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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
June 17, 19S2 (Tuesday)
Douglas fir bark beetle,
which has infested about 3,
000,000 acres of western Ore
gon timberland, including 1,
600,000 acres in Douglas
county, declared not a serious
problem in Jackson county.
The 1952-S3 Medford city
budget - like the county's,
the largest in history-published
for the first time; budget
totals $1,007,138 for the first
time exceeding the million
dollar mark.
20 YEARS AGO
June 17. 1942 (Wednesday)
Japanese submarine shells
Seaside on Oregon coast; no
damage or casualties report
ed.
From Arthur Perry s "Yej1
Smudge Pot" column: "in
North Carolina more candi
dates than voters showed up
at a political meeting. All
went home Instead of letting
the voters address the candi
dates." 30 YEARS AGO
June 17. 1932 (Friday)
Medford city council cuts
salaries of all employees; 10
per cent cut for those making
less than $100 a month, 15
per cent for those making
more than $100 a month.
State highway commission
reports that applications for
log hauling permits to be used
on Crater Lake highway will
be refused; highway said not
In good enough condition to
stand up under heavy trattic.
40 YEARS AGO
June 17. 1922 (Saturday)
Jackson county club mem
bers attending summer agri
culture course at Oregon Ag
ricultural college include
John Bohnert. Ord Reed, Del
bert Anderson and Loland
Cale.
Opening words of song
adopted by Northwest Tour
ist association are; "Crank
your flivver on the Wance
river and follow the Glacier
trail."
SO YEARS AGO
June 17, 1912 (Sunday)
New potatoes offered for
sale at Medford public mar
ket for 3 cents a pound.
Medford Drivers club starts
construction of l' j mile race
track to be used for Fourth
of July races.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct ll sueeriei;
seven ei eight Is escallent; tire ei
ill is good.
1. The early French Prot
estants were called what?
2. A sworn written state
ment Is an t.
3. What European discov
ered the St. Lawrence river?
4. Which amendment to the
U. S. Constitution authorizes
Congress to levy income tax
es? 5. Who commanded the U.S.
Army forces in the Philippines
when (Jorreginor ten?
8. In which South American
rountry is Portuguese the offi
cial language?
7. Was Egypt ever a part of
the Turkish Empire?
8 Correct the following
"They will try and be there."
9. Of what big league base
ball team was John McGraw
once the manager?
10. Name the San Francisco
major league baseball team.
Answers: 1. Hugenots. 2. Af
fidavit. 3. Jacques Cartier. 4.
The 18th. 6. Lt. Gen. Jonathan
M. W4ewrFt. t. Braill. 7.
Yes. m ". . . to be there."
t. &im i$acinti.
bUi.DAtf. JUflt: 17, lSbJ
Canadian
Some 8 million of Canada's 9.8 million nuali
f ied voters are expected to go to the polls on Mon
day to elect 265 members of the House of Com
mons, and thereby, under the parliamentary sys
tem, to determine which party will control the
government for the next five years.
Dollars and deficits are key words to the
Canadian election, and of the two the more im
portant is dollars. Since
lar has been neeced at
Canadians who remember
ed across the border for
this distressing.
Since 1950 the Canadian dollar had been al
lowed to find its own level in foreign exchange
markets. But a year ago
servative government announced that it would
intervene in the exchange market to push the
value of the dollar down.
This allows Canadian goods to sell for less
abroad. By the same token it makes imports,
particularly such staples of the diet as citrus fruits
and tomatoes, more expensive.
THE devaluation was described by Lester B.
(Mike) Pearson, the Liberal Party leader, as a
"confession of failure."
Said Prime Minister John (Dief ) Diefenbak
er, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party :
"He can use those words, if he wants, to describe
an action which will mean more jobs for Canad
ians and higher prices for our farmers."
Were it not for the dichotomy between the
voters of British ancestry and those of French
stock, the Canadian election could almost be view-
'ed as a U.S. campaign in microcosm.
1MIKE Pearson in what could be Jack Kennedy's
own words urges the voters to "Get Canada
moving forward again." Dief makes the proud
boast: "We have brought about the greatest ad
vancement in Canadian history. We have plans
for the future."
The truth lies somewhere in between. Even
though Diefenbaker calls the Liberals "brain
trusters, bemoaners, and bureaucrats," there's not
a great deal of difference between the two parties
except in nomenclature and personalities.
