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History from the, files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 7, 1952 (Tuesday)
Baby abandoned at Sacred
Heart hospital; note asks Sis
ters to "give it to some couple
who will love it very much."
Eagle Point residents to
vote on proposed new charter
for city.
i20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 7, 1942 (Wednesday)
H. T. Pankcy, 69, postmas
ter at Central Point the last
six years, dies in local hospital
after five-month illness.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "More
signs of fall arc showing up.
Many have made ready to un.
limber their electric fans and
hide them where they hid
their overcoats, if they could
remember where they hid
their overcoats."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 7, 1932 (Friday)
Gold Hill principal de
mands his right to teach, sny
lug he was legally hired by
previous school board, despite
present board's determination
lo banish him to prevent him
from "doing irreparable dam
Bge to the students."
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 7, 1922 (Saturday)
More deer killed this year
In Jackson county than any
other year; Game Warden
Patrick Dailey reports he has
checked 100 carcasses shot
with season less than one
month old.
C. M. Thomas, Judge Wil
liam M. Colvig. and Mayor
C. E. Gates travel to Grants
Pass to boost forthcoming
Jackson county fair.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 7. 1912 (Monday)
Good weather, dry roads
predicted for Com mcrcial
club sponsored trip of scien
tists to Crater lake; scientists
from all over the world are
expected.
Hillah temple shriners re
turn to Medford from const
trip after being marooned in
Marshficld a week.
Whal's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five oi
six Is good.
1. What state Is nicknamed
Magnolia State?
2. If you were suffering
from pyrophobia, what would
you be afraid of?
3. What is the location of
the famous Mayo clinic?
4. Dors the French term
bourgeoisie refer to the work
Ing class, the middle class.
or the very rich?
5. At what Royal church
founded in 1245, was Queen
Elizabeth of Great Britain
crowned?
6. Who led the Mormon pio
neers in their trek from Nau
voo, III., to Utah?
7. If you make a notch in a
tree trunk two feet above the
ground, at what height will
the notch be two years from
now if the tree grows one foot
per year?
8. According to tradition.
wnat two children were
nursed by a wolf?
6. What is a square number?
10. Name the Institution
founded in 1846 In Washing
ton, DC, by an Englishman's
bequest, dedicated "to the in
crease and diffusion of knowl
edge among men."
Answerst 1. Mississippi. 2.
File. 3. Rochester, Minn. 4.
Middle class. S. Westminster
Abbey. 6. Brigham Young. 7.
T'te same height. 8. Romulus
and Remus. 9. The product of
two equal factors. 10. Smith
sonian Institution.
4 A -
SEPTEMBER 7. 19S2
Change and
A. Robert Smith, Washington correspondent
and author of the
Senate," is a thoughtful observer not only of poll
tics, but of American society.
In a speech the other day in Pendleton, he
listed three changes which are having an impact
on American society, and
They are the rapidly expanding population,
the shift from a rural to an urban society, and
the growing centralization of government in
Washington.
I IKE these or not, they
" live with them, Smith
The average congressman today represents
nearly a half million people ; the average senator
several million. Smith says :
"In an entire lifetime of public service, these men
could not possibly meet and become acquainted with
more than a tiny fraction of their constituents. And so
we have a widening gap between the people and their
elected representatives. This fosters a sense of remote
ness, a willingness to shrug our shoulders and let some
one else do it."
The shift from farm
the east than on the Pacific coast, but the trend is
evident here, too, and will become more marked
as time goes on.
AS TO THE centralization of government,
Smith said it seems the relevant concern is
whether or not the federal government is going
to continue to be responsive to a majority of
citizens, tie adds:
"I believe the government must play an active role
and not leave us individually at the mercy of big busi
ness, big labor and big agriculture. Today I believe
the government Is too often the Instrument of one or
the other of these strong economic forces, depending
upon which party is in power."
As a result of these three changes, and
fourth major one which he described as the grow
ing militancy of Negroes in seekinp; equality, our
ejected representatives
with organizations and
witn individuals:
"Sometimes these groups are quite benign and self
less; but on other occasions they exert crushing pres
sure upon you. They know that a government decision
for or against them can be decisive and they expect
you to line up on their side."
THESE groups have two major weapons, Smith
says the weapon of bloc voting, and the wea
pon of granting or withholding campaign ex
pense contributions.
