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4 A WEDNESDAY. JUNE 18. 1863 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON ""Everyone io Southern Oregon R.irl. Thm Mall Tribune" fobUihid Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO SI Noru.jr.r8. Ph. T7-1I borfrT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverU.lnS Manl ERIC ALLEN JR, Mne Editor EARL U AUAMO, UI7 """ . . . ...... r-utUaaAM Ta .Hl fa ;innn , i " ........ . - - a , . RICHARD JEW ETT, Sporte Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Wonwn't Edltoi DALRICJCSON;ClrcuUllonMjr An Independent Newepepei Entered .econd Clasa matter at Medlord Oregon under Act of March S, 1B7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES . u.n llltflllM Dally end Sundey 1 year f 11.00 Duly end Sundey 8 moe 10 00 Deilv end Sundey 3 moe aoo Sundey Omy-pne veer W.00 Stnile Copy (Melledi oe Ly Cemei And Motor Boute. Dillv end Sundey 1 yeer Ml .00 Delly end Sundey 1 rno ija Carrlei endVendore Cop 100 Official Piper of City ol Olflclel Peper of JackHia County United Preee International ell Laated Wire 0, P 1 Telephoto Nenplcturee MEMBER OF AJDITun.w Artvertlsinf "tprejenuuve. NELSON ROBERTS ASSOCI ATES Ot'lcee In New York. Chi M,S Detroit. San rrenclKO Loe Aneeiw Seattle. Port lend Denrer. jjNIVYlPAm VJamociation NATION Al tOITOIUl 6T,3" Memoer Celllornle Newspaper Publishers AasocleUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jeckwn County History from the file. of The Mali Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 end 50 veart S0- 10 YEARS AGO June 19, 1953 (Frldiy) Dedication of the now 51. Mary's school and covent here by Archbishop Edward D. Howard of Portland, will mark another milestone In the institution's 88 yean of his tory In Jackson county. Eric W. Allen Jr., city edi tor of the Medford Mall Trib une, will be the second "Allen fellow" at the school of Jour nalism of the University of Oregon, it was announced here. rat-iined ai pastor .r'e i.nihrrn church Frnm Arthur Perry's "Ye smnriun rot" column: "The ur-Hthor turned chilly, leav ina possessors of Panama hats wishing tney were equiFi"-u with ear-mulls. 30 YEARS AGO 'June 19. 1933 (Monday) Council Informed Medford "wringing wet" by cnurcn delegation. Second ballot theft trial In hands of Jury. 40 YEARS AGO June 19, 1923 (Tuesday) Sunday dinner could be ob tained at the Hotel Medford for $1 which Included relish es, soup, choice of chicken, steak, or prime ribs, dessert and a beverage. Jackson county to get spe cial dry prosecutor for boot leg cases. 50 YEARS AGO June 19. 1913 (Thursday) Mayor W. W. Elfert orders clean up of city. Red Germany's Anniversary "The lid was blown off the Communist pressure-cooker and the whole world could see what was seething inside. Then the lid was quietly rammed back again. Without protest from with out or resistance from within, the Red Army reinstalled the utterly discredited Pankow (East Berlin) regime." These few words from Richard H. S. Cross man, British Laborite M.P., put the riots 10 years ago in East Germany into a neat capsule. Demonstrations against labor conditions in East Berlin burst into major anti-Communist riots on June 17, 1953. In East Berlin as many as 50,000 workers turned out for an assault on gov ernment buildings. The riots were put down only after Soviet troops with tanks shot their way into the Potsdammer Platz. The fever was contagious. The Reds ad mitted, June 20, to strikes, arson, and riots in at least a dozen East German cities from Warne munde and Rostock in the north to southernmost Zwickau. Once the disorders had been put down, Mos cow gave out the line that Western agents pro voked the outbursts. But the German Communist Party acknowledged that it had made "mistakes" in its policies, and promised leniency. e e THE East German revolts were the first openly 1 reported satellite uprisings. A "Pilsen work ers' revolt," which began in the Lenin Works (formerly the Skoda munitions plant) in Czecho slovakia and soon spread to Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia, had been put down by force of arms about two weeks earlier. These near revolutions were the precursors of the wave of rebellion that began in Poznan, Poland in the summer of 1956 and ended in the tragedy of Hungaiy. In East Germany as later in Hungary the revolutionary current, however uncontrolled, cer tainly could not have been dammed without the Red Army. Close to half a million Soviet per sonnel were stationed there. e THE Hungarian Freedom Fighters might have taken a lesson in advance from what happen ed in and over East Germany. The Eisenhower administration, pledged to "liberation", of the Soviet satellites, avoided any action that might be termed intervention in the affairs of the Soviet zone. The United States did offer East Germany $15 million in food shipments. The Soviet Union rejected the offer, and sc West Berlin set up ..!.. : i .. .. l ...u:-L 1 1 1 e t?..l on vr&nq