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Medford and Jackson County
History from tne files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40
and SO year! ago.
JO YEARS AGO
Sept. 18. 1953 (Friday)
A continuation of the PUC
hearing on a proposed 20 per
cent rate increase requested by
the California Oregon Power
company has been set (or Sept.
A Medford resident living
just north of Roxy Ann report
ed today she had seen a strange
luminous ball of green fire in
the sky about 6:30 p.m. Sun
day. 21) YEARS AGO
Sept. 18, li)43 (Saturday
H. H. Maybcrry, Ashland,
named head of Malta Command'
am
Fi-nm Arthur Pcrrv's "Ye
SmudRe Pot" column: "The past
week brought some Indian sum'
mer days, with reservations.
30 YEARS AGO
Kmw ir m:t:t (Mnmlav)
Free beer and lunch to be
served at Jacksonville Saturday
night.
Lewis Ulrich to be manager
of unemployment agency.
4ft YEARS AGO
Sept. 18, 1923 (Tuesday)
Five mill levy asked for wa
tnf hnurd pynensps.
Work starts on new Palm
building on North Fir st.
50 YEARS AGO
Sept. 18. 1913 (Thursday)
Oregon State Medical associa
tion starts meeting here.
Lee Jacobs turns down ap
pointment as mayor; much
doubt still exists on council's
choice.
What's Your I.Q.?
Id;-. n. n rArrarl It suB.rlor
geven or eight ii excellent; tlva of
iix It good.
t. The sodium fluoride treat'
mcnt is used as a method of
preventing what?
2. What was the name of the
first white child born in Ameri
ca in colonial days?
3. Who was Booker T. Wash
inglon?
4. Is the city of Leningrad
in Soviet Russia located on the
Dneiper. Don, or Volga River?
S. Was John James Audubon
famous as an inventor of hear
ing devices, painter of birds, or
designer of furniture?
6. In what city is the Univer
sity of Michigan?
7. What is the I.O.O.F.?
8. What was the first name
of President Woodrow Wilson?
9. What is the oldest known
mechanical device for meas
uring time?
10. Are members of the Presi
dent's cabinet elected or ap
pointed? Answers: I. TiMilh decay. I.
Virginia Dare. 3. Famous Nrgrn
educator, i. Volga. 5. Palmer of
birds. 8. Ann Arbor. 7. Independ
ent Order ol Odd Fellovn. 8.
Thomas. 9. Sundial. 10. Appoint
ed. Jones Acf Extension
Hearing Scheduled
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Senate Commerce Committee
will hold a hearing next Monday
on proposed legislation for ex
tension of an amendment to the
Jones Act, Sen. Maurine Ncu
bcrger (D-Ore.) has announced.
Tuesday.
The legislation would pcrmll
the continued use of foreign
ships in shipping lumber from
the U.S. to Puerto Rico.
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SEPTEMBER 18. MM
The Ladder
What is to be said
throw a bomb into a Sunday school room?
Anyone with a thread of deceny must be
sickened at this awful crime. Even Gov. Wallace
of Alabama not a man
feelines for his darker
revulsion at this.
Obviously the perpetrator of this murder must
be insane. Could anyone
have done it? The mind
AND yet . . .
Is it not simply a
A good man, a self-admitted tolerant man,
still can refuse to permit a Negro to live in his
neighborhood.
Another man will
restaurant.
Another will object
the same school with the
Another would deny
work.
Another would deny
Another would close
Neoroes.
Another would burn
lawn.
Another would shoot
hack.
And finally, one would throw a bomb among
little children.
THE difference is of degree, not of kind.
All these things, from the man who prides
himself on his "tolerance" (but still doesn't want
to live next door to a black man), to the monster
who blows up children, are all motivated by the
same basic things fear, mostly, and prejudice,
and a blind refusal to admit that it is what is
inside, not the color outside, which is important.
Each of us, no matter how pure we think our
hearts, must admit that
another of the rungs of
which reaches clown into
and murder.
