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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 veers ego.
Metric System
For linear measure, we use the inch (and its
subdivisions in halves, eighths, sixteenths, (thirty'
seconds, sixty-fourths), the foot (12 inches), the
vard (three feet), the rod (WA feet), the chain
(either 66 or 100 feet, depending on whether it
is a surveyors or engineers), and the mile (o,
280 feet or 63,360 inches) not to mention such
esoteric measurements as points, picas, fathoms
and furlongs.
For square measure, we have all the above,
squared, as well as acres.
For capacity measure, there are gills, pints,
quarts, pecks, bushels, gallons (as well as such
odd combinations , as acre-feet and feet-per-sec-
ond).
For weight measure, there are grains, drams,
ounces, pounds, and tons of several sizes.
A LL of these are totally unrelated to each other
Each has its own history (an inch, one legend
goes, was the length of the first thumb-joint of
a king). They make attempts to calculate vary
ing types of measurement as complicated as do'
incr lone division with Roman numerals.
What the ultimate cost may be of these ir
rational systems to industry and government is
almost incalculable. No one has ever tried to find
out, although there is a proposal before the con
cress now to make a rough finding of what the
systems are costing, and what would be the cost
of converting to the metric system.
The metric system has long been proposed for
adoption in the United States, and the day may
come when it will happen.
"Reolved, Then, That Nature 1 Wonderful;
And That Elephant TrunkiAre
Good, Donkey Ears Bad"
Fortified Villages in Midst of Enemy
Territory Aiding Viet-Namese Defense
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
10 YEARS AGO
June 12, 1952,Thuridiy)
Olio A. Ewaldson, 20 Ross
cl., the only candidate on the
ballot, was elected to a five
year term on the Medford
school board.
Boundaries of the Central
Point rural fire district were
approved by the Jackson coun
ty court following a public
hearing.
20 YEARS AGO
June 12, 1942 (Friday)
&A total of 27,300 pounds of
scrap rubber were collected
in the first two days of a
drive here; large amounts still
Vininif turned in.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Kinudee Pot" column: "Grass
hoppers are as plentiful in
ome rural areas as rumors
were a year ago."
30 YEARS AGO
June 12, 1932 (Sunday)
New three-cent stamps ar
rive in Medford post office;
old red two-ccnl stamps no
longer adequate for first class
mail.
First moving picture of
1932 Republican national con
vention being shown at Med
ford theater; second feature is
"The Doomed Battalion."
40 YEARS AGO
Dr. Robert W. Stearns and
Dr. Ira D. Phipps candidates
for election to Medford school
board to replace C. M. Thom
as. Oregon Federation of Wom
en's Clubs announces that
Medford will be the site of
the 1923 state convention.
50 YEARS-AGO
Report on Medford city
schools shows 1,334 pupils
In all schools; 221 high school
pupils; eight full-time high
school teachers; 34 high
school graduates In 1912, and
11 courses offered to high
school students.
Gold Hill man announces
plans for a large polo field
near his ranch; plans to Im
port horses to train as polo
ponies.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er fen correct is superior;
even or eight is excellent; five ot
six is good.
1. A
as an
windshield,
wheel, seat
sailboat is to its tiller
automobile Is to its
engine, steering
or brakes?
2. Unscramble the follow
ing names of flowers: KNIP,
AHAILD, YILL.
3. Correct the following:
"As soon as I saw him, I knew
it was him."
4. Which three words of the
following are most closely re
lated: punt, kick-off, full
back, end, touchdown, guard?
5. In which hand does the
Statue of Liberty hold the
torch?
6. What number increased
by 1 j, 1 3, and ' of itself
equals 125?
7. Add the next three num
bers in this sequence: 3, 12,
8, 24, 12, 48 ......
8. A box is 3 inches wide
and 1 inch deep; how long
must it be to hold 15 cubic
Inches of sand?
9. Which of the following
words is a different part of
speech than the rest: rabies,
lovely, rapier, infants, atom?
