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o WEDNESDAY, KIdfordJTbibuni " Everyone Id Southern Orccon Readi The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by 33 North FirSI.. Ph.J7:i-61l ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB CREV Advertlsinj Manuel GERALD T LATHAM . Bus Mr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Edllol EARL H ADAMS. City " HARHV CUIFMAN Tele, tdl'ol RICHARD JEWETT. Spurn Ldl or OLIVE ST ARCHER Womcn i Edllo. DALERlCKSONCIrcuUtlon Mar An Independent Newipapel Entered as tecond clan matter al Medlord Orenon under Act ol March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance Daily and Sunday-1 year 111 00 Daily and Sunday-f moi 10 On Dali and Sunday 3 moa. SOU Sunday Only One year 5 00 Slnnle Copy IMalledl By Carrier-And Motor Boute. Daily and Sunday 1 year fl 00 Pally and Sunday 1 mo Sunday Only 1 mo. Carrle.1 andendora - Copy 10c Official Paper ol City of Medfori OlflcialPapel of Jackiun County United Presi Inter national Sull Leased Wire U P 1 Telephofo Newsptcturei 'MEMBER-OF AUDIT BUREAU "NELSON'' ROBERTS , ASSOC,. ATES Ol'lcea In New York. Chi cano Detroit. San Francisco. Los . Angela Seattle. Portland Denver. V .1-... n.nrn(nlJltlve NEWS PA Mi PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION NATION Al fOITOIIIAl ASfsbCfUTION I Zl KJ I mjjhmi LID Memner California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 4, 1953 (Friday) More than 30 Jackson county 4-H club members will take part in the Oregon State fair at Salem. Mrs. Lydia F. Dobson, 344 North Central ave., Mcdford, purchased the Twin Plunges swimming pool at Ashland. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 4. 1B43 (Saturday) Average August temperature of 68.2 degrees, lowest in 31 years. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The sit uation on the Russian front con tinues. It looks like the toe of the Soviet boot would last longer than the seat of the Germans' panls, as the kicking out of the loe proceeds, migntiiy a n u merrily. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 4. 1033 (Monday) State fair opens at Salem with good attendance. Florida and Texas coasts swept by hurricanes. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 4, 1923 (Tuesday) Local Red Cross calls for re lief funds for Japanese quake victims. Heat wavo sweeps stale. High here 96, low 55 degrees. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 4, 1913 (Thursday) C. C. Beckman, pioneer county banker, visions fine highway over Siskiyous. Grants Pass cannot issue bonds to build railroad, court holds. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Molly Pitcher was famous In which of these activities; woman suffrage, war, stage, medicine? ".. Is the larger portion of an ocean liner above or below the wnterline? 3. What is the capital of Ca nada? 4. How many stars arc there In the Big Dipper? 5. What great document was signed in the reign of King John of England, in the year 1215? 6. Bourkc B. Ilickonloopor represents which state in the U. S. Senate? 7. For what purpose was tiie great Spanish Armada as sembled? 8. Is ermine a species of bea ver, muskrat, weasel, or squir rel? 9. What Is a yellow hammer? 10. Which Is the longest bone in the human body? Answers: 1. War. 2. Below. .1. Ottowa. 4. Seven. S. Mn-jnn Carta. 6. Iowa. 7. Invasion of Kngland. 8. Weasel. 9. Bird. 10. Femur. West Linn Youngster Dies Yhen Hit by Car West Linn (UPI) - Timothy Allen. 4. West Linn, was fatally injured when he was struck by a car here luestiay nigni. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Allen of West Linn, died in a Portland hospital about an hour after the accident. West Linn police said the child ran in front of a car driven by Mrs. Jcannctte DeCius, 18, West Linn. SEPTEMBER 4, 19S3 Those "Classrooms -'Alma Mater"? The new "temporary classrooms" built on the lawn in front of Medford High school one of which is pictured above are probably the ugliest public buildings this side of an Army barracks. They have absolutely save, of course, economy and a certain mar ginal utility. Now we know the pressures the school board is under to save money and at the same time pro vide for the education of our high school young sters. And we have heard the arguments which led up to the decision to locate these abominable crackerboxes on the high school lawn argu ments which make a certain amount of sense. DUT do they have to be such eyesores? " Or (our suspicious mind inquires) did the school board and administration make them as ugly as possible on purpose? On the theory that they would impress the voters with their efforts to save money, and of the need for new school facilities? These suspicions are, unfounded. But the fact high now has some of the worst-looking class rooms in recorded history. And the destruction of several large trees in injury to insult. The least that could be done would be to paint the school barracks barn red so that future generations of MHS alumni could boast that their Alma