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History from inn tiles nf The
Mail Tribuno 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Dec. 17. 1953 (Thursday
Medlord police officer Leo A.
Mitchell catches two men in
act of burglarizing store on
South Riverside Avenue.
Television station KBES-TV
announced yesterday that as
sembling of the BMi-ton five-bay
antenna has started and it is
expected to he hoisted in place
about the middle of next week.
211 YEARS AGO
Dec. IT. 11113 (Friday)
Dec. 23 set for launching of
SS Jacksonville at Kaiser ship
yards in Portland; .ludRc J. B.
Coleman. K. K. Kubli and Ben
jamin Bookman to he honored
guests.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smwluc Pot" column: "The
shortest days of the year come
this week, afler which it will
be only six months to the long
est ones."
.10 YEARS A(iO
Dec. 17. IM3 (.Sunday)
Aaron Schollars, ft!), of Med
ford, who drove a team at the
Battle of Gettysburg, recover
ing after lengthy illness.
George Porter and T. E. Dnn
fels "rlenn up" in annual Mcd
ford Gun Club turkey shoot.
in YEARS AGO
Dor. 17, 1923 (Monday)
F. Wilson Wait, director of
Mcdford's DOOK hand, receives
offer of similar post at La
Grande.
Modioli! High School basket
ball coach "Prink" Callison
names starting team nf Knips,
Chaslain, Allen and Williams,
with litlh still to be selected.
;,n YEARS AGO
Ore. 17, 191.1 (Wednesday)
C. Wig Ashpole leaves (or
Porlland with a shipment of
cattle which he plans to market
there.
Miss Lenoir Godlove elected
president of Christian Endeavor
group l Christian Church.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct It luperior;
seven or vighl it excellent; live or
sis it good.
1. In what document are the
qualiiu-alions for President and
Vice President of the U. S. set
forth''
2. What famous monument in
Egypt has Ihe body of a lion
with a human head?
3. What is Ihe name of the
lasl honk in the Old Testament'.'
I In what city is the principal
edition of Ihe Wall Slicet Jour
nal published'.'
S. "Green Mountain Slate" is
Uie nickname of which slate?
6 Pure lard is made from
cottonseed oil: true or false'.'
7. Who succeeded Henry A.
Wallace in the office ol Vice
President?
8. Will a hoard bend more
readily if It is hot or cold?
9. In how many bouts did Joe
Louis defend his heavyweight
title?
III. Would the roll's nf civil
procedure most likely be used
by a lawyer, hostess, or diplo
mat? Answers: I. Constitution. :.
Sphinx. 3. Malarhi. 4. New York
Uly. 5. Vermont, A. False. 7.
Harry S. Truman. A. Hot. . 25.
to. Lawyer.
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Si-ASOCIATION
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
DECEMBER 17, 193
Brothers Keeper?
We believe in foreign aid, in spite of the fact
that one can't buy meaningful friendship with
dollars.
We believe we should help underdeveloped
nations move into the 20th Century world for
both selfish and unselfish reasons.
Peace and stability probably aren't possible
in a world in which some nations are very rich
and others are very poor. And so we must help
these nations to develop their people and other
resources if we can expect to live together peace
ably in this world community.
IVIOREOVER, we ought to help our fellow
man simply because he needs help and we
can afford to give it. We ought to be willing to
help those in need for the same reason "we are
willing to tax ourselves to help the unfortunates
within our own nation.
We recite these arguments as background
for an interesting set of facts recently published
by the United Nations.
Outside aid provided to the world's poorer
nations now averages about $6 billion per year,
the UN has announced. More than half of this
comes from the United States, by far the rich
est nation in the world. We provide help for 81
nations, but 80 per cent of our foreign aid dol
lars go to 20 countries. The Soviet Union pro
vides far less help about .$400 million to 29
nations, it was estimated.
1XE DON'T quite know what to conclude from
" ' these figures.
