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History from tht tiles of Tht
Mail Tribunt 10, 20, 30, 40
nd 50 veart ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 29. 1952 (Thursday)
Medford city Superintend
ent Robert Duff today re-
ouestcd that Medford resl-
dents observe regulations
which will conserve water.
A contract for transport
Hon of Star route mail be
tween Grants Pass and Duns-
m u I r, succeeding railroad
service, has been let.
20 YEARS AGO
May 29, 1942 (Friday)
Stale civil defense head
warns of Japanese raid on
Dutch Harbor, Alaska, indi
cating Oregon civil defense
workers must be on a 24-hour
alert.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
it as rationing will become
more stringent next winter,
reports tell. This will stop In
dignant citizens from march
ing to stale legislatures in
limousines."
30 YEARS AGO
May 29. 1932 (Sunday)
Plans discussed to disenn
flnue Oregon state fair "in the
Interest of economy."
Logging hailed In Rogue
valley by heavy rains and wet
forest conditions.
40 YEARS AGO
May 29. 1922 (Monday)
Plans announced for three
pear packing plants to be
erected In Medford; 1022
crops expected to be slightly
below normal.
From Local and Personal
column: Pickwick stages from
San Diego to Portland have
commenced operation on a
regular schedule, and Tom
Merriman, local blacksmith,
has contracted with the com
pany for the repair ot all
broken springs and similar
work.
SO YEARS-AGO-May
29, 1912 (Tuesday)
Medford baseball team He.
feats Grants Pass, 20 to 15,
and for second time in month
players have to walk most of
way home when bus repeat
edly breaks down and tires
blow out.
What's Your I.Q.?
Hint or tan correct It superior;
seven or tight it txcellent; flvt or
sii It good.
1. The U.S. recently as
signed a number of what
"weapons" to N ATO ?
2. During the administra
tion of which President was
Ihe pay-as-you-go Income tax
law enacted?
3. How do the constitution
al qualifications for vice pres
ident and president differ?
4. What Viennese writer
popuiarizcd surh terms asifornia licenses. We also
liniaHon?''''''"510" 'nd ,,,b'jherta. Connecticut. Minnesota, New York, Illinois
5. Complete (he following: an(l Florida.
"A soft answer . . . ." j
6. is an astute person dull, rTMlK trip home, bv wav of Jedediah Smith Red
"hr7PVkAd"biva.vey?, ,n intake w"'ls State Paik and up the Smith river, over
of a submarine; true or false? j Oregon mountain, through the Illinois Valley and
8. who was President of "Grants Pass, is alwavs pleasant.
s,oodUfeSiiing"in'' ,h' " Er" 'l Maj changes noted this time included a
n. Does the Hudson River j several-mile stretch of new four-lane highway be
have its source in Hudson tween Wilderville and Grants Pass, and, of
BTo. Could a naturalized'001"' lhp f,WWa' f,'m (5"la 10 tlle
American citizen hold the of. 'already-open section at Rogue River.
flee of secretary of state' i Intending to go to Rogue River via the river
mu.u.W'.ub..,i. yr,o..,!a'1, WP Sa- a" l,on .ill,c'ess ' "ad loading to the
1943. 3. Qualifications freeway, with no barrier, and with a sign point
art iha stmt. 4. sigmund ing to Jledford, so we got onto the Freeway and
rh,.7hr"v!whizze,, honi in 15 or -
ft. J.m.i Monro., i. are io.';.v l11'"'- t' 'P- The freeway will be. opened "of-,
Yes.
TUESDAY. MAY 29. 1962
Coastal
A business trip to Eugene Friday, plus a day
of vacation still unused on Saturday, provided
the opportunity. An out-of-state visitor provided
the excuse. And thus it was that early Saturday
morning we were driving along Route F in Lane
county, headed for the coast.
Too often, in jaunts to that magnificent
stretch of country and coastline, we have been
in a hurry to get somewhere. This time we had
no agenda, no plans, no timetable.
