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Medford and Jackson County
History from the file! of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Feb. 21. 1953 (Thunday)
Frank J. Van Dyke, Med
-I BtiA,n.u hnn heen elect
ed president of the Medford
Hotary clue.
Prospect and St. Marys
will open the Jackson county
rj hluh erhnnl basketball
league tournament here next
week.
20 YEARS AGO
Feb. 21. 1943 (Tuegday
D. O. Graham, James Hoey
and William F. Scheuman, all
o! Medford, leave for San
Francisco and Tacoma to take
examinations for entrance in
to U.S. Military academy.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Thirty
risiva huth Sentcmbcr. April,
June and November; all the
rest huve thirty-one, until w
hear from Washington."
30 YEARS AGO
Fab. 21. 1933 (Thunday)
Jackson County Sheriff
Gordon L. Schermerhorn,
Chief Jailer John Glenn, Ash
land, and others jailed as bal
lot theft suspects.
Medford Hifle club starts
purchasing ammunition at its
own expense after federal
government drops aid to all
such organizations.
40 YEARS AGO
Feb. 21. 1923 (Friday)
First "nightriding" case ex
pected to get under way soon
on circuit court in Jackson
ville. Mayor Earl Gaddis, with
bucking of city council, fires
entire Medford fire depart
ment and names Roy Elliott
as chief.
SO YEARS AGO
Feb. 21. 1913 (Sunday)
Medford Street Commit-
sioner Owney Patton rcporls
approaches have been filled
for new bridge over Bear
creek on East Main st.
O. G. Vroman, Medlord
outfits motorcycle to carry
100 pounds of mail for "rapid
fire rural deliveries.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct ii superior;
seven or eight il excellent; five or
six il good.
1. Identify these Toms; the
skeptical Tom of the Bible
the larcenous Mother Goose
Tom.
2. A fish cannot live in wa
ter that has been boiled; true
or false?
3. Do the tradewinds blow
from southeast, southwest
northeast or northwest (two)?
4. What presently impris
oncci labor leaders name
rhymes with the term for
eight quarts dry measure?
8. What famous Revolution
ary War lady bore the maid
en name of Elizabeth Gris-
com?
6. In the nursery talc, who
went to London to sec the
Queen ?
7 What stale is directly
south of South Dakota'
o. is bpringneirl. Ill, or
Memphis , Tenn., further
west?
9. According to legend
what infants were suckled by
a wolf and fed by i wood
pecker?
10. What historic and po
etic event started on April
18?
Answarsi 1. Doubting
Thomas, Tom, lorn the Pi
per's son, 2, True. 3. S.E. and
N.E, 4. Dava Back. (Pack) S.
Beliy Ross. 6. Pussy eat, pus
sy cat. 7. Nabraika. 8, Mem
phis. 9. Romulus and Ramus.
10. Paul Rivera's rid.
NATIONAL
tLsnUAni tl, molt
Let It
A legislative committee has tabled the so
called "Liberty Amendment." It is to be com
mended.
This bit of know-nothingism is the tired old
"23rd Amendment" dressed up in new clothes,
and, despite the fact that it has been approved
by legislatures in a few less enlightened states,
deserves short shrift from anyone who knows, or
cares, about the realities
In brief, it would repeal the 16th Amendment
to the U.b. Constitution,
and take the federal government out of all enter
prises not specifically mentioned in the Constitu
tion. v
It would, in short,
tion, turn the nation's
and disrupt everything
ice and Bureau of Land Management, to the
space program.
X7HAT is it doing in
TT Well, knowing full well that no Congress
would ever pass such a suicidal and asinine pro
posal, the proponents, stemming from the ultra-
conservative end of the political spectrum, are
usincr the device of getting state legislatures to
petition ior tne enactment 01 the proposed
amendment to the Constitution.
If two thirds of all the states make such ap
plication Congress must convene a constitutional
convention. Should this convention then adopt
such an amendment, it would be returned to the
states for ratification. If ratified by three fourths
of them, it would be adopted as part of the Con
stitution,
ONLY a few more things need to be said:
This proposal is ludicrous; it would make a
shambles of orderly government at a time when
we need every bit of intelligence and balanced
authority we can muster
It doesn't stand a prayer of being adopted
oy two iniras 01 tne states, let alone Deintr rati
fied by three fourths of
.Because 01 these facts,
would do well to save its
thing die swiftly. E.A.
