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History from the filet; of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago,
10 YEARS AGO
March 21, 1953 (Friday)
Richard (Dick) Applegate,
1 whose yacht wai reported
captured by Hed Chinese Sat
urday, is. widely known in
Medford.
Ashland voters in an un
official poll last week over
whelmingly voiced their op
position to the fluoridation of
city water.
20 YEARS AGO
March 21. 1943 (Sunday)
Al Weir and Don Fawcett,
both of Medford High school,
named to Southern Oregon
conference all-star basketball
team.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
oncoming new rationing rules
hit the lawyers. They won't
be able to put any meat in
their arguments in the court."
30 YEARS AGO
March 21, 1933 (Tuesday)
State supreme court rules
city of Medford must pay lor
damages when city sewer
overflowed Into stream run
ning through property owned
by Axel and Adina Benson.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "March
is endeavoring to go out like
a lion, if it can recuperate
from all it has been through
locally."
40 YEARSAGO
March 21, 1923 (Wednesday)
Elmer Briggs reports first
Chinook salmon catch of year
form Rogue river.
"Local frost warning ser
vice" warns all orchardists to
bring in thermometers for
testing.
50 YEARS AGO
March 21. 1913 (Friday)
"Medium vote" reported in
bond issue election on $20,000
for construction of new Med.
ford armory.
Grand jury expected to
Indict 10 Medford saloon
keepers for selling liquor to
minors.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten cetreel It superior
even or eight Is eicellent; live ot
six is good.
1. What song heroine "wait
ed underneath the lantern by
the barracks gate ?
2. In wht country is Tegu
cigalpa?
3. What was the .classical
name for the Dardanelles?
4. A romantically minded
eccentric, named for Cervan
tes' hero is called a Don
?
8. Is the Pentagon, which
houses much of the Defense
Department, situated In Mary
land, the District of Colunv
bia, or Virginia?
8. Was Calvin Coolldge
. Republican, or Democrat.
7. What was the language
of Homer, Plato and Soph
ocles?
8. W, S, Porter developed
his ability as a writer while
serving a term In prison; what
was his pen name?
8. Is Acidophilus the name
of a Greek philosopher, an In
tedious disease, a kind of but
termllk or a new drug.
10. Which country Is the
world's most populous mon
archy? Answers: I, LIU Marlene.
2. Honduras. 3. Tha Helles
pont. 4. Don Quixote. S. Vir
ginia. 8. Republican, 7. Greek.
8. O'Htnry. 9. Buttermilk. 10.
Japan.
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vjAIOCIATION
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1963
Whipping
"You can't touch me.
you'll lose your job."
"This is the kind
in the District or Columbia school system seeK
relief from.
The proposal to end a long-standing ban on
corporal punishment in Washington's public
schools is one of a series made by District School
Superintendent Carl F.
result of a not after a high school football game
last Thanksgiving Day.
Dr. Hansen has tried to make it quite clear
what he is advocating. He does not expect wide
use or whipping, but
luted "this sword of
'""THE D.C. Education association, representing
nearly 3,800 of 4,500 teachers, on March 7
endorsed the superintendent s recommendation
and stated: "Teachers are not desirous of em
ploying corporal punishment but they do desire
to be relieved of the effect of the rule against it."
The present ban dates back to March 20, 1918,
when the board of education wrote a flat rule
prohibiting corporal punishment and rescinded
a rule which "enjoined" on teachers and avoid
ance of corporal punishment "as far as may be
with a due regard to obedience on the part of the
pupils."
ORPORAL punishment is currently an issue
in Maryland. Two teachers at a church school
in Hagerstown on March 6 were convicted and
fined $200 each and ordered to pay medical ex
penses for an assault on a student. (This resulted
in 20 days in a hospital. )
In another Haererstown case a dav earlier a
magistrate had acquitted
of assault charges arising from punishment.
"The right of the teacher to maintain discin
line in the classroom is
a parent to maintain discipline in the home," the
magistrate ruled. But he then asked the State
Attorney General to determine whether the courts
should enforce a board of education regulation.
