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History from tne film of The
Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago. '
10 YEARS AGO
Ort. 13. 1953 (Tneidiv)
The 1953-54 tax statements for
Jackson county will be mailed
this week, Howard Gault, sheriff
and tax collector, announces.
United Medford Crusade of
ficials report contributions this
year are running 35 to 200 per
cent over last year's total.
20 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13, 1943 (Wednesday)
Second Lt. Thomas Helman,
co-pilot of flying fortress which
bags 12 Nazi planes in raid on
Germany.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "The
duck shooting season opens Fri
day. Several local , enthusiasts
plan funerals for mythical grand
maws in the tules of Klamath
county."
30 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13, 1933 (Friday)
Body of Frank Turner, Lon
don, England, found on south
bound train out of Ashland;
death ruled suicide over girl
left behind.
Picturesque route reported se
lected for highway over Sis
kiyous. 40 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13, 1923 (Saturday)
Tax evaluation of Jack son
county placed at $24,700,570.
Work starts on Tiller Trail
road.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 13, 1913 (Monday)
Siskivou holduo man arrested
at Marshiield, suspect held at
Roscburg.
Georse W. Dunn. Ashland
elected orand commander of
the Knights Templar of Oregon
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or fan correct is superior!
seven or tight Is eacellent) five or
six Is good.
1. Choreography concerni
dancing, singing or map man-ine?
2. Is the average weight of a
standard bale of American cot'
ton about 49, 490, or 4,900
pounds?
3. Is a diving bell open or
closed at the bottom?
4. Name the city in the U.S.
which is said to be "the home
of the bean and the cod.
The Tax Decision
Most daily newspapers in the state are sup
porting the state tax measure to be voted on next
Tuesday. (At least two in Klamath Falls and
Ashland are against it. At least one in Coos
Bay is straddling the fence. Quite a few
weeklies are against it.)
Why, when all indications are that the tax
measure is going to go down to overwhelming
defeat, do the majority of daily newspapers sup
port this measure, most of them strongly?
Wouldn't it be "smarter" to play it cool, go
along with what appears to be popular sentiment,
and then smugly say "I told you so" when it was
all over?
pERTAINLY it would be easier. It would be
more peaceful, too, and more comfortable
not to be accused of "brainwashing" and "intimi
dation" and all the rest.
The Oregon Journal gave thought to this the
other day, and printed an editorial which said :
"Newspapers have been accused of being part of a con
spiracy to shove the 1963 tax legislation down the throats of
an unwilling public.
"If they are, their part in the conspiracy is not very
sinister.
"If they were acting out of selfish motives, they would
oppose the tax program.
"Newspapers and their employees pay taxes. They do not
like to pay taxes any more than other Oregon citizens.
"Furthermore, they know that to urge higher taxes is an
unpopular cause. If they were solely interested in winning
popularity and adding to their circulation, they would oppose
the tax package.
"But most newspaper people like to think of themselves
as responsible citizens of Oregon. They are convinced that
the revenue provided by this legislation is essential to the
welfare of their state, particularly in the field of education.
"They are willing themselves to pay the higher taxes that
will be required of them. They are willing to forego the
popularity they might win by taking the easier course.
"They believe that to do otherwise would mean abdication
of their duty as citizens and as newspapermen."
THAT PUTS it about as well as it can be nut
A Thprfi are nrhprs rnn wVin are snnnnvt.
mg tne tax measure at considerable personal risk
We refer to some of those who are (often con
temptuously) referred to as politicians.
We have respect for such people as Gov. Mark
Hatfield, Rep. Shirley Field, Rep. Ed Branch
field, Rep. Jim Redden and others who, knowing
full well the possible consequences, have stuck
their necks out and supported the measure be
cause they know they are right. This takes guts.
We have far less respect none, really for
legislators who, having voted for the bill in the
legislature, now crawfish, equivocate, or come out
against it. 1 his is pure political expediency, a
less than admirable trait.
The most reprehensible example is that politi
cal irresponsible, Sen. Walter Pearson. There are
others, closer to home.
CINCE 1957, Oregon has been living off. the
"fat" in the treasury. That fat is now gone.
Meanwhile, costs have risen. And, most im
portant of all, the numbers of students in ele
mentary and high schools, and in colleges and
universities, has skyrocketed.
