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Flight o' Time
Medford ind Jackson County
Hlitory from tht flit of Tht
Mall Trlbunt 10, 20, 30, 40
nd 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO '
July 29, 1952 (Tuttdty)
Gene R. Brantley, 339 Mae
at.. Medford, announces hia
candidacy (or Jackson coun
ty Judge; he will run on an
Independent ticket.
Dr. R. E. Green, for many
years a member of the med-
ical profession in Jackson
county who retired several
yeara ago, dies at home, 701
Park at.
20 YEARS AGO
July 21, 1942 (Wednesday)
United States bureau of
mines announces It will send
engineers to study coal de
posits In Medford-Ashland
area.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: '""iere
are now Rcntle hints that the
meat shortage, always some
where else, is a bum steer."
30 YEARS AGO
July 29, 1932 (Friday)
Local orchardlsts, packers
and shippers plan cooperative
program for unemployment
relief in southern Oregon.
County assessor's survey
shows total of 3.014 buildings
of various types within the
Medford city limits.
40 YEARS AGO
July 29, 1922 (Saturday)
Man who was "lynched" by
local Ku Klux Klan members
returned here from southern
California by law enforce
ment officers to give testi
mony before grand Jury.
Airplane to be sent to Med
ford for patrolling forested
areas during fire season.
SO YEARS AGO
July 29, 1912 (Monday)
Combination of 98 -degree
temperatures and cloudy
weather sends humidity soar
ing in Rogue valley.
Local growers arrange to
ship portion of "largest wa
termelon crop ever grown In
the valley" to California
points by rail.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina tr ttn corrtct If fuparior;
avtn tr tight It aictllcnt; fivt tr
Ik it fotd.
1. During the Renaissance,
what invention caused learn
ing to become widespread?
2. According to St. Paul,
what are the abiding virtues?
3. Name two games in
which the term "balk" is
used.
4. Of what Island group is
Mlndoro one?
5. Do stalactites, or stalag
mites, hang from the roof of a
limestone cavern?
6. What produces ocean
waves?
7. In what part of the
world Is the Island of Trini
dad? 8. Were any attempts made
to establish colonies in what
is now New England before
the Pilgrims tailed In 1620?
B. What docs the legal term
curiae mean?
10. Complete the saying "I
didn't know him from ?"
Aniwtrn 1. Invention of
printing. 1. Failh. hop and
charity. 3. Baitball and bil
liards. 4. The Philippines. S.
Stalactites. S. Wind. 7. Wtil
Indies, t. Ytai ttrtral. (.
Friend of tht court. 10. Adam.
Public Forests
The National Forests
belong to the people
United states.
They do not belong
, They do not belong
The do not belong
campers.
The people all the
how the are managed, how they are used or mis
used, how they are to be preserved and conserved
IT IS our firm belief
No. 1 industry, is of
economy. No one denies
from what we believe
wnicn, m the long run, win damage both the in
dustry and the state's economy.
The lumber industry has always been proud
of its record of "free enterprise." Running to the
federal government for help now, during a period
of economic rough going, gives this tradition a
wry twist. .
Even the federal government cannot repeal
the law of supply and demand although it can
hold it in abeyance for a while ; witness the farm
program. One hopes lumbermen don't wind up
in the same fix as the farmers.
1XE VIEW askance the increase in the allow-
able cut on the 0 &C forests by 150 million
board feet per year. It
justified and needed, but
be made on the basis of
good forest management
sult of political pressures
ed industry.
The lumber industry's complaints boil down
to low prices for lumber, high prices for stump
age, competition from Canada, and not enough
available timber.
How putting an extra
of lumber on the market
ber prices, or decrease stumpage prices or ameli
orate competition, escapes us,
I OW lumber prices result from low demand and
ample supplies.
High prices for stumpage result from com
petitive bidding by the lumbermen themselves.
Canadian competition in a narrow market un
doubtedly hurts. But competitive materials
glass, aluminum, steel, masonry and plastics
hurt just as much or more.
Blaming the ills of the lumber industry on
the. federal government,
Forest Service, is simply
some of the economic facts of life.
THE Forest Service's responsibility is to the
man. A recent New York Times editorial entitled
"Selling Public Timber," said:
Secretary of Agriculture Freeman has announced
(hat more sawtimber is being logged in the National
Forests than in any previous period In history, and that
the Forest Service has reduced appraised stumpage
prices substantially in a "great effort ... to help tim
ber purchases and counteract the depressed conditions
of the industry." He said the Administration had asked
Congress for increased funds for "forest development
roads" to accelerate the harvest.
