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10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 15, 1953 (Tuesday)
Miss Sally Harris, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Harris, 707
S. Oakdalo Ave., freshman stu
dent at Oregon State College, is
now a member of the Rook
Rally squad at OSC.
Bill Walker, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. 0. Walker, of Medford
Is one of the northwest candi
dales for a Rhodes scholarship
this year.
2(1 YEARS AGO
Dee. 15, 1913 (Wednesday)
Second Lt. Thomas A. Hcl
man. Flying Fortress pilot,
slightly wounded In raid over
Bremen, Germany.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pol" column: "Seizure
here of (U eases of liquid, used
extensively in backfiring against
the flu, caused considerable
mixed emotions, without any
mixed drinks."
30 YEARS AGO
Dec. 15, 1933 (Friday)
John J. Murphy, horn in Ash
land in 1HG0 and a lifelong resi
dent of Jackson county, dies
afler a brief Illness,
Medford City Superintendent
Fred Schcffcl receives telegram
from Senator Frederick Stciwer
stating Medford sewage system
loan application is being pro
cessed in Washington.
40 YEARS AGO
Dec. 15, 1923 (Saturday)
District Attorney Newton W.
Borden investigating alleged
.1" ' -on County peonage case.
Elizabeth Mnry Evanson well
received in musical recital at
St. Mary's academy.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 15. 1913 (Monday)
Ruguo valley automobile own
ers meet in attempt to have
state automobile licensing de
clared illegal.
Local grocery store offers
"fancy" potatoes for 90 cents a
hundred pounds.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct Is superior;
seven or eight Is eicellent; five or
sii is good.
1. In which city of Louisiana
Is Tulane University?
2. The milky way Is a cloud
of meteors: true or false?
3. Identify the German breed
of dog that is noted for Its short
legs, long body and ability In
enter badger holes.
4. Name the capital ol Cali
fornia. 5. Was it Uin 1,1th, Nth, or
lMh Amendment that abolished
slavery?
H. The human body Is made
up of seven elements; carbon is
one, can you name (our others?
7. Who was President of the
U. S. when the Panama Canal
Zone was acquired?
8. What is the largest city in
area in the United States?
. Cirrostratus, Cirrocumulus.
Altostralus. and Stratus are all
types of what?
10. Are Icebergs ever formed
fiom salt water?
Answers: I. New Orleans. 2.
False (('loud of start), 3. Dachs
hund. 4, Sarramenlo. S. 13th.
6. Hydrogen, oiygcn, nitrogen,
calcium, phosphorus and iron.
7. Theodore Roosevelt. ft. Los
Angeles. 9. Clouds. 10. No.
4 A
JJ-AfSOeiATION
DECEMBER IS, l!3
Defense and
We are now witnessinp; a classic example of
the meaning of Martin
all depends on whose ox
It is easy very easy
omy in government, stopping wasteful spending,
and the elimination of needless programs. It is
a popular tune.
But let an economy movement eliminate
something in which such
pie are interested, and
anguish.
THE Defense Department has announced the
-1- elimination or the cutting down of 33 military
installations in many parts of the country. I he
objective is to save a portion of the overwhelm
ing military budget.
But the move is now
Congress and elsewhere as "false economy," and
hands are wrung at the adverse effect it will have
on the local business scene.
Oregonians, by and large, can sit smugly and
watch other people's military installations close,
for we have few in the state. But the anguish is
real for those who have lost a job or must accept
a transfer.
'PHIS is one reason we
-1- view of the complaints that Oregon has not
received its "fair share of military and defense
spending. It provides a quick shot in the arm for
the economy, but it is not a good base on which
to base a long-range plan for the future.
A splendid example is Seattle, home of the
giant Boeing company.
when Boeing sneezes, Seattle runs a fever. And
it' is true that when Boeing loses a big contract,
or is involved in a labor dispute, the effect is
immediately felt throughout the city.
This in turn is one of the reasons we haven't
been able to get very excited about the Boarclman
deal with Boeing. It may (or may not) turn out
to be important to the state, and particularly the
northeast corner. But if it does become an im
portant part of the economy, and then, due to
the vagaries of military needs, closes, the results
could be painful.
