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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ot The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
July 6, 1952 (Sunday)
Medford declared one of
five Oregon metropolitan
areas where there are more
women than men, according
to population figures.
Florence Chadwlck, famed
channel swimmer who for
merly lived In the Rogue Val
ley, fails in attempt to cross
the' 21-mile Catalina Island
channel.
20 YEAHS AGO
July 6. 1942 (Monday)
Rationing board officials
announce that no time limita
tion has been set on applica
tion for domestic canning sug
ar; a limit was set for appli
cations on industrial and in
stitutional sugar users.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
annual Mid-West corn husk
ing contest has been called
oft on account of the war. If
leaving the cuffs oft men s
trousers don't crush Hitler,
this will."
30 YEARS AGO
July 6. 1932 (Wednesday)
The Rogue river resembled
the Mississippi In color today
due to a break in the canal
of the Prospect diversion pro
ject, muddying up the stream
more than usual and causing
some comment from local fish
ermen. The Rogue River Valley
Canning company, with a
force of between ftO and 75
women workers, started the
canning of cherries Tuesday.
40 YEARS AGO
July 6, 1922 (Thursday)
Hugo G. A. von der Hel
len, prominent pioneer of
Jackson county, dies in Port
land; ho was for many years
Identified Willi the political
and educational life of Ore
gon. From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column. "The
government did nothing yes
terday to antagonize the un
ions." 50 YEARS" AGO
July 6. 1912 (Saturday)
Nine Medford teachers pass
recent state examination for
teacher's certificates.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is luporior;
seven or eight it excellent; five ot
tit It good.
1. How many signs of the
Zodiac are there?
2. White Stale Is known as
the Everglade Stale?
3. Which of these was not
Vice President of the U. S -Theodore
Roosevelt, G.
Dawes, Grover Cleveland,
Harry Truman?
4. Who was the "Lady with
the Lamp"?
5. In what country is the
lira a unit of money?
6. Is an eporgnc a dueling
rapier, a table centerpice, or
a naval officer's shoulder or
nament? 7. If a length of rope was
stretched across a railroad ,
track and train passed over I
It, inio now many pieces
would the rope be cut?
8. What is the name for the
prepared and saljed roe of the
sturgeon?
9. Name the seven colors
of the rainbow.
10. Arc the Falkland Is
lands in the Atlantic. Pacific,
or Indian Ocean?
Answers: 1. Twelve. 2.
Florida. 3. Grovtr Cleve
land. 4. Florence Nightingale
Italy. S. Table centerpiece.
'. Thiee. 8. Caviar. 9. ViobtJ,
InJijo, b'ue, preen, Yellow,
'rJ, red. 10. Atlantic.
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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1962
How Do
How do we 6tand in mid-1962 as compared
with, say, one year afro?
The New York Times' Washington bureau
chief. James Reston, who combines a touch of
the philosopher with his
a newspaperman, concludes tnat tne u.o. is in
much better shape than it was in mid-1961.
He makes a good case, too.
Then we were worried about war over Berlin,
and the calling up of reserves, and the construc
tion of fallout shelters,
about the stock market.
A year ago there was chaos in the Congo, civil
wrnv in Alrrot-ip fpnr nf missi'ln hncp in fhp
Congo, and concern over Khrushchev's efforts to
disrupt the United Nations. Today stockpile and
cotton storage scandals preoccupy Washington,
A year ago, the Administration was wonder
ing whether there was any use in asking Congress
for a trade expansion bill. Last week it was passed
by the House.
"The comparison," Reston remarks wryly, "is
instructive and even a little reassuring."
ND he goes on to say :
". . . All the nightmares of a year ago haven't
happened, which doesn't mean they won't happen a year
from now, but for the moment it is at least possible to say
that while stocks have fallen, the world is still intact, and
probably in better shape than it was in the middle of 1961.