"Under no circumstances shall a . . . teacher
inflict corporal punishment on a pupil," the rule
reads. "Cases which seem to require corporal
punishment shall be referred to the principal who
may administer (it) as a last resort."
ONLY one state, New Jersey, flatly forbids cor
nnral miritalimnnf in nll? anhnnla
Four states Virginia, Vermont. Florida.
and Montana specifically allow it. In Florida
the teacher or principal in charge must be con
sulted first.
Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and West Virginia
reaffirm the common low principle of placing
the teacher in loco parentis in the position of
parents in respect to school discipline . without
mentioning corporal punishment.
a
A STUDY made for the National Education as
sociation in 1959 showed that only 60 cases
of assault and battery had been brought against
American teachers in the preceding 25 years.
Many teachers, of course, spare the rod to avoid
court action, administrative discipline, or just
plain unpleasantness.
The problem of discipline in Washington
schools is partly the result of racial tensions -
oS per cent of the school population is Negro.
These tensions are inevitably going to make
discipline trouble in many other cities in the East
and Middle West where population migrations
are upsetting long accepted school population
balances. k.K.K.
Sociologists and Suburbs
Suburbia holds a special fascination for so
ciologists. A few years ago the prevailing verdict
was that suburbanites were "imprisoned in broth-
ernooa by a "uniformity of age, income and
class outlook" that bred "swarms of neuter
drones" To borrow a few of the less favorable
phrases.
Now comes Robert H. Bohlke, associate pro
fessor of sociology at American International
college, Springfield, Mass., with the statement
that when the 1960 census data are fully analyzed
"the myth of suburban sameness will have been
replaced by a more sophisticated view which
will have found some to be quite homogeneous
but many to be the opposite."
His views are put forth in the January "New
Society," a British social science publication, un
der the title "Middle Class Delinquency in the
united states.
40ST sociologists pale
T ban standardization.
that residents of the land of the kaffeeklatsch
may not be enough alike.
His thesis is that many blue-collar families,
which are now middle class in income, are "not so
in terms of values, beliefs,
patterns. These are the
elle bourgeosie," or the
This "marginal group" neither working
class nor middle class is subject to snubs from
"old middle class ' peer
a a e
'"THERE then arises the possibility that delin
1 quency among their youth is a reaction to
the stress generated by
'old middle class' families whose 'middle class
ness' predates the recent income revolution,"
Bohlke writes.
A correspondent for the London Economist
once commented that most of the alarm about
America's suburbs seems to be felt "bv people
who live somewhere else." E.R.R.
In School
Lay a hand on me and
of pupil attitude teachers
Hansen as the indirect
he wants the prohibition
Damocles.
a hich school teacher
the same as the right of
at the thought of subur
Bohlke seems to fear
attitudes and behavior
groups he calls the "nov
"new middle class."
cliques.
the denial of status from
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sin
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People Could Profit
To the Editor: In reading
the different Editorials and
comments on the dangers to
our economy that may be
brought about by automation
replacing workers, this
thought has occurred to us,
We have the first machine to
see suffering from a hang
over. And from the experience
we have been having recent
ly, and in talking to others
that have to hire help, there
are a great many people that
might profit by the example
of the machines.
Machines have been replac
ing men for years.
Our old binder and station
ary, thresher, and our hay
baler that required the work
of from 10 tp 15 men, have
been replaced by the one man
combine and field baler.
And we don't know of a
single person that had estab
lished a reputation of depend
ability, and willingness to
work that was hurt by the
transition.
Necessity is the mother of
invention, and when working
people keep demanding more
pay for less work, and at the
same time demanding cheaper
products, the machine is the
only way out, for the pro
ducer, be he farmer or mill
operator.
John Nealon,
Route 2, Box 278
Central Point, Ore.
Letter to Legislators
To the Editor: The follow
ing is a copy of a letter, one
copy each of which I sent to
one Senator and three Repre
sentatives of the Oregon state
legislature.
No Sunday clusing law
please.
Any law forbidding any one
his constitutional and God
given right to open and oper
ate his business on any
given day of the week is un
constitutional and though it
may be claimed not to be a
religious law, religious fan
atics would be first to apply
it and honest Innocent people
would be persecuted, fined
and imprisoned unjustly.
