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and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Oct. . 195J (Tuesday)
a Mail Trihun carrier and
his brother reported to Medford
police yesterday that two older
youths took $20.50 in subscrip
tion receipts from them.
Acting Dean of Men Hal Cloer
at Southern Oregon college nas
pod that the Selective
Service college qualifies t i o n
tests will at given soon.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. t. 1S43 (Wednesday)
Woman called on federal dis
trict court iury for first time.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Safety
commandments for hunters in
clude, 'Never climb a tree with
a loaded gun.' Furthermore, If
you do, another will shoot you
or a bear."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 6, 1933 (Friday)
Fall flower show of Medford
Garden club opens with large
and varied displays.
George Gates named chair
man for handling NRA code.
40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 6. 1923 (Saturday)
Bobbed hair more popular
than ever on Oregon University
campus.
City council calls off tree
trimming campaign as resi
dents protest,
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 6. 1913 (Monday)
Mail Tribune windows to
show world series results,
Judge Withington to read bul
letins by megaphone.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nina ar Ian correct h superior;
seven or eight la tacellent; tive at
sis is good.
1. Was the purchase price nt
the Louisiana Territory 10, 15,
or 20 million dollars?
2. What was the Pharos of
Alexandria?
3. Railroad mergers are con
sidered by what federal regula
tory agency?
4. Before Herbeil Hoover en
tered public lile, what was his
profession?
5. The solicitor general of the
United States is under what
cabinet officer?
6. Lead is the heaviest known
metal; true or false?
7. What is metaphor?
H The Biff Inch and the Little
Inch were built during WW II.
What are they?
9. Is Daily Double used in con
nection with contract bridge,
baseball or horseracing?
10. Are there five, six, or sev
en countries in Central Amer
ica? Answers: 1. 15 million. 2.
Lighthouse. 3. Interstate Com
merce Commission. 4. Engineer
ing. 5. Attorney General. .
False (Iridium!. 7. Figure ol
speech. . Pipe lines. . Horse
racing. 10. Seven.
Minor Damage Results
From Valley Accident
No injuries and only minor
damage resulted from t two-car
accident on Highway 99 about
six miles south of Ashland Fri
day afternoon, state police said
Saturday.
A car driven by Lindsay Wal
drop Davis, of Hanford, Calif.,
spun around on the wet pave
ment and It and a car driven
by James Malcolm McClaron
CorVallU, Ore., collided, stall
police said.
a-MJIlllHtlS
SUNDAY. OCTOBER . 196J
Tfa Dnp-Out and
If fou who read tfcis happen to be a High
School student, particularly one who is thinking
about quitting school, please read the first letter
in today's Communications column on Page 5.
If you are a parent of such a student, read it,
and then read it to your youngster.
If you are one who sometimes questions the
value of formal education, you too should read it.
For this letter, w ritten by a boy who dropped
out of school and now bitterly regrets its, tells
volumes that no advice from "older and wiser
heads" can equal.
WE VISITED Medford High School Friday
morning. It was a memorable experience.
During a one-hour class period we watched
a group of alert, intelligent, curious, courteous
boys and gils. These youngsters are not goof
offs. They are not teen-age punks. They are not
rebels or rowdies. They are America's most im
portant natural resource, and our visit gave us
heart and encouragement.
Later, as the class ended, we attempted to
make our way through the halls of the school to
an exit. The halls were so crowded we finally
simply stood still until they cleared.
MEDFORD High School is jammed to the raft
ers with young men and women.
Ynt raioa nnf in the rt-nwrlpH halls, not in
the well-mannered class,
OlHSlue uiu we tee aiiyune ucuatiiij J"
way except the finest. We were greeted with
friendly smiles or curious stares, but everywhere
there was an aura of self-respect, purpose and
good humor.
Oh, we know there are exceptions, and that
not every one of the more than 2,000 students
at Medford High is a paragon of all the virtues.
But neither are there very many whose behavior
and attitude have given an underserved bad
name to a whole generation of students.
THESE youngsters know what the boy who
wrote the letter across the page has found
out. Today, a High School diploma is the dif
ference between being able to hold one's head
high in our society, and accepting a second-class
existence.
Many of these fine young men and women
will be going on to college and university, and
those who can profit from it should be encour
aged to do so.
