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Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 17, 1952 (Thursday)
Trapper charged wllh June
24 murder of state police of
ficer here is captured at cabin
in woods north of Salem.
Sen. Richard M. Nixon, Re
publican candidate for vice
president, to speak from rear
platform of special ( train on
trip through Medford.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 17, 1942 (Friday)
City Recorder Mose L. Al
ford reports no petitions for
four Medford city council po
sitions with deadline for filing
only four days away.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: "Old
weather prophets ot the val
ley fear Indian summer will
be short, followed by squaw
winter. It has been cool as a
cucumber."
30 YEARS AGO
Sopt. 17, 1932 (Sunday)
State highway commission
"census" shows 23,554 cars
using highways in southern
Oregon during 16 -hour pe
riod. Petitions circulated protest
ing change of highway south
of Ashland as "extravagant
and unjustified . . . and will
mainly benefit the tourist
trade only."
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 17, 1922 (Monday)
Total of R85 carloads of
pears shipped from Medford
since start nf fruil packing
season.
Jackson county 4-11 club
members attending state fair
in Salem include Juhn Bohn
crt, Central Point,
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 17, 1912 (Wednesday)
Eleventh si. not to he paved
at this time, "owing to the
condition ot the car paving
plant at Husebuig which can
not be moved at this lime ow
ing to its condition."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or leu correct it superior;
seven or eight is eaccllcnt; five el
tit is eood.
1. W h i c h Scandinavian
country wasn't invaded by
Germany during World War
II?
2. Which book in the Old
Testament tells of Solomon
and the Shulamile maid?
3. Where did Peter Pump
kin Eater keep bis wife?
4. Correct the following:
"The young couple got mar
ried." 5. Is Ihe name Miami of
Spanish, French, or American
derivation?
B. Who w role "Sonnets
from the Portuguese"?
7. Do the Hawaiian Islands
lie closer to the Japanese or
U. S. mainland?
R. Within the boundaries of
which three States docs Yel
lowstone Park lie?
9. On which river is (he
Hells Canyon controversial
dam site?
10. What finality in wine is
described bv the adjective
"dry"-1
Answers: 1. Sweden. 2. The
Song ol Solomon. 3. In a
pumpkin shell. 4. The young
couple married. 5. American
(Indian). I. Elisabeth Barrett
Browning. 7. U. S. mainland.
8. Wyorr.ing. Montana and
Idaho. S. Snake River between
Idaho and Oregon. 10. Non
tweet. I
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SEPTEMBER 17. 19S2
Mountain Lakes' Future
The proposal made last week that the Sky
Lakes Limited Area be reclassified and enlarged
is deserving of serious consideration,
The forest service has been studying some
such a possibility for some months now, and we
are unofficially informed that a recommendation
is nearly ready to be presented to the regional for
ester. The nature of the recommendation has not
been made public, but an educated guess would
be that it would he for a Wild Area of some
50,000 or fewer acres, or some 110,000 acres small
er than the present Limited Area, eliminating the
portion near Crater Lake.
(A Limited Area is based on regional admin
istrative action; a Wild Area is 100,000 acres or
less designated at the Washington level; and a
Wilderness Area is 100,000 or more similarly
designated. All are under similar restrictions and
management.)
""THE new proposal was made by 'J. Michael
McCloskey of Eugene on behalf of the Fed
eration of Western Outdoor Clubs and the Ore
gon Wildlife Federation.
J he major change from the exisitlng bound
ary would be a loop to
thus adding enough area
ness Area, rather than the smaller Wild Area.
Other boundary modifications are largely to
follow natural topographical features, such as
ridges or countour lines,
strictly to sections lines.
aim is to give a minimum of two miles ot butter
zone, where possible, to protect the little Cas
cade lakes from overuse.
IF OUR guess is correct, the chief difference
between this proposal
service is considering
McLoughlin, and of the
just south of Crater Lake National rark.
