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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, "Evaryono In Soutliem Oregon Th. u.l Trhinn Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North FirSt.. Plv772-61 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising MtnaeM GERALD T LATHAM, Bui Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mrm Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporu Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Edltoi DALE ERICKSONCIrculiUon Mgr An 1nriinnriMl NewlDftDel Entered as second class matter it ueaiora. urcgon uhuci . March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally and Sundayl year $18 00 Daily and Sunday moa 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. sou Sunday Only One year 500 Single Copy (Mailed) JOo By Carrier And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year $21.00 rally ana aunaa; i it. c.nnau Otilv 1 ma. OO0 Carrier and Vendors Jlopy 10? Official Paper or city or asraiura Official PaperoJ Jackson County United Press International full Leased Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Newrsplcturea "MEMB ER-O F AUDIT BUREAU Advertising KpfMntllvA!. NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC, ate-c mnnM in New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Anael.a. Seattle, Portland. Denver. NIWSrAMI NATIONAL EDITORIAL Member California Newspaper Publlshera AiaoclaUon a25 Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO ci ) lisn (Saturdav) Monday will mark the start of the 1954 United Meciuru uu sade with a "one-shot" cam paign (or 25 participating agen rins: coal is $101,000. A nnhlln hearine on an 850,000- acre addition to the Sams Val-lev-Beagle soil conservation district will be held Wednesday in the Eagle Point Grange hall. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1943 (Sunday) Bond purchases to be admiS' sinn in Hollv theater. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The first overcoats ol tne season snowea up yes. One advocate of an early winter was bald-headed and wore no hat." 30 YEARS AGO smt. 26. 1933 (Tuesday) Council votes wage boost for city employees. Dr. Durno catches his first steelhead in Rogue river. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1023 (Wednesday) Jackson county exhibits win third prize at state fair at Salem. Copco provides lights for new bridge over Rogue river at Pros pect. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1913 (Friday) Union livery stable on South Riverside ave. burns, seven horses die. Gala day marks opening of Jacksonville fair. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five er six it good. 1. When going through a fence, a hunter should drag his rifle after himself; true or false? 2. To which island in the West Indies was the mime Hispaniola originally given? 3. Complete the proverb: "Ev ery dog has ." 4. When the Vice President of the U.S. is absent, who pre sides over the U.S. Senate? 5. What body of water lies between the peninsula of Lower California and the mainland of Mexico? 6. What weapon did David use against Goliath? 7. Potsdam is a suburb of which German city? 8. Many U.S. Communists took part in what European Civil War? 9. Is the Republic of Liberia on the west coast, or the east coast of Africa? 10. In which European country did the breed of dogs known as spaniels originate? Answers: 1. False. 2. Haiti. 3. ". . . his day." 4. The Prrsl dent Pro Tempore (an elected Senator). S. Gulf of California. 6. Sling. 7. Berlin. 8. Spanish Civil War. Spain. 9. West coast. 10. Former Postmaster Receives Probation PORTLAND (UPI) - Mrs. Louise Hughes, 41, former post master at Antelope in Wasco county, was placed on three year probation Wednesday by Federal Judge John F. Kilken ny in connection with embezzle ment of $1,344 in post office funds. The judge noted full res tnrniinn had been made. 4 SEPTEMBER 26, 1963 The Warren Court This week, Earl Warren completes 10 years as Chief Justice of the United States. Under his leadership, the Supreme Court has been transformed from a largely quiescent but latent force into a vigorous and active participant in government. The country, and the people, are the better for it. The court has courageously faced up to a number of major problems, and has given its rul ings according to Constitutional principles, some times extending them into new areas: The rights of minorities ; the separation of church and state ; the relationship of the states and the federal gov ernment; the right of the citizen to seek redress in this involved age of government. a T IS THE fact that the court has extended Con stitutional principles into new areas that has caused the violent criticism ot tne court iron. some sources. The Sacramento Bee comments: ". . . Men too blind to see that, if the rights of a few are prejudiced, the rights of all are in danger, would impeach Warren; their hate is naked." Warren, fortunately, is in no danger of im peachment, for the bulk United States, while they or parts of individual that the court, by and also convinced that orderly