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Flight o' Time
Medford nd Jackson County
History from the files ot Tha
Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5, 1952 (Sunday)
Robert Brantley issues
statement criticizing the Mail
Tribune for coverage of in
vestigations of petitions sub
mitted by Brantley and his
brother, Gene, nominating
Gene Brantley as independent
candidate for county judge.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5, 1942 (Monday)
Capt. Hubert B. Benllcy, of
Ashland and Ft. Lewis, and
Robert (Skee) Riegcl, of Glen
dale, Calif., enter finals of
14th annual Southern Oregon
Northern California Invita
tional tournament at Rogue
Valley Country club.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. J. 1932 (Wednesday)
Hugh de Autremont, the
youngest of the three brothers
serving life terms for their
confessed part in the Siskiyou
tunnel train robbery and
quadruple murders nine years
ago, is confined in the peni
tentiary's correction cell for
his participation in the July
4 escape plot.
Phoenix and Talent resi
dents reported resentful
against carriers of petitions
calling for recall of Judge
H. D. Norton.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 5. 1922 (Thursday)
Fire in substation that sup
plies power for the Medford
Jacksonville streetcar line
puts line out of operation;
commuters transported by
auto until power Is restored.
SO YEARS AGO
Sopl. 5. 1312 (Saturday)
People on east side of Bear
creek demand more sliced on
improvement of Jackson si.
bridge and construction of
new bridge at Main si.
City refuses to accept $20,-
000 lump sum offer from Cali
fornia Oregon Power compa
ny, charging company fran
chise is invalid; city threatens
to bring suit if company does
not continue to pay 5 per cent
of earnings to city of Medford.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct it auptrior;
seven or eight is excellent; five 01
sis il good.
1. Is Chicago, Illinois, in
the Eastern or the Central
time zone?
2. Who said, "If this be
treason, make the most of
It"?
3. What is the difference
in hours in Slandard Time
between New York and Lon
don? '.The name of which
month, when spelled back
ward, is the name of a vege
table? 5. Can horses sleep while
standing up?
6. Name the three Stales of
the United Slates whose
names each contain only four
letters.
7. Who won the heavy.
weight boxing championship
from Max Schmeling in 1032
8. correct the following,
If worst comes to worst, we
can swim ashore."
9. Which of these are not
classed as citrus fruits: lem
ons, pineapples, oranges
strawberries, grapefruit, ap
ples? 10. The living oysters swim
about in the water; true or
false?
Answers: 1, Central. 2. Pal
rick Henry. 3. Five hours. 4.
May. S. Yes. 6. Iowa, Ohio.
Utah. 7. Jack Sharkey. 8.
"If worst comes to worst . ."
9. Pineapples, itrawberriet,
apples. 10. False.
rTwwWV PUBLISH CIS
SEPTEMBER S. 1962
Grand Larceny
Conservatism Conservative principles; the disposi
tion and tendency to preserve what is established;
opposition to change. Webster.
The fine old word "conservative" is, in the
opinion of Norman Cousins, editor of the Satur
day Keview, taking a beating at the Hands or a
wide assortment of persons and groups who have
appropriated the label for uses totally alien to the
historical development it represents. It is a clear
case of ideological grand larcey and something
ought to be done about it."
And he adds:
"The term conservative has a specific background
and meaning. It stands for stability as opposed to
Innovation; for restraint as opposed to daring; for the
preservation of inherited conditions as opposed to
drastic reform. These ideas are not only compatible
with a free society; they have an essential place in it,
along with genuine liberalism. True conservatism is
opposed to liberalism, but not destructive of it. The
principal difference between conservatism and lib
eralism is represented not so much by disagreement
over the nature of a free society or its goals as by
disagreement over the approaches. Both conservatism
and liberalism serve as the twin structural supports
of constitutional government."