We hope the Secretary will keep in mind two
facts. One is that the timber he is selling belongs to
the public, and the public has a stake in the stumpage
prices. The other is that the purposes for which the
National Forests were established are broader than the
subsidization of the timber industry.
As with every major industry, the lumber manufac
turers have experienced periods of over-supply, com
petition, and recession, as well as prosperity. If the
idea becomes fixed that it is the Forest Service's duty
to come to the rescue of the Industry whenever it is
in trouble, it will be difficult to draw the line when
the loggers demand access to vital watersheds and
wilderness areas. By its opposition to the Wilderness
Bill, which proposes to reserve only 8 per cent of the
total area of the National Forests for the conservation
of scenic and recreational resources, the industry has
demonstrated it would not hesitate to demand such
access.
I UMBER industry spokesmen pay lip service to
the idea of sustained yield and resulting al
lowable cuts, just as they pay lip service to the
idea of wilderness.
One wonders just how deeply committed they
are to either. They've certainly tried every way
they know how to knife the wilderness bill.
And the pressures such as are beincr brought
on both the Forest Service and Bureau of Land
Management for increased allowable cuts cause
one to wonder if many of them wouldn't just as
soon knife the sustained yield principle, too, for
the sake of a fast buck now, and to heck with
the future.
When we say "lumber industry" obviously we
are employing a generalization, for we know
personally many highly
and sincere lumbermen who are dedicated to true
conservation principles. j
But many, too many, ignore or distain the
public service and public responsibility aspects
of their business, and as long as they're making
money, uie public interest can go hang.
AS WE see it, here arc some basic facts:
During the war and shortly afterward, when
pent-up demand for lumber was high, lumber
mills were built to satisfy this demand. Many
fortunes were made quickly. Today, with demand
down and competition cutting into the market,
there are more mills than can be justified by the
market.
Oversupply will not lie cured by putting more
lumber on the market.
Stumpage prices will not go down until lum
bermen stop bidding them so high.
And the federal agencies must be encouraged
to resist mounting pressures for actions not in
accord with sound forest management nor with
the larger public interest. E.A.
and Lumber
and the 0 & C forests
all the people of the
solely to loggers.
solely to graziers,
solely to picnickers or
people have a stake in
that lumber, as Oregon's
vast importance to our
this. Our criticisms arise
are short-sighted policies
may be the increase is
if so the decision should
the public interest and
practices, not as a re
applied by a "depress
150,000,000 board feet
is going to increase lum-
and specifically on the
refusing to acknowledge
responsible, thoughtful
"Direct From Across The Ocean Ain't That
Nice!"
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Dog Days news:
Up in Seattle Dr. William
Glasser, a consulting psychia
trist, tells a convention of the
National Institute on Crime
and Delinquency:
"The proper way to handle
a juvenile delinquent is NOT
to probe into his subconscious
to find out why he broke the
law, but to tell him he DID
WRONG and warn him not
to do it again."
He added:
, "The more delinquents are
convinced that they are emo
tionally disturbed, and have
good reason to be so, the
worse they will act."
TTMMMMMMM.
It's never easy to under
stand what a psychiatrist is
saying, especially when he is
talking to other psychiatrists,
but Dr. Glasser seems to be
going back to an earlier day
when children starting to
school were told: "Remember
this: If you get a lickin' at
school, you'll get another one
when you get home."
AS I recall it, that particu
lar annroarh in the nrnh.
lem of juvenile delinquency
tended to discourage actions
and activities that might re
sult in a lickin' at school.
Maybe that's what Dr. Glas
ser is trying to say.
Washington Report
By William
(ci Untied featur Syndtcata
TELSTAH DISSENT
Washington Permit one
small and sour dissenting
note in the chorus of praise
..' for progress
which has fol
5 lowed the
success of tne
satellite Tel
star. Telstar
has made it
possible, and
even inevit
able, for the
whole world
to draw to
gether, right enough. And it
enables television programs
to leap the oceans in all man
ner of languages. But it is
also by way of making the
whole world a goldfish bowl
to the coldly peering eye of
this coldly unhuman device
which many of us nonscienti
fic types cannot understand
anyhow.
Beyond doubt, it has enor
mously extended the science
of communication. But is this
always and necessarily good?
