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Medlcd and Jackson County
History from tho files of Th
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13, 1952 (Thursday)
Christmas opening of stores
in Medford, when a showing
of Yuletide wares will be
made, will be held the evening
of Wednesday, Dee. 3, accord
ing to members of the Med
ford Retail Trades association.
Slightly more than 78 per
cent of Jackson county regis
tered voters cast ballots in the
Nov. 4 general election, the
complete canvass of votes
shows.
20 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13. 1942 (Friday)
Medford Building and Con
struction Trade council pre
sents vehicle to be used for
ambulance and emergency car
to local Red Cross chapter.
Fmm Arthur Perry's "Ye
Knuirioe Pot'1 column: "A
number of citizens have start
ed using 'shanks mure' to get
places, and as yet have run
into no phone poles, pioneer
trees or fire hydrants."
30 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13. 1932 (Sunday)
County budget committee
recommends 10 per cent slash
in salaries of all county em
ployees whose pay is not fixed
by law.
Medford area police await
report from slate attorney
general on recent vote' repeal
ing prohibition.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. 13. 1922 (Monday)
Final tally of votes for Med
ford district constable shows
Medford Police Chief George
O. Timothy defeated Special
Prohibition Enforcement Offi
cer S. B. Sandifer by 2 to 1
margin.
Jackson coinily receives sil
ver trophy given to county
winning most first places in
land products department of
Pacific International show in
Portland.
SO YEARS AGO
Nov. 13, 1912 (Tuesday)
Danger of general European
war believed ended us Turkey
recnicsts cessation of hostili
ties Willi Bulgaria; Russia said
"overawed" by displays of
strength on borders by Aus
tria and Ccriiiany.
Vhal's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct li superior;
even or eight it excellent; fivt oi
lit it good.
1. Docs a plan c I a r i u m
house exotic plant lite or ma
rine life?
2. Aniyl aeelale has an
odor like which fruit.'
3. In which State of the
U.S. did the Whiskey Rebel
lion occur?
4. Of I he big-game animal?
in the U.S., are there nunc
moose, deer, or bear'.'
5. Who whs responsible
for the "Massacre of the In
nocents' at Bethlehem','
6. Is the right side of a
ship (looking forward) the
starboard or the port side'.'
7. "The Three Sisters,"
"Manier" and "Hood" ore all
what''
8. What did Napoleon say
an army marched on?
I). Did Leon Trotsky, who
was banished from the USSR,
die a nalural death, and where
did he die"
10. Pickett . Charge oc
curred in what decisive bat
tle of the War Between the
States'"
Answers: 1. Neither (model
or representation of plane
tary system), 2. Bananas, 3.
Pennsylvania. 4. Deer, 5, Her
od, 6. Starboard. 7. Moun
tains. 8. Its stomach. 9. No,
he was assassinated in Max
Ico. 10. Gettysburg.
4
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NOVEMBER 13. 1962
Equality of What?
One of our regular writers of letters to the
editor, and one of our regular critics, is hipped
on the inequality of individuals.
He maintains that people are different, due
to heredity, from birth some excelling in one
field, some in another, still others exemplifying
inferiority in various ways.
Any person with half an eye can see that he's
right. There are some superior individuals; some
inferior ones. There are some individuals who
excell in a specific talent and are deficient in
others. There are some (like Leonardo da Vinci)
who excell in many fields and some who excell
in none.
A ND yet there are three areas in which all men
are (or should be) equal or else the whole
American tradition goes swishing down the pre
determinist drain.
All men are (or should be) equal in the eyes
of the law.
All men are (or should be) entitled to equal
ity or opportunity.
All men are (or should be) equal in the eyes
of their Creator.
Otherwise a massive
all Americans and on
Fatherhood of God implies the Brotherhood of
Man.
X7E do not see how
T T heredity has much
becomes. Abraham Lincoln, born poor and in
circumstances hardly designed to lift him above
his backwoods neighbors, must have had the
right combination of genes to permit him to grow
into one of the giant figures of history.
The same is true with all truly great men and
women. If they do not have the elemental stuff
of greatness within them, the potential for
growth, they do not have what greatness needs
to build upon.
On the other hand, however, how many po
tentially great figures in the human drama have
been lost simply because the conditions were not
right for their development? How many have
been barred from adequate food, an opportunity
to develop brain capacity, or an environment
which would permit their latent genius to flower?