What is your place on the ladder: b. A.
'Mr. San Francisco'
Herb Caen is the brightest jewel in the diadem
of the San Francisco Chronicle. And he has com
pleted 25 years of turning out a daily column for
that newspaper (with occasional lapses for vaca
tions, army service, ana one sunt on me vnroni
cle's arch-rival, the Examiner).
The Chronicle, which reportedly pays him
handsomely (five figures going on six) for his
column, put out a special section the other day
to commemorate the anniversary.
It was full of laudatory comments from dis
tinguished writing colleagues, puffs from adver
tisers, and similar chit-chat and back-patting.
ONE comment appealed to us. It was by Ian
Fleming, the Secret Agent .007 man, who
himself once conducted a daily column. It has
its appeal to anyone who, clay in and day out,
must fill so much white space with printed words
which, hopefully, are intelligent, witty, cogent,
germane, forthright, etc., etc.
Fleming said :
". . . You must have ink in your veins. You really must
love writing and communicating in order to sit down and
write around 1,000 words a day in such a fashion that people
will read them. And that is what a daily columnist has to do.
"Every day, come hangover, come flu, come lack of in
spiration, come ailing wife or brawling children, he must go
confidently and with seeming omniscience on stage and show
himself to the public in naked black-and-white.
"No excuses! You are a columnist, and by God you've
got to fill your column to the satisfaction of your readers
and, though this may be rare, to your own."
A columnist, despite this, has advantages over
those who write other kinds of prose. He can
be gay or sad, formal
or resnectitul, sober or
To do this, and do it
type of mentality and talent one who is inter
ested in virtually everything, and able to write
about them with skill.
William Saroyan says that Caen writes about:
". . . named cople, unnamed people, streets, fog, water,
ships, the sun. the moon, the tides, fish, cats, dogs, restau
rants, liars, creeks, winners, weeds, change, the dead, the
aging, the newly-born, love, hate, mice, artichokes, coins,
dentists, gamblers, politicians, garbage-collectors, sandwiches,
pain, losers, marriage, lawyers, sneaks, cops, inventors, snobs,
the imagination, gone stuff, new stuff, Zen, sen-sen, the
mayor, the governor, the President and God."
And he's about right. E.A.
Ashland Airport Improvement
We hope that Ashland's city fathers will find
it possible to follow through on the proposal that
Ashland's rather rudimentary airport be enlarged
and improved.
It would be desirable from a number of dif
ferent standpoints.
Most important as far as the rest of the
valley is concerned, anyway is the fact that
there are many days each winter when the Med
ford airport is fogged in but the Ashland field
is in sunshine. Having an alternate field only a
few minutes away by the freewav would be ad
vantageous, not only to the airlines and their
passengers, but to private flyers, business flyers,
Mercy Flights pilots, and all others who use the
air.
For this reason alone, not to mention the eco
nomic and other benefits which would accrue to
the Ashland area, the proposal merits approval.
E.A.
of Racism
of a man ( ) who can
noted for his charitable
brothers protests his
pretending to normalcy
and heart protest.
matter of degree?
refuse him service in a
to his children attending
black man s child.
the Negro the right to
him the right to vote
schools before admitting
a cross on a Negro's
Medgar Evers in the
we belong on one or
the ladder of racism
the swamp of insanity
or informal, impertinent
occasionally spirted
well, takes a particular
"I'm no critic, mind you, but the new television season looks
promising Ihe World Series, football, basketball. TV
gets better every year!"
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 fs 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 t.-
paper. In fact the contrary is often
What Do Voters Want?
To the Editor: After reading
your editorial, What Do
Voters Want?" and your com
ments in the last paragraph, I
would like to make this sug
gestion. Print a ballot in your paper
asking your readers to express
their opinions on other types of
revenue if the referral is voted
down. You might ask your pa
per boys to make a house to
house canvass to collect the bal
lots or a facsimile of it. Sug
gested questions:
Do you favor a cigarette tax:
If so, in what state depart
ment would you like the revenue
placed?
