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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 8, 1952 (Saturday)
Anti-hail pilots flew a total
of 5 hours 27 minutes yester
day; seeding took place for
about 3's hours.
With the Rogue Valley Soap
Box derby a little over a
month away, testing of the
East Main street hill, site of
the races, got under way this
week.
20 YEARS AGO
Juna 8, 1942 (Sunday)
Dr. R. E. Green seeking re
election as only candidate in
Medford city school board
election.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Ac
cording to the war depart
ment, there are 260,000 who
have been declared ineligible
for the army because they
cannot read or write. One
would never dream that there
were that many citizens in
the land who are unable to
take an editor apart with a
lead pencil through the
mails."
30 YEARS AGO
Juna 8, 1932" (Tuesday)
Medford Mayor E. M. Wil
son calls on all civic nd
service organizations to send
representatives to meeting to
discuss help for unemployed.
W. W. (Bill) Bates, wins
Mail Tribune trapshoot with
score of 97 out of 100.
40 YEARS AGO
Juna 8. 1922 (Wednesday)
Used car being demonstrate
ed by Medford dealer catches
fire and is "virtually demol
ished" while being shown to
a prospective customer.
Medford announced as
headquarters for extensive ge
ological studies in southern
Oregon and northern Califor
nia. 50 YEARS AGO
June 8, 1912 (Thursday)
Experimental planting of
farm and truck crops between
tires in Rogue valley or
chnrds tried for first time.
Grants Pass-Crescent City
stage makes first round trip
of year; road reported still In
poor condition.
Yhat's Your I.Q.?
Nine oi ten correct is tupenor;
seven or eight is excellent; five of
six Is good.
1. Who was the first woman
(o (lv across the Atlantic?
2. Who wrote "The Pil
grim's Progress"?
3. Which of these is larger
In area - Mexico or Colombia?
4. Are eels born In salt
water or in fresh water?
5. in which New England
Slate was President Calvin
Coollrlge born?
6. What is known as the
"Eternal City"?
7. Where does former Presi
dent Harry S. Truman make
his home?
8. Do mosquitoes have four,
six, or eight legs?
9. According to the Bible,
what was placed at the en
trance to the Garden of Eden
to guard it?
10. In what once - popular
game is there talk of winds,
flowers and seasons?
Answers: I. Amelia Ear
hart. 2. John Bunyan. 3. Mexi
co. 4. Fresh, S. Vermont, 8.
Rome, Italy. 7. Independence,
Mo. 8. Six. 9. A flaming sword
and cherubim. 10. Mah Jong.
ASSOCIATION
FRIDAY. JUNE I. 1982
A Reporter
Every once in a while we meet someone who,
through traits of personality and mind and habit,
can truly be affectionately called "a character."
Such a man was Wayne Pettit, who died the
other day in Salem three years after retirement
as Capitol correspondent for the Oregonian. He
had served in that post for 40 years, watching
generation after generation of younger men come
and go.
A Eugene Register-Guard editorial writer
says of Pettit:
"He was the close friend and friendly critic of 14
Oregon governors. He covered 29 executions, first on
the old penitentiary gallows, then at the gas chamber.
He covered prison breaks, the fire that destroyed the
old Capitol, and 28 legislative sessions. . .
"He was n fixture around the Capitol, which he
regarded as his personal preserve. He'd move secre
taries out of their chairs so he could use their type
writers. He cheerfully swiped pencils and swapped in
sults with a succession of secretaries of state, state
treasurers and even governors.
"He was a one-man graduate school of journalism,
advising 'the kids' who came down to the Capitol. For
many years, younger reporters learned to rely on the
Instincts of this gruff-voiced old gentleman with the
cigar, the bow tie and the funny cardigan sweater. He
was helpful. But he worried, too, lest younger men
with better legs and college educations might render
him obsolete. Of course, they never did. People like
Wayne Pettit can't be obsolete, partly because they
can't be duplicated."
