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History from the files of Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20, 1952 (Wednesday)
Work expected to start In
10 days on new section of
Highway 99 that will, by-pass
Gold Hill.
Harvest of the Rogue val
ley's smallest Bartlett pear
crop In the past eight years is
reaching a peak this week
end.
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20, 1942 (Thursday)
A battalion of Camp White
soldiers is being trained to aid
Rogue River National forest
officials in combatting forest
fires.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column; "Before
America can lake over the
management of the world,
come peace, as proposed by
the better dreamers of the ad
ministration, there should be
a test with the CfO to deter
mine who is running Amer
Jca."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20, 1932 (Saturday)
Survey preparatory to re
alignment of Siskiyou link of
Pacific highway begins today.
Lee C. Garlock is nominated
as commander of the Medford
American Legion chapter.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 20. 1922 (Sundayl
Construction of Ashland
Canyon rd. is scheduled to be
gin soon: city and county to
cooperate in improvement
project.
Two Portland men in Suck
er Creek canyon are shot on
opening day of hunting sea
son; both men survive.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 20. 1912 (Tuetday)
American adventurer killed
In Africa by British troops
for alleged poaching and il
licit ivory trading is identified
as husband of former Medford
woman living In Oakland,
Calif.
Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illi
nois, former vice president of
the U.S., announces he will
campaign for the election of
Woodrow Wilson as presi
dent. What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct ti superior;
seven or eight Is excellent; five ei
lii is fjood.
i . u . I
1. In which country is the-
Marne River?
2. which planet is more !
like the earth than any oiher !
so tar as we know?
3. The area between the
Potomac River and Chesa
r itiver and Lhcsa-
Bay belongs to which ; IT WAS almost dark by the time the plane ar
, , . u , , rived at the Eupene airport, and Oregon's
sreel post is what class , ., , 1 , . , , .,
peake
stale''
4. rarccl poj
of mail?
5 Was Finland once a part
of Sweden?
ft. Correct the following
"The Lieutenant ordered him
and I to start on a patrol.
7. One, two, or three solar
eclipses is th,e least number
that ran occur in a year?
8. What remained in the
mythical Pandora's box after
it was opened?
fl. What American war was
called the "terrapin war"
10. The Bureau of the Cen
sus is in which federal gov
ernment department?
Answers: 1. France. 2. Mars.
3, Maryland. 4. Fourth clati.
5. Yet. S. ". . , him and me
, ." 7. Two. 8. Hope. 9. The
War of 1812. 10. Department
of Commerce.
AUCiUaf 20. 1962
Religious America?
If the supreme court did nothing else in its
school prayer decision it certainly started a lot of
discussion about the place of religion in America.
Prominent among the arguments on both
sides was the one about Americans being a "re
ligious people." Many have simply assumed that
we are and let it go at that.
But anarticle in the Catholic magazine Ave
Maria, reprinted in the Catholic Sentinel of Port
land, challenges this assumption.
IN DOING so it reiterates the kind of moral
breast-beating heard from so many directions
these days from Billy Graham, Loyd Jenkin
Jones, and a host of others-about how we are
becoming decadent in our frenzied search for
pleasure and diversion, in the "pathetic vulgarity"
which seems to permeate movies, magazines and
books, and in our crass materialism.
The Ave Maria article continued:
"We suspect that If this were a religious country,
the supreme court decision on the New York school
room prayer would not have aroused a great deal of
comment. It is because we have so little understanding
of the real dimensions of man's relationship with God
that we cling so ferociously to what, after all, was
simply an external ritual.
"Regardless, however, of many pros and cons to
he considered in finally evaulating this supreme court
decision, we can say that it would have accomplished
an immense amount of good if it has only awakened
us to the fact that by any true standards we are not
a religious people."
TTHERE is one other approach to this question,
too, the statistical one of church membership.
In round figures, about 40 per cent of all
Americans belong to no church. No one knows
how many of them are agnostics or athesists or
humanists or deists or even people with re
ligious commitments but no affiliation. At any
rate, four out of every ten Americans can be said
to be non-religious, at least in the orthodox and
organizational way.
Among the 60 per cent who do maintain a
church affiliation, again no one knows how many
take their religion seriously; how many are
Christmas and Easter church-goers, or for how
many their' church membership is purely pro
forma.
No, neither through
ture of American morals
through statistics, can it
is a genuinely religious
Two Out
There is a saying among newspapermen that
people get more worked up over three relatively
minor matters than anything else, to wit, iluoii
dation, daylight saving time, and dog control,.
