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History from the- file, of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 year ego.
10 YEARS AGO
Sept. 3, 1953 (Thursday)
East side fire hall plans may
bring law suits, owners state.
The special police investiga
tion being conducted by Howard
I. Bobbitt will be completed
within the next several days.
20 YEARS AGO
Kant 3 mis (Frldav)
Bert Slater named manager
of farm labor supply center at
rnn Prpspfltt.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudee Pot" column: 'Prema
ture Halloween havoc was
wrought Tuesday night in the
biz area, some being covered
by insurance.
30 YEARS AGO
Sept. 3, 1933 (Sunday)
Rigid tests for school bus driv
ers ordered.
Bonded whiskey shortage
looms.
40 YEARS AGO
Sept. 3, 1923 (Monday)
Tokyo destroyed by fire fol
lowing earthquakes.
Sam Jennings of Medford Fur
niture and Hardware store takes
job with a tire company.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 3. 1913 (Wednesday)
Siskiyou land in Illinois river
area to be opened for settle
ment. Edison talking pictures prove
sensation at Page theater.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct It superior;
seven or eight is excellent; five er
six is good.
1. The game of polo is played
with a ball made from ivory,
cork or wood?
2. Is the obverse side of a coin
the front or back?
3. How mnny times does the
word "America" appear in the
stanzas ot "My Country 'Tis of
Thee"?
4. In what historical novel Is
an exciting chariot race de
scribed?
5. Namo the capital of North
Carolina.
6. What species ot bird can
fly backwards, and stand still
in midair?
7. Would you most likelv ex
pect to meet a Pasha in Yugo
slavia, tgypt, Indonesia or
Peru?
8. How
brig?
many masts has a
9. If some one gave you a stir
rup cup, would you get a hunt
ing horn, drink, or a prize
award .'
Answers: 1. Wood. 2. Front.
3. Not at all. 1. "Urn llur." 5.
Raleigh. 6. Hummingbird. 7
Egypt. 8. Two. 9. Drink.
Morse Sees Passage
Of Bracero Measure
Salem -(UPI)- The bill ex
lending the Mexican labor act
for another year will pass Con
gross despite the opposition of
American labor. Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.) predicted at 'the
Oregon State Fair Monday.
Organized labor in Cakfornt
and other areas has opposed tie
importing of Mexicans on the
grounds that it takes Jobs away
from American workers. 0
"American labor is noCliurt
one iota." Morse said. "Th(W
isn't an American who would do
this type of stoop work."
4 A
VjASSOCIATION
SEPTEMBER 3. 1963
New Accident Thinking
There is a whole folklore in the field of traffic
safety. Some items:
The fast driver
rl river.
That strict enforcement of speed laws, and
AU ml., .v npiolp in 1-nanmrr rrottlsi
accidents down.
That holiday week ends are relatively more
dangerous times on the highways than other
neriocls.
That continued warnings to the motoring
nublic are a factor in nnnrovintr highway satety,
' That conservative
hiehwav safety.
That the hitrhwav
get worse before it gets better.
I TP UNTIL recently, most people have assumed
these things to be
they are being challenged.
"Case for Fast Drivers." an article in the new
Harper's magazine by Robert L. Schwartz, chal
lenges many of these assumptions. He says tne
fast driver is actually safer, both actually and
relatively, than the slow driver. He also says that
higher speed limits based on how fast about
85 to 90 per cent of drivers actually drive tend
not only to improve safety, but to decrease the
average speeds used on that section of highway.
He based his article on close study of a
Bureau of Public Roads report, issued in 1958,
but little noted then or since.
LIE ALSO gave statistics to show that emotional
warnings about safe driving tend to increase,
rather than decrease, traffic accidents. And he
showed that, relatively as well as actually, the
toll of traffic fatalities is declining, despite the
increased number of vehicles on the highways.
He also demonstrated
fic accidents, two or more factors combine to
cause the crash, and that too often a single
cause" is listed by investigating officers.
His most telling point, however, is that we
simply do not know very much about the causes
of traffic accidents. He reports that federal offi
cials spend some $100,000 per passenger investi
gating fatal aircraft accidents, but that the aver
age for traffic accidents runs only to about $5.
tif i ii i i. ? ;
we Know mat trainc
lives and property (our
ways are far safer than
there are lots ot other things we must know be
fore we can make any real progress in finding,
and curing, the causes
Mosquito
We printed a sincere
from a White City woman the other day, appeal
ing for help from a menace of mosquitoes.