government requires an independent judiciary, who can say way to any President, any Congress, when they trans gress the Constitution. THE BEE compares the Warren Court with the Court in the time of Chief Justice John Marshall that period when the Court, for the first time, became involved in controversial mat ters of the day, and did not hesitate to exercise the power inherent to it in the Constitution. It adds: "In faithfully interpreting the law, as the Warren court has in the fundamental and explosive issues involving the rights of all and the separation of church and state, the judiciary in the highest sense remains a guardian of the conscience, just as much as a guardian of the law." Chief Justice Warren, now eligible for retire ment with full pay, is still the picture of health and vigor, though in his 70s. We wish him many more years of distinguished and valued service. E. A. Migrants and Last year, California gained an estimated 363,000 in population from people moving there to live. That is almost 1,000 every day of the year. But is also estimated that this net in-migra-tion is only about half of the annual total influx, which is thought to total more than 700,000. Of this total, nearly half leave again, sooner or later, meaning that about 1,000 people leave the state for each day of the year. Or, phrased another who arrive, one departs MO ONE knows why, for sure. But many people ' Gllcnnnt flint it la hnnnnco llvinrr In P.jH UMW j,. V, W ,.1V I. ill 1, I 111 111 VUll fornia is not nearly as pleasant as it used to be. The pressures of population and the resulting supermarkets, highways and freeways, parking lots, cramped subdivisions, air and water pollu tion, crowded schools all the things that go with too many people, drive many away. Where do they go; turn home again, many to the mid-West, which is California's chief source of new residents. Many go to the great Southwest Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. But many head for the Pacific Northwest. A NEW YORK Times story says the reasons for moving to Washington or Oregon "often are the same that drew the migrants to California freedom and fresh air." No accurate accounting of the California in flux into Oregon is available, but there are signs. The U-Haul Trailer company last May increased rates for southern Californians for taking trailers into Oregon. It found that such one-way traffic increased 36 per cent in the preceding six months. An article by Columnist Neil Moriran, printed in San Francisco and San an unidentified former ing a Calif ornian questioner: ". . . We got tall mountains, green fir trees, deep lawns with no crabgrass, decent drinking water, hard liquor if you feel a need for It, no sales tax, plenty of land to run your kids on, rcadin', 'rilln' and 'rllhmelic In the schools, and a very strong dislike for Californians who wheel into town acting like they smell something dead." CHE MAY have hit on the reason why so many new Californians become ex-Californians, when she said : "But I'll be going back to Oregon, myself. I guess I been living up there too long to fit in where there's nothing but hot, hard city sidewalks. "My husband and three children and I were lured .south to California by propaganda put out by some relatives who turned traitor and moved to San Diego. It's been hectic trying to adjust to Southern California living. Even my relatives have a different set of values than I do. "When I tell them, 'California is a state of mind, and I don't have the right mind for it,' my brother shakes his head sadly. But I think it's belter to be a happy hick than a rich scen-It-all." We agree. But we hope too many Califor nians don't. E. A. h r of the citizenry of the may disagree witn an decisions, are convinced large, is right. They are Happy Hicks way. of every two people again. Well, some of them re Diego papers, quoted Medford resident as tell "Latest Reports On C aiviTaytor. Yf " w"'.N. 1 Communications e) Letters to the Editor must bear the name ind 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. Letters submitted printed in this column do not contrary is often the case. Now Is the Time To the Editor: Our dollar to day is down to the lowest value it has ever been. It is worth 45 cents. And our taxes are the highest they have ever been. It seems clear that our state gov ernment is testing the limit of how high they can tax us be fore we stop them. So . . . Now is the time for us to let them know that they have not only reached that limit they have oassed it. Vote on Oct. 15 against the $60 million crippling state income tax increase. The brazen threats of what will happen to all of us; proper ty tax increases, curtailment of educational and other serv ices, if this increase in taxes is not approved, have passed be yond the limits of decency in political persuasion, atop me spenders before they spend all of us out of house and home. Clarice DuBois, 420 Edgewater dr., Grants Pass, Ore. On Socializing Oregon To the Editor: Cheers for L. C, Powell (M.T. 9-19-63) for set ing the "tax happy" Liberals back on their heels. These peo