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4 A WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 19S2 MEDF0RDJ&&-TR1BUNK """EveryonVtrTSouthern Oregon Readi The Mat) Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North JFir St., Ph. 772-6141 " ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertittng Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H ALJA Ma, L.uy tanor HARRY rHIPMAN. Telea Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Editor DALEJIRICKSONCircuUUon Mgr An Independent Newapaper Entered aa aecond clan matter at Mediora, ureeon. unacr Atv ui MarrTi 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Av Mail In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 year SIR 00 Daily and Sunday A moi. 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 3 00 Sunday Only One year $5-00 Single Copy (Mailed) 20c Rv Car net And Motor Route. 'Daily and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Daily and Sunday i mo. i.ia Kimrtav Onlv I mo. 60c Carrier and Vendora Copy loo Of ficial Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or jacuson i-ounvy United Preii Internationa Full Leaaed Wire U. P. I. Telephoto Newipicturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC! iTfS nfHff In Nw York. Chi- eago Detroit, San Francisco, Loa Angeiea , ncaiiie, ronnno, Denver. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS j ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL ef2f Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files ot Th Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1952 (Sunday) Escaped convict captured without fight near Ruch; aec ond escapee still at large. Dr. R.' P. Mortenson named to Oregon Interment associa tion board of directors. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1842 (Monday) Local orchard and school representatives make plea for students to help in pear har vest to relieve "acute shortage of workers." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "T h e governor has established a 'ru mor clinic' for the purpose dt spiking enemy propaganda, ugly and ' Idle rumors and taking them apart. This Is apt to start a rumor that the ru mormongers will be taken apart without due process of law." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1932 (Wednesday) Edward C. Kelly, Jackson county organization chairman of Young Democrats organiza tion, returns from Portland where Democrats met with Franklin D. Roosevelt, party's nominee for president. "Decided trend back to Re publican party" noted In voter registrations at county clerk's office. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1922 (Thursday) Judge Frank L. TouVelle nominated aa Democratic can didate for state treasurer. William Von Der Hellen awarded contract for construc tion of irrigation canal be tween Big Butte creek and Eagle Point, 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1912 (Saturday) Story on local prize fighl states: "The affair was one ot the worst ever staged locally. Disgusted by the disgraceful showing, the crowd left dur ing the sixth round and the bout was called off by mutual consent. The cops should tnke Ihe two ham and eggers, and after leading them to the city limits, polish their shoes on them." What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct Is lupsrior, seven er eight la escellent; He ei sis is good. 1. Which Canadian cily is the largest? 2. Was Bob Hope born In the United States. England, Canada or Sweden? 3. Can about 3.500 or 35.000 stars be seen without optical aid? 4 "And it came to pass . . . that he went throughout every city . . . and the twelve were with him.'.' The twelve what? 5. Where did the famous meeting of Generals Lee and Grant take place? 6. Did Juan Ponce rie Leon die in Florida or Cuba? 7. Hitler was known as "Fuehrer." Mussolini as "II Duce," what is the title of Franco? 8. Does Idaho. Iowa, Georgia or Illinois produce the most hogs? 9. Holiday comes from the Anglo-Saxon word halig darg which means what? 10. Was Hlrohito ambassa dor to the United States at the outbreak of WWII? Answers: 1, Montreal, t. England. 3. 3.500. 4. Disciples. 5. Appomattox Court House. Va. 6. Cuba. 7. Caudlllo (lead er). 8. Iowa. 9. Holy day. 10. No, Emporer of Japan. 1 Changing Cities Medford has been the fourth-largest city in the state since the late 1940s, when it passed Klamath Falls in population. It still is the fourth-largest city, but only by a hypothetical eyelash. Corvallis, according to the board of census estimates released yesterday, has only 286 fewer people than Medford. The totals are, Medford 25,919, Corvallis 25,633. Corvallis made one of the largest jumps in population of any Oregon city during the past year, due partly Co normal increases, which were registered by most cities, but principally to an annexation which added a couple of thousand people to the city's roster. THE number of cities in the 10,000-and-over bracket increased from 13 to 14. Milwaukie and Lake Oswego (both "bedroom" cities for Portland) both passed that marker, but Astoria dropped below 10,000, probably because of the closing of