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History from the files of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
July 10, 1933, (Friday)
With plana under way for
removal of the old airplane
h a n g a r at Medford airport,
city councllmen consider new
airport plans.
High snow drifts and diffi
culty with suowplow equip
ment have delayed opening of
the north and east entrances
to Crater Lake National park.
20 YEARS AGO
July 10, 1943 (Frldayi
Chamber of commerce reso
lution asks return of two-way
traffic on Riverside and Cen-
trnl Duel.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Quite
number of Juveniles are
now running around wearing
the shirts their Miners iosi,
via taxes."
00 YEARS AGO
July 10, 1933 (Sunday)
Safe crackers get $300 from
Groceteria No. 1.
Bill Bates high in trap
shoot contest.
40 YEARS AGO
July 10. 1923 (Monday)
Earwigs threaten entire
state.
Prohibition enforcement In
county during June costs
$882.54 and fines collected
amounted to $30.
B0 YEARS AGO
Julv 10. 1913 (Wednesday)
Bud Anderson, Medford
boxer, operated on for ap
ncndlcitia in Los Angeles.
War raging between stock
men over stock closure law.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine er ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is enellent; fire er
si Is good.
1. Which Is higher in rank,
an embassy or a legation?
2. New York City Is served
by what three principal air
ports? 3. Which department of the
executive branch of the gov
ernment has charge of the
issuance of passports and
visas?
4. Name the alcoholic mix
ed beverage which has a name
Identical with that for a mo
torcycle attachment?
8. The handle of a sword
or dagger is called a h
6. Is Costa Rica north, or
south of Panama?
7. How many red stripes
are on the American Flag?
8. What Is nom do plume?
9. Live lobsters are red;
true or false?
10. Are there 90, ISO, or
365 degrees in a full circle?
Answers! 1. Embassy. 2.
Idlewlld, LaCuardte, Ne
wark. 3, Department of
State. 4. Side car. 5. Hilt.
6. North. 7. Seven. 9. A
nam assumed by an au
thor. 9. False. 10. None
UNCOVER TREASURES
Montreal - lUPtl - Diggers
working near Batiscan, 23
miles east of Three Rivers,
Quebec, found arrowheads,
tone tools, pottery and cop.
per goods dating back to be
tween 3,000 and 4.000 B.C
They will go on display this
summer in a 17th century
Presbyterian manor at Batis
can. The discovery .provides
clues of a hitherto unknown
nomadic race, perhaps the
most ancient in the country
kVjJ-A$IOCIATIOM
WEDNESDAY. JULY 10. 1963
Profumo and Britain
Queen Victoria, were she alive today, would
not be amused by the Profumo scandals. But, in
the opinion of an Englishman writing in the New
York Times Magazine,
were not unknown in the
were just handled differently.
In such a case, Bernard Hollowood says, "the
mandarins of government,
ness would have closed
mouths."
Today, however, scandal-mongers, the sensa
tional press, television,
public delight in every
IT'S not that today's Briton is any looser in his
morals than was his grandfather; it's just that
he's franker about sex, the writer contends. The
old tabus have gone; the sex and scandal of an
earlier day was just as prevalent, but was not dis
cussed openly.
Still, the Profumo affair is, in many quarters,
seen as the beginning of
Tory government. And
1. .
mere is mourning cnssausiacuon iowara me pres
ent government. The scandal, revealing moral
turpitude in high places,
- , T T ,1 1
rsut nonowooa says
doxically, under certain
Keeler might be the saving ol tne government,
HE MAKES his point this way:
Mounting dissatisfaction with the govern
ment has been based on
Despite general prosperity, the government has
bumbled and fumbled on such matters as the
Common Market, Commonwealth problems, edu
cation, unemployment, national security, eco
nomic progress, central African affairs, and
defense.
But the Profumo scandal has obscured all
these things. If an election were to be held today,
the votes might well be cast with it in mind more
than the matters of greater import.
