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Medford and Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 1953 (Sunday)
A total of 164 pints of
blood has been pledged in
Medford and vicinity for the
Feb. 24 visit of the bloodmo
bile. Only one major gasoline
distributing firm - Shell Oil
company - was still selling
gasoline at the old prices to
day. 20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 1943 (Friday)
Bob Hardy, Ashland, signs
contract to pitch for Portland
Beavers baseball team.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Only
a week until March will de
cide to come in like a lion, or
a lamb, or not at all."
30 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 1933 (Sunday.
Eugene Circuit Judge G. F
Skipworth rules former Sher
iff Ralph G. Jennings wa
legal write-in' candidate tor
sheriff's office.
Approximately 2,000 unem
ployed persons registered In
Jackson county; County un
employed council urges Gov.
Julius Meier to appoint a
Jackson county relief com
mittee. 40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17. 1923 (Monday)
Councilman O. O. Alender
fer named vice-mayor of Med
ford. Rogue River High school
basketball team defeats Hill
Military academy 53 to 24.
50 YEARS AGO
Feb. 17, 1913 (Wednesday)
Jackson county District At
torney E. E. Kelly assumes
duties as county Juvenile pro
bation officer.
Some 00 national forest
rangers attending regional
conference In Medford
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine er ten correct li superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five or
sis is good.
1. Near what city is Santa
Anita race track?
2. What vole of the Con
gress is necessary for propos
ing amendments to the Consti
tution? 3. What three principal
metals are contained in stain
less steel?
4. Name the capital of Cal
ifornia. 5. What was Buffalo Bill's
last name?
6. From what clement are
diamonds composed?
7. Name the artist who
painted the famous "Blue
Boy."
8. How many centimeters
make up one meter?
9. Name two kinds of
American sea fish which as
cend rivers to spawn.
10. What is the lightest
known mclal?
Answers: 1. Lot Angeles,
Calif. 2. Two-thirds of both
houses. 3. Iron, nickel, chrom
lum. 4. Sacramento, i. Cody.
William F.). 6. Carbon. 7.
Thomas Gainsborough. 8. One.
hundred. 9. Salmon, shad
herring and some eels. 10.
Lithium.
Fresh Corn More
Costly, Experts Say
Washington, D.C. ilTI
Economists in the US depart
ment of agriculture says it's
cheaper to serve frozen or
canned corn than fresh corn
cut from the cob.
Four servings of frozen
corn will on the average, cost
the homcmakcr 24 cents; the
same amount canned, 23
cents; fresh, 30 cents.
'V
Dropout
Take the top 30 the brightest of every 100
pupils entering our bulging high schools this
month. Three of them will fail to graduate. Only
20 of them will go to college. Probably only 13
of them will stay in college until they get the
baccalaureate degree.
This is1 the meaning of statistics prepared for
the National Science Foundation on the awful
waste of school dropouts.
The trouble begins in high school. Of males
in the upper !J0 per cent of ability rating, 55 per
cent never become college graduates. One fifth
of these 20 out of every 100 do not finish high
school. Among girls in the top 30 per cent, only
9 per cent fail to finish.
e
TAKE the top 10 per cent of the ability range.
From this group 9 per cent are not graduated
from high school. (And of those who do graduate
in the top 10 per cent, one-fourth do not go on to
college.)
The Baltimore "Sun" recently called attention
to a federal study showing that 63 per cent of
that city's white adults had less than a full high
school education. The like figures for Negroes
was 80 per cent.
Of 21 other cities in
equaled Baltimore's high
whites. Three other cities
of Negroes lacking a
achievement Cincinnati,
81 per cent; and New
WHY do they drop out? Some of the answers
nva eiii'niMsinfr Thf Nafiniml Sripnpe Fniinrla-
tion concludes that the financial problem consti
tutes "the largest single reason for failure to en
ter college." But what about high school?
The Maryland Department of Education last
year conducted a state-wide survey. Jt showed
that the largest'nercentage of dropouts left school
at ace 16 and that almost
49.8 per cent were average or above average in
mental ability.
THE Federal Government agreed on Feb. 11 to
nrnuiVlo fiinrls fnr a rlpmnnsfrntinn nrnippr
aimed at retraining high school dropouts in high
unemployment areas of New Haven as industrial
draftsmen and laboratory technicians. A similar
project already is under
The Wash melon "Post
improvement" classes have saved many potential
dropouts. But thousands
tion s capital are not getting the reading training
they need because District schools have not been
cwen the necessary teachers.