One further difference between Canadian
and U. S. politics: both major parties in Canada
are deeply committed to the welfare state. In
deed, they try to outdo each other in promises
of pocketDook rewards for the voter.
rIEFENBAKER'S so-called Conservatives have
run up a deficit of about $3 billion since they
took office in 1957. A comparable figure for the
United btates would be
I 4 V, t rw.si, , rvi, ,1 nllnn rF rlofl.ilc rl ! rl v, 'f llict Vl n rM
- 111" at-uiiiuiaiiuii wi wcio
it was planned, uencit,
balance-of-payments deficiency have had their
way with the Canadian dollar.
The Canadian working press is reported to be
even more anti-Diefenbaker than 'U.S. campaign
train reporters in 1960 were anti-Nixon. The
penultimate Gallup poll gives the Liberals an 8
per cent null in the nouular vote, but the parli
amentary system will render the outcome closer
than that.
On the eve of the election the price of the
dollar remained the belly issue. Devaluation
meant an immediate 6 cent per bushel rise
in the price of wheat and
ple in the extractive industries; its full effect on
the consumer probably won't be felt until after
the election.
Ironically enough,
problem is such that whichever party controls the
next government will probably have to devalue
further. U.K. K.
Collisi
mon
A major diplomatic flap over U.S. tariff in
creases on carpets and glass provides discordant
background for the start of House debate on
President Kennedy's freer trade bill. The higher
tariffs go into effect and the House is scheduled
to take up the trade measure this week.
Kennedy has vigorously defended his March
19 order hiking tariffs, arguing that relief of the
domestic woolen carpet and sheet glass industries
was demanded because unemployment had as
sumed "serious proportions" in both lines. The
ministers of the six Common Market nations 1 e -
mailied Unconvinced.
,,,, , I, i , , , , . ,
lhey retaliated on .June 4 by slapping tariff
increases on certain American products sold in
Europe. They had every right to such reprisal
under the rules of the' General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
INT AN effort to head off collision, the U.S. gov
ernment's Trade Policy Committee offered
Belgium and other affected countries reduction
in tariffs on other items. But the Common Market
was not so easily placated. Particularly disturbing
to them was the knowledge that the President
has only limited authority under prevailing law
Q ycduce tariffs.
From the administration's viewpoint, the
carpet-glass dispute points up the need for new
trade legislation giving the President a freer hand
in negotiating on such problems with other na
tions. Hopefully, the President's move also will
reassure a wary Congress that the Executive
Branch does not intend to use any new authority
to open the gates to foreign goods without regard
to damage to domestic industries.
In fact the President
news conlerence, March
other areas of domestic industry where similar
protective relief would be granted under the
broader powers he is ?fiin. E.R.K.
I o
Election
May 2 the Canadian dol
92'. cents U.S. borne
when their dollar trad
an extra 10 cents find
the Progressive Con
$42 billion. What s more,
- na uiun t jucn, iiaj'uu,
iinancing anci a enronic
was popular with peo
the balance-of-payments
Tariffs
on
even suggested at his
zn, mat mere might beiin Oregon about
"It Doesn't Hold
Annoys Hell
V'' .
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE PRESIDENT AT YALE
At Yale on Monday the
President made a most im
portant address for the do
mestic econo
my the most
significant, it
seems to me,
since he w a s
1 n augurated.
In it he de
scribed, as he
has never be
fore done so
e x p 1 i citly.
l.lnpmann what it is that
is new in the New Frontier.
Unlike Franklin Roosevelt's
New Deal, the Kennedy ad
ministration is not working
for a change in the balance of
social forces within the coun
try. Roosevelt used the power
of the federal government to
increase the influence of ag
riculture and of labor, as com
pared with the influence of
business, and of the underde
veloped South and West as
compared with the Northeast.
The battles of the New Deal
era were in the classic nal-
tern of social struggle, of the
naye-nols against the haves.
These battles were won bv
Roosevelt and a new balance
o forces was firmly estab
lished. This was proved dur
ing the eight years of Presi
dent Eisenhower when there
was no attempt to repeal and
undo the New Deal.
fPHE Kennedy administration
x begins where Eisenhower
left off. It is not seeking an
ollier change in the structure
of American society but on
the contrary, to make more
efficient the existing balance
of forces. It is confronted,
however, with a cultural gap,
that Is to say with popular
beliefs about the economy
which are a generation out
aV
In the Day's News
By FRANK
A statistical report just is
sued by United Nations indi
cates that the world's popula
tion has passed the three bil
lion mark for the first time.