One widely held theory is
that the more people and na
tions "understand" each
other, the less likely they are
to full into such incivilities as
war. The notion is an attrac
tive one, but to this columnist
it does not seem to stand up
too well in the rude glare of
the light of reality.
fMlE science of comniunica-
tion has Infinitely Im
proved since, say, 1900. But
the more it has improved, the
sadder has become the state
of this old earth. Two world
wars and now a seemingly
endless cold war have befal
len man in precisely the
period in which he has pre- j
sumably been far better able ;
understand all is to forgive 1
man than he used to be. I
There is much to be said ;
for the old maxim that to i
undrrtsand all is to forgive j
:ilt. But there Is also some-!
thing to be said for another
maxim: To undertsnnd all is. '
sometimes, to find oneself in
the position where forgive-1
nrss Is the very last thing
that comes to mind.
And It is at least question
able anyhow whether men
are really better informed
than they used to be. Unques
tionably they are in posses
sion of much more Informa
tion of sorts Unquestionably
also, however, a good deal of ,
1 .
trtilt-
JENKINS
WHERE'S another old maxim
- that seems to be falling
into disuse in these modern
days.
It goes like this:
"Spare the rod and spoil
the child."
THAT one goes a long way
back.
In the late 15th century,
John Skelton, who received
the title of Poet Laureate
from both Oxford and Cam
bridge universities and held
an unofficial position as Laur
eate under Henry VIII, put it
this way:
"There is nothynge that
more displeaseth God
"Than from their children
to spare the rod."
THEN
In the early 1600's
Samuel Butler, In his Hudi
bras, wrote:
"Love is a boy by poets
styled;
"They spare the rod nd
spoil the child."
AH, me!
How times do change!
In these days, the psychia
trists get together to talk
about the "hidden dangers of
emotional disturbances." May
be it's small wonder we have
juvenile problems.
S. Whits
this information is wrong in
the first place, and a good
deal of what men have
learned would better not
have been learned at all
MOREOVER and this is
the central point of the
whole thing Telstar is only
the latest and most dramatic
of a whole series of develop
ments which suggest that all
privacy is on the way out in
our world. Already, for a
small illustration, Telstar has
Jumped the gun on the Pari
sian dress designers by send'
ing out pictures of the new
creations long before their
due and proper release date.
This eye literally sees all
and tells all and nobody has
built into the gadget any but
ton on which are written
words like "reserve" and
"reticence."
It is not at all fanciful to
make the melancholy predic
tion that within just a few
years it may be totally impos
sible to avoid answering
your telephone, whether you
are in your bath or not, and
totally impossible to move
about your private affairs
with anything like comfort
able anonymity. One can
readily imagine gadgets
which will photograph you
even while your phone is
ringing and remorselessly fol
low and record your progress
down any steet in the world
on which you may walk.
rpHE private eye of current
- fiction will be a dead
duck, indeed. In places of
whatever number of private
eyes may now be operating,
there will be one vast public
eye which will show every
body to everybody else and
will not be kind enough to
hide or smooth over the
human blemishes.
A long time ago Aldous
Huxley wrote a novel called
"Brave New Yorld" in which
life was presented as one
long and superlative scientific
miracle after another and
one long rejection of man's
humanity. More recently,
George Orwell, in a book
called "1984," presented a
life In which "big brother"
was watching everything and
everybody through a television-like
device.
Are brave new world and
big brother now standing in
the wings of history?
Today & Tomorrow
- By Walter lippmann
(cl Htw York Htrald Trlbunt SJyndlcatt
THE STALLED PROGRAM
The Republicans are, I be
lieve, right when they say
that in his relations with
Congress the President's prob
lem is how
to rally to his
domestic pro
gram the large
Demo cratic
majorities in
both Houses.
More over
this problem
will remain if
November
the Democrats Lippnunn
have a success in that they
do not lose any seats, and
even if they have a triumph
and capture five or ten Re
publican seats. I do not see
how it can be douDteo mar.
the resistance in Congress,
which involves about a third
of the Democrats and about
all the Republicans, rests on
powerful and stubborn feel
ings among the voters.
Nobody knows, I suppose,
what is the actual division of
the voters between those who
want the reforms and inno
vations and those who do not
want any more federal spend
ing and federal activity. The
resistance must, I should
guess, be near to half the
voters. For it is, I believe,
an unwritten rule of our con
stitution that important re
forms and innovations will
fail unless they command at
least a two-thirds majority.
