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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 15, 1952 (Sunday)
Dog bites off tip of a 13-year-old
boy's nose; boy
taken to e hospital where the
snipped off piece was sewed
back on.
A total of 103 entries listed
in Rogue Valley Soap, Box
derby to be held on the East
Main st. hill.
20 YEARS AGO
June 15, 1942 (oMnday)
Scth M. Btillis Jr. receives
recruit award while in train
ing at San Diego marine
corps base.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Many
ot the Older Girls are in the
orchards thinning the pears
and themselves."
30 YEARS AGO
June 15, 1932 (Wednesday)
Capl. Carl Y. Tengwald re-
oorts Medtord members of
National Guard units are
"settling Into the routine" of
u m m e r training at Camp J
Clatsop.
Survey shows recent hail
storm damage to orchards
amounted to about 500 car.
loads Instead of 3,500 car
loads as first predicted.
40 YEARS AGO
June '15, 1922 (Thursday)
Magazine for West Coast
motorists praises Medford as
tourist center; city tourist
bureau said "very coopera
tive." Andrew Jeldness, veteran
southern Oregon prospector,
reports local miners have
hopes of striking platinu'n in
paying quantities.
SO YEARS AGO
June 15, 1912 (Friday)
Medtord police searching
for "bold robber" who "broke
into the Pacific and Eastern
railroad depot here In broad
daylight" and took $'21.
Cily fire department makes
fourth run within a month;
"run was made in the face
of a hard rain but in excep
tionally fast time."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight it eiccllcnt; five oi
six Is good.
1. In the Bible, who was
Solomon's mother?
2. How did Mohandas K.
Gandhi, Hindu spiritual lead
er, meet his death?
3. If you travel on the sur
face of the earth until your
watch registers two hours fast,
have you been traveling east
or west?
4. In inS4 the U.S. Supreme
Court barred what in the pub
lic schools"
5. What is an intaglio?
6. Is the Continental Divide
in ine area oi me KocKv RIoun
r nioun-1
tains or the
range?
7. In what field of art is I
James Melton well known' i
8. How many ounces are in I
8 ,IoyP1mind? , . I
hoco
to override a Presidential ,
vein?
10. Arrange in order from
west to east; British Columbia,
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Marti
'oba. Answers: 1. Bathiheba. J.
Assassinated. 3. Weil. 4, Ra
cial segregation. S. An Inset
engraving. 6. Rocky Moun
tains. 7. Music. 8. Twelve. 9.
Two-thirds. 10. Thai Is correct
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FRIDAY, JUNE IS, 1962
The Pan-Arab Dream
Arab leaders, it is said, never take one another
completely into confidence ; neither do they turn
their backs on one another completely. S( it
comes as no real surprise that Syria is proposing
a realignment with the United Arab Republic
(Egypt) in the form of a federal union.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt ap
peared at one time to look upon himself as a son
of modern Saladin, the 12th century leader who
united Arabs against the Crusaders. Clearly Pre
mier Bashir Azmeh of Syria has no such vision,
When Svrian President Nazem el-Kodsi was
returned to office last
wanting to join with Arab states "beginning with
dear Egypt." But he showed no willingness to
shift the rule of Syria from Damascus to Cairo.
The dream of a Fertile Crescent stretching
from the Mediterranean to the Persian uulf has
a strong appeal for many Syrians. But there is
also a strong nationalist pull in Syria. It was
Egyptianization of the bynan government ana
of the army that precipitated the military coup
and the eventual withdrawal of Syria from the
United Arab Republic
"ARABS," wrote T.
swuner on an idea
complicated allegiance of
obedient servants.
If so the idea is not pan-Arabism, it would
appear. Association with the West in the World
Wars seems instead to have inculcated in Arab
nolitical leaders and their followers a fierce na-
tionalism. No successful
formed since the individual states achieved inde
pendence.
After losintr Svria last
three months pushed the
Arab States. Nasser now
Saud of Saudi Arabia a "reactionary and
with other sheiks. '
Syria's proposal that Premier Abdel Karim
Kassem lead Iraq into the federal union seems
inconceivable at present. Nasser has long been
bickering with Kassem. Moreover, he opposes
Iraq's claim to Kuwait.