In mid-1060, the report adds,
there were 2.995,000,000 peo
ple on this terrestrial globe,
and since then its population
has been increasing at a rate
of 1.8 per cent per year.
So. it must be assumed, the
world's population, as of now,
must be somewhere in excess
of three thousand millions.
That's a lot of people.
According to the U. N. re
port, Asia, excluding the So
viet Union, has 168 billion
nersons. or more than half the
: world s population
Europe remains the most
drnselv populated continent,
;wi,h ,,, 2So persons per
i square mile. Australia. Canada
and u;cland arf at ,he ,n,h"
"V rZZ
mite.
This may surprise you:
During the IflMl-lSKO dec
ade. Central America's popu
lation was increasing at Ihe
highest annual rate in the
world -2 75 per cent per year
Even out here in the Far
West, we sometimes gel to
thinking thai our population
is increasing too fast for com
fort - thai the lime is not
too far off when ahoul all we
will have left will he standing
room.
Before jumping to thai con
clusion, take a look at these
figures:
Oregon has roughly 1110.000
square miles of area. Suppose
the time should come when
the population of Oregon
would equal in density the
population of the continent of
F.urope If that should come
lo pass, we would have he:e
25 million
Pronlr
, VtXZl
saturation point.
MtDrOrlD MAIL.
Him Down, But It
Out Of Him"
of dale.
With rare exceptions the
leaders of both parties hold
to economic doctrines which
have .long since been aban
doned as antiquated by all
the progressive and advanced
countries of the world. Gov.
Rockefeller understands mod
ern economic doctrine, but
men like Gen. Eisenhower and
Sen. Byrd talk as if they had
never read a book on eco
nomic matters which has been
written since the Great De
pression of 1920.
a a
F PRESIDENT Kennedy Is
to fulfill his promises, if he
is to raise the American econ
omy from the creeping stag
nation which has come upon it
in the second half of the Fif
ties, if he is to recover the
industrial pre-eminence which
we once had and have now
lost, the administration will
have to do a mighty job of
public re-education. If our
leaders do not learn to under
stand modern economics, we
shall not be able to operate
successfully the modern econ
omy. IS this work of re-educa-
A ti
began at Yale. It was a very
good beginning. But, of
course, one speech will not
do what needs to be done
which is to elose the cultural
gap and put American public
opinion and American politi
cal debate in touch with the
realities of the modern age.
This re-education is not a
fight between good men and
bad men, between rich men
and poor men, between Re
publicans and Democrats. It
is. like all education, a search
for enlightenment in which
all who participate bravely
will be the winners.
JENKINS
Let's take a look now at
California.
California's area Is 158.693
square miles. Its population is
somewhere in the neighbor
hood of 15,000,000 more
one would say, rather than
less.
Roughly 35 per cent of Cali
fornia's total area Is presently
used for growing crops and
pasturing livestock. So let's
look at Japan.
Japan's total area is 142,644
square miles some 10 per
cent less than the area of
California. Only about 15 per
cent of Japan's total area is
arable. Japan's population, ac
cording to a Japanese govern
ment estimate in lflfiO, is 92,
000,000. So--
If the time should come
when the density of Califor
nia's population equals the
density of Japan's population,
there will be somewhere in
the neighborhood of 100 mil
lion people in California.
That's a lot of people.
Looking at Ihe doughnut in
stead of the hole. 100 million
people in California will pro
vide a market for a lot of
things produced in Oregon.
Officer Promoted
To Sergeant in CP
Central Point James F.
Corliss, patrolman with the
Central Point police depart-
ment for the past ,12 vears.
has been advanced to ser-
c''inl
Police chief Edward Zan
der announced the advance
ment Friday and said that it
became effective June 5
Corliss is married and has
lived In Central Point since
1347. Prior to moving
southern Oiegon he served
with the sheriff's department
of King county, Washington.
'ItUbUNE. MLUrOHD. OrtEGON
Matter of Fact bv jo.ePh Aiep
(el New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
1962 AND 1958
Washington The atmos
phere of this overly excitable
capital is beginning to resem
ble the Wash
ington atmos
phere in the
winter slump
of 1958. Very
few people
seem to re
member that
glum moment
in the Eisen
hower admin-
Aii.ip lsiraiion. in
deep fear of the political con
sequences of the 1958 decline
in business, Vice President
Richard M. Nixon was then
moving heaven and earth to
secure an immediate tax cut
of at least $4 billion and
without being widely accused
of creeping socialism, either.
