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Medford and Jackson County
History from th files ot The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 5, 1952 (Thursday)
Clyde Bcatty's wild animal
circus opened its two -show,
one day stand here today.
County Engineer Paul Ryn
ning has forwarded a piece of
the defective concrete from
the bridge at Rogue River to
the State Highway commis
sion laboratories in Salem for
complete analysis.
20 YEARS AGO
Juno 5, 1942 (Friday)
Jackson county budget al
lows for salary of $2,000 a
year for county commissioners
with no mileage fees.
tvnm Arthur Perry's Ye
Smude Pot" column: It be
gins to look like June will
irn nut a June day by the
middle of June - if June lasts
long enough."
30 YEARS AGO
t,, s. 1932 (Sunday)
First graduation ceremonies
held in new Medloro. nigu
school; graduates include
Jeanne G ranees Fabrlck,
Carol Dodge, Rosa Gore, Al
bert Gaddis, Bob Colvig and
George Harrington.
Frank DeSouza, Medford
attorney, reelected chairman
of Jackson county Demo
cratic central committee.
40 YEARS AGO
June 5, 1922 (Monday)
Local Circuit Judge F. M.
Calkins receives threat from
Ku Klux Klan; warns against
giving new trial to convicted
hnnllneeer.
Medford High school gradu-
nilnn class included Rlnrioric
Skeetcrs, Richard Payne, Jack
Crump and Alta Knips; 52 re
ceive diplomas.
50 YEARS AGO
June 5, 1912 (Tuesday)
Between 50 and 100 mem.
bers of Seattle auto club ex
pect to visit Medlord during
tour of Pacitic.
Medford man narrowly
escapes death when his motur
cycle collides with a train at
Jackson street crossing and he
is carried into the depot on
the locomotive cowcatcher.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1962
Handwriting on The Wall
One of this year's biggest domestic issues
THE biggest issue in the minds of many is that
of medical care for the elderly.
Everyone including the American Medical
Association agrees that it must be provided,
in one form or another. The fight is over the
means. And quite a fight it is, too.
The administration proposal is the King-An
derson bill, which would provide a certain mini
mum of hospitalization and nursing home care
for those over 65, to be financed through the so
cial security program.
Th s rhe A.M. A. is licrntinp; tootn and toe-nan.
It favors instead the Kerr-Mills Act (now in ef
fect, in some states) which provides care tor the
"medically indigent," plus extension of voluntary
pre-paid medical insurance plans.
IN ITS FIGHT against the King-Anderson ap
proach, the AMA has been guilty of some pret
tv wild-eved nronacranda. One of the most con
cise and coirent analyses of this we have come
across recently was provided by J. Douglas
Brown, now dean of the faculty of Princeton Uni
versity.
. A,, , . I 11-.
Dean brown was a memoer or tne sian 01 me
Committee on Economic Security which develop
ed the Social Security Act back in the 1930s. In a
recent letter to tne JNew xorx limes ne saiu:
The kindest Judgment one can make of the analysts of
the King-Anderson bill by the American Medical Associa
tion spokesman on May 20 was that it was confused. Care
ful study of the statement, however, shows how clearly it
encouraged confusion on the part of the listener..
According to the A.M.A., the King-Anderson bill Is "a
cruel hoax and a delusion," yet it will "create an enormous
and unpredictable burden on every working taxpayer."
This is a precious example of the propaganda technique.
The bill is bad because it does too little, and bad because
it does too much.
According to the A.M.A., the bill "wastefully covers
millions who do not need it" and yet "it is not true In
surance." It is bad because it averages risks through the
methods of insurance, and it is bad because It isn't insur
ance. According to the A.M.A., the bill "heartlessly ignores
millions who do need coverage." Has the A.M. A. forgotten
for the moment the Kerr-Mills Act, which would continue
to protect those not covered under the contributory -Social
Insurance system? Who Is doing the Ignoring?
