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Medford and Jackson County
History from the tiles or The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ego.
10 YEARS AGO
July 9, 1852 (Wednesday)
Board of directors of the
Valley View hospital district
in Ashland expected to re
quest $233,000 when they go
before state hospital advisory
committee In Portland.
Medford suffers from 104
degree temperatures for sec
ond consecutve day.
20 YEARS AGO
July 9, 1942 (Thursday)
Friday declared "Rubber
Day" and citizens asked to
make final Inventory of non
essential rubber and turn It
over to oil companies con
ducting the nationwide drive
for scrap rubber.
Packing plants of the val
ley are now making repairs to
machinery and generally get
ting ready for the packing
season; season expected to
start between Aug. 10 and
15.
SO YEARS AGO
July 9. 1932 (Saturday)
1 Several local men organize
Crater Flying club and make
arrangements for buying a
new Waco training ship.
Dr. W. W. Howard appoint
ed terminology chairman of
the American Osteopathic so
ciety of ophtamology and oto
larynology. 40 YEARS AGO
July 9. 1922 (Sunday)
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "All
the close fitting dancers were
out Saturday night twisting
, the fantastic hip and should
ers." Biggest season in history of
tourist travel to Crater Lake
national park Is predicted for
this summer.
SO YEARS AGO
July 9, 1912 (Tuesday)
Man jailed for stealing $3
from wife, who had earned
the money by taking In wash
ing, and then coming down,
town and spending it for liq
uor. Nine lives were snuffed out
at the Jackson st. crossing at
an early hour, making the
fifth accident to occur at the
spot. A southbound engine
ran over somebody s pet house
cat, and all nine lives went at
once.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior
seven or eight Is eicellent; five ei
sii Is food.
1. Who said. "Sir. 1 would
rather be right than Presi
dent"?
2. Are bats more clo-elv re
lated to blackbirds, whales or
flvlnc lizards'
3. Do the Philippine Islands
lie closest to Australia, Bor
neo, or Hawaii?
4. Did John L. Lewis ever
work In the coal mines?
5. Who is the Director of
the United States Information
Service?
8 Which i fermented In
processing -green tea or
black tea?
7. What is a Louisville
Shi user?
8. In what year did Charles
Lindbergh fly the Atlantic to
Paris. France?
H. Does the metal lithium
weigh more, or less, than al
uminum? 10. O n the Fahrenheit
scale, what is the melting
polnl of ice?
Answers: 1, Henry Clay.
2. Whilst (both ara mam
mals), mk!. 3. Borneo. 4. Yet. 8.
Edward R. Murrow. (. Black.
1. A baseball bit. t. 1927.
9. Lett. 10. S2 degree plus.
MONDAY, JULY 9. 1962
Freedom and Responsibility
Justice Hucro L. Black was honored by fellow
members of the United States Supreme Court the
other dav on comDletion of 25 vears of service.
It was a notable occasion for a number of
reasons. Black has served
and controversially. His
the longest on record, but
The observance was
ing down of the school-prayer
been so widely discussed,
so massively misunderstood
e e
IT ALSO came soon after a talk given by Justice
Black which has raised many a legal eyebrow,
and caused great discussion, although not as
much as the school-prayer decision.
In that talk he proposed that the First Amend
ment to the Constitution
that, specifically, its ban
freedom or the press
mean just what it says,
1 1 - , 1M
rendering laws against,
stitutional.
Justice Black is in a
ing this view, even amone the more liberatarian
thinkers of today. But he has a point in declaring
that the First Amendment makes no exceptions
to its guarantee of free
IN OUR view, the protection offered free speech
and free press in the Oregon Constitution is
superior in wording, and
rust Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The federal Constitution simply says:
"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the
freedom of speech, or the press . . ."
The Oregon Constitution says :
"No law shall be passed restraining the free ex
pression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak,
write, or print freely on any subject whatever; but
every person shall be responsible for the abuse of this
right."
