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Flight o' Time
Medford end Jackson County
History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
March 7. 19S3 (Saturday)
"Beautiful" February
weather given as reason for
steady rise in employment in
Jackson county, monthly re
port states.
Winter cloud seeding pro
gram to be discussed at meet
ing. 20 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1943 (Sunday)
Liquor rationing to begin at
10 a.m. tomorrow In Oregon.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
Older Girls rejoiced last week
as the lirst violets showed up.
So did dandelions upon which
they cast ludylike oppro
brium." 30 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1933 (Tuesday)
Local scrip plan for relief Is
announced; scrip to be undcr
wrllten by a group of local
business man.
Jackson County Unemploy
ed council tind Good Govern
ment congress issued charges
and counlcr-chnrges over hir
ing unemployed.
40 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1923 (Wednesday)
No more city water to be
furnished those who live out
side the city.
Chamber of c o m m c r c e
plans night forum every
month; tourists to be invited.
50 YEARS AGO
March 7, 1913 (Friday)
Police warn teamsters that
they will be penalized if they
drive faster than a walk over
the Jackson street bridge.
Editor in editorial on auto
speeders, remarks: "Our most
reckless female driver has
tome off both front wheels of.
her Juggernaut. A pedestrian
on business or a few days
will be able to cross Main st.
In comparative safety."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine fti ten corteel ll superior;
seven or eight is eicellenti live oi
sii is good.
1. The Palisades are on
which eastern U. S. river?
2. The name n which moun
tain stale capital sounds like
a bashful girl?
3. What Biblical character's
name now has come to mean
a murderer?
4. Lohengrin is an opera
composed by whom?
5. Grct River is the trans
lation of which of our Spanish-named
rivers?
8 The last name nf a lMh
century theologian and a con
temporary labor leader
rhyme; what arc they?
7. According to the song,
where was Nellie Just before
I saw her home?
8. What flower sounds like
an article of feminine ap
parel
9. in what sport arc sh.sts ;
"on the broom
signalled by
"the skip"?
10. In what country might
you spend 35 kopecks for a
cup of coffee?
Answers: 1. Hudson. 2.
Cheyenne (Wye). 3. Cain. 4.
Wagner. S. Rio Grande. 6,
Luther and Reuthcr, 7. Aunt
Dinah's quilting parly, f).
Ledy't Slipper. 9. Curling. 10.
U.S.S.R.
-ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY. MARCH 7. 1963
Do You
Do you know that
More than 150,000,000 tons (yes, that's
TONS) of pollutants spew forth into the air of
the United btates each year.'
. Every community with 2,500 or more peo
ple including more than 90 per cent of the na
tion's people suffers from air pollution?
Enough is known
pollution to eliminate it, or to reduce it to bear
able proportions?
Air pollution has a direct and adverse ef
fect on the course of every respiratory disease,
and results in thousands of excess deaths?
DO YOU know that:
. Th n A mniin'j m TV.T rt A 1 A ccndtQtinn V. ac
come out strongly for
program run by the federal government, as it
nas become apparent that such a program could
be effective?
Air pollution costs the nation over $7 bil
lion each year, while only 10 cents per capita is
being spent to fight it?
While more remains to be learned through
research about air pollution, it is no longer solely
a case for research, but
action can be taken?
HO YOU know that:
Mcdford's level of
floating solids and of
highest in the state, averaging almost one-third
higher than either Eugene or Portland? And is
higher than San Francisco, San Jose, Stockton
or Sacramento;
Everyone acknowledges the problem, yet
few are motivated to do much- of anything about
it
Both industry and
stalling in taking control
U. S. doctors reported 1,200,000 cases of
persons being affected, in one way or another
and in varying degrees of seriousness by air pol
lution in 1958; and that this figure had increased
to 1,600,000 an increase of 33 percent in 1962,
or only four years?
P)0 YOU know that:
Of the patients seen by doctors suffering
from pollution-related ailments, the most preval
ent symptom was coughing, followed in order by
smarting and tearing of the eyes, nasal discharge,
dyspnea (difficulty breathing), sore throat, chest
constriction, headache, choking and nausea?
Even those who disapprove of federal con
trols recognize that some action must be taken,
preferably at state or local or regional level?
Senate Bill 259 now before the legislature
would, for the first time,
Authority power to do something about flagrant
air pollution offenders?