ago uisuiuuuuii puinis m which uiuusanus ui tiasi June 19, i93 (Baiuraayi uermans wno pourca into tne city couia get JS CJ "SSr ot si ! Fei- ' Eisenhower packages" of flour, lard, and other scarce iooastuiis. Ten years after the abortive riots, East Ger many remains in the grip of the Red Army. Our Pentagon spokesmen glumly refuse to give out information on the armed strength of East Germany, but an equally official source puts the Soviet occupation force at 400,000 men, or about 20 divisions. East Germany itself admitted maintaining an army of 90,000 men in January a year ago, when it instituted conscription. West German sources gauge the East German army at 175,000 to 200,000 men, with 10,000 more in the air force and 14,000 in the navy. Then there are reported to be 30,000 in special police units, 50,000 in the border police, and 350,000 in the factory militia. Few of these can be considered thoroughly reliable. Indeed, if Soviet occupation forces were to be pulled out tomorrow, the militia and some of the regular troops could probably be depended upon for a revolutionary cadre. b.R.R. Corpsmen Coming Home Fifty-seven Peace Corps volunteers stationed in Colombia will be mustered out of service Mon day, June 24, after two years of duty in that under-developed nation. These are the first Peace Corps members to complete their tours; the pace of separations will quicken in succeeding months. These are not people returning from summer vacation or languid study abroad. Peace Corps Director Sargent bhriver describes them as vet erans of two full years of trying situations and difficult circumstances . . . who will know the in teriors, the folkways, the languages of the world's civilizations . . . people whose strength of charac ter and sense of purpose have been tempered un der fire. DEACE CORPS officials have asked Congress for funds to set up a placement service for the returning volunteers, but not out of fear that any of them will end up on relief. Private employers have shown a lively interest by re questing the names of corpsmen completing their service. Government, too, is preparing a future for the volunteers, offering careers in foreign service or within the non-volunteer staff of the Peace Corps itself. In fact, a surfeit of opportunities seems to present itself. Ford Foundation, for example, has granted $400,000 to award 50 graduate fellow- ships to discharged Peace Corps members. The District of Columbia school system, among othei-s, is offering salary placement credit for corpsmen interested in entering teaching, and New York State has waived normal certification requirements. All of this attention must look inviting and icrhnps a bit lavish to the corpsmen who, for io a month and bate subsistence, took part in one of this nation's most successful exercises in international understanding, occasionally at the cost of their own health. E.R.R. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of s pen name or Initial for publication Is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submit ted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper. In fact the contrary is often the case. Express Appreciation To the Editor: and Friends. During the last two months my bosses and fellow teach ers have, along with friends and students, helped me with kindness toward recovery from a drastic surgical ses sion. My wife and I both wish to thank all those people who were so very considerate of her during her substitute ses sion at Crater. . We are now In the process of moving to our new home in Sams Valley. Norm, Jeanne, Craig, Lorl, and Scottie -Carothcrs 3298 Forest ave. Medford IVfral's Your I.Q.7 Nine et ten correct It super!'! seven or eight Is eacellenti live et tia is good. 1. What agriculture crop does t'.te boll weevil attack? 2. In which slate Is the White Sands National Monu ment? 3. Give the Arabic figures for the Roman numerals XC. 4. Who was first titled Poet Laureate of England? S. Correct the following: forbid you from entering the house." 6. Is Ichtyology the study of plants, fishes, birds, trees, or minerals? 7. Docs the jet stream (hiiih altitude air current) go from east to west, or west to east, or both? 8. Why do snakes sleep with I heir eyes open? 9. Which is the most popu In r commercial fur animal In the U.S.? 10. How often each year docs an equinox occur? Answers! 1. Cotton. 2. New Mexico. 3. 90. 4. Geoffrey Chaucer. 6. "I forbid Tou to enter . . .". 6. Fishes. 