The last phrase is the Constitutional justifi
cation for libel and slander laws, a justification
lacking in the Federal Constitution.
I IBEL and slander laws grew up to pre
dividuals from damage caused by irn
ble or malicious and untrue statements spoken
or written by others. We think that protection is
important and should be preserved.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch comments:
"It Is true that the nation is unlikely to give up Its
libel and slander laws, nor do we think It should, in
a day of growing power of mass communications
media, the individual needs protection against libel
and slander as he needs protection for his freedom of
speech. The problem is how to make the two rights
compatible."
We believe the Oregon Constitution solved
this apparent incompatibility, and solved it well.
IT SAYS, in effect, that you are free, but that
your freedom to swing your fist ends where
someone else s nose begins.
Freedom true freedom also implies the
necessity for responsibility.
In a day when a malicious word can damage
a reputation to a point
or a career ruined, the
force this responsibility
The fact that this responsibility is taken seri
ously can be seen in the
award of $3,500,000 in
jury to a broadcaster who had been falsely ac
cused of having Communist tendencies.
JUSTICE Black's theory that the First Amend
monl i ii An I f V a iirls ra Rill if t? IrrVi o
1111,111 IllVlt. 1,1,1 lllt. UIIUIU Utll V i. iviiito
means exactly what it says, with no ifs, ands, or
buts, is provocative. And
this topic is immensely
much of the trend is away from individual lib
erty in favor of governmental authority.
But we cannot agree
license; that freedom
abuse another.
If there is any incompatibility here it can only
be resolved bv the means
gon Constitution employed, by putting no limit
on freedom, but making a man responsible for
exercising his freedom so that others will not be
damaged. h.A.
Recognizing Reality
One of the groat human problems perhaps
the greatest of all is how to recognize "reality.
What is "reality"? Among other definitions,
Webster gives the philosophical one : "That which
has an objective existence, and is not merely an
idea; that which is absolute or self-existent, as
opposed to what is derivative or dependent; that
which is ultimate.
Do radio waves, for instance, have "an ob
jective existence"? We can't hear or see or touch
them. Yet we know thev are there, for without
them our radio sets wouldn't work.
ine same applies to
not observe throuirh our
yet the towering mushroom clouds give evidence
that they exist, and that some men have a limit
ed understanding of how to manipulate them
e
fN A mine mundane plane, we tent! to the be
lief that some things
idea also nave an obiective existence. It is
certainly true that men
enced in their actions almost as much by ideas
as bv their objective physical environments.
To some the concept of God is an unassail
able reality, in others it is "merely an idea.
It follows that one man's reality is anothei
man's fantasy; that one man's truth is anothei
man's fairy story.
And this is one reason why men have always
had such difficulty in agreeing on both ultimate
and secondary truths
lone and honorably-
term of service is not
it is indeed a long one.
the same day as the nana
ruling, which has
so poony reported, and
means just what it says:
against laws prohibiting
and rreedom or speech
even to the extent of
- . I 1 -1 1
HDei ana sianaer uncon
small minority in hold
speech and press
in intent, to that of the
otect in-
damage caused by irresponsi
where a job can be lost
power of the law to en
is still needed.
recent record-breaking
damages granted by a
his outspokenness on
valuable today, when so
that liberty equates with
includes the freedom to
the writers of the Ore
the atom, which we can
own unaided senses. And
which are "merely an
have always been influ
or what is "real." E.A.
COMMUNICATIONS
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writor,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or In'tial
for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
oeper; In fact the contrary is often the case.
He Tells Why
To the Editor: I had begun
to despair of reading any
thing of a serious nature in
the letters to the editor, when
all at once a whole flock of
letters containing serious
thought arrived.
