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Mtdford and Jackson County
History from tha filti of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO yairi ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23, 1952 (Monday)
About 400 children in Mcd
ford will receive toys for
Christmas as result of a
joint drive by the city firemen
and Lady Lions.
The Medford High school
band, the only band from out
aide of California to he in
vited a second time to the
East-West football game, will
leave at midnight Thursday
for San Francisco.
20 YEARS AGO
Dae. 23, 1942 (Tuesday)
Medford merchants report
Christmas trade is biggest in
history and almost double that
of 1041.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Dear
Santa Claus, when you come
Friday please don't look so
much like Grandpaw of
Jerry Jerome as you did last
year."
30 YEARSAGO
Dtc. 23, 1932 (Thursday)
False rumor circulated (hat
marriages made In Jackson
county are invalid cuts issu
ance of marriage licenses here
by SO per cent during Decem
ber. Meeting of local rcsidcnls
recommends levying state
wide sales tax.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 23, 1922 (Friday)
Large amount of livestock
and farm equipment destroy
ed when fire burns barn
owned by George B. Young In
Orchard Home district.
Judge F. M. Calkins plans
to retire Jan. 1; members nf
legal profession schedule
banquet In his honor.
SO YEARS AGO
Dec. 23. 1912 (Sunday)
Epidemic of scarletlna
causes cancellation nf numer
ous Christmas parties planned
for Christmas eve In Medford
tea.
Oregon Agricultural college
hand schedules concert al
Medford high school audi
torium What's Your I.Q.?
Nina er tin cornet li lupirlor;
ivin or llfht It oicalltntl IWa or
ill it gold.
1. Whit was the name of
the woman who was railed
Trincess Alice'
2. Name the American n
man who wat known as "An
gel of the Balllefieh' "
3. Who wrote of an episode
In her life, concerning alco
holism, entitled "I'll Cry To
morrow"?
4. Name the famous wo
man saloon wrecker of pre
prohibition days
.V It Is a quarter of leti
o'clock; if the mimile and
hour hands were reversed,
whal time would il he ac
cording to (he clock
8. What relation is a riaugh
ter of my mother's niece lo
me?
7. How many stairs hrsin
with Ihe letter "K' ?
8. In what continent are Hie
highest mountains of the
world" I
9. Whal is Ihe tourer of I lie !
Mississippi River? i
10. Unscramble thr-r pieces '
of common furniture TAP !
TtODREV and MDSROW
1RACM.
Aniwari: 1. Allci Lonq
worth Rooiivalt. 2. Clara Bar.
ton. 3. Lillian Roth. 4. Carrie'
Nation. J. Eightfifty. I. Sac-1
ond cousin. 7. Nona. I. Asia. I
I. Lako Itaaca In Minnesota, j
10. Dirinport and Windsor i
Chair. I
4 A-
TO
DECEMBER 23, 1962
Legislative Pay
Elsewhere on this page Frank Jenkins comes
to the conclusion that the pay rates proposed for
the legislature by a joint committee thereof are
"reasonable."
We would not disagree, but would put it a
bit more negatively. We think they are "not un
reasonable." Why the double negative? Because, while
we agree the proposed salary-expense items are
within the hounds of reason, we believe at the
same time they are too high, taking all things
into consideration.
TTHE committee proposal is for $3,000 per year,
plus $20 per day expenses when the legisla
ture is in session. This would work out to $5,000
for legislative years (assuming a 100-day ses
sion) and $3,000 for non-legislative years, or
$8,000 per biennium.
This does not sound unreasonable when com
pared to legislative salaries in other states.
But it is a considerable jump from the $600
per year and strictly limited expenses at present
which practically everyone agreed was inade
quate. WE approve more of the proposal made by a
non-legislative committee appointed some
months ago by Senate President Harry Boivin.
They based their recommendation on two
premises:'
1. Salaries must be large enough to permit
able neonle to serve, who could not otherwise.
2. Salaries should be low enough so they
. would not attract simple job-seekers and oppor
tunists. This committee proposed $150 per month
(or $1,800 per year) plus $20 per day expenses
during a legislative session, limited to 100 days.
This works out to $3,800 per year for legislative
years, or $5,(i00 per biennium.
