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SOCIATION
EDITORIAL
Flight o' Time
Medio, d and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
ind 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1952 (Tuesday)
Barring unforseen technic
alities, a $115,000 water bond
issue will be placed on the
Jacksonville Nov. 4 ballot to
finance connection with the
Medford water system.
Mrs. Kathryn Stancliffe
filed today as candidate for
mayor of Phoenix.
20 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1942 (Wednesday)
Medford area mill employ
ees volunteer services to aid
in loading thousands of boxes
of Bartlctl pears for shipping
east as labor shortage becomes
critical.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Unre
strained public sneezes are
now the order of the day.
Some rattle the rafters and
leave the listener uncertain
whether to look for a tire
blowout or an air raid war
i den."
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1932 (Friday)
Jackson county Republican
leaders, including Fred Col
vig, Frank Farrell and Vorn
Marshall, open headquarters
in Medford.
Medford city school office
moved from Medford Center
building to space in city hall
which previously housed coun
ty sheriff's office.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1922 (Saturday)
New 1922 model coupes,
equipped with shock absorb
ers,, speedometer, niclal sun
visor, dash light, foot throt
tle, four tires and a spare, sell
for $780 in Medford.
New attendance record Ml
al Crater Lake during 1022
with total of 19,916 visitors
registered during year.
SO YEARS AGO
Sept. 30, 1912 (Monday)
Trial well sunk on J. B.
Coleman place near Talent in
effort to find artesian water
supply for city.
Medford constable sends to
North Carolina for pair of
"genuine" bloodhounds to be
used for trailing fugitives in
this area in the future.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct Is superior;
seven er oiaht it encillentj five ei
sii Is leed.
1. Was Theodore Roosevelt
graduated from Harvard or
Yale university?
2. During which American
war did the famous draft riots
occur?
3. Who defeated William
Jennings Bryan for the Presi
dency in 1896?
4. Do the initials I.e. of the
Latin phrase Id est mean
"that Is" or "that Is to aay"?
5. The vehicle used behind
trotting horses Is called what?
6. Which President declar
ed it was the government pol
icy to "return to normalcy"?
7. Is Moses the traditional
founder of Jewish priesthood?
8. Which is hotter, blue
or yellow flame?
9. Are sexes distinct in all
Vertebrate animals?
10. "Flew" is lo fly as
"fled" is to what?
Answers: 1. Harvard. 2,
War Between the States. 3.
William McKinley. 4. Both.
S. Sulky. 6. Warren G. Hard.
Ing. 7. No, Aaron. S. Blue. 9,
Yea. 10 Flea.
UATIONAL
Headline Indigestion
As this is written, we have just finished scan
ning 21 newspapers, principally the front and
editorial pages.
It is not a joy-making task. Bad news and
pessimism stared up from almost every page.
The antics of a law-defying governor in Mis
sissippi; the deaths from floods in Spain; the
worry over Cuba and the Russian "fishing port"
there; the revolution in Yemen; the usual un
subtleties of politics; the foot-dragging of Con
cress : the troubles in Red China and Africa and
Russia and South America; juvenile delinquency;
narcotics; the overcrowding of schools and col
leges; the needs for more tax money the news
and opinion flow on and on.
CUCH transitory, surface ills are bad enough.
But one also, these days, gets to thinking of
the really important things, of which those listed
above are little more than the surface indications.
We ponder the delicate balance of war and
no-war, teetering on a missile with a hydrogen
bomb at its tip; we study the population figures
for the world and their awful implications for
starvation, famine, civil disorder and sheer pres
sure ; we eye the rising tides of nationalism from
the new and inexperienced nations which, one
day soon, may include atomic weapons in their
arsenals; the recurring inhumanities of the com
munist states and their greed for power.
X7HAT, we sometimes ask ourself, is the use?
Why continue the struggle for decency and
freedom and dignity and honor? Why not con
fess that it's all useless and can come to nothing,
and then stop worrying?
Why not indeed?
But there is something in a human being that
will not allow hope and faith to be quenched ut
terly. Nor are courage and determination neces
sarily daunted by the" size of the challenges. In
tellectually, one may despair, but, with the emo
tions, only occasionally.
t Too, there is the saving grace that no human
mind can dwell at length on such things without
diversion, and the diversions oftentimes are
worthwhile in themselves.