THE two must coincide, or greatness cannot
mil (ii'irn
UI 111,1
Those of us who believe in the humanistic
ideal of the improvability of mankind, therefore,
insist that we must never cease in our efforts to
improve the environment into which we all are
born, and to provide an equality of opportunity
so that latent genius, jiotential greatness, will
have a chance to make itself known.
It is true that only a
the human race is equipped for greatness. It is
also true that only a very small percentage of the
human race is inevitably doomed to utter failure.
In broadening the opportunity for the one, we
also lessen the drawbacks for the other, and for
the great mass of us in between the extremes of
greatness and failure, the
tered, and all benetit.
AS FOR those who maintain that the obvious
inherent differences among men some big,
some little, some great, some small can be
applied to whole groups,
or social or religious or
sheerest balderdash.
There is not a race
which has not produced
greatness, in one field or another. The percentage
of those achieving greatness has, of course, varied
from time to time, and we are convinced that this
variation is a result of environmental factors;
that latent greatness and the necessary ambience
of opportunity did not exist together, that the
potency of one was crushed by the absence of
the other.
That each individual, no matter what his color
or his background, has an equal opportunity to
develop his talents to the full, is that for which
America has, with some short-sighted exceptions,
chosen to stand. It is a good and necessary thing!
to stand for, and is the sole hope of the race ot
man to grow to maturity. li.A.
Mostly Moderates
Walter Lippmann, in his column on this page
Sunday, pointed out that last week's election was
largely a victory for the moderates.
This was true in Oregon, as elsewhere.
Congresswoman Edith Green and Sen, Wayne
Morse are the most liberal of the incumbents
returned to office, with practically all other
successful candidates solidly in the middle of the
political spectrum, and few very far to the right.
THE SAME was largely true in California. Two
John Birch Society congressmen were defeat-!
cd. Gov. Pat Iirown is a moderate. So is Kepub-j
lican Senator Tom Kuchel.
About the only exception was the election of j
Dr. Max l.afferty as superintendent of public in
struction. The office is non-partisan, but during
the slam-bang campaign, unusual for this type of i
office, Dr. Kafferty was frequently identified
with right wing causes.
His opponent. Dr. Kalph Richardson, was a
moderate.
It will he interesting to see what happens in
California school systems in the coming few
veal's. Rafferty has espoused a return to the
"basics," indoctrination against Communism,;
ind an end to "progressivism" in education.
E.A. I
joke is being played on
all who believe that the
anyone can dispute that
to do with what a man
very small percentage of
human condition is bet
whether they be ethnic
whatever this is the
on the face of the globe
men and women of true
avlEDFOHD
"Indeed, Suh! Some Of Mah Kinfolk Are
Yankee"
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contrary is often the case.
Letter Quoted
To the Editor: The follow
ing letter appeared in the
morning Oregonian and I
think it should be printed in
our paper too, for more peo
ple to read and ponder its
message.
I have been listening to
the writer Ruby N. Rether-
ford for years and think
her ideas the best and that
she is, the greatest. She is my
mother.
Virginia Vaughan
21 South Grovcland ave.
Medford.
O
Peace on Earth' ,
To the Editor: I was shock
ed at the remark I heard on
the radio of "Nikita's back
down." Why do we not accept with
deep gratitude the fact that
negotiations toward peace arc
being made and not make it
appear that someone is "yel
low"? Such accusations as
this lead only to more hard
feelings and strife. Witness
the small boys playing in the
backyard. If one is called a
coward, it only rankles within
him until he can find a way
Washington Report
By William
(ci United teaturs Syndicate
SUBTLE PROBLEM
Washington - A polit i c a 1
problem of extraordinary sub
tlety confronts President Ken.
nedy in the
i ! a f t erlight of
i last wee k's
.1 ifH c o ngrcssional
and stale elec
tions. In or
der to seek
reasonable
safety against
the now highly
probable pres
idential chal
lenge in 11)04 of Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller of New York. Mr.
Kennedy needs to find a
means of reconciliation with
the insurgent South. Smith
west and mountain states.
Those areas were difficult
enough fur the president in
his own election in 1!H0. In
deed, they probably would
have been hopeless for him
hut for the presence on his
ticket of tho Texan. Vice
President Lyndon Johnson.
In hist week's voting tests,
they were more difficult still.