So, arriving at Florence, we took the little
road that runs to a park overlooking the mouth
of the Siuslaw river, something we'd never seen.
"THE mouth of the Siuslaw river isn't terribly
exciting, but the drive to it was superb, for
the rhododendrons were in full flower. So was
the scotch broom. And the two of them the
bright yellow and dark green of the latter and the
varying shades of pink and light green of the
former, alternating along the side of the road
provided a seldom-seen feast for the eyes.
Traffic was fairly heavy both Saturday and
Sunday, all the way down the coast. Motel and
service station people told us that many of the
travelers are en route to or from the fair in Seat
tle, as expected.
The highway, however, is constantly being
improved, and only in a few spots does it leave
convenience and safety factors to be desired. And
these are being corrected.
THE best part of the trip, from our viewpoint,
is from Port Orford south. It is here that the
sandy beaches and dunes give way to massive
headlands, sharp cliffs, and rocks studding the
offshore waters; to tiny sand-beach coves; to
rolling open grassy uplands, and to forests, tall
and green and occasionally scarred by logging or
fires.
We spent the late afternoon and evening in
Gold Beach hiking along the beach in a brisk
and chilly wind, and driving for a distance up the
Rogue River from its mouth.
The number of homes some small and
shacky, others quite comfortable and neat-looking
that are tucked into crannies in the nearby
hills was amazing. Many of them, we guessed,
belong to employees of a big lumber mili on the
south side of the river, and the number of boats
drawn up on the bank by it suggested that many
of the workers "commute" to work by boat.
THE most spectacular
fmm ln1,1 D.,V,
liwin VJU1U UCCtt.ll III 1J1 UUft.1115, anu UlC UCSI
part of that is the magnificent brand-new section,
open only a few months, north of Brookings.
The old road ran inland, so the new road,
slicing along the crests and slopes of the hills on
the seaward side, opens up coastal vistas seen by
very few in the past.
Superlatives fail in attempting to exnress the
beauties of that portion of the coast. To our mind
it is far and away the most beautiful of any coast
line we have ever seen, personally or in picture,
and we do not exempt either the Riviera or the
Big Sur country in California. Our companion
compared it favorably to the coast of Maine.
e
""THE highway department has put its best foot
forward here. The engineering work on the
highway is a splendid
massive cuts and fills to the Thomas Creek
bridge, highest in the state, which spans a gorge
more than 300 feet deep.
We felt that in locating and constructing
some of the "viewpoint" turn-outs, the depart
ment was a little less than imaginative and help
ful to travelers, and we deplored some of the
great bare spots sliced into the scenery by the
engineering necessities.
However, it makes up for these in the location
and planning ot other viewpoints one of which
has a road leading to a parking area near the
top of a hill, right above the ocean, with a sweep
ing view in both directions.
'T'YVO new state parks, for picnickers only, have
been laid out and equipped in delightful
spots. And, we understand, most of the land be
tween the highway and the ocean has been ac
quired by purchase or gift, thus creating a miles
long state nark, always to be protected from com
mercial "development."
The principal camping parks in the area have
been here for some time, one of them tucked
down in the little valley just north of Humbug
mountain, the other at 'Harris beach just north
of Brookings. Only one camping party was in
evidence at Humbug, but Harris Beach' park ap
peared to be almost full on Sunday.
Perhaps half the cars on the road bore Cali-
finally" on
m r rid ay. h.A. I
Trip
part of the whole trip is
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Connally Amtndmtnt
To the Editor: "Tiger In The
Senate" (Editorial 52462)
fits Senator Wayne Morse in
more ways than one. The tiger
is one of the most dangerous
animals in the jungle, and Mr.
Morse has proven himself ex
ceedingly dangerous, in my
estimation, ever since 1945.
For in that year he introduced
to the Senate a resolution
which would put our nation
under complete and compul
sory jurisdiction of the UN
World Court.
