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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1962
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Medford and Jackson County
History' from the files ol Th
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1952 (Friday)
Plans announced for expan
sion of facilitiea at St. Mary's
school; over 70 registrations
recorded for first grade.
Injured man removed from
Medco rooftop by fire depart
ment aerial ladder truck.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11, 1342 (Saturday)
Chester Hubbard, Medford,
leaves here to start three
months air training course at
Mather Field, Sacramento,
Calif.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
New Deal now proposes 'forc
ed savings' for the public to
aid the war effort. This is
okay by the public who feel it
is about time the New Deal
tried its own medicine."
30 YEARS AGO
sepi. U1M2 (Monday) ' -, i
vandnis steal American flag
owned by Medford American!
Legion post and valued at I
more than $300.
Enrollment at Medford
schools after first week of
classes totals 534 at senior
high school, 653 at Junior high
school, 281 at Jackson school,
250 at Lincoln school, 322 at
Roosevelt school, and 3(i5 at
Washington school.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11. 1922 (Tuesday)
Ken Williams, Grants Pass
Ore., baseball outfielder play
ing for St. Louis Browns leads
Babe Ruth six home runs In
race for American league
championship.
Jackson county authorities
announce that automobiles
will not be allowed to pass on
Pacific highway south of Med
ford during county fair.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 11, 1312 (Thursday)
Medford chapter of Wo.
men's Christian Temperance
uniun passes resolution favor
ing equal suffrage and "de
claring an intention of making
a fight for the passage of the
amendment granting votes to
women In Oregon at the No
vember election."
Medford hunter returns
from Elk creek area with four
deer; could have gotten more
if he had more time.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct Is superior;
even er eight is eacelltnt; fie ei
it Is food.
1. Which Biblical character
symbolizes old age?
2. Does a starfish have five
or six points?
3. Will sound travel faster
In air, water, or Iron?
4. Which country Is our
closest Latin American neigh
bor? 5. What sort of work Is per
formed by cooper?
8. Butte is the capital of
Montana; true or false?
7. Is Mexico larger, smaller,
or about the same site of
Great Britain and Ireland
combined?
8. In what political party In
the United States was Norman
Thomas a well-known leader?
9. Does a fathom measure 6,
18, or 80 feet?
10. In what part of the
world it Laos?
Answers: 1, Methuselah. 2.
ne. 3. Iron. 4. Mexico. S.
Makes barrels, (. Fab (Hel
ena). 7. Much larger. I. So
cialist party. (. Six. 10. South
east Asia.
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NATIONAL
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Watch for Her!
Yesteday was the first day of school in Med
ford, and a lot of little people started out on the
great adventure.
Since it is timely, we are printing, at the re
quest of a Jacksonville reader, an editorial which
first appeared in The News of Daingerfield, Tex
as, It is entitled "Watch for Her!"
Today, my daughter, who is seven years old, started to
school as usual. She wore a dark blue dress with a white
collar. She had on black shoes and wore blue socks. Her
cocker spaniel, whose name is "Scoot," sat on the front
porch and whined his canine belief in the folly of educa
tion and she waved "goodbye" and started off to the halls
of learning.
Tonight we talked about school. She told me about the
girl who sits in front of her ... the girl with yellow curls
. . . and the boy across the aisle who makes funny faces.
She told me about her teacher, who has eyes in the back of
her head, and about the trees on the school yard, and about
the big girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus. We talked
about a lot of things . , . tremendously vital, unimportant
things . . . and then we studied spelling, reading and arith
metic, and then to bed.
She's back there now . . . back in the nursery , , . sound
asleep, with "Princess Elizabeth" (that's a doll) cuddled in
her right arm. You guya wouldn't hurt her, would you?
You see, I'm Her daddy. When her doll is broken or her
finger is cut, or her head gets bumped, I can fix it, but
when she starts to school, when she walks across the street,
then she's in your hands.
She's a nice kid. She runs like a deer and darts like a
chipmunk. She likes to ride horses and sw'm and hike with
me on Sunday afternoons. But I can't be with her all the
time ... I have to work to pay for her clothes, and her
education. So, please help me look out for her. Please drive
carefully. Please drive slowly past the schools and inter
sections. And, please remember that children run from
behind parked cars.
PLEASE DON'T RUN OVER MY LITTLE GIRL.
IT IS particularly important' to be careful the
' first few weeks, for the fiirt and second
graders need time for their traffic safety lessons
to sink in; Drivers have to think for the young
sters as well as for themselves.