THE REAL question Is why
so large a part of the pub
lic has become, in Senator
Goldwater's sense of the
word, conservative. The pri
mary reasons are, I believe,
earthy, not high-falutin and
ideological.
The antagonism to govern
ment, which at the extreme is
rancorous, has its main source
in resentment against taxes,
especially the visible direct
taxes, levied to pay for a huge
military establishment and
for the civil welfare and de
velopment programs of the
federal, state, and local gov
ernments. The tax bite is re
sented because it hurts, and
it hurts because we have for
some years been paying for
defense, welfare, and develop
ment out of a sluggish econo
my. The hurt expresses itself
In a general feeling that gov
ernment, especially the Wash
ington government, is a kind
of enemy alien, and that it
should be cut down to size,
THE resentment ever the tax
bite is aggravated by the
chiseling and the corruption
and the injustices which turn
up in the administration of
the big spending program
defense contracts, farm price
supports, stockpiling, unem
ployment relief, public assis
tance, etc., etc. Even though
the scandals are on the
fringes, there are enough big
and little scandals in almost
every town and village to
nourish the feeling that gov
ernment is not only an ene
my, but that it is a corrupter
of the people s morals.
These are the main sources
of the opposition to big gov
ernment and big spending.
This opposition cannot, I be
lieve, be overcome by trying
to win the votes of the bene
ficiaries of a welfare measure
like medicare. Indeed, such
concentration on welfare
measures obscures and dis
torts the meaning of Kenne
dy's election and of the New
Frontier. Medicare, for ex
ample, is highly desirable.
But it should not be made
the crucial issue on which
Latin American Future Uncertain, Gloomy
By ERIC SEVAREID
The Kennedy administra
tion is moving with hypnotic
sureties toward a most pain
ful psycholog
ical defeat in
its foreign pol
i c y as ap
plied to Latin
America.
I say "psycho
logical" as dis
tinct from a
realistic
defeat, be-
srvreid cause at no
time was there a real chance
that the Alliance for Prog- i
ress could bring about t tie !
political and economic refor
mations which the administra
tion itself advertised, in the
whole of the target area and
by the official target dates.
j It is now obvious that the ad
mirable effort is going to fall
far, far short of its own goals.
i .
Peru has made clear to the
semi informed what Argen-
tina. many weeks ago, had
! already made clear to the well
informed. This Is. first of all,
' that exterior Influences In the
! form of American economic
threats or economic promise
cannot determine the Internal
course of events in Latin coun
tries to anywhere near the
degree wa have so fondly
thought they could.
Argentina stands at the top
of the Latin American list in
literacy and close to the top
the fate of the administration
is staked.
The crucial issue in 1960
between the Democrats end
President Eisenhower turned
on the charge that the Amer
ican position and influence
in the world needed to be re
inforced and that, to do this,
the American economy would
need to be revivified. The
primary goals of the Kenne
dy administraUon were to
make the country stronger
for war and for peace, and
the key to that greater
strength was to turn a stag
nant economy into a mov
ing economy.
ON MONDAY at his press
conference the President
confessed that his administra
tion had "not been able to
develop an economic formu
la" to increase the rate of
economic growth.
Why not? Not because a
formula cannot be found.
There are several variants of
the formula being applied
successfully in Western Eu
rope today. The formula has
not been found because it
calls for measures which the
conservative opposition re
jects absolutely. Thus the
sluggish economy, burdened
down by the great expendi
tures for defense, welfare, and
development, produces a con
servative mood in the coun
try. The conservative mood
in its turn prevents the ad
ministration from adopting a
formula to overcome the slug
gishness of the economy. The
fact that we are not -moving
increases the will to stand
pat.
There is, of course, only one
way in which the President
can induce the Congress to
give him the measures to get
tne economy moving. That is
by going to the people and
persuading large numbers of
them that in a revivified and
dynamic economy lies their
best and their only hope of
carrying comfortably the nec
essary burden of defense and
the inescapable burden of wel
fare and development in our
rapidly changing society.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
A RT LINKLETTER, waiting for one of his TV shows to
start, suggested to the kids who were his guests that
day that they draw pictures of what they wanted to be '
when they grew up. One
lad depicted himself as a
plane pilot. Another
drew himself in the en
gine cab of a streamliner.
