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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files ol The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 13, 1952 (Friday)
Medford's Greater Com
miinity Chest drive has
reached 82.3 per cent of its
S56.916 goal, and Its office
has been officially closed.
Dr. Paul Walker, Medford
dentist, will be installed lieu
tenant governor of Division
15 of Pacific Northwest dis
trict of Kiwanis International
here next Wednesday.
20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 13. 1942 (Saturday)
Allocation of $43,895 In
state gas tax money to Jack
son county announced by
state highway commission.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
rumor that Camp White is to
be changed to a submarine
base, due to the rains, has not
been confirmed."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 13, 1932 (Monday)
Don Faber, Ashland High
school coach, schedules ban
quet for members of Litlua
city football team.
Approximately IU0 cases or
influenza reported in Kogue
valley by Jackson county pub
lic health office.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 13, 1922 (Tuesday)
Angel Opera house, first
three-story building in Med
ford, constructed in 1884, to
be remodeled into offices.
Gold Hill city council
studies plans for new $25,000
water supply system.
SO YEARS AGO
Dec. 13, 1912 (Thursday)
Oregon supreme court
reaches decision in fuvor of
allowing construction of Main
street bridge across Bear
creek in Medford.
J. A. Wesletiund and C. Y.
Tengwald apply to Mcdtord
city council for permission to
operate "trackless trolley
line in city.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten cortact Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent live el
sii is good.
1. Technically does a per
son voting In a Presidential
election vote as a citizen of
the U.S. or his slate?
2. Was the moon first con
tacted by radio waves in 1811
I03B, U14II or 11151?
3. What does a (oothall ref
eree announce when he places
both hands upright?
4. Which is the swiftest
moving planet in the uni
verse? 9. What is choreography?
6. How many pieces are
used in the game of domi
noes? 7. What was Thomas A.
Edison's first patented Inven
tion? 8. What two slates touch
both Kentucky and Mary
land? . Approximately how far
beyond Ihe earth's surface
does lis atmosphere extend?
10. Lulher Hodges, of
North Carolina is secretary
of what department''
Answers: 1. Stale. 2. 1946.
3. A score. 4. Mercury.
5. Composing ol dance rou
tines. 6. Twenty . eight.
7. Electrical vole counter.
8. Virginia and W. Virginia.
9. 620 miles. 10. Secretary
ol Commerce.
OLD COURTHOUSE
Springfield. Ky. -'lTi- The
Washington county court
house here is the oldest in (he
Btate and one of the oldest
west of the Alli'ghrnies. It
w as creeled in 1814.
4 A
DECEMBER 13. 1982
The Profession of Forestry
The Bend Bulletin takes note of an article in a
recent issue of the Journal of Forestry, in which
the author pleads for understanding and respect
for the profession.
He is worried about
appearing with increasing frequency in all soils
of nub ished works, snecilicaliv a dook Dy tu-
Dreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas, and
articles by David Brower, executive secretary of
the Sierra Club.
The Bulletin makes
the very nature of the work they do, foresters
particularly those in the
cies must expect criticism irom non-ioresiers
FEDERAL forest agencies in particular, which
manage so much of the public lands in the
western part of the nation, must expect the public
to take an interest in what they do and how they
do it.
Non-foresters may
technical competence and know-how are neces
sary in this type of work.
mat all lllLClJiciit imcicoi, in jjuuvh-o
which the skills and competence are exercised
are public property, and are validly subject to
debate.
Beyond this is the fact that large segments
of the public have specific and sometimes selfish
interests in the forests and lands owned by the
public.
CO, WHEN an agency attempts to balance one
use of the lands against another, some group
is troinr to object.
If, for instance, the
nlans to decrease grazing
of range preservation,
10 complain.
Likewise, if a scenic area is withdrawn from
mineral entry, prospectors and miners will set
un a howl.
Or, if a large clear cut
area, lovers of natural beauty will complain, ana
contrariwise, if some area
tional or scenic reasons,
they are "locking up the
WE'RE not as sure as
or the Bend Bulletin
are purely a recent trend. We believe such criti
cisms have been croing on for years. But they are
becoming more frequent and more bitter as op
posing interests clash over the management of
the public lands, and the foresters get caught
in the middle.
