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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 21, 1952 (Thursday)
Donuld P. McNeil, mana
ger of the Seaside Chamber
of Commerce for the past 2 'a
years, has been named man
ager of the Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce.
James C. Miller Jr., 411
Onkwood dr., Medford, this
week was named Jackson
county's "Grassman of the
Year."
20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 21, 1942 (Friday)
Two-way traffic is restored
In Crater Lake highway and
Midway rd. between Medford
and Camp White; roads were
made one-way during can
tonment constructions
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
oak trees in the high country
. have started to take on their
autumnal garb. At present
tliev are just a rumpus of
color, but soon will be a riot
of the same."
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 21, 1932 (Sunday)
At request of chamber of
commerce, the city council
considers possibility of adopt
ing commission or manager
form of government for Med
ford. 40 YEARS AGO
Auq. 21, 1922 (Monday)
Portlnnri Jnnrm.1 editorial
ly fenrs Hint Ku Klux Klnn
religious dcbnlc will become
the overshadowing issue in
the Jackson county election of
a eircuit judge.
Noted University of Wis
consin scientists visit the
Southern Oregon Kxperiment
station to view work being
done on blight resistant penrs
and pear stocks.
50 YEARSAGO
Aug. 21, 1912 (Wodnesday)
Three dollar market is fore
seen for Medford Bart let t
pears in New York; over 40
cars shipped to date.
Medford members of Bull
Moose party continue efforts
to encourage Col. Theodore
Roosevelt to spenk here; one
party member offers $100 to
ward expense of providing
suitable place to speak.
VSsat's Your I.Q.?
Nino or ten correct it luperior;
even or eight is excellent; five or
tix is good.
1. Wluit mn ior physical ef
fect on the earth is caused by
the gravitational pull of the
moun'.'
2 In what U.S. city did
F.lias Howe invent the sew
ing machine?
;i. Who was the first Vii'e
rre.ideiit of the United
States"
4. What is tile literal mean
ing of adieu'.'
5. in which American war
did Sir Henry Clinton fight?
b For what purpose is a
realm1!' used'.'
7. What river forms the
northern boundary of Ken
tucky'' 8. In what war was the
battle of Fort Dearborn
fouuht?
9. In I he metric system is
a meter longer, or shorter,
than a yard?
10. Correct 1 ho following:
"My wife and myself left the
party early."
Answers: 1. Tides. 2. Cam
bridna, Mass. 3. John Adams.
4. "To God." (S h o r I n d
form of I commend you to
God.) 5. American Revolu
tion. 6. To enlarge a hole.
7. Ohio Biver. 8. War of 1812.
9. Longer. 10. "My wife and
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TUcaDAY, AUGual' 21. 13b2
On Morality
A minister in Kansas has written a letter up-
oracling me ior a column a iew montns ago, in
which I mentioned the
night in a poker game.
He feels that I am
corrupt young people into the ways of gambling,
instead of attacking such "immoral behavior," as
he thinks I should be doing.
His letter points up one of the biggest flaws
of the clergy in American life and that is equat
ing "immorality" with gambling, drinking, smok
ing, or looser sexual habits than our grandfathers
practised.
THESE activities damaging as they may be
in extreme cases are only a minor segment
of the whole field of morality. The real, the basic,
the pervasive, immorality of our time is a wrong
relation to other people. And this aspect is rarely
dealt with by the clerical fulminators against
poker games and cocktail lounges.
Greed, bigotry, smugness, indifference, the
calculating use of another person for one's own
end all these are the sins of the spirit; and they
are the sins that Jesus
sins, indeed, are found more frequently among
so-called "respectable" people than among the
thieves, prostitutes and wine-bibbers that Jesus
mingled with.
The sins of the flesh are relatively innocuous;
they do not corrode the whole social order, as
the sins of the spirit do. Jesus was gentle with
the woman taken in adultery; those he railed
against were "upstanding" members of the con
gregation, who prayed loudly in public and were
cold-hearted and self-satisfied in their personal
relations.