And, Hollowood argues, this might work to
the advantage of the government.
HE CITES the hypothetical thinking of a hypo
friofipal vntm- tVino
"A nasty business, that. But human nature's human
nature. We're none of us perfect, eh? Well I know I'm
not, There but for the grace of God . . . anyway, It's
not Mac's fault. Can't expect him to go around blowing
the noses of his Ministers, can you? There's nothing
seriously wrong with P. having his bit of fluff. Mistake
was getting caught. Rotten liar, though; don't hold with
that. Still, I'm not going to be a sanctimonious scally
wag and blame Mac. Knowing what I do, it would be
Hypocritical to vote lor Wilson merely because . . .
Right then, I'll prove that I'm broad-minded and
generous. I'll give the Tories another chance.''
Does this speak for the theory that Britain is
becoming degenerate Wot necessarily, Hollo
wood says:
"The proof, surely, of Britain's underlying decency
Is that it has been deeply shocked and wounded by
the Profumo revelations. The time to start worrying
about a nation's decline and fall is when the public
conscience has been anesthetized Into apathy by re
peated doses of scandal. One Profumo would not have
inspired Gibbon."
True, perhaps. But it doesn't inspire admira
tion, either. E.A.
Medical Investigators
When Dr. Russell C. Henry assumed his du
ties as chief medical investigator for the state
of Oregon last month, the state went full-scale
on to the medical investigator system the onlv
one west of the Mississippi, and one of the less
tnan iu in the nation.
Elsewhere, the coroner system still is in use.
Oregon, again, is one of the nioneers in
adopting a method of public service which prom-
r.. .. 1 . , 1 1 ItM -1 ' 1
loea iar ueuer results, vvnne tne coroner system
is almost as old as civilization itself, it has be
come outmoded. Now men trained in both medi
cine and criminal law
investigating non-natural deaths, rather than
men elected and often without adequate training,
THE medical investigator is a practitioner of
"forensic pathology" forensic meaninc per
taining to judicial administration or discussion,
patnoiogy meaning the
cal conditions.
Among other things, it will be the duty of
the medical investigators to distinguish between
the cause of death what a person died from,
such as drowning, bullet wound, etc. and the
manner of death accident or suicide, natural or
unnatural, murder or disease.
And, as Dr. Henry pointed out in a recent
interview, it will be just as much the job of
the investigator to protect the innocent as to find
the guilty.
JUEDICAL investigators thus will work closely
T with both the courts and the police agencies.
He will bring his training in medicine, his
knowledge of the law and of police techniques,
into play in each case of death he is called upon
to investigate.
There have been many good and sincere men
who have served their communities as coroners.
At one time it was an office of great trust and
responsibility and prestige.
But it seems simple common sense to employ
a man with technical and specialized training to
do a specialized and technical job. E.A.
equally nasty scandals
time of Victoria they
press, church and busi
their ranks and shut their
columnists and an avid
dirty facet of the affair
the end of Macmillan's
this could well be, for
J. 1 Xl
could De tne nnai straw,
I L 1 L i
it is xns view iiiat, para
circumstances Christine
a variety of matters..
will be responsible for
study of abnormal physi
"It's encouraging to
take an interest
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name end address of the writer,
although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial
for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to
edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters
printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the
paper. In feet the contrary Is often the case.
Look Unto Ma
To the Editor: I read Lydia
Burnham'a two Tribune let
ters on man's use of God's
Atomic Fire, and the futility
of man trying to escape it.
She and the Governr - are so
right, there is only c.ie de
fense, "peace", peace with
God and our fellow man, or
destruction is sure and with
atomic fire.
Nine-hundred years before
Christ, Elijah asked God to
manifest His divine power be
fore ancient Israel. His pray
er was answered by fire that
burned not only the sacrifice
and the fuel, but the altar of
stone and the soil around it,
water-soaked though it was.
The wicked king sent 103 sol
diers to seize Elijah, they
were consumed by a like fire.