The bill may not
port is mustered tor it
It's up to us; not to someone else, to lick this.
' i E.A.
(Editor's nolc: Factual material in the above taken
from the February, 18(13, issue of Hie magazine, New
Medical Materia.)
Flyers Protest
In line with the above,
people simply have no way of knowing how bad
our pollution situation has become.
But those who fly know.
On a number of occasions we have come
down in a plane from the cool green hills to the
north of the valley, only to see the entire Bear
Creek drainage covered with a dense pall of
smoke, cutting visibility to a point where an ap
proach lo tnc airport actually became difficult.
AN EDITORIAL in a recent issue of The North
'"Vvcst Flyer had this to sav. in part:
"... Gone arc the days of unlimited visibilty, of
being able to see a hundred miles through air so clear
it .sparkled. In its place we now find the trade mark of
our advancing civilization, industrial pollution.
"From the ground we can still look skyward and
rejoice in the blue sky above, but step into an airplane
and gel fifty feel above the ground, and you wonder
where the world went. This points up the fact that the
citizen, the non-flyer, does not realize the extent
of air pollution present today. Personally, I believe
that we flyers owe II lo our neighbors to publicize
this hit of information . . .
'Right now, today, we arc polluting our air, our
water, and our land at a rate never before equalled
In the history of man. Ai this same lime, anyone
mentioning pollution control gets the 'hush up' treat
ment. Tliis seems particularly true of any talk of put
ting a stop lu air pollution.
"Today wc can start a let-down Into any major
city in the nation, and anywhere under 3.000 feel find
ourselves virtually on Instruments because of air pol
lution . . . Yet when we mention control, wc hear
'better (ingot it; thai smoke pays a lot of salaries and
wc don't want to gel anyone upset . . ."
Well, the time is long past when we ought to
get upset. If our elected representatives balk, wc
can tell them to get hopping. The time has gone
when we can afford to continue putting up with
this filth in the air. E.A.
Don't Let Them
In 1S.VI, the Oregon
passed a law which prohibited anv commercial
activity, cthtr than works
'on the first day of the week, commonly called
the Lord's Day or Sunday."
After several amendments and court tests, the
voters of the state, through the initiative, repealed
the law. Since then, only a few activities have
been hai red on Sunday. That was in 11)16.
Now conies the "Save a Day for the Family"
committee, in an attempt to turn the clock back
to 1S3-1. Let's not let them do it. E.A.
Know?
right now about air
a vigorous enforcement
a time when effective
air pollution both of
organic matter is the
government have been
measures
give the State Sanitary
pass unless enough sup
it is possible that many
Territorial legislature
of nccessitv and mercy.
"Take Up Thy Bed And Walk"
... Communications ...
Lenin to ih Editor must bear the nam and address of th writer, although under
certain circumstances th use of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible.
The Mail Tribune reserves th right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and
condettsalion. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of th paper; in fact th
contrary is often the case.
Try. Try Again
To the Editor: Pertaining
to David P. Engleson's letter
In M.T. 1-31-63 re "Detroit
Fluoridation," 1 ask. why did
he not tell the rest of the
story? Here is the rest of the
story. After 12 years of con
stant pressure by the Public
Health Service and the De
troit District Dental Society,
the Detroit city council voted
in fluoridation and is resisting
putting the issue to a vote
of the people.
J. G. Molner, city health
commissioner, submitted to
the Detroit city council a re
port by a group of Wayne
university professors. They
explained why fluoridation of
Detroit s water supplies is un
desirable and recommended
administration of fluoride to
individuals.
Sixty suburbs have long
term contracts with Detroit
for pure potable water. One
(Pontiac) has an ordinance
which makes it illegal for De
troit to add fluoride to their
drinking water. Many of the
suburbs do not want fluori
dated water and sent tele
grams of protest before De
troit city council acted.
Detroit's water chief, G. J.
Remus, warned the city coun
cil not to take action' which
might precipitate law suits.
A small segment of the mem
bership of Wayne and Oak
land County Medical societies
was canvassed and 85 mem
bers in good standing of the
respective medical societies
signed a resolution opposing
fluoridation for Detroit and
many wrote letters of protest.
A copy of the resolution can
be seen at Healthway Food
Store, 128 North Bartlctt.