"These, I believe, are the realities forced upon
every public man by the changes of population growth,
the remoteness of his constituents, and the power
vested in Washington. The risk of alienating voters
always confronts an elected official, and it always
should If tliey are lo remain responsive to local wishes.
But the money factor is dangerous and we should
hasten to remove it.
"We should lift the onerous burden of forcing every
honest, well-intentioned public man from going, hat in
hand, before election time to the powerful economic
groups who constantly solicit his support. Instead, he
should be made absolutely independent of them . . ."
He believes that if members of Congress are
going to have the opportunity they deserve to
render courageous and independent judgements
they must be freed of this "financial bondage,"
even if it means creating a federal fund to meet
campaign expenses.
w
CM ITU also issued a challenge to all Americans
to be aware of our mutual concerns, and to
participate in the solution of our mutual
problems.
He said:
"The old frontiers of the mountains and the plains
. . . were conquered by courageous and visionary men
and women of all walks of life who wanted a better
tomorrow. The new frontiers of urban congestion
demand the same broaciscalo assault from all our
people.
"I believe that all of us need to concern ourselves
" with the widening gup between the people and
those who govern;
" with the dangers of our present system of forc
ing politicians to solicit large sums from cither labor
or business to conduct their campaigns;
" with the urgent need for members of Congress
to he independent and to have the intelligence and the
will to keep the bureaucracy on iis Iocs and responsive
to our needs . . .
"We have a tendency, as a people, to blame our
national problems on either foreign enemies or domes
tic politicians. We have nlwuys been ready to redress
wrongs by going lo war or throwing the rascals out.
We need, still, to be vigilant and to uproot rascality.
But wo must also be vigilant to deal with the rascal
that sometimes lurks within each of us. We are em
barked upon an era of difficult human relations. It
will demand that the best in each of us conquer the
worst that lies within each of us.
"We have built a great nation with an astonishingly
high standard of material living. Wc have advanced
well along the road of enlightenment and rationality
through education. But we must not stop here. We
must, I believe, pass on toward greater spiritual ma
turity as individuals. For that Is God's destiny for us.
And in the last eternal analysis, we will be judged not
by the standard of living we achieve but by the
quality and sprrit of our life as a people, man to man,
neighbor lo neighbor, white to black.
"... The public you and I share the high
responsibility of securing a free society.
"So let us face our future together, sharing the
burdens and the opportunities of leadership, knowing
that but for the grace of God we might run out of
time in which to work out our destiny.
"And let us have faith that we have done a good
thing, and that we can do still better."
Only by following
Americans be able to
change. E. A.
More
Man, we are told, is the only animal that
blushes. Well, he's got more to blush about. E.A.
Challenge
best-selling "The Tiger in the
on politics, too
are here and we have to
declares.
to city is more marked in
must deal more and more
groups, and less and less
Rob Smith's advice will
rise to the challenges of
Cause
"Just One
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End The Checkerboard
To the Editor: In your edi
torial of Sept. 4 I was pleased
and surprised at the sugges
tion by former Governor
Sprague that the holdings of
the Bureau of Land Manage
ment and the Intermingling
private holdings each be con
solidated. Ever since a similar
consolidation project was ac
complished between B. L. M.
and the Forest Service in this
area I have thought such an
other consolidation should be
made.
The B.L.M. owns odd num
bered sections inside of a 30
mile limit from the original
O.&C. railroad line, except
ing what lands had been taken
up prior to the R.R. grant
around 1887, I believe, and
some few homesteads which
were allowed to World War I
Veterans about 40 years ago.
So their holdings are mostly
a checkerboard pattern,
with some other owner on the
four sides, and the other own
er has B.L.M. on his four
sides.
Most of our valuable timber
lands are owned by B.L.M.,
the Forest Service and lumber
companies. The Forest Service
lands are pretty well consoli
dated now, especially most all
of Range 4 East in Jackson
counljs and much in Klamath
county.
So B.L.M. and the private
companies could get together
and exchange certain lands
with each other for lands and
timber of equal value and
quality, in such a manner as
to provide for efficient man
agement and harvesting plans.
The consolidations could be
made in such sizes as best
suited the various areas in
volved. Such a consolidation would
result in a reduced cost in
timber management and har
vest and permit better long
range and over-all planning
for botlt B.L.M. and lumber
companies. It would eliminate
considerable of the expense ot
surveying out the various
ownerships, often found in a
single section of land.
