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History from the files ot The
Mail Tribune )0, 20, 30, 40
nd 50 years go.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1952 (Saturday)
Grants Pass police look for
a gunman with a false nose
who robbed the Safeway
store of an estimated $:),500
and handcuffed the store's as
sistant manager to post.
Several Congressmen tour
timber and mining claims in
the Rogue River National for
est. 20 YEATS AGO
Ang. 9, 1942 (Sunday)
District Attorney George
V. Neilson reports his office
flooded with "defrauding of
innkeeper" c o m p laints as
Camp White workers depart.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "J.
Jerome had a birthday yesler
day, the number ot which is
nobody's business."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1932 (Tuesday)
State police report that
marauders are making night
raids stealing vegetables from
valley gardens and selling
them in wholesale lots to can
neries and stores; trucks are
used in the raids.
Rin Tin Tin. canine movie
slnr for more than 13 years,
dies In Hollywood.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1922 (Wednesday)
"Oregon Bond." owned by
Scott Woolf of Medford, wins
the first race of the North
west racing circuit in Grcsh-
Soulhern Pacific officials
predict the biggest Rogue val
ley pear crop in history.
50 YEARS AGO
Aug. 9, 1912 (Friday)
John Dequer. national or
ganizer for the Socialist party,
comes to Medford to help the
counlv central rommitlee or
ganize a local chapter ot the
party.
Burglar Is caught leaving
the Perl funeral home; he
confesses he has been respon
sible for wave of burglaries
and leads police to loot bid
den in the willows along
Bear creek where he has been
sleeping
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine 01 Ice correct It superior;
teven or eight il etccllent; five 01
lit it good.
1. Was tlie first Masonic,
lodge in America opened
(17711) in Boston. Philadelphia,
or New York''
2. Is a pachyderm a gem,
a rare tropical plant, an ele
phant, or a skin lotion?
3. What is the first ear
of Jesus' ministry called''
4. Do Kskimos oat Pen
guins.' 5. Which President was
sometimes called the Canal
Bov .'
li. Is the capital o( Maine
Lewiston, Augusta. Portland
or Bangor?
7. What dale is Pan-American
Day celebrated '
8 ,;,me the only U S Presi
dent who did not reside in
the White House.
fl. How many stales must
ratifv a constitutional amend
ment before it becomes a part
of the U.S. Constitution?
10. Paul Reveres family
came from which country?
Antwert: 1. Botton. 2. Ele
phant. 3. The "Year ol Ob
tcurity." 4. No, Penqulnt are
In Antarctic. 5. Jamei A.
Garfield. 6. Augutta. 7. April
14. 8. George Washington. 9.
Two Thirdt. 10. France.
Moie than 70 per cent o
the world supply of iodine
comes from Chile.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. I9i2
Unanswered Question
An editorial in the current issue of The Com
monweal asks:
"Why is it thai welfare checks to the needy are viola
lions of the free enterprise system, but subsidies for giant
corporations are not?"
It is a question which has often puzzled us,
too, as we read tirades against the "welfare
state," and declarations about how those receiv
ing unemployment compensation or relief checks
or aid to dependent children are lazy leeches and
robbers of hard-earned tax money.
At the same time, however, one hears little
complaint about the fact that the taxpayers are
subsidizing the U. S. merchant marine, all but a
few of the airlines, the barge lines, agriculture in
general and huge farm corporations in particular,
residential and other construction, mining, fish
eries, colleges and universities, medicine ... the
list goes on and on.
TJERE is an example:
For fiscal year 1932, Congress appropriated
$69,100,000 for grants to states for maternal and
child welfare. During the same year, it appropri
ated $182,000,000 for operating subsidies alone
for the natior s shipping lines.
Or again, another appropriation bill for fiscal
1962 provided $10,000,000 for the railroad un
employment insurance account, and $14,700,000
for payment of railroad loan guarantees.
Or, in the same bill, $8,200,000 for work on
juvenile delinquency and youth offenses, and
$150,000,000 for grants-in-aid to airports.
t CUCH examples are, of course, plucked at ran
i dom from the list of appropriations, and are
j not necessarily representative.
But the fact is that vast federal expenditures
are devoted to assisting business and industry,
either directly by subsidy or through indirect as
sistance, and very few yell "welfare state."
' But devote a few percentage points of the
federal budget to assistance of the elderly, the
blind, helpless children, the unemployed, the
down-and-out then listen to the roars about
rugged individualism and free enterprise.
Bah ! ! EA.