President Eisenhower and
the Treasury Department re
sisted the Nixon tax-cut argu
ments. Yet large, economy
stimulating appropria t i o n s
were tolerated, if not exactly
approved by the White House.
The result, in 1959, was the
largest budget deficit in Amer
ican peace time history.
WHAT now recalls this dis
turbed moment in the
past is the-alarm that has
been spreading through the
ranks of the Democrats, ever
since the stock market panic
a fortnight ago. Like Nixon
and his numerous Republican
allies in 1958, increasing num
bers of leading Democrats are
intensely fearful of the de
cline In business, not just
because hard times are hard
on everyone, but more partic
ularly because hard times are
extra-hard on the party in
power.
There Is no doubt at all that
this reasoning is valid. The
throws of the economic dice
this summer will heavily
weight the throw of the po
litical dice next November.
In California, for instance,
former Vice President Rich
ard M. Nixon is now rated
the underdog in his race
against Gov. Pat Brown, be
cause of his seemingly insolu
able problems on the extreme
right wing of his own parly.
But if business and employ
ment go down markedly be
fore the autumn, the prospects
will vastly improve for Nix
on, and for every other Re
publican candidate all over
the country.
As yet the Democrats who
fear this sort of result are
concentrated on Capitol Hill.
The White House and the eco
nomic agencies of the execu
tive branch show no signs of
apprehension. But in the
House and particularly in the
Senate, the apprehension is
rising very markedly.
THE Senate's fears were
communicated to the Pres
ident on Tuesday, when Ma
jority Leader Mike Mansfield,
Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklaho
ma, and Sen. Richard Russell
of Georgia met with him to
talk about ways and means
of getting the existing tax bMl
out of the log jam in the Sen
ate Finance committee.
The three Senators took
this opportunity to tell the
President that alarm was ris
ing and that calls for strong
action were being increasing
ly heard. Adding to the tax
bill immediate tax cuts to
stimulate the economy was
mentioned as one action that
might be taken. According to
report, it could have been
Nixon-in-1958 all over again,
minus the emotional edge the
Vice President then showed.
In the present situation,
however, there is a complex
cross-current that was absent
in 1958. Sen. Hubert Humph
rey of Minnesota, who is an
Spanish Silence Beginning To
By ERIC SEVARE1D
A strike, a student demon
stration, a small bomb ex
plosion amount to minor news
when they
happen in
most c o u n
tries. When
they happen
in Spain they
makepage
one a 1 1 over
the world.
Without any
doubt at all.
Spain and its
passionless Caudillo. Francis
co Franco, are going to ap
pear on page one more and
more often until something
gives in Spain. Then - briefly,
one can only hope - they will
be in the biggest headlines on
page one.
In all the years under
Franco nothing so significant
as this clustered series of
strikes, bombings and new de
ctccs has occurred to break
the Spanish Silence. These
rvrms are connected, and
Ithev are nrnhahlv rw,-nrr,no
j not because of. but in spite j
of. the fact that Suain as a !
whole is feeling Ihe first real 1
stirrings of economic revival
and growth. No more than
oilier men. can Spaniards live
on bread alone not even on
bread and bullfights. i
It is 17 vrars since the
.pirilual silence rlo-ed over j
the Germany which Carlo j
other advocate of tax-cuts
now, has no motive beyond
the Nixon-in-1958 motive
the desire to stimulate the
economy and thus to forestall
a business decline. But the
same cannot be said for Sen.
Kerr and many of his more
conservative allies.
THE point is that the Presi
dent's present plan is to
ask for rather massive tax
cuts as of Jan. 1, next year,
but to ask also for a fairly
drastic loophole-closing oper
ation, which will recapture
about half the revenue sac
rificed by the tax cuts. The
pressure on the Congressional
defenders of loopholes will
then be very great. They will
be trying to save their loop
holes at the expense of deny
ing a generous tax reduction
to every income tax payer in
the U. S.
Sen. Kerr, who might be
described as Mr. Oil and Gas
Depiction Allowance, is just
about the shrewdest member
of the Senate. He is quite
sharp enough to see the kind
of bind he will be in, if con
fronted wUh a package com
bining effective loophole-closing
with big tax cuts for al
most all voters.
But if tax-cuts-now are de
cided upon, Sen. Kerr will not
be in a bind next year. With
out the pressure generated by
tax cuts for everyone, a tax
reform bill can be buried in
committee far deeper than
Pompeii and Herculaneum aft
er the eruption of Vesuvius.