IT IS a sign of our social
llMn 1 if if' rArr linn
iiiui aiiij wviay jitio vjiiic mean tuc c ii u 1 v -
alent of "sexual morality." The modern Pharisees
are thus able to vent their anger against prosti
tutes, homosexuals, and purveyors of porno
graphic material while at the same time ignor
ing the profound immoralities of the market
place, the political arena, the arms race, and the
perversion of science for destructive purposes.
We are living in an immoral age or, more
frighteningly, in an amoral age. It is a spirtual
malaise we are suffering from: a corruption of
the idea of "right relations" between one person
and another. This is the only morality that great
religious teachers have ever bothered about. I
Jesus parable about the mote and the beam
was never more vividly exemplified than by the
preachers and reformers who agitate themselves
about gambling and boozing and necking (whicli
are trivial symptoms of our boredom and our aim-
lessness), while passively
credo that passes for "civilization" today. Chris
tianity should be a radical
order, not a thin-lipped
ney J. Harris.
(c 1062, Field
Sister
When Forest Grove,
city affiliation with Bornova, Turkey, soon, it will
bring to seven the number of Oregon cities having
such overseas affiliations.
Portland and Medford were the first, and
Medford was one of the first smaller towns in the
nation. She joined Alba, Italy, in a sister-city
relationship 2'- years ago. Others to date in
clude Portland and Sapporo, Japan; Klamath
Falls and Rotorua, New Zealand; Milton-Free-water
with Wainmatc, N. Z.; Eugene and Chinju,
Korea, and Corvallis and Antofagasta, Chile.
Twenty-one other Oregon communities are
making plans for such affiliation, and two or
three more are expected to be in effect before the
end of the year. Among them are Ashland, As
toria, Coos Bay, Cottage Grove, La Grande,
Pendleton, Koseburg and Springiielcl.
rREGON is recognized as a leader in sister
citv affiliations. The state itself is in the pro
cess of working out a state
tion with Hokkaido, Japan. And Oregon s lead
is being followed by other states, notably Vir
ginia, where the "Oregon Plan" of action in
establishing affiliations is being adopted.
John W. Snider, mayor of Medford, is chair
man of the League of Oregon Cities' committee
on sister-city relationships, and has travelled
widely throughout the state explaining how to go
about the nroieet, and encouraging cities to begin
Later this month, at
the American Municipal Association in Phila
delphia, Pa., Mayor Snider will participate in a
panel discussion of sister-city projects, and will
outline the "Oregon Plan."
In the case of Medford and Alba, the sister
city relationship has proven heartwarming in
many ways. A number of Medford people have
visited the northern Italian city, and a young at
torney from Alba, Pino Dutto, is now in Medford.
HTIIE high point in the Medford-Alba story to
date was the recent Telstar telephone conver
sation between Mayor Snider and Mayor Osvaldo
Oagnasso of Alba. Alba has named a street Via
Medford, and early next month Medford will
rename a city park "Park of Alba."
Other cities have had similar experiences.
Klamath Falls residents have visited in Rotorua,
and folk from there have visited Klamath Falls.
, . - ,
in tins case, oi collide, language was 110 u.ii 1 it't, ij., lmusuai collection of ir
it is in many instances, although it has never (relevant remarks, n The num
been an insuperable one, Mayor Snider reports. i"0' rhil!ir';n 'r) previous-
. '. . 1 . Iv horn of Mrs. Finkbme has
I lie dividends Irom the program increased I
interest and Understanding, a real people-tO-peO- !
pie interchange, a growth
tion make it a gratifying experience. L.A.
pleasures of sitting up. all
using my "influence" to
preached against. These
pathology that the word
intvirt f r ntnnvi fl" i"Miiir
accepting the jungle
criticism of the secular
clean-up crusade. byd
Enterprises, Inc.)
Cities
Ore., enters into a sister-
- province sister affilia
the annual convention of
i ; .
of respect and affec
"In Cae Anything Should Go Wrong, I Want You
To Know It Been Nice
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Parking Problems
To the Editor: Just want to
say a big "thank you" to Med
ford city council for approving
the request from downtown
city merchants to conduct
sidewalk sales during Aug.