IT WAS our privilege to serve an apprentice-
ship with Wayne Pettit in the Capitol press
gallery, first as a veiy
as a state employee in
into every day.
He could scare the dickens out of a youngster,
iust bv chomoinir his cirzar at him. But, under
exterior an odd mixture
and the cherubic he had a bis: soft heart.
There were many who have benefited from
his generosity, which few knew about, lor ne
never talked about it.
And we recall once his tipping us off on a
story, just so we wouldn't be beaten on it by
more experienced competitors, ne was a verit
able fountamhead of advice, which he gave will
ingly when asked, but never volunteered.
DERHAPS he wasn't' one of the great reporters
of the age. He didn't worry too much about
age. He man t
the social impact of what he was reporting, or
about the rjolitical indications of this or that
situation. He was neither
nor "opinion moulder." He was a reporter.
And according to the lights of a reporter, he
was a journeyman and an expert, reporting the
doings of government in clear, uncluttered un
complicated words.
The service which is rendered by a good re
porter may be too little appreciated by the public,
but they gain most of their insights into the world
around them from the jobs the reporters do. For
40 years Wayne Pettit rendered that service, and
the people of Oregon are better off for it. E.A.
By the Numbers-Dial!
The telephone company is taking quite a
beating from those who object to the incursions
of automation and all number calling and direct
distance dialing',
Professor S. I. Hayakawa, internationally
famous semanticist. is informal leader of a group
in the San Francisco Bay area who are protesting
the imnersonalitv of the indispensable instrument.
The heart is with the rebels, but the head is
with the telephone company.
Numbers a machine can deal with ; sentiment
al words it cannot. And
to be served, it will be the
DARE is the Medfordite who has yet become
used to dialing 77 instead of SP (although
the effect is exactly the
who remembers automatically to dial 77 (or air)
at all, since until recently it wasn t necessary.
Seven movements are needed to dial now;
eight if your phone is served (as is ours) by a
switchboard. Come the middle of next month, and
making a long distance call will be an exercise
in forefinger durability.
rrom our office telephone, to call a Seattle
number, we will have to dial thus: 9 (to get past
the switchboard) 1 (to get the DDD equipment)
20(5 (to get the western Washington area) and
232-1345 (to get the party we want). That's
912062321345. Or, put another way, nine hun
dred twelve billion, sixty two million, three hun
dred twenty one thousand, three hundred forty
five.
A LL this, however, pales into insignificance
compared to the telephone company's latest
transgression.
Here is how our Phoenix correspondent, Mrs.
Bertha Hanscom, put it recently (slightly re
vised ) :
Where Is the hole In the telephone book?
If you don't believe me. Just take a look:
There are seven digits, as you can sec,
And All Number Calling and DDD.
There are area codes, maps of the zones.
And Information on how to use phones;
Pictures of rivers and boats are galore.
But who wants to hang his book on the floor?
A calendar's printed from way back when,
And Mt. McLoughlin has a snow-top again.
I wish someone who knows would tell me true:
Where did the hole in the phone book go to?
Still, what would we tlo without the darned
things? E.A.
Poor old Charlie Shibbitz didn't graduate last
night. Wc understand he flunked his American
Problems examination. E.A.
youtntui colleague, laier
an office Wayne looked
of the rough-and-tough
'S
worry too mucn aooui
pundit nor columnist
if telephone users are
machines which do it.
same). And rare is he
"He's Up Again! He'
Halfway
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Unused Talents
To ihe Editor: I wish some
one would enlighten me as
to just why our President
Kennedy; usually so excellent
and well-versed in the true
values of good counsel, has
passed up our own fount of
Oriental wisdom and knowl
edge in relation to the pitiful
plight of the Chinese people.