Hence there is another motive
for the tax-cuts-now pressure,
and a very strong motive,
quite different from Senator
Humphrey's wish to give the
economy a shot in the arm.
In the end. it can be pre
dicted, the President will
choose between the courses
now open to him on the basis
of a cool-headed judgment of
the real state of the economy.
MOTORISTS TRIPPED
Salem - (UPD - The Oregon
basic rule tripped up 1,910
motorists in April, the month
ly report of the Oregon State
Police showed Friday. As
usual, there were no hearings
issued on this violation, just
citations.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
IROM THE NOTEBOOKS of philosopher Robert Camp
bell: The chief problem of the modern family is having
too much month left over at the end of the money . . . There's
nothing wrong with hav
ing a one-track mind . .
provided that you're on
the right track . . . Diets
are for those who are
thick and tired of it . . .
Always forget the past
No man ever backed into
prosperity . . . The most
underdeveloped territory
in the world lies under
your own hat . . . News
papermen often use the
editorial "we" so the
reader will think there
are too many of them to
lick . . . American motor
ists take good car of their rars. And they keep the pedes
trians in good running condition, too.
Joey Bishop admits that when it comcR to golf, he Is not ex
actly another Snead or Palmer. "Only last week." he told one
audience, "I barely missed a hole in one by six strokes. My
handicap is an honest caddie."
Bishop goes on to explain that in his youth he was far loo
poor to think of golf. "When it snowed," he recalls, "I didn't even
have a sled. 1 had to come downhill on my cousin who wasn't
bad."
A Democratic candidate in New Englp.nd was making a cam
paign speech in what he realized was hostile territory. "My
friends," he orated defiantly, "I was bom a Democrat, always
have been a Democrat, and expect to die a Democrat." A man
In the crowd jeered, "Not very ambitious, are you?"
C 1963. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate
Levi now says, "is sleeping,
..M-r uv ,,s I..MU.C-
which has the illusorv an.
(Jt maim, hi a U'uutii, i u nut; I
today knows what is being
prepared in its millions of
homes. Will it arise new and
more human? Will it awaken
more savagely? Or will it pro
long its sleep?"
But for Spain it has been
a sleep of 23 years, a full
generalion in terms of individ
ual man's maturity, and it
looks very much as if the
sleep is over, even though
the sleeper is not fully awake
and on his feet. New faces
in Spain have required a full
generation, for they have
been obliged to wait for the
manhood of those who were
children or unborn during the
Civil War - the only males
whose names, words and
deeds are not on record in
the multitudinous offices of
the Guardia Civil.
There is far from enough
evidence to ent'tle anyone to
predict now that the new
pressures inside Spain will re
sult in revolution, civil war.
genera! slnkes or any other
form of massive and dramatic
aclion. This writer h.is spent
only a few months in Spain
in recent sears, tnil even lite
most thoroughly informed ob-
servers refrain from drawing gimes sooner or later reach,
a blueprint for either the im-1 At bottom. hi n'ght-long rnn
mediate or the distant future ferences In the Fardo Palace
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Physicians for K-A Bill
To the Editor: Recent writ
ings of opponents of medi
care under Social Security,
from letters in the MT to the
June Reader's Digest, have
tried, among other things, to
convey the impression that
the medical profession is al
most solidly arrayed against
the administration program.
As a matter of fact, that is
far from the case.
Moreover, evidence multi
plies that many among the
opposition have not read the
King-Anderson bill for them
selves but are merely par-
roting the AMA's shopworn
propaganda, much of which
is highly inaccurate and mis
leading. "One hundred and forty
physicians associated with the
Faculty of Medicine at Co
lumbia University have split
with the American Medical
Association's stand on pro
viding health care for the
aged through Social Secur
ity," reported the New York
Times on May 13. The Times
article further stated that
these 140 physicians, who are
on the staffs -of medical
schools affiliated with the Co-lumbia-Presbytcria:i
Medical
Center, were among 500 Co
lumbia faculty members who
formed a committee to sup
port the King-Anderson bill.
Dr. Sidney S. Lee, general
director, Beth Israel hospital,
Boston, declared in a letter
to the Times, 514: "Organ
ized medicine, regrettably,
does not feel responsive to
what is in the public inter
est .. . Fortunately, many
of the real leaders of the pro
fession the teachers, key
medical planners, as well as
many physicians who have no
voice in the inner councils of
the American Medical Asso
ciation - understand the
needs and are actively en
deavoring to support con
structive action."
