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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 19ft fc,",EveryonetnSoutherrrbregoii Readi The Mall Tribune" frubltihed Dally except Saturday'by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 53 North Fir Jt Ph.772-14l ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertiilnf Manaer GERALD T LATHAM. Bua. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City tailor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. j:irculaUon Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second claw matter at Medford. Oreeon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 year IIS 00 Dally and Sunday moa. 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. .100 Sunday Only One year 500 Slnile Copy (Malledl 10c Bv Carrier And Motor Route Dally and Sunday 1 year Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1-73 Sunday Only I mo. We Carrier andJVendori Copy IOC Official Paper of 'City of Medford Official Japero Jackson County United Press International Full Leaied Wire U. P. I. Telephoto Newaplcturei "MEMBER OF" AUDIT BUREAU Or (JIHUUUMiuna Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS 4, ASSOCI ATES. Olflcea In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Franclnco. l.oi Angelea. Seattle. Portland. Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flies of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 year! ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 19. 1952 (Sunday) Ray Huron and Randall Gif ord named co-chairmen nf Jackson county March of Dimes campaign. Associated Cold Storage company operates new com pletely palatized pear cold storage plant near Phoenix; first fully palatized plant in Rogue valley. ' 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 19. 1942 (Monday) All national forest lands In Oregon closed because of the lengthy dry period. From Arthur Perry'" "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Wood piles now adorn the residen tial areas. None as yet have been run into by midnight speeders saving any rubber, thus reducing their vehicles to kindling." 30 YEARS AGO Sopt. 19, 1932 (Wednesday) Medford police and other Pacific coast law enforcement agents seek alleged bond swindlers who attempt to ob tain bonds owned by Medford woman. Brisk demand reported as issuance of three-quarter year license plates starts in Med ford. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 19. 1922 (Thursday) Miss Alice E. Hanley, Med ford, files petitions as Inde pendent candidate for Oregon House of Representatives. Medford city council meet ing postponed when three councilmcn become marooned after automobile breaks down at McAllister springs. AO YEARS AGO Sept. 19. 1912 (Saturday) Cily officials announce Jackson street bridge over Bear creek nearing comple tion; piers started for East Main street bridge. Rogue Valley pears sold for $3.15 a box on New York markets; highest price of sea son. , ' What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or tan correct tt superior; seven er eight Is excellent; five six is good. 1. With what cause do you associate the name of M r s. Emmoline Pankhurst? 2. Matthew 1 : 1 R treals with what important event, related to Christmas? 3. Iceland is noted for its hot springs; true or false? 4. In which country is the leaning Tower of Pisa? 5. At the close of which war did the United Slates acquire the island of Guam? fi. In which state is Mount Baker? 7. What is an abattoir? 8. How many yards are in a mile? B. What body of water bor ders Honduras on the norlh? 10. What animal has the following body parts among others: comb, hackle, slrkles, wattle and spurs? Answers: 1. Woman suf frage. 2. Nativity. 3. True. 4. Italy, i. Spanish American War. 6. Washington. 7. Slaugh ter houst. I. 1.760. 9. Carib bean Sea. 10. Chicken. Vi-ASSOCIATION Population Perils The population of the world has been esti mated at 3.25 billion persons and it is bounding upward at the rate of 5 million more every month. This means that every three months the equiv alent of nearly the entire population of California is added to the number of people who will strug gle to find shelter and get enough food to stay alive. Figures released by the United Nations point up some particularly disturbing aspects of the growth. One of these is that the more highly developed populations are becoming more and more outnumbered by those with lower stand ards. pENTRAL AMERICA, with its ferment and vast poverty, is the fastest growing area in the world. It has an annual growth rate of 2.7 per cent compared to a world average of 1.8 pet cent. Southeast Asia, already burdened by seem ingly insoluble problems, is growing at the rate of 2.6 per cent each year. The very areas which are most poorly equip ped to take care of their present needs are the ones which will be faced with the greatest flood of increasing population. Western Europe is growing at the rate of only .7 per cent a year. The United States and Russia, accepted as the most powerful nations in the world, have an annual growth rate of 