San Francisco, Chicago,
New York and a few other of
our major metropolises boast
sizeable Chinese American
quarters. Most all of our cities
have some citizens of Chinese
ancestry. And the majority of
the present sons and daugh
ters of these citizens of Orien
tal origin are well-educated.
many Just as culturally con
versant and spiritually con
cerned with charity as any
other ethnic group. And many
are keen, capable Intellec
tuals who have graduated
from our1 best colleges and
universities.
The recent bringing of a
few refugees from China to
America and the resultant
publicity savors of an unin
formed press-agentny. When
there Is something wrong
with your physical body you
seek a doctor, and so with the
world body - we need learned
counsel and have ignored and
passed up our own natural
oracles on Oriental affairs.
Not one of our own Chinese
American men and women
have been courteously con
sulted or interviewed or
given a voice in advising the
Administration as to the most
excellent way or ways to aid
the starving Chinese.
While they were born here
and know America as do all
our children, they also know
China and are inherently
aware of its native problems.
President Kennedy and our
diplomatic and state staffs re
veal a "blind spot" in our re
lation to suffering China. Bret
Harte did not miss when he
wrote "damn clever, these
Chinese" but it surely does
not apply to us in our handling
of their hungry, somewhat dis
tant, countrymen.
And where, in these good
works our nation Is doing in
the love of God and neighbor,
is the Voice of our Mlssions
the enlightened opinion of our
priests and ministers who
studied the Orient first-hand
until driven out?
There Is, as yet, no scientific
or technical cure for hunger:
no computer capable of classi
fying counsel, or directing
charity. Let us hear from
Charles Ylng Chin of San
Francisco, graduate of the
University of California, and
from Nancy Nam Toy of New
York City, graduate of Ford
ham University, in our higher
councils as regards the Orient
from now on.
William T. Cuddy
V. A. Domiciliary
White City, Ore.
Widow's View
To the Editor: I agree with
Mr. Corey we do need a hos
pital at Camp White. It won't
help my poor husband, he's
already dead, but maybe it
will help others who need
treatments. Why not take part
of that money which is being
used to brine- those Chinese
over here to feed and take
our jobs.
I sav we need what mnnev
Ihore is for our own. If there
is too much, raise the veter
ans' pay, also the widows.
We all want to live loo, and
eat. We still get hungry even
If we arc old. I know. 1 don't
get enough to live on. Oh,
well, we aren't supposed to
live. I guess.
Why don't they pay the
widows the veterans' insur
ance? There were thosuands
that weren't able to keep
them up after thry got out ot
t
Down Again! He't
Up"
service, so why not pay them
what they paid in at least? It
was their hard-earned money,
not the Government's. Im
sure those poor guys who
fought overseas earned every
penny the government took
out for this. So I say why
can't we old widows get help
without our dear husbands?
(Name on file)
Medford
Write Your Congressman
To the Editor: We have writ
ten as follows to our congress
men: In regard to the King-Anderson
medical care program,
action at the local level, either
voluntary health Insurance
such as many now have, or
state medical care for the in
digent under the Kerr-Mills
Law recently passed, would be
more effective in helping the
ones who really need help. A
compulsory plan under social
security covering everyone.
regardless of need, would take
iiuke one out ot our pay
checks, which don't look very
big now after all the odds and
ends are taken off. For every
dollar sent to Washington, I
reel we are lucky to get back
fifty cents in benefits. Some
one has to pay the salaries of
me experts and supervisors
all along the line. It does not
make a dollar worth more to
pass through a dozen hands to
pay a bill! Also I doubt if we
would have much to say about
the kind of service we would
get.
As a farmer, I am thor
oughly disgusted with the
present farm policy. It is caus
ing a trend to corporation
farming that is putting the
iamuy size farm out of busi
ness. Ordinarily, for instance
when the price of enes droDs
feed demand lessens, and feed
price arops also; but now,
with grain artificially held up
by government support, what
happens? The feed companies
"integrate" the farmer, which
means that they supply the
chicks, the feed, and allow
him a pittance per dozen for
use of his labor and equip
ment. Naturally, only the big
operations that have a lot of
automatic equipment and vol
ume can continue. The feed
companies don't care if eggs
or broilers sell below cost.
