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Newspaper Page Text4 IfKSFOaoJWrBIBUNI '" "Everyone in SoulhTrnHoreVon"- Ream The Mall Tribune" Published Dully except Saturday by MKOKOr.n PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St., Ph. 772-eil ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GIIEY Advertlilns Manaeer GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR., Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRV CHIPMAN. Telo. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Edllor DALE ERICKSON. ClrculatlonMgiv An Independent Newtpaper Entered at aecond class matter at Medlnrd, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance, Copy lie Daily and Sunday 1 year JlS.no Dally and Sunday 0 mot R.on Dallv and Sunday 3 mot 4 25, Sunday Only One year S4 20 Bv Carrier In Advance Mcdlord, Ashlnd, Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year JIB 00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1 SO Carrie, and Dcalera Copy 10c All Terma Cash in Advance Official Paper of City ot Medford" oiriclal PaperofJackton County United Press International Full Leased Wire IJ P I Tclephoto Newspieturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU-" Of CiKUULAlIUINO iTdvprfliinff Representative NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI. ATES. Otlloea in New York. Chi. cago Detrnrt. San Francisco. Lot Angeles Seattle, Portland. Denver Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 19S2 (Tueiday) Miss B. J. Larsen chosen as administrator of Community hospital; she succeeds Miss Ruth Nelson. All' union barber shops in Medford and valley towns will close Mondays beginning Sept. 1. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 28 1942 (Wednesday) Two 12-year-old girls from Wagner creek are killed when the car in which they are rid ing overturns in an Irrigation ditch. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A fair Is underway in Multnomah county with no reports of rain, and pictures of the events reveal no sea ot um brellas." 00 YEARS AGO Aug. 26. 1932 (Friday) George Putnam, editor of the Salem Capitol Journal and Tribune, visits Medford to fish with E. E. Kelly. Mrs. F. .1. Clifford and daughter, Olive, of Medford, arrive in Pendleton on horse back to attend roundup; trip was taken to enable Miss Clif ford to regain her health. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1922 (Saturday) Horse bolts, runs off with express wagon; reminiscent of "good old days" before the monopolization of automobile traffic. First carload of Medford Bnrtletl pears sells In New York for $3.2S a box. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 26, 1912 (Monday) Craler lake rangers report they are continuing the search for B. B. Bakowski who disap- peared near the lake more than a year ago. A motor street car company j operating four busses is pro- i nosed for Medford; J. A. Wcs-j terlund organizes a company capitalized at $20,000. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct It superior! even or eight it ovcellent; live of tit It good. 1. How many arms has an octopus? 2. One of Ihe Central Republic does not border on the Caribbean sea; name it 3. The moon his four phases; name them. 4 For what purpose was the Eiffel Tower in Paris. France originally built? .V From where did Ihe Moors emigrate into Spain'.' 6. What are the three slates of mailer-1 7 Does' hair on the human i body grow from the ends, or j from Ihe roots? A. In Greek mythology, who was the husband of Penelope? 9. Does Hallcy s Cornel re- - apper about every 6,V .V or years? 10. In what state is Triipol Dome? Answers: 1. t ight. 2. El Sal vador. 3. New, first quarter. Full, latl quarter. 4. Tourist attraction. S. From North Africa. 6. Liquid, solid, gat. 7. From the rooti. I. Ulyttet. f. 75. 10. Wyoming. yp" ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI SUNDAY. Auoua 1' 2t. Ib2 On Blight Two things have the Medford running scared The competition success of the Medtord All the talk of blight in the downtown bus iness district. Both, we submit, need not necessarily be any cause for alarm, but the cries of distress from the downtown area seem to get louder and more plaintive as each day goes by. REPRESENTATIVES of the downtown mer chants have unhesitatingly and unblushing ly described the extent of their woes to the city council on a number of occasions. The most recent instance occurred at the last council meeting on Aug. 16 when Attorney Ed ward Branchfield, representing a group of down town landlords, appeared before the council to oppose passage of the city's revised fire code. He shied away from the vital aspect of public safety, and concerned himself with warning the council that the merchants and landlords simply couldn't afford to install sprinkler systems in the basements of their buildings. A rather bald suggestion was made that if the council forced the installatioa now, it was just possible that some business would be forced to close their doors. By the time Branchfield had finished with his pleaiby the time he had described the rows of vacaijt offices and the buildings standing vacant or being torn down, an uninformed listen er might have supposed