10. How many pecks in a
bushel?
Answers! 1. Steering wheel.
2. Pink, Dahlia. Lily. 3. " . ..
wis he." 4. Fullback, end,
guard. 5. Right. 6. Sixty. 7.
24. 96. 48. 8. S inches. 9.
Lovely. 10. Four.
THE current proposal is to appropriate a half
1 million dollars to study "the possibilities and
problems of substituting the metric system for the
weights and measures now standard in this
country.
One opponent, at least, thinks it would be a
waste of money. "That $500,000 could be used
to help change over textbooks to the new sys
tem if it has to be spent at all," he is quoted as
saying. "Everybody knows what the metric sys
tem is. We don t have to study it. If they want to
have a metric system, let them just set a date in
the future for installing it."
This is an oversimplified view. We should at
least have some concept of what the change
would involve, and would cost, before we jump
into it, willy nilly.
lfE believe, however, such a study would re-
"veal that the metric system would save great
sums of money in the long run, simplify arithme
tic and mathematics for generations of students
and scholars and scientists, and would actually
stimulate international commerce.
The metric system, despite the opponent's
statement, is not very well known m tins country,
and there would be some opposition based simply
on inertia and dislike of change.
But it is so simple and logical that it could be
learned by everyone in a short period of time.
The changeover shouldn't take more than a year
or two.
THE metric system is based on the meter (lin-
ear), the gram (weight), the liter (capacity),
the are (area) and the stere (volume).
To these root-measurements are attached ap
propopriate prefixes to indicate smaller or larger
Quantity. "Micro-" is one-millionth, "milli-" one
thousandth, "ccnti-" one hundredth, "deci-" one
tenth, "deka-" ten, "hecto-'' one hundred, "kilo-"
one thousand, "myria-" ten thousand, and
"mega-" one million.
A meter is one ten-millionth of the distance
from the earth's equator to the north pole, or
slightly more than a yard. All other metric meas
urements are related to it. (tor instance, a gram
is the weight of one cubic centimeter of water).
The scientific community is using the metric
system more and more, and such terms as cubic
centimeter and a "megaton bomb" (although the
latter is really a confusion of terms) are be
coming generally familiar.
I TSE of the metric system in the United States
has been legally permissible since 1866, and,
oddly enough, our present units of measurement
are now legally defined in terms of the metric sys
tem. Many departments of government employ it
either exclusively or in large part. It is used in
electrical measurement, in drug measurement,
i i ii i i iniiiiii, aim nit i mi v
and in ocular measurement, as well as m elec-;rcacty ale accomplishing
tronics and broadcasting.
It is increasing in use and popularity. A
study should be made to determine the impact of
the change, ana, with that Knowledge, we coumiby them from time to time as
plan ahead for an orderly conversion. counselor in their scholastic
Affr. , wl nf ,.,if,, lifand other activities.
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"E" A. Arnold Eugene Jcnnv
Rogue Valley Manor
Medford
Hats Off To Youth
To the Editor: Seems
Messrs. Henry Johnson and
Clifford J. Young take a pret
ty dim view of our present
day youth, judging from their
comments in Communica
tions, 610.
The thing that "bugs" Mr.
Young, he says, is that "many
youth today . . . expect free
education, free vacation trips
with pay, free training for ef
ficient use of their skills."
what's so unusual about
that? Surely, most of us now
living in this good land are or
have been beneficiaries of our
free public schools, generally
hailed as the very bulwark of
our free society. Nor are va
cations with pay so very new,
cither, havine been fairlu
commonplace before the tun.
of the century.
Mr. Johnson starts out with
testimony from eminent edu
cators who, it seems to me,
see the problems of youth in
oeucr historical perspective,
as indicated by the following
quotations. Says one: "Youth
did not create their environ
ment. They are but the vic
tims of an adult-made world."
And another: "The world that
a young man enters todav is
a glittering and insidious
thing." A world, mind vou.
made not by youth but by its
elders.