Search for Self-Knowledge
"Ful wys is he that can him-selverr knowe."-
-Geoffrey Chaucer.
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
"The proper study of mankind is man."
-Alexander Pope.
"La vray science et le vray etude de l'homme, e'est
I'honnne." - Pierre Charron.
"In many ways the saying 'Know thyself is not well
said. 11 were more practical to say 'Know other
people'." -Menanrier.
"Make it thy business In know thyself, which is the
most difficult lesson In the world."
i -Miguel de Cervantes.
N THE millenia of history and pre-history, man
kind has been endeavoring to know himself
and his fellow humans.
nlfirahlv small nrnnrpss.
i j -- i - o - - -' 1 - - - - i 1
tion of philosophers, poets, psychiatrists, anthro
nolom'sts. theolnn'i;ins mid nlavwriirhts with this
i o ' o
subject knowledge of
Individuals have had great understanding of
other individuals, and even of groups. One of the
oualities that makes Shakespeare's plays so en
during is his instinctive understanding of the
motivations of men and nations.
But by and large, man does not know him
self, cither individually or en masse.
IF MAN did know himself, we would not be
plagued by wars and revolutions, by mental
illnesses, by juvenile delinquency and crime, by
the fears and frustrations we see so prevalent
about us.
Perhaps universal self-knowledge, both in
dividually and socially, is unattainable. Perhaps
the inspired insight of some great thinkers can
not be conveyed to man-in-the-mass.
Rut up i':m till hnnn thai littlp Iw liltln purl
over a long period of time, increasing levels of
education win maue scu-Kiiowienge iar more
universal than it is at. nrpsnnt.
New techniques may help some, also.
QUR FAVORITE columnist, Sydney J. Harris,
suggested the other day that the approach
we have thus far used in attempting to analyze
and understand broken marriages, juvenile de
linquency, and other social ills, has been hind-j
side-to. i
In seeking to ascertain the causes of delin-i
'quency, he says, we study delinquents, and try to
j relate their behavior to their environment.
; Perhaps instead. Harris believes, we should'
study youngsters of similar environments who
: have NOT fallen into delinquent patterns, who
I have resisted the pressures of broken homes, ne
'glectful parents and slum neighborhoods, to grow
to decent adulthood.
A NT) HF, also suggests that rather than study!
" broken marriages in an attempt to find the;
causes of divorce, we should instead study sue-'
icessful marriages, to see what makes them last.
I The same about-face approach is applicable:
tt dozens of areas in mankind's eternal search,
for knowledge about what makes mankind be
! have as he (Iocs,
Perhaps in studying approaches to world .
j peace we should devote as much time to obscrv- ;
iing peaceful 'nations as warlike ones. Or, in at-.
I tempting to assist poor nations, we should seek!
! greater understanding of why rich ones are rich.;
Man's history indicates that Cervantes wasi
i right in saying that self-knowledge is the most!
difficult lesson of all. E. A. ,
So far he has made de-
rlpsnifp tlip nrpnermia-
I i o
self and of others.
I
The Shots Heard Round The Outside World
i v.' - -
Drummond Reports
(Wjlter Lip p ma mi ft on vacation. Roicoo Drummond roporti from
Washington in hit absence.) (c) 1962 Naw York Htrald Tribuna Inc.
THE POISON OF
DISTRUST
Washington One of the
most hurtful sources of dis
unity in the United States
today is the gathering su'')i
cion between liberals and
conservatives over the con
duct of the cold war.
Many liberals are afraid
that the conservatives are
willing to hurt civil liberty
and many conservatives are
afraid that the liberals are
willing to help communism.
The result is that things
which the U. S. ought to be
urgently doing, if we are go
ing to do more than hold our
own in this contest-for-keeps
with communism, either get
lost in the scuffle or get side
tracked through mutual dis
trust. This isn't Just an abstract
controversy. It affects specif
ic actions. Take the case of
the bill to establish a Free
dom Academy designed to
train thousands of free
world leaders in the arts of
successfully waging the cold
war against communism in
the way the military acade
mies train officers for their
assignments. Since the con
vening of the present Con
gress a year aco last January,
this hill has been stalled and
stymied at every turn de
spile wide public support and
bi-partisan backing.
UfHY? What holds it up?
" Is it argument over the
need to do what the Freedom
Academy would be created
to do or something else?
Democratic Sen Thomas .1.
Docid of Connecticut, who
knows more lhan most about
What 2O0S On in Coneres:
gives this answer in his new
book, "Freedom and Foreign
Policy."