I hope some group with the
authority to act will take hold
of this project and do some
thing about it. It should be of
benefit to our county, stale,
and all of us.
Ernest W. Smith,
Butte Falls, Ore.
Machine Politics
To the Editor: State Sena
tor Vernon Cook has recently
labeled as "vicious" a propos
al which will appear on the
November ballot, because that
proposal attempts to preserve
some small representation for
the more sparsely populated
regions of the state. The mea
sure will fall far short of pro
viding the protection given by
the U. S. Constitution to the
sparsely populated states.
It would appear now to be
in order for the Senator to
come out with a blast at our
Federal Constitution as being
"vicious and undemocratic."
In the Roman Empire dur
ing that period defined by his
torians as "The Decline and
Fall." there was simple ma
jority rule. The mobs on the
streets of Rome exercised the
entire sovereignty. Robes
pierre and his Jacobin party
appear to have had the con
sent of the majority on the
streets of Paris during the pe
riod when the guillotine set
tled the fate of minorities.
The founding fathers of this
government did not desire
such pure democracy. They
sought to establish justice in
stead and thus provided for an
intricate system of checks and
balances including three de
partments of government with
the legislative brunch divided
into two houses, one to be
represented by population and
one by states, Under Senator
Cook's formula Oregon would
have, not two senators, but
MEDFORD MAIL
More -
none, while New York and
California would have about
nine each.
The history of big city poli
tics in this country amply
demonstrates that we do not
want whole states to be dom
inated by one big city. Much
as the small communities need
representation in our state
legislature for their own pro
tection, the citizens of the big
cities need even more the pro
tection of such upstate com
munities against machine or
mob rule of a misled major
ity in their own midst.
If you believe in justice
rather than the dictatorship
of the proletariat, you will
vote for ballot proposition
number 9, which will in some
small measure take into ac
count divergent interests and
problems and afford some pro
tection against big city pres
sure groups and machine poli
tics. Earl Glidewell
Hermiston, Ore.
Wait and See
To the Editor: It would be
funny vif It weren't so tragic
how some people can find
such nice words to use In
defense of some one, for in
stance, when our President
says that the Russians mov
ing into Cuba are technicians
and not troops.
Of course they couldn't don
uniforms after they get there,
and I suppose they are not
our enemies either. And all
of the military equipment is
for their protection? Against
whom?
It seems all right for them
to build a military base on
our front door step while we
send troops or technicians to
some far off small country
to stop Communism.
The only places we have
ever halted it was where we
faced them and told we would
fight, as in Berlin and around
Formosa.
What our President seems
to say, now that you are in
Cuba you can stay but you
can't go any farther.
(Well - Until, well, until
you get your military base in
Cuba so strong you will be
able to protect yourselves.)
Some times we wonder just
how long it will be before
they will have all of South
America?
Then we will be totally sur
rounded. We will wait and
see, wait as we have been
doing.
Frank E. Shafer,
270 Glenwood rd. W
Medford.
Trying To Comprehend
To the Editor: In regard to
Ida Kelly's remark, "trying
to comprehend Melchizedek."
"Of whom it is written to con
sider this man, who has
neither beginning or end of
days, neither father, mother,
brother, sister, or kinsmen,
being called the king of right
eousness." And through right
eousness breaketh the bounds
of soul and flesh, into soul and
spirit, doing away with ignor
ance and disbelief of the
flesh, and being established
again in the graces of God.
"Of whom it is said Christ
would be made an high priest,
after the order of Melchize
dek." Consider what Jesus said to
his mother, w hen on the cress,
"Mother behold thy son." re
ferring to John, and to John,
"son. behold thy mother."
showing that what is joined
together in spirit is everlast
ing, and what is joined to
gether in flesh is not binding,
and will be cut asunder. Those
who believe are of the spirit,
and those who do not are of
tile flesh, whose will is against
tlie spirit of God, and who
were created in the spirit of
God, but turned away.
Also consider these things
that are written: Jesus, "those
that were yours, Father, thou
TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Internal Pressures May Force Warring
Algerian Leaders To
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Events have shown there
still is no great love lost
among rival Algerian leaders.