IN GENERAL OUTLINE Arab rivalries are
three-fold. There are the age-old strife be
tween the valley of the Nile and the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates and the more recent
haul-and-pull between have-not Egypt and oil
rich Iraq, the country of two rivers. Of less im
mediate relevance today but still to be reckoned
with is the Hashemite
aspirations to lead Araby.
More recently Nasser's ambitions have re
ceived a further check. Kintr Hassan II of Mo
rocco has revived the
his state. Tunisia, and an
Algeria in the Great iHae
basic noJicv of this federation would be to main-
i -f a? in. n
tain ciose ties witn Europe, especially nance.
Perhaps the closest
flnv fnrm nf linif.v is in'thfi Arab Leacnifi. which
furnishes a vessel for their political thinking. A
newer formation also shows promise; it is a child
of the League.
Five nations on June 6 agreed to create an
Arab Economic Community, including a common
------ ..'
market. Within 10 years this would foi m a bas
tion against other economic groupings, especially
the European Common Market.
The initial members are the U. A. R., Syria,
Jordan, Morocco, and Kuwait. So far as has been
disclosed, however, there
the Arabs to turn their
kind of supranational
promised for Western Europe L. K. K.
Formosa and Black Markets
Are American surplus
distributed to needy families on Taiwan finding
their way onto the black market in significant
amounts?
Elmore R. Torn, a member of the Advisory
Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid, has been
dispatched to the Nationalist Chinese stronchold
to find out and will report back at a meeting of
the group today in Washington. The committee
coordinates activities of voluntary relief agencies
with the U. S. government s foreign aid program
The issue arose on May 10 when it was re-
ported from Washington
Service, overseas relief arm of the National Conn
cil of Churches, planned to reduce food distribu
tion to needy Formosan
i, iinti iu tei uimaie sucn
A BLACK market in relief supplies, made more
flourishing by a ration-card system under
which lists of recipients are initially furnished by
the local government, was said to be the reason.
But the director of the Food and Peace pro-
... ,. .
sierra Nevada . K'am 111 iaiwan warned mat nimppr ana resont
I ment would be widespread if f;imilv fnnd rolipf
uithrlvm-ii
Wel,W 'i V
1 he l hlU'Cll Ol id Service SHVS its UltcntlOllS
were misinterpreted. Nevertheless, the nossibilitv
Aversion of relief supplies into black market
channels must be clarified.
Contrrcss is sensitive
of misuse of foreign aid, and the Chiang kai-shek
government already has trouble maintaining a
favorable public image abroad. Moreover, the
neetl for more not less American aid to the
peoples of Taiwan will be compelling if, as prom
ised, the Nationalist government accepts more
refugees from Red China via Hong Kong
E. R. R.
December he spoke of
last September,
E. Lawrence, "could be
as on a cord : for the un
their minds made them
federation has been
autumn, Nasser within
Yemen out of the United
is squabbling with King
opposition to Egyptian
scheme that would unite
eventually independent
- fireo of .North Africa. A
1 1 . n
the Arabs have come to
. - p: .
is no disposition among
common market into the
political entity that is
food and relief supplies
that the Church World
families, beginning July
activities wunin a year.
...... , .
these davs to anv reports
"W May Have To Operate To Pull You Through"
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contrary is often the case.
Eternal Victory
To the Editor: Lurid litera
ture today offers the prob
ability the Soviets have
strange secret weapons ena
bling them to read our
thoughts and thus dominate
the Mind of Man. Our scien
tific military analysts will
soon write their theses on the
possibility of such mystic
mechanisms; maybe suggest
we make them first. This is
all very silly.
Man, not being an angel, is
never immune. But evil may
never translate the powers of
hell into material form. Evil
men have always been able to
read the thought of subject
souls. During universal con
flict Masters - in - evil often
prostitute and exploit the
very nuance and origin of
thought, thus, and then, per
verting nature into casualties,
catastropliies, crimes and ca-
lamaties anywhere man and
matter is vulnerable.
Our God-fearing reportorl-
al research in War Two ex
posed the dread truth that
strange thought-weapons are
never needed. The Nazi, Fas
cist and Shintoed may have
had evil genius but none
were more evil than our
Masters at home who were
"ahrined" in it. Some were
commercial, industrial and
lodge leaders, and they op
erated in our state mental
hospitals, prisons, govern-
ment mental units and Vet
erans Administration psychi
atric hospitals. They did not
act physically, but attacked
in the spirit. But, alas, not
in the Spirit of God. In their
eternal defeat, and forced to
vie with good, they often
caused our military losses on
land, sea and air. They have
never been publicized by
press or pulpit.