The American share of the total isn't sur
prising. Some other nations provide a larger
share of their national income for foreign aid,
but we are so rich that we still dominate thei
picture. Nevertheless, we
Lions to help more than
Perhaps the most
small size of the total. Six
of money. But its a drop in the bucket in terms
of total world wealth. And it's doubtful if it's
anywhere near enough to help the poorer nations
get off the ground.
If man is his brother's keeper, then there's
room for better keeping. Capital Journal, Salem.
Out of Character
The Oregon Division
League of America has
stop all Oregon commercial fishermen from
catching fish in the Columbia, River. 11 is ire-
narinor a haunt. meiiRiivp.
issuance of licenses for
fish, commercially, in the Columbia, and wouldUegRn by arRiiing against an
prohibit the processing, in Oregon, ol lish caught i
in the river, whether caught by Oregon residents)
1 noi. ... M'-' ury Douglas Dillon made
Washington eillnet fishermen would slill be'lhe counter - argument, for
able to fish the Columbia. Fish So caught COtlld
K- I .
((nivionu ill i.-.iiii;iifii. miv mi unuil. SS irn im
be a near death-blow to
and residents along the lower reaches of the
river. This is probably the most consistently-depressed
area, economically speaking, in the state
to begin with.
Such a move is out of character for the
League.
rpilE Izaak Walton League has been one of the
nation's most valuable conservation organ
izations. It has long (might tor
in water supplies, not
K..i e 1 1 :...!........ 1, 1 1 - 11.-
uia 1111 puopie aim iiiuumi.x. 11 n;ts necii 111 me
lore! rout against various
upon national resources.
Rut the Oregon division, in this instance, is
attempting just what the national organization
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m.i.-s ,wmK imiu m .m.uiii nil. i ne wiepui unmp ,,,,, Sm)()R(1 m p(,rson , ,hjs
is trying to put one group mil ol business at the entertaining but far from value
expense of another. Hiologists see no need forlpss operation, the President's
I i . .! , e; i : ,1 n chief lieulenant has necessarily
nci eased escapements ol mature fish in the Co-1,,,,,,, Sm.ctal.v n( Mmce ,;.
lunima. ( losing the river to commercial lishmg ert McNamara, whose depart
onlv from one side, would not help if such es- mon absorbs the lion's share of
...iii'nm,i,.io ,,,,,,, I,. 1 each year's Federal outlays.
If, 'lllllll,.-i u i II, S ,11,1.
The Oregon group
a nog m tne manger
initiative. If should not
with it. The Bulletin,
Whistle
Ordinarily a train derailment
matter. But papers in A Hut nv am
f:,,,i .,,,., ;,,,.,i
illinium .-Muur 1 1 1 , 1 1 i 1 1 r 1 1 1
near Marion. Because the tracks were blocked,!
the SB's Cascade was routed through Corvallis. I
That marked the first time in id years that1
a tnainliner had gone through Cmvallis. And;
that's a long time between trains. The occasion!
for the train in Corvallis Id years ago w as a flood
which sent the witter of the Santiam over its!
banks. j
Whal kind of a cata.-trophe would it have!
to be before a niainliner would acain visit Ko.-e-!
burg, Grants Bass and Mcdford? Eugene Register-Guard.
Constructive Proposal
A maker of foundation garments, in conjunc
tion with U.S. Rubber Co., lias developed a fiber
with a stretch factor of 700 per cent. It is ex
tremely light-weight. It can be made into a yarn
so thin that a pound of it can be stretched for
10.0 miles, .lust the thing out of w hich paychecks
should be made, Oregon Statesman, Salem.
should urge other na-
they nave.
disturbing factor is the
billion dollars is a lot
of the Izaak AValton
taken it upon itself to
which would stem t.hn
Oretron residents to catch
MM ... ..1 I
the Oregon communities
improvements
onlv for fish and name
special interest ranis
.re mm,.. ..
of the 1WLA
;. is pulling
its proposed!
stunt witti us prop
be allowed to get away
Rend.