But severe in
ternal p r e s
sures may en
force at least
a tempor a r y
peace among
them. One of
the greatest
of these pres
sures comes
from the peo-
Newsom pie ttiem
selves. Caught between op
posing forces, both Algerian,
Ml
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(CI Field Enterprises. Inc.
One of the best newspaper
columnists who ever lived
Don Marquis. God rest his
soul--once warned neophytes
in the busi
ness: "If you
make people
think they're
thinking, they
S1 will love you;
I if you make
them really
ininK, mey 11
hate you."
Many writ-
Barns' ers (a n d, in
deed, some of the most suc
cessful ones) practice a sort
of literary con-game. They spe
cialize in double-talk that
sounds meaningful; examined
with the merciless ray of log
ic, their writings are as vapor
ous as smoke-rings.
In an article on semantics I
was reading the other day,
the author neatly illustrated
this point. First, he quoted a
paragraph from a political es
say, full of long and sonorous
gavest to me, and I would that
they were in the world;" Jesus
"men are not born of blood
and flesh;" John, when caught
up into the seventh heaven,
where the angel gave to him
the words to the book of Rev
elations, John bowed to the
angel. The angel said to John,
"see thou do it not for I'm
one of you fellow servants
and a prophet."
While they were yet in the
womb of their mother, the
Lord said, "Jacob I loved,
Esau I hated." Lest he knew
them, how could he say this?
As it is written, as a streak of
lightning strikes across the
sky, so shall every eye see
him. And by the words of our
own mouth shall we be justi
fied or condemned. For we
are born into' this world in
ignorance to God that we can
do our own will without the
fear of God. But the fear
Cometh to those who are re
born that they might come
again into the spirit of God.
Ted M. Sletten
Route 1, Box 224
Rogue River, Ore.
Unspoiled Stream
To the Editor: I read with
great interest your recent edi
torial concerning management
practices in Rogue River Na
tional Forest.
The recreational aspect pro
voked a lot of thought on a
pack trip into the Rogue high
country two weeks ago.
Accompanied by a cousin
from Redwood City, my wife,
and son, I hiked into the head
of the Middle Fork of the
Rogue Canyon and remained
two days.
It was an experience that
will not soon be forgotten.
The Middle Fork canyon ex
tends from a few miles East
of Prospect to almost the
Seven Lakes Basin where the
Middle Fork starts at Grass
Lake.
This great canyon, which is
over 2000 feet in depth at Bos
ton Bluff, is truly an unspoil
ed wilderness.
In addition to offering su-
I perb fishing it is the summer
i range of the only herd of elk
i in Jackson county, and though
we never sighted any of these
! animals, we observed many of
their tracks.
Some of the most magnifi
cent stands of Douglas Fir,
Ponderosa Pine, and Sugar
Pine remaining in Southern
Oregon are located here. One
Sugar Pine was noted that is
surely a close second in size
to the famous one in the Pros-
' pect area.
3 I don't know what the fu
! ture management plans are
; for the Middle Fork area, but
I if road construction or logging
is ever permitted it will be an
1 outrage against ours as well
as future generations.
This is the last unexploited
; major stream in Southern
: Orecon.
' Will this last remnant of
: true wilderness be preserved
I in its natural slate, or will it
' meet the fate of North and
' South Forks of the Rogue,
! the North I'mpqt'a, Cratrr
Creek, National Creek, and
i many other beautiful areas
that have been opened for Mm-
ber harvesting and hydroelcc- fN' OTHER words
trie development' j The death rate on our high
Murrey A. Dumas wave is governed larcelv bv
15 Renault I the NUMBER OF VEHICLES
Medford, Ore. 1 ON OUR HIGHWAYS.
the people of Algiers surged
into the streets last week,
shouting "Seven years of war
is enough!"
About 20,000 members of
the big General Union of Al
gerian Workers staged a huge
demonstration in which
marchers carried banners de
manding "Bread, houses,
work."
They threatened a general
strike should fighting erupt in
Algiers, in effect declaring a
"plague on both your houses."
There were other pressures
which threatened to leave
whatever faction won with a
J. Harris
phrases about liberty and jus
tice and the usual campaign
cliches. The quotation just
didn t make sense, but it lull
ed you into peaceful acquies
cence. Then he suddenly intro
duced this sentence: "If
there are more trees in the
world than there are leaves
on any one tree, then there
must be at least two treat in
the world with the same
number of leaves."