"None of the Communist assumptions has proved to be
true. Liberated Africa has not gone Communist. Castroism
hasn't swept Latin America. The Middle East has not
collapsed. China has not triumphed, but starved. Europe
has not divided economically or broken apart politically,
but it is in the midst of the
political transformation and
tion of the American union. . . .
Reston is not wearing rose-colored blinders,
for he finds that many of today's problems are
serious indeed. But he concludes, and we believe
rightly, that overall, "compared with the world
problems a year ago, it is not too bad." E.A.
Civil Wars Eve
Speaking of tough times . . .
We have been reading a book entitled
"Reveille in Washington." It is about the nation's
capitol during the Civil War.
Despite the brooding threat of nuclear war,
problems of integration, traffic control and a host
of other nagging worries,
cannot compare with the fear, disorganization,
and near-chaos of the Washington of the eve of
the War Between the States.
The capitol faced a seceding Virginia on one
side, and a half-dissident Maryland on the other
three. Northern troops were having difficulty get
ting through to protect Washington from the im
minent threat of invasion
ernment workers clerks, soldiers, officers
many of them expressed overt sympathy with
the Southern cause.
TTHE streets quagmires when it rained, knee
deep in dust when it didn't were filled with
raw, untrained militiamen, soldiers, hangers-on,
fleeing citizens, plug-uglies itching for a brawl.
House and Senate saw some of their most
able and forceful members leaving to join the
Confederacy.
Over all hung the uncertainty the awful un
certainty of what might happen. Assassination?
Cavalry raids? Outright invasion and capture?
None of us know what lies ahead. But bar
ring catastrophe, we'll never see times like those
again. E.A.
Memories of Scatterbolt
"Potpourri's column yesterday recorded the
waves of nostalgia evoked by the thoughts of an
old-fashioned Fourth of
pictures on the subject last Sunday.
Other things evoke nostalgia, too. One which
reacted on us was a recent letter in the Oregon
Statesman from Forest Atnsden of Salem which
waxed nostalgic about the Model A Ford.
Now there was (and, in some few remaining
cases, is) a car! There is a piece of machinery to
get nostalgic about! It can generate the same
sort of feeling a cowboy has for his favorite horse.
MSDEN said:
"Take running hoards. The loss of running boards has
been a severe blow to utility and comfort, a sacrifice made
to a false goal of sleekness. On a running board one could
stash extra luggage. It made a fine bench at picnics. It
was an ideal place to sit while whittling or sprinkling the
lawn. You could stand on the running hoard for short
rides Willi Daddy. It simplified taking along the dog,
because that s where the dog rode: lying on the running
board."
He also recalled other advantages like the
windshield that swung open to admit breezes, and
the hand throttle, both of immense utility, and
both of which have vanished into limbo.
One thing he forgot to mention was the ease
i .. r :.. l
1,1 1 ' ".V IlllKU'l ailMV
Of pliei'S, a til e ll'Oll. and
could i i.N ! out of 10 things that went wrong with
one, on the rare occasion when something did.
yE have often thought that the Model A Ford
' was one of the best automobiles ever built,
anywhere. The demand for them, still high, is a
reflection of this sentiment.
Our first (and, alas, only) Model A was
ivimtfdi "Scatterbolt." It had running boards, a
fol(1-4owi.. top, n open-up or fold-down whiti
sh Wd, ;.wfl .limbic- seat. .
' As 'L(we.si'iit UtirJ,'. says, "You cav't htrdN
gt kynA Bore's th pit?. t..t
' . . . '
We Stand?
excellent credentials as
today we are worried
most exciting economic and
unification since the forma
Washington of today
from the South. Gov
July following a page of
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lH'l'hanS a Strand Of Wire,
"All Are Gone, The
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Fait Prophets
To the Editor: Why does
Billy Graham fail to fill the
void in others lives? Beloved,
believe not every spirit, but
try the spirits whether they
are of God. Why? Because
many false Prophets are gone
out into the world.
Hereby know ye the spirit
of God: every spirit that con
fesses that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is of God.
