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Mall Tribuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
April 24, 1153 (Friday)
A citizens' commitce to
work with the city council
on problems of off-street and
metered parking in down
town Medford was appointed
this week by Jennings Pierce,
president of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Twenty-two Medford high
school students attended a
community clinic here yester
day and provided moat of the
suggestions for community
betterment to come out of
lite session.
Black Becomes Gray
Those readers who, over the years, have noted
our strong advocacy of air pollution control,
might be asking why, this year, this column has
not blasted the smudge smoke which hangs like
a gray pall over the valley these cold mornings.
The answer is contained in the fact that the
pall of smudge smoke IS gray, and not black.
Not too many years ago the smudge smoke
(if newcomers can be pursuaded to believe this)
was far worse than anything we have experi
enced this season, or last either, for that matter.
THE orchardiste are trying, really trying, at
great cost to themselves, to eliminate as much
of this nuisance, this costly and dangerous bane
ot housewives and whose with chronic bronchial
conditions, as they can.
The number of open pot burners is going
down; the number of lazy flame and return
stack heaters, which produce less smoke, is in
creasing. This is a voluntary urogram, designed to
eliminate the last of the worst offenders over
a five year period, now in its third year. It has
cost the orchardists dearly, too. And the fact
that most of them almost all have voluntarily
gone along with the project is a credit ;o them.
117E DO not foresee the day when .smudge
smoke will be wholly eliminated from the
cold spring mornings. But progress has been
made, so much progress, in fact, that one is led
to hope that within the next two years, the smoke
will be even a thinner gray than it is today.
Perhaps, just perhaps, some new breakthrough
will occur which will allow the orchardists to
protect their valuable crops without dirtying the
environment at the same time. But don't count
on it.
Meanwhile we can recall that as much as we
all hate the gray and noisome stuff, the orchard-
ists hate the necessity even more, because it
costs them large chunks of money which they
nisime to see go up in smoiie as Datliy as we
dislike the smoke itself. E. A.
"I Can't Wait To Save You"
ws, .-. r 'III'
Reports Give Hope That U.N. Members
Will Make Good on Delinquent Payments
By BRUCE W. MUNN
United Press International
United Nations, N. Y.-fUPIt-Adlai
E. Stevenson brought
back encouraging news from
Europe for the United Na
tions: He found a renewed in
terest in France in the worid
organisation and a disposi-
three of the countries he visit
cd would "remedy their de
linquencies," if not immedi
ately, at least by the end of
the year. Since France has
refused to pay for the Congo,
West Germany is not a U. N
member, and Britain is paid
up, it was obvious that he re-
tion among some of its mem- j ferred to Bclguim. Spain and
bcrs to pay up their financial '
arrearages. mgmmmmmamtmmm
The U. N. money problem
i was widely reported to have
been one of the purposes of
the U. S. ambassador's trip to
Belgium. Britain, France,
Spain, West Germany and
Morocco.
While Stevenson was on his
trip, Eugene ft. Black was on
a quiet lour of the Middle
Last
Morocco
Actually. Morocco paid up
its share for the U.N. Middle
East operation almost as soon
as Stevenson finished his talks
in Rabat. It still owes SI 17,
823 for the Congo, operation,
however.
Spain's over-all debt to the
United Nations for the Mid-
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
1 1963. The Washington Post
THE KENNEDY-KEATING senator, like the President.
CUBAN POLICY cxeludes in present circum-
Cuba cot a good airing be-1 stances the resort to war -
talking money to fi-1 fore the American Society of I invasion, blockade and raid-
nanciat .minorities oi aenn- Newspaper
qucnt countries mere. tftacK
returned Monday. His report j
to Secretary General Thant
was not as well publicized as
Stevenson s findings.
The U. S. ambassador said
significant
speeches
... Communications ...
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contrary is often the case.
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Editors, and
fact about
Nixon on Cuban Raids
20 YEARS AGO
April 24. 1141 (Saturday)
Liquor shortage predicted
for Oregon aa Washington
residents cross state line to
Portland to make purchases
when their own stocks become
depleted.
From Arthur Perry a "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Right
now the valley was never
greener, except In the 1932
elections."
30 YEARS AGO
April 24. 1433 (Sunday)
Fishermen fear revival of
mining will ruin fishing on
Rogue river.
Rogue valley residents pro
pose construction of highway
from Grants Pass tu Gold
Beach.