The Creator of the atom
is the source and origin of
divine energy. He who laid
the cornerstone of matter (the
lowly atom) gave it its power.
"Our God is a consuming
fire." (Heb. 12:39.) Sodom and
Gomorrah and the wicked
cities near them were destroy.
ed by God's atomic fire. To
day the waters of the Dead
Sea wash the burnt earth
where these wicked cities
once lay in the lush, fertile
valley that supported their
thousands of people. God's
word tells us: Angry nations
will be engaged in the destruc
tion of the earth, when God
brings to a halt the conflict
of the ages, revealing Him
self In atomic fire. "The heav
ens shall pass away with a
great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat";
The streams shall be turned
into pitch, and the dust into
brimstone, the land shall be
come burning pitch."
When this earth is engulf
ed with God's atomic fire
what will it be like? "A lake
of fire burning with brim
stone." (Rev. 19:20.) The only
people wno will escape this
fire are those who have made
their peace with God, their
names are recorded in the
Lamb's book of life. All oth
ers, even death and hell (the
grave) were cast Into the lake
of fire. "Thev shall be as
though they had not been
"This is the second death."
Yes, Lydia, your letters are
wonderful as far as they go,
you point out the ailments in
detail, even part of the reme
dy. Millions have accepted
Him, the real remedy, who
stands today m the Heavenly
sanctuary with outstretched.
nan-pierced hands plcadlns.
"Look unto me and be ye
saved all the ends of the
earth.
F. E. Beverly,
112 Geneva st.,
Medford
Zip Cede
To the Editor: After read
ing your editorial on "Zip
Code Fallacies". I felt It ne
cessary to relate to you my
experience with the new
system.
I am employed by a Med
ford firm, and before send
ing out my statements this
month. I called the Medford
Post Office to learn the zip
codes for the outlying areas
of our county, Central Point,
Jacksonville, Eagle Point,
etc., so I could .nclude them
on my statements. The wom
an to whom I talked, al
though she was very polite,
seemed to consider me some
kind of a crack-pot for hav.
ing such an Idea. She told me
"it really wasn't necessary to
go to all that trouble, as the
numbers are read by a ma
chine and we don't have one
of these machines here any
way." She advised me to Just
put the Medford code on our
envelopes and then copy each
of the other numbers from
the payments as they come
In. During the whole conver
sation she continued to laugh
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
see young people
in world affairs!"
and
appeared to be very
amused by the whole thing.
If this is to be the attitude
of the Post Office Deparment
itself, I feel I must agree
with you as to the probability
of the"Zip Code System" be
coming a dreary failure.
They certainly don't seem to
mind spending the taxpayers'
money to advertise in the
newspapers and on televis'.n,
so I wonder if it might i.jt be
wise for them to spend a lit
tle time educating their em
ployees on telephone eti
quette regarding this matter.
By the way, I never did
get the list of codes.
(Name on File).
Medford.
Old Time Dances
To the Editor: In Sunday's
Mail Tribune, announcing the
100th anniversary of Henrv
ford, it is stated: "The mind
of Henry Ford is going down
zu tracKs at a time. ' One of
these tracks which isn't gen
erally known by the public
today is his organizing of an
Old rime Dance orchestra
to re-popularize the "clas
sics" of dancing which have
been handed down through
the years and perhaps will
never die out.
After World War I the
dance fad was the Charles,
ton, the Black Bottom, the
Turkey Trot and others
When that fad died out, pub
lic dancing died out. too. e-
cause the younger generation
had not learned the old
dances like the Waltz, One
step, Two-step, Three-step
and many other folk dances,
and not many orchestras
knew how to play for these
dances.
Now, again, the fad for the
Twist" and "Swing" is dy,
ing out and our public dance
halls are closing up or play
ing to small crowds and the
younger folks do not know
how to dance waltzes and
two-steps, etc., because they
haven't had a chance to
learn.