Blue laws are not new in
this dear land of ours and
they have proven to be unfair.
unjust, vicious, and trouble
making.
Please lest us not tolerate
any law that seeks to make
legal criminals of honest, free
people.
Elict Hltt
34S8 Bursell rd.
Medford.
Closes Doors
To the Editor: The Park
View Nursing home discon
tinued operations and closed
its doors as of March 15. After
20 years of continuous ODcra
tlon in Jackson county, this
was a rather difficult decis
ion to make, except for the
loiiowlng reasons.
(a) We did not feel that we
could any longer compete
with the county Itself through
the county farm home. The
competition is too onesided.
We are required to pay taxes,
license fees, etc., while the
farm home pays none ot these
costs and at the same time
operates under a budget pro
vided by the taxpayers,
(b) The financial require
ments by the state In order
to operate a nursing home, in
cluding sprinkler systems,
etc., Is so far out of line with
what the state and county is
willing to pay for the care of
patients, the acceptance of
such patients is practically
impossible.
(c) The standards of nursing
care prescribed by the Oregon
state board of health, includ
ing professional supervision,
can not be met at the rates
allowed by the state or coun
ty. The only alternative is to
lower the standards. This we
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
the case.
were unable to accept, hence
our closing.
I trust you can see your
way clear to publish this let
ter in order that the public
may be advised of our reasons
for leaving the nursing field.
A. J. Curry
Rowena D. Curry, R.N
Park View Nursing
Home
908 West Main st. 1
Medford
Through the Window:
To the Editor: They say a
little knowledge is danger
ous. Who has enough to be
out of danger? What makes
the difference between great
and disaster? The gates of
freedom rests and gathers
rust, as free people hustle
about crying what must we
do. Nobody can deny that
babies are not blossoms of
love sent or lent from heaven,
Here at a glance looking
through the picture window
at youth lies the answer, par
ents. Our children must re
move the obstacles we placed
before them, if they are to en
joy freedom. Whereas we
were blind, our children must
see. You cannot always be
with your child, but at that
age he or she will only ex
pose those things they were
taught.
In the heart of the family
lies the answer. The branding
iron lies in your home. Most
children are conscious of
their own limitations because
they are constantly compar
ing their efforts to those of
their parents. We, as parents
should do all we can to free
them from this sense of limi
tation and help them to de
velop an awareness of the
limitless possibilities within
themselves. The answer to
children's desires may come
through their own efforts. It
need not come through us as
parents.
The more a youngster be
lieves that he can experience
limitless good, the more limit
less his demonstration of good
will be. The stirrings of am
bition in the young children
must be directed with wisdom
and balance.
Children need the prodding
of parents and teachers to
bring out their best. In our
boys and girls lie hidden tal
ents and ambitions. If only
we, as parents, excell in what
ever skills we so urgently
need these days to fire the in
stinct that exists in most
young children to do well.
The commonest fallacy
among women is that simply
having children makes one a
mother. Does a piano make
one a musician? Children be
gin by laving their parents. As
they grow older, they Judge
them, sometimes they even
forgive them.
Good parents are dreamers,
they see heaven in the soft
haze of their baby's eyes, or
a spring day, or in the red fire
of a long winter's evening.
They nurse their children
through bad days until they
bring them to the sunshine
and light which comes always
to parents who sincerely
hope that their' children's
dreams will come true.
Grady Conner
723 West Jackson st.
Medford
Hatfield in New
York for Speeches
Salem - HOT - Gov. Mark
Hatfield Hew to New York
Wednesday to make a series
of speeches. He was expected
to return Saturday.
The governor will address
a group of leading manufac
turers Thursday noon, make a
"Religion in American Life"
address at the Waldorf-Astoria
Thursday night, and talk to a
meeting ot leading bankers
Friday.
De Gaulle's Ambitions to Go It Alone
In Nuclear Race Land Him in Trouble
Br JOSEPH W. ORIGO
United Press International
ParU-JOTD-Preildent Charles
de Gaulle's go-it-alone ambi
tions to make France a nu
clear power have landed him
once again in deep trouble.
They are the main causa of
the long-standing coldness in
relations between France and
the United States.