40 YEARS AGO
April 24. 1923 (Monday)
Removal of all telephone
poles on Front st. between
Main and Jackson sts. com
pleted.
SO YEARSAGO
April 24. 1913 (Wednesday)
Skeleton, "a grim relic of
pome tragedy o( forme r
years," found buried under
old barn near old Bybcr
bridge.
Medford Mayor W V. El-
fcrl proclaims day til mourn
ing for Sheriff August 11
Singler. killed in gun fight
witit young desperado.
Speakinir before the American Societv of
Newspaper Editors in Washington the other day,
Richard M. Nixon sharply criticized the admin
istration's OlllM llnHfloa n-il'tinlllai-lir I linen
which involve the restraining of the Cuban ex
iles from hit and run attacks on their homeland.
Walter Lippmann deals with the Nixon
speech in his column today, briefly, and discusses
other aspects of the situation.
But another Washington columnist. William
S. White, put the matter even more cogently
some weens ago, Derore wixon's speecn; even
oerore cue exiles rains were halted
H
EKE is what White said :
that's Your I.Q.?
Nina er ran correct i, superior.
evtn or eight ii aicellentj five er
sii l good.
"Pinprick exile Cuban raids upon Soviet shipping
In Cuban waters, and upon the shore positions ot
Castro himself, have got to slop, for all these reasons:
"1. They arc wholly ineffectual and serve only lo
help entrench rather than to weaken Fidel Castro.
They permit him lo present himself to the Cuban
people as their protector from 'foreign attack.' and
beyond doubt will retard rather than advance that
hoped-for day when the Cuban people will have had
enough of him,
"2. They are both filially weak unci fatally irre
sponsible. There will be no getting rid of Castro, In
a hMVily armed Island fortress, by small and gallant
but also pointless sorties against a ship here and
there, a coastal position there and yonder . . .
"3. They embarrass the conduct of the foreign
policy of the United Slates by its only rightful con
ductor, the U.S. government ... No set of foreigners
granted sanctuary by the U.S. has the right to involve
this country Indirectly in military adventures . . .
"4. Those unauthorized attacks may give the Rus
sians some excuse lo refuse to withdraw the balance
of their troops in Culm . . .
"Apart from all this, there lies upon lite U.S. a
heavy responsibility not to allow cruelly false hopes
of early deliverance to rise among the Cuban pen
pit' . . .
"There Is an old frontier expression thai only a
fool draws a gun unless he really mean) lo use it . . ."
Idealism and sentiment aside, the realities of
the matter command more respect than were
accorded them by Mr. Nixon. E. A.
Democratic Abuse
TV "Report'
To the Editor: On their
TV's Sunday night, April 21,
the people of Southern Ore
gon watched the United Na
tions Armed Forces blow the
Republic of Katanga to bits.
Much of the murder, the rape,
the torture, Hie senseless
slaughter, and the unspeak
able, Indescribable atrocities
and inhumanities was soft
pedalled, or not shown at all.
Still the film shocked me to
the depths of my being. And
all the more so, for this was
done In my name with my
lax money. Done AFTER UN
Commanders had faithfully
promised President M o i s c
Tshombc not lo interfere ill
Katanga affairs.
Troops, military equipment,
and other war needs were
flown BWlftly into the Congo
via U.S. Air Force transport
until a tremendous, brutal
war machine was built up,
then, suddenly witli terrible
swiftness, this armed might
of inconceivable strength, en
couraged and assisted by the
United Stales of America,
struck Katanga a treacherous,
savage blow. And that was
just the beginning of fierce,
unbelievable, I n h u m a n de
struction and slaughter.
And now the anti-Commu
nist Republic of Katanga has
fallen. Her great anti-Communist.
pro-Western leader,
Moise Tshombc, Christian ad
vocate of God-given human
rights, liberties and freedoms
lias had lo surrender. And a
freedom loving people have
been brutally subdued by the
tyrants of the international
criminal conspiracy in con
trol of the UN. Why? Because
they were against Conimu
Ism and desired lo be free.
For the first time I'm an
gry, REALLY angry. Are we
Americans going to wail un
til this United Nations colos
sus destroyer finally gets
around lo giving the Ameri
can people the "peace" troat
inenl too? Or do we have
the "guts" lo lay the law
down to our Congressmen and
Senators now? And tell them
lo get us OUT of the United
Nations?