But one little girl just
handed Art a blank piece
of paper. "I want to be
married," she explained
earnestly, "but I don't
know how to drato it."
A Boston savant with
time on his hands listed
some famous stars, then
chopped off the first letter
of each of their first names
with some startling results. Frank Sinatra, for instance, be
came Rank Sinatra, Georgia Jessel became Eorgie Jessel, Bill
Powell became 111 Powell, and Brigld Baxdot bcame Rigid Bardot.
I'm sure you can think of additions to this list!
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
Adlal Stevenson: There Is nothing; mora horrifying than stu
pidity in action.
Elbert Hubbard: To be right is desirable. To seem right is
imperative.
Jim Hagcrty: A word to the wise is Infuriating.
Louia B. Mayer: When you come to the end of your rope, Ue a
knot in it and hang on.
O. O. Mclntyre: There are no Illegitimate children. There ara
only illegitimate parents.
Lin Yutang: When small man begin to cast big shadows, it
means that the sun is about to set.
t
Sign diaplayed in a Memphis traffic court. "Stop beefing.
Think of the many aummonea you havt deserved, but didn't s:et!"
per capita income, and it
has a big middle class, one
of the requisites for democrat
ic stability. Peru stands near
the bottom of the list in both
literacy and income and has
a tiny middle class. Yet both
countries were unable to
maintain legitimate rule and
both have fallen under mili
tary control.
It has been our dream and
our effort to bring under-developed
countries like Peru
up to the level of well devel
oped countries like Argentina,
and we have automatically as
sumed that a rising level of
literacy and Income would
automatically bring a rising
level of democratic stability.
There is certainly a relation
ship between the two phe
nomena, but it is a general
and long term relationship:
we are naive to apply it for
the short term and to any
specific country. Woodrow
Wilson's warning remains
true: "Self government Is not
a mere form of institutions,
to be had when desired if
only proper pains be taken. It
is a form of character It fol
lows upon the long discipline
which gives a people . . .
the habit of order and peace
and common counsel and a
reverence for law which will
not fail when they them
selves become the makers of
law."
Among the illusions to
Matter of Fact a joPh ai.8P
(tl New York Herald Trlbunt gyndlcatt
KHRUSHCHEV'S
GRIM CHOICE
Washington - The recent
Rusk-Gromyko talks in Ge
neva were ominously differ
ent in tone, both from the ear
lier conversa
tions between
the Secretary
of State and
the Soviet
Foreign Min
ister, and
from the re-
d ex
changes be-
Rusk,
Aimp P r e s 1 dent
Kennedy, and the Soviet Am
bassador here, Anatoly Dob
rynin. In these earlier explorations
of the unending Berlin crisis,
the Russians were unyield
ing on points of substance but
sweetly reasonable in lan
guage. At Geneva, however,
Gromyko abruptly reverted to
the Hitler - style language
that Nikita S. Khrushchev
used to the President at Vi
enna in 1961.
The crude menaces, the hec
toring boasts, the arrogant
insistence on the Soviets'
right to change the Berlin
position by unilateral action
all the elements made fa
miliar by the Vienna meeting
were present at Geneva, ex
cepting only one. Unlike
Khrushchev at Vienna, Gro
myko at Geneva refrained
from naming a date for Sovi
et signature of a separate
peace treaty with the Krem
lin's East German puppets.
FURTHERMORE, what hap
pened at Geneva was only
a climactic episode in a proc
ess that began over a month
ago. To be specific, the proc
ess began on June 29, when
the Chancellor of Austria, Al
fons Gorbach, was received
by Khrushchev during a state
visit to Moscow.
With Gorbach, Khrushchev
talked about Berlin in much
the same way that Gromyko
did with Rusk. He too failed
to name a date for the peace
treaty that may precipitate
the final super - crisis over
Berlin; but he swore he would
sign the treaty before very
long. Much more disquieting-
which Argentina and Peru
have given the coup de grace,
one may hope, is the illusion
that since the war it has been
American "support" of reac
tionary and dictatorial re
gimes that has prevented
many peoples from progress
ing economically in demo
cratic stability. For we have
"supported" a long list of
democratically inclined re
gimes, including those in post
Rhee Korea, Burma, Pakistan,
Turkey, Sudan, Ghana, pre
Batlsta Cuba, Ecuador, Argen
tina and Peru, only to see
them fall under military
and 'or dictatorial rule. Nor
are Brazil, Chile or even Ven-
; ezuela out of danger.
