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ItoFORDiWrBIBUNl "Evcrwne ln Soulhern Ortion Rca'lt The Mail JTribune ' pSSilshed Pally except Saturday by MEDKOnn PRINTING I CO. S3 North Kir St., Phjnl-C,ii R011EBT W BUHL. Editor HERB GUEY AdvertislnR Manager GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bus. Mm. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mng Editor EARI. H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIPMAN. Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Spurt! Editor OLIVE STARt'HER, Women t Editor DALE ERICKSON. circulation Mgr. An Independent'Newipaper Entered as aeoond clam matter a Mcdtnrd. Orenon. under Act OX March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail - In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday I year 1S.M Dally and Sunday 8 moi. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 14 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashl-nd. Central Point. E a fie Point Jacksonville. Gold mil. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Roue Rlv ' er Talent and on motor routei Dally and Sunday 1 year 1$.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. I 50 Carnei and Dealers Copy 10c All Termi Cash lnAdvance "ofllrlal Paper" of City of Medtnrd olllrlal I'aper of Jackson Counly United" Press International Full Leased Wire U p I Telephoto Newsplcturea ""member of'audit'biireau j Rnn,nE,rtnllVS: NELSON ROBERTS ASSOCI ATES Ollirea In New York. Chi cato Detroit. San Francisco. Los Anceles Seattle. Portland. Denver NATIONAL tO 1 TO K I A L AS(SOC(WTIN frTttT.ililJi'.li..llJai Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Tha Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS 9GO July 24, 1952 (Thurtday) City Councilmen Dwight Houghton and Elmer Childor announce they will not be candidates for reelection. New Medford Veneer and Plywood corporation plant at White City scheduled to be in complete operation by Nov. 1. i 20 YEARS AGO July 24, 1942 (Friday) Children crowd Camp White for a free ride in an Army amphibious "peep.' From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The weather is slightly cooler but no frostbites have been reported as we go to press. 30 YEARS AGO July 24, 1932 (Sunday) Interest In Jackson county politics rises as many inde pendents file candidacies. Medford employers begin to urge the employment of local workers only. 40 YEARS AGO July 24. 1922 (Monday) The grand jury begins In vestigation of three night riding raids; Ku Klux Klan suspected. A joint forum of the Asn land and Medford Chambers of Commerce is planned. SO YEARS AGO July 24. 1912 (Wednesday) Mrs. George Burns is thrown down a 25-foot em bankment when her team be comes frightened and runs away; she is rescued and brought to the hospital by a passing motorist. The first large trout catch of the season is reported as three local sportsmen return from the Rogue river with IB slcelhcnds ranging from four to eight pounds each. Whafs Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct If superior; seven or eight is Mediant; " sis is good. i. which of these countries ; is most lnmcn um iimmi"'""1' Italy, Franco. Spninr or C.cr many' 2. What and where is Mar tha's Vineyard? 3. One Speaker nf the House of Representatives also serv ed ns President; who was he? 4. From what port in Spain did Christopher Columbus sel sail in his first trip? 5. Which amendment to the Constitution is called the lame duck'' amendment? fi. The expression "War is lleli" Is attributed to General Grant. Leo. or Sherman? 7. During the administration of which President did the expression "Prosperity Is Just around the corner," gain pop ularity? R. Abraham Lincoln was born on a farm in which state i which state? nother n.m D. What is for Thailand? 10. What is said to be the "n" "TV" land off Massachusetts. 3. James K. Polk. 4. Paloi. 5. 20th 8. Sherman. 7. Herbert Hoover. 8. Kentucky. 9. Siam. 10. Im itation. no ladies"allowed K.nirfield. III. - l'IH - Wayne county's male drinking class today has double cause to re lax. Mrs. H. L. Smith, owner of the county's only bar, has decided to stay In business another year, but won't admit women patrons because of the additional $5,000 license fee. ASSOCIATION TUESDAY. JULY 24, 19o Medical Care Bill Defeat The defeat of the proposed bill to provide medical care for older people through the Social Security system came as no great surprise, for in recent months it appeared more and more evident it would never get through Congress this session. The matter it not dead, however, and will be heard of much more in the future. The two plans considered the original Administration-sponsored King-Anderson bill and the later "compromise.'' ed were far from perfect, even from the point of view of those favoring them. DUT the basic approach, that of making medical care a pre-paid matter of right for elderly people, financed through the tried, tested and successful Social Security mechanism, still has its advocates and supporters, and the question will be brought up again. It also is apt to be a major issue in the political campaigns this fall. The question is not