A ND SO we those of us so concerned con
tinue with our day-to-day tasks, hoping that
the sum total of all our efforts may add up to a
minescule measure of progress, and that disaster
will be staved off long enough for the forces of
right and reason and good will to prevail.
We plug for more and better education; for
an easing of tensions where possible, and for a
forthright stand where this is not possible; for
greater understanding among peoples and among
people ; for a higher degree of cooperation among
the societies we believe are on the riht track ; f or
an eventual; accommodation of some of the
forces now in conflict.
And there are signs a few of them, here
and there that all is not as bleak and dreary
and dangerous as those black headlines and pes
simistic editorials would indicate. It's too bad
that these patches of light aren't "news" in the
same sense as the disasters and the conflicts.
E. A.
Air Traffic Decline
Gil Gutjahr's theories on the reasons for the
decline in passenger traffic at the Medford air
port are interesting and, we believe, correct. ,
Of the three reasons the airport manager
cited in a Mail Tribune story the other day, we
believe that two are the most important, namely,
the development of freeways, and the scheduling
of flights.
It is still possible to get from Medford to
Portland by air more quickly than it is by auto-j
mobile, but the difference lias shrunk consider- i
ably. And today, figuring in driving to and from j
airports, and waiting at them for flights or for
ground transportation, one hardly saves any time I
at all by flying rather than driving to Eugene, j
Often, the convenience of having one's own car!
when there onsets the slight saving ot time.
at
"THUS, the decline of "short haul" flights can
be substantially attributed to freeway improve
ment, and this will continue.
Additionally, the impossibility of getting to
Salem or Portland in time to transact business,
and return the same day, is another major factor,
we believe, in the drop-off. Many complaints
about lack of convenient scheduling have been
made in recent months, and a chamber of com
merce committee is planning to conduct a survey
to determine local opinion with respect to air
service. The results should be revealing.
CPEAKING of air transportation in general, it
is our belief that the convenience and service
is excellent while in the air, but that the standing
in line, the waiting in the station, the shocking
contrast between the courtesy and efficiency of
air-borne personnel and the curtness, delays "and
unpleasantness of ground transportation facili
ties, is the greatest drawback to air passenger
service today.
We recall landing at Idlewild airport in New
York some months ago, after a luxurious and
breathtaking 4'o-hour jet sweep across country,
only to be dumped into some dark and dirty sheds
where our luggage was missing, finding our way
to a dirty, smelly and crowded bus, jolting anil
bumping into Manhattan, and climbing out at
a crowded and confused downtown terminal,
where we had to wait interminably for a taxi.
It was a traumatic experience, and the airlines
must find some way to improve it. E.A.
"We've Eked Out A
For Next
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
c New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
Nullification in Mississippi
The Governor of Mississippi,
Ross Barnett, has raised again
the question which was posed
at Little Rock
five years ago.
It is whether a
state may use
its own police
and military
forces to nulli
fy the law of
the land. Pres
ident Eisen
hower defined
Lippmann the issue in
1857 when he said that "the
police powers of the State of
Arkansas" have been "utilized
. . . to frustrate the order of
the court." The position taken
by Governor Faubus five
years ago and by Governor
Barnett today has never, I
think, been advocated or jus
tified by the national leaders
of Southern opinion. For
while they are opposed to de
segregation, they do not es
pouse the Faubus-Barnett doc
trine of nullification by force.
President Kennedy, like
President Eisenhower before
him, would be false to his
own oath of office if he allow
ed the theory of nullification
by force to go unchallenged
and become a precedent.
TJENEATH and behind this
" high constitutional Issue
the Mississippi case is in sev
eral important ways much
worse than the Little Rock
case. For one thing, at Little
Rock the question was the in
tegration of a co-educational
high school. In Mississippi the
question ts in fact whether
there shall be token integra
tion at the college level. The
Mississippi case raises, as the
Arkansas case did not, the
critical question whether in
any foreseeable future there
can be common higher educa
tion for the future leaders of
the whites and the Negroes.
In Arkansas there was already
in existence at the time of
the Little Rock affair consid
erable Integration at the col
lege level.
Governor Barnett is threat
ening to use the police powers
of the state of Mississippi to
close the door to the begin
ning of an attempt to educate
together - so that they may
Try and
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By BENNETT CERF-
ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S
feuds had on one side
Bcnchley and on the other
grackle bird! This par-
ticular grackle bird was
wont to perch on the
limb of a tree at the
crack of dawn every
morning outside Bench
ley's window at the old
Garden of Allah Hotel
and awaken him with a
series if irreverent chor
tles and derisive chirps.