If this is true, we ought to have a slam-bang
ejection campaign hereabouts.
The legislature put the question of daylight
saving time on the statewide ballot, and now the
city of Medford will vote on fluoridation of
water.
Dog control, anyone?
Evening
The plane took off
tional airport a few minutes after the sun had
vanished behind the west Portland hills. The
plane climbed to about 2,000 feet, and headed
south.
East Portland, stretched below, had the fairy
land quality only seen from the air and only near
dusk. One could see the
tllo sll-ont.llirliia wni-a nn
,. . ill-..
iHMiiiue inue-wmie glow.
Over Oregon City the
on.l chnno V,.,; I
.iiiii.'i i, i-iiiwnv, v( i i ij(iv t.iiiiM niiti it ii-
lamette river, and the clouds over the Coast
Range were red and pink and blue and purple
and gray.
TTHE lights of Albany appeared far aheai
to the right, and a few moments later the
ght, and a few
mer ones of Corvallis appeared. Below, seemingly
at every little hamlet, night baseball games were
under wav, with the green lighted diamonds
showinir tin ns snots of
slowly-darkening background of the fields.
e"1 ' . 1 P . . 1 a I . . l.i
columns oi wnue smoKe rose su aigiu up in ,
the quiet air, at their feet the fierv orange glow
of stubble-fires.
n,. , , . , , . .
' np plane passed to the east of Salem, but
the lighted figure of the Pioneer the "gold man"
of our daughters' childhood gleamed from atop
the ( apitol.
: si-cmid city uieanieo iikp
south. Here and there beacons flashed their inter
mittent messages.
Night had fallen by the time the plane took
off again, circled beyond the diadems of lights,
and climbed into the darkness to the south. For
nearly an hour, only scattered lights at some
farmhouse back in the hills, or. auto headlights
on the distant freeway were visible.
Then there were the new light clusters, as
Gold Hill came into sight
tial Point below, and finally Medford OUt ahead,
with thn hriirhf ornnou cliwli mo.lo ! tho l-.iwlin.v i
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llglll.x uciuw aim 111 I HUH.
of the tires at touchdown,
lironi'llers. thp ti-nndlimr
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nome. a.
an overview of the pic
and ethics today, nor
be argued that America
land. E.A.
of Three
E.A.
Flight
from Portland Interna
houses and the trees, but
an, o-.ivo tVio er.nms a I
reflected gleam of the !
fW-,,.,-,, o,l lU WW. I
id and
moments later the dim
hnirhtness atrainst the'
a mass oi jewels 10 me
to the west, then Cen-
'riM . ... ' ,i- r
I IICIC was me scieecil .
the roar of the braking,
mil nf (lip am-nn anil :
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..- 11,1 "o.i.. i:),nrw and met Mr and Mrs
"Let' Say It Wa.n't Exactly A 'Tight Money
Policy"
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paper; in fact the contrary is often the case.
Too Much Sympathy
To the fSditor: To me, there
is no more basis for the state
ment or assumption by op
ponents of capital punish
ment that all those who op
pose their views are motivat
ed by a spirit of revenge, than
for those who voted in favor
of it to declare that all op
ponents of such punishment
do so through a spirit of
maudlin sentimentality.
I refer particularly to the
item on page 1 of the August
17 copy of the Medford Mail
Tribune. Admittedly, there is
often inequity in application
of the death sentence as be
tween a wealthy and a poor
offender. However, as we are
confronted all too frequently
by reports of lax, or even ap
parently gross unconcern, ac
tion by hoards and individu
als in granting parole to con
victed criminals before their
full sentence has been served,
and who again begin preying
on the public (as often hap
pens), so long will there be
people who consider the wel
fare and safety ot their fam
ilies and of all law abiding
citizens of much greater im
portance than what happens
to those offenders who have
already shown how little they
respect law and the lives of
others by having already been
convicted of such violation.
This is no argument cither
for or against capital punish
ment. But there are those who
believe that entirely too much
misplaced sympathy is given
convicted criminals and too
little consideration given to
the victims of the crime. And
not sufficient effort made to
prevent it ever happening
again.
A. E. Hutchinson,
B12 South Holly si.,
Medford
Price Tags
To the Editor: The unex
pected has happened again.
