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Hlitory from the fllei of The
M.II Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years eflo. '
10 YEARS AGO '
June 2. 1153 (Tuesday)
A total of 230 seniors will
graduate Thursday night in
commencement exercises at
Medford High school.
Gov. and Mrs. Psul Patter
son will be In Medford Satur
day to attend coffee hour
iponiored by the Jackson
County Republican Women,
U YEARS AGO .
June 2. 1143 (Wednesday)
Officers of Army units ita
tioned at Camp White receive
: training in fighting forest
lires.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "There
li considerable summer com
plaintchiefly that there
Isn't going to be any." -
30 YEARS AGO
June 2, 1133 (Friday)
Upstate organization! move
to retain scenic beauty of
Crater Lake highway.
Medford to play Roseburg
tomorrow In first game of
Southern Oregon baseball
league season.
40 YEARS AGO .
June 2, IMS (Saturday)
Stolen u t o owned by
Ralnh Woodford located in
Tulsa. Okla.
Road to Crater Lake to be
open to travel in park by
June 10.
50 YEARS AGO
June 2, 1013 (Monday)
Three Lodes Mining com
pany, owner of 18 claims on
Oriole and Big Yank veins In
Gallce creek district, elects
C. W. Wlckstrum president
Willie Ritchie, world's
lightweight champion boxer,
passes through Medford
states Medford fighter Bud
Anderson must "meet some
good boys" before he will get
championship bout.
What's Yoar I.Q.?
Nk-e ot leu eemrd It superior;
seven w (f.M t eiteltent) five ee
til h food.
Just Hang Up
As with many other of man's modern inven
tions, the telephone is paradoxically both
a curse arid a blessing.
: When it is used well, it can be an instrument
of incalculable convenience and benefit, and one
wonders how man ever got along or accomplished
anything without it.
But when it is used badly, by people of dis
eased minds and characters for unhealthy or
selfish purposes, one is tempted, at least momen
tarily, to rip the blasted thing out of the wall and
hurl it through the nearest window.
"THERE is of course the petty nuisance of the
person who calls in the middle of the night,
only to discover after you have dragged yourself
out of a sound sleep that his finger has slipped
and he has dialed the wrong number. His mum
bled apology won't serve to lull you back to sleep.
One puts up with that sort of thing, though,
as an inevitable consequence of human frailty
and mischance. '
The most vicious of all, perhaps, is the obscene
phone call, where some sexually maladjusted
person, secure in his anonymity, can whisper
indecent proposals to any woman unfortunate
enough to have been dialed. The police blotter
every week contains several instances of such
disturbing occurrences here in Medford.
COMEWHERE between these two examples,
in terms of seriousness, is the matter of tele
phone solicitations by fly-by-night businesses.
The established firms have no need for that
sort of gimmick to gain customers; standard pro
motions and reputations for long service stimu
late their allotted share of the consumer's dollar.
But the sharpies, the outfits who move into a
community for "a blitz campaign of fleecing the
gullible, are the ones who employ the telephone
technique we hope the only ones.
We got two such calls last week, one at 10
o'clock Sunday morning. A barely articulate fe
male voice invited us to sign up for a family in
surance program, and we wish devoutly we could
remember the name of the outfit so we could
advise, and implore you to blacklist it.
The other call came from some hired hack
representative of a magazine agency who offered
us Argosy, Mechanics Illustrated and some other
periodical we couldn't care less about, all for the
incredible bargain price of 69 cents a week or
some such figure.
IT'S nearly unimaginable that any sales are
actually made with such irritating telephone
pitches, but apparently there are just enough
naive people in the country that such an approach
is profitable.
At'least they seem to continue and even, un
fortunately, increase. And every time such a sale
is made, a Medford businessman, who has made
an investment in the community and paid local
taxes, is undercut by unfair competition.
Since at present there are no legal means to
control this blatant invasion of privacy, we would
urge you to take the most effective action we can
think of to squelch the telephone solicitor.
Just hang up hard. G. II. B.