"Last year this bill passed
the Senate but failed in the
House because of suspicions
by hard anti - Communists
there that Ihe Freedom Acad
emy would be infiltrated and
taken over by pro-Comnui-nisls
or liberals who ,-rr.
soft on communism.
"This year the bill has
been buried In the Senate,
largely. I am inclined to be
lieve, because of (he fear of
liberals that the Freedom
Academy would become a
sort of fortress of militant
anti-communism, manned by
conservative thinkers.
"This is the price we pay
for suspicion and division be
tween liberals and conserva
tives." rMlERE is plenty of evidence
to support Senator Dodd's
appraisal. When the Freedom
Academy hill came before
Congress, most of the liberal
weeklies look up arms against
it principally on the ground
that it would become a tool
of the extreme conservatives
and a toy of Ihe John Birch
socicly.
Now the John Birch soci
ety is opposing il for exactly
the same reason in reverse
that it would become "just
another means, and a very
powerful one. or brainwash
ing our vouni: American pa
Iriols and pulling the wool
over the eves of the Ameri
can people."
The foregoing appears in
the July Issue of Robert
Welch's Birch Society Bulle
tin, which, after sarcastically
suggesting (sayinc it is only
"kidding") an improbable jind
tor the most part illy equip
ped staff, advised its mem
bers that Ihe Freedoni Acade
my "could easily become one
of the steps leading to our
loss of freedom."
'PUIS kind of nehMoM. lih--l
eriil-ronsorvat ive diMruM
-certainly ns far as thr grit
body of Hip American people
is concerned -- is a poison
eominii I mm (he extremists
on both sides and from which
vr ought to innocuh.te our
minds.
At lht moment. Sen. Wil
liam Fulbnsht, chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations
committee, and Rep. Francis
Walter, chairman of the
House Committee on Un
American Activities, are pre
venting the Freedom Acade
my bill from having public
hearings. Shouldn't these two
distinguished Congress men
be acting to dissolve the sus
picions between liberals and
conservatives in the common
cause of waging the cold war
more effectively rather
than lending themselves to
this distrust?
"On the question of com
munism and how to deal with
it," Senator Dodd wisely re
marks, "neither Republicans
nor Democrats, neither lib
erals nor conservatives, have
had a monopoly on wisdom
or on folly."
It seems to me we ought
to ignore the extremists of
both left and right and get
on with the job, however
much it takes, however long
it takes, to work for the
world-wide triumph of free
dom. Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
ic Field Enterprises Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Some people take the in
junction "Know thyself" sole
ly as a means of exploring
the worser parts of their na
ture; they rarely use it as a
means of discovering the bet
ter parts.
Any man who complains
that a woman, wife or
otherwise, has "robbad"
him of his manhood, never
really possessed it in the
first place.
The one way to make abso
lutely sure that children will
not love their parents is to
remind them continually of
the tremendous debt they owe
to their parents; gratitude that
is ordered inevitably turns to
resentment.
Nobody with an opinion
actually "listens" to both
sides of the question in the
tame way - our receiving
mechanism is set for "accep
tance" on the side we agree
with, and for "rejection" on
the other side; and, to be
fair, we must learn the
painful task of making com
pensation for loudness and
clearness, as we do with a
j hi-fi set.
There is no more useless
j occupation than studying
j without the desire to learn,
I merely to get through an ex
lamination or a course; and
the fundamental job of edu
cation is to stimulate the de
sire to learn, without which
all the rest is meaningless
formalilv.
J . .
Most people will agree
I with the old saying that
"beauty is in the eye of the
; beholder" - but what the
Puritan cannot understand
i is that "obscenity" is also
; in the eye of the beholder.
! The best advice to cive
graduates about to make their
way in the world was ottered
two centuries Mgo by Rous
' scan when he observed: ' Keep
tlus truth ever before you -ignorance
never did anyone
any harm, error alone is fatal,
and we d not lose our way
through ignorance but
through misplaced self-confidence."
It is a mistake to divide
I marriages into those that
; are "happy" and those that
I are "unhappy"; a much
more useful working di
vision would be between
those in which the parties
; adjusted their anticipations
1 to the reality, and those in
which the parlies kept tor-
MtUI OHU MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON
De Gaulle's Odd-Man Role Doesn't Seem
To Bother Him; Stubborness Continues
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
United Prats International
Paris-lUPIi-French President
Charles De Gaulle has proved
once again that the odd-man
role docs not bother him in
the least.
