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BfordWtribuni ''Everyone in Southern Oregon BcalBTheMailTribune Published Daily except Saturday by MKUFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St.. Ph.772-6141 ROBERT W" RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager CKHALD 1 LATHAM. Bui Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR., Mng, Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEV'ETT, Sporti Editor OLIVE srARCHKR. Women'i Editor DALEJSR1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at M'idlord. Oregon, under Act at March 3. 18!)7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sundpy I year $15.00 Daily and Sunday a moa. 8.00 Daiiv and Sunday 3 mot. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, AshUnd. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 DpiIv and Sunday 1 mo. 1 .SO Carrie and Dealern Copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford" (Mfirlal Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U PI Tehtphoto Newsplcturcs "MEMBER OF" AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Represpntative: NELSON ROBERTS St ASSOCI ATES. Offices in New York. Chi-c.ii-o Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland, Denver NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL "2 Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles ot Tho Mail Vibune 10, 20, 30, 40 -J1 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1952 (Saturday) Construction of the new 4-1 1 club arena at the Jackson county fairgrounds is com pleted and work started on the hog barn. Butte Falls merchants plan a Logger's Labor Day festival during the Labor Day week end. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1942 (Sunday) Six recently-graduated med ical officers assigned to be come first Army doctors at Camp White. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "In the wheat belt, carelessly back firing trucks are causing fires faster than a cigarette can be tossed away carelessly." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1932 (Tuesday) City council investigates means of cutting city expen ses; Mayor E. M. Wilson re ports 25 per cent cut In sal aries of library employees would result in $200 a month saving to cily. National Guard officials deny reports that special guards are to be employed at the Medford armory. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 2, 1922 (Wednesday) Special Jackson county grand jury returns true bills against six Ku Klux Klan members in Jacksonville on charges of extortion, assault and riot. Hill Isaacs, Alex Sparrow and J. W. Ucrrian, all of Med ford. announce plan to plant 30,000 silverside salmon in Crater Lake. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 2. 1912 (Friday) Postmaster Ralph Woodford Inspec s new rural route be tween Medford and llillerest. Plan under way to con struct new fisli ladder at Ciold Ray dam; plan expect ed to end many protests against obstruction of salmon rims. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct it suporior; toven or eight is excellent; five of six is good. 1. Did the recently defeat ed President's proposal for income tax changes have to do with increased exemp tions, withholding ot tax on tnierest and dividends, or payment for children'.' 2. Is fine silverware dis tinguished by its lack of his; re, a hallmark, or en graving'.' it. What is the abbrevia tion of the word Admiral? 4. W h o were the t aulhnrs of words and music for the light opera "The Mi kado"" ft, Was Aphrodite the Greek goddess of war, love, revenge, or harvest? (i. Did the ukelele origi nate in Hawaii, Portugal, or Sp;iin'.' ?. The Achilles tendon re fers to what part of the hu man body? 11. What King of Kngland was known as the .Merry Monarch? !. What does the phrase pro tempore mean? 10. What is a peruke? 1. Withholding on interest and dividend. 2. Hallmark. 3. Adm. 4. Gilbert and Sulli van. 5. Love. 6. Portugal. 7. Tendon to the bone of the heel. 8. Charles II. 9. "For the lime being." 10. A wi0- 'inunaUAi', AUUUai' 'I, ial Thalidomide: Two Questions Two questions both involving morals and possible legislation arise out of the develop ment, use and subsequent after-effects of an arti ficial (man-made) drug by the name of thali domide. The first: Should our controls of new drugs, and the testing thereof, be more stringent than they are? The second : Should an abortion be permitted when evidence shows the chances are that the child would be born deformed and monstrous, with a substantial chance of dying anyway? f ANY may disagree, but our answer to both questions wouid be "yes." The drug was first synthesized in Switzerland in 1954. There was interest in it because it showed signs of being an effective sedative and "hypnot ic" type sleeping pill. But it was abandoned. Later it was picked up by a West German firm, and in I960 was put out in commercial form as a sleeping pill a very effective one, which also helped in nausea and in certain other disturb ances. Jc had little or no effect on laboratory ani mals, '.ior were there apparent side-effects on human subjects, so it was marketed freely and with little thought of any bad effects. Late that year newborn children with gross disformities began showing up. The following year, the number