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and 5U yeari ago.
10 YEARS AGO
May 5. 1953 (Tuetday)
Medford schoolboy patrols
will be honored Friday night
by the Medford Safety Coun
cil at the organization's an
nual schoolboy patrol ban
quet. The Medford High s c h o o 1
baseball team today won Us
second straight Southern Ore
gon conference and District
No. 6 A-l baseball title.
20 YEARS AGO
May 5, 1943 (Wednetdey)
The iBOunty health depart
ment reported 42 cases of
measles and 28 cases of
mumps In Jackson county dur
ing last week.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Omi.rfno Pnt" column: "1943
model sparrows are now out
of the nest ana wun tne en
thusiasm of youth are trying
to fly faster than their taill."
30 YEARS AGO
May 5. 1933 (Friday)
Medford High school de
bate team composed of Ellza
beth and Frances Ferry, twin
daughters of Mr. and Mrs
D. H. Ferry, win state tltla.
Kittenball season scheduled
tu open in Medford next
week.
40 YEARS AGO
May 5. 1923 (Saturday)
Cutting of first crop of al
falfa starts In Eden district.
Fishing In Little Butte
creek and Rogue river report
ed good; younger fishermen
catch many catfish in Bear
creek.
50 YEARS AGO
May 5, 1913 (Monday)
Man alleged to bt member
of Italian "black hand" gang
arrested In northern Califor
nia after attempt to blast way
Into Yreka lumber company.
, "Practically every machine
in the city was In use Sunday
for pleasure purposes, the
season having arrived when
motoring throughout the vaU
ley becomes popular." ,
What's Your 1.0.7
Nina or fen cornel U tueerierl
even or tight It eMtllen?) five er
sia n goes.
1. Is It the 18th, 19th or
16th amendment to ths Con.
stittition which provides for
woman suffrage?
2. Collegians know that the
"Prexy is whom?
' 3. Approximately how
many Federal prisoners are
there in Alcatraz Prison?
4. The deadly gas from
automobile exhausts Is called
what?
3. Was Andrew Jackson
President of the U. S. before
or afler James K. Polk?
6. The Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art is located in
which U. S. city?
7. Babe Ruth it one time
was a pitcher in the major
leagues: true or false?
8. U.S. passports are Issued
by the Immigration and Nat
uralization Service; true or
false?
9. There are 40 rods In a
furlong: how many furlongs
aie there in a mllfi?
10. Are battleships named
after states, admirals or
cities?
Answers! 1, 19th. 2, Preil
dent of the College. 3, Nona)
It s clotad. 4. Carbon men'
oxide, 5. Before. , New York
City. 7. True. I. Falsa, I,
Eight. 10, Stales.
SUNDAY. MAY . IK3
School Board Vote
Medford school district patrons Monday will
elect a new school board member.
. A board member's
the most important in
board's hands lies the
upon which the instruction of our children is
It is not any easy job. It is time consuming.
It requires more than mere acquaintance with
complex school problems.
0
F THE two candidates seeking the position
nn ths Medford board. John J. Keid we be
lieve has better qualifications for the post, lie
has served on the Eagle Point school board and
has served as president of the Jackson County
School Boards Association.
William Brawn, the other candidate, has
taught in the adult education program in the Med
ford system. We don't believe this equals Reid's
experience in school affairs through service on
another board. E.H.A.
TVirt nf Vint ma ttor tn ho vntorl nn hv Medford
school district patrons tomorrow is the proposal
i : r.t h rf jarliitatinn
U increase me erne ui
from five members to
doesn't make too much difference. A five-member
board often can come to decisions more
rapidly and harmoniously than a seven-member
hnavA a oovon . memher hoard would nermit
WU, f " w.. J
wider representation from the greatly enlarged
rliofvinf Tt'a o fiolrWs nhnipp R.A.
UlOW 1.V. AV a U u ...wv.
On Re-visiting the Jungle
You can't go back again; you can't recapture
your youth.
Even revisiting scenes familiar in childhood
is futile, for in this era of change, they do not re
main the same.
However, one can come fairly close to find
ing again some of the feel
books first read when
change, and the fact that you have changed
makes the re-reading all the more fascinating.