Now the resumption of
French nuclear testing in the
Sahara threatens a major cri
sis between France and newly-independent
Algeria. It
also la likely to damage rela
tions between France and oth
er African nations bordering
on the Sahara, including Mo
rocco, Tunisia. Senegal and
Mali.
Presumably de Gaulle must
have taken these risks into
consideration. What is at
stake is a short cut to the first
all-French H-bomb device
which the de Gaulle govern
ment hopes to explode in the
Pacific in 1884.
Trigger fer Bemb
The atomic devices being
tested in granite caves in the
Sahara are said to constitute
tha trigger for the planned
French H-bomb.
Washington Report
y William
(c) United Feature Syndicate
ADORING 'JUMPERS'
Washington -- When John F,
Kennedy was campaigning for
president in I960, two sets of
adoring "jumpers" were no
ticed by all but the dimmest
of observers,
One set were physical jump
ers. These were the people,
most of them
young and
" "1 some of thera
I jcs' VSi J m e r e adoles-
vvJTJ lc.e"Avwh0
Itt.:.. sf went, una
f VvTE quivering
rVf I public dance
I v- ' I at sight of the
V'5l uu" presi
liil fr dent's face, at
White every whisUe
stop ' and airstrip landing.
They were wild about Ken
nedy -r or wildly excited by
his youth and good looks.
The other set of jumpers
did not leap up and down:
they only vibrated emotion
ally, like piano wires in a
high wind. These were the
Democratic ultraliberals, the
knee-jerk liberals as termed
by this columnist many years
ago. Though most of these had
been cultlst followers of Ad-
lai Stevenson, they plunged
madly Into the Kennedy camp
after the Democratic conven
tion. And instantly they be
came the most loudly pro-Ken
nedy of all.
e e
T DO not khow what has hap-
pened now to the physical
jumpers, those who did the
singular snake dances of yes
teryear. But what is happen
ing to the other jumpers - the
ultraliberals who not merely
climbed aboard the Kennedy
bandwagon but swarmed it in
eager assurance that they
would be running the show -Is
clear. They are jumping in
happiness no more.
One by one they are turn
ing upon the President. Those
who so lately would tolerate
no criticism of John F. Ken
nedy are now so critical ot
John F. Kennedy as hardly to
tolerate a word in defense of
him.
They fill Washington draw
ing rooms - and to some ex
tent this is slipping into the
press and television - with
solemn accusations that John
F. Kennedy is not "leading,"
is not "educating the people."
e e
HE IS not "leading'1 because
he refuses' to press ob
viously unattainable reformist
demands upon a congress and
country which are manifestly
more conservative than he
himself Is, and incomparably
more conservative than the
knee-jerks who seek so absurd
and juvenile a stance of
"leadership" from him.
He is not "educating" be
cause he refuses to undertake
theatrical lectures to the pub
lic based on the nonsensical
notion that he could thus
force it to accept New Dealish
programs which are great
stuff to the knee-jerks but
toward which the great mass
of the people are either active
ly hostile or totally uncon
cerned.
What is happening was en
tircly predictable. The kne-
jerks went over to Kennedy
for characteristically emotion
al rather than rational rea
sons - their curiously exces
sive hatred of Richard Nixon
and their equally curious sup
position that because they
themselves were still en-
changed with the Roosevelt
New Deal, Kennedy himself
must be.
The French feel they art on
strong legal ground.
The Evian peace settlement
with Algeria a year ago grant
ed France the use of three Sa
hara base for the next five
years.
True, the agreement con
tained no specific mention of
nuclear testing. But the
French say the Algerian
must have been fully aware
of the purpose of the bases
when they signed the pact,
The Algerians retort that it
is incompatible with their na
tional sovereignty for France
to use bases on Algerian ter
ritory for exploding nuclear
devices.
Pact la Danger
The chief risk appears to
be the Algerian Premier Ah
med Ben Bella may be forced
by his own extremists as well
as by pressure from other
African nations and the "neu
tralist" bloc in general to de
nounce the Evian agreements
as a whole.
