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Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO yean ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Nov. M. M5J (Thursday) i
John W. Chllders, principal
of Medford's Roosevelt School,
Is the author of an article ap
pearing in the December Issue
of "Safety Education" maga-
lne' ' . .. i
U. S. Representative Harris
Ellsworth from Oregon's Fourth
Congressional district has sched
uled a speech at Southern Ore
gon College next Wednesday.
' M YEARS AGO
v.u f (Frtrlav)
! William Reihnart, 71, local
businessman and longtime resi
dent of southern Oregon, dies
at Phoenix.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
4 .An , rnlnmn- "Brides
from the Class of '43 did noble
yesterday at the Thanksgiving
eastings. Tney cooitea we iuwi
with their Maws ano ui
maws as an advisory commit
tee."
3 YEARS AGO
Nov. 28. 1933 (Sunday)
Eight refrigerated cars con
taining 160,000 pounds of Rogue
Valley turkeys, shipped to San
Francisco for holiday trade.
Total of 307 Jackson County
men to receive Jobs through lo
cal Civil Works Administration
program on county and irriga
tion district projects.
40 YEARS AGO
Nov. l. 1K3 (Monday)
Medford's Mayor Earl Gaddls
raps Southern Pacific Railroad
officials for getting injunction
to stop city from constructing
Sixth Street crossing across rail
road tracks.
Judge E. E. Kelly to deliver
speech at high school bonfire
to arouse enthusiasm for Med-ford-Ashland
high school football
game.
YEARS AGO
Nov. M. 1013 (Wednesday)
Plot exposed to "blacken
name" of County Judge Frank
TouVelle by "gang of unscru
pulous politicians."
Baskets of Thanksgiving food
distributed to nine Medford fam
ilies by Associated Charities;
local observances of the day ex
pected to be quiet.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten attract b ruperlei;
seven et eieht ti eicellent; five ei
all It feed.
1. What name is applied to
female warriors?
2. To what does polyandry re
fer? 3. In which National Park Is
Quadrant Mountain?
4. In what year was the most
recent U.S. census of popula
tion taken?
5. Where did Napoleon die?
8. Who wore bells on her
toes?
7. Who was responsible for
popularizing the word Aryan?
II. In what country would you
most expect to find a geisha?
9. What is the singular form
of the word dice?
10. What name is given to a
painting done on a wall?
Answer) !. Amatons. 2. Plural
hatbands. I. Yellowstone. 4,
1M0. I. St. Helena. , The Lady
from Banbury. 7. Hitler. I. Ja
pan. I. Die. 10. Mural or fresco.
4 A
NOVEMBER M, 1W5
The Goals Remain
Still stunned, still only half beieving the
awful truth, the nation has buried its Presi
dent with full and fitting honors, and now turns
again to the mundane facts of life continuing.
For a time, perhaps, the political overtones
of the tragedy will remain muted. But in a na
tion as intensely political as ours, the noise and
confusion of the pre-campaign months will soon
start to resume. The shocked unanimity of a
mourning people will erode away before the
demands of diverse men and diverse interests.
But the nation has learned, and hopefully
will remember, that in essentials, it is, it must
be, united. It has been a painful lesson.
MANY HAVE deplored, as have we, the un
mistakable evidence that civilization and
an ordered society are but a thin veneer over
savagery.
But the other side of the coin shows us that,
while the veneer may be thin, it is widespread.
The almost universal shock and grief and sense
of outrage show us that most of us have pro
gressed a little way from savagery, long though
it may linger in some.
The race may have originated in brutality
and savagery, but it has gradually grown away
from them in its everyday living, and they have
come to be abhorrent to our hearts.
e e e
CHIEFLY in the act of war we still revert to
' the mentality of the caveman. Man has,
in many ways, learned to live with man al
though there is still a far journey to go. Among
nations, the goal is even more distant.
But it was that goal which President Ken
nedy had set himself to lead us toward the
goal of peace on earth, good will toward men.
He had sought it among the nations and had
sought it among his own people, black and white,
north and south. He had sought a lessening of
international tensions while at the same time
realizing the continuing need for strength in the
jungle world of the 20th Century.
HE HAD sought a land wherein no man was
less worthy than another because his face
was black. He had sought a land wherein no
one would go hungry or live in frustrated idle
ness. He had sought a land prosperous and at
peace.
He had sought a land wherein the intellect
was respected, and wherein the artist, the mu
sician, the author, the poet, were honored and
made welcome.