Tax Filing Fee
We received a friendly
other day, which read, in
"... I wonder if you will do a favor for a lot of
us common folks; use your pen to blast the contemp
lated $5 tax filing fee. Tell them to get on the tails
ot those chaps in Salem and kill the bill. Not too many
of us have an extra five floating around, and when
the Mrs. and I do, we'd a damn sight rather spend it
on a needy neighbor kid then send It to Salem for
, so-called expenses."
Well, offhand, we find it impossible to fulfill
tnis request, and lor several different but related
reasons.
. One is that we know, for a fact, that the
state's need for additional tax funds for the com
ing biennium is real, not phoney.
N LAYING out a tax program, it is easy to say
soak tne rich, and "tax according to ability
pay." But this doesn't always make for a crood
to
and fair tax program, nor, equally important,
does it always raise the amount of money needed
to operate tne state and the services it performs,
the most important of which is in education.
A Yo tax tiling fee may or may not be a fair
ay to "spread the burden" and "broaden the
w
ase," or even to obtain tax income from those
,'ho otherwise would nay nothinc as their sharp
of the state's expenses.
Ut ana. by itself we see but little merit in the
proposal. But, in combination with other tax pro
gram features, it might very well be desirable.
Ar'n t . i . ..
vv e ii nave 10 examine tne recommendations of
the house taxation committee before we are in a
position to judge.
This much we do know, however, and it is
that all Oregonians had best be prepared to pay
somewhat more in taxes, unless they are also int-
i ....... ; i ii i '
ciicu iu m:u state services notaoiy education
damaged. E.A.
Deer Guard
Who among those who have driven western
highways at night has not
rience of seeing bright
ii om me nignway or roadside ahead;
Deer, when blinded bv headliirhts. usually
"freeze." And if they do so in front of a speeding
car, the result can be disastrous, not only for the
deer but for the motorist, too. Quite a number of
nignt-diiving motorists
their car struck a deer.
No one seems to have thought of a way of
countering this danger, except to put up warning
signs in areas where deer Ireqiiently cross the
road.
IN THE Netherlands, however, it seems they
have the same problem, and have come up with
an idea which reportedly helps.
The National Wildlife Federation reports thai
the wily Dutch are mounting small mirrors on
lender posts placed in
from each other in places frequented by deer.
The mirrors are angled so that they reflect head
light beams into the woods. As a car approaches,
these reflected beams sweep through the trees.
At a distance of about SO feet, the beams are
greatly enlarged, and,
"when the deer get such
eyes they freeze, and the
wonder if it would
t
Die
of the world of today.
abolish the income tax,
effectively disarm the na-
economy into a'tailspin,
from the U.S. forest Serv
,
the Oregon legislature?
in a dangerous world,
them.
the Oregon legislature
breath and let the silly
note from a reader the
part, as follows:
had the startlintr expe
and shining eyes staring
have been killed when
twos across the hiehwav
the report continues,
a flash of light in their
accident is prevented."
work in Oregon? E.A.
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The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condensation. Letters submitted for 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 the case.
Differing View
To the Editor: I notice a
great many letters reach the
editorial desk which place
great emphasis upon religion
as a restorative for man's
many ills. Usually, the Bible
is quoted stressing this bit of
literature as "the Word of
God."
I, too, find a great deal of
Interest in religion, and in the
book that largely upholds the
Christian religion, along with
that of Israel. Very good, I
am surel However, I am one
who does not regard religion
as it reaches man as being im
posed upon man by God Him
self. I verily believe that all
religions, past and present,
have served and do serve a
very good purpose for man's
uplift, easement of care, and
useful as well, in many cases.
as a guide book for living life
to the best advantage.
But 1 consider the "salva
tion offering" they carry as
largely temporal. Pardon me
for differing with so many
of you.
F. C. Esteb,
P.O. Box 342,
Medford.
Fatal Blow
To the Editor: The noblest
prize for urest asininity surely
prize for purest asininity sure
ly goes to John E. Ring for his
as a righteous placation for
future population explosion.