that Medford was a ghost town instead of the fourth largest city in the state. one which has averaged a four per cent annual population growth over the last several years. IT WAS just too much for Mayor John W. Snider, who usually refrains from entering into matters appearing before the council. He flatly accused Branchfield of overstaVng the case, saying that Medford had "a great down town area," and that while it was probably under going a "period of transition," the real situation was not nearly so bad as it was frequently de scribed. County Assessor Thad Hatton, who happened to be in the audience, backed up Snider. He said the downtown district was currently being reas sessed and that while they did have some prob lems, he thought the merchants were actually in pretty good shape. J-ie ought to know. MO ONE would deny that the shopping center A" has pulled some business away from the downtown core (although it has also been said said that it has attracted new shoppers to Med ford to the ultimate benefit of the whole area). That several other stores and firms are due to open their doors in the center soon, indicates that the attraction for customers there is likely to increase rather than diminish. The Medford Shopping center is now an eco nomic fact of life in this area, and the downtown merchants had better learn to live with it. Our very economic system is based upon free enterprise and open competition in the market place. Rather than becoming frightened, the downtown merchants should imaginatively begin looking for ways to attract some customers them selves. The consumer market in this area is more than ample to support both the shopping center and the downtown district, but if one or the other loses out in the competition, it will have only itself to blame. XKTVt HAVE frequently heard the opinion of- fercd that the reason for the decline of busi ness in the downtown area is that there isn't ade quate customer parking. And all too often we have heard the sugges tion from downtown merchants that the city should assume part or all of the responsibility for providing more parking facilities in the busi ness district. This reallv makes no more sense today than jf tlp (PVpopcrS of the shopping center had asked . . , ' , . l.:' i7,i Lilt t i iy in p.i I'M nr. ji.it iitt; ii'ir. How odd it is that the staunchest believers in the doctrine of laissex, faire traditionally the businessman should so quickly demand gov ernment assistance or intervention whenever the competition gets a little fierce. 7E AREN'T convinced the lack of parking lem in the core area anvwav. We grant it's more chascs at the shopping center because of thei.on ,,, arncr(lt. ,ocl ,.e. ready availability of parking spaces. forms and show rays of eco- linl mwinln li.'nil t,i ulimi ulioin tho lnwl Ivir. i rromic hope if it is going to gains arc available, ami we would personally hunt for a parking space for a half hour if we knew we could make a substantial savings on a purchase, or get exactly what we wanted, after we had found a place for our car. Let the downtown merchant institute some major reforms and he'll end up doing more busi- HCSS than ll drcamcd possible : Let him train his personnel to be courteous and efficient; let him adopt modern methods of merchandising; let him offer genuine sales ami forget gimmicks like Blossom Rucks; let him effect some remodeling of his store to make it attractive and pleasant to shop in; and, finally, let him cooperate closely with other "'merchants in the flountov, n area the whole district. to Then, and only then, will he win his share of the consumer's dollar, and only then will the real or imagined bliuht in downtown Medford come to an end, (l.H.n. & Fright merchants in downtown these days: caused by the increasing shopping center, and for that matter, that is the root of the prob convenient to make pur improve and hCVItifV 1 J "It Wat Amu.ing To See Those Liberal Try To Hang Things Up With A Filibuster" Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann it en vacation. Roscoe Drummond reoorti from Washington In hit absence.) (c) CASTRO'S TARNISHED IMAGE Rio de Janeiro - Castro is becoming a tarnished image throughout Latin America. It is pleasant to be able to report that "Fldelismo" is vis ibly losing its appeal nearly everywhere. His name is no longer the once inspiring ral lying cry to stir revolution in the hemisphere. Except for the Communists, who are a vocal, well-financed, powerful minority, few people in the other Latin American countries want for themselves what Castro is im posing on Cuba. Not that Castro isn't still trying to export his "Fidelis- ta" revolution. He is. Under the compulsion of the expan sioni.st Marxian ideology, he is still seeking to infiltrate neighboring nations and to spread subversion not only against tne traditional oli gar chic governments but against the progressive gov ernments of the moderate left He still has some following in nearly every country. His appeal is to the nation alist sentiment of Latin Amer icans and to the pride they vi cariously feel in seeing the national personality of a small nation asserted against a pow erful Yankee neighbor. BUT .Firielismo finds