Jt seems to us this is (a) adequate to permit
legislators to serve without undue financial sac
rifice, and (b) small enough so it would not at
tract free-loaders.
IN our view, additionally, the per diem expense
should not he limited to any specific number
of days. That would put too much pressure on
members for a quick adjournment, which often
can, and does, make for hurried, unconsidered
and bad legislation.
Regarding the proponed expenses, Former
Gov. Charles A. Spraguc, editor of the Oregon
Statesman in Salem, has this to say:
". . . The present (expense) allowance io slate em
ployees for in-slate travel is $5 a day for meals and
SfiSO for lodging, nr $11. SO. In going from zero it
would be holler to stop at SIS a day for legislative
expenses.
He has a point, but
i ,i i i ,
Llltll. IIIC! U'JlMclUVe IsC'rsMllll IrlMS, LI II I t tUUIIMin Ul
longer, not just for a .night or two; legislators
must, in effect, maintain two homes, and often
feel they must bring their families with them.
A IJj in all, we feel that the recommendations
of the Boivin committee, with the single ex
ception of limiting the number of days of per
diem to 100, is the better course of action.
In voting the Constitutional amendment
which permits them to set their own salaries, the
voters reversed a long-standing stinginess in the
matter of legislative pay.
well with many voters if they now go overboard
and set a pay scale for themselves at startling
variance with both that at present and that pro
posed bv a disinterested
It is true that legislative pav is a small item
in the overall budget, but
coming at a time when pressure for other ex
penditures, and for new taxes to pav for them,
will be at an all lime high, is uncalled for. E.A.
Merry Christmas
PRITHEE, why so grim and sad?
l.islen. things aren't all lhat had!
Sine, Ihe world is in a mess.
But isn't il always, more or le.s"
Things were plenty tense, M's true,
In ni neteen -hundred-six I y-t wo.
Life was full of Jolts and shocks.
Riots, storms and falling slocks.
Trouble hiihhlcd rv cry whoi c.
In Cuba. Guam and Rrlgrave Square.
In Mississippi and Manila.
And Khzaltrih Ta loi s Roman villa.
Fvrrylhuig from smog In sex
Srcinrd lo grow ever inure complex;
Critics deplored our moral drca .
But hasn't il always been thai way?
The twentieth century s not the first
'I'o rale ilsclf the very worst.
Kerry era's had its share
Of jangled nerves and bleak despair,
And Status Quo has alvvavs been
A faiu-v term for the mess we're in.
Mankind, since the world began.
Has jumped fioin fire lo frying pan.
Paleolithic man, no doubt.
Found plenty to complain about.
The Middle Aces weir grim and daik.
And even the Renaissance was no latk
Man. tin mighoiit the ccniiitics,
Has railed al lilc's anomalies.
And groaned inln the midnight blur,
't'h, what is tins world coming In'.'"
Vai ih's a i i.kv h.ilulat
Thru- in I any iloubt of thai.
lull loll the truth now. honestly.
Is tlieie anywhere you'd rather be
No" Well, m that case, let's rheer up.
Anil pas around the wassail cup
And. taking a chin up attitude.
Shift to a mciry Christmas mooil
1 et to. 1. 1 nm. selves in Yuletiile cheer
To iny thioiighiuit the coming year
And. unaliaid hut eautinii.sl.v,
l.f t wrli-nme iiinetrcn-sixlv -Ihirr I
..lane Gondsell, m the Oregon
Labor Tiess.
it must be remembered i1 h( President s intention -
. i , , ,i .,ilike an American action to
It would not set too
committee.
too much of an increase,
MEDFOHD
"Let 'Em Vote For Congressmen Lonjr Ai We
Can Keep The Congressmen From Voting
For Them"
1 S 98
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
(c New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE AGITATED ALLIANCE
The American monopoly of
nuclear weapons has become
a hot issue In Britain and
France be
cause of the
("w-kSJ Cuban affair,
and it nas De
come a n im
mediate issue
because pf the
proposal to
abandon Sky
bolt. In Cuba
American nu-
Lippmann clear power
was wielded without consult
ing our European allies. To
have nothing to say while
Washington and Moscow go
to the brink of nuclear war
reduces the Europeans, says
M, Raymond Aron of the
newspaper Figero, "to the
status of protectorate nations."