THE closure of the military installations, and
the fluctuations of Seattle's economy as
Boeing's fortunes fluctuate, (and both represent
only a tiny portion of overall defense expendi
tures,) arc but graphic reminders of how much of
the nation's economy is based on defense spend
ing.
There are economists who will argue that the
United States cannot afford an end to the cold
war, simply because it would so jolt the economy
that a serious depression would ensue.
We don't wholly agree with that, but we do
believe that any major reduction in the defense
budget would require a massive effort by the
federal government to case the economic shock.
f")NE of the uncomfortable realizations about
the cold wiir is that so many hundreds of
thousands of people have what amounts to a
vested interest in its continuing.
Workers in defense industries, career mili
tary men. stockholders and officials of the thou
sands of firms with defense-related contracts
all would feel the blow should there be any
marked reduction in international tensions and
a resulting drastic cut in defense spending.
Federal officials, including Congressmen, are
fully aware of this fact, although many are re
luctant to admit it. Hut their realization is fully
evidenced in the cries of "false economy" when
a military installation vital to the economy of
a specific area, even if not vital to national de
fenseis phased out. K. A.
Succession Proposals
In considering the line of succession to the
Presidency, as many people are these days, it is
interesting to note that one proposal for revising
it is a Constitutional amendment providing for
a second vice president.
Our women's editor thinks this is a good idea.
She also thinks it would be fine to have a woman
as second vice president.
The vice presidency has often been described
as being the most inconsequential office in the
federal government. If this i so, what would
the second vice presidency be like?
A MOTHER proposal which has some mrit, and
also the advantage of not requiring the
lengthy procedure of amending the Constitution,
is for Congress, upon the. death of a President
and the assumption of that office by the vice
president, to designate immediately an official
who would be next in line.
Probably he could not be designated as vice
president, because the Constitution prescribes
the way in which a vice president is chosen. But
Congress is empowered to provide for the further
succession, and in advance. It could create an
office not entitled vice president for the express
purpose of providing a possible successor.
Whatever solution is devised, one hopes it
is put into effect soon. E. A.
T. S. Incidentally, the 2Und Amendment
to the Constitution does not prohibit Lyndon
Johnson from serving two full terms, after this
unexpired term, should he be elected, lt would
have done so if the unexpired portion of the term
had exceeded two years. E. A.
the Economy
Luther's comment that it
is gored.
indeed to call for econ
economy-minded peo
listen to the howls of
assailed in the halls of
have always taken a dim
The saying goes that
"Onward!
Bstd l
THE PRESIDENTIAL
SUCCESSION
Sneaker McCormack, who now
stands next in line to the Presi
dent, is naturally enough diffi
dent about discussing the prob
lem of the Presidential, succes
sion. But the country cannot
take his view that the matter is
too horrible to think about,
much more to talk about.
The problem Is of the highest
importance, and there should be
no more squcamishness about
discussing it than there is when
a man or woman makes a will.
The law which has put the
speaker so unexpectedly where
he now nnus nimseit was pro
posed only in 1045 during the
emotional upset following Presi
dent Roosevelt's death and
passed in 1947. What It did was
to insert into the line of suc
cessionPresident, Vice Presi
dent, Secretary nf State and so
forth two members ol cong
ressthe speaker of the House
and the president of the Senate.
The theory of the bill was that
the man who becomes Presi
dent should owe his place in the
line of succession to an elec
tion, not to an appointment. In
fact, the 1947 law did not ad
here to this principle. For after
naming the Iwo members of
Congress, it went back to the
old line beginning with the sec
retary of stale.
DEFENDERS of the 1947 law
appeal to the principle of
election on the mystical ground
that, because Mr. McCormack
has been elected repeatedly
from the (Uh District of Massa
chusetts, he has become thereby
anointed and qualified for Presi
dent. Applied to the concrete
facts, the "principle" is non
sense, and it has no relation
whatever to any real choice of
the President by the will of the
people.
There are several very grave
objections to the present law.
One is that, because the con
gressional system operates by
seniority Hnd whatnot, it has
provided a successor who is
unprepared and unqualified to
succeed. Nobody has ever given
five minutes' thought to the
qualifications of the man who
may be the next President of
the United Stales.