There Is never another war.
We wrought the eternal vic
tory of war in ending War
Two. We wrought it mentally
and morally and spiritually
before our physical arms tri
umphed in Europe, Africa,
Asia and the South Seas. Our
erstwhile allies - Russia and
China - will gricviously dis
cover and to their sorrow for
ever that theirs is only a ma
terial share in that Allied tri
umph. '
The Masters of evil, Includ
ing our own, will not seek
secret sanctuary in any con-
diet tomorrow. There will be
no thought weapons. The cul
tural and . spiritual conflict
preceding anv nuclear world
destruction will find them free
to ravish the thought of any
one - peon or poet, publisher
or priest, president or pope.
Yet, have no fear, for God
gave us eternal victory, won
der of all war, out of all con
flict, and this blessed burden
is ours to keep for all forever.
And we must be continually
about it, for God will never
visit us again until Jesus
comes.
William T. Cuddy
VA Domiciliary
White City, Ore.
Foel Proof Plan
To the Editor: In answer to
C. W. Corey in June U MT,
may I bark him up 100 per
cent? It will be Chinese Red
Communist spies masqumd-
ing as "starving refugees" who
will pour into the United
Stales if we pass an emergen
cy bill to let in a flood ot these
people. The Red dictators of
Communist China should be
so crazy as to pass up a beau
tlful chance like this to get
their t r a i n ed agents Into
America.
When we opened our gates
to the Hungarians back in the
1950 s the real Hungarian
Freedom Fighters who got out
of Hungary were as scarce as
hens teeth. But we were
flooded by multiplied thou
sands of hard core, trained
Red agents.
And for goodness sake. Mr.
Corey, don't feel bad about
finaliy waking up about Sen-
ator Wayne Morse and Sena
tor Neuberger. They are
among the 13 worst senators
we've got. Thirteen senators
scored a mark of 0 per cent
in Constitutional voting in
1961. Morse and Neuberger
were 2 of the 13. This means
they voted 100 per cent of
the time against our Constitu
tion, which they so faithfully
swore to uphold and protect
when they took office. It is
time that the people of Oregon
got their eyes open about
these two.
I'm not a bit surprised that
they are sponsoring a bill to
bring Communist Chinese in
to the United States. Every
extreme leftist liberal in
Washington, D.C. seems to be
fairly panting with eagerness
to do something to bail Mao
Tse-tung and his Chinese
"Kremlin" out of trouble.
Let's feed these hungry peo
ple, but let's do it right. Here
is my foolproof plan: Give
Generalising Chiang Kai-Shek
the green light to invade the
Mainland of China. Also give
him our surplus food and let
it be distributed under his
watchful, Christian eyes to all
the hungry Chinese who will
join him and help him run
the Reds out of China. This
would insure getting the food
Into the stomachs of the inno
cent, enslaved Chinese people
instead of into the stomachs
of the Red Army. It would
also insure a smashing victory
for Nationalist China and anti-
communism throughout the
entire world. For if Red China
collapses the whole Commu
nist empire will start crum
bling. Tony Galll
1720 SW Bridge st.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Change Is No Lark
To the Editor:
Who are these ituvs
that golf, must play.
wno want more daylight
in each day?
Can't they remember
youthful days
When they spent their'
evenings other ways?
To youth a time change
is no lark
When they have to be
In bed by dark.
Paul F. Wilson,
614 Berrjsdale,
Medford.
Contented To Compromise
Io the Editor: Now that
JFK has consented to make a
compromise on the King-An-
nerson Din, u s due time that
the following facts should be
bourne in mind:
First: Any rewriting of the
K-A bill will have no sound
effect, unless the present so
cial security rules are also re
written. (Details can be fur
nished upon request.)
Second: The original writ
ers of the K-A bill are not
thoroughly acquainted with
Justice.
Third: The same writers are
not to be condemned for writ
ing an unbalanced old age
medical assistance plan. Any
plan is better than no plan at
all. Besides, maybe no one
else cares for that sort of
thing.
Fourth: Old age medical as
sistance attached to SS origi
nated from a Just and worthy
cause.