whether there will be an adequate medical care plan for older people the question is when, and in what form. It may eventually become part of the social security system, or it may be an expansion and liberalization .of the now-limited coverage of the Kerr-Mills law, supplemented by welfare medical aid. ' v. '. .' ' HPHE American Medical Association', of course, . was instrumental in clef eatingor,. perhaps, merely postponing a medicare bill,-But in win-t ning this battle it may well be on'the way to losing the war. i i People still, by large, retain great respect for their individual doctors, both as people and as physicians. But the callous, all-or-nothing ap proach of the A.M.A. to this desirable social and economic legislation, has, we believe, damaged the potential influence of the doctors' lobby in future battles. We also believe that the logic of the social se curity approach sooner or later will be accepted by the American people, and that medical care for older people, prepaid and by right, and not as charity, will become an integral part of our social and economic life. E.A. Beauties of Oregon For nearly two months now, the Mail Tribune has run a daily Page 1 picture feature under the title "The Beauties of Scenic Oregon.".'. The reaction has been mdst favorable. Ore. gonians, apparently, like to be reminded of what a lovely state they live in, and to see the evidence in front of them. Some people have been cutting the pictures out each clay to make a scrapbook collection of them. Others have clipped them and mailed them to friends in other less-favored parts of the world. We have heard no adverse comment at. THE Oregon Statesman in Salem has noted the feature, and commented the other clay: "It is beginning to look as though the feature will be permanent. That's the trouble with starting a series of pictures on Oregon's beauty, there's no place to stop." There is, indeed, no place to stop, but we plan to carry the feature only through the sum mer months, and it will Labor Day although there is certainly enough picture material to continue it further. .;' . We are most appreciative of the assistance of the travel information division of the State High way Department for providing such a fine: col lection of pictures. It is our hope that both regular readers and visitors to this area have received pleasure from them. E.A. ' J Bout With the Flu Among life's minor ! m'(iKililir thinrvo ninrn il than being sick in ben nest weather ot the summer, out it mere are mey don't at the moment occur to us. Also, there are more serious and debilitating illnesses than the flu or, as an older generation called it, La Grippe but at the moment we don't want to hear about them. Two weeks in bed, tak ing a variety of pills every few hours, listless and out of touch with the usual day-to-day activities, leaves one with a feeling of half-lost unreality. It takes time to regather lost strength and vigor, and to pick up the threads of a busy life which were abruptly severed when the flu bug struck. ' And this, our doctor informs us, is apt to take a long time with this particular variety of flu. the after-effects of which stay with one for weeks on end. , THLKL arc, however, are with all things. An extended stay m Chines, lone hours for the ; Usually, SCl lOUS books, ii , t . i , general lassitude are not conducive to heavy, reading. But a good detective story or spy thriller ,-,l,., (I,a l.,.,.v 1,...,.,.. .,...! i ,n,y, u,c- ... K ,.,.. avoids a guilty sense ot the illness as ail excuse. t is nf i-otirsi 1'iini however weak and shaky and wobbly one mav ICel at lirst. All in all, we'll have have skipped the whole Ways to spend your time. which the Senate defeat conclude on or near aggravations, there are - ri t ;l t i n (V ;i it . 1 (litrrwo'nfv tor two weeks during the CO mpensations, as there bed permits, among other re 'ai'ling Ot nOOKS. .Ot, tor lCVCl'S and Sweats Jllld iiuMt; ...mm., ..,,,, i;.,t- wasting time by using tn i'i! i:i.'k m h:iriii whiff of smoke ran make been iust as happy to lh "' 'ave. f thing. There are vrtJX::. L.A. i,ja:.-iteed to deteriorate "It Look Like A COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the although under certain circumstances for publication is permissible. The 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 oaper; in fact the contrary Is often the case. Lottery Letter To the Editor: About a week or so ago, I sent in a second letter to be published in regard to a proposed state lottery for the purpose of off setting hospital bills for all. A self appointed critic, with a pen full of ink, decides to make a name for himself to us column readers. If this person had spent a little more time reading my two letters through, I'm sure that he d give me a little more credit. The barrage that he sent my way was that I da not like persons collecting unem ployment checks. This state ment of course is false. In the past I have collected unem ployment; checks also. I am also familiar with logging, truckdriving. I've also dug a few ditches in the past. At present I'm swinging a paint brush. I was never gifted with a silver spoon