But that is about the
heard all summer, so far.
cooler-than-normal weather, or perhaps the coun
ty's mosquito control measures have been more
effective than previously
Perhaps it is a combination of factors, includ
ing a wider understanding on the part of most
people that they, too, have a responsibility in
mosquito control by finding and eliminating pos
sible breeding places.
"NE place in the county where one might logi-
cally expect mosquitoes is at Howard Prairie
Lake. But, happily, there are few of the pesky
little rascals, and even these do not constitute a
problem.
lliis was pointed out
the concession operator there, last week end.
Why? Because, he declares, there are numerous
small frogs (or toads)
vicinity, and they do not permit any mosquito
larvae to survive to adulthood. They eat them.
This theory interested us, inasmuch as it
makes sense.
'PHERE has been a vastly
caution in the use of
effect they have not only
whole ecological balance of nature, llus new
caution also applies in the field of mosquito control.
One man we know
cline in the fishery at Diamond Lake of a few
years ago wholly to the
of mosquitoes.
New methods of mosquito control are being
researched. The Oregonian has noted that the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
is embarking on a massive control nroirram in
the swamps of Florida,
to work in space-age projects, the pests had to
be eliminated.
fpE Oregonian reported:
". . . To kill off existing mosquitoes and larvae, NASA
is using spray planes, ground-fogging equipment, and even
minnows dropped into potholes from helicopters. In the mean
time, bulldozers and draglines arc reducing the size of the
breeding grounds by cutting drainage canals and building
more than 100 miles of dikes to impound rainfall runoff and
thus keep the marshland permanently flooded so adults can
not lay their eggs. A large staff of entomologists is hard at
work experimenting on more effective rrnvs and larvacides.
"Many a fcdcrii- tnavr way (he fact he is
digging down t Wmm iMie;ti in Florida while
res I! st-lfi eafci t esse mi bite unmolested. But
A wn mkM v-. X enveloping ma make it
)AfH ) - fcr e wle nation to afford the luxurv
Of si.sufc j Mtrt on a sumfrer night, as Portland'
ers dl. LA's kite saC- ( ) k Q
M ....
We hope so too, particularly on behalf of the
White City woman and her beieagured children.
-E.A.
is the most dangerous
speed limits contribute to
death toll is going to
true. But more and more
that, in most fatal traf
engineering can save
70-mile-per-hour free
older, slower roads), but
of traffic accidents.
E.A.
Control
and impassioned letter
only complaint we have
Perhaps it has been the
in other areas, that is.
to us by bob Johnston,
in the immediate lake
increased interest and
pesticides, and what
on people but on the
attributes the sham de
sprays used to get rid
where, to attract people
MEDFOHD
Hand Across The Sea
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edit all letters with a view to clarification end condensation. Letter
submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The fetters
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paper, in fact the contrary is often
Heaven
To the Editor: The main rea
son that I am so greatly inter
ested in Heaven is that I ex
pect to go there. Upon arrival
I anticipate being given a sim
ple but highly efficient means
of locomotion. If I had to flap
pair of wings in order to get
about, I would not feel that I
really was in Heaven. It is the
absence of exertion that appeals
to me. I would imagine Heaven
to be quite a large place.
Another theory I have is that
Heaven does not now exist, but
will be created at some distant
date. There is no particular
hurry. A dead personality has
no sense of time, anyway. So,
spirits of tne dead will be kept
in storage until the proper time
for their release arrives.
Be good and I will meet you
in Heaven some day.
David Frisch
P. O. Box 292
White City, Ore.
Scries Liked
To the Editor: May I express
my appreciation for vour publi
cation and display last week of
me nve-story series of articles
by Harry Ferguson, of United
Press International, explaining
mc lunctions ana services of the
United States Post Office De
partment. Al Bradford,
Acting Postmaster
Medford
True Chrlstianitv
To the Editor: The following
lines are taken from a little 22
page booklet that just came in
the mail. They were written bv
my personal friend J. L. Tuck
er, speaker on the Quiet Hour.
This program is aired locally
each Sunday at 9 a.m. on KRVC.
Copies of the booklet in its en
tirety are free.
"The Christian life pays in hap
piness, peace, contentment and
hope. Happiness of life is an ex
perience that we cannot beg,
we cannot borrow, we cannot
steal. It must come from within.
When Jesus has been invited in
to the heart, when He is an
abiding presence, then there is
happiness. He does not simply
impart joy, He brings it. Every
Christian has the right to be
supremely happy and no one
but a Christian can be truly happy-
"Long - faced religion in not
from God, for He talks of 'joy
unspeakable and full of glory.'