This "Supreme Court" of
the United Nations, answer
able only to the UN, consists
of one American and 14 Com
munist and foreign justices,
all appointed by the UN, with
out approval by the U. S. The
UN Charter states that this
court is to have jurisdiction
over international affairs
only. But it also states that
the World Court, itself, shall
decide which is international
and which is domestic. And
there shall be NO appeal
from its decision!
Can't you just see Khru
shchev and his wolf rack of
Communist and "neutral"
judges slobbering to get a
crack at us with that kind of
unlimited power? Senator Tom
Connally saw it. He took time
to study the UN Charier and
Morse's resolution and saw in
them the complete surrender
of the U. S. to the UN via the
future "decisions" of the UN's
World Court. And we can
thank our lucky stars that he
bowed his neck and went in
slugging till he convinced the
Senate, and they added to the
Morse "resolution" the Con
nally Amendment, which spe
cifically stipulates that it is
the United State of America
which shall decide what dis
putes are "domestic" and
which are "international."
God bless Tom Connally's
heart.
I am told that Senator
Morse fought like a wounded
tiger to keep Connally's
Amendment out of his reso
lution; and that he has been
licking his wounds ever since,
biding his time. Letters I've
received from him in recent
years bear this out, showing
that after over 15 years he is
more determined than ever to
repeal the Connally Amend
ment. And make no mistake
about it. If this Amendment is
repealed or bypassed, it will
mean the end of our Consti
tution, our Bill of Rights, and
our Declaration of Indcpond-ence-the
end of a free United
States and a free American
people.
For this reason we should
give Senator Wayne Morse all
the respect we would give a
Bengal Tiger crouching in our
midst with tail twitching.
Don t ever underestimate
him. or foolishly class him as
a "braying jackass." Oppose
him, vote against him, if you
feel you should. But respect
him.
I.. C. Powell.
318 S.E. Eighth St.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
Doftat Socialism
To the Editor: Before Con
gress is the largest single
piece of welfare legislation in
history - the King-Anderson
Bill. The first year's cost
alone has been estimated to
be front one to (our billion
dollars. Two things are sine:
(1) the cost will be enormous:
(21 the money will come from
our pocketbooks.
Let us examine this gigantic
piece of legislation.
First, is there a need for
a bill of this size? Fifty-three I The 8:trd infantry division,
per rent of the people over , the famed Thunderbolt divis
tiS have some kind of health ion of World War II, is con-
insurance, and by tP-ti.V "3
per cent will. The elderly are
buying health Insurance fast
er than any othvjr age group.
We see. then, that the need
is not great.
Now let us examine the
plan 1
First e ran see that it
is woefully inadequate It is, '
of course, the self-sufficient
people who participate 111 the
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD
Wall
Social Security system. There
fore, under the King-Anderson
bill, it would be those
people, not the less fortunate
who need it most, receiving
the services!
Let me also note that this
is not Insurance, although the
advocates of the bill would
have it so. Social Security is
not insurance.
This bill will cost too much
and is financially unsound. If
the bill is passed and goes as
planned, by 1068, a person
with a $4000 income would
pay $380 Social Security tax
and at least $245 income tax.
In 1961, President Kennedy
asked the Social Security Ad
ministration to examine the
financial aspects of the pro
gram. The committee came
forth with a startling conclu
sion: It .won't work. Still, the
president has tried to push
the bill. He says that he will
raise the tax, yet Secretary
Ribicnff has said when the
Social Security tax approaches
the 10 per cent level, which
it will under the bill, it
reaches the saturation level.
The bill will cost more than
expected. The insurance com
panies of the United States re
cently took a survey. They
found it will cost 150 per cent
more than expected.