He had sought a land wherein knowledge and
science were the servants of mankind, and not
ends in themselves. And he had sought a land
where every man, no matter what his origins,
would have an opportunity to achieve the knowl
edge and the skills to make himself a better man
and the nation a better nation.
....
rpHESE ARE lofty and
search for them has been long, and otten
frustrated by smaller men.
It may be that the death of the young Presi
dent who so valiantly sought to "get the country
moving" toward these goals will somehow make
further progress possible. It may be that the
reactionaries and frustrationists will be shocked
into a realization that the world is, after all, im
provable, provided we set out to improve it.
If that is to be the case it would be the most
fitting memorial possible to the memory of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Mrs, Kennedy's Courage
Over the past three
or covertly belittled Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy
as a giddy butterfly, too
her own pleasures ; beautiful, pehaps, but proba
bly having little real character.
Others and we are
among them have felt
gloss, here is a woman to
Her behavior during
the hours ending late yesterday confirms one
thing: She is a tremendously determined woman
with unbelievable self-control and courage.
e e e
LIERS HAS been no easy life, nor a "sheltered"
one, as Mme. Nhu ungraciously wired her.
She came from a broken home. She has had
illnesses. She lost several babies through mis
carriages, and one two days after he was born
She has gone through all the rigors of campaign
ing with her husband, and through the tremend
ously demanding routine
mistress of the White House.
She has renewed and stirred interest in the
arts, in architecture, in music and drama. She
has brought a renewed
Mansion, and taken the
via television, thus providing a broadened under
standing of our national heritage.
e e
A ND THEN at last, having to share her grief
with the whole world, and before the eyes
or trie world, sue set an example of courage
which would put almost anyone else to shame.
At all times she was meticulously correct in
her behavior, but still retained her sense of in
dividuality (as in her startling late-night visit to
the bier in the Capitol rotunda). She was, indeed,
more comforting than comforted, not only to her
two children bewildered little John-John and
half-comprehending Caroline but to the great
and near-great who surrounded her.
At the risk of sounding maudlin, we would
declare her to be a worthy object of the nation's
homage. E. A.
noble goals, but the
E. A.
years, many have openly
much concerned with
pleased to be numbered
that, beneath the surface
command respect.
the hideous events of
of being First Lady and
glory to the Executive
whole nation through it,
MEDFORD
"I Still Can't
Alone on a
Darkling Plain
By Arthur Hopps
EN ROUTE TO WASHING
TON It is night. Below the air
liner the towns of America creep
past, spidery pools of light in
the blackness. The initial shock
and grief at the assassination
have eased. And I cannot look
down on these sleeping commu
nities without feeling a new emo
tion: an uneasiness. Almost a
naked fear. In the privacy of
how many homes down there
in the secrecy of how many
minds is it shared?
I feel it, I know one of my
daughters feels it. She came
home from school crying. "It
was awful. They told us at re
cess and one boy said he was
glad and the other boys hit
him with a rock and we stood
on the bench screaming and a
plane came over and I thought
it was going to drop a bomb."
Ana she cried, not so much in
grief as in fear.
So I held her on my lap, the
way you do, and rocked her and
said everything would be all
right. But I don't know that it
will. I don't know.
What we have lost, my daugh
ter and I, is not so much a great
leader. Maybe Mr. Kennedy was
a great leader. Maybe not. I'm
not wise enough to know.
No, what we have lost, she
and I, is a focusing point, the
bannister off the stairs, the top
block on our pile. And If hatred
and violence can snuff out the
life of the most powerful and
protected man in our world
just like that what of us?
What of us?
If I died, she would, I know,
feel the same about me. As her
father, I am a certitude in her
life, a known quality in the sea
of unsureness through which
children must find their way.
That was what Mr. Kennedy
was to both of us. Whether we
admired much of what he did
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
(c) Field Xnterprliet. lne.
WAR AND SHAME
"We ought to rewrite ancient
history for children," a woman
remarked to me recently, "so
that conflict and combat aren't
glorified. When they read about
the Greeks fighting all the time,
and the 10 years of the Trojan
War, they think that war, if
not noble, is at least normal."
I suggested that this was a
misreading of history especial
ly among the ancient Greeks.
Rather than glorifying war,
they recogniied it as an evil,
bitterly necessary though it
sometimes might be.
This is most obviously true
when we consider the pantheon
of the Greek gods, each of whom
was given a distinct personality
and specific attributes.