Do you favor a sales tax.'
If so, in what state depart
ment and in what proportion
would you like the revenue to
be placed:
Do you favor both a cigarette
tax and sales tax?
Where would you apply the
revenue?
Remarks
John H. Holtz
2121 East Jackson blvd.
Medford
Editor's note: There is merit
In the idea of attempting to as
certain what the voters want.
But "clip-the-coupon" types of
polls are notably inaccurate
and of doubtful value, unless
there is overwhelming response,
which is seldom the case.
Skid Row Beggars
To the Editor: This valley
seems to be crowded with men
and women that think that work
is a disgrace and it is an honor
to be a bum. The place where
we have to meet the bus to
White Center is the wino capital
of the state.
I have seen fruit men beg
them to go out and pick fruit.
No soap. They had rather go
hungry and beg wine, and thev
sure keep an eye on us old vet-,
mill net a pension aim Hl.su
A POX on them.
Charles McKinlev
White City, Ore.
Boosters' Plans
To the Editor: We of Ihe Jack
sonville Boosters Club would
like to remind all of you who
arc interested in Jacksonville to
remember our Trash and Treas
ure. Food and Plant Sale that
will be held in the Old Depot
Building on Oregon si. in Jack
sonville, Friday, Sept. 20. from
1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Satur
day, Sept. 21, from 11 a.m.
until sold out.
c also would like lo ask it
any of you have anything that , uf COUiSc. vou mav have ad-;
you could donate to our sale. We vi)1K.e information. Perhaps the
could use anything that you t;ovorm. has told you he will
think that we can sell, rum-1 not can a special session of j
mage, white elephants, baked tne legislature and thereby
goods, jam, jelly or preserves, ; m.,ke jt impossible (or the leg-'
garden produce, plants or any- j jsuUIC (0 replace the lost '
thing pertaining to gardening, ! ,ln,s such event, who is
hand work, or time to help wilh j , bllimc (l. ,ho shortage? The
the sale. Anyone having any of I Governor of course. Or perhaps
these things is urged to call Pat j the lwin cVMS, tnc ouse Seak
Skog, 8;-l;tS4; Jessie Matheny. I r. aml lnc senatc President.
8!M;M or Jean Clarke, 8!!l- h.,ve v0 (( that the leg-
1049. We will arrange for pick- isaUlro will not adopt anv other
up. We will surely appreciate (orm o( laxPs. and will not re
alty help that you can give us. IK,al anv o( ,10jr appropriations. :
The proceeds from this sale will 1( either ol these is true it
Ik- used lo help Ihe Booster Club is vour ,utv as news organ, !
City Development Study. t0 "u, the people that our (iov-
Wo hope that all o( you are . on,or am our legislature have
familiar with the plans of the j decided to let the education pro
Booster Club to make a study .ram suffer rather thnn abandon
of what we now hav e and of
wnai our neetis wm oe in ine
planned development for the fu
what our needs will be in the
ture growth of our city. A city
whose growth follows a plan is
a much holler city than one j
whose growth is hit or miss, !
don't you think? Summed up,
vou might say Ihe Booster Club !
is actually a development study propnation means nothing if
of the city as a whole and is not t,,XOs are not levied to raise
solely directed toward historical the funds. No. 2 The lcgisla
research and restoration, as is ; ture could, of course, levy addi
Ihe proposed plan of the Pioneer ! tional taxes of any sort. But
Sites Foundation. Even though there is no assurance they
these two organizations m a y j would, in the (ace of voter re
have some of their work over-; jeetion of the current tax prob
lapping, and there may be some ; lem; and if they do, the new
work that they will be doing to- j taxes would again be subject
gelher, they are not aiming for i to referral.
.MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
''
tht case.
the same goals entirely. One is
truly city development-minded
and the other is for historical
restoration.