McCloskey's brief makes a good case for both.
Of the latter, he says:
"It is felt thai the Oregon Desert country merits
dedicated status for four reasons. One, the area's
special geological qualities exemplifying the aftermath
of the collapse of Mt. Mazama can best be appreciated
in the undisturbed conditions of wilderness . , . Two,
the area is the scenic foreground, in a panoramic
sense, for views of Crater Lake Park from Devils
Peak, which is the dominating viewpoint of the en
tire region. The desert country is an Intervening part,
of a continuum of high country connecting with the
park . . . Three, dedication of the desert country would
prevent connection nf Ihe roadbeads not four miles
apart which impinge on the east and west sides of
the Seven Lakes Basin . . . Though a transmounlain
connecting highway has been suggested here . . .the
need for such a route will be obviated by the con
struction of an even lower route in the new Win-nomucca-to-lhe-Sea
highway north of Lake of the
Woods . . . Four, by keeping the area north of Seven
Lakes Basin roadless, opportunity is afforded of re
taining the unique recreational a.ssel of a 45 mile long
continuum of near wilderness mountain scenery free
of commercial and commodity developments. "
Regarding Ml. McLoughlin, he adds:
"It is fell thai II is desirable to dedicate this area
around Ml. McLoughlin (al an average of 2 'a miles
(roirs the summit) to protect the Immediate slopes of
mountain from further incursions that are Inconsistent 1
with its scenic character. Logging roads now run to
within 2'i miles of the mountain's summit, and culling
units arc working their way up the soulhwcsl ap
proaches lo the mountain."
MCCLOSKEY also proposes some suggestions
no it m-innrrnnmnl nf tlin Qi'an Pro ita nrntop.
lion suggestions we have often heard discussed
by forest service personnel who are concerned
with the possible damage
and oilier factors:
These include road standards as they ap
proach the area, overnight camps just outside
the area to encourage day use rather than over
night use, trail standards sot to conform to wild
erness application and discouraging vehicular
use, basic sanitary facilities for the protection
of humans, livestock, wildlife and fish life, and
a summertime patrol crew to "direct traffic,"
service the facilities, and make needed repairs.
The entire area would total lOo.ti-IO acres
(compared to 82,000 acres al present), and would
span the Cascade summit for 28 miles, averaging
six miles in width. There are al present 21 points
of access by trail, and a well-developed system
of trails within the area. There are approximately
30 good-sized lakes, and .countless smaller ones,
ranging from ponds upward.
X7M ARE not intimately familiar with the area,
' but we are acquainted with it. Last sum
mer we were with a horseback party t hat trav
versed some o" miles of its trails in two days,
and we have flown over it on several occasions.
It is, indeed, one of the most beautiful areas
of its type we have ever seen. It has a character
and loveliness all its own, and is well loved, not
only by fishermen, but also by hikers and camp
ers who merely want to get away from civiliza
tion's pressures and tensions.
It would not "lock up" (in the lumbermen's
phrase) any appreciable amount of exploitable
resources. Most of the timber is sub-standard,
and it is not mineralized country.
JVCCLOSKKY'S presentation was based on de-
tailed study of the area, on the spot anil
otherwise. It is an expert job. The forest service
should give it detailed consideration.
The Sky Lakes area is one of only two in
southern Oregon (not counting Critter Lake Na
tional l'ark) that is held in wild or wilderness
status. The other is the much smaller Mountain
Lakes Wild Area, southeast of Lake of the
Woods.
We hope the forest service will not succumb
to "practical" considerations in arriving at its
determination and make the reserved area too
small. E.A.
include Mt. McLoughlin
to qualify as a Wilder
rather than adhering
In laying them out, the
and the one the forest
are the inclusion ot Mt.
so - called Oregon Desert
to the area by overuse
We Didn't Go Far Enough We Should Havei
Been Against Voting
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ifm luiir
'THE BATTLE OF THE
DOLLAR IS WON'
There will be no "sick,
sick, sick" jokes about the
U.S. dollar in the corridors
and meeting halls of Wash
ington's Sheraton Park hotel
today as the free world's fi
nancial leaders gather to open
the 19(12 meetings of the
World bank and International
Monetary fund.