Stop
i
is HO laughing
I Corxallis are
:,. , i ... o. . . ,
in it irii'iu
derailment ,
"Keep Christmai In Your Own Way And
Let Me Keep It In Mine"
president scrooge
WASHINGTON Much can
he learned about American poli
tics and much ironical
amncnmnnt fin nlvi, ho nhlllin.
i from close observation of
President Johnson's attack upon
the budget, under the sacred
banners of "thrift and frugal
ity." For sheer drama, is al
most equals the battle of San
Juan Hill.
The motive of all this public
cutting and slashing must above
all be borne in mind. The Presi
dent feared from the first that
he could not drive the creaking
Congress to rapid action on the '
civil rights Din. nence ne cany
decided to try for a partial con
solation prize, in Ihe lorm o.
(airly prompt action on the lax
reduction bill.
The link between tax reduc
tion and the 19M budget, so long
insisted upon by Sen. Harry F.
Byrd of Virginia, was the cen
tral point in the new President's
first White House meeting on
budgetary problems. Budget
Director Kermit Cordon and tne
ma" Council t Eco-
nv('''y ''fi'vl budget.
kcretary V the Treas
which, one may reasonably sus-
had
hoOll
wmline "You can either
have a budget over $1111.5 bil
lion," Dillon said in effect
you can have $11 billion of tax
reduclinn. But you can't have
both."
Even Walter Heller thereupon
replied that, if this was the real
situation, he, too, opted (or a
tight budget. After that, unani
mity prevailed throughout the
Administration. And the Presi
dent was then safely able to
promise Sen. Byrd an advance
peck at the budget, in return
I for a reluctant promise by Byrd
to send Ihe tax bill from Ihe Ki-!
,.,. committee to the Senate
floor
Next came the grand
altack
which
upon "needless spending
has filled the headlines almost
as though it were an old-fashion-
ed cavalry rnarge led ny I'resi-
piiF. v
s,an
aluahle part of Ihe
erand allack s.is !hr Pros,
iilonl'c Hnrisinn In hnrlf hie S-.
relary of Defense in making a
long series of overdue econo-
mics in Defense Department
operations, bv losing all sorts
of obsolete military bases and
installations all over the United
Slales This is the luirrlesl Ihine
to do in politics. The Boston
""Pe Walk survived for nearly
ccnuirv alter tne l . s .avv
"lines. It seem In yon people
the Kennedy trisedy, or 1)
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
Matter
of Fact
By Joseph Alsop
le) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate
converted from sail In sleam,
and the Rnstnn Navy Yard sur
vives Inday for precisely the
same reasons.
McNamara had in fad pin
posed Ihe same economies to
President Kennedy. Rut Presi
dent Kennedy had not felt able
to back his Defense Secretary
in this instance, since President
Kennedy was no longer in the
happy position of a brand-new
occupant of the White House,
from whom every single Sena
tor and Representative hopes
for some favor or other.
President Johnson, of course,
ls jn just this position. Further-
more, he judged that the gain
in Congress from a strong econ
omizing gesture would more
than outweigh Ihe loss caused
by the outraged feelings of the
aenaiors anci isciuc.suiiiduvu.s
whose states and districts were
losing local sources of profit
and employment.
President Johnson even ap
proved the suppression of a
small military in Georgia, the
hitherto untouchable state of the
chairmen of the House and
Senate Armed Services Com
mittees. And this, as someone
in the Pentagon remarked, was
"like closing Ihe angels' choir
loft up in heaven."
w
THE howls of the economy-
pinched lawmakers ( most of
whom howl about "too much
Federal spending" every other
day of the year) are now so
deafening that you can hardly
hear yourself think in the U. S.
Capital. Yet the President's
judgment about the political
timing of these useful savings
seems In have been correct.
Some real economies have
also been made in personnel,
and in other areas as well. Fi
nally, it must be added, paper
savings are being made, in the
best manner of improvident
householders, by deferring
f-veninauy unavomanie spend
ing on maintenance ana me use,
both in the Defense Department
and in other departments.