It is not only on behalf of the youngsters that
we plead caution on the
horror of striking, perhaps killing, a child would
live with a driver the rest of his life. E.A.
Education's Future
Schools are big business these days.
In the Medford district alone, the 8,547 stu
dents who were registered yesterday are equiva
lent to about one-fourth of the entire population
of Medford.
Most of the local property tax revenues go to
the schools (and where
A substantial portion
goes for education, at all levels. And the federal
government contributes billions of dollars each
year to education, in one program or another.
THIS massive experiment in education is match
nA nniurioi'fl nlcn in tVin u-ni'lrl nnt ovpn in
V, IIUII llVlb ..! ,1. VI, U , , S, J , llJV
Russia, which we hear touted so highly.
1 ul AineuLa, uy aim
the proposition that Ji Vbjlix child should be pro-
vided with an education
, , ;,.
ao 1 c iijiil i;ty,
forded by costs and abilities beyond high school
And even at the college level, loan and tui
tion payment plans and scholarships and work
opportunities have made it possible for virtually
every able and determined child to continue, with
or without help from home.
A LONG with -this extension upward of the ed
ucational ladder, it is broadening out, too, with
more emphasis on community colleges, junior
colleges, vocational schools, adult education op
portunities. How much good is this massive attack on
illiteracy doing?
Perhaps the answer is a great deal but not
enough.
Despite almost-universal education at ele
mentary levels, there are still vast areas where
that education is sub-standard.
Despite widening opportunities for well-educated
youngsters, there are still vast numbers
who drop out of school,
ting for themselves a limit on their future earning
capacity, and capacity for a well-rounded life.
Despite dawning recognition of the fact that
gifted children should receive special attention,
in far too many instances they are still held back
by inferior or mediocre classmates.
rESPIT E dawning recognition that "slow learn-
ers" and less able students can be helped by
special techniques, not enough has been done.
And, despite the fact that the "average" stu
dents, who make up the vast bulk of them all,
are the ones most curricula are designed to serve,
much still remains to be done to make their ed
ucation challenging and productive.
We have much to be proud of, as Americans,
for our attention to the educational needs of our
young people. Rut we still have a long way to
go before we attain anything approaching a' sys
tem that will provide an optimum educational
opportunity for all.
JOHN Fischer, editor of Harper's, in a blunt
and provocative editorial in the current issue,
points out that our new technological civilization
is going to require a far different degree of ed
ucational effort than in the past.
The drawers of water and the hewers of wood
simply will have no place to go any more, he
says, and the answer is in providing two things
an educational system that will put a premium
on development of skill and competence at all
levels, and a recognition that not all our people
not, perhaps, even most of them will be able to
find meaningful and productive employment in
an electronic and automated age.
It will challenge the best abilities of teachers,
parents, voters, taxpayers, politicians everyone
to design new patterns that will meet our fu
ture educational and social needs. E.A.
streets near schools. The
better could it be spent?)
of the state s budget
laigu, is i-uiiiiiiuii-u iu
and as much education
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vvim wic iiiunciuun ai-
Huts automatically set
"Our Quarter Are Satisfactory, And Soon We
Will Look For Something More Permanent"
Matter of Fact
lei New York Herald
LOOKING HARD
AT THE FACTS
Berlin One of the lurk
ing dangers to this threatened
city is the kind of reasoning i
that was the
real cause of
the Pearl Har
bor disaster.
Before Pearl
Harbor, it
must be re
membered, the
U.S. high com
mand had a
whole series
o f unshake-
able convictions about things
the Japanese would never do.
The possibility of an attack on
Pearl Harbor was absolutely
ruled out by the War and
Navy Departments. This pos
sibility of an attack on the
Philippines was absolutely
ruled out by Gen. Douglas
MacArthur.
Behind all this lay the be
lief that the Japanese would
think like Americans. They
were expected to know, in
fact, that the U.S. would
never go to war unless direct
ly attacked. Hence they were
expected to leave our Pacific
positions untouched on their
flank, and to proceed directly,
in perfect confidence, to an
attack on thj Netherlands
Indies.
AS THIS reporter learned
the day before Pearl Har
bor, even the brilliant Mac
Arthur was blinded by the
foregoing line of reasoning.
There was no plot. The hard
facts on the other side of the
ledger were simply ignored,
because the kind of thing they
indicated was thought to be
incredible. The result was
Pearl Harbor.