For the U.S. dollar is hard
ly as sick as is claimed by ma
licious critics of our country,
uninformed newspaper com
mentators and ruthless cur
rency speculators - and the
central bankers of the Wesl
know It. In fact, even as the
speculators have been trying
to stage a last-minute bear
raid on our currency, "the bat
tle of the dollar," in the words
of the respected financial
trade paper, "The Weekly'
Bond Buyer" is, "to all prac
tical account, won."
We are not going to deva
lue our dollar under pressure
now by raising the price we
pay for gold from its long
bold $35 an ounce level and
thereby permit the gold spec
ulators to make a killing.
We are not going to stoop
to notice the dollar-baiting
talk In countries which are
free and prosperous today on
ly because we have given and
loaned them our dollars so
generously.
We ara not going lo be
pushed by incredibly short
sighted, selfish foreigners
into acts of desperation that
would undermine the entire
free world and hand the
Soviet Union an enormous
victory. Again lo quote The
Bond Buyer, it is ludicrous
"That so great a currency
as the dollar is or can be
imperiled by other relative
ly pip-squeak currencies,
some ot which were flat on
their back a dozen years
ago and would still be there
it the dollar had not rescued
them."
Yes, we are still running
a deficit in our balance of pay
ments spending more abroad
than we're taking in from
other countries, thereby al
lowing our foreign creditors
to continue to build up claims
against our dollar which they
can (and do) withdraw in part
in the form of gold. We arc
losing gold, we will lose more,
and our gold reserve, already
at a 2:i-yeur low of Slfi bil
lion, will be still lower be
fore year end.
But the dollar is being pro
tected by a series of unprece
dented measures and the pro
tection will go on until no
longer necessary. The cooper
ation among the free world's
financiers to defend the dollar
and conserve the U.S. gold re
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
MRTS;.
GEORGE ALLEN, wife
uman and Eisenhower,
modest Navy football coach
victory over Army in
years, quietly left the
train in Baltimore on the
way back to Annapolis
so his team could get alt
the huzzuhs when it ar
rived home.
Allen nodded and said.
"That's exactly what I
would have done under
similar circumstances."
"The heck it is," hooted
the knowing Mrs. Allen.
"You'd have put the
TEAM off at Baltimore:"
Brian Jamea tells of a well-heeled tourist who dropped into a
liny village ctitirvh In Essex County, Knglund, for the Oinstiiia.s
en-Ice. Before It begun, he button-holed the rector and said
rpanively, "I mean to give you a hajvlaotne contribution. I
only hope you'll put on a good show today." The revlor answered
quietly. "U won't be a bad one. It I been running new foi almost
two trtousajid years;"
MEDFORD MAIL
By White People Too"
mA lMSt All'A
iiiuiicy s
IUIUI
By SYLVIA PORTER
Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc,
served in recent months has
been nothing short of magni
ficent. The way the Interna
tional Monetary Fund came to
the rescue of the pound ster
ling a year ago and is now
helping to develop dollar sta
bilizing techniques also i3
nothing short of magnificent.
The U.S. dollar is the pivot
of the free world's currencies
and economics - and one
reason Is that no olher cur
rency could do the job. No
other nation except us puts
absolutely no controls over
currency movements; you can
lake any amount of dollars
you have wherever you wish.
No other nation except us
says to any foreign borrower
that he may enter our mar
kets and borrow as much as
our investors are willing to
lend at a cost set by a free
market. No other nation ex
cept us runs a balance of pay
ments deficit just because we
spend so much for the free
world's military defense and
economic welfare thai this
spending more than wipes out
our huge surplus of exports
over imports.
