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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY. "Everyone In Southern Oregon Danfta Th Mail TVIKuna" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Fir St, Ph. 772-614,1 ROBERT W RUHl. Editor HiMB GREY Advertising Manager ERIC V. ALLEN JR.. Mm. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor rU1UUAM Talia UAilnr RICHARD JEWETt, SporU Editor OLIVE STAROHEH Women's Edltoi DALE ERICKSON. CirculaUon Mgr An Independent Newspapel Entered ai tecond class matter at Hedford. Oregon, tinner aci oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bf Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dallv and Sunday 6 moa. 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. 5 00 Sunday Only One year $5.00 StnglB Copy (Mailed! 200 nv Carrier And Motor Route. ;jally and Sunday 1 year $21.00 rally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Rtinrisv Onlv 1 ma. 500 Carrier and Vendora Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medtord Official Paper ol Jackson County United Presa International Full Lease Wire U. P. 1. Telephoto Newsplcturea MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NWT.SnW ROBERTS & ASSOC ATES Of'icea In New York, Chi. caeo. Detroit, San Francisco, Loi Angeles, acaiue, r u u . Denver. NEWSFAM SHIRS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL Member California Newspaper Publishers AssoclaUon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from th (lies of The Mall Tribunal 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1953 (Friday) Low bids totalling almost $1, 000,000 on two Jackson County highway projects received in Portland by State Highway Com mission. Dale Smith, a Central Point 4-H club member, has purchased a Galloway bull and two Gallo way heifers; the animals arc among the first of the breed to be Introduced into Jackson County. 20 YEARS AGO Doc. 11, 1043 (Saturday) Charles B. Warner resigns as executive head of Crater Lake Council, Boy Scouts of America, after serving one year in )od. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "The lull in Dan Cupid's business has nicked up, and Christinas win see many couples looking preachers in the eye." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1933 (Monday) Mcdford school superintendent reports city schools now have enough money for full school year following passage of sales tax; schools started year with only enough money for 4Vi months. A. E. Reamcs nominated as director of University of Ore gon alumni association (or state. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1923 (Tuesday) George Hunt introduced by W. H. Gore as new member of Medford RotBry Club; Mayor George L. Baker of Portland featured speaker. Joseph M. Schaffncr of Hart, Schallner and Marx clothing company, guest of W. F. Isaacs, Mcdford. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. II. 1913 (Thursday) Many signatures reported for chnrlm omnnHmnnl hnllintf Krtl- arics of mayor and couneilmcn and lor recall ot three members of city council. C. E. Whisler, Mcdford, cloct cd president of State Horticul ture, Society; Mcdford chosen as site of 1914 convention. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct il superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Ii good. 1. Was the mimeograph In' vented by Thomas A. Edison Henry Ford, or John Hays Ham' mono? 2. Do licks have four, six, or eight legs.' 3. How many stars arc worn as tho insignia of a General of the Army.' 4. What country controls the Sea of Azov.' 5. In which city was the first United States Government mint established? 6. Was Percy Bysshc Shelley a famous Swedish, English, or French poet? 7. Trees ntver stop growing as long as they live; true or false? 8. What breed of cat is tail' less? 9. Would an invidious remark be most likely to provoke laugh ter, resentment, or indifference? 10. What state does Henry M Jackson represent In the U.S. ben ale: Answers.: I. Thomas A. Kdl son. 2. Eight. 3. Five. 4. Soviet Russia. J. Philadelphia. Pa. 0. English. 7. True. I. Manx. 9 Itr-sr nlnirnt. 10, Washington. 4 A DECEMBER U. 196J Liberal and Conservative Elsewhere on this page today, Columnist Frank Jenkins discusses "liberal" and "conserva tive," as used to describe politics. The debate over the meaning of the two words is ancient. And, as Jenkins points oat, the actual meaning changes according to time and place. The words themselves are useful only insofar as they describe relatively well-known positions in the political spectrum. And they only add to the confusion when they are mis-used or mis-applied as is often the case. Many people who consider themselves to be conservatives actually are radicals. They do not call for the conservation of the existing order, but for the overthrow of institutions long sanc tioned by political usefulness. PORMER Gov. Charles A. Sprague, writing in the Oregon Statesman of Salem, in the light of the nation's recent tragedy and the reassess ment and reexamination' which resulted from it, thinks that "This ought to be a good time to re lax on our categories of liberal and conservative." He added: "Too often we have made selections and decisions on