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Flight o' Time
Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Vail Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12. 1952 (Tuesday)
Two California young wo
men arrive here after a 350
mile, month-long trip from
Greenville, Calif., on horse
back. 20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1942 (Wednesday)
Visitors to Camp White ac
tivation ceremonies are asked
to conserve gasoline and tire
rubber by taking buses.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
government has let a contract
for the building of the world's
worst roads for testing tanks
and other war equipment. The
way to accomplish this nefar
ious purpose is lo build a per
fect road and then turn log
ging trucks loose on It."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12, 1932 (Friday)
A. Fortncr, a guest of the
J. P. Brnys, announces he will
return to Medford to live dur
ing the winters; says Mcd
ford's winters are much more
pleasant than those in Ariz
ona, where he lives.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 12. 1922 (Saturday)
Fishing in the Rogue river
proves so unprofitable that
commercial fishermen cease
operation for several days.
Frost specialist from Los
Angeles is expected in Med
ford soon to help prepare a
pamphlet on the subject for
local fruit growers.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 12. 1912 (Monday)
The Rev. John Howard,
connected with the Medford
Furniture and Hardware store,
is wounded critically while
on a limning trip.
W. P. llaker spends three
days hunting near Medford.
returns with one buck, one
250-pound bear, two steel
head trout, 12 small trout,
Jive gallons of blackberries
and one gallon of huckleber
ries; he announces he's going
back for more.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five of
six Is good.
1. Osteology Is the science
that I reals ( what?
2. Clara Barton, the foun
der of the American Hed
Cross, was ofli'n called "The
Lady with a Lamp'' true or
ialse?
3. What is the name of the
American naturalist who was
called the Wizard of Horti
culture for his developments
in California?
4. Is West Point's mascot
mule, a goat, or an eagle?
5. How many degrees are
there in a right ancle?
6. How many times did Wil
liam Jennings Bryan run for
the office of President?
7. Is a stereoscope some
thing through which to speak,
see. or hear?
8. Does sound travel faster
at room temperature, or at
freezing temperature?
I) . Name the Senator and
Representative who recently
held up U. S. appropriation
hills because of their refusal
to compromise.
II) . Docs a carpenter use a
rip saw to cut across the
grain, or with the grain?
1. Bones. 2. False. 3. Lu.
ther Burbank. 4. Mule. 5.
Ninety. 6. Three times. 7. See.
8. Room temperature. 9. Sen.
Carl Hayden and Rep- Clir
I ence Cannon. 10. In Ihe direc
tion of the grain.
ASSOCIATION
SUNDAY, AUGUST 12. 1962
High School Plans
Three factors played a major role in the Med
ford school board's decision to operate only one
high school a new one in the district:
1. The need. The present high school is
crowded, and this year
be instituted to help handle the increased num
ber of students.
2. The board's belief
tional program should
thing, the educational program should continue
to be improved to meet growing needs.
3. The desire for the most economical pro
gram in the long run.
"THERE really is no question about the need. By
1965, when the new high school is scheduled
to open, facilities in the present structure will be
extremely over crowded, with an estimated 2,077
students. Present facilities actually will be crowd
ed this fall.
Preliminary planning for the new high school
probably will be completed by late this year; pre
paring working drawings will take almost a year,
and construction will take almost V- years.
Superintendent Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield has
observed that the trend in secondary education
is to offer opportunity beyond a basic or mini
mum program. The Medford district has been
providing such an opportunity an opportunity
which itself probably will become a minimum
program in the future as new demands arise.
"yHIS program provides for the individual dif-
ferences of students, a vital factor in making
an educational program a quality one.
Such a program, however, cannot be eco
nomically justified in a high school of 1,000 to
1,500 students. As Dr. Mayfield noted:
"Even with 1,500 s.tudents, we are only now
reaching the point where we can implement and
improve our program." '
A class, for example, offering advanced sci
ence or mathematics is not economically or ed
ucationally justified if 5 to 10 students enroll
from a high school of 1,000 to 1,500 students.