They make their money from
feed. The Independent can't
compete with that.
Sonic argue that the only
efficient farm is the big one.
If that is so, the big corpora
tion farms don't need tax
payers' support to survive, so
why give it? There should be
a top limit on the size of
check one farm, or farm cor
poration, can collect in sup
port money. It should be base
on what would be a reasona
ble return for a family type
farm only, not hundreds of
thousands of dollars to one
operation. Actually, for the
benefit of the taxpayers and
the real farmers, possibly the
best thing to do would be to
get rid of this whole support
mess, and balance the budget.
Frankly, most farmers we
talk to would be happier with
lewer handouts and a govern
ment out of the red. I doubt
that President Kennedy's pro
posal to cut income taxes.
I while Increasing government
' spending, will be any help to
, the economy. What business
""d the stock market need for
a "shot in the arm" Is LESS
government spending and a
balanced budget, so that there
will be more confidence, both
at home and abroad, in the fis
cal policy of the present ad
ministration. I urge any readers who
agree with me to write your
congressmen, now.
Lawson Scott Jr.,
Route 3. Box 240-C.
Medford.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Resentment Bitter Against U.S.
Laotian Policies; Stability Is Hope
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Vientiane, Laos - OIPD - The
government of Laos conducts
its business in a high ceilinged
b u 1 1 d ing of
yellow stucco
and brown
trim just
across the
street from
the walls of
the Royal Pal-
y"etl I ace and i
I YeM I J a cent
aeassam , as asassses nwlct to
its ad-
Bud
dhist temple.
Newsom The man in
charge during the frequent
absences of Premier Prince
Boun Oum and his strongman
overseer Gen. Phoumi Nosa
van is a small, compact man
who stabs the air with a fin
ger to emphasize his current
indignation with the United
States.
He is Acting Foreign Sec
retary Sisouk Na Champas
sak. Among his other jobs,
Sisouk also is the permanent
Laotian representative to the
United Nations in New York
and has the respect of West
ern diplomats here even
though now they find them
selves on opposite sides. -
For, like Phoumi and Boun
Oum, Sisouk bitterly resents
United States action switch
ing its support from the weak
but pro-Western Boun Oum
government proposed by the
once-deposed Prince Souvan
na Phouma.
He charges that when the
United States withdraw its
economic support from the
r j
Medford Physician
Replies to Blasts
In Medicare Debate
To the Editor: We doctors
seem to be getting a bloody
nose in your newspaper. With
in the last two days there
have been six separate attacks
against the AMA, physicians
in general, and in favor oi
the King-Anderson Bill. In
Sunday's issue there was a
light jab by E.A.'s editorial,
a left cross by Eric Sevareid,
an indirect "Jenny punch" di
rected at John Casterline, and
Herblock's cartoon presuma
bly alluding to the infamous
"200 New Jersey .Doctors .
Tuesday night there is the
headline and a final blast
from E.A. in the editorial
again. In the face of all the
adverse criticism about, and
in spite of being a newcomer
to this valley, I for one intend
to stand up and be counted
as being on the opposite side,
and I would like to tell a
little about the other side of
the coin.
Firstly, in regard to the
above-named articles, the
Propaganda Techniques edi-torial-e.g.
"glittering gener
alities" . . . "The King-Anderson
Bill will lead to socialized
medicine." E.A. is well versed
in all seven of the devices
listed, having used them all
himself numerous times; I sus
pect that E.A. was standing at
the lectern, rather than sitting
and listening.