The A.M. A. exhorts us not to be "blinded by the scare
words of propagandists" and goes on to proclaim that the
King-Anderson bill would "lower the quality and availabil
ity of hospital services throughout our country," "stand be
tween the patient and his doctor," and "serve as the fore
runner of a different system of medicine for all Ameri
cans." If such bald assertions are not intended to scare us,
they at least don't "remove the din from our ears."
The American Medical Association has every right to
oppose the King-Anderson bill. The American people had
every right to expect that an organization assuming to rep
resent a great profession would not employ the technique
of confusion to gain its ends. The American people have
reason to be disappointed.
SUPPLEMENTING this list of distortions and
conflicts, a New York Times editorial adds:
The one charge that emerges with clarity is the com
mon belief of Its foes that the program Is Intended to open
the. door to socialized medicine. If this is the real objection,
It would apply with greater force if the plan covered physi
cians' fees, Instead of being limited as it is to payments for
hospitals and nursing homes.
Fifteen million of the country's 17,000,000 aged would
be eligible for benefits if the King-Anderson program be
came operative at the start of 1064. Its payroll tax system
of financing would not Interfere with continued care of
the indigent under the present Kerr-Mills Law. The Inade
quacy of that measure as a total answer is demonstrated
by the fact that It provided benefits for only 86,000 per
sons - three-quarters of them in four states - In March, a
year and a half after It went Into effect.
We see no more reason to believe that the application
of Social Security principles to the health needs of the
aged will prove a hoax than the same term was applied to
it by the opposition in 1930.
Here is one final quotation, by James O'Gara,
writing in The Commonweal:
From a tactical point of view, It seems to me, the A.M. A.
has worked itself into an unenviable position. Medical lead
ers have cast themselves In the role of being against for as
long as anyone can remember, and there comes a time, I
think, when people get tired of it. Many of us have the
best of relationships with and considerable admiration for
individual doctors; the fact remains that when the A.M. A.
speaks its pronouncements always seem couched in terms of
pious clap-trap or shrill self-interest. If the doctors I know
are any fair sample, they deserve better representation
than they are getting . ... As the public relations boys might
say, the A.M. A. has image trouble, and I think it will get
worse, not better.
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Hospital Needed
To the Editor: I have writ
ten the following letter to the
Hon. Wayne Morse, U.S. Sen
ate. Dear Senator: I was sent
to Veterans hospital at Port
land last October as an emer
gency on Mercy flights. Upon
arriving there I was turned
away, no room. I had to seek
aid of the veterans service
office to get admitted. I was
there near three months. The
waiting list at both Portland
and Vancouver is long. I saw
many emergency cases He
on stretchers In the halls until
room could be found for them.
We are desperately In need
of a fully staffed hospital at
Camp White.
Please fight for It.
Gratefully yours,
Clarence W. Corey,
P.O. Box 144,
Phoenix, Ore.
Buddy Poppies
To the Editor: We of the
Crater Lake Post 1833 and
auxiliary wish to express our
deepest appreciation to the
people of Medford and vicin
ity for their loyal support for
our "Buddy Poppy" sales,
May 25 and 28.
The donations given are a
medium whereby we help our
local veterans and their fam
ilies and children.
A portion is sent to our
Children's Homes at Eaton
Rapids, Mich., where children
of bereft parents are cared
for and schooled.
Each state supports and has
these homes built for these
children, with all facilities of
city maintained. Each home
is supervised by a foster moth
er, who may be a veteran's
widow.
This is our way of letting
you the public know just how
and why the "Buddy Poppy"
sales are held.
Mrs. Fred (Frieda)
Lawrence,
Crater Lake Aux.,
Veterans of Foreign
Wars,
Medford
Americans Like Matt Kerbac, Working At
Grass Roots, Garner New Respect Abroad
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign New Analyst
Bangkok, Thailand - Matt
Kerbec Is a big, friendly man
who has been sweating it out
in Bangkok
for the last
three months.