These thoughts are prompted by the fact that
we are now re-reading "The Jungle Books," by
Rudyard Kipling. And what a wave of nostalgic
memories they evoke.
lVOWGLI, Bagheera the. panther, Baloo the
" bear, Kaa the python, Rikky-Tikky-Tavi the
mongoose, Gray Brother the wolf, Shere Khan
the tiger, the Bandar Log tribe of monkeys, the
white seal all these and the others, half-forgot
ten, emerge again as familiar, living characters.
The perspective that one brings to the great
old tales is, of course, different than that which
accompanied their reading some three decades
ago. But that durerence in perspective only
tends to emphasize the
first wrought.
The stories, though dated by the vanished em
pire of the British, still are classics and still have
the power to carry the imagination to other times,
other places and other worlds. E.A.
Forest Camping Fees
The Forest Service's plans to make a small
charge for use of certain of its more popular
campgrounds appear to
approval.
The plans call for a $1
the user will enjoy improved facilities and
services.
The service has long
in attempts to keep up with the demand for camp
ing areas, plus their operation and maintenance,
including such problems as firewood, sanitation,
cleanup, and so on. The user-fee will provide
funds for these purposes.
THE user fees will not be charged everywhere :
lyllVJ TV 41 UUIJT JM MOW! lit iitglllJT JJUMiai JJlCa,V-VJ
where the provision of adequate services has been
a problem.
The small camps, usually far out in the for
ests and mountains, will remain free to all com'
ers. Many of them need development and im
provement, too, but they have had to wait upon
the allocation of adeauate funds.
Of the user fee plans, the Eugene Register-
Guard says :
". . , The willingness in campers to pay would be
a conclusive test of the national need for an acceler
ated program of developing more facilities of the same
sort-a test which Congress could not Ignore when
working out appropriations for the Forest Service."
We feel certain that
willing to pay a modest
are assured of better
sanitary facilities, and,
ment of more forest camp grounds. h. A.
Fifty-One Million
Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland,
District of Columbia, St. Louis, Milwaukee, San
Francisco, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Indianapolis,
Kansas City, Mo., Louisville, Oklahoma City,
Rochester, Toledo, St. Paul, Norfolk, Miami,
lulsa, Richmond, Des
bile and Charlotte, N.C.,
is artificially fluoridated.
A total of more than 51 million Americans
are drinking fluoridated water. They live in
4,251 communities. Their childr en's teeth are
better, stronger and healthier because of it,
E. A.
responsibility is one of
the county, lor m tne
educational philosophy
wo u'.'iu u. uv.i.v.v...
seven. In our view, it
of youth by re-reading
young. These do not
rembered magic the tales
be meeting with general
per day fee, for which
been straining its budgets
most campers would be
fee if, in return, they
accommodations, better
ultimately, the develop
Moines, Providence, Mo'
all have water which
"Bah! You're Not Trying To Make It Grow"
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
lc) 1C83. The
THE ITALIAN ELECTIONS
The Italian elections must
be regarded as not quite deci
sive. For much depends nor
on what hap
pens this sum-
convention
iTtja N e n n i's
A -ft clalist Pa:
T 1 Thau Bra
luuveimuu ui
So-
Party.
I jfc I Socialists who
I 1 I used to be af
I irVCI filiated with
LiPDmana 1st Party, but
since 1962 have been support
ing the coalition led by the
Christian Democrats.
There Is a crisis in the mak
ing on the question of whe
ther the Nenni Socialists will
divorce the Communists com
pletely or whether they will
continue to collaborate with
them In regional politics.
There has long been a bill
pending In the Italian parlia
ment to grant what we would
call states' rights to each of
the 19 regions of which Italy
is composed. There are, how
ever, two regions, Emilia and
Tuscany, where the Commun
ists and the Nenni Socialists
combined would have an ab
solute majority.' The Fanfanl
government is not likely to
pass the states rights bill un
less the Nenni Socialists prom
ise not to form a governing
coalition with the Commu
nists. The critical question i whe
ther Nenni can make this
promise and still hold his par
ty together. If he cannot, the
Fanfani coalition fovernment
will be In grave danger.
WHILE the outcome is not
decisive, nevertheless it
is true that, while the Fan
fani coalition has lost some
seats in the parliament, it is
still very considerably strong
er than any other combination
which could be put together.
If, for example, the Nenni So
cialists were excluded, either
of the other conceivable com
binations would have only
about 53 per cent of the seats
as against the 60 per cent
which these elections have
given to the Fanfani coalition.