Bv the same token,
snread interest in the
practices, oi tne ioresi
. Mil I . 1
of the important part thev play in the economy
of the area, and partly
spread recreational use.
More and more people are learning that they
have a real and personal
ment.
T7HIS brings us to another problem that of
how the public can make its wishes known to
the forest acrencies, and
respond, or not respond,
An interesting article
topic. It is entitled "Bureaucracy and the For
ests," and was written by Charles A. Reich, law
professor at Yale University and conservationist.
It was published by the
Democratic Institutions.
His thesis is that the
tually autonomous, and
wholly unresponsive to
indeed, will write their own version ot the "pub
lic good" they are dedicated to maintain, without
any suDStanuai reiauonsnm io reamy.
pROFESSOR Reich concludes:
"Professional planners and managers cannot be
dispensed with. But some means of public participa
tion, however Inadequate, would at least offer the be
ginning of a system of planning that would encom
pass a broader vision and a deeper relation to demo
cratic Ideals. For the experts and professionals have
Ihcir limitations. They can tell us whether an area of
forests can be lumbered at a commercially feasible
price. But can they tell us whether an 'overmature,
spike-topped, catfaccd, conky old veteran' should be
saved (or future generations?"
The question is a provocative one, and is not
easily answered.
For by the very nature of their assignment,
public foresters must be equipped to resist cer
tain pressures which would call for measures
inimical to the public good. But this very re
sistance to pressures also tends to isolate thorn
from constructive and substantial criticisms.
PROFESSIONAL public foresters, more than
any othei-s, are fully aware of this danger,
and frequently bend over backward to avoid ap
pearing arbitrary or capricious.
And this is good. For as Professor Reich
points out:
"... The (Forest) Service recognizes . . , that
Its ultimate Job is nothing less than the definition of
'the public good,' a task once reserved for philosopher-kings.
This Is Ihe the tremendous rcsponsiblity
that Congress has delegated to all forest agencies, and
with it the power lo determine the very character of
the American land.
"The great danger is that an entrenched profes
sional bureaucracy will become shortsighted In its
perception of the public good. It may see only the
needs of the next decade when planning for a cen
tury Is essential. It may see only local demands when
national needs cry for consideration. It may see where
immediate economic gain lies but tall to see the
values of 'non-economic' uses. It may care so much
about today's balance shret that It forgets tomorrow's
heritage."
These dangers are there. But they are Tairly
remote, if our acquaintanceship with public agen
cy foresters is any criterion. E.A.
the attacks on foresters
the valid point that, by
employ of public agen
agree, in general, that
But they also will agree
forest service announces
allotments as a measure
livestock men are going
is permitted in a scenic
is set aside tor recrea
lumbermen may fuss that
forests.
the Journal of Forestry
that attacks on foresters
there is far more wide-
policies, as well as the
agencies, partly uecau&e
1 1.1.. 1
because of more wide
staKe in iorest manage
how the agencies should
to public sentiment.
recently dealt with this
center lor the study oi
forest agencies are vir
in many cases can be
public sentiment, or,
MEDFOHD
"There. No Secret About My Black Box Plan"
eWnf -eiKl
Drummond Reports
(Walter Llppmann is In Europe. Roicoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) () 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
MORE THAN "TUT, TUT"
IS NEEDED
Washington When one or
more of the highest officials
of the government leak Na
tional Security confidence to
torpedo one of their own col
leagues that is not the kind
of scandal which can be
brought to an end by one of
the participants saying, iut
tut, we've heard enough of
this."
There is great public anx
iety at this breach of security
at the highest level and pub
lic revulsion at this indecent,
McCarthy-like tactic of trying
to destroy Ambassador Adlai
Stevenson by anonymously
calling him "soft" on getting
rid of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
This anxiety and this revul
sion will not go away by just
repeating over and over that
the incident Is closed.
The blot which this scan
dal is fastening on the Admin
istration will be removed
only when President Ken
nedy himself shows that he is
sufficiently disturbed or suf
ficiently disgusted or both
by the affair to discover
who Is guilty and take the
necessary action.
riMIE leaking of National Sc-
- curily Council secrets by
one or more members of the
NSC is a grave crime, and I
do not see how the President
or the public can be com
fortable until the guilty have
been detected and dealt with.