Bcnchley finally caught
hold of the grackle bird
and socked him square
ly on the jaw!
The bird was so of
fended it flew off to Santa Barbara.
Jerry Beatty haa a friend who Uvea next door to a smiling,
amiable fellow who is a receiver of stolen goods. The friend
never tirea of telling Beatty that "fencea make good neighbors."
A newspaper once sent Gene Fowler to Venice to do a series
of articles about that timeless city. Ton minutes after his arrival,
Fowler cabled hia managing editor, "Streeta under water. Wire
tnatructlona."
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A short biography, submitted by Serena Babbitt: 1, High
choir. 2. High school. 3. High stool. 4. High finance. S. High
hat. 6. "Hi, Warden."
O 1W. by Basaatt Ctrl DuUibultJ by Kin( ruluru Sin4u;
Little Seed Grain
Time"
have a common cultural heri
tage and may come to know
each other personally - the
leaders of the next generation
who will have to deal with
the race problem.
If Governor Barnett pre
vails, there is no future, to
which men can look in Miss
issippi for an eventual peace
able solution of the conflict
If the governor is able to
use force to prevent a grad
ual and peaceable solution, he
will be sowing the dragon's
teeth.
.
1WY own view has long been
that when the Supreme
Court rendered its decision
against segregation in the pub
lic schools, it was a tragic mistake-by
the President, the
Congress and public opinion
to dump the enforcement helter-skelter
and through pri
vate law suits into the courts.
"Integration," I wrote sev
eral years ago, "is a problem
in persuasion and consent
which cannot be solved by in
junctions and soldiers." We
should be "asking ourselves
whether the decision of the
Supreme Court does not need
to be supplemented" by a na
tional policy and program of
guidance and aid as to when,
where, how far, and how fast
integration should proceed in
different school districts, and
at the various levels of the
elementary school, the high
school ,the college, and the
professional schools.
"The wisest policy is to pro
ceed by stages, beginning as
soon as possible with integra
tion in the universities, in the
graduate schools of law, med
icine, education, engineering,
theology - and, where it can
be done, without causing so
cial convulsions, the bigger
colleges. The object of this
would be to train a new gen
eration of white and colored
men and women who will be
leaders in their communities."
ALL of this will be nullified
In Mississippi by Gover
nor Barnett. He is not dealing
with a high school full of
adolescents where there is a
real problem of integration.
He is dealing with the higher
education of the future leaders
of Mississippi. There his posi
tion is intolerably obstructive.
Sfop Me
bitterest and most celebrated
of the fence the late Robert
side this is a true story a
. .
Washington Report
By William
(ei United feature Syndicate
NEW ISOLATIONISM
Washington A riling
pressure on the Kennedy ad
ministration to take up a
''tough
er1' line in
foreign policy
has become
the one over-master-i
n g reality
of the closing
i c 87th Con
gress. Cause
is being f o 1-
lowed by inevitable effect.
And unless the sources of
trouble are abated, the new
congress coming on in Janu
ary will be far more hospi
table than the old toward an
essentially Nationalist, as dis
tinguished from an Interna
tionalist, view in our foreign
relations.
This will be so even if the
Democrats retain control of
the new congress. It will be
more sharply and dangerous
ly the case should the Repub
licans seize control of the
House of Representatives.
(The Senate is, in practical
terms, beyond their reach this
time.)
THOUGH no Congress could
actually force such a
change, assuming an adamant
stance by the President, no
believer in internationalism
as the ultimate necessity in
the cold war could possibly
welcome what would at best
be a bitter tug-of-war between
Congress and White House.
The root cause of an already
great and growing congres
sional disenchantment is the
blind failure to date of our
principal allies to understand
the depth of the American
public mood. This feeling is
that almost everywhere - in
Southeast Asia, to s o m e ex
tent even in Berlin, and most
important of all, now in So
viet-infiltrated Cuba -the Al
lies are leaving us to hold the
bag and the baby.
A day or two ago, this col
umnist suggested that the
somewhat lofty disinclination
of the British and others to
do anything whatever to help
seal off the Soviet military
lodgment in Castro Cuba
would most injure these non
cooperators themselves in the
end. By the time the article
was in print, bitter public
criticisms of this Allied inac
tion - not to mention some
suggestions that this was a
poor way to assure the contin
uance of American foreign
aid - were being heard from
right, left and center In Con
gress, and from both parties.