7. West to east. 8. No eyelids. I. Mink 10. Twice. Many Americans Are Home Study Students Washington -dirti- Based on a recently completed corres pondence school survey- an estimated 3.S million Ameri cans were home study stu dents In 1962. For the first lime, the num ber of students engaged in home study is nearing the to tal college and university en rollment of the United Slates, according to the National Home Study council here, Prepares to Leave To the Editor: I have only two days left of my wonderful experience here in Medford. It has been a great year with so many valuable experiences to remember. I want to tell everybody that I have enjoyed every minute being with the people ol Rogue valley. You people here aro an example of the good American people When I return home I will work for a better understand ing among the people of the rest of the world, and especial ly for an even better relation ship between United States and Denmark. , - It is very difficult to say goodbye to you all, but 1 must. I have liked America so much, that I can't express it. Before I leave I want to give so many thanks to the Crater Lions club who have been sponsoring me this year. They have all been so wonder ful to me. Thanks to Medford Senior high and all the kids I have learned to know, You have all been so great. A third thanks goes to the people in the community and now at last but not at least I want to give a great thank you to my wonderful family, the James P, Rowans. 1 can't express In words how much I have en- Joyed you all. I hope you will take this word of thanks. Jons Hasfcldt American Field Service 19U2-63 Denmark type of advertising our super ior scenery to tourists, and join in fervently hoping that this type of advertising our magnificent scenery will not be considered "a success." Don't we get enough of the "bang, bang" type of alleged entertainment almost every time we turn on our TV? Do we not have something better that we can offer our visitors? If not, then better let them see our magnificent scenery for themselves, without this kind of distraction, which at best, as Mr. Teeters points out. offers nothing better than a cheap side-show Impression. Let s just forget the whole thing, huh? 1 ; Frank Gray 122 Valley View Dr. Medford Agrees With Opinion To the Editor: I heartily agree with Jack Teeters' opin ion regarding the "big guns" Reminds Dog Owners To the Editor: With the ar rival of really hot weather, I hope I may be permitted to remind owners and custodians of chained and shelterless ani mals, of which there seems to be far too many in our civil ized community, and nearly always dogs - that animals really suffer from exposure to the hot sun as well as heat in general. No less an authority than Mr. R. Marlln Perkins, for many years director of Chica go's Lincoln Park Zoo and now In St. Louis (we have all seen him on NBC's beautiful Sunday afternoon TV pro gram "Animal Kingdom") states that "chained dogs should have shelter from the sun." He also asks that they be provided with shelter from the cold weather. It may be well to mention that local law provides pen alties ($100 and or 60 days in jail) for those who fail to pro vide adequate food, drink and proper shelter (dry and of sufficient size). A chained dog is a pitiful thing to see, particularly when it is so easy to avoid. Why not an overhead wire with long chain attached, or a grpund stake with chain? Or, best of all, a fence? And why, in all mercy, treat your hunting dog, who has served you well, so cruelly? He needs shelter and some freedom. Ethel L. Marley Rogue Valley Manor Medford British Guiana Capital in Grip of General Strike; Protests Legislation By PHIL NEWSOM UP! Foreign News Analyst In Georgetown, capital and port of British Guiana, the So viet freighter Kirovsic fin ished the loading of 30,000 bags of rice and pulled out for a destination unannounced but believed to be Cuba. Behind, it left angry and hungry demonstrators who charged the government with deliberately trying to starve them out in order to end a general strike. Almost unnoticed in the press of other world events, Georgetown' has been in the grip of a general strike for nearly two months. It was called by the Guiana Trades Union Council in pro test against legislation which the council charges would give the government Communist-style control over labor unions. It was not a new situation for Prime Minister Cheddi B. Jagan, the American-educated dentist of East Indian extrac tion who used to call himself a Marxist but now declares that he is a Socialist. It was almost a duplication of another general strike which erupted against the Jagan government in Febru ary, 1962. In that strike, 40,000 work ers quit their jobs. Before it was over six persons were Peace Through . j Ty Selective Hale tffi By Arthur Hoppe iY K Excuse my guilty look this morning but I Just noticed how everybody hates every body these days. Human be ings are going around kick ing other human beings in the head or , blasting them with fire hoses or setting vi cious dogs on them or . . . And it's all my fault. I ran out of lapel buttons for the Love Everybody (Except Ant- arcticans) Crusade. You remember the LE- (EA)C. It was founded on the principle that everybody real ly would love to love every body. Except everybody des perately needs somebody to hate. In order to feel better. And thus we of the LE(EA)C promoted love by hating Pen guins. ' Oh, how wondrously we promoted