The attempt by some of his
colleagues within the inner
circle of Mr. Kennedy's clos
est advisers lo destroy Am
bassador Stevenson is an of
fensive spectacle which has
now rebounded against the
perpetrator. If Mr. Kennedy
had wanted to relieve Mr.
Stevenson of his UN post, (he
"non-admiring o f f i c 1 a 1,"
whom Ihe Saturday Evening
Post article quoted as saying
lhat "Adlai wanted a Mu
nich," has made it nearly im
possible for him to do so.
The higher echelons of of
ficials know very well that
survival in Washington goes
lo the fittest and toughest.
They are not easily shocked
by the political in-fighting
which they witness going on
around them.
1UT these strongfihercd
public officials can be
shocked and horrified by the
extremes of unfair and dis
honorable tactics. They were
shocked and horrified by the
meat-axe, guilt-by-association
attacks launched by Sen. Mc
Carthy a few years ago. They
are shocked and horrified by
what they consider the same
ladies used against Adlai Ste
venson today the attempt by
anonymous Innuendo to so
undercut Mr. Stevenson that
he will be forced out of government.
r -r r
MEM WOMEN
' ill!
J. ! V I
?. n f :v(uv pri .ri
"That's right, 'hawks' end 'doves' we're changing 'em
In all government buildings as
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
There are many points on
which I would take a view
radically different than Mr.
Stevenson's, but I do not see
how any honorable person
can condone this attempt at
ananymous assassination.
Everybody is hurt. The
President is hurt, perhaps
more than anyone. Mr. Ste
venson is hurt. The otherwise
superb handling of the Cuba
crisis is partly smeared. And
the morale of high-grade pub
lic officials is seriously in
jured. THE latest turn in this NSC
leak makes it more im
perative that the President
determine the responsibility.
Life magazine this week pub
lished an article reporting,
on the basis of its informa
tion, that Mr. Kennedy him
self provided access to the
top-level sources for the two
Saturday Evening Post writ
ers, Stewart Alsop and
Charles Bartlett.
Pierre Salinger, the White
House Secretary, instantly
and flatly denies this sugges
tion. But it is only candid to
say that in Washington, both
inside and outside the gov
ernment, this denial is not
universally accepted.
Those who question the de
nial will be disproved if the
President acts with the same
decisiveness he did a few
months ago when there was
a lead of classified informa
tion bearing upon the results
of recent U.S. nuclear tests.
Mr. Kennedy directed the
FBI to Investigate every per
son who had access to this in
formation, including the
members of the NSC. I under
stand that the President was
satisfied that the leak did
not come from the NSC but
from a lower level in the
government where part of the
information had been evalu
ated. It would be a fair as
sumption that something was
done about it.
Something needs to be
done about this latest NSC
leak. Only the President can
do it. This scandal will con
tinue to harm everybody
until the responsibility is
fixed.
People To People
Group Gels Letters
Kansas City, Mo. - iliFD -
People are interested in peo
ple. More than 80.000 letters
from people abroad interest
ed in contacting Americans
have been received by People
to People headquarters here
since the program's reorgani
zation last December. They
have come from over 100 for
oipn countries.
Groups of volunteers sum
moned by newspaper, radio
and television media are
working full lime matching
the overseas requests for new
friends.
I
1 I
t reminder ol, uh, Cuber'l" i
Solution to Kashmir Dispute May Come
As Result of Red China's Indian Venture
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
It was on Nov. 2, 1947,
that Prime Minister Nehru of
India announced, "We have
declared that the fate of
Kashmir is
ultimately to
be decided by
the people . . .
We are pre
pared when
peace, law
and order
have been es
tablished, to
have a refer
endum held
Ntwtom
under
International auspices
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J- Harris
(c Field Enterprlsea Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Periods, like people, have
their own overweening egos;
and whenever we moderns
mention the
"Dark Ages," fP?,2
we do not in- -f "-".
elude our
own but it
is HKeiy tnai t.
n thousand
years from fcW"
now the bar
barism of the
20th century
will seem not
far removed
Harris
from the bar
barism of the 10th.
An expert in any deli
cate feat never gets as
much public applause as
the second-rater, because
the expert by definition is
one who has mastered the
art of making the difficult
look easy.