Mrs. J. D. Skog
Mrs. O. W. Matheny
Mrs. R. A. Clarke
Jacksonville, Ore.
Tax Questions
To the Editor: Please refer to
your tear-jerking editorial, in
your issue of Sept. 12, entitled
"Education's Grim Prospects".
You have covered two phases
of imagined consequences of the
defeat of the existing tax bill.
First, as to the alleged cut
of $15 to $19 million from the
state-provided funds to local
schools. Will you explain to
your readers how this can hap
pen when the funds have already
been appropriated for the sev
eral local districts; and the At
torney General has ruled that
the Governor has no power to
reduce this appropriation to the
local schools by one penny?
Second; do you have inside
information? You say:
"If the tax measure is de
feated there is no real alterna
tive in sight to provide the
budgeted funds" (for higher ed
ucation). -
Why could not a recalled leg
islature replace the missing
funds in either of two ways?
First, the enactment of other
taxes which would be accept
able to the people; for example
a cigarette tax. Why should
not Oregon cigarette smokers
line up with cigarette smokers
in 47 other states? Why not
make our tourist visitors pay
part of the expenses (or the
thousands of dollars of state
provided facilities which they
now enjoy free? When we go to
enjov the facilities in Calilornia
or Washington, we have to pay
a sales tax on every dollar we
spen( jn those states. Why not
gc( some of It back .'
The second source of revenue
would be a budget balancing re-;
peal of some of the absurd ap- j
prupriations made last session, j
Why must we have 1,810 more i
names on the slate pay-roll, to j
run the state in 11)64 than we
had in 1;!? And if the schools j
are so threatened, what about !
the increase in the pay of the !
legislators, from $15 per day,
to $105 per day, based on an
80 day session?
It is indeed surprising to see :
y o u, a staunch Democratic .
sheet, taking your orders from
a Republican Ciovernor, and ad
vancing the same phoney argu
,ic which he has advanced
j ,helr plans. Then the people
cn decide whether lo vote (or
the lax or vote for a new Gov
ernor and a new legislature.
The Blanchards ,
IIM7 S. K. N St. !
Grants Pass, Ore. !
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Editor's note: No. 1 An an-
Portugal Shows Few
Struggle; Opposition
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
LISBON, Portugal (UPI) -
With 40,000 troops in Angola and
another 20,000 in other African
possessions, Portugal today is
the only Euro
pean nation en
gaged in
armed strug
gle. Yet metro
politan Portu
gal, and especi
ally this ancient
capital, scarce
ly bears the
look of war or
-""'m tension.
Citizens and tourists stroll the
sun-swept boulevards or sip
aperitifs at sidewalk cafes.
In the Bar Galito across from
in the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
The bombing of a Negro
church in Birmingham was de
nounced in the U. S. Senate by
Democrats and Republicans who
called for swift punishment of
those responsible for the crime.
It was described as a national
crime, disgraceful, outrageous
and utterly reprehensible.
REPUBLICAN Senator Jacob
Javits of New York demand
ed a speed-up in Senate action
on civil rights legislation as a
result of the bombing. He said
Alabama Governor Wallace can
not escape some of the responsi
bility for it (meaning that Wal
lace was using it for personal
political purposes). Senator Jav
its touched off an angry round
of reaction when he arose in
the Senate to denounce the at
tack. SENATE Democratic Leader
Mansfield was more tolerant.
The bombing, he said, was ut
terly reprehensible, and there
can be no excuse for an occur
rence of this kind under ANY
POSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES.
But
He added:
"This outrageous action does
not represent the feeling of a
great majority of the citizens
of Birmingham, of the U. S. A.
as a whole. This is something
that no one can condone and it
has SET BACK the difficult
course on the road of race rela
tions." WHAT happened at Birming
ham? This is Ihe probable answer:
I R R E S P O N SIBLE HOT
HEADS acted on their own.