However, if 15 to 20 students enroll from a high
school housing 2,000 to 2,500 students, the num
ber of hours devoted to class preparation by the
teacher and the classroom time can be economic
ally justified.
Offering: more than the minimum requires
special classes designed
desires of the students,
carefully selected instructors," Mayfield said.
THIS is the basic thinking behind the decision
fni a TiQr ciinrln hinrl. oplinnl alihrniirli a hun.
high-school system, and
of the enriched program,
bevevai alternatives were considered.
Expanding present facilities was one possi
bility. But this was considered impractical be
cause expansion on the present site would bring it
below state standards, unless additional property
in the vicity of the high school was purchased.
Perhaps the biggest question facing'the board
was what to do with the present structure if a
new single high school were built.
Ihe possibility of selling it was eliminated m
the early discussion stages, since there would be
virtually no return on the
Using the structure to
community college program was considered, but
the idea was set aside because development of a
community college program in this area appeared
to be progressing too slowly.
THE program decided upon provides for mak
intr tlm l ii'wmi t ut ii iitt urn nt r i innint1 li IitIi
AilJ HIV. 'H.i'V Ilk IH1 IIV IHI V HIM; CI JHIllYM JMlll
school, relieving crowded conditions in the two
present junior highs and postponing construction
of a new junior high.
Space made available in the two present jun
ior highs could be used for self-contained ele
mentary school units, relieving conditions on that
level and postponing some elementary classroom
construction for a few more years.
The present structure aiso will continue to
house the high school shop facilities, which will
serve as a high school annex. This delays a major
expense at the new high school plant site.
OLACK Tornado sports fans should be grati
fied at the board's decision, for it will permit
a continuation even, perhaps, a strengthening
of the school's fine athletic tradition, which could
have suffered if the number of potential athletes
had been in effect cut in half by the operation
of two high schools.
The new school will have practice fields, and
for football games the stadium at the present site
will be utilized.
Special education classes will be moved to
the present high school structure, which also will
accommodate adult education classes.
DY USING the existing structure in this way,
it will remain an asset to the school district
and will be available for future high school use
should the need arise. Or, if development war
rants it, the building still could be considered for
community college or vocational school use.
The program decided on is not perfect, as the
school board and administration would be the
first ones to concede. It is subject to certain criti
cisms such as the fact that opportunities for
extra-curricular activities might be not as wide
spread as in a smaller school.
But the plan is the most economically feasible
one the board has found in a year and a half of
discussion. It provides for the expansion of the
educational program now offered to help meet
the demands of the future, and it provides for the
best utilization of the present structure. E.H.A.
an eight-period clay will
that a quality educa
not be curtailed; if any
to meet the needs and
and "well-prepared and
its resultant curtailment
was discussed at length.
capital investment.
form the nucleus of a
"These Foreign Tour Are Nice, But I Mis
Those Non-Political Trips"
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Let's talk about words to
day. Words are fascinating
things. These, for example,
by Anna Hempstead Branch,
in her Songs for My Mother:
"God wove a web of loveli
ness, "Of clouds and stars and
birds,
"But made not anything at
all
"So beautiful as words."
AND these penned by the
immortal George Noel
Gordon, Lord Byron, in his
Don Juan:
"Words are things, and a
small drop of ink,
"Falling like dew upon a
thought, produces
"That which makes thous
ands, perhaps millions,
think."
HOW do words gel started?
Let's take the case of the
relatively modern, slightly
slangy, word POSH.
United Press International,
which uses a lot of words and
therefore should be an au
thority of sorts, says it was
coined more than a century
ago aboard a P & O Orient
liner from the first letters of
the first four words in the
Sailors Guide: "Port, Out
bound; Starboard, Homeward
bound." Like so: PO S H.