Mater was, indeed, a ''little red school house." E.A. Responsible Self-Government More than 13 months ago on July 31, 1962, to be precise the Mail Tribune had this to say: "It is unpleasant to contemplate a lax increase at the state level, but it is either that or cut back on state services." That statement is just as true today as it was then. At that time, the editorial in question was directed, in part, to candidates, as well as to the voting public. Today it public. So is the following paragraph from the same editori;:): "We believe it is important, right now and before elec tion, to do some basic thinking about what we want from our slate government, and how we're going to pay for it . . ." I AST year it was the forthcoming Legislature -J which had to come up with the answers. They did so, after a fashion, in a 141-day record-breaking session, which was also featured by partisan in-fighting, pay raises for legislators, and other things which have not pleased the public. But be it recalled that, as long as 13 months ago, the franker and more honest of Oregon's politicians, plus many newspapers, were warning of the problems. It was pointed out $30 million poorer than previously; that basic school support (or, phras ed differently, property increase; that higher education needed added funds just to stay abreast community college expansion was called lor. UOW did the legislature solve these problems? It cut the budget for higher education far below that requested by the Governor, which in turn was below what educational officials said was needed. It virtually eliminated any expansion in the junior or community college programs. It sliced other budgets. And it came up with a compromise tax plan which pleased no one, and displeased many greatly. MOW the people will vote on that tax plan next ' month. If the legislature's admittedly unpopular tax plan is approved, the state (meaning, mostly, education) will scrape through the biennium. If, however, it is defeated, it will mean, with-lends out question, one or more ot the following things: 1. Chaos in public finance. 2. Drastic cut-backs 5 n,..,ti,. ..t..,..L- ... ...... ..v v.. "... .... which can be on-set only by sharply increased property taxes (see picture and editorial above). 4. Cuts in other state services perhaps in cludinji old a no assistance, aid to dependent chil dren, aid to the blind and the handicapped, insti tutional care, and so on. WK.ARE not saying W happen. But some . . in 1 1 is w until an ni ui yn ui n ifiTt wi i u.iuii. v iua kt'iiu ril WllU", m.vi. litem's . u".'--v, ...... r. ... - several, 110 matter What the Governor does, IIO j vital air cover from the Cuban crgy and effort lo make the other opiates rife and rifling ; restore order. And the v:ir Isf lllrtttir thai LllO J.wuioUlw I (ifialletl back into freedom fighters at the Bay of world a Paradise itself, where everywhere? For mercenary i fort continued, fir anotba T4 - sun-si ia i iLvi b ' ... ' " . ... r.M 10slll)!rfc a on the one linl, nd drastic economies going far beyond fie fl cutting into the bone and I sinew of our society on It is not an exaggeration to sav thai! the choice is between responsible invitation to anarchy. no redeeming features we hope, unworthy and remains that Medford the process simply adds is directed at the voting- that the state was some it had been two years tax relief) was due to of the needs, and that in higher education in I ,.hn m-nm-Mmc ; ... .yv... . ....y. ... v.j,. , that all these things will of them will, probably j i . . i Bt ten increased taxes,! the other hand. self-government and an E.A. VOLUNTEERS 1 ' " WE I GO LI) WATER f H "t I I HPOT "We all know candidates are selected in smoke-filled rooms, but remember, the fire starts at the grass-roots level!" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and 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 r paper. In fact tha contrary is often the case. "Classic" Letter To the Editor: The following is- a Communication that ap peared in the Oregon Journal Monday, Sept. 2, 1963. It is a classic and I feel it should be printed in every paper in the United States. Leila A. Morrow 531 North Bartlett st. Medford O Editor's note: The letter fol lows. To the Editor: Dear Colored People Since the 30s, I have been an ardent supporter of any cause that promised Negroes their full rights as citizens. I am finally beginning to wonder if that is an answer. Could we be wrong in wanting to see the law force white people to fully accept you as their equals? It can't do it. Only you can get us to want you as friends and neighbors. The prime fact, one that no one seems to feel should ever be discussed, is that we are white and proud of it and you are colored and not proud. You can live in our districts, work side by side with us, and eat with us, but we still continue to regard you, at best, with smiling patronage and feel righteous in accepting you, as things stand now. By forcibly coming into our white districts, school and resi dence, you