuading the unyielding de
Gaulle to permit British en
try into Europe on acceptable
terms?
The question, which is
downright agonizing, is al
ready under debate in Lon
don. No one can now predict
the outcome of this debate-in-whispers
at the top level of
the British government. Even
if the final decision is to try
and buy off de Gaulle, no one
can predict whether the
French President will prove
to purchaseable. In his
Machiavellian and somewhat
sadistic way, he is perfectly
capable of encouraging a Bri
tish offer and then returning
a glacial refusal.
But the mere fact that this
Jshould be the present stage
oi tne European problem is,
in itself, immensely indica
tive, lt indicates, in blunt
truth, that American policy
on this side of the Atlantic is
In very serious disarray.
son for satisfaction. If the his
toric move to re-organize
America's foreign trade should
also win out, the President
will have accomplished won
ders and the other 30 or so
"urgent" measures he has
thrown at the Congress can
lie over as the campaign is
sues so many of them were
, probably intended to be from
the beginning.
I
j If he gets no more than the
I tax or medical care legisla
tion he wants, the year would
: have to be accounted a legis
lative failure by the kind of
standards this administration
! has set for itself.
lt would be a strange failure
i because it would be the fail-
tire of a President who enjoys
overwhelming popular ap
proval, whose party has an
overwhelming majority in
both houses of Congress, a
President who is in personal
and intellectual command on
every sector of his wide front,
who has organized an admin
istrative branch of remark
able energy and dedication
and who absolutely dominates
the Washington news, day
after day.
The entire stage is sot for
a sweeping presidential tri
umph - and yet the whole ef
fort, oi almost the whole ef
fort, mav well fizzle and fade.
Mr. Kennedy is one of our
boldest presidents on record.
Boldly, he asked for the spirit
of sacrifice from his country
men in bis inauenr-rj) speech.
But what has been happening
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
"j 1Y ONE AMBITION is to live to be 100," an old gaffer
t'-e-in Stroudsburg, Pa., told his doctor. "Okay," said th
doctor. "No more smoking, drinking or gambling from'this
day forward." "Will that
make me live to be 100?"
asked the old man. "Who
knows," shrugged t h e
doctor, "but it certainly
will seem like it."
e e e
Suggestion for crossing
a busy street In a Vienna
newspaper: "In Italy, traf
fic will stop promptly if
you cross the street with a
shapely blonde; in England,
it you have a dog on a
leash; In America, if you
are accompanied by at
least three children ; in Ger
many, if you are wearing the uniform of a general."
a
Overheard: a coy little blonda between acta in the lobby at
"No Strings" whispering to the elderly 1ft. Moneybags who was
squiring her: "Mama warned ma there were men like you, but X
never dreamed I'd be fortunate enough to meet onel"
In the Day's News
By FRANK
In the headlines these days
the burgeoning saga of Billie
Sol Estes is beginning to push
Laos into the background.
Wheeling and dealing in the
government's fantastic farm
program operations, he ran
a shoestring into a fifty mil
lion dollar fortune.
Now he's broke.
THE lesson of it all-including
the mink coats and
deep freezes, the vicuna coats,
et cetera, in the past?
I think it is this:
Government is getting too
big.
Its vast and sprawling op
erations, carried on with the
taxpayers' money, present an
irresistible temptation to the
sharp teeth that are always
seeking soft flesh.
I SUPPOSE you have been
reading about the waiters'
strike at the plush Waldorf
hotel in New York. It has its
humorous aspects, and to that
extent it is to be welcomed
in a world where the news
tends to be over on the grim
side.
It started when the waiters
requested the management to
add to the guests' bill a 12
per cent charge for service.
This service charge is more
or less the custom in hotels
all over the world, but hasn't
got a foothold as yet in the
U.S.A. What it amounts to is
that the hotel automatically
adds the service charge to
the bill, collects the money
when the guest departs and
at regular intervals distrib
utes the money among the
employees who rendered the
service.
rpHE Waldorf management
- balked - contending, pre
sumably, that the giving of
a gratuity for services ren
dered is a private matter be
tween the giver and the re
ceiver thereof. There are
many people who LIKE to
reward good service. It gives
them pleasure to do it. But
they like to be the judge as
to whether the service is good
or bad and tend to resent be
ing nicked for lip money re
gardless of their opinion as
to the excellence and the
courtesy, or the lack of it, on
the part of those who provide
the service.