(I Peter 1:8.) If there is no
radiance, sunshine, joy and hap
piness in your religion, I would
recommend that you get a new
brand, that you come to know
your Christ a little better. Judg
ing from the countenances, too
many have mistaken an attack
of indigestion for religion.
"There are far too many who.
because of lack of understand
ing and vision, complain like the
brilliant young statesman who.
when a lady friend was trying
to win him for Christ, said 'You
want mc to give up everything.'
rso, she replied earnestly in
deed not, I am asking you to ac
cept everything in Jesus Christ.'
The only things that a Christian
gives up arc the things that it
held onto would ruin and
blight his life; that would mar
his peace and contentment. The
'thou shalt nols' of the Bible
are to protect us from the
snare of the enemy, not to take
away our happiness and joy.
True Christianity not only
pays in happiness, peace, con
tent ment, and hope, but it pays
physically. In the Christian
life there is no dissipation, no
drunkenness, no carousals, no
sprees of Intomporenco.
"The real Christian will be
temperate in all things and his
definition of temperance is 'a
total abstinance from all that is
harmful and a moderate use of
that which is good.' "
And I might add that in addi
tion tAlhe peace of mind, true
Christianity gives us a hope of
a life beyond this vale of lears.
Henry Johnson Jr.
2315 Highway 66
Ashland, Ore.
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
the case.
Slugfest
To the Editor: Recently, we
heard a news item over the
radio. We quote: "Governor
Mark Hatfield says Republican
party can win in 1964 if they
resorted to a 'slugfest.' "
Well, that quotation remind
ed me of one of my old moun
tain pals who quipped: "If you
ever chance to meet a tough
hombre that his spit bounces,
always be on guard for trouble
ahead, because they carry a
big chip on their shoulders."
(Name on file)
Medford.
Liberal Cleverness
To the Editor: Cleverness is
certainly an outstanding, per
haps the dominating, character
istic of the Liberal. Your edi
torial MT 8-16-53, demonstrates
your ability to reproduce ex
treme cleverness. One would al
most conclude the effort in your
editorial was an attempt to
make up in cleverness what was
lacking in truth and wisdom.
Norman Cousins and vou
know opposition to those who
feel the Nuclear Test Ban is
bad for the United States and
the world cannot be stimulated
by merely pointing out these
letter writers are nuts or worse.
One must be clever. Say also
that they are against peace!
Now no reasonable man is
against peace; therefore the let
ter writers opposed to the test
ban treaty must be discredited
and the educated (?) man must
take up his pen and participate
in the great debate. The Liberal
argument is quite simple
(though of course, it has no re
lation as to the merits of the
treaty): Those who oppose the
test ban treaty are only extre
mists, assorted nuts, facists,
hate - mongers, war mongers,
demigagues, subverters, suspi
cion spreaders and horrors of
horrors they are organized!
(psst. the great debate is end
ed). Besides, the letter writers
only parrot what comes from
on higli (false), from Robert
Welch. And what does Eric Al
len Jr. do when he repeats the
clever nonsense of Norman
Cousins?
But what of this test ban trea
ty? Individual decision on this
important agreement is very
difficult to arrive at. President
Kennedy: "The hopes of the
world have been focused on this
treaty." The hopes of the world
have been focused on the
League of Nations, the United
Nations, the conferences at Yal
ta, Tehran, Potsdam, the Spirit
of Camp David, the Spirit of Ge
neva, etc.; but peace is not
forthcoming and the world's
tensions have steadily increased
until we have arrived at the
Dresent nuclear edge.
Let the clcbaic move aiong
Mr. Allen, people should study
and decide, and then write to
Iheir senators. The senate is
where the final decision must
be made for us. May that de
cision be truly representative of
all of us, not just your "edu
cated (?) elite," and may that
senate decision also be wise.
Robert J. Howard
702 Beekman St.
Medford.
Pnisons
To the Editor: The old savins,
"one man's meat may be anoth
er man's poison" holds true in
some cases. Some people can
take large doses of poisonous
food or drink, others very small
amounts.
Alcohol Is a poison that is in
common daily use by millions of
people and causes much de
struction, because it has a drug
like effect on the user who is un
able to control his desire. And
there is Ihe nib. In very small
doses it may be good medicine.
When alcohol is taken by a
person, Ihe stomach immediate
ly gets busy and the metabolic
force absorbs and retains the
needed quantity for the body.