Webster, however, doesn't
recognize POSH as a word
even in the New Twentieth
Century dictionary, published
only seven years ago.
WHAT does POSH mean to
you?
I put that question to our
head proofreader, who deals
in words, and she said it sug
gests to her something
SOPHISTICATED like the
Kennedy party at which sev
eral of the immaculately clad
guests fell into the swimming
pool.
I LISTENED in Ihe olhcr
day on a discussion of a
luncheon at which pctits
fours (pronounced pettcet
four) had been served. Web
ster recognizes "pctits fours"
as an English term derived
from the French and defines
Mountains, 'Progress
By ERIC SEVAREID
Aspen, Colorado - A writer
who lugs his typwriter on his
vacation is not necessarily
least not in
the first
week or two
of t lie disor
dered collapse
common to so
niHiiy of us in
this goncr.i
I Ion w h o
Srvarrld
have lost Ihe art of ordered
relaxation. The writer pays
Ihe extra weight charge for
his machine but the reader
is apt to pay for a short
weight package. In this val
ley Ihe air is thin at 8.000
livt and while the body feels
heavy, first thoughts have a
quatily ot weightlessness.
I am obliged to plead a spe
cial guilt; sentiment obscures
clarity for me. 1 have been
in love Willi the American
West all my life and absence
has only made the heart grow
foolishly fonder. I can un
derstand the faults of the
West but I cannot really feel
them. I persist in thinking of
the West as the typical Amor
lea and proof to the contrary
from a thousand historians
and demographers never dis
lodges tins feeling in the
blood. I cor.liiHte to doubt
thiil A meneans who have nev
er felt the spirit of the West
can cer feel Ihe deepest spir
it of America, and I have
to hope 1 am fatuously wrong,
1 suppose boyhood in a
small western town can nev
er he overcome. One spends
half a lifetime trying, In a
i " .r
MEDFORD MAIL
it as "Little spongecakes or
poundcakes, usually orna
mentally iced."
The "pelits" offers no prob
lem. It is the plural (mascu
line) of the French word
meaning "little). But what
about the "fours?" Where
does that come in? What docs
it mean?
A little research in your
French dictionary will pro
vide the answer. "Four" is a
French word meaning
"oven." So the literal mean
ing of "petits fours" is "little
ovens."
That, as Orphan Annie is
fond of saying, "figgers." It
indicates, presumably, that in
France, at least at the time
when petits fours were in
vented, these "little sponge
cakes or poundcakes" were
baked in little ovens.
r"iHAT suggests another
word whose derivation is
unclear plus fours. Webster
defines plus fours as "a style
of loose knickerbockers, very
long and baggy at the knees,
worn in sports, such as golf."
He fails to add that in these
modern days no golfer would
be caught dead in a pair of
plus fours. That would dale
him, quite definitely - and no
elderly golfer wants to be
dated.'
So
Where did "plus fours" get
started back in the prehis
toric days when they were
worn. In this case, research in
your French dictionary will
offer no tips. In French, "plus
fours" means MORE OVENS.
STILL, as elderly golfers
with good memories will
probably recall, the darned
things WERE HOT, as they
were apt in those days to be
made of Scotch tweed about
a quarter of an inch thick
nothing to be worn when the
temperature soars up toward
100.
So maybe they did impress
their wearers as "more
ovens."
4 NYWAY
" The study of words and
their origins and derivations
is interesting.
to conclude that the effort
was probably a mistake, a con
fusion In the spirit. It leads
to embarrassing inconsisten
cies. The soot of the streets
of New York offends and an
gels me; when I walk the
Main st. of Aspen the billow
ing dust from the passing
jeeps and horses smells like
perfume in my prejudiced
nostrils. Last week in the
Madison avenue rush hour
my taxi driver paused over
long at the green light to
exchange conversational chaff
with a colleague whose cab
was alongside, and 1 silently
cursed. Last night in Aspen
I encased a dust covered
j' Taxi" to ride from Main st.
out to my lodgings by the
Roaring Fork river. At the
lighted drug store the sun
i brow ned driver braked, got
out. returned after a while
! and said, "I noticed Mrs.
