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Mail Tribunal 10. 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ate.
1 'YEARS AGO
Sept. 14, IMS (Tfcarsdey)
A violent hail itorm which hit
lower Klamath basin Monday
resulted in an "almatt 100 per
cent loss" to (rain crops in
that area.
Pear harvest continues In full
wing in this area.
2 YEARS AGO
tout. id. iau (Friday)
Three to (see chart ctUt
rustling.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
OPA warns irocers, 'no mat
ter what the provacation, not
to throw canned seeds at af'
gravatlng customers.' Your
corr. insulted Peoria Bill Gates
yes. in hopes he would heave a
can of Alaska red salmon but
be reached for a basebelMsed
onion."
M YEARS AGO
Sept. 24, lttt (Saadav)
Ernest 1 Hueners shoots tot
pound buck near Jacksonville.
Attorney George M. Roberts
elected president of Southern
Oregon Bar association.
44 YEARS "AGO
Sept. 24, 1(12 (Monday)
Attorney Qua Newbry give
talk on constitution at Xiwsnis
meeting.
Sugar goes to $. per ewt,
an advance of 2S cents.
H YEARS AGO
Sept. 24, 1(12 (Wednesday)
Bagley Cannery offers priiea
for finest tomatoes.
S. P. president sees sign of
prosperous times In local talk.
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States rocket expert
3. A wooden frame er tripod
for supporting a painting can
vas is called an T
2. A measurement denoting a
fourth of a bushel is identically
the same as the surname of a
popular movie star; what is it?
4. President Eisenhower's
principal reesdenea is now at
5. What is the chemical sym
bol for gold?
C Principal charges of Com
munist infiltration in the Tru
man and Eisenhower adminis
trations were made by what
Senator?
7. In measuring gold, would
you get more if it was measured
under the troy, er avoirdupois
scale?
S. Would a buxom person
most likely be plump, er thin?
t. Many states have laws pro
hibiting open stores on Sun
day; these laws are called
what?
10. t a w regulating stock
sales are commonly celled
what?
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1. Peck. 4. Gettyiborg. Pa. I.
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37 Oregon Sfwcftnf s
To Hudy In holy
PORTLAND (UPI) - Thirty.
seven student will leave here
Thursday for a year's study at
the Italian awdios tamer in fa
via. Italy.
The center was esUbllshad by
Portland state cornea wis yaar
tn cooperation with the Unlve
eltv of Pavia.
the students win return to
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SEPTEMBER U. IW
Mean and Petty
Oregonians who would like to see President
Kennedy during his visit to the West this week
have two choices, unless they want to travel out
of the state.
They can go to Astoria, where he is to spend
15 minutes or so looking over Tongue Point, in
an obvious attempt to call attention of federal
agencies to the desirability of making use of
the now.abandoned Navy base and getting Sen.
Wayne Morse off the hook.
Or, given a little luck and the right kind of
weather, they might be able to see his 707 jet
plane fly overhead or, perhaps, a contrail
from it
HIS OTHER scheduled appearance in the state
a speech dedicating a Portland Housing
Authority aDartment house was cancelled in
the wake of threats by the Portland chapter of
the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People to picket the apartment when
the President appeared.
This is plain and simple pumicity Dy DiacK-
mail.
It was unworthy of
threat It. was painful that Mrs. Edith Green,
Portland's Conirresswoman, felt constrained to
advise the President to
And it was unworthv of
prestigious office in the world to meekly quit
fn the face of the picketing threat.
a a
AS IS WELL known,
voiced sympathy for
tions of the Negro race in their fight for dignity
and equality of opportunity.
But the tactics of the NAACP in this instance
and a few others
harm than eood, and make it ever more difficult
for their friends and supporters to rally around.
This petty and shameful attack on the iresi-
dent one of the best friends the Negroes have
or ever have had and on Mrs. Green, whose
civil rights bona fides need no defense stands
in marked contrast to the dignity, the self-restraint,
the determination and pride evidenced
by the "March for Jobs and Freedom" in Wash
ington last month.
THE THREAT to picket wasn't even germane.
Ostensibly it was to nrotest what some NAA
CP leaders consider discriminatory practices on
the part of the housing authority..
But no one has shown that they have been.