The surplus is ejected. The hu
man body immediately reacts to
correct any injury that may
happen, whether it be a cut in
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Rival Political Leaders Dispute
Aid in Polivia Plagued With Troubles
By PHIL NEWSOM
L'PI Foreign News Analyst
Back in 1952 when Bolivian
President Victor Par Estenssoro
took office the first time it was
with the sup-
port of Bo
livia's t u r b u
lent tin miners
whose Trotsky,
ite leadership
had aligned it
self with Paz's
national revolu
tionary move-
New.um ment.
A first step of the Paz gov
ernment was to nationalize the
country's tin miners, upon
which most of its wealth de
pended, and give the miners
unprecedented veto powers over
Matter of Fact
(c) New York Herald
THE CITADEL
Mycenae, Greece On
high saddle amid crags, the
citadel stands. Nowadays, young
sunburned tour
ists, three-quarters
naked in
the current
M e diterranean
tourist fashion,
photograph one
another in the
lion gate where
C 1 y temnestra
falselv welcom-
A1,np ed Agamemnon
when he came home from the
great victory over Troy.
Yet the tourists, laugning ana
posturing, count no more than
flies might count before those
great walls, giant-built as the
old Greeks thought because of
the hugeness of the rough-dress
ed stones. Before those walls,
the present fades into lnsubstan-
tiality, and the remote past of
the age of bronze becomes sua-
dently substantial and real.
Even before those walls were
built, the saddle among the
crags must have been a strong
place. On one side, it breaks
downwards into a deep, sunless
ravine, so narrow you feel you
could all but throw a stone to
the mountainside opposite. The
cliff that forms the wall of the
ravine rears up in a high crest
of rock; and here, on this rocky
crest, was the place of the cita
del from Mycenae's earliest be
ginning. YET Agamemnon, or his fa
ther Atreus, did not think
these natural defenses and the
old walls of their forefathers
gave strength enough. So the
people were called in their tens
of thosands to hew stone and
drag it to the citadel and haul
the vast blocks weighing tons
apiece up earthen ramps to the
ever-rising crest of the new
walls.
Within the walls' wide circuit,
on the highest part of the rocky
crest, the new palace also rose,
bright-painted and strong-columned.
The brilliant Greek,
Prof. George Mylonas, who is
carrying on the excavations that
Heinrich Schliemann began,
showed us how this summer's
work has revealed more traces
of this proud house of Atreus
and Agamemnon.
Yet the traces of the palaces,
and the great tombs that were
later built all sink into insig
nificance beside Mycenae's
walls. Besides the lion gate it-
the flesh, a broken bone or a
dose of poison or poison virus.
Lydia Burnham, in her letter
of Aug. 30. stated that anyone
can best get rid of a common
cold by doing nothing, letting
nature do it. I beg to differ with
her there. I would say that, un
less you know yourself, for sure,
what to do, you had better call
a doctor.
If when you get that cold, you
are a worker or a doer of any
kind and you want to keep from
getting real sick, you better
take care. A cold can quickly
turn into pneumonia and then,
it could be "goodbye sweet
world.
There is one way by which I
have averted colds and that has
been that whenever I have sus
pected a cold in the offing I
have missed a meal or two or
three, 'til I have felt hungry.
But that way requires that you
are careful so as not to overdo
it.
As to consumption of poison,
most packaged foods nowadays
contain additives to keep them
from going stale. And that gives
more works for the alimentary
tract to do. Then some of those
additives may be hard to throw
off by the weak and the ailing.
and be cumulative, that is. pile 1
up and cause what might be
called a sort of constipation. The j
F. and D. Administration has no t
authority lo prevent use of addi-1
tives as long as they arc con-1
sidcred harmless. So it is up to
the individual to judge for him
self what is good or what is not.
In others words, take up the
motto of Socrales. the old Greek
"Know thyself."
Personally I have learned the
hard way. in fact, been poisoned
three times, arsenic twice,
strychnine once. Was saved by
doctors. Quite an experience,
you would sny. So I will just say
like Ripley "believe it or not."
John Ring
1049 West lllh St.
Medford
the mine management.
Back of this was the burly
figure of a man named Juan
Lechin, son of an Arab father
and a Bolivian mother, said to
have first been hired by the
Patino mining interests for his
ability as a football player.
With this as a start, Lechin
had advanced swiftly from ex
ecutive secretary of the mine
union in 1945, to senator in 1947
and to successful revolutionary
leader in 1952. His was a pow
erful vocie in calling Paz Es
tenssoro from Argentine exile
to assume the presidency.