But even those for wnom nigner education
is unavailable or for some other reason out of
reach, should, at the very least, complete High
School. They owe it, not only to themselves, but
also to their families, present and future, and to
the society which has nurtured them and trained
them. They owe it as an obligation of citizen
ship, just as we, a generation or so older, owe
it to them to provide the very best in educational
resources.
JT WOULD be our wish that those who deride
the educational offerings laid before to
day's High School student would go back, if only
for one hour, to see what it is they denigrate.
We d wacer that mighty few men and women
in their 30s and 40s and
or not, would be able to keep up with what to
day's bright youngsters are taking for granted.
- r , 1 a? . 1 : ..11 11
luayoe eciucaiion touay isn i an we uum
wish it to be. But it is so much better than most
of us realize that it would come as a shock to ;
many people, a salutary
Pig in a Poke
R. E. Nealon, in his Tablets column Friday,
said that voting against the income tax proposal
this month is like buying "a pig in a poke."
And he's right.
No one knows, precisely, all the things that
will happen if the tax measure is defeated. We
do know what will happen if it is passed.
If it passes, life will go much as it is now,
with everyone paying a few more dollars most
of it going for education, but some of it for wel
fare, institutions, police protection, hospitals, etc.
IF IT IS defeated, the Governor will have to
; slash spending up to as much as 25 pe cent in
j those departments over which he has fiscal allo
cation control. He will have to do so, because the
; Constitution requires the state to live within its
means; because spending up to this point in the
ibiennium has been based on the budget which
! called for the new taxes; because added revenues
; have been lost because of the tax referral, and
hncuiKn ht rvinnrit antwinntp nrlnpr rpVPnllPS.
From there on out,
unpredictable. Some say
to call a special session ol tne Legislature out
no one, probably including the Governor, yet
knows whether he will or not.
MANY state departments have reported what
slashes in their appropriations will mean
in the way of curtailed services. Some people
interpret these as "threats," "brainwashing," or
"blackmail."
This is unfair, unjust, unrealistic, and untrue.
These officials have a duty to plan ahead.
And if they are forced to cut down drastically
on their programs, the public has a right to
know where the cuts will come. If they didn't
make this information public, they wouldn't be
doing their jobs. And if the newspapers didn't
report them, they too would be failing in their
esponsibility.
A pig in a poke is an unknown quantity, but
o the extent we can do so, we should be in
"ormcd as to what the pig looks like. E. A.
tht High "School
not on the sidewalksj
50s, college graduates
shock. L. A.
the course of events is
the Governor will have
"Harry, I Don't Think
Like This One
' Pi 1: 11
U civil & ; i
MottOF of FOCt
(el New York H-rald
IS THERE ANY WAY OUT?
HONG KONG-Much too lit
tle attention is paid to the cen
tral fact in Communist China's
ST""! present situa
l 'ion- Tnis cen"
. V tral fact, far
transcending in
importance the
S i n o - Soviet
split, is a gig
antic and grue
some domestic
failure. In 1958,
Mao Tse-tung
Ainp ocgan a super
intensive effort to make China
into a military-industrial giant
power. The vast program of in
dustrial development was to be
paid for in the classical Com
munist manner, by ruthlessly
squeezing the humble, indust
rious masses in the Chinese
countryside. !
Within one year, the squeeze
had reduced the Chinese peas-j
antry to a condition of misery
with no parallel whatever in the .
Chinese past. In 1961-62, the !
consequences of the "great leap i
forward were so alarming tnat
the Chinese Communist leaders
hastily ordered a great leap
backward.
e
THUS new factories were left
half finished. Industrial fur
naces were banked all over
China. Capital investment was
now condemned as a bad thing.
And the relaxation of the
squeeze on the countrvside pro
duced the slight improvement
of conditions in the villages that
is now observable.
It is necessary to insist upon
these facts, because they are
the main elements of what has
been called China's "no exit sit
uation." The Sino-Soviet split
is only a very minor contribu
ting factor as yet, although it
may later become a major fac
tor when the Soviet-provided
higher weapons of the armed
forces and the Soviet and East
ern European factory machines
that are still in use inevitably ,
begin to wear out and break !
down with no replacements in
sight.