its lus tre waning. Its appeal is being steadily sapped as the true picture of what is hap pening to the Cuban peopie is becoming better known. The rest of the hemisphere is now seeing more clearly that Castro promised a mir acle and created a mess, prom ised freedom and brought tyr anny, proclaimed Cuban inde pendence and turned his coun try over to the Soviets. If Castro were succeeding, if he were really Improving the lot of all Cuban people even with great regimenta tion, he would be a galvanic force for revolution in many parls of this continent be cause the stuff of which revo lution is made massive In flation, terrible poverty, and social Injustice Is widely at hand. The tinder is dry. But Castroism is not going to be the spark which sets it off. The spark of Castroism has nearly gone out as far as the rest of Latin America Is concerned. IT IS ii 1 if thci ncrcasingly clear that uprisings because of mass dis content and frustration and this can't be ruled out they will come not from Ihe suc cess of Cnslro but from the failure of the Alliance for Progress. The Alliance, though yet untested by performance, is a positive factor helping to erode the Castro myth. But the Alliance cannot sur vive on promises of things to come. It must begin to deliver j on its promises soon if it is going to enlist the faith of the i great majority of Latin Amcr- avert political explosion which can go in any direction or in all directions - none of thrm good. The decline of Castro as an appealing figure and symbolic rallying point doesn't mean Communist are giving up in l.alin America. Not at all. It simply means thai Commu nist leaders are having to work harder than ever and to lay hold of other slogans Cas tro is no longer much use lo them 'IMIE principal target of Com- immists in Latin America today is Ihe Alliance for Prog ress. In Chile they are begin- ran 11 Alliance against. and this is apparently going to be one of the Communists' main slogans. The fact lhal the Commu nists are focusing their major attack on the Alliance shows how important they consider i 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Its destruction and, converse ly, how crucial it is to all of us South Americans and North Americana to press forward with this economic war against poverty and stag nation as if it were war itself. Either the Western hemis phere is going to achieve an accelerated economic growth by democratic means and that is the heart and purpose of the Alliance or mass frustration will demand that it be attempted by any other method whatsoever. Under such circumstances commu nism would have tremendous appeal. In the end it would be the most likely alternative. This is why there is no ac ceptable alternative to mak ing the Alliance for Progress a vitel and going concern. In fhe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President De Gaulle of France, returning to his sum mer headquarters outside Par is after presiding over a cabi net meeting which decided on sharp new measures to deal with the mounting wave of terrorism that is worrying the trench government, is am bushed by a group of would be assassins who spray his en tourage with machine gun bullets. He was accompanied by his wife and his son-in-law. Their closed car was hit ten times, one of the bullets piercing a window two inches from De Gaulle's head, and another shattering a window next to Mme. De Gaulle. French Minister of Interior Roger Frey told newsmen la ter that 71-ycar-old De Gaulle remained "as proud, Olym pian and imperturbable as ever, despite this second at tempt on his life within a year. DE GAuLle is a strange hnralii- ir I..J . . . ... . , u wc unu inuic like him on our side of the fence, we'd probably have more success in handling the Russian problem. The com mies know they can't bluff De Gaulle. They aren't sure about us yet. lROM Washington: The Kennedy administra tion is reported considering an LCONOMY order that would call on government deoart- mcnts to CUT SPENDING bv up to 3 per cent in the current fiscal year. If carried out, the move would help pave the way for President Kennedy's planned lfl(i3 Income lax cut, counter act Republican criticism of spending as a campaign issue and perhaps stimulate busi ness confidence in the admin istration. No White House decision on such an overall economy move has been made, congres sional "sources" tell the re porters. But, they add, the i idea is under discussion. j fOMMENT? Let s leave it to Senator Byrd, who says in an inter view: "An econninv order would be a FINE MOVE hut I'll believe it when I see it " 1 NCIDENTAL Information: According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the num ber of prisoners in federal. state and local prisons reach-j ed a record of -au..ij at the end of 1!)B1. This, the Bureau of Prisons reports, was a 3.5 per cent In crease over 19611 1 1 M MMMMMM " Considering th g the fact that the I'.S. population is barging up toward 200 million, thai doesn't seem to be a very large number If everybody w in prison who ought to be, maybe Ihe number would be larger. MLDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Matter of Fact by iei New YorK Herald Ttibun Syndic t By WARREN