Every spirit that confesses not
that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God: and
this is that spirit of an anti
Christ. Many say that God
came in the flesh instead of
believing that Jesus the Son
of God came here, thereby be
coming the anti-Christs. They
believe that God or Jesus is
the father and Son both.
But God stayed in Heaven
and sent Jesus here.
For many deceivers are en
tered into the world, who con
fess not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh. This is a
deceiver and an anti-Christ.
Whosoever transgresseth and
abideth not in the doctrine of
Christ hath not God. He that
abideth in the doctrine of
Christ hath both the Father
and tile Son.
When one does not abide in
Christ's doctrine that he had
a Father in Heaven he does
not have God. (God's words
through John, not ours.)
A newspaper clipping of
Billy Graham's answers to a
reader states, that Jesus
Christ was truly God, and he
was truly Man. This is the
mystery and the glory of the
incarnation - God becoming
man that he might redeem
man.
God never became man but
stayed in Heaven and sent his
Son here. Since Rilly Graham
did not abide in the doctrine
of Christ he has not God. So
how can he fill the Spiritual
void in any one's life, since
we can do nothing without
Christ? God's ministers speak
God's words. Too many Jesus
and God only ministers and
people now. We must beware
of false prophets and take
heed what we hear, and judge
as in St. John 7-24, which is
according to the Bible instead
of their large crowds and pop
ularity. Too many fall in iove
with "big shot" ministers and
fail to compare them with
1 tie Bible. If we want to avoid
being in the simple minded
class of Romans lrt-17-18. we
must beware of false doctrine
and prophets.
We do not have to juduc
them for the Bible does that,
and we are commanded to be
ware of men and false
prophets.
If we have no right to judge
(as in St. John 7-241 how are
we going to keep these com
mands? Woe unto you when all
man shall speak well of vou.
Why? Luke ltMS, Gal. i-10,
chap. VI 8 to end
Mrs. G. C. Cunningham,
748 Maple St.,
Central Point, Ore.
Prayers and Communism
To the F.di.r: This is In
replv to Dave Force's letter in
MT 7 .1 62.
lie says the supreme court
"has no law making powers"
and that "it made no law
acainst prnver." And in the
nox. he contradicts
himself bv saving that the
decision "prohibited" the state
government from coining of
ficial prayers.
If a prohibition Is not a law,
what is if
lie cannot see where this
"decision a step towards
Communism."
line earve!s that one who
as a'tended church "almo.-t
every Sunday since he was 2
ve.irs old'' can he so blind He
must hnow but ".ittie
lav muni?
Conin'eViiM
sm i s militant I
Tin
chief nun to
d..
;ii. c God, ami thee'WVeo(p
tjtj
Old Familiar Fasce"
of God, from the world, in or
der that its rulers may have
a free hand to oppress and en
slave, and to rob and kill the
masses of humanity at their
will. And when we restrict
the worship of God and the
teachings of the Bible in our
schools, we are preparing our
country for the Communist
take-over. No wonder the
Communists and fellow trav
elers in our midst are in such
a glee every time they win
a victory of this kind. It is
one more step towards their
goal of a Communist America.
When we rule out, or even
leave out, the Bible and
prayer, we teach by implica
tion that these things are
either evil or unnecessary.
In making this decision the
court violated the plain state
ment of the Constitution. It
plainly states (in the Bill of
Rights) that no law shall be
made prohibiting the "free ex
ercise of religion. II the
teacher and pupils want to
pray before beginning the
day's work, they have a right
to do so. The Constitution
gives them this right. And
whoever says they can't is vi
olating the Constitution, and
taking away their right to the
"free exercise" of their re
ligion. No teacher or school board
has the right to require them
to pray, nor have they any
right to prohibit It if they
choose to pray.
If God and the Bible must
not, in any way, be recognized
in our schools we will have to
make some radical changes.
No one can deny that since
we took the Bible and prayer
out of the schools juvenile
crime has increased by leaps
and bounds. So, for our own
sakes, and for the sake of our
children, and our country, let
us wake up and have some
"horse sense" about these
things. And if anybody
doesn't like our good old USA
let him go to Russia, China, or
some otner place where the
atmosphere is more to his
liking. Why hang around
here?
