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THURSDAY. JANUARY 24. 1963
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24, 1953 (Thursday)
Trial dates have been set
In district court on two counts
of slot machine ownership in
Jackson county.
With the annual Kapers
and Minstrel Show only a
month away, Medford Kl
wanians are in the midst of
a search for talent for the production.
20 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24, 1943 (Tuesday)
John A. Dickinson resigns
as Jackson county constable,
leaving county without man
In that Job for second time in
two months. '
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "A 10
wheeled locomotive nearly
left a bumptious auto without
any the other day at the Sixth
at. crossing.
30 YEARS AGO .
Jan. 24, 1933 (Thursday)
Total of 104 inches of snow
reported at Crater lake; all
highways to be closed until
spring.
Medford Chamber of Com
merce makes plea for in
creased cooperation between
Jackson county and city of
Medford.
40 YEARS AGO
Jan. 24, 1923 (Friday)
A. L. Hill and Roy Davis
mentioned for nomination to
vacancy on Oregon state fish
and game commission.
Central Point opera house
being remodeled for use as
motion picture theater.
SO YEARS AGO
Jan. 24. 1913 (Sunday)
Jackson county Sheriff A.
D. Singlcr requests increase
of $1,000 in his salary.
Mayor Eifert and Police
Chief Hitlson warn that Mod
ford's traffic laws will be
"strictly enforced."
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina ot ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
six it good.
1. Was Singapore, while
under British control, ever In
vaded before its capture by
the Japanese in WAV. II?
2. Silas was a companion
of Jesus, Peter, or Paul?
3. What fruit grew In the
Garden of Hospcridcs?
4. Of which State is Boise
the capital?
5. Is the World's largest li
brary in London, Washington,
D.C., Paris or Moscow?
6. The heroine of the novel,
"Gone With the Wind," was
7. To which country does
Prince Edward Island belong?
8. Correct the following
sentence: "One of ninety nine
persons were killed in the
accident."
9. What is guayle?
10. The State University of
New Jersey is Princeton; true
or false?
Answersi 1. No. 2. Paul. 3.
Colden apples. 4. Idaho, t.
Washington, D.C. 9. Scarlett
O'Hara. 7. Canada. 9. "On
. . .. was killed , . ." t. A rubber-bearing
plant. 10. Falsa
(Rutgers).
1
The Task of the Fortunate
Society should never oermit its collective con
duct to sink to the level of action of its basest
individual member.
And an individual should always aspire to
deeds more elevated than any heterogeneous
group is capable or penorming.
Thus, the people should never wantonly injure
one of their number, and man must be able to
find more forgiveness and understanding in his
own heart than he knows is possible for any
collection of men to achieve.
If it were possible for man to observe these
boundary lines to human conduct, then the ha
manist goal of a peaceful planet inhabited by en
lightened people would not seem just a iar
fetched dream.
DROBABLY the major single impediment to
the development of man is man's attitude
toward himself. '
He has at various times in history regarded
himself as divine, as inherently evil, as basically
good, as a possessor of free will, and as an or
ganism whose existence is determined by the
forces of heredity or of environment, or both.
That he has viewed himself as just one thing
or the other at any given point in time as either
completely good or completely evil, for example
has been the factor which has for so long de
layed any substantial measure of progress.
Man will eventually come to see, we predict,
that he is a combination, a conglomeration, if
you will, of all these forces, and not just one or
the other.
PARADOXICALLY, man is both good and evil
can feel both love and hate, can be both gen
erous and greedy, can exhibit both gentleness
and brutality.
The outward manifestation of the sum total
of these forces operating within him is what we
refer to as behavior. And it is behavior that psy
chologists, through testing, experimentation and
observation, are working so hard to understand.
The difficulty here is one of differences, for
each man possesses a character and personality
as unique as his fingerprints. To put it another
way, his total is different from everyone else's.
Yet, on the surface, and on superficial ex
amination, we appear to be all alike. We have the
same basic needs, and compared with other ani
mal forms, our physiological differences are insignificant.
e
BECAUSE we do seem to be alike outwardly,
U11U UVUMOt, 1I1UOI UeL WkJ tlUTV I1VU VV7 V.V
form so well to the regulatory controls we have
voluntarily placed on ourselves, we, therefore,
tend to lose sight 01 the vast differences among
us.