1.7 per cent, much less than southeast Asia and Central America and even slightly below the world aver age. pHINA is estimated to be nearing the 700 mil- lion mark and the world population is ex pected to hit 4 billion in 15 years. Powerful as we are, we should realize that numerically we 185 million Americans comprise rather an insignificant portion of the human race and that the rest of the world is growing faster than we are. This growth will create dangerous pressures. There is no doubt the more highly developed na tions will have to give leadership in solving the problems these pressures will generate or face the eventual threat of seeing the population flood destroy the fabric of civilization in Central America and southeast Asia with disastrous re percussions everywhere.- Sacramento Ree. Step "Candidates Stepping ThaL's what a headline said the other evening about Governor Hatfield and Attorney General Thornton. well, we don t care much about their stepping up. What we want them to do is step out. Step out and talk about the real problem: money. W HERE do they, whichever one is elected gov ernor, intend to find must find if Oregon is to spend as much money as it is spending now and if they do not ask for a tax increase? How do they get around the fact that we started this budget period with a $33 million surplus and that the surplus when the budget period ends will be only a half million? Election is less than seven weeks away. Vot ers deserve frankness. This old hogwash about economy and low taxes doesn't mean a thing un less the speakers put it in specific terms. Econ omy where? And how much? MOR should voters be deceived by the timid suggestion that perhaps we could eliminate the federal tax offset and thus raise the money we need. That would bring in about $40 million for the hiennium, to be differ from raising taxes? for the increased needs in two years. Come on, hovs, let's home. Eugene Register-Guard. Football Fatalities The colleire and hitrh have only just begun and already death has claimed at least one high school athlete. Last year's toll 7 college and 15 high school players aroused a wave of criticism, and moved col umnist Ralph McGill to write: "That brutal, dirty football is at its highest peak is undisputed. That a number of coaches, fortunately small, encour age it without, of course, directly teaching it, is a well-known fact in all college circles. That some of their players have drifted down into high school coaching ranks is so obvious as to be undisputed." Yet last year's deaths by no means set a rec ord. The all-time high was 1!) in 1!31. In 19(50 the toll was the smallest in recent years, 12 deaths. I ATELY a growing cause of football deaths has been heat prostration, caused by advanced practice schedules. Or. Floyd E. Eastwood of Los Angeles State College, who has been investigat ing football deaths since 15)31, two years ago rec ommended to the National College Athletic As sociation reduced activity in temperatures above 85 degrees, lighter uniforms for the first week of practice, and the use of salt tablets or a salt solu tion during hot weather. Rut the prime cause continues to be the tech nique of blocking and tackling that some coaches like to describe as putting your nose on the ball. "That means," Coach Tom Nugent of the Uni versity of Maryland said last year, ";''iat the play er goes in with his head in a dangerous upright position. The neck was not built for this kind of I wear and tear. The price Out Up Campaigns." in the Redster-Guard the $32 '! million they sure. Rut how does that And it won t provide of a state that has grown level with the folks at school football seasons can be fearful." E.R.R. "School Days, School Day Dear Old White Mob Rule Days!' COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of e pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters 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 often the case. No Ogre To the Editor: We have lived in Jackson county for a long time and have heard so many "gripes" about our administration In the court house we felt it almost use less to ever approach any one there. Recently several of us prop erty owners have had reasons to consult numerous depart ments of our courthouse and found every department most courteous and more than help ful. We wish to thank them all and also to tell the public that we did not find any "ogres" in the courthouse. Mrs. Walt Whitney, Route 1, Box 534D, Gold Hill, Ore. Haven't Learned Much To the Editor: About 2,400 years ago, a stone-cutler by the name of Socrates talking about the city of Athens (re minds me of another town I have in mind) said that what the Athenians seemed to need most In these years of bitter discomfiture was not a siren to flatter and soothe them with sham promises of a speedy return of prosperity and grandeur, but a gadfly to sting them to unflinching self-examination, to see where in the past they had been wrong-headed and mistaken and how with patience and hard thinking they might yet build belter lives for them selves and for their city. We