If anything, he thrives on
it.
It was shown again in the
abortive Brussels talks last
week end on Great Britain's
request for acceptance into
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
By DON COOK
(Joseph Alsop is on va
cation. During his absence
his column will be written
by reporters expert in na
tional and international af
fairs.. THE WIDENING GAP
Paris Tn the brief month
since President Kenn edy's
Fourth of July "Declaration
of Interdependence" with Eu
rope, the gap of understand
ing and purpose in tne ai
lnntin Allianrp has instead
widened more dangerously
than at any other period of
post-war history.
Every other crisis through
which NATO has periodically
passed has been a tactical or
marginal nature, and in the
end it has been United States
policy, power, influence, and
diplomacy which could pret
ty much carry the day and
the decisions. But the emerg
ence of Europe, now in the
most amazing period of eco
nomic expansion in its long
history, has created a wholly
new balance of power situa
tion within the Alliance.
The widening gap today Is
strategic rather than tactical
- and therefore far more
tal. difficult, and
dangerous. It boils down to
the question of whether the
Anglo-Saxon powers and the
continental powers of Europe
are going to find some new
unity in this new balance of
power situation inside NATO,
or co their separate ways and
hope for the best.
THIS is the great central is
sue for Britain in the
Brussels negotiations for en
try into the Common Market
- whatever the arguments
about preferential tariffs, ag
ricultural levies, and semanti
cal differences between
"pledge" and "assure." It is
political strategy and not
economics which is al. slake.
For -without British entry
Regulations May i
Curb Algeria Vote
Algiers - IUPII - The pro
vincial executive today an
nounced stiff regulations that
may prevent many Europeans
from voting the coming elec
tions for independent Al
geria's first parliament.
The election ordi nance,
published in the official jour
nal, requires Europeans to
have lived in Algeria for 10
years on a regular basis in
order toj vote for the con
stituent assembly on Sept. 2.
This requirement could dis
enfranchise many Frenchmen
who look upon Algeria as
their homeland although they
have not lived here regularly
for the specified time.
Only men and women 23
years and older and possess
ing the required citizenship
qualifications will be allowed
to choose the assembly that
will make a provisional gov
ernment, write a new consti
tution, and legislate in the
name of the Algerian people.
Haines Man Gets
Life Prison Term
Baker -lUPH- John E. Hoff
man, 41. Haines, was sen
tenced lo life imprisonment
Wednesday. Circuit Judge
Lvlc R. Wolff sentenced lloff-
I man under the Oregon en-
hanccd penally statute.
1 He was com icted by a jury
last month of contributing to
the delinquency of his 1 1-ycar-j
old step daughter. Earlier, a
' charge ot criminal assault
i against him was dismissed.
Hoffman pleaded guilty in
Yamhill county tn 1957 to a
'charge of contributing to the
j delinquency of a minor.
I His attorney. Harold Banta
, of Baker, indicated he would
appeal to the Oregon Supreme
(."ourl.
1 turing reality to meet their
anticipationt.
The most corrupt of
maxims, unless it is quite
properly understood, is that
'honesty is the best policy."
for to be honest because il is
the best policy is the worst
reason; as Chuang-Tse pro
foundly said, three centuries
before Christ. "There is no
1 greater injury lo one's char
jactcr than practicing virtue
I with motivation "
When wt are young, we
look upon the world as
ladder; when we get older,
j we learn th! il it a tet-
I taw.
the six-nation European com
mon market.
After an all-night session,
with all seven delegations al
ready punch-drunk with fa
tigue, French Foreign Minis
ter Maurice Couve de Mur
ville suddenly handed Bri
tain's Edward Heath a long,
highly complicated financial
document and told him he
must sign it on the spot if he
wanted agreement then.
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
there is no vehicle by which
the United States can then
move down the path of inter
dependence and no frame
work within which the politi
cal, military, and economic
problems of the Atlantic
Community as a whole can be
discussed with common pur
pose and resolved.
Knowing that the issues
are so great for the Anglo
Saxon powers, knowing that
the future of the Alliance is
really at stake, and led by
France with its intensely na
tionalistic sense of power pol
ities, the continental powers
are confidently pushing a
very hard bargain with Brit
ain. France, moreover, is the
least concerned of any nation
involved as to whether Brus
sels eventually fails or suc
ceeds, and this gives a partic
ular cutting edge to French
diplomacy.