At first this sounded like
gibberish. So I re-read it
slowly, and it made com
plete logical sense; moreov
er, it is expressed almost
entirely in one syllable
words.
Only it took a little effort
to absorb the meaning-and
unconsciously my mind re
sented the trouble I had to
go to. It was much easier
reading the empty political
paragraph.
The human mind, like wa
ter, takes the easiest course.
It resists any break in its
pattern of serenity. This is
why all the great prophets
and dissenters, the bold and
original thinkers, have al
ways met with fierce oppo
sition.' We hate anyone who
makes us re-examine our
ideas or behavior.
Yet, if we are to work out
any decent sort of world in
the future, we must be able
to discriminate between the
genuine and the phony, be
tween real thought and mere
literary vaporizing, between
conclusions that are validly
drawn from their premises
and cheap appeals to our pas
sions and our greed.
We have to learn how to
track down a syllogism, how
to think out a proposition
how to detect a logical fallacy
(in ourselves as well as in
others), how to recognize an
argument based on authority
or invective or emotional
prejudice rather than on
logic.
This sort of discipline is not
taught in the schools, except
abstractly on the college level.
If we began straightening
children's thinking at the age
we start to straighten their
teeth, there might be some
hope for us all.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
American motorists set a
record for highway slaughter
during the long Lauor Day
week end of 1962.
The final count of traffic
victims for the three-day, 78
hour period showed 501 per
sons killed-the most motor
vehicle deaths EVER RE
CORDED for a Labor Day
holiday.
The grim total soared over
the previous all-time high of
461 for a 78-hour holiday set
in 1951-11 years ago.
SOUNDS rugged, doesn't it?
But wait a minute.
IN 1960. the latest year for
which the figures are avail
able as this is written, the
total number of automobiles.
buses and trucks registered in
the United States was i3
901.471. In 1951, the corre
sponding total was 51.913.965.
The total of traffic victims
this year was 501, as com
pared with a total of 461
11 years ago.
IVHICH is to say:
' The total number of mo
tor vehicles in the United
States is up 42 4 per cent
over 1951. The total number
of fatal accidents on our
highways this year is up only
8.7 per cent over 1951.
I JUT that way, it doesn't
sound so bad.
The RATE of fatal accidents
this year is FAR LESS than
in 1951.
'IMIE dispat
Californi,
tclies tell us that
a had the "grim
distinction'
of leading the
i riMii. Mraj n,. h!,i,,,.1
Xpw York was second and
t., wa, third
Seek Compromise
thoroughly bankrupt country
on its hands. ,
Unemployment was high
and traffic in the Port of Al
giers was dropping steadily.
BanMs had halted short-term
loans and tax collections were
almost nil.
Fear of government bank
ruptcy had led to widespread
hoarding of the French Franc
which normally had been free
ly exchanged for the Algerian
franc.
More French-owned enter
prises were closing down
daily and there was the in
creasing possibility that the
estimated remaining 350,000
Frenchmen soon would decide
to follow the 300,000 who al
ready had fled to France.
They were professionals
and skilled workers on whom
the new state, for a while at
least, would have to depend.
So, for the moment, hard
realities transcend the per
sonal ambitions of feuding
Washington Report
By William
(C) United Feature Syndicate
CUBA
Washington The Soviet
Union's publicly boasted mili
tary penetration of the west-
A em h e m l s
4 phere in Cas
T ..... r-..u i.
many mings,
apart from
the most in
solent menace
to the new
world that the
United States
has ever tol
erated. It de
stroys forever the airy assur
ances of pseudo-liberals that
"revolutionary movements"
are fine things indeed - so
long as they involve left
wingers and not right-wingers.
It places a terrible respon
sibility before history upon
a 1 1 those Americans who
cheered Fidel Castro on in
Cuba long past the point
where it was plain that he
was transplanting the evil
fungus of armed international
communism to within 90
miles of our Florida coastline.
IT BANKRUPTS the whole
evangelistic theory, parrot
ed with religious fervor, that
communism results from cap
italistic injustice, et cetera,
and will vanish at once upon
the spreading of sufficient
welfarism among the masses.
Cuba, before Castro, was nev
er half so underprivileged as
dozens of other lands which
have, nevertheless, never
sought the lethal embrace of
Moscow.