do not seem to have learned very much in 2,400 years. Ray Lamberg, Hflip Ross Lane, Medford Bird Music To the Editor: Springtime is, of course, when there is the unrivalled birds' dawn chorus. We-2 once had a pe culiar dawnchorus experience. We had arrived one spring at the Berlin Hauptbahnhof at midnight. We had taxied to the hole!, tried to get some sleep. In a few hours, (Berlin is far north, dawn comes early) we sleepily heard a dawnchorus. We asked our selves: "We are In Berlin -but are nut lhn.se Australian bird songs?" Going to the window, we saw we were across the street from the Tiergartcn and, opposite, was that zoo's Australian section. Though spring is THE time for birdsong, there is one feathered grand opera star that sings in Autumn. Hiking a mountain trail this month, one may enjoy the unrivalled music of a Townsend's soli taire. He will be perched atop a silver fir or Christmas tree. Learning bird music is an asset if one ever be stricken blind. Part of the European studios we-2 made toward Na tional Parks' Naturalist Move ment was Denmark's remark able field excursions for blind children. These, with games based on skill learning bird songs. The top prize was for the nightingale's. We reduced our observa tions to a pamphlet. It was sent Blind Schools throughout the English-speaking world. It stimulated similar nature studies. Some, then inaugu rated, have continued, we are told, over nearly a half cen tury. C M Goethe 3731 Tea st. Sacramenln 1ft. Calif. Wake Up? To the Editor: I note that the Oregon State Liquor Con- i trol Commission has moved ' into a new location. The new ! outlet gives them increased ! storage space, etc., etc. Along with the news Hem j from which 1 obtained this in I formation, it was staled that another office in the same ; building will be occupied by ! the Slate Industrial Aicid.-nt Commission. It would seem to some of I us that perhaps the Accident . Commission has moved pretty close to the source of many of the accidents it is called jip to MEDFORD MAIL investigate. Jts a queer world we live in. Perhaps it would be just as well to suggest that Mr. K. come over from Mos cow and let his workers begin building war implements next to the White House. Oh yes, by the way, a fellow cut his arm over Ashland way the other day. Seems he smashed the window of a Ash land grog shop with his bare arm. Drunk charges are being filed. I would suggest that per. haps the one who sold him the brew should be charged with contributing toward the de- linquency of an adult. How about it? Then up near Yakima the other day a lady and her hus- band were returning from a Christian Temperance Union meeting. A 25 year old drunk en driver, careening along at from 90 to 100 m.p.h. finished them off, plus himself in blinding collision. His 20 year old companion lived to tell the story. He told of how he pled with his buddy to stop and let him out but to no avail. How long will we Ameri cans tolerate this villain alco hol that is killing and maim ing our citizens by the thou sands? Where is our common sense thinking? Why don't we wnke up? Henry Johnson ,lr. 2315 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. A Complaint To the Editor: I have heard many complaints upon the methods used bv the girl or woman, that handles the calls that go into our local police station. I have always made excuses for her as I felt she was just cierk and did not under stand what she was doing However yesterday for the first time I had occasion to use this service and will say that every word I have heard is true. The third degree that one is put through is frustrating, ag gravating, stupid, asinine, and just plain ridiculous. 1 here was a policeman on T.V. that told us what to do if we had a prowler. He made it sound very simple. Not so if the girl takes the call; by the time she gels through you could be murdered. If you call you must also give your full middle name-initials are not accepted. This is a request to the chief to put a man back on the desk that knows what he is doing. Where is Clyde Fichtner? Leila A. Morrow. 531 North Bartlett st. Medford. Fade Away To the Editor: This note is for condolence for us old orchard hands: Old orchard hands never die, they just fade away, stacking empty boxes on pallets. Clifford Alden Trask, P. O. Box 403, Proenix, Ore. He's Grateful To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank my committee members and numerous friends, who have been putting up cam paign posters in my behalf. However, 1 should like to suggest that you check to make certain that the posters are put up in accordance with the law. In checking with the Forest Service and BLM of fices, I find we have had no violations. I am indeed grate ful for your assistance. Berle "Steve" Stephens 3(17 Hamilton St.. Medford. Common Sense To the Editor: Fluoridation on the ballot again? Who pro posed surh a scheme? My wife was in consultation with a doctor. We have a well of water adjacent to a year round spring. Incidentally, It Is hard. The doctor said, "Get Medford s spring water and drink it." This