It was the July 1 issue of
M.T. that contained the de
luge: "One Nation Under
God," by Bruce Kleinsmid:
'Rightists in History," by
Mrs. 'Earnest Santo; "Unleav
ened Lump," by Arnold Eu
gene Jenny. Then the prize
winner, "Going to Seed," by
Ralph McKinnls. Here we
have a thematic essay on our
national dilemma that tells
everything. Here Is a modern
literary masterpiece. We are
not compelled to agree with
the author, but we certainly
cannot argue with him. His
picture of American culture
is sketched with a vividness
that leaves no doubt as to his
meaning, or validity of his
thesis. His literary style has
the tempting odor of restrain
ed hyperbole that gives the
accepted commonplace a spi
cy flavor.
We all realize that there
is something wrong, but he
tells why. Incldently the se
cret of good writing is to
know your subject matter and
tell It in a manner that com
pels consideration and
thought and yet has a pleas
ant flavor and taste.
Walter Reece
77 Manzanita st.
Ashland, Ore.
God Not Banished
To the Editor: Regarding
John C. Stille's letter of July
The first amendment of our
Constitution concerning reli
gion is as follows: "Congress
shall make no law respecting
an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exer
cise thereof."
Clearly a prayer, composed
by the state, for recitation by
the people, violates this
amendment. It was- an at
tempt, Intentional or other
wise, to break down the "wall
between church and state"
made by the writers of the
Bill of Rights.
It seems that the wrong
feelings entirely are being at
tached to the Supreme Court
decision. It is not a ruling
against God. It it a ruling
against the slate having any
thing to do with God. I think
that a very good analysis was
made by the recent issue of
Newsweek magazine from
which 1 have taken the fol
lowing quotation:
"What many observers saw
last week as an erosion nf
dee p-seated religious tradi
tions are actually another sign
of America's continuing tran
sition from a primarily Prot
estant country to an essential
ly pluralistic one.
"To cooler heads, It seemed
unalarmingly clear that the
Court was not banishing God
from the U S A
In reading Mr. Stille's lei
tr-r I noticed a reference to
Communism, tie said. In ef
feet, that the Communists'
sole purpose was to rid the
world of God It is not. Com
munism Is first, an economic
system; rcond, a political svs
tern, and never a religious or
der. The revolution of 1917
was made with these first two
purposes In mind. When the
Communists did abolish God,
thev disallowed him in homes
and churches, as well as In the
school, so. as far as I can see.
there Is no comparison to this
decision and Communism
I would also like to point
out that w h e t h e r or not a
prayer Is said in sihool has
little to do with children feel
ing that religion Is "evil and
unnecessary."
In Medford Huh. where 1
attend school, there Is no
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON
Bible reading, no prayer said
before classes start, yet there
are many students who feel
God Is a very necessary part
of their lives. Why? Because
they worship God at church
and at home, where God
should be worshipped.
Dale Hockersmith
3022 Madrona Lane
Medford
Thanks Extended
To the Editor: On behalf
of my company, Wilding In
corporated, and our client, the
Chrysler Corporation, I would
like to take advantage of this
column to give my personal
thanks and appreciation to all
of the many, many residents
of Medford and the Rogue
valley for helping us and
working with us in the pro
duction of our motion picture
during the week of June 24.
In addition to "Digger" Carl
son himself and his associates
at the Dick Knight Company,
we found everyone else we
talked to not only willing but
anxious to do everything they
could to help make the pic
ture a success.
In this confusing and really
not-so-glamorous picture busi
ness, we're apt to have many
strange problems and many
strange requests-a n d every
thing seems to be needed "yes
terday" as practically any
one at any of the counters of
your airport terminal will
probably testfy. (When the
last piece of equipment and
the last man of our crew was
finally airborne on his way
out of Medford, I'll bet there
was a sigh of relief that could
be heard from one end of the
terminal to another!)
Everyone wanted to help.
and everyone seemed very in
terested in what we were do
ing. When all the pictures
are put together into a movie,
we'll certainly make sure
that the people of Medford
get a chance to see it.