j But what matters is what
we now say and do in re
j spect to Latin America. We
! must no longer talk about
the Alliance for Progress in
the cheer leading accents of
1 an emergency task force
which can, and in a few
! years, peaceably manage from
I Washington, DC, a massive
social revolution among 200
; million people who must, in
, hard truth, double their real
i income in the next 30 years
even to maintain their present
miserable standards of life
so explosive is their popula
tion increase. We cannot con-
l tinue to talk this way be
i cause the inevitable disillu
sionment will be too harsh
k04 late
I V 1 tween
ly, Khrushchev also argued,
with seeming conviction, that
the U.S. and the other na.
tions lacked the guts to fight
for Berlin if directly chal
lenged. From this Khrushchev-Gor-bach
meeting originated tha
widening ripples of renewed
alarm about the next stage of
the Berlin crisis, which hava
recently been noticable in
Western policy making cir
cles. Since June 29, more
over, the alarm has been in
tensified by certain actions o
the Soviet high command in
East Germany.
ALONG the crucial auto
bahn connecting Berlin
with East Germany, concrete
emplacements have been con
structed which will make it
easier to strangle traffic or
to halt it completely. Mora
recently, Soviet air activity
has also increased in the air
corridors to Berlin.
For these and other rea
sons, the majority of Western
policymakers are now grimly
resigning themselves to an
early end of the long lull in
the Berlin crisis. They are
beginning to believe, in fact,
that Khrushchev and thosa
around him have made up
their minds to proceed to the
final, acutely dangerous test
of nerve and will at Berlin.
The U.S. Ambassador to
Moscow, Llewellyn Thomp
son, was reporting all through
the winter and spring that
the Soviet government ap
peared to be engaged in
internal debate about alterna
tive courses of action.
The origin of this Kremlin
debate, beyond much doubt,
was the American response
to Khrushchev's Vienna ulti
matum, requiring a Berlin set
tlement on his terms before
the end of last year. Presi
dent Kennedy answered the
ultimatum by calling 300,000
men to the colors; and tha
Vienna ultimatum was finally
withdrawn, when Khrushchev
announced that he had not
really meant to set a time
limit for a Berlin settlement.
AS TO the nature of tha
Kremlin debate, there is
equally little room for doubt.
The main argument must hava
turned on the point, whether
it was safe or unsafe to go
the limit in challenging tha
Western powers at Berlin.
And the argument about risks
must also have been some
what deformed, so to say, by
the deep commitment of
Khrushchev's personal pres
tige to an eventual defeat of
the West, resulting from a
Berlin settlement on his own
terms.
If Khrushchev genuinely
believed what he told Chan
cellor Gorbach, the Kremlin
debate has ended with a dan
gerous downgrading of the
Berlin risk. Judging by tha
other signs already noted, tha
Kremlin debate has also end
ed with a decision to go the
limit, or at any rate, to go
pretty nearly to the limit, in
challenging the Western pow
ers at Berlin.
Thus the super-crisis which
the Berlin crisis has always
threatened to produce msy
well be produced in deadly
earnest before the end of this
year. The perils of this possi
ble development are all tha
greater, because Khrushchev
has apparently taken his deci
sion on the basis of a gross
miscalculation of Western in
tentions. Altogether, as tha
President remarked in his re
ply to the Vienna ultimatum,
"it looks like a cold winter."
and our national prestige as
well as the President's pres.
tige will suffer too painful a
blow.
We are obliged to lower
our sights and our voices, to
talk of economic growth in
terms of a generation, not a
decade, and to uphold parlia
mentary democracy in Latin
America as an aspiration, not
as a requirement. (We have
already made the latter
change in regard to the Afri
can states.)
Privately, if not publicly,
our policy makers may very
well have to concede that in
some areas of Latin America,
including Peru and perhaps
Chile, we are too late and can
not halt the forces of disinte
gration now at work and the
violent revolutions now fair
ly certain. This implies dras
tic alteration in the present
scatter-gun approach with our
efforts, and much heavier con
centration on a few places,
among them Argentina. Vene
zuela, the Dominican Repub
lic and Brazil. For myself
and I hope I am wrong the
chance for Brazil is poor, but
her size and position as well
as her long history of amica
ble relations with us maka
it mandatory that the attempt
be made.
IDIitributtd 1962.
by Tht Hall Syndicatt. Ine.)
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