This is the breeding ground of intolerance,
the fertile soil in which bigotry and suspicion
flourish.
To be specific, some of us, for reasons for
which we can take little or no credit, are able to
exercise influence and control on our actions. In
short, some of us seem capable of free will.
But it is also true that there are those among
us who, probably for reasons beyond their con
trol, are unable to influence by conscious action
their own lives.
And it is the root of a considerable measure
of the world's trouble and unhappiness that the
two groups cannot understand or communicate
with each other.
A MANIFESTATION of the cleavage in under-
stunrlinrr hptwopn tllo Iwn m-nimc. lipa in tha
area of what has been called "moral responsibility."
1 hat is, if an individual commits murder, for
example, is he to be held accountable for his ac
tion, and perhaps executed, or should he be
treated as someone with a serious mental illness
and placed under psychiatric care?
One's answer to the question reveals much. If
we have been able successfully to exercise con
trol over our own lives, we are apt to respond
that the murderer must be held responsible for his
act and, for the good of society, should face the
consequences.
But those who understand that some per
haps more than we realize among us have been
so misshapen by their heredity and environment
that they can only act compulsively those of us
who understand that will be much more inclined
to respond with compassion.
t
IN A measure, we are all maimed or scarred by
'compulsive forces within us. We all undergo
times of hate, lust, greed and rage. But when
these forces are spent, most of us, if we have sur
vived, feel ashamed and penitent, and we resolve
to try to do better next time.
Such remorse at wrongdoings, however, is not
common to all men. There are some who, because
of the way their psychological twig was bent dur
ing their formative years, never learned to dis
tinguish between right and wrong; they were
never instilled with the importance of respecting
the rights of others.
Society must, of course, protect itself from
the harmful acts of the morally blind. We must
not bare our throats to the slayer s knife, or make
our purses readily available to the thief. Once the
chronic wrongdoer has been positively identified,
he must be isolated from those whom he might
harm.
But it is incumbent upon the rest of us, who
have been dealt with more fortunately by circum
stance, to work with whatever poor abilities we
possess to bring the light of understanding to
where there is now only the darkness of ignor
ance. G.H.B.
"Why Don't We Have The Thrifty Budget Of
Ben Franklin's Day?"
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J fit MQ
Death of Gaitskell Is Blow to Labor
Party; Throws Politics Into Confusion
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign Newt Analyst
Among British political
opinion and London news
papers alike the reaction to
the death
Matter of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
(c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
mi
KHRUSHCHEV'S NEW
COURSE
Washington - N 1 k i t a S.
Khrushchev's new course may
now be chartered with some
c o n f idence.
For we now
have rather
complete data
on how he
means to deal
with the Chi
nese, with the
Berlin ' crisis,
and last but
not least, with
aiiod President
Kennedy. After the brutal
comedy enacted at the East
German Communist Party
Congress, there is no longer
any doubt at all that Khru
shchev is entirely ready for,
and perhaps even eager for,
final rupture with his
former Chinese Communist
comrades-in-arms. He would
like them to make the break,
but this preference is purely
tactical.
At the Berlin rally, Khru
shchev's speech momentarily
deceived a few observers. His
suave call for unity of the
Communist camp got less at
tention than his total intran
sigence on every question of
substance in dispute between
Moscow and Peking.
B
UT the true state of affairs
the Chinese delegate, Wu
Hslu-chan, was publicly sub
jected to organized humilia
tion. The cat calls and Bronx
cheers that drowned out Wu
Hsiu-chan, beyond doubt by
Khrushchev's own order,
were an open and insulting
invitation to Mao Tse-tung to
proceed to a final rupture
without further delay. Even
if the invitation is not ac
cepted, thai rupture now
seems eventually certain.
In his Berlin speech, Khru
shchev also disposed of the
Berlin crisis, at least for the
time being, in a much more
decisive way than most peo
ple have grasped. He said
that when the Berlin wall
was erected on Aug. 13, the
Communist state in East Ger
many "obtained that which is
Indispensable to any sov
ereign slate," wherefore, he
continued, "the conclusion of
a German peace treaty is no
longer the problem" it had
been before the erection of
the wall.