A somewhat closer study of
the vote shows that there has
been a general movement to
the left. Starting with the
Communists on the extreme
left, we see that they gained
about a million votes. Presum
ably the Communist gains
come from those Socialists
who disapproved of Ncnni's ar
rangement with the Christian
Democrats. Yet, curiously
enough, the Nenni Socialists
held steady. Their share of the
popular vole is only one-third
of one per cent lower than in
1958. If, indeed, they lost a
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"If the President tends troops Inte Laos, he can expect
"If the Preiendentt tends troept Into Laot. he can ex
campaign that 1st"
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IAjefatSl fWT
llppmann
Washington Pott
million votes to the Commu
nists, they must have gained
about that many from the
Christian Democrats.
Moving another step to the
right, the Saragat Democratic
Socialists, who hnve never
collaborated with the Commu
nists, gained over half a mil
lion votes. These, too, must
have come from the Christian
Democrats. All in all, the
Christian Democrats lost a
little more than a million
votes, and the bulk of them
must have gone to the parties
on the left. It is true that the
Conservative Party, which in
Italy is called the Liberal Par
ty, and is comparable with :he
Eisenhower Republicans i n
this country, made big gains.
But these appear to have been
at the expense Of the Mon
archist Party on its own l iht.
The Conservative Liberals
gained over a million votes,
while the Monarchists lost
over a million votes. Thus
there was no real gain on the
right, although the Neb-Fascists
gained about 165,000
votes.
,a
PARENTHETICALLY, it has
been said that the Com
munist gainB must have come
from the 1,750,000 young peo
ple who are the new voters.
The figures do not bear out
this conclusion. The elector
ate for the Chamber of Dep
uties begins at 21 years of
age. The electorate for the
Senate begins at 25 years of
age. The new voters, there
fore, were in the electorate of
the Chamber of Deputies and
not in that of the Senate.
If it was these young people
who swelled the Communist
vote, there should have been
a greater Communist gain in
the Chamber of Deputies elec
tions than in the Senate elec
tions. In fact, the contrary is
true. The Communist gain
was smaller by 234,000 votes
in the younger electorate than
it was in the older one. A
slightly higher proportion of
the older electorate voted
Communist than did the
youngqr.
Speaking generally, the
Italian elections show that a
majority of the Italian voters
are left of center. If it hap
pens this summer that the
Nenni Socialists cannot de
tach themselves successfully
from the old collaboration
with the Communists, the gov
erning coalition of the parlia
ment will have to move from
the center-left to the center
right. In all likelihood, this would
bring About a renewal of
those weak governments
which Fanfani has sought to
overcome by drawing the
Nenni Socialists away from
the Communists.
Matter of Fact
(e) New York Herald
LOOKING BEFORE '
LEAPING
Washington - All the polit
ical wiseacres are declaring in
knowing tones that u Gov,
Nelson Rocke
feller marries
Mrs. Murphy
as he is obvl-
nnalv onlncr in
1 1 J do - it will
1j.J "slow down
the Rockefel
1 e r bandwa
gon," or be
"real road-
Aimp block at t h e
convention, or "make the
state chairman think twice."
These solemn pronounce
ments are obviously true. But
it would lend a useful touch
of honesty to the political di-
In ihe Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Salem:
The sales tax Is apparently
dead for this session of the
legislature, after indefinite
postponement last week by a
34-26 vote of the House.
Four Republicans joined 30
Democrats in the action which
can be undone only by sus
pension of tho rules. How
ever, suspension of the rules
would require 40 votes, and
that total is considered virtu
ally unreachable."
AS YOU will note from the
figures, the sales tax was
killed by a heavy Democratic
vote - 30 Democrats, joined
by four Republicans. Opposi
tion to the sales tax is Demo
cratic dogma in Oregon, and
has been for decades.
Oregonians will play a sales
tax, whether they call it that
or not. All taxes are sales
taxes, in that they are a part
of the cost of doing business
so have to be added to prices.
AND-
Taxes are cumulative.
They have to be added first
to the raw materials cost.
Then the manufacturer adds
his taxes to his other costs of
doing business, which Includes
taxes on the raw materials.
The jobber adds his taxes, and
passes them oh to the whole
saler. The wholesaler adds his
taxes to his other costs and
passes them on to the retailer,
who adds his taxes to the
price.
You, as a consumer, pay
them all, sales tax or no sales
tax. ' . .