This, he has said in the New
Republic, is on the way to
being intolerable provocation
and humiliation.
Coming on top of this, the
rirrisinn about Kkvholl looks
- however little this is in fact
abolish the British nuclear
deterrent. Thus, while the
Western Alliance is by no
means disrupted, It is severe
ly shaken up.
AFTER hearing Ihe matter
argued back and forth and
sideways in the capitals of
Western Europe, my general
feeling is that while in theory
(lie problem is insoluable,
actual experience will never
theless prevent the theoretical
conflict from producing dan
gerous practical consequences.
1 IH ,.e lonlr al Ihff ll,nrv
II is impossible within the
same alliance to have one or
two nuclear forces which are
'in truth independent of ihe
a' ""clear force, in the
foreseeable future the Aineri-
i i
MM
can nuclear power will com- I 'a "'' rcsponsiouiiy ior
prise well over !)0 per cent j ,he tci"rtx'1 f'owcr wmt ii we
of the whole nuclear power I P."'SS(SS' A'"" wi, P"
of Ihe Western Alliance. ! '""I"1 '-"HHbcrat ion there
.,, ,, , ,., , . ..,! could go technical and eco
All that an independen nomic collaboration in the use
Hench force could do is to j Bri(ijh s(.irntisls d
make a first strike against a nrpri facilities
few Soviet cities. 1 have heard ..
il said on high authorilv that I . No sllth idrrstandinK is in
Ihev might kill 20 million ,
Russians After lhat. not even I
Ihe American nuclear force
might he able lo deter Ihe
Soviet Union from a devas
tating retaliation against
Fiance.
P,
THE American v I e w.
therefore, il is Impossible
lo concede lo France the
right lo initiate a nuclear vsar.
We have lo iosisi thai being
allies requires thai the French
force should not be used inde
pendently but only as pari of
a unified force of (he alliance, j
This American view is re
garded as self-serving and is
mil acceptable to the French.
They soy. first, lhat Ihe t'niled
Slate, wants a veto on France
although, as was shown in
Cuba. France has no velo on
Hie United Stales They say.
second, lhal our policy means
thai we will use nuclear
w eapons w lien we regard the
i issue as vital to us whereas
we will not use llirin when
jllie issue is thought vital only
; to France.
VNYON'K who has had Hie
nalirncr In follow all this
i argumentation will perhaps
'agree that lliroielually Ihe
problem posed by our mirlc.ir
monopoly is insoluble. Nor is
the problem likely to be made
oluble by some international
dex ice such as an "indepcn-
j drnt" Fnropean nuclear lorce -
'or an independent" NATO
ifotce Thev would P"- the
'".line ptoblrins for us tliat lh
MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
independent French force
poses. Moreover Gen. 1 de
Gaulle will have nothing to
do with them. They could be
used only to mask the prob
lem if by some unlikely
chance the French were will
ing to mask the problem.
What then? We may begin
by noting that out of 16 coun
tries of Western Europe only
two, Britain and France, are
in fact thinking about nation
al nuclear forces. There is
however a vast difference be
tween the British and the
French positions. The British
force is fully integrated with
the American, and does not,
therefore, raise the question
of an independent first strike.
The British force is in fact
under American command
just as the American Navy
was under British command
during the first World War.
The continued existence of
the British force is threatened
by the fact that the British
manned bombers are virtually
obsolele, that while their use
ful life might he prolonged a
few years by Skybnll, in re
ality (lie British cannot af
ford Ihe cost of Ihe modern
race of armaments and have
no real choice but lo with
draw from it.
IT WOULD clear the air of
many poisonous fumes if
Lond.-m and Washington
agreed that the experiment
with an independent British
nuclear force is finished, that
no more money and nervous
energy will be wasted on it,
and that together the two
countries vyill work out the
high policy and high strategy
of Ihe American deterrent.
It would be a verv good
thing if we could share with
our leading allies, beginning
with Great Britain, the moral
"ow, P"f'ble with Gen.
Gaulle. He cannot be
argued oul nf his purposes,
and certainly he cannot be
.bought off by anything lhat
Britain and Ihe United States
could have to offer him.