we did for some time. Mr. Editor, what reputable doctor would rec - TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORECON Alliance For Progress But Events Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst When, in March 1961, Presi dent Kennedy announced his $20 billion Alliance for Prog ress program, it was a c- k n o w ledged that much, if not all, of its chance for success would A I . - yV, I Brazil. Recent JLJ evenu' have Mewsoaa long are the odds. Size alone would make Brazil important. She is the largest country in South America and is the fourth largest in the world, with the United States ranking fifth. As a key test of U.S. efforts to head off communism in Latin America, it also is worth noting that she borders on every South American coun try except Chile and Ecuador. As a grand plan, the Al liance for Progress looked to ward a total of about $10 bil lion in U.S. aid to Latin Amer ica over a 10-year period, with an equal amount to come from the better-off countries of Europe and from private investment. Of this, Brazil would re ceive about S700 million per year. In Brazil there is a saying that "God must have been a Brazilian, because he loves them so." This was the light-hearted approach that permitted Bra zil in succeeding years to In the Day's News By FRANK What's today? It's the day we know who won - Teddy or Eddie -Massachusetts. Teddy is Ed ward M. Ted Kenpedy, young est brother of President Ken nedy. Eddie is Edward J. Mc Cormack, Jr., Massachusetts state attorney - general and nephew of House Speaker John W. McCormack. What's the plum they're reaching for? It's the Demo cratic nomination for U. S. Senator from the Bay State -whose biggest city is Boston, "home of the bean and the cod," where, according to a famous after-dinner speaker of earlier days, "the Cabols speak only to Lowells, and the Lowells speak only to God." WHO will win? " It's expected lo be close. Teddy says: "I will win, but it will be very, very close." Eddie says: "I'm confident I will win, but I'm not predict ing how much." What makes the Teddy-Eddie contest so difficult to fig ure out in advance, according to Harry Ferguson, one of the UPI's top political reporters, is that nobody can say for sure how many votes will swing on the issue of ONE MAN'S FAMILY. Democrats who are private ly convinced that two Ken nedys in Washington are enough, Ferguson says, are likely to keep their mouths shut rather than alienate the political powers in the nation's capital. 'FHE day's best crack: - When asked if he thinks there are too many Kennedys, Teddy replied: "That's a question we should have asked my moth er." HOW about the Massachu setts Republicans? Do they have a candidate for senator? Oh. yes. ommend drinking Medford's lovely spring water "doctor ed'' with fluoride, the sludge from aluminum - processing, when that same product de teriorates and rots metals It runs through, and has been laboratory tested by the Unit ed States Dispensatory and tabooed'' Here's a quole from Dr. F. B. Exner of Seattle: "I practically grew up in a chesmistry laboratory. Fluor ides are poisonous. The Unit ed States Dispensatory says, 'Fluorides are violent poisons to all living tissues'. Sodium fluoride is used as insecticide on fruit trees.' Tka iviiennn4 (l-atfil aHt'SV. rir. loS six vear, .no. The .,,., .riVnr.i.. ...rn-ri fluoridation down flat! It was a victory for the common sense common people. Wc are glad the common people still have a voice via the Mail Tribune's Communciations. Reminds of Lincoln's me i morable words. "God must i have loved the common pco I pie when He made so many i of them " Also when Jesus i was here holding forth para , mount truths, "the common i people heard Him gladly." Living among and being one I of the common people we find I most of them endowed with ! good common sense prizing i health and liberty. This was 1 proven when the poison-water Show Odds Against build up a debt of around $3 billion in a headlong rush to ward industrialization and construction of a new capital in the hinterland without re gard for cost or how to pay for it. In I960 the cost of living due to inflation jumped 35 per cent. Into this financial mess on Jan. 1, 1961, stepped a new- president, Janio Quadros. with a record of financial stability behind him, first as mayor of the industrial city of Sao Paulo and then as governor. Quadros lasted not much longer than it took the United States and the International Monetary Fund to refinance him. He resigned in August 1961. Then came Joao Goulart, the present office-holder. A ticker tape parade in New York and a cordial recep tion at the White House sig naled Goulart's a c ceptance into the club of hemispheric chief executives eligible to ask and received continued U.S. aid. At this point it is impossible to say whether Goulart would have carried out the promises he made in Washington. Army opposition forced Goulart to take an office whose powers had been taken away and vested in a prime minister. Goulart said then it would not work, and it hasn't. Prime ministers have come and