KLAllOMA elected the
first Republican governor
in 53 years. Texas Republi
cans made the most formida
ble challenge for tho gover
norship since the reconstruc
tion era at the end of the
Civil War. One of the ablest
Democrats to sit in the Senate
in half a century, Liste, Mill
of Alabama, was pursued
down to a photo finish to win
over his Republican ad or-
sary. Colorado and Wyoming j
lost sitting Democratic sena
tors !
N'oarly everywhere from;
the Gulf of Mexico to the ap-;
proachcs of the Far West i
there w as compelling evi-1
donee of a rise of conserva-1
live and in' Republican sen-j
timent.
In the erstwhile solid South
itself, the Republicans moved i
the people far clovr than!
even before toward a real
two-parly system. A in o n g
other things, they held nine
seats in the Mouse of Koprc-1
scntaltves and picked no five !
more for a total of 14 in the
new Congress
w
HAT happened' There is '
no single answer. Hill !
was hurt in Alabama by spill-1
ed-over resentment at the
President's rii-patch of feder-
al troops to Mississippi in the I
f -
f
While
MAIL TH1BUNE, MEDFORD.
tf- Tt twfVM'rttvreeii fSr CO,
to get even. Rations consist oi
small boys grown up.
We have had "Prayer for
Peace" days or weeks. Our
Christian nation has spent
many prayerful hours. We be
lieve in the power of prayer.
Now, when we see it being
answered in God's own way,
we tear the other fellow
apart, thinking he is afraid.
Dear fellow Americans, let's
just get down on our knees al
this Thanksgiving time and
thank the God of all (Rus
sians, Cubans, Catholics, Jews
or Protestants) that He is still
governing all His creation.
1, with thousands of other
believers, study the inspired
messages in the 23rd, ft 1st and
121sl Psalms daily. That, in
my thinking, is the great pana
cea for all this world's ail
ments, no matter what race
or creed. In so doing, we shall
all come into the full under
standing of the brotherhood
of man, and, as is promised
"all shall sit under his own
fig tree" and the "lion shall
lie down with the lamb."
Let us now go into our holi
day season, the Thanksgiving
time, with gratitude to t h e
S. White
integration crisis at the uni
versity. John Connally, in
winning the governorship of
Texas, was less markedly, but
genuinely, damaged thereby.
But this sort of issue was in
no sense compelling in the
Southwest or in the moun
tain west. It is clear that a
simple attachment to deep
conservatism is al work all
over these regions.
Now, but for Texas, the
South, Southwest and moun
tain states are not supreme
electoral vote prizes-. And in
some circumstances their loss
can be chanced, though al
ways easier by the Republi
cans because they have the
traditionally G O P. Midwest
to fall back upon.
But in l!)ti4. Mr. Kennedy
is likely to need these cry
areas very badly indeed, and
most particularly the Soulli.
especially if Rockefeller is in
fact his antagonist. Ivocko
tcller's views on race issues
arc so advanced that lie will
surely be most likely to suc
ceed against the President
precisely in those great north
ern and eastern urban .states,
with powerful and sometimes
decisive minority group blocs,
which actually elected him in
IfitiO.
T
'HIS being the cli r prolv
ability, Mr. Kennedy's re -
quirement vvill be (or a better
relationship w ith the South.
as a matter of necessity, and
with the Southwest and moun
tain West, us a nuiticr of high
desirability, to ay t!te hast.
This forecast expressing tho
plain realities in those areas
is the more sharpened by the
fact that m l!lti4 the big lour
urban stales New York.
Pennsylvania. Michigan and
Ohio will be in liepuhliean
control down al Ihe state
house All save New York :
were in friendly Dcmeci atic
hands when lust he ran and
all save Ohio he earned No
politician discounts tho ca
pacity ot a governor to help
or harm, sometimes erttuallv,
a presidential candidate m
his own tatc
What all this leads to is the
conclusion, odd as it may
sound at first, that if Rocke-
feller is in fact his challenger.
President Kennedy m.iv find
it wise to run in 1HS4 as the
relatively more conserv ativ c
candidate, in f.ict if never by
acknowledgement
OREGON
Effect of Momentous
Unknown;
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Just what effect the closing
days of October will have had
on history must be left for
future histori
ans to decide.
But they were
epic days and
from mis close
range it is dif
ficult to think
of any compa
rable surge of
events since
explosion of
mi
Newsom the first atom
ic bomb over Hiroshima or of
events which so affected the
interwoven pattern of world
relationships.