In fact, an investigating team from the San Fran
cisco FHA office gave the Portland Housing
Authority a clean bill of health. Later investiga
tions may or may not turn up violations of racial
Dolicv. but they haven't yet.
, Arid . to use this as an excuse for picketing
the President of the United States on an all-too-
rare visit to Oregon smacks of pettiness and
meanness.
No one looks very good on this one. E.A.
A Call for
Speaking of the hopes
Necroes. we thought that
NAACP leaders to request the city councils of
southwestern Oregon to pass resolutions of "wel
come" to' Negroes who may wish to come here
showed the same type of adolescent thinking
as the picketing threat.
This was not asking for "equal" treatment;
it was asking for "preferred" treatment. And
no city council can, in all conscience, do anything
of the kind.
Oregon laws pertaining to equality of treat
ment in places or public accommodation, in the
sale of real estate, in employment, and so on,
are explicit. The penalties are heavy. They should
and will be enforced.
DUT THIS implied threat to "test"
if not insulting, at the very least i
taste.
We hope that the Nesro citizens of this state,
in their understandable
upgrade their own conditions, to seek the equal
ity of treatment which is their due, will not re
sort to tactics which can only alienate friends,
and set back the movement that is so important
to them.
Let citizens no matter what color visit
here if they wish. And let them be treated in a
way in which all American citizens have a right '
to be treated. No more:
r"PHE WHOLE nation was shocked anil out
raged at the horrible murder of Negro chil
dren attending Sunday school.
It has, in fact, given pause to many who, pre
viously, had inclined to side with the segrega
tionists. If the be6t that they have to offer is
murder, lynching and bombing, they have a poor
case indeed.
The anguish which has come from Birming
ham, the inspiration which has come from the
Washington march these have caught the
hearts of many who never before gave much
thought to the plight of
Via f.a
Let this not be vitiated by pettiness and in-
suits
There is a vast reservoir of good will waiting
to be tapped by men of all races. And there are
froblems ahead which may now appear to be
nsuperable.
Given patience and fortitude and faith, the
good will snail be tapped and the problems shall
be solved. E.A.
the NAACP to make the
cancel his appearance.
the most powerful and
this paper has oiten
the hopes and asipira-
do their cause far more
Good Will
and aspirations of the
the plan of the same
the
area,
poor
is in
and laudable desire to
no less.
Negroes in this land ofimm,v ppi" ,h purchased
candy minis- from our mem-
"Somehow, This Campaign Jutt Doesn't
Have The Old Zing"
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paper, in fact tha contrary It often the case.
Traffic Problems
To the Editor: This letter was
sent to the Honorable James
Dunlevy, Mayor, Medford, Ore.
Dear Mr. Mayor: When I
came to Medford a year or so
ago I was confused, as many
others have been, by the traffic
patterns at our many angling
intersections. I found that in
some cases a driver must keep
to the right if he is to go straight
ahead: in other cases he must
use the center lane. I soon
learned to look for the over
head arrow directional signs,
but in some places they do not
exist.
On Jackson Street approach
ing Riverside from the west, and
again at Eiddle Road the pat
tern is to move to the right
lane if you want to go east on
Jackson; but the only signs to
tell you are painted on the
pavement, and nine times out
of ten cars preceding you cover
tne signs, i nave been trapped
in the wrong lane until I learned
from experience that you must
be in the right lane.
Another spot is on Hawthorne
as it approaches Main street.
Signs on the pavement direct
traffic but here again the signs
usually are under other cars
where Ihey cannot be seen.
Why can't we have overhead
directional signs at these
places?
A. Ray Neplune
tnao Rogue Valley Manor
Medford.
Shucked anil Mortified
To the Editor: We have sent
the following letter to the Rev.
A. L. Wood, Sixteenth Street
Baptist Church, Birmingham,
Ala.:
Dear Reverend Wood: The
Sunday morning meeting of the
Rogue Valley Unitarian Fellow
ship on Sept. 22 was devoted
chiefly to a discussion of the
recent bombing of jour church
and the resultant deaths of four
innocent and precious human
I victims.
! Our members have asked that
I express to you their feeling re-
garding this event.
They are shocked and mor-
; lined that such an act could
; have been conceived and o.v
lecuted by any member of the
I human race.
They regret that this further
crime has been perpetrated
! against your people.