Yet Mr. Johnson's own con
clusion is about as dismal as
Mr. Young's: "It seems, how
ever, that our youth general
ly conduct themselves as
though life were one grand
holiday." Such a sweeping in
dictment I believe is both un
founded and unfair.
Having worked with youth
for upwards of 50 years and
in a great variety of settings:
in church and YMCA groups,
scouting, camping, travel at
home and abroad, and in close
collaboration with school
groups, I believe today's youth
gives every bit as good ac
count of itself as any of us
oldsters did when we were
young - and In many respects.
much better.
Most of today's young peo
ple are busier than all-get-out
in more worthwhile activities
than any of us antediluvians
know in our youth: in our
schools, churches, scouting,
4 H and FFA, the YMCA,
other like organizations and
their equivalents on the col
lege and university level, and
in after-school employment.
Consider, too, the tremen
dous response of youth all
over the country to the chal
lenge of the Peace Corps - no
soft or easy prospects for any
enrollee; and what they al-
in
many lands is positively thrill
ing
My hat's off to youth! I am
pi oud still to be called upon
Sunday, July 15, as the grand
finale of the three day event.
All parties interested
should write Reunion Com
mittee, Lewis & Clark Hotel,
Centralia. Anything you will
do to help us contact Centra
lia Alumni for this event
will be most appreciated.
Fred Fulton
General Chairman
1014 Quinientos
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Solution
To the Editor:
Where is the hole in the tele
phone book?
Well, we wondered that too;
So after a little thought and
discussion,
Here's what we decided to
do.
Good old Dad was summoned,
And to t h e basement he
went;
Later he returned with a tool,
That for drilling is meant.
Slowly but surely he bent to
the floor,
(The book had been "hang
ing" there, you know)
A few quick turns and that
was that.
We thanked him kindly, but
we paid him no dough.
We have a hole in our tele
phone book,
And it didn't cost us a dime:
So now I'll quit, and just give
up,
And not waste any more
time.
Carol Mundlin
547 Laurel
Central Point, Ore.
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Saigon, South Viet Nam-WPD
The fortified village of Ben
Tyong lies about 30 helicop
ter miles
northwest of
Saigon, sepa
rated from
the South Vi
etnamese cap
ital by the
Saigon river
delta and mile
after mile of
rubber plan
tations and
water - filled paddies which
glisten in the sun.
From the air it appears
both beautiful and peaceful.
But the atmosphere of
peace is an illusion, for this
is the notorious "Zone D"
Newsom
through which only armed i either have joined the Viet
convoys can pass by day and
which at night belongs to the
Communist Viet Cong guer
rillas. The French only partially
controlled it when they had
Indo-China, and the South Vi
etnamese g o v e r nment of
President Ngo Dinh Diem
never has controlled it.
Ben Tuong is a tiny oasis
in the midst of the Viet Cong
who in the month of May
alone attacked it 14 times.
In Ben Tuong the govern
ment has- gathered 955 men",
women and children, some
voluntary, some removed
from their jungle huts by
force. In the village there is
a marked scarcity of young
men of military age, for they
Matter of Fact sy j8sePh aiwp
(e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
"Sri,
A Imp
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
At a news conference in
Washington, President Kenne
dy formally pledged to recom
mend an across-the-board cut
in personal and corporation
income taxes to take effect
next Jan. 1. The objective, he
said, would be to stimulate
business.
How would it stimulate bus
iness? It would leave more
money in the people's pockets
for the people to spend.
KENNEDY AND THE
BUSINESSMEN
Washington-Over the week
end, the White House was in
a continuous bustle of prepa
ration for the
speech the
President
will make
when he re
ceives an hon
orary degree
at the Yale
C 0 m m ence
m e n t. The
pro fessor
a m bassador,
J. Kenneth Galbraith, prepar
ed a draft which was judged
effective but too sharp in
tone. The more usual contri
butors, headed by Theodore
Sorensen, worked round the
clock, as is their custom on
these occasions. As is also
customary, messengers dashed
in and out almost hourly,
bearing data and advice, sug
gestions and criticisms, from
the Treasury, the Council of
Economic Advisers, and oth
er relevant agencies.