- Searching for News
Driving northward through the Willamette
valley the other day, we underwent an exercise
in frustration.
Attuned, professionally, to the news, we kept
attempting, via the car radio, to find out what
was going on.
We wanted to know the condition of the
Pope, the status of the racial disturbances in the
South all the things that are of immediate im
portance to everyone, Americans and others.
There were plenty of stations on the air.
There were radio broadcasts from Cottage Grove,
Eugene, Albany, Corvallis. Salem and Portland.
XfE KEPT tuned to one station
be nameless) for a time. At thi
1. What abbreviation for
Oregon is approved by the
U.S. Post Office Department?
2. There are 63,360 indies
In quarter mile, haif mile,
or mileT .
S. What vegetable is used
to make sauerkraut?
4. Ladybugs are, or arc not
beneficial in gardens?
8. Opiates are prescribed to
Induce sleep, or sleeplottiitja?
6. Who claimed California
for Queen Elizabeth and led
metal plate to aignify 4he
claim?
7. Who led the Roundhead
of England?
8. He searched tor Blmlni.
died In Cuba, ond nuned
Florida; who was he .
0. Olympla Is the capital
of which ittte? ' .
10. A Whodunit refers to
What In present day slang?
Anew art i 1. Ores. 2. Mile.
S. Cabbaee. 4. Are beneficial
S. Induct ale. C. Sir Francli
Drake. 7. Oliver Cromwell
. Ponce de Leon. t. Washing
ton. 10. Mystery booh
show. . - ' '
(which shall
the hour break.
news was announced. It turned out to be a local
news broadcast, concerned with local city council
doings, local minor accidents and so on.
We switched quickly to another station (after
passing, on the dial, a half dozen which had noth
ing but rather raucous music) and got in on the
tail end of a national news broadcast. We had
missed the first part, and thus the "top of the
news."
FINALLY we concluded that the best svstem
is to find a station that has music a bit loss
offensive than the others, and stick with it. After
an hour or so. one gets the pattern of the news
broadcast either on the hour or half-hour, and
either emphasizing local or national and inter
national news. At least one knows what to expect.
uui, jusi aooui me ume mat the pattern is
evident, the darn station goes out of range, and
the search for an intelligible pattern of news
broadcasting begins all over again.
Then is the time to gripe when a newscaster
comes on. gives a one sentence (or, in some cases,
even a TWO sentence) description of a news
happening, and then triumphantly proclaim?
"That is ALL the news." Oh mv.
It was a real relief to stop alomr the wav and
buy a newspaper again. It may be a few hours
behind the radio. But it tells you what's happen
ing (unlike the newscaster who gives you a one
minute broadcast of quick headlines, and claims
That's the news IN DEPTH.") Once again
Oh my.A.
"Faster! . . . Here It Take All The Running
You Can Do, To Keep In The Same Place"
Today & Tomorrow
By Waller lippmann
(c) 19SI. The Waihlnirton Poit
musk . XaJ
Lippmann
NO LUNCH IN PARIS
Now that It is virtually cer
tain that President Kennedy
will not be able to see Prosi-
dent d e
Gaulle in Eur
ope, his trip
presents prob
lems which
did not exist
when it w a s
first planned.
Originally, it
was to have
been a good
will visit to
Italy. This led to the feeling
that the President could not
go to Rome unless he went
also to Bonn. He had been In
Paris year before last. He had
been in London. He had never
been in Germany.
But except for a sentimen
tal visit to Ireland, he was to
confine himself to Italy and
Germany. The President was
to by-pass London in order not
to offend General de Gaulle.
Then, unless President de
Gaulle chose to be gracious
about Inviting the President
to lunch in Paris, that was to
be all. When instead Presi
dent do Gaulle chose to feel
that there was no point in
making Franco-American re
lations look better than they
are, the prospect began to
brighten that the President
might after all see Mr. Mac
miilan. Without Its having been
planned that way, the trip,
which was to show good will
to the Fanfani government in
Italy, has transformed itself
Into a big affair in polities.