Apart from the problem of
British entry into Europe,
the gap between the Anglo
Saxon powers and the contin
ent is widening on another
front - the nuclear issue and
the concept of defense. Here
the Kennedy administration
is caught up in a paradox, in
which its theories, actions,
and pronouncements of pol
icy are producing exactly the
opposite effect to that which
is intended.
PVERY time Defense Sec-
retary MacNamara speaks
of sparing cities and hitting
only military targets with nu
clear weapons, it simply con
firms President de Gaulle
and the French military the
oreticians in their belief that
nuclear defense of Europe
cannot be left to the Amer
icans - that Europe too must
be able to make the choice of
targets. When Washington
deprecates French thinking
as naive and unsophisticated,
the French stiffen in wound
ed pride and determination lo
achieve their nuclear inde
pendence of Washington at
any price.
The departures from Paris
of Ambassador James M. Ga
vin and Gen. Lauris Norstad
are part of the widening gap.
Ambassador Gavin favored a
policy of cooperation be
tween the United Slates and
France in the nuclear field -not
the whole way yet to re
vision of the MacMahon act,
but at least some positive ex
ploration to find out if the
gap could be bridged and a
nuclear partnership worked
out similar lo that with the
British. He was lurncd down.
General Norstad recom
mended that a new genera
tion of American medium
range guided missiles be de
ployed on the continent of
Eurone to replace the tacti
cal aircraft whose usefulness
will be at an end in four or
five years. The Administra
tion has decided to rely en
tirely on sea-based Polaris
missiles, and General Nor
stad is departing more
abruptly lhan he had expect
ed. 'THESE two men, who in a
-- sense were urging greater I
interdependence than Pres
ident Kennedy was prepared
to accept, are to be replaced
by experienced and solid
non-p o 1 1 1 i c a I careerists -Charles
E. Bohlen and Gen.
Lyman Lemnitzer. But the
abilities and skills which
they will bring to their jobs
will certainly not be directed
to urging President Kennedy
to change his nuclear poi-
, icies.
I There now lies ahead a
period of pause. The Brussels
talks have been suspended for
I two months while the British
! go off and reflect on the
grouse moors of Scotland and
i the French bask in thr Riv.
iera sunshine. President Ken
nedy and Washington turn
their attention! inward to the
fall elections, and the guard
changes at the American Em-
bassy in Paris and Supreme
; Allied Headquarters,
j A pause can be a period of
i positive reflection and the
' fathering of new decisions.
But it also ran allow a gap
to solidify One diplomatic
venture which President
, Kennedy has nol yet tried is
a "Western summit." with
; Presidrnl de Gaulle. Prime
Minister Macnullan and
Chancellor Adenauer, at
which the whole feature of
'the Alliance with all of its
c o n f li c t s and difficulties
could be candidly faced and
explored. It might he no had
, time to p r e p a r e for such a
i meeting - before the can wid
ens further and while all are ;
I still friends.
The result was that the
talks were recessed until
October and Britain's entry
into the common market was
delayed by several more
months at least.
Although de Gaulle was not
present in the Brussels con
ference room he was in fact
vacationing at his country
home Couve de Murville's
tactics bore the hallmark of
De Gaulle's inspiration.
Couve de Murville is a com
pletely faithful agent and in
terpreter of De Gaulle's for
eign policy. He went to the
Brussels talks with written
instructions to be as tough
and uncompromising as possible.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington, President
Ladd Plumley of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce says
congress will be taking a
"calculated risk" if it waits
until next January lo cut in
come taxes.
The time- to cut taxes, he
says in a speech to the Wash
ington Advertising club, is
RIGHT NOW. He added:
"The best time to initiate
a tax cut is when the econ
omy is peaking out and be
ginning a down-slide, but be
fore recessionary forces have
clearly gained the upper
hand."
IN HIS speech in Washing
ton, he renews the pro
posals he made on June 29
that individual rates be cut
across the board and the cor
porate rate be lowered from
52 per cent to 47 per cent.
In his June 29 speech he
added that the top individual
levy of 91 per cent should
be slashed to 65 per cent,
and the lowest rate-20 per
cent on the first $2,000 ot
taxable income - should be
chopped to 15 per cent on the
first $1,000. In-between rates,
he recommended, should be
lowered proportionately.
CRITICISM, if any?
Let's put it. this way:
HE STOPPED TOO SOON.
fpAXES, goodness knows,
are high enough.
They need to be cut.
But if we cut taxes without
CUTTING SPENDING we'll
be heading down the road
that leads to national bank
ruptcy. We would then be in
the position of an individual
who has spent himself head
over heels into debt and then
gets a cut in his salary.