The President himself,
meanwhile, was in close, un
remitting charge of the whole
far - spreading effort - which
is why is major speeches, al
though the results of team
work, are also very much
Kennedy's own speeches in
a quiet literal sense. Nor was
all this earnest bustle surpris
ing; for the President had
early decided to use the Yale
rostrum for a particularly sig
nificant contribution to his
'uncomfortable dialogue with
the American business com
munity. THE MOOD and the equip
ment the President brings
to this dialogue have now be
come exceedingly important.
As to the mood, in the after
math of the steel crisis and
the Stock Exchange panic, the
President is plainly exasper
ated. He is not yet fighting
mad, but he is both impatient
and mocking.
How, he asks, can sane busi-
lion pounds of silver.
How can we compare our
national debt today with the
national debt of France back
in 1715, when Louis XIV, the
Great Spender, was gathered
to his fathers?
We can't of course get an
EXACT comparison. But just
for the heck of it, let's take a
look at it from this stand
point.
would be made considerbly simpler.-
Query
The following is a part of Ordinance 2-1-10,
School Reunion
To the Editor: I am writ
ing this in the hope you will
..... .......1 nnAA
Section 7(i, City of Medford, adopted November jhejp. The centralia High
iy, VJW.
TT sounds wonderful. But
these questions occur:
1. If taxes are cut, will the
President propose at the same
time to CUT SPENDING?
2. If we cut taxes, but GO
ON SPENDING, what will
happen?
What will happen, of
course, if we cut taxes but go
on spending at the rate we
have been spending, is that
we'll go deeper in debt. We
are eiy deeply in debt al
ready. We owe 300 billion
dollars-and a proposal is
pending to stretch the debt
limit to 308 hillion. So far.
every time we have increased
the debt limit spending has
been increased enough to take
up the slack.
"It shall be unlawful for any person to create, assist
in creating, permit, continue, or permit the continuance of
any loud, disturbing, or tinnecesary noise in the City of
Medford. The following acts are declared to be violations
of this section, but enumerations shall not be deemed to be
exclusive:
"... (b) The use of any automobile, motorcycle, street
car, or other vehicle, any engine, stationary or moving in
strument, device, or thing so out of repair, so loaded, or
operated in such manner as to create loud or unnecesary
grating, grinding, rattling, or other noises . . .
"(g) The operation of any gasoline engine without bavins
the same equipped with and using thereupon a muffler."
Query :
Does this apply to motor scooters?-
-E.
school of Centralia, Wash .
will hold a reunion of all
classes during July 13, 14.
15. 1962 - at Centralia We
have very close to 1. 000 liv
ing alumni from the classvs
mentioned above and have
reason to believe quite a num
ber live In the area covered
by your circulation. We are
vited old pioneers who lived
Centralia High whether they
graduated or not. Also are in- j
vited old p ioneers who lived '
in and around Centralia dur I
ing these years - these latter
especially for the bis picnic
to be held at Borst Park on
This question faces us:
If the government goes on
spending as vigorously as it
has spent in the past and goes
on putting a large part of its
spending on the cuff-where
will we end up?
QJINCE July 1, 1930, the U. S.
Treasury price for silver
has been 90.5 cents per fine
ounce. lo make the matha
matics easier, let's say the
U. S. price of silver is now
a dollar per ounce, or S12 per
12-ounce pound.
Our present national debt
is 300 billion dollars. Divid
ing 300 billion dollars by 12
dollars gives us a present na
tional debt amounting to 25
billion pounds of silver-or
8.3 times France's debt in
terms of silver bullion when
Louis XIV died after his long
spending binge.
fHAT followed Louis XIV?