The superiority of classic
al music over the popular
kind is not a cultural preten
sion but an easily demon
strable experience in that
popular music quickly ex
hausts itself and must be re
placed weekly or monthly,
whereas one can listen to Mo
zart for a lifetime and still
not exhaust its potentialities
for giving pleasure. (It is
quite exactly the difference.
indeed, between infatuation
and genuine love.)
People seem "ungrate
ful" only when we expect
more gratitude than we
have any right lo; those
who bother lo keep careful
scores of favors and recom
penses are always sure to
feel themselves on the short
end.
Small children prefer
adults who are cool, dry, off
hand, humorous and un pa
tronizing; yet some adults
who approach them are warm,
moist, intense, ponderous and
condescending and then
wonder why the children are
"shy" or "unresponsive"
with them.
The man who prides him
self on being "just" with
out considering whether he
is also kind is deluding him
self about his "justice"
lor there is no possibility
of giving others what is
due to them if we are not
willing to give them a lit
tle more than is their due,
if necessary. Justice with
out kindness soon degen
erates into an inhuman
equation that contradicts
its very intentions.
Of all the millions of words
written on the state of mar
riage, the only sensible ones
were penned by Samuel But
ler, when he said: "Matri
mony and bachelorhood are
both of them at once equal
ly wise and equally foolish."
It is the vanity of fearing
lhat others might think one
was not invited that
prompts many persons to
attend parties they might
otherwise forego.
More people believe in re
ligion than believe in God;
they regard religion as a ther
apeutic process, and they
hypostatic God as a kind of
cosmic masseur.
Astronomers Show
Pictures of Moon
Ml. Hamilton. Calif. -TPP-Astronomers
have taken pic
tures that give a preview of
scenes moon-flight astronauts
will see as they get to within
300 miles of their destination.
Tile nictiircs. taken at the
University of California's Lick i
Observatory u-ilh its giant
120-inch reflecting telescope,
clearly show rugged moun
tain areas, broad n(t valleys,
prominent and half-submerged
craters of many sizes, jag
ged cracks, and the mysteri
ous level "seas" that may
really be oceans of dust.
DISCOUNT STORES BOOM
New York - in The nation's I
discount stores will grow at
a rale of mure than Si billion
annually, a spokesman (or the
Interstate Department Stores '
said. Tills would result in an j
increase from Ifst year's
volume of )ust under $S bil- j
lion to a total ol Sia billion j
m 10 years. !
f. V :
..";', e,T
like the United Nations."
It was a high sounding pro
nouncement but It was not to
be.
Indian troops already were
in Kashmir, sent there to put
down a pro-Pakistan uprising.
At first clandestinely, then
openly, the troops of Pakistan
aiso were moving up and
soon Kashmir was divided,
about one-third to Pakistan
in the west and north and the
remaining two-thirds to India.
And that way it has re
mained for the last 15 years,
with the threat of a major
clash between Pakistan and
India always a possibility.
United Nations and Pakis
tani demands that Nehru per
mit the plebiscite he promised
were ignored and finally
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contrary is often Ihe case. '
Coming Soon
To the Editor: Yes, the Lord
is coming very, very, very
soon! Three months ago He
started to impress upon us
just how soon it will be. His
messages to us in church (for
to His own He speaks aloud
through yielded vessels of
which there are about 12 such
people In our little church,
and He is indeed, in every
way, Our Father) state that
He will come and take away
those who are without blem
ish of sin - His born - again,
saved ones. If you are saved
and have the joy of His pres
ence within you, you can be
very happy that He is coming.
Three months ago I felt an
urgency to listen and remem
ber well all our Lord said.
Within a week I noted that
wherein He usually ended
most of His messages with, "I
am coming soon," then for
nearly two weeks He stopped
speaking of His coming, some
thing like the quiet before
the storm. Then to me, in
great power, the Lord made
known that I must deliver a
message to certain people, of
His soon coming.
The next meeting at church
He spoke thusly, "I AM com
ing soon!" This in four dif
ferent messages. Then at the
next meeting He said, "I AM
coming SOON! SOON!
SOON!" The tempo has in
creased at each meeting, with
His instructions for us and
with the requirements of
purity for His chosen. Still
later, He said, "My coming is
even AT HAND!" Recently He
said, "Ye think ye have years
and years, but I say unto you
the time of MY Coming is at
the VERY END!"