Lillle should one expect that
a just condemnation of the
shameful nudist camps would
spur someone to answer IN
riiK.lR DEr'ENSK! The man
said he lives near one. He also
Sllid 11,111 "somp ot nur b,sl
citizens belong to such organ-
izalions."
He owes a public apology to
our best citizens fur such a
statement; for according to
God's standard as voiced in
Job 28.28. "Unto man he said,
Behold, the fear of the Lord,
that is wisdom; and to depart
from evil is understanding,"
and the best citizens do have
both wisdom and understand-
i'lg.
If a petition were cireulat-
en among the truly best cm
rens of this nr nnv ntlipr rpnn
table community asking if
thev d sanction, or would like
to live near, a camp of indi
viduals who disrobe and go
about among each other, male
and female, young and older,
stark naked; unless I am bad
ly mistaken 100 per cent
would sign it gladly saving.
OH. S H A M F.: SHAME!
S11AMK! NO! NO' NOV And
we'll furl her venture the as
sertion that the large ma
jority of those who live near
that shame wish they could
move away from those "best
citizens'' to be near some good
citizens
The man said he doubled
if 1 had ever heen In a nudisl
camp. He Is exactly right
Nellhcr have I been in an In
cinerator, nor a burning fierv
furnace. Nesides. we wouldn't
want to know who those "best
citizens" are' Isaiah says in
the :trd chapter and 9th verse.
"The shew of their counte
nance doth witness against
Ihem; and they declare thcr
sin as Sodom, they hide it
not. Woe unto their soul: for
thl.v ,,avf reused evil unto
themselves " r s a I m 97.in
says. Ye that love the Lord.'
hate evil.
and I think if I
Nudist-camp-member. I could
McUtUhU MAIL 'Irilxiun,. McutOnu, GHbCiOt
hardly refrain from "looking
daggers" of righteous indigna
tion at them daring to parade
as "best citizens," not in pos
session of enough modesty to
keep their nakedness covered
always and everywhere! A
great and good man named
King David looked at a wom
an as she took a bath at a
one-woman nudist camp atop
a house. Result-he fell head
long into adultery, and a cover-up
murder! Are the "best
citizens" immune from the
possibility of such a fall?
Even good citizens wouldn't
do the shameful thine.
We think Mr. Stauffer has
his price tags mixed.
H. R. Bulman,
Route 4. Box 316A,
Medford
Loltories
To the Editor: Recently one
of my friends informed me
that he thought that lottery
was against the law of our
land.
Perhaps we all feel that
way, since it has never been
in practice in our day.
Back in 1792 congress pass
ed an act giving the commis
sioners of the District of Col
umbia authority to promote
a lottery for necessary proj
ects, when local revenues
were insufficient.
Congress also started a one
million dollar lottery so as
to help finance the American
Revolution. Both were a suc
cess.
If the lottery was to make
its reappearance, I'm sure that
all the old timers, with their
low income benefits, would
greatly appreciate a little ex
tra help in his or her time of
need, along with other per
sons in the low income brack
et. A slale non-profit lottery
to help promote a hospital
benefit fund, would be most
welcome to a great many Am
ericans. Howard H. Rrown
907 Gilman rd.
Medford.
- O
Editor's note: Article XV.
Section 4, of the Constitution
of the slale of Oregon reads:
"Lotteries, and the sale of lot
tery tickets, for any purpose
whatsoever, arc prohibited,
and the legislative assembly
shHll prevent the same by pe
nal laws."
in the Day's News
By FRANK
Some three we.-ks ago Ma-
jjor Boo wmic. returning irom
a flight in the X15 rocket
ship, reported seeing what
jlookc ri to him "like a piece of
paper I hp size of his hand GO
jlNG ALONG WITH THE
SHIP al an altitude of 270,000
feel more than Ml miles
' high."
IT MIGHT, presumably, have
been an illusion. Even with
their feet on solid ground,
people see strange things
sometimes. Things that just
'COULDN'T have happened.
Hut Major White had support
ing testimony. The X1S had a
movie camera in its lail, and
it was in operation.