The state, acting under the mandate of a vote
of the people, has increased its share of the
financing of the local school districts, thus help
ing to hold down local property taxes, which are
already at a near-conhscatory level. This is the
largest single item in the general fund budget.
All these things zeroed in on the 1963 Legis
lature, which "solved" them by putting together
a patchwork tax bill which would raise the need
ed money.
IT IS NOT a particularly good bill nor a
1 terribly bad one. It has obvious flaws. The
worst one is the $12 million to be raised bv
speeciect-up withholding, which is nothing but
borrowing trom the next bienr.uim.
But it is not nearly as bad as the hitrhlv-emo
tional critics declare. It has some badly needed
reforms, which benefit those who have been too
hard hit in the past. It broadens the base, without
hurting anyone who can't afford it. (The $5
filing fee will not hurt anyone seriously it is
principally designed to collect a small fee from
the 84,000 odd persons who have gotten off with
out paying any tax at all in the past, even while
collecting refunds on tax withheld.)
The best thing to be said about it is that it will
raise, for this biennium only, the money which
the state needs to continue its vital services, and
without which it will be crippled seriously.
IT IS INEVITABLE that the state of Oregon is
1 going to have to find added sources of
Matter of Fact
By Joseph AIsop
ic New Yorc Herald Tribune Syndicate
5. if an automobile is driven i income. This may be a sales tax, it may be, in
Kit mime nnr nn r nnw mnnv , . . . . .
part, a revised income tax, or added taxes on
such other things as cigarettes, motel space, and
other special taxes.
It is also true that some economics can proba
bly be made in certain areas of state govern
ment. But to slash state services (or, rather, part
of them for some are funded independently)
to the tune of up to one quarter of their budgets
mis is complete iiscai lriesponsionuy.
As stated previously, we expect the tax bill
to be voted down, and by a consderable ma
jority perhaps as much as two or three to one.
There is too much resentment, not only of the tax
increase itself, but of the Legislature's unwise
raising of its own members' salaries too much,
its political bickering and partisanship, the
junkets to Hawaii, and so on.
But also as stated previously, we believe that
those who insist in voting "no'1 will be doing so
knowing that the results will be fiscal chaos for
the state (no matter what self-seeking and craw
fishing legislators say), and a damaging blow at
responsible state government and at education
which is the slate's most important product.
j tu: ; ....... t.- '
at 60 miles per hour, how many
feet per second does lt travel?
6. Was Robin Hood a legend
ary or actual person?
7. Whom did Theodore Roose
velt succeed as President of
the U.S.?
R. What does a barometer reg
ister? 9. Who was Uie husband of
Marie Antoinette?
10. Correct the following: "The
condemned man was hung."
Answers: 1. Dancing. 2. 4IM.
3. Open. 4. Boston, Mass. 5. U
feet. 6. Legendary. 7. William
McKlnley. 8. Atmosppherlc pres
snre. 0. Louis XVI, King of
France. 10. ". . . was hanged."
EROSION, SLOW BUT SURE
Taipei, Formosa This is not
as good a vantage point for the
study of Communist China as
Hong Kong, but
there is one
C o m m u n ist
problem that
stands out in
stark relief
from the Taipei
angle of vision
It may prove
the central
Alinp prooiem ai uiai.
In brief, the Soviets mod
ernized the huge Chinese Com
munist armed forces during the
Korean War. But although the
big bill that Moscow then pre
sented to Peking has not yet
been paid in full, Mao Tse-tung's
army, navy, and air force are
already decaying towards their
pre-Korca status of an immense
militia possessing only a few
advance weapons.
At the time of the Korean
truce, for instance, the Chinese
Communist air force was one of
the world's strongest, equipped
with close to 4,000 aircraft of
the latest models of that period.
TODAY, however, the same air
force has not received a
new plane or even any serious
shipment of spare parts from
Russia since 1959. Cannibaliza-
tion and attrition have there
fore reduced it by about one
third, to approximately 2,700
semi-operational aircraft, all of
obsolete or obsolescent models.
Semi-operational is probably
an optimistic description of the
Chinese communist MIG-17S.
aging Ilyushins, and the rest.