ROGERS, JR. (Joseph Alsop ii on vaca tion. His column is being written by other newt papermen meanwhile.) TWENTIETH CENTURY COMES TO DR. SALAZAR Lisbon- Portuguese hearts yearn for the days of old, when Vasco da Gama and Fer dinand Magellan carried the Portuguese flag to the far corners of the world. But Por tuguese heads know the past is dead and the present and future very much alive. And so, slowly and reluctantly, with a shiver of foreboding like a bather dunking a tense toe in a mountain stream, Portugal is edging into the twentieth century. When Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar took over the government on April 27, 1928, one day short of his 39th birth day, all was chaos. From the revolutionary founding of the republic in 1910 until then, there had been 40 cabinets and 22 coups d'etat, and only one president, Dr. Antonio Almeida, ever had served out his full four-year term. Infla tion was rampant. The econo my was an utter wreck, TR. SALAZAR left his mus--' ty classroom at the Uni versity of Coimbra, second oldest in Europe, where he taught economics, to become finance minister. He attached one condition: absolute power. His demand was met. In a year, he balanced the budget. In two years, he cut the government payroll in half. In three, ha raised taxes and paid off all of the public debt. In four, he unquestion ably had absolute power, and he has had it ever since. Dr. Salazar's philosophy is simple: work hard, live aus terely, pray devoutly, never borrow or accept favors, and save 10 per cent of all you earn. A bachelor, a near-re cluse, a puritanical and almost ascetic Roman Catholic, he practices what he preaches. and he has imposed It on Por tugal and all its possessions for 34 years. But now the Portugal that Dr. Salzar has built, with the aid of an elite of clever and most resourceful compatriots whom he. personally hand- picked, is being threatened by pressures outside the realm of his absolute power. These pressures, in the United Na tions and elsewhere, threaten Portugal with the loss of An gola and Mozambique, her ma jor overseas "provinces." OMALL wonder that Dr. Sala- p zar has sworn to fight lo the last drop to keep the col onies: with them, Portugal boasts a territory of 805,506 square miles, a population ot 22,419,666. and a balanced budget, International stature, and a protected market for goods which would find few buyers anywhere else. With out them, Portugal would be reduced to 34.230 square miles, a population of 8,980, 000, a monstrous trade deficit, a tenth-rate slatus, and a de pression which would make its current per capita income of $245 a year, the lowest in Western Europe, seem high. Nevertheless, a visit to love ly Lisbon for talks with the Salazar elite and the common folk, for walks among the Moorish tinged architecture, for the Portuguese bullfight Latin Youth Leaders By ERIC SEVAREID Aspen. Colorado There are more serene ways to vary a vacation than by sitting at a round table for three days listening to a description of America, American fore'.gn policy and the Amor - can character, as delivered by American f f i c i a 1 r e q u e s t from the quick tongues and impassioned minds of foreign students. It was maddening, moving, at times illuminating, and just possibly useful in terms of practical suggestions for improving the A m e r i c a n i "image." a word that sickens with age and usage The brooding Iranian was positive that American agents were responsible for the practice of the Shah's police in recoving the ears and longues of the Shah's politi cal enemies, positive that American financial aid !o the regime maintained his people in Ihe grip of tyrannv. The w hite Siu.'h African ' with t h e horn-r i m m e d. Bloomshury manner of total certainly was sure il was Ihe moral duty of America th stoo buying South American gold in order to facilitate the fall of that regime and the end of apartheid The consequence lo America's precarious gold reserve was a minor Item The birdlike Malayan hoy who kept a copy of "A Nation rim LgaartatiLait awya Sevaretd Joseph Alwp In which the bull is taunted but not killed, for miraculous ly fluffy omlets and depress ingly anguished "Fado" songs in the little cafe-all these re inforce past impressions and project a new one. PORTUGAL it still proud poor. A man with one suit and one pair of shoes keeps them looking fresh, and you would not know he wore them every day. A tourist may sleep between monogrammed sheets at the Ritz and gambol on the beach and at the casion at nearby Estoril; along with the Batistas and Don Juans. But quite large children play nak ed in the narrow streets of the slums of old Lisbon, to save their meager wardrobe for Sunday - go-to-meeting events. Yet, it is all changing, because, after all these years, Dr. Salazar is willing to take a chance on a change. The Angola uprising, which Dr. Salazar insists was outside-generated and involved less than one per cent of the Angolese, has cost him heavi ly. In a year of sending troops to quell the revolt, his re serves of gold and foreign ex change dropped by about $100 million. Painfully, he broke a rule about never borrowing. Edging into the twentieth century, he