how we classified persons. And we have been suspicious of the intelligence or the loyalty of those whom we though were in the 'wrong' category. Thoughtful Americans have not been tolerant enough of those with whose views they have been in disagreement. The rejection has been quick and often shallow. After more thorough study they might change their minds on men and measures. "We should not want or expect the erasing of differ ences or the cessation of debate and of argument. And de cisions should still be based on sound principles rather than mere expediency." PERHAPS, as Governor Sprague suggests, it is time to relax a ing. But the words do if only to describe very Nor do we find the exclusive. President Johnson has claimed to be both liberal and conservative, and maybe he is. If we have a sense of history and continuity and tradition, and hold to those things which are good, while at the same change if change is called fully claim to be both in outlook? To be otherwise is trapped in a pattern of thought and attitude, and to be unrealistic about the facts of politi cal and social life. E.A. Slow Poke Congress It is becoming increasingly evident that something is going to have to be done about Congress. And Congress is the anything. Is it too much to ask that the national leg islature reform itself? It has on past occasions, but tne cnanges nave seldom been radical. The Sacramento Bee, in summing up the rec ord of the present session, said : "Congress stalled, buck passed, was quick with the promise and miserably slow on performance, and failed by a country mile of meeting the imaginative challenge of the lilliOs. "True, it applauded President Johnson more than 30 times during his brief address, but it also applauded Pres ident Kennedy liberally during both of his State of the Union messages, then got down to (lie serious business of obstructing him wherever it seemed he wanted to move the na'.ion forward." rpi-IE MOST difficult, and most vicious, of the Congressional maladies is the seniority sys tem, whereby simple old age and a "safe" con stituency add up to powerful committee chair manships. In what other form we find a Byrd in command of finances, an Eastland in command of a Smith in command oi It's little wonder the most dead center when ruled by crotchety and built-in biases. But it is jority either cannot or essary changes. WHILE the changes " it is possible that ultimately make the internal changes nossible. One is the reapportionment being imposed on ! a number of states. This ciiange iii representation in state legislatures, which in turn would permit the redrawing of Congressional district boundaries, and a result ing greater representation of city dwellers. The other is the movement to get Negroes registered to vote, particularly in the South. In many cases where Negroes are now virtually dis-i pnfvnni.hisi.rl. tliov will --, er ii ami wnen iney are registered in sutncieiu numbers. And this too will result in some fresh new faces in Congress. MEANWHILE, Congress has enacted only two A"A or three major bills so far this year. U has not yet even acted on many appropriation meas ure, forcing federal agencies to operate on a nionth-by-month basis, thus not allowing plan- nintr sihnuil It has sta led on the tas cut bill: it has stalled j 011 Civil Klghts; it lias Stalled 011 Medicare, aiul' on urban transit aid, and on wilderness Wis-1 ...! i .... .i- ..'.!. .... .... ., . l""Vll HUM VII VHV, J V'Vl.ll V.VMIOV I t llllt'll IVMj'C UUt on retraining programs. There is a third external force which could I in lift 1 1 aTm iri'ieii r nut It it'til . 1 K.i n.i nn,ii....,l :j i iiiii nun nil i in) I'fiiiiii :.' . ir . V. .7- , 'intolerance toward their follow citizenry, telling Us Representatives to get crack-, man. ing Or else. But Sadly, viewing the Usual apatll.V I "Those venomous fanatics, demonstrated by the average voter, this appcarV tta 'h!. 7rTS to be a remote possibility. L. A. of a highly infectious disease. little on our categoriz retain some utility, even general attitudes. two categories mutually time not ruling out for, can we not truth liberal and conservative to be hidebound, and only body that can do of organization would judicial legislation, or rules: Congress is stalled at a! it permits itself to be prejudiced men, with amazing that the ma will not make the nec must come from within, two exterior forces will will permit the gradual : tin lb.. l1:.1..n,... nf , J i- -- rv-,. fniii:iii'',.ii mti m' t- ntui MEDFORD PUBLIC MATE GMMMfim m, tei ftmts hues 1 1 i ii i i "0UK. FORB&N I I I I III I Policy" l l "All you ever learn at these debates is how to politely insult someone's intelligence without getting a punch in the nose!" Communications Letters lo the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tra) paper, in fact the contrary la often the case.. Here We Go Again To the Editor: The Soviet News Agency, Tass, was the first to blame President Ken nedy's assassination on the Right Wing. Practically every liberal in the United States joined the Soviet officials in as suming that the American con servatives (which liberals usual ly refer to as "extremists" or "hate groups") were guilty. It must have