AVE SHALL have to let our
" dilferences with Gen. cle
Gaulle be arbitrated by events
while in the meantime we try
lo keep in decent humor.
There is no crisis in Franco-
American relations and there j
is no hurry about ihe issue
'"," " '' la" niany
."" iii-iiiie nance can mane
ilsclf a serious nuclear power
and '.he fact that we stand
aside passively while she
works at u a;lr realises the
gigantic cos's will constitute
notice that wne she to lake
nuclear action outside Ihe al
liance, the United Slates gov-
.....,., ., . .,, .',... )
and legally obligated In follow
her
Xeveilheless. it is obvious,
as we all know in our hearts,
thai we shall under no cir
cunistaiucs abandon France,
even if we think siie is wrong.
Believing as I oV that the
American view nf nuclear
power is right, 1 would he hap-
pier if. on our pari, w e do not
allow the discus-ion with our
allies to ricgeneiate inio a
debating wrangle conducted
with lhat moral self righteous, j
"ess which is ihe besetting
temptation of those who on
intellectual grounda believe,
perl-ant e en know , that Wy
are right. '
Matter of Fact ,Pu ai,op
(ei Ntw York Herald Tribune Syndicate
BIGGER THAN A MAN'S
HAND
Paris-On the Far Eastern
horizon, a cloud considerably
bigger than a man's hand has
now appeared,
as a direct
con sequence
of the deepen
ing split be
tween the So
viets and the
Chinese Com
munists. North
Korea is the
only Commu
nist state
.limp
which as yet deserves to be
called the satellite of Peking.
Albania, tiny and isolated, is
more a pretext than a satel
lite. North Viet Nam is quile
probably becoming a Chinese
satellite: but thus far Hanoi
has rather desperately tried
to keep two lines open, to
Moscow as well as lo Peking.
Hence what the North Ko
reans say at this juncture is
particularly meaningful, since
it is said, one may be certain,
under orders from the Chinese
Communists. Needless to say,
the Chinese position in the
Sino-Soviet row received en
thusiastic support in the just
published communique of the
Fifth Plenum of the North Ko
rean "Workers Party." But
the significant passage runs as
follows:
"Only when our defense
capacity is fortified and steel
like and we are always in a
posture of mobilization, will
the enemy not dare to pounce
upon us and if he launches a
reckless adventure, can we
decisively smash it and win
the victory . . . (To this end)
our military potential must he
reinforced at all costs, even
if this slows down the growth
of the national economy."
ONE reason for this bleak
warning of harder times
ahead for Ihe Korean people
may well be the abrupt inter
ruption of Soviet arms de
liveries. The Koreans, like the
Chinese, have always got the
bulk of their heavier and more
complex military equipment
from the Soviet Union. If the
source of supply has been cut
off, they may well embark
on an attempt to provide at
least a part of their own heavi
er arms.
If this interpretation is cor
rect, the consequences for
China will be vastly more
grave I nan for North Korea.
Some things the Koreans can
not conceivably attempt-such
as Ihe construction of a seri
ous aircraft industry. The Chi
nese, on the other hand, will
have tq do all these things,
and on a scale to supply their
Asian satellite as well as
themselves.
If arms deliveries from Ihe
Soviets have indeed been
slopped, as seems highly like
ly, and oil deliveries have
been hailed at Ihe same time,
as also seems likely. Nikita
S. Khrushchev is really hitting
Mao Tse-tung where it will
hurt the most. In the present
desperate condition of ihe
economy, it is hard to see how
the Chinese system can with
stand the enormous increase
of strain lhat must result from
increased fuel stringency plus
an immensely increased arma
ment effort.
Confirmation bv i n t e 1 1 1-
gence must be awaited
fori
there are no solid proofs as
yet that Khrushchev is using
this kind of sanction against
Mao. The North Korean com
munique is the first piece of
important evidence seeming to
point in that direction.
is!
After a Jump, a Double Check
By ERIC SEVAREID
Americans rush in where
angels fear lo tread, an occa
sionally endearing (rail which
has probably
J$AF-i t d 0 n e more
;',A2 Rood than
t harm in a be-
fi 1 world. But we
t are also Ihe.