The sick, sick, sick jokes
began when the financial
leaders met In New Delhi
for their 1958 meeting. The
big story that year was that
a Zurich banker had offered
to bet Federal Reserve
Board chairman Martin a
bottle of champagne that
the dollar would be deval
ued. Martin had refused
lo lake the bet - and that
meant devaluation was im
minent. They were revived when the
financiers met in Washington
in l!)50. The big jokes that
year were that we were the
"world's poorest developed
nation" and had the world's
"firth strongest currency."
They readied sickening
crescendo in Vienna last year
when our financial delegates
had to spend endless hours ex
plaining to the European Fi
nanciers that because a small
town U.S. banker on a Euro
pean vacation said the dollar
was going to be devalued
didn't mean he knew any
thing about the subject and
the same went for some of our
newspaper re porters.
This year, the mood is dif
ferent. It's serious, attentive,
cooperative, for tltc dollar,
even If the amateur rumor
mongers haven't caught up
with the news yet.
j Some day, when the timing
; is right, we will take major
new .steps (o strengthen the
I currency system of the free
world. But we'll take ihe steps
I when WK are ready not
when Ihe raiders in pip-
squeak countries shrilly tell
us to.
Stop Me
of the famous put of F.D R.,
read in the paper about a
who, following the first Navy
TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Men-Around-Kennedy Will Be
Republican Strategy
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Press International
Washington -WPIt- National
Republican strategy in this
year's congressional campagn
will be to cen
I e r fire on
the men.
around - Ken.
nedy (TMAK).
That w a i
Deinoirn
tic a t r a t e.
Cy.wh.eQ
Dwight P, Eis.
enhower was
President. Ike
was deemed too popular for
sustained attack on him until
John F. Kennedy came along
in 1960 to blame the President
for a condition of national
stagnation and for a missile
gap. The missile gap issue
may have been a phony but it
was most effective, its doubt
ful nature being unknown
until afler Kennedy took of
fice. Kennedy's personal popular
ity probably is a factor in Re
publican plans to center fire
on TMAK. But another factor
is that TMAK seems especial
ly vulnerable from the Repub
lican viewpoint. The Republi
can target is not so much the
Kennedy cabinet as some les
ser figures who are relatively
obscure. Men such as Arthur
Schlesinger Jr.. a special as
sistant to the President, and
Walt W. Rostow, chairman of
the State Department policy
planning board. Rostow is
challenged as the inventor of
the missile gap issue.
What the Republicans hope
to do is to make Schlesinger,
Rostow and others on their
level better known to the vot
ers before this campaign is
ended; much better known.
Schlesinger reminds some old
timers of FDR's famous Thom
as G. Corcoran, a short-tempered,
sometimes abrupt indi
vidual. He was well equipped
with brains and a profound
admirer of his own ideas and
opinions.
Rostow is suspected by Re
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington, President
Kennedy declares that t h e
United States will be "alert
and fully capable to deal with
any offensive threat from Soviet-backed
Cuba against the
United Slates or 'any country
in this hemisphere.
He warns the communists
against threatening or using
force against the U. S. Naval
base at Guantanamo (in Cuba),
the Panama Canal, the Cape
Canaveral rocket base or the
lives of American citizens in
this country or ANY NATION
in this hemisphere.
But in a carefully weighed
and prepared statement he
also said that recent Soviet
arms shipments lo Cuba do
not present a threat lo this
country. He declared emphat
ically that unilateral (mean
ing one country only) U. S.
intervention in Cuba at pres
ent is not justified.
ASKED at his news confer-
enee at what point this
country would consider the
military buildup in Cuba to
be offensive rather than de
fensive, he replied that this
point has been made quite
clear in his statements on the
Cuban situation.
He gave as an example the
presence of possible OFFEN
SIVE MISSILE CAPACITY.
rjMlAT is lo say;
- If we learn on unimpeach
able authority that Soviet Rus
sia is establishing OFFEN
SIVE missile bases in Cuba,
we will ACT and will act
decisively.