love! In no time we awakened an apathetic Amer ica to the insidious interna tion Penguin conspiracy. We hammered away at the ever growing infiltration of our way of life by card-carrying Penguins. PenSymps and Fel low Waddlers. And finally we stemmed the tide! For today, there are undeniably no more Penguins under your bed than there were five years ago. Or even ten. And, oh, the warm kinship that flourished between us Penguin haters! Strangers, on spying the little buttons say- ing "HATE PENGUINS" on each other's lapels, would em brace on the street. And may be even cry. For there is notlv ing in this world that so floods the soul with the Christian spirit of Togetherness as shar ing a nice, burning, mutual hatred. So there Mankind stood at last, on the verge of a Gold' en Era of peace, love and hap piness through selective ha tred. But then, as I say, I ran out of lapel buttons. And look what happened Oh, I know there's no excuse for my forgetfulness. Oh, I Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF qHE MANAGING director of a national philanthropic organization offers seven ways that rarely fail to nail down a speaker for one of those dull, endless, fund-raising banquets: 1, The "It s not till next year" play. (Most men will say "yes" if they're asked far enough in advance.) 2. The "we need a really outstanding personality for this event" build-up. 3. The "all expenses paid, plus a hundred dollars for your favorite charity" routine. 4. The '.ong dis tance telephone approach (necessitating a snap de cision.) S. The "nobody else can possibly do it like you can baloney. 6. "The committee practically sot up and cheered when your name was suggested" huopU. And, finally, 7. The unmiti gated gall approach: sending out a printed announcement that you're the master of ceremonies or sole speaker before you've even been invited! e Dinllosiontnr bulletin from a highbrow quarterly: bulls are color blind and don t "o red'' el all . . . Nero couldn't have fiddled while Rome burned becaua the violin was not Invented until the Middle Ages . . . And It couldn't hava beon an apple with which Eve tempted Adam, because apples don't grow in that part ol the world. e e A gnaxled Indian chief was taken to a hot spot in Loa Angeles, and saw Ue twist danced for the first time. His comment: "They'll never bring rain with thai craiy dance:" 4) list, by Beoaett Onrt. DUtntmltd by Kia realurea Iradkata meant to order more. But you know how it is. You put things off. You've got a dental ap pointment or the grass needs mowing or . . . And you nev er can seem to find time these days to save. the world. Can you? , Mea culpa! I only pray it isn't too late, but at last we of the LE(EA)C have ordered a whole batch of brand new, 1963 buttons. And once they arrive we shall march for ward, shoulder to shoulder in mutual hatred, to promote a brand new cause: Racism! This time we will awaken an apathetic America to an even graver and more time ly danger: The Penguinization of our race! . Do you want a Penguin, wo will cry, to marry your sis ter? Of course not. Preserve the purity of our culture, we will shout. Supply your po liceman with a polar bear on a leash. Attach the firehoses to the warm water tap. And should you see a mob of non violent Penguins on your lawn singing "We Shall Over come," heave your bottle at them. Remember: The Race that Hates Together, Mates Together! So get a button today! Or, more precisely, next month. A new 1963 one is essential. It doesn't say negatively "HATE PENGUINS" like the old 1962 models. It bodly pro claims: "LOVE EVERY BODY," Instead. Of course, we had to qualify this a lit tle by adding: "(Except Pen guins)." But it's even got a picture of a Penguin on it. So you'll know which of your sister's suitors to kick out of the house Yes sir, hatred and racism will unite us human beings yet. Selective hatred and hu man racism. And now my only worry is that it'll take the button maker a couple of weeks to make the buttons. Some days, I'm not sure the human race can hold out that long. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprises. Inc. PROFESSIONAL WOMEN A recent issue of the "Sat urday Review" devoted a spe cial section to "The Educa tion of Wom en," with ar tides by a number of male and fe rn a 1 e educa lors, includ ing the direc t o r of the American As soc 1 ation of Ham U n I v c rsity Women. I don't care at this point to become involved in the general philosophical questions of how much edu cation women should have, what kind, and what oppor tunities should be opened to her after special training. It would take a book, not mere ly an essay, to explore these subjects. What has perplexed me for a long time, however. Is the relative fewness of profes sional ' women in American life, as compared with many European societies, where op portunities would seem to be more restricted. A statistical profile in the magetine. for instance, showed thai we hava only ( per cent of female doc tors in this country - soma 16.000 out of a total of 260.000. Yet. educationally, women receive 38 per cent of all bachelors' and first professional degrees. 