For nobody of any sophistica
tion will believe that the
President's rather elaborate
tour in German cities is no
more than what it professes to
be - a gesture of solidarity
within the Atlantic Commun
ity. IT MAY well be accidental
and unplanned, but the
visit to West Germany turned
into a hig affair shortly after
General cle Gaulle's January
press conference. Unless the
President does something to
prevent it, lie will find him
self in the position of trying to
woo the Germany away from
the French and of trying to
demonstrate that he can draw
larger crowds of Germans
than did General de Gaulle.
Such a contest for German
favor, or the appearance of
such a contest, would be not
only unseemly but most un
wise. For It will be taken in
Europe to mean that the Unit
ed States regards West Ger
many as Its principal ally and
as the leader of Europe. This
interpretation, which Is in fact
already widely held, has been
much confirmed in European
eyes by our misguided prcs-
Matter of Fact y jph aioP
(ci Nw frorfc Hfnm Triburv Syndicate
sure on the Germans to take a
leading part in nuclear af
fairs. THOUGH it has only minor
influence on the admin
istration, there is a school of
opinion in this country which
does in fact believe exactly
what the Europeans think we
believe. This school is hope
less about France, it distrusts
Great Britain, it puts no high
value on Italy and it is impa
tient with the smaller coun
tries. It insists that the core of
a sound American policy is a
special German-American re
lationship.
That is very heady wine to
offer the Germans. Fortun
ately, so I believe, the pre
ponderant mass of German
opinion has learned enough
from the experience of this
century to know that the
wine is poisoned. It would
alienate Germany from its
European neighbors. It would
make Germany and Eastern
Europe irreconcilable. And it
would revive that very na
tionalism, jingoism and mili
tarism which caused the two
dreadful wars.
The Americans who want
to make West Germany our
principal ally in Europe arc
not inspired by friendship for
the German nation. They are
tough guys looking for tough
auxiliaries.
THERE is then a dangerous
pitfall on the road that
the President intends to travel
next month. There is no need
to fall into it if well before
hand we know where the pit
fall Is. I assume that the
President himself is well
aware of it and that he will
find ways to deflate the ap
pearance of playing high
politics with our European
allies.
The more serious risk lies
In the way we, ns newspaper
men, report the trip, whether
we are able to resist the tci.ip
tation to treat it as a shouting
match and a beauty contest
between the French president
and the American.
Public Defender BUI
Sent To Gov. Hatfield
Salem -IUPD- Oregon took
the first step today toward a
public defender system.
A bill creating a statc-ievel
public defender cleared the
legislature and went to Uic
governor. Since he requested
it, he was sure to sign it.
The defender's main Job
would be to assist prisoners
in post-eonvtcSlon and appeals
cases. He also would study
the need for a broader public
defender system in Oregon.
THE HALF-HEARTED
INITIATIVE j
Washington - In the back
rooms of the White House,
preparations are already be
ing made for
the Presi
dent's Euro
pan tour. In
the usual
Kennedy way
every sort of
person imag
inable is be
ing a iked
what the
aiup President
should say and how he ought
to say it, in order to achieve
the best results in Italy and
Germany.
The central problem is
what to do about the scheme
for the multi-lateral nuclear
deterrent. By proposing this
mixed sea-borne force armed
with American nuclear mis-,
sites, the President sought to
recapture the European initia
tive after the jarring setback
of Gen. de Gaulle's veto on
British entry into the Euro
pean Common Market.
The subject is so thorny
that it is not much discussed
Yet it is so important that it
has got to be discussed. The
question is whether the Amer
ican initiative will or will
not fail from half-hearted-ness.
To recapitulate briefly: aft
er making his public proposal,
the President sent Special
Ambassador Livingston Mer
chant to explain the multi
lateral deterrent to the Euro
peans. In Germany, which has
become the key country in
Europe and in NATO because
of Gen. de Gaulle's intran
sigence, Merchant was given
a warm, yet critical welcome.