Fifth: The Kerr-Mills bill is
as disgraceful to the American
way of life as the K-A bill is
to the medical profession.
My advice to AMA would
be to accept the K-A bill only
if it is rewritten to the extent
the medical profession should
be included, along with hos
pitals and others on a per
centage basis; ad Social Se
curity itself would be equal
ized to the extent that it
would not be a "government
give away" to one faction and
a robbery to another.
Would also like to suggest
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
U.S. Aid Dollars Amount to Awesome
Totals, Varying Results in SE Asia
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Saigon, South Viet Nam-In
the rich, rice-growing delta
country below Saigon a few
days ago, a United States agri
cultural expert completed his
inspection of a U.S. aid proj
ect and prepared to go on to
the next one.
The journey by air would
take him six minutes from
wheels up to landing.
But it was the only way he
could go, for the area between
was under control of Commu
nist Viet Cong guerillas.
These are the conditions
which led Arthur Z. Gardi
ner, director of the United
States operation mission to
write, in his report for 1961:
Future It Bright
"With peace, Viet Nam's fu
ture is bright, and the work
her people have done for
themselves can lead to a bet
ter life for millions. No one
can prophesy when the
threats and pressures of the
that the AMA write up these
issues themselves, correcting
each one and present directly
to JFK.
If the AMA or any member
thereof does not know how to
correct the present K-A and
SS setups this writer will be
very glad to help them, for
the cost of one postage stamp.
And you can be sure that the
issues, when corrected, will be
sound and self-sustaining pro
grams and not government
handouts.
Warren E. Wood,
P.O. Box 102,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
FIVE STUPID PEOPLE
A professor of education at
Columbia University's Teach
ers College, in explaining
some changes
in teac h i n g
proced u r e s,
was quoted re
cently as say
ing: "If you
take five stu
pid people
and put them
on a team, all
you have is a
Hams team oi live
stupid people." If this is what
passes for thought at Colum
bia's Teachers College, then
it is little wonder that our
teachers themselves are so ill
taught. For exactly the re
verse is true.
The amazing and gratify
ing thing about group action,
on a team or elsewhere, is
that five stupid people usual
ly add up to a great deal more
than five stupid people. We
can see it all around us.
There is a law known as
"synergism" in che m i s t r y,
which says that when you
have a mixture of different
agencies, the total effect is
greater than the sum of the
separate effects taken inde
pendently. With synergism,
two and two can add up to
five, or even six or seven.
The same happens to be
true in personal and social
relations. Five men who
might be deemed stupid, if
observed separately, can
often combine to produce a
brilliant result.
One of the team may
have perseverance. Anoth
er may have courage. The
third may possess immense
vitality. And so on. Even
though none of them, sin
gly, is intelligent, their
separate virtues may com
bine to make a superb team
for the purpose - whether
it Is shooting for baskets,
running a bank, or building
a skyscraper.
We might even go io far
at to say that the whole
history of human achieve
ment is a remarkable ex
ample of this kind of locial
synergism. If we examine
the individuals who were
largely responsible tor the
creation of churches, gov
ernments, and powerful so
cial instruments of all sorts,
it remains a pussle that,
with their limitations, they
were able to accomplish to
much of permanent value.
.
When Aristotle reminds us
that man is, first of all. a so
cial animal, he is doing more
than merely underlining the
obvious. He is trying to make
us aware that the resulls of
group activity, in any sphere,
are always greatrr than the
sum of Individual efforts.
It is true that it often takes
one great man to initiate some
profound change or some vast
project - but he does not
Communists will cease, and
until they do cease Viet
Nam's social and economic
development will be imperil
ed." This correspondent has Just
completed a tour which in
cluded Thailand, Laos and
South Viet Nam. Among the
three, U. S. aid dollars mount
to awesome totals with vary
ing results.
In Laos, where the United
States took a $300 million
gamble on establishment of a
strong pro-Western govern
ment, the protracted civil war
left results at near zero.
Until it was cut off to Laos
in February, U. S. aid
amounted to about $3 million
per month. Resumption of the
payments was announced to
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From New York:
The nation spent a total of
$6.7 billion on highway con
struction during 1961, but the
cost of traffic accidents was
even higher.