The planes themselves get very
little time in the air, which al
ways leads to deterioration. The
pilots get even less flying time
hardly more than five hours
per month which has surely
led to loss of proficiency.
in snort, the same factors
that caused the humiliatingly
bad performance of the Chinese
Communist air units in the 1958
Formosa crisis have been op
erating ever since with increas
ing power. And unless training
can be intensified soon, and un
less replacement aircraft or at
least spare parts are soon forth
coming, the decay of the Chi
nese Communist air force must
quickly enter an accelerating
phase.
a
tyHE condition of the army is
A more difficult to gauge, since
there is clearly a very wide
spread between the average
army units and the crack out
fits, like those on the Indian
frontier. Yet the army con
fronts essentially the same
problem as the air force. Its
heavier and more advanced
weapons are not locally re
placeable, and no replacements
have come from Russia for
four long years. Even army
trucks are being cannibalized,
and the cannibalizatinn of the
higher army weapons is even
more rapid.
This does not mean, of course,
that China is now defenseless.
On the contrary, the Chinese
Nationalists have had distinctly
bad luck to date with their
harassing and penetration raids
along the coast, largely because
the Communists have made a
supreme effort to keep their air
and coastal warning nets in
good order. Yet the gradual, re
morseless, . and inevitably ac
celerating decay of Chinese
Communist military power is
still a world fact of the highest
significance.
This fact's meaning in itself,
moreover, is probably surpassed
by its meaning as a model. It
is easier to detect, describe,
and give figures concerning the
deterioration of the air force,
for instance, than to estimate
and describe the erosion of the
Chinese Communist industrial
plant. Yet here again, the same
kind of erosion is slowly but
surely at work, for precisely
the same reasons.
A small part of the Chinese
industrial plant is not Rus
sian in origin. A very large part,
considerably more than half in
fact, is not now being used,
because Peking has had to al
low industrial output to slump
to between 35 and 40 per cent
of capacity. The unused part of
the industrial plant is nonethe
less subject to decay; and the
part still in use is being worn
out rather rapidly.
In Canton, for instance, a
tractor plant and a plant pro
ducing chemical fertilizers were
very recently closed down. Botn
factories belonged to the pro
ductive sector which the regime
is supposed to be going all out
to expand, in order to strength
en Chinese agriculture. The rea
son in both cases (certainly
known because of Canton's com
paratively high visibility) was
simply the want of both spare
parts and raw materials to
keep these factories going.
Right here, of course, is
where the Sino-Soviet split
pinches the Chinese economy.
A vast deal of ignorant non
sense has been written about
"Soviet aid" being cut off.
China never has received any
Soviet aid, having been requir
ed to pay through the nose for
all exports from the Communist
bloc since the very beginning.
BUT the Chinese armed forces
got all their higher equip
ment from Russia. Chinese in
dustry is almost wholly equipped
with machinery imported from
the Soviet Union or the Eastern
European satellites. A high per
centage of China's railroad cars
and long haul trucks are Rus
sian or Eastern European in
origin.
Thus the whole mechanical
sector of the Chinese Commu
nist economy has been, in ef
fect, completely designed around
machines for which neither
parts nor replacements are any
longer available. A more ter
rible national problem can hard
ly be imagined, especially for
a government which has already
been forced to cut back its
capital investments almost to
zero, in the attormalh of its
own megalomaniac follies.
GREAT IDEAS...
From the Great Books
By Mortimer J. Adler
1 963, Publliheri Newipaper Syndicate
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RELIGION PRO AND CON
Dear Dr. Adler: What do
the great thinkers of the past
have to say about the values
of organized religion? Do they
agree that the church is in
dispensable to the moral and
spiritual welfare of the indi
vidual and the nation, or do
they differ from this common
ly held opinion?
Mrs. Eleanor Schapiro
RFD 3 Box 325 Beech rd.
Wadsworth, Ohio
Dear Mrs. Schapiro: Religion
involves a basic trust in the
order and direction of things.
It presupposes a bond between
men and the absolute principle,
person, or order which under
girds the world. It is expressed
in ethical deeds, ritual acts, and
inner devotion by individuals or
by communities. It enlists the
whole of the human person
body, intellect, emotion, and
imagination. It provides for the
religious man the basic pattern
by which his life is lived and
the whole of things is approach
ed. Both an affirmation and de
nial of the value and validity
of religion appeared from the
earliest times in our tradition.