' President Kennedy
the supply of scientinc and technical manpower
as one or cue mono critical prooiems iacinrr me
nn.. i
nation. If the problem ever is to be solved, some
new way must be found
potential talent represented by the high school
dropout. E.R.R.
Railroads and
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected on Mon
day to announce whether
court decision holding that the nation s railroads
liave the right to change
forced by five unions representing on-train work
ers. Fcatherbedding, according to the U.S. Sev
enth Circuit Court of Appeals, causes railroads
losses in "wage costs for unncetled employees oc
cupying redundant positions, pay for time not
worked, compensation that was not commensur
ate with the value of the services rendered, and
the cost of owning and
and facilities that would
lrom the restrictions placed upon the ethciency
and economy of operations."
THE United States Supreme Court is not likely
to overthrow that Appeals Court decision of
Nov. 2b, although it is being asked by the live
on-train unions to do so.
If the court rules against the unions, thus end
ing the legal phase of
versy over rail union work
ened in the rail industry.
tricate machinery of
would put off that eventuality for many months.
Whatever the outcome of the court battle, and
even the strike if any, the sign at the end of the
long tunnel says automate. The pressures on rail
roads to modernize at the expense of jobs arc
intense.
THE "Wall Street .Journal" reports that between
litoO and liKil "the railroad share of inter
city freight traffic dropped from 5(1 per cent to
43 per cent." In the same period, average ner
hour compensation for rail employees jumped (S
per cent, helping to squeeze profits on the reduced
share of that business.
The cluster of injunctions in rail labor-mana-agement
disputes pendant on the Supreme Court
decision in the current proceeding make it clear
that the decision will set a pattern for the indus
try. The railroads contend that automation will
make their linos more competitive by cutting
costs and rendering better service.
The alternative seems pretty clear. Now, just
as "0 years ago, doubt about ihe ability of rail
carriers to survive without public assistance is
widespread. E.IJ.R.
Dilemma
the study, only St. Louis
school dropouts among
had higher proportions
four - year high school
81 per cent; Atlanta,
Orleans, 85 per cent.
exactly half of them
way in New York Uty.
reports that "reading
of students in the na
has cited "inadequacy of
. 1 1 n it. .
of salvaging the great
Automation
it will review a lower
work rules currently en
maintaining equipment
not be required apart
the ;', year old controv-
rules, a strike is threat
But the purposely in
the Railway Labor Act
"You're Doing Fine, Boy Pretty Soon We'll
Put You Up Against Some Sparring Partner"
Matter of Fact By j0ePh aisop
' (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
THE PAPER UMBRELLA
Washington - "I shall only
say that the French nuclear
force, as soon as it is opera
tional, will
have the som
ber and terri
power to de
stroy in a few
instants m i 1
lions upon
millions of
men. This fact
cannot fail to
influence a
Alinp
potential ag
gressor, at least in some meas
ure."
These sentences from Gen.
de Gaulle's famous January
press conference deserve to
be weighed with minute care.
for they appear to contain the
missing piece in the puzzle of
de Gaulle's European policy.
Their crucial character was
underlined, as it were, by a
signal honor done to this re
porter. Immediately after the press
conference, an article ap
peared in this space pointing
out that the French deterrent
was highly unlikely to "influ
ence a potential aggressor,"
precisely because it would not
have the "somber and terrible
power" which Gen. de Gaulle
claimed for it.
The appearance of this ar
ticle in Paris caused the
French Minister of Defense,
Pierre Messmcr, to call a cau
cus of the Gaullist members
of parliament, in order to ex
plain why the reporter was
wrong and Gen. de Gaulle was
right. Clearly, therefore, the
highest importance is attached
to the "credibility" of the
French nuclear deterrent, and
not just to its credibility in
Soviet eyes, but also in
French and European eyes.
BEYOND doubt, Gen. de
Gaulle believes what he
said at his press conference,
and Messmcr believes what he
told the Gaullist deputies.
And since they are also ex
ceedingly anxious for every
one else to believe what they
believe, one must asuinc a po
litical motive.