increased sharply. IN November of 1961, West German pediatri- cians became acutely aware of the mysterious outbreak of phocomelia (from the Greek phoke, meaning "seal," and melos, meaning "limb;" most of the abnormalities involved the arms, although some other evidences were noted). One physician, Widukind Lenz of Hamburg, announced he had tentatively traced the outbreak to the new drug. Subsequently the evidence mounted, and by the end of this year, some 4,000 to 6,000 deform ed children will have been born in West Germany alone, ami probably more than 1,000 more in other countries. A FEW such cases have been reported in the U.S., although by lucky chance the drug was not marketed here. It was used experimentally by a few physicians, and by some individuals who had obtained it while in Europe. The evidence now on record is virtually indis putable, despite some cautious references in the press, that the outbreaks of phocomelia were di rectly related to the use of thalidomide. (The facts of the case recited here are ob tained from an authoritative article in the current issue of Scientific American, written by Dr. Helen B. Taussig, professor of pediatrics at Johns Hop kins School of Medicine, who investigated in Eu rope to obtain first-hand evidence.) IT IS now well-established that thalidomide can cause substantial deformities in babies when taken between the third and sixth weeks of preg nancy. About one-half of the women taking this drug durintr that period bore deformed chil dren without arms, without legs, sometimes lacking both, and occasionally with other mon strous deformities. The die, frequently irom pneumonia because they can not move around and fluid collects in the lungs. It is also apparent that the amount of the drug taken makes little difference. One relatively small dosage can cause deformities just as se vere as repeated larger doses. It is now withdrawn from general non-prescription use in most countries. That it was not in general use in the United States resulted because a stubborn woman doctor in the U. S. Public Health Service, refused it clearance. rRUGS, freely dispensed in this country by doctors who must, by the very nature of the business, take the word of others for the safeness and efficacy of new drugs, must be proven safe. Present legislation does not require this. It docs not even require the licensing of drug-manufacturing firms. (John Lear, science editor of the Saturday Review, puts it this way; ("Now it is difficult to believe, but it is nevertheless true, that in these days of extreme sensitivity to human well-being everwliere, anyone can set himself up as a drug manufacturer in the U.S. wiihout a license or with out even advising the government of his intention. The Kefauver drug bill proposed to end this astonishing ana chronism by requiring all drugmakers to be licensed and to maintain certain minimum standards . . . Senator Dirksen told Senator Eastland that such a restriction did not belong in the law they would constitute undue Interference with private enterprise. So the licensing provision came out of the Kefauver bill and was re placed by a requirement that anyone who wants to manu facture druus must give the government his name and address ami must thereafter 'conform to current good manufacturing practice" which is to say, the lowest com mon denominator that the drugmakers themselves agree to.") j I lit, most poignant case m the U. !. arising ! from this situation is the Phoenix, Ariz,, wom nn who took thalidomide in early pregnancy, and I now wants an abortion to avert bearing a mons trous child. She cannot have one under the laws of Arizona, nor of any other state. ! Most abortion laws permit such action only ; to save the life of the mother, although in some states no grounds are permitted. This, to our mind, is wrong. Childbirth is a (difficult enough time as it is, without the 50-50 chance that your child will be monstrous per jhaps die; perhaps drag through life crippled, helpless, an object of pity. Abortion before birth, before a child becomes fully human, before (except to some religious 'thinking) it even has a "soul," is, in such cir- cumstances, if the parents desire it, both human lity ami mercy. E.A. worst - deformed usually "And They Say We're Against Unity!" COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the ntme and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with d 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 paper; in fact the contrary is often Provide Their Own To the Editor: A recent edi torial in support of Kennedy's socialized - medicine - leaning bill makes its writer sound like a spoiled child screech ing and flailing his arms for an expensive article, which to supply, would financially hurt the whole family. The idea of trying to blame its failure to pass in the senate solely upon the doctors of our country is ridiculous. Some people accept the honeyed words that it's best for us, and along with them the argument that if ."the neighbors" (socialized coun tries) are doing it we should too. It has long been known that the United States has the best medical care available and for the very reason that it has not been controlled by the government. We grant medical care should be available to all. Those who can afford to