I7HO are the ones who scorn the 200-year tra-
dition of democratic government in this na
tion; who support the Constitution only insofar
as it jibes with their thinking and who would
junk considerable portions of it, along with a
whole body of social legislation which has grown
up through Constitutional means; who would
emasculate the one institution charged with inter
preting and defending the Constitution in light of
todays needs, the U. S. Supreme Court; who
quote the Bible in rejecting the spirit and text of
the Sermon on the Mount?
"Faith, hope, and charity are replaced by
scorn, hate, and malice, and the chalice is filled
to overflowing with bile,"1 Cousins declares.
And he concludes:
"Genuine conservatism is now being libeled
by know-nothings. There is no reason to doubt
that the tradition will survive the ordeal, but it
may be unpleasant while it lasts."
VES, it is unpleasant.
The ultra-rightists, masquerading as conserv
atives, have little interest in preserving our insti
tutions and traditions of due process, civil rights,
government regulation of big business, public
ownership of natural resources, international co
operation for peace, social and welfare legisla
tion, judicial review the long, long list of
things that most of us look upon as progressive
and wholesome.
The John Birch types of mentality, wishing
for a return to a past that never was, and slash
ing at all who would oppose them, are unpleasant.
But not, happily, significant. E. A.
Parco
Time was when a public function in a city
park was part of a way of life something for a
majority of the community to attend and enjoy.
Today, and we say this a bit wistfully, this is
no longer true.
The day of the 4th of July picnic, complete
with fireworks and patriotic oratory is about
gone. Labor day picnics, with sack races, three
legged races, baseball, and keg's of beer also are
virtually a thing of the past.
HTllEY have, we suppose, succumbed to the
automobile and the TV set.
The automobile, combined with more leisure
time and more money,
take their outings further away. And the 1 V set
brings the rest of tthe world into our living
rooms, along with a variety of entertainment
which ranges from superb to infantile.
It was probably those
which resulted in only
showing up last Saturday
at Medford 's south boundary was rededicated as
a memorial to Medford
named Parco d Alba, in
city and the cause of international understanding
and peace.
a
THOSE who missed il
lV.-.v ke fli-ot f Ka"init
1 llflll UIC llli'l J 1 ll lilt I j. 10. IIIIVIUII
the flag salute, Star Spangled Rainier, invocation,
introductions, speeches, ribbon-clipping, and ben
ediction, the affair was handled with dignity and
good taste.
The brief talk by Tom Vaughan, director of
the Oregon Historical Society, part of it in Italian
as a graceful gesture to the Italians and Italian
Americans present, put the symbolism and signif
icance to the day into perspective.
It was an occasion in which every Medford
resident could take pride. It was a pity so few of
them were there to enjoy it E. A.
Where Were the Parents?
When it happens in Ft. Lauderdale, one
li!i'k'i nnu's linnii :ini)
generation is coming to
Hut when it happens
conservative Oregon, one stops to think.
Why do a bunch of kids, most of them, ap
parently, of good background, ami attending high
school or college, go utterly berserk?
What lack is there in their upbringing, moral
training, education ami common decency?
What, for that matter, were a bunch of teen
agers ami college kids doing, wholly unsuper
vised, at the beach for a week end?
Most of all, what about their parents? Where
have they been all these kids' live?? Where were
they last week end? E.A.
d'Alba
have permitted people to
reasons, as much as any,
some five-score people
when Maple 1 ark urove
s dead soldiers, and re
honor of Medford s sister
missed something.
tt flu Kisr ioti; tltriM i.vli
unnilirs li:il lhi vilincir
in Seaside, in good old
'Come Weeth Me To
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paper: in fact the contrary Is often ha case.
Justica Stewart Dissents
To the Editor: Much has
been published and more said
about the Supreme Court deci
sion on prayer in the public
schools. But I have seen very
little publicity given to the
dissenting opinion of Justice
Potter Stewart. Should we not
hear both sides of the case?
Here are some excerpts from
the Stewart opinion.
"The court does not hold
nor could it that New York
has interfered with the free
exercise of anybody's religion.