It's a grim story.
Some seven decades later
came the bloody French Revo
lution. Heads rolled from the
guillotine-some 2500 of them
in a period of 15 months.
One of the heads was that of
Louis XlV's great-great-grandson.
Another was that of his
queen. Marie Antoincttc-the
lady who said when the peo
ple of Paris were crying for
bread. "Why the silly things
nessmen be so alarmed and
angered because i they have
been deprived of the painful
privilege of paying S6 a ton
more for the steel they all
use? What makes his "gov
ernment inter vention" so
much more wicked in prin
ciple than the equally govern
mental steel - intervention by
Vice President Richard M.
Nixon-
That time, he points out,
there was a long and crip
pling strike, a large wage rise,
and no price rise by emphatic
government request. This
time, there was no strike, a
very moderate wage rise, and
no price rise, again by gov
ernment request, though a re
quest to be sure that was
even more sternly proffered.
To this he adds a perfect
litany of his own actions de
signed to be helpful and en
couraging to business. The
preparation of a new depreci
ation schedule by the Inter
nal Revenue authorities; the
investment credit proposal
the planned across - the-board
tax cut the list was heard
at his last press conference
Why, he inquires in effect,
should all these things of sub
stance go for nothing, just
because he was somewhat
harsh with the hapless Roger
Blough for the sake of the
American economy as a
whole and American business
in particular?
THUS it must be said that
-- if the business communl
ly is feeling ill - used, so is
the President. But for the
long run, this Presidential
sense of being ill-used is clear
ly less meaningful than the
equipment this formidable
man is gathering together
which will be very useful in
the fight with business if busi
ness chooses lo pick a fight
with him.
In the last 12 months, es
pecially, President Kennedy
has given an astonishing
amout of time and energy to
detailed exploration of every
kind of economic problem,
with special emphasis on test
ing the factual underpinnings
of the common cliches of eco
nomic debate.
There is an odd contrast
here, in truth. Perforce, for
eign policy is the President's
main preoccupation; but he
has not given quite the same
kind of study to foreign poli
cy matters that he has given,
and is even increasingly giv
ing, to economic matters. He
does not try, for instance, to
read the all - important Soviet
signs and portents himself.
He leaves that task, so to say,
to the official astrologers.
TUT he is absorbed by such
- abstruse but basic ques
tion as the reasons for the
difference in the European
and American rates of eco
nomic growth; the difference
between the government-business
relationship in this coun
try and in France or West
Germany: the comparison be
tween American budgetary
practices and those used
abroad, and so on and on. He
not only demands a constant
stream of factual memoranda
on these and other related
subjects. He also seeks out
foreign visitors of the special
ist type not usually sought
out by the While House, such
as the treasurer general of
The Netherlands, Emile van
Lennep, to subject them to
long interrogation.
In sum, we may end by hav
ing a Kennedy-business feud
Cong or have disappeared into
the jungle in fear of being
taken into the army
Their absence is illustra
tive both of the Viet Cong's
influence and of the govern
ment's past failure to win ei
ther the sympathy or loyalty
of these outlying villagers.
who regard government
agents only as tax collectors
or unwelcome representatives
of the army.
Ben Tuong and 2,000 other,
similar strategic hamlets are
part of a U.S.-supported ef
fort lo change that concept.
Except that the houses are
of thatch and woven palm,
Ben Tuong could be a vil
lage in early colonial Amer
ica. A deep ditch embedded
with sharp bamboo spikes sur
rounds it, topped by an earth
works and a tangle of barbed
wire.
An armed guard stands at
the gate which each morn
ing swings back to allow the
villagers to work in the pad
dies or an adjoining rubber
plantation.
In each family plot, a slit
trench provides shelter in
case of attack.
At the moment, two com
panies of Vietnamese troops
guard the village, but in six
months time it is hoped the
villagers will provide their
own defense.