This bill will overcrowd
hospitals; they will become
hospitals; they will become
jumping-off place for nursing
homes. Under the bill, a com
mittee of non-medical men
will be running the hos
pitals. And. under the King
Anderson bill, the patient may
not have free choice of hos
pital! Anyone can see the hand
writing on the wall. The King
Anderson bill is a long stride
toward socialized medicine. I
do not believe the U.S. wants
to take such a radical step,
when there are other means
to solve the need. We can ex
tend federal loans to hospitals,
use the Kerr-Mills bill to its
fullest extent, and have great
er income tax deduction for
the care of our elderly people.
Socialized medicine is not the
answer.
This will lead us to social
ism. First socialized hospital
care for the aged, next social
ized medicine, then full social
ism. I don't think any of us
want socialism - I know I
don't. Let's defeat the King
Anderson hill and what it
stands for. Write your U.S.
Senators and Congressman.
Let's defeat socialism in the
U.S.
John Caslerline,
Ninth Grade,
Heririck Junior
High School,
Medford
Appreciation
To the Editor: I would ap
preciate very much the oppor
tunity through your columns
of thanking my constituents
and the people of the State
of Oregon who worked for
me and who expressed their
confidence in me at the polls.
I trust that I have in a small
way alerted the people of the
state to their problems as they
exist in the Nation's Capitol.
To the newspapers I appre-1
ciate the news coverage of my j
activities and philosophies of
government. j
Edwin R. Durno, M.C.
Washington. D. C.
Members of Division
Sought for Reunion
ducting an extensive search
(or 30.000 former members.
The persons are wanted in
connection with the ltith an
nual reunion of Ihe di isinn to
be lii-ld Aug 16 'e rough 13
in Atlantic City, N. J.
All former members of the
the 8.1rd division are asked in rl1HF senate passes a com
contact latrv Redmond. 1:1:2 ple and controversial
Rockwood dr., Haverlown. i yrm bill carrying mar of
Ta. line stiff production controls
a
ft
OREGON
Secretary
Next April; Thant May Be Named Again
By PHIL NEWSOM
UP1 Foreign Ntwt Analyst
U Thant soon must make up
his mind whether he wants
to be secretary general of the
United Na
tions for a full
term. Some
friends of the
mild - spoken,
Bud
dhist express
doubts that he
wants the job
beyond next
Newsooi April 10 - the
end of the late Dag Hammar
skjold's term to which the
General Assembly appointed
him last November.
Despite the lame-duck na
ture of his appointment,
Thant's six month conduct in
Matter of Fact a joPh auop
(e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE SLEEPER AWAKES
Washington - The agricul
ture bill, which has always
been the sleeper in the Kenne
dy
legislative
awakening in
. ina
the Senate
last week. As
the result of
a single vote
cast against
the Adminis
tratlon by
Proxmire of
Wisconsin, the bill had been
gutted in committce-which is
usually the end of any bill's
story. But the Senate put
back the bill's guts by a sub
stantial majority on Thurs
day, and passed the bill itself
by a majority of 42-to-38 on
Friday.
The guts of the provision is
designed to put limits on the
formerly limitless expansion
of farm surpluses. This part of
the bill extends to wheat and
feed grains the same system
of strict production controls
plus solid price supports
which is already working well
for other crops like cotton, to
bacco, and peanuts. Wheat
and feed grains now account
for two-thirds of $9 billion
surplus of farm products cur
rently held by the U. S. gov
ernment. ItHE Southern states are a
deficit area in feed grains,
and therefore have a strong
Interest In low feed grain
prices. Hence the Southern
votes were the ones to watch.
All the bellwethers - Sens.
Harry F. Byrd of Virginia
and Richard Russell and Her
man Talmadge of Georgia
supported the administration.
This is a good augury for the
House of Representatives,
which is expected to pass the
bill by a better majority than
the Senate, but only after a
rough fight.
One reason the fight will be
rough in the House can be dis
cerned in the famous Billie
Sol Estcs case. The endlessly
increasing farm surpluses
have created a requirement
for more and more crop
storage space, such as Estes
rented to the Federal govern
ment for large sums.