GERMAN Defease Minister
Kai-Uwe von Hassel asked
particularly insistent ques
tions about the control ar
rangements for the new co
operative, mixed-manned nu
clear force. The American
scheme called for a control
committee, in which each con
tributing nation would have
a veto on the use of the new
nuclear force. Von Hassel
pointed out first of all that
if the American veto were re
tained, the creation of the
new force would in no way
dilute the effective American
monopoly on nuclear power.
But he gave vastly more im
portance to another point.
He drummed home the
probability that with a one-nation-one-veto
system. Labor
leader Harold Wilson would
quite soon nave a veto as
British Prime Minister. In
that case, von Hassel remark
ed, heavy investment in the
new force would hardly be
justifiable.
Von H a s s e l's arguments
were not - and still are not -easy
to answer. With sensible
moderation, however, he did
not ask for any immediate
change in the control arrange
ments, which would have re
quired immediate, dra stic
amendment of the McMahon
Act.
INSTEAD, he asked for a per
" sonal commitment by the
President to recommend con
trol by majority vote of the
control committee, after the
new force had been built, or
ganized, manned, and opera
tionally tested at sea. Hiis re
quest is the problem the U.S.
policy-makers have since been
wrestling with.
The wrestling has been
complicated by three highly
curious factors. Even at the
outset, the President made his
proposal with qualified en
thusiasm. Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, who had little
share in the original initia
tive, has also placed the main
emphasis on avoiding Con
gressional trouble arising
from excessive tampering
with the McMahon Act.
Finally, Secretary of De
fense Robert McNamara is a
high and dry non-prolifera-tionist
(the new word of art
for those who wish to retain
the U.S. nuclear monopoly at
all costs). He therefore wants
the U.S. veto kept in the
scheme. The wrestling has
therefore produced a compro
mise. Somewhere along the line
in Europe, and almost certain
ly in Germany, the President
will do a re-take of his re
markable Philadelphia speech,
on the theme that the U.S.
wants Europe as a fully equal
partner. He will point to the
multi-lateral deterrent as the
germ of a European deterrent,
as it would be if majority con
trol were adopted. But he will
only commit himself to altera
tions of the control arrange
ments when Europe is "truly
united," rather than when the
force is operational.
GIVEN the hard fact of Gen.
de Gaulle, Europe U not
likely to be truly united while
President Kennedy is in of
fice. The question therefore
is whether this high-sounding
compromise will satisfy the
Europeans, and especially the
Germans. Will the Germans
really want to spend some
thing like $200 million a year
on a force over which Harold
Wilson will probably have a
veto?
For fear of seeming to de
mand nuclear weapons for
themselves, the Germans have
not again posed the question
von Hassel asked Merchant in
Bonn. The German Defense
Minister was silent on the sub
ject in his talks with Ameri
cans in Ottawa, and so was
Minister Heinrich Krone on
his exploration trip to Wash
ington.
Rather complacently, there
fore, the Kennedy policy
makers are saying the Ger
mans have changed their
minds. Yet they have done
nothing of the sort, as was
indicated in an interview giv
en to a German journalist in
MyyoJKjj -J wnny aeaaaaaaaaai
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THINGS YOU WOULDN'T
KNOW IF YOU HADN'T
"AD THEM HERE
HOW TO T.ARN A MILLION
DOLLARS 4 YEAR
We uil ir.to the middle
Most bullfighters can't stand j of a prog-am on a local radio
the sight of blood, especially
their own. . . . Pancho Villa
choked to death on a tamale
husk. . . . Shirley Temple was
a very successful midget. . . .
Roy Rogers is scared to death
of horses. ... A local funeral
director has two cars, one
marked "His" and the other
"Hearse." . . .
BEWARE OF THE
KANINCH-NTECHEL
We don't know when you
were last bitten by a Kanin
chentechel in Portland but it
happened to us last Monday.
We got into a friend's car nd
his Kaninchentechel made a
savage lunge for our wrist.
We don't mind someone train
ing their dog to steal wrist
watches but we do object to
being told that our particular
blood type upsets their dog's
stomach. Beware of Gene
Rossman's miniature dachs
hund the next time you're in
Portland, please.