The Greek philosopher Plato af
firmed 2,500 years ago that the
world is ruled by a supreme
divine will, which directs it in
its course and governs human
affairs. He vigorously opposed
the view that matter is the sole
reality and chance the cause
of events, as well as the theory
that religion is a human inven
tion without any basis in reality.
He also opposed the convention
al popular view that man may
attain salvation by performing
certain formal, ritual acts, en
tirely apart from the ethical
quality of his life.
The Roman philosopher and
poet Lucretius provides a good
example of the materialistic,
anti-religious view which Plato
opposed. Lucretius held that all
things, including human thought
and feeling, are caused by ma
terial events. He did not deny
that gods exist, but he denied
that they concern themselves
with human affairs or have the
power to control the infinite uni
verse. In his view, things just
happen as they do, without sup
ernatural direction or a tran
scendent goal, and without any
relevance to human needs and
hopes.
Lucretius believed that re
ligion was the product of sup
erstitious fear mainly Uie
fear of death and what might
occur in the after life. He held
that man could be relieved of
these baseless fears by a true
knowledge of the nature of
things. This ancient view that
religion is born of fear, a theory
which some modern thinkers
seem to think that they have
invented themselves, was reit
erated by Thomas Hobbes in
16th Century England. Hobbes,
who, like Lucretius, was a com
plete materialist, ascribed the
natural oricin of religion to ig
norance and fear, although he
was careful not to apply his
theorydo Christianity, which he
claimed to view as a divinely
revealed and true religion.
Of course, the most famous
and impressive reduction of re
ligion to emotional needs was
offered by Sigmund Freud in
our own time. Freud held that
religion arises from the childish
need for security amid the
stresses and strains which we
suffer in the harsh reality of
adult life. In his view, religion
offers a false, futile, and harm
ful solace, and we would do
better to adhere to the methods
and results of modern science,
which are more reliable, though
not as emotionally gratifying.
The "psychogenetic" explana
tion of religion reducing it to
a product of emotional needs
has been subjected to much crit
icisms Freud himself acknowl
edged that even if it can be
shown that religious beliefs and
attitudes satisfy emotional
needs, this is no proof that the
claims of religion are false, al
though he himself was convinc
ed that they were. It must also
be recognized that psychologi
cal analvsis is a two edged
sword, which may just as well!
be used to question the moti
vations of non-believers as of
believers.
Many intelligent spokesmen
for traditional religion grant
that Freud's analysis is an ac
curate description of the needs
and satisfactions of many simple-minded
and neurotic believ
ers. However, they question
whether it applies at all to the
faith exhibited by the great
Biblical figures, who did not
seek ease in some never-never
land beyond the human condi
tion, but rather girded them
selves to fulfill a divine demand,
against all the lures of ease,
comfort, and consolation. Ac
tually, they say, the natural
temptation is to follow the false
gods of power, profit, and race,
and the false satisfactions which
they bring, rather than serve the
God of Biblical faith.
Threats Never Win
To the Editor: We will close
your schools, we will make this
a dole state if you don't go along
with our ideas for tax increases.
We will bury you eventually,
why not now sound familiar?
Are we the voters and tax
payers and parents being told
by our employees and elected
officials just what we can do
and not do with our tax dollars?
Threats never did win from the
American citizen, especial 1 y
from within.
Should our city, county, and
state officials, as such, in their
official title, express a public
opinion for or against a tax
bill? As an ordinary citizen,
without their official title I say
yes. As an elected official ex
pressing the opinion of their
office or association I say no.
Right now 79.8 per cent of our
property tax dollar goes for
schools. Surely there must be
something wrong, and as ex
pressed on a local radio station
by a private citizen it is time
we as the public paying this tax
bill do a little checking into the
educational tax dollar.
Are there too many chiefs
and not enough Indians in our
school system? Why not have
our single purpose chiefs teach
a class or two and give our
regular teachers a little relief
as well as our scnoot tax aoiiar.
And at the state level, who said
we demanded so much extra
curricular service as our public
officials say, why not start the
tax cut at the non - essential
services first and work on the
school cut last.
With our increased assessed
valuation throughout the state
and our higher per capita in
come and increased population,
it is possible that our tax com
mission has underestimated the
income the state will receive in
the next two years. In any
event, we can be sure the state
will find a way to spend every
cent we allow them to tax us.
for, so now is a good time to call
a "look see" until we can elect
new senators and legislators
who will take time to write a
real equitable tax bill for Oregon.