Kerbec, an
electrical en
gineer from
Trenton, N.J.,
is representa
tive of a new
breed of
American one
Newsom meets all over
the world these days.
Ml
As American aid dollars
spread through under-developed
countries, these tanned,
muscular men are as at home
at Rabat or Thailand as in
New Jersey.
They follow closely behind
to help install new roads,
build dams for electric power
and irrigation and communi
cation systems.
Kerbec, 42, has been in this
business since he graduated
from Rutgers under the G.I.
Bill in 1951. He has mounted
unfamiliar skis to climb a
mountain-top in Norway to
inspect a microwave station,
Washington Report
By William S. White
(cl United Feature Syndicate
&'. Vaisp I IS 1
a I uui nfi '
Nine or ten correct l luporiori
oven or eight It enccllent; five
it Is good.
1. What are adult male
seals called?
2. What Insect Is the par
ticular enemy of cotton?
3. Which President of the
United States was nicknamed
"The Great Engineer"?
4. What was the name of
the Scottish economist, author
of "Wealth of Nations"?
5. What three little animals
lo t their mittens?
8. Pelican State Is a nick
name for which State of the
Union?
7. Would you say that Co
lumbus, Akron, or Youngs-
town Is the Industrial center
of the nation's rubber Indus
try?
8. Give the proper name of
the so-called Dies Committee
started In 1938.
0. Which disciple baptised
Jesus?
10. Is a mauscr a spotted
dog, gun, or undertaker?
Answers: 1. Built. 2. Boll
weevil, 3. Herbert Hoover.
4. Adam Smith. 5. Kittens.
6. Louisiana. 7, Akron. 8.
9. House Committee to
Investigate Un-American Ac
tivities. 9. None. (John the
Baptist was not a disciple.)
10. Gun.
TO REPEAT:
There is no outspoken opposition to a health
care nlan (or nlans) for the elderly.
It is a major issue this year; the question is
not whether, but when, and in what form.
On one side there is the clear-cut program of
King-Anderson prepaid medical aid as a right,
not a charity supplemented by the still-limited
but potentially helpful benefits of the Kerr-Mills
Law for the '"medically indigent", plus welfare
assistance for those needing it.
On the other side there is welfare, plus Kerr
Mills, plus a wide and confusing variety of pri
vate insurance plans, many of them too expen
sive, or too limited in benefits, to solve the prob
lem. The handwriting is on the wall. It would be to
the A.M.A.'s own benefit to recognize it, and
thus salvage what reputation for integrity and
humanity it has left. E.A.
Mining Claim Abuses
Abuse of the mining claim law that is, us
ing the excuse of a mining claim to establish a
summer home, a private camp ground, or a timber
show is an abuse to everyone.
It puts the legitimate mining industry in bad
odor; takes potential recreational land away from
the public, and robs that much timber from the
rest of the lumber industry.
The forests belong to all Americans. Who
steals them steals from us all. E.A.
Think For Yourself
To the Editor: My compli
ments to John Casterline for
his interesting letter of 526.
Recent comments in this col
umn seem to doubt that you
were the author John, but
don't be intimidated by those
of your elders who think that
the average citizen is too
much a product of his up
bringing to think for himself.
My compliments to you John,
for standing up to voice your
opinion.
I also compliment you on
your interest in the future of
your country, especially along
the lines of government. The
recent liberal trend is for big
government to take care of
everybody, but we both know
that this was not the type of
attitude which made our coun
try free or the attitude that
will keep it free. You're not
alone in thinking for your
self John, as the recent elec
tion proves. There are plenty
of citizens who still think for
themselves, despite all the
propaganda that one of the
issues got.
Keep thinking for yourself
John, and remember there are
still people who doubt the au
thorship of the Bible-desplte
all the evidence. Let no man
despise thy youth, but be
thou an example of the be
lievers, in conversation. In
charity, in spirit, in faith, in
purity." 1 Tim. 4:12.