-sr ':iI people who
''"3 invented the
phrase, "check
and double
Rf varf id
cher k," al-
though we require an aslon-
is'hingly long time lo practice
whal vye preach.
After a dozen years of fab
ulous expenditure of money,
efforts and repulalions, we
are finally to have a severe
douhle-ciieck of our foreign
aid programs by disinterested
inspectors, presided over by
Ihe sharp if not loflv mind of
Lucius Clay, whose instincts
. well as his face bear re-
semblance lo Ihe hawk thai
sees and pounces quicklv and
never lets go unless dragged abroad,
from his quarry. As a carefree j
gesture. I would predict lhat I Of course, il is a success by
his major exercise in blame-1 the criteria so far employed:
laving will not question Ihe young men and women flock
competence of administrators lo join it. foreign governments
or field workers s- much as welcome it (they should, it
t lie capacity of many societies comes postpaid! and Commit
lo be developed, in our lime nisls attack it. I would go fur
and by our methods ther and say lhal giving frus-
Hated American youth a
To say that Ihe initial en.
thusiasin over foreign aid has
gone yellow in the leaf is Ihe
; understatement of the policy
sca-on. Rut while this ma.-sive
double-check is put in motion,
we i einain in Ihe stage of ' in-
htial enthusiasm'' about or-1
11IEANWHILE the other
"l aspect of the North Kore
an communique cannot be
prudently ignored. The langu
age is defensive but the tone
is offensive, even aggressive.
In the present state of the
Sino-Soviet relationship, it
cannot even be excluded that
the Chinese Communists are
planning a renewed push in
Korea. Anything can happen.
What is more likely to hap
pen, however, is that Peking
will increase its influence in
Hanoi, and will encourage the
North Vietnamese Commu
nists to take stronger meas
ures in Laos and South Viet
Nam.
The North Vietnamese need
little encouragement. Without
the rich land to the south.
North Viet Nam is really not
a viable national entity. The
North Vietnamese leaders
therefore have the choice of
winning South Viet Nam at
all costs and risks, or allow
ing their non-viability to catch
up to them in the end. Hence
aggressive advice is accept
able. Curiously enough, more
over, the two different ways
of interpreting the North Ko
rean communique are not
necessarily contradictory. The
near despair induced by a
great intensification of eco
nomic difficulties can quile
easily bring the Chinese Com
munist leadership lo proclaim
ing, "Let the skies fall if we
do not win."
In the Day's News
By FRANK
When the 52nd session of
the Oregon legislative assem
bly convenes in Salem about
a month hence, one of the
first measures lo be intro
duced will be a bill to pay
legislators $3,000 a year, plus
S20 a day for expenses during
the time when the legislature
is in session. The bill will be
drawn by a bi partisan com
mittee and introduced in the
legislature, the same as any
other bill - which means that
it will be subject to debate
and amendment.
The news system of fixing
the compensation of legislators
is made possible by a consti
tutional amendment submitted
to popular vole by the last
legislature and approved by
the people last May. The
amendment provides that the
salaries of logisialors shall be
set by law (the legislature
makes ihe laws) Ihe same as
all other state salaries are
set.
QUESTION:
Assuming thai the bill is
passed as agreed upon by the
committee, how will the salo
ries (including expense ac
counts) of Oregon legislators
compare with those of tneigh
boring states?
The S3,000 a-year will be
$6,000 per biennium, plus S20
per day while Ihe legislature
is in session. Washington leg
islators get $2400 a biennium
(a biennium is two years),
plus $25 a day expenses dur
ing regular sessions and an
additional S10 a day during
special sessions.
California legislators get
$12,000 a biennium, plus S19
day while in session. The
California legislature meets
every year, and normally re
mains in session during a
rather long period. In Oregon
and Washington, the legisla
tures meet every Iwo years.
I rign aio s eager Helper, I lie
Peace Corps. Here again, the
cycle will repeat ilsclf,
though we shall all. ourselves,
be much yellower in the leaf
before a realistic appraisal of
the Corps comes about, let
alone reappraisal. There is
nothing so irresistible as pure
intent ions backed by pure
publicity, and I am aware lhat
in the current atmosphere of
euphoric reverence an ex-
pressed doubt about the
Peace Corps will receive the
same treatment as a doubl ex
prcscd about virginity.