Congressman James Ult of
California has presented a
Bill to Congress, if passed,
will do just that. Friends and
neighbors, if you feel as I
do, support him. His Bill. 11. R,
427, is now being held up
in Committee. Write Con
gressman Thomas Morgan
Chairman, House Committee
on Foreign Affairs, House Of
fice Building, Washington,
B.C., urging him lo gel Con-
Dictators, No!
Dictators, Si!
By Arthur Hoppe
Every once in a while, in one part of the state
l. in what land would you Pr MWther, minors sometimes confirmed, some
expect to find Berbers1' ' i times not pop up to the effect that various units
a. With wjiat singer do you of government are exerting influence on em-
associate the song "Sonny lhm to poIiUcal matW
3. Did Abraham Lincoln! To an extent, we suppose tin's sort of activity
many Mary Todd or Ann Rut- is inevitable. School district employees, for in
C4gCThe cost oi Manhattan !W are expected to get out and 'vote for the
island plus the number of pie- DUugetS and bond issues which keep the tlis
baked blackbirds times the tricts going. This is understandable.
me?rul,hwCh.,ridcm s There are other less savory situations, how-
5. An index of words or 6Vei Ill which the CXd'ClSC 01 til
topics in a book las the Bible' ; UltlUeilCC Oil tile political activity
,s Known as a c - c - . - - - c pU.yeo S OUtrageOUS.
6. Is the area of the Sov iet " . . . .
Union equal to. or less than,
the area of all of North Amer
ica ?
7. What tplthel is applied
lo Hie fictional character Phif
ip Nolan?
8. Is the Danube rlvtl in
Europe or Asia?
9. In literature, was Blue
beard a hero or a villain?
10. In newspaper usage, pic
tures displaying female pulch
ritude are known as what?
Answers! 1. Morocco. 2. The
late Al Jolion. 3. Mary Todd.
4. 410-124 plut 24) x 10. 3.
Concordance, t. About equal.
7. "The man without a coun
try." I. Europe. 9. Villain. 10,
Cheesecake.
Washington - The wonder-
tiling about Washington is the
way il never changes. It al
ways gives you a sense of se
curity to find, no matter how
long you've been away, that
everything is si.. I the same
Tlte Capitol is still enduring,
the monuments are still
gleaming, the flags are still
waving and Senator Gold
water is still attacking Cuba.
I guess there's nobody who
objects more violently to Mi-.
Castro s dictatorship than the
Senator although, of course,
everybody objects violently to
dictatorships. Except maybe
the Senator. "1 don't object
! to a dictatorship as Violently
! as some people do." he says,
j "because 1 realize that not all
people in this world are ready
for democratic processes, in
fact, very few arc."
At first I thought maybe
this confusion was just a bat
tle fatigue. After all, the
Senator's been on the of
fensive against Cuba for all
these years and he hasn't
g van crossed the Potomac.
But then I ran into the famous
Washington political expert.
Mr A. Reliable Source (Un
iinpeachable's younger broth
er), who explained the whole
thing.
1 Mr Source, shouldn't
we object to all dictatorships?
A-Oh my, no. That would
Q-Do the people differ, loo?
A - Drastically. Those who
live under good dictators arc
ignorant, lazy, lovable people
unready fur self-government.
While those under bad dicta
tors are intelligent, energetic,
oppressed people yearning lo
be free.
Q-What about freedom of
speech?
A-Bad dictators stamp it
out because they fear the
truth. Good dictators can't al
low it because they fear a
baft dictator might take over
and stamp it out.
Q What about foreign
policy?
A Bad dictators lust lo con
quer the world. Good dicta
tors only wisli tt retake what
is rightfully theirs.
Q - Well, thank you, Mr.
Source. But it's awfully com
plex. Isn't there some single
simple method of distinguish
ing the good dictators from
the rest?
A-Yes. They're the ones on
our side.
gressman Ult's Bill out of
Committee to the floor of the
House. Then write your Con
gressman, bod Duncan, same
address, to support this Bill
11. R. 417. And tell him you're
not looling. Thank you.
Tony Galli,
1730 S.W. Bridge st.,
Grants Pass, Ore.
O
Editor's note: We happened
to see the film mentioned
above. II was one of the
worst examples of slanted
and misrepresentations! prop
aganda we've ever seen, with
scenes out of context, atroci
ties (which admittedly did
happen, some months ago) ex
aggerated and emphasized,
and the historical context of
the U.N. presence in the Con
go grossly distorted or ignor
ed. It was sponsored by the
dog food company which also
sponsors Dan Smoot, the dar
ling of lite reactionaries of
the ultra right.