V5s
a man was telling how to earn
a million dollars a year. You
probably listen regulary to
this man, whom we'll call Earl
Hummingbird. (That really
isn't his name at all because
we just made up the name
Earl). Anyway, we got pretty
excited about earning a mil
lion dollars a year and rushed
out to the station to talk to
old Earl Hummingbird about
it. He was there, sure enough,
but we sort of lost faith in
him when he nervously
dropped his broom as he told
us that he'd see us after ha
swept out one more studio.
Darn you. Earl!
5s
WORDS TO FIGHT BY
This dialogue happens in
almost every western and you
just know that some real gun
slinging is sure to follow.
"Them your calves?"
"Yeah, who wants to
know?"
Double bang!
Ottawa by Minister von Has
sel. Hence the question posed
above is still pretty worrying.
And if the scheme goes sour
because the answer to the
question turns out to be nega
tive, the Kennedy policy-mak.
ers would hardly give a more
glittering present to Gen. de
Gaulle.
THIS IS WEEK WEEK
We have long felt that there
should be some sort of guide
for people who don't quite
know what to do when the
mayor proclaims some kind
of a week. You certainly just
don't want to stand around
with your hands in your
pockets while everyone else
is observing the week being
observed. Just as a suggestion,
you could try having a ketsup
sundae during "National To
mato Week." What to do dur
ing "National Radish Week?"
Take a bunch to lunch, of
course.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
THE TOWN TIGHTWAD amazed his neighbors by sud
denly taking unto himself a wife. When the minister
wncluded the ceremony, the groom said, "I suppose there's
x charge for this. What 11
;t be?" "Let your con
icience be your guide,"
laid the minister gallant
ly. "I'm usually paid in
accordance with the
beauty of the bride." The
tightwad handed the min
ister a dollar. The minis
ter gave him seventy
five cents change.
Fletcher Knebel Is the
latest of Innumerable writ
ers to assail the "alien ac
cent" of native New York
ers. Their language, he
lays "tree" the number between two and four; "Jeintz" the name
5f the local football team; a "fit" a bottle measuring seven
unces less than a quart "is only slintly less difficult to master
than Urdu."
The original titles of four of the big-Rest musical hits in Broad
vay history, recall Dick Lewine and Alfred Simon in their defini
te "Encyclopedia of Theater Music," were: 1. Lady Fair; 2.
Jmarty; 3. All's Fair; and 4. Away We Go! Do you know what
Jiey wero called when they opened In New York?
(Answers: 1. The Desert Song; 2. Funny Face; 3. By Jupiter;
L Oklahoma.)
C 1963, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kim Futures Syndicate
THE REAL SHADEY WAKE
FIELD We don't know why people
like to assume the names of
characters who were famous
in history but it happens all
the time. We've done some
research on the original
Shadey Wakefield and have
discovered that he was mighty
big in the making of the west.
Back in 1860, he lived in Jack
sonville and was one of the
few men brave enough to
walk the wrong way on a one
way street. He carried a 7 gun
(he just had to have more of
everything" than anyone else)
and rode a horse that had
never been broken. We wero
curious as to how a rough,
tough pioneer got a nickname
like this and we found out.
He sold patented window
shades to the Indians for their
teepees.
DIG THOSE CRAZY
SEWERS
Perhaps you've noticed that
all the downtown streets have
been torn up and you've prob
ably wondered why. It's nice
to be able to report to you that
when all the old sewer lines
are dug up and placed on tne
elevated standards, Medford
will have the most modern
overhead sewer system in thtf
country.
5&
HORSEY SET
We saw a real estate sign
the other day advertising the
fact that a place was ideal for
the "horsey set." We jumped
to the easy conclusion that
this must mean regularly em
ployed people with stable in-
I comes.