On Oct. 20, the Red Chi
nese launched the first of
massive attacks against the
Indian border, slicing into the
mountainous line all the way
from Ladakh adjoining Kash
mir in the west to the north
cast territories adjoining Bur
ma. In a broadcast on Monday
night, Oct. 22, President Ken
nedy announced the quaran
tine of Communist Cuba.
old God of the far-flung battle-line
for being "with us
yet."
Then into the Christmas
season, acknowledging the
Prince of Peace and His glori-
ous message which is for
all
generations.
Ruby W. Retherford
9554 SW 62nd dr.
Portland, Ore.
Doe Season
To the Editor: I recently re
ceived this letter:
Dear Mr. Corey: We wish
to acknowledge your letter
and clipping protesting the
antlerless deer seasons.
Due to the many requests
for a general cither sex open
ing, the popular Silver Lake
unit was opened to both bucks
and does al the beginning of
the general dear season in
1959. After the hunt, it was
found that a higher percent
age of antlerless deer had
been shot and left in the
woods than during a split
season. This seemed to indi
cate that many hunters who
were successful in killing an
antlerless deer on the opening
morning left it to take a
larger animal.
We appreciate your com
ments and interest. Your let
ter will be considered by the
commission prior to the set
ting of the 1963 big game
regulations.
Ira D. Luman, Chief
Big Game
Oregon State Game
Commission
Port hind. Ore.
Note, a 1 I deer hunters
should write the game com
mission protesting this special
doc season.
C. W. Corey
Phoenix, Ore.
Post Mortem
To the Editor: A great deal
has been written within the
past few days as to why Sena
tor Morse won re-election and
Sig Unander lost.
As Sig Unander's campaign
director and with access to the
highly accurate Waterhouse
Poll. 1 am in a position to an
alyze the results of the elec
tion on a scientific basis. For
the record. Senator Morse was
no longer Sig Unander's op
ponent alter the Cuban dec
lination on Oct. 22 by John F.
Kennedy. The Senator neither
won nor lost an election, he
was merely an inleresled spec
tator on the side-lines.
The W a t e r h o u s e Poll
showed that between Oct. 1
and Oct. 22. Sig Unander
gained .2 ol a point and had
cu! Senator Morse's lead to
l.l per cent For all practical
purposes, this was a last
horserace which Senator
Morse would hav e been h.ird
pressed to win. However, al-
: t,.,- ,. President's strong ac-
; lion on Cuba, w hich was long
; overdue, the Waterhouse Poll
! completely reversed itself and
by Nov. .". Sig was trailing by
almost 5 lull points I
Although Sig had long ad
vocated ex.utlv tho same ac
tions tii.it Ihe President event-:
ualiy took on Cuba it was un-'
possible due to lack of cam- i
paign funds to protect Sig's
viewpoint hetore the Presi
dent ni.uio the Cuban declara
tion Thereto! e. the voters
louinl it easier m this' slate j
to identify Cuban action with
a Democratic leader than a
Republican, and as a consc-'
queiice Senator Morse vv as
re-elected. In cllect. wo were 1
"Cub;
:ii,-cd "
Wes Phillips.
Failing liuihiing.
Portland. Ore
U of O Economics
Head Dies of Cancer
Vaxk-uc in C. W.ird M.u- ,
iH'.'-ut of thr Vnivot sity of Ore
o n oivntitmrs depr! nu-n t
suno l;i.i0, du d of ivuvor hciv
i Swnri.w n.jchi Ho H.t.
Split in Red Ranks
Half a world apart, the two
nonetheless were inter-lock-
ing.
Overlooking for the mo-
ment the profound effect the
Cuban action had on U. S.
prestige among its allies and
sympathizers, let us look at
the Communist world.
Soviet Premier Khrush
chev's quick move to with
draw his rockets from Cuba
in the face of the U. S. ulti
matum not only was a clear
demonstration of Kremlin con
tempt for the bearded Fidel
Castro.
Far from being a Kremlin
darling when the chips were
down, Soviet failure even to
consult Castro on withdrawal
Matter of Fact
fel New York Herald
CHINESE PUZZLE
Washington-Thus far, the
Chinese invasion of India
has caused far less world
wide commo
tion than it
should have
done, because
the Cuban cri
sis held the
limelight at
the critical
moment. In a
sense, this
was probably
aisoo by design.
The Chinese Communists
most certainly did not expect
the Cuban crisis to follow the
course it finally took; but it
seems probable that they
timed their Indian operation
to coincide with Niksita S.
Khrushchev's scheme for a
political-strategic Pearl Har
bor in Cuba.