IT HIS news conference, the
President calls on the
American people to keep both
their nerve and their head,
and points out that he has full
power as commander-in-chief
of U. S. armed forces to take
any action thai may become
necessary.
It Is good advice, of course.
Nothing could be more tragic
than for the United States to
rush into a hasty and ill-prepared
attack on Cuba without
clear and positive evidence
thai Communist Russia is plan
ning to tise Cuba as a base
for an all-out attack on us
or as a base (or an all-out mili
tary move to EXPAND com
munism's present bridgehead
in Cuba.
That could be falal.
We would feel much easier
it it weren't for the Bay of,
Pigs in the nol loo distant
background.
But
We must remember that
President Kennedy was then
very young and inexperienced
in his job. He had hardly got
his official chair warm. He
bus had the opportunity to
learn a lot since then in
Ihe hard school of experience.
He has seen Fidel Castro
building up to what the Bay
of Pigs enterprise was design
ed to prevent which is a
COMMUNIST BASE in t h e
Western Hemisphere. He must
he aware by now of the grav
ity of his error then.
publican as a lop policy plan -
ner who lacks confidence in
the American way of life,
who doubts the ability of a
democratized capitalism to
beat down the challenge of a
communized socialism. And
like Corcoran before him,
Rostow is resented by Re
publican! as an individual
who exercises great power
without any clearly defined
evidence that he has earned
Washington Report
By William
(c United Feature Syndicate
DOESN'T LIKE PROSPECT
Washington-It rather looks
that somebody up there in
the United Nations doesn't
like the pros-
peel of any
real settle
ment of t h e
difficulties in
the Congo. On
Sept. 3 Presi-
d e n t Moise
Tshombe of
Separatist, an
ti - Communist
Katanga
principle, under
heavy pressure, to a UN
scheme for placing the prov
ince under the general author
ity of the Central Congo gov
ernment. He agreed even though the
UN put the thing to him with
rare arrogance, throwing
down an ultimatum with the
public warning that it was
to be neither debatable nor
negotiable. Putting aside all
questions of ordinary man
ners and tact, this was an ex
traordinary way to appeal for
unity in the Congo. After all,
the very right of the UN to in
tervene at all in the internal
affairs of this or any other
county is open to honest dis
pute. B
UT, to repeat, Tshombe
through the good offices of
the Belgians. Though long
since themselves driven from
the Congo as evil "colonial
ists," they have patiently
tried to help pick up the
pieces there. The United
States also was of great as
sistance in the proposed com
promise, our people having
meantime dropped some of
their excessively harsh early
attitude toward anything con
nected with Tshombe.
But once Katanga had prom,
ised to go along, new provo
cations followed. The UN Sec
retary - General, U Thant of
Burma, needlessly slapped
Tshombe again by allowing
some of the troops of his op
position in the controversy,
the Central Congo govern
ment, to become part of the
UN force in Katanga.
The Central Congo govern
ment, meanwhile, had done
its bit by provoking some of
the Western Allied govern
ments. With loud huzzahs, it
donated a base on Congo soil
to train Angolan rebels who
Trull
agreed in
intend to take the colony ofiments?
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Daper; in tact the contrarv is otten the case.
Varities of Selfishness
To the Editor; In regard lo
Ihe squabble over the wreck
ing yard in Talent: Those
people who are complaining
about it care for no one but
themselves. They are the
same type of people who are
always trying to gel me lo
sell my pile of scrap iron -for
one cent per pound (yes,
that is what 1 or any one else
gels for scrap iron)-and then
buy new steel for 20 cents
to S1.00 per pound and then
go to additional work and ex
pense to fabricate the items
they insist 1 sell al one cent
per pound. This- of course
would make it economically
impossible to pursue my hob
by of building machines I
can use.