The state courts have made
clear that those who object
to reciting the prayer must be
entirely free of any compul
sion to do so . . . But the
court says that in permitting
school children to say this
simple prayer, the New York
authorities have established
'an official religion' ... I can
not see how 'an official reli
gion' is established by letting
those who want to say a pray
er say il. On the contrary,
I think that to deny the wish
of these school children to
join in reciting this prayer is
to deny them the opportunity
of sharing in the spiritual
heritage of our nation . . .
"At the opening of each
day's session of this court,
we stand while one of our
officials invokes the protec
tion of God . . . Both the Sen
ate and the House of Repre
sentatives open their daily
sessions with prayer. Ea,ch of
our Presidents, from George
Washington to John F. Ken
nedy, has upon assuming his
office asked the protection
and help of God."
Here Justice Stewurt refers
to the Star Spangled Banner,
the Pledge of Allegiance to
the Flag and our coins with
their references to our trust
in God, then continues:
"I do not believe that this
court, or the Congress, or the
President has by the actions
I have mentioned, established
'an official religion' in viola
tion ot the Constitution. And
I do not believe the state of
New York has done so in this
case. What each has done has
been to recognize and to fol
low the deeply entrenched
highly cherished spiritual tra
ditions of our nalion tradi
tions which have come down
to us from those who almost
200 years ago avowed their
'firm reliance on the protec
tion of Divine Providence'
when Ihey proclaimed the
freedom and independence of
this brave new world. I dis
sent." 1.. G. Weaver,
301 Haven St..
Medford
Mnple Trees
To the Editor: Please allow
me to add my bit to Mr.
Fletcher Fish's plaint about
the little grove at the south
end of Medford.
1, too, am a "co-owner of
one tree."
Many years passing the
struggling trees caused a
mixed feeling of pride and
disgust-pride in participating
in a worthy public project, dis
gust at lack of care.
For years sunshine and rain
were the only visible caretak
ers, with an occasional wind
to blow the dead leaves- away.
However, in recent years,
since an organization has at
tempted to resuscitate and re
juvenale tne park, it has lost
us "lack and regained its lus
ter, and is now a
beautiful
I nark and nln fiounrl
ion hnn a luiurnv n names
compelled us to have to go
to Italy for a name.
.1. W. Shtney.
247 South Second si
Central Point. Ore
Beauty Series Liked
To the Editor: Reading your
"Beauties Series to End." on
the editorial page of Sun-
Iday s paper was like reading
of the death of a very dear
friend.
It has been my pleasure to
have spent the summer in
your city, and one of the high
lights of the day has been the
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Zee Ca.bah !
delivery of the paper with
its front page, enticing scene
of your beautiful state. The
summer's crop of pictures has
been cut out, along with
quite a few clippings of Lynn
M. Watkin's, "Small Worlds
Around Us," and from the
Sunday edition, copies of Ar
nold Eugene Jenny's "Poets
Corner," and they will go
with me when I return to my
home in Norfolk, Va., before
the end of September.
I have enjoyed your paper
with its news, editorials and
many daily features, and I re
gret very much the passing of
"The Beauties of Scenic Ore
gon," the feature which, in
my estimation, is most appre
ciated by the average visitor
to your lovely city.
Perhaps it will interest you
to know that early in July, I
wrote to the Oregon State
Highway Commission in Sa
lem and expressed my pleas
ure in this daily feature of
the Mail Tribune.
Mrs. H. L. Goodson,
610 South Holly si.,
Medford.
-O-
P.S.-It is my pleasure to
have contributed a poem,
"Memories of a Traveller," to
the "Poets' Corner," which, I
have been informed will ap
pear in a late October issue
under the title, "Memories of
a Nebraska Sunrise, the Ore
gon Coast and Crater Lake."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This is written on Labor
Day.
Nearly-cvcrybody is taking
the day off. There is an ex
ception. The exception is
The Press. We of The Press
recognize that in this modern
world NEWS is so important
that even on Labor Day peo
ple are going to want to know
what is going on in the world.