Again, many thanks to ev
eryone. Speaking for our en
tire crew, we d all like to re
turn to Medford and uieet you
folks again perhaps not
in the "line-of-duty" next
time, but merely to enjoy
what Is certainly some of the
finest country in these United
States.
W. Gerald "Jerry" McCray
4925 Cadieux rd.
Detroit 24, Mich.
Fast Draw
To the Editor: Certain per
sons have recently criticized
the sport of Fast Draw, and
questioned whether anyone
who practices such a sport is
in full possession of his senses.
The bulk of such criticism is
based on an Ignorance of the
facts.
Recently someone on local
television Implied that any
one who practiced Fast Draw
was an "Idiot." If this Impli
cation is true, then let us look
at some of the more promin
ent "Idiots": Robert Six. presi
dent of Continental Airlines:
Donald Douglas Jr.. president
of Douglas Aircraft Co ; Fred
Rnff. president of Colt s Tat
ent Firearms Mfg. Co.; the
late Rex Pell, lieutenant gov
ernor of Nevada; Sammy Da
vis Jr : Dean Martin; and
Jerry LewL. Just to name
few.
Fast Draw Is a sport, and
we in Fast Draw find It a very
satisfying and exciting one
As with nearly every sport. It
requires a great deal of skill.
coordination and training
Drawing and firing in less
than a fifth of a second looks
'easy, and it is. If one has spent
several thousand hours prac
ticing
Organised Fast Draw is
afr as any sport For the
most part, none of us in Fast
Draw use live ammunition.
Granted, there are still a few
who use live ammunition in
conlunction uh a fast draw.
Foreign News: Agreement on Laos Seen;
French Will Support
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from foreign news ca
bles:
Agreement on Laos
UPI Correspondent Karol
Thaler In Geneva says the
signs are that Russia wants to
reach an
agreement
with the West
on Laos, des
pite Commun
ist bickering
at the 14-na-1
1 o n Geneva
c o n f e rence.
The Russians
are giving the
appearance in
r 1
IfLJ
tlowseea
private negotiations that they
mean business. The Laos issue
is not too important from the
Soviet viewpoint, but appar
ently they want to use it as
proof of their co-existence pol
icy. Thaler says it looks in
creasingly as if Russia wants
to use the Geneva stage as an
occasion for ministerial con
tacts on Berlin soon.
Algeria
The French government can
be expected to throw Its full
support behind Algerian pro
visional Premier Ben Yous
sef Ben Khedda in his efforts
to assert his government's au
thority over rebellious Vice
Premier Mohammed Ben Bel
la. The French believe Ben
Khedda is willing to carry out
the Evian peace settlement.
They regard Ben Bella as a
north African Fidel Castro.
The French are worried that
new violence in Algeria may
touch off a new flight of
frightened Europeans to
France. About 350,000 have
fled already and 150,000 of
them still are in Marseilles
where they have long outstay
ed their welcome and become
a major housing and employ
ment headache.
European Unit,
Talks aimed at achieving
European political unity have
been at a standstill for near
ly three months. Efforts to
get them going again may be
expected now as a sequel to
West German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer's visit to
Paris. The effort would be
made by France, West Ger
many and Italy.
Viet Nam Frictions
Friction is building up be
tween the United States and
South Viet Nam. The U.S. is
injecting massive aid (more
than $307 million this year) to
help the Saigon regime stop
the Communist guerrillas. But
in doing so the U.S. requires
the South Vietnamese to "buy
American." It also is turning
down a request for an extra
cash grant. At the same time
it is spending money fast for
anti-guerrilla programs such
Kennedy Mas Brief
Visit With Father
Washington - ffJM - Presi
dent Kennedy returned to his
White House tasks today aft
er a week end reunion with
his convalescing father.
The President's jet plane
landed at nearby Andrews Air
Force Base after a one-hour
flight from Hyannis Port,
Mass., where he spent his first
Cape Cod week end of the
summer.