It would be interesting reading
if the "yes" crusaders would
publish before election time the
money they have spent in their
efforts to defeat the referendum.
This would include cash money.
that portion of the Governor s
and other high official salaries
we are paying on their "stump
ing tour" and the time involved
by school superintendents, prin
cipals, board members, and
other public officials. We are
apparently paying from both
ends kind of a "heads you
win tails I lose" game.
Let's all get out and vote as
we see fit on election day.
(Name on File)
Medford, Ore.
Name for Park
To the Editor: I have just
read your editorial in the Mon
day, Oct. 7, issue asking for
a name for the new park along
Bear creek.
Why not call it the David
Loring Park after the man who
named Medford.
Byron Coleman,
351 California St.,
San Francisco 4, Calif.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
The big wheat deal in a nut
shell: We're selling Russia about
$250 million worth of the stuff.
We're selling it at the world
market price, which is about
$1.30 a bushel. At $1.30 a bu
shel, the sale of $250 million
worth of wheat would translate
into a little better than 192 mil
lion bushels.
Getting rid of 192 million bu
shels would eat up a little bet
ter than one-fifth of the present
U.S. SURPLUS, which now
stands at a little better than
900 million bushels.
WHICH is to say:
Russia gets the wheat
which she needs to feed her
hungry people.
We get rid of about 20 per
cent of our wheat surplus
which we need to do. It costs
us about $300 million just to
STORE our surplus wheat.
According to dispatches, the
cost of MAKING the deal would
be somewhat in excess of $115
million, since this country has
been subsidizing wheat exports
at about 60 cents a bushel.
A ND
President Kennedy says:
"The sale of the wheat for
about $250 million and the addi
tional income for American
shipping (which will carry the
wheat to Russia) will REDUCE
OUR BALANCE OF TRADE
DEFICIT and provide income
for Americans."
BIG question as to Kroosh and
the wheat deal that has just
been negotiated:
Are we doing him dirt?
Or are we saving his bacon
by providing him with the
wheat with which to feed his
people.
Anyway
We get rid of a lot of wheal
that was costing us a lot of
money in the way of storage
bills.
FIGURE it out if you can.
It's a weird world we're liv
ing in.
There are times when it al
most looks like the more you
lose the more you make.
Only Temporary
To the Editor: Some people)
around here are of the "learn
ed" opinion that the legislature
can do anything in a day. About
the only thing I can see them
do in a day is collect their pay
then they come back the next
day and collect again. I'm not
for having them do that again
this year.
Even though the tax bill Isn't
so hot, it's only temporary until
we can elect somebody smart
enough to pass a better one.
None of us likes higher taxes
and that goes for property taxes
too, which would be raised if
income taxes weren't. Income
taxes hit everybody, not just
those of us with property. I'd
say we better pass the tax law
this time or we'll be worse oft
than ever we'll just have
wasted lots of hot air.
Richard R. Klor,
371 South Mountain St.,
Ashland, Ore.
NHU BEAUTY AID!
Goldwaterism: Protest to Paralysis
By ERIC SEVAREID including his simple, homespun l perate, confused protest against has put it: "They (the prob-
The Goldwater Phenomenon sincerity and charm, he is much i a desperately confused new
has already reached proportions more another Eisenhower than i world of human living rising
far beyond anything that most i another Taft. Like Eisenhower
-r-a serious observ-; in both his campaigns, and un
k ers, especially j like Stevenson and Kennedy in
3t t h o s e in the theirs, he is making no demands
'sv WBr eastern centers upon the people for greater and
'All11 r- 0 f t ho u g h t, 1 greater intellectual and physi-
. - j i m a ff in e ri 1 1 cal exertions
around us at home and abroad.
Millions have simply given up
trying to understand it, let
alone cope with it.
Most of the human race abroad
is convulsed with the paroxysms less course,
lems) do not respond to our
existing means of correction and
control."
It is in a profound sense that,
as Heilbroner states it, "Our
society seems no longer under
our control. Running its master-
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THE INCOME TAX MEASURE
This it one of a series of brief presentations
of tome little-known aspects of the income tax
measure on which Oregon voter will decide
at a special election on Oct. 15.