the Tongue Point Naval base nearby. Eugene increased its lead over Salem as the second-largest city in the state, climbing from 52,475 to 55,413 while Salem went from 49,614 to 50,529. But there was consolation for Salem (if any is needed) in crossing the 50,000 mark and en tering the realm of "metropolitan" cities. E.A. And Puzzling Figures The board of census's estimates are just that estimates. They are "official" insofar as they are used to compute per capita payments to cities from highway and liquor revenues, and are based on fairly substantial data, such as housing units, water connections, and so on. But only the de cennial federal census, an actual nose count, is conclusive. One of the census board's findings is inter esting, a bit puzzling, and perhaps significant, although we are not sure what it is significant of. While the state's total estimated population climbed a total of 56,451 between the federal census of 1960 and yesterday's census, it climbed only 8,793 from last year to this. Of the total two-year increase. 46,569 an excess of births over deaths. And the in-mi-gration, which has so significantly increased the state's population in the tapered off sharply, and actually was reversed durinp- the past year, with more people moving out-of-state than coming IF THESE census board assumptions (as re- ported by United Press International) are cor rect, they certainly are a cause for revising our thinking about the immediate tuture ot the state. Are we, automatically, going to continue receiving many new citizens, as has been assumed so generally over the past dozen or so years? Are the throngs coming to California, who will make it the most populous state in the nation before the end of the year, actually going to "slop over" into Oregon? If not, why not; And the sharp drop in population increase this past year, and a reversal of the flow of migrants? WHILE we do not wish to issue any challenges In thn ponoiia hnnrrl nno let oA in urnnrlpr VIS b 1 V I I .... J V I . . about the estimates. While most incorporated cities registered gains, through annexation or otherwise, some did not, and a few, including Portland, showed losses. (It is much easier to prepare census esti mates accurately inside a city than it is in sub urban areas.) And, if our observations are correct, the larg est gains in population areas near cities, yes, areas. It is the state board the population estimates we have a sneaking suspicion that they may be made on data differing from those of the cities, and may not reflect the boom in non-urban and suburban growth which is apparent everywhere in western Oregon. We hope to pursue this a bit further, because, as they stand, some of the figures reported by the board just don't hold together. E.A. Man 5 Strength "Man's strength is executed." This quotation, from a private letter, says a number of important things in few words. It says that man's strength is not in his mus cles, nor in his cupidity, nor in his selfishness, nor in his weapons. It says that whatever greatness we achieve comes from the mind and the heart, for great ideas can be emotional as well as intellectual. Great ideas come not from man's baser tenden cies, but are his finer aspirations love, hope, freedom, charity, humor, liberty, respect, disci pline, faith, curiosity, beauty, kindliness. INSOFAR as a man fails to live up to these great ideas, he fails in his strength as a human being. And insofar as he fails to excel! in executing these ideas, he likewise falls short of attaining his greatest strength. What great ideas have lived the longest? Those of an Alexander, a Ghengis Khan, a Caesar, a Napoleon, a Hitler, a Stalin? Or those of a Plato, an Aristotle, a Jesus, a Galileo, a Newton, a Jefferson, an Einstein, a Ghandi? Is there any doubt where man's tine strength lies? E.A. were believed to be post-war years, has in. if so, how account for , ..II.. . . . V . hi. I w.IUV.. have been in suburban but outside incorporated of health that makes for the counties, but in his great ideas well "You Forgot COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves tha rtght 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 view; of the paper; In fact the contrary is often the case. Call To Action To the Editor: Looking into the future, it seems like just plain horse sense in this auto mobile age, for the Veterans Administration to establish a hospital at White City now. In this unsettled world it be hooves us to be prepared for all eventualities. Veterans or ganizations should respond promptly to the urgings in the following letter. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. -O- Dear Mr. Frisch: Thank you very much for your letter of Sept. 1. I am sorry to learn of the difficulties you have experienced in connec t i o n with your attempt to contact the Jackson and Josephine County Medical Societies and the Oregon State Medical So ciety regarding the avail ability In southern Oregon and northern California of doctors and medical special ists for a Veterans Adminis tration hospital at White City. I think it is essential that we have the active support of the Veterans organizations such as the Veterans of For eign Wars, American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, and the . Veterans of World War I. All of these organiza tions nave local chapters and posts in Medford, Grants Pass and other neighboring com munities. Their respective state organizations should adopt at their state conven tions, resolutions in favor of the White City hospital, but the ground work must be laid at the local post and chapter level. Maurine B. Neuberger United States Senator Washington, D.C. Chameleon To Ihe Editor: Someone in Oregon wrote a booklet in which he called the worthy Senator Morse a chameleon. That charge will back fire be cause of several facts. We presume that the writer meant that his target was sure to change hue according to the myth about the chameleon. We raised some chameleons years ago. I, nor anyone, ever saw a chameleon change color ac cording to the various bright cloths he was placed upon. But, folks, there is evolu tion. In two generations (of chameleons, not men) the off spring of chameleons may change shades, to conform to the shades of the weeds in the area it has migrated to. The females may be gobbled by snakes and such, though the small fry who conform will survive and originate a permanent (almost) strain in the area. Frogs and lizards leap faster and do not have to depend upon conformation to environment quite so much. A walking-stick insect is a perfect example of a creature conforming to its surround ings. (Try and see one; they are there though). Fishes, po lar bears are other examples we cvuld cite. In life of men. we had our public men who found in ex pedient to change very many times - Henry Clay, Lloyd George, Richard Nixon. We never knew where they stood on stated Issues. Mr. Morse is a man of single-standard, of principle. He fights to the very end to defend his Inner convictions, against all in nuendo. He struggled against the premature and predatory space allotment bill. He spoke for me and for millions. Every man has an inborn taste for change - from view ing the Niagara Gorge and Falls, to Ihe crest of Mt. Blanc, the surf, flax in bloom, the lonely desert, fields of ripened wheat. Mr. Morse may not have used up his right to change oftener. though he does feel happy when he combs his prize horses and cat tle, when he gets away from MEDFORD MAIL Something!" the doings of the Senate for 36 hours. Remember, folks, that the gem diamond gets its sparkle from the complex of facets to which it has been lapped. Re member that Senator Morse when a Republican followed the precepts ot our Lincoln, George Norris and Thomas Jefferson, and Senator Cope land (1922).. Waller Gabriel 51 James st. Newark, N.J. Hogs. Pets and People To the Editor and Hello, Everybody: I read that article about hogs that had gone wild and it reminded me of a hap pening in East Texas in 1927. A group of us were enjoying a trip, staying at hotels nights but picnicking days. We came to a heavily tim bered spot where a sparkling brook added beauty to the scene, and being very hungry we slopped the cars, spread a cloth on a mossy spot and set out our sandwiches, pics, po tato chips and other food, and plunked ourselves -down around it. Suddenly a razorback sow and five half grown pigs came rushing through the brush with "woofs" and very happy grunts. If you ever saw the bristles on a razorback (leaning for ward like porky-quills) you know what we did: we slammed the car doors behind us none to soon. Not being able to taste of us, they turned to picnicking, even to chew ing up the paper plates and cloth. Being Irish, a nature lover, and an outdoor gal with a long, long past and a divil-may-care nature - I've had many and varied experiences. Also, 1 love pets and have had them for companions-even to turtles, muskrats, a bobcat and wild birds that came daily for handouts.. I'll write about them from time to time when the pen leans toward my thumb, if I find that you care for such letters. In the meantlme-be kind to each other. All of us can't be licve alike. If we did, your breakfast dishes would still be un washed also, ahem! I like peo pie-good or bad; black, yel low or white and neither their color or their sins are con tagious to me. Bye now. Pearl Spackman, Jacksonville, Ore. Gold in the Body To the Editor: Charles F. Kettering, president of Gen eral Motors, discovered some years ago what makes the grass green. They called that substance chlorophyl and it became a fad to have it in toothpaste. A New England dentist. Dr. S. G. Harootigan. was curious to learn the truth about the good health of people in Deaf Smith County, Texas, that he had heard so much about. He fminH that the snh soil was very rich in valcium and phos phorous, with some fluoride. ! With plenty of calcium flu oride is siite. That is, natural fluoride is. Not waste material from manufacturing plants. It is bound to be mixed with aluminum. j Some people will not use aluminum utensils because of the fluorine used to smooth I and harden them. ! Laving all arguments aside. the fact still remains that