In many parts of the coun
try, building storage space for
Federally-held farm surpluses
has in fact become a favorite
speculative investment. The
companies and individuals
who entered the business in
the era of endlessly increasing
surpluses are already bar
raging House members with
cries of protest, because they
fear the surpluses, and there
fore their incomes, may begin
to shrink.
rpHE fact that no one really
- expected anything to be
done about the surplus prob-lcm-the
general acceptance of
the problem as a kind of cost
ly but wholly incurable disease-can
also be read in the
ttsqjjg
Alsnp
Sen. William
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Political note:
The Morse campaign com
mittee reports that it spent
$18,843 in the Oregon pri
mary election campaign. The
committee adds in its report
that it received $20,367.
The committee for Repre-
sentative Edith Green, of
Portland, who won renomina -
linn ronnrt that it snent S310
he primary election cam-
I paign.
'ra.Jss
t cam
paign contributions:
1. It doesn't matter so much
HOW MI CH IS SPENT as
WHERE IT COMES FROM.
Candidates should be re-
quired to disclose their spend -
ing. including where me
money came from. BEFORE
THE ELECTION so that be
fore voting the voters may
have the opportunity to know
where the money came from
and whether in their opinion
it was TOO MUCH.
General's Term Will Expire
the office has not looked like
that of a man treading care
fully to avoid anything that
could wreck his election to a
full term.
He has been sharp, in a
quiet diplomatic way, with
East and West alike on occa
sion. British Prime Minister Har
old MacMillan, visiting here
last month, was reported to
have given Thant his govern
ment's backing for a five-year
term in his own right.
Washington has been care
ful to steer clear of official
endorsement lest it prove a
cold war kiss of death that
could bring Russia's veto if
only because he was support
ed by the United States.
But last Sunday, U. S. Am
bassador Adlai E. Stevenson,
storage space story. Secre
tary of Agriculture Orville
Freeman announced his in
tention to get the surplus
' problem under control at all
program, hadi?.sts' " f,n ane t00k ol'
an impressive But Freeman s announce-
l nient was aisniisscu as non
sensical, and large invest
ments were made in addition
al storage space during last
year.
It is ironical that almost
everyone should be aston
ished, and a good many hard
headed businessmen should be
caught short, because the pas
sage of this serious farm bill
suddenly seems likely. It is
even more ironical that con
servative persons are not at
all pleased by this prospect.
Evidently continued reck
less spending is widely
thought to be less dangerous
than extending government
controls. For the point in the
farm story, heavily under
lined by the hapless record of
former Secretary of Agricul
ture Ezra Taft Benson, is that
the choice lies squarely be
tween extending controls or
wasting more and more mon
strous sums of public money.
BENSON'S theoretical third
choice was abolishing
price supports lor farm prod
ucts. But this was never po
litically feasible, as was
proven by the Eisenhower ad
ministration's flat failure to
carry Benson's programs,
even in the first Republican
controlled Eisenhower Con
gress. High price supports
combined with inadequate
production controls inevitably
lead to increasing Federal
costs and increasing stored
surpluses.
For this reason, the cost
of the Federal farm program
rose from about $2.5 billion a
year at the end of the Truman
administration to the stagger
ing total of $9 billion a year
at the end of the Eisenhower
administration, with no less
than $1 billion a year going
for mere storage costs of sur
plus crops. Such was the sit
uation that Secretary of Agri
culture Freeman tackled
head-on, with remarkably in
dustry and considerably po
litical courage.
It has been touch-and-go
all the way. The most arduous
work by Freeman and the
astute Chairman of the House
Agrbulture Committee, Rep.
Harold D. Cooley, was needed
to secure a one-vote margin
to report the bill lo the
House. The Senate Commit
tee, as noted, went against the
Administration, also by one
vote. Curiously enough, the
farm bill has lately gained
support from the Estes case,
which has highlighted the
scandal of the unreformcd
farm program. In such strange
ways, with hardly anyone
paying the smallest attention,
one of the most intractable,
long - established national
problems seems to be on the
way to solution.