' in there. 1 just bought a horse
her daughter wanted very
, badly and I thought I better
i find out how things were
'with the little girl." I didn't
I curse, silently or otherwise:
j It seemed right and natural
I to me.
But the privilege of the
public prints should not, per
haps, exlend to private con
fessionals. By training and
contract writers of my ilk
are engaged to apply their
ink at the junctions where
Ihe personal meets and gen
eral, at the growing points
of our collective lite, Colo
r.idans have their public prob
lems, and if others share my
feeling that this magnificent
region exists as a kind of
Irreplaceable national trust
TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
Matter of Fact bv jo..ph
(el New York Herald
THE SOLDIER-MILITANT
(Joseph Aliop is on vaca
tion. During hit absence hit
column will be written by
reporter! expert in nation
al and international af
fairs.) By SANCHE de GRAMONT
Algiers - French military
intelligence reports in Alger
ia indicate that high on the
young country's priority list
is the buildup of its armed
strength.
Item: 15 Soviet MIG jet
fighters are due to arrive
this month in Algeria, along
with trained flying and
ground crews of 290 men. The
men and the planes are now
based in Tripoli, Lybia, and
will probably move to the
military air base of Blida, 30
miles south of Algiers, which
is being evacuated by the
French.
Item: 10 Soviet T-34 tanks
based in Morocco during the
Algerian war have been mov
ed into abandoned French
bases in western Algeria with
other heavy equipment, in
cluding field guns and anti
aircraft guns and cannon.
Economic stagnation and
political crisis have thus far
drawn attention away from
Algeria's unique military sit
uation: in the opinion of
French officers, it has the
best - trained and best
equipped military establish
ment of any African or Arab
country.
"All they need is a navy,
and they'll probably have that
soon, thanks to our military
aid," a French colonel said.
rPHE ALGERIAN army has
-I- more than 60,000 men.
Unlike the Egyptian army,
which was routed by the Is
raelis, the Algerians have
shown their military skill
against the French. Most of
the men are veterans of guer
rilla fighting, which demands
ingenuity, courage, and un
believable physical stamina.
Today, this army suffers
from a lack of unified com
mand. The country is divided
into six regions called "wila
yas," each with its local com
mander who jealously guards
an authority won in battle.
It is an army without gen
erals, and already the colonels
are lobbying for their stars.
It is also an army beset by
bitterness between the men of
the "interior" who carried
the brunt of the fighting and
the general staff in Tunisia
and Morocco.
It is unfair to say that the
army of the "exterior" did
not take part in the fighting,
for the borders were constant
ly infiltrated by fresh troops.
The bitterness stems more
from the general staff deci
sion not lo use their heavy
equipment so that it could
be brought into Algeria in
tact as a symbol of victory.
Thus, the MIGs, the can
non, and the tanks were
kept secretly outside Algeria
to form the nucleus of Al
geria's peacetime army. Po
litical leaders said it would
be a "waste" to use them
against the French. This is a
country where manpower
comes more easily than weap
ons. The army's favorite politi
cal leader is Ahmed Ben Bel
la, and the affection is mu-
and Our
as Switzerland s e 1 e vated
calm is a kind of internation
al trust for all Europeans
then some of these problems
concern all Americans as
trustees.
One of the problems of
these mountain dwellers is
essentially the same as the
problem now engaging the
passions of many alarmed
groups of city dwellers, east
and west. It is to preserve
as much environment of
space and beauty as we pos
sibly can, in Ihe name of our
children and grandchildren,
to prevent the total mutila
tion of the face of this Amer
ican earth. To speak of crowd
ing commercialization of the
immense West may seem
strange to Americans of the
i East. Indeed as one flies over
the Rockies at high altitude
; his dominant impression is
I one of vast emptiness.