The reappearance of Pearl
Harbor-style reasoning in the
Berlin crisis is revealed by the
often parroted slogans: "The
SoviPts will never risk a big
war for Berlin!" and "Khrush
chev will never give Ulbricht
the power to start a big war!"
and "The Russians will never
use the East German army;
their morale is too poor!"
i All these slogans may well
j be 10D per cent true. One
! must pray that they arc. But
' their truth depends on the
, Soviets' thinking about Berlin
j as we dn; and therefore it is
prudent to take a hard look at
the hard facts accumulating
on the other side of the led
ger. These facts largely con
cern the Intensive military
preparations of the Soviets
and East Germans, and partic
ularly the East Germans.
flMIE KIND of action that Is
l seemingly being prepared
Try and
Alinn
By BENNETT CERF
N ARTHRITIC MOUNTAINEER came into a small and
totally unexpected inheritance and decided to buy a
second-hand jalopy to ease the burden of his declining years.
The cheapest he could
find in all Missouri was
$235, but the dealer re
minded him, "You get
five good tires thrown in
free; they haven't gone
more'n 40,000 miles."
"Forget the tires." said
the mountaineer. "I don't
want any on my car.
When I'm auto riding I
want to know It."
A slick college spnlor,
out with his steady In his
roadster, hca.lod for the
Me of the turnpike the
minute they were beyond the city limits. "But, Jerry," she pro
teatevt, "why atop here where everybody will see us? There are
so many nicer placea down the road m way." "Here we stay,"
said the swain firmly. "I believe In love at first site."
OVERHEARD:
At a b:g cocktail party: ''Even' time I turned around, he was
kissing my wife. So I stopped turning around."
In a barber shop: '"Just give me a shave. I haven't got time
to listen to a haircut."
At the Athletic Club: "I guess Uie honeymoon la over. Now
the dog brings my sltppersand the wife barks at me."
O tMl, by Beanett Cert. Dtetrttrated fcy Klnf Feature Syndicate
MEDFORD MAIL
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
. has already been suggested
in a previous report. In brief,
the Soviets seem to be pre-
paring to sign their famous
peace treaty, and then to
leave the East Germans to de-
fend those "sovereign rights"
Khrushchev is always saying
the treaty will confer on East
Germany.
If this is correct, the West
ern will to defend Berlin will
be initially tested by East
Germans, just as American
resolution was tested by
North Koreans- in Korea and
by Communist Chinese at
Quemoy. Even such a limited
test will be breathlessly dan
gerous, but it will still leave
the Kremlin free to go to the
U.N., or to go to war in
earnest, or to do many other
things, depending on the test's
results. How, then, do the
above-listed slogans apply?
taking them in reverse
order, the morale of the East
German army is quite prob
ably fragile enough to be
broken by one bad beating.
But the wisest observers here
believe the Soviets can count
on the East German divisions
to put up a good show in the
first round, until they have
been beaten at least once. By
then, it must be noted, the
Western will to defend Ber
lin will be rather fully tested.
S FOR slogan number two,
about Khrushchev's fear
of the irresponsible Ulbricht,
no leader in the whole Soviet
bloc is such a total puppet as
Ulbricht. Furthermore, if the
new doctrine of Secretary of
Defense MacNamara means
anything, the initial Western
r.cnnncn In L' ... , .
attempt to take control of the
; Berlin access routes will be a
' conventional response.
So we come to the most of
ten repeated slogan, that the
Soviets will not risk a big
war for Berlin. Quite .iside
from the fact that Khrushchev
keeps saying precisely the
same thing about the United
States, what is really meant
by this slogan? Does it mean
the Soviets will not accept 1
per cent of risk, or 5 per cent
of risk, or even 10 per cent of
risk? If you think the odds are
9 to l in your favor, is not a
gamble to win the world
rather tempting?
If the Soviet plan is any
thing like that outlined above,
they certainly wish to mini
mize the risks. But It is also
pretty certain that they are
under grave pressure to take
some sort of risk to win an
early victory. This problem
and their calculation of risks
must both be examined in an
other report.
Stop Me
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TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Commonwealth vs. Common Market
Diefenbaker's Hopes
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Canada's tall, gray-haired
Prime Minister John Diefen-
baker is a
prairie lawyer
who has been
described a s
having an al
most mystics
belief in an al
almost mysti
cal institution.
That insti
tution is the
Common- Newsom
wealth of Nations, formerly
known as the British Com-
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
c) Field Enterprises, Inc.