JENKINS
and penalties asked by Pres
ident Kennedy. The senate
vote was 42-38. The measure
now goes to the house, where
a similar bill is already await
ing floor action.
The principal features of
the hill are HIGHER PRICE
: bUJ'fOK 1 S and substantially
! reduced PRODUCTION Inot
acreage) quotas for wheat.
corn, grain sorghum and bar
ley. If approved by both
houses of the congress and
signed by the President, it
will be put to a vote of the
farmers, with a two-thirds ma
jority needed for adoption.
If the bill, when submitted
to the farmers, is rejected,
1 production would be unlimit -
ed, but price quotas would
be substantially lower and
the secretary of agriculture
would be authorized to
DUMP SOME OF THE PRES
ENT SURPLUS STOCKS ON
THE MARKET for what they
would bring, thus further de
pressing prices.
'PHK hill is afnittrdly rii as -
- tic. Rut the farm program
in a nationwide television in
terview, waxed enthusiastic
about Thant.
"The United Nations was
fortunate, I think, to find such
a distinguished diplomat to
fill this demanding post," Ste
vensen said. "His ability and
his equanimity are universal
ly recognized and he has
served well in his first months
of office."
Washington Report
By William
(ci United Featuri Syndicate
THE ISSUES CHOICE
Washington - Increasingly
it looks that this year's true
congressional election cam-
S paigns will be
fought far
more on the
floors of the
senate and
house than in
the states and
c ongressional
districts. Tra
d i t io n ally,
congress quits
WMt aooui juiy in
such years so members may
go home and mount the elec
tioneering stumps. This time,
because of a heavy work load,
there is no real prospect of
any final adjournment either
in July or August, and prob
ably not in September, either.
The probability is that the
best that can be managed will
be a fairly short recess, so
that for all practical purposes
the senate and house them
selves will be and remain the
electioneering stumps.
INCREASINGLY, too, It
looks as if the great ques
tions of our time - the cold
war, the slate of Western al
liance, and our national pol
icy toward neutral nations
will be far less talked about
than will be two or three
homely and relatively minor
domestic issues.
We are unlikely to have
anything like a great debate
between the Democratic and
Republican parties on the
state of the world. We are
likely, instead, to have a se
ries of small debates on such
matters as the administra
tion's relationship to business
and what sort of medical care
we should provide for the
aged. No doubt, too, we shall
hear a deal about the scan
dals raised by that big-time
operator in the farm subsidy
program, Billie Sol Estes.
If this forecast turns out
to be correct, then the whole
attention of the country will
be turned from what is infin
itely urgent and incomparably
vital - foreign policy - to
what is reasonably important
but by no means historically
urgent - domestic politics.
ALL this is well within the
American tradition and no
one should question the coun
try's right so to preoccupy It
self, if it chooses.
Still, the probable choice of
priorities seems a great pity.
It is as though we were decid
ing to yawn our way through
those questions which could
mean life or death in favor of
spirited national discussion on
such things as these: how
iritany hospital bills the gov
ernment should pay and for
whom; how right or wrong
business is in its view of John
F. Kennedy; and the exact
character and associations of
Billie Sol Estes.
This is not to imply that
these three things are only
trifling. Obviously, all three
are meaningful; and the mat
ter of business confidence in
the present American govern
ment is meaningful, indeed.
Still, the republic will sur
vive even if "medicare" is
not enacted in any form. It
will go on even if the ideal
partnership between business,
labor and government eludes
us all. And assuredly the tem
ple will not fall no matter
how many curious transac
tions Billie Sol Estes may be
found to have made and no
matter how many politicians,
of whatever party, may be
discovered to have been in
volved. 4 LL these are not urgent
" subjects in point of time,
have been built up under it
are fantastic. We can't even
give the surpluses away as
rapidly as they build up. So
the feeling in Washington is
that something drastic
has
to he done about it.