take care of their own should pay for it themselves. If one can not afford medical care need ed, certainly the King-Anderson bill is no panacea for him. The Kerr-Mills act takes care of medical bills for per sons over 65 who are NOT on relief but need aid. The President's proposal does not cover the fees of physicans or surgeons outside the hospitals and only a por tion of the hospitalization cost. Each patient himself would have to pay $90 for the first nine days in a hospital under this plan and the tax payers would be authorized to pay the rest, including the services of interns and resi dent physicians as well as nurses. To increase the So cial Security taxes for every body just to take care of those who with false pride might object to admit they need aid, is wrong. Immediately after the Sen ate voted on the bill Mr. Ken nedy appeared on television and read a statement repudi ating those who had differed with him. Medical care should not be made a national issue in a congressional campaign. In America where the people have a higher wage rate than any country, our workers, using a bit of thrift, can eas ily provide their own medi cal care insurance. Mrs. Catherine G. Lynch 1 at) Kenwood ave. Medford Be Proud To the Editor: It's the age old question, the public util ity versus the private utility. Hut, In this particular case, government subsidy rears its ugly head. Of the millions, perhaps billions, of taxpay ers' dollars spent in the de velopment of the space rocket that put Telstar in orbit, who will benefit? Mankind, with better communications, and the American Telephone and Telegraph company in terms of huge profits taken from the American people, who vir tually built the facility in the first place. However, this is not a letter j designed to debate this sen j ous question, but one in which 1 well deserved praise will be given a great lawmaker, and ja great American. It's a rare : experience to find a man in jthis generation, or any gen eration, a man whose career, depending on public opinion. will go against tiiat opinion to take a stand for what he believes to be right. Sen. Wayne Morse, fighting the powers of party. Senate,- ad ministration and a lobbying power as great as that of AT&T, must have courage that knows no equal. This was an action that truly mn'c-s Democracy a reality. I believe the senator knew he couldn't win, but he fought as he has fought before and no doubt will fight again. America will pay double for the services MLDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON VV fl N , the case. of Telstar, and AT&T stock will go several points higher, but I and perhaps a few oth ers like me will feel that we weren't taken without a strug gle. My thanks to Sen. Wayne Morse, the last bastion of the virtually voiceless majority. Oregon! Be proud! (Name on File) Medford P.S. Maureen's OK too. Imported Labor To the Editor: State Sena tor Newbry seems to feel that because his fruit is perish able, laborers should pick it for $1 an hour, or less. I won der if Senator N. realizes that migrant workers and their families are also perishable, and that it is impossible to keep a family in any stats but one of discomfort, misery, ill health and frequent death, each caused by improper nourishment, shelter, clothing and medical care? There is plenty of labor in this valley to harvest all the fruit in good shape and due time if growers would pay a fair wage. Importing of cheap labor has been a shameful and drastic mistake in more than one instance. First Ne gro slaves caused the most shameful disgrace that ever happened in the U.S.A., and the racial problems which have sorely plagued us ever since, and is bound to con tinue as long as our nation stands. The Pearl Harbor dis aster and war-with Japan was indirectly but surely caused by importing cheap Jap labor. Importing Chinese for cheap labor, though not the cause of any great disaster, did cause considerable trouble, and a few murders. I am opposed to importing foreigners to the country for cheap labor, especially at a time like this when we have millions of unemployed. I thought President Ken nedy got a $1.25 minimum wage law passed. How do Senators Morse and Newbry get by that one? Even $1.25 is too small. There is no just reason why the essential hard working American citizen should be forced to suffer such hardship and privation. Fellow Americans should cheek these things, and give it a serious thought when they vote. F.llet llitt 3458 Bursell rd. Medford. Living Word To the Editor: About being able to see an omnipotent God in the universe. I cannot imacine anyone looking for God with their natural eyes. Man cannot analyze the Spirit of God by natural means. Man cannot analyze outside his natural realm. The only possible way we can know a little of the mysteries of His Spirit is to be born : of it. t We came into this life by a living seed (word) of God through His body. Living word is the Spirit being exer cised. Our chances of entering the kingdom of God without ! birth are as remote as enter i ing our natural kingdom j without birth. There is no j Holy Life outside or apart i from His One Spirit. All that t tire born of Him are born into I this one bread. There is a natural realm ! and a Spiritual realm, or a natural and Spiritual king