it is unlawful for even your doc tor to give you a treatment that you object to. To give that power to the truly uninformed and gullible is the height of folly and in justice. True, our bodies contain trace of fluoride. Also a trace of gold. Who wants to put TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Argentine's Future Still Unclear Week End Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst The week end of military violence which left Argentine President Jose Maria Guido still in office e 1 1 m i nated whit might have been a difficult deci sion for the United States, but left the future of Ar gentina still u n certain. Newwai Guido, after vacillating uncertainly be- In the Day's News By FRANK San Francisco has a new distinction Hay Fever Cap ital of the Nation. The Chron icle puts it this way: "San Francisco, already way ahead on alcoholism and suicides, won another distinc tion yesterday. In addition to having a suicide rate three times that of the national average, and having more al coholics than any other big American city, San Francisco is outstandingly sneezy. "The Bay Area has more people suffering from allergic asthma and hay fever than their gold, if any, in the wa ter? My latest book on "Foods for Medicine" says, tea con tains more fluoride than any of the foods claimed to con tain some. Mary E. Atkins, 1634 Orchard Home dr. Medford. A New Horn Needed To the Editor: Jackson coun ty is about to lose one of its community fixtures because of lack of storage space. I am re ferring to the 40 et 8 Locomo tive that has appeared in events all over the county and carried Medford and Jackson county advertising throughout three states and partially into a fourth. The Forty et Eight has al ways been ready to serve the community with their loco motive in any way possible. Eight years ago they built a building 14 by 28 feefand 12 feet high to house it. Lumber was donated by Timber Prod ucts and the 40 et 8 did the work under the direction of Jack Batzer. Now the prop erty on which the building is located has been sold and im mediate action by the middle of October is necessary to save the locomotive for the com munity. Does any one in this area have room in a barn or build ing where this locomotive can be stored? In the past 10 years we estimate that this locomo tive has carried 15,000 kiddies for rides. It has been in hun dreds of parades all over the northwest. It has taken part in school rallies. It really has been a real part of the com munity and it would be just too bad to lose such a com munity fixture. Possibly some one reading this will have a place to store it. If so please call Bud Fisher at Western Hot Coffee, phone 772-4437. M. E. 'Bud' Fisher, 718 Bennett St., Medford. (R)evolution To the Editor: O woe to masculinity! Our women wear the pants, Emasculated man's attire; A he-man has no chance. Beware then of the 'weaker sex.' Thev anesthetize with guile; They bind your wounds with apron strings. And heal them with a smile. I'm warning all the younger men. As well as older goats You'll be traipsing down Main street. In ruffled pants and coat. Who dreamed that woman suffrage, Could usher in such woes. , Once they picked our pockets. But now, they swipe our clothes. G. D., iName on file). Medford. Local Student Gets Memorial Scholarship Frank L. Peterson, Med ford. has been awarded the Chester Buchanan Memorial scholarship at Cornell univer sity. Ithaca. N. Y. He is a senior in geology at Cornell. He is the son o( Mr. and Mrs. Burton Peter son. 914 South Stage rd., Med ford. He wae graduated from Medford high school In 1959. He expects to receive his bachelor of arts degree from Cornell In 1963. of Violence, Government Flux tween the two sides, finally settled on the winner, the so called nationalist officers who had demanded early national electioni and a quick return to constitutional government. Guido's victory, if t can be called that, prevented an out right military take-over of the government, and thus left the way open for continued Unit ed States aid under the Alli ance for Progress program. But for Argentina, basic problems remained. Neither the Argentine gov ernment nor Argentine mer chants could pay their bills. JENKINS any other American area out side the Rocky Mountains, a report issued by the state de partment of public health dis closes. "Bay Area residents with these allergic symptoms weepy eyes, runny noses, itchy throats, sneeziness are FIVE TIMES as thick here as they are in New York City." HOW COME? It's an ironic situation. The Chronicle explains it like this: "Part of the higher San Francisco rale is due to the fact that thousands of persons persecuted in the East by that old hay fever demon, ragweed, have fled to California be cause it is not a host to rag weed. The presence of these allergy-prone persons increas es the statistical incidence of such symptoms." WHICH is to say: This report that puts San Francisco at the top of the list of America's hay fever-strick-ert big cities isn't based on a count of hay fever-causing pol lens, including ragweed. It rests on a count of noses especially