The political motive is not
fur to stock, in turn, it you
consider the character of Ihc
Gaullist grand design for Eu
rope. The exclusive Europe
led by himself, which is Gen.
de Gaulle's aim, can never
be realized while the defense
of Europe depends entirely on
the American military pres
ence. De Gaulle cannot be
(irst while Kennedy is first
in Europe's defense. Hence
American military withdraw
al from Europe is ultimately
essential.
But the danger of remov
ing the American keystone of
Europe's existing defense sys
tem will at least be vastly re
duced, if France has mean
while acquired a nuclear force
that is genuinely capable of
"destroying in an instant mil
lions upon millions of men."
SUCH a nuclear force will
will not have the smallest
offensive value, when weighed
against the infinitely stronger
Soviet nuclear force. But ac
cording to the delrrreni the
ory of Gen. Pierre Gallois. '
who is Gen. de Gaulle's chief
advisor in these mailers, the
future French nuclear force
will have another sort of val-!
i tie of great importance. i
Place in Gen. de Gaulle's
ruthlessly courageous hands
this instrument supposedly j
capable of "destroying in an
instant millions upon mil-
lions" of Russians - capable,
in fact, of wiping out must of ,
the major cities of fiu.-sia this
I side of the Urals. What then
would be the situation of the I
i Kremlin?
The French nuclear force
j could of course be put out nf i
action Willi great ease, by a'
I pre-emptive Soviet nuclear '
I strike. But any Soviet nuclear
strike, even acainst Fiance
alone, would be almost cer
jtain to trigger an American!
' nuclear strike. j
7p
BY THE same token, how
ever if the French nucle
ar force were not put out of
action, any other Soviet mili
tary presure on Gaullist Eu,
rope would trigger a French
nuclear strike. The Soviets
could not then move west
wards without suffering the
somber and terrible conse.
quences outlined by Gen. de
Uaulle.
Such is the Gallois theory
which de Gaulle quite cen
taury believes. If he believes
this theory, and if he also be
lieves his own claims for the
French deterrent, it can be
seen that the de Gaulle de
sign for Europe is far from
being as lunatic as most Amer
ican policy makers believe.
For the existing American
defense of Europe, one must
asume that the French nucle
ar fore is de Gaulle's planned
substitute. It is to serve as
Europe's protective umbrella,
at any rate througout the per
iod of maximum danger after
American troops have been
withdrawn, or have been
pushed out of Europe, and be
fore the Europeans, under
Gen. de Gaulle's leadership,
have improved their own de
fenses by their own efforts.
It is not lunatic for Gen.
de Gaulle to believe that this
is possible, at least as long as
ne is tne man who wields the
French deterrent. His assump
tions, what he apparently be
lieves is perfectly logical. The
trouble is that the central as
sumption is incorrect. As now
planned, the French deterrent
will be a paper umbrella at
best, useless because obsolete.
as will be shown in a further
report.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
From the San Francisco
Chronicle;
Under Secretary James K.
Carr of the Department of the
Interior is optimistic about
the future of the govern
ment's saline water program
which, lie says, "is now ten
years old and is beginning to
show the results of just plain,
intelligent hard work."
The government has built
three demonstration plants
for desalting brackish or sea
water, and has two more un
der way. It lias seen the cost
of production drop from S3
a thousand gallons, and it
foresees the possibility of get
ting it down to as little as 30
cents per thousand gallons in
a large volume operation,
probably using nuclear pow
er. Reclamation authorities re
gard the 30 cent figure as
pretty optimistic. They cite
the fact that in tinusuallv
favorable conditions - ycar
arotind climate, adjacent big
city markets, etc. - it might
be possible to pay as much as
40 cents per thousand gallons
tS A POSSIBLE source of
water in Southern Cali
fornia - cither for municipal
purposes or (or irrigation in
the case of certain crops - it
sounds interesting.
But
Up here in Southern Ore
gon and Far Northern Cali
fornia, we don't talk about
GALLONS when we speak of
irrigation water.
We talk in terms of ACRE
FEET.
'piIAT's another story
There are 325.S)00 gallons
in an acre font of water. At
40 cents per thousand gallons,
that would be around SKH)
per acre foot of water At
even 3d cents per thousand
gallons, it would still be just
under MOO prr acre foot.