dom, which ever way we i wish to define the existence of the two working spirits of j intelligence. Both are made ' up of living cellular ener gies, only the perfection of living completed cells can j bring forth living thought. Be i natural or Spiritual life, ! all creative.. ess Menu from this source, i God's kingdom of in tel. i- gence is of course far super- Denmark A Great Atlantic Economic Community By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst Copenhagen -ll'PH- A bronze mermaid gazes out to sea from a rock in Copenhagen's har bor. She is s y m b olic of Denmark's ad venturous past and the present in which Den mark regards herself as part of a great At- Newsom 1 a n 1 1 c com munity rather than a nation which thinks of itself as con fined to Europe. It is this thinking which first led Denmark to reject membership of the "inner six" of the European Common Market and to associate rath er with the "outer seven" of EFTA, the nations of the free trade area including Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Austria and Swit zerland. EFTA looked purely to economic goals. The six "in ner" nations of the Common Market looked toward politi I'l'dhi Matter of Fact (c New York Herald THE PROBLEM FOR THE PRESIDENT Eastchester, N.Y. Not long after the last war, the bull dozers chewed up a local golf course, and cleared the way for the Huntley Estates. The trees have therefore had more than a decade to come back. The shrubs handsome. The small but com fortable houses are well-kept. This part of suburban East Chester is a nice neighborhool in other ways, too. People of all three of the great faiths, Catholic, Protestant, and Jew ish, live here comfortably to gether. Class lines are blurred one house will contain a hardworking mechanic and his brood, and the next, out wardly identical house will be the home of a prosperous professional man. The children, endlessly bi cycling along the quiet, curv ing streets, are cheerful and healthy. Their parents are friendly and hospitable. Most of them strongly supported President Eisenhower; and in the 1960 election 58 per cent of them voted for Vice Presi dent Nixon, against 42 per cent for President Kennedy. A SUNDAY of arduous but nleaS.nilt naVPtnonl.nnnnH. ing, along with Oliver Quayle of Louis Harris Associates, obtained the current political thinking of 5G residents of the Huntley Estates. Racially, religiously, and politically, ours was a repre sentative sample. In fact, the 54 polices who had voted last time had come within one per centage point of splitting their I960 votes precisely the way all the Huntley Estates peo ple divided that year. What then has happened since 1960, in this agreeable community which is as Ameri can as ham and eggs and as normal as baseball? On the surface, at least, President Kennedy has made almost the kind of gain since he took of fice that President Eisenhow er atso made. To be specific, the same people in our sample who went 32 to 24 for Nixon, with 2 non-voters, now said they would give 27 votes to Presi dent Kennedy and 27 votes to the former Vice President, if an election were held to morrow. ior to man's, it is pure logic, it has the capabilities of ren dering pure love, merry and so on without blemish. We could call Him the true and perfect scientist and not go amiss. God is interchange able because He works . through His natural realm in living energy with perfect j harmony (without natural in i strumen'.st. i There is much to be had from the Bible but man has i jumbled, added to and changed it some along the way. How many have taken tlie time to look into how the writings were assembled? I have wondered why we did not have clearer writings from those after they re- i ceived the Spirit of Truth. ! References to!! us there were j other writing supposedly by the disciples but there an- : thentteity was doubled. The Bible is a small fraction of , living word God wrote on the minds He could choose to Father. His living church was si.irted when He fathered the first spiritual child, when- . ever that was. The living seed ' iword) that starts a spiritual : creation comes out of God, a part of His Living Soirit. ; Helen Prevo HI West Jackson St. j Medford. if -j I Regards Herself as Part of cal unity as well. They were West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. Of the two it was the Common Market which proved the most unified and the most dynamic. Therefore, fearful of find ing itself shut out of the West European market by a com mon tariff wall, Great Britain decided a year ago to abandon EFTA and to apply for mem bership in the Common Mar ket. Denmark quickly follow ed. For both it was a matter of economic and political con cern. For instance, it is doubtful if the Danish man in Copen hagen's bicycle - filled streets has given much concern to the fact that ultimately mem bership in the Common Mar ket will mean the surrender of a certain amount of his Danish sovereignty. Economically, Britain's po sition was complicated by her leadership of the British Com monwealth. Denmark has no such complications. Great Britain is her largest single customer, taking 25 per cent By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate T EAVING out the 4 poilees Who could not make up their minds, these figures mean