And tune In to radio station
1350 Monday through Friday
at 7:45 a.m.
John C. Stille,
Shady Cove, Ore.
Aerial Spraying
To the Editor: We picked
the Rogue valley as the place
for a home because we think
it is a beautiful valley and the
climate is suitable too. After
living here for ten years we
find the crop dusting in our
immediate neighborhood very
aggravating as well as harm
ful. In spite of many articles in
the Mail Tribune, Oregon
Farmer, etc., warning people
of the great dangers involved
in the use of these highly poi
sonous chemicals, they still
spray around our houses here
in Sams Valley in what we
feel is a reckless manner, and
via the most harmful way, by
air. Sometimes we get enough
deposit on our garden crops
so we can't use them for 21
days, and spraying every few
days, like they do, during the
s-ummer months, one can read
ily see why we take a chance
w hen we eat our own garden
crops.
However, the biggest griev
ance I have is the way some of
us (eel from the spraying pro
gram used here. We got head
aches, sore throats, stomach
cramps and diarrhea and feel
sick all over from breath
ing it.
It svrms to me the air is
ours to breath and to keep us
alive and no one should have
the right to pollute it like
they do.
I d like to hear from other
resident m the valley who
may have had the same exper
ience and who feel it should
aLvaybe stopped, around hey.ses at
St.
Mis. Eva Hrown.
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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Record on Connally
Amendment Told
By Senator Morse
To the Editor: The letter
from Mr. L. C. Powell relative
to the Connally amendment
and the International Court of
Justice makes so many erron
eous statements that I think
it is essential to set the rec
ord straight.
First, Mr. Powell is wrong
when he says that all treaties
made by the U. S. government
have higher authority than
our Constitution and become
the law of the land. They do
become the law of the land
in the same sense that statutes
do, but they do NOT have
higher authority than the Con
stitution, they do not super
sede the Constitution, and
provisions of them in conflict
with the Constitution cannot
stand any more than an un
constitutional law may stand.
Beyond that, Mr. Powell is
also wrong in his assertions
that the Connally amend
ment, reserving to the United
States the right to judge what
is under our domestic juris
diction, would automatically
keep such issues as our Guan
tanamo base in Cuba or the
Panama Canal out of the
World Court. Neither Cuba
nor Panama is under the do
mestic jurisdiction of the
United States, and there is
no stretch of anyone's imag
ination, except perhaps Mr.
Powell's, that could change
that fact. Our rights In both
places are treaty rights, and
treaty rights only.
If the Connally amendment
does not afford a protection
which Mr. Powell claims for
it. neither is it needed for
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises Inc.
CRIMINAL ABILITIES
Among the many periodi
cals I read every month are
several prison
r,rfetP,W
S! tho ughtf ul
,4 .u;nnc. o n.
i pear in these
i journals,
j It may be
tniA that r,-Ic-
iiarn. on tends to de
grade and brutalize its in
mates; but it is equally true
that many men in prison have
found themselves possessed of
talents and insights they had
hardly suspected before.
John Bunyan, an unschool
ed tinker, wrote his immortal
"Pilgrim's Progress" while in
jail. Oscar Wilde's most ma
ture work was composed in
Reading Gaol. The best of
Paul Verlaine's lyrics, and the
deepest of Dostoyevski's psy
chological probings were giv
en to the world from prison.
America's most prolific
short story writer, O. Henry,
wrote almost all his stories
while doing a stretch for forg
ery. Thomas More and Leight
Hunt lifted wit and satire to
new heights from their cells.
Even King James I of Scot
land wrote the only poem of
his life in prison.
Not all these men, of
course, were criminals in
the ordinary tense of the
word. Many were political
prisoners, such as Socrates
and Gandhi; others, like
Marco Polo. Columbus,
Galileo and Defoe, had vio
lated the creeds and cut
toms of their times.