31 per cent of all masters' de grees, and even 11 per cent of all doctors' degrees. (Fe male lawyers are even scarcer, comprising only J'l per cent, some 1.500 out of a total of 288.000 quahllad attorneys in the United States.) . In Canada, which is roughly similar to us in economic and social com position, there are twice as many female doctors in ra tio to male doctors - 12 per cent of the total. And in some European countries - Russia especially - the percentage is again dou bled to 25 per cent. One out of every four Russian physicians is a woman. There is, as everyone knows, a drastic shortage of docton in the United Stales. Reporting recently in the "American Journal of Public Health." Dr. Mar tin Cherkasky. director of New York City's celebrated Montefiore Hospital, ob served that: "One of our most critical problems is the doctor shortage. Unless this is solved, no real prog rest can be made. We need twice as many new medi cal schools as we have, for unlets doctors are available in ample supply all of our medical care hopet are in jeopardy." As far as male students are concerned, there are some staggering personal financial obstacles to becoming a doc tor. It is likely that only Fed' era I support of medical stu dents will be able to maintain an adequate supply. Yet if more female college students were encouraged to enter medicine - and. most of all if they felt that a rightful place would be made for them - this shortage might be eased considerably. There is no reason that a woman should be relegated to the role of a nurse. Espe cially with so many second- rate doctors around. killed, scores injured and nearly $30 million damage suffered by property in mob looting and burning. The immediate cause was a new government ouagei in cluding new taxes which the unions charged w o u l a be borne mostly by the workers. But behind it also was resent ment among the unions against government attacks on the unions and against union leaders and racial differences which color all Guiana affairs. These differences are be tween the East Indians who work on the plantations in the countryside and Negroes who labor in the city. Gets Plantation Support Jagan draws his support from the plantation workers. In the city, the unions' are anti - Jagan, anti - Communist and fearful of the results if Jagan ever heads up a Guiana totally independent of Britain. The unions are demanding Jagan's resignation. Jagan made several visits to Cuba and has expressed ad miration for both Castro and Nikita Khrushchev. It is perhaps accidental that in his present extremity he also has received aid from Cuba. The government's import-export corporation an nounced last week that a Cu ban ship, the Maria Theresa, had arrived with essential food and fuel supplies. The Import-Export Corporation is the agent for all Cuban and Russian ships. As for the United States at titude toward Jagan, it is in a position of being damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. It fears that Jagan might give the Reds their first solid foothold on the continent of South America. It has been wary of too much aid to Jagan but on the other hand would like to believe him when ha says he believes in democracy. As the present strike fol lows its course of violence, one conclusion seems certain. It is not likely to convince Britain or the United States that Guiana is ready for the total independence J a g a a seeks. Today & Tomorrow By Walter lippmann (c) 1063, The Washington Post FREE AND ASSOCIATED PUERTO RICO In the endless series of problems about which some thing needs to be done be cause s o m e thing has gone wrong, the island of Puer to Rico is a shining excep tion. Since X I 1898, when VI j 'i Spain ceded the island to the United Lippmion States, the Puerto Ricans have been treated with an enlightenment and generosity which are un usual in the experience of colonies. This happened because the American people are deeply anti-colonial at heart and have never been willine to think of themselves as the perma nent owners and masters of colonies. In all of their deal ings with dependent lands, however they have been ac quired, the American people have always had as a positive object of policy the prepar ation of the colony for free dom. In the case of Cuba and the Philippines, the goal has been national independence. In the case of continental ter ritories which were purchased or conquered, the goal has al ways been statehood. In the case of Hawaii and Alaska, it has also been statehood. TN THE CASE of Puerto Rico, the goal has become a unique arrangement, dictated by the special conditions of race, language, cultural tradi tion, economic necessity and history. Until 1952, Puerto Rico was an American colony. Since 1952, it has been, if we translate from the