They deplore the whole chain
of events starting with the im
portation ot ftcgroes as slaves
a"d ,ne subsequent treatment oi
them as despised inlru d e r s
which has led to the present
violence.
They look forward to the day
when the last racial barrier will
have been removed and the
brotherhood of man will have
been achieved in this country
and throughout the world.
They extend their wholeheart
ed sympathy to you and your
congregation.
Ernest Wander. Chairman J
Rogue Valley Unitarian
Fellowship
Medford.
Votrn Don't Count
To the Editor: I see where the
Slate of Oregon is figuring on
buying some volmg machines.
For what our votes count in
Oregon, we mignt as wen buy
a train load of one arm bandits
Everett Arklin
Ashland, Ore.
t'nmly Sale
To the Editor: We want to say
a great big "Thank You" to the
j candy sale, held each fail, goes
directly lo tne i nppien (.nil
dren's Hospital School in Eu
gene. This vrar our Southern
Oregon District bus civen $1,010-
to the school, thanks lo vour !
wonderful reception of our sale,
This school provides therapy
and education lo handicapped
youngsters from .1 lo is years
of age. Many of them later at-
lend public schools. One young
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
exceed 400 words. The letters
businessman in Medford bene
fited by attending the school for
several years.
Epsilon Sigma Alpha chapters
in Oregon give 100 per cent sup
port to the school, and have
given over $10,000 yearly for
several years. Last year it was
$11,700 and we have set a goal
of $12,000 this year.
Thanks again from all of us
and the Crippled Children's Hos
pital School.
Mrs. Arthur Pollard,
Candy sale chairman for
Southern Oregon District,
tpsiion Sigma Alpha,
International Sorority,
Medford.
Not Masters
To the Editor: Our forefathers
founded a nation on the novel
idea that the power and right
to rule was inherent only in the
people, all the people equally,
and therefore our nation is
called a "democracy." For con
venience that power is tem
porarily delegated, and only
temporarily delegated, to elect
ed representatives. Therefore
our country is also called a
"republic." This experiment has
now endured 176 years and must
be preserved at all costs. Even
ancient Greece had only a part
of this system.
Personally I am very thank
ful that I live in one of the
states that can quickly take
back this power to rule from
our representatives who some
times seem to forget that they
are not our masters, but mere
ly trusted servants. So in spite
of theatened dire results, I shall
vote "No" in the October refer
endum election on this much
despised tax law.
Also I am hoping that those
few senators who refused to
refer the proposed new consti
tution for the people to decide,
will "see the handwriting on the
wall." That was an unwarrant
ed, high handed procedure. I
hope that this also will be cor
rected soon.
Horace W. Thompson,
3M2 Hilsinger rd.,
Medford.
Anathema
To the Editor: Responding to
a Central Point resident s friend'
ly criticism (in Sept. 20 issue) of
my letter to you in the Sept.
16 issue, I must needs protest;.
no, i am myseu not quite nu
man, though, being a white man,
I cannot explain how. Though
her letter does not convince me
mat, as we as individuals are
not all the same (not equal), nei
ther are the races (breeds) all
the same (or equal), even as the
animal species all differ in de
gree and quality. As for science
theories disproving it, are they
not always changing? She
writes: "The Negro is a human
with a heart and soul, who feels
love, hate, sorrow, and happi
ness, just as a white man does.
No one can change the color of
his skin or his nationality. To
judge him because of these
things is stupid and ignorant."
All of these qualities a Negro
has, and all of them also a pet
dog or an anthropoid ape has,
with the exception of a soul, al
most, which is a psychological
equivalent of consciousness or
( goal. Though we did not make
, ourselves, we most certainlv
make future generations, as we
were ourselves made by our
forebears. Although this writer
sympathizes with "all races" it
is obvious she docs not prefer
ner own race. ere she a South'
ern resident the inference is ob
vious. The very great difference
between a white and a black
though within Ihe same general
species, is too much lo permit
natural fraternization. The dtf
ference between identical twins
' practically non-existent, be-
lween blood brothers and sisters,
somewhat more, and between
cousins considerably more, but
not enough to negate laws
against incest. The difference
between families wilhin a tribe
is enough to allow for healthy
I
Mounting
France's Economy; New Taxes Possible
. . . i it. a m i -t A .... m r ha
By PHIL NEWSOM
UPI Foreign News Analyst
When Gen. Charles de Gaulle
devalued the French franc
shortly after coming to power
five years ago,
the action had
two main re
sults: It enabl
ed French ex
porta to be
come competi
tive on foreign
markets. And it
brought out of
hiding millions
of dollars which
thrifty Frenchmen had been
hiding under the mattress.