J Up this way, we arc goinit
I
Today & Tomorrow
By Welter
c! 1H3. The
UNITY AT THE BRINK
There would be less puzzle
ment about General de
Gaulle, I believe, if we began
by rccog n i z
ing that the
difference be
t w e e n us is
over the cold
war. The gen
eral writes
down to a de
gree which
Pre s i d e n t
Kennedy
would not
Lippmann
dare to do the military and
political threat of the Soviet
Union. That is why the gen
eral dares, as Mr. Macmillan
said on Monday, "to bring
the whole Western Alliance
into great jeopardy."
In the general's view, the
balance of power has turned
decisively against the Soviet
Union, and, consequently, the
Western Alliance is obsoles
cent and of diminishing im
portance. Once again, as is usual in
human affairs, a wartime
coalition begins to break up
as peace begins to break out.
qPHE general, it seems to me,
A is acting today on what is
likely to happen, but to hap
pen only in the future. Surely
It would be more prudent if
in our dealings with Mr.
Khrushchev, which are still
very difficult and dangerous,
the Western Alliance were
being consolidated rather
than disrupted. But the gen
eral has, of course, heard this
argument. He is unimpressed
by it.
However much we may
think that western unity is
paramount and imperative, he
does not in fact believe that
western unity is paramount
and imperative. We shall not
move him by crying out that
the Western Alliance is in
danger and that American
troops may be withdrawn
from Europe.
We may be sure that Gen
eral de Gaulle, who certainly
is not wanting in foresight,
has foreseen this possibility.
I would suppose he has satis
fied himself that what counts
most in the Western Alliance,
the American military com
mitment in Europe, is bound
to remain until Gaullist
Europe is strong enough
to deal on equal terms
with the Soviet Union. He
does not have to woo us. For
we are already indissolubly
married to Europe, and, until
the West and the East arrive
at an eventual peace, we can
not dissolve this marriage. In
the meantime, there is no
need to reward us for doing
what we have to do.
.
'PHIS is the right context, I
would say, in which to
study the question of "how,"
as Life magazine puts it, "we
shift our western nuclear
JENKINS
to have to depend on stream
flow, plus storage for our sup
plies of irrigation water.
At least, for quite a while
yet.
CTILL
We're not objecting to
i '-$p
government research in the competed in debate, cxtempo
ficld of taking the salt out nf I ri!'col's oratory, radio speech,
sea walcr.
We'll even go so far as to
suggest that a lot of federal
boondoggling b c abandoned
and the money thus saved de
voted to the problem of de
salting the waters of the sea.
Canada, U.S., Destined To Remain Close
By ERIC SEVAREID
Since the automatic re
flexes of a self-conscious
America are what ihcy are.
it is part of
the cur rent
4 c o n volitional
wisdom to s
s 11 m e that
P r c s i d e r t
Kennedy's dc
c I a r e d pur
pose of talk
ing turkey to
allies even ai
sevareie ihc n.-k of un
popularity has already conic
a cropper with the adminis
tration's famous statement
scolding the Canadian govern-
' mrnt tor not making up its
mind on the acceptance of
nuclear warheads
I ...
I This is surely not so: nor
; can it be true that the defense
, of tlie continent and hemi
spheric "solidarity" arc en
dangered, as the New York
Times gravely warns us.
I Whatever the terms of our
i joint defense arrangements
j with Canada, joint they will
I be; geography and common
j sense on both sides o( the
Mllth parallel will demand
this: and whalctcr Canada
ilocs will not 111 tlie future
affect our relations with the
1 rest of the hemisphere any
I more than it has in the past,
I winch is not much.
lippmann
Wathineton Pott
monopoly , . . into (an) alli
ance of genuine equals ..."
The inner core of our nu
clear monopoly is the fact that
only the President of the
United States lias authority to
use our nuclear weapons. Be
cause our nuclear weapons are
something like 98 per cent of
the nuclear strength of the
whole Western Alliance, no
other nuclear power, neither
Britain nor France, can in
fact fire a nuclear weapon
without the consent of the
President of the United Stales.
Neither General de Gaulle
nor Prime Minister Macmil
lan could conceivably use
their nuclear weapons unless
they knew for certain that
they were covered by the
United States against Soviet
reprisals.
e
THIS is the American nu
clear monopoly and to live
under its protection is, says
the general, "intolerable for
a great state." How are we to
arrive at a tolerable relation
ship? For there will have to
be a relationship between Eu
ropean and American nuclear
power - at least until that
very distant day when Europe
has a nuclear power of its
own capable of coping with
the Soviet Union.