The American Denial asso
ciation has recently declared
it will initiate a stepped up
program to promote fluorida
tion and this it is now doing
under the guise of "education
al and public health matters
relevant to dentistry."
I have before me a copy of
19H3 Public Health Service
Budget, ami., $1.16:1,888,000
(taxpayer's money). Earmark
ed for grants: S410.652.000.
Out of this for "Personal
Training Program'1 (for pro
motion of fluoridation, etc.)
$172,914,000.
Last November the voters
in Medford defeated fluorida
tion 2 to 1. This was the
second defeat here and al
ready the promoters of fluori
dation arc preparing for a
comeback and the opponents
should be doing likewise if
they do not want fluorides in
their water.
The promoters of fluorida
tion are determined, arc ex
tremely well organized and
have unlimited funds (taxpay
er's money) with which to
work. One political strategy
for promotrrs of issues which
the people have, by vote, re
jeeted is to repeatedly bring
up those issues until, as
often the case, they arc passed
and become law, Hcou-mbcr
"Daylight Saving Time"?
Mr. Voter and taxpayer, arc
you going to let them do the
same with fluoridation? It's
up to you. Material for t h e
above letter is from "The Na.
tional Fluoridation News,"
930 Grand Blvd.. Detroit 2
Micn-
Alice I. Black
812 Newtown st.
Medford
Brothers' Keepers
To the Editor: My heartfelt
sympathy gors n't to the
anonymous (name on file) au
thor of iart Friday's letter
dealing with unemployed
young women who recently
graduated from high school,
but cannot obtain employ
ment in stores, etc., because
MLDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
of the elderly and less elderly
matrons who work there, in
most cases merely to escape
boredom at home or to supple
ment the family's income with
luxuries.
I feel for these girls "whose
only alternative is to gel' mar
ried" - assuming of course
that it is an alternative, since
so many young bachelors
would be eligible except that
they are also unemployed and
for the same or similar rea
sons. To wit, those house
wives and men called "moon
lighters" are literally taking
the bread out of the mouths
of people in need of livli
hood, and in some instances
from their dependents, who
must therefore appeal to pub
lic and private charity rolls.
'Moonlighters," I am told,
arc men who hold two jobs
at once because only one,
though providing a good in
come, is too easy and docs
not consume enough of their
time or energies nor satiate
their greed.
Dear friend, this (also
anonymous) author has found
that a small cry in the wilder
ness, like yours and mine, is
not enough to uproot the vest
ed interests from their places
of luxury, case, and privilege
nor from their places with
all four feet in the pig trough;
nor is it enough to waken
others to join a worthy cause
and start a crusade against in
justice; that takes a television
chain br a newspaper syndi
cate. No one, I am told, can
guarantee employment to
working people; it is up to
them to "find" it. Yet many
business men are guaranteed
profits. This is a free econ
omy, I am told, where em
ployers are "free" to hire
whomever they please, and
there arc many to pick from,
like apples from a basket;
yet mos-t working people arc
not "free" to choose their
employers, or even to be
hired at all, as there are not
enough jobs to go around.
Many will qualify this con
dition by saying that unem
ployed men and women are
1 n e x p crienced, unsuited by
personality, education, and
o l h e rwisc undcrsirablc for
jobs. Be this true or false,
and it is sometimes true, yet
it is always wrong when
someone who doesn't need it
gets an income ahead of some
one who does. Too often em
ployment goes, be it In pri
vate business or government
to one who is in favor - has
"pull" as they say - and no
effort is made cither to place
the unemployed or to train
llicm for jobs which they
might fill. For this is a free
country is il not? Where ev
eryone must look out for
himself - for himself and his
friends that is. which does
not necessarily mean his fel
lowmen or his fellow coun
trymen in need. For who
among us today is his broth
er's keeper?
(Name on File),
Ashland. Ore.
Barrel of Fun
To the Editor: If you want
to have a barrel of fun with
out rolling one out. come to
the Knights of Pythias Hall
north of the Groccrtrria on
Grape St. Wednesday at noon.