The real test of Ben Tu-
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
No matter what brain
washing devices are devel
oped in the future, the most
powerful force of suggestion
in the world will remain auto
suggestion. The weak ego can
convince i t -elf
of any
thing, while
the strong
and healthy
ego will re
main impervi
ous to any
sort of hrain-
-j washing. Not
Harris team of medi
cal researchers at the Univer
sity of Illinois tested volun
teers with an infectious se
cretion. The volunteers were
divided into two groups -those
who say they "got colds
all the time," and those who
don't
It was true that more of the
"always - have - a-cold" group
developed symptoms of colds
than the other group. But
then, when the researchers
used a non-infectious mate
rial, about one-quarter of the
"always-havc-a-cold" group
got symptoms, while only 1
per cent of the non-cold peo
ple showed symptoms.
What this strongly indi
cates is that auto-suggestion
is the cause of "having
a cold" in many cases. If
you believe you are likely
to gel one from sitting in a
draft or walking through a
puddle, you will get all the
symptoms-even though the
cold virus ii not present in
your body.
Preston Lecky once re
ported the case of a man
and his wife who were
both bitten by their pet
dog. The man became convinced-
thai he was going to
develop hydrophobia, but
the woman was sure the
wasn't.
"In three days." Lecky
said, "the man was tick in
bed. his throat muscles
were becoming taut, and he
complained of difficulty in
swallowing. Hii wife was
up and well. At the end of
five days, the man reported
all the symptoms of hydro
phobia, and a physician taw
that he was actually on the
verge of dying from a dis
ease he didn't have.
"Finally, on the eighth
day, the doctor persuaded
him that nobody with hy
drophobia had ever lived
more than six days. He
jumped out of bed and soon
was as well as before the
dog had bitten him."
A person cannot be hypno
tized against his will; the sub
ject must meet the hypnotist
ong's success will come when
the army is withdrawn. It is
reasonably safe from mass at
tack now because the Viet
Cong attack in the open only
when sure of superior
strength.
Washington Reporf
By William S. White
lei United Feature
Syndicate
if. .-.
If they have no bread, why ; elld' as manv businessmen are
like the Roosevelt - businos ' at least half-way. must want
don't they eat cake?"
to be put in a trance. Much of
the "suggestive power" of the
LET'S take a look at the
past.
The debt of France at the :
death of Louis XIV - the
world's greatest spender up
to FDR was three thousand'
million (three billion) livres. j
What was a hvre?
How ran we compare it
with a dollar? !
gestion in the patient. Like-
now predicting. But if this
The historians tell us that misfortune happens, Kennedy
the immense naiional debt vvl" not enter the feud as
that Louis XIV piled up and Roosevelt did. as an inspired : wise, soldiers who arc easily
Hie burden that it laid upon ! impressionist, acting on hunch. I brain-washed are unconsci
the people was in consider-1 Instead, he will be armed. ously receptive toward the
able part responsible for the cap . a - pie. with hard facts : procedure before it even be
Frcnch Revolution. j and harsh figures to suit ev- gins
; 1 cry occasion. I The ultimate weapon
T couldn't happen to us, of t ,5 point worth consid-J against brain-washing by an
course. This a different I ering. especially as the last enemy is not our own "indoc-
INDIRECT FIRE
Washington-President Ken
nedy's Republican Congres
sional opposition is now do-
''iWBSs K ing e x a c 1 1 y
what Presi.
dent Eisen
hower's Dem
ocratic opposi
tion used td
do about onn
notably
sticky parti
san problem.
Whif The Republi
cans today are avoiding direct
and personal attacks on Mr,
Kennedy in favor of glad as
saults on far lesser adminis
tration figures, precisely as
the Democrats "laid off" Mr.
Eisenhower as a person and
happily belted his lower
placed associates.