We of the newspaper are
making a short day of it.
But Monday's paper brings
a picture of what is happen
ing around the globe. Radio
and TV workers will slay
with it throughout the day.
In this modern age, NEWS
has become almost as essen
tial as food and drink.
IIOW did
Labor Day get
11
started?
It began with the Knights
of Labor, a national labor or
ganization established in 18H9
at Philadelphia by a disband
ed union of garment cutters.
In the beginning, it was a se
cret society. Membership was
open to anyone over 16. with
the exception ot lawyers,
bankers, liquor dealers and
gamblers.
In the 17 years following
its organization, membership
in the Knights of Labor grew
from nothing to more than
700.000.
T 1882. the Knights of La-
bor decided to call the first
Monday in September Labor
Day. Working people
throughout the c o u n t r y
with the esceplion. as al
ready noted, of lawyer s,
bankers, liquor dealers and
gamblers -then began to call
for state laws to make Labor
Day a legal holiday. One of
the prime movers in this proj
1 ecl wns Samuel Gompers, one
i ' America s early, great ahd
" -
' rompers was oorn in uon-
mm in laju. lit. mine iu
America in 1863, at the age
j of 13. He helped to organize
( the American Federation of
! Labor in 1881, and was large
I Iv responsible for the legis-
. lation that rreated t lie De-
I pnrtment of Labor .is a sepa
rate department ot the fed
eral government, with a cabi-
n.,i member at its head
'f,1HE movement to make La
i bor Day a legal holiday in
'all the slates got under way
j in 1882 - eighty years ago.
I Oregon, then a mere young,
Political Maneuvers,
Asian Games, Almost
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign N'i Analyst
Harsh words have been ex
changed these last days in
Jakarta and other Asian capi
tals over an
event original
ly intended as
a festival of
trie n d s h i p.
This w a s an
event known
as the fourth
Asian Games,
an ath 1 e 1 1 c
competition to
NewMin which Indo
nesia played host, and under
ordinary circumstances would
have little place in any dis
cussion of foreign affairs.
Being neither a participant
nor regarding weightlifting as
a great spectator sport, this
writer would have been con
tent to leave to the sports
pages the muscular young
men who go through the clean-
and-jerk, the snatch and fhe
military press, were it not for
circumstances which are not
ordinary.
Matter of Fact
c New York Herald
A VERY COLD AUTUMN
Berlin In this threatened
city, there has been a lull of
sorts since the storm over the
murder of the
young refugee
on the wall
and the sub
sequent with-
J M drawal of the
c o mmundant.
But the calm,
it must be not
ed, is wholly
superficial.
Alsnp
To begin with, the daily
round of Soviet probes and
petty tests of will is quite un
ceasing. These episodes, if
anything, are growing more
numerous. And they are cer
tainly growing very much
more dangerous.
To cite one example, there
was no public excitement
when U. S. military convoys
were held up, not long ago,
along the autobahn where
their right of transit is guar
anteed. In fact, however, one
of these Soviet-imposed de
lays came very close indeed
to the shooting stage.
rpHE truth is that the Soviets
- now have a calculated pol
icy of perpetual harassment
and attempted encroachment.
The risks of this policy, as was
proven by the confrontation
ster among the states it had
been admitted to the Union
only 28 years earlier was
the first state to make Labor
Day a legal holiday. Oregon's
Labor Day holiday law was
enacted in 1887.
It is now a legal holiday in
ALL the states.
A LOT of water has gone
under the bridge in the
three-quarters of a century
since Oregon started the pro
cession for a nationwide holi
day on Labor Day.
Back in 1887, the automo
bile was not even a gleam in
the eye of its inventor. As of
now. automobile ownership is
virtually universal. We have
so many automobiles that all
of our population could be
loaded into them, with room
to spare.
rpiIAT
In fact
Is about what we now do
on Labor Day, which is gen
erally regarded in 'he U.S.A.
as the last fling i. a week
end trip with all the family
before school begins.