The question is whether the
present Chinese leadership can
find a way out of their "no exit
situation " One way out, ob
viously, is to change the ratio
of population to resources by
reducing the population. A birth .
control proaganda campaign is
in (act in progress, with little
likelihood of much result. !
rj!C be sure, there are good
A reasons to doubt the wisdom
o( unthinkingly cranking an an
nual, authomatic Chinese popu- i
latinn increase into every cal
culation concerning China. The
arguments for assuming con
tinuous population growth are
about as cood as the late, la
mented arguments for assum
ing, last year, that the Soviets
would "never" put offensive
missiles in Cuba
When intcrrncating older ref
uuecs from the mainland, this
reporter has always aked
about village populations. Con
siderable drops in populations
have invariably been reported,
and the standard explanation
has been, "many have died and
some have gone awav "
if
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THE INCOME TAX MEASURE
This is one of a series of brief presentation!
of tome little-known aspects of the income tax
measure on which Oregon voter will decide
at a special election on Oct. 15.
A 'yes'' ote approves the Law. a no" vote defeats it
Defeat means a budget deficit, the old lax law. and the prob
ability of another legislative session.
QUESTION
I've been told riuctums for dependents have been elimi
nated Is this true'
NMHl
No. The form has been changed to give every taxpayer the
same dollar benefit from dependency exemptions. Under the
old.law one dependent saved Ule low income taxpayer H8
tU the highest ipj come taxpaver saved $.i7. Under the new
law. each dependent, oinft- than a spouse, saves each taxpaver
s.'fl in taxes This adjusts the lax burden in favor of the lower
income taxpayer.
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD,
You're Going To
Any Better"
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
This fragmentary evidence ;
has now been supplemented by
more highly organized interro-1
gation about village birth rates, j
Representing the average was a
village, reported as having
about 30 births per annum be
fore the horrors of the "great ;
leap, which had produced only
four or five infants a year in the
worst times, and had now in
creased output to the level of
20 babies per year.
ON'E cannot tell with certain
ty, but from such facts as
these one would guess that the
Chinese population actually fell
in the worst years and may
now be approximately stable. I
ii so, mat is a plus lor Mao ana
company. On the other hand,
there is a heavy minus in the
fact that the official figures on
Chinese farm output look as
fishy as the population figures.
Here, the fishiness is on the
other side of the balance. Sci
entific interrogation has lately
been used to determine grain
yields per acre in the period be
fore the Communists collecti
vized the land and the com
parable yields today. Some in
accuracy must be allowed for,
but less than you might think,
since every competent Chinese
peasant knows the value of
every square inch of land in
his village.
This interrogation showed!
post-collectivization decreases m
per acre production that were
never less than 50 per cent and
sometimes reached 70 per cent.
If these results are even half
way correct, current estimates
of grain output must be much
too high, yuite possibly, this
error is being neatly cancelled
by estimates of population that
are also much too high.
IN any case, there is nothing
in the condition of the coun
tryside to encourage any expec
tation of a gradual improve
ment of farm output, sufficient i
to provide the Chinese Commu-,
nist system with the needed i
margin for recovery and
growth. As the record shows,
collectively organized agricul-l
ture is outrageously inefficient
in the best of cases. In the case
of China, whose entire agricul
ture is intensive to the point of i
resembling horticulture, the col
lective system is far more dam
aging than in Russia.
In addition, there is a deep
contradiction between the tiny
private plots of the peasantry
and the biggest need of all,
which is to increase output on
the vast majority of the land,
and this the best land, which is
still publicly controlled. All
over China, the peasants are
slealing from the public land
all the work and all the manure
they can possibly put into the
private plots.
"Night soil quotas" are stern
ly exacted, but even so, since
human manure plays such a
major role in China, the pri
vate plots are probably depriv
ing the public lands of a quar
ter of their normal fertilizer
supply. In fact, it is a fair fore
cast that the trend will be
down, not up, in which case
there is no way out anywhere
(or China's present rulers
OREGON
GREAT IDEAS...
I From
ArJ By Mortimer J. Adler
'ijjJ (ej 1353. Publuhf r Newspaper Syndicate
VIEWS OF HISTORY
Dear Dr. Adler: Many
teachers of political science
have stated that history re
peats itself. Various wars and
depressions are typical exam
ples which educator have
cited to reinforce this state
ment. How do the great writ
ers view reoccurring social,
economic, and political
events?
Michael L. Copp
1617 13th Ave.
Rockford. 111.