ple are really shook. They have been staggered by the spon taneous grass roots action that miraculously sprang up over night in a petition drive against their $60 million tax law, and by the fact that for the first time in history registered voters in droves hunted up petition bearers to sign the income tax referral petition eagerly and de fiantly. With their grip slipping on that $60 million with which they were going to further socialize Oregon, the power hungry So cialist crowd running this state pulled every duty trick in the book. They delayed the petition drive in every way possible. Then through the press they tried to intimidate the voters and frighten them into not sign ing the petition. And how many Oregonians know that Albany Editor J. Francyl Howard had to keep an armed guard over the swiftly growing stack of precious petitions that poured in on him? That he and his chief help. Dr. K. E. Vroeland of St. Helens, both received profane telephone calls so threatening and so menacing that they changed the filing date of the petitions, from Sunday to two days earlier on Friday, and ask ed for state police protection on the way to Salem? That because of unheard pressure from some where the state police head quarters in Salem refused to provide protection? And that it was private citizens who final ly came forward, armed and ready for trouble, and escorted the Howard car to Salem? Now that the pot il ions are s A f p I v (ilorl nnr K,M'iiilit "friends'" have turned to t h v i news media with threats ncainst the voters. Clever, subtle threats I and cunning propaganda. Well. don't push your luck, fellow Don't threaten me with a fur worse tax, and other dire con sequences. And don't threaten the exasperated citizens of Ore gon, either, v, e 11 throw a .TXirdlNW PTA funds tition. It's lime you fellows learned that the people are not your servants that YOU arc the servants of the PEOPLE. And that we want you tax spenders to get off our hacks that we don't want another tax o." any kind. Just cut the fat out ot the unnecessary, huge budg-j nt th:it Vtm'vf rirpjtmeil utv And it vou 'can't do thai, mavbc j we can put somelHxiv in there at the next election who can. Frank Koch 412 South First st. Central Point, Ore. Exposing the Dross To the Editor: I view with alacrity the mental washings of MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON The Non-Free Area" for publication must not necessarily represent the bigotrous communicants who co exist by exposing their male ficence. Their clothesline is an extrusion from one era-bound pole and journeys infinitesmally: Someone's character etched un skillfully planted this extrinsic pole of intolerance . . . and root ed it deep. Their maledictions merely conciliate an intempcrcnt corps and makes them ancestors of a caustic race that may survive others; but, will afflict them with a miasma of disparities. Disanimate is the dirt ascend ed from these obstruse proto types of privilege who coagu late the principle of a freedom giving newspaper in a country proudly hailed "the melting pot of the world." Manufacturing the transcen dentalism of the "right-seekers," the newspaper uses an other pot . . . that of the lino type machine. Not by coinci dence does this pot also excrete a minimal rising of impurities, because there is no entity 100 per cent pure. These deposits are trade-named dross. My heart says, ."Feel sorry for such writers,'.' but my tongue calls their epithets a pseudo-created sperm that they have conceived to inseminate in the heart-lines of quasi-apprehensive adults and rebellious adolescents. , You've succeeded in imbed ding the pole deeper; but, as it must . . . and eventually does, your elucidations will surface and expose the dross of society. Leonard Firman 318 Beatty Medford. Tragic To the Editor: Your editorial in Wednesday evening's Tribune assures us that our educators, trying to get a "yes" vote on the tax bill, arc not crooks. Granted, few, it anv, ever thought they were. What many of us do feel, however, is that some aspects of their efforts have been more worthy of a Madison Avenue hard-sell spe cialist or a ward politician than an Oregon educator. Example: Last Monday when each Freshman entered the University of Oregon he was handed an IBM card for his signature on which was printed "To the Business Manager, Uni versity of Oregon: 1 authorize you to transfer the remainder of my breakage fee to the Cam paign Fund for Ballot Measure No. 1." There are some things morally very wrong about this. First, it diverts funds, belong ing generally to parents, to pro mote, without consent, a cause with which thev mav totallv dis agree. Second, it takes advan tage of a hectic Freshman day when students arc confused and trying hard to please to get a cut of he" f,inils for votl" "orst of a "yes uses an institution of higher learning ?"l""rl u? 