If he goes on spending at
his previous reckless rate,
he's a goner.
rpHE same will hold true of
- our spendthrift old uncle.
If he cuts his income (by re
ducing taxes) but GOES ON
SPENDING at the same reck
less rate thai has resulted in
the accumulation of our pres
ent national debt of nearly a
third of a TRILLION dollars,
he will find himself event
ually in very hot water.
And
His 180 million-odd nieces
and nephews will find them
selves in hot water along
with him.
rPHINGS are coming to a
- pretty pass when the
President of the Chamber of
Commerce of the ' United
States stands before an audi
ence in the nation's capital
and recommends cutting taxes
without at the same time cut
ting expenditures.
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By BENNETT CERF-
IEONARD SPIEGELGASS,
J One," had a much - sought -
ace scenarist in Hollywood. He
utner writers would
lashion the beginning
and middle of a script,
and then, when they
bogged down, would im
plore Spiegelgass to give
it a clever conclusion. He
rarely let them down.
Spiegelgass remembers
one film star who flatiy
disapproved of one of his
ingenious endings. Her
name was Grace Kelly.
Spiegelgass asked her
why. Back came Ihe
regal reply, "Grace Kel
ly doesn't have to have a reason"
A lecturpr was instructing- a ladies' club gatjieru-.g ea "What 1
Wrong With the Movies Today."
"The one I aaw last night," he concluded, ": the wetst vet.
It includes murder, rape, arson, caruiibai.sm. and perversion" If
anything will justify censorship, this vile picture will do it. Xo
then, ladies, have you any questions 7"
Yes." cned thr ladies in the audience sinmi'aneou'h".
"Where s It playing:" 3
OVKKHKARD:
Father to son asking for money: "Junior, have vcj ever con
sidered being a professional fund raiser?"
Comedian Gene Baylos to non-laughing night club audiences
"You've been so good to me that now we re going to oren the)
street doore and let you watch an accident."
On the fourth hole at the Century Coif Club: "How do yea
like tha.ll I come out here for exercise ajid tuste&d I get a hola
in one:-
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This put France consider
ably out of step with the oth
er market members, most of
whom would like to see Bri
tain join as soon as possible.
Not that De Gaulle appar
ently wants to keep the Bri
tish out of the common mar
ket forever. But he consid
ers that they are the askers
and that there is no reason
to make things easy for them,
regardless of what the other
member nations may think.
This was a typical
De Gaulle stance.
He was the odd-man in the
Atlantic alliance last winter
when he alone flatly opposed
Berlin peace talks or even
diplomatic "probing" with the
Russians.
He was the odd-man again
when he refused flatly to
send a French delegation to
the Geneva disarmament con
ference. He set himself at odds with
his common market partners
when he rejected their ideas
for a closely integrated poli
tical union of western Europa
and refused to go for any
thing stronger than a loose
federation of sovereign
states.
De Gaulle is pushing 72
an age when many men
mellow. But there is noNiing
to show any disposition on
his part to make himself less
stubborn or difficult to deal
with.
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Decision Time
To the Editor:
Jesus Christ:
"The gates of hell shall not
prevail against My Church"
today.
Nikita Khrushchev:
"There is no hell; as for tha
Church it shall be dona
away!"
Now who is telling us the
truth?
Who babbles as he please?
The one who grasps tha
dagger's hill.
Or He who holds the keys?
Mildred Jeffery
521 Mayette st.
Medford
Former Resident Writes
To the Editor: It is again
time for me to renew my sub
scription to the M.T., which
we all enjoy very much.
Being a former resident of
Medford, and with a daugh
ter, Mrs. Glen E. Wilson, liv
ing in Williams, it is wonder
ful to read of old friends and
places.
I enjoy your communica
tions column and was happy
to see the letter, "Litter
Hurts." by A. E. Smith, M.T.
July 31. We are proud of our
Wisconsin law and just pen
ally on littering, and received
praise from other states on
our neat highways.
If every man, woman and
child would think before
throwing out that trash, tha
beauty God created would ba
restored one hundred fold.
May your Stale of Oregon
remain as beautiful as I re
member it on our last trip out
in 1958, as we hope lo visit
it again in the near future.
Mrs. Keith Hammond
Route 2
De Soto. Wise.
Stop Me
author of "A Majority of
after talent when he was an
specialized in slick endings.
THIS fNDINfiJ
v is no
pen aY