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4 THURSDAY. JANUARY 31. 1963 MfcDFOHD MAIL. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON "Everyone In Southern Oregon ReadiTho MallJTribunc" fSblishecl Dallyexcent Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Kir Jt.. PlvJ7!i-6Ml - nHi.tMi ... num. Vrfltnr HERB GREY Advorllsing Manager mC W ALLEN JSrilM. - Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tcleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Spoils Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ER1CKSON, Circulation Mgr Entered ai second class matter t Mediora. uiugon. " Mnri-h 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall in flnvaiico. -.on-Daily and Sunday 1 year SIB 00 Daily and Sunday 8 moa 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moi. 3 00 Sunday Only One year 5.00 Single Copy (Malledl J0c By Camel And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year KJ4 uauy ann buww finnHav Onlv 1 mo. so- Carrie! andj'cndurs -- Copy 10c Official' Paper ol City of "'"'"'J Official Paper of Jacksun County United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P. I Telcphoto Ncwsplclurcs "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU UftinuuLftiiyna Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOCI nlL9 xji'iuem in ...... -- raito Detroit. San Francisco. Los AngHfl. oeaiue. -..-..- Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL A5CT.N W.lasllMIiHiil H "v NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the t.les ol The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 31. 1953 (Thursday) "Mayor" Duane Goodman, Mcdford Hlli senior, and Ins elected and appointed stall were "getting accustomed this morning witli Hie rou tine of running the adminis tration of. a city of 18,000 pco- PlMrs. Bercth Hopkins, Old Military rd., resigned last night as chairman of the Jackson county Republican central committee. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 31. 1943 (Tuesday) Impasse reached in war de partment's negotiations Willi city of Mcdford to lease the $1,300,000 municipal airport for the army. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A pair of Alaska robins showed up on the courthouse lawn Mon day. Both wished they had stayed in Alaska." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 31. 1933 (Thursday) Ashland Justice of Peace L. A. Roberts Issues warrant for arrest of L. A. Banks, ed itor of Mcdford News, on charge of libel. Mrs. Mildred Carlton clec- n.-...-i,lnnt nf JilrksOn County Public Health associ ation. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1923 (Friday) Gov. Walter Pierce visits In Mcdford; slates he plans to "annex" Jackson and Klam ath counties back from north ern California. Mcdford students attend classes in church building when high school becomes ov ercrowded by 430 students. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1913 (Sunday) New York capitalist an nounces plan for S220.00O de velopment of Sterling mine in Applcgatc. Quick action by Mcdford fire department extinguishes fire on West Clark st., believ ed to have been slatted by "firebug." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior seven or eiqhl it etcellsnt; live or sii Is good. 1. Was The Slur Spangled Banner designaicd the Na tional Anthem in ini4, ltllll or 11131? 2. Who said, "Am 1 my bro ther's keeper'.'" 3. On which continent is Kenya? 4 Which stale ol Hie Union has the greatest area? 5. Which aincnrimcnl of Iho Constitution provided tor the direct election of Senators? li. All varieties of lizard are venemous; true or false? 7. Of which slate is Jeffer on City the capital? 8. Did Hawaii originally be come an Integral part ol the U. S. by annexation or by pur chase? fl. Are Import duties collect ed by the Olficc of Internal Hevenuc, or the Bureau of Customs? 10. Who Is known as the "Father of the Navy"" Answers: 1, 1931. 2. Cain. 3. Africa. 4. Alaska. 5. Seven teenth. 6. Faltt. 7. Missouri, B, Annexalion treaty. 9. Cut lomi. li, John Bsrny. 0 ...0o Talk Sense About Taxes "The time has come to talk sense about state taxes," State Sen. Don S. Willner of Portland declares. And, in an article in the Portland Reporter, he proceeds to do so clearly, emphatically and succinctly. We commend his comments to our readers. His 14 points follow: 1. The median Oregon family earns about $6,000 a year and pays S582 in federal income taxes and S91 in slate income taxes. 2. Oregon fundamentally has a fair stale tax sys tem based on the ability to pay. 3. The average citizen spends much more for lux uries than he pays in state income taxes. 4. Most of the proposed increases in the federal budget are for new weapons or the exploration of space. 5. Most of (he proposed increases in Ihc state bud get arc for the continuation of existing programs, particularly in the area of education. 6. More money is needed for slate support of edu cation because there are more students to be educated. 