gone. Education and tax reform bills have gathered dust, printing press money has continued to flood the country and inflation JENKINS They have two candidates. One of them is George Cabot Lodge, a descendant of the early Boston Cabota who spoke only to Lowells. His opponent in the Massachusetts Republican primary is Repre sentative Laurence Curtis, who aspires to be a senator. The issue in the Republican primary is youth vs. age. George Cabot Lodge is only 35 years old, a mere rookie in the game of politics. His opponent is bearing down on the argument that EX PERIENCE is important-even in these days when youth is in the saddle and riding high, wide and handsome. WE'LL see what we'll see. Que serat serat. Today will tell the tale. Strictly Personal By Sydney lei Field Enterprises. Inc. GENIUS NOT NATIONAL My recent piece on the "100 per cent American" and his debt to the rest of the world drew i few indignant readers. Most of them re buked me for ignoring America's tre mendous "In v e n t 1 v e genius" in modern times. Harris So far as I can determine, America's chief claim to fame is industrial, not scientific. It is true that our creation and development of the mass-production system has revolutionized industry throughout the world. Kaempffert's "H i s lory of American Invention" discloses that Robert Fulton's "inven tion" of the steamboat was anticipated by about 30 steam- measure fell so flat the former time. No measure is so ridiculous but some will vote for it; but we are confident that enlight ened folks will again vote it down if given a chance. By the way will all who drink Medford water have the chance? We heard they could not all vote! We don't live In Medford. Jacksonville, Cen tral Point, Eagle Point, or in Medford suburbs where Med ford water is exclusively used, but can it be possible that no one but a few in Medford's inner circle shall be allowed v0! in the voting? We hope our information is not correct, but if tt is it surelv smacks dictatorship. and we'd bet- 'er ouicklv remonstrate en- masse against any measure proposed on such grounds! H. R. Bulman. Route 4. Box 316A. Medford P S. We still drink Med ford water when in town, but never again if the poisoning measure goes through! We'll likely shop and eat elsewhere too. Balloon Bread To the Editor: You are 100 per cent right in your editor ial on "Balloon" bread. The buying public were pleased with the product too Nellie W. Fick. 502 North Holly st . Medford. Depends has jumped another SO per cent. Goulart has won a fight for plebiscite which he hopes Today & Tomorrow By Walter Ktw York Herald CUBA: WATCHFUL WAITING Although there are some who say that we are doing nothing about Cuba, the fact is that we are doing just about every thing that can be done short of going to war. Besides the economic e m b argo we are keeping the island un d e r "surveil lance." We are watching ev ery ship that comes to and goes from the island, and we are keeping a close watch on the loading and unloading of these ships. We have accurate and current records of build ing operations and the deploy ment of aircraft and tanks and artillery. There may be some doubt whether we have located every missile site in the vastness of the Soviet Un ion. But in Cuba, unless our cameras are failing us, we are completely informed. As a result we are quite able to know about the de velopment of anything like a Soviet missile base directed against the United States, and what may be more realistic, we are able lo spot anything like an expeditionary force against Cuba's neighbors in the islands and in the Carib bean. "JUR policy at the present is " to keep ourselves com pletely informed, and to wait and see whether Castro and his Soviet helpers do any overt act against the United States or ius neighbors. Be yond this, there is no serious action the United States can take to remove him which would not be an act of war. The United States is, of course, able easily to block ade Cuba. But stopping ships under threat of seizure or sinking would be an act of war not only against Cuba but against the Soviet Union. For we would be seizing or sink ing Soviet ships. The invasion of Cuba would, of course, be an act of war against Cuba. To he J. Harris ers huilt in England and on the Continent. Very little of the auto mobile turns out to be American. Isaac de Rival patented a gas-driven car In France in 1807; Lenoir built one in 1SG0. Siegmund Mar cus drove a gas-driven car in Vienna in 1875, until the police stopped it because of noise. Daimler and Bens developed cars in Germany between 1883 and 1885. Four-wheel brakes were ' invented by the English in 1904. The Italian Lancia had "knee-action" as early as 1922. The straight-eight engine was introduced by Isotta - Fraschini in Italy, and the V-type descends from De Dion and Bouton in 1913 France. "The American car is America n." points out Kaempf f e r I. "because of mass production methods and not because it is Ameri can in mechanical concept." Similarly, in a v i a lion, telegraphy, the telephone, motion-pictures, steel-making. Incandescent