Amid ail Ihe false starts and
semi-failures of our manifold
world missions, the Peace
Corps, al least, is a solid suc
cess so we tell ourselves in
vast relief. Senator Hum-
phrey, one of its sponsors, has
! sat in judgment on his own
I handiwork and finds that the
' Corns has done "an oulst.md -
ing job." even though Us first
i wave of recruits have barely
had time to gel Ihe led and
grip ol llieir various lasKs
sense of mission and adding lo
our supply of comprhension
of oilier sorieties (alien the
credit side of the ledger.
i Important as are these re -
! turns on our investment (tiit
j million Ibis (isxal yean they
remain fnnze henrfi'.s In the
Washington Report
By William
(ei United ruturi Syndicate
YEMEN AND NASSER
Washington-It is hard to
put down the troubling sus-
picion that much of the Slate
Trjvflrjws, rj Department Is
n n e ratine on
r..r i, i .
a ine sni n i u g
H e v e d convic
tion that all
t r a d i tional
i g o vernments
are necessar
ily bad guys.
Sometimes it
-... seems that one
win.. sure wax lo
assure official American sym
pathy to any uprising any
where is for the rebels solemn
ly to tell Washington straight
away that they are the liberal
reformers and their opponents
the evil "reactionaries."
The latest instance in this
melancholy tale is this gov
ernment's decision to grant of
ficial recognition to the in
surgent regime in Yemen, in
the Middle East.
rpHIS "revolution" Is not
A really comparable to that
conducted by George Wash
ington and others in colonial
United States. Though it was
indeed begun by a local lead
er called Abdullah Al-Sallal,
it was in fact very quickly
taken over by Colonel Nas
ser's Egypt. Nasser sent in
12,000 Soviet-trained Egypti
an troops, supplied with So-
JENKINS
YOU may ask:
How about this expenses
business?
Well, it is reasonable
enough. During the time when
state legislatures are in ses
sion, their members must live
away from home. Washington
legislators get S25 a day for
living expenses. It is proposed
to pay the same amount in
Oregon. In California, the ex
pense account is $19 a day.
The California legislature
meets oflener than the legis
lature of Oregon and Wash
ington, and lends to remain
in session longer.
The smaller expense ac
count in California may be
accounted for on the theory
lhat since (hey remain in
Sacramento longer they may
be able to arrange for less
expensive living quarters.
rpHE big question:
-- Under tllP nnw svclpni in
Oregon, will legislators be
; paid TOO MUCH?
The answer to thai, I think
is lhat the laborer is worthy
of his hire. If Ihe Oregon leg
islature does a good job of
running the slate of Oregon,
the proposed salaries will be
very reasonable indeed.
ALONG that line, let's take
another look at a shock
ing figure.
According lo a careful study
made recently by the Wash
ington Bureau of the Louis
ville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal,
Ihe cost of keeping a
member of Ihe Congress of
Ihe United States in Washing
ton for a year comes to the
rather staggering total of
$275,000!
That's whal happens when
nr,t-,-n,nt TV-,", III-
'and is too far from home.
iti.-i (jm,i. iiik SVIUIS I'l lilt" I
Pftl-nc liat ,-ru little n.nra trt I
do with producing peace in
this world than with produc
ing war. The long history of
peoples, heavily interpene
trated culturally, frequently
waging war on one another,
undercuts the whole nolion of
peace preserved by "folks
gelting to know one another. "
More importantly, while
the Corps has something to do I f across the vast, unmeas
with spot benefits in a few urable human swamps of Asia
isolated places, whether in and Lalin America. Some
sanitizing drinking water orawareness of Ihe world s siza
building culverts, its work might aid nur assessments,
has, and can have, very little i
to do with the fundamental in
vestments, reorganizations and
reforms upon which ihe true
and long-lcrm economic de
velopment of backward coun
tries depends. Perhaps (he
most fruitful field is in the
teaching nf skills lo future
! agronomisi and civil enei.