Ares was the Greek god of
war, and he la the most un
pleasant character In the en
tire pantheon. Nothing good
Is ever ascribed to him he
was surly, belligerent, covet
ous, quarrelsome, ugly, under,
handed, and above all en
vious of the other gods.
Neit, consider the outstand
ing heroes among the Greeks.
They were Achilles and
Ulysses, the decisive men In
the Trojan War. Yet Achillea
was sent lo a far away
Island, where he disguised
himself as a woman, In order
lo avoid, military service.
Ulysses, the boldest and
most running of Greek war
riors, pretended lo be a deaf
Idiot when summoned for the
army. He was "drafted" Into
MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD.
Believe It"
(which I did) or disliked some
of what he did (which I did),
he was a known quantity, part
of the fabric of our routine. The
assassin's bullet had torn
great hole in the tenuous web
of our security.
And now we have President
Johnson. Perhaps the Presiden
cy will bestow greatness on him
as it has on others. "Will it?"
I asked the cab driver on the
way to the airport. "Do you
think it will?"
"I don't know much about
him, but I think he'll do all
right," he said. "I hope."
He hopes. I hope. You hope
But I don't know. That's what
it is, I don't know.
e
Did they feel this way when
President Garfield was killed?
President McKinley? Even Pres
ident Lincoln? I don t know,
doubt it. I deeply believe my
unease my fears are re
flections of the perils of our
times.
For the world sits balanced
on the razor's edge. A wrong
decision would kill not a thousand
nor a mil'ion, but 200 million or
400 million. You, me and my
daughter. Never has the sea of
unsureness appeared so deep,
so turbulent. Never has peace
nor ease, nor certitude appeared
so precious.
It is what my child feels. It
Is what I feel. We feel it in dif
ferent ways, perhaps, but we
feel the same thing. And as I
watch each tangle of light crawl
by below in the blackness, I be
lieve that many down there feel
it, too. For the leader we knew
the leader we knew so well is
gone. We are left alone and,
for this moment, we are all but
frightened children on "a dark
ling plain, swept with confused
alarms of struggle and flight,
where ignorant armies clash by
night."
service only by the trick of
throwing his little boy Into
Ihe path of his plough, and
went off to war most un
willingly. Among the Trojans, Hector
(the most sensible, mature and
manly ot the lot) openly op
posed continuing the conflict
which was bound to end in dis
aster for both sides. Even
though he was vanquished, in
Greek literature he remains the
only "moral hero" of the tragic
aecade.
In the centuries following, the
great Greek plays, far from
glorifying combat deplored and
attacked it. Aristophanes mer
cilessly flayed the countrymen
for their aggressions; and the
serious playwrights of that
time condemned the "hubris,
or pride, of the Greeks in trying
to settle human disagreements
by subhuman means and
prophesied that the gods would
punish them for these arrogant
and bestial acts.
What the lady meant was that
most history, beginning with
the earliest, is a record of wars
and conquests, of military lead
ers and campaigns. History does
not need to be rewritten, or
softened; It needs to be taught
with intelligence and discrimi
nation and a sense of permanent
values. Most of all, we need to
be told that those few nations
which did "glorify" war (and
the Greeks were not among
them) left nothing to the future
but a sense of shame among
their miserable remnants.
III Wl
OREGON
Memo to
Foreign Policy Views
r
PHIL NIWSOM
urirVreiinNmi
Analyst
Memo to various world lead
ers: You will want to know about
the new President of the United
States, what kind of man he is
and the foreign policy the Unit
ed States will follow under his
leadership.
Many of you already have met
this tall Texan who as vice
president travelled about the
world on missions in behalf of
President Kennedy.
First:
Nikita Khrushchev: There
were reports from high Commu
nist diplomats in London over
the weekend that you were deep
ly disturbed that a change now
may be made in U. S. strategy.
You first met Johnson in
Washington a couple of .years
ago and it's probable you didn't
make a' good impression. Your
greeting to Johnson was recall
ed thusly:,
"I do not know you, but I
have read all your speeches
and I do not like any of them."
In that case, you surely recall
a speech Johnson made before
the West Berlin Parliament in
August, 1961, just after erection
of the Berlin Wall. He said:
"To the survival and to the
creative future of this city, we
Americans have pledged, in ef
fect, what your ancestors
pledged in forming the United
States: 'Our lives, our fortunes
and our sacred honor.' "
That means there will be no
lack of U. S. determination to
continue to defend allied rights
in West Berlin.