RUNNY noses. The investigators counted the run ny noses. Then they counted the noses that weren't runny and thus established the ratio that places San Francisco at the top of the list of hay fever stricken cities of the U.S. After that, they checked the origins of the people with runny noses and made the in teresting discovery ! that the bulk of them had recently left the ragweed-ridden East end emigrated to ragweed-free California in order to get away from hay fever and the pollens that cause it. Hence the high "statistical inci dence" of hay fever symptoms In the Bay Area. Aren t statistics wonderful? FROM the Salem Statesman: A Centralin vmith Htmhp1 down from a 189-foot tower alongside Highway 99 recently after 65 days aloft to receive his reward for spending the summer in the imitation Pro ject Mercury capsule. He was given a $1,000 scholarship. this is the way one proves one's qualifications to attend college? WELL At least it s a lot better than sitting on a pole just to prove that one is tough enough or foolish enough to spend hours, or days, or weeks sitting on a pole to gain a lit tle notoriety. Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) field Enterprises, Ine. HUNTING KNIFE There now reposes on my desk the only trophy I brought back from my vacation a genuine Swedish steel hunting knife, presented to me by the Monroe County Sportsman's Club, for no reason except good fellowship. Although I was proud and honored to have this gift, 1 must admit to a few moments of grave doubt when the pres entation was made. Was I ex pected to venture forth that very night and skin a bear? What exactly does one do with a hunting knife? I was too em barrassed to ask. Like most city dwellers, my working tools consist of a can opener (which somehow al ways manages to puncture the palm of my hand) and a screw driver from an old boyhood Meccano set (which invariably gives me a nasty electric I shock when 1 am probing dark ' a-id sinister corners in the basement.) I have no more use j for a hunting knife than Cleo patra had for a Du Berry Charm Course. . Tha knife, I must confess, looks impressive like something out of "Deer slayer." One side is sharp ened to an excruciatingly fine point for slicing the underbelly ot mountain lions. I presume; while the other side is saw-toothed with a peculiarly ugly hook near tha handle made, no doubt, for ripping tha an tral! out of woWea, alter you have strangled them UnemDlovment mounted steadily. In the last year the cost of living naa jumped more than 30 per cent. There also were the Peron istas who were at the root of last week's upheaval. The man they followed, for mer dictator Juan D. Peron. had been ousted seven years before, but they still com prised more than a third of Argentine labor. A the price ot the peso fell, their numbers were growing. Neither of the warring military factions wanted a return of Peronism. The losers, who had called upon Guido to resign, had be lieved that military rule might be .necessary for as long u five years truly to stamp out Peronist and Com munist Influences'. The winners seemed to take a more tolerant view, along the lines held by former Pres- Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (el New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE FINANCIERS DEPART The finance ministers and bankers from all over the non Communist world who were r e c e n t ly in W a a h i ngton did not dis cuss publicly the central question which is on their minds. That is whether the United Slates can for the Llppm.nn longer future manage, to use under secre tary Roosa's words, "the mon etary system of the free world" of which "the essence is the Ilxed reiauonsnip oe- tween gold and the dollar, with the United States ready to buy or sell gold at its es tablished price of $35 per ounce." Despite the reassuring pub lic statements, there is in fact much doubt in the financial markets of the world as to whether the convertible gold- dollar system can for the long er future be made to work. These doubts were muffled in the public meetings in Wash ington because no one wished to feed the International spec ulation against the dollar. The most explicit comment was made briefly and in somewhat veiled language by Mr. Maud ling, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer. He pointed out that in using the dollar and sterling as international reserve currencies, there is a "fundamental difficulty." It is that what the rest of the world uses for a reserve cur rency consists of short-term liabilities of the United.States and the United Kingdom -"one nation's reserves are an other nation's debt." TS THIS for the longer run a workable and dependable international monetary sys tem? "Requests for payment," said Mr. Maudling, "may arise at times and in volumes that are determined by factors wholly outside the control of the debtor (1. e., the United States and Great Britain) but nevertheless that have to be promptly met. If the amounts J. Harris with your bare hands. Now. I have an immense respect for those hearty men who love to discuss, in rug ged monosyllables, how ad roitly