in my mouth. just hard work to date. I did mention that the mi nority groups of the unem ployed would stoop to any thing socialistic. You stated that my letter was in three paragraphs. Quite true. You answered the first with a barrage of mud slinging, the second you agreed with me, you also do not approve of socialized medi cine. The third you didn't mention. I'm waiting. Do you approve of a state lottery hos pital fund? In the future I hope that you, Mr. Hall, and I will re frain from mud slinging. Howard H. Brown, P.07 Oilman rd., , Medford , Tobacco and Pestt i To the Editor: Exhausted from heat of . summer, most of us would halfway like to find a nice cool place to relax. I am no exception. When the day's trials get the best of me I retire to my mosquito- infested porch, and light up my cigarette, t Here J find peace and quiet to cast off the burdens of the day. Although its annoying to some folks, those mosquitoes never bother me. I can really enjoy the cool evenings, the beauty of the sunset marred only by a maze of cowardly mosquitoes buzzing not far away. Just daring me to put my cigarette out. People who don't like ciga rettes fear those little varmits, and are Ihe folks who put on themselves that smelly repellent. Smells worse than any cigarette smoke 1 ever smelled. Just plain takes a clean man's breath away. A refreshing cigarette is much more pleasant, still serves the purpose even better than the stuff people will dunk them selves in. When smeared on the skin you may smother to death, the breathing pores causing your skin to look sad and old before lis time. Tobac co is a cleaner and more effec tive way to get rid of pests. Some folks will rush out and spend real good hard earned money just to be one of the first to use these new products. Many a man is hang ing his head in shame because he had damiruff and rushed ; ,iv. Now it worked on his 'dandruff hut It took his hair 1 '" """ """ twiiiws mr mutt wncn I innm nf ,mr , ,, ,, jmik designed tociusoi honest folks out of a hard-earned Hollar ,,ncthmg rr.,, KOod l d hp MM(, (, rce. ommend it to my friends. '-lost lolks would call me ' nM.fichmnpit hitt tttr L'iMlino - - ' . rid of mosquitoes a good MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Real Free-For-AU" rume and address of the writer, the use of a pen name or initial Mail Tribune reserves the right to and age beautiful skin, guar anteed to cause itch, reap dirt, cause down trodden sick look ing skin, and also take away your breath." It is fantastic how many hundreds of dollars are spent on the smelly stuff. I'm not bashful to say that I'll take my cigarettes and get my money s worth. I don t to be cheated out of money. E. Dykes, Box 58, Eagle Point, Ore. aim my Stronghold Visit To the Editor: My real ob jective, a secretly cherished one, is going along with the Southern Oregon College stu dents on their field-study trip to the lava-bed country of lower Klamath lake and the memorial studded Modoc battleground; was, if possible, to get an unbiased opinion on it. It was encouraging to learn on the trip there, the right or wrong of the Modoc war did not come up for dis cussion with the many other subjects that were discussed. To most of the student body at least, it appeared to be their first trip to the Strong hold. Arriving there at last, there was some questioning over the lateness of the lunch hour. So it was hurry-hurry. One of the students lingered with friend Santo and me. seemingly interested in his colored-slide picture taking. But she was soon lost in the hurrying sight-seers, hurrying up into the tumbled rock stronghold and its hastily built bastions, behind which the Modocs made their stub born stand. My wish was to get on up to the high central . part where there are two war dance spots, as Jeff Riddle pointed out to me so many years ago. At these two places, really small level bare spots no more than six feet across. Ellen's Man, war leader of the Modocs, and his support fighter. Black , Jim, with Rogus Charley, Hooker Jim, Shaknasty Jim and Scar face Charley, with a few oth ers, danced to the bpat of the tom-tom. wailing the woes the whitemen brought to them, especially Ben Wright who, under the white flng of truce, got 45 Modocs for a peace parley, but turned guns on them, how only five of the men. women and children got away alive. This. Jeff assured me. was the reason why the Modocs felt it only fair to kill General Canby, the Rev. Thomas and nearly so Mea chem, under the white flag of truce when their last plea for a homo in the lava rocks was turned down. We got to the fireplace which Jeff said was only used as a tribal fireplace before the fighting, as mortar fire drove the Modocs into the caves. It was here the reveal ing answer came when the young women student re turned and stood nearby. "I feel so guilty.'' she exclaimed, mostly to herself and the craggy nearby rocks. To our surprised look, site continude: "1 know I should be cheering for our boys who fought here, so many bled and died here. But I Just can't but feel for those poor people, the women 'and children hiding here and in those awful holes to escape I the freezing night cold and I the fighting. This is the verdict from one of the jury. What the others were, would be interesting lo know. r J. Clifford Route 2. Box 200F Cen0 Point. Ore. Invitation In U.S. Creates Surprise, Amusement By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Word that the United States had invited Japanese industry to establish plants in the Unit ed States cre ated both sur prise and mild amuse ment among the Japanese. The invitation, of course, was not confined to the Japa nese but has Newsom been extended to European industry as well, and is part of a U.S. cam paign to reverse a trend which sees more dollars leave the country each year than come in. Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald MUSICAL CHAIRS Washington The new round of musical chairs in the U.S. high command is an event of very special inter est, because of the pro motion of Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor to b e chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the choice of Gen. Earle G. Wheeler as the next Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. There are several fairly ob vious yet quite important points to note about General Taylor's promotion in partic ula. For one thing, President Kennedy has thus given judg ment that the brilliant Taylor had the best of his argument with President Eisenhower a bout defense policy. For another thing, an exist ing anomaly has thus been removed. More and more, President Kennedy had been using his personal military advirer, General Taylor, to do the job that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are supposed to do for the Pesident. This was because the Presi dent was from the first dis satisfied with the kind of advice he got from the often divided Joint Chiefs. He has made no secret of his admir ation for the character and abilities of Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, whom General Taylor will replace; but he has also made no secret of his lack of admiration for the way the Joint Chiefs have been functioning. TT REMAINS to be seen A whether General Taylor can make the Joint Chiefs function any better than Gen eral Lemnitzer did. It was not difficult for Taylor, alone in the Executive Of fice building, with no corpor ate responsibility, to give the President the kind of clear, pointed, unfuzzy military advice the President wants. It may be different when Taylor is in the Penta gon, only the first among four equals, among whom there are also wide divergencies of outlook and interest. Yet these obvious points, important as they arc. really have much less significance than another point which is neither obvious nor easy to define precisely. The best way to put it is to s-ay that the President and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara are consciously seeking to en gineer a change of elites in the armed services, beginning with the U.S. Army. This is what links the Taylor and the Wheeler promotions. For no very logice' reason, elite is a dirty word in the United States. But as a prac tical matter, all armed ser vices worth their salt always have elites. Elites always exist, for that matter, in all civilian govenmcnt organiza tions, and in all business or ganizations too, which have existed long enough to permit elites to emerge. 4 N ELITE is not merely an inner group of back scratchers, although. God know?, its members may sometimes scratch one an other'! backs. It is simply the group, within any organiza tion, whose viewpoint and style largely determines the whole organization's tone and outlook. In the U.S. Army, for in stance, an elite of cavalry of ficers was formed sometime in the 10th century. The cav alry elite were hardly affect ed hv thn nrn.if in toil ... -.. r ... .,, ,,., horse no longer had a mafor place In war. The Army Gen eral staff continued "to be dominated by cavalry offi cers until the end of Gen. Malin Craig's term as Chief of Staff in ISMS. President Roosevelt then i reached down nany files to put in t,en. George C. Mar shall, who wr courageously recommended by the old cav alryman. Craig, as well as by General Pershing. The result was an immediate change of Alsnn for Japan Japanese reaction sprang both from the fact that few in Japan think of the United States in terms of needing help, and also from the fact that Japan herself is worried about a similar problem. There also is the question of the type of Japanese indus try that could be established profitably in the United States. Textiles certainly would not be among them, nor would most others that come imme diately to mind. Reserves Go Down Meanwhile, Japan's own foreign exchange reserves have been falling dangerous ly; from more than $2 billion at the start of 1961 to $1.5 billion by September. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate elites of the most radical sort. The old cavalry elitu, so long dominant, at once gave way completely to the new elite formed in the rigorous military-school system that Gen eral Pershing had set up after the first World war. AS THIS instance indicates, old elites and new always co-exist until the moment of replacement comes. In the Air Force today, an old and long-established elite of bomber officers somewhat uneasily co-exists with a completely new elite of offi cers very recently formed in the great missile programs. In the Navy, there is a some what similar line of demarca tion between carrier officers and submariners. It can be said with certain ty that Kenned, and McNa mara had the example of Roosevelt's choice of Marshal in mind when they promoted General Taylor and chose General Wheeler as the new Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. Thus the style was set and tne viewpoint mat was in stilled by the second World war is to be replaced, it is hoped, by a new style and viewpoint more responsive to the great world changes of the last 16 years. Joint Chiefs who are more coherent and decisive, a U.S. Army that is sparer, ieaner, and less pleth oric with PX's, are the aims. This is another attempted step, in fact, in Secretary Mc Namara's attempted reform of the armed services. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. NEGATIVE POWER Although Lord Acton said many wise and witty things about the nature of power all that u0 rp- Kfi member is his famous aphor ism thai "Power tends i to corrupt and absolute Dow er corrupts ab snlntplv " fine. J of the most ne " g 1 e c t e d as- Hm pects of t h e problem of power, however, has rarely been touched upon, even by so discerning a critic as Acton. And that is the pre dominately negative character of power. The power to create nega tive feelings is much greater than the power to create pos itive ones; this is true in every realm. As a drama critic, for instance, I have learned over the years that it is possible to keep the public away from a play I dislike; but it is im possible to make the public attend a play I happen to like. Or. if a newspaper op poses a bond issue, it ii much easier to defeat tha issue than ii would be to pass it with the paper's sup port. Most power turns out to be veto poweri it can prevent, but it cannot pro mote nearly at well. And what makes power precisely so dangerous it this negative character. If power does lend to corrupt those who hold it. is it not largely because the holders b a come cynical about their positive power? A President, in his larger sphere, facet the tame problem as a drama critic. He can prevent the legis lature from enacting meas ures he disapproves of but his positive power to get hit own legitlativa pro gram enacted it much weak er. Dictatorship, of couria. are almost always success ful on a negative basit. Both the Rustian and tha German revolutions of our time were bated on nega tive programs on "liqui dating" certain elements in the population. Hate. svy. at, rar. fteo all tijtfl ttrOOive eastiee to Build Plants Furthermore, in trade be tween the United States and Japan, Japan comes out on the losing side. In 1961, U.S. exports to Japan were estimated at more than $1.7 billion. U.S. imports from Japan at the same time came to less than $1.1 bil lion, or to a deficit of more than $700 million. Of major United States ex ports to Japan in 1961, ship ments of wheat alone de clined. Up, some more than 50 per cent, were sales of raw cot ton, iron and steel scrap, in dustrial machinery, soybeans, coal and petroleum. Iron and steel scrap sales leaped 72 per cent to $201 million. In the same year, most cate gories of Japanese exports to the United States declined - clothing, iron and steel, toys, plywood, pottery and carpets. Washington Report By William (el United Featurt Syndicate MAC THE KNIFE Washington A m e r i c a n politicians are not notably pantywaists at their jobs. In- deed, their British col- i: , f I , m I 'eagues onen f rVf'S ,OOK aown up on mem a dh as something a p p roaching p r o f e s -sional tough guys. All the same, some of the most case-hardened American politicos known to this col- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Moscow the other day, Mr. Kroosh struck an atti tude, thumped himself on the chest and declaimed: "WE have an anti-missile missle that will hit a fly out in space." TO that boast, we can now reply: "Fine, sir. You are to be congratulated." But "WE have an anti-missile missle that DID hit a fly out in space." AS to Mr. Kroosh, we can say with Annie Oakley, in Irving Berlin's never-to-be-forgotten musical comedy Annie Get Your Gun: "Anything he can do, we can do better." WITH that out of the way, let's quit boasting. In this deadly business of nuclear weaponry, boasting is DANGEROUS. It might lead one or the other of us so far out on the limb that we'd LOOSE A BOMB IN ANGER, thus touching off a nuclear war. That would be Arma geddon. The last best hope of earth is that the GRIMNESS of nu clear warfare may become so realistically apparent to EV ERYBODY that nobody will ever again dare to start a world war. M ODERN world note: Kennedy will make history by using Telstar, our new satellite, to speak to Europe on LIVE television during part of a special news con ference. Presumably, he will speak in English. THOUGHT for the future: If direct TV, as seems now to be a certainty, is to be a