make us feel how strongly you want to be one of us. Don't do this to yourselves. Where is your pride of race? Find il! You are beautiful peo ple. You are gifted in many ways we do envy. You are naturally athletic, grace ful, musical. That you are also, as a race, intelligent, sensitive, and thoughtful you must teach' us. Raise your children to be proud of their rate. Color isn't important and no man should be humble before anyone but God, but you make us conscious of our physical differences. Like yourselves as you are. Don't meet us with insolent, an gry resentment. It just makes us feel superior. Don't push your helpless children, unwanted, into our schools. Be loo proud to do this. What is overt acceplance. angry or patronizing, worth? If you win the hitler fight to join us now, it will be in the same way one man on one end of a rope in a tug of war wins if Uie in on the other end let go. Don't come lo us, please. Change yourselves, your alti tude toward yourselves, so that some day my child will say to your child, "I wish I looked like you." Then, instead of your coming to us, we'll meet. Margaret Alibolt, Vancouver, Wash. He's Proud To Ihe Editor: The Birch So ciety has reallv boon celline "combed wilh a curry comb" in I your Communications column recently. But do these anti-1 n:..u i.- ., uncurls, miiiw wnai tney are talking about? One of t h e m ; his letter by saying, "i be- lieve in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I have faith in President John F. Kennedy. I ; support my country and ' my j ' "csitiom in mis crucial hour. an vm Itifidpis saV BS niUCh Another "anti" applauds and ; agrees UK) per cent with this eloquent aland I just want to ask this ques tion. How can anyone believe in our Constitution and at Ihe same time support a President with an insatiable appetite for more and more unconstitutional pow er? More questions. Do these President ! n...Hi,Ari I Pigs1 In his allowing Ihe Berlin ! Wall lo be built in violation of five treaties? In his support of ; Russian-backed subjugation ot l'rL8?!1 Lc'' ; iaid to communist Poland and Yugoslavia? When he ships un told millions of dollars worth of America's military icl planes ta Communist Tilo and trains Tt-) MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON to's pilots at our U.S. flying schools against the violent ob jections of the American peo ple? When he orders Commu nist propaganda to be delivered by U.S. mails free? And when he actually uses our own U.S. Navy to protect Castro from exile Cuban patriots trying to take back their home-land? Do Ihey support our President and his administration in their plan to totally disarm America and turn all our Armed Forces over to the UN? (See State Depart ment Document 7277 and Public Law 87-297). In answer to the anti-Birchers' question, "Can you Birchers say as much?" the John Birch Society does NOT support the Kennedy administration's cow ardly appeasement policies. At this moment this particularly in cludes their latest disarmament trap, the Test Ban Treaty, which the eminent scientist, Dr. Ed ward Teller, father of the hy drogen bomb, calls a step to wards war, and which the dis tinguished military strategist. Admiral Chester Ward, declares is a plan for the certain des truction of the United States, and which, never-the-loss, the anti - Birchers claim they sup port. But we not only BELIEVE in our Constitution and Bill of Righls, we are making a des perate fight to preserve them. We not only SUPPORT this great republic of ours, our beau tiful, beloved America, we are fighting tenaciously and dogged ly to prevent its sovereignty, its Armed Forces, its freedom, and the freedom of its people from being swallowed up in UN world government and Communist slavery. For these reason 1 am very proud to be a member of the Birch Societv. L. C. Powell 31B SE Eighth si. Grants Pass, Ore. Down, Fang! To the Editor: Premier Khrushchev's time is spent. Wondering where the "yellow" went, And to whitewash his banali ties. He cries: "Tito, look, no cava ties"! Name on File Medford Peace Conference To the Editor: It is hardly necessary to mention the need of reform, or a house-cleaning, for it easily speaks from many lips: and yet to our shame too few arc doing scarce anything about it, although God:s or dained means are at hand for appropriation. Will we stand ac quitted at His bar if we are weighed in the balances and found wanting? "Mankind's Heart Needs Changing" is Ihe title of the is ine tine oi ine following selected article from I the Evangelical Messenger oncer: 1 Arthur Brisbane noted edi-l,lle ic Hearst mn h!? lorial writer for the v.. , . L.r iv(p.ipi:is. a snort time oetore his death eave oxoression In as truth which has as much per- t'nency now, following World War II. as it had following World War I. II may, however, be as easily forgotten now as men. lie wroie. He may sweep the world clean of militarism We may scrub the world white ol autocracv. We mav carpet it with democracy, and drape it with the flag of