Thus the second Berlin
crisis was, in effect, declared
at an end. Just as the lifting
of Stalin's blockade gave no
insurance against the second
crisis, so the termination of
the second crisis gives no in
surance against a third. A
favorable shift in the balance
of power or, much more prob
ably, galloping disunity
among the Western allies, will
at once invite a third crisis.
T LEAST the second crisis
AT
Ms
however, In the sense that
there is no likelihood of an
early renewal of Khru
shchev's attempt to change
the Berlin situation by threats
and unilateral actions. Yet
this does not mean an end to
all discussion of Berlin. On
the con trary, Khrushchev's
recent dealings with Presi
dent Kennedy are thought, by
all the wisest American ex
perts, to look forward to a
resumption of talks about
Berlin.
This is one of the several
meanings seen here in Khru
shchev's critically significant
move to bring the nuclear
test ban talks back to life.
Khrushchev is believed to
want an agreement with the
U.S. on some other subject -namely,
nuclear tests - as
preparation for later Berlin
negotiations. .
If this is correct, Khru
shchev wants to prove to his
own people that equal agree
ments with the U.S. are
feasible, as a preliminary to
making the concessions he
will obviously have to offer
in any fruitful talks about
Berlin. But preparing the way
for later Berlin discussions is
obviously only one motive of
the Khrushchev initiative on
nuclear tests.
Another motive, for -the
U.S. as well as for Khru
shchev, is the fact that the
time is daily drawing closer
when Chinese Communist
atomic tests have to be ex
pected. In fact, the revival of
the nuclear test talks by
Khrushchev's quite unexpect
ed letter to the President on
Dec. 19 was an event of the
utmost significance.
T IS being treated as such
by President Kennedy. A
vital change has already been
made in the former American
policy, which included the
provision that no test ban
could be agreed to unless ex
tension of the inspection sys
tem to Chinese territory of
fered safeguards against So
viet cheating on allied soil.
A test ban without Commu
nist China is now regarded
a reasonable calculated
risk because of the bitter
Sino-Sovict row.
In addition, the President
has taken personal charge of
the test ban negotiations.
This means that the U.S. dis
armament negotiator, William
C. Foster, will be acting un
der the President's direct su
pervision. And it also means,
no doubt, that part of the
work of negotiations will be
done in further correspon
dence between Kennedy and
Khrushchev.
Whether agreement will re
sult is anyone's guess. One
bad sign is Khrushchev's
choice of Semyon Tsarapkin
as his chief negotiator. But
a test ban is now about an
even bet. Willi the second
Berlin crisis at an end. with
the Soviet break with China
all but certain, and with a
test ban agreement at even
odds, a new era is clearly
opening.
HiSfiin!
Willi
-o
I .f, 11 -tttL
"Out, Amancans saved us in World War I and in World
War II. But in World War III thara might not ba any Ameri
cans. That's why we must hava our own nuclaar weapons!"
LmJ
ot Labor
party leader
Hugh Gait
skell seemed
unan I m o u s.
Said the Con
servative Sunday Tele
graph: "It is a
measure
N.wwm of Mr Gait.
skell's stature that his death
has reduced the whole future
of British politics to specu
lation." The Sunday Express said
that never before In modern
British political history had
the loss of a single leader
dealt such a blow to a major
party.
For Gaitskell was not only
the helmsman of his party, he
was also In many ways the
designer of its present mould.
He had modified the party's
program of nationalization
for British industry, he had
overcome leftwing demands
for ban-the-bomb and unilate
ral disarmament, and by
sheer pcrsistance led his
party to .the point where pub
lic opinion polls gave it 44.5
per cent of the vote and la
beled him Britain's next
prime minister.
He had described himself
as a poor hater, yet he was
able to take on the flamboy
ant Nye Bevan, a better
hater than most, and defeat
him in 1955 for the party
leadership.
A quiet man, he could be
goaded to anger.
In Glasgow, followers of
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(ci Field Enterprises, Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
It Is not attention we want,
but appreciation: everybody
minds being interrupted, but
nobody minds being inter
rupted by applause.