the President is now running exactly even with Nixon, in a Republican-lean ing community and among people who previously gave Nixon a better than 57 per cent maioritv. Furthermnro the former Vice President is a lot stronger than Gov. Nel son D. Rockefeller, among these Huntlev Estates Deonle Asked whether they would clioose Kennedy or Rockefel ler if an election were held to morrow, 28 of our poilees picked Kennedy; only 20 went for Rockefeller; and 10 said they were unsure. The mem ory of Governor Rockefeller'! early increases in state taxes dies hard in Huntley Estates, as elsewhere in New York, ac cording to report. If the Huntley Estates peo ple are reasonably represent ative of a broad trend - as the nationwide polls rather clear ly suggest - President Ken. nedy today commands a lame national majority, rather than tne hairsbreadth majority that won him the election. Nonetheless, judging bv these very average but sensible peo ple, all is not peaches and cream for the President. rpo BEGIN with, there was a worrying but often re. current note among the peo ple in our sample - more than two-thirds of the total who said they thought the Presi dent was doing a "good" or an "excellent" job in the White House. Too many of them began, defensively, with tho remark: " I STILL think he's doing a good job." One got the impression, in truth, that early enthusiasm had been rather widely replaced by qualified approval. Then too, the way these people talked about President Kennedy was as different as chalk from cheese from the way the same sort of people talked about President Eisen hower. Personal liking was always the dominant note of the great Eisenhower majorities. If you went pavement-pounding in the old days, you constantly discovered people who frank ly said Eisenhower was not a very good President, but added that "they would just have to go for Ike because he's such a nice guy." FJESPITE the efforts lavish ed on the "Kennedy im age," President Kennedy has seemingly failed to win a place in people's hearts, as Eisenhower did. He has, in stead, won a place in people's minds - which is a less de pendable kind of place. In our little sample, the Kenne dy admirers said he was "vigorous," or "intelligent," or "a man of conviction," or "a lot more mature than I'd expected." But they did not say he was a nice guy. Eisenhower's projection as a nice guy was the main cause of his enormous inroads into the working class vote, once so i didly Democratic. Maybe one should not expect the same kind of emotional and subjective response in a com fortable, middle-class commu nity like Huntley Estates, where Kennedy has thus far made impressive inroads into the Republican's normal vo ting support. If he keeps this kind of gain in Republican-leaning commu nities, and if he holds the nor mal Democratic workers' vote as well, Kennedy will be every bit as far ahead as the national polls continue to say he is. But one cannot help but suspect that the problem for the President is that his curre.it majority, though seominyly impressive, is also a bit mushy and unreliable. of her annual exports. Another 25 per cent goes to Common Market nations. Militarily, she already was a member of NATO, so no ques tion of her neutrality was in volved. The political implications did not bother her especially. So it was a matter of trading advantages. In the offices off the mir rored hallways of Denmark's foreign ministry and in al most daily consultations in Brussels, Denmark's negotia tions to enter the Common Market already are far advanced. Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann it on vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. WHY KHRUSHCHEV IS FURIOUS Washington - The most en couraging development in the cold war is Premier Khrush chev's violent opposition to the European Common Mar ket and the intention of the United States to work closely with it. Why does Mr. Khru shchev rush to the middle of the tracks and frantically wave his arms to try to stop the fast-moving European Economic Community as it disappears in the opposite di rection? Why does Mr. K signal the Western European Communist parties to try once again to whip up opposition to Brit ain's participation? Why does the Soviet leader appeal to the United Nations to call a conference or some thing in order to cancel or dis place or weaken the Common Market trend? Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Intf. PERSONAL PREJUDICES It makes no sense for com mentators in the public prints to keep referring to "the largest peace-time budget" for there has been no peace in the world since the end of the Second World War, and all of us have been living in an armed camp. Another common phrase that is devoid of true mean ing is "partisan politics" ior there is no other kind of politics possible; non-partisan politics is as much a contradiction in terms as a convention of hermits. When a manufacturer ad vertises that his product is to be found "in better stores everywhere," what he means by a "better store" is one that carries his product. The most constant and prevalent of all human traits is that of overesti mating something we want and do not have, and then underestimating it after we have obtained posses sion: the laws of emotional perspective are the oppo site