CONCERT ETIQUETTE
We were avoidably late for
a concert at Ravina (Illinois)
a few weeks
ago, and as we
were standing
in back wait
ing for the
pause be
tween move
ments to take
our seats, I
thought of the
time that Leo
pold Stokow-
ski taught Philadelphia concert-goers
a severe but badly
needed lesson.
Many years ago, when he
was first conducting the Phil
adelphia Symphony Orches
tra, he became increasingly
annoyed at the rudeness of
the audiences throughout the
season - and especially the
nonchalant latecomers. So, at
the last concert of the season,
Stokowski ' decided to pay
them back in kind.
Those who arrived at the
auditorium early were sur
prised to see that none of the
customary arrangements had
been made. Most of the ushers
were absent, the stage was
dark and bare, and some of
the audience began to wonder
if they had come on the right
evening.
Ten minutes after the
scheduled time to begin, a
janitor strolled across the
stage and tossed the music
stands around, loudly and
casually, A few musicians
seated themselves on the
stage and began to play the
first few bars of the open
ing piece.
The rest of the orchestra
clumped in by twos and
threes, and joined the rag
ged performance with
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submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary Is oiten
Is It Legal?
To the Editor: Is it legal to
add something to our water,
which we are forced to use,
but do not have a chance to
vote on it? If fluoride is added
to Medford's water and those
outside of the city have no
chance to vote on it, seems to
b-; a crime. As we understand
it, the city is under contract
to furnish us pure water,
(which Medford does have and
is an attraction to the Valley,)
and should not add anything
to degrade its purity. Many
people under doctor's care are
forbidden to use sodium flu
oride and will have to move
away.
Testimony of Dr. F. B. Ex
ner before the House Commit
tee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce a few years ago
stated "Willful adulteration of
public water supplies is a
crime, and you are morally
guilty of that crime when you
vote .r put fluoride in the city
water. . . Each inhabitant has
equal stake in its purity . . .
Each has a riaht to get water
from his tap, not medicine."
Fluoride may be had in tab
lets, capsules or liquid and at
the right proportion for those
who wish it. One child may
drink one glass of water a day
while another eight glasses.
Then it is not proportioned to
their needs.
Dr. Jonathan Forman who
edited the Ohio State Medi
cal Journal for 22 years and
National Chairman of the
Medical Denial Ad-Hoc com
mittee said, "The real problem
is not how to get enough flu
oridalion into our diet, but
how to prevent us from get
ting too much."
A lciter of Dr. A. R. Gould
to the San Francisco water de-
partment. May 5, 1953, stated.
I do not have to imastne the
plight of several families who
have written to tell me that
they are obliged to buy pure
water at an avcrase cost of
S250 a vear (one woman for
a family of 17i because of out-
breaks ot mouth rash, derma-
titis, stiffness of joints which
disappeared completely after
changing to pure water and
re-appeared when they went
back to fluoridated city sup-
monwealth, whose 13 inde
pendent member nations rep
resent more than half a billion
people on nearly every conti
nent of the globe.
As a champion of this fam
ily of nations bound by no
legal ties but only by past
association with Britain, it
was natural then that Diefei.
baker should take over lead
ership of those who fear its
imminent dissolution.
His target as Commonwealth
prime ministers assembled in
London was Britain's effort to
join the European Common
Market, a six-nation super-
J. Harris
much coughing, shuffling of
feet, and rattling of instru
ments. It was a half-hour
before the entire orchestra
was playing together, with
style and verve.
The concert continued in
ih conventional manner,
until the concluding num
ber. Then the musicians re
versed the process, and put
away their instruments by
twos and threes, banging
their way off the stage un
til Stokowski was left alone
with the irate audience.
Needless to say, he took
no bows that night. But de
spile a panning for these
high-handed tactics, his dra
matic object-lesson paid off.
At the first concert of the
new season, there were no va
cant seats, everyone was
prompt in arriving, silent dur
ing the performance, and stay
ed until the final note had
died into oblivion.
Sometimes there seems to
be no other way to deal with
bad-mannered audiences, who
feel they are doing the per
formers a favor by attending
at all. They need reminding
that to be a patron of the arts
it is not necessary to be pat
ronizing. Great performers and com
posers used to be let in at the
kitchen doors of the nobles
who supported them, and
were forced to eat with the
servants; but while they were
playing they were listened to
with respect and silence. To
day we treat them with ac
claim in their personal lives.
but regard their professional
appearances as simply social
occasions for our own diver-
sion-which is worse for them,
for us, and for the arts.
ncme and address ot the writer,
the use of a pen name or initial
the case.
ply (just to make sure).'1
A city official of Canton,
Ohio, put in a new water heat
ing system which corroded in
a year. The manufacturers re
fused to replace it, saying that
they did not guarantee any of
their furnaces where the wa
ter was fluoridated. If it does
! bat to the pipes, what will it
do :o you? Is it legal?