The way a man acts
when he makes a lot of
money is a fair indication
of his character; but a far
better indication is the way
he acts when he loses a
lot of money, for it is easier
to go from poverty to af
fluence without crowing
jubilantly than it is to go
from affluence to poverty
without complaining bitter
ly. ,
Talking with a strange
woman who had come with
her fiance to a party, I was
suddenly asked by her, "What
do you think of him?", and
could only blurt out the too
candid reply, "If you have to
ask a stranger, you're not
ready to marry him."
Treachery is almost al
ways a matter of weakness
rather than a deliberation:
for every one person who
conspires in deceit, a doien
others fall into it through
mere lack of moral energy.
Even truer in the atomic
age than when he spoke them
two centuries ago are Licht
enberg's prophetic words:
"Honest, unaffected distrust
of the powers of man is Hie
surest sign of intelligence.'
An administrator is too
often someone who begins
worrying about the "mo
rale" of his staff only when
it is so low that nothing but
a change of administrators
can help it.
Children who laugh up
roariously at their reflections
in the warped mirror of a
fun-house have yet to learn
that all mirrors arc distorted
ones; for none of us is capable
of seeing his face as others see
It, but only as he carefully
poses it in the looking-glass.
It is an error of the vul
gar to believe that history
repeats itself; what hap
pens, as someone has said,
is that historians repeat one
another.
It's a curious paradox that
so many men who passion
ately believe In laissez faire
in their business lives violate
this precept every day In
their personal lives, and are
Hie most domineering of hus
bands and the most interfer
ing of fathers: they believe in
the open conflict of goods and
profits, but not in the free
competition of personalities
and ways of life.
When we are young,
everything familiar is bor
ing and only the exotic at
tracts: when we are old, we
begin to experience the odd
reversal that everything
exotic is boring, and only
the familiar is attractive.
Why was Othello so easy
lo dupe, so willing to believe
in the infidelity of Desde
mona? Not until we under
stand the answer to this ques
tion, can we grasp the true
psychological nature of jealousy.
the Committee for Nuclear
Disarmament attempted to
disrupt a party rally which
Gaitskell was addressing.
Snapped Gaitskell:
"Go and see what it is like
to deal with Soviet police and
Soviet tanks like the Hun
garian people."
Gaitskell came from a mid
dle class family, the son of
a civil servant. He never
walked in a picket line, yet
early decided that "my fu
ture belongs to the working
class."
He became a don at Lon
don University, and in the La
bor landslide of 1945 began
a meteoric rise in govern
ment. All of this without flash
or color, but as an intellec
tual. The party platform was
Gaitskell's own. Whether
British voters will accept his
successor as the, creator's
image or only as a poor car
bon copy still must be de
termined. Among possible successors
there are two immediately
outstanding. One is deputy
leader George Brown, a like
able trade unionist who took
over in Gaitskell s illness.
The other is Harold Wilson)
a brilliant man distrusted by
some for his ambition.
It is not only over the La
bor party that Gaitskell's
figure still looms large. For
the Conservatives of Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan a
break in Labor unity- could
mean a reprieve. For the up.
coming Liberals of Jo Grim
mond, it might mean a chance
for fusion with Labor and an
earlier chance than expected
to participate in government.
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contrary is often the case.
Who's Behind It?
To the Editor: Which shock
ing event of 1962 posed the
greatest peril to our nation?
The lawless invasion of Mis
sissippi with illegal crushing
of state's rights? Or the Cuban
nuclear menace, which roused
us like finding a 10 foot rat
tler in bed with us?
In my humble opinion it
was neither. The most terri
fying event of 1962 was the
muzzling of the press; and the
arrogant, brazen proclamation
by a Kennedy spokesman. As
sistant Secretary of Defense
Arthur Sylvester, that the
federal government "has the
inherent right to lie," and that
"manipulating" and "manag
ing" news information is
"part of our weaponry" and
was a practice during the Cu
ban crisis. (December, 1962,
Independent American.)
Bear in mind that there was
no war going on at this time,
no enemy to keep the knowl
edge of missiles in Cuba from.
Only the American people.
We have been blandly as
sured by the White House that
all the Russian missiles, bomb
ers and other nuclear weapon
ry have been removed from
Cuba. .Do you believe that?