Before taking off the Pres
ident visited for 30 minutes
with his father, former am
bassador Joseph P. Kennedy
who was discharged from a
New York hospital Saturday.
CROWNS OLD HAT
Sarasota, Fla.-IUPtl - Dark
haired Gloria Brody won the
Miss Florida title, but cop
ping crowns is old hat to her.
The 18-year-old Jacksonville
miss previously won such des
ignations as Miss Nose, Miss
Face, Mi.s Legs, Miss Life
saver, Miss Blaze and Miss
Watch Charm.
but those people are scarce.
We can demonstrate anything
with blank or wax loads that
can be done with live ammu
nition, as it pertains to Fast
Draw as a sport.
Since we in Fast Draw are
most aware that it i a sport,
and that the tools we use can
be dangerous, we have devel
oped many rigid safety rules.
To the best of my knowledge,
no one has been Injured in
organired Fast Draw In the
last two years. Of course,
there are always those Irre
sponsible persons who refuse
to use common sense In hand
ling a gun. but usually, these
people will not join an organ
iration which provides train
ing in safe gun handling. They
are the real "id'ots."
Anyone wishing further in
formation on this subject may
contact either George T. Flan
agan or James A. Martolln
Our respective telephone
numbers are. 772-7227 and
77.-7JR4
James A Mtrtolin. Sec.
Georte T Flanagan.
Gunsmith.
Gunfithters. Inc.
Medford
as the construction of self-tie-
fended strategic villages. All
these Saigon must help pay
for. It is hard both on South
Washington Report
ly William
(el United feature Syndicate
UNNECESSARY ISSUE
Washington An Immense,
shadowy and unnecessarily di-
visive Issue has been added
to this congressional election
year and to the 1964 presiden
tial campaign
year by the
supreme
court's de
cision ban
ning any
o r g a n I z -e
d prayer in
the public
schools, even
If nondenom-
it. inational and
voluntary.
The court has thrown a
treat rock Into the national
pond. This has been proved in
half a dozen ways since us
extraordinary ruling. But
how deen the riDDles run is
shown most strikingly in the
demand of the governors of
the SO American states - with
onlv Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
of New York demurring and
abstaining from voting - lor
constitutional amendment
to "make clear and beyond
challenge" these fundamental
points;
That this nation and its peo
pie shall continue to acknow
ledge "their faith in God and
permit the free and voluntary
participation In prayer in our
public schools."
THIS unexampled and bipar
tisan action by the gover
nors conference may or may
not be a direct expression of
a massive public anxiety, on
ethical and constitutional
grounds, at the course taken
by the court. This columnist
believes it to be just that. But
even if this proposition be re
jected as unproved, certain
other things are beyond reas
onable question.
One is that the governors of
this country are on the whole
still closer to the people than
any or all national function
aries in Washington. The oth
er is that the governors, more
than any or all other sets of
politicians, hold the decisive
influence both in the national
nominating conventions of
both parties and in the practi
cal campaigning which so
helps to deter line which
states go where in the presi
dential elections.
Two additional realities
therefore follow.
Matter of Fact
(el New York Herald
THE TIDES OF HISTORY
Washington The govern
ment experts who study such
matters are beginning to say
that this
year's harvest
in Communist
China will be
only margin
ally different
from the ca
tastrophic har
vests of the
last three
years. Put
J" like that, the
news sounds dry-as-dust. But
if the experts' extremely ten
tative forecasts are proved
correct, this may be one of
those moments when the
strong tides of history quite
suddenly begin to run in a
quite new direction.