30-31, and giving free parking
everywhere. Without the
downtown merchants for the
many past years, there would
be no Medford today. We cus
tomers think these merchants
should be given this break
much oftener.
It's to the town's Interest to
help these merchants in solv
ing their problems.
The beautiful growing
Southern California city of
Ontario (often times called
"little Los Angeles") put In
downtown parking meters.
The slogan is, "The customer
is always right." They did not
like the parking meters. What
did the merchants do about it?
They moved out and started
building large shopping cen
ters, with plenty of free park
ing space for everyone, leav
ing empty buildings in down
town. Now I ask you, are empty
buildings attractive? Or good
advertisement for a wide
awake city? Would that
"Make Medford Beautiful?"
It could happen here. Please
observe the many cars parked
at our new and growing shop,
ping center here on Jackson.
In a few more years, Med
ford may have spacious shop
ping centers out from down
town in all directions. Do we
want our new civic center
building to then be located in
the center of a semi ghost
town? What did Ontario,
Calif., do to prevent their fair
city from becoming a semi
ghost center, downtown? They
took the parking meters out.
Oh, you say, that cannot
happen here. Well, it may be
later than you think. How
many stores for the past two
years have run big sales ads -qutting
- going out of busi
ness, etc.? Now let's take a
look at the possible bright side
of tile near future. Soon we
will have a wonderful new
highway to Crescent City,
Calif., to the city's new com
mercial size pier for shipping
by water, also soon we will
have natural gas for the val
ley's nerds.
In another ten years will
Medford be three times the
size in population than now?
And in our locations where
now are pear and other fruit
orchards, will there be fac
tories, with steady year
around employment and vast
housings? Yes, it could hap
pen here. Let's not be asleep
and let the opportunities pass
hy to some other location.
The're many city problems,
we know, hut the greatest of
all is a ghost town problem,
or a stunted town that cannot
grow. Do not be too smug
about it, for I repeat it could
start happening here and
much sooner than we think
We welcome large shopping !
centers out all around, but
give us good free parking for
downtown shopping and it
will prosper also.
City Dads, it's your prob
lem too. to help these mer
chants find a riRht way ifor
all concerned) to keep their
doors open.
Mrs. W. C. Malone
4a Mace rd.
Medford
Irrelevancies
To the Kditor- Mrs. Prlbort
lum'J'S leuer 1.111 n-io-oi. is
'0 hearing on the justification
for taking the life of the fifth,
mere is no quesuon 01 a "o """i"""" 01 viiiim
bad seed. The possibility of! by a more sinister and evil
malformation arose because of 'power than Japan.
Being Teamed together
a drug taken after conception
had occurred. 3) Ridicule can
have no effect on this ques
tion. The child, until birth, is,
let us say, insensitive to ridi
cule. Surely Mrs. Casey does
not propose to dispose of all
deformed people now living
because they may be subject
to ridicule - from ignorant
people. 4) Mrs. Casey has con
fused the place of God's will
in this matter. Remember, we
are concerned with the ques
tion of life. We would hope
Mrs. Casey does not Imply
uod is indifferent toward hu-
man life. But if He is not in
different and does not will
that a child be born, then He
must will the child be killed.
If this is so, Mrs. Casev finds
herself in the same posttion
she previously deplored being
taken by others. True, if Mrs.
Casey runs in front of traffic
and is killed, it is because she
would have been foolish. I
would not think, however,
such carelessness would be in
accordance with the fact that
God has willed man to be re
sponsible. 5) People may con
fuse carelessness with God's
will. OK. Now, was Mrs. Fink
bine careless in taking the
harmful drug (Mrs. Casey's
point is not clear to us here)?
But whether or not Mrs. Fink
bine acted carelessly in taking
the drug is of no relevancy.
The taking of a harmful drug,
carelessly or otherwise, is one
thing. The taking of an inno
cent life is something else. The
taking of such life violates the
natural law, and therefore not
in accordance with Him who
designed the natural law.