The films were sent lo the
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, whose
scientists studied them with
meticulous care They report
that the films "captured shots
of an object flitting past the
"'ar of the supersonic craft
1 he object or objects - were
of undetermined sue,
because
wr don't know the distance
they were from the ship
The scientists' report con
eludes: It is impossible to ex
plain the object presence a
this time
Foreign News: Common Market Moves;
Aid Lacks Pinches; Cosmonauts To Talk
By MURRAY J. BROWN
United Press International
Notes from the foreign
news ca'-ic:
Market Maneuvaisi
Look for top lev..-! behind-
Washington Report
By William
(el United Feature Syndicate
BAD CASE
Washington - The Demo
cratic liberals' extremist fili
buster attack on the admin
istration's bipartisan space
c o m m u n i
cations bill
ends in fore
doomed defeat
in the Senate,
but its bitter
c o nsequences
will linger on
and on. This
episode, which
involved an
wsll eiiun u, w..
liberals to force government
ownership of the space com
munication system and a
freeze - out of private in
dustry capital, has had reper
cussions which its initiators
could never have foreseen.
In the heat of debate, poli
ticians can sometimes say
many things and get away
with them. But in this case,
the leaders of this small band
of filibusterers, Sens. Wayne
Morse of Oregon and Estcs
Kefauver of Tennessee, have
made "giveaway" accusations
against President Kennedy
and Congress itself so extrava
gant and repealed as to raise
a serious question whether
they have not read themselves
out of the Democratic party.
IF THE. violence of their at
tack on the President and
Congress has not torn that
party apart in the country, it
has certainly done so in the
Senate, from top to bottom.
What they have said, unlike
what may be said and later
unsaid on some- political
stump, is in the books for
keeps in the Congressional
Record.
Their assault on a Presi
dent of their own parly
and on immense bipartisan
majorities in both houses of
Congress has been the most
savage within the memory of
old Washington hands.
If they have not alienafed
themselves from the White
House, beyond question they
have deeply alienated them
selves from the United States
Senate, and from every fac
tion save their own. The 73
to 27 vote by which the Son-'
ale for the first time in
37 years and for the fifth
lice in all history clamped
down the Rag rule to silence
them is incomparably more
than some dusty procedural
action. It amounts to a ver-
diet from the most tolerant of
all American institutions that
the behavior of these filibust
erers has been unpardonable,
even there.
IT MEANS that the profes
sional liberals have at
last overreached themselves.
Whatever influence the Dem
ocratic left wing may con
tinue to exercise at the White
House, its practical influence
upon legislation has fallen to
an all-time low. For not mere
ly Kennedy was under assault
in this long demonstration on
the Senate floor. Many others
including the Democratic
and Republican leaderships of
the Senate were assaulted,
loo, if usually by innuendo.
And they will not forget.
And, ironically, it also
means that the one constant
goal of the professional lib-
JENKINS
i'PHE scientists may be piu-
will nod their heads and say:
"I knew it all the time.
There ARE flying saucers."
AIORE gadget news:
The Navy has just tested
its new Polaris missile -j
which, it reports, will have an j
eventual range of 2.8R0 miles :
more than a thousand miles I
, longer th in the current Polar- i
! is model. The report adds: '
"Submerged U S submarin- :
es will be able to lob a nu-
clear bomb ON ANY TAR- !
GET ON EARTH when the
new Polaris becomes opera- !
tional in about two years ' '
l'HY is that important'
' The answer is t h
a t
when that time comes we can
abandon all these bases
around the earth whose main
tenance has been giving us so
much trouble,
JOTORISTS in j a c k s o n .
Term., ignored parkins
meters the other day, with the
blessing of city officials The
city commission declared a
PARKING METER HOLI
DAY to celebrate a national
health award presented to the
city for having g.me a year
without a pedestrian death.
the-scene moves in Western
European capitals ar Wash
ington to pave the way for
Britain's entry into the Euro
pean Common Market.
Prime Minister Harold
S. White
erals a change in the rues
to make the gag more easily
applicable to people the lib
erals do not like has been
gravely if not fatally hurt.
For many of these same lib
erals. Morse and Sen. Paul
Douglas of Illinois notable
among them, for years have
called the filibuster immoral
and intolerable when the
Southerners and others use
it.
IN TAKING up the weapon
they have so long denounc
ed, they have only proved
what has always been the
simple truth, which is that
there is no need to change
the rule. When any bill is a
good bill and has heavy sup
port it can always prevail,
filibuster or no filibuster and
rule or no rule. It is not im
possible to apply the gag; it
is only difficult. And is not
even difficult when a true ma
jority of the Senate truly
wants something done.
What has long thwarted lib
eral designs is not that the
rules are wrong but rather
that liberal bills are usually
wrong wrong because they
are extremist and intolerant,
as was the proposal here to so
cialize communications, the
one area in which we are
ahead of the Russians in the
race for space.