France gives Algeria near
ly $300 million in financial
id this year. It has promised
a minimum of (200 million
a year for tha two following
years.
t. White
rTHEY neglected to read his
open record in congress,
the record of an only moder
ately liberal man. They ig
nored his own clear indica
tions that he was not seeking
the Presidency to become
some junior-grade FDR for
the '60s,
Though they never under
stood him, he understood
them to a point but for cer
tain signal errors in hi esti
mate of them. He believed he
could moderate and make use
of them, He thought that by
bending a bit here and there
toward one or two of their
extremist demands, he could
bring them to accept the gen
eral body of hi more moder
ate ideas. He has failed.
For the plain, inside truth
is that John F. Kennedy's
truly bitter opposition today
is rising neither from Repub
licans nor conservatives in
general. It is coming instead
from the knee-jerk Democrat
ic liberals whose total inabili
ty to understand political
realities has led them to be
lieve that Kennedy is "betray
ing" purposes he never had
in the first place.
Strictly Personal
By Sydney
(c) Field Enterprises, Inc.
PERSONAL PREJUDICES
Getting fitted for a suit,
and being forced to gaze into
a three-way mirror, is always
a shock for those of us whose
beauty is less than absolute
perfection and should give
us the sobering realization
that the self-image we carry
around in our minds corres
ponds only to a vague degree
with the reality other people
see in us.
It is impossible to per
suade a bigot that he is
wrong for the admirably
terse reason given by Wil
liam Butler Yeats, when he
saldi "When a belief rests
on nothing, you cannot
knock away its founda
tions." Telephoning someone at
home and leaving no name or
message is as rude as ringing
someone's doorbell and run
ning away before it is an
swered. e e e
Phychologicel myths die
hard) it la still believed by
most people that a man
who looks you straight in
ih eye is candid and hon
est! whereas the first irait
that the confidence man de
Telopes and masters is the
frank look, the firm hand
clasp, and the utterly guile
less manner.
Whenever I see a neon sign
winking "Continuous Enter
tainment," it reminds me of
Alexander Pope's remark
that "Amusement is the hap
piness of those who cannot
think."
Fer shear vulgarity in
the original sense of the
world nothing beats those
tour spielers who points
out the "fabulous homes"
of the rich, how much they
cost, hew many bathrooms
they contain, and how
these financial deities en
tered tha golden circle by
providing civilisation with
beer, bratwurst or plumb
ing fixtures.
e e e
Nothing that "subversive
agents could do to undermine
the American system could
possibly be half as effective
as the bulk ot television com
mercials, whose excesses and
ridiculous claims make cynics
and unbelievers out of chil
dren as young as five or six
which is fully as influential
Without that aid Algeria the-hole whan ha ordered re
can hardly hope to survive. sumption of Sahara; nuclear
That was da Gaulle's ace-ltv tests.
Matter of Focf a..,
(e) Me VorJeraJJjnKrnSjlTljHejjte mmm
EUROPE'S NEXT
HUGE HURDLE
Bonn - To date, at least,
the fruits born of tha new
Franco - German treaty can
hardly be to
the taste of Its
grand initia
tor, Gen. de
Gaulle. Tha
treaty was
supposed to
Inaugurate a
new, more in
timate Franco
G e r man co-
aJsaa operation. But
as yet the German have not
begun to cooperate.
In the very transaction in
which the treaty had it
origin, the seeds of frustration
were already visible. De
Gaulle's first memorandum
proposed closer Franco-Ger
man links was sent to Bonn
very shortly after his intoxi
catingly successful German
tour. Yet the Germans waited
many weeks, until after de
Gaulle's triumph with the
French voters in fact, to re
turn any answer at all.
When the answer was sent
to Paris, it was favorable but
infuriating; for the Germans
said that they would be de
lighted to link themselves
more closely to France - but
only within the framework of
their other alliances and
especially of NATO, which de
Gaulle detests above all
things.
e
TTENCE de Gaulle in his
"-turn waited many weeks
before making any reply.
These delays explain the very
long interval between de
Gaulle's first suggestion of a
new relationship and Chancel
lor Adenauer's famous voyage
to Paris.