To argue the life of an un
born child may be taken be
cause of the possibility of mal
formation implies malforma
tion destroys the purpose of
life. Surely Mrs. Casey will
agree such an implication
would be unsound.
Robert J. Howard
702 Beekman st.
Medford
Dr. Chu and Ancestors
To the Editor: Dr. Ng Png
Chu was vice president of a
large Chinese A m e r i c a n
steamship company plying its
trade between our Pacific
coast and the Orient. He had
resided in San Francisco
twenty years and spoke per
fect English, even better than
comes out of Hollywood. He
was called the Chinese Mark
Twain.
Among other things of in
terest he said, "I understand
that many of you Americans
are proud of your ancestors
who came over in the May
flower about 300 years ago.
Well, the Chu family trace
their ancestry to a prime min
ister who lived about 1500
B.C. A prime minister is a
good place to start your fam
ily tree. We do not trace back
any further than that lest we
find one of our ancestors
swinging from the limb of a
,rce b' n' ,n'l!" (Laughter
Then he added, "I understand
that some of mv American
friends can trace their ances
try to one who swung from
the limb of a tree by his
neck." (Laughter and some
groans).
Then Dr. Chu proceeded to
give us a vivid picture of con
ditions in his native land. At
that time Japan was trying to
weaken and destroy the Inde
pendence of China. He con
cluded by saying he feared
the day when Japan would
have a severe stomach ache
from trying to digest too
much broken up China.
But unfortunately, with all
!hl prophetic vision, the good
jman could not foresee the
MtOFOHO MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OHEGON
High Cost
Complicates Finding
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
United Press International
Paris The "log cabin to
White House" tradition may
apply in Washington. But it
became clear again to Euro
Matter of Fact ey
(cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
(Joseph Alsop is on vaca
tion. During his absence his
column will be written by
leporteri expert in national
and international affairs.)
THE SAVVY AMERICAN
Saigon, South Viet Nam
Those overly- caricatured
"ugly" and "quiet" Ameri
cans in this war-racked little
Southeast Asian nation are
being replaced among the
soldiery anyhow by a grati
fying number of United
States Army officers and men
who might be called, without
flattery, the "savvy" Ameri
cans.
The Army still has a good
ly number of grumblers and
petulant malcontents on as
signments here, plus its full
quota in all ranks of regula
tions and "book" worship
pers, the non-imaginative and
unseeing, the deadheads.
There still are the inevitable
Army time-servers here, wait
ing only for the end of their
tours.
But in general, and especi
ally in field advisory posts
with the South Vietmanese
army and in the sensitive
jobs of counselling South
Vietmanese officers and civi
lian officials on politico-military
programs to fight Com
munists, the Army men on
duty here are impressive.
The sleeping giant, called
the U.S., had better rub the
sleep out of his eyes and look
around lest, like Gulliver, he
find himself bound to the
ground by tiny strands no one
of which could hold his little
finger.
We are being destroyed
from within by threads of
isms that appear innocent or
insignificant but are gradual
ly sapping our power or wil
lingness to heal our own ills
and shortcomings. Wake up,
wake up, America. The days
are growing shorter and lost
hours can never be recalled.
L. G. Weaver
301 Haven St.
Medford
Puerto Rico
To the Editor: Western cities
trying to attract industries
should emulate Puerto Rico,
which has managed to attract
some 500 factories in the last
decade or so by offering tax
concessions and cheap labor.
Puerto Rico is only 100
miles long and 35 miles wide.
It has a lot of people and like
most islands in this area, a
very high birth rate. It ex
ports merchandise and people
to the mainland. Puerto Rico
should be given its independ
ence instead of statehood.
Once one of these islands is
taken into the United States,
our imperialistic minded poli
ticians will try to admit oth
ers.
O. L. Brannaman,
3970 Sierra Vista ave.,
Sacramento 20, Calif.