Mao Tse-tung of Red China:
"GO, STRANGER!
WASHINGTON - Of all the
men in public life in his time.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was
the most ideally formed to lead
the United States of America.
Such, at any rate, is this re
porter's judgment, perhaps
biased, but at any rate based
on long experience and observa
tion, and no longer possible to
suspect as self-serving. To be
sure, judging Kennedy was
never easy, for he was no com
mon man, to be judged by
common standards.
Courage, intelligence, and
practicality; a passion for excel
lence and a longing to excell;
above all, a deep love of this
country, a burning pride in its
past, and unremitting c o n f i
dence in the American future
these were the qualities which
acted, so to say, as the main
springs of Kennedy the Presi
dent. KENNEDY the man, Kennedy
the private face, was half
the enemy and half the re
inforcement of Kennedy the
President. . He had an enviable
grace of manner and person.
He enjoyed pleasure. After
Theodore Roosevelt, he was the
first American President to care
for learning for its own sake.
After Abraham Lincoln, he was
the first American President
with a rich vein of personal
humor which is a very dif
ferent thing from the capacity
to make jokes.
This strange, dry detached,
self-mocking humor no doubt
aided him to assess men and
events; but in his public role,
it was a handicap. Certainly it
was not the same sort of handi
cap as Lincoln's humor, which
actually prevented great num
bers of otherwise intelligent
persons from taking Lincoln
seriously.
Kennedy's humor instead
inhibited him from showing the
depth of his feelings. Any pub
lic exhibition of emotion gave
him gooseflesh. So foolish peo
ple said he was a cold, unfeel
ing man, although few men in
our time have had stronger feel
ings about those things that
mattered to him.
AFTER HIS country, what
" mattered most to him was
to live Intensely, with purpose
and effect. He was in some
sense the ultimate personifica
tion of the observation of Jus
tice Holmes: "Man Is born to
act; to act Is to affirm the
worth of an end; and to affirm
the worth ot an end is to create
an ideal."
The ideal that Kennedy af
firmed in action was singularly
simple: for no man was ever
more contemptuous of the theo
logical complexities of ideology,
(It was hard to know, indeed,
whether he held a more sover
eign contempt for the doctrin
aire musmness of the extreme
American Left or for the doc
trinaire hate-preachings of the
World Leaders: President's
You recall a visit Johnson
made to Formosa and to South
east Asia.
In Formosa, Johnson told
Chiang Kai-shek that the United
States "has no Intention of
recognizing the Peking regime"
and opposes "seating the Peking
regime in the United Nations."
And you also must remember
what Johnson said in the Philip
pines. He said there that "we
will continue to honor our ob
ligations and will proceed either
alone or with our free world
friends to preserve our position
in Asia."
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The Creator1
To the Editor: The brain
weighs about three pounds. It is
largely composed of living cells.
In these cells, 500 of which ex
tend but one inch, the experi
ence, education, and the mental
skill of a lifetime are stord.
From the billion nerve cells of
the brain and spinal cord little
silken fingers extend to all parts
of the body. By this miracle tele
graph system the movements of
head, hands and feet are coordi
nated. All move in harmony
with the commands of the speci
fied nerve centers that govern
each part and function; even
during sleep the heart beats, the
lungs breathe, and the glands
function; in obedience to these
vigilant, sleepless keepers of the
living temple (1 Cor.6: 19,20).
The lungs are lined with a
delicate membrance which if
unfolded would cover 2,000
square feet. Beneath this mem
brane an amount of blood equal
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Aliop
It) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
extreme American Right. He
was slow to anger, but these
made his gorge rise.)
HIS ideal could be completely
summed up in only a score or so
of words a nation conceived
in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are
created equal; the proud strong
hold of a new birth of freedom
and the standing promise to all
men that government of the
people, by the people, and for
the people shall not perish from
the earth. The noble, ancient
phrases, the pieced-together
tags from the finest of all Amer
ican utterances, are as well-
worn by now as antique coins,
whose legend is illegible. But
HE could read the legend still.
HE still took this definition of
our nation's purpose with per
fect literalness and this was the
ideal that his actions sought to
affirm.
WHEREAS Franklin Delano
" Roosevelt took office when
the nation was clamoring for
leadership and crying out to be
shown a new course, John Fitz
gerald Kennedy took office in a
time of violent, yet hardly com
prehensible, change Too many.
then as now, confronted the vast
revolutionary proceses of our
time either with fatty com
placency or with shrill, embit
tered indignation. His task was
therefore a hard task, and he
was untimely cut off before his
task could be half done.