I That is where the Security
Rrnefil club meets every
U'lvlnrtHau frnm lu-pli'A ttntil
jfour. Be there on time. forlcf,ccts oI 5uch chromc sla,es
that's when thev serve an ex-18' ,ncsc uPon ,ho hMlth nd
crplionally good meal for 50 efficiency of the individual.
coils ! involving as nicy oo proiouna
Next, thrv hold a business ! internal physical disturbances,
meeting, after which you're I can on,y estimated. A tem
on your own. You can make t Porary state of fear stirs up
new friends, visit, dance or I the physiological organism
watch from the side lines, but ( badly enough: but w hen the
you won't come many times : emotional slate is prolonged
before you'll want to fork into a chronic condition of
over that dollar a year and I apprehensivcncss and anxiety.
Anti-Semitism, Despite Denials, Seems
Part of Russia's Failure To End
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
Yes, said Premier Khrush
chev, some persons of "Jew
ish nationality" had been ex
ecuted for
e c o n o m i c
crimes. But It
came to him
as a deep sur
prise that this
should be in
terpreted b y
the West as a
sign of Sovi
et anti Sem
itism. 7
ewson
The Russian premier's sen
timents were expressed in a
letter to British philosopher
Bcrtrand Russell who, begin
ning with the Cuba affair,
seems to have been in fairly
frequent communication with
Khrushchev.
Ext.jtions for economic
crimes is standard policy in
the Soviet Union and Khrush
chev quickly pointed out that
others of nationalities besides
be one of the merry-makers
for a long, long time.
If you are a member, they'll
even "help pay your funeral
expenses, but you won't want
to up and eat a woolly worm
just to gain that benefit soon,
or sooner.
A nice bachelor has invited
me to a fried chicken dinner
now and can he fry 'em!
So long.
Pearl Spackman,
Jacksonville, Ore.
Early Day Phoenix
To the Editor: The Mail
Tribune of Feb. 24 carried an'i
excellent feature page on
early day post offices of Jack
son county. Mr3. Eve Hamil
ton who wrote the article had
evidently done a lot of re
search on the subject. Being
postmaster at Phoenix, 1 was
extremely interested in the
article.
As a native of Phoenix, I
was als-o interested in a com
munication to the Editor on
Feb. 28 writcn by Mrs. Vir
ginia Card of Jacksonville
pertaining to the Taylor fam
ily and the "Preachers Train"
of 1853. My grandparents and
my father, who was one year
old at the time, also came
from Illinois in 1853 and first
settled in the Willamette val
ley before coming to the
Phoenix area in the '60s.
Mrs. Card stated in her
communication that Stephen
Phelps Taylor was the first
postmaster at Phoenix and
was appointed by Mr. Lin
coln in 1862. Mrs. Hamilton's
article was correct, according
to the information I have had
from the National Archives,
which states, "A post office
was established at Phoenix,
Jackson county, Oregon on
Jan. 3, 1857, with Samuel H.
Miller as postmaster." This
would have been five years
before Mr. Taylor was ap
pointed; perhaps he could
have been a successor to Mr.
Miller.
Phoenix was first settled
in the fall of 1851 by Samuel
B. Colver, who took up 640
acres in one donation claim.
The following summer his
brother Hiram arrived, bring
ing the families of both and
took up another 640 acres
adjoining Samuels'. In 1854
the townsite was laid out on
Samuel Colver's land.
The flour mill was built
on land donated by Colvers by
Mr. S. M. Wait in 1855 and
it was across the street from
this mill where the first post
office was established. It is
also said Mr. Miller had a
"Phoenix" Insurance sign in
his window and that was how
the name was chosen for the
town.
Marie Morton Furry,
Box 350,
Phoenix. Ore.
Chronic Worriers
To the Editor: As a natural
result of threats and punish
ments received in childhood,
of warnings and scoldings re
peatedly administered, and of
conditioned fears learned
from others, many of us grow
up victims of all sorts of
dreads, fears, and anxieties.
By the time adulthood is
reached we are apt to be
afraid of many objects or con
ditions that should not arouse
fear at all. People who arc
particularly sensitive or imag
inative are likely to suffer
the most from these needless
worries.
The unfortunate long-time
Jewish also have suffered
the death penalty.
In the frankly atheistic so
ciety of the Soviet Union all
religions suffer persecutions
at varying times and in vary
ing degrees.
Under the czars, the Jews
were marked for special hu
miliation, confined to ghettos,
stripped of human rights.
In Communist Russia, with
the coming of the independ
ent state of Israel, they came
in for suspicion of divided
loyalties.