Eric Sevareid's article is un
fortunately true, the respect
for our profession is indeed
ebbing. He points out that
medical students and premeds
are not trained in the social
sciences, and seem contemptu
ous of those who are. It
wasn't very long ago that only
one out of twenty or thirty
applicants eventually as ac
cepted in medical school, and
once there, the competition
to stay there was keen. Al
ready medical schools are be
ginning to lower their stand
ards, and take students with
'C averages rather than A
or 'B', because higher quality
students do not want to get
into a profession that requires
long years of training only
to ultimately become a gov
ernment flunkey. Acceptance
to medical school is largely
based on maintaining high
grades in many technical, sci
entific, and admittedly later
useless subjects while in the
four years of pre-medicine.
Later In medical school there
are four years of concentra
tion on the basic sciences and
the ills of the human body
and mind. We are admittedly
poorly trained in philosophy
sociology, and political sci
ence. However, if I were ill.
1 would prefer to be cared
for by a well trained physi
cian, rather than a sociologist
or a politician, for I fear that
I would receive a transfusion
of my own blood: from the
right arm to the left with half
my blood spilled In between
Rennrding the cartoon and
the jno New Jersey Doctors,
unfortunately the reporting in
this case headlined "Refusal
to Treat Patients Under King
Anderson". That is a fine
headline but is improper re
porting and a misquote. These
men said that they vould
treat patients for free rather
than under King-Anderson;
they did not refuse treatment.
This same thing has been
done elsewhere, patients have
been treated for no charge
Boun Oum government, it de
prived the government of its
greatest bargaining card at
the conference table.
"Now," he shrugs, "we will
go and we will sign. There
is nothing else we can do.
For this the United States
bears a heavy responsibility."
Government troops fought
well before their rout at Nam
Tha, he maintains, until they
found the Pathet Lao and
Communist Viet Minh troops
at their rear as well as in
front.
U.S. officials here agree
that the Royalist forces could
hold their own against their
fellow-countrymen, the Pathet
Lao, but have proved them
selves no match for the dis
ciplined Viet Minh.
As for the bargaining, by
which General Phoumi hoped
to hold the defense and inte
rior ministries for his own
right wing forces, allied offi
cials point out he had many
months in which to negotiate
before being forced to do so
by lack of U.S. support and
on the advice of Thailand.
In any event, Western rep
resentatives now have their
highest hopes in a year that
the feuding Laotian princes
will reach agreement on a
coalition neutral government
and that some stability may
result.
This stability, they believe,
could have come about earlier
had Phoumi agreed to join
his right wing forces to the
neutrals of Souvanna Phou
ma, which, together, would
rather than fill out all the
Welfare forms. If you are
looking for a cause of in
creased medical costs, you
might start here, by the way;
the paper work is terrific. I
can think of several instances
where a one dollar procedure
has required four dollars of
paper work.
In answer to Mr. Jenny's
attack, he says that the medi
care under Social Security is
insurance. If he will name one
insurance company which pro
vides more in benefits than
it takes in in premiums, that
is, one which is fiscally un
sound, I will show him a com
pany no longer in business.
The Social Security system
now has 20 million dollars in
the till, but owes about 150
million dollars in ultimate
benefits. The only outfit
which can run chronically in
debt is the Federal Govern
ment, if private individuals
or companies did this they
would be in jail.
Now about the Tuesday
blasts, I'm not a member of
the AMA, but the AMA isn't
the only bunch of propa
gandists. Kennedy and his
welfare boys have been doing
pretty well at it, and using
the taxpayer's money to try
to put across a program that
will increase the cost of medi
cal care and further subju
gate the people of this coun
try, making them even more
dependent on the Federal
Government. Costs of medical
care have gone up. so has
the cost of every other item,
food, housing, and of course
most of all, taxes. I think the
best argument against King-
Anderson, and other compul
sory social reforms, is that
we can do this cheaper by
ourselves. Any time we get
the government to do some-
tning for us, it is more ex
pensive, because they don't do
it for free. Somebody has to
pay. If an item costs twenty
dollars, then having Uncle
Sam buy it doesn't make it
any cheaper; on the contrary
it costs twenty dollars plus
tne Washington brokerage fee
Would King-Anderson be
the first step toward "social
ized medicine"? This depends
on the definition of socialized
medicine. Britain started
the 30 s with a similar pro
gram lor the aged and pro
gressed to their present status.