A TAX is a tax. j-,
As Gertrude Stein,. with
her say it again and again and
again style, would have put it,
a tax is a tax is a tax is a tax.
That's about the size of it.
FROM Moscow:
Fidel Castro and Nikita
Khrushchev stood side by
side on Lenin s tomb the other
dav and reviewed a May Day
parade that included Soviet
rockets of the kind that once
brought them both to the
verge of nuclear war. . A
strange hush came over the
audience in Moscow's Red
Square as the long gray roc
kets rolled by. f oreign ob
servers called them "the Cuba
rockets."
WHY this exaggerated honor
to Castro and his Cuban
.
buckos?
You answer It.
There are so many consid
erations that could have been
responsible. At the very least,
it was designed to say that In
Moscow's plans for the future,
CUBA occupies a very large
place. It's hard to make any
thing else out of it.
A Call for
By ERIC SEVAREID
Cuba may well be, as now
predicted, the prime issue in
the national politics of 1964.
But unless tne
Issue is clar
III.J for ha.
i?f $Je1 ynd l prcs-
FT :j?Is 1 he a rhelnriral
rr j : :
question, not
aquettton
for true de
bate. Alterna.
1 1 v e policies
sevareu are required
for true debate and all we
have on either side, so far, is
attitudes.
With justice, the President
has insisted that his critics
show more precision in their
prescriptions for handling
Cuba; but with equal justice
his critics can insist on more
precision from the administra
tion. What we are now wit
nessing is a collision of two
fog banks. This never clears
the air, in nature or In poli
tics; it merely produces fog of
double thickness.
a
How uncertain the future
course, there can be little un
certainty about what the Im
mediate past has produced:
1. The Russians now possess
a military, political and prop
aganda base In the heart of
our area of security and In
fluence. 2. Their troops In Cuba con
stitute a "trip wire," paralyz
ing to American action, at our
troops in Berlin constitute a
trip wire there.
mi
By Joseph Altep
Tribune Smdlrate
alogue if the other, much
greater roadblock that Gov
ernor Rockieller has to sur
mount were also mentioned
more frequently.
The plain truth of the mat
ter Is that Rockefeller's heavi
est tingle handicap, with
great numbers of professional
Republican politicians, Is his
aggressively and consistently
liberal record on the race is
sue. On many other subjects,
he has recently been sounding
a neo-conservative note; but
on this subject he stands four
square with Sen. Jacob Javits.
a
THE stand has served him
well in New York state;
but in the South It has served
him very ill indeed. Through
out the South, the leaders of
both parties unanimously pre
dict that Rockefeller would
lose their states to President
Kennedy. This1 Is the main
reason why the Rockefeller
boom was watched with few
signs of disquiet In the White
House. , -
A Republican nomination of
Governor Rockefeller, which
is still the' most likely out
come, would mean Republican
adoption of the very antithe
sis of the "Southern strategy"
long advocated in party con
claves by Rockefeller's most
conspicuous rival, Sen. Barry
Goldwater. - - . . i
In other words, the nom
ination of Rockefeller would
mean foregoing the opportun
ity to pick up large numbers
of electoral votes in the
Southern and border states.
The battle would thus mainly
center in the big states, like
New York and California. Yet
there are also widespread
doubts, among Republicans as
well as Democratic politicians
about Governor Rockefeller's
ability to carry his own state
against the President.
a
SEEN against 'this back
ground, the general accep
tance of the inevitability of
Governor Rockefeller's nom
ination was a remarkable po
litical phenomenon. It was
also a major asset to the gov
ernor, for a bandwagon is
always very hard to stop in
politics.
When and if the governor
remarries, the main result will
be to halt the bandwagon. Un
avoidably, the Republican
professionals will stop, look.
and listen. They will re -as
sess the odds. They will ask
themselves about the avail
ability of other candidates, in
cluding Senator Goldwater,
who is catnip for so many
Republican contributors.