Our great grandchildren
would be emasculated and de
feminized on receipt of their
eighth grade diplomas so that
tomorrow's petting would
never lead to malinir. The uni
versal law of the attraction of
the sexes, prelude to procre
ation, would be fully voided.
Our God of all nature would
be so offended, the very 'es
prit des corps' of Man would
be ended.
Procreation may not be re
moved from sex without end
ing the pursuit of happiness.
All music would be stilled as
would all poets and all choirs.
Life would be a scientific
satiety. And legal sterilization
would be a fatal blow to all
natural security.
And - were we living - we
could no longer paen our
Valley with our Matin:
Oh God! Each wondrous morn
I thank Thee 1 was born!
William Thomas Cuddy,
V.A. Domiciliary,
White City, Ore.
Dilferant Approach
To the Editor: Yours was a
article on Automation he.
cause it dealt with an immerli.
ate. pressing problem of flesh
and blood people. It actually
tackled the need Instead of
dealing with theories, pre-
cepts. the distant future.
morals, and tradition. In
short, people have to eat
whether it is moral or not. I
If an epidemic is raging now-
adays. tile medical profession
doesn't consider whether the
course is traditional and con-
forms with past-conceived
principles; they tackle it I
with scientific techniques 't is USA's only member
whether the disease is moral, of the native Order Stercu-
right, or whatever its course, liaciae. Paleobotanist T. A. D.
they try to stamp 1' out. Cockerel!, discoverer of 2
It wasn't always that way. Dawn Roses found, however.
The University of Paris in the fossil stericulias in the Colo
nth Century, composed of ; rado Miocene of 30.000.on0
rareiuny cnoscn scnolars,
spent their lives studying fun-1
damental principles to make i
a unified whole out i
learning of the tune.
f the
They I
had a distrust of Immediate
practical advantage and a
fear of the mysterious and
impending moral disaster ly
ing in wait to destroy the na
tional character of a people
who deserted fundamental
principles to gain present
ends. The approved remedy
for fever was bleeding to re
lieve the obnoxious vapors
I
MAIL JHlBUnt, Mt-UtOHU, OKfcGON
bear the name and address of
and poisons in the body. Peo
ple died from the treatment,
but they died for a medical
principle, so it was thorough
ly worthwhile.
In 1638 the Jesuits in Peru
discovered quinine and had
remarkably good results with
it, but the U. of Paris de
clared its use unconstitution
al and banned the drug. For
tunately, unlearned people
kept forgetting the great
moral principles involved and
used it when concealed in
other substances and admin
istered by quacks.
Nowadays physicians are
more concerned with scienti
fic techniques, but the old
way controls most of our
thinking about the body poli
tic today. Techniques are
overlooked in a search
universal, eternal truths.
for
dif-
Your approach was
fcrent.
Frank Crum
White City, Ore.
Science Is for the Girls
To the Editor:
Things have been added, as
years go by,
To keep us together and
please the eye:
There's a glow to our powder-
and tint on our hair,
And bumps for the bumps
that just are not there.
There's pills for the liquid
that used to be blood.
And pep pills to take to
"cut up that rug."
With all that to help and
more on the way,
Why worry for tomorrow
let's live today.
P.S. This is what happens
when the fog rolls in and the
office isn't busy-and the boss
is out of town.
Florence Deemer,
242 Vashti Way,
Medford.
Slop Worrying
To the Editor: So many peo
ple are worried about the
possibility of over-population
in the near future that I offer
this comforting thought to
allay their fears.
Automation will take care
of that problem. With auto
matic gadgets doing most of
the work in homes as well as
in offices and factories, chil
dren will become more and
more a nuisance. There won't
be anything for them to do.
They will be in the way.
Of necessity, families will
be smaller. Stop your worry
ing. David Frisch
P.O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Cllm' I Changing
To the Editor: Fremont fol
,owei Jcdcdiah Smith across
'Great American Desert." The
Blble Ttcr camped where
now ls Sacramento State col-
lrsc- "s Arboretum grows
rremonua raiiiornica, also F
mexicana. Thereby a tale
rremont crossed the Sier-
ras' r reached a mountain
la,pr named for him, ' Mt
Fremont." In 1880s. writer
ootanuing, lounn growing
there this plant botanists had
christened "Kremontia
?ri hko. tins wun Dawn
Elephants. Dawn Camels. I
Dawn Morses. His predictions
about a Miocene tsetse tlv
ending their existence alone
would make him famous.
