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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
nd 50 ver oo.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24. 1952 (Thursday)
Continued hot dry weather
brings severe lire danger to
area; gituation explosive, for
esters say.
Weight-rrflle fees in Oregon
defended by State Rep. Rob
ert Root, member of legisla
ture's highway interim com
mittee, in talk to Mcdford
Kiwanians.
20 YEARS AGO
Sep!, 24. 1942 (Friday)
' Karl L. Janouch named
president of Jackson County
Chamber of Commerce, re
placing Glenn Jackson, who
resigned to enter armed
forces.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
county Is still without a con
stable and getting along as
well as.could be expected. No
body as yet has showed up
willing to make the sacrifice,
at the urgent request of
friends."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24, 1932 (Sunday)
University of Oregon foot
ball team wing first game
under former high school
coach Prink Calllson; End
Bill Bowerman, Medford,
scores one point after touch
down. Jackson county unemploy
ment relief council plans
county relief clothing shop to
provide used garments for un
employed residents of this
area.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 24, 1922 (Monday)
Jackson county residents
charges state fair board with
discrimination in allotment of
booths at state fair in Salem.
Radio Station KFAY set up
at Jackson county fairgrounds
to broadcast music three eve
nings week.
SO YEARS AGO .
Sept. 24. 1912 (Wednesday)
Bull Moose party opens lo
cal campaign with meeting in
Boy Scout tent on Barllctl
street.
Every seat in Mcdford op
era house occupied for first
performance here of "beauti
ful, virile drama" of the Ca
nadian northwest, "The Love
of the North."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct is supanor:
seven or eiehl Is eicalUnt; five et
sis is good.
1. Is Louisville or Frankfort
the capital of Kentucky?
2. Are there deep-sea fish
In the Dead Sea In Israel?
3. Cape Hatteras Is off the
coast of what state?
4. Which of the Hawaiian
Islands if the largest?
5. Name the capital of Mis
souri. 6. In which state was Presi
dent Rutherford B. Hayes
born?
7. Where I London's fa
mous Big Ben?
8. Docs Ihe military term
casualty refer only to soldiers
killed or wounded?
9. Name the last letter of
the Greek alphabet.
10. Heat travels by radia
tion, convection and what oth
er method?
Answers) 1. Frankfort. 3.
Yes. 3. North Carolina. 4. Ha
waii. 5. Jefferson City-
Ohio. 7. Clock lower of House
of Commons. I. No - unavail
able for any cause, t. Omega.
10. Conduction.
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Fluoridation Facts
By EDWARD P. MORGAN
(This editorial statement on water fluoridation Is from
a racant broadcast by Edward P. Morgan, whose, daily
program of news and commentary on Iht ABC radio
network Is sponsored by Iht AFL-CIO.)
A reporter is always learning something
new. I was shocked, a few weeks ago, to learn of
the denloiable condition
U.S. Public Health Service furnished statistics to
support the charge that we are rapidly becoming
a nation of dental cripples.
I reported on this situation on a recent
broadcast, and added the comment that fluorida
tion of drinking water is the obvious, easy, proved
and inexpensive remedy. Fluoridation has the full
approval and endorsement of leading dentists,
physicians, the American Dental Association, the
American Medical Association, the AFL-CIO and
public health experts here and abroad.
It was then I learned something else : the pas
sionate fervor, stubborn potency and staggering
misinformation of the anti-fluoridation lobby.
FLUORIDE is a deadly cumulative poison,
wrote a health food merchant of Portland.
Fluoridation is "a pretty serious step away
from democracy," said a man from New York.
A man in Red Bluff, Calif., declared that the
"aluminum trust" is behind the fluoridation rack
et" to profit from aluminum byproducts.
A lady in Sherman Oaks, Calif., implied that
bureaucrats are conspring to silence the critics of
fluoridation, so that their views will be unheard.
The opinion's of the anti-fluoridationists are
not unheard. Though seldom clear, they have
come through loud enough to defeat fluoridation
in community after community. What about their
charges against fluoridation? Do they have any
merit?
THE ANSWER to that question is that the U.S.
government, the University of Michigan,
other private and public institutions and individ
als have spent large sums of money and incalcul
able man-hours in examining the claims of the
anti-fluoridationists and have found them, al
most without exception, to be baseless or gross
ly misleading.