Older people can't stomach
the "Tom-Tim, To vTom'
music and loud singing now
blared at them in this valley
and our dance halls no longer
attract dancers.
To my knowledge, there is
only one orchestra in this
valley that is playing real
ance music ana tney are
playing to benefit dances at
Central Point on Saturday
nights and on Wednesday
auernoons from 2 until
o'clock at the Knights of
Pythias hall In Medford.
Ford also made phono
graph recordings of theso old
time dances so people could
dance to them in their homes
or grange halls, etc. I, per
sonally, have some of these
records.
Henry Corbin,
Box 195,
Rogue River. Ore.
Takes Issue
To the Editor: 1, like many
others, probably, read the
Com munications column of
the Mail Tribune with a toler
ant smile and then forget the
whole matter. Your paper of
7-8-63 presented, how ever,
two letters with which I must
take issue.
In reply to Ralph McKinnis'
letter I say that the American
Negro is not free. He is not
free to live where he chooses,
not free from prejudice, not
free to vote in many cases. He
is making an effort of his own
to become free. He is avoiding
violence and asking only that
he be granted the privileges
already enjoyed by other
members of his race - the hu
man race. If we, the majority,
continue to deny him his
rights history will Judge us
harshly.
In reply to Herman Wood I
say this: Please, sir, do not In
sult the memory of Calvin
Coolidge, Robert Taft, and
Kennedy's
But Doubts About U.b. Persist i
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
It was inevitable that com
parisons be drawn between
the Kennedy and De Gaulle
visits to West
G e r m a n y
esp e c i a 1 1 y
among the
West Germans
as the people
most direct 1 y
ksl I American
1 tl I President him
eBmaeai u u.j j
ben iitiu mouv
no mention of
De Gaulle during his trip and
De Gaulle had gone to some
lengths to avoid making it
appear a popularity contest.
But in the end there was no
doubt that Kennedy had made
by far the greatest impact and
that De Gaulle's visit had
been a disappointment both
Today & Tomorrow
Bv Walter
t) 1963. The
A DOOR IS OPENED
On July 2 in East Berlin,
Mr. Khrushchev took a posi
tion on the nuclear test ban
w h 1 c h is of
very special
interest. For it
agrees with
p roposals
made by Pres
ident E i s e n
hower on Apr.
13, 1959, and
b y President
Kennedy and
Llnomann Prime Minis
ter Macmillan on Aug. 27,
1962.
The essence of the U. K. -
U. S. A. proposal was stated
by President Eisenhower in a
letter to Chairman Khrush
chev: "Could we not. Mr.
Chairman, put the agreement
into effect in phases begin
ning with a prohibition of nu
clear tests in the atmosphere?"
The U. K.- U. S. A. proposal
arose from the fact that on-
site inspection, which the So
viets object to, is unnecessary
to detect nuclear explosions
in the atmosphere. The pur
pose of inspection is entirely
that of distinguishing under
ground explosions from natur
al earthquakes.
As long as four years ago,
therefore, the Americans and
the British began urging the
Soviets to agree to a partial
teat ban, one which would for
bid explosions anywhere ex,
cept underground. For a long
time, the Soviet government
rejected the Anglo-American
proposal and insisted that un
derground testing should also
be prohibited by a gentle-
mans agreement. There the
negotiations were deadlocked
until Chairman Khushchev
spoke a week ago in East Ber-
lin.
e
THIS speech reflected a ma,
jor decision made in Mos,
cow. There is reason for think
ing that it had been made
more than a month ago - be
fore Mr. Harold Wilson's visit
to Moscow and before the
President's remarkable speech
at American University on
June 10. Speaking that same
day to the newspaper report
ers after he had seen Mr
Khrushchev, Mr. Wilson drop
ped the hint that an agree
ment banning tests that can
be detected without inspec
tions within the Soviet Union
was possible. At the same
time, I thought this was too
good to be true and too sens
ible to be practical. Presum
ably, when the President
made his daring speech at
American University, he had
had better information.