Many members of both houses
of Congress do not. And they
are asking some very pointed
questions about it, too. For ex
ample, just how could only
three Russian ships haul out
of Cuba all the missiles and
nuclear weaponry that it took
100 or more Russian ships to
haul in? And how, in just a
matter of days, could the Rus
sians have dismantled and
crated and loaded all the mis
siles that it had taken them
many months, perhaps a year,
to set up? And were the canvas-covered
objects our Navy
"inspected" at a distance real
missiles, or dummies?
Now comes the simply stag
gering report from the Cuban
(underground) Inform a t i o n
Service that Cuba is honey
combed with subterranean
storage depots where missiles
are hidden. They describe a
vast network of waterproof
concrete tunnels, plus many
natural, worked over subter
ranean caves, plus under
ground hangars and subma
rine bases, and other secret
installations In Cuba housing
nuclear weaponry that was
NOT spotted, couldn't be spot
ted, by U-2 flights. The map
printed in December, 1962, In
dependent American shows 17
major underground depots
where missiles are stored, 2
subterranean missile pads,
four underground submarine
bases, and three bases with
vast subterranean facilities
where Russian MIGS and
bombers are stored.
Who are we going to be
lieve about this? Our govern
ment, which claims "the in
herent right to lie to us?" Or
the Cuban underground which
never has lied to us yet, being
uncannily accurate in all their
reports? Obviously, with de
liberately "manipulated"
White House news, we have
been lulled back to sleep
again, with the deadly Cuban
"rattlesnake" still in bed with
us. Why? And who is it be
hind tills unforgivable treach
ery? Frank Koch,
412 South First St., '
Central Point, Ore.
"Too Many People"
To the Editor: It is to the
advantage of the American
people that opposition to the
House Committee on Un
American Activities continues
to follow the incredible line
of unreasonableness, including
misstatements, half truths,
empty slogans and outright
false Information. The Coos
Bay World (guest editorial
Mail Tribune 1-2 1-63), mirrors
tins wholly discredited oppo
sition. Two years ago, a mere six
(6) House members voted
against the HCUA appropria
tion, which included an in
crease. Last year, if I remem
ber, there was only one oth
er vote besides James Roose
velt's, opposing HCUA. The
Coos Bay World (with the ap
plause of Eric Allen), calls
this slow, steady support (for
Mr. Roosevelt). The Coos Bay
World would have us believe
"Too many people, including
Congressmen." are fearful of
opposing HCUA. We wonder
what extraordinary sources of
information Mr. Allen and the
Coos Bay World have access
to that they are able to dis
cover the hidden fears of "too
many people," including 433
members of the U. S. House of
Representatives.
We would like to suggest
Mr. Allen and the editor of the
Coos Bay World, and others,
give some attention to the
communist directives in such
publications as "International
Affairs," and the "World
Marxist Review," wherein the
comrades have lately been ad
vised to forward the "anti
communist hysteria" cry dur
ing 1963.
Robert J. Howard,
702 Beekman St.,
Medford.
Rudely Awakened
To the Editor: Every now
and then one is rudely awak
ened to the fact that life is
far more, serious than some
seem to think. At least the
everyday actions on the part
of many would have us almost
believe that life was one big
merry-go-round.
Yet when one stands help
less beside the bedside of a
suffering loved one, serious
thoughts are aroused. Or when
you follow a group of friends
to an open grave and know
that a fellow neighbor has
fallen, you realize that all is
not well. The anxious looks
and serious thoughts by the
bedside of the sick one, the
heart rending sobs heard as
a friend is lowered into his
grave, all of these show that
we are living in an enemy's
territory. The writer has come
up against both of the above
mentioned, experiences this
past week.
The following quotations
have as their score a volume
I prize, next to the Holy Bible.
I quote, "The great contro
versy between Christ and Sa
tan, that has been carried for
ward for nearly six thousand
years, is soon to close; and
the wicked one redoubles his
efforts to defeat the work of
Christ in man's behalf and
to fasten souls in his snares,
to hold the people in darkness
and impenitence till the Sa
viour's mediation is ended,
and there is no longer a sac
rifice for sin, is the object
which he seeks to accom
plish." "When there is no special
effort made to resist his pow
er, when indifference prevails
in the church and the world,
Satan is not concerned; for
he is in no danger of losing
those he Is leading captive at
his will. But when the atten
tion is called to eternal things,
and souls are inquiring, 'what
must I do to be saved?' he is
on the ground seeking to
match his power against the
power of Christ and to coun
teract the influence of the
Holy Spirit."