republicanism. We may hang on the walls the thrilling pictures of freedom here the signing of America's in dependence, there the thrilling portrait of Joan of Arc. vonder the Magna Carta, and on this side the inspiring picture of frihnU! u - . j AH the lion of capitalism can lie down with Ihe proletarian lamb. 1 But if we turn into that splendid I room mankind with the same I old heart, deceitful and desper- j ately wicked, we may expect to clean house again not manv i davs hence. W hat we need is a I neace conference with the j Prino of Peace.' " Jo t':at evtlry iVhcr thinking I Brazilian In Office, By PHIL NEWSOM L'PI Foreign News Analyst Brazil's President Joao Gou lart observes an important an niversary on Sept. 7. It was on that date two years ago that he took office after the sud den resignation of Janio Quad ras had left B r a zil leader less and on the verge of civil K56 Usui Msm war. Goulart has regained for his office the powers strip ped from it two years ago by a Strictly Personal By Sydney fci Field Enterprises. Inc. WHO IS TO BLAME? Every so often, with almost predictable regularity, some judge breaks into the news- papers witn the firm a n nouncement that hence- forth he in- N i tends to hold the parents "s t r l c k l y i, i responsible tor , J cases ot juve nile delinquency Harn Loud applause from the gallaries, sage shak ing of heads by the older gen eration, murmurs of approval from the editorials but only a weary sigh from the parents who happen to have a wayward or difficult child. Society is a collective cow ard: It refuses to take the blame for its own ills, but pre fers to parcel them out to smaller segments of the popu lation. No matter what is wrong, we never blame our selves as a people, but always indict a selected portion of the public as the Devil. We blame Big Business, or Bad Labor, or Corrupt Police, or Poor Schools, or any con venient abstraction. It is eas ier, it is more comfortable for our sense of self-righteousness and it relieves us of the re sponsibility for looking more deeply into Ihe matter, and taking realistic steps to rem edy it. Now we have the Lax Par ent atltlctl lo the list of social evils. All we have to do is punish the adults, and juven lie, tlrlinoiicncy will diminish lr a harmless prank. No Nhus Is Ghood Nhus By Arthur Hoppe After days of agonizing ap praisal, our State Department appears to have at last come up with a clear cut moral poli cy for dealing with the Vietnam crisis: We're going to try to overthrow that discredited civi lian dictatorship in order to in stall a forceful military dic tatorship so that we can get on with the business of saving the South Vietnamese from dic tatorship. I think that's a great moral policy we've got there, all right But so far we've been having a little trouble stirring up a military coup. I guess it's part of the basic problem we've faced in South Vietnam for years: We just can't cot Ihe Vietnamese army to fight. But I'm confident the policy will succeed eventually. Alter i all. it worked admirably in i nearbv West Vhtnnng. the na tion on which I'm the leading expert because I made it up. It was in Ihe ninth year of . . .. ...... Pl "? . 1 VK"! '. " " (lrcan 'emanan. m .ni ! the vvar had Ponc Porly bo I cause the Vhtnnugians were un- rano Ihn Vhtnnni!! V , T " .. . j;ji civilized heathens, who didn t immp,li;.inlv as- "'"" , ., ' ... i:M St'lll!, CIIIU, ll pi .'(-'in.' m. ...... i -ll.. ir,h.lnrm. en ouu ,''"""""-' "' nut?" said General Sher Mahn. ed does something about it. in , . spite of "the destruction that fr . P. who wastoth at noondav." the noon-! knows his own troops dnv powers of darkness right . Bui civilization kept spread before our eves destroying and lnR and finally seven people educating for' death, more death, j ''f hurt. The Loya Royal namelv advertising and filth Army, which never could stand purvevinc agencies glamorizing Ihe sight of blood, was so un and glorifving these verv des- nerved that it rose from its tractive agents - for no other trenches to the man. over-threw reasons than mercenary gain! President Ngo Mahn Ngo and Are you thinking of immoral installed General Sher Mahn. mn.ir. nnrl television, porno- who. through a "Great Lean graphic books and magazines. K.x,. tr.hn'of. nnH gain Exactly! "Money is a uni- versal provider for everything but happiness, and a passport even where but lo heaven, How about inaugurating a peace , conference with the Prince of ; Peace to give us all anil eacr, a change ol heart. H. R. Rulman Route 4. Box 316A Medford President But Problems Still Unsolved combination of conservative po liticians and meletary leaders. But it has been a rough two years and Brazil, torn by ex tremists of both left and right, continues to march toward an uncertain future. The independent foreign pol icy first proclaimed by Quadros has been maintained, ana oou lart and a succession of foreign ministers have continued to cur tivate friendly relations with the Communist world. Pressing Brazil to the right has been the United