Under the old law, where the
next in line would be the secre-
' tary of state, the fact that he
might become President would
become a great consideration in
' his appoint ment and his confir
: mation by the Senate. The rcal
I ily of this was proved in 1945
! when President Truman's acces
sion left Secretary Steltinius as
the next in line.
I Though Edward Stettinius was
a nice man. he was manifestly
unqualified to be President, anil
a great agitation arose at once
which brought about his rcplace
menl as secretary of slate by
a man of vast experience in gov
ttii i r
7!1 SEALS
"Cnuldn't yon put off demonstrations, dnrlng the Christmas,
season? Afler all, this Is the season. -n brotherly love!"
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE,
Help! I've Been Stabbed!"
Today and
Tomorrow
By Walter lippminn
(C) 1963 The Washington Post
ernment, James Byrnes of South
Carolina.
THERE is another radical de-
l feet in the present law. In
our svstem of government, it
has happened many times that
one or both of the houses of
Coneress is controlled by the
opposition party. It happened,
for example, both to Presidest
Truman and to President Eisen
hower. Under the badly-considered
1947 law, the whole admin
istration of the government can
be transferred from one party
to the other by the act of one
sniper.
There should never De sucn a
premium on the assassination
of a President offered to crim
inal lunatics or conspirators to
brood upon. The very thing that
has sustained the country since
Nov. 22 has been the continuity
of the Presidency, the undis
puted accession of a complete
ly-qualified man. Had there been
any intelligible purpose in me
assassination, it would have
been defeated.
The sovereign principle of
continuity is sacrificed in the
law of 1947. and we ought lose
no time in wiping it off the
statute books. We should return
to the old law, which would put
Secretary Rusk next in line, and
then we should let Congress and
public opinion make it known to
President jonnson, as incy aia
to President Truman in 1945,
whether they are content.
THERE is a way, undoubled
A ly an organic part of the in
tent of the Constitution, in which
real deference can be paid to
the principle of election. We
know from James Madison that
the authors of the Constitution
meant to leave to Congress "a
supply of the vacancy (in the
office of President) by an inter
mediate election of the Presi
dent." Congress was to decide
whether to call an intermediate
election.
It would be quite feasible, and
perhaps desirable, to provide
that, when the line of succession
reaches the secretary of state
or the other Cabinet officers, the
man who takes over the office
shall be only the acting Presi
dent until a new election can be
held at mid-term or at the end
of the four-year term.
I think, myself, that this an
cient formula should also apply
to the Vice President when he
succeeds. It would not affect
President Johnson, who must
face the voters in less than 12
months.
If we arouse ourselves enough
to deal firmly with the problem
I ot the succession, we should pro-
ceed at once to repair the other
great hole in our system, which
I is what to do when a President
i is incapacitated, as were Gar-
field and Wilson and, for a time.
I Eisenhower. Nobody will. I
; think, propose that the speaker
I of the House should, on that
constitutionally he could, serve
' also as the acting President.
MEDKORD, OREGON
JOHNSON'S WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON After a time
of great pain and uncertainty,
President Johnson 's White
House is beginning to assume
its own shape and character.
Since few things tell more about
a President, some notes on the
subject are perhaps worth
study.
To begin with, one should not
be misled by the impression of
ceaseless, almost compulsive
bustle that has been conveyed
by the new Presidents office
round of conferences, telephone
calls, and ceremonial greetings.
He still keeps the country hours
of his youth in Texas, and a
most significant part of his
working day is therefore spent
outside the office wing of the
White House.
A good many people may
have gooseflesh at the thought,
but it is nonetheless a fact that
he starts work at 6:20 a.m. His
young Texas aide and friend,
Jack Valenti, wakes him for
his morning tea and simultane
ously hands him the morning
papers and the new day's docket
of official memoranda and
other documents.
IiHE WHOLE of the two hours
helwpnn fi-nft anH 0.-30 a m
are reserved for reading about
one-quarter for the newspapers
and the rest for the day's docket
and for pondering the little
notes about things-to-be-done-
tomorrow that President John
son has the odd habit of writing
to himself. Only after these two
quiet hours, the bustle begins
with breakfast and continues as
long as the President remains
in the office wing of the White
House.