Spanish of Its official title, a "free associ ated state." In Amerl can usage, Puerto Rico is not a state, it is not independent, it is a commonwealth in an as sociation with the United States, which rests upon a compact between the Congress and the people of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Ricans are citi zens of the United States, but they do not vote in elections outside of Puerto Rico. They have a commissioner who sits in the House of Representa tives, but he does not vote. The Puerto Ricans are subject to. the draft, and the United States is responsible for the foreign policy and defense of the island. But no taxes are collected for the benefits of the United States Treasury. Federal legislation, apart from tax legislation, may be, but need not be, applied to Puerto Rico. This includes federal grants-in-aid, though usually Congress does make them ap plicable. This hybrid has worked ex tremely well. Indeed, under the leadership of Gov. Louis Munoi Marin, it i5 working brilliantly. It has only one serious defect. It is that the association docs not have an invulnerable legal basis which all Puerto Ricans recognize and is also understood among their neighbors. There u, therefore, an increasing appre hension and doubt that the as sociation might not last. On Dec. 3. 1962, the Legis lative Assembly of Puerto Rico proposed to the United States Congress "the prompt settlement in a democratic manner" of the status of Puer to Rico. In response to thi-, proposal, theic i now a bill in Congress, introduced by Mr Aspinall of Colorado, which callx for a joint United States - Puerto Rico compact commission to draft "a com pact of permanent union." If this new compact is author ized by Congress and Is rati fied by a referendum of the Puerto Rican Deoole. it will establish a union which neith er country can unilaterally dissolve. THE Aspinall Bill provides that in lha . C, 1 . 1. .. ... aVAClCllUUm ma pepple of Puerto Rico shall be given three . choices: tha more perfect compact worked out by the commission, na tional independence and state hood within the federal uninn. In fact, the real choice lie between the present compact with its defective base and a more perfect compact. For independence, while theoreti cally conceivable, would causa vastly more problems than it could solve. Since the beginning of this century, Puerto Rico has evolved in association with the United States. To tear it loose now, to push it outsida the United States' economy, to ask it to provide its own military defense and to enter into world politics, would cause a convulsion if not a disaster. This is so well under stood in Puerto Rico that tha vote for independence is negligible. There is, however, a grow ing demand in Puerto Rico tot admission to the Union as a state. It has the backing of certain industrial interests, of some members Of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, of tha Puerto Rican Statehood Re publican party, and it appeals to a certain sentiment among many Puerto Ricans. But tha fact of the matter is that tha prospects of the United States Congress admitting Puerto Rico as a state are virtually nil. For one thing, Puerto Rico would be entitled to two sen ators and six representatives, which would give it more voting power in the House of Representatives than 23 of tha existing states. It would out vote, to pick at random, such states as Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire; it would have as many votes as Connecticut, Oklahoma and South Caro lina. TT IS HARD to imagine what consideration would indues the Congress to give such po litical power inside the -United States to what is in fact a for eign people speaking a foreign language and living under quite different social institu tions. All that the agitation for statehood is likely to accom plish is to generate bitter dis appointment. That is to say it would destroy a relationship which works exceedingly well in practice and is a high credit to both peoples. The perfecting of the com pact, which is the next busi ness of both peoples, would in fact be begun by the passaga of the Aspinall Bill. The nub of it is in the first sentenca which says that the Congress "duly recognizing the in herent right and juridical ca pacity of the people of Puerti Rico to govern themselves and to establish such relationships with the government of tha LUted States as are freely agreed upon . . ." That declar ation erases all the vestiges of the original colonial status nf Puerto Rico, establishes tho independence of Puerto Rico and its capacity to enter into a compact with the United States. Once the perfected compact is authorized by the Congress and ratified in the Puerto Rican referendum, a union which is as indestructible that of the states will hava come into being. For It will rest upon a compact between the two peoples, each possess ing "the inherent right and juridical capacity" to enter into such a compact. 1