III
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"fUCM IN TttM"
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NAILED TO MANKIND'S DOORI
Silly Seasons Not Confined to America
By ERIC SEVAREID
Political silly seasons are
not confined to North Amer
ica and the way of the ag
rZrn g r a ndizer is
1 ca. like Dc
C-r-r? - Gaulle of Eu
' ', SiCii. I rope, is dis-
'5-Wj The
rT'iTrt'l com"
is4 mon sense is
VWMal ri not promiscu-
stv.rna mL;v distrib
uted in the new African
states because of sheer lack
of experience, but the ma
jority of their prime and for
eign ministers can tell a can
of fish-hooks from a pot of
gold, as they have Jus dem
onstrated at the Addis Ababa
gathering of 31 independent
African nations.
a
They have politely told
Nkrumah to save his oratori
cal pleas for "union now'" for
his own political clam-bakes
back home in Ghana and have
departed Addis Ababa show
ing no signs of whatever of
a stricken conscience over
Nkrumah's threat that Afri
ca's 250 million people would
.lever forgive them if they
did not unify Africa under
"a strong central govern
ment." It may be argued whether
two. three or five per cent of
that quarter billion popula-i
tion is even aware that the
meeting and argument took
place, but it is an unarguable
proposition that a politically
unified African continent is
an impossibility, as unargua
ble as the proposition that
Nkrumah himself dwells in
a never-never land of para
noid fantasies more complete
ly than his Western detractors
supposed.
A love of steaming hot ora
tory has been a common char
acteristic of African politici
ans; with them, the word
spoken was the deed done.
How much of this came from
a background of belief in
magic and how much from
the simple fact that they had
never held practical political
power would be hard to say:
in any case, this psychic con
dition is altering as more of
them struggle with the stub
born facts of governance.
It s not surprising that the
chiel exponent of realism at
Addis Ababa was the Prime
Minister of Nigeria. Sir Abu
bakar Tafawa Balewa. He is
a Moslem from the Northern
Region of Nigeria where, un
der the "indirect rule" sys
tem to which the British con
signed that area some 80
years ago, strong and able
men like Sir Abuakar con
tinued unbroken the art and
tradition of governing their
own people. They did not
come fresh and starry-eyed to
I
self-rule, like the Nkrumahs;
in a real degree they had had
it all the time.
a
The threads of unity that
cross African national fron
tiers are emotional in nature,
the remnants of the common
desire to see the end of Euro
pean rule. This is unity
against something and there
is still something to be
against since areas of Euro-1
pean rule remain. But it is '
not unity for something, as is i
the feeling and the effort in
Europe, for example. !
The new African states are j
a long, long way from the
coalescing stage of their his- j
tory. Indeed, it is probably
true that they are approach
ing the fragmenting stage. The
potential tribal and territorial
disputes within national boun
daries are many, and at the
best there is bound to be a
period of pure nationalism
with its concomitant interna
tional disputes and wars.
Some will have to learn they
can't lick each other if there
is ever to be realistic thought
of joining each other.
The psychology of political
power is the same in Africa
a.- anywhere else. It is hard
enough to diminish the scope
and authority of any govern
ment bureau, let alone a sov
ereign government. In the
name of a larger whole. No
African prime minister could
tolerate diminution ot his
I
own power; if Nkrumah is
the exception it can only be
because he sees himself, in
his dreams, as leader of the
"union." as prime among all
prime ministers.
But there is much that can
be done to arrest the Balkan
ization of Africa, which has
gone far enough. Regional
groupings for specified, lim
ited purposes ought to be and
perhaps can be brought about.
There ought to be customs,
unions, common curren c i e s,
common visa procedures, com
mon rules, and standards of
education, ground rules for
private investments, mutuality
in the promotion of airlines,
highways, river traffic and
electric power: intellect u a 1
and cultural exchanges of all
kinds can be encouraged.
Sooner or later, most em
battled Africans will have to
settle down to the prosaic and
onerous business cf daily liv
ing under self-rule, and the
rest of the world will regard
Africa through clearer lenses.
It will see that this is not
going to be the "Century of
Africa." in spite of the late
Dag Hammarskjold's prophe
cy, because Africa contains
no real power centers. Africa
is simply producing more his
tory than it is yet able to
consume locaily.
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