In Bolivia's present crisis,
Paz and Lechin once more are
central figures.
Paz is serving his second
term as president and Lechin
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
self, between its grim, protect
ing bastions, only posterns and
secret sally ports pierce these
gigantic ramparts.
rpHE walls that Atreus or Aga
- memnon may have built
were strengthened further in the
last age of the citadel. The
frowning circuit was extended,
to cover the steep descent to
a cistern built far down in the
living rock; and water was led
into this deep new cistern by
a secret channel from a hillside
spring. Thus Mycenae's water
supply was insured against the
longest siege or so it must
have seemed.
Nonthcless, the insurance pro
vided by the cistern was not
sufficient in the end. Even the
great walls were not sufficient
in the end. How such walls fell
to men who had no siege en
gines is a question that still
troubles the imagination. Yet
somehow the walls were storm
ed, and the citadel fell, and the
palace was put to the torch.
It happened just a bit more
than three millenia ago, by Pro
fessor Mylonas's careful calcu
lation. And after it happened,
this famous stronghold of the
Greeks' war leader against Troy
all but vanished from the pages
of history.
a
WHEN the Great King of Per
sia led his army which
drank the rivers dry against
the Greeks, there was still c
town here, a brave town though
small. Through that same lion
gate, where Clytemnestra once
welcomed Agamemnon from the
war, the warriors of Mycenae
marched forth to do battle at
Plataea, where the host of the
Great King was vanquished and
destroyed.
In those days, the warriors of
Mycenae numbered only 74 men.
Yet they too bore their part;
so Mycenae's name was dutiful
ly inscribed along with such
great names of power as Athens
and Sparta, in the list of saviors
of Greece on the gilt-bronze
serpent-tripod that the victors
of Plataea dedicated at Delphi.
That rankled sorely with the
men of Argos, the rich city
down on the plain, whose people
had not dared to resist the Great
King. And this bad taste in the
mouth of Argos played its part,
or so it is said, in the decision
of the Argives to attack little
Mycenae and bring it into sub
jection. ONCE more the walls were
stormed, the Mycenae ceas
ed to be an independent city.
Then, as the centuries rolled by,
the site was gradually abandon
ed. And so when Schliemann
came, in search of relics of
Agamemnon, there was nothing
to mark the place that once was
strongest in all Greece, except
the never-fallen lion gate.
Since that day, with unending,
tireless industry, the excavators
have uncovered all of this strong
place among the crags. So the
walls of Mycenae now tower
over its approaches, almost as
they did when newly built.
And still they ask their ter
rible, unanswerable question:
"Is the effort of greatness worth
the making, when all greatness
has its appointed term?
' SWiaQ rTtrV537 ou ain't doing anything? Hardly any
bodv getting thrv're just watching the oortr run!"
has risen to vice president, but
the two are in bitter conflict
and the outcome could deter
mine whether the moderate
left-of-center government of
Paz is to continue or wheth
er Bolivia is to become the
first Communist-controlled na
tion of the South American con
tinent. Paz, long-since disenchanted
with his former Communist sup
porters, now relies upon the
Bolivian peasants who have
benefitted from his land reform
program.
For Paz, as for Hernan Siles
Zuazo, the in-between presiden
tial office holder, the job has
been to stabilize t h e Bolivian
economy and by development
of its other rich mineral and
agricultural resources to rescue
it from its one-sided reliance
upon tin.
It has been uphill going.
In the 11 years since the revo
lution, what little stability Bo
livia has enjoyed has been pos
sible only through U.S. aid and
amounting to around $20 mil
lion per year.
A constant opponent of Un
Strictly Personal
By Sydnuy
to Field Enterprises. Inc.
MANNERS
Visiting some new acquaint
ances recently, I was impressed
with their teen-age son, who
seemed to me
one of the best
m a nnered
young persons
I had met.
Thinking over
this impression,
it occurred t o
me that really
good manners
require a com-
narrip bination of two
qualities diffidence and can
dor. The young man was diffident
about himself, but not reticent
about his tastes and opinions.
He was disarmingly frank, but
not offensively opinionated, be
cause he never spoke out of self
esteem, but only out of self
expression. Most persons suffer from
the fallacy that good manners
are mostly a matter of diffi
dence, of hiding one's true
convictions under a blanket ef
polite hypocrisy. But this is
really a subtle kind of rude
ness, a denying of one's per
sonality for the sake of others'
approval.