Intra-Mural Squabble
To the Editor: This is an
"off year," that is, no general
election is scheduled, and poli
ticians are supposed to re
lax, let incumbents, especially
freshmen like Bob Duncan,
iiave a honeymoon before the
slings and arrows start flying
next year. Generally, I'd say
this is in the best interests
of both politicians and voters.
This, however, is the year
of decision for Hie Dunes
Park. I have criticized, and
will continue to criticize. Bob
for his inadequate, hardly-
worth-enacting Oregon Dunes
National Seashore Park bill.
And I have strongly endorsed
Senator Neuberger's bill be
cause it includes a large
enough area for necessary de
velopment. Now I find myself about to
criticize Bob publicy on a po
litical matter of the sort I
never had lo deal with in my
four years as the Fourth Dis
trict Congressman, that is, on
a patronage appointment. The
Democrats took over the na
tional administration after I
was defeated in 1960.
I feel I must speak up be
cause of editorials like the
one in the Illinois Valley
News which you reprinted,
with approval. April 14.
That editorial unjustifiably
reflects on Marv Madden's
abilities. It says that Bob
Duncan ignored the Central
Committee selection and ap
pointed "a man he fell would
do the job better." which is
nol. repeat not. t lie fact at
all You and the Cave Junc
tion editor should read Bob's
letter of March 38. 1963. to
Jean Mills. You will find
there only praise for Marv's
ability and integrity.
On April S, 196;!. Bob wrote
lo Marv that his decision
Lippmann
to say what
ban policy
sounded like
ready to go
of the Pres
ident, Secre
tary Rusk and
Senator Keat
ing was that
there is sub
stantial agree
in e n t about
what the
United States
should and
should n o t
do. It is hard
Mr. Nixon's Cu
would be. He
a man who was
to war. But all
he actually said was th.it he
wanted the Cuban exiles to
make hit-and-run raids.
Senator Keating, who is the
most conspieous of the crit
ical opposition, began by
saying that "il is foolish lo
pretend that there are easy
answers to the Cuban prob
lem." lie did not pretend.
Then, ill his speech, he admit
ted that he agrees with the
main theses of our present
Cuban policy. He is opposed
to an invasion. He is opposed
to a blockade. He is opposed
to hit-and-run raids mounted
from American soil. He is in
favor of "greater stress on
non-niililary measures," he
wants to exert increasing
economic pressure so that the
Soviets "will be driven to the
conclusion that the price of
maintaining a base in Cuba is
too high."
ing; like t he President he, too
would deal with Cuba by sur
veillance, containment, isola
tion, economic pressures and
propaganda.
There is no doubt that at
least for some time to come
the Kennedy-Keating policy
will leave the Soviet troops
90 miles from Florida. This is
an affront to our pride. Not
since Napoleon III put French
troops into Mexico to en
throne and support the Em
peror Maximilian has any
thing like this happened so
close to us. In the end, the
French troops went away.
But. because there was no
prudenl alternative, Lincoln
put up with the Bonapartist
troops for several years.
How long must we put up
with the Russian troops? The
honest answer is that we must
put up with them until they
can be gotten rid of by meas
ures short of nuclear war.
Here is the sticking point in
the argument with Governor
Rockefeller and Mr. Nixon.
They sound, they intend to
sound, as if they know a way
lo gel rid of the Russian
troops promptly without
waging nuclear war.
die East and the Congo is
Si. 6 million and Belgium's
is S3. 8 million.
Since Belgium wants to ac
. cept a major role in the re-
training of the Congo army
a development favorable to
Belgian economy through re
demption of the country's
prestige among the Congolese
- a payment from Brussels is
expected soon. Belgium prob
ably will bargain on the basis
of damages fuffcred by its
nationals and installations in
the Congo.
There appeared little
chance that France would
pay anything on the SI 4 1
million it owes for the Con
go. France is up to the minute
on all its other U.N. pay
ments. Diplomats here have been
spreading broad hints of a
relaxation of de Gaulle's at
titude toward the United Na
tions. They sec no chance that he
will relent and pay up his
share of the Congo military
expense. But French diplo
mats have been sending up
trial baloons to the effect
that Paris will pay the equiv
alent of its military share to
help finance the Congo's civil
rehabilitation. The catch is
that France, whatever it does,
is legally liable for the $14
million it owes for the mili
tary operation.