If
In 1887, when Oregon
enacted the first law estab
lishing the first Monday in
September as a legal holiday,
it had been suggested that
three quarters of a century
later automobile ownership
would be virtually universal
in Oregon and elsewhere in
the nation, the suggestion
would have been regarded as
fantastically absurd
More absurd, in fact, lhan
is space travel in these days j proclamation of a wai emer
j gency at any time. And it
Attendance Still
Off at State Fair
Salem - H'Pfi - Attendance Soviet zone have meanwhile
at the Oregon State Fair con-! been delayed They are gen
omics to run below last vear. ierallv expected to begin this
Tuesday an estimated 17,
870 went to the fair com
pared to 19.635 a year ago.
Tuesday's paid attendance
was 10.724 against
1961
1.781 in
Betting totals continued 1 cold autumn, in th? sense
higher this year as $89,436 meant by President Kennedy
was wagered Tuesday com- j when he answered Khrush
pared to S83.436 last year, chev's Vienna ultimatum with
This was in spite of fewer ihe grim sentence:
spectators in the grand stand
j -1.863 to
831 in 1961.
These circumstances neared
an angry climax over the
week end, and weightlifting
became a contributing factor
when only the Indonesians
showed up to participate.
Results so far have includ
ed an Indonesian threat to bar
future trade with India, un
happiness in Tokyo out ot fear
of the effect on the Olympic
Games scheduled for Tokyo
in 1964, withdrawal of the
South Korean team from the
Jakarta events and a sunburst
of newspaper editorials.
Politics took over the games
even before they started.
Indonesia excluded Nation
alist China and Israel, even
though both are accredited by
the Asian Games federation.
However, neither has diplo
matic relations with Indonesia,
The International Olympic
Committee and the Interna
tional Amateur Athletic Fed
eration withdrew recognition
of the games.
The weightlifters refused to
participate when the interna
By Joseph A I sop
Tribune Syndicate
on the autobahn, can be very
considerable. Yet the Soviets'
adoption of this calculated
but risky policy is far from
being the most alarming ele
ment in the scene here.
Much too little attention
has in fact been paid to the
hard military preparations,
some secret and some overt,
which the Soviets and East
Germans have lately been
making. These preparations
began, significantly enough,
not long after Nikita S. Khru
shchev went to Vienna expect
ing to bullyrag President Ken
nt'fy into some sort of sur
render at Berlin, and was in
stead confronted with an in
tensified U. S. defense effort.
On the Soviet side, the most
important step taken, and a
remarkably ugly one at that,
has been the installation of
ground-to-air rockets com
manding the air approaches
to Berlin. Very large numbers
of these rockets have been
emplaced.
T'HE emplacements, further
more, differ from any as
yet known in the Soviet Un
ion in that the anti-air rockets
have been sunk in hardened
silos. They are thus relatively
invulnerable to any form of
attack except with nuclear
bomb. It should be needless
to underline their possible
usefulness in the event of an
ultimatum concerning West
ern use of the air corridors
into Berlin.
In East Germany mean
while, Khrushchev's odious
puppet, Walther Ulbricht, is
now sacrificing every other
interest, conspicuously includ
ing the welfare of his people,
to an urgent program of total
militarization.
Ulbricht's disruption of his
own economic programming
by sudden enforcement of mil
itary priorities has as much
to do with the present outdoor
slum - like condition of East
Germany as the bad failure
in agriculture and the contin
uing passive resistance of
most of the labor force. Fac
tories have been abruptly con
verted to production for mili
tary purposes. The transport
net has been expensively al
tered. A huge civil defense
program has been inaugurat
ed. Standby arrangements of
sinister potential meaning
have been made, such as as
signing trucks now in civil
use to military use in case of
emergency, and equipping
such trucks with shovels,
picks, and other engineering
tools.