This re-assessment, in turn,
will almost certainly cause an
increasing number of Repub
lican leaders to be tempted
by the Southern strategy pro
posed by Goldwater. The es
sence of this strategy is to
surrender to the Democrats
the Northern Negroes and
other minority groups, on the
ground, which has been plain
ly stated by Goldwater him
self, that these groups "al
ways vote Democratic any
way." e . a
THE aim of the strategy Is
to pick up the Southern
electoral votes which used to
be the Democratic party's
rockbottom asset. The method
of the strategy is to appeal to
Southern voters by powerful
pronouncements in favor of
states' rights - which will be
taken, in the South, as pro
nouncements against desegre
gation. Political realism requires
the admission that this strat
egy long favored by Senator
Goldwater is not so wild as it
Clearing
3. Cities and installations of
the United States mainland
are now open to damage by
conventional weapons, and
have become, therefore, in
some degree hostage to Com
munist purposes. Theoretical
ly, at least, the Russians could
damage us by proxy, their
method elsewhere, without
themselves being directly in
volved. 4. Castro's physical hold on
the island is complete, with
the underground movement
facing probable extinction.
5. The mass of Cuban man
power in exile is now a
"blown Instrument," a handi
cap and thorn in our side, not
a weapon for our uses.
6. A foreign policy quarrel
of serious proportions is en
gulfing an administration
which has not yet found its
feet in the area of Its domes
tic policies and programs.
7. Once again, world Com
munism had succeeded in
choosing the point of con
flict and crisis in the cold
war, and once again, as with
South Korea or South Viet
nam or West Berlin or Laos,
the locus of contention Is in
side the realm of the free
world, not in the Communist
realm.
e e a
Whatever the precise de
crees of blame tj be placed
on American administrations,
past and present, or on
Cubans, past and present, the
net result Is as described
above; and in tplte of the
trade restrlcUoni and the par-
THINGS YOU WOULDN'T
KNOW IF YOU HADN'T
READ THEM HERE
ilisha Otis, who invented
the elevator in 1857 in a one
story house, was called Nutty
Otis by his neighbors .. .
There are 31 mountain peaks
in Colorado higher than Pike's
Peak, three of which are call
ed Harvard, Yale and Prince
ton ... A 4 star general with
less than two years service
in the army gets fifty dollars
a month less than one with
over two years service . . . The
Rogue Indians were consider
ed sissies because they always
wore tennis shoes ... It
wasn't Ben Franklin at all
who said, "A kite in time is
a stitch earned.'' (We said it)
. . . After inventing the ther
mometer in 1593, Galileo said,
"Mama Mial I knew it was
hot today but I sure didn't
know It was this hot."
STOLEN FROM A HIGH
SCHOOL NEWSPAPER
B.111! Why is a blotter like
a laiy dog?
Phil! I'll bite, why?
Bill! A blotter it an lnk
llned plane, an inclined
plant is a slope up, a slow
pup it a lory dog.
(Thank you. Eagle't Quill,
Eagle Point High)
3z
THINGS WE ALWAYS
NOTICE
. . . The strained expression
on Pretident Wilson's face on
$100,000 bills.
. . . The upper right hand
corner of page 25 of the tele
phone directory. This is proof
may seem to those who have
not studied the current South
ern climate. The same politi
cians who are unanimous that
Rockefeller would lose the
Southern states to Kennedy
are even more emphatic that
Goldwater would carry almost
every Southern and border
state against the President or
anyone else. -
That does not eliminate the
real problem of a Goldwater
nomination, however. His
stands on a long series of so
cial and welfare issues are
such that they would, cause
him some trouble, even in the
South, and would probably
cause him big trouble every
where else.
a a a
GOLD WATER'S magnetic
personality and the fact
that he has not had to fight a
campaign have caused most
of his stands on issues to be
forgotten. In a Presidential
race, they would be ventilated
daily, and with the utmost in
sistence arid relish.
Even so, any slowdown of
the Rockefeller bandwagon
makes a Goldwater nomina
tion more likely. It also in
creases the . likelihood of a
compromise nomination - the
choice of Gov. George Rom
ney of Michigan, for instance,
or Gov. William Scranton of
Pennsylvania.
On the stales' right plat
form, with Senator Goldwater
in the Vice Presidential spot,
these more neutral figures
might well have more appeal
than Rockefeller in the South
and more than Goldwater else
where. the Air on
ial efforts of the O.A.S. at
diplomatic "isolation" of
Cuba, no persuasive evidence
has yet developed to justify
optimistio assumptions about
the future effects of Castro
ism in the Caribbean and in
continental South America. .
At the moment Guatemala
is holding and in Venezuela.
the local Communists have
been weakened and disorgan
ized. But quick reversals have
been a hallmark of the vola
tile politics of Latin Amer
ica, and it strains credulity to
assume that a general era of
stability is now beginning.