We pretend tot be the best informed coun
try in the world. But one of the ironic paradox
es of the age is that despite the availability of
facts to disprove the charges against fluoridation,
the public is so ignorant of them that the opposi
tion has succeeded in bringing almost to a com
plete standstill the expansion of this method as
an aid to dental hygiene. '
This is not to say that fluoridation is fault
less, that it is the answer to every dental problem.
Exaggerated claims have been made.
But if one accepts the case of the opposition,
then one must believe that the most responsible
spokesmen of the medical and dental professions
and the leading public health experts of the
country are either idiots or criminals or both.
This is just a little too sweeping to make sense.
FLUORIDE in water can cause mottling of
teeth. But this happens where water natural
ly contains too much fluoride. It does not happen
in city water sytcms where fluoridation is controlled.
Fluoride is a noison
sodium chloride, table salt, is poisonous if taken
to excess.
The aluminum industry has not bamboozled
or corrupted health officials to provide a mar
ket for its slag. The fluoride used in water sys
tems does not come from aluminum by-products,
and the quantity required is too infinitesimal to
make its market important.
AND NOW the cause of fluoridation has re
ceived impressive support from a new and
reliable source the conservative British gov
ernment. In a special 50-page pamphlet which the
U.S. Public Health Service has just received, tne
British Ministry of Health reports that fluorida
tion was a complete SUCCeSS When it Was tested I
and studied in careful detail for tive years in
.
three separate areas.
As so many U.S. studies have shown pievi-!our
ouslv, the British study
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nil eiieas wnaiever. uregon L.aoor rress.
What to Do
A White House Conference on Narcotic:
Drue Abuse, opening Thursday. Sent,
portant step toward reconsideration of a nation-
al policy on drug addiction. At present federal
narcotics legislation is csscnuaiiy pumuve in cnar-
acter. But support is growing for procedures that
will make sharper distinction between the hard
ened profiteer and the drug user.
The medical approach received a big juish
on Sent. 15 when a panel of six experts told the
President that drug addicts should not be placed
in prison for long periods of time. It reported that
rehabilitation measures would cost the public
much less than imprisonment of offenders.
The prevailing conception of the addict as
a menace to society is partially a misconception. If "sc ,f,"ir """ded people
,. , .', . , . ', reversed this decision, taking
Police records are said to show that, contrary : n di,i, SHCrificing thousands
to popular impression, crimes of violence are rare-, ot human lives, untold sutter
ly connected with ding use. But the mandatory I "Is ","d s,'rrmv "nd
. I a- i i .i dollars in an unwanted and
penalty system makes no distinction between the ! needless civil war.
narcotics offender who is primarily a criminal i As to equality of schooling,
and the offender who is primarily an addict. I'1 "hrhe'rn
What the addict as opposed to the traffick- jojTdZaiVv'whcn'uvo It
ed in drugs needs is a chance to obtain treat-1 posing races are coerced into
niont nnrl rph:iliilit:it inn nvpra lnmr sti-ietlv simov. i social intimacy of the school-
vised period, according to the panel of experts
which reported to the President. E.K.R.
fS A
of American teetn. ine
in the same sense that
showed (1) substantial lh'"N" 8 f"r
..! i i ir Luiniiic uin wlorv Ol
stoPln and f I Hft nrtrni.nu- . .
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What Friends?
To the Editor: The Cub
Scout Quarterly carries the
following suggestions for Oc
tober: "October 24 is United
Nations Day when we are en
couraged to fly the American
and the UN flags together."
The UN "represents the hope
for peace with justice. At the
3rd den meeting spend some
time discussing the UN and
the countries cooperating."
Have "each cub scout's moth
er serve a United Nations Day
dinner menu for the family.
Table decorations might be
planned to remind them of in
teresting friends among the
United Nations."
What friends? The African
blacks who have been turned
against us? Our NATO allies
who trade with Red China and
ship Russian war materials to
Cuba? The "neutrals" who al
ways side In with Russia? Or
maybe the writer of the above
was thinking of Tito and Go
mulko, the human butchers of,
Yugoslavia and Poland. Or of
Comrade Khrushchev, who
once did so much for the small
children of Kiev. He provided
grassy plots where they could
play by covering over huge
mass graves where thousands
of bodies of their parents
whom he had murdered were
piled.
The "peace with justice"
statement above sticks in my
Ihroat like a fish bone. Doer
Ihe writer mean the "peace"
Ihe UN has created In the Con
go and the murderous "Just
ice" it is meeting out to the
anti-Communist Kalangans?