'THAT prompts another qucs
l tion:
What happened at Fort Sum
ter? This is the answer:
Back in April of lRfil, a little
better than a century ago. ir
responsible hotheads took over
on their own.
The result was the War be
tween the States with its
more than half a million of the
nation's youngest and best killed
in action and its then staggering
dollar cost of more than $5 bil
lion. SOBERING thought:
A little more time and toler
ance back in April of 1861 might
have averted the War between
the States.
Equally sobering thought:
A little more time and toler
ance and a little less AMBI
TION FOR VOTES - might
have saved this horror in Bir
mingham. QUESTION:
Who are the irresponsibles
of today?
I think this is the answer:
The politicians who use the
civil rights crisis to GET
VOTES.
Try and
By BENNETT CERF-
VrHEN THE GREAT Irish poet and dramatist, William
" Butler Yeats, won the Nobel Prize in 1923, a group of
his admirers in Dublin insisted upon rivinc a banquet in his
honor. Yeats, a very shy,
introspective man. writh
ed with embarrassment
as speaker after speaker
sang his praises. He sank
lower and lower in his
chair on the dais, but
suddenly revived when
the chairman presented
him with a check for
2500 pounds over ten
thousand dollars in those
days the gift of several
wealthy men present.
Ycata rose to his feet,
stared at the check for a
moment, then startled his
audience by remarking, "2.100
damn little for all the lies I've
Charlie Riff, no great admirer of committee, recalls the defi
nition somebody ome coined for a mmel: "a hone desipned by
a committee "; ro William Sumner's warning; "if you live in a
town that is run by a committee, you had better be on it your
self." Ru-e mims up:
"Committee of twenty deliberate plenty.
Committees of ten act no and then.
But most Jobs ai done by committees of one."
"
A hermit in an obsolete jalopy apprehended driving at 70
Mile an hrj. The- charge, of course, wa retime dnvmp.
the casino in Estoril there are
nightly song fests to the ac
companiment of mandolin and
guitar.
Oporto, traditional center of
unrest, is quiet. So are Lisbon
university students.
Portugal continues to press its
modernization program despite
the heavy financial burden im
posed by Premier Antonio De
Oliveira Salazar's determina
tion to hold on to Portugal's
African territories.
Across the broad river Tagus
a new $80 million bridge is
taking for.m, and eventually will
be a counter-part to San Fran
cisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
The Ford and General Motors
companies are building assem
bly plants to participate in Por
tugal's industrialization p r o
gram. The picture is in sharp con
trast to only a little more than
a year ago when revolt flared
inside the army and demonstra
tors demanded an end to the
war in Angola. The revolt was
small, ineffective and quickly
crushed, but it was the first in
the more than 30 years of Sala
zar's rule.
Salazar's effective security po-
Strictly
Personal
By Sydney J. Harris
lei Field Enterprises, inc.
"FACTS"
Sitting in a restaurant the
other day, I overheard a man
remark to his friend in the
rnnrco nt a nn.
sSWSa? versation: "It's
a fact that wom
en own 80 per
cent of the
wealth in Amer
ica. I read it
somewhere just
a while back."
"Youdon't
say so?" H i s
Harrl"
this nugget
friend accepted
of misinformation
with delighted surprise, not for
a minute daring to question this
impressive statistic.
It seems to me that our native
disinclination for philosophy has
plunged us to the other extreme
that of credulously grasping
any statement that seems to be
hard, specific, factual and
couched in terms of percentages.
Take (he field of public
health, for instance. Every
week the American public is
bombarded with "statistics"
from different sources, none
of them agreeing, but all of
litem readily believed by (he
mass of people who think that
anything with a number in it
is a "fact."
We arc (old that one fourth
of the nation's population is
overweight; that 80 per cent
of school children have trouble
with their eyes: that one out
of every four persons in Ihe
United States will be hospital
ized this year: thai 25 per
cent of cold symptoms are due
lo allergy; that more than
20.ono.000 Americans suffer
from impairment of hearing.