Dear Mr. Copp: The ancient
Greek historian Herodotus tells
us at the beginning of his fam
ous "History" that he will pay
equal attention to the greater
and the lesser city-states. "For
the cities which were formerly
great have most of them be
come insignificant; and such as
are at present powerful, were
weak in the olden time."
These fluctuations and rever
sals in human affairs were in
terpreted by eminent Greek
thinkers as evidence of a recurr
ing pattern of birth, growth, de
cay, and death, analogous to the
cyclical changes in the natural
world. Historians such a Thu
cvdides and Polvbius thought
that knowledge of past events
can help us to understand pre
sent events and to predict in
broad, general terms what
will happen in the imminent fu
ture, because historical events
occur in an unchanging, repeti
tive pattern or rhythm.
The ancients usually assumed
that their own time was one of
decline and that the peak of
perfection the "golden age"
had occurred in the long dis
tant past. The imperial sway of
Rome over the known world,
however, occasioned the view
that the golden age was just
beginning and even that history
had reached its final consum
mation in the Roman Empire.
The poet Virgil prophesied an
empire without end. with eter
nal peace, order, and prosperity,
ruled by Rome.
The view that history is work
ing toward a messianic goal,
however, is an exception
among the pagan writers. It
was the Jews who first saw his
tory as working toward a con
summation determined by di
vine will not as repeating it
self in a natural, necessary, and
humanly predictable pattern.
This view of history, which was
eloquently propounded by the
great Biblical prophets, is the
basis of Augustine's famous
work, "The City of God."
The pattern of historical
events, said Augustine, does
not resemble a circle, but ra
ther a straight line moving to
ward a goal the establishment
of the City of God on earth.
There are "new things," he in
sisted, and new and unique stag
es on the journey of man and
the world to ultimate salvation,
which is marked pre-eminently
and decisively by the appear
ance of God in Christ the
great new event upon which the
whole of history hinges.
Fifteen centuries after Augus
tine, the German phiiospher
Hegal propounded a secularized
version of the Christian view of
history. He saw history as the
actualization of the divine will,
through a development which
had culminated in the Germanic
and Christian culture of his
time. He saw his own age and
civilization as the final stage of
history, in which man had be
come fullv free and human.
The President's View
By ERIC SEVARIED
The President made many
conservation speeches during
his politics - cum - conservation
swing, and he
"Sajav lamea poiiucs
J- III IIMMJ yi I-
ui vate conversa
j?) tions. but noth-
- .L lnr hp sain nn
-1 m.trk.c in int.
H nortancp and
t (J f a s c i n a tion
what he said
srvarei. aooui me worm
at large. More specifically, it
is what he said about America's
attitude toward the world that
marks some kind of turning
point in the thinking of this
young President, who has been
conducting his education in pub
lic these three vears.
He emphasizes the hard nec
essity of building in this country
an economic, moral ant. intel
lectual society strong enough to
support American involvements
all around the world. This may
sound unexceptional, but it is
not; somewhere along the line
since the war. the cart and the
horse have changed places. For
a number of years alter the war
the preachment was the oppo
site: that we were fighting and
spending and containing in
ordtV to establish and preserve
a world structure that would
allow our own domestic struc
ture to remain strong in tre
dom. Our foreign policy Vas
' .AjaJSrt.
the Great Beiks
"The grand principle of being
is realized," he proclaimed,
"consequently the end of days
is come."
The theories of Spengler and
Toynbee in our own time repeat
in varying degrees the ancient
cyclical view of history'- Speng
ler sees history as a recurrent
cycle of events, which is in
evitable and predictable and to
be accepted because it is neces
sary as tragic fate. History' for
him has no purpose or goal.
Toynbee tries to combine the
cyclical view of history with the
Christian view that histoy has
an "end" or culmination. The
cyclical view, he says, does not
imply that history is a mean
ingless treadmill. "The perpet
ual turning of a wheel is not a
vain repetition if. at each re
volution, it is carrying a ve
hicle that much nearer its
goal." That goal, for Toynbee.
is the realization of a universal
Church, which will be the heir
of all the particular religions
and civilizations. Such a world
wide religious culture is Toyn
bee's 20th-century equivalent to
Augustine's "City of God."
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
In Washington. Congressman
Paul A. Fino, of New York, says
in a speech embalmed in the
Congressional Record that il
legal betting in Oregon produces
a $250 million yearly treasury
for underworld crime syndi
cates. VrHAT'S he up too?