The reason for doubting that
the Soviets would sign a par
tial agreement was that Mr.
Khrushchev, as anyone who
has talked to him knows, re,
gards underground testing for
small nuclear weapons as ex
pensive and of little military
interest.
other responsible Americans
who have borne the honored
title of conservative. And
never call the extreme right
wing fearless. It is afraid of
its own shadow! It spies a
Communist under every bed
and a subversive plot at every
turn. What the extreme right
fails to realize is that if this
country were in half as bad
a shape as the right wing
claims, America would have
gone Communist 15 years ago.
No, we are not faced with
any subversive plot in our
own government to betray us.
We ARE faced with a world
wide challenge by commu
nism. As long as we believe in
those old simple things: the
equality of all men, the inate
worth of a single human being
as opposed to all the powers
of the state, the right of all
men to believe as they wish
providing they do not attempt
to force their beliefs on
others, we shall be forced to
oppose both the tyranny and
mind control of communism
and the bigotry. Ignorance,
fear, and attempted mind con
trol of the American far right
Glenn Gratsinger
Route 1. Box 395
Eagle Point, Ore.
German Visit Tops De Gaulle's,
to Bonn and Paris.
In Bonn, both Vice Chancel
lor Ludwig Erhard and For
eign Minister Gerhard Schroe
der expressed frank disap
pointment at failure to make
any progress with De Gaulle
toward a common agricultural
policy for the European Com
mon Market.
There also was disappoint
ment over De Gaulle's con
tinued adamant refusal to con
sider any place for Great
Britain within the European
community.
In Paris it was conceded
that Kennedy had rekindled
West German faith in U.S.
leadership in an Atlantic al
liance as opposed to De
Gaulle's "third force" theory
for a Europe militarily and
economically independent of
the United States sometime in
the distant future.
Lippmann
Washington Pt
It is almost certain that So
viet military men and nuclear
scientists think that their only
hope of catching up with and
overcoming American nuclear
superiority is by some tech
nological breakthrough which
would require the explosion
of big bombs m the atmos
phere. But now Mr. K. has
offered to forego such tests
and, therefore, to forego the
attempt to achieve nuclear
superiority over the Ameri
cans. ALTHOUGH this is a mo-
mentous turn of events,
we must not make the mistake
of regarding it as a Soviet
surrender. It means, primar
ily, I would say, a conviction
in the Soviet government that
for practical purposes there is,
in spite of American nuclear
superiority, an effective nu
clear stalemate. The U. S. A
superior in the sense that
if the Soviet Union made the
first strike, we would still
have the nuclear power left to
devastate the Soviet Union,
But, at the same time, not
only are we sworn not to
strike first ourselves, but also
we are effectively deterred.
For an American first strike
would not be able to disarm
the Soviet Union enough to
prevent it from destroying
Western Europe and a good
deal of the United States.
And so, neither for the So
viet Union nor for the United
Stales is there a vital risk in
agreement to what is substan
tially a suspension of impor
tant testing. For both the nu
clear powers, the risk of nu
clear war is infinitely more
serious than the risk of not
being able to break the stale
mate. e
N HIS speech, Mr. Khrush
chev said that of course an
agreement on, the ending of
nuclear tests, notwithstanding
the importance of this major
act, cannot stop the arms race,
cannot avert or even substan
tially weaken the danger of
thermonuclear war. That is
why the Soviet government
believes that already, at the
conclusion of a test-ban agree
ment, it is necessary to take
also another big step toward
easing international tension
and strengthening confidence
between states: to sign a non
aggression pact between the
two main military groups of
states - the NATO countries
and the Warsaw Treaty states.
I read this as a request
that: "At the conclusion of
a test-ban agreement," there
there should be serious nego
tiation about the stabilization
of the central European re
gion where NATO and the
Warsaw Pact allies confront
each other. There is need for
more than a simple nonaggres
sion pact. For the United
States, the other NATO coun
tries and the Federal Republic
have repeatedly sworn that,
while they do not approve the
partition of Germany, they
will not use force to alter the
status quo.