James K. Shafer,
270 West Glcnwood rd.,
Medford.
letter pertains to a petition
that Is being circulated for a
curb and gutter pavement for
Newtown st. between Belmont
and Catherine. This Is the
third petition that the same
person has started, the other
two were in I960.
I have been the monkey
wrench in petitions for a curb
and gutter paving for this
street, my reason, there are
elderly people on the street
whose income is social secur
ity and welfare (the council
can check with the Social se
curity and Welfare offices for
verification) who cannot af
ford a curb and gutter paving
and who stand to lose their
homes if one is forced upon
them.
Mr. Duff, city manager, and
Mr. Hansen, councilman in
this ward, know the condi
tions on this street, for I told
them. They told me the demo
cratic way in which curb and
gutter paving is being han
dled, namely, by means of a
petition with signatures of
property owners whose front
age adds up to 51 per cent of
the frontage on the street in
volved, the petition is then
presented to the City Council
and If they act favorably upon
it, and they usually do, the
street is paved, and (these are
Mr. Hansen's words) "If there
is someone on the street who
cannot afford it, they can
sell their home and buy
another."
I say, when old people can
be forced to sell their modest
homes to satisfy the selfish
ness of a few, then this is not
America. I tried to get a low
cost paving for our street but
I could not use the demo
cratic rule that is used for
curb and gutter paving so my
efforts ended in failure.
While canvassing my street
for low cost paving, I learned
that one resident did not like
the trees in front of her house
and was very anxious to have
them removed. I also learned
that a curb and gutter paving
would remove the trees and
the people on the street would
pay for them.
A low cost paving on New
town would solve this street
problem for the lifetime of
those on the street who cannot
afford a curb and gutter pav
ing, no one would be put out
of their homes and every one
would be satisfied, I believe,
except one resident, she would
still have her trees.
The City Council without
delay should adopt a plan
that would provide relief to
those property owners who
cannot pay for high cost paving.
Mrs. Alice I. BiacK,
812 Newton St.,
Medford.
MISCALCULATIONS
Washington-The long-common
assumption here that Bri
tain's entry into the low-
tariff Euro
pean Common
Market was
practa c a 1 1 y
f o reordained
was always
dangerou sly
pre m at u r e.
Now it looks
not only that
the B r i t i s h
wmt. are a long
way off in time from going
in but actually may not oe
able to go in at all without
intolerable cost to their
ancient ties with British Com
monwealth nations like Aus
tralia and Canada.
There have been great and
avoidable political miscalcu
lations on both sides of the
ocean. Six months ago the
British tended-when in this
country at least-to suggest,
that the real question was
not whether Britain could
make a reasonable deal with
the European Common Mar
ket countries, headed by
France and West Germany.
ward, with a quiet mixture
of power and persuasion, to
the point where there is not
much reason to fear that the
House will reject any of its
principal features. The Brit
ish want the United States
to have that legislation; and
the United States wants Bri
tain in the Common Market.
British estimates of the al
leged unreadiness of Congress
to act were wrong because
Britons asked the wrong peo
ple. Representative Mills is
outwardly, but only outward
ly, a "country boy." The
British got their information
mostly from young city slick
ers who made the fairly com
mon mistake of Ivy League
state department types of sup
posing they knew more about
Mills' committee than Mills
did.
seen a king's kitchen Installed
in Morocco and is on nana
here awaiting the start of a
vital new communications
system between Bangkok and
Saigon.
This piece is written in the
belief that in a world of cross
currents and astronomical
budgets, too little credit is
given these Americans who
work with their hands at the
grass roots level among peo
ple who will form their own
concept of the American
image and whether the demo
cratic way of life is worth
while. They sell the United States
to people where diplomats
cannot reach.
I asked Kerbec if he had
any rule for getting along
with people of strange lands.
I thought the answer might
give him some trouble, but it
came quickly.
The golden rule," he said,
"is to treat them the way I
like to be treated."