The economic loss from mo
tor vehicle accidents amount
ed to $8.8 billion, according
to a survey by C.I.T. Corpora
tion, a major industrial and
highway financing firm.
The survey defined accident
costs as loss of wages for
those killed and injured, re
duced earning power because
of disabilities, medical and
hospital expenses, property
damage and insurance.
THE TRAGEDY of it is that
most of these highway ac
cidents could have been avoid
ed if more people had paid
as much attention to their
driving as they should have
paid.
Careless driving, on the
part of somebody, is respon
sible for the bulk of the na
tion's staggering total of high
way death and injury.
THAT brings up the subject
of head - on collisions -
which are responsible for the
GRIMMEST of our highway
accidents. In head-on colli
sions at high speed, somebody
is practically certain to be
killed. Far too often, EVERY
BODY in both cars is killed.
Head-on collisions occur when
somebody crosses the center
line at a time when the cen
ter line shouldn't have been
crossed.
What to do about it?
Highway authorities are
giving increased attention to
the idea of a BARRIER at the
center line - perhaps a care
fully designed fence that
would prevent line-crossing
except at designated points
where the hazard would be
least. That, of course, would
make passing possible only at
these designated points.
It would be a nuisance, but
it could save a lot of lives.
FOLLOWING the tax reduc-
tion talk that has been go
ing the rounds in Washington
recently, Sen. Vance Hartke,
chairman of the Democratic
senatorial campaign commit
tee, came up the other day
with a suggestion for a 2 per
cent across-the-board cut in in
come taxes - including, pre
sumably, corporation income
taxes.
H"
mmmmmmm.
Senator Hartke's propos
al, if embodied into law,
would at least reduce the fed
eral government to the posi
tion of an EQUAL partner in
corporate business in the
U.S.A.
The federal government is
now a MAJORITY partner in
corporate business. It gets 52
per cent of the net profit. Pri
vate owners (the stockholders
in American corporations) get
only 48 per cent of the net
profit.
rTHE FEDERAL government
- is really MORE than a 52
per cent owner in U.S. corpo
rate business. It levies a 53
per cent tax on the corpora
tion's net profit and then
TAXES THE STOCKHOLD
ER ON HIS DIVIDENDS.
In addition, the federal gov
ernment is now proposing to
withhold from the stockhold
er a portion of his dividends
until such a time as the gov
ernment can find out whether
or not the stockholder is hold
ing out on it and failing to
report some of his dividend in
come ,
have to be a particularly in
telligent man. Five ordinary
men. indeed, with interlock
ing virtues, can accomplish
more than five highly intelli
gent men who cannot coop
erate. There is no evidence
that any of the twelve dis
ciples were extraordinary in
anything except Uieir devo
tion to the cause.
day by U. S. Ambassador
Winthrop Brown in view of
the new coalition govern
ment. In South Viet Nam, U. S.
aid will amount to about $175
million this year, with the ef
fort frankly devoted less to
social reforms in the Ngo
Dienh Diem government than
to winning the war against
the Viet Cong.
Areet of Efiori
Nonetheless, U. S. interests
continue in the development
of a better breed of livestock,
in the increase in production
of rice, in the development of
land and water resources, in
vocational training, in irriga
tion and better means of com
munication. Altogether in South Viet
Washington Report
By William
(c United Feature Syndicate
GREAT IMMEDIATE
DANGER
Washington - In the war
years there was a slogan
which read: "Loose talk sinks
ships." Loose
talk can sink
economies, too
- and it can
also sink the
cause of truo
c o nservatism
in this coun
try, for this
year and per
haps for a
wbit good many
years to come.
The great immediate dan
ger in the current debate over
economic policy and business
conditions is that we may be
talked into a genuine reces
sion by two sets of romanti
cists who live in the nineteen
sixties but still think in the
nineteen-thirties.
One set is made up of ultra
conservatives among the busi
ness and political communi
ties who wish to renew an im
possible and long-finished bat
tle with the ghost of Franklin
D. Roosevelt. The other set
are academic-minded ultra
liberals who are, consciously
or not, really hostile to busi
ness and who yearn to return
to the dead years of the thir
ties, complete with alphabeti
cal agencies and excessive
government controls.
