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History from tne files of This
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and SO years iso.
10 YEARS ago
Dec. 2, 1953 (Wednesday)
A 36-page "scratch draft" of
a proposed meat inspection or
dinance was submitted last
night to the Mcdtord City Coun
cil by members of the local
meat Industry.
Russell W. DcForrcst last
night resigned as municipal
judge after it was determined
his legal residence was outside
Medford City HmlU.
2ft YEARS AGO
Dec. 2. 1043 (Thursday)
Medlord restaurants to ob
serve meatless day Dec. 7, ac-
cording to H. E. Bush and Dale
Franklin, olllcers oi me boiiiii
ern Oregon Restaurant associa
tion. Frank Hull, mamigur of Jack
son County Chamber of Com
merce, announces sale of old
Chamber of Commerce building
on West Main Street to Southern
Pacific railroad.
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2, 1033 (Saturday)
Medford postmaster to be ap
pointed by Jan. 1, 1034, Jack
son County Democrats promise.
Medford High School turns
down post-season football gume
with Washington of Portland on
grounds that nothing would be
decided.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 2, 1923 (Sunday)
Still no clues reported on
whereabouts of DcAutrcmnnt
brothers, sought for the Siski
you tunnel murders and at'
temn-tcd train robbery.
Gala Christmas opening
scheduled tonight by Medford
merchants
30 YKAR8 AGO
Dec. 2. 1913 (Tuesday)
J. M. Nichols, the "Dry" ran
didate, elected mayor of Eagle
Point.
Southern Pacific schedules
special rales from Medford to
Hoseburg for meeting of Oregon
Development league.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct Is superior;
seven or sight Is cicellent; five ot
sis is good.
1. Before blotting paper was
Invented, what substance was
used to take up excess ink?
2. Who said, "I am not a Vir
ginian but an American"?
3. Does the warden ol a prison
have Ihc right to reprieve or
commute a prisoner's sentence?
4. Lake Champlain lies be
tween which two states?
5. Correct the following: "The
book sels on the table."
6. On what sort of surface Is
the game of curling played?
7. What form of popular sport
it played with disks and cues?
8. Are polar bears found in
the North or South polar
region?
9. In what city is the famed
St. Peter's Basilica?
10. Is ambergris, principal in
gredient of expensive perfume,
obtained from musk oxen, am
ber, whales or skunks?
Answers: I. Sisntl. :. Patrick
Henry? .1. No. 4, New York and
Vermont. 5. "The hook sin , . ."
. Ice. !. HWfirtxierd. g, North.
. V.tLjan City. '0. Shales.
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V-a1iociation
DECEMBER 2, 1M3
Killer Mentality
Unlike some of the
perhaps many persons
now believe there was any communist plot in
volved in the assassination of President Ken
nedy. Nor do we feel Ruby shot Oswald, with a
national television audience watching in horror,
in an effort to keep him from talking.
To be sure, in an event so momentous, so
literally earth-shaking, one looks automatically
for a strong malevolent purpose, for a dark
master plot of some kind in explanation.
But we are satisfied,
contrary is available, and after watching tele
vision reports for hours and reading every scrap
of copy we could get our hands on, that no such
evil design was present here.
THIS was. we conclude, with strong mixed
feelings, just the work
of twisted, psychotics, each acting not m re
sponse to a command from some higher schem
ing power, but, pitiably, from the insane dictates
of elemented minds.
It is true that Oswald called himself a
Marxist and was affiliated with some idiot group
called "Fair Play for Cuba Committee." But it
seems clear that he had no real ideological basis
or intellectual comprehension of the very things
he said he believed in.
It is manifest, however, that the sullen
faced youth was a total misfit in society,
wherever he went or whatever he tried to do.
His failures in school, his constant fights with
other bovs, his unsuccessful record in the Marine
Corps, his vocational instability, all attest to it.