A document submitted to
the United Nations by the In
ternational Confederation of
Free Trade Unions noted a
marked decline of Jewish
participation in Soviet public
life.
The document charged that
Jews suffer from "consistent
discrimination" in the iields
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
fc Field Enterprises. Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Past a certain age, a "gay
dog" is simply a man who has
permanently tied a tin can to
his own tail.
In the United States, at
least, most legislation of a
"moral" nature seems to be
founded on the fantasies of
spinsters of both sexes.
The best way to plot against
the increasing success of an
aggressive, egregious, publicity-seeking
personality is to
form a conspiracy of silence;
such cgocentrics welcome at
tack and encourage aspersion
- what they cannot stand is
being calmly and politely ig
nored. Reading about the new
spring styles from Paris, I
was reminded of Wilde's ob
servation that "Fashion is a
form of ugliness so intoler
able that we have to alter
it every six months."
Frugality is going without
something you want, in case
you should in the future need
something you probably won't
want.
Friends who conscien
tiously keep up a personal
correspondence would be
tolerable, were it not that
they somehow manage to
make the rest of us ashamed
of ourselves for our lack of
similar diligence; there is
always a touch of self-satisfaction
and self righteous
ness in the compulsive letter-answerers.
None of us should listen to
a man giving a lecture or a
sermon on his "philosophy of
life" until we know exactly
how he treats his wife, his
children, his neighbors, his
friends, his subordinatcs-and
his enemies.
For a brief and honest
military biography, nothing
can beat the line of Charles
Henry Smith, who wrote
after the Civil Wan "I join
ed the army, and succeeded
in killing about as many of
the enemy as they of me."
Those who think it a great
impiety to speak ill of the
dead usually have no such
inhibitions about the living;
what a curious superstition to
have more regard for a corpse
than for a creature still
capable of being wounded.
Speaking of wounds;
those persons who try too
desperately to protect them
selves from hurts are in the
long run more vulnerable
to injury; it is the hand that
has developed callouses
that slides more easily
down the escape rope in an
emergency.
Listening to a contentious
woman arguing with a store
manager the other day, I re
called Oliver Hcrford's deft
analysis: "If some people got
their rights they would com
plain of being deprived of
their wrongs."
the subtle effects upon the
whole organism are obviously
multiplied.
Sympathy, born of under
standing and a warm imagi
nation, is associated with all
actions that aim to help the
sick, the unfortunate.
The world would be im
measurably poorer had it not
been for the many men and
women who have been acti
vated by warm human sympa
thies and by love for' their
fellow men.
(Name on file)
Medford.
( Ball
To the Editor: A New Fron
tiah secretary was being in
terviewed in Washington, and
was asked this question:
"How's business?" This was
the answer as I saw it in a
California newspaper: "So
business is not. but it ought
to be "
Now that's the Havahd way
of saying: "The New Frnntiah
has got themselves behind the
8 ball."
Everett Acklin
Ashland, Ore.
of nationality rights, religion
and individual rights.
The report said Jews "have
virtually disappeared" from
jobs- of major responsibility
in the diplomatic service and
the army. It said the propor
tion of Jews in higher educa
tion, science and the profes
sions is declining steadily.
Moscow correspondents
were surprised by Khrush
chev's sensitivity to the
charge of anti-Semitism and
the vehemence with which he
replied.
They also were surprised
by its wide distribution over
Moscow radio and through
the newspaper Izvestia.
The motives remain a
Khrushchev secret.
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
WHOSE SIDE IS TIME ON?
Rome - Of all the Euro
peans, the Italians have re
acted most sharply to Gen.
de Gaul le s
bold attempt
to transform
the. European
Common Mar
ket into an
e x c 1 u sive,
p r otectionist
E u r o pe, in
spired by a
new "contin
e n tal nation
Alsnp
alism" and led, it goes with
out saying, by Charles de
Gaulle himself.
In this Italian reaction,
there are three points to
note. First of all, the Italian
government leaders from
President Segni and Prime
Minister Fanfani down to the
able permanent officials in
the ministries, are complete
ly united in their distaste for
the Gaullist conception of Eu
rope. '
In the business and indus
trial communities, however,
support for de Gaulle is al
ready discernible. And this
pro-de Gaulle tendency may
grow importantly, especially
if it is aided by clumsy
American diplomacy.