And this Is why young peo
ple, on the whole, have such a
huge contempt for polite
grown-up society, which seems
to them merely an organized
conspiracy to keep the truth
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
The White House - Kremlin
"hot line" intended to provide
instant emergency communica
tion between the chiefs of state,
is ready for use, the Pentagon
announced last week.
A terse one - sentence an
nouncement said only that the
"direct communication link be
tween Washington and Moscow
is ready for operation." In re
ply to a question, a spokesman
said this meant that both the
land wire and radio circuits be
tween the capitals now aro
ready
rpHE theory is that the "hot
A line" will be used only by
President Kennedy and Premier
Khrushchev. That prompts an
interesting question:
What will the Premier of the
Soviet Union and the President
of the United States say to
each other on the momentous
occasion when they first try
out this rather fantastic (not to
mention expensive) piece of
equipment that has been pro
vided for their use?
A FRIVOLOUS suggestion:
How about what the gov
ernor of North Carolina is re
ported to have said to the gov
ernor of South Carolina when
U.S.
supported stabilization programs
has been Lechin, who today
joins the Marxists and Trotsky,
ites in accusing the government
of bowing to the dictates
of the U.S. State Lepartment.
At the core of the dispute are
the efforts of the Paz govern
ment to rehabilitate the mining
industry through $38 million in
aid from the United States,
West Germany and the Interl
American Development Bank.
The industry is heavily feath
er bedded and production has
fallen steadily since nationaliza
tion. The history of the state min
ing corporation is . one of woe
ful mismanagement and cor
ruption so that not even expert
auditors have been able to trace
income and outgo.
The miners, with guns left
over from the revolution, aro
resisting government efforts to
reduce the work force by 6,000
and introduce modern efficiency
to the mines.
Upon the outcome of the
struggle depends the future of
the $65 million in promised U.S.
aid.
i. Ha.ris
under cover.
Now, good manners are
fundamentally an appreciation
of other people's personalities.
A man who argues violently
with people (as Chesterton
bnce observed) is paying ho
mage to their intelligence;
but a man who mouths polite
platitudes in society is actual
ly insulting; he is not inter
ested in the other person, but
only in winning the other per
son's good opinion of him.
A really well-mannered per
son, by this strict definition,
is extremely rare. I myself (in
common with most writers) err
too much on the side of candor,
and possess not enough natural
diffidence, which is a grave
temperamental defect.
But it is wrong to make tha
mistake of assuming that peo
ple who are polite are well man
nered merely because they
mask their true beliefs. Lack
of candor, generally speaking,
implies deep hostilities and re
sentments beneath the surface;
and some of the best-liked men
I know are quietly contemp
tuous of those who like them
most.
Samuel Johnson, often ac
cused of rudeness, was actually
the most generous - spirited of
men; a heated controversialist,
he was passionately interested
in pursuing ideas, no matter
who got knocked down in the
process. Including himself.
they greeted each other on a
similarly momentous occasion
quite some time ago?
That seems to be about as
approproiate as anything else
they might say to each other.
BUT let's be serious.
You may ask:
How will this "hot line" work?
WELL, one end of it will be
in the Kremlin. Vu.e other
end will be in the Pentagon.
From the Pentagon, connections
relay the circuits directely
through to the White House.
The preamble to the U.S.
Soviet agreement to install the
line specifies that it is "for
use in time of emergency." The
discussion which led to the un
precedented agreement between
the two nations which have been
engaged in a cold war for a
decade and a half made plain
the primary purpose of the set
up. The hot line will be used in
the hope of heading off
through direct and quick com
munications between the chiefs
of government incidents which
could "escalate" in a matter
of minutes or hours in MAS
SIVE WAR.
THAT is to say:
If
there should be a series
of events that began to look
critically dangerous, the Pres
ident of the United States at
this moment in history. Presi
dent Kennedy would call tho
Premier of the Soviet Union on
the hot line and sav to him
in effect: "WHAT'S ALL THIS
ABOUT?"
Whereupon
In theory
The Premier of the Soviet Un
ion would say WHAT DO YOU
MEAN?
HEREUPON
In theory
The two heads of state would
Iron it all out between them and
instead of war there would be
peace.
IT SOUNDS wonderful.
But there's a catch to it.
The Premier of the Soviet Un
ion is a communist. The ninth
of Lenin's Ten Commandments
reads: "Promises are like pie
crusts: made to be broken.''
So the Premier of the Soviet Un
ion might say to the President
of the United States over tho
hot line: "There's nothing to it.
Go to bed jOaOorget about it "
WhereM he might TURN
TKE MISSILES LOOSE.
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