Picture the frustration at Demg unaoie to
feel from his point
rejection in this country, and then, worse yet, not
to be able to find ease or acceptance in this
country s antithesis, Communist Kussia.
THWARTED by bureaucratic red tape in his
recent atteirmt to visit Cuba and Russia, it
is perhaps understandable that he should central
ize all that frustration and irrational hatred
against President Kennedy, the titular and sym
bolic head or our nation
John Connally, against whom he seemed to feel
a personal score in connection with the condi
tions oi his discharge irom
Oswald s state ol mind as he planned tne
assassination, indeed as
is somewhat analagous to the ordinary man who,
having been rebuked by his boss, goes home and
vents his anger by kicking his dog or by picking
a fight with his wite.
The vast majority of
valves to release our
there are some, and we
of Ihem, who because they are psychotics are nn
Dcllcd to react in ways that are dangerous to
society: by driving at maniac speeds, by planting
bombs in Sunday schools, by making obscene
telephone calls or writing
ing on a particular group, race or religion, as ob
jects of intense hatred.
WITH Jack Ruby there is less opportunity for
the amateur psychologist to muck around.
And at least in his case the motives which lead
him to gun down Oswald will be explored in
detail at his trial at some time in the near future.
But isn't there something of the gangland
"code of honor" in his act? Isn't the gangster's
mentality and eye-for-an-eye morality evident?
Doesn't it seem reasonable that he imagined
himself the nation's avenger, that by shooting
Oswald, he could in some way even up the score?
It even seems plausible that he felt a kind of
brutish gallantry in sparing Mrs. Kennedy a
possible appearance at Oswald's trial.
The epithet he shouted at Oswald before he
shot him would be consistent with such a hypo
thetical construction.
COR a long- time to come, at least until the final
blue ribbon committee report is released,
there will be conflicting stories ami rumors.
Many are already floating around:
That Oswald had an accomplice and that
two silhouettes were seen bv someone at that -
sixth floor window.
. .
1 hat there is a
and Kuby, and mat tne lornier was rubbed out
because it was feared he was starting to crack
under the interrogation.
That the Dallas police and, or the district
attorney are suppressing various mysterious
pieces of evidence that could clear the whole
matter up in an instant.
That Oswald signalled Ullby with a ''look'n,gr:ims ami commentators
to lean forward and shoot
detectives escorting Oswald deliberately made
no effort to protect him.
IT is unutterably sad that the President should
have been cut down in the very prime of his
life by a madman who even lacked the dignity
of a cause.
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1V cu.iicttuv. u
desperately senseless, aild tlUS IS part Ol tlie nil-
potent rage we all lecl.
Mien a great me snouiti nave oeen lost 1
it had to DC lost HI
fjilisi' (if some kind that
it v, not from a bullet
meaning by a lurking sniper,
l,et US HOW resolve,
1'iln IVnorlunf ' ffirltw pniirnn-n vtill t'rrwli in mir
1 . f 'YIUL", . B , "feL lm , , , u ' '
milldS, to resist I lie impUL-e lO SCe a Shadow link-
illg behind every tree, and to imagine a wide-
murine master nlot w here noiiP nrobablv
1 I 1a run I ,U,MUV :
9Xlsien. U.n.n.
foreign press, as well as
here at home, we do not
until evidence to the
in both instances
of view anything but
s government, and liov.
the Marine corps.
he squeezed the trigger,
us find routine safety-
pent up floatations. But
submit uswaici was one
filthy letters, or by fix
.... I,, i i r i i
link between Oswald
hnu, or that the Dallas
'ira "",
t
fighting for a Worths' ,
would benefit hiiniim.
fired without
purpose or
with the niemorv of our
"It's Terrible How Intolerant People
Are Getting"
...Communications...
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the contrary is often the case.
Hoeing Deal Shaky
To the Editor: Much has been
written about the Boardman
Project. Some of it is truthful,
some of it is untruthful and
some of it is half truthful.