Yet if we look at our country
and the world in which we live
if we honestly compare the
prospects now opening before us
with the prospects as they
seemed when Kennedy s Presi
dency began we can see that
there has been a new birth of
hope.
It is perhaps pardonable, at
this moment, to be personal.
Speaking for myself, I have not
dared to hope as I do now since
those first months of the Korean
War, when such overly high
hopes were bom from the strong
sense that America was grandly
accomplishing a high, historic
service.
rpHAT SERVICE had its heavy
price. I still remember
watching the Wolfhound Regi
ment through a long, hard fight,
and how the bodies of the fallen
were carried in when the fight
was won, and how I suddenly
could think only of Simonides'
epitaph that was inscribed for
all to read, on the tomb of the
dead Spartans at Thermopylae:
Go, Stranger, and in Licad-
aemon tell
That here obedient to the
laws we tell.
The President who is lost to
us, like those men who were lost
so many years ago, was no
drilled, unthinking Spartiate. He
was the worthy citizen of a na
tion great and free a nation, as
he liked to think, that is great
because it is free and this was
the thought that ilwavs inspired
his too brief leadership of this
republic.
Are Well
After Johnson got home from
that trip he recommended that
an additional $100 million be set
aside for economic and mili
tary aid to go primarily to South
Viet Nam, Thailand and Pakis
tan. Not much comfort for the Red
Chinese there.
President Charles de Gaulle:
President Kennedy opposed your
determination to build an in
dependent French nuclear force.
He did not like your veto of
British membership in the Eu
ropean Common Market. You
remember that in Paris Johnson
also called for "a true Atlantic
to the entire bodily supply
passes each minute for purifica
tion. Each tiny red corpuscle,
3,500 of them to the inch, carriers
with it a load of life-giving oxy
gen larger than the corpuscle
itself. "He giveth to aU life, and
breath, and all things" (Acts
17:25).
Speech, if possible, is the
most mysterious. In the larynx
are two vocal cords, each less
than in inch in length and ex
actly alike. Yet of the three
billion persons, no two voices
are precisely the same; yet
each normal person can pro
duce thousands of variations in
tone and expression.
The power and influence of
speech is an even greater mir
acle than the organ by which it
is produced. It can pour forth
the sweetest music, and stir the
deepest emotions of the soul.
It may arouse millions to face
peril and death undaunted, or
it may sooth the timid babe to
rest, and to the troubled heart
whisper, "Peace, be still."
"Truly, Death and life are in
the power of the tongue."
And how did mankind acquire
so priceless a talent, so mar
velous a gift? "Who hath made
man s mouth? . . . have not I
the Lord?" "The answer of the
tongue, is from the Lord." (Ex.
4:11; Prov. 15:1). The Creator
who made these delicate organs
out of the dust and breathed into
them the breath of life, (Gen.
2:7) is the creator of all nature.
Nature declareth his glory and
showeth his handiwork.
F. E. Beverly
112 Geneva St.
Medford
Know The Facta
To the Editor: It seems that
you and A.E.J, and his "ilk"
label everyone that you do not
agree with as a Bircher. You
referred to the writer and the
"Big Lie" 11-13-63 as a Bircher.
Wrong again. It might be well
to know the facts before label
ing anyone. "Jumping to con
clusions is not half as good
exercise as digging for the
facts."
The men who picketed Earl
Warren in N.Y. were called
Birchers, but it was proven they
were not. Also the ones, in L.A.
that caused some disturbance
lately were proven not to be
JB's. There are several hundred
groups of God fearing Ameri
cans who are upholding our
constitution and fighting to save
our beloved country.
Remember Noah and how he
was ridiculed when he tried to
warn the people to turn to God?
What happened? I wouldn't call
him as having a "misguided
zeal" because he was on the
extreme right and proving the
facts were "too ridiculous" for
anyone to take seriously" (as
AEJ 11-1043 said regarding a
recent letter). If the Hargis,
Smoots, Schwartz, Tom Ander
sons and other rightists are just
"stating falsehoods," then why
has not it been proven? Have
you ever heard of any of them
taking the fifth amendment?
They are not afraid to stand up
and be counted, they know what
they are talking about and try
ing to awaken the American
people out of their stupor.