lamps, the reaper, the sewing machine, the elevator, the photoelec tric cell, and even tele vision - which a Scotsman first made practical in 1926. Even the most impressive of modern scientific achieve ments - the splitting nf the atom - was "American" only by adoption; the genius of a dozen different nations was responsible for it. beginning with the conation of Einstein German Jew livino Switzerland, and ending with the work of Enrico Fermi, an Italian who had migrated here. We built the plant, but the ideas themselves came from abroad This is not to sav that America has not contributed materially to scientific inven tion - but to remind us that science is a collaborative and international venture, in which no nation can claim dominance. One hundred arid forty -eight mayor scientific discoveries were conceived simultaneously in different parts of the world, making a mockery of any nation's pa triotic pretensions to "leader ship " in creativity. Llppmann on Brazil, Success .will restore the power of his office. In the meantime, Bra zil indeed will need love from above. Lip p ma nr. Tribune Syndic tt sure, the United States could easily win a war againsi Cuba. We could close the Cuban ports within a few hours and we could occupy very quick ly Havana and a few big cities. The countryside might be another story. But what we could not be sure of doing is to prevent the retaliatory moves to which we would have laid ourselves wide open, moves against Berlin, or against Turkey, or against Iran. lOR we would have acted on r the rule that a POSSIBLE threat against our security or our interests justifies us in going to war. We would bo saying that because Cuba, ' which is only 90 miles away, is in the grip of an unfriendly European power, we have a right to blockade or occupy the island; we would be say ing too that the Soviet Union has no such right to act against the American military positions in Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, right on her own frontier. Let us not fool ourselves. Such an argument does not wash. It would be rejected, prob ably even laughed at, not only by all neutrals but by powerful elements among our closest allies. There are somo who think foreign opinion doesn't matter. But when it comes to war, it means a great deal to the belligerent who is for him and who is against him. We could go to war if Cas tro injures us. But we cannot go to war, even against Cas tro, because of what he may conceivably do in the future. We cannot wage a preventive war against Castro withoi t establishing the rule that a preventive war is legitimate against our military position in Berlin, Turkey, Iran, Paki stan, Thailand, South Viet nam, Formosa, Okinawa, South Korea, and Japan. TT Is true, of course, thai the Soviet lodgement in Cuba is a gross violation of tha Monroe Doctrine. Yet we can not invoke the Monroe Doc trine. Why not? The Monroe Doctrine declares that "any interposition" by a European, power in this hemisphere would be "the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition towards the United States." But, and this is the crucial point, the American claim for the isolation of the Western hemisphere was completed with a renunciation of Ameri can interest in the Eastern hemisphere: "In the wars of the European powers in mat ters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor docs it comport with our policy so to do." This fundamental passage In Monroe's message is, of course, a restatement of tha principle laid down by Wash ington in his Farewell Ad dress: "Europe has a set of primary interests which to u. have none, or a very remote relation." This basis of the Monro Doctrine disappeared in the twentieth century in the two World Wars, the Korean War, and the cold war. We cannot invoke the Monroe Doctrine without meeting the question of what we are doing all over Europe and Asia. rUR right to put Cuba un der surveillance, and it necessary to blockade an in vader, rests not on the Mon roe Doctrine but on the ele mentary right of a people to insure its own security. For two centuries the British felt that way about the occupa tion of Belgium by an un friendly power. The Russians felt that way about Turkey. This right can, however, be exercised only when there is a clear and present danger. Castro is an insulting nui sance, but he is not. and is not now remotely capable of becoming, a clear and present aanRer 10 ,ne Untied States, I Ro we must Practice watchful waiting, and hold ourselves in readiness, never for a mo ment forgetting the vastly greater dangers elsewhere. In a time of watchful wait ing. Congress and the news papers are compelled to re member that the President i.i conducting a delicate and : dansorotis operation, and that he is seriously interfered with if he is forced to dot every "I" and to cross every "t" in ad vance of a decision. The Pres ident should not be asked to say whether he will go to war. He should not be driven to say that he won't go to war. A certain mystery and un certainty are desirable, and will be deterrent to our adversaries.