! On closer ground level ob
I servation the impression al
i ters. As only a few can live
j on the sands of our deserts,
so only a few can live on
i Ihe steep sides of these rug
j ged mountains. The residen
tial and exploitive opportuni
j ties lie in the very narrow
i valleys whose length and
' number are unexpandible.
Heavy huying pressures come
from commercial combines,
and in this particular county
public spirited persons are
working hard and hastily for
ordinances and lax deducti
ble trust arrangements to
save all possible mead.iw
; land for public parks, camp
ing and fishing grounds. One
group of leading citizens
tense, to ejvercome It, only
Altop
Tribune Syndicate
tual. It is perhaps a tribute
to French military training
that both Ben Bella and his
chief rival, Mohammed Boud
iaf, passed their formative
periods as non - corns and
rose to the rank of master
sergeant in the French army.
A few days ago, Ben Bella
told a French general who
was paying a courtesy call
in Algiers that one of the
most memorable days of his
life was in Rome in 1944,
when Gen. de Gaulle person
ally pinned the coveted Me
daille Militaire on his shirt.
The citation that came with
the medal said in part that
Ben Bella had saved the life
of his wounded captain at
Monte Cassino, carrying him
1,500 yards on his back across
the lines. Ben Bella still car
ries the medal on his per
son, '
THE PRINCIPAL novelty of
his political thinking is
the use he wishes to make of
the army. His rivals accuse
him of being the army's tool.
And yet he has taken politi
cal control of the country
without the army's help. He
was invited to Algiers; he
did not have to conquer the
city.
Ben Bella is an unabashed
militarist. He wants to keep
and even to increase the
strong military instrument the
country has. He wants no
demobilization. He repeated
ly tells the crowds that the
army is the "life force" of
the country, that it must pro
vide the leadership for na
tional renewal. If he can be
compared with Castro, it is
largely because of his con
ception of the people's army,
whose duties are varied: in
the under - administrated
hinterland, the army would
replace absent civil servants,
teachers, and doctors, just as
the French army wore many
hats during its program of
"pacification."
The army, in Ben Bella's
view, would also give Al
geria the position of Afri
can and Arab leadership he
secretly cherishes.
There are plans for train
ing camps in Algeria for oth
er revolutionary African
movements. The Angolan reb
els who previously went to
Tunisia for training will soon
find Algeria inviting them
for military and political in
doctrination. The Algerian guerrilla
schools will draw heavily on
the methods of similar schools
behind the iron curtain and
in Red China where the Al
gerian rebels themselves were
trained.
Ben Bella knows that the
French have left him one
of Africa's wealthiest nations.
He is willing to abide by the
Evian agreements in ex
change for continued French
aid, since this will leave him
free to seek a favored posi
tion among African leaders.
As principal guardian of
one of the few genuine peo
ple's revolutions, he sees the
soldier - militant: the man
who combines the qualities
of a combat veteran, a po
litical commissar, and a tech
nician. It will be interesting
to observe the part the army
plays in Algeria's first elec
tions this September.
America
here has been known to sneak
out of their modern, picture
window homes and saw down
highway billboards in the
dark of night a revival of
frontier vigilanism in the
name of esthetics!
These fights can be lost,
one by one, until all is gone.
Nothing could be more de
pressing than to hear from
Cervi's provocative "Rocky
Mountain Journal" that old
Central City with its famous
opera house is fraying at
the edges with the blight of
creeping honkytonkism.
What is dawning upon peo
ple here too, it seems to me,
is the realization that "prog
ress" can no longer be de
fined only in the traditional
American sense of change, of
building and booming. It
must now also be defined to
mean preservation and pre
vention of change, as it has
meant in England for many
years past.
