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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-
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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!"
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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.