Yet, regardless of the
charge, prison teems to
have brought out the desire
for telf-examination and
telf - expression in many
men. While jail lends to
bestialize tome, it hat ex
actly the opposite effect
upon others at Balzac
wrote in a letter to a friend
from his Paris cell.
Some of our wortt ele
ment! are xo be found in
prison and some of the
potentially best, at well.
The qualitiet that go into
the making of a talented
criminal are often the tame
qualities that would make a
tuccestful leader in the arts
and professiont: independ
ence, retourcefulnest. and a
craving for creative non
routine activity.
Once society learns how to
harness these abilities for con
structive instead of anti-social
work, only half-wits and de
generates will occupy our
prisons; and the prisons them-
selves will become genuine
places of rehabilitation, not
antiquated modes of punish
, ment, as they are today,
j An intelligent and talented
'man in Jail is as much an in
dictment of society's neglect
as it is of the individual's
w aywardness. When Brahms
remarked that Beethoven j
might have been a great crim-j
inal had he not discovered his'
ability to compose. mutic, he ,
shrewdly ai-J-.cipated the truth
of modern rfjvchology that the j
criminal is often ;i t?&. !
eji-tVim jfTtfolio.
1 mag azines -
Vj and some of
.lithe most
'I honest and
'X 1
Gift
the protection of what is
truly under the jurisdiction
of the U. S. government, in
cluding foreign aid, immigra
tion laws, or tariffs.
Mr. Powell IS right about
one thing. I did oppose the
Connally amendment in 1946,
when it was offered as an
amendment to my resolution
which announced U. S. ac
ceptance of World Court jur
isdiction over international
legal disputes. It was offered,
however, for one specific rea
son, and that was to reassure
southerners that no Court de
cision could ever affect the
rights of American Negroes
in the South. I argued that
the authority of the Court as
it was already constituted ex
cluded that subject, as did
any other matter within the
domestic jurisdiction of a na
tion. It was a question of
whether the Court should de
cide, or a party to the dispute
should decide, the specific ap
plication of its general juris
diction. The real impact of the Con
nally amendment has been
that it has been copied by
other nations and, moreover,
where ONE party in a case
has that right, the World
Court has automatically ac
corded it to the contending
party so that both will come
before the Court on an equal
footing. This will make it ex
ceptionally difficult for the
U. S. to bring any other na
tion before the Court.
Those who are satisfied to
see the world continue to live
by the law of the claw may be
satisfied to see the Court be
come ineffective. But those
of us who believe that there
are issues of international
law that are susceptible to
judicial rulings believe that
it should be used and should
be strengthened.
Actually, I do not believe
the Connally amendment has
been as important in vitiating
the World Court as have sev
eral other factors The Com
munist bloc countries refuse
to accept its jurisdiction in
ANY case; other countries
simply refuse to submit an
issue to the Court because
both sides prefer to keep
fighting over it.
Many of us have urged
Prime Minister Nehru of In
dia, for example, to submit
his argument with Pakistan
over Kashmir to the World
Court. But neither India nor
Pakistan is willing to do so.
Many of the issues between
Israel and the Arab countries
which keep the Middle East
in turmoil could be decided
by the Court, if the parties
were willing to have them set
tled that way. So far, both
prefer to spill blood.
It is true that the nations
of the world are still a long
way from recognizing what
we learned on the American
frontier - that growth and
progress of a people require
a degree of law and order.
Unfortunately, Mr. Powell's
misrepresentations and ve
hemence against the World
Court are matched only by
the denunciations of the Com
munist countries, who view it
as a weapon of capitalist im
perialism aimed at their own
existence.
I do not agree with either,
and I shall continue my ef
forts to promote the rule of
law in world affairs by
strengthening the World
Court.
Wayne Morse
Washington, D. C.