The point is that another
indifferent or bad harvest will
certainly endanger, and may
Just possibly destroy, the ex
isting Communist government
in China. Not long since, such
a development appeared to
be unthinkable. But It has to
be thought about today, and it
is being thought about, by
the leaders of the Soviet Un
ion and the other Commu
nist states among others, If
one may Judge by a striking
change of tone
t
ITNTIL only a few months
ago. Soviet and satellite
diplomats and other represen
tatives uniformly said In ef
fect of their Chinese com
rades, "They have some pret
ty serious problems; but you'll
see, they'll solve them." But
now the standard comment on
the Chinese situation Is In ef
fect: "They are in a dreadful
mess." The disappearance of
any prediction of a happy out
come is what Is striking.
In the same fashion, the
small minority in the U. S.
government who have never
ruled out an eventual convul
sion in Communist China are
now beginning to gain cer
tain new recruits This mi
nority has always had logic
on Its side. And events In Chi
na are making the logic of
the situation more vivid and
corvincins.
Logically, there must be
LVI
Algerian
Vietnamese sensibilities and
on the regime's pocketbook.
At the present rate of spend-
ing South Vietnam will have a
S. Whit
ONE Is that by a sUggerlng
majority the governors of
this country are, to say the
least, personally alarmed at
the course taken by the court
or believe their people to be
so alarmed. The other is that
every presidential hopeful in
both parties will need to be
aware of this alarm. For ev
ery one will be beset from now
on by demands to "declare
himself" on this passionate
question so needlessly flung
into the arena of politics by
the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Even those who think the
court was right - In the melo
dramatically excited and
quite mistaken view that any
other ruling would have
somehow sanctioned some in
termixture of "church and
state" - cannot blink away
these harsh facts of political
life.
To what was surely an ade
quate list of ordinary issues
- the condition of the econ
omy, the conduct of foreign
policy - something new and
pointless has now been added.
For the people of this coun
try are being divided in a
class struggle of an ugly kind
which need not and should
not ever have occurred.
ON THE ONE side are all
those who value tradition
and the old and gentle prac
tices - including those who
may not themselves necessar
ily be religious people. On the
other side are two sets: all
those who in their hearts
glory in the destruction of all
tradition, believing not
some change but In total
change total change for its
own sake.- And all those who,
while not consciously anti
traditionalist, read the doc
trine of separation of church
and state so narrowly and so
nervously that they see some
clergyman, of whatever faith
he may be, beneath every lit
tle desk in every schoolhouse
in the country.
Let those who salute the
court's decision now ponder
what it has really done. Is the
denial by that court of the
right to say a small, nonsec
tarian prayer in a schoolhouse
worth what It will cost? Is
the constitution "protected"
by this amazing intrusion in
to the Intimate private affairs
of the people and into the due
and established rights of the
individual states?
ly Joseph Alstvp
Tribune Syndicate
limits to the degree of hard
ship even the sternest police
state can inflict upon its peo
ple without running into trou
ble of some kind. The limits
are not easy to define, since
they depend upon a score of
local factors. But their exist
ence is very easy to prove
simply by taking an extreme
case.
P3R example, there are few
problems now confronting
Mao Tse-tung and hit col
leagues which could not be
easily solved if China's popu
lation were only reduced by
30 per cent. Suppose, then,
that the order went out to
march 30 per cent of the Chi
nese people to the publie
slaughter houses, would Mao's
army, however well treated,
then remain loyal? Would his
police, however well disci
pllned, continue to be relia
ble? The answer is obvious.
The undefined limits of
harshness which Mao's gov
ernment cannot safely go be
yond are In turn beginning
to be an interesting problem
for the simplest possible rea
ton. Communist China more
and more appears to be caught
in a remorselessly descend
ing economic spiral.
The downward spiral be
gan with the fearful plunge
Into misery experienced by
the Chinese mattes In 1959,
when the "great leap for
ward" was attempted and the
farm communes were inaugur
ated. Since then the Chinese
Communist leaders have
changed their policies, revis
ed their alms, and indulged
in every sort of self-reversal
and tergiversation, on both
industrial and agricultural
fronts
Each year's remedies have
been more radical than the
previous year's. Each year has
also been worse than the pre
vious year. This year's reme
dies can only be described as
desperate. For example. 30
per cent of China's urban pop
ulation has now been ordered
to go back to the countryside,
because food stocks are low
in the cities, and because ur
ban jobs are few with Indus
try operating it only one-
Premier
budget deficit this year of J3S
to $44 million. And the Viet
namese view deficit spending
as intolerable.