been quite a shock to learn that the assassin was a Communist, a man who demanded permission to com municate with a New York law yer (John J. Abt) notorious for defending Communists. He also insisted that he be defended by the Civil Liberties Union, al legedly an organization created primarily for the defense of Communists. Without losing a single "down beat" the liberal "song" has changed. It now goes this way. The conservatives (alias "ex tremists", "ultra-rightists", or hate groups") are the ones who have created the atmos phere of hate and distrust in America which nourishes vio lence, therefore are indirectly to blame for President Kennedy's death. Some recent issues of the Mcdford Mail Tribune have been simply crawling with this sort of thing, even down to the car toons. So much so that I'm beginning to do a slow "burn." This is an insult to the intelligence of the average American. It isn't the Conservative pa triots of America who have cre ated the atmosphere which this Castro-loving Marxist and "con f e s s e d Communist" assassin grew up in, and flourished in, to finally put his killer sights on our President. Let's put the blame where it really belongs. And I mean right on (he shoul ders of our U.S. Supreme Court which on Red Monday after Red Monday has handed down pro Communist decisions until, now, a Communist probably enjoys more protection in America than he ever did in Russia. Let's also put some of the blame on our Justice Depart ment which has failed to put Communists in jail for not reg istering as enemy agents as re quired by law. And a big share of the blame should be laid at the feet of our liberal-leftist Congressmen and Senators who have consistently voted against our Constitution, which they solemnly sworo to protect and uphold, while voting for one unconstitutional, Communist ap proved bill after another. Also at the feet of every public opin- ion moulder (Columnists. News l'astcrs'. Editors, etc.) who has vZ.So'h Riven support to a Communist front. Last, but not least, every newspaper In America which has allowed Communist-inspired lied propaganda to be splashed on iis pages must share a large . V. , . ,v ur ",c LC0 . y ,MU""!' m,w ?",W!"R Up , xnienca, aim lor uie death of President Kennedy Iony tialli 1101 Rogue River Ave. Grants Pass, Ore. o Editor's note: Let us turn from Ihe fulminalions of Mr. (lalli and sec what J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had to say the other day: l ommimism leeits upon IK- oiKd ilf'prXcs relentlessly for weaknesses in America's moral armor. "Thnl is whv Urn ,;ukp of , - mill is w lv Die ciillse communism is well served bv "ucrausm. uie mooa oi uoerai the hate-mongers, the lunatic ism' he contended, is optimism, fringe nnd other rabble who " "'inks of human rights rather preach a doctrine of malice and MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. They clutter the streets and the mails with their slanderous obscenities, urging impression able teen-agers and unstable adults to acts of hate, terror and intimidation. ' They have brought forth the bombs and ignited the flames that have killed decent Americans and even innocent children and de stroyed churches and other temples of worship, They are a national disgrace. "Invariably, these merchants of hate attempt to drape them selves in a cloak of patriotism. But (heir real objective is to profiteer and capitalize upon ignorance, prejudice and big otry while destroying the very ideals which they claim to up hold . . . "Out best offensive against crime, subversion, intolerance and all enemies of America's heritage of freedom is brother hood . . ." Meaning Altered To the Editor: Thank you for the generous space given my notes on Dr. Waskow's address to the Mcdford and Ashland Hu man Rights Councils. The Mcd ford Mail Tribune's cooperation with and sympathy toward those working for civil rights is well known and very much ap preciated. I should like to call attention to two typographical errors in the article in question which change the meaning consider ably. To begin with, it was an Arkansas rather than an Arizona town in which Negroes were shot down in 1910 when they attempted to start their own labor union. Also it was not Moscow Uie city but VVaskow the man who said that he does not advocate a world police force large enough to take over the United States or the world. Mrs. . 11. Westorficld 1U1I0 South Mountain Ave. Ashland, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What's a Liberal? What's a Conservalivc? 