A recent editorial in the
morning Oregonian discussed
Rep. Mosscr's idea of taking a
million dollars from the Veter
an's Fund Profits for invest
men in the Boardman - Boeing
Project. The editorial indicated
that the holders of the Veteran's
Fund Bonds might be concerned
over the "shaky" nature of the
Boardman - Boeing Project un
der the Boeing lease and look
unfavorably upon this type of
investment. Of course, since the
editorial, the money being talk
ed about is now two million, not
one million. This could add to
the "shakincss" of the deal.
1. You and I know that the
lease which Ihc 1D61 session was
asked to ratify is not the same
lease that the State Land Board
signed with Boeing. For in
stance the original lease did not
include an exclusive right to
Boeing for BM: miles of valuable
walcrtront. You and I know that
the 19(11 lease provided that Boe
ing pay some $250,000 for mov
ing the Navy installation and
(he "new" lease provides lliat
the cost be paid for by the State
of Oregon.
2. You and I know that the
Land Board, consisting of the
Governor. Secretary of State
and State Treasurer, obligated
the Slate of Oregon to the extent
of $02,000 without authority to
do so.
3. You and I know that the
Boeing lease guarantees no in
crease in land value for tax
purposes for 77 years.
4. You and I know that be
cause the Boeing lawyers ques-
tioned the constitutionality of
the lease, the Governor and ins
staff came to the special ses
sion to bail them out of a jam.
5. You and I know that Secre
tary of Slate Appling testified
before the Ways and Means
Comittee of the special session !
and said that he wished "he had ;
had no part in the Boeing
Lease.'
fi. You and I know that Warne
Nunn, the Governor's assistant,
leslified that, without Boeing.
Boardman was of hieh value
and was a good investment (or
the slate of Oregon.
7. HB 1014 ratifies the Boeing
lease, the biggest giveaway in
the historv of the stale ot Ore-
u- .,, ;. i ;n ,
gon. Vie will vote aga ns( it in ,
L best interests oAhe people :
Ul Ull'Ull.
8. We believe (hat as the odi
tor of one of the leading news-
Papers in Oregon, it is your duly
,lLTi?toi?n
1 mS lease and print H in us civ
tiroty so that the people of Ore-
gon mav Know me lacis.
Sen. Albert G. Flegol
Rep. Sidney I.cikcn
Roseburg, Ore.
Cnnininn Sense
To the Editor: What has hap
pened lo good common sense?
t'l... ..I. ...1... ...... nil i. n,c
turned over to blaming all ot
society (or Ihc actions of the
man who killed President Ken
ncdy? Seems to me because ore
crackpot gets loose with a rifle
there's no need to say such
thines as "being ashamed to be
an American" or "Texan." etc.
That person (Oswald! is to
blame, not ALL of America.
I think generally we are not
cxnectinc each person lo be
responsible for his own actions.
,,. ....,.... ............ ,
I We have let psychology get mix-
ed up into everything. Sob sis -
iters sav it's a person's early
childhood, his environ m e n i. I
what somebody else said or did. I
anything and everything is said
rather than say a person should
he held responsible for his own
behavior. Our country was not
founded on irresponsibility,
Each of us have to he rcsnonsi-
wP for OCR own action or there
" haos ,
Wo AKK N0T brothers'
keepers, except to this extent: j
Adults are here to gule chil-1
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD.
drcn. We adults must instill a
sense of right and wrong, a
sense of responsibility in our
children. They must know and
understand that they are re
sponsible for what they do, not
society, not some past unpleas
ant experience from their child
hodd, and so on.
We have many men in our
country that have risen to the
heights of their chosen field
from poverty and with all odds
against them. Some people
(most people) don't have that
drive and a few go off the deep
end. But we can not permit all
of America to be indicted when
one American does a murder.