If this is what Mr. Khrush
chev wants, there should be no
trouble in making the declar
ation again, and in most sol
emn form. But he wants more
than that. He wants to remove
what he calls the "hot-beds of
tension" in Berlin and along
the frontier line. That can
only be done by a new East
West agreement which recog
nizes and approves the even
tual reunification of the two
Germanys and in the mean
time guarantees the status quo
in West Berlin and its access
to the outer world.
TMIE real question here is
whether the Western al
lies on the one hand and the
Soviet Union on the other
have already reached the
point where such a great ne
gotiation could take place.
Perhaps not. But what we
can say is that such a large
provisional agreement is nec
essary, that it is in the inter
est of all, and that is more
likely to come sooner than
later if now - having agreed
on the substance of a test ban
-we proceed to sign it.
In fact, some said that the
French-German accord which
De Gaulle had seen as the
foundation stone for his own
grand design for Europe, now
had been reduced to a state
ment of good intentions.
West Berliners' cheers tor
Kennedy were echoed in
German newspapers.
"Neither we nor the world
can auibble or doubt the de
termination of the American
President," said Die Welt ol
Hamburg.
Said the Rhein-Zeitung ot
Coblentz:
"This week the course was
unmistakably set for the At
lantic route. It can no longer
be set back to that of a small
Europe ... It is plain that
freedom and the future will
emerge not from a French
Europe, but from a united
Europe."
But amid the chorus of
praise there also were notes
of doubt.
It was noted that the U.S.
President strives to consult
his allies on major moves,
especially as they deal with
Anglo-Saxon Words
Are Un-American
By Arthur Hoppe
"Stamp out dash, dash, dash,
dash!" It was my good friend,
Miss Amanda, National Com
mander of "!", the superpatri
otic stamping-out society. And
she looked in fine fettle.
"Dash, dash, dash, dash?" I
inquired blankly.
"Right!" snapped Miss
Amanda, stomping a tennis
shoed foot. "It stands for a
four letter word I am too
much of a lady to utter. We
patriots must stamp out all
four-letter words! They're a
Commie plot to subvert our
youth!"
They are? "Right!" she said.
"Our loyal youth read these
words in books or on men's
room walls and they join the
Commie Party! Everybody
knows that! Be a real Amer
ican! Burn a book tonight."
And tear down cur men's
room walls? "Absolu . . ." Miss
Amanda stopped in mid-ges
ture, consternation welling be
hind her bi-focals.l"Holy Betsy
Ross" she said. "We've got a
problem!
.
I said it certainly seemed
that way. But perhaps it
wasn't insoluble. Let's ask
ourselves, I said, why we are
offended by a four-letter word
liKe . . . "Don't say it!" cried
Miss Amanda, clapping her
lace-gloved hands over her
ears. "I don't want to be sub
verted!" Well, I said, I figure one
reason we're offended is that
we know what these words
mean. Now a Hottentot or an
Eskimo, I said, wouldn't blush
if I shouted . . . "Don't shout
it! said Miss Amanda, blush
ing. "I know what it means!"
Therefore, I said, what we
need is a whole new set of
Strictly Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
(cl Field Enterprise!. Inc.
WEAPONS AND MORALITY
In a periodical called
"Hogg's Weekly Instructor,"
published in Edinburgh, Scot
land, o n e of
the issues in
March 1 8 4 5,
contained an
article on
"Steam - Its
Influence on
Society." Re
flecting the
widespr e a d
view held at
turn the time of the
introduction of steam power,
the article proclaimed:
"It is not difficult to see
how railroads and steam navi
gation will promote the peace
of the world. Soverigns will
avail themselves of it, as well
as the people. The rulers and
ruled of different nations will
meet face to face: and instead
of believing, as hitherto, that
they are natural enemies, they
will soon discover that they
are sworn friends. But for
steam, it is not likely these
visits would be made!