That raises this question
W hy is it regarded as po
litically safe to propose a I
drastic cure for the evils that
have arisen under a farm pro
gram that has subsidized over
! productipn lo the point where
we no longer know what to
do with the immense sur
pluses that have resulted from
the subsidies?
TMIE answer is simple.
1 In these days when ,,'ie
BIG CITY vote jecides our
elections, it is regarded as
Doliticallv safe to tell the
, farmers WHAT THEY MUST
DO OR ELSE for the good of
the country i a whole.
The answer to whether tha
"acting" will be removed
from Thant's secretary gen
eral title probably will come
late this summer, when ha
visits Moscow.
The Russians are not likely
to announce any endorsement.
But the reception the slightly
built Burmese gets In the So
iet capital will signal the
Kremlin's attitude.
S. White
whereas foreign affairs sure
ly are. The country has a need
to hear much about foreign
policy and the administration
and its critics have a right to
say much.
The President is entitled lo
an attentive national audience
for what seems to this basic
ally unpartisan correspond
ent to have been his signal
strength in maintaining a firm
but prudent line about Ber
lin and against communist ag
gression in southeast Asia and
in resuming our nuclear test
ing. The President's critics have
a right to an equally atten
tive national audience fully
to ventilate their objections
and anxieties at what seems
to this same correspondent tm
be the weakness of the ad
ministration's undue defer
ence to the neutral nations
both outside and inside the
United Nations.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
SHRINKING WORLD
We speak glibly of the
"shrinking" world of today
but do we actually realize
how much the
world h a .1
shrunk since
our nation
was founded?
When the
o r i gi n al 13
c o 1 o nies de
cided to feder-
- J ate, they were
' miifh "Inroar"
Harris than the
whole world is today. In
1776, the fastest courier re
quired 24 days to take a copy
of the Declaration of Indepen
dence from Philadelphia lo
South Carolina.
This was about 575 hours
to travel a distance of 350
miles as the crow flies: an
average rate of about .61
miles an hour. A commercial
jet today can easily go 610
miles an hour, or 1,000 as
fast.
Since tht world is about
24,000 miles around, if we
divide i by 1,000 (tha num
btr of limes greater than
our ipttd of travtl ia now),
this represents a world only
24 milts in circumference
compartd to tht world of
1776.
Coniidtr a world that if
only 24 miles around-about
the distanct from lht north
tnd of Chicago to tht south
tnd. And, of courst, if we
computed tht lamt way for
wire or ttlephont commu
nication, tht wholt world
would shrink to tht lilt of
a pta.
But this It the world we
livt in. Vittnam .a no fur
thtr than a drive out to
tht picnic grounds. Paris
is a brief spin to a drivt-in
movit. Moscow ii ltsi than
half a length of tha city
away. With a globt only
24 miles in circumfertnee,
compartd to 1776. what
validity is there in Washing
ton's words warning us ts
btwara of "entangling alli
ances. "
We are entangled righl up
to our eyeballs, like it or not.
The world has become one
city, in time and space. Wb
cannot avoid being entangled
with our neighbors, because
the whole concept of distance
has been so radically changed
that a global war can now be
I declared, waged and lost in
1 15 minutes,
j psycholoKically much les,
nn,itirav A i11 ,
, .... u,,u
up to these facts. We are not
prepared for such proximity;
we can barely endure our
neighbors across the street,
and now we are asked to
cope with those across the
world.
It is almost too much lo
bear in too short a time. Tech
nology has plunged us into
a tiny goldfish bowl together,
and we are all swimming
around furiously, wondering
what happened to the spacious
pond we used to live in It
is the most severe test of hu-
manitv thai nnA an imQn:n
I If the world goes to war. it
may be more out of fnmra.
IP"!
jtion than out of hostility.
A
a mrw. The ju.Oujfs that.
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