Those kind of people think
the only way to live is to have
10 acres of lawn in front of
their house with some ser
vants to keep the lawn mow
ed and the iiowers (which I
doubt would make very good
eating, wouldn't keep em
warm or give 'cm a ride or
haul anything for them) trim
med. For me. the way to live is
to have a good shop to (abri
cale the thii-gs I cannot et
ready made, and a well stock
ed scrap iron pile of automo
tive channel iron, brackets,
gears. pulleys. sprockets.
shafts, cranks, chains, angle
iron, l iron. tuning, pipe fit
tints and other metal objects.
If I could afford it I'd
spend half my time in a good
well stocked wrecking yard.
There's lots and lots of use
ful thing there,
I'm not the kind of feller
wno tries to keep ahead of the I
Joneses - to heck (I have I
stronger terms) with them, j
For a hobby I'd rather run j
mv shop equipment than, to I
in Fall Campaign
J the right to such power or
that he will evercise it pru
dently. The Republican Po!;y
Committee of the House of
Representatives let fly at Ros
tow. It distributed a circular
with the text of several
House speeches on Rostow
policies, past writing, and
more specifically, the con
tents of a secret State De
partment paper in which Ros-
S. White
Angola from Portugal by
arms. This, of course, was a
great contribution in re
verse by those who say
and say again they want lo
end bitterness and disunion
in Africa.
SOME would think, quite
simply, that it was a prep
aration for aggression. But
the UN, these days, can rare
ly find anybody guilty of ag
gression unless he is a West
erner. When the good "ex
colonial peoples" mount an ag
gression, it is only self-de
fense, or simply justice, or
something. Anyhow, since the
Central Congo government is
a creature of the UN, it is
perfectly obvious that the UN
could have stopped this point
less provocation of Portugal
had it wanted to do so.
And now, to cap it all,
there has been another armed
clash in Katanga between UN
troops troops supplied by
Nehru's India, which has gone
unrebuked for its little ag
gression in Goa and the
Katangese. Tshombe says the
UN first opened fire. The UN
says Tshombe's troops did. It
is possible thai in this area
of tough power politics and
maneuvering the UN may be
right as to the details this
time though its past rec
ord for candor is not impres
sive. BUT the UN, which claims
i I s e 1 f to be terribly re
sponsible, and Tshombe to be
irresponsible, had the plain
duty to avoid this incident in
the first place, particularly in
the present circumstances.
Surely, avoiding it could not
have been too desperately dif
ficult if, as the UN itself
claims, there were no casual
ties whatever. If the Katang
ese really did open fire first,
how did they manage to hit
nobody at all? And what of
the bodies of Katangese which
Tshombe displays in a mortu
ary? In any case, who fired firsl
is nol the real point. The
real point is that Tshombe
now can and does challenge
the good faith of the UN.
Again, does somebody up
there in the UN really like
the idea of a peaceful settle
ment? Or is somebody up
there in the UN more inter
ested in making more bitter
incidents rather than in settle-
eat, and it's lots more fun
than fishing, playing baseball,
basketball, football and golf.
Floyd R. McCabe.
Mt. Pitt Star Route.
Butte Falls, Ore.
Does Make Difference
To the Editor: I just read
your criticism of the judges
decision on condemning a
"balloon" bread.
Perhaps it is because of
your ignorance on the sub
ject. And may I say at this
time I feel I'm a fairly good
judge on the subject. We just
moved here ftom where bal
loon bread was allowed. And
we were in the bread busi
ness. iMuwii people are worse
than children. As long as it's
"big" Quality is slowly creep
ing oul oi American values..
You say it doesn't make
a difference. It does make a
difference. Maybe you ought
to eat some for a while.
If a bakery, particularly
the small bakeries, like yoii
have around here, has a good
loaf of bread, II will be
crowded off if balloon bread
is allowed lo be produced.
People say jusl as you;
What difference does il make,
bread is bread.
No, bread is not bread.