'Mve l"y further funds from those tn:: pavers and uses their own mon ey to do the prying. Crooks? No, but manv of u feel a faint sense of bctraval .., (-.mi in this, the iwc nave contribulod by joining were 10 no usi 10 promote a "yes" vote without consulting the membership. Apprehensive and confused : would cover the way many of us (eel. Just across from your edi- torial page there is a state- mcnt from the chairman of the j State Hoard of Education say-' ing in part ... a major share ' nMhp budgets approved by the voters have already been spent ; cause to me it's like exhibition er obligated." Which means, he i ism, in a sense. I would like tells us, that school boards will , to pursue this further, though, be forced to borrow to get and at the present time I can't , through the current year. If ' wnai ne says is true, and l no- ! lieve it is not, then we have spent our voted budgets (in Medford's case around $4 mil- Ben Bella Cause To By PHIL NEWSO.M UPI Foreign News Analyst In the little more than a year that Algarian strongman Ahmed Ben Bella has been in power, he has given the world ample and frequent reason to won der just what manner of man he is. He denies ambitions to ward either a dictatorship or a personality esora cult Yet since the summer of 1962 he has elimi nated all of the "historic lead ers" who along with him on the night of Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 1956, launched the Algerian revolt against France. Ben Youssef Ben Khedda, who headed the former Algerian exile government and waged a short power struggle with Ben Bella, now runs a drug store. Yet Ben Bella honestly can point out that no bloodbath has accompanied his rise to power exceed 400 words. The letters views of the paper; in fact the lion) in three wild weeks of school. This is a little silly and more than a little frightening. The thing that is tragic about aU-this - -is not that an -unfor- tunate tax bill was passed . . . nor that there are "crooks" abroad in the state, but rather that the statements and actions of upstate educators may so badly damage the image of ed ucation that local schools could well find it hard to get a fa vorable vote for any improve ment under any budget. Our ed ucators are,,- not crooks, Mr. Allen, but neither are they quite the men we;thought they were Jane Glllaspie 636 West Fourth st. Medford Viewpoint To the Editor: The Monkey's Viewpoint: Three Monkeys sat in a coconut tree Discussing things that are said to be. . '. : Said one to the other," ,7'Now listen you two, ' ' ' There's a certain rumor that can't be true . i., That man descended from our noble race The very idea is a disgrace. No monkey- ever desertef. his wife,' : Starved her babies and ruined her life And you've never known a moth er monk To leave her babies with others to bunk. Or pass them on from one to another Till they scarcely know who is their mother. And another thing you'll never see, A monkey build a fence 'round a coconut tree. And let coconuts go to waste, Forbidding all other monks a taste. Why if I'd put a fence 'round the tree, Starvation would force you to steal from me. Here is another tiling a monk won't do. Go out at night and get on a stew, Or use a gun or a club or knife To take some other monkey's life. Yes, man descended the ornery cuss. But. brother, he didn't descend from us.' ; (Anonymous) P. G. Pedersen 701 North Modoc ave. Medford. Keepin" Informed To the Editor: Thank you for printing the Test Ban Treaty roll call in your Sept. 24 issue. This is a real public service and I sincerely hope you will con- tinue to keep us informed in this manner. As a matter of in terest to all your readers you could expand on this idea by printing a box score of the vote on all important issues prior to both slate and national elections. Individual voters seldom have Iho limn nr Inn nmmrtnnitv tn I die out this Important informa - ! .... . I lion time: so please keep up the i on on eacn candidate at eec- , glHXl work. i v,i mme m Ashland. Ore. In Response To the Editor: In response to Mr. McKinnis: I answered your first letter. via the Mail Tribune, t don't particularly care for arguing publicly in the newspaper be- think of a bettor way to reach you. You see I believe in the way j I feel with my whole being, , though I possibly lack the right i of Algeria Gives World Ample Wonder What Kind of Man He Is and that the regimes few politi cal prisoners have been treated comparatively mildly. He denies being a Marxist, yet one of his idols is Fidel Castro. As late as last May he de clared that Algeria "will have Castro Socialism," and there is speculation that on the ninth anniversary of the Algerian re volt this fall, Castro will be an honored guest. And, while Ben Bella visits the United Nations in New York Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (cl Field Enterprises. Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Those emotional vultures who swoop down to attend a squalid trial ought to be put on trial themselves, on charges of con tributing to the delinquency of their own characters. Most people who bemoan their lack of a basic liberal education either forgot or never heard the good advice of Thoreau: "Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." The toothpaste companies de feat themselves by bringing out a new "miracle" ingredient ev ery year thus proving the inef fectiveness of last year's highly touted "miracle." If I were an employer, I would never hire an executive without first meeting his wife; for a man with an overani bi lious wife is easily driven to corruption or a crackup. The men who need to be goaded to success are never able to handle it. The "place-dropper" is a bor ing variant of the name-dropper, and just as annoying to speak intimately and casually of Capri Laier a one-day tour of the island Bin or imnapfinanr ic itollinrf a 1 in ci o uupi unci iv an mailing a great man by his first name 'after shaking hands once, f The line between "discre tion" and cowardice is exceed ingly fine; and man's worst sin is the negative one of fail ing to speak up when justice cries out for supporters. Noth ing' we do is half as bad as what we do not do. , J ' If there is one thing Tam cer tain of in this changing world, it is; the unchanging affirmation (hat the "war. to endtwar'V will not be fought with arms.' r,r ; i; -! : - ' : So long as children are mis educated to the belief that natural imposes toward sex are "evil," they will grow up in conflict and guilt; natural impulses are neither good nor bad, hut neutral, and morality consists in using them for socially and spiritually desir able ends. The project (o transform Ber nard Shaw's house into a shrine failed for lack of public support; a fitting rebuke to a man who, though he respected humanity in the abstract, never cared much for people in the particu lar. History always exercises its adequate revenge. I am tired of hearing the ex cuse that America is a "young" country. Nobody as old has a right to act as child ish as we do. vocabulary and therefore may be unable to reach you. I stated my feelings unashamed and signed my name so that all who knew me might also know how I feel. To go further, I am not a southerner and am of English descent. Being an only child my parents were able to concentrate on what they considered most important. Equality, Freedom, and Justice. I was raised in southern California and went to school with not only Negroes but Japanese, Mexicans, Ital ians and many other nationali ties. I was friendlv with them ! j all and didn't get 'head lice or bedbugs cither Furthermore I found that they could play jumprope, jacks and hopscotch as well as any white child. Though I grew up with them I married a white man and had five white children who went to school with mixed races ! ,0- UP ,0 fow aS The ' tu-il n Mncl nc. h, ni.u "ow. white girls who share; their views, that all men are created equal. So you see. that is the heri tage I pass onto my children and they in turn pass onto theirs. Did I understand you to say you have no children? May be that was a mistake on your part. I would like you to 'talk to my youngsters and get their view. You would be surprised at their peace of mind and their ideas on humanity. I'm proud to think that I am the mother of part of the future generation that feels as they do. I regret that you can't or won't see the other side of things. Joyce Williams Route 1. Box 4111 Central Toint, Ore. and seeks a meeting with Presi dent Kennedy to enlist more U.S. air for Algeria, his No. 2 man, Col. Houari Boumedienne, will be in Moscow working out details of a $100 million credit offered by the Soviet Union. Last week as Ben Bella took over the newly-created post of president of Algeria, he an nounced new plans to step up the pace of Socialism. He said his regime would na tionalize "all the lands of the (French) settlers and the trai tors as well." Affected would be some 2 mil lion acres still under French ownership. A day later came an edict seizing three French-owned newspapers. Involved were clear violations of the accords by which France granted Algerian independence. This week, Ben Bella went a step further. He threatened to nationalize all French property in Algeria if the French resumed nuclear testing in the Sahara. Matter of Fact (ct New York Herald THE WAR CAN BE WON SAIGON The Communists are trying to capitalize on the bitter backwash of the Buddhist crisis by an other roiir,; ,1? grenade - toss ing in this gren ade - accustom ed city. The American" Ad m i n i stration, apparently not content to rely on an exceed ingly able Am- Alsnp bassador, has sent a second in vestigative mission to Viet Nam on the very heels of a lower level, just departed mission. On the surface, in short, both the local situation and the Am erican response to it leave few grounds for encouragement. For the short run, moreover, Polly-anna-ism about the crucially im portant position here in South Viet Nam is sadly out of place. The resentment of the gov ernment of President Ngo Dinh Diem, which has been so long, so often, and so profusely report ed by the local anti-Diem cru saders, was largely a fiction un til quite recently. Local politic ians out of a job, many of them former French vioollaborators, blathering about"" "Vietnamese democracy," provided Uie main evidence for this famous resent ment until just the other day. VfOW, however, the Buddhist crisis jhas )i?d