'THESE questions have appar- ently been bothering the members of the Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce as they have most of the rest of us who read the poiltical news. So they decided lo dcvole their meeting the other day to a debate on the subject. They chose as debaters Wil liam E. Moomau, chairman of the Mullnomah County Republi can Central Committee, repre senting the Conservatives, and Dr. Frank L. Roberts, assistant dean of faculty of Portland State College, representing the Lib erals. CPEAKING first on the flip of a coin, Mr. Moomau said 1 American conservatives have I dedicated themselves to the con- servation of the great documents that lie at the root of American tradition, such as the Deelara lion of Independence, the Consti tution and the Bill of Rights. These, he contended, arc the foundations of the American system of government and the American free enterprise mm- ' omy. Conservatives, he argued, believe in keeping these basic principles intact and they op- iv umiiira mui m i '. I m, , 1 P " r , t-, ,r' "ol)or,i.6,"( 1 m rebuttal, is the credo of I COLLECTION FORWARDED Mcdford Police have taken a collection and sent a donation of 1 ! Arr T'l? 1 Tippitt. OREGON Khrushchev's Struggle To Bring Russia Up to U.S. Standards Beset by Problems By PHIL NIWSOM UP! Foreign News Analyst Under the leadership of Ni kita Khrushchev, the Soviet Un ion has had but one standard of comparison, the United States. For the people of the 15 So viet republics, living on broken promises, it has been a tragedy. For Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist party since 1953 and premier since 1958, it has been a example of personal indestructibility. For example: On July 30, 1961, the Soviet Communist party announced its third program, a milestone in the history of communism. The first program had been drawn up in 1903 and called for "the overthrow of the Czarist autocracy" and the "establish ment of the dictatorship of the proletariat." The second program, drawn up by Lenin in 1919, had for its goal the "building of a Socialist society." The third, drawn up under Khrushchev, declared: "In the current decade (1961 1970) the Soviet Union will sur pass the strongest and richest capitalist country, the United States, in production per head of. population; the people's standard of living and their cul tural and technical standards will improve substantially . . . hard physical work will disap pear ..." Weird Honeymoon Rites Bared ! By Arthur Hoppe WASHINGTON - To fill a crying need, I've been collecting notes for a new chapter of my book, "Strange Native Customs in Washington & Other Savage lands." The need, of course, is for romance. You can't sell a book without it. Unfortunately, during years of research in this backward cul ture, the word never cropped up. And I had come to the reluctant conclusion it was not part of the native vocabulary, they hav ing no need for it in their pri mordial savagery. What a shame. How would I sell my book? So imagine my delight to hear the natives at last using a word which sings with romance, which sparkles with romance a word which is the very essence of romance: "Honeymoon." Ah, honeymoon! Surely, I thought, as I set forth eagerly with notebook in hand, even a Washington honeymoon must simply reek of romance. Well, no, it turns out it doesn't. than property right as the ends of public policy. CHANGE is an integral part of its methods. It has kept its fighting edge through Ihe EMOTIONAL force of the reformist impulse. "Liberalism." he concluded, "is a POINT OF VIEW. Let us be sensitive to the human needs for liberty, justice, individual self-realization, physical secur ity, material necessities and for tho greatest opportunity for all to share the blessings of our so ciety." WHAT did the Jaycecs do? ' They took a vote, called it a DRAW, and thanked the speakers for a very interesting program. One can't help won dering if, after hearing both I sides, they were any clearer in men mums as 10 uie lumia- mental differences between lib' cralism and conservatism. QUESTION: How did it nil get started? It's an interesting story. HISTOR1CA1 1 Y the ternn ! votc)' PassaSo of social Icgis IMUKIIALLV the terms lal favoring tne workers, and Liberal and Conservative (he rcorganizKations of tne'Em. track back to the Tor and Whig pirc bv extending self -govern-parties in England, which began i mont l0 he coionjes. to fall apart in the mid-1800's. All these are things that are By ltao two NEW parties ! now supported by the LIBER emerged the Conservatives, led ! ,LS by Benjamin Disraeli, and the l Liberals, led by William Glad- i QO islonc- & You scc- I The Liberals became stout i The things that are now sup supporters of "laissez faire" ported bv the Liberals were i trench for "Let er Go. Gallag- i once supported by Uie Conserv i her ). They OPPOSED state in- j atives and the things that were ! tervention in the interest of the : ,,ncp sinmnrird hv the rci.. ! ""''king class-which more or tii., o, ui- im i iiiuui-iii unerais. liberalism. ! i5 jt any wondor that the Led by Disraeli, the Conserva-; Portland Jaycecs. after listen tive party's program included ing to a debate on Ihe subject I extension ot Ihe VOTE to Uie of Liberalism vs. Conservatism, j working class (which hitherto in I got CONFUSED and wound up i England had not been allowed by calling it a draw? This week before 6,000 mem bers of the Soviet leadership in the Kremlin Hall of Congresses, Khrushchev gave his accounting of failure. Typically, his accounting con tained no note of personal fail ure nor of the fact that as he personally guided the destiny of Soviet agriculture he has seen first mechanization as the cure all for the ills of Soviet produc tion, then the opening of the virgin lands and now, finally, the massive use of fertilizer. "To bring this about he an nounced a crash program to more