True, this murder was the Pres
ident of the United States. But
he was just a man. Nobody
livce forever and if it had not
been Mr. Kennedy's time to go,
then he would have escaped as
Gov. Connally did.
I would like to recommend a
book for the readers of your
paper title, "1(184" by George
Orwell. For this past week has
made me think of this book
many times for the radio,
TV and people's reaction have
been straight from the pages of
"MM."
I know It was most tragic,
the shooting of our President.
We tend to think of that sort of
thing happening in South Amer
ica or other countries overseas,
but not in our civilized United
States.
But that four day orgy put on
by all our radio and television
stations was exactly as in
"1984." And now most all radio
and TV is busy beating the
drums trying to pin this on the
right wing, or as "1984" would
have it, this is "hale the richt
wing" week, even though it's
known to all that Oswald was a
Marxist, an admirer of Castro,
an admirer of Russia. What
gives with people? It's like the
fable of the king s! rolling down
the street with no clothes. But
no one wanted to be the one to
upset the applecart by daring
to sneak the truth.
What has happened to Amcr-
Ua. that a spade is not a spade
anv more"
Mrs. Robert E. Ellis
P. O. Box 304
Rogue River Ore.
Had Fun
To the Editor: I am one ot
the members of the Security
Benefit Club who attended the
ttcocKan ann uao renows Den-
, . . . .
"cc CentralSa,
the club meeting Wednesday
where approximately 150 of us
had a lovely Thanksgiving din
ner, and an afternoon of danc
ing. At each of these places a
period of silent prayer for our
departed President was observ
ed. I do not feel that any dis
respect was shown.
On television 1 followed his
journey from the White House
to the Capitol and from the
Capitol to Arlington National
Cemetery. I grieved with his
jut" '. Kj
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acne sue caiiieu 111 nrr ncaii.
As for the dance, 1 certainly
did not see anyone "whooping
it up. And we did have tun.
Mrs. l.ealha Jones
Box 3117
Gold Hill, Ore.
Wishes fur Railrnads
To the Editor: Subject:
ter to Santa Claus.
Let-
Dear Uncle Santa Sam:
My
Christmas
wish is for a safe
(,, n k..iij,.
train trip hi
o,l,,,, u,.,..,. ... ........o,
travelers. Too olten. weather,
1 climate and over-crowded high-
jwavs turn holiday reunion into
tracedv.
For our busy airlines we wish
a generous portion of railroad
style self reliance. Thev have
much too long worn the subsi-
dized infant industry diapers of
lax - free public airports, free
traffic control and air mail sup-
port. Their service is important
enough to pay its way without '
half the fare coming out of the
taviWs pocket. ,
W e wish a long vacatpn to
OREGON
Foreign News: New
Possible in
Notes from the foreign news
cables:
Berlin Crisis:
If the Soviets are to test the
new U. S. administration's de
termination over Berlin, the
guessing in West Berlin is that
it will not come before January.
The German winter usually re
stricts large scale troop move
ments. However, some time In
January a battalion of about 1,
100 men stationed in Berlin is
expected to exchange duties
with another battalion now in
West Germany. This will mean
a week-long scries of convoys in
both directions over the Auto
bahn, with possibilities of a Rus
sian challenge on control pro
cedures. Changes:
London gossip columnists are
claiming that U. S. Ambassador
to London Dave Bruce may re
tire and be replaced by Mc
George Bundy.
There is no official confirma
tion in either American or Brit
ish quarters of this suggestion.
the staffs of the government's
airline coddling agencies, i t s
waterway pork barrel stuffers
and its super - highway empire
builders. They have been work
ing too hard at the taxpayer's
expense.
All this adds up to my wish
for the railroads equality of
opportunity in accordance with
our late President Kennedy's re
peated transportation messages.
K. Fritz Schumacher,
Former Santa Fe "Rail"
81 West Grand View Ave.
Sierra Madre, Calif.