At the day's end, however,
the pace slackens when it is
time for 20 minutes or half-hour
of exercise in the White House
pool, which the doctors have in
sisted on. Staff members are
invited to the brink, so to say,
and current problems are in
formally discussed while the
President not exactly a new
Johnny Wcissmuller obedient
ly wallows along as the doctors
require.
Dinner, often with a few
friends, ends about 10 p.m. and
that leaves times for another
hour or more of quiet reading
before the day's work ends in
sleep. The schedule is only in
teresting because it leaves so
much more time for study and
reflection than might be guessed
from the Johnsonian frenzy of
the more public part of the day
but for this reason it is very
interesting indeed.
WHAT IS more interesting
still is the fact that the
continuity of the Johnson White
House with the Kennedy White
House really seems to be as
sured at last. The symbol of
this remarkable fact is the re
sumption of his former duties as
the President's appointments
secretary by Kenneth O'Donnell,
who gave his entire life to safe
guarding President Kennedy's
political interests, and is now
charged with doing the same
thing for President Johnson.
This continuity, it must be
added, was by no means as
sured when the hopeful an
nouncement was made that all
President Kennedy's key staff
members would continue on the
job.
Every one nf the men who
served Kennedy was and still
is like someone who has suf
fered a battlefield amputation.
Although they said they would
continue on the job, there were
hard days when it seemed ex
tremely doubtful whether this
man or that man could really
manage to do so.
THE ACHIEVEMENT of con-
A tinuity in the White House
is in fact one of those very rare
Justice by
By ERIC
SEVAREID
(niitrlhntril 1983,
By Thr mil
Svndlrst. Inf.)
(All Rlrhts
Rrsrrvrri)
It was hatred concentrated to
the point of paranoia that killed
President Kennedy. About such
a state of mind very little can
be done: individuals like Os
wald will always be with us.
But it was sheer disrespect for
the legal rights and processes
which make civilized life pos
sible thai killed the President's
killer, and about this condition
much can be done.
The events in Dallas revealed
in a blinding flash the degree
of venom that has been poison
ing the American society. They
also revealed for all to compre
hend the alarming degree of
carelessness and callou s n e s s
with which police, prosecutors
and all the information media
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
lc New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
political events that are dis
tinguished from the common
run by the creditable roles
played by everyone concerned.
Shabbiness and pettiness arc
generally to be found some
where, in every political proc
ess; but for once they have
been absent.
The new President, who has
rarely been considered a hum
ble man, has had the humility
and good sense to see that he
needed the trained Kennedy
statt members to extend his
grasp and reach. He has also
had the human sympathy to
deal correctly with these men
in their amputated condiitons.
With sympathy, it has also be
be admitted, President Johnson
has mingled astuteness. His
irresistible rally cry to the
human legacy of political spe
cialists was the grim remark:
"It would be a poor memorial
to President Kennedy to see
Richard M. Nixon in this
house.
THEN THE very small group
A of men headed by Walter
Jenkins, George Reedy, and Bill
Moyers whom the new Presi
dent brought into the White
House have rather miracul
ously but pointedly refrained
from throwing their weight
about.
And. finally, the leaders of the
former Kenendy staff O'Don
nell, Theodore Sorenson, Law
rence O'Brien, McGeorge
Bundy, and the rest have seen
they had a duty left to perform,
not least to the lost President.
They have discovered they still
would have real work to do.
And they have settled back into
harness again, despite the ex
pected flood of tempting offers
to do otherwise. They are there
now for use, not show.
Every sensible judge of form
has long known that President
Johnson was a formidable poli
tical leader; but the facts above
noted make him still more
formidable.
In the Day's News
By FRANK
The big story last week?
The headlines leave us in no
doubt.
It's the ransom of Frank
Sinatra Jr. and the price paid
for his release $240,000.
OUR most famous kidnaping
case, of course, was that of
the infant son of Charles and
Anne Morrow Lindbergh in 1932.
But there was no ransom then.
The kidnapers became fright
ened and murdered the child.
That prompts this question:
What is the most famous kid
nap and ransom case in his
tory? IT IS probably that of Richard
the Lion Hearted, of England.
He was on his way back from
the Holy Land, where in the
Third Crusade he and Saladin
had performed miracles of
chivalry in the fighting.
A truce was finally arranged,
and Richard started for home.