States, with occasional hints of a cut-off of badly needed financial aid. Pushing to the left are Uie i. Hairis The only thing wrong with this grand theory is that it ig nores the small and stubborn facii; the most stubborn fact being this that quite often the very best people have the very worst children, and vice versa. If there is a law of character transmission from parent to child, no one has yet discovered it. Children may become delin quent for any one of a dozen reasons: because the father is too strict or the mother too possessive; because of undcr privilcge or over-privilege; be cause the family is too puritan or too permissive; because too much is expected of the child, or too little demanded; because of a hundred different combina tions of influences over many of which the parents have little or no conscious control. Of course, in a few flagrant cases of drunkenness or brutal ity, the corroding effect can easily be traced. But how many thousands of decent, well-meaning and perplexed parents wake up one morning to find that somewhere along the line a ca ble has broken, an emotional wire has snapped, and their little boy has become a strange and sullen exile from the fam ily! There are menacing currents in the modern world that tear people from their moorings, that turn standards upside down, that threaten to capsize even the most stable craft. Juvenile de linquency is perhaps the most dramatic example of the tre mors convulsing society; to point to the anguished and frightened parents as the prime cause is a cheap and wicked evasion of the facts. realize it was good for them to die for West Vhtnnng. But through a herculean ef fort involving billions of dollars and thousands of U. S. troops we slowly, over the years, man aged lo drag these backward people up to a decent, civilized condition. You could tell because Ihey were all fighting with each other. The Buddhists, the stu dents, the secret police ... It seemed evey group in Vhtnnng was fighting. Every group of course, but the Loyal Royal Army. ' The Loyal Ro al troops, as Ihey had for years, went on lying in their trenches, strum ming their hookahs, and com posing sad love songs. And while the armv sat in its Iron-1 on- ches. the Victnarians sat in the jungle and the people sat in concentration camps. Indeed, civilization got so widespread that our C I A ap proached General Slier Mahn. "Mac," said the CIA, "if you'd care to seek the presidency, we could promise yd; the sun- 1 md f rvnm0iijn..inn : ww'nh s i k' i a. W.-i ........... . Feu 'T'u? . 1!!'.'!"'cci.JG7 eral Sher Mahn "No said Ih CU shnrkrrl "Vnn L-nnw wi CIA. shocked, iou know we I cannot interfere in the domestic flffilirs ?' . sovereign nation Loyal Royal Armv troops." " "" "lc "" "ul"e KIWI in : Backward," managed lo u icivi- li?p pvrrviwiv in 11 waalcs md years. So I've got cWkr state Departnt po'll y If Mr. Diem's regime gets any more violent. I'm sure the ny am flvertnrow mm. As anyhotlv - fKr.rr4 observed l ne armv s fighting spirit will tell vou. it's i the greatest force for non-vio-lence in the world today. Nears Second Year well-staffed embassies of seven Communist naitons. Goulart himself has attempted a moderately leftist stand which has brought him under fire from both right and left. In mid-August, Goulart spoke before a leftist workers rally and asked support of his land, tax, banking and other administra tive reforms. Hecklers shouted at him, de manding "Where do you stand?" The Communist controlled General Labor Confederation has charged that Goulart has "bowed to Yankee pressure"and warned that "the workers can wait no longer for their emanci pation." But the same policies attacked by left-wing labor as not going far enough also are attacked from the right as proof of a charge that Goulart seeks to make himself a Brazilian copy of former Argentine dictator Juan Peron. Leftists also are angered by Goulart's negotiations with American and Canadian power companies for purchase of their Today & Tomorrow By Walter it 1963. The THE FRENCH ADVICE Since South Vietnam is fogged in by censorship and propagan da, it is impossible to know for sure wheth er there is in fact a great cri sis. Presid e n t Ngo Dinh Diem and his family have certainly made them selves violently disliked in the Buddhist coun tries of Asia. Lippmann and indeed all over the world. But at this distance we do not know whether power, such as it has been, to rule the country is substantially less than it used to be. Their power does not rest upon popularity and election but upon force, patronage, corrup tion ana intrigue. While their will to wage the guerrilla war has never been strong, there is nothing to show that there is any decided change. rpHE second thoughts were more realistic for this view in the varying reports last week about the Administration's line of policy toward Diem and his family. At first it was that they must be made to go by withholding American aid until a junta of army generals overthrew them. But on second thought, ure- sumably