Deer Project
To the Editor: The Rogue
Valley Alumnae Chapter of
Delta Gamma were very
gratified by the wonderful
response of many persons to
our project of a deer for the
blind children at the Schol for
the Blind in Salem, Ore. Aid
to the blind has always been
a Delta Gamma national proj
ect. We wish to thank all those
who participated in the bene
fit bridge dessert in January,
the proceeds of which affair
made the deer possible. Mr.
James Martin, the taxidermist
from Eagle Point, took over
from there and did a wonder
ful job indeed.
Many of you saw his glori
ous handiwork, the deer, dis
played at the United States
National Bank last week.
This letter Is an open thank
you to Mr. Martin and all the
following helpers:
Mr. Julius Szalegy of the
House of Wood, White City,
for the platform.
Perl s Funeral Home lor
safety zone stands.
Hoppe's greenhouse for the
bronze, pink and blue ribbons.
Mr. Archer Watson Jr. and
Mr. Wayne La Tourette of
Western Oil and Burner Co.,
and Mr. Donald R. Lacy and
Mr. Den Atkinson for trans
porting deer in city.
Olive Starcher of the Med
ford Mail Tribune for her fea
ture article.
KMED-TV for use of the
Focal Point show.
The United States National
bank for the deer display.
Eads Transfer company for
crating and Pierce Freight
lines tor shipping the deer to
Salem.
Our heartfelt thanks to all
of you!
Rogue Valley Alumnae
Chapter of Delta
Gamma,
Medford.
of Being U.S. Ambassador
peans this week that It does
not always work when it
comes to representing the
United States abroad.
Gen. James M. Gavin flew
home with his family after
Joseph Alsop
Notably the "savvy" ones.
fTHOSE are the soldiers who
have learned that this war
involves not only battalions
and machine guns, but also
politics, economics, minority
factions, civic action, and
that group in each nation of
the world to which most
armies heretofore despite
pious platitudes to the con
trary have been strangers:
the people.
The United States Army is
not engaged here as a mili
tary machine in direct con
flict with the Communists. Of
ficers and men assigned to
duty in South Viet Nam are
advisers only. They some
times briefly become com
manders, in effect, of the
units they advise, notably
during combat operations
with South Vietnamese com
panies or battalions having
inexperienced leaders.
But the Americans' main
job is not to fight (although
they can shoot back if shot at)
and not to lead. It is to ad
vise. "If I think the commander
of this regiment is doing or
planning something haywire,
i can advise against it," one
American explained. "But, if
he doesn't like my advice, he
can tell me to climb a rope
and sometimes does."
rpHIS responsibility without
authority irks some
American soldiers here, con
vinced their advice if taken
could mean more defeats
for the Communist guerillas.
But the restraints on their
authority, plus experience in
the field here and much close-
hand study and reflection on
Communist tactics and ways
to thwart them have widened
visibly the politico-military
knowledge and understanding
of many American soldiers
here who previously were
concerned with war and the
profession of arms only in
their most restricted, mili
tary sense.
Thus, a veteran American
paratroop major pounded the
side of his jeep on a Mekong
delta road recently and ex
claimed, "It's not artillery or
jumpers or airplanes or tanks
that's going to win this war.
"We can win this one only
if we get these farmers and
the Saigon clerks behind this
war, really on the govern
ment's side. And we can do
that by making life a little
better for them, not much,
just a little, maybe by curing
their kids' yaws or seeing the
old man keeps a little more
of what he earns or grows,
giving them something they
want to keep, some incentive
to side with us."
He grinned, a quick, mirth
less grimace, his teeth flash
ing white in his dusty face.
"The psychologists have a
word for it, don't they?
motivation.
"This war isn't going to be
won only with guns or propa
ganda or carbolic soap for
sores, though. We have to
use them all, of course. But
we have to remember this:
this is a people's war. If we
get the people, we win: if the
Communists get 'em, we've
had it here."
rpHIS is the kind of "savvy"
found increasingly among
American soldiers here, from
the farm villages in the
steaming Mekong delta to the
long-house villages of the
mountain tribesmen on the
cool, misty high plateau,
among men who six months
or a year ago thought of war
as regiments and bombs and
rarely if ever in terms of
children's yaws or a village's
rice crop.