accepted loans from several sources. This out side help-which he had dis dained even to the point of refusing an offer of rent from the United States for use of the critically needed Azores base-built up his reserves again. As of July 1, they stood at $670 million. fpHE biggest loan, $67 mil lion to be repaid in 25 years, .came from America's Export-Import bank. It will help build the largest bridge in Europe across the Tejo river at Lisbon.. Another, $20 mil lion due in five years to nine American banks, is for general economic development. West Germany advanced $37.5 mil lion, repayable in 20 years, for airport development and for an irrigation project in arid Alentejo province. The World Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF AT A DINNER in honor of outstanding figures in the sports world, Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson told of a fifth-rate preliminary fighter who had been taking a fearful beating from a superior boxer. After the third round he pleaded with his manager, "How can I stand up against this guy?" "Breathe on him," advised the man ager. "Maybe he'll catch your cold!" Peter Sellers, British movie star, felt that he could afford a butler this year but the man he hired had a drawback. "The poor fellow," says Sellers, "could only see straight ahead. He couldn't see sideways at all. Result: lie kept bumping intc things. I'd call out, There's a wall over there.' He'd answer, You don't have to tell me. I know.' Then there would be a crash and we were out another set of china dishes." Sellers Is a great friend of Alec Guinness, and in fact, has en acted with distinction several roles that Guinness tinned down. When Guinness was knighted, Sellers celebrated a little too heartily and turned up at the theatre where he was making a personal appearance in a lather interesting monition. He walked unsteadily to the front of the stage and told the audience cheer fully, "I'm sloshed." They loved It! of Sheep" atop his docu ments, assured us that virtu ally all Asian intellectuals regard America as a war mongering. money-1 u s 1 1 n g. decadent society, though he added graciously that a visit here revealed a somewhat different picture. The jovial Chilean with bolh heart and gall bladder 1 on his sleeve had no doubt i that American private invest ment was a prime cause of i his country's political peril and was frustrated because I Latin studenst love theory, while visiting Americans like Adlal, Stevenson annoyingly insist on talking about facts and practical programs. So it went. All were lead ers, all, when intellectually frisked, turned socialists which out to be almost inevitable today In the pre- carious countries and which ! did not at all bother t lie American leaders and off i cials at the table, rather to the surprise of the visitors. Some Americans present thought listening was all we should do: it would be the way lo please the visitors, the turbulence In relieve their breasts and demonstrate j our large mindedness. But others opposed an exercise in group therapy at such a cost in air travel tickets. Surely, the young men could use a few elementary facts of life, policy and history. Rebuttal erupted from the American seats. These brave, earnest, gen- erally admirable young men - all future leaders of their Washington Report By William (ei llnllea Tenure Syndicate DIVIDING BERLIN Washington - The Russians' power plays over Berlin are having a new kind of success, more ominous in a way than their succ ess of a year ago in erecting the gaunt and in famous wall. For that wall, at worst, merely sealed an already long existing division of the city between Fast and West. But Soviet maneuvers now are, to art un deniably alarming extent, di viding West Berlin itself from the Western allies. This is the true heart of danger in the new Benin crisis. The recent helplessness of Western forces in wesi Berlin - specifically our own - to come to the aid of an East Berlin refugee youth left dying on the east side of the wall has hit all the West a very hard blow. West Ber liners now not only taunt the Soviets across the wall. They also taunt -and denounce the United States and the allies for their incapacity to move in such a situation as .this. Bank is considering, and prob ably will grant, a $25 million loan for hyerro-eiectric power. A school lunch program, using surplus American food, is a huge success. Ford and Gener al Motors are on the verge of making solid investments here. Dr. Salazar's philosophy now is to accept change, but slowly. He is willing to make major adjustments in the economy and the way of life, but he insists that they must be of the sort which can be sustained. His pride-indeed, the Portuguese pride-will not allow him to grab at help be cause it is there, or to tack with each blow of the winds of change howling throughout the world these days. The Portuguese will pull themselves up. But they can not be pushed. 