Mrs. Ernest Santo,
204 Lozier Lane,
Medford.
Times Have Changed
To the Editor: When I wuz
about three years old, I heard
a man say: "A cow jumped
over the moon." Some years
later, I heard a man say: "A
monkey will fly around the
moon," and I think they wuz
both nuts, but they wuzn't.
They wuz scientists wot could
see into the future. Cows fi
nally give up the idea, but
monkeys didn't, get discour
aged, they wuz still trying and
it looks like they would suc
ceed. Today, I wouldn't be sur
prised if a billion dollar rock
et barrel full of monkeys land
ed on the moon. I wouldn't
even be surprised if we beat
the monkeys to the moon.
I've heard the expression
many times: "It's out of this
world." or "he's out of this
world." but I never thought
"HE" would ever make it.
It's easy to get out of this I
world today. All you need is
a billion dollars, a barrel,
some gunpowder and a match.
That'll get you started one
way. You can make the rest
of the payments in 36 months,
one million dollars a day.
People used to think 50
miles wuz top speed, that's
, D(,fore rockets wuz invented.
iToday, you strike a match and
,-vou wul on million miles up,
i before you can blow out the
malrn
' YEP! Times have changed
1 since someone invented the
old Brush four wheeled wheel -
Darrow. vt hoever invented it
: wuzn't a scientist, he wuzn't
'even an engineer. He yust put
j w heels on wheelbarrows,
Everett Acklln
Ashland. Ore.
Probably Futile
market at present composed
of France, West Germany,
Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
and the Netherlands.
The ultimate goal of "The
Six" is European political
unity as well as economic.
Those who oppose British
entry do so on both counts.
They fear the end of the
Commonwealth as a force for
world stability and they fear
for the effect on their own
economies should Britain dis
appear behind a common Eu
ropean tariff wall.
In Diefenbaker's mind there
also undoubtedly was more
than the question of the Com
monwealth as a powerful, al
though somewhat intanglible,
world force.
Most Commonwealth food
stuffs, raw materials and man
ufactures enter Britain free ot
duty. Canada exports $1 bil
lion worth of goods a year to
the United Kingdom and un
der the present system enjoys
Drummond Reports
iw.lt., Linnininn it en vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (cl 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
THE QUESTION PERIOD
Washington Sen. Hubert
Humphrey, the assistant ma
jority leader, suggests tl" " t the
time has come when congress
ought to adopt, in part, the
British House of Commons
"question period" and invite
the Secretary of State to ap
pear periodically before the
House and Senate for ques
tioning. Is this just a nice conversa
tional idea or is it an innova
tion worth serious considera
tion? I would like to examine
some of the questions which
would have to be answered if
it is to get anywhere.
QUESTION S i n c e the
President, not Congress, is
charged with the responsibil
ity for the conduct of foreign
policy, would it violate the di
vision of powers for Congress
to invite the Secretary of
State to appear for question
ing? ANSWER Congress also
has authority which bears di
rectly upon the conduct of
foreign policy. It holds the
purse strings. The Senate must
approve treaties and execu
tive agreements. The Presi
dent can "talk" foreign policy,
but he can do very little with
out the approval of Congress.
At a time when the safety of
the whole free world rests in
large part, on the leadership
of the U.S., the President and
the Congress must act to
gether, or the President can
not act at all. Any tendency to
minimize the authority of
Congress over foreign policy
is fatal.
riUESTION How serious is
the lack of communica
tion, the lack of mutual un
derstanding, between the
State Department and Con
gress? ANSWER Every Secre
tary of State since the U S.
assumed the leadership of the
free world Stettinius,
Byrnes, Marshall, Acheson,
Dulles, Herter, Rusk has
acutely felt the lack of com
munication and the frustra
tion which conies from it.
Congress has felt it in reverse,
convinced that the State De
partment has not provided it
In the Day's News
By FRANK
On the subject of Nikita S.
Khrushchev and what he's up
to and what he wants and
what to do about it, we've list
ened to just about everybody
else.
So
Today
Let's listen to a poet.
WHO'S the poet?