Or is he thinking of the "peace
and justice" in the bloody "lib
eration'' of, and the total tyr
anny over, Tibet by the Red
Chinese, or maybe the butch
ery of the Hungarian freedom
fighters by the Russians to
which the UN offered no
protest.
Just how low can this UN
crowd stoop? Many of these
children are barely out of
Kindergarten. Every Den
Mother in America should re
fuse to be tricked into brain
washing them with this anti
American UN One-Worldism.
"e should be teaching our
children to love OUR flg, and
OUR country. And we should
he teaching them to pray (or
Ihe day when the Godless
'""-. Z '' , '
ny is lifted from our necks
and it is no longer possible for
enemies to land on our
our
iinii, ana lur cursing our pco
pip-
1720 S.W. Bridge si..
Grants Pass, Ore.
Mixed Schools
I To the Editor:
Surely. E.A.
is takin
way too much for
granted if he means that most
ot us nn "i-ccpi the premise,
j "n.d'nsunco!,;"
insist that equality of svhooi-
ing cannot be achieved
through sepnrate schooling."
This from the Sept. 20 load
editorial of the MT.
Actually, common sense and
Supreme Court ruling do not
go hand in hand. Tragic proof
of this is in the 18,14 Supreme
Court ruling that a Negro
slave, though gaining sanctu
ary in a free slate, is still a
slave ol liis owner and re
turnable as such. Common
room? Vrs. it can bc tolerated,
hut is it rvrr enjoyable? Docs
it raise the scholastic stand
MEDFORD MAIL
Away
ing of schools so mixed? The
consistently higher scholastic
standing of our Northwest
schools over other USA re
gions give a positive no. When
questioned, a nearby top j
school authority replied,
"Your question finds me un
prepared, as it has not oc
curred to me. But you do raise
a point, a most vital one. Off
hand, I will say that a con
trolling factor, is the good old
white American stock here in
our Northwest schools, less in
filtrated by Negro enrollment
than other USA regions."'
Also, it is to wonder what
the mixed - race advocates
thing of the New Jersey and
New York school happenings,
where court ruling under the
Kennedy administration pro
hibits Negro children from at
tending their nearby schools,
but must walk up to two
miles, crossing busy streets,
to be integrated into white
schools. White schools are co
erced into doing same into
black schools.
On this, Dr. James B. Co
nant, former president of Har
vard university, said in a re
port on U. S. schools that "the
school should serve the neigh
borhood," and that "the peo
ple attending that school
should come from the imme
diate geographic area,"
This, from the U. S. News
& World Report, Sept. 24, re
sults from the militant, insist
ent prodding of the Negro
NAACP.
F. J. Clifford
Route 2, Box 200F
Central Point, Ore.
Objectivity
To the Editor: Objectivity
indeed. I just got around to an
editorial of Sept. 16, "The
Struggle for Objectivity." I
was surprised to note in this
editorial that you named the
Republican party by name. I
am surprised that you didn't
state that the reporter or
speaker, might be a Democrat
or of some other party. When
a newspaper slurs the Repub
licans with cartoons, on the
front page, as I have seen
yours do, you could say that
he is lop-sided, to the extent
I of bring eccentric. You said
that the reporter might be a
I Republican. Do you have any
on your staff? If you do. I'll
brt that they can t even recog-
I nizc their articles when you
get through with it. 1 would
say that the policies of your
paper and this editorial brand
you as a hypocrite. You are
obviously either a far left
Democrat or a Socialist.
I Jim Bolding
I 18a Merrill pi
(.osla Mesa. Calif.
Hog and Deer
To the Editor: The "wild"
hog saga in communications
of MT. 9-20 by Mr. F. J.
Clifford, reminds me of the
years prior to World War One.
when we hunted wild game
in tlie Rogue river mountains.
The old time bear hunters
would inform me how to still
hunt for better results, that
is. to take a few steps forward
then remain quiet for a min
ute or two. Well, it worked
just as suggested, but just
a buck doer jumped up, also
a "wild" hog jumped, snorted
ard both ran in opposite di -
rections We froze in our own
tracks for vc! Never had
such an experience before or
since. We never knew w hich
was the most flabbergasted,
Tlie hog and buck wore both
fast ridge runners as both
were feeding on acorn.- and
both were out of sight before
we had time to mull over the
paradox and draw a bead.
Hon Kisinger
.122 South Riverside ae
Medlord.
TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON
Foreign News: De Gaulle Is Key Man
For Britain's Common Market Chances
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Notes from t h foreign
news cables:
De Gaulle Key Man
Look to French President
Charles de Gaulle as the key
to t h e prob-
lem of Brit
ain's entry or
non-entry into
Europe. With
the common
wealth prime
ministers con
ference out of
the way, the
scene shifts
Newiom back to Brus
sels where a new round of
negotiations is to start shortly
Washington Report
By William
(ei United Feature Syndicate
A SHADE OF DIFFERENCE I
Washington - IUPD - Not of
ten docs any book become an
issue in public policy, raising
qucstitons
profound
to become
self both
part and a
symbol of na
tional affairs
and of nation
al debate.
When such a
book does
arise, it is
high political news. And such
is Allen Drury's new novel,
"A Shade of Difference." It is
a moving and agonizing study
of a tragic domestic problem
which has become also a great
ly and sometimes cynical
ly exploited problem in
the United Nations. This is
the problem of race relations
in our country.
"A Shade of Difference" ap
pears just as the U.N. General
Assemblv is in Its l (in ses
sion in New York. And this
gaunt, shining building on the
East river is Drury s princi
pal scene.
MANY critics, notably a cer
tain kind of liberal crit
ic denounced Drury's first
book, "Advise and Consent,"
though it won a not trifling
honor, the Pulitzer Prize in
letters, and though it became
one of the best sellers of all
time.
No doubt there were many
faults in the novel. Still, it
was difficult to understand
how its detractors could be
so wise and its horde of de
fenders, including the Pulit
zer committee, so unwise. In
deed, the more one examined
the matter the more it ap
peared that, to the liberal
critics, Drury's real sin has
not been that of artistic fail
ure but rather that of think
ing wrong political thoughts.
He had depicted some of
his most attractive characters
as conservative and some of
his least attractive as liberal
again, a certain kind of
liberal, that kind who will
tolerate no dissent from his
own views, not even in a work
of fiction.
ALREADY, now that Drury's
No. 2, "A Shade of Dif
ference." has appeared in
print, and fretful distaste for
No. 1 from this certain kind
of liberal has been transform
ed into implacable hostility
toward No. 2. (I say a "cer
tain kind of liberal," for many
authentic liberals read and
review books just for what
I they are and not to support
their own private political
i views.) For if Drury was guil
ty of grave error in present
I ing civilized conservatives in
"Advise and Consent." he has
I committed unpardonable sin
i in "A Shade of Difference."
I "A Shade of Difference"
! goes so far as strongly to sug
' gest. over and over, that there
are two sines to our color
Droblcm. It suggests that1
while there has been old and
nanifest unfairness to our Ne-
gro minority, it is false to say
as
it is said over and over
in the united nations mat
that
mis country mu uuuc :'"
real to resolve this ancient
tragedy in decency and in
jll,,lcc , .,
It even suggests that there
is riemagoguery on more than
one side; that the Southern
Bourbon anti-Negro extremist
lias his counterpart in tne no-
eral extremists outside and
inside tlie U.N. who often
wish more to inflame and
profit from this sad division
than to seek a sensible, fair
solution lor It.
TT MAY be that Drury, from
previous years as a con -
! gressional c o r r e j pondent,
j learned what many another;
j has learned. The true friends s
I of racial fairness here never ,
I have been the liberal extrem-1
ists They have been the cour-!
h toons and moderate men
some of them Southerners. I
for that matter - who have;
patiently moved this country
forward.
No one interested in this
nation's future, or in our tra
dition o( giving fair hear-
I ing, should mis this
book.
9
VOTIII
on Britain's application for
entry into the common mar
ket. The key to the solution
of the problem lies chiefly
with De Gaulle who has
shown little enthusiasm for
British entry while he still
hopes for leadership. He is
not likely to say an outright
"no" to Britain, but he might
delay a decision long enough
to set off second thoughts in
London.
Togetherness
The Soviet Union still Is
pressing for better relations
with Yugoslavia, despite
President Tito's obvious de
termination to pursue his own
course toward Communism
and the new proposed Yugo
slav constitution which per
S. White
Nor should any delegate in
the U.N., assuming it is still
good form there to listen to
two sides of an argument. For
this book is going to have a
tremendous impact on this
country.
And Allen Drury, as a fierce
literary - political tempest
swirls about him, can now bid
reluctant goodbye to the shy,
writer's isolation. in which he
has lived. He has become an
issue and a bad guy, indeed.