SHOULD PRACTICE
London - (UP!) - Robert Bell,
who is publicizing a nation
al handwriting contest, wrote
a letter to a newspaper which
published a photograph of his
signature. It was almost illegible.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
4 TV TOUR of New York City was scheduled for shooting
early one morning, with the first scene to be taken from
the center of the George Washington Bridge. The camera
man picked that morning
to oversleep. When he
awakened, he took one
look at the clock, threw
a coat over his pajamas
and dashed out of the
house. "The George
Washington Bridge, and
hurry," he implored a
taxi driver. "New York
end or Jersey end?"
asked the driver. "Nei
ther," said the camera
man. "I've got to get to
the center of the bridge."
The driver took a quick
look at his fare's anguished face and peculiar attire, and
shoved him out of the cab. "You don't need a driver,
Buddy," he announced. "You need a psychiatrist!"
...
In Kentucky, a harassed motorist kept looking in his rearview
mirror, wondering why a light truck was tailir: him so persist
ently. He finally alighted to discover that the truck had no
driver, and had been hooked to his rear bumper aince he had
backed into a parking apace 100 miles awiu io Clncianati.
...
For ten dollars," prtfosed rpa Conj te) htf JMt. "Ill
teach you to talk like an Indian." The ekeptical son w'ol,
tiow?'' See," beamed Papa, -you're' leerenrg ee-caly;"
OlA Q ftPOj9 V tato. r ea
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Maffer of Fact a jo..ph ai,op
(cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
GOOD NEWS. FOR ONCE
Washington - On Tuesday
afternoon, President Kenne
dy met at the White House
with secre
tary of the
Treasury Dil
Ion, Secretary
of Defense
M c Namara,
and Deputy
Secretary Ros
well Gilpat
trie for a
long bout of
Altnp
cheese paring.
The cheese to be pared was
the one that most worries the
U.S. business community and
the banking fraternity all
over the world namely the
persistent deficit in the U.S.
balance of payments, which
has caused the U.S. heavy
gold losses of recent years.
Much too little attention
has been paid to the long,
hard effort to shrink the pay
ments deficit that began when
President Kennedy took of
fice. In particular, net defense
spending overseas has already
been heavily reduced, both
by American economies and
by arrangements for offset
ting arms purchases in this
country by the Germans and
others.
1HD BE specific, the rate of
net dollar outflow for de
fense, which was $2.7 billion
per annum in the last Eisen
hower year, has already
shrunk greatly and will drop
to S1.6 billion per annum in
1963. At Tuesday's White
House meeting, a target of
$600 million of additional
shrinkage was set, to be at
tained over a further period
of two years. "It will be
painful target to reach," said
one defense official, "but we
believe we can reach it
and without penalizing indi
vidual servicemen or their
families."
Reaching the target will re
quire spending some more de
fense dollars here in the U S
in order to cut still further
into dollar outflow abroad.
Even so, what is being achiev.
ed is remarkable, and all the
more so at a time when the
increases of U.S. defense ef
fort, both in Viet Nam and
in Europe, might have been
expected to send the outflow
of defense dollars soaring sky-
high.
All this is particularly in
teresting, moreover, because
it suggests that the business
men and the economists may
eventually have to re-examine
several of their current rub
ber - stamp slogans, about the
insurmountable "change in the
U.S. world position, the
hopelessness of the "funda
mental payments deficit prob
lem," and so on. The record
suggests that re-thinking may
be in order rather soon.
rpo BE specific, the payments
-- deficit in the last Eisen
hower year was $3.9 billion.
In that year, the net military
dollar outflow was $2.7 bil
lion, and the net outflow for
the foreign aid program was
$1.3 billion. In other words
even in this worst year, the
U.S. economy traded on even
terms with the rest of the
world, and the payments defi
cit was almost exactly equal
to the sum in dollars spent
overseas for defense and for
eign aid.
In President Kennedys' first
year in offica, the payments
deficit dropped by over $1
billion, to just under $2.5
billion. But since cheese par
ing is a slow, long term busi
ness, the outflow of defense
dollars remained at a level
of 2.6 billion, and the out
flow for economic aid was
unchanged at $1.3 billion.