All of the world's troubles
and ills stem from one source.
Ere long our Blessed Saviour
will come again as He prom
ised when He went away.
Now is our day of opportu
nity to prepare foi :hat glad
day. Then Satan, the origina
tor of the world's troubles,
will be forever conquered.
Only those who accept our
Blessed Lord and are covered
by His precious blood will be
saved. Why do we so heedless
ly spurn His great love?
Henry Johnson Jr.
2315 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
End of an Era
To the Edto ,t Is (he end
of an era . . . A.i industry and
a whole colorful way of life
has finally, and literally,
come to a screeching halt.
The end came early Monday
morning, Jan. 21, 1963, in our
midwestern metropolis of
Chicago, 111. Quickly, almost
unknown, the wonderful era
that had existed nearly 70
years crumbled into the dust
of history and entered into
the twilight zone of memory.
The electric railroad known
as the intcrurban is dead.
The last vestige of the inter
urban line was the Chicego
to Milwaukee. Wis., line
known as the Chicago. Mil
waukee and North Shore. The
melancholy last run that rail
fans dread had finally come.
In the beginning and the
great years roughly from the
middle 1890's to 1925 it was
highly fashionable to ride the
interurban. The familiar sight
of these vehicles - larger than
local streetcars but smaller
than a regular steam or elec
tric locomotive - offered fre
quent and rapid service at
taining speeds of over 60
miles an hour.
The interurban was born
right here in our own state
of Oregon with an experi
mental line between Portland
and Oregon City. The idea
soon spread to other states in
rapid succession.
A fledgling infant at first,
the interurban railway soon
became a booming industry
with many stockholders. It
reached its zenith in 1917
when one could ride half way
across the nation by trans
fering from one line to an
other. But the trend was slowly
turning in favor of Mr. Ford's
brain child. Automobiles be
gan to take their toll on the
industry as far back as 1925.
The depression of the 1930 s
dealt the final blow for many
systems. Our own Oregon
Electric folded in 1933. World
War II halted the highly ac
celerated abandonments for
its duration but after 1946
the inevitable end loomed big
and black.
Finally, this last Monday,
the last hum of motors, the
last tak-a-tak of compressors
were silent forever. This let
ter is a final tribute to that
form of transpotration born
right here in Oregon 70 years
ago, the interurban railway.
Marvin Taylor
145V4 South Grape st.
Medford
In the Day's Hews
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
President Kennedy, con
fessing a sense of FRUSTRA-
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U.S. economy going full blast,
argues anew for MASSIVE
tax cuts to touch off a chain
reaction of consumer spend
ing and business investment.
In his annual economic re
port to congress, he said no
table gains were made in
1982, and "the outlook for
continued moderate expan
sion in 1963 is now favorable.
But rapid economic growth
can not take place until "the
unrealistically heavy burden
of taxation is lightened."
LlCi inLH huucu:
H "The state of the econo
my poses a perplexing chal
lenge to the American peo
ple . . . and it is frustrating
indeed to see the jobless rate
stand still at 5.6 per cent of
the work force."
WELL, it is perplexing.
And President Kennedy
can hardly be blamed if he
feels a little frustrated about
it all.
But it might help to clear
up his state of frustration if
he would take a look at it in
this light:
The unrealistically heavy
burden of taxation that is
slowing down our economy
can't be lightened until our
government quits spending so
much money AND PUTTING
THE BULK OF IT ON THE
CUFF.
AS LONG as the national
debt keeps on rising and
rising and rising and rising
and no steps are taken to
bring It down, the people aro
going to be fearful of the fu
ture - for long experience
tells them that when debt
GETS PILED TOO HIGH bad
trouble Is pretty sure to fallow.
SOMETHING to think about:
The world's skyrocketing
population is expected to
DOUBLE by the end of the
year 1980 and to be trebled
by the year 2.000, when it is
expected to reach a total of
SIX BILLIONS. This bit of
information is contained n a
report Just Issued by the Food
and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations.
And. the publication adds,
from there on the world's pop
ulation is expected to keep
on going up in huge multiples
every year.
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