than triple the output of the Soviet chemical industry in the next seven years. Two hundred new chemical plants are to be built and 500 existing ones rebuilt. But, again typical of the twists and turns of various So viet five, seven and 20-year programs, the announcement took no notice of past failure. The Khrushchev announce ment called the new plan "un precedented" and, among other things, called for the production by 1970 of 3.5 to 4 million tons of plastics and synthetic resins, a jump of six to seven times over the present level. Ignored was the fact that the pie-in-the-sky program of 1961 called for more than 5 million tons of plastics and synthetic resins by 1970. Khrushchev made special note of the claim that since the death of Josef Stalin 10 years ago, Soviet production of meat and milk has more than dou bled and the production of eggs tripled. But he omitted to note that most of this gain came from the small private plots al lotted to Soviet peasants for their own use. Actually, the Washington Honey moon bears no resemblance at all to a honeymoon in civilized countries, indeed, it more close ly conforms to The Secret Ves tal Virgin Sacrifice & Pig Roast Festival as practiced by the aboriginal Quixiotl Indians of North Ugulap. The victim of the Washington Honeymoon, however, is a ma ture adult male. Otherwise the rites are identical. The subject is placed on a high altar. All then dance around him, singing his praises, crying out what a fine man he is, what a pillar of virtue, what a tower of strength. And each native competes to shout the loudest and most laud atory tributes. The ritual of the Washington honeymoon lasts from 30 to 100 days. Then, justas with the Quixiolls, every native "draws his knife and they chop the vic tim into tiny little pieces. The Quixiotls, of course, have a clear dogma for their Vestal Virgin Sacrifice. They believe it appeases the Great God Mbu mu and prevents him from transforming North Ugulap into a mound of iguana guano. They thus flatter and fatten their Ves tal Virgins for 30 or more days the better to satisfy Mbumu. But ask a Washington native why he praises and flatters the victim of The Washington Hon eymoon. And he will mutter, "National Unity." Which is one of the many gods the natives pay lip service to. Yet ask him then why he carves up the vic tim at the end of the Honeymoon and he replies: "Healthy Criti cism." Which is a totally differ ent local god. So the Washington native, un like the more rational Quixiotl aborigine, fattens up the victim for one god and then inexplica bly sacrifices him to another. You would think the local na tives would tremble at giving sucn otlense. O course, Ihe circumstances arc different. The Quixiotls be ; have as thev do for fear thPir beloved North Ugulap will be ranslormed ntn a mnund nf iguana guano. And, after all, looked at in this way, what's the Washington native got to lose? So much for romance in Wash ington. I atives are now supported by the e0i He also failed to note that while production was increas-1 ing, so was the Soviet popula - tion at the rate of 3.5 million per year. With Soviet space accomplish- ments in mind, there is no dis- position to discount Soviet tech - Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprises. Inc. IDENTIFICATION If we can understand a saint, then we can understand a man. And if we can understand a man, then we can know how he ought to behave, and how he was meant to behave. What is the one charecteristic that all saints have in com mon? It is not piety or love of God, as commonly understood, for some saints did not believe in God (as we conceive Him), and many people are pious who are far from saintly. The quality they all have in common is Identification. Through some mysterious process, only dimly perceived by the rest of us, they are able to identify with the full range of creation. They identify with the leper and criminal, with the dis-'. figured and the stupid, with the Uiief and the alien, with the coward and the heretic, with the beast in the field, the bird in the air, and fish in the sea. They comprehend the sliaringness of creation. A saint is a man (and woman, too, of course) in his fullness, just as an oak tree is an acorn in its fullness. He is what a man is meant to be, a model, an archetype, a goal that is given us. This is what all religion is about, despite the doctrinal differences. It is about the proper way (o be a human being Ihe first and only lesson worth learning in life, and Ihe ulti mate end of all education. The more creatures unlike oneself that one can identify Willi, the more fully one enters into humanliood. This is the whole message nf the saints; this is why Jesus moved among the poor, the afflicted, the disreputable, the outcasts, the dregs of society. . At the one end of the human spectrum, we have the pure egotist who cares for no one and nothing but himself; such persons are rare. Then we have the tribal types who are kind and loyal to their own family only. Then those who recognize the claim of the community, beyond the family. And then those who accept a nation composed of many similar communities. This is as far as man has gone in his spiritual and moral