I hope I have not waited too
long to give you this message.
NOW, TODAY is the safe time
to pray through to Salvation!
When you receive Salvation
you will know it! Seek wis
dom from God and the Bible
only; but go to church and
worship and witness to all
people!
Now the Church that I
eventually selected, because
of its Spirituality (the little
Phoenix Assembly of God
Church), all of the gifts of
the Spirit are present because
the Holy Spirit, is not given
second place to programs, nor
is the Spirit quenched. The
brethern obey the Father's
commandments and ordin
ances, though they are ridi
culed for it. Therein are they
His chosen - Hence the Fath
er, Our Lord speaks aloud to
us.
Mrs. Maxine Johnson
205 First st.
Phoenix, Ore.
Good Work
To the Editor: I hesitate lo
enter the discussion on the ac
tion taken by the Democratic
central committee on the tem
porary appointment for post
master, but feel the central
committee has been attacked
unjustly.
First: When ha it hn
wrong to place a name in
nomination from the floor of
any organization?
Second: There was a screen
ing committee appointed lo
screen applicants for post
master, not to make a recom
mendation. Third: The majority voted
for Marv Madden who was
nominated for the floor.
I. as a committeeman, voted
for Mr. Madden. No one asked
nie to vote for him or anyone
else. It was not a "put up"
job. We central committee
men and women did our job
maybe right or maybe wrong,
but by the majority rule. We
are responsible for the Demo
cratic party in Jackson coun
ty. No newspaper editor or
radio announcer, W a y n e
Morse. Bob Duncan or any
other elected official has lhat
responsibility.
The people that write to the
editor that are not central
committeemen or women
complaining of our action
should be central committee
men or women; then they
could vote, or is working for
good government too big I
Nehru's own pledge was re
nounced. Had plebiscite been pos
sible, Moslem Kashmir al
most certainly would have
gone to Pakistan.
But when the Red Chines
began in a major attack on
India, they did more than up
set Nehru's long-cherished
ideal of the five principles of
coexistence.
They also brough Nehru
face-to-face with the Kashmir
problem again, for thousands
of his best troops were tied
up guarding the cease-fire
line with Pakistan.
A negotiated settlement be
gan to look more attractive.
Pakistan, uneasy and ang
ered at the flow of Western
arms to the assistance of
Nehru against Red Chinese,
Job? It is easy to say, "dirty
politics, mixing in politics
would hurt my business, you
do the work and I will tell
you how to vote on all ap
pointments. If you do a good
job, I will take the credit for
it but if you do a bad job, you
take the blame."
I for one ask no favors from
any elected official but I do
ask for good government, fed
eral, state and county, and try
to help get it. The majority is
not always right but it is the
right way to run any organiz
ation or election.
It is easy to disagree with
the central committee. Candi
dates that are elected tell you
what a good job you did right
after election. A few forget
then until the next election.
Good work if you can get it.
Mark Norton,
Democratic Precinct
Committeeman
Executive Board Member
of the Democratic Party
of Jackson County,
P. O. Box 85,
Phoenix, Ore.
Flood Assistance
To the Editor: We wish to
express our heartfelt thanks
to our dear neighbors and rel
atives for the wonderful help
that they have given us dur
ing our flood conditions. With
Matter of Fact
Id New York Herald
THE BLOCKING QUESTION
Paris There are excep
tions, it seems, lo the rule
that nothing succeeds like
s u c c e s s. At
any rate,
t h e Presi
dent's great
success in
Cuba has
only succeed
ed in compli
cating the Am
erican prob
lem of leader-
Ming ship of the
Western Alliance.
This is not to say lhat our
allies were not properly im
pressed by the adroitness,
courage, and wisdom that
marked the U. S. govern
ment's management of the
Cuban crisis. On the contrary,
it is known that Gen. cie
Gaulle, for instance, was im
pressed to the point of rad
ically revising his entire esti
mate of the Kennedy admin
istration. The old notions that the
American government was
either irresolute or trigger
happy, or both at once, have
been largely banished by the
Cuban episode. But that im
provement by no means can
cels out the unfavorable after
effects. rpHESE flow from two
-1 sources. On the one hand,
even those EuroDcans Who ar.
shrewd enough to see that the
fearful Cuban risks would
have been fearfully multiplied
by consultation of our allies,
have been instinctively
shocked by the fact that the
allied governments were not
consulted.