It was the beginning of a new
era for France which had
known years of trade deficits
Strictly Personal
1 Sydney
(c) Iltld Enterpriief. las.
WORK PATTERNS
The words "nervous tension"
and "modern living" have be
come almost synonymous these
days, but I
wonder if it
isn't some
thing more
than the relent
less pace of in
dustrial society
that is respon
sible for those
sagging sour
faces on the
home bound
train.
This may astound those who
are unacquainted with the facts
of history, but the serf of the
despised Middle Ages worked
less hard and less intensely
than the modern American,
with his high standard of living
and bis eight-hour day.
A good case could be made
out, in fact, for the contention
that we work harder than any
other free people the world has
ever known. During the last
300 years, the number of holi
day in the Western year has
shrunk to almost nothing.
in the ancient Greek calen
dar, there were more holi
days than working days. The
early Egyptians and the Jews
had an abundance of feasts
and festivals throughout the
year some of them extend
ing for a full week.
The Roman dies festi were
of three kinds, and were quite
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In a radio and TV address in
Washington last week President
Kennedy appealed to the con
gress and the nation for an $11
billion tax cut. He said that if
their taxes are cut the Ameri
can people will be able to spend
for things they want the money
they would otherwise have had
to pay out in taxes.
This added spending, he said,
will create prosperity, and the
prosperity thus created will pro
vide tax income sufficient to en
able us to reduce and eventually
pay off our present staggering
debt.
IN other words:
The more we spend, the
sooner we'll get out of debt.
Question:
Did YOU ever try getting out
of debt by SPENDING MORE?
If so, you may be inclined to
doubt the President's statement.
IN Washington last week Rep
resentative John W. Byrnes,
of Wisconsin, senior Republi
can on the tax-writing ways and
means committee of the House
of Representatives, presented
the Republican rebuttal to the
President's plea for an immedi
ate tax cut.
This is his proposal:
That the tax legislation con
tain a provision VOIDING THE
perpetuation of the tribe. The
difference between sub-tribes
within a breed Is permissible, as
"The Children of the Twelve
Tribes of Israel." or the Norse
Celts, and Alpines within the
Caucasians, though with this the
Nazis disagreed.
But the intermixing of the dif
ferent breeds or races of men,
differing on the basis of color,
other physical and psychological
(emotional) characteristics, has
been called miscegnation, and
laws were established to prevent
it. These had a rational basis
despite Christian dogma from
the standpoint of the natural in
stinct of peoples to prefer and
need tneir own kind, and na
ture's sttempt to preserve that
breed of man which could pos
sibly result in a superior "spe
cies (not man).
The present unwnruhpiry of
miscegenation lows aad af "seg
regation" (natural in the North,
legalized In the South) or the
breaking of this taboo is Ana
thema, as the future will dem
onstrate. Ralph McKinnis
P.O. Box ftt
Ashlsnd, Ore.
Signs of Trouble Appearing in
and a rate of inflation higher
than that of any Western power.
Within a year, France, the
former sick man of Europe,
was on its way to becoming the
most healthy, with money in
the bank. By May of this year
France's currency and gold re
serves amounted to more than
$4 billion.
But in the midst of plenty
there also were mounting signs
of trouble.
In the last year the cost of
living had jumped roughly 7 per
cent,
French manufactured goods
once more were pricing them
selves out of the market.
Even in the nationalized in
dustries the government had
not been able to carry out its
own announced intention of Urn-
V. Harris
umerofls. The first kind was
observed regularly, like ear
Sunday; the second kind was
observed aitanally, on d a y s
fixed by the authorities, like
our Thanksgiving; and the
third kind was publicly pro
claimed as occasions called
for them. The latter were ex
tremely frequent.
Daring the Middle Ages,
one-third of the days in the
year were given over to
feasts and festivals; so that,
while the workingman may
have labored 12 or 14 hoars
a day, he rested on one day
out of three.
a
The average life, then, was
comparable to that of a mod.
ern train conductor, who may
work a long run from Chicago
to New York, and then lay off
tor a couple of days.