This botanical family Lou
is practically tropical. Repub
lic of Panama s national tree
is a Slericula. The order in
cludes the cacao which yields
our chocolate.
Old Timer complains. "Cli
mate is changing " Perhaps
not in his generation. A paleo
botanist, however, wonders
Touchy Problems Remain, But
Japan-Korea Relations Remain
By PHIL NEWSOM
UP1 Foreign News Analyst
Former President Syngman
Rhee of the Republic of Korea
used to blow on his finger
nails In sub-
conscious
memory of
Japanese tor
ture during
his days as a
Korean revo
L5Ll
lutionary u n
d e r Japanese
o c c u pation.
Hatred of Ja-
"arson
p a n has, in
fact, been a constant in the
Korean emotional structure
ever since the end of World
War II which took Korea
from the Japanese and made
it an independent republic.
It was Rhee who set the
line on Korean fishing waters
60 miles off the Korean coast
and regularly seized the crews
and vessels of Japanese fisher
men who violated it. After
Rhee fell, both the civilian
the writer, although under
about stericulas in Colorado.
Perhaps the climate has
changed in 30,000,000 years.
C. M. Goethe
3731 Tea st.
Sacramento, Calif.
Pollution
To the Editor: Years ago,
in 1913 to be exact, my family
forded Bear creek at Main
Street. We watered our team
there. We had camped on the
gravel bar near the ford just
below the bridge. It seemed
to be a beautiful stream. But
look at it now. In the summer
it is a slowly crawling sewer,
full of scum and moss. We
are spending money and la
bor trying to clean up the
mess.
But lo and behold, we are
getting ready to make a mess
out of Ashland creek by pro
moting a skiing area on Mt.
Ashland. It has been suggest
ed to spend county funds on
building a two lane highway
from the top of the Siskiyous
to Mt. Ashland. Also to keep
it open through the winter
months.
What will this do? The most
of the soil is of a fine granite
formation, through which
water seeps very readily. So
nere is the story.
Open the road - let the
litter bugs in (as we know
they are the dirtiest and trash
scatteringest people on earth).
They will clean all the gar
bage out of their cars and
dump it on the snow, to decay
and seep into Ashland creek.
Il won't be long until Ashland
creek will be full of slime and
moss as it flows through
Lilhia Park.
This will be the swill that
the people in Ashland will
have to drink. Then fluori
date. It seems to be spend money
to clean up a mess and spend
money to make a bigger one.
E. E. Collom
629 Lozier Lane
Medford
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c. Field Enterprises. Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
To ask the right question,
it is necessary that we already
know much of the answer;
and those who do not know
are perpetually condemned to
be asking the wrong questions
and getting no satisfactory re
plies. One can always tell whin
a criticism strikes home,
for tha person criticised
promptly gels angry and
counterattacks; when it
mines its mark, tha penon
merely shrugi or smiles or
calmly ignores it.
Some people are incapab'.e
of assuaging their own se
cret doubts until they have
persuaded others; in the very
act of zealous conversion,
they are stifling their own un
certainties while kindling the
beliefs of others
When the Corporation
speaks to tha Employe!, it
customarily nyi thl things
that it would like to hiar,
and not what tha Employee
would naceiiarily like to
hear; thui tha failure of so
much official communica
tion designed to improre
morale, increaie loyalty,
and promote batter under
standing. "In the final analysis" is
a phrase only young men
should use: men of middle
age and over should know
that there is no final analy
sis.
There is a saturnine
truth. howeer we may
deny it, in the observation
and military regimes which
followed continued the policy.
A resurgent Japan, on the
other hand, with the vigorous
support of the United States,
was setting about to patch up
war wounds, following a pol
icy of conciliation and friend
ship with the Nationalist Chi
nese on Formosa, the Philip
pines, India and former vic
tims in between.
Chief holdout was Korea.
Yet establishment of at
least a sort of normalcy be
tween the two was important.
Korea represented the last
important free world foothold
in that portion of Asia and
was a natural strategic step
ping stone to Japan.
Japan was a northern an
chor of an anti Communist
line extending around the
Asian perimeter to Pakistan.