The crucial problem of the
relationship turns on the ul
timate command decision to
use nuclear weapons. The
more closely we examine this
problem, the clearer it be
comes, I submit, that at the
final point of decision in war
there must be unity of com
mand. Coalitions cannot be con
ducted by committees in time
of war. in the whole process
of preparing and planning,
there is not only room but
need for committees repre
senting the members of the
coalition. But when there is
war, they must choose a Foch,
an Eisenhower, a MacArthur,
a Kennedy.
rpHE further we get from the
brink, the less do we have
to think about unity of com
mand (i.e., monopoly) and the
more we can think of a com
mittee of equals. For this
reason, it is most unlikely
that we shall find now a
theoretical solution of the
problem posed by our nuclear
monopoly.
The problem is most acute
when war is not imminent.
One can say that monopoly, or
unity of command, may be in
tolerable in peacetime. But it
is indispensable in wartime.
The great controversy today
about the monopoly is due
primarily to the relaxation of
the tension of the cold war.
The controversy would evap
orate if we were on the brink
of a great war.
County Students
Attend Tournament
Students from various
Jackson county junior highs
and high schools attended the
Linficld college speech tour
nament in McMinnville Fri
day and Saturday.
Attending are students from
Phoenix High school, Med
ford's junior high schools,
Medford High school, Crater
High school and Eagle Point.
The high school students
saicsmancniti n nrnrnM , . a
...awing, ivduuig oi original
poetry, impromptu and after
dinner speaking.
New to the contest this
year was the original poetry
division in which students
read poetry they had written.
I As to the now dethroned
prime minister, Mr. Dicfcn
bakcr, there is less there than
meets the eye. lie may indeed
campaign for reelection of his
parly this April to the sweet-and-sour
music of anti-American
passion, as now threat
ened, but it will be a muted
passion as were his expres
sions in two previous elec
tions. At bottom is the fact
that the blunt little scolding
from Washington was only the
occasion for the cabinet fall
in Canada, not its cause, and
all informed Canadians know
this.
...
Of course. Canada's fate is
rather helplessly linked to
ours: of course. Canada catch
es pneumonia when the Unit
ed States sneezes. It can never
be otherwise, given the facts
of geography, of the vast im
balance of power, and the
stead; development of what
is almost a common culture
indeed, almost a condition of
common citizenship. One
would have to look to the
relationship between Belgium
and Luxembourg, if not Brit
am and Ireland, for an anal
agous posture of so ereigntics.
Beneath the current contro
versy, which represents wave
action, not a sea-change, is the
natural yearning north of the
POTLUCK
POT LUCK AWAY...
Pass a French restaurant
with a sign reading "English
Spoken Here" and you can't
be any place but Los Ange
les. This is the many peopled
corner of the United States
that threatens to sink into
the ocean from the sheer
weight of being the biggest
of everything.
It is here where people are
no longer content just to be
merely upset. Now they con
fide to you in a soft shrill that
they're just getting over the
"hard hysterics".
Almost any place, you'll
see an automated oil pump
bobbing its animal-like head
for thirsty gulps of smog
juice. You can't help but
think what a wonderful thing
this would be to have in
your own back yard.
Turn on a TV set at seven
any morning and watch
Brodcrick Crawford in the
re-runs of the re-runs of
"Highway Patrol." This is
how L.A. wakes up after
never having gone to bed in
the first place.
Smile with smug country
sophistication as you pass the
dance palace where Laurence
Welk plays for dancing every
week end. Squares dancing?
Laugh a little bit at the
jammed, dirty "discount"
(tores where everything is
absolutely guaranteed . . .
until you get outside the
door.
Browse a little in an un
believably large book store
a few doors away from
Grauman's Chinese Thea
tre. Here you'll find a book
on any subject. Step light
ly for you might find your-
self walking on a bare
footed toe of a book looker.
Feci your lungs wince a
little bit as you lake in a
big breath of smog. Feel
your stomach rebel at the
taste of water not good
enough to match Bear
Creek water at low tide.
Feel sorry for your
friend who lives 250 blocks
from work on a four lane
freeway capable of letting
thousands of cars hurtle
along at five miles per
hour.