SECONDLY, there Is a real
divergence of judgment
about the gravity of the prob
lem. One school, headed by
the scholarly President Segni,
inclines to the view that Gen.
de Gaulle cannot constitute a
major problem, because he
lacks the economic and power
potential to bend the rest of
Europe to his will. The other
school, headed by tough little
PrimeMinister Fanfani, thinks
de Gaulle will take a lot of
stopping.
Third and most important,
even those who are most fiery
in their resistance to the at
tempted Gaullist transforma
tion of Europe, are ready to
admit that Italy may not be
able to halt the transforma
tion alone, or even in partner
ship with Belgium and Hol
land. Prime Minister Fanfani
is reported to have summed
up that "as long as the Ger
mans go along with de Gaulle,
he will get his way in the
end."
The Italians, it must also be
noted, are just now emerging
from prolonged, total preoc
cupation with their own af
fairs, which was imposed by
Italy's immensely difficult
postwar internal problems.
Italy's powerful and industrial
and economic forward surge
has only just brought the Ital
ian leaders to the stage of
wishing to play a larger role
in Europe.
IN PART, this recent, as yet
hesitant entrance upon a
larger role explains the feel
ing conveyed in Prime Min
ister Fanfani's remark about
the power of the Franco-German
partnership. Combined
with this feeling, there is a
further Italian feeling that
Washington has not yet given
"Sled to give you my opinion, I'm for disarmament, tha
Common Market, foreign aid, federel aid lo education.
Medicare, the U.N. Oh. yes. and aid to teachers who
get fired for expressing their opinions!"
Religion
No secret is the fact that
one of the greatest Soviet
failures has been the failura
to stamp out religion.
Early this year Western
sympathies were stirred by
the story of 32 peasants who
trekked 2,000 miles from Si
beria to the American em
bassy, seeking escape and the
right to follow their own re
ligion. Radio Liberty recently lold
of another religious group
hidden so deeply in the Si
berian wilderness that they
learned of the end of World
War II only five years later.
Aerial reconnaissance found
them out and secret police
brought them back.
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
a strong lead, despite the cru
cial American economic and
strategic interest in the choice
de Gaulle is forcing upon
Europe.
The result is a situation that
is far from clear cut. The
Italian leaders know what
they want to do, but are not
as yet agreed about how to do
it, unless by some miracle
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
stops working hand-in-glove
with his French partner.
The situation's fuzziness is
revealed by the simple fact
that the Italian government
has not as yet made up its
mind how to approach the
second round of negotiations
at Brussels on a common agri
cultural policy for the Europe
of the Six. These talks are of
ficially scheduled to open on
April 1.
VET it is still not decided
whether to ask for a two
or three months' delay in
these talks, on the ground that
Italy cannot effectively par
ticipate until after the spring
election. That is the course
the Italians are inclined to
adopt, yet this inclination is
plainly balanced by a fear of
accusations of "obstruction
ism" like those that followed
the temporary Italian veto on
the African states' desiring as
sociation with the Common
Market.
The second round of nego
tiations for a common agricul
tural policy of the Europe o
the Six, in turn, establishes a
sort of timetable of great po
tential significance. Both
France's agricultural interests
and Gen. de Gaulle's scheme
for the transformation of Eu
rope demand the adoption of
a sternly exclusive and restric
tionist common agricultural
policy, such as de Gaulle him
self outlined in his famous
press conference.
German agricultural inter
ests also call for a European
wheat price kept at an arti
ficially high level. Such a
wheat price, while in some
ways injurious to French ag
riculture, will nonetheless im
pose the kind of exclusive and
restrictionist approach that da
Gaulle desires.
IHUS Gen. de Gaulle has
- the means, if he chooses
to use them, to reward the
Germans for their cooperation
with him. If the European
Common Market therefore
adopts a highly exclusive ag
ricultural policy, it will be a
long first step in the direction
de Gaulle desires Europe lo
take.
Such a European first step
on the part of the Gaullist
ward will not only impose a
heavy additional burden on
t h e already unsatisfactory
American balance o f pay
ments. It will also set a restriction
ist pattern which will surely
affect the European-American
trade negotiations later on. In
short, it is not at all certain
that time is not on de Gaulle's
side as things now stand.