7. There is little the average Oregonian can do about his major lax burden, the federal income tax, since there is no way to refer the federal tax to a vote of the people. 8. The stale income tax, on the other hand, can be referred lo popular vote and defeated, as was the last lax increase voted by Hie legislature in 1959. 9. Too often the taxpayer reads against the stale income lax and existing state programs, which he can defeat, when he is really unhappy with the federal in come lax and the cost of the cold war, which he can not reach. 10. Thus Ihe legitimate needs of the school children of Oregon for slate funds may be jeopardized this year because Ihe people are burdened by the billions spend by the federal government. 11. Prudence and economy in spending tax dollars are among Ihe highesl duties of a public official. A legislator should vote on state expenditures with the same care as if the money was coming out of his own pocket. 12. Education and other budgets must be severely tested to determine whether they reflect genuine need. 13. Once the level of need is determined, then and only then can Ihe decision be made what taxes have to be levied. 14. History may well judge this legislature, and the citizens who have the right to refer tax measures, by our willingness to pay lor essential public services, especially the needs of the youth of Oregon. ALL of what Senator V illner said is true, and ,tir,t;l tinniiln vvlin ll o vo flmllo'hf ulinll! Illomill- ter will have to agree. But, sadly, too many people have not thought about the matter; have not bothered to inform themselves of the needs; have meivly registered their opposition to increased taxes without acknowledging the need for them. The story of why more money is needed, par ticularly m education at all levels has been told many times, but it bears retelling. It is simply this: There are more children to be educated, and there is more need for im proved quality in education. If the cost of liv ing has increased, the cost of a good education has increased more rapidly. E. A. Withholding Repeal Speaking of taxes, there is a movement under way (doomed, fortunately, to failure) to abolish the withholding feature of the federal income tax. The theory is this: The majority of all taxpayers make their pay ments through deductions from their regular pay check, thus never actually see the money, and tend to think in terms of take home pay, rather than full salary. This is a relatively "painless" way to pay. Hut, if they hail to save up over a year in order to make a lump-sum payment of their entire income tax, either quarterly or annu ally, they would realize how much they are pay ing. The resulting screams would cause Congress to cut down unnecessary spending. TMIIi theory, in all probability, is true. Hut those who would test it, by eliminating withholding, are thoroughly irresponsible. How much of the spending of the federal gov ernment is "unnecessary"? Some, probably. Hut one man's "unnecessary spending" is another man's "vital program." tine man's "waste in government" is another man's "necessary expen diture." Despite all the talk, we cannot convince our self that (.'ongress is dominated by reckless was trels and wild-eyed spenders. Certainly each appropriation measure undergoes the most searching scrutiny, and we doubt that there are many spending programs that do not have ade quate justification. IVyiOST of the spending, as a matter of fact, is 1T1 for war for wars past and for military and space needs designed to prevent war if pos sible, or for defense if needed. Would any real iist cut this amount significantly? If so, where? jit is to make these decisions that we must trust the judgment of our elected representatives. ! Likewise, who eould cut where, and how iinuch, from welfare payments, health research, 'highway construction, air traffic control, and 'he ! others? Here too is where the collective judg ment of the Congress is entrusted. We may dis agree with specific programs, but we must also realize that they probably represent the will of the majority. Any proposal which could lead to a massive tapacr' revolt the repeal of withholding could ilo ju4 that ould imperil the nation's .cwit.T iikl Uuiliji'. K, A. 0 O "Dam Yankee South Carolinians, Georgians, Lousianians, Tennesseans, Arkansans, North Californians, Floridians, Texans, Virginians " "C l r 1: ' I ' ir.n r aK fell '9nWrx:M Reform Movement, Sparked by Shah of lran Revives Hope for New Progress Ml Communications Letters to Ihe Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted lor publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often Ihe case. Game Management cently that an atomic war be To the Editur: in the news lately, we have seen a great deal of fuss and furor over the hunling of docs in Oregon. Although this issue may not seem important to the aver age citizen, the consequences attached lo the outcome of Ihe issue could be. Perhaps 250,000 people in this state enjoy the sport of deer hunt ing, and many more