The Denver Post blazons
Ihe words "Rocky Mountain
Empire" on every front page
but no doubt it means an
empire of power and wealth
and population. But the visi
tor can wish at least to see
an empire of space and calm,
of natural beauty and human
dignity. Such an empire in
the middle of an increasing
ly crowded and ugly Ameri
ca could he the pride and the
frequent refuge for all of us,
the chalice in which to hold
in perpetuity the Holy Grail
of the oldest, the truest
American spirit.
(Distributed 1962 by
The Hell Syndicate. Inc.)
IAU Rights Reserved)
Washington Report
By William
(cl United Feature Syndicate
Washington The curiously
hard problem for the whole
top Republican field for 1964
,7S?tSb.'i-i Presidential
possibilities
1 1 may be stated
Li if in a single
i " im sen'ence: Each
,; Jfc must show he
j I can survive
e-yi''j the mere pres-
em Deiore ne
.LJ can even be
jj Sin to post his
name as a true
aspirant for the big prize of
the future.
Each must prove that he
can walk before he can claim
to run. Each must meet and
win the harsh trial heats of
1962 before he can offer him
self for the great payoff race
of 1964.
Each, in a word, has got to
establish that he is master in
the houes of his own state be
fore he can even begin to talk
of being the elected master
of the United States of
America.
WITHIN this context of the
realities, all oossible con
tenders can as yet move for
ward only in small, creeping
steps. Circumstance has now
enabled George Romney, the
former automobile indus
trialist, to be the first of the
three main 1964 "possibles"
to pass the first small but
vital hurdle on the long, long
road to the top.
This Romney has done by
well outdistancing his Demo
cratic rival for the Michigan
governorship. Democratic
Gov. John Swainson, in
Michigan's party primaries.
Romney's 4 to 3 edge in vote-
pulling over Swainson in this
"popularity contest" does
not, of course, necessarily
imply his election in Novem
ber.
It means at the very least,
however, that he has given
clear evidence that the name
of this amateur in politics has
a real and wholly discern
ible, and hereafter undeni
able, general drawing power.
A famous anecdote tells of
a Briton who, when asked
what he had done during the
great war, replied with hon
est pride: "Sir, I survived.
Of the first battle in a long
war, Romney can fairly say
not only that he has survived
but that he has survived most
impressively, and most use
fully to the future of George
Romney.
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmann is on vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
THE CONTINENT
OF CHISIS
Buenos Aires At the
very moment when the Alli
ance tor Progress holds some
nickering hope thai tilings
can be oetter, a deepening
crisis is being written across
the whole face of the Western
hemisphere.
The "crisis continent" is
not somewhere else; it is the
American continent here at
home, trom the Rio Grande
border to the tip of Argentina
and Peru. T he greatest source
of danger to tne free world
is not in Africa or in Asia,
however doubtful these areas
may be; it is in the Western
hemisphere.
The United States is wrap
ped up in it inescapably
lor better or for worse in
its dangers, in its potentials,
in the heroic, tardy, prudent,
and uncertain effort called
the Alliance for Progress.
lis purpose: to turn eco
nomic despair into hope be
for economic despair turns
Latin America into nearly to
tal turmoil.
Calamity is not certain, but
success is far from assured.
At this stage there are danger
signals everywhere 1 have
been in Peru. Chile. Argen
tina, and Brazil, which em
brace nine-tenths of the con
tinent and more than half of
its exploding population of
214,000,000 people.
T DO NOT mean that the
picture is all dark, that all
is lost. It is still within reach
of a massive mutual effort
to speed economic growth and
I begin to close the gap between
I concentrated wealth and wide
spread misery before it is too
j late. But the race between a
'better life and restless frus
t tration has been going on for
a long time and frustration is
j leading by several long laps.