NOW, conferees represent
ing the Senate and House
have agreed on a directive im
posing stiff economic sanc
tions against Communist Pol
and and Yugoslavia of a kind
which two presidents
Dwight Eisenhower and John
F. Kennedy - had thus far
been able to fight off.
This was done in a rider to
the administration's greatest
foreign policy victory of its
tenure, tne World Trade Ex
pansion bill. The deep signifi
cance of this is that such re
strictions had again and again
been defeated in more rele
vant legislation. What it
meant was that Congress had
iisaiatt tr T
WBire
The Wisdom of Age
By ERIC SEVAREID
"The youth of America is
their oldest tradition, it has
been going on now for 300
years." - Oscar Wilde
Well, a country has got to
have some tra-
''TiA5 the belief that
the traditional
doesn't count,
yesterday nev
er happened
and that the
world -wide
condition o f
man is a blank
sevareid slate waiting
to he filled in by a brand new
piece of chalk, made in Amer
ica. But when one looks close
ly he gets the feeling the tra
dition of the youth cult is
mostly propelled by the mo
mentum of habit; as with an
aging actress who won't give
up, the eyelashes are false,
the bloom is from the paint
box. The old lady is trying
too hard and It shows. So a
national magazine announces
the future with a whole issue
devoted to the "Take-Over
Generation." as If today as
well as yesterday Isn't quite
real, and the hoary old state
of Massachusetts dances the
political Twist, looking a little
repulsive, as old folks do, and
opts to send a pink-cheeked
boy to the august United
Stales Senate where he can
apply his wisdom to the an
cient problems of struggling
man.
The answer to this is that I
this is a frre country, ir.n't it? j
And the answer to that is
that it was a free country
until we handed It over to the i
teen-agers and they began I
loaning it back to us, bit byj
S. Whit
become o determined, in re
cent weeks, aa to seize any
vehicle whatever with which
to express its feeling.
BUT how, at any rate, does
this congressional thrust
fit into the point of this piece
- namely, that resentment at
Western Allied noncoopera
tion is endangering the whole
fabric of Allied unity in the
cold war? It fits In because
the policy of giving some as
sistance to Poland and Yugo
slavia, in the hope of widen
ing their degree of detach
ment from Moscow, is a West
ern Allied, and not solely and
simply an American, policy
design. Congress thus has re
pudiated here not only the
Kennedy administration and
the Eisenhower administra
tion but also the whole Allied
concert.
Put all this alongside the
deep present difficulties of
the whole foreign-aid pro
gram. Take note also of a
new Gallup poll showing an
immense public preoccupa
tiono with cold war issues 10
times that of either unemploy
ment or racial problems. As
semble these factors and what
is the message? The message
Is that the moving finger is
beginning to write In this
country, and the words It is
writing are uncommonly like
the words of "a new isolation
ism." In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Not only does the Oregon
State Highway Department
build and maintain Oregon's
state highways. As an extra
curricular activity, described
briefly in this space Friday,
it operates and maintains
Oregon's state parks.
It has still another extra
curricular activity that is of
great and growing importance
to Oregon's economy. Its Trav
el Information Division car
ries on an advertising pro
gram designed to attract tour
ists to Oregon.
Tourism is already Ore
gon's third most important in
dustry - exceeded in dollar
volume only by forest prod
ucts and agriculture.
THE TRAVEL Information
Division's budget for this
year (1962) was $425,000. Of
this total, $235,037.34 was ex
pended for magazine and
newspaper space and radio
and television time. The re
mainder was spent for art and
production, printing, photo
graphy, general office sup
plies and salaries and miscel
laneous auxiliary promotions,
including maintenance of an
Oregon information booth at
the Seattle World Fair.
The bulk of this advertis
ing money Is spent in the
Western states, where the
bulk of our tourists come
from. But national publica
tions are used extensively as
a part of the program.
Oregon's tourist attractions
are thus brought before the
nation as a whole.
DOES IT pay off?
Well, in 1961 tourist
spending in Oregon amounted
to about $186,000,000. That
came to a little better than
bit, at usurious interest. Since
as the experts have convinced
us, there Is no hiding place, it
is useless to head for the hills.