EITHER group, in fact,
' represents any great num
ber of people. The ultra-conservatives
no more speak for
business and Republican con
servatism generally than do
such outfits as the John Birch
society. The ultra-liberals no
more speak for rational and
moderate Democratic liberal
ism than does, say, Americans
for Democratic Action.
As is the way of all ex
tremist movements, however,
they make a shocking lot of
noise. Their capacity to mis
chief is infinitely higher than
their numbers would indicate.
Together they can manage to
bring on a self-induced reces
sion by creating what is not
yet really present: a true lack
of public confidence in ' the
American economy.
Such a true lack of confi
dence can be engineered from
the ultra-conservative side by
a continuation of wildly exag
gerated claims that there is
an economic "crisis," no mat
ter how obvious it is that this
is simply not so.
pREE speech, as Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes
once said, does not extend to
the right to cry "fire" in s
crowded theater - particular
ly when there is no fire, anyhow.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
RUDY VALLEE tells about a drunk who entered a saloon
and announced, "I just cut off my finger," "Go on,"
jeered the bartender, "that's no finger you're holding up
there. That's a half
burned cigar." Obvious
ly confused, the drunk
threw away the cigar
butt and reckoned, "I
must have smoked my
finger."
A distinguished novelist
was complaining at the
Coffee House the other
evening that his wife had
been driving him batty for
ten years and more. "Why
don't you give her the air?"
asked a sympathizer. "I
ran t," mourned the novel
ist. "She's the only typist I know who can read my damn hand
writing."
A new patient of Psychoanalyst Schnlckelfritz knew without
being told the original source of his insecurity. "It all began
when I was a Boy Scout," he told the good Dr. S., as he stretched
out on the couch. ' The little old lady 1 was helping across the
street got run over by a truck."
Satchel Pace. ajRcU the secret of his ability to pitch big
league caliber baseball at the age of fifty-five tat least) ex
plains. "When I works, I works easy. When I Bits, I sits loose.
And when I wornea I sleeps!"
C 1962, bj Bennett Cert. Distributed bjr Kuuj rutures Salic4te
Nam, the United States has
poured about $2.5 billion,
much, much more than the
entire national income.
Thailand, never a colonial
country and generally peace
ful despite Communist
threats, has shown the best re
sults. Exclusive of military help,
U. S. economic aid to Thai
land by the end of this year
will have amounted to about
$311 million.
Thomas E. Naughton, aid
director in Thailand, is en
thusiastic about the efforts
the people of Thailand have
made for themselves. He pre
dicts that in four to five years
Thailand will be ready to go
it alone economically.
S. White
And such a true lack of
confidence can be fabricated
by frantic demands from the
ultra-liberals for some wholly
unnecessary but destructive
series of massive governmen
tal interferences with the or
dinary operations of business.
This can be done even though
there is no prospect for such
a degree of government inter
ference. It needs only to ba
shouted long enough, however
baselessly, that such interfer
ence is on the way for enough
people to accept the notion.
Worse yet - and this is tha
central point of this column
- extremism from right and
left can so inflame and en
venom the politics of this
country as to drive sensible
conservatism right out of the
ball game. No conservative
should ever forget that if tha
contest, in this fall's congres
sional elections and beyond, is
to be twisted into some emotion-dripping
test of dema
goguery between the alleged
"haves" and the alleged
"have . nots," the alleged
"have-nots" will cast more
votes every time.
SO, WHAT should be done?
It is no good talking about
calming the ultra-liberals; no
force has ever been able to
do this. They must be left to
their worn-out, uneasy
dreams. What remains is for
responsible conservatism-and
explicitly for the vast major
ity of responsible business
men to take steps to make
certain that the handful of
ultra-conservatives in busi
ness and politics is never al
lowed to seem to speak for
either "business" or "conserv
atism." The way to do this Is for
responsible business never to
permit itself, whatever its
sense of frustration here and
there, to forget that what is
at issue here is not the fact
that the president is a Demo
crat named Kennedy.
The real issue is solely a
thing called the economy of
the United States of America,
which is still the strongest
and greatest economy in the
world.
Senate Passes TV
Equipment Measure
Washington - ICPD - The Sen
ate Thursday passed a bill that
would require manufacturers
to equip all television sets to
receive 82 channels.
The bill, which would fores
addition of the 70 ultra high,
frequency channels to the reg
ular 12 very high frequency
ones, goes back to the House
for action on minor Senate
changes.