indivi duals derive income from il (motels, sporting goods stores, etc.). The quality of the hunt ing experience and the proba bility of success materially af fects a lot of people. For this reason we must weigh the arguments on this controversy with objectivity and reason. Groups of hunters all over the state arc attempting lo force the game commission to stop doe hunting. Those per sons who arc sentimentally opposed to hunting arc not in volved in this battle because their arguments are honest ly based on emotional sympa ly for wild animals. But for hunters and others who are interested in sound game man agement; who consider deer as a crop lo be harvested, this battle is very much in their sphere. The game commission, bas ing its management of the deer herd on scientific princi ples, the best available biolog ical information, and surveys to determine population and range trends have adjusted hunting seasons to produce maximum healthy numbers of deer, while at Iho same time, taking other factors such as agriculture and forestry into consideration. To those who oppose the game commission's manage ment practices and want to change lliem by petitions lo the governor and bills in the legislature, I would say; yes the game commission lias probably made some mistakes. Who hasn't? Bui if you force the game commission into management practices a n d seasons on the basis of peti tions, votes and emotionalism, you will have utter chaos. You cannot petition oil and water lo mix for obv ious reas ons, and you can't petition a doer herd lo be numerous and healthy. It takes scientific management by trained and experienced biologists, who see the wond.s and the animals more oflen than once every hunting season. At last Saturday's ineciiitg tween tile United States and Russia would involve 75,000, 0UII deaths in the first 18 hours. That is not just his per sonal opinion, nor is it a parly line statement. 1 think the speakers and letter writers to whom I re fer would do well to ponder the following excerpt from the writings of the imminent astronomer. Dr. Harlow Shapley, Dean Emeritus of Harvard University: "From the scientific prog ress on many fronts emerges the need for ever new atti tudes toward religion and philosophy. We need an ethi cal system suitable for now -for this atomic age - rather than for the human society of 2000 years ago. "We need a new set of principles for the guidance of today's deciders and today's actors on the international stage. The scientists' atom has made good will, good fel lowship, social justice more than ever necessary if degra dalion or even extinction is lo be avoided. To our problems, especially to our multiracial, multinational problems, peaceful approaches arc de manded. Angry men cannot resolve our social and politi cal dilemmas. Big national angers tan no longer be tol erated if man is lo survive. For anger leads to action and reaction and to counter - re action. If atomic war tools are available to angry and vain and slupid men, and are used - then a grim final cur tain will close the human play un this planet. It will be truly a judgment day - a day of our own bad judgment. The galaxies will continue lo o latc without concern for little planet No. 3 and ils highest life (which is not quite high enough)." Clarence M. Crews 47IIU North Pacific Highway Central Point, Ore. Detroit Fluoridates To the Editor: In view of the continuing interest in the efforts of responsible groups to fluoridate our fluoride deficient water, the inclosed news item from the Dental Times may he of significance to your readers. Il has been the policy of the municipal governments of Ihe large cities to do exhaus tive siiiriies of all available data before accepting fluorida tion as safe and ellcctivc. U is interesting In note that ihe on doe hunling. sponsored by I community leaders ol Detroit the Oregon Fish and t;.ime Council at Ihc I'pper Apple-! gate Grange, the niimr com-j mission was badly abused verbally by the anti-doe hunt ers. Bui tor all tile heal gener ated, il w as ev ident thai (hoc people had no concrete evi dence on which to base their complaints. When the day comes that they can present some scic'i lihcally valid tacts to back t:p their arguments, Ihen reason able people will listen. I'nlil then, my ;uiuo is not In sin any petciens so se.ullily ha. ked by t.i, Is as Ihe doe petitions, and it ou favor deer ni.ili.igeieiit en a scientific basts, let our voices be heard Fdi;ar A. Kupillas l;il7 Winchester ave Medlord Judgment Day To the Kdiloi. Fn'in Oicc to lime, since nun in- to 'Ins arc, i. I have he.itd r.niiii ui dresses or iv.i,( letters in vuir "I'eiiiinunic.i I ion'' celu m n s. inveighing ac.nnst peacriul coexistence villi !!usm,i I'nc speakers and wiiuis een quote scripture ui suppon of the supposed vniue ot then contentions. Yet tin tact is clear In o'i,1 eisptitc lii.i! Ilic (liriii.riir ;o pe.icetnl d'evMt nee I lui tual evcimiii.iM.'H. l'i-!,1ci Kennedy has sl.ned re-- have concluded that it is David P. Englcson, D D S , IM I'raer Lake ave., Medlord . O Editor's note: The article lollnws: I'litoi id.itecl water will be pipe ! to more than three and a hall million people in the lv:;vit area beinnin some li ne in 1 ! li -4 This was prc dic:e, by Dr William Travis, chairman of the Fluoridation Committee "f t'ie Detroit Dis trict IVnt.il Society, after the Cc Council voted 7 to 1 last m!i!':i to fluoridate tiie city water siipp'y. The succes.