The Chinese certainly had
no warning of the Cuba
scheme from Khrushchev
himself or from other offi
cial Russian sources, but they
could easily have been
warned unofficially by their
important Cuban contacts or
perhaps by their sympathizers
in the Soviet general staff.
It is hard to believe, at any
rale, that it was just pure
chance which caused the Chi
nese to push off their major
attack on the Indians only a
fortnight or so before Khru
shchev's Cuban scheme for
upsetting the world nuclear
balance was due to have
been completed, if all had
gone well. '
YET if a leak to the Chinese
explains the coincidence
of timing, everything else re
mains to be explained. The
point about this Chinese ven
ture which is so puzzling and
also all-important is simply
its staggering cost. Here is a
government close to founder
ing in economic ruin, which
is nonetheless mounting an
operation against the Indians
that would tax the resources
of any government in the
world except the very richest.
The cost items begin with
something like 100.000 troops
in the units attacking India
in Ladakh and the Northeast
Frontier agency, and in the
back-up and occupation units
in Tibet. On the roof of the
world, these units are spar
ing nothing to gain ground;
and they are supported by
tanks and by heavy artillery,
or at least by very long-range,
very heavy mortars.
The cost of supplying these
troops is minisculc. however,
compared to the cost of the
supply line that carries the
combat tonnage to the troops.
The main road, from railhead
in Kansu province, in north
west China, to the areas
where the troops are operat-
ing. runs through 2.000 miles
of cruelly difficult highland
and mountain terrain, with
not
wIht
pini of fcitsohne
alonn t ho way.
ii
trucks must be used to fuel
trucks, which fuel trucks,
winch again fuel trucks,
j which actually carry troop
supplies. Some 9.000 vehicles.
. or close to one-sixth of all
I the trucks in transport-short
j China, have had to be as
signed to this taxing etforl.
i The tonnage of gasoline
Ted Kennedy Hosts
Campaign Helpers j
Ilyannis Port. Mass. 1TI
Edward M iTedi Kennedy,
who showed Tuesday that he
knows how to win elections. '
proved Monday thai he can
give big victory parties
About 1.300 Democratic
workers w ho helped him vv in I
a Senate seat came to Cape
Cod to celebrate witii the
President's brother. They a;e
4tl0 pounds of roast beet. 730
pounds of turkey. ;Hi0 pounds '
of ham. 300 pounds ot potnlo
salad. ilOO pounds of cole slaw.
400 meat balls and 200 pound
of chicken salad
Some guests steed in tine
three hours to shake haif s
with Kennedy, his wile. Joan,
and Kennedy s victorious run
ning mates on the Democratic:
'nkct 1
Vi t i em aeaj
October Days Still
i of the missiles gave him
standing even lower than the
puppets who follow Kremlin
orders In the East European
satellites.
Together, the Cuban and the
Indian crises widened rather
than healed the already exist
ing breach in the Communist
world.
Red China assailed Khrush
chev as an appeaserand prom
ised Castro all the moral and
material help it could muster.
From Roger Hilsman Jr.,
director of the U. S. State
Department's bureau of intel
ligence and research, came
the hint that U. S. policy now
would take into greater con
sideration the undeniable
By Joseph AIsop
Tribune Syndicate
consumed on the road is also
! f!?" , li?., 'l.'"
plies used by the troops. And
in China, petroleum products
are even scarcer than food.
The shortage is so great, in
fact, that the Soviets, who are
the only major Chinese sup
plier of petroleum products,
are able to force their dear
brothers to pay twice for
gasoline.
First, the Chinese pay in
the normal way. And second,
they pay by continuing to
service their heavy debts to
the Soviet Union on which
Peking would surely declare
a moratorium if Moscow did
not hold the petroleum-product
lever.
rpHIS great cost of the Chi
nese effort against India
is the main factor to weigh,
for a rather simple reason.
The huge price the Chinese
are paying Is the only logi
cal measure to use when one
tries to determine the prizes
the Chinese hope to win.
If you use this measuring
stick, it quickly becomes
clear that the Chinese aim is
not to explode Nehru's hol
low prestige, or to break up
the Soviet-Indian mutual ad
miration society, or to take
a few remote frontier posts.
All these prizes, already
gained, no doubt give Peking
much pleasure. Furthermore,
the Chinese have a genuine,
quite urgent strategic need
for the road they have boldly
built through Indian territory,
across part of the Himalayan
state of Ladakh.