TN ADDITION, after the ad-
mission of East Germany
to the Warsaw Pact last Jan
uary, 500,000 young men of
military age were called up
for registration. Of these, 1 75-
000 were actually called to
the colors. And the entire
manpower pool of East Ger
many between the ages of 18
and 65 has been placed on an
active-reserve status.
Ulbricht has further caused
a decree to be promulgated,
naming a national defense
council with himself as its
head. The decree permits the
i gives the national defense
council absolute powers in the
i event of such a proclamation
The pattern, in sum. is both
complete and unpleasant,
i August maneuvers in t h e
month, with contingenls from
Poland. Czechoslovakia, and
other Warsaw Pact powers
participating along with So-
viet and East German troops,
j Altogether, this may he a verv
"Then I guess it will be
very cold winter."
Jealousies,
Wrecking
tional weightlifting federation
announced that athletes who
competed would De banned
from future meets, including
the Olympics.
The Indian vice president
of the Asia Games executive
committee recommended that
the Jakarta games be stripped
of their official status.
The Indonesian government,
regarding the move as a direct
slap at President Sukarno,
promptly instructed its trade
officials to enter into no new
deals with India.
Federation officials of Pak
istan and Ceylon denounced
the Indian as "not a good
Asian."
The situation reached a cli
max Monday when Indonesian
demonstrators broke into the
Indian e-nbassy, damaged a
few windows and art objects
Drurnmond Reports
(Waller tloominn is on vacation. Roscoe Drurnmond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (cl 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
WHICH COMES FIRST7
NOTHING
Washington -The Soviet
Union is clearing up one
question for us very conclu
sively. It is doing so by its
acts, not by its words.
Its acts are: (1) continued
harassment of West Berlin;
(2) refusal to accept any form
of a nuclear test ban with any
degree of inspection.
The question, long debated
in the West, which these ac
tions answer is this: which
comes first - disarmament as
a means of reducing tensions
or reducing tensions in order
to bring about disarmament?
It is now evident, at least
at this stage, that neither
comes first, because the So
viets reject both. They simul
taneously reject taking one
practical step toward disarm
ament and they reject taking
one practical step toward
easing tensions at the peril
point in the cold war, West
Berlin.
The Soviets keep up the
crunch on West Berlin in the
following ways: they permit -or
compel - the East German
puppet government to murder
its own people at the wall;
they transfer the Soviet mili
tary command from East Ber
lin to Potsdam to try to force
the West to deal with the un
recognized East zone regime;
they send armored tanks into
West Berlin; they are obvious
ly preparing to perpetrate the
fiction of a "peace treaty"
with East Germany, by which
device they claim that all
Western rights in West Berlin
will be liquidated.
AS to a test ban, the Soviet
Union has now served no
tice that it will not accept an
end to underground testing
because it will not tolerate
any degree of inspection. Nor
will it accept an end to atmos
pheric or underwater testing,
even though no inspection to
check such tests is needed or
sought.
The United States has offer
ed both - separately or to
gether.
fti oeneva we have sup
ported a treaty which would
bring a prompt cessation of
all atmospheric and . under
water testing without any in
ternational inspection-a treaty
wnicn, it approved by Mos
cow, would eliminate all ra
dioactive fallout hazards for
all mankind.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(o Field Enterprises. Inc.
Being introduced to a gen
tleman with a particularly un
attractive first name, 1 be-
tnougnt my
self of how
the Chinese
are so m u c h
more civilized
than the West
ern world in
certain ways.
The Chinese
give young
c h i 1 d r e n a
Harris "milk name"
- that is, a first name which
they have the privilege of
changing, in later years, for
one of their own selection,
A good many persons go
through life detesting 1 h e
names their parents wished
upon them, but feeling asham
ed to change them, for fear of
being thought affected.
Yet. a name is one of the
most intimate things about
a person, and the name
should in some way reflect
the personality. True
enough, in the last 25 years
or so. parents hava been
more thoughtful in consid
ering which names to give
Iheir children; but there is
still a wide gap between
what a person looks like
and what he is called.