The United States will have
to spend more than $300 mil
lion in Thailand at the end of
this year and both Thai and
American representatives be
lieve the results will be good.
This is partly the result of
men like Kerbec.
On the personal side was
a new type of "American, go
home" letter received by
American advisers who asked
not to be identified.
The letter, from a Thai
school teacher, paid tribute
to American aid, "the love of
freedom must be very strong
in Americans to have you do
this for us" and concluded:
"Go back home to Amer
ica with a good idea of our
people. Tell them we like
Americans, too. And it is true,
sir, partly because of you."
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
0
N THE American side, the
THE real question, they in
timated, was whether the
American Congress would
ever approve the broad tariff
cutting authority required if
the United States itself is to
be able to bargain usefully
with the Common Market.
The history of this tariff
bill in the House Ways and
Means committee shows how
very wrong was this idea.
The committee's chairman,
Representative Wilbur Mills
of Arkansas, has done just
about what those who knew
him always thought he would
He has brought the bill for-
Paving Problem
To the Editor: What is hap
pening on my street can hap
pen on someone else s street
Copy of letter to the city
council:
To the City Council: This
Writer Defended
To the Editor: This is di
rected to Mr. Arnold Eugene
Jenny:
In regard to your letter to
the Editor of June 3, 1962 you
indicate you have consider
able faith in the Medford
School system. However, you
attack one of the finest stu
dents in the Freshman class
without checking his grades,
his composition assignments,
or asking any of his teachers
about his abilities as a writer.
Your letter was a direct re
flection on John and the rest
of the Casterline family. I
wonder if mayhap you would
still doubt his integrity if
you were in favor of the King
Anderson bill?
I note that you make no
criticism of Angus or Nancy
Duncan's commentaries print
ed at earlier dates which were
equally well written. If you
had bothered to check on John
you would know that he Is
capable of writing many such
communciations with equal
skill.
I suggest that you write a
full apology to John and his
family as soon as possible. Not
only did you offend alt of tne
Casterlines but you have of
fended every teacher in this
school system by making your
remarks about one of their
most canable students! If
snace permitted you would
find the name of almost ev
ery student in the Medford
schools signed beneath this
letter of protest to "your al
most cruel words.
David Smith
Sophomore MHS
4 Glen Oak,
Medford
Eichmann
To the Editor: I see from
Friday's paper that Eichmann
has been hanged and cremat
ed, and that his ashes have
been committed to the Medi
terranean sea. (Also see that
his soul has been "committed"
to hell by preachers and
others.)
The nations of the world
have allowed a dangerous
precedent to be established.
Eichmann was kidnapped
by Jewish secret police in
South America in violation of
international law and spirited
away to Palestine, a land
hostile to him. He was "tried"
by his enemies, without jury,
for a crime which had never
been committed. And when
his friends wanted to testify
in his favor they were not
permitted to do so, but were
warned that they would be
arrested if they set foot on
Israeli soil.
All this establishes a most
dangerous precedent. No one
will be safe in any land
I read the other day that
Ben-Gurion is building (or is
going to build) what he calls
a "World Court." Why
world court unless they plan
to repeat the Eichmann inci
dent on a large scale?
As to whether this mans
soul went to hell or not, I do
not know. If our salvation de
pends upon how good or how
bad our lives have been I
would rather take my chances
with Eichmann than with his
enemies.
But fortunately our salva
tion does not depend upon
our goodness, or we would
all be in hell. "All have sin
ned." the Bible says and the
only escape from hell is by
accepting Jcmu Christ. The
vilest sinner may accept Him
and be saved. The "best" per
son
that because British entry in
to the Common Market was
sensible economically, it was
also inevitable.
This notion underestimated
the latent opposition in Eng
land within the ruling Con
servative Party, not to mention
the Labor party. And it miss
ed the apparently implacable
resolve of Charles de Gaulle
of France not to let Britain
into the Common Market on
terms preserving British self
respect and Britain's old posi
tion as the politically dom
inant power in Europe.