This year, the improve
ment is very much more dra
matic. The first quarter's
payments deficit was $465
million; and the deficit for
the second quarter will be
under $200 million. By the
end of this year, moreover.
2P
the rate of outflow of defen
dollars will have dropp
more than $1 billion per a
num below the rate in t
last Eisenhower year; and t
rate of dollar outflow f
foreign aid will also be i
duced, it is hoped, by abo
$300 million.
SOME of the reduction
this year's payments di
icit has been achieved by o
shot operations, like advan
repayment of earlier U
loans to allied governmen
Nonetheless, the total ps
ments deficit has plain
shrunk in an important ma
ner, judging by the figur
in the two first two quarte
This result has been part
attained by g o v e r nmei
sponsored dollar economi
resulting from such moves
the change in the touris
import allowances. SimultE
eously with the shrinkage
the over-all payments de
cit, there is a massive shrin
age in the rate of dollar oi
flow to pay for governme
activities overseas. The ps
ments deficit, therefore,
dwindling towards a balani
This is just the result th
Secretary of the Treasury D
Ion has been stoutly predi
ing for 1963, despite t
gloom that prevails in t
business community. May
the gloom has not been al
gether unconstructive. T
President has certainly i
newed his attack on the pre
lem of the payments deft
with extra vigor, since he I
gan to consult business leE
ers like Robert A. Love
John J. McCloy, and Dav
Rockefeller.
Furthermore, the gloom
the business men will be t
happily justified if the g
eral trade balance turns soi
and thus cancels the effect
the governmental cuts in di
lar outflow. Yet the outlook
clearly far better than h
been generally supposed.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Suggestion for the we
end after the Fourth of Jul
Get out your referen
books and re-read the Decli
ation of Independence. Wh
you have finished, look up t
list of signers of the immort
document. You will note th
only ONE of the names is i
companied by the address
the signer.
The name is that of Charl
Carroll, and it appears th
in the list of Maryland sig
ers: Charles Carroll of Ci
rollton. The others are list
merely under the names
their states.
TTOW come?
It
is an interesting stoi
As unofficially related,
came about like this:
Those who signed the Di
laration did so almost literal
with ropes around their neci
They were REBELS. If t
Revolution failed, it was
reasonable assumption th
the rebels who engineered
would be hanged.
When Carroll had sign
his name, someone at his i
bow is said to have remarke
"You are safe. In Marylan
there are several men bef
ing your name. They will n
know which one of the Ce
rolls to take."
Carroll is said to have a
swered: "That won't happi
in this case." He then picki
up his pen and added tl
words: "Of Carrollton."
THEN there
was Fatrii
J.
Henry.
In 1775, the year befo
the adoption and the signii
of the Declaration of Ind
pendence, he was urging b
fore the Virginia Provinci
Convention that the Virgin
militia be armed for the d
fense of the colony against tl
Redcoats in the event th
worse came to worse and Vi
ginia was invaded.
As in the case of Charl
Carroll, he was reminded th
armed opposition might 1
dangerous in the extreme, :
it would amount to rebellio
He replied:
"Is life so dear or peace :
sweet as to be purchased i
the price of chains and sla
ery? Forbid it, Almighi
God: I know not what coun
others may take, but as ft
me. GIVE ME LIRERTY O
GIVE ME DEATH:"
TMIE.N there was Robert Mo
r.s. anotner of the signe:
of the Declaration.
When the paper current
with which the infant Repii
lie had to finance the Revoh
tionary War became shakit
and shakier, he didn't hesitai
to throw his own personal fo
tune back of it.
4 ND-
When James Russell Lov
ell, after the Revolution, wi
serving in London as tr
American minister, he wi
asked:
"How long will the Amer
can Republic endure?"
He replied crisply:
. "As long as the ideas of tf
men who made it continue) t
be dominant."
THOSE ancestors of ours'
THEY PLAYED IT FO
KEETS.
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