regular feature in the future, foreign languages are going to become more essen tial than ever before. It might be a good idea for modern parents to begin to plan now for their young children to take all possible instruction in school in for eign languages. are played on by revolu tionary leaders to achieve their power, t A positive program, on the other hand, is rarely able to summon enough political cr social power. A campaign based on decency, generosity, rationality, far-sightedness, and constructive proposals does not rouse us to action. Every politician has known this since the Romans began feeding Christians to the lions. The corruption of power, I am convinced, comes not so much from the untrustworth tness of those who hold power as from the elemental fact 1 II Wtllt" that they can effectively ex- being so, our political people ercise their power only in are worried. For if "yes" is negative terms. When a the answer to the second drama critic knows that peo- question - has Macmillan pie will not attend Shake- had a poor team all along? -spearean productions, no mat- another and far more funda ter how enthusiastically he ! mental question is instantly praises them, he becomes I raised. twice as vicious in dencnc- j Has he allowed this weak ing second-rate plays - for ! ncss to run to long as to make power curbed in one direction practically certain 'g defeat always erud violentl. in i in a British election which the opposite. cyi come no later th 1964? Sales of radio receivers ad vanced by 1.4 per cent to $48 million. Reason for Import! Prime Minister Hayato Ike da's plan to double Japan's national product during the 1960's is based upon a tripling of imports from the United States. So, U.S. exports of machinery and vehicles went up from $85 million in 1956 to $204 million in 1960. The result of this full-throttle buildup has led to Japan's present balance of payments difficulties. Japan is one of those coun tries to whom "export or die" is a painful truth. Japanese industrialists feel that with voluntary restrictions already in effect on more than 50 cate gories of its shipments to the United States, they already have done more than their share. S. White umnist are watching with wonder, and something like squeamishness, the implac ably polite brutality with which Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Britain is throwing his old cabinet men to the wolves. Struggling against a tide of voter sentiment obviously moving against his conserva tive government, "Mac the Knife" has discharged 16 of his very high associates. Al together, 35 British govern ment posts of significance have changed hands in recent days, THOUGH British Prima Ministers hntra tra!ttnnat. ly been absolute czars as to who is to hold government posts, no such wholesale bloodletting as this has ever been known in British poli tics, certainly not in modern times. Some of Macmillan's oldest and closest associates - nota bly Selwyn Lloyd, once For eign Secretary and later Chancellor of the Exchequer have not only been bounced. They have in effect seen their whole long careers brought suddenly to an end. On this side of the Atlantic all this seems little short of incredible. In our system, a president who felt called upon to fire simultaneously even two or three of his top cabinet advisers would be tions. In our system, more whole show Had been a fail ure or worse, unless he could give clear reasons for his ac tions. In our system, More over, a president who turned upon even half a dozen - not to mention dozens - of his principal party associates would be considered next door to certifiable lunacy. rpHE British system, how ever, is by no means ours. It is similar, in fact, in so su perficial a way as to recall the famous jest that the only thing dividing our two na tions is our common lan guage. What Macmillan is do ing in England, though quite unthinkable to all but pro fessional politicians here, is thoroughly thinkable in Eng land. It is in this case a trifle shocking, even to some in England, because the purge has been so wickedly wide. In British politics there is an old saying: "A good PM must be a good butcher." Macmillan's many political friends here understand this; they recoil not at what he is doing but at how extensively he is doing it. And they have no trouble in seeing his cen tral purpose, which is the strengthening of his party by getting rid of old faces and bringing in new ones. The in ner why of it, however, is a little puzzling here. A RE new faces all he seeks? Or has he also now con cluded that, even putting poli tics apart, he has had a very poor team all along? One school of thought here is that the first and simple question is the only question. But an other thinks something must be said for the second ques tion, too. And here lies some genuine anxiety among Mac millan's well-wishers in this country. Though it may be untactful and meddling in British homo politics to say so, practically nobody in American politics, in either party, except for a handful on the Democratic left wing, wants to see Mac- millan's government defeat. ! ed by the Labor partv. Thie