"But there is another way."
the article continued, "in
Which steam power will pro
mote peace. We know that the
more destructive the weapons
of warfare, the less likely will
the nations be to proclaim
war, and the more speedily
will their disputes be settled
when they do. Consider the
changes necessarily produced
in the art of war by use of
steamships! Think of their fa
cility of access to any shore!
Think of their fearful accur
acy of aim and their destruc
tive power, and we shall have
fewer national quarrels . : ."
- This Is the illusion thai
has, falsely, nourished man
kind since the invention of
eCSaC, tal
nere
relations between East and
West, but that he does not al
ways do so.
It was not lost upon the
Germans that it was in Ger
many that the news leaked
that the United States would
at least postpone its plan for
a multi-nation nuclear navy.
This in turn was followed
within a few days by a Khru
shchev proposal linking a nu
clear test ban agreement with
a non aggression pact to be
signed between the rival War
saw Pact Communist nations
and the members of NATO.
German doubts spring from
a' fear that is with them al
ways - that their future may
be determined by agreements
in which they do not partici
pate. Said the Westf a e 1 i s c h
Rundschau of Dortmund:
"Perhaps it will soon be
come evident what is demand
ed of us, not only in regard
to economic and financial sac
rifices, but perhaps we will
be asked to dump overboard
many of the political concepts
of which we have grown so
fond."
four-letter words. "We do?"
said Miss Amanda suspicious
ly-
Right, I said. Now take good.
solid four letter words like
"bnxt" or "smrl" or even
"gnph." Would they be offen
sive? "Hmmm," said Miss
Amanda, eyeing me querul
ously. "What do they mean?"
I said I couldn't tell her that
because the value of these new
four letter words depends en
tirely on nobody knowing
what they meant. Thus no
body would be offended by
them. Right? ,
"What's so good about
that?" asked Miss Amanda,
tapping her walking stick on
my shoulder impatiently.
Well, I said, warming to
the subject, if we had 10 or
12 four letter words of this
nature, we could print them
in our books and scratch them
on our men's room walls.
This would satisfy those who
enjoy four letter words. But
at the same time people like
Miss Amanda wouldn't hava
to go around patriotically tear
ing down our men's room
walls.
"And our youth won't be
subverted!" cried Miss Aman
da happily. "I shall start a
crusade to spread the word!"
Great, I said. And I helped
out by giving her a new plac
ard to carry. It said: "Build
Superpatriots - Use Bnxt!"
She took one look at the
sign, whacked me with her
reticule, shouted, "You're a
dirty old man!" and stomped
out.
Which just proves that it
isn't the word, it's the thought
that counts. Or, to put it an
other way, obscenity's all in
your head.
the catapult and the long
bow. Each new military de
vice, each new instrument
of destruction, has been
hailed as an and io future
wars. The devastation
would be "too terrible io
contemplate," and nations
would be forced to make
peace in the future.
Such voices are still
strong among us today. Yet
everything in history proves
them wrong. In the century
following the hymn to
steam in 1845, the world ex
perienced its most horrible
conflicts, generation after
generation. The weapons be .
came more wicked, and the
casualties more widespread.
"Air power only added
dimension io mass murder.
There is no record of a na
tion piling up arms and not
using them; indeed, the very
existence of arms acts as an
incentive to hostile action. The
physical fear of retaliation by
enemies with equally formid
able arms has never been a
deterrent for very long. To
say that armaments "prevent"
conflict is to say that germs
prevent disease.
Toward the end of his life,
Napoleon himself admitted
that "The more I study the
world, the more I am con
vinced of the inability of
brute force to create anything
durable."
Moral power is the only
force that can prevent war,
not physical power. The pro
found appeal of a man like
Pope John XXIII is worth
more than a hundred divisions
of fighting men-if we but per
mit his wisdom and compas
sion to awaken our stunned
consciences.