His ship was wrecked in the
Adriatic Sea, and he tried to
make his way home overland
through Germany. He was cap
tured by his mortal enemy, the
Duke of Austria, and turned
over to the Holy Roman Em
peror, Henry VI, who held him
for ransom.
1MIE ransom demanded?
- It was 150,000 marks.
HOW much is a mark?
Well, the mark was an old
European unit of weight for
gold and silver. It was equal
to eight ounces of either. At
the present price of gold, a gold
Publicity
have for a long time and in
many cities handled everything
that is implied in that precious
phrase due process of law."
It is hard to disagree with
the Civil Liberties Union, which
asserts that Oswald could never
have received a fair trial. He
was convicted by the police and
thereupon and therefore by the
news media, neither of whom
have any business convicting or
acquitting anyone. It is hard to
disagree with those who oppose
turning the Ruby trial into a
public spectacle, even though
his guilt will be admitted at the
outset.
For a long time now, in this
age of publicity, we have been
debasing the very things by
which we must live. We have
debased the word "fame" by
substituting "celebrity." We
have elevated the athlete over
the scholar, the police and pros
ecutor over the judge, the pub
lic arena over the courtroom.
Justice hy publicity is not jus
tice. We have reached the point
where most of the ablest law
yers in the country refuse to
GREAT IDEAS...
ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION
Dear Dr. Adler: Do the
great books provide the ans
wer to automation? How will
the average individual be able
to share in the unlimited ma
terial wealth our technology
will be able to produce?
Quintcn Topp
1963 Scarl St.
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Dear Mr. Topp: "Automation"
is something more than a new
name for the automatic opera
tions which have played an in
creasingly important role in
manufacturing since the Indus
trial Revolution. The term "auto
mation" denotes not only the op
eration, but also the over-all
control, planning and informa
tion for entire complexes of
modern technology. Through de
vices exemplified by the al
ready commonplace electronic
computer every phase of pro
duction, from schedules to ac
counting, can be handled by
automation. Electronic controls
do the work that was formerly
done by human hands, senses,
and brains.
The new electronic revolution
seems to fulfill the age-long
dream of a time when all menial
and routine tasks would be done
by machinery. In ancient
Greece, Aristotle foresaw the
possibility of a situation in which
"every tool could perform its
own work when ordered, or by
seeing what to do in advance."
His words roughly describe the
self-powered, self-controlled, and
self-adjusting processes of our
new technology.
Yet automation has brought
much unhappiness to many peo
ple. It has "disemployed" hun
dreds of thousands of men. That
they are "disemployed" means
not merely that they personally
are out of work, but that their
jobs and skills are no longer
necessary to produce goods and
services. Increased production
has been accompanied by de
creased employment in key pro-
JENKINS
mark would have hecn worth
$280. At that rate, 150,000 gold
marks would have amounted to
$448 million.
At any rate, Sir Winston
Churchill tells us in his His
tory of England, the ransom
demanded for Richard amount
ed to more than twice the an
nual revenue of the English
crown. They turned in and
raised the huge sum and
turned it over to the Emperor,
and got their king back.
Whether or not he was worth
it is another story. Richard
was a glamorous character, but
he didn't possess much in the
way of common sense.
AT ANY rate
" The ransom paid by the
British people to get their king
back amounted to somewhere,
in the neighborhood of $450 mil
lion assuming that the value
of the gold mark was anywhere
in the neighborhood of the
value ascribed to it by the his
torians. So-
The ransom paid (or Frank
Sinatra Jr. doesn't set a new
record for all recorded time.
ONE more question:
How did they find Rich
ard of the Lion Heart who had
been carefully hidden away by
his captor?
It's an interesting tale.
HE WAS found by Blonde!, a
famous minstrel, who was a
favorite of Richard who was
quite a minstrel himself.
Blondcl wandered through all
Is Not Justice
take criminal cases for fear of
taint by publicity, as we were
once in the condition where
most of the best lawyers were
afraid to take loyalty cases. The
late Senator McCarthy did not
invent guilt bv accusation, we
were getting there on our own,
but he helped condition this so
ciety to the strange and fright
ening process.