-'iul veic i!iin.'ed a 14-year cani p.in by Detroit dentists and chei coiumuiuiy loaders Wild Cats 'l'ii the h'dlb'! U nil ha e t i1- epic speaks' column. I i'''.ild appicciale our pub lishiii Ihis An open Idler to Hep John Dell, nb.u k With so many really i'li poi lam nv.iMilcs m Ihe Scn alo ,i:'d Ih'iisr, our w iki ani mal coiitiol measure sounds tiem these pre: Iv si.unino: 1 Au !. , l.'l I .! ("!' lip 111,-1 e : m. Vivo ad run, :io .oiltrel is a unit ies am! counties. Iciisl.iimn to set more bureaus. uu;i::es aireadv e , 'overage -nut v, By PHIL NEWSOM UP1 Foreign Newt Analyst From the air, flying north ward from the Persian Gulf to Tehran, the land below ap pears as arid and desolate as the moun tains and val leys o f the the moon. Then there is Tehran spraw ling outward from the crowded mar ket places to the modern buildings of the university and to spacious new apartment houses. In the southwest of Iran are Arabs still living in the days of the slave traders. In the north, on the borders of Russia, are Turkish-speaking descendants of the Aryans. On the land live 17 million of Iran's total population of 21 million, cultivating tiny plots or grazing livestock. Perhaps two million of them Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci Field Enterprises, Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES The men who succeed in Iheir own lifetime are gener ally those who know how to play upon the weaknesses of other men; but those who achieve immortality are the ones who know how to call upon the strengths of other men, not merely for their own time, but for centuries to come. Speaking of the different sorts of success, it seems to me that reputation is a bal loon thai must be blown up by others, not by oneself; the man who blows up his own balloon inevitably gives the one extra exhala tion of breath that bursts the balloon into fragments. Much, if not most, of the trouble in personal affairs is caused by people who make difficulties for themselves when they really have no choice. Once we assuage our conscience by calling some thing a "necessary evil," it soon begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil thus do societies, in every age, jus tify anything from slavery to atomic-bomb tests. When politicians ask citi zens to make "greater sacri fices" for their country, I am always reminded of Uncle Remus's fine command: "You do do pullin'. Sis Cow, en I'll do rie gruntin'." If the conservative vice is narrowness, the liberal vice is self-righteousness; as Anatole France said of a liberal of his day: "He flat tered himself on being a man without any preju dices; and this pretension it self is a very great preju dice.'' Progress in understanding is so slow for the principal reason that in order to ask the right questions, one must al ready know a good share of the answers. It is a public myth that actors must "feel their part" in order lo project such feeling lo the aud ience; only the actor who has achieved emotional "distance" from the role can project effectively for acting is a form of se duction, and as Hazlitt said, "An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself." The hardest person in Ihe world to bear with equanim ity is a prosperous fool. It is the falsest of meta phors lo call marriage "a lottery"; for In a lottery we choose numbers by chance, but in a marriage our choic es are determined by our unconscious drives, and the "number" we pick is relet ed to our deep needs for gratification or punishment, or both. The worst bore is the pro found bore, who mistakenly believes that his erudition makes up for his lack of charm. own the land they work, the others receiving from the great landowners seed, live stock and primitive tools and in exchange pay back to the land-owners four-fifths of all they raise. Occasionally for Iran's rest less masses there has been hope, only to be beaten back each time by corruption with in the government, by the landowners, the Moslem mul lahs resistant to change and by entrenched power. This week there once more was hope, sparked by the most determined reform program yet to be undertaken by Iran's 43-year-old Shah Mo- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Interesting news: The U.S. Forest Service is advertising for sale an esti mated two million tons of old pine stumps in an area includ ing a million and a quarter acres on the Winema, Fremont and Deschutes national for ests. These stumps are the re mains of trees that were cut for lumber some two or three decades ago. It is estimated that by the