Strictly
Personal
ly Sydney J. Harrft
(c) Fitld Enterprises Inc.
The things that ara most
true art the things that ara
the hardest to believe; we
can learn them
only from our-
selvet, and
not from oth
ers - which is
why the per
sonal history
HM o f mankind
a keeps repeat-
Itself sadly.
I was think
tlania - ing of thi
while watching a group of
young organization men at a
luncheon recently. Most of,
them were decent, clean-cut,
eager chaps, ready to do of
die for success, status and thai
knowledge ot "having it
made."
The illusion V. ey suffer is
that their material goals, if
realized, will somehow bring
them emotional and spiritual
and social serenity. They deep
ly and unquestionably believe
that their present feelings ot
insecurity or inadequacy will
drop away as they ascend th
ladder of success, to be re
placed with self-assurance
and a sense of tranquility,
Nothing could be further
from the truth. Beyond the
years of childhood, what
happens to us on the out
aid hat little relation ie
what happens to us on the
intlde. There It not enough
money, or success, or pow
er. In the world to turn a
person who feels emotional- '
ly under-privileged into .
person who rests comfort
ably and easily within him
self. A week earlier. In fact, I
attended another luncheon, -at
which the main tpeake '
wat an affluent and enerm '
ously influential man In hit ,
early SOs, who had jutt re
turned from a trip to Eu
rope and Asia. This man
"had It made" In Try ma- .
ierial tent of the word
but he didn't believe It. ;
Hit name-dropplnj wa '
appallingly and embarrass
ingly obvious. He gay lh
Impression of a man who
wat trying desperately to
convince himself - by way -of
others - that ho wat Im
portant. And the mere ho ;
talked, tho weaker he seem- '
ed; hit vanity and e-gocen-tricity
simply revealed tho .
unturo Httl boy Beneath
the impressive facade.
.
And no amount of reassur
ance from the outside wilt
ever convince him, in the se
cret places of his heart, that
he IS a person of consequence.
The child inside him keeps'
crying "More, more!" and
there will never be enough.
Since money and power and
fame are not infantile wishes
(and only the realization of in
fantile wishes can gratify us),,
no matter how much of theso
he gets, he will forever re
main unsatisfied, unsure, and
discontented.
This is not to say that the
material goals of life are bad
or undesirable; but it is to
warn against mistaking them
for real emotional nourish
ment. They can do no more
for one's true sense of self
esteem than a suit with heav
ily padded shouloers can do
for a man who feels a weak-'
ling. Material padding neve
fools anyone - including tho
wearer.
third of capacity.
TUT the countryside has
" been in the grip of creep
ing starvation for three grim
years on end. This spring, tha
best Hong Kong statistics
showed an average food In
take of 1,300 to 1,600 calories
per person per day, according
to the individual's labor cate
gory. And into this hunger
wracked countryside, mil
lions, literally many millions
of ejected town and city dwel
lers are being sent with no
apparent provision of either
work or rations.
In Kwantung province, tha
start of this process begot th
recent assault on the Hong
Kong border by a great flood
of refugees. No one can say
what the effects of this sam
process will be in the rest of
China; but it Is clear that tho ,
effects can hardly be socially
healthy or politically stabili- -zing.
In sum, it begins to look as
if Communist China were ap- -proaching
the safe limit of
harshness. It begins to look,
therefore, as though a titanie
internal crisis may lie ahead '
in China. 1
If the experts are wrong,
and the harvest is generous, '
there will be no crisis. But
if the experts are right about
the harvest, the question of
American food for China can
well become urgent. It will
be examined In another re
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