Proper Precautions
To the Editor: Referring lo
the brutal assassination of Pres
ident Kennedy, I cannot help but
feel that if the proper precau
tions had been taken, this ter
rible tragedy might not have
occurred.
In the first place, when the
motorcade carrying the presi
dential party moved through
downtown Dallas, the President
and Mrs. Kennedy were seated
in the rear scat of an open lim
ousine. It should have been clos
ed, and if It had been President
Kennedy might be alive today.
It surprises me that the secret
service men who were present
permitted Kennedy to keep the
limousine open, regardless of
whether he preferred to have
it open or not.
In the second place, there
were intense investigations of
just about every place along the
line that the motorcade traveled
EXCEPT the building from
which the shots were fired.
Of course, it is not my place
to blame anyone for careless-
In the Day's News
By FRANK
Hijackers seized a twin-engine
Venezuelan Convair on a do
mestic flight, hurled pro-Communist
leaflets over the city of
Ciudad Bolivar and then forced
Ihc crew to land the liner in
Trinidad. This terrorist inci-
dent came as police combed
Caracas for Lieutenant Colonel
James K. Chenault, a U. S.
Army officer kidnaped by pro-
Castro foes of Venezuelan Presi-
dent Romulo Betancourt.
Bomb blasts shook Bogota
and other Colombian cities as
Communists reacted a g a i n s i
U.S.-Latin American maneuvers
off the Colombian coast.
'pESTlXG out our new Presi
1 dent?
Safe guess:
There will be a lot of testing
out of him to see how far it will
he safe (o go.
pilOM Washington:
Some 350 Bible-carrying,
sign-waving pickets paraded in
ironl ol tne White House do
mantling the return of the Rible
and pravers to the public
i schools
The Thanksgiving Dav
protest against (he Supreme
Court's prayer decisions appar-i it- So he stripped off his clothes,
ently was organized by religious waded out through the bone
groups across the country. ! chilling water, found a handle
In the cenler of the group. ' and pulled a door open, reached
about 50 of the pickets carried inside, felt a human arm and
a long banner bearing the In
scription "We Want the Bible
Back in the School Rooms of
America."
1 AI AVBE Wf d bettfr Kcl 'his
A' Supreme Court decision!
. ... ,. .
' "iK"i m our minds, u is
basod on the First Amendment
to the Constitution of the United
States, which reads:
"Congress shall make no law
respecting an E S T A B 1. 1 S H-
MENT of religion, or prohibiting
the HtLL tXERClsb thereof:
or (.bridging the freedom of
speech or of the press: or the
right ot the people peacefully
to assemble and to petition the
Government for redress of
grievances "
II doesn't PROHIBIT the
reading of the Bible. It m'ely j
January;
The reports claim Bruce, who
has been ambassador to Britain
since 1961, feels he wants to re- tic silence, little doubt is left
turn to private life. Bundy isUhat he would be welcome.
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Harris.
(c) yield rnterprises. Inc.
SEE OURSELVES
The senseless murder of the
President was a mirror we were
forced to hold up to ouselves
and we did not like, or believe,
the image that we saw.
"How could It happen here?
In this day and age? In our
country? I thought such things
happened only in history. In
Europe. . Somewhere else and
long ago."
These were the reactions of
Americans. They bespoke a tre
mendous ignorance and delu
siveness about ourselves. For,
as 1 have written many times in
the past (and have been as
sailed for so writing), we are a
violent people who do not know
the rang cand force of our prim
itive feelings.
Why should It happen here?
The last three Presidents out
of four have had assassination
attempts on their lives. No
where in Europe is this true:
In most such countries, the
chiefs of state walk about
virtually unguarded.
In this day and age? This
Is the age of the most feroci
ous war the world has ever
known, the most bloody dic
tatorships, the gas ovens, the
concentration camps, the
bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki by a "peace-loving"
nation.