What the Dallas police did in
the case of Oswald any number
of other police in other cities
have done in the cases of hun
dreds of other suspects. Even
the FBI which, by the uncanny
I inversions of publicity, has be
come more sacrosanct than our
highest court, has declared men
guilty before any trial was held.
It has been common practice for
police at all levels to announce
confessions which ought not be
revealed outside a courtroom.
; What ought to be our most
: august law making body, the
United States Senate, has felt
unembarrassedly free to pro
vide a national platform so that
the cheapest of cheap crooks
could broadcast accusations
4
From the Great Books
By Mortimer J. Adler
(c) 1063. Publisher! Newipaper Syndicate
cesses in certain industries.
It may well be true, as son
corporation executives assure
us, that, in the long run, "auto
mation will create new indus
tries and new jobs, so that in the
future everyone who wants to
work will have a job. Yet now,
in the short run, the hundreds
( thousands of workers who are.
disemployed every year through
automation arc paying the price
of privation and humiliation for
the increased efficiency of our
industrial system. The glittering
network of automatic controls
which have helped to produce
our "affluent" society have
heaped suffering and degrada
tion upon the disemployed who
have been deprived of their
formerly useful role in that so
ciety. The phenomenon of disem
ployment through automation
raises significant issues for ths
philosophy of work. Participa
tion in the work process hither
to has been essential for the
psychic, as well as the econom
ic, well-being of mature men in
modern society. Thinkers such
as Ruskin, Tolstoy, and Gandhi
held that "bread labor" work
ing for a living is essential In
human dignity. And Paul Good
man, the author of "Growing
Up Absurd," has recently point
ed to the lack of socially useful
work as one of the (actors in
the demoralization of present
day youth.
Yet technological develop
ments have removed us farther
and farther away from working
on the soil or any kind of man
ual activity, aside from sports
and do-it-yourself projects. 1(
the dreams of automation's ex
treme enthusiasts come true, we
will see a time when most work,
is done by automatic electronic
devices, with little or no hu
man assistance. We will then
see whether all-out automation
will result in a permanent de
fuse of morale and human dig
nity. Perhaps the classic philoso
phers of work are mistaken, and
it is not necessary to take part
in productive operations in order
to live a fully human existence.
Work, according to Aristotle, is
only a means of providing us
with our subsistence, so that we
can pursue leisure activities.
And these, as I have so often
pointed out, consist in thought,
learning, and communal serv
icethe activities which fulfill
us as human beings.
If his Iheory about the rela
tion of work and leisure is true,
then automation could provide
a greater opportunity than ever
before to partake in humanly
meaningful activities. Our prob
lem would then be to devise a
new system of distribution,
which would enable everyone to
enjoy a decent standard of liv
ing, without having to work a
good part of the waking day.
Up to now, aside from the lucky
few who have lived off their
wealth, men made a living
from their wages and salaries.
Perhaps the problem of wide
spread disemploymcnt might be
solved by making every man a
part-time capitalist, with part of
his income derived from capital
shares and pari from a job as
suggested by Louis Kelso and
myself in "The Capitalist Mani
festo." of Germany. At every great
castle, he would stop and SING,
hoping that his voice would be
recognized by Richard. He fin
ally stopped and sang before the
castle of Durrcnstcin.
Richard heard him and recog
nized his voice and SANG
BACK. Blondcl recognized Rich
ard's voice and so the mystery
of where he was incarcerated
was solved. From there on, it
was merely a case of negotia
tion, backed up by the threat of
war if some kind of deal wasn't
made.
against men not yet tried and
j found guilty. The news media
l have simply gone along in most
j cases. Indeed, we have endured
" the spectacle of microphones
1 and cameras thrust at a suspect
J freshly caught and handcuffed
; with the demanding question,
: "Why did you do it?"
A certain number of lunatics
at large is something any so
ciety has to endure. But a
spreading disrespect for the le
gal procedures without which
the substance of law, and there
fore of order, cannot be pro-
tccted is not endurable and need
not continue. This wretched con
dition is not a helpless matter
'of human nature, lt is a matter
formal codes of conduct. The
organizations of police men,
prosecutors, lawyers, and jour
nalists have their own codes,
written or understood They
have only to live by them.
Since Biblical times and be
fore wise men have seen and
acknowledged that power and
money are corrupters. The 20th
century has added a third factor
i to the list publicity.