as a result of reports from Saigon, the line was chang ed 10 one ot living with Diem and trying to reform him by diplomacy. ryHE second thoughts were more realistic than the first, not because there is much chance of reforming the Diem government, but because a gov ernment of Vietnamese gener als, installed by the United States, would hardly be better or more popular than Diem, and might well be worse. And so, since we cannot re form the Diem government, since we cannot replace it, and since we cannot abandon it, we have to put up with it for the time being. How long, we ask ourselves, might this be? Long enough, I suppose, for a change to take place in the complex balance of forces in Southeast Asia. As of ,,. .1 ih. : . mxi,.,. i ,A' !:,;, c.im. .w. IV1IIILBI o.nicuiaic III tnc whole region. None of the pow ers involved has the military and political strength to impose, or to bring about Uie negotia tion of. a settlement that all concerned could live with. Try and Stop By BENNETT CERF T ON TINKLE tells of the ludicrously wealthy Dallasita who caught his 7-year-old son lighting a cigarette with a $1000 bill. He gave the boy a whack and bellowed, "How often do I have to tell you you're too young to smoke?" One minute little Warren had a big, fat, candied apple v In hi. nan iYim v ... ute It had vanished. "A man took it" he walled to his lather. "Imagin a man mean eitougk to atoal an Apple front a kisl this size," Nl04lae! Ui faUer. "What Mi mam look Wte, Sa?" L&Ue War ptiatai pwaifOy to a tall, cVgswtivsV tntlHsasi h vim Uofc- sM pMS akami-Wit ft tsg 4 fiMw; 4MHHC7) M taw Mt Wt astl r. . .). One yt Pial MMSwsM(fiMW4stMJsaii r '. ts vendor of lifls . tet Nesssy f j-li kMi's until he got caught In a fufjMsj ttorifc Xlrtj "Of- swpipt aet of aamplea under his arm. w O t7 Be&attf Cert Dulrtbulal tJ Kif r allures nllc4U Puduc uuiuy suosiaiaries in Brazil. They accuse him of sur rendering Brazilian sovereignty to please the United States. Meanwhile, the land and tax reforms which Goulart seeks and which were a condition of continuing U. S. ' aid, remain stalled in congress, caught be tween right and left. Despite Goulart's attempts to establish financial s t a b i li t y through a three-year austerity plan, both the cost of living and the treasury deficit continues to skyrocket. In May of this year the treas ury deficit was $1.8 billion and by year's end is expected to be a third again as much. The cost of living so far this year has gone up nearly 50 per cent. Cotton, sugar and iron exports are up this year but coffee earn ings are down and the first half of 1963 showed the country with a trade deficit of $90 mililon. So far, Goulart successfully has walked his political tight rope. But so far also, it must be said, his efforts to solve his nation's vast problems have produced unimpressive results. lippmann Washington Post qiHUS the Soviet Union, which A we have been regarding as the principal power in former French Indochina, has manifest ly lost control and influence. It could not now, even if it wished to, settle the Vietnamese war. The power of Red China hangs over northern Indochina, feeds the guerrilla war, and stands in the way of a negotiated settle ment. But Red China, which covets the riches of Indochina, is held in check by the knowl edge that over expansion will provoke the sea and air power of the United States. a GENERAL De Gaulle's inter " vention has behind it littlo material force. There is some French influence which remains from the old days, and there is a large cultural connection with France. But there is no military power and little economic power. Yet, De Gaulle's action has moral force which adheres to him because he may well have reduced the formula lo the only possible settlement for the fu ture of Indochina. An indetermi nate number of people in Indo china and in the rest of the world may think this to be tha truth. However annoying, De Gaulle may be right that the ultimate objective of policy, though enor mously difficult to attain, is a reunited, independent and neu tral Vietnam. No other kind of settlement is possible. We shall not permit a Chinese conquest of Indochina. The Chinese will not submit to an American-supported conquest of Communist North Vietnam. If there is no settlement such as De Gaulle proposes, then a protracted and indecisive war of attrition is all that is left. I SEE no reason why the Ad ministration should resent the President of France speaking about the pacification of what used to be French Indochina. The French must know some things that we, who are new comers and novices in the re gion, do not know. They have been present in Indochina for generations. They have educat ed the leaders of Vietnam. They have built its cities. And Ihey have fought a long and difficult war and have tasted the bitter ness of defeat. We should welcome the ad vice of the French and, since there is nu possibility that they can restore their old colonial empire, we should welcome their help. o . m V" sttvN- - I I