These are the Americans,
wearing guns, who worry and
scheme for a new well or a
medical dispensary for a vil
lage, who insist South Viet
Nam's army must be present
ed to South Viet Nam's peo
ple as a friendly and helpful
force concerned first with
them.
This is the kind of "savvy"
which is difficult to translate
into action through the South
Vietnamese government, how
ever, given the restrains on
authority within which an
American adviser can suggest
but not order, plead but not
dictate. And difficult to
translate into action also be
cause of the South Viet Nam
government's thus far slug
gish attempts to get its peo
ple on its side in the war
here.
Nobody can tell yet if the
broadened politico military
knowledge acquired by many
Americans here will speed or
even bring victory in South
Viet Nam's war. It should
help, if the South Vietnamese
government responds to it
and the people respond to the
South Vietnamese government.
Best Men
less than a year and a half
in the critical job of United
States ambassador to France.
Gavin reiterated to report
ers that his main reason for
giving up this front man job
for the United States was
"urgent personal considera
tions." Chief of these was that
he simply could not afford it.
The same problem will face
his successor Charles E. Boh
len, a career U. S. foreign
service officer with a highly
distinguished record includ
ing ambassadorships in Mos
cow and Manila but no
sizable personal fortune.
Unlike Gavin, Bohlen does
not have a family of young
children to put through
school. But he will feel the
strain nonetheless.
The U. S. ambassador to
France receives the highest
foreign service salary of $27,
500 all of it taxable. He
also receives an annual ex
pense allowance of something
more than $25,000.
But it is not difficult to see
why he has trouble simply
making ends meet.
It is not a question of the
ambassador living high off
the hog. It is not only the offi
cial dinners and July 4 open
house receptions.
Every senator, every con
gressman, every American
big business executive who
arrives in town expects to
Washington Report
By William
(c) United Feature Syndicate
REPORT CARD
Washington As the first
full Congress of the Kennedy
administration draws to a
painfully un
hurried close,
it seems sea
s 0 n a b 1 e to
evaluate the
p e rformance
to date of the
P r e s ident's
foreign policy
team.
This is such
an evaluation,
wnlt-
based mostly on the opinion
of this columnist but influ
enced by the trusted opinions
of certain others, inside and
outside Congress.
Secretary of State Dean
Rusk "A" for his basic
job, which is to help the Pres
ident prepare high policy and
to see that policy through;
"B" for congressional rela
tions, which, though some oth
er diplomatic types have nev
er learned it, are very impor
tant. Under Secretary George
Ball "A" for his top func
tion, which is to oversee ail
the high-level wheeling and
dealing through which we
hope to associate usefully with
the European common mar
ket; "C" for congressional re-
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, several
days after the biggest cash
robbery in U.S. history, au
thorities still have not made
an arrest. Nor, the morning's
dispatches tell us, do they
have any prime suspects.
But they do have an inven
tory of the cash that was
stolen. It was chiefly in rela
tively small bills. Of the $1,
551,277 that was hijacked,
there were only two $1,000
bills and only 120 bills of $100
denomination.
The remainder was broken
down as follows: $24,000 in
$50 bills; $492,000 in $20s,
ioi,uuu in ?ius, $139,000 in
$5s, $4100 in $2s and $42,000
in one-dollar bills.
This is considered a handi
cap to the authorities, as these
denominations are in such
common usage as to make
their disposal relatively easy.
If the bulk of it had been in
big bills, detection of the rob
bers would have been easier,
as the passing of a big bill
tends to be noted by the re
cipient of it.
I TNCLE Is the loser.
He Is out one and a half
million dollars.
To most of us. that looks
like quite. a lot of money.
rut-
Aftor oil
To our old Uncle, it isn't
much.
QUR old Uncle is a fabuloui
spender. This year, he is
expected to spend somewhere
the neighborhood of 85
BILLION dollars. A billion
is a thousand millions.
Let's put it this way:
Uncle Is spending at the
rate of $85,000 millions every
year.