Dc Gaulle is said to have
assured Thant that whatever
t h c developments here,
France will continue (he eco
nomic aid to the Congo it
gave voluntarily even before
the United Nations was established.
1M-I1S is tile same story which
tile administration is tell
ing. Senator Keating's differ
ences arc not in the sub
stance of the text, but in the
editing, Hie typography, the
layout and the captions. The
against Marv "is not meant
to reflect unfavorably on you
in any way." You and the
Cave Junction editor say that
you are "bemused" over this
"intramural squabble." I say,
get your facts straight and
don't publish or re-publish an
editorial with a grossly er
roneous premise.
The truth is that Mrs. Mar
vin (Marge) Madden was my
Jackson county campaign
manager in the primary last
year and that Marv supported
my candidacy. This kind of
fact frequently is given weight
in patronage decisions! Bob
doesn't have to do any favors
for persons who supported an
opponent. But, and here is
where he and I part company
again, he should have made
this clear lo Marv and the
Central Committee officers
before the vote was taken
in tlte Central Committee as
to the recommendation. Why
have all the battle if Bob is
going to reject one of the par
ticipants if he wins?
I agree with Bob that he
is not bound to accept the
Central Committee's recom
mendation. When, however,
he chooses not to follow its
recommendation il seems to
me that his reasons ought to
be related to the nominee's
capability or character.
Charles O. Porter.
858 Pearl st.,
Eugene. Ore.
e employer s '"" nalvp There are good die
r ,t ' tators and had dictators Fo
OI lilt l IU" rn L'kmahUI
IN ONE Oregon school district, for instance, we
have learned that one employee, a teacher,
was mven a harsh reprimand from the admin
istration after voicing publicly an opinion con
cerning a forthcoming school election an opin
ion, presumably, which tlid not jibe with the
views of the administration.
The wielding of such potent
a gross and unwarranted abuse o
employee re
erased w
It) expect a Pillule scion tpm-her In instruct
his students in democratic practice, while at the
laame lime subjecting him to such insufferable
I pressures, is intolerable E, A.
'influence" is
the employer-
lationship. and i.- all the worse if ex-
a public official paid from tax monies.
example. Castro. Khrusluh
I and Mao are bad dictators
Chiang. Franco and Salaiar
are good dictators
Q How do you tell good
dictators from bad dictators''
A - A good dictator heads
Free World governments B ut
dictators rule ruthlessly ovei
llava nations The former are
trustworthy and distinguish
ed. The latter devious and
perhaps insane.
Q Do they govern differ
ently" A-Certainly. Qood dictators
bring stability to the country
and guidance to the people
with the help of their loyal
armies of dedicated fighting
men Bad dictators impose
naught tint tyrann at bay-1
onrt point.
AMiwiMnn n,i .
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-'T.M i UHtai!
Lai faca it. wa plavad it dumb. It i hadn t dropped
ou! of school, wa'd hava baen in on thosa TV tooth
paila tails and ba living olf lha residuals!"
No Money
To the Editor: The U.S. Na
tional Bank of Portland loves
to loan money. That's what
they say on T.V. So 1 jumped
in my car and drove down
I there to get this money they
I love to loan. I had this vision
of getting this small loan on
! my signature. Ha Ha
1 asked for the money and
i they opened the door wide
and I imagined I was going
to get this loan, but to my
i disillusion, I found out that
they mean they love to loan
j money to the finance com
i pany
At 5M per cenl interest and
the finance company Will let
you have it at the Ijw low
price of only 33 per cent in
terest. So may I suggest if any
body wants a loan, go to the
finance company first and
then call the U.S. Bank and
tell them you are there to
bring down the money and
give it to the finance company
at 31; per cent interest so
you can get it at only 33 per
cent interest
David J Slctten
131 Rcagcr st.
Medford
WHAT is this prompter way
to make the Russians go
away from Cuba? They do
not tell us, but the most rea
sonable interpretation of what
they say is that the prompter
way is not to make war, but
to threaten war. Both Gover
nor Rockefeller and Mr. Nix
on have avoided saying plain
ly what they do mean. But if
what they sound like has gen
uine meaning, it is that they
believe the United States can
deliver an ultimatum which
the Soviet Union will bow to.