And if he has not within
weeks been denounced in po
litical meetings, as well as on
a 'good many book review
pages, I will turn in my card
in the Seers Union.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
From Washington:
The administration looks to
the Senate to reverse House
action that would CUT $1.1
billion from President Ken
nedy's foreign aid bill. The
House ignored appeals from
the President to restore funds
cut by its appropriations com
mittee, and approved a $3.6
billion foreign aid money bill
by a vote of 249-144.
The House rejected all at
tempts to either restore or in
crease the cuts made by the
appropriations com m 1 1 1 e e.
The committee slash repre
sented a 23 per cent REDUC
TION in Kennedy's $4.7 bil
lion foreign aid request.
VfORE from Washington:
ilk -j1e compromise college
Editorial
Comment
Fees vs. Taxes
A question that arises every
year when school starts is this,
"I (or my parents) pay taxes,
so why a $20 registration
fee?" The question has several
answers.
In the first place, the gener
al answer is that taxes pro
vide those things which are
fundamental in maintaining a
basic education for everyone,
while the student body fee
provides those things that the
law specifically forbids tax
revenues to supply, (like high
school textbooks) or those
which experience has shown
that students invariably buy
anyhow but which can be fur
nished much more reasonably
in one lump sum.
For example, taxes pay for
the construction of buildings,
buses to transport students,
upkeep of buildings and
grounds, and most important
of all, instructors' salaries. At
the same time, the $20 regis
I tration fee covers textbook
. rental, insurance, admission to
an home athletic events is a
cut rate for those out of town,
towel service, a yearbook and
newspaper subscription, and
laboratory equipment, to name
a few.
Textbooks alone make the
I case pretty well. Schools in
wnjch studems purchase their
own textbooks report that per
pupii cos(s for books alone Hv
eraged between $16 and $20
! Iaf, vcar equivaIcnt val.
ucs for mHteriaIs and scr.
I vices provided for the student
bo(lv oe are , bc found on
pa(,c , , of (he Parents. Hand.
I book which the parenls of a
studcnls receiVed this sum-
mcr For ,.ose who nave ,or.
j gotton, the actual total value
, received is $44.50 per student.
N-ow to Hi-Times it would i
,com unfair for these fees to:
: be collected as taxes, for the i
tavnnvpr with nn rhil1r-..n
j should not be expected to pay
I for little Johnny Doe s admis-1
!sion to a football game or for'
i Ellsworth Horn's subscription
to Hi-Times. On the other
hand, taxes should be used to
equip and operate the public
schools in order to educate
and thereby strengthen our
country. Such are the obliga-
tions of all citizens.
Personal benefits and ad-
vantages, however, should be
paid for by those individuals
who enjoy those advantages
nd not by the general public.
Medford Hi-Times ol Med
ford High School.
mits private ownership ol
land. U.S.S.R. President Leo
nid Brezhnev is visiting Yugo
slavia this week. The Soviet
press is hailing the visit as
one which win strengtnen
government, cultural and
economic exchanges.
One likely result Is that
newly arrived U.S. Ambassa
dor Foy D. Kohler will not be
able to present his credentials
until Brezhnev returns some
10 days hence. Meanwhile,
Western diplomats expect the
present lull in Berlin to con-
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
to Field Enterprlsei, inc.
SELF-SATISFACTION
"When I go abroad," said a
friend recently, "I'm almost
ashamed of being known as an
American. Most American
tourists
behave so bad
ly in Europe
that I don't
H .1 I J . n I I firH
- A w i t h them."
Si Certainly, this
W ' i ,s "e: out
?W j just as ccr-
am ar-a.uai tainly, it has
Harrta always been
true of the dominant, and
wealthiest, nation in any age.
We do not behave badly
abroad because we are Amer
icans because of some in
nate national characteristic
but because we are rich, fat
and sassy.
JENKINS
aid bill was in a deep con
gressional coma. Senate Re
publican Leader Everett M.
Dirksen pronounced it "as
dead as a dodo."
The $2.3 billion measure,
last vestige of President Ken
nedy's education program,
was rejected by the House,
214-186.
The House instructed its ne
gotiators to return to a Sen
ate-House conference and se
cure ELIMINATION of a pro
posed $600 million student
loan program.
STILL more from Washing
ton: Senator William Proxmire,
D-Wis., said a proposed $10
million national aquarium
here in the nation's capital
would be "the most extrava
gant, gold-plated fish bowl in,
world history."