Since the de Gaulle -Ade
nauer meeting, moreover, the
pattern has been even less
satisfactory from de Gaulle's
viewpoint. The French have
continuously pressed for all
Kinds 01 actions, in tne mili
tary, cultural, and other
spheres, which would give
substance to the new partner
ship. Almost without excep
tion, the Germans have re
fused to take these actions.
Yet the worst hurdle for
the Franco-German partner
ship, and one must add for
the Europe of the Common
Market, still lies in the fu
ture, albeit In the fairly near
J. Harris
a part of their "education" as
their formal schooling.
People will admit almost
every other defect under
the sun, but no one thinks
that he is a poor judge of
character yet, as the di
vorces In our private life
and the disappointment! in
our public life indicate, this
is the deepest, most preva
lent, and most nearly in
eradicable defect in the
human animal.
Unless a raise is given
promptly, it does nothing for
morale like the rancher
who had a Chinese cook for
some years, and after an un
usually good dinner decided
to raise his pay. The cook
noted the extra money in his
envelope and asked, "Why
you pay me more?" "Because
you've been such a good cook
all these years," replied the
boss. The cook thought it
over, and then said, "You've
been cheating me long time,
huh?"
Every time I hear tha
phrase, "states' rights," I
recall the men I have met
in state legislatures, and
shudder quietly.
ii,Hi usjej
We protested when they banned a Commie. It's
only fair w protest when they ban a Birch Society
member. That's Americanism, ladyl"
future. Last year, with lnfl
nite difficulty and only at tho
last moment, the six Euro
pean nations of the Common
Market managed to agree on
the broad outlines of their
common agricultural policy.
But they have still to agree
on tha policy itself. ,
e e e
rTHE common agricultural
policy, at this time, may
be compared to the founda
tions and part of the walls of
a house. The house has to be
completed, by agreements
about beef, dairy, and other
major products, and above all
about the European wheat
price.
The way the policy is com
pleted is of vital interest to
the United States. The policy
being pushed by Gen. do
Gaulle will block a. larger
percentage of U.S. exports ot
farm products to Europe. And.
it can also place an eventual
additional burden ot around
$600 million on the persistent
ly unsatisfactory U.S. balance
of paymenta.
If the Europeans follow tho
de Gaulle line, half tho U.S.
Senate will be on its large,
angry feet the next morning,
bellowing for trade reprisals.
A third of the Senate will bo
intoning, "Bring our boyo
back home to punish these un
grateful Europeans!"
By these self-righteous out
bursts, it must be added, tho
Senators will be playing
straight into the hands ot
Gen. de Gaulle. He will in
stantly tell the Europeans, "I
always said the Americana
were selfish and unreliable '
allies."
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fTHE Germans have not in
fact been thinking very
much about the poisonous po
litical consequences of tho
de Gaulle line. Although un
able to silence Secretary ot
Agriculture Orville Freeman,
the Kennedy administration's
doctrinaire Common Market
eers averted any really clear
political explanation with tho
Germans.
On the other hand, the Ger
mans have been thinking a lot
about their own Interests,
which by no means conincide
with those of France, either
in the matter of excluding .
agricultural imports or in the
matter of the common wheat
price. Hence it can now be
authoritatively stated that tha
Foreign, Agricuture, and Eco
nomics Ministries in Bonn are
now united on the desirability
of leaving Europe's common
agricultural policy just about
where it is, without further
additions or improvements.
The Italian government
plans the name blocking tac
tics. Despite the contrary
prodding of the Common Mar
ket Economic Commission,
therefore, one could confident
ly predict a long European
pause in this vital field if it -were
not for , two doubtful :
factors in the squation.
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THE FIRST factor is the aid
A that Gen. de Gaulle may
get from Chancellor Adenau
er. It is clear that other mem
bers of the Adenauer cabinet
hope to get around this prob
lem by delaying the issue un
til the Chancellor has been re-'
placed.
The second factor is far
more mysterious. Gen. da
Gaulle is highly likely to
threaten to break up the Com
mon Market if he does not
get his way in this matter. But
how will the Europeans, and
especially the Germans, re
spond to such a threat? No one
can say at this time, any mora
than anyone can say whether
Gen. de Gaulle will make
good his threat if still resisted.
It can be seen that the hurdle
just ahead may be very high
indeed.