On the other hand, (his non
consultation of our allies in
the first great crisis involving
a serious risk of an H-bomb
exchange has vastly inflamed
the already painful question
of control of the West's nuc
lear power. The British and
French, in particular, are say
ing that Cuba only goes io
show that they cannot perm
anently tolerate the virtual
American monopoly of nuc
lear power in the west.
The inflammation has been
rendered much more acute by
the Defense Department's
brusque decision to drop the
"Skybolt" missile, which
alone gave some color of
power and reality to the Brit
ish nuclear deterrent. The
"Skybolt" matter, which is be
ing reexamined, is particular
ly instructive.
IN BRIEF, (he "independent"
British deterrent is In fact
Ml &
also became more amenable
to negotiations, for in the
end both face the possibility
of a common enemy.
Kashmir is bounded by
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Communist China and Tibet,
and is separated .from the
Soviet Union by only a few
miles of Chinese and Afghan
territory.
For Nehru to agree under
United States and British
pressures to the negotiations)
was a reasonably simple de
cision. At the worst, the situa
tion would be unchanged. At
the best he would free im
portant forces for his defenses
against China.
It is an ill wind that blows)
nobody good, and out of tha
Chinese attack on India may
at last come a settlement of
the Kashmir question.
out all of the help which wa
received we couldn't have
started to recover from tha
terrible experience.
It is impossible to enumer
ate each person individually
and this is our most sincere
way of expressing our feel
ings. Many of our possessions
are scattered in the many
homes of our community, be
ing washed, dried and taken
care of. Without the help of
one of my former students,
Charles Stanley, it would
have been nearly impossible
to have saved our car and left
safely.
We are so very fortunate in
having dear neighbors, Mr.
and Mrs. Sheldon Marsters,
that have taken us in, and wa
are still using their home as
our home. Our new home is
severely damaged and will re
quire months to restore to
near its former self.
Again, we wish to convey
our sincere thanks to all that
have helped us. We can never
hope to repay them; but our
blessings to each one.
Thank you. Sir, for permit
ting us to send this througli
the communications column.
Mr. and Mrs. Leland
M. Charley,
L. B. Star rt Box 140,
Eagle Point, Ore.
By Joseph Aliop
Tribune Syndicate
wholly dependent on this
weapon of American design.
Furthermore, the British are
unable or unwilling to foot
the bill if the Americans de
cide they do not want "Sky
bolt" and therefore cease to
pay the lion's share of tha
development costs.
The French nuclear deter
rent, by the same token, is
now proudly announced as
coming into being. But in its
first form, it will be com
posed of "Mirage" bombers
carrying free-falling atomic
bombs of rather low kiloton
nage. The American exper
ience with the Soviet anti-aircraft
missiles in Cuba has
now revealed that the Russian
anti-aircraft defenses are even
more formidable than had
been supposed which means
that the "Mirages" would
have hardly any chance of
reaching Soviet targets.
Reportedly, the French are
making important progress in
rocketry. Yet the present con
dition of the French and Bril
ish nuclear deterrents is cer
tainly the opposite of impres
sive. Nonetheless, as wise and
pro-American a Frenchman as
Raymond Aron continues to
insist lhat "the American nuc
lear monopoly, combined with
the rule of non-consultation,
finally reduces the European
states to the condition of
American protectorates."
fllZ WAY out of the dilen;.
- ma which Aron long ago
proposed is a Europcna deter
rent .which would have an
adequate economic base.
There is some support for
Aron's idea in Washington.
But at the moment, discussion
of ways to escape from lha
dilemma is less needful than
recognition that the dilemma
is real and urgent.
After Cuba, the view ex
pressed by Aron has a strong
grip on our European allies.
It is quite clear in fact that
none o( the other urgent West
ern problems, such as tha
need for more ground forces
in NATO, can finally be ,-e-solvcd
until the problem of
the nuclear relationship has
been resolved. The job has to
be done somehow. For the
problem will only grow uglier
if it continues to be neglected.
VISITORS UP
Washington --ITI - Business
and pleasure visitors to the
United Stales in the first
seven months of rose 22
per cent above the same 19HI
period, according to the V S,
Immigration and Naturaliza
tion service.