With all the smears that the
spineless liberals are handing
out proves wey are being fright
ened, because of the rapid in
crease of the Americans who
are hearing the "Voices in the
Wilderness" as to the conditions
our country Is in. As one com
mander said a few days ago,
"The Invisible government is
beginning to be visible."
When Anti-Communist Mme.
Nhu came to the U.S. she was
given a cold shoulder. But Red
Dictator Tito came for a hand
out he was given the red carpet.
Likewise some years ago Pro
American Mme. Chiang Kai
shek was treated coldly. But
old Kroosh was given a hearty
welcome. '
Who Is to blame? Some in the
State Department have been
there too long. It's time we are
getting rid of them.
Mrs. Ernest Santo
204 Lozier Lane
Medford.
Dedicated Woman
To the Editor: Mary Hittson
Ward (of Talent, who was killed
In an automobile accident Sun
day afternoon north of Grants
Pass) was a very dedicated
Known
community with common Insti
tutions." He told you that in
stead of French nuclear forces,
NATO needed to reinforce its
non-nuclear defense. . .
Joint memo to Prime Minister
Nehru of India and President
Mohammad Ayub Khan fo Pak
istan; You must remember the
man's humanities.- With Nehru
he discussed hunger, illiteracy
and disease and how they
could be eliminated. .
In your country, Ayub Khan,
he met a simple camel driver
who later became his guest in
the United States.
woman. She spent her entire
life helping others.
She organized and was presi
dent of the "Workers of Wake,
Guam and Cavite." Originally
called "The Women of Wake
Island," it was formed in Los
Angeles for the sole purpose of
helping the families and widows
of the construction men who
were captured or killed on the
now famous Wake Island.
It is truly unbelievable that
this one lone person could and
did accomplish such feats dur
ing the four years between 1941
and 1945, while her husband
and some 1,250 other construe
tion workers were either killed
or captured and prisoners of
war of the Japanese.
And all this was only the
beginning for Mary Ward. Aft
er the war and the release of
these men who were still alive,
and their eventual return to
the United States, her work
really started.
She wanted proper compen
sation and medical care for
these men or the widows. She
spent as much as 10 months out
of a year in Washington, D.C.,
battling, lobbying, making con
nections to help these men. She
out-maneuvered such a re
nowned attorney - as Harold
Keele of Chicago, III., who later,
through admiration of this in
telligent woman and her hu
manitarian causes, became on
of her best friends and valuable
allies.
This same story is true with
such prominent men as Harry
Morrison, president of Morri-son-Knudson
Construction Co.;
George Farris, Raymond Con
crete and Pile; the heads of
Bureau of Compensation in
Washington, D.C.; congressmen
and senators; government offi
cials of all offices she visited
so many times, began to love
and admire this wonderful, ded
icated person.
She never lost a battle in
Washington, D.C., whether it
was for the group as a whole
or an individual on a medical
case. The men of "The Work
ers of Wake, Guam and Cavite"
called her their "Guardian An
gel." The congressmen, attor
neys for Pacific Naval Air
bases, U.S. Government offi
cials, and the construction com
panies involved, called her "The
Smallest Organization With the
Mightiest Results."
Even the taxpayers could not
complain of the numerous bills
and benefits and compensations
that she derived for these men
because she slyly learned of
a jack-pot in Washington, D.C.,
that no one as yet had been
able to get his fingers into and
was a natural for her. This was
the confiscation of land and
property during the war of all
Japanese and German assets in
America. When these people
were deported and the lands
sold, it left millions of dollars
in the U.S. Treasury that no
one really knew what to do
with.
Mary Ward knew what to do
with a very small part of it
and she felt great satisfaction
in winning from the countries
that had caused these men so
much suffering and loss of life.
A book could and should be
written on Mary Hittson Ward
and she would have been
a natural for "This Is Your
Life."
Bus Sporer,
1H2 W. Fairhaven
Roseburg, Ore.
UNICEF Thanks
To the Editor: Allow us to
express our heartfelt gratitude
for your generous cooperation
with our efforts on behalf of
the world's needy children and
mothers this year.
we tuny appreciate the ex
tent to which your outstanding
support has contributed to
strengthening UNICEF's assist
ance to over 500 long-range pro
grams in 116 countries by mak
ing our own projects more sue
cessful.
Please believe that your gen
erosity is not taken for granted.
We wish we could thank you
in as many languages as are
spoken by the young benefici
aries of t'iN'iCEr '8 aid.
Victor de Keyserling
Director of Information
Services
U. S. Committee for
UNICEF
United Nations
New York. N.Y.