and emotional development. He can identify only with the similar, and not with the unlike. He cannot see the similarities beneath the difference; the differences frighten and anger him. His identification is narrow, partial, and fatally provincial. The parent who identifies only with his own children is better than the one who does not, but he is still limited true parenthood means identifying with all children everywhere. Could we move a few steps further in that direction, war would be-' coma as inconceivable as fathers slaying their own children. GOVERNMENT UNWORKABLE This session of Congress has a spectacular record of refusing to consider the major proposals of the Chief Executive. On some of these proposals there may be a majority opposed in one house or in the other. Some measures, had the Congress been allowed to vote, would have commanded a majority in both houses. The critical fact is that by a manip ulation of the delaying devices which are embedded in the com mittee system, the legislative branch of the government has been prevented from debating and voting on most of the legis lation proposed by the Presi dent. We have here in its American form the critical disease of democratic government name ly the paralysis of the Execu tive by the elected assembly. Democratic government based on the popular election of repre sentative assemblies is a diffi cult form of government, and the great majority of mankind has never enjoyed it. Many countries have tried it and have failed to make it work. Except here, it has never before been tried on a continental scale, and there is no certainty that we shall long be able to make it work. The system did not work when slavery was at issue, and there are serious reasons for asking ourselves whether the system as it exists today will be able to cope willi the world as it is in the middle of the 20th century. ll'ILL IT be able to cope with " the grave issues which beset a nation composed of great urbanized industrialized masses and destined to live in a revolutionary world? A govern ment in which the Chief Execu tive cannot induce the legisla ture to consider his proposals is dangerously weak. If we look at the advanced countries those which have attained a certain level of edu cation and wealth we must recognize, I believe, that de mocracy has been unworkable where the Executive was para lyzed. In what we call the free world of Western Europe, one can count on the fingers of one hand the countries where rcpre' sentative democracy, as it was in Congress, notablv the exces conceivcd in Uie 19th century, i sivc respect for seniority. But a is still working reasonably well. I rule which sives indisDutahle Aside from Portugal and Spain, Greece and Turkey, what do we see on the continent? In France, General Dc Gaulle, and i nical abilitv. Rather. U.S. ex- pcrts are inclined to attribute 1 Soviet failures to too much i haste and too little planning, But it is easy to see why - Khrushchev, beset .by problems on every side, has need for 1 haste. Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (CI 1963 Tha Washington Post elsewhere the muffling of rep resentative democracy by coali tions of the mass parties. Austria and Belgium are ruled by coalitions which exclude or compromise the issues between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, the two par ties to which the great mass of the people belongs. Italy is now experimenting with such a coalition, and there is reason to think that West Ger many will have to come to it, also. Only in Britain, the Scan dinavian countries and Switzer land is representative democ racy working well. w WHETHER the solution is au 11 thorilarian, as under Sala zar, Franco and De Gaulle, or is a coalition which suspends party conflict, the common ele ment is the liberation of the Ex ecutive from the paralyzing grip of the representative assembly. This problem, which is the central theme of West European politics, is also our central prob lem. I do not know what will happen if we cannot remedy the paralysis of the Executive. But I do know that there is no great er necessity for men who live in communities than that they be governed, self-governed if possi ble, well-governed if they are fortunate, but in any event gov erned. If the diagnosis is correct, if the trouble from which we suf fer is that the legislature para lyzes Uie Executive, then the remedy is, I submit, clear. It is also simple. I ET EACH house of the Con gress pass a rule that any measure proposed by the Presi dent and certified as important must be put to a vote by some specified date or within some specified time. The rules and practices of the House of Commons make impos sible the fantastic spectacle of a tax proposal by the President in the summer of 1962 which will not be ready to be voted on at the beginning of 1964. When I was in London recently, I asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he would do if he had to operate under such conditions. I can only report that he was speechless. There are a number of other thinCS that llUChl In hl rhannaH , priority to a request of the Pros- ident is, I believe, the essential reform lo make the congres sional system workable.