! In trying to look at the
j whole face of the hemisphere
! as it slowly, hopefully begins
this effort, here's the sum of
the forces that makes its suc
cess so imperative, its failure
! so tragic:
j Asset The past decade
; has brought a steady disap
pearance of the old-style dy
nastic and military dictator
ships. Only three remain
Taraguay. Haiti, Nicaragua.
, Added to them is the repres-
sive out-thrusting Soviet-ori-I
entated Communist dictator
! ship of Kidel Castro. There
are many shortcomings in the
i
S. White
riiHIS is-the prudent way of
-- looking at the Michigan
result. For if it be true that
one swallow does not maka
a summer, it is surely trua
that one summer primary
does not make a governor or
a future president. All tha
same, caution can be over
done. And the Michigan Re
publicans, and the Republi
cans generally, are by no
means foolish in their re
joicing at what Romney has
thus far done in Michigan.
He has shown that Re
publicanism - or at any rata
his kind of Republicanism -is
in a most healthy condi
tion in so key a state as Mich
igan. This is the very stale
where so long the excessively
"liberal" Democratic party ol
such as Mennen Williams and
Walter Reuther of the CIO
has orbited triumphantly out
into the wild pink yonder
from the launching pads
formed of the trained legions
of labor political action com
mittees. (For the benefit of the liberal-minded,
there is no
slightest suggestion here that
Williams, Reuther and com
pany are not thoroughly good
Americans. There is only a
pained suggestion that mun
dane things like budgets fara
ill in their enthusiastically
reformist hands.)
4 ND Romney has also gain
"ed g certain subtle but
real psychological edge over
Richard Nixon and Nelson
Rockefeller by the very fact
that he has survived so clear
ly in his first test.
Though Nixon won his pri
mary in California, it was by
no such happy margin. And
he is now bitterly engaged in
a general election campaign
with Democratic Gov. Pat
Brown amid wide indications
that he is underdog. Rocke
feller, who is up for re-election
in New York, is as yet to
go to bat this year in any
important way, though his
renomination is, of course,
foregone.
It would be quite absurd
to say that in these early
days Romney has surpassed
these two comparative veter
ans in the real race - tha
race for the presidency in
1964. But it is entirely sound
to say that in this first go
round he has made them sit
up and take more than dua
notice.
new regimes, but this victory
over most of the Latin Amer
ican dictatorships is a signif
icant step forward and proof
of the passion for freedom of
all Latin American peoples.
Obstacle The new Latin
American democracies are
the targets of terrific social
tensions and political stress
before they're ready. In Ar
gentina and Brazil the mili
tary have asserted substantial
power and in Peru the new
junta is dominant.
The liberal Bctancourt gov
ernment in Venezuela is be
ing battered from left and
right. The conservative Ales
sandri government in Chile is
fighting for its life against
the growing power of the ex
treme left. None of the new
democracies is secure.
Obstacle Weak and em
battled governments, seeking
to make democracy work, face
most formidable economic
and social problems mount
ing inflation, rising prices, de
clining export income. Condi
tions are getting worse, not
better. Per capita income has
ceased to grow in nearly ev
ery Latin American country
and dropping in some. Tha
result is economic stagnation
and ominous mass discontent.
Obstacle If the Allianco
for Progress is not merely
going to enrich further the
already wealthy, then great
social reforms are widely
needed. Those who want to
maintain completely the stat
us quo will resist these re
forms and often the govern
ments are largely controlled
by those who want little
change.
TN THE face of these fan-
tastically formidable ob
stacles, can the Alliance suc
ceed adequately and in time?
Candidly, no one really
knows.
One thing is clear: this is
a momentous struggle against
poverty and dictatorship. If
the under-privileged, under
paid, long harassed people of
Latin America cannot find a
way to achieve economic hope
by democratic means, thev
will demand it at any politi
cal cost and accept any politi
cal system they think will
benefit their lot.
The only visible conse
quences of failure by Ihe Alii
ance for Progress are wide
spread Communist dictator
ship or widespread military
dictatorship or both.