Bad rules are not their trou
ble. Rather, it is their bad
case. And this the liberals
have now managed to prove
out of their own mouths.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
tc Field Enterprise Inc.
ANTICS WITH SEMANTICS
I am calm: you are stolid;
he is insensitive.
When I am in the ascend
ancy, I preach the law of
"survival of the fittest;" but
when I am the underdog, I
accuse the overdogs of "rul
ing by tooth and claw."
"You only live once" is the
traditional philosophy
of those who haven't learned
how to live at all.
I miscalculated; you
blundered; he goofed.
At the dance. I flirted wilh
I another man's wife; you made
advances to her; he proposi
tioned her.
When a neighbor says.
"My. but your little chil
dren are independent," it
commonly means "Why do
you let them run so wild?"
"You can't trust anybody"
is the secret slogan of all un
trustworthy people: and "If
I didn't, somebody else
would," is the motto of all
prostitutes, no matter in what
iine of work.
A "clip joint" is just a
"smart supper club" where
you're not known.
A man who deserts our
party for the other is a "ren
egade." but one who comes
over to our side from the oth
er is a "convert."
"Not to change the sub
ject" invariably meant that
the speaker intends to
change the subject; while
"Of course, I'm not an au
thority" means that the
speaker would like hit
words lo be accepted as au
thoritative. What we customarily call
st" is simply a
person who believes that ex
treme measures must be taken
to rectify an extreme evil:
the only thing wrong with ex
trcmism as a program is that
in many cases, the cure is
worse than the disease.
I am a hearty eater: you
I are quite a trencherman;
he it a glutton.
The difference between a
'prudent" marnase and a
"mercenary" one depends
wholly upon whose daughter
married whose son.
A woman who it termed
"tcatterbrained" in the low-
er economic strata it deto
nated at "delightfully fey"
in the upper economic tlra
ta; jutt at a "loafer" in the
former it called a "iporit
man" in the latter.
"You'll he sorry after I'm
dead" is the sclf-consolatory s
refrain murmured continually j
to themselves by persons who :
make their relatives sorry j
thev are alive. '
I belong to a church; you
hare a denomination; he it
a member of a cult. j
My teen-age daughter is vi-'
vacious. yours is flighty; th -irs
is boy -era ry
I am solidly built; you
are ttockyi he is full of j
blubber. I
Macmillan is expected to ap
peal informally to West Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer to persuade French
President Charles de Gaulle
to stop rocking the boat. Sim
ilar appeals also are expected
to be made t the other com
mo market members. In ad
dition, London is hopeful that
the United States will inter
vene discreetly with the Eu
ropean leaders in favor of
Britain's admission.
Communist Crackdown
The Big Three Western Al
lies are considering measures
to curtail Communist
police activities on the Communist-run
elevated railway
in West Berlin at the request
of the city gove-nmcni. West
Berlin officials say the ele
vated installations pose the
greatest internal security
threat in the event of trouble.
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippmann It on vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune lnc
BRAZIL'S SWIRLING
VACUUM
Rio de Janeiro Brazil is
today a grim and painful ex
ample of the difficulty this
country's fragile democracy
has in putting its roots down
in the quicksand of economic
distress.
A newspaper correspondent,
recently returned from Spain,
put il graphically: "In Ma
drid you can't get away from
the government and in Rio de
Janeiro you can't find the
government."
The reason is that right
now Brazil is politically a
swirling vacuum. Its leaders,
its political parties, its make
shift presidency, and its ex
piring congress are ominous
ly chasing each other in cir
cles. Result: frantic immobility.
The Brazilian "government"
is nearly invisible because it
isn't governing.
'
PRESIDENT Joao Goulart
isn't governing because
he's devoting himself to a
campaign to recapture t h e
powers which were taken
from him. They were taken
from him as the only condi
tion under which the military
would allow him to become
president after Quadros re
signed a year ago, not expect
ing that his resignation would
be accepted.
The Brazilian congress isn't
governing because it is at the
tail end of its term. It refuses
lo cooperate with the Goulart
government which it distrusts
or to yield the powers it fears
he will abuse.
This means that Brazil is at
a perilous stalemate at a
time when its economy is go
ing down and inflation is go
ing up.
How did this mess come
about?
Well, in Brazil vice presi
dential candidates run separ
ately from presidential can
didates and the candidate with
the highest vote, however
small, wins. Goularl got about
one-third of the total vote.