" Well, he's proposing a NA
TIONAL LOTTERY "to drag
gambling out of the criminal do
main and bring the monies now
financing the underworld into
the public treasury."
He's contending that Oregon
is a horrible example of what
happens when gambling isn't
legalized in the form of a na
tional lotterv.
VHAT about national lotter
" ies?
Over the long centuries na
tional lotteries have been the
last resort of nations overtaxed
by reckless spenders.
Louis XIV of France, one of
the great spenders of all time,
passed on to France when he
died a debt amounting to 300
million pounds of silver. John
Law created what amounted to
one of the great lotteries of his
tory as a way to pay off the
debt. It was called the Missis
sippi Bubble. It came close to
wrecking France and all the
people of France.
T0. THANK you, Mr. Fino.
1 History tells us that NA
TIONAL lotteries are even
worse than reckicss private
gambling. Because the govern
ments that resort to them need
to get every dollar they can
lav hands on. thev EN
COURAGE their people to gam
ble. The gambling thus nfficiallv
encouraged ROTS AWAY THE
MORAL FIBER OF THE PEO
PLE. n that happens, the na
tion that has bet its future on
a national lottery is a GONER.
History is pretty positive on
; that point.
called one of enlightened self
interest. Now, perhaps, we
should call our domestic policy
one of enlightened world inter
est. It comes down, of course, to
one coin with two sides, yet this
sw itch of emphasis is something
the historians will mark.
His Salt Lake speech struck
me as the reflections of an older
President, as the conclusions of
a man far removed from the
brash, optimistic New Fron
tiersman who believed that
problems aie to he "solved",
not merely ameliorated, no mat
ter how far away they are, no
matter how fundamentally re
sistant to alien influence. Mr.
Kennedy is a wiser, if not a
sadder, man today. His phrases
at Salt Lake were a series of
little trip hammer blows to
those who had come to believe
he would never recognize these
truths:
"We must acknowledge the
realities of the world" . . . "We
cannot remake other nations in
our own image, nor can we en
acf their laws, nor can we oper
ate their governments, nor can
we dictate their polices" . . .
"We must recognize that every
nation determines its policy in
terms of its own interests" . . .
"The purpose of foreign policy
is not to provide an outlet for
our sentiments of hope or in
dignation; it is to shape real
events in real world "
This, in a fa:t!j) compact nut
Today & Tomorrow
By Walter lippmann
(i 19fi3 The Wathmcton Poet
Editor's note: With this col
umn. Walter Lippmann leaves
for a six-week fact-finding
tour of Europe. It is possible
that he will write an occasion
al column from Europe on im
portant subjects, but no regu
lar columns can be expected
during this six-week period.
Mr. Lippmann returns to the
United Slates and recom
mences "riling on a regular,
twice-weeklv basis on Nov. 18.
COMPLAINT AGAINST
CONGRESS
This is one of those moments
when there is reason to wonder
whether the congressional sys-
lorn a c it nnuf
3
operates is not
a grave danger
to the Republic.
There are two
great measures
gress. and in
a 1 1 probability
Senator G o 1 d-
w ater was right
Lippmann wnen ne said
the other day that "the Presi
dent has to make up his mind
whether he wants the civil rights
bill or a tax cut, because he
; cannot get them both.
This situation is a reflection
on the Congress. For the truth
, is that the two measures are
not competitive, but comple -
! mentary. If the tax bill can do
wnat its advocates believe it
can do, tnat is to say stimulate
business and reduce unemploy
I ment, it will reduce same of
I the pressures which are making
I it so difficult for the leaders of
the Negro people to continue to
be moderate, non-violent, pa
tient and reasonable.
The civil rights bill promises
Negroes the chance to vote,
better schooling and an end to
humiliation in public accommo
dations. But the tax bill prom
ises the Negroes jobs. They
need them. The rate of unem
ployment among Negroes is a
little more than twice as great
as among the whites.
The Negroes, therefore, have
an acute interest in a measure 1 can normally be justified and
that promises to overcome the j accepted as a way of mitigating
sluggishness of the economy. ! the absolutism of numerical ma
Today, for example, the Negro i jorities. If I were a senator. I
raie oi unemployment is over
11 per cent; during 1951-53.'
when the economy was boom-;
ing, Negro unemployment was :
less than 5 per cent. j
A NTONE w ho is serious about i
ripalincr with iho Voornoc' 1
giietdinea muai, uiereiore, ue
distressed to find that he has
to choose between the tax bill
and the civil rights bill. A com-
"If America decides to sell
step toward disarmament
from guns'!"
of the Real World
shell, is the philosophy of for
eign policy that a number of
American observers have been
trying to encourage in the last
few years, and who have, often
enough, been called cynics or
"tired liberals" for their pains.