As we learn more about the
complex operations of the body
and its relationship to the mind
and tne emotions, we may dis
cover that the ancients had a
sounder view of the human or
ganism than we do and that
it is the unremitting pressure
of day-after-day toil that cre
ates weakness and breakdown,
rather than sustained effort
over a long number of hours-
Most of the effective men I
have known, in business, sci
ence or the arts, work hard and
long but take frequent and
extended vacations throughout
the year. Routine can be a dead'
Her enemy of social develop
ment than relaxation.
CUT unless the President sub
mits SPENDING plans for not
more than $97 billion for the
fiscal (money) year that
began on July 1 of this year and
not MORE than $98 billion for
the fiscal year that will begin
on July 1 of 1964.
This, he said, would mean a
cut of about a billion dollars in
proposed spending for the cur
rent fiscal year and probably
several billion dollars under the
spending levels now expected
for next year.
HE went on to say:
"These are comfortable
limitations which should not be
impossible for a reasonably pru
dent administration with a con
gress pledged to spending con
trol. This proposed spending
figure for this fiscal vear is
still $4 BILLION MORE than
was spent last year."
He then added:
"Congress will be PLAYING
RUSSIAN ROULETTE with our
national destiny if it doesn't at
this time in our history require
spending control."
He uses a vivid simile, but it
isn't far from the truth. When
you play Russian roulette,
you're taking long chances with
your life. When a nation goes
on, year after year, in time of
peace, spending billion
more every year than it takes
in, it is taking long chances with
its fiscal future.
BUT
You mav say
WHAT CAN I DO?
YOU can do this:
You can write to your sena
tors and your congressman and
tell them in short pithy words
just how you feel about it.
IF you live in Oregon, your
senators are Maunne Neu
berger and Wayne L. Morse. If
you live in California, your sen'
ators are Clair Engle and Thorn.
as Kuchel. Their mail address is
Senate Office Building, Wash'
ington, D.C.
If you live in Douglas or Jose
phine or Jackson county, your
Representative is Hon. Robert
B. Duncan. If you live in Kla
math or Lake (or any county
east of the Cascades) your rep
resentative is Hon. Al Ullman.
If you live In Siskiyou or Mo
doc county, your Representative
is Hon. Harold T. (Bin) John
son. Their mail address is
House Office Building, Washing
ton, D.C.
TaON'T think your letters will
go unheeded.
They WON T.
King wage boosts to the 4.5 per
cent which would correspond
more closely to the national
rate of economic growth.
A nationwide coal miners'
strike in March led to wage in
creases which in a year would
total more than 12 per cent.
Increases of more than seven
per cent went to workers in the
state-owned railroad and gas
and electricity industries.
Farmers producing more than
the market could absorb fought
with police and renewed de
mands for subsidies.
Government warnings that the
country faced a "last chance"
to pursue economic expansion
with financial stability largely
went unheeded.
In mid-month the government
acted on its own.
There were some bitter pills
and it seemed likely that more
would follow.
On Sept. 12, the government
administered the first of these.
Down payments on automo
biles and television sets now
would be 35 per cent instead of
20. Prices of manufactured
goods would be held to the level
Matter of Fact
e New York Herald
THE CRUSADERS
SAIGON The time was in the
year 1944, a couple of months
after the U.S. government first
sent observers
to the Chinese
C om m u n i st
capital at Yen
an. The occasion,
which is now
worth recalling,
was a dinner at
the Chungking
press hostel for
Alma
the first U.S.
observer to return with on-the-
spot news of that high-minded
"agrarian democrat," Chairman
Mao Tse-tung. Around the table
the nice, virtuous American
faces positively shone with in
nocence and happy belief.
The report from Yenan brist
led with all the old familiar
phrases. The Chinese Commu
nists "wanted to be on our side,
if we would only let them."
They alone were "fighting the
Japanese."
The atmosphere, the morale,
the speckless purity and disin
terestedness of Yenan were
"like a wonderful cocktail after
the fetid corruption of Chiang
Kai-shek's government." Mao
Tse-tung, "a great man and
above all a humane man,"
would remake China in a new,
more perfect image. So it went.