As the sun sinks slowly
into Farmer's Market, you
head, but happily, for ihe
Airport.
POT LUCK ALOFT . . .
Is it an air terminal or is it
a temple? You look around
"This is where they used io measure world opinion.
Thai's the trouble with being a powerful ration you
don't care what people think of you any morel"
border to develop and project
a "Canadian personality" in
the world of nations, and the
natural sense of being anony
mously drowned in the flood
of America's economic inter
ests and popular culture, not
all of which is civilizing or
even wholesome.
...
Canada is chained to us by
a trading system in which
some 60 per cent of her ex
ports are to the United States
and some "0 per cent of her
imports from the United
Slates; by American owner
ship of more than a quarter
of all Canadian industry; by
the saturating effects of Amer
ican magazines, movies and
television. Canada has it in
her power to do something
about all this; but she did not
accept thc.-e chains at the
point of a gun. She accepted
them, one by one, because Ca
nadians also like money and
because they have not gener
ated a contagious popular cul
ture of their own.
In world affairs, ihe truth
is not only that Canada has
generally been treated with
extraordinary c o n suierntion
by Washington, but that Can
ada has succeeded, partly be
cause of very able leaders in
the past years, in cutting a
swath far wider than he size
would normally permit. Mcx- i
to see if Amy Semple nice
pherson is standing there in
a flowing robe to greet you.
If you do it before they do
it, you have a chance to sneef
at the lucky passengers ar
riving at the terminal (11
minutes away from down.
town) in a helicopter with
a " wnat-n a p p e n e a to my
$11?" look.
In the door, down an esca
lator (we ran down the "up
one because of the president
fizzical phitness program) and
into the longest, mosaic
walled tunnel you've ever
seen. Then you walk . . . and
walk . . . and walk. Find your
gale and then rush down
another tunnel into the wait
ing plane. It you're fast
enough, you're assured a seat
by the window. If yours
an engine-watcher-nail-chewing
type, you just have to sit
by the window so you can let
the pilot know when to start
the ditching procedure.
As the jet plane rusheJ
down the runway, you won
der what happened to the 719
experimental models befora
they arrived at this Boeing
Jet 720. The aircraft makes
a wide sweep over the ocean,
(looks like the Pacific from
here) and heads north at a
speed you can only compute
in eggs. This is simply a mat
ter of dividing the total dis
tance by the length of lima
it takes you to eat your
breakfast egg. We note with
some satisfaction that our
plane is going an egg per hun
dred miles.
:'a
Is this ihe end, er are)
you setting down to land 1
at San Francisco? Assume '
me lauer ana iry io guess
water. You also wonder if'
ihe sharks would eat the
first class passengers first'
or the second class passen
gers second? No matter be- '
fane ihs nilnt 1 mnalinff '
a stewardess at Ihe bottom
of the Top O' the Mark.
.-'
POT LUCK AT HOME . .
Love that valley! Roxy Ann,
the Manor, Ml. Pitt, Ashland,
Medco, White City, the tin
roguish Rogue, the Not-So-Freeway,
Highway 62, Tabla
Rock, the runway, the ter
minal. Thank that terminal
for not looking like a temple.
POT LUCK AT HOME . . .
Next week . . . John Rccldy,
Edison Marshall, Seely Hall.
I Medford's famous. Reiiiem-
1 ber?-J W S.
ico has twice Canada's popu
lation, many times her influ
ence on Latin America, and
is a growing economic entity,
y e t we arc infinitely lesj
aware of Mexico's needs and
demands than those of Can
ada. One can almost say that if
there is danger of America
and Canada emotionallv and
intellectually drifting apart,
I in Ihc future, it would be be
cause we have been much too
close together in the past.
! .
But what cannot be said is
whal the generous - minded,
normally very wise Canadian,
.Mr. Bruce Hutchison, is now
I saying that - Canada is the
supreme test of ihe United
States' international morals.''
To act firmly, even blumlv,
on our defense demands to
ward Canada no more in
volve? our morals than did
De Gaulle's recent blow at
Britain l.ivolve his morais.
In both ca.-es. wisdom may
be involved, but hardly moral
ity The supreme test of Amer
ica's morality, in history, will
he whether America effective
ly acts upon the supreme ne
cessity of protecting and pre
serving the free civilizations
of Western life
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