they bagged that big buck last October, But I am just not the type. In the woods, on a chilly autumn morn, a hunting knife is of vastly less use to me than a hot-water bottle and a box of Band-Aid. My diainclination to grap ple with wild beasts springs not so much from a fear of animals as from a profound distrust of my own dex terity. A bear, at most, might tree me -but this la nothing compared to the horrible damage I could, and would, inflict on my self with a Swedish steel hunting knife, City living has sharpened our wits, but almost paralyzed our fingers; another marvel ous example of nature's com pensation. No one is clumsier than the average city dweller, whose medicine chest looks like a Red Cross field hospital. He cannot hang a picture on the wall without incurring comfound fractures on at least four fingers. I hope the Monroe County Sportsman's Club doesn't mind if I turn its knife into a letter opener. And the boys might remember to send me a bottle of mercurochrome for Christmas. Even opening let ters. I'm bound to gash my thumb on that evil-looking hook. After ident Arturo FrondizI who be lieved they ahould be won over. Frondizi't own . tolerancej -toward the PeronUta led to his ouster by the military last March, which in turn paved the way for the latest crisis, A communique issued by this week's winners called for elections in which "all sec tions, of national life" should participate. Thii would seem to Include) the Peronistas whose strength at the polls already had been demonstrated. But the communique also declared that it was the "sa cred duty" of the army to pre vent formation of any totali tarian government. This would seem to bar both the military junta and a Peron - type government. Thus the issue remained un clear. of such currencies held as re serve assets Increased too much, there will Inevitably be) some doubt as to whether any further extension of theso holdings would be prudent and practicable." When the President spoke to the financiers last Thurs day, he remarked, perhaps a little wearily, that their prob lems "have been among my primary concerns since tha. day I took office exactly 20 months ago." If he had been spelling it all out, he might well have added that in the process of keeping the dollar as the world's main international money, he has run into trou bles which impair the integ rity of his foreign policy and throttle down the expansion of the domestic economy. ' TT IS common knowledge in a- Washington that there is a differance of view within tha Administration. It Is not nec essarily, if I understand it, a radical and irreconcilable dif ference of opinion about tha longer future of the monetary system. But in the discussion the Treasury, under the strong leadership of Secretary Dillo:i and the genius of Under Sec retary Roosa, stands for a pol. icy of making the dollar work able as the reserve currency of the whole free world.. The Treasury argues that tha measures it has been taking, and others that it is now ne gotiating, will fairly soon wipe out our deficits in tha balance of payments. If this is done, If our balance of pay ments is in equilibrium, the world, they believe, will have full confidence in the dollar and will continue to hold dol lars without cashing them into gold. The other school of thought which has its centers in the White House and in the State Department, does' not doubt or deny that the Treasury is performing a necessary and skillful work of correcting the balance of payments. What this school doubts is whether even if equilibrium is ach ieved by 1964, the growing economies of Europe and the developing economies else where will resist the pressures and the temptations to ex' ploit the vulnerability of the dollar and the United States' gold stock. For the long rurt they are looking, therefore; towards a trans-Atlantic ar rangement between the en larged Common Market with pooled reserves and tha Uni ted States. TT IS safe to predict that this will be the center of a mounting discussion on both sides of the Atlantic, and the President will do well to en courage a discreet and respon sible official discussion of it here. We cannot afford to ap-1 proach this great problem as if something dreadful will happen if we talk about It at all. For the long run, we may take it as certain that in order to enjoy the doubtful distinc tion of providing the world's currency reserves, this coun try will not continue to mort gage the independence of its foreign policy or of its domes tic policy. We have great de cisions to take affecting cu own future and the future of the Western world, and In the councils which take these de cisions we shall not very long welcome as prime members the gold speculators or the foreign bankers pursuing their own private and special interests. ; , It has been said that the,, best time to get off a tiger back is when the tiger is sleeping. The tiger of specula; tion against the dollar is. one might say, dozing, and this is a good time to come to grips with the problem of providing the non Communist world with a reliable system of in. ternational payments. r