For a cynic, listening to this
discourse and watching the shining-eyed
response to it, it was
like taking a bath in a particu
larly sickening sort of goo.
a
THERE were a few American
reporters in China, like the
wise Arch Steele, who always
kept their heads despite the in
toxicating crusading atmosphere
of the wartime press hostel. Yet
the crusaders dominated and,
one must add, sometimes ser
iously warped the news. And
then, when the crusade was
over, and they were older and
wiser men, they were all very
sorry about it except for two
press hostel inhabitants, Izzie
and Elsie Epstein, who revealed
their role as Communist agents
by retreating to Peking, where
they still nauseatingly hold
forth.
This is not the only case in
point, either. One need only
recall much of the reporting
from Cuba up to and including
the triumph of Fidel Castro.
Batista, no doubt, was every
bit as bad as everyone said he
was. But what stands out from
that episode in American news
paper history was the display
of political acumen by that far
seeing progressive, Herbert
Matthews of the New York
Times.
It is high time to recall these
episodes of the past, which were
not without their influence on
the course of events; for a good
many of the newspapermen in
Saigon have been carrying on
another of these egregious cru
sades for a number of years.
UNLIKE China, there is
Communist ' influence
or
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of Aug. 31. Credit would be ro
strlcted. ,
This week the French Nation'
al Assembly takes up the new
budget. It is for $11.5 billion,
up three billion from the year
before. It is supposed to serve
the dual purpose of aiding ait
expanding economy while also
serving as a brake on inflation
by sopping up excess money.
But to finance the heavy bur'
den of its independent nuclear
policy, the French government
needs money in ever increasing '
sums.
A clue to government think
ing may come from Premier
Georges Pompidou, by trade
banker. The difference between
a Frenchman and an American,
he said, is that the American
pretends to be rich and tha
Frenchman pretends to be poor.
In plainer words he could
have said that only about half
the Frenchmen who should pay
taxes, actually do pay. them.'
Tax evasion is a game enjoy
ed by all Frenchmen. But re
cent government action sug
gests the rules arc about to be
changed.
By Joseph Alios)
Trlbuna Syndicate
sympathy here; and there il
no one quite like Herbert Mat
thews either. But the general
order of priorities was indicat
ed the other day by one of the
leading young crusaders, who
announced that after many
weeks of passion-charged anti
government stories, mingled
with descriptions of the poor
morale of the Vietnamese forces,
he was going to pay another
visit to the fighting front.
"After all," he said, "there's
another enemy to think about,
up in North Viet Nam."
Most of what the crusaders
have written has been true, or
part-true although this re
porter has run into at least one
province-team of U.S. officers
who were deeply indignant, be-
vauc uicy nau own aeacriDea
as thinking the Vietnamese sol
diers of their province were not
putting up a good fight when
uiey an inougnt me precise op
posite. But it is easy enough to paint
a dark, indignant picture, with
out departing from the facts,
if you ignore the majority of
Americans who admire the Viet
namese as fighters and seek out
the one U.S. officer in ten who
inevitably thinks all foreigners
fight badly. (The reduction of
the percentage to 1 in 10 marks
great military progress in large
mindedness.) The same method
used to report the doings of the
Diem government has naturally
been even more effective, since
a great many of these doings
have been remarkably misguid-.
ed, to use the mildest possible
word.
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TN SOME measure, it must bo
added, the crusaders have
contributed to the Diem govern
ment's misguidedness. The gov-"
ernment has asked for it, since
its press relations have always
been idiotic. But the constant"
pressure of the reoortorial cru-
.carta affatnet lh bmmmmhI ka.
also neiped mightily to trans-,
form Diem from a courageous,
quite viable national leader,;
into a man afflicted with gal
loping persecution mania, see
ing plots around every corner,
and therefore misjudging every
thing. Ti j, ... i : i .j .'
make the foregoing points. It
is also high time to ask whether
American crusades to reform'
foreign governments really are
a good idea at any time. Was
Chiang, with all his defects, so
much worse for the Chinese peo
ple and, above all, for the
American people than Mao Tse
tung? Has Cuba gained and,
above all, have we in the Unit
ed States gained by the Batista--'
Castro exchange? What are we
in Viet Nam for anyway? -
Surely we are here only to
win the war. And the most an
noying feature of the whole
situation is that we actually
were winning the war this
spring, until the Diem govern
ment went right around the)
bend with considerable belli
from the high-minded crusaders.