In late 1962 it appeared
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
KENNEDY AND THE
AMBASSADORS
Washington C u r i o u s 1 y
little attention has been giv
en, as yet, to the grand review
of American
policy in Eu
rope which
the President
has been la
boriously con
ducting. ' To
begin with,
this long sc
ries of unpu'j
licized White
House meet
Alsnp
ings has high interest, in and
of itself, as an indication of
the way the President's busi
ness habits have changed in
these last twe years. In the
dawn of the New Frontier,
after all, even the gravest
problems were briskly
tackled, without weeks of de
lay for all-embracing consul
tation arid minute study.
In the present instance,
however, the President or
dered the convocation of what
can only be called a study
group shortly after Gen. de
Gaulle's brutal veto on Bri
tain's entry into the European
Common Market. Where to go
next, and how to get there,
were the questions to be
answered.
H E composition of the
study group offered anoth
er contrast with the past.
Until rather recently, the
Kennedy administration en
joyed the peculiar distinction
of having ambassadors of bet
ter quality and paying less
attention to their opinions
than any American Adminis
tration in recent history.
Now, however, the opinions
of the ambassadors were in
immediate demand.
David K. E. Bruce was
called from London, Foy
Kohler from Moscow, Walter
Dowling from Bonn, and
Frederick Reinhardt from
Rome. An illness excused
Charles E. Bohlen in Paris;
but no other excuses were ac
ceptedto the point that
poor Rheinhardt left Rome
the night before he and Mrs.
Reinhardt were giving their
one and only dance.
Another innovation was tin
request of the ambassadors to
read themselves inte the mind
of Washington, in the most
literal sense of the phrase. All
the relevant policy papers of
the National Security Coun
cil, the State Department, and
the White House staff were
offered for their perusal and
comment.
11ESIDES the ambassadors.
the principal members of
made by N. F. Simpion:
"Each of us ai ha receives
his private trouncing! at
the hands of fate is kept
in good heart by the moth
in his brother's parachute,
and the scorpion in his
neighbor's underwear,"
It seems to be the essential
irony of the human condition
that we have been given just
enough intelligence to man
ufacture the tools for our
dominance of the earth, but
not quite enough intelligence
to prevent us using these
tools to oppress, exploit and
exterminate one another.
Con man and cynics, who
are fond of quoting Bar
num'i famous phrase, "A
lucker is born every min
ute," to justify their be
havior, pay no attention to
Barnum's other remark
(much mora true and pro
found) that, "More persons,
on the whole, are hum
bugged by believing noth
ing, than be believing too
much.
Failure breeds bitterness,
and success breeds disen
chantment; this Is the best
argument for setting goals
that are unattainable, so that
the striving becomes an end
in itself
Tha God I worship can
accept sinners and rogues,
tha debouched and even the
daganerata; what He finds
most offemive above all is
tha virtuous parson with a
mean mind.
H
that progress was being made.
Then in early '63 came the
internal political ruckus in
Korea which nearly toppled
retired Brig. Gen. Kim Chong
Pil from his assigned job of
establishing the political par
ty by which Korea's military
regime hopes to transfer it
self from military to civilian
rule.
When he survived there
was a long, if silent, sigh of
relief in Japan.
For Kim had been Korea's
chief negotiator with Japan
and the Japanese source of
hope that reconciliation at last
could be achieved.
Key to the settlement was
conditional approval of a $500
million settlement reportedly
worked out by Kim and Japa
nese Foreign Minister Masa
yoshi Chira.
According to the terms, in
Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
the White House study group
have been the Secretaries of
State and Defense, McGeorge
Bundy, Theodore Sorensen,
and, on occasion, the Attorney-General
and Assistant
Secretary of State Averell
Harriman. One outsider, for
mer Secretary of State Dean
G. Acheson, has also been
consulted, in the manner of
"the ancestral voice prophesy
ing w a r" in Coleridge's
"Kublai Khan."
Simply in terms of work
hours, the study group's per
formance has been impres
sive. Since shortly after the
beginning of the month, when
the convocation opened, there
have been White House meet
ings every day or so; and
these have been interspersed
with special meetings of
smaller sub-groups.
The President himself has
directed the whole operation,
presiding in person at the nu
merous White House meet
ings, and supervising every
phase of the long re-examination
of the state of the West
ern Alliance and this coun
try's relations with Europe.