His election was roughly what
it would be like if Sen. Wayne
Morse, running against Lyn
don Johnson on a Kennedy-reactionary
ticket, became Mr.
Kennedy's Vice President.
Then how would the U. S.
Congress like it if Kennedy
resigned and Mr. Morse be
came President?
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Goulart was a minor-
ice president whom
the military reluctantly ac
cepted as Quadros successor
rather than violate the con
stitution. They accepted him
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
CMMETT KELLY recalls the most irritable elephant that
L' ever hooked up with the Ringling Circus. This pachy
derm was begging for peanuts before one matinee perform
ance wncn a harmless
flea settled on the tip of
his trunk. "Hey," grum
bled the elephant, "quit
crowding, will ya?"
Emest Gruening trlls
how one prominent Alas
kan, Dr. Walter W. Coun
cil, once tliot three bears
with a amgle bullet. Word
came to the Doctor that a
whale had been stranded
on a nearby beach. When
he reached the acenf, he
spied A large brown bear
feeding on the whale car
cass. This provided an op-
potttinity no true Alaskan could tci',.
Dr. Council ran back to his cabin, returned with )i,a n';,
took careful aim at the bear's heail, and (.red. When he can-.a
up to the dead bruin he found that two curs aad bean feritu-J
on the other side of their mother. The 'auliei. that killed h-r
passed tnroHgh both of them also! (Don t O'l !v badly abe .t
these brownies. Mean ones have reangied many an unwar
Alaskan citizen:)
e
Mrs Howard was d'conc!e' vfcn her beiivM offspring
hroujrr.t home a report caud ir,mr t'Kiur.e bjt -D'a". Mr.
Howard, however, alwi i an ori.rjua cenaote.! lur with, "Or.
thing, at leas:: It proves ha not aiatun "
C 1X3. by Bennett Cert. Disfribuiel br Kuif futures SrnJI;a:e
Reports reaching Hong
Kong say Communist China
is feeling the pinch of being
deprived of Soviet aid. Pei
ping's leaders are said to ba
making a point of telling tha
people about the lack of Rus
sian aid to goad them into
greater domestic production
efforts.
Cosmonaut Closeup
A news conference that
will provide the first oppor
tunity of Western corespond
ents to speak to and see Cos
monauts Andrian Nikolayev
and Pavel Popovich close up
is expected in Moscow early
next week, possibly Tuesday.
The conference probably will
not be held sooner because
the cosmonauts want a couple
of quiet days with their fami
lies in the wake of the big
Ret' Square celebration.
only after Congress amended
the constitution and hastily
created a parliamentary form
of government, thus taking
to -itself some of the presi
dent's powers.
On the surface Goulart ac
quiesced in his diminished
role but soon proclaimed he
wasn't going to stand still
long and function "like tha
Queen of England."
He has been devoting every
waking moment to making it
impossible for the new parlia
mentary system to work. It
is evident he doesn't want it
to work.
President Goulart has been
so busy arguing that he has
not sufficient powers lo gov
ern that he has neglected to
use the large powers he still",
possesses to deal seriously
with the nation's economic,
financial, and social prob'
lems. He hasn't even had timo
to fulfill the commitments he
made to President Kennedy
when he was in Washington
this spring.
What we are witnessing
here now is a cold war con
ducted by an aspiring presi
dent against an expiring con
gress. rOULART has been demand
" ing that Congress give him
two things: exceptional pow
ers for six months to run the
country without congressional
interference and an early pie
bescite. From this plebiscite
he expects to gel popular sup
port to compel congress to re
store his partially shorn pres
idential powers.
Congress doesn't want a
plebiscite until after the con
gressional elections in Octo
ber and. like the United States
Congress, isn't disposed to
give blank-check powers to
one president, particularly
one it doesn't trust.
Thus Brazil's political pic
ture comes full-circle back lo
its swirling vacuum. Every
thing's in motion and getting
nowhere unless it be near
er combustion. Combustion
can't be ruled out since the
menace of a general strike is
now threatened unless Con
gress yields to President Gou
larl. The unions are pretty
much in the pocket of the gov.
eminent Goulart was a
longtime Secretary of Labor
and are a handy instrument
of poltical pressure.
Goulart is trying to make a
scapegoat out of congress for
whatever goes wrong and
Congress is trying to make a
scapegoat out of Goulart.
Until the new elections this
fall, the least bad thing that
can happen here is nothinc.
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