He said that to spend money
on a pure luxury when we
have an enormous budget
deficit and critical national
needs is as foolish as Marie
Antoinette's saying: "L e t
them eat cake" when she was
told that her people had no
bread.
OENATOR Proxmire is - or
" at least WAS until very
recently - a pronounced lib
eral, but at the present mo
ment he thinks a $10 million
gold-plated fish bowl in Wash
ington would be TOO LIBER
AL with t h e taxpayers'
money.
WHAT'S in the wind?
' Why this sudden enthu
siasm for ECONOMY in
Washington - where for some
time in the past the prevail
ing theory has appeared to be
that the more money we can
throw down the drain the
RICHER WE LL BE?
rpHIS may be the answer:
If you'll gel out your
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
FIRST CITIZEN: Say, Herb, how did that ruckus with
your wife come out last night? The whole neighborhood
could hear you two giving each other what-for! Second
citizen: Aw, there was
nothing to it. Inside of
five minutes I had her
coming to me on her.
hands and knees.
First citizen: I never
knew you had it in you!
What did she say? Sec
ond citizen: She said,
"Come out from under
that bed, you contempt
ible coward.
I ("Try and Stop Me"
reprints this story in self
defense. Four contribu
tors from different parts
i nt th pnnntrv Kav uh-
I mitted it within the past three weeks which goes to show
ho
w a good joke makes the
Mil Appltby had talked
Florida for a winter vacation, and here they were after dinner
in Miami Beach one evening, looking up at a full moon, hidden
from other tourists by a big potted palm.
A young man and his girl sat down near them, and not realiz
ing they were being observed, fell Into each other's arms. Whis
pered Mrs. Appleby to her husband. Oh, Luther, he doesn t
know we're here, and he going to propose. Shouldn't you
whistle and warn him?"
"Why ehould I?" objected Mr. Appleby gnmly. "Nobodj .
whistled to warn ME"'
Manuel Siwek define marnages today as a 40-60 proposition.
If a man makes 40 a week his wife spends 60.
O 1M3. bf Beuetl Cert Dmnbultd b Hmf J7taur Ijmdicale
at least through the
The U2
Communist, but non - Chi
nese, diplomats in New Delhi
are saying that the Nationalist
Chinese U2 reconnaissance
plane lost over China Sept. 9
was brought down by engine
trouble, not rockets. These
diplomats insist that the Chi
nese have no missiles capable
of knocking a U2 out of the
sky because the Russians have
never given them any.
J. Harris
Until the decline of t h e
British Empire as a. first
class power, Englishman was
often accused of the same con
duct. Only the pound sterling
was "real money" to him; he
would enter a Viennese coffee-house
and demand tea; he
would treat a foreign hotel
with casual contempt because
it was not an English hostel.
In Switzerland, he even built
his own hotels and gave them
regally British names.
Today, we demand ham
burgers in Hamburg (which
never heard of them), and
Cokes in the Champagne
country of France; we wear
flowered sport shirts to ihe
Paris Opera when we
condescend to go and
would wear shorts to visit
the Vatican, if the guards
permitted us such a bar
barism. Bui none of this is dis
tinctively "American" be
havior. It is, rather, the be
havior of a people who feel
it is their century, that the
Americanization of 1 he
whole world is inevitable,
and we are merely speeding
up Ihe process for the back
ward natives. It is a prime
example' of what Proust
called "the unconscious ar
rogance of the conscious
rich."
The American at home is
a decent, retiring chap; his
instincts are generous, and
his sense of fairness is keen.
But give him a passport, a
camera and a wad of Amer
ican Express Cheques, and
Dr. Jekyl Square promptly
turns into Mr. Hyde Park.
We are admired, envied and
resented throughout the
world not for what we are,
but for what we have. And
what we have an incom
parable affluence tends to
make us feel superior to those
whose standard of living is
lower. We are willing to help
them, with gifts and loans, in
the abstract; but face to face
we behave exactly as every
dominant people have always
behaved abroad.
Good manners are not an
export commodity, when the
balance of trade is favorable
to us. But we would do well
to remember that while it
may not be true that "whom
the gods would destroy they
first make mad," it is .an in
disputable historical fact that
whom the gods would destroy
they first make self-satisfied.
calendar and count up the
days on your fingers, you will
discover that ELECTION
DAY is only about TWO
MONTHS AWAY.
It just might be that the
thought has hit Capitol Hill
that the voters may be feeling
pretty poor by that time and
so may be inclined to listen
thoughtfully to a little econ
omy talk.
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