The proponents of this bill
nenneay included, say it is
not enough. Basically this bill
says: "Because you are over
65. and have worked in a job
providing Social Security, you
are entitled to certain items
of medical care". Which of
these phrases would be chang
ed first? Why age 65. why not
60? 40? 20? Why medical care
only, why not shoes, groceries,
advice on legal matters, why
not everything? Why work?
Make no mistake, this bill
is but another intrusion of
the Federal Government into
the free enterprise system.
The fight of the medical pro
fession and the private insur
ance business today is the
fight of the lawyers tomor
row, the grocers and loggers
and maybe even the, news
paper editors the day after.
It puts the Washington bu
reaucracy squarely in your
hospital.
Charles A McAdams, M D
836 East Main st ,
Medford
easily have outnumbered the
pathet Lao.
Western hopes for a stable
government here depend upon
Russia. The argument is that
Russia intervened with its air
drop support to the pro-Communist
rebels to prevent dras
tic Red Chinese action which
might have set off a (world
wide conflict.
Washington Report
By William
(c) United Featurs Syndicate
PAUSE NEEDED
Washington - Every present
major factor in the world sug
gests that the time has come
for a creative
and heal i n g
pause in rou
tine politics in
this country.
If this no
tion is right,
then Congress
should q uit
picking fret
fully at a
mounta in of
second-priority work on a cal
endar which could keep it
here until the snow falls. It
should simply act on two or
three really big disputed mat
ters - final approval of the
president's low -tariff world
trade program and perhaps
enactment of some relatively
rational farm subsidy plan
and then go home.
Likewise, President Kenne
dy should halt pressures for a
good deal of doubtful welfar-
ist legislation, including aaai-
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
When most people think of
the word "education," they
think of a pupil as a sort of
animate sau
s a g e casing.
Into this emp
ty casing, the
teachers are
supposed to
stuff "educa
tion." But gen-
ij ' t u i n (
K Jtion'
e educa-
as Soc
rates knew
Harrie more than 2,-
000 years ago, is not inserting
the slumngs o: lniormauuii
into a person, but rather
eliciting knowledge from him;
it is the drawing out ot wnai
is in the mind.
The most important part
of education," once- wrote
William Ernest Hocking, the
distinguished Harvard philos
opher, "is this instruction of
a man in what he has inside
of him."
And, as Edith Hamilton
has reminded us, Socrates
never said, "I know, learn
from me." He said, rather,
"Look into your own selves
and find the spark of truth
that God has put into ev
ery heart, and that only
you can kindle lo a flame."
In the dialog called the
"Meno," Socrates takes an
ignorant slave boy, without
a day of schooling, and
proves to the amaied ob
servers that the boy really
"knows" geometry-because
the principles and axioms
of geometry are already in
his mind, wailing to be
called out.
So many of the discus
sions and controversies
about the content of educa
tion are futile and incon
clusive because lhey are
concerned with what should
"go into" the student rather
than with what should be
taken out, and how this
can best be done.
The college student who
once said to me, after a
lecture. "I spend so much
time studying that I don't
have a chance to learn any
thing," was succinctly ex
pressing his dissatisfaction
with the sausage-c a s i n g
view of education.
He was being so stuffed
with miscellaneous facts, with
such an indigestible mass of
material, that he had no time
(and was given no encourage
ment) to draw on his own
resources, to use his own
mind for analyzing and syn
thesizing and evaluating this
material.
Education, to have anv
meaning beyond the purpose
of creating well - informed
dunces, must elicit from the
pupil what is latent in every
human being-the rules of rea
son, the inner knowledge of
what is proper for men to
be and do, the ability to sift
evidence and come to conclu
sions that can generally be
assented to by all open minds
and warm hearts.