There is an irony in the Presi
dent's Salt Lake' speech that
seems to have gone unnoticed.
It was duly reported that the
speech was directed at the ex
treme right, at Cioldwatensm.
at those who blindly insist that
we somehow cause Castro to
vanish, that we simply stop do
ing business with all' iron cur
tain countries, that we sign no
papers with Russia, that we
swat left-wing upstarts like
Sukarno back into place.
No doubt. Goldwaterism was
the President's intended target,
and he hit it. The irony of 'the
affair lies in the fact that he
also hit Goldvvater's left-liberal
opponents, whether he intended
to or not. He struck all those
who believe that if only we had
been nicer to Castro at the be
ginning all would be different
with Cuba, that we have some
how bunded the Dominican Re
public out of its infant democ
racy, that recent events in Ar
gentina. Peru and Brazil are
somehow the fault of Washing
ton, that we can not only elim
inate Diem in Viet Nam but
guarantee his replacement by i
regime not only democratic hut
full 0 military arrive r; effic-icncv.
all the remaining badges of
petent Congress, which was
equal to the realities of our
time, would see that the two
measures are closely related
and would act on them accord
ingly. But there is something mora
in all this than the lack of
serious and realistic understand
ing of what is at stake. This
Congress has gone further than
any other within memory to re-
j place debate and decision by
: delay and stultification. The
President first announced his
' plan to seek a reduction of taxes
in order to stimulate the econ
omy on Aug. 13, 1962. That was
over a year ago. A tax bill
Dassed the House last week hnr
the Senate nas not even be
; t0 noid hearings.
, Tne reason (or lhis de, js
tnat there is a considerable body
0( slrong opinion in Congress
and in the country which is op
posed to any tax cut until spend
ing is cut down. Though I hap
pen to think that it is impossible
to balance the budget when the
economy is running so much
below capacity, and that an
attempt to deflate now would
produce a reC(!SSj0n, the views
of e position to a tax cut
, are hoprable and deserving o
. respect. The issue, which is
' real, should be debated for as
j long as it takes lo debate it
1 thoroughly. But there should
, be a roll call and a decision
j at the end of the debate.
T DO NOT see how a modern
government can be conduct
ed successfully if on a major
issue, such as fiscal policy, the
Executive is refused for more
than a year a debate and a de
cision. If Congress agrees with
Senator Byrd, it ought to de
bate and then defeat the tax
bill. What is becoming alarm
ing and intolerable is a Con
gress which will smother and
stultify rather than debate and
decide.
This is a furtive and degen
erate form of the filibuster. In
my view, the open filibuster
that is to say. protracted debate
i would be verv loathe to vote
for cloture. But I would vote
for it now, because the times
are not normal and a critical
emergency exists.
The national security requires,
I believe, the passage in Sim
near future of a civil rights Dill
which constitutes a declara'i'in
j by the federal government that
slavery and servitude are out.
lawed.
us wheat, it might he the first
they have the kind that's 'shot
! When the President warned
that our policy "seems to have
lost the black-and-white clarity
of simpler times" he was warn
ing or he should have been
warning all those, both left
and right, who simply cannot
bring themselves to accept that
the world, in Mr. Kennedy's
words, "is full of contradiction
and confusion." He was warn
ing not only those on the right
who think "the American way
of life" is a convertible cur
rency, but those on the left,
who, with equal arrogance, be
lieve all the modern equivalents
of Woodrow Wilson's famous re
mark. "We will teach the Mex
icans to elect good men."
In one other phrase, the
President expressed what the
basic American world posture
should be because it must be:
"Our interest is best served by
preserving and protecting a
world of diversity in which no
monolithic power can ac
quire the ability to dominate
freedom."
An all-conquering tyrannv we
shall resist to the end. Petty,
local or temporary tyrannies vf
shall often have to 'eVide
Winston Churchill, a bejtev
phrase-mtter t h a n anvot'
around the President, wrote th
Wipe in four wod "Toler
Wice, variety and calm "
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