the political effect of ia,; broken mainspring. One result of the crisis has been to cause President Diem himself to lose all sureness of touch. The other and more important result has been to make all those reports of resentment come true at last. There is real bitterness towards the regime now, and the combination of this bitterness with the singular state of affairs in Gia Long palace certainly raises grave questions about the viability of the Diem regime. There is no cause, however, for the kind of panic to which Washington seems to have suc cumbed. On any practical cal culation. President Diem will either take the needed steps to make his government viable again, or strong internal forces will eventually take steps to secure a new government which j their new arms against the gov will be viable. The odds are very ernment forces as some feared heavy that these are the real j when the hamlet program was alternatives. launched this would indeed be On this calculation, patience a war impossible to win. But and calm are the prescriptions , the great test was made The fnr U'qehinnlnn Tt k..J i-iKi LI- . , . . . tor Washington. It is hard to imagine a more ridiculous spec tacle than the government of the United States of America re acting like a bee-stung adoles cent to the egomaniacal maun derings of Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu. Surely it ought to be possible to ignore Mme. Nhu which she will greatly dislike. ITHE spectacle is rendered I alarming as well as ridicu - lous by Sen. Frank Church, with , his resolution designed to under- I minn (I, IT C 1 L. t me me u. o. cwuit nere, ana OflileCEY fiaMf 'What a rhaini Too bad he's So far French reaction has been tolerant, out of the belief that necessity will force Ben Bella to retain his ties with France. The most important single French investment remaining in Algeria is approximately $1.5 billion in the Saharan oil fields. France buys most of the oil and from it Ben Bella derives an in come. In the event of nationali zation, Russia, with an oil sur plus of its own, could not pro vide a substitute market. Nor would Russia be likely to match French financial aid, now running at around $350 million annually, which is all that saves Algeria from bankruptcy. Hunger and unemployment in Algeria already are at danger ously high levels. Continued long enough they would threaten Ben Bella's leadership. Ben Bella is an avowed neu tral but in his wheelings and dealings among Moscow, Paris and Washington it is apparent he hopes to live off the best of two worlds. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate his attendant chorus of experts on guerrilla wars who have never seen a guerrilla war, but still speak ex cathedra about the impossibility of victory. This is a war which must be won. and experience teaches that it can be won. Today, if you go out and have a. look, at operations in the countryside," the area that mat ters most, this war is still going remarkably well. Later, if the government is not somehow ren dered more viable, the feeling in the big cities will spill over into the villages; and then the war will not go well. But this has not happened as yet. It is a pretty moving exper ience, moreover, to go out into the provinces and see what is happening. To begin with, the American officers and men who are daily fighting this war, shoulder to shoulder with the Vietnamese, are a rather special breed who make you proud of your country. A great many of them are men to whom that normally awful adjective, "ded icated," can be applied with ac curacy. See them in action, and you find yourself recalling that line of Kipling's, "Ye little know of England who only England know"; for they are somewhat unexpected products of the soft affluent society. Furthermore, these Americans who daily fight the war do not wail that the war cannot ba won, or say that the Vietnamese people will not fight for their own freedom and independence. In fact, they say the precise opposite. rpHE proof of their good judg A mcnt is there, in the open, for anyone to see, moreover. It is there in the villages, whose humble, courageous, hard-working people matter so much more than anyone else in Viet Nam. The central fact in the whole sit uation here is the simple fact that under the strategic hamlet program, the villagers have been given very modest arms to defend themselves against Com munist terrorism; and they hava used those arms to defend them selves, often against repeated attacks and heavy odds. If the people in the villages did not wish to defend them selves, or were readv to turn big gamble was taken. And de spite variations in the quality of the strategic hamlets from province to province, there is no doubt that the gamble has paid off. This spring, therefore, this war was being won. It can still be won. And those who wish to lay down the burden the U. S. has assumed horn cim,,l,' K. cause we are going through a 1 political bad patch, are merelv j serving the interests of that great humanitarian and demo- I . ,1 crai, unairman Mao Tse-tung. with the rong political par:v!"