A "ves" vote approves the law; a "no" vote defeats it.
QI'KSTIOX
I've worked all my life, and saved as much as I could to
put my kids through school and provide for my retirement.
Last year I was told that if I sold my investments. I would pay
over 9 per cent of my gain to the State, if I used the money
as I wanted. What will the new Tax Law do for me?
ANSWKR
The new Tax Law makes a substantial reform in the treat
ment of capital gains by eliminating the reinvestment require
ment and taxing all capital gains on assets held over one year
at no more than 5 per cent. The old law had the effect of
bunching Income accrued over many years Into the year ol
sale, penalizing those who saved for education, retirement or
other personal purposes by pushing them into the highest
bracket in that one year. Only those who reinvested were
helped. This inequity has been removed by the 13 Tax Law
Sevarrld
described as
it disposes of us
- ; .i-j i in h g in e u 1 1 im twei nuns, in no uumt'aui: oi a revuiuuun ihhi is esbcmiauy ai u sees, ill ana not as we
-r-it)M could attain a proposals, he issues no rallying socialist and non-white. These might desire."
TTVr wa year ago, ana cry lor me people 10 cnarge , parts ol tne woria reiuse to . i ne traditional agencies of
the phenomenon the barricades or cross unknown "turn out" as men like Gold-1 correction and control local
is just hitting frontiers. He seems, instead, to water had wanted to believe government, limited federal gov-
its real stride, be issuing a rallying cry for they would. At home, labor un-: ernment, the Congress, the mar-
If it is to be passive resistance to the baffling ion power has grown enormous- ket place, the most exhaustive
a conservative problems of a nightmarish age. ly; giant corporations become 1 reporting and analvsis of facts
movement, clearly it has little - When he advocates turning super-giants, beyond detailed by the press these agencies
connection with the ideas and civil rights over to the states comprehension; the people mi-1 are no longer truly effective,
the climate that surrounded (that is, turning desegregation grate like heedless lemmings, ; Nor is the agency to which Gold
Senator Robert A. Taft, the true, I in the South over to the segre- draining the farm states, inun- water appeals, traditional horse
traditionalist conservative of the gationists), when he asks that dating the cities where the or common sense. It is not to
post-war period. Taft largely the progressive income tax be slums and the maddening traf-, be wondered at that Negroes
created his own following, the abolished, when he suggests that (ic increase. Crime spreads, have taken to the streets or
hard way: a great deal of Gold- family relief in the vast, sprawl- technology baffles and disor- that a crime organization which
ing Harlems of America be ganizes our daily lives, throws I should have been dealt with
turned over to lodges, unions, millions out of work, and be-1 in the quiet of grand jury rooms
private charities and relatives fore these monsters of the sci- j becomes the subject of a Sena-
of the indigent when he says entific Frankenstein even edu-: torial, TV and press circus.
mese tnmgs ne is not solving cated men seem powerless. '
i We have entered the age of
Problems we have always had what Heilbroner calls the "Great
' with us, even massive prob- Paralysis." I do not know how
Yet he is perfectly correct lems, because we are not and the paralysis is to be broken,
when he retorts that the prob- never have been one of the inert but broken it must be. The last
lems of our time and our so- societies of earth. But what is thing we can do is escape it,
ciety are not being solved as different this time, what manv ae se ntasy of GoUwater's (el-
sees about him, and the emo- matters are going. And in this of us have sensed mcreasinaJy Itwerg seen to wish, by think-
tional battery that gives them profound frustration must lie and what aaele'ens peeile we iifl earselves back to a simpler
energy is all but pure nostalgia the key to Goldwater's large make up the Gelvaar (eleiv- lm.
for a society that is gone. following, lt is not half so much ing bemuse llfry believe tew (Distributed 1963,
. ' 1 a movement with a program as MUST be a simple answer, is 8y The Hall indicate . Inc.)
1 For these and other reasons, 'one with a protest. It is des- this, as Mr. Robert Heilbroner. (All Rights Reserved)
water's following has rushed to
him, including groups he is
bound to find an embarrass
ment sooner later.
Taft knew exactly what he
thought and the philosophical the problems, he is wishing
and historical reasons behind them awav.
his thoughts, and he built a sys
tematic program from this
foundation; Goldwater's domes
tic ideas spring essentially from
negative reaction to what he