It fully supports what has
long been fully obvious - that
communism, like Hitlerism
before it, is a movement of
bandit ferocity and cannot be
explained by old-lady minds
as simply springing from too
little milk for the kiddies and
too little free land for "the
workers and peasants."
It brings into gravest ques
tion the practicality of the
vast effort being made by the
United States, through, the Al
liance for Progress, to cure
all the ills of Latin America
with economic aid. Foreign
aid is a sound and splendid
tiling - when it is given to na
tions willing and able to use
it for freedom's strength and
openly and unashamedly
against communism.
But the bulk of the more
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Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
JOHN WHEELER tells of a harmless, and very funny prac-;
tical joke sportswriter Bill Phelon played once on l;
fellow scribe. The scribe was sauntering up Broadway one-
day when he met Phelon
walking down. They ex
changed cordial greet
ings, and then Phelon,
after walking down an
other block, boarded a
trolley bound North.
After several blocks he
dismounted and started
back again.
Of course, he met his
pal again and called out
a cheery, "Hi, how are
ya?" as though he hadn't
seen him in months. The
friend stared as though
he was seeing a ghost. Not satisfied yet, Phelon staged a
repeat performance of his act. The third time the scriba
saw Phelon strolling toward him, he called a cab and had
himself driven to Bellevue Hospital, where, he vowed he.
would never touch another drop.
Brooks Atkinson, headed for Florida by rail, fretted when his
tram stood stock still In the Washington station, finally asked
the dining car steward if he knew the cause of the delay. Turned
out tiie steward had a rough idea. "It seems, sir," he explained,
'that we are missing an engine."
Leo Covin, scientifically examining the metaphysics of bur
fluency, thinks the phenomenon t best explained by Finagle s
Law: "Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve It only
maKcs it worse.
Announces Army Archerd, ' When a friend consistently out
fumblts you for the check that's ehellout falter!"
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Algerian leaders. Since any
new nation must experience
its period of shakedown and
adjustment, there was no rea
son to expect otherwise of
Algeria. -
On the one hand were the)
estimated 65,000 men of the
National Liberation Army
which mostly sat out the war
in neighboring Tunesia and
Morocco. On the other were
30,000 guerrillas who actually
fought the war and who now
referred to soldiers of the
ALN as "foreigners." Ambi
tious men led both factions.
Ahmed Ben BeUa, 45, start
ed the revolution but spent
the last five years of it in
French prisons. He had the
support of the ALN.
Belkacem Krim. 40, who
emerged as Ben Bella's
strongest opponent, had been
an active guerrilla fighter
against the French and later
led the Algerian team in peace
negotiations with the French.
S. White
powerful Latin-American na
tions, while avidly ready for
our economic aid, have repeat
edly refused to follow us In
any total quarantine of Cas
tro Cuba.
IT IS fashionable to say that
we, the United States,
should never "force our
views" upon the recipients of
our aid. This is the line that is
taken even when precisely
our views are essential to
maintain that freedom from
"foreign domination" for
which the Latins so endlessly
clamor - especially those who
have snuggled up closest to
international communism.
And brought into question,
too, is the very validity of the
Organization of American
States. This association of the
nations of this hemisphere
was created to prevent just
the kind of foreign penetra
tion which is and long has
been so openly involved in
Castro Cuba.
But an effective majority ot
the OAS has thus far been un
willing to take any fully ra
tional step against Castro Cu
ba. The most ironic of all ex
cuses is given by the nation
closest in geography to us,
Mexico. She has said that
while she would like to help,
she just can't find any pre
cedent for it in international
practice. There is a sour jest
in this - for Mexico, of
course, is famous for its
scrupulous respect for both
law and justice.
SO WHAT is now left to the
United States?
We should try one more
time to persuade the Organi
zation of American States to
act in honesty and honor
against the Soviet cancer in
the Caribbean. Failing this,
we should raise a new collec
tive military organization
from among the minortiy who
are our real friends in Latin
America. Much the same was
done in 1949, when we creat
ed the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization from within the
United Nations, when it be
came clear that the U.N.
would do nothing about Sov
iet aggression in Europe.
And failing this, the Unit
ed States should act alone to
clear the Soviet military ap
paratus from Castro Cuba;
come what might. ;
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