R. F. Elie Jr. once made a
survey of Anglo Saxon
names, from the Norman
Conquest of 1066 to the be
ginning of the 19th century,
and came up with some dil
lies. In medieval times, of
course, people had only on
j fU" t ji
Hit
Program
and tried to haul down th
Indian flag.
In Manila, the Philippines
Herald . blamed the situation
on the "vicious meddling" of
Red China which, it said, had
forced Sukarno to turn the
games into a political football.
In Japan, demands that
Japan also withdraw from the
games were countered by dip
lomatic fears of a break with
Sukarno and by Japanese bus
inessmen with interests in In
donesia. In any event, as a gocuvill
builder the games were some
what less than a success. They
left the future of the Asian
Games in doubt and proved
that politics can be carried on
in an athletic "T" shirt as
easily as in the striped trous
ers of a diplomat.
The Soviets say no.
At Geneva we have support
ed a treaty banishing all un
derground testing with tho
very minimum of periodic on
site inspection in order to de
termine whether an earth dis
turbance is natural or nuclear
made. The Soviets say no. They
will accept no end to testing
which permits any degree of
inspection at any point under
any circumstances.
Not that the Soviets hava
no proposal of their own.
They have. They say they
would sign right quickly
another all - inclusive mora
torium on nuclear testing -with
no means of inspection -such
as the Kremlin violated
last September. Into that one,
the U. S. isn't going to be
trapped again. Remember
that the Council of Ministers
of the Soviet Union had sol
emnly and explicitly an
nounced that their govern
ment would never resume nu
clear testing unless other ad
herents to the moratorium re
sumed testing first. We ac
cepted that moratorium. We
did not resume testing. The
Soviets did - and this is the
kind of test ban the Russians
are now re-proposing.
AT Geneva and at Berlin the
evidence seems pretty con
clusive that Mr. Khrushchev
opposes a beginning toward
disarmament as a means ol
reducing tensions and opposes
reducing tensions as a means
of achieving a start toward
disarmament. At Geneva the
Soviets are shattering all hope
of any kind of test ban and at
Berlin they are increasing,
not reducing, the most peril
ous area of tensions.
There is no doubt in my
mind that we need to be ready
for the next Soviet maneu
ver, which will be a "peace
treaty" with itself; that is,
with its East German puppet,
which is so totally bankrupt
politically and economically
and so coldly hated by the
East German people that it
can only be propped up by
jailing the entire population.
It is well that Secretary of
State Dean Rusk has said:
"We will not be forced, ha
rassed, or squeezed out of
West Berlin." The outlook is
that we will soon have to
prove our words - without
flinching.
J. Harris
name, or a nickname. But
when William the Conquer
or published a census, tho
famous Domesday Book list
ed hundreds of British free
men named Badneighbor.
Blackinthemouth, Gotobed,
Blisswench. Cocksbr irna,
Half-Naked and Losewit,
In early passenger lists of
vessels arriving at Ply
mouth. Elie found such
names as Lumphead. Pale
green. Styifchyn. Dolebeer.
Slanleback, Inchbald. Bun
nyducke. and one pathetic
girl of 18 called The Peace
of God Skynnggle.
A hundred years later, tha
Puritan trend had even wor
sened the name situation.
Birth certificates were filled
with such atrocities as Kill
Sin Pimple. Fight the Good
Fight of Faith White, Weep
Not Goliko, Safety on High
Smart, and-the world's cham
pion - If-Christ-Had-Not-Dicd-For-You
-You - Had - Been
Damned Barebones. He was,
naturally, called "Damned"
for short.
It upon attaining the age of
18, a person had the right to
change his or her given name,
think of how many Virgils
and Cuthberts would be
spared the stiff subterfuge of
going through life using ini
tials, like poor old P. G.
Wodehouse. Who wouldn't
I use P. G. if it stood for "Pel
i ham Grenville"? And al! hi.
I friends call him "Plum."
jwhat a thing to do to a little
boy