He's Robert Frost four
time winner of the Pulitzer
prize for a distinguished vol
ume of verse by an American
author. He won it in 1924 for
his New Hampshire; in 1931
for his Collected Poems; in
1937 for his A Further Range;
in 1943 for his A Witness
Tree.
He is known as the dean of
American letters.
ONE M
Ho
MORE question:
ow did Poet Robert
Frost come to be talking to
Nikita Khrushchev? It came
about like this:
His visit to Russia to talk
to Mr. Kroosh was arranged
under the Soviet-American
cultural exchange program.
He arrived in Moscow on Aug
ust 2R. He found that Mr.
Kroosh was at his vacation re
treat on the Black Sea. Ar
ransements then had to be
made for a meeting there. The
meeting was held day before
yesterday.
FROST is 88 years old,
so he was a little bushed
when he arrived at Mr.
Kroosh's villa. He was reclin
! ,
ing on the bed when his host
rnved for the planned con-
ference.
Of the meeting, he
says:
"I sat on the edge of the!
bed Khrushchev sat on I
chair near the bed. We went
at It, and had a good talk,
1
a highly favorable trade balance.
Diefenbaker lost no time
over the week end in launch
ing his campaign.
He suggested the prime
ministers' conference find a
plan to vastly increase Com
monwealth trade and thus pro
vide Britain with an "alter
native" to the common mar
ket. But actually there were few
who believed Diefenbaker
could change Britain's course.
Britain has said that if she
is forced to choose between
the Commonwealth and the
common market, she will de
cide for the Commonwealth.
But there was also" the uncom
fortable conclusion that Brit
ain neither could provide the
growing outlet that Common
wealth producers need, nor
were Commonwealth markets
growing fast enough to absorb
all the goods that Britain must
export.
with continuous and candid
information and explanation.
State Department officials,
appear in person before com
mittees comprising about 23
per cent of the membership
of Congress. This means that
77 per cent of the membership
of the House and Senate have
no opportunity to hear and to
question in person the Secre
tary of State and his aides.
I have talked with many
members of Congress who feel
that they are called upon to
vote in a near vacuum because
they have so little opportunity
to get first-hand information.
Theoretically the facts and
opinions which are given to
Congressional committees in
testimony are provided to the
rest of Congress in reports
and in debate on the floor.
This is a pallid carbon-copy
compared with first-hand
questioning of top officials. It
urgently needs to be sup
plemented by a "question per
iod" for all of Congress.
QUESTION Would the ap
pearance of the Secretary
of State put too powerful a
tool in the hands of the execu
tive to influence Congress?
Would the opportunity to
cross-examine the Secretary
of State put too powerful a
tool in the hands of Congress
to influence the executive?
ANSWER My judgment is
that the proposed question
period would be of equal ad
vantage to both the executive
and Congress. It would enable
the Secretary of State to put
his views more effectively be
fore all of Congress. It would
enable Congressmen to put
their views more effectively
before the Secretary of State.
Both sides would be better
off.
QUESTION Would such a
question period be a radical
innovation in our system of
divided powers?
ANSWER A modest and
a constructive innovation, not
a radical one. It would simply
be an extension of the pres
ent committee system by
means of which periodically
the Secretary of State would
testify before Congress as a
committee of the whole.
JENKINS
Berlin was one of the things
we talked about. I said I hate
it. I hate it that a small thin:;
like the Berlin business could
decide the fate of the world.
I told him the fate of the
world for the next hundred
years or so lies between the
United States and Russia.
"I told him there might be
something we have that he
wants and there might be
something we they have that
we want. I told him we could
trade and settle it Just like a
horse trade. I said to him:
'You don't know this, but the
reason I came here was to talk
politics.' Our talk was very
free and congenial."
yHAT came of it?
" Well, as to that you
will have to draw your own
conclusions. He offers none of
his own. As an experienced
horse trader, he obviously
knows that a trade is never
a trade until everything is
signed., sealed and delivered.
But
Back 1n Moscow, after his
talk down on the shores of the
Black sea, the reporters asked
him what he thought ot
Khrushchev.
He replied:
"He's a ruffian. He's readv
for a fight. He's not afraid of
us. and we're not afraid of
him."
OF POET Robert Frost. Wil.
liam Rose Benet, in his
Reader's Encyclopedia, says:
"His style is simple, plain and
colloquial."
It certainly is. It is about
as far as can be imagined from
the gobbledygook in which
our statesmen and politicians
normally sneak.
Thank you, Mr. Frost I
think you may have don ynur
country some good.