Pupils are more like oysters
than sausages. The job
0
teaching is not to stuff them
and then seal them up. but
to help them opei and reveal
the riches within. There are
pearls in each of us, if only
we knew how to cultivate
them with ardor and per
sistence. Q
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Over
They argue, further, that
if Russia fails to enforce Com
munist agreement to a neu
tral government in Laos, it
loses all hope of agreement
on other issues, including Ber
lin. To this, Sisouk replies with
an expressive, unbelieving
shrug of the shoulders.
S. White
tional medical care for tha
aged. He should thus content
himself with a congressional
record which would be long
on quality, if not on quantity,
THIS would be a "do-nothing"
course only to those
who believe that unless Presi
dent and Congress are forever
"doing something," however
dubious that something might
be, they are somehow not
"providing national leader
ship." In some circumstances na
tional leadership can best ba
fulfilled by taking the long,
calm view; by concentrating
on the essential and skipping
the secondary and overly ar
gumentative. Such circum
stances, one suggests, now
surely exist.
ITEM: Business anxiety at
what much of business be
lieves is a hostile climate
within the administration is
an undoubted reality. Justi
fied or not-and this columnist
personally believes it to be
based more on the academic
rhetoric of lower-placed func
tionaries than on any action
or purpose of the president
the fear is there.
The best way to relieve the
fever is to get Congress out of
town and to let up on admin
istrative clamors for more
welfare legislation. (Most of
it wouldn't pass anyhow if
Congress remained until
Christmas; but that is neither
here nor there.)
ITEM: The pre-conditions for
a mafisiVf Ipsn fnriuarrl in
the American economy do, in
plain fact, exist. First, there is
tne approval of the House
Ways and Means committee
by vote of 20 to 5 of the bill tp
give broad and flexible tariff
cutting authority to the Pres
ident so he may bargain use
fully with the powerful Euro
pean common market.
It is not in the least fanciful
lo say that once Congress as a
whole has said "yea" to this
bill, American business will
find a world market vastly
richer than it has ever known.
The only thing that could now
beat the bill would be a pro
gressive embitterment of rela
tions between business and
the administration. ;
And, second, there is tha
promise of a "top-to-bottom"
income tax cut for next year.
This could be an immense
spur to expansion; it could not
be otherwise unless the sensi
tive factor of business "confi
dence" should intervene.
t
TTEM: Every reliable lndicat
- or points to the gravest of
economic trouble in Red
China and to hidden unrests
within the Soviet Union.
Though this is good news for
the West in a way, it is dan
gerous news, too. For dictator
ships are far more likely to
strike out when times are bad
at home, if only to divert tha
people.
This being so, the most or
dinary prudence counsels ua
on this side to two things
most of all: (1) steadily to im
prove our economic-and our
deeply interrelated military
posture; and (2) carefully to
avoid all avoidable divisions
and anxieties and cross-purposes
within the nation.
Indeed, the hour of the acid
test for Mr. Kennedy's presi
dency may be approaching
the test of his capacity to gov
ern, as distinguished from
merely to stay ahead in im
mediate popular favor, in
times when vague fears and
discontents and intimations
of emerging and imminent
changes walk this land and
the world.
Gets Promotion
Klamath Supervisor
Yrcka - Charles A. Yates,
supervisor of Klamath Na
tional Forest, Yreka, has
been promoted to assistant re
gional forester in Denver.
Colo., according to Regional
Forester Charles A. Con
naughlun. Yates, whose new assign
ment started last week, will
be in charge of fire control
and state and private forestry.
Born in San Francisco,
Calif., Yates received his for
estry degree from the Oregon
, State college school of for
estry. During his 25 years
with the U.S. forest service,
Yates served as fire control
officer on the Goosenest, dis
trict ranger. Orleans, on the
Six Rivers Forest and fire
control staff officer on the
'San Bernardino Forest.
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