The misunderstanding was
not helped by British official
visitors here. Instead of deal
ing candidly and in time with
the realities of British poli
tics at home, they often left
the impression here that con
servative opposition was
largely confined to a handful
of "ultra-conservative" Colo
nel Blimps grumbling in Lon
don's clubs.
SO THE position now is
that Briiish negotiations
with the Common Market
and notably with France,
which clearly expects to be
head boss of it all-are in no
way promising. Still, the Unit
ed States continues Daaiy 10
need British membership. We
ourselves must and will deal
with the Common Market,
but our dealings will be much
harder if Britain is out rather
than in.
Moreover, a Britain exclud
ed would mean not only a
Britain facing the possibility
of economic catastrophe. It
would also bring an insup
portable irony. The nation
that caused the war, Cer-
many, and the nation that
performed so poorly in fight
ing k, France, would soon
become both the economic
and political masters of more
than half of the free world.
GUNS AND BUTTER
Washington - Reports from
Moscow announce that the
butter price there has been
raised almost $2 a pound and
that, even at
this high
price, butter
is not always
obtain able.
Very little
has been said,
however,
about the
root - cause of
the butter
Alsop shortage,
which is the massively in
creased Soviet investment in
guns.
The guns - before - butter
choice was formally made
last winter. The Central Com
mittee of the Soviet Commu
nist Party met in full session.
to discuss the crisis in agri
culture. The farm crisis was
publicly admitted and frankly
documented. Yet the princi
pal decision taken was to
swell the ranks of Soviet
agricultural officialdom - to
use bureaucrats, in fact, as a
novel substitute for fertilizer.
Almost simultaneously, the
Soviet government also an
nounced that its defense bud
get had been increased by a
staggering 45 per cent, which
is about double the Kennedy
increase of the Eisenhower
defense budget. Except in de-
monological circles, almost
no attention was paid to this
announcement concerning the
defense budget, but if the an
nouncement was not mislead
ing, it constitutes a new fact
of the utmost world-wide importance.
. - -
SINCE the Kremlin an
nouncement was made,
this reporter has tried to get
at the truth, both here and
in Europe. The truth is not
easy to ascertain, and even
when data are obtainable, you
at once discover there is
much dispute about the data.
Here, however, is the best
brief summary that can be of
fered: First of all, there is no
doubt at all that the Soviet
defense effort has been great
ly intensified. The first open
symptom was the abrupt re
versal of Nikita S. Khrush
chev's shrink-the-armed-forces
program in the summer of
1961. Special call-ups and
holdovers in service brought
the number of men in uni
form up to the level that had
existed before Khrushchev
gave his order for a reduc
tion. This meant an over-all
Strictly Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c) Field Enterprises, Inc.
ULTIMATE TRIBUTE
This spring, in England,
three different books were
published-all with the same
title. "On a
tA 4
J know
titles
Darkling
P 1 a i n." The
phrase is from
Mathew Arn
nold's popular
poem, "Dover
Beach." Peo
ple like to
w where
s come
Harm from - and
most of them come from tra
ditional sources; the Bible,
Shakespeare, favorite poetry.
"Dover Beach" has been the
origin of dozens of book titles.
For instance, this year Rupert
Croft Cooke's new book is
called "Clash by Night,"
which is the last line of the
poem-and the same title as
a play by Clifford Odcts a
dozen years ago.
When my second book of
collected columns. "Majority
of One." was published, it
was followed a few months
later by the play bearing the
same title. Both the play
wright and I had gone to an
n the world who reiOts i essay of Thoreau in which
Him is lost
We have only his enemies'
word for what Eichmann did
in his last hours.
John C. Stille.
Shady Cove, Ore.
he said. "Any man more right
than his neighbors constitutes
a majority of one."