Each of these figures is
given by some "authority"
and each conflicts with the
the figures given by other au
thorities. We rarely look for
the face behind the fact to
determine whether it is the
face of an objective tabulator,
a social propagandist, a huck
ster, or simply an Irresponsi
ble doctor seeking some per
sonal publicity.
Nothing can be more danger
ous than a fact that is improper
ly understood. When a health
organization tells us that 750,000
persons will die of heart disease
next year, which is about half
i of all deaths expected, we for
S get that this figure includes
Stop Me
-illlz-t
.1 6P
pounds, eh? I must say that's
had to listen to this evening!"
.ini-t
)M I
Signs of African
To Regime Quiet
lice quickly crushed the 1962
manifestations and a wave of ar
rests discouraged other would
be agitators, including the coun
try's estimated 7,000 to 9,000
Communists.
"What has happened now,"
explained one American in Lis
bon, "is that the country real
izes it is in for a long pull, and
even Salazar's opposition feels
that the nation's very identity
is at stake.
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter
(c) 1963. The
WHITHER VIETNAM?
After a number of false starts
and altogether too much talking,
the administration seems to
have come to
the conclusion
that in Viet
Nam the only
practical policy
is to wait and
enn T( ie a
J nvJ sound conclu
sion, iiu Uld-
matic solution
is d o s s i b 1 e.
Lippmann There is no way
to make over Diem's govern
ment in Saigon or to produce
a new government which will
be so beloved by the people that
they will fight and die. for it.
There is at the same time no
way in which Washington could
disentangle itself in South Viet
Nam and continue to subsidize
and support Diem's government,
exercising such influence as we
can.
And so. while I have : .avs
thoueht it was a mistake in h.
come engaged in Southeast Asia,
while it is evident that we
have made many mistakes in
dealing with Diem, we must, I
believe, stay with him and his
family for the indefinte future.
The United States cannot re
nounce unilaterally our commit
ment. We must hold on and
wait wait, I should imagine,
until there is a fundamental
; change in the power politics of
ooumern Asia.
TF I MAY venture to say more
4 specifically what it is that
we must wait for, it would be
the opening up of the rift,
which already exists, between
North Viet-Nam and Red China,
between Mao Tse Tung and Ho
Chi Minh.
In other words, just as the
security and peace of the Bal
kan peninsula in Europe be
came possible after Tito's break
with Stalin, so the pacification
many persons over 70, whose
heart failure is induced by old
age.
In our passion for the "cold
facts" we overlook the most im
portant fact: namely, that a
fact is no good, and downright
harmful, unless you know how to
interpret it, and how to make it
fit into a general pattern of
knowledge. When a man throws
a fistful of facts at me, I am
almost always sure he is defi
cient in understanding.
Will Pierre fVi
Play Ball? fVJ
By Arthur Hoppe ,f J J
I see the Recreation Depart
ment in Washington has yielded
to pressure. And it's at last
appointed three commissioners
to supervise Ihe new Federal
Touch Football league, which
plays Saturday afternoons on
the lawn just south of the White
House. All of us, I'm sure, hope
these men of high repute can
clean up this scandal - ridden
sport.
Now a few naive fans mav
refuse to believe that touch
football in Washington is scandal-ridden.
But if not, I ask,
why appoint a commission to
crack down on what his here
tofore been a suspicioi ' loose
run athletic endeavor?
Oh. I know the lovely picture
the New Frontier has presented
of ladies and gentlemen playing
two-handed touch on the grass
these autumn afternoons. But
now we millions of sports fans
are demanding to know: What's
Been Going on Behind the
Scene?