In sum, whatever the next
steps the President may take,
it is clear that they will not
be hasty, or ill-considered, or
based on a snap judgment.
The study group has now
dissolved, and all ambassa
dors have returned to their
posts except for David Bruce,
who is being kept here for
further consultations. Some
further time must pass before
the new directions adopted by
the President and his study
group begin to be revealed in
action.
a
YTET one point of consider
able interest has already
emerged from these meetings.
It is possible to say how the
President views the abrupt
upheaval in the Western Al
liance that Gen. de Gaulle has
caused.
On the one hand so Ken
nedy had told his advisors
he sees what has happened as
a natural sequel of the Cuban
crisis. After the grim Cuban
confrontation, and as a quite
direct result of it, the Soviets
finally shoved the Berlin
crisis onto the back burner.
The withdrawal of the mili
tary threat that had hung
over Europe for four years in
turn removed the strongest
inducement to Western Unity.
On the other hand so the
President had also said the
very fact of open Western dis
unity, such as exists at pres
ent, automatically impairs, if
it does not absolutely destroy,
the opportunity that existed
after Cnha to make progress
in the East-West relationship.
Because the Western allies
are quarreling among them
selves, in short, dealing with
Nikita S. Khrushchev is con
sidered to be vastly more
difficult.
The assessment is cool
headed and judicious, as far
as it goes. The resulting next
steps must be awaited with
vivid interest.
"Wall, Kannedy'i got thl country on the move
agtin with vigahl"
Improved
Possible
return lor the 35 vears nl
harsh Japanese rule, Japan
would extend to Korea S300
million in grants and $200
million in long-term loans.
It was feared that if Kim
were to fall, the agreement he
had negotiated would fall
with him.
Final terms still will lead
to many a heated wrangle
both in Japan and Korea, but
as of today there is hope that
another of the problems left
over from World War II may
be settled in the near future.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From London:
British Foreign Secretary
Lord Home says the United
States carries TOO MUCH of
the load for European defense
and urged a reappraisal of the
burdens. He went on to say
"In 1962, the total defense
expenditure of the NATO al.
liance was about $73 billion,
of which the U.S. contrib.
uted a litle over $54 billion.
These figures show very clear
ly the immense size of the
American effort, which makes
the contributions of the rest
of us seem puny by compar
ison." T ET'S put it this way:
u Total cost $73 billion.
America's share $54 billion.
What that means is that of
every dollar spent last year
by NATO (North Atlantic
Treaty Organization), whose
basic purpose is the defense
of Western Europe, the Unit
ed States contributed 74 cents.
If that isn't generous, there
is no such thing in the world
as generosity.
T ET'S pat ourselves on the
back a little more.
After the end of World War
II, Western Europe was a
shambles. Us great cities were
masses of rubble. The soil of
the U.S.A. was practically un
touched. Recognizing this fact,
the United States made the
most generous offer ever
made in the history of the
world. It said to its comrades
in arms in Western Europe:
"You have borne the bulk
of the physical damage result
ing from the war. Recognizing
this fact, we will supply the
bulk of the funds necessary
for your physical rebuilding."
That, in substance, was the
Marshall Plan.
T ORD HOME added:
u "I would feel that the
United States has a grievance
at the relatively heavy pay
ments she is making to Europe
and that this is a subject that
needs re-examination. The re
construction of European
prosperity in the past 10 years
has created a quite new eco
nomic situation within the al
liance." "WORDS pay no debts," as
" Will Shakespeare re
marked in his Troilus and
Cressida-but when they are
kind words, true words, gen
erous words, they create a lot
of good will.
Thank you, Lord Home.
pULLED from the news:
A hike-happy nation set
another blistering pace over
the week end. And blistering
it was for the feet of all who
tried. The blistered feet in
cluded those of Nevada's Gov
ernor Sawyer, who trekked
from Carson City to Gardner
ville, a distance of 25 miles,
and at the end of the jaunt re
marked: "The last thing I
would do in the world is to
challenge another governor to
go through this thing."
VrHEN a fad gets started in
" the United States of
America, it has to run its
course, but personally I hope
this marathon business doesn't
reach the point where in order
to be able to hold up our
heads in the community we'll
all have to lay up our cars and
WALK TO WORK.