It it not commonly
known that titles cannot be
copyrighted. I could write
a novel end call it "Gone
With the Wind," if I liked,
so long as it did not use
the lame story or charac
ters as Miss Mitchell's best
seller. Her book, by the way,
was called something en
tirely different when it was
submitted to publishers.
The title was changed by
Macmillan's. from a line in
Dowson's sentimental
poem, "Cynara," which is
a prime favorite of people
just learning to like poetry.
"The Rubiyat" is also a
great source of titles for
books and plays. So are the
poems of Keatt and Shelley,
Blake and Wordsworth, But
Shakespeare remains pre
eminent as the fount of
titles, year alter year, with
the Bible running a close
second.
One English researcher di9
covered that Macbeth'
speech, beginning "Tomorrow
and tomorrow and tomorrow
. . ." had a bock title in every
line. "This Petty Pace," "All
Our Yesterdays," "Dust y
Death." "Brief CanrHe,"
"Walking Shadows," "Told
By an Idiot," "Sound and
Fury"-these are some of the
increase of several hundred
thousand men.
Secondly, the intensifica
tion of the Soviet defense ef
fort is by no means limited to
this increase of men in uni
form. In itself the increase
must be a heavy strain, since
Russia is now passing through
a period of extreme scarcity
of young manpower, caused
by the low birthrate and poor
infant-survival rate in war
time. Yet the strain on the
economy of the increased in
vestments in military hard
ware must be greater still.
N THE field of missile
hardware alone, the cur
rent Soviet investments are
downright astonishing. On the
one hand, a second-generation
Soviet intercontinental
missile, comparable to the
American liquid-fueled Titan,
is now in quantity production.
Large numbers of launch
ing sites are also being built ;
for these missiles, not "hard
ened" like the American
ICBM launching , sites, but !
still fairly costly. The pro
gram is being pushed for-
ward with such speed that
within 12 months the Soviets '
may add as many as 200 new
ICBMs to their operational
arsenal.
On the other hand - and '
even more costly-the Soviets
are also pushing forward
with great speed a truly vast
program of surface-to-air mis- '
siles like the American Nike.
The Soviet industrial centers
are thickly surrounded by
new SA II's, as the Defense
Department calls the missile
comparable to our Nike-Hercules.
But the SA II's, highly
effective against aircraft at
tacking at high altitudes, are
of little use against planes
coming in on the deck, in ac
cordance with the new tactics
of the U. S. Strategic Air
Command.
Hence the thousands of SA '
II's are now being supple
mented, apparently without
regard to cost, by huge addi
tional numbers of SA Ill's -surface-to-air
missiles de
signed to knock down attack
ing planes at low altitudes.
JIHE cost of installing this
-- elaborate point defense of
all the major Soviet industrial
centers is so great that it is
now thought to absorb up to
35 per cent of the entire So
viet defense budget. Yet the
whole system will be obsolete
in the near future, when SAC
phases out its aircraft and
places its main reliance on
long-range ballistic missiles.
Finally, further large but
indeterminate amounts are
also being invested in a ma
jor Soviet effort to produce
an anti-missile missile. Even,
so, the majority of demonolo
gists hold that the announced
increase in Soviet military
spending is in part a fraud.
They argue it was partly
achieved by openly including
in me defense budget expen
ditures formerly concealed in
such mysterious items in the
Soviet national budget as
"financing the national econ
omy." This item and others
like it have indeed been
somewhat reduced, making
the case for partial fraud
rather convincing.
Yet the degree of fraud
if fraud there be-is very
much less significant than the
undoubted fact that the So
viet national policy is aeain
rather emphatically putting
guns before butter.
widely known novels taken
from that short speech.
An when Proust's great
book. "A la recherche du
temps perdu." was magnifi
cently translated into English,
it was decided to change the
title to "Remembrance of
Things Past," a line from one
of Shakespeare's finest son
nets. This is perhaps the ultimate
tribute to an ai.nor-not mere
ly that his work is quoted
and remembered, but that it
provides an ever-f lowing
fountain of titles for new
works of literature.