In our country? Why not,
with our staggering homicide
rale, our casual and callous
auto fatalities, our shocking
prevalence of firearms, our
frontier relish for comhat anil
conflict, our contempt for
rnurls, our cynicism about
the effectiveness of orderly
processes.
ness; yet It is evident that there
was carelessness. Every right
minded person is heartsick over
this tragic event, and whether
it might have been prevented
or not had proper precautions
been taken, It docs not alter the
fact that there are individuals
in this world against whom so
ciety must protect itself so
criminal minded that those in
public life cannot lake the sligh
test chance of not being per
fectly safe against them any
where. Lydia Burnham
814 Warne St.
Proscott, Ariz.
JENKINS
prohibits a law REQUIRING
the reading of the Bible.
The Bible is Great Literature.
No one can he anvthing but
BETTER OFF for reading it.
All the Supreme Court decision
does is forbid COMPELLING
, the people to read the Bible
One fears that these pickets
are crackpots of whom we
have too many already.
IT MIGHT not be a bad idea
if more of our people as
J a matter of information and
I education would do some
reading about the other great
religions of the world such
as Buddhism and Moham
medanism. As literature, Ihey're far bet
ter than a lot of the stuff that
gets read these days.
THE THANKSGIVING holi
A day's strangest traffic ac
cident: As a California highway pa
trolman started up onto the
Dumbarton bridge south of San
r rancisco 1 nursday, he saw a
car lying upside down in the
shallow water. He had a hunch
! that somebody might be Inside
s t a r t e d to pull out what he
thought was a corpse.
To his a m a z e m e n t. the
"corpse" struggled out of his
grasp, popped up out of the wa
ter and began gasping for air.
- MiUiT uin v. It
.. " ..hicu.
The car had skidd
the bridge approach and I
skidded off
turned
i over in the
water When it
turned over.
it TRAPPED A
POCKET OF AIR. By bending
his head back, the driver was
able lo breathe this air. It
kept him alive until the cod
came inlo the picture about
40 minutes after the accident.
Truth sometimes IS stranger
than fiction. II a fiction writer
had imcnlcd that situation, his
readers would have scoffed and
sunt it was TOO Imaginative.
Crisis in Berlin
Changes Seen
well known in London and
while officialdom keeps diploma
If anyone still doubts this,
consider the cry of applause
that went up from the crowd
gathered outside (he Dallas
jail when it learned that the
presumed assassin of the
President had himself been
shot down.
This reaction is, to me, more
annalline and mnr rpvpalinf
if,"
than anything else in the whole China later. French officials
nightmare of the weekend. Here say he believes France could
was a man not known for sure ' guarantee herself long-term
to be the killer. He had not con- i economic prosperity by estab
fessed, not been brought to I lishing outlets for French indus
trial, not defended, not sen-1 exports in China. A main
fenced. And he was killed while
in the very hands of the police.
And the crowd outside shout
ed its approval of this bestial,
stupid and irrational act. This
is frightening, this is disgusting,
this discloses the profound fail
ure of our society to instill in its
citizens any real sense of civili
zation, any idea of the meaning
of law and justice. This is what
turns our country into little bet
ter than a jungle.
If this dreadful murder of a
President makes us see our
selves more clearly, makes us
re-examine our feelings, makes
us determine to purge the vio
lence within each of us and all
of us, it will not have been in
vain.
The Righteous Shall
Destroy the Earth
By Arthur Hoppe
WASHINGTON - The day
after the funeral was grey and
cold. I was walking down Penn
sylvania Avenue, aimlessly. In
search, I suppose, of comfort.
How very much we need com
fort right now. For I think we
are confused, uneasy, vaguely
fearful of an infection among us.
(How odd that rings.)
President Johnson had quick
ly ordered "a prompt and thor
ough investigation" of the assas
sination. Texas was naming a
court of inquiry. Congressmen
were demanding "a blue ribbon
investigation" of their own.