No recourse remains but a
general consumer's boycott in
the hope the juvenile male
factors of great wealth will
quit the business, give back
the capital and return to the
weekly allowance they lived
on before phalanxes of mag
azines, popular psychiatrists,
progressive teachers and disk
jockeys Incited them to their
mass raid on the vault.
Having departed the age
bracket where anyone older
than himself is too old to
understand this brave new
world, and reached the brack
et where anyone younger than
himself fails to understand
that It's really a timid world
with old, tired problems. I am
Inclined to throw my slightly
moth-eaten gauntlet in the
face of those who claim that
energy will save the republic
and the world, and join the
thin, tottering red line of
those defending the standard
of wisdom. Energy bids fair
to kill us all.
It was armed youth that
saved democracy and reason
in World War II. but it was
also youth, madly goosestep
ping for Hitler, Mussolini and
Tojo, that unloosed the horror
in the first place. It is youth,
in the Peace Corps and else
where, now trying to show
the way to peaceful social
revolutions, but the Vopos In
East Germany have fuzz on
their faces and the Castro
brothers, doing their best to
subvert a whole continent,
wear beards only because
they're still adolescent enough
Welch, who was in his sixties;
to think beards are manly.
Matter of Focf n jph ai
(ei New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE WAR WE MAY
BE WINNING
Washington - Although no
one seems to pay much atten
tion any longer, American
troops sua in
daily comu .t
in the war in
South Viet
Nam. What is
more, there
begins to be
some hope of
winning this
war, which
seemed so
Alinp
hopeless
at the outset. So far it is only
a case of beginning to see a
glimmer of light at the end of
a long, dark tunnel. But even
the most pessimistic officials
at the State Department and
Pentagon now admit that the
glimmer is really there. Part
of this better atmosphere is
due to the recent Washing
ton visit of the able Vietna
mese Secretary of Defense,
Nguyen Dinh Thuan.
The points that Secretary
Thuan stressed as encouraging
will seem a bit bewildering to
anyone who is not familiar
with the kind of guerrilla
warfare that is going on in
Viet Nam. To begin with, the
price of rice has fallen sharp
ly; and this is the first time
in 15 years that the rice price
has dropped at this season.
ALL OVER Viet Nam, rice
merchants have been
hoarding their stocks, expect
ing prices to go higher be
cause of the Communist pol
icy of preventing rice deliv
eries from the countryside to
the larger centers. The mer
chants are hastily unloading
now, before the major rice
harvest, because they have
concluded that the Commun
ists are losing their former
power to disrupt the rice
trade.
Books filled with military
intelligence are less valuable
than this kind of practical in
dicator of the course of the
struggle. It is confirmed by
$100 for each Oregon resi
dent, or somewhat in excess
of $400 for each Oregon fam
ily. That's a lot of new money
to be brought Into our stale.
Tourist expenditures in Ore
gon for the 1962 season have
not yet been computed, but
this year's total is expected
to exceed last year's mater
ially. ONE more word:
In no year since this pro
gram of tourist advertising
was Instituted have the Ore
gon gasoline taxes PAID BY
THE TOURISTS failed to ex
ceed by TEN TIMES all the
money spent to carry on Ore
gon's tourist advertising pro
gram. OREGON'S state parks have
helped greatly in attract
ing tourists to our state and
in making their stay here so
pleasant that they keep on
coming, in increasing num
bers year after year.
Summing it all up, it seems
to be obvious that these extra
curricular activities of the
Oregon Stale Highway De
partment - Including opera
tion and maintenance of the
stale parks and advertising
Oregon's tourist attractions to
the nation - have contributed
immensely to the improve
ment of Oregon's economy.
and Folly
Every continent has its
take-over generation, but they
don't all intend to take-over
In the sense "Life" magazine
had in mind about American
youth; they intend to take
over a lot of places and pos
sessions they would not nor
mally inherit, and they in
tend to stun the present pro
prietors before they reach for
the take.
The trouble with youth is
not only Its illusion that en
ergy is the answer but its
Illusion that its ideas are new.