The Waldorf management's
story is that the addition of
a blanket charge for service
above and beyond the call of
duty is RESENTED hy the
customer, who likes to feel
that HE is the judce as to
is what Deiocqueville saw
happening with bold Ameri
can leadership more than a
ccntry ago: ". . . with immense
exertion he raises them for an
instant, but they speedily es
cape from him and fall back,
as it were, by their own
weight."
a
Tlie reasons the people are
"falling back" in spite of their
great liking for President
Kennedy, whereas they did
not fall back under the leader
ship of FDR, to whom Ken
nedy has been likened, are
rather simple, it seems to me.
Roosevelt had two great is
sues to face, unemployment
and the world Fascist threat
which, unlike the present
Communist threat, obviously all but an intellectual grasp
had to be met primarily by of the whole structure ot
arms. It was not merely that ' problems and his whole struc
both of these challenges were ture of answers to them,
simpler than most issues to-, Answers that arc, as the
day but that both were of uni -
versa! application; ALL Amer
icans were affected, and in
tensely so.
I mi. rviiiitii, iduuui ton -
Mr. Kenneny cannot con-
centrate on one overriding
challenee. and most of th
I domestic problems he faces,
I whether care for the elderly,
j tax benefits for buseness re
investment or voting rights in
the south, are chieflv minority
or sectional problems The
people have no real sense of
universal involvement. Even
: the school neds are vastly
different from community to
community. Even urban re
newal loses its pressine appeal
to city workers when they
Stop Mp
JENKINS
whether the service was ol
such a quality as to deserve)
a special reward. Hotels,
along with other business es
tablishments, don't like to do
things that are resented by
their customers.
Anyway the situation drag
gcd along until it resulted in
a strike.
NOW for the humoroul
aspects.
Willing but inexperienced
accountants, secretaries, cleri
cal workers and EXECU
TIVES stepped into the
breach and gave their all.
Conrad Hilton, the big boss
of the Waldorf and the whole
Hilton hotel chain, shed his
coat and waded in. He moved
behind the bar in the world
famous Starlight Roof and
poured a Bourbon and water
for Edwin L. Meacham, New
Mexico's winsomely youthful
and handsome governor.
The treasurer of the Hilton
hotel chain, Frank Considine,
filled in as a waiter and later
as a bartender. The national
chain's sales representative
handled the emergency sand
wich production line that was
set up to stay the hunger of
the guests. The registered
guests . . . 1600 of them . . .
pitched in and toted their
bags and kidded the upper
bracket volunteer help. A
good time seems to have been
had by all.
HOW will it come out?
Here's a guess:
If and when the waiters
and such get the 12 per cent
automatic service charge add
ed to the bill, to be later dis
tributed share and share alike
to everybody concerned, the
guests will grumble and pay
it, but will go right on tip
ping those who give them
good service and pleasant
treatment.
At least, that's the way it
works all over the rest of the
world.
POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
My, that was a fi elec
tion. (Yawn.) A lot of us
stayed up (YAWN) late to
count the returns. Most of us '
are (YAWN ! ! !) sleepy. So I
don't think the Potluck edi
tor has enough energy today
to write a (YAWN) column
Zzzzzzzz.
Program
move by the millions to the
suburbs.
Inflation, however, IS uni
versally felt and understood,
subject to dramatization,
"coast to coast," which is why
the President could do what
he did to the steel companies
and increase, not diminish,
his general standing with the
people in the doing.
What this President faces Is
a wide mosaic of vital, but
semi - detached problems; he
cannot deal with this mosaia
except with an extensive, bal
anced program of action. This
is realistic, but not in its na
ture dramatic. What he is
really asking from the nation
as a whole is not sacrifice at
: must be, essentially sectional
and minority-group in their
effect, are easily delayed or
rebuffed In the conglomerate
1 ui iiui-ii-sis mat any congress-
i represents. The President's
party majority In the House
of Representatives may be in
creased still further next
November. But, judging by
the record, unless the newcom
ers are not just Democrats but
"Kennedy Democrats" - a
phrase we shall hear more
and more - the President!
program will do no better
next year than this. 1
(Distributed 196, bj The
Hall Syndicate. Ine.)
(All Righle Reared)