of physical perspective things distant seem large, and things near by seem small. Scepticism, as Diderot said. Is the first step on the road to philosophy; he should have added, however, that many never take a further step, and become as much enslaved to their scepticism as others are to their credulity. You can always tell when a man is loo small for his job by the amount of noise he makes like a pea rattling around inside a drum, The prigs who keep re minding us that beauty is only skin-deep usually forget the corollary that, in just as many cases, respectability is oniy sKin-aeep. A woman dripping with jewels always gives me the impression that she is un loved, and uses tha gems as a substitute for what she does not have; heavily be jeweled women, on the whole, lend to have hard eyes and pouting mouths. It's harder for a woman to be virtuous than for a man he has to guard only against his own weakness; she has to guard against her own weak ness, but also against the constant importunities of men. The foolishness of a fool is minor compared to the foolishness of which wise man is capable when his self-interest is involved. The reason we customarily don't learn the imoortant sons of life until it is ton ! late was succinctly expressed j by William Blake, when he ;said. "You never know what 1 is enough until you know wnat Is more than enough." A man who cannot appre ciate nonsense is too shal low to be entrusted with serious matters. But she relies heavily on the success of British negotia tions. Should those fail, then it is almost certain that tha Danish application also would be withdrawn. Despite Denmark's mem bership in NATO, she has po litical contradictions. There are no communists in the Danish parliament. But the Socialist Peoples Party, which follows a sort of Tito Marx ism, has 11 members. Tho party is anti-NATO, anti-military, and sometimes violently pacifistic. The answer is increasingly clear. The answer is that Communist performance to day is so far short of promise and propaganda that Com munist doctrine is beginning to lose its appeal to the under developed world. Thus Mr. Khrushchev has to resort to his current tactic of trying to block, to slow down, to ar rest the tide of Western eco nomic progress. TnHE prosperous European -l .Common Market and the action of the United States to expand it into a free-world trading community - these developments are especially depressing to the Soviets be cause they disprove Marx and Lenin at four crucial points. And to Mr. .K. it just isn't cricket to have the foundes of Communism found so visi bly and so demonstrably wrong. Marx contended that tho inner weaknesses of capital ism would inevitably bring about its self-destruction, and that under capitalism the poor would get poorer and more numerous until revolution be came inescapable. Today the Western indus trialized, capitalist nations are radiantly disproving both of these propositions, The competitive-enterprise, capitalist economies of Western Europe, the U. S., and Japan are thriving, not dying on tha vine, and the fruits of capi talist production are being so widely shared that the poor are becoming richer and their living standards are steadily mounting. LENIN contended that com mercial greed and selfish ness would make it impossible for the capitalist powers to work together cooperatively and that inevitably the capi talist nations would fall into war against each other and destroy themselves. At times it has looked that way - but not today. The At lantic Alliance has forged a strong, protective shield against Soviet aggression. A United States of Europe is in the making. The European Common Market - with prob able British participation - is the climactic proof that Lenin was wrong, that competitive economies do not force their governments into war but into the closest and most construe tive association. No wonder Mr. Khrushchev wants the expanding Common Market stricken down. He can't abide it because Marx and Lenin said it could never happen. IN AN ARTICLE in The Sal urday Evening Post, Secre tary of State Dean Rusk puts it this way: "Look at the amazing prog ress of Western Europe and Japan under free systems. Compare East Germany and West Germany, or Eastern Europe with Western Europe. Compare Communist China with almost any country you would care to name. The 'great leap forward' has come down bottom side up. The vaunted "shortcut to the fu ture' has proved to be the shortcut to misery. "Those who are responsible for what is happening all the way from East Germany to North Vietnam have not found the answer to which they claim to have addressed themselves - the problem of economic and social satisfac tion. They have not solved even the elementary problem of food production." This is why it is beginning to be accurate to say. in Mr. Rusk's words, that "the cen nomic and social performance of the industrialized free na tions has knocked the bottom out of Marxist dogma." TO RESUME TALKS Washington - fl'PL - Vrf dent Kennedy has directi j Labor Secretary Arthur . Goldberg to resume ncgot:; tions promptly between t-, Railroad Telegraphers L'nm 'and the Chicago & .Sort Western Railway. The unio agreefl Wednesday to Kenri dy's reqvest to pnstpor." ' threatened strike against th road for 45 days.