Except in the field of the
physical sciences, I confess I
can't at the moment recall a
sinsle bright, workable, new
Idea from youth that promises
to get the republic or any part
of the world on the way out
of their present miseries. The
present college generation
sheds much heat on disarma
ment, the race problem. Cuba
and the underdevelopeds, but
no light that guides and com
forts. Indeed, the Frenchman and
the German now undoing the
enmity of a thousand years
are in their seventies and
eighties, respectively; the
Englishman leading the way
to an historic re-arrangement
of Britain's global position
hasn't a dark hair left on his
head; the Chief Justice asso
ciated with the new break-
through on our racial dilem-j
ma is a septuagenarian; so is
the fieriest liberal on the;
court. Justice Black; the two I
Americans setting the pace for j
the renovation of education.1
are Conant and Rickover, j
neither a toddlrr; the most
passionate cry for human dec
ency I have ever heard in
j Washington came from Joseph
I tiie freshest new-minted po-
other comparable indicators,
all showing that normal com
merce is beginning to be re
established. And these, in
turn, are reinforced by Secre
tary Thuan's report on an
enormous increase in volun
teers for the Vietnamese
army's NCO and Officers
Training Schools.
The fact that the Vietnam
ese government can now pick
and choose among several
thousand volunteers, where
candidates formerly had to be
drafted, has two important
meanings. The volunteers no
longer seriously fear the brut
al Communist reprisals
against soldiers' families,
which have long been stand
ard practice. And in the vol
unteers' villages of origin,
the people are beginning to
expect the Communists to be
beaten in the end.
TN SHORT, there is a favor--
able movement at the grass
roots, with which the govern
ment of President Ngo Dinh
Diem is always accused of not
being In touch. The reason for
this favorable movement is
not far to seek, either.
The Diem government,
which is also accused of "not
trusting" the people, has in
fact been organizing the vil
lagers in semi-fortified "stra
tegic hamlets," and has been
giving arms to the village mil
itias - which is not a usual
sign of distrust. In the prov
inces where the strategic ham
let program is well-advanced,
the newly-armed villagers
have been kiling more Com
munists than the regular
army. In sum, when given the
means to defend themselves
against the Communists, the
Vietnamese people are doing
just that.
None of this would be pos
sible, of course, without the
American aid program which
Congress is now so anxious to
hamstring. The strategic ham
lets scheme would not even
begin to work, either, without
the parallel effort of the U.S.
Commander in Viet Nam,
Gen. Paul D. Harkins, to lib
erate the Vietnamese army
from its old defensive posi
tions, and to take the offens
ive against the Communists
wherever possible.
INTERESTINGLY enough,
General Harkins is more
optimistic, if anything, than
his Vietnamese co-workers.
While here. Secretary Thuan
gave the estimate that the
Communist guerrilla move
ment in South Viet Nam could
be decisively destroyed by
two or three more years of
hard work. At one of the re
cent Hawaii meetings of U.S.
officials with responsibilities
bearing on the Vietnamese
war, General Harkins said
that job could be done "with
in one year after the army
attains a fully offensive foot
ing." Maybe hopes are now run
ning too high. The real situa
tion in Viet Nam will be test
ed in October and November,
when the weather will offer
the Communists their best
chance to stage major attacks,
if they still have the capabil
ity. Furthermore, present
hopes are based on the as
sumption that the Communist
North Vietnamese will not
raise the stakes in the game,
by even more overt aggres
sion against South Viet Nam.
of Youth
lilical talk I ever heard cams
from Adlai Slevenson, then
over fitly; our first orbiting
hero, John Glenn, produced
heart-throbs, not in the teen
age girls but in his contempo
raries, us fat and forties.
If people are turning for
guidance to the Robert Frosts
and the Carl Sandburgs, it's
not just respect for their
white hairs; it's because in
their eighties they are seeing
new things and saying new
things in new ways.
Teddy has energy, enough
for hell - for-leather spurts
through Africa and South
America, but none of his dis
coveries added to my under
standing nf those critical re
gions and some of his notions
were plain wrong. Bobby is
a dynamo, but if his youthful,
inquiring mind has added any
new conceptions to our under
standing the rule of law in
this society, they have escaped
my notice.
I agree with those who dis
like the spectacle of old men
making wars for young men
to fight, and I would changa
it around, if I had my way,
so that the old men fought the
next war. Because they would
soon realize that no gain could
outweigh the loss, make a ne
gotiated peace leaving life and
space for all concerned and go
back home.
I don't know what started
me on all this. Teddy, maybe.
But more likely it was Ber
nard Baruch, who drove me
around his place the other aft
ernoon in one of those electric
golfing carts and had me beg
ging him to slow down on th
curves. He Is 92
(Distributed 1962, by the
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