He spends $232.6 millions
every day.
He spends $9.7 millions ev
ery hour.
He spends $160,000 every
minute.
IVHICH is to s
" If the ol
say:
Id boy would
STOP SPENDING for about
TEN MINUTES, he'd have it
all back.
It's really quite simple.
Available
visit the ambassador and to
be invited to a meal at his
residence.
Even ambassadors like Ga
vin who cut out the Fourth
of July open house and in
vite only a ruthlessly-pruned
list of guests find the cost
prohibitive.
When Gavin was appointed.
President John F. Kennedy
instructed the State Depart
ment to pay expenses over
and above his blanket ex
pense allowance.
But that meant that Gavin
had to turn in an expense ac
count for just about every
taxi he took.
There were many items ha
could not charge up at all
such as the wardrobe needed
by his wife for official enter
taining. It has been estimated, with
out contradiction, that Gavin's
predecessor, Amory Hough
ton, a millionaire industrial
ist, spent $50,000 annually out
of his own pocket over and
above his salary and official
allowances.
Gavin could not afford that,
nor will Bohlen be able to.
Since Gavin's resignation
was announced Europeans
have been asking just how
long the high cost of repre
senting the United States
abroad means that the best
man for the job will not nec
essarily be able to afford it.
S. White
lations. Here, Ball's case tha
bill to give the President en
larged tariff-cutting authority
as part of this common mar
ket approach is much bet
ter than Ball's grasp of con
gressional subtleties and re
alities. TTNDER Secretary George
U McGhee "A" for his
most important, if unassigned,
responsibility: to help Rusk,
and ultimately the President,
to keep down the extremism
from left and right which is
the endless enemy of sensi
ble foreign policy; "A" for
congressional relations, too.
Walt Rostow, chairman of
the State department policy
planning group "A" for
his work in helping prepare
policy alternatives of all sorts
in a tricky and nasty cold-war
world; "C plus" for congres
sional relations.
This latter mark, while
poor, is not Rostow's fault.
Actually, he has no special
business having any congres
sional relations. And those he
has had have been thrust upon
him by a few congressional
suspicions that because he is
a professor by trade, he must
be as dreamy about the na
ture of the Communist chal
lenge as some professors are.
In truth, he is a good, thinking
anti - Communist, as distin
guished from the sort of anti
Communist who is largely oc
cupied with crying out how
very anti-Communist he is.
lllcGEORGE Bundy, While
House foreign policy ad
viser "A" for a kind of
work similar to Rostow's. No
mark for congressional rela
tions for the reason that Bun
dy really has none, and should
have none.
Adlai E. Stevenson, head
of our delegation to the Unit
ed Nations "A" for the
very debatable function of
"getting along" with others
in the UN, particularly tha
Asians and Africans; "C mi
nus" for the responsibility oS
strongly representing the
views of the United Stales
government at the UN; "D mi
nus" for congressional rela
tions. Assistant Secretary of Slate
(for United Nations affairs)
Harlan Cleveland "A" for
tireless devotion to a poor
cause, which seeks a UN of
usurped and medding power
over the affairs of sovereign
nations; "F" for the wisdom
of his advice to superiors on
same; "D minus" for con.
grcssional relations.
ASSISTANT Secretary of
State rfor foreign affairs)
Mennen Williams "A" for
the same devotion to African
"i n dependence" aspirations;
the same failing grades on the
other two points as for Cleve
land. Assistant Secretarv of state
(Far East) Averell Harriman
"A" for courage, initiative,
and willingness to take ppr
sonal responsibility and risk
in a tough diplomatic area;
"A" for candor: "C" for con
gressional relations.
Summing up, the principal
weakness in the President's
foreign policy team is found
in that section of the team
which was forced upon him
by the Stevenson wing of the
Democratic party and which
deals primarily with UN af
fairs Stevenson himself
and his associate. Harlan
Cleveland. (Ball, though also
a "Stevenson man," is less pas
sionately in the Stevenson cult
and Is. moreover, an excel
lent man on foreign trade
questions.)