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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.
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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
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Communications
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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-
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me me u. o. cwuit nere, ana
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'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!"