And Dr. Lee went on to
say: "The Federal Adminis
tration's program in this mat
UNDEVELOPED
AREA
i of that arid, poor, and until
recently at least, tight-lipped
land'
All one can say is that the
Generalissimo's system of rule
cannot continue as it has. This
hardly surprising, for his
advent to power was funda -
menially an interruption of
a gathering sea-change in
Spanish social and intellectual
life. Franco has presided over
a truce, not over a peace or
a contest.
If he has ruled essentially
by fear it has not been just
fear of his police, but fear on
all political sides of another
blood bath. This climate of
passion not spent but restrain
ed by an act of will soaks
through the pores even of the
foreigner residing in any
Spanish town. It explained
why a man almost as unpopu
lar as the Communists could
remain in power-that and the
fact that "Franco lives at the
division line between the par
ties." For a long time it has
seemed to nuny people that
when the day came that
Army. Church and Falanee
united. Franco would be
through.
J-'.wn if that day has not
yet come. Franco has now
arrived at a well known cross
roads that most autocratic re-
ter is on the side of the an
gels: it is directed at en
abling people t obtain med
ical care in their latter years
by paying for it during their
earning years . . . without
dictating the choice of phy
sician or how the physician
will treat his prtient."
The eminent medical au
thority and author, Dr. How
ard A. Rusk, also stated in a
Times article, 527: "The
wide spread recognition of
the inadequacy of the Kerr
Mills program . . . has prompt
ed a plethora of proposals on
medical tre for the aged.
Many : jalth and welfare or
ganizations such as the Amer
ican Nurses association, ths
American Public Welfare as
sociation, National Associ
ation of Social Workers, Am
erican Public Health associ
ation and Group Health asso
ciation of America favor the
Social Security approach ad
vocated by President Ken
nedy." Many other physicians
throughout the country, in
dividually and in groups, ara
rallying in support of the)
King-Anderson bill as the best
medicare program offered.
Arnold Eugene Jenny,
Rogue Valley " lanor,
Medford.
Submits Poem
To The Editor: I am sub
mitting this poem, hoping you
will find it worthy of spaed
in your Communications col
umn. "An American Prayar"
Lord help me in this world
of sin,
And please God, help my fel
low men.
Show us the way, oh Lord
above,
With your eternal light of
love.
Your guiding light, so wt
may see
And know, this animosity
That rankles deep within our
souls.
Is seed that grow into death
tolls.
And agonizing screams of
pain,
Of the boys, who have lain
Immersed in their own life
blood.
Scarlet mingled wilh the mud
Of battlefields, where bullets
rain,
Where precious lives are lose
in vain.
Bewildered, eyes; bewildered
youth;
Who dies, ere he learns the
truth . . .
Where there is war, no peace
can be.
He gave his life so futilcy.
Help us to know, Oh Lord
above.
Eternal peace will come with
love.
Help us, Oh God, this peace
to win,
America's Prayer tonight.
Amen.
Gertrude H. McLean,
Eastwood Village,
Cave Junction, Ore.
Will Need Aid
To The Editor: I hope Mr.
Kennedy gets his medical aid
bill in a hurry. BROTHER, is
he going to need it. He's go
ing lo need it for 180 million
Americans. He is going to
need all the doctors, nurses,
hospitals and money in Am
erica to cure a sick Govern
ment, a sick business and a
very tired and sick New Deal
in 1964, if the first half of hi"
administration is a sample oi
what we are going to get.
Everett Acklin,
Ashland, Ore.
Break
i must be facing the question:
to get tougher or more len-
lent. Which posture will lead
to order and Dolilical lone-
j evily? Right now he seems
to be trying the tactics of a
combination of both. This is
la fine art, but not necessarily
lasting one.
Last week President d
Gaulle proposed constitution
al changes to help ensure a
stable succession when his
own reign ended in France.
Franco has not done this be
cause he is himself the Span
ish constitution. Future sta
bility in Spain can hardly be
guaranteed merely by capping
what would be left of
Franco's system with -a crown
on the handsome head of
Prince Juan Carlos.
This is why not all Spanish
liberals are thirsting for a
quick end to the Cauriillo's
regime. Many fear a vacuum
more than they fear Franco,
and their most fearful thought
is that, whatever his air of
assurance. Franco himself
doesn't know how a vacuum
would be filled, how the tran
sition would be made
But some kind of re birth
lies ahead for Spain, and any
one who respects its people,
so astonishingly free of self
pity, can only pray it will he
an easy delivery.
(Distributed 1962. by The
Hall Syndicate, Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)
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