If this is not what they
mean, what in the name of
common sense do they mean
with all their big words? If
they arc prepared to be so
bold with the Russians, they
ought to be bold enough lo
talk plainly to their fellow
Americans.
1VHE Rbckefeller - Nixon pos
ition appears then lo be
that Cuba can be liberated by
ordering the Soviet Union to
withdraw from this hemi
sphere and lo stand by pas
sively while we blockade
Castro and arrange for a re
placement of Castro's govern
ment. If this is what they have in
mind, they arc making an
enormous guess. For nobody
can possibly know that the
Soviet Union would surrender
its whole position in Cuba as
it surrendered its offensive
weapons last October It is
tiie supreme folly in the nu
clear age to drive a nuclear
power into a corner. And if
the Soviet Union refused to
bow to the ultimatum, ail
this would do for us would
be to make us look like fools.
The President of the United
States cannot play with an
Ultimatum to a government
like that of the Soviet Union.
He cannot use an ultimatum
unless he is prepared to go
I through with it and begin a
i war. If he is not prepared to
go to war. an ultimatum is
a bluff, and everyone will
soon see that it is.
lV'UILE the present policy
" does not promise a quick
j withdrawal of the Russians or
I the fall of Castro, it is sure
ly not true to say that it is
complacent, do - nothingism.
I To a degree which is just
short of war, Cuba is being
photographed, patrolled, em
bargoed, squeezed and isola
ted If Cuba were a great pow
er, we would be at war with
her for what we arc already
doing. I doubt whether there
is any precedent where we j
have exerted such strong
measures short of war on any
other country.
However much w-e arc im
patient and frustrated, we I
have to grasp the fact that
Cuba is no military threat to
the United States and is not
very much of
Latin America. The worst of
Castro is his example, and a
long way after that such
agents as he is able to train
and infiltrate into the Latin
American countries.
He is an affront to our
pride, he is a nuisance, he is
a mischief maker. But he is
not a mortal threat to the
vital interests of the United
States, and therefore, in this
ace of thermonuclear war. we
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(c Field Enterprises. Inc.
LAWS AND MORALS
In my city of Chicago,
which I dearly love, despite,
its syndicate bombings, its
strong - arm
ings, its dope
pus hers, its
prostitutes, its
policy rackets,
its slum land
lords, and
similar civic
c x crcscences,
a peculiar
thing happen'
Harri- cd last month.
A night club comedian was
found guilty by a jury of ut
tering obscene words in his
performance, and was sentenc
ed by a judge to a year in
jail and given a S1.000 fine.
This splendid example of
civic indignation is only
slightly dimmed by the
thought that one might step
into any police station at any
time of day or night and hoar
the same foul expletives
streaming unconsciously from
the mouths of those guardian.?
of the city's laws and morals.
In fact, I had a vision of
the vice squad detectives
saying to one another after
the pinch: "Whai in . . . does
that think he's
doing by using such ....
language in a night
club?"
The same day's issue that
reported his conviction also
informed us that a notori
ous owner of decrepit slum
properties won another con
tinuance in a case that has
been dragging on for years
io prevent him from ex
ploiting and victimizing
ignorant and impoverished
tenants.
There was also another
bombing of a restaurant
that day, doubtless per
petrated by the Big Boys,
who rest secure in tha
knowledge that not a single
gangland killing has ever
been solved by the police,
force in the 30 years since I
left Boy Seoul Troop No. 4.
The paper was studded
with goodies that day, but
the Chicago public has be
come resigned, not to say
apathetic, toward what
would be considered shock
ing activities in less sop
histicated c o m m u nities.
Like the man who boasts
he cannot spell properly,
we have almost become a
little proud of our civic infelicities.
The night club comedian
who talked dirty was only a
transient in town, and there
fore it may have been felt
that he was not authorized
to take part in the city's gen
eral air of raffishness! to usa
the kindest possible word.
After all. we don't want mn
threat to aliens coming in and corrupt.
ing mc pinK teasnei cars of
our virginal daughters with
such Anglo-Saxon vocables.
With our young daughters
land sons! reading every day
about some new depravitv. or
old offense, it would be Vim
ply too much to expose them
to the blunt obscenities of a
wandering jester.
We taught that dirty a
lesson If the slum landlords
WOllld Onlv I1W nrrtfan,,.- . -
must deal with him by mcas- public, there might be some
urcs that arc short of war. hope for a conviction.