How clearly the wheel has
turned full circle is shown in
the all-party "Declaration of
Republican Principles and
Policy" just issued by tha-
combined Senate and House
Republican membership.
rpHIS document goes after
what is called "the current
administration" or "the pres
ent administration." And "the
current administration" is in-
dieted for many things - in
cluding lack of sympathy with
tree enterprise and lack of
cither "wit or will to meet'
effectively the assult of in
ternational Communism on'
freedom."
NOWlierP in if linitra.raH -
does the name "Kennedy" ap'
pear; not even is there such
relatively nonbellieerent
phrase as "the Kennedy Ad
ministration." The Republi
cans now choose, when ihpy
do get down to naming names,
lo berate not John Fitzgerald
Kennedy but rather such
comparatively small-time fig."
tires as Chester Bowles, a for
eign policy adviser to tha
President, and John K. Gal
braith, the present Ambassa-'
dor to India.
Not too long ago, when the.
shoe was on the other foot,,
one listened in vain for the
name "Eisenhower" when
Democrats were blastine
away at another president
unless the Eisenhower meant
was Dr. Milton Eisenhower
People like Ezra Taft Benson,
then Secretary of Agriculture,
took most of the raps. In
deed, looking back, it seems'
that Benson took practically
all of the raps, though this
is a fault of memory. Come to
think of it, a man named
John Foster Dulles took a fails
number, too. ;
A LL this is not in Ihc least-'
" accidental. For the better!
part of eight years nonelected.
Democrats on this or that'
party committee or advisor?.'
panel screeched in pain and
fury at the persistent refusal :
of the Democratic Congres-':
sional leadership to "get
tough" with President Eisen-:
howcr personally.
Ceaslessly they "demand--ed"
what they never got from!
the party's elected leaders in;
Congress: A kind of shouting;
match of name-calling against
the man who held in his!
hands all the immense power"
and prestige of the Whita:
House. !
The elected fcllows-which?
is to say, the real pros-weret
not interested in any contest
of this sort. For they had tha.
sure knowledge that not any;
number of Congressional -
trumpets can blow down the"
walls of any White House so.
long as it is under the com-
mand of a popular president.?
ryHE present Vice-President,!
- I.VnHfin .fntincnn time H.nn
the Senate leader of the Dem--
ocratic party. He used to say:
calmly, amid a great din from-
excitable Democrats reproach--
ing mm for "not getting in;
there and slugging it out with;
Eisenhower," that he had-
nevcr seen much point in!
opening any debate until mat-.
ters had developed to the;
point where he had a chance
to win it.
Precisely this is the prcs-"
hypnotist is based on auto-sug-' ent position of the Republican -
Tll
value in Louis XIV s day !
It was equal in value to a 12-!
ounce pound of silver. "Livre" !
is a French word for pound '
So. at the death of Louis XIV, j
France's debt was three bil-l
age. The world has moved a thing the President desires is trination" courses, or patriotic
long way from Louis XIV and clearly a feud with business. : education, but the building up
what followed his cxtrava-1 Although he does not parrot ; of strong and healthy egos in
gancc. the conventional mottoes of our children.
But the lesson of it all is the market-place he is a con-1 At their terminal Doint.
that spending too much of the I scrvative-minded man by any ! mental health and national of the enemy's line until you '
Congressional leaders so far?
as Mr. Kennedy personally i
conccrned. For now, they are-
content lo strike at the men:
around a Democratic Presi
dent, rather than at him.
As time goes on their firing,
will come closer and closer;
to the President himself. But;
that time is not yet. In poll-!
tics, as in war. you do notl
usually fling a headlong and
all-out assualt. all artillery"
going, at the strongest center".
people's money can cause a lot : reasonable test, and what he health converge-for the weak,
of grief if it is continued too! wants is a cooperative rcla-: dependent and insecure per-long-and
ESPECIALLY if too j tionship with business, rath-1 sonality is always ripe for to
much of it Is put on the cuff.'er than a feud. talitarian plucking.
- i
have spent a good deal of-
timc in softening up his peri-:
phcral forces by such a mor-
tar fire.
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