For countries like Peru and
possibly Brazil it is hard to
convince oneself that the
fundamental force for Inte
gration are stronger than the
fundamental forces for disin
tegration. Latin American
Communists believe the con
trary, and are relatively
quiescent right now only as
a matter of strategy, waiting
for the time when the United
States will relax about Cuba,
take Itt nervous finger off
the trigger, and gradually slip
into a ttate of de facto co
existence with Castro. As we
drift In that direction, most
Latin governments as well at
those European allies anxious
to resume trade with Cuba
will try to force us further
in that direction.
.
When northern opinion Is
adjusted to accommodation,
Communist strategies will
change again, and with the
that that man will build a
hotel anyplace.
ASS
RAFER TOLD US
We were delighted is be
ttkad to sit next to Olympic
Decathlon champion Raftt
Johnion when he tpoke at a
Medford breakfast teveral
yean ago. When iilme of the
brtakfait were televited the
next evening. Refer John
ton wet tetn at he leaned
toward ut and taid tome
thing that caused ut visible
concern.
We don't think he'd mind
at all if we patted en to
you hit kindly and experi
enced menage.
"Don't chew your food
while they're taking the pic
luret." A PEEK AT THE PAST .
We are Indebted to City
Councilman Bill Singler for
permitting us to look through
a scrap book of newspaper
clippings dating back to 1911
when Bill's grandfather, Au
gust Singler, was the con
stable. We were particularly Im
pressed by the style of re
porting in those days and one
of our favorite news stories
concerned a young man who
came to Medford, "met, wooed
and won a well known young
girl in three weeks. He was
arrested two months later
after he mortgaged for fifty
dollars a furnished house ha
was renting; sold a pair of
valuable dogs belonging to
the Houston brothers, winners
of the grand prize at the Spo
kane Apple Show two years
ago (the reporter never did
reveal if it had been the bro
thers or the dogs that won the
prize) and pocketed the pro
ceeds; bought a Victor talk
ing machine and failed to pay
for It; left behind some gro
cery bills and posed as the
heir to an estate in the east.
He Is a flashy dresser, one
suit being of pronounced cut
and style."
Another case Involved the
reported sighting of a desper
ado in the Derby area. With
its usual calm style, Tne Med
ford Sun told the story thus:
"The constable, organized a
posse, composed of himself,
and left for Derby to arrest
the red-eyed desperado who
was reportedly holding forth
in 8 lonely cabin. Arriving at
Derby, the arm of the law
journeyed toward the haunt
of the bad man, expecting any
moment to stop hot lead.
"The worst thing that hap
pened to the constable," the
news story continues, "wag
to find himself mired In the
mud to deep that he feared
he would not be able to ex
tricate himself in time to run
for sheriff at ihe April pri
maries." Constable Singler was elect
ed sheriff of Jackson county
and several years later (1913)
died bravely in a gun duel
while arresting a law breaker
a short distance from Jack
sonville. Medford and Jack
son county paid final respects
to this fine lawman, as every
butlnest in town closed and
hundreds of his friends fol
lowed him to the cemetery in
a funeral cortege 12 blocks
long.
Cuba
present electricity dissipated,
we shall find it far harder to
rouse ourselves to forceful ac
tion In the case of some at
tempted uprising in Cuba or
in the case of Communist
coups in nearby nations. Thif
is the prospect unless some
how we find a way to increase
our present pressures on
Cuba. If they are not in
creased, they will decrease; it
it not in the nature of these
things that a status quo can
be indefinitely maintained.
Wise and good men are re
minding us that a Communist
Cuba it not a mortal threat
to our vital Interests. In and
of itself, of course It it not.
But that opent, it does not
close, the argument. A Com
munist Viet-Nam, or a Com
munist Laos, or Indonesia, or
Venezuela or West Berlin
would not be mortal threats,
either in and of themselves
and separately considered.
e a
But the Communist world
strategy of protracted con
flict is a strategy of the piece
meal advance. Ther im nn!-
so many pieces on the board.
wun me capture oi Cuba they
have taken a tremendously
Important niece. Dozens nf
Russian ships would not be
plying the Cuban trade and
thousands of Russian citizens
would not be turned nut in
cheer Castro, If the Kremlin
didn't think so.
(Diitributed 1963 by The
Hell Syndicate. Inc.)
(All Rights Reterved)