(Behind the Scene: Pierre
(The Immovable) S,, who is
known admiringly to his (ellow
teammates in the White House
as "Cosa Nostra," is sitting im
movably behind his desk. A
secret panel in the wall opens
and Bobby iSnakehips) K., star
scatback of the Justice Depart
ment Rams, slips surreptitiously
in I
Pierre (immovably): Excuse
me for not getting up. but I'm
in training. Got to stay in shape,
you know
Bobby: That IS a shape. But
Pierre, boy, what I came to talk
about was tomorrow's crucial
game between the White House
Wildcats and us Rams. Frankly,
"international pressures ac
tually have strengthened the re
gime."
Asside from support from the
military, one of the secrets of
Salazar's success has been his
determination to protect the lit
tle man, peasants and workers,
from high food costs. So there
remain strict controls over es
sential food prices, such as for
milk, meat and bread.
Lippminn
Washineton Post
of the Indo-Chinese peninsul
depends on some similar dev
elopment in North Viet-Nam.
For if ever North Viet-Nam be
comes, like Yugoslavia, no long
er the satellite and agent of a
great Communist power, there
will be opened up possibilities
of a negotiated settlement in
Southeast Asia.
Quite evidently, there has
been no such break between
Mao Tse Tung and Ho Chi Minh.
But such a break is possible.
There is an historic fear in
Viet-Nam of Chinese occupation
based on the experience of many
centuries. Such ancient national
feelings can at times prove to
be more potent than the rather
recent ideological bonds. It is
an important interest of tha
whole non - Chinese world, not
only ourselves, but also thu
Russians, the French, the Brit
ish and the Indians, to do what
we can but to do it very dis
creetly to induce a
of front in North Viet-Nam.
fF ALL forms of prophecy,
the most foolish that a news
paperman can indulge in is to
guess when something is going
to happen. As regards the Sino
Soviet break, the pace of events
in Asia has been much faster
than any of us, even though wa
have long expected the break,
had dared to hope. In these mat
ters it is possible to be too tim
id. It may be that the trigger
which would release Titoist na
tionalism in North Viet-Nam
would be a large-scale Chinese
aggression against India. For
this would precipitate a mili
tary adventure which would
leave Peking with little surplus
energy and power to hold Viet
Nam in line.
It may well be, indeed it is
probable, that China, though it
is preparing to invade India as
Mr. Joseph Alsop has reported
so circumstantially, may pause.
For it must be known that tha
United States, and possibly Mi0
Soviet Union, too, would inter
vene. But as long as Red China
is mobilized and poised for a
large attack on India, the other
border states, including North
Viet-Nam, have a certain free
dom of maneuver.
We must not expect too much
too soon, and in the meantime
we had better go on holding not
only President Diem's hand,
but also that of Madame Nhu.
While this may not be a very
satisfying or attractive thing to
be doing, we must leave it to
the historians to decide how
we got there and whether the
trip was necessary.
our squad looks lousy this year.
Ethel keeps trying to produca
her own team. Whizzer White
can't cut to his left in his new
black robe. And J. Edgar won't
talk to any of his teammates to
the left of the center. So tomor
row the White House Wildcats
are going to c 1 o b b e r us. Un
less . . .
Pierre (suspiciously): Unless
what?
Bobby: Well. Pierre, boy,
there's a lot of dough riding on
this game. The Mafia's down for
ten gees. The Syndicate's anted
up 20. And the Clan's down for
100. Now a smart boy like you
could pick yourself up a nice
hunk of change by making sure
the score goes our way.
Pierre (aghast): I will never
sell my loyalty for crass money!
Go and never darken my door
again.
Bobby: Okay. But first you
might want to see this secret
FBI report. Before I make it
public. It solves the two-year-old
mystery of what happened to
Caroline's hamsters. And in
what river.
Pierre (blanching): You win.
Tomorrow afternoon, when our
White House Wildcats take to
the field. I will do what I have
never done before in order to
insure your victory. I'll play.
Well, you may find that un
believable. But the only other
explanation is that Our Leaders
can't go out and toss a football
around without creating a new
Federal organization, and ap
pointing a new bunch of Fed
eral commissioners to establish
a whole mess of new Federal
rules and regulations. And who'd
believe that?
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