Yet a bigger Chinese objec
tive must still be sought. It
may be, as some think, that
the Chinese had to attack In
dia in order to maintain their
ruthless hold in Tibet. Much
to Peking's displeasure, the
Tibetans' adored leader, the
Dalai Lama, has found refuge
in India. Within Tibet, resis
tance to the Chinese reported
ly continues brave and strong.
The best way to kill the re
sistance, by killing all hope,
is to give a bloody nose to the
Dalai Lama's Indian host.
VET even when this Tibetan
factor is cranked into the
equation, the answer still
does not come out right. The
plain truth seems to be that
the Chinese have territorial
ambitions of a major kind.
In this phase, if the In
dians do not stop them, the
Chinese may be content with
gaining enough strong points
in the Himalayas to dominate
the border states of Ladakh,
Sikkim, Bhutan, and Nepal.
"He who holds the Himalayan
passes gains India in the
end.'' an old rule runs. Or in
this phase the Chinese may be
even bolder, seeking to seize
the Brahmaputra v a I 1 c v.
where they will find the oil
i they need so badly,
In any case, if the Chinese
are not stopped in this nhase.
it seems plain they intend to
dig in and prepare for a fur
ther advance. The prospect of
a further advance later on.
possibly in India or more
probably into rich Burma,
which they will soon out
flank, is the only reward
that would justify the effort
the Chinese are now making.
RECRUITS
CENTER
M THE
ARMY
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"1 bliev in Gandhi's 'passive resistance
Amillmri VAll Viav In f,Ut
Possibility
proof of the deterioration of
relations between the two bij
Communist allies.
There was a growing convic
tion that the diametrically op
posed positions taken by the
two on the issues of Cuba and
India, had made the split ir
reparable so long as Khrush
chev and Red China's Muo
Tse-Tung remain in power.
There are even those bold
enough to predict that t h a
world now has seen commu
nism reach its peak, and that
the future course only can ba
downward.
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c- Field Enterprises Inc.
NO OTHER WAY OUT
I picked up a paperbounrl
book at the airport last weeK
that occupied my attention
all the wav to
r!rff:i North Caro-
lina and hack.
It is called
nreaK
, through to
Peace," and t
-V , recommend it
f - to an Amen
i cans who aro
nii77lrrl n n n.
Harris fused and con
cerned about the present state
of the world.
Edited with an introduction
by Thomas Merton, the widely-known
Trappist priest, this
book presents 12 views on tho
threat of thermonuclear ex
termination. It contains soma
of the most clear, reasonable
and humane commentaries I
have yet read on our global
predicament.
The book's epigraph is a
prophetic statement made by
Einstein more than a do:en
years ago: "The splitting ot
the atom has changed every
thing except our modes of
thinking, and thus we drift
toward unparalleled catastro
phe." All the 12 men who con
tribute toward this volun'.o
- historians, editors, scien
tists, psychiatrists, theolo
gians, sociologists - have
rr,3ds a breakthrough in
their modes of thinking
about war and peace, have
recognized that the world
of the 1960's is in a funda
mental sense different fro.n
the world of 20 years ago.
"Breakthrough to Peace"
discusses such central prob
lems as "The Morals of Ex
termination" by Lewis
Mumford; "Shelters, Survi
val and Common Sense" by
Norman Cousins; "Can War
Be Cured?" bv Dr. Joost
Moerloo; and "Human Na
ture and the Dominion of
Fear" by Prof. Herbert But
terfield, the distinguished
profesor of modern history
at Cambridge.
In his intorduction. Fath
er Merton-points out that
"in this situation, where the
issues are loo enormous for
the mind of the average
man to grasp, when tho
threat is too appalling for
his political habits and in
stincts to instruct him ade
quately, the tendency is to
lake refuge in fanaticism or
in passive desperation."
There are no slogans of easy
answers given by the contrib
utors to this book: there is,
however, general agreement
that old modes of thinking
and calcified ways of feeling
must be abandoned - that only
a revolution in thought en
avert terrible consequences
of our physical revolution m
the release of atomic '.norgy.
And yet, such revolutionary
thinking, as Father Morton
reminds us. is traditional and
humanistic in the deeoesl and
must spiritual sense. It is
"faithful to the Judaeo Chris
tian tradition on which our
civilization was built. There i.i
no hope for us if wc lose sight
of these perspectives. Thera
is no other human way out."
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"" me rignt io oeneve in
passive resistance ."