3 trail Misunderstand U.S. countrics were told, 'because they had lo be told, these things among others. Most of them overestimated Communism as a persuasive doctrine and underestimated it as a short-term conspiracy aimed at presidential palace, radio station and army bar racks, after which the local argument would be over. None of them comprehend ed the policy necessities of America's world-wide respon sibilities, each demanding an American foreign policy fashioned exclusively in the light of his own country's needs. All wanted us to op pose right wing dictatorships, all wanted support for left wing dictatorships, however destructive of human liberties. None seemed conspicuously aware that they might have ! no free nation to represent lo- I day had it not been for Amcr-' lean and British policy to- ward Spain in the last con- j tury. had it not been for the ! oceans of American and Euro-j pean blood shed in the recent j struggles against German, j Italian. Japanese, and now Red Chinese and Russian im-' perialism None openly recognized. ! whatever his inner thoughts, j that Western peoples had to ! suffer and die over and over j again, from Magna Carta through the American Civil War and beyond, in order to win and preserve democratic liberties, and that history would probably demsnd the same experience of them; S. Whit WESTERN plans to send ambulances into East Ber lin hereafter in such instances are well-meant, but the ugly fact is that they are largely meaningless. What will the ambulances do when and if they get there, on Communist East Berlin soil? The hard, central reality is that Western allied rights in Berlin have been eroding away year after year under three successive American administrations - Truman's, Eisenhower's and Kennedy's. If one seeks to fix the "blame-1 here, he has a big and bi partisan field in which to search. Such an exercise, in nv case, is only academic. What is done is done. We face a present condition of fact, not a hunt for scapegoats from the past. And the condition of fact is this: what the United States really has to offer in this new crisis is a bleak but necessary cautionary thing. It is a re quest, even a demand, which we are privately making to the West Berlin authorities that thev accept the unalter able truth that the West can not really do anything beyond the western side of the wall. BERLINERS themselves, must cease their useless and harmful clamor against us, for it only puts water on the Soviet wheel. It gives the Russians an arguing point that "provocations ' and disor ders" in West Berlin are be coming intolerable and thai something must be done to establish "order" - Russian style. Once they establish this cynical fiction, they will find excuse after excuse to turn the screw tighter and tighter. Already thev are doing this bv diplomatic thrusts Intended to force the West closer and closer to recognizing their puppet so - called "govern ment" of East Germany. West Berliners. in a word, must avoid anything resembl ing riotous demonstra 1 1 o n s against us, or even against the Russians. For these are pre cisely what the Russians most want. Moreover, since the time, for total candor in this whole wretched affair has now ar rived, certain great truths must be recognized. One of these is that when responsible governments confront 1 r r e sponsible governments like the Soviet Union, the resoon-, sible side inevitably must cither adopt an unworthy and galling meekness, this side of surrendering anv vital fnte est. or prenare to enqage the irresponsib'es in war. a ANOTHER great I ruth Is that while the West will in fact fisht for such vital Interests, it will not and can not risk a war over the mur der of one German refugee, or even 20. If and when the great clash does come in nil its horror, it must come upon a far wider olane and for far more compelling reasons. The Germans must under stand that while we will stand good to the end for their free dom as a nation, we siinoW cannot guarantee Individual lives in that witch's pot of lost opportunities, mistaken judgments and past weakness es based on fatally wrong assessments of Russian inten tions of which Berlin Is th dreadful symbol today. that neither liberty nor safety can be granted by other?. Several seemed to expect from us a formula for instant-mix economic matur ity, complete with all fringe benefits, avoiding long years of toil and self-denial and savings. Most were looking for a neatly packaged American ideology, unaware that Amer ica lives by no ideology but by an unwritten series of hu man values which cannot b imported on request. All held American Informa tion agencies, press, TV and movies, responsible for dis torted images of this country among their own people, and it had occurred to none that their own journalist, broad casters and movie makers held a more immediate re. sponsibility. Well, we Americans Ir.-.meH a few things about them: they, please God, learned a little about us and world realities. At the end some u se f u I sounding, practical suggestions were made, But it was clear that if the best minds among foreign youth. Ihe future leaders of their countries, cannot ex- plain the truth of America to their own masses, no "people to people" emissaries from here, tramping through rife paddies and sugar fields, are going to measurably influ- ence the common people everywhere whom we seek to reach. (Distributed 1962. by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reterred)