time this two million ton sale is completed an additional 2,700,000 tons of old pine stumps will be available in the Winema- Fremont-Deschutes national forest area. From there on, a large vol ume of stumpwood is expected lo become available each year from the logging operations of the past several decades. WHY IS this so interesting? For an answer, let's go back to 1952, when some 3,000 tons of Ponderosa stumps from old cuttings on the Deschutes forest were har vested by the Hercules Pow der Co. and brought to Klam ath Falls, where a pilot plant for the extraction and experi mental processing of the chem icals in the old stumps had been set up. These chemicals included rosin, turpentine, pitch and tar products obtained in the past by tapping pine, cypress and other resinous trees and processing the sap. Rosin is one of the more important of these products. It is used in the preparation of synthetic resins like ester gum, bake lites, paints and varnishes, soap, as a sizing for paper, and in polishes and waxes. OVER THE long past, these have been known as "nav al stores." The Hercules pilot operation was designed to test the feasibility of securing these products from old stumps, rather than by tap ping the trees and processing the sap. It apparently proved un profitable because of low res in prices prevailing at that time. 'PHIS situation apparently I has changed-probably due to a depleting of pine stump wood in the Southeastern states. The U.S. Department of Agriculure. in a recent report entitled "The Outlook for Naval Stores," notes: "Ponderosa pine in the Western United States might provide a new domestic source of stumpwood for naval stores. Interest in this possibility is increasing as supplies of Southern pine stumpwood diminish." rpHE HERCULES Powder -- Company operation at Klamath Falls a decade ago was not designed as a commer cial plant. It was intended solely as an experimental project. Its purpose was to find out what commercial products could be obtained from old Ponderosa pine stumps. The community was told in advance that when this purpose was achieved the pi lot plant would be closed dovv n. The investment was some where in the neighborhood of a million to two million dol lars, and when the experimen tal studies were completed it was regarded as having been highly successful. Not only was resin obtained in commer cial quantities from the old Ponderosa stumps, but a w ide range of other chemical products. vour hill would require a separation and or duplica tion. 3 Such a hill, if Ihe right people ever get wind of it could make Oregon a laugh ing stock in the country. Whv don't you withdraw this bill" Kathleen Gee 3747 SE Uth ave. Portland 'J, Ore. S It is intensely interesting to learn that the Forest Serv ice is planning to offer for sale Ponderosa pine stump. wood in LARGE quantities over a long period of time This initial sale of stump wood will require installation, il is announced, of a multi million dollar chemical dis tillate plant somewhere in the area. The sale contract will require the successful bidder Editor's note; In the inter- j to show that he lias expended cs's of fairness, it should be i at least a quarter of a million pointed out 1 1 the bill in ques- ! dollars for detailed design and lion is enabling legislation to specifications for a pine dis ailmv counties winch do not tillate plant, now have wild eat control to The REALLY interesting establish it. i2 that it would : part of the project lies in the not affect counties which now i fact that WOOD CHEMISTRY 'nave such control meviian-1 appears to be finally about to d hammed Reza Pahlevi Ruling by decree, the shah ordered a nationwide refer endum to vote on a six-point program which would end Iran's landlord - serf system, give workers a greater share of national income, provide "fraud proof" electoral laws and declare war on illiteracy. Women participated in the voting for the first time and the final count gave the shah margin of victory of around 1,000 to 1. The same elements which had frustrated reform in the past, opposed the shah now. But supporting him were thousands of farmers and workers who trekked to Teh ran to shout support for his program and "death to traitors." Students who opposed the ment trick were attacked and driven from the university grounds. Police broke up an attempt, ed three-day strike by relig. ious leaders. Within the last year and a half the shah has distributed to 50,000 peasant families two million acres of private land. On the eve of the referen dum, he announced he was giving up more than three million acres of royal land on the Caspian coast. The land reform law pro vides a unique method of compensation for lands taken from the owners. In the past, landowners as sured tax officials that they were making little profit from their land. As a means of de termining land values, the government now is going back program as another go1 em-j to the old tax records. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate WHAT HAS GONE WRONG Washington - Gen. de Gaul le, seems to have the knack of stirring the American gov ernment t o use to the full its consider a b 1 e powers of self - delu sion. In some policy mak ing quarters, for instance, the word is being official- Alinp ly passed tnai "we can outwait" the French President. If this means anything at all, it must mean that Presi dent Kennedy will be in the White House long after Presi dent de Gaulle has left the Elysee' Palace for Colombey-les-Deux 'Engliscs or, just possibly, Valhalla. The chances are, of course, just the other way round. The General is highly un likely to oblige the State De partment by dying. Morally, power may corrupt, but medi cally the rule is that all pow er preserves, and absolute power preserves absolutely. With a firm, preservative hold on almost absolute pow er, and no constitutional amendment to set a term to his Presidency, de Gaulle is an excellent bet to outlast Kennedy in office. WORSE still, the underesti mate of the terrible Gen eral's durability is only the least important of several un derestimates that now previal here. The most important is the persistent underestimate of the underlying strength of de Gaulle's position in Eu rope. To American policy-makers, who keep fussing about "world opinion" and are al ways longing to be liked, there is something improba b 1 e, almost inconceivable, about a strong position based on complete readiness to be thoroughly disliked. And de Gaulle's position is very strong indeed, precisely be cause he cares only about im posing his will, and not at all about being popular. He has the leverage to im pose his will, in turn, be cause of the wide difference between the Gaullist view of the European Common Mar ket and the German. Italian, and Benelux view. The Gaul list view was expressed to Ihis reporter a few weeks ago in Paris by Prime Minister Pompidou. De Gaulle's clos est collaborator attributed Europe's superb economic forward surge entirely to classical economic causes, and he denied that the Common Market had helped at all. TTOLD1NG Ihis opinion of " the Common Market. Gen. de Gaulle clearly believes that the Europe of the Six has no value except as a pol itical instrument - more spec ifically, as a political instrum ent that he can use as he pleases. Holding Ihis opinion, in fact, he must feel justified in destroying the Common Market if it does not serve as his political instrument. The other five European powers, meanwhile, are con vinced that the forward surge of the European economy is entirely attributable to the Common Market. They credit it with their present prosper ity, and they regard it as the main hope of greater pros perity in the future. In these circumstances. Gen. de Gaulle can go very far in bullying his European partners. They will heartily dislike his use of Europe as a Guallist political instrum ent. They will grumble and complain and make anti-de Gaulle jokes. But they will be intensely reluctant to jeop ardize the supposed source ol their own prosperity, by flat, ' final, and absolute resistance to de Gaulle's strong will. HPHESE points need to be stressed at this juncture, for two obvious reasons. First of all, the existing mess in the Western Alliance will bo made immeasurably worse it the next steps taken by the American policy - makers are not based on a truer estimate of de Gaulle's characler, pur poses, and strengths. Before any steps at all are taken, there should be a per iod of calm reassessment o all the factors in the Euro pean situation. But in the sec ond place, the Kennedy policy-makers ought also to re assess themselves. Larger numbers of intelli gent, able, and courageous men have rarely been as sembled in the American gov ernment. But these admira ble qualities can too easily be negated if men and situations overseas are not realistically assessed. Unrealistic assess ments have now led to a stag gering setback of American policy in Europe, and to tha gravest crisis within the West em Alliance since the end of the last war. QNE CAUSE of this is mo chanical. None of his pred ecessors has chosen better Ambassadors than President Kennedy. But none of his predecessors has so rarely asked his Ambassadors what the outlook was, what the re actions would be, in the countries to which he has sent them. Another cause of trouble, oddly enough, is that the Ken nedy policy - makers have an excessive faith in the ration altiy of mankind. They bc live that reasonable views, if clearly expounded, must tri umph in the end. But politics, alas, is rarely ruled by reason. Pride and prejudice, petty emotion and short range interest, more often take control. Much more realism is needed, in fact, along with much great er sensitivity to local situations. will Note to investigating committee: To find out what wen! isms, and .0 no state agency 1 enter tne industrial picture in . wrong in Cuba (or any wr. lor that matter), ack the netfior involved , this rcjion. 'whose ion didn't come back! O O