In the coming weeks, I knew,
we would probe and examine
and test and analyze. What was
this infection? Was it spread
ing? What was this growth?
Was it malignant? We must be
reassured
There would be headlines and
magazine stories and official re -
ports and gradually, I supposed,
an official storv would emerge
and we would all be comforted
and turn to something else. And
1 felt more uneasv than before.
In that first terrible hour
after the shooting. I remem-
bcred how quick the liberals
were to assume the assassins-
lion a plot hv the radical
right. "We really can't tnler-
ate (hem any more." said one
rational man 1 know, his eyes
full of grief and anger and
hatred. "Thev reallv must he
wiped out.'
The - assassin now appears
to have been a memher of the
left wing. And I feared how.
alter (his period of mourning
is over, the right wing would
cry with equal haired and an
ger (or the blood o( (he radical
left.
The picture came In my
mind, as It often has these
past few clays, of the killer
himself with the rifle hult In
Q. x "Jf-e -res
There be a temporary rotation 0f artitlties during Ihli
perlrj( of mourning"
Labor Problems:
A major earthquake miy bt
building up for Italian labor
unions. This could come about
as result of a walkout of the
strong pro - Communist wing
from Socialist party ranks as
result of the party decision to
join the center-left government
of Premier-Designate Aldo Mo
ra. Communists now hold about
70 per cent of all key positions
in the CGIL, which in turn con
trols about half of Italian labor.
A Socialist split would reducs
the Socialist moderates of party
leader Pietro Nenni to a small
minority in CGIL ranks and
might force them into quitting.
It would post dramatic prob
lems of allegiance for many
members.
New Look At Peking:
President Charles de Gaulle
is reported to have decided to
send a full-time French eco
nomic mission to Peking pos
sibly as an opening wedge to
ward full recognition of Kid
stumping block: De Gaulle is
net ready to sever relations
with Chiang Kai-shek's Na
tionalist China on Formosa, re
garded as an inevitability in
event of French diplomatic rec
ognition of the Reds.
Japanese Overhaul:
Japanese Premier Hayato
Ikeda's I960 program to double
the Japanese people's real in
come in 10 years already has
seen a 38 per cent jump in
such income in less than three
years. But it has shown weak
spots in small farming, coal
mining and in "infrastructure"
such as roads, railroads,
bridges and harbors. As result,
the program probably will b
over-hauled.
Ills cheek, the target In his
sights. How righteous he must
have felt when he squeezed
the trigger. How noble. How
martyr-like.
And I Ihouglit of Jack Ruby.
How riglHcoiis he fell when ha
squeezed the trigger. How
superior. How like an aveng
ing angel.
And 1 never felt more
strongly that the malig
nancy on our fringes Is nol so
much haired as righteous
ness. For no man Is evil to him
self. Ail men must justify
what they do. And how easy
this is for the righteous.
a
The radical right, in its right-
T " ,u I 10 save us ,U
1 rom tne Communist conspir-
I S, And the radical left, in its
1 rlRhlusness. would save us
f.rom, "je CaP''a''s' exploitation,
I ch .knows, 15 right Each
, 's P?s'",ve of. hls cause. And the.
i f0?? ?! cach are 'refore self.
JU-mB'
So if we are destroyed, it will
hp hv ,nose who would protect
us; " lhe worl(' is destroyed, it
will be by those who would savg
A" in a righteous cause,
. But as 1 climbed Capitol Hill
m the funeral grcyncss. I found
the comfort I sought. It lay in
the solid massive, granite and
marble of the buildings in the
serried columns of the Canilnl.
in me pristine morality ol the
Supreme Court.
I felt, as I always do, how
enduring our system is, how
deep its roots. But I understood
for the first time that its prime
unction is to protect us from
the righteous. For the heart of
our American idea is that the
majority will save itself. And I
think it will. I think it will. For
! we, the people, are our only
I hope.