1 neers and the like, because
! nn riev elnnmrni sir,ir-t,,,--
, stand without such underpin -
Hint of knowledge. But the
end results of such efforts lie
far beyond t lie mistiest hor
izons: il is impossible, as well
as ridiculous to start proclaim,
ing them now.
If fringe benefits were all
that the Corp? originators
had in mind, then this should
be made dear to ihe country.
If they truly believe in solid
practical, measurable results
then we ought to have a pre-
( limmary accounting one day
1 soon, always bearing in mind
two thing- the cost to the tax-
t payer and the propoi tiona'e
g vd lo the country involved
S. Whir
viet-made bombers and tanks,
against the barefoot tribesmen
wn0 remained loyal to th
ryal Yemenite government of
"le lr,u"' monammad
. fvi-odui .
In the meantime, Saudi
Arabia and Jordan gave some
assistance - but of a far mors
ragged scale and kind - to the
old regime of Al-Badr.
In State Department defini
tion, of course, a king is mors
or less automatically a "reac
tionary," even in a remote
area like this which is living
in roughly the 16th century
and where any serious talk
of "democracy" is an absurd
jet.
I'iHE American action in giv.
ing recognition to the.
Egyptian-led insurgents puts
us in the company of, among
others, the Soviet bloc. But
it does not put us in tha
company of, say, Britain,
which is in no great hurry
to celebrate this supposed
great movement toward lib
eral reform.
Our motives are quile cor
rect. We wish to see an end
of fighting in the Middle East
and the disengagement of all
hostile forces, in fear that
otherwise the thing might
blow up into major war and
give the Russians some oppor
tunity to intervene.
It is easy to go along with
the objective. But it is not
easy to see why - since tha
disengagement of the contend
ing forces is our central aim -we
did not at least withhold
recognition until Nasser had
actually withdrawn his troopi
and Soviet-made weapons. We
have had only a somewhat
vague "indication" that he
will do so.
WHAT, therefore, is really
left? We have given the
great boon of American rec
ognition to a "revolution"
which was only nominally
homemade and actually re
sults in a victory for Nasser
Egypt. If Colonel Nasser can
rush into Yemen upon tha
"invitation" of some force
seeking to overthrow the ex
isting authority, why cannot
he rush into other Arab conn
tries on other "invitations" -or
other pretexts?
The United States is righllv
Irying to bring about his total
detachment from the Soviet
Union, which in the past was
close to him and which, in
deed, built up his present mili
tary force. But is the pattern
of Yemen a good way to do
thai? Surely not.
For Nasser in Yemen show
ed an alarming capacity for
military amphibious opera
tions on a considerable scale.
After all. he hurled what
amounts lo a full division
across the Red Sea.
It would hardly seem wise
lo encourage him in such an
adventure until we know, and
do not merely hope, lhat he
has really turned away from
the Soviet Union and toward
the West, as he has sometimes
seemed to do.
Distinguished Sarvica
To the Editor:
Are you thinking 'bout giving
Santa,
His annual reward-'
Then, let's all chip In and
hand him
A big smile-trimmed credit
card.
George Distell
156 Vashti Way
Medford
Is Needed
So far, any taxpayer is em
titled to wonder how much,
if at all. a country like Brazil,
for example, can be changed
for the betler by the presence
of a handful of American
youngsters, in the face of an
advancing sea of inflation,
population tides and hunger
among its lens of millions of
people. The corpsmcn now
run about 85 or 90 to a conn-
On the argument that Ihe
Peace Corps has proved a suc
cess, ihe government now p
proaches the idea of a domes
lie corps for service in our
own slums nri blighted re.
! s'on;! ' wont argue that w
i should have started there in
' "ie '"'st P'ace -this would ivt
1 have happened, given the alv
! scnce of Kal'"r"'. Bui here at
home, in the Harlems. South
Chicagos and Kentucky coal
regions, momentum will not
be maintained by publicity,
every constituency concerned
will soon teach its congress
man the difference between
fringe and measurable re
turns, and the double check
will run from the beginning
concurrently with (he check.
It won't require a dozen
years and a General Clay to
show tile stockholders rxaclltf
, what has happened lo their in
vestment. So maybe it should
I tried.
(Diilributid 1962. by Th Hill
; Syndics!!. Inc.)
(All Bighli Bnerved)
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