We have bten here only a
few weeks and "no balloon
bread is one thing which we
have enjoyed
We still appreciate qual
ity, and are nol foolish
enough to think something
blown up bigger makes it
better.
allies are not based on
size, lou know, dynamite
comes in small packages,
Mrs. Leonard Combs.
22 Geneva,
Medford.
Center of
tow is alleged to plump for
a "no-win" policy in the cold
war with world communism.
Rostow Theory
Rostow is accused of seek
ing to base Kennedy adminis
tration policy on the theory
that Russian communism is
mellowing, thai, in time, we
all will be one happy world
family, more or less.
"And so." said Rep. Robert
T. Stafford (R-VO. "we will
at last come into the Rostow
millenium - that wonderful
day when communism has
moderated into democratic so
cialism and capitalism has
faded into democratic social
ism and the entire world will
live blissfully forever in a
bright new dawn of a demo
cratic world socialist order.
Mr. Rostow in the govern
ment represents a peril. I
have taken only a cursory look
at Ihe theories of Dr. Rostow.
But I think that it is obvious
that they are dangerous to
our security."
The Republicans are trying
to flush out of the State De
partment the text of Rostow's
controversial proposal known
as "A Guide Line to Future
U. S. Foreign Policy." They
can't get it.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
lo field Enterprises Inc.
CHEAP DEATH
Those citizens who are dis
turbed and alarmed about tha
"high cost" of our arms pro
gram have not really studied
ihp n.nnmln
of m n rf . -
warfare. Th
total picture i.e
"K ! bright indeed.
. A Til. . .... .
- J iue pinions
we are spend-
mg for arma-
- m e n t s m a y
seem high, but
icauiy tn
Harris cost of killing
men (not to mention women
and children) has become
cheaper than ever before. It
is almost, one might say, a
bargain.
It has been estimated that
in the American Revolution,
it cost about $500 to kill a
single man. During the Civil
War, the cost rose to about
$5,000. In World War I it
was $25,000; in World War II
it was $65,000. '
Thanks lo the brilliant
technological innovations of
the last doten years, in a
nuclear war we will be able
lo kill a man for only $50.
As Norman Cousins has
pointed out. "a hydrogen
bomb with the power of 30
million Ions of TNT costs
no more lhan $250,000. If
TNT had been used, the cost
would be more than $10
billion."
Nuclear bombs have ex
tremely high explosive pow
er per dollars of investment,
when you double the
destructive power, you
don'l add much lo the cos!)
ven when you increase tha
power a thousandfold, the
cost is low.
Attractive as this is to
us. from a sound bookkeep
ing point of view, it i, also
democratic the nuclear
bomb is a boon to tha small
er, poorer, mora backward
nations. After tha initial in
vestment, Ihe smaller coun
tries can afford to stockpile
enough bombs to blow up
half ihe world. This gives
them a parily with tha larg.
er nations, and allows the
less privileged peoples ot
the world to share the bless
ings of the more advanced
nations.
At last, war is becoming
thoroughly democratised. In
Ihe darked ages behind us,
only large countries were
able to wage effective war
-usually against their small
er and fatter neighbors. In
the atomic aae. hownv.r.
even a third-rate power can
amass enough bombs to
blow our planet into tha
next gslaxy. Tha nuclear
bomb offers real equality of
opportunity lo all.
On a cost-accounting basis,
not many men were killed in
World Wars I and II. The ra
tio between fatalities and total
war expense was embarrass
ingly low. Men were hardly
worth murdering at those ex
orbitant prices.
Modern efficiency, howev
er, has finally caught up with
the facts of extinction. The
cost of living may be risinj
steadily, but the cost of dying
has become a source of fiscal
gratification. When you can
kill tens of million at only
$50 a head, you are pretty
near the break-even point,
I hope that these warm and
encouraging words give heart
lo the disturbed among us.
No dollar the government is
spending brings such a high
return on investment as the
nuclear bomb program. You
can be dead certain of that