This budget will not quite
equal some of the budgets pre
pared by the great corporate
executives of (he Eisenhower
administration, who would base
a lot of I rouble with Ihe Securi
ties and Exchange Commission
if they handled their compa
nies' accounts as they handled
the Federal accounts. Rut the
14 budget will have its ele
ment nf fakory, all the same.
Roth the drama and Ihe fak-
erv are in the American politi-!
cal lr:i(Mlinn and Ihes1 will
nrnluihlv nrnHnce I hi. Hesirnrl
practical result - which is sim-,
plv In pass the tax bill reason-1
alily soon Ycl Ihe irony of all1
this remains uncomfortably mv
ticeahlc. in a country that might
well solve the obstinate prob-
lim nf ism-nrtv in thn mirlst nf
affluence by spending no more
than the sum annually spent on
cosmetics alone
are niier to fjrh other since
II Jnst the Christmas. eson?"
OREGON
Chinese Intensify Drive in Africa With
Soviet Union Serving
By
PHIL NEWSOM
LTI Forelrn Newi
Analyst
In April. 1955, in Bandung, In
donesia, 29 nations met for
what Indonesian President Su-1
karnn called "the first inter
eon ' lental conference of the so
called colored peoples in the
history of mankind."
It also marked (he beginning
nf Red China's determined drive
to extend its influence beyond
Asia and to the emerging new
nations of Africa.
In Ihe last two years, as the
Soviet Union and Red China
have h me more deeply em
broiled in their ideological war,
Communications
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printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of rSaj
paper. In fact the contrary ll often the case
Birds. Fish, Turtles
To the Editor: Arriving In
Rrittany one sunset al a way
side inn, dinner was skylark
pie. We objected eating sweet
songsters. Our host said: "You
refuse. That does not put them
back singing in the sky!" We
nevertheless ate only potatoes.
Latin countries lack Saxon
land's love of birds. We move
at snail's pace "South-of-the-Rio
Grande," trying to conserve our
migrants there. We ourselves
once did but little better. When
p.-ssenger pigeons were a dime-a-dozen
in pioneer Chicago,
pigeon pie was cheap.
Go to the land ot nusn pup
pies, of catfish frys. Cross Dix
ie to proceed through Cuba s
royal palm forest to Batahano
sponge fishery. There they serve
you fish cooked in paper hags,
with a dessert of lsle-of-Pines
fresh pineapple, dripping with
"pine" honey. You then will
slill hear of dishes based on
grr turtle.
Fished to near extinction. Na
tional Parks now save these
toothsome turtles. Virgin Islands
National Park recently planted
1,200 babies. Each can grow to
half a ton. One Dixie university
hatched 20,000 eggs.
When undersigned last was In
Everglades National Park, a
friend suggested calling on a
banana fleet owner. His first
question was turtles. "I keep
one boat on turtles. We catch
them on Central America hanks.
When a darky catches one, he
flops it on its back, marks his
sign and the date. We corral
them in a Caribbean island close
to Florida. Sometime, one es
capes. He then worked his way
over seafloor back to his home,
7110 miles away. This skipper
knows the turtle has no compass
es. Do your books tell?
Scientists still have much to
learn. Above 1,200 baby tur
tles, however, are growing.
Those 20,000 eggs are given
care. U.S.A. further has
self -
guiding UNDERSEAS nature
trail with bright colored corals
in Virgin Islands National Park.
A high Washington official, un
derwater in skindiving outfit,
cut the ribbon while brilliant
tropical fish kept their thoughts
to themselves.
C. M Coclhe,
rr.tl Tenth St.,
Sacramento, IK, Calif.
Mrs. Kennedy' Aid
To the Editor: Please accept
my lhanks for your editorial.
"On Honoring JFK." in your
Dec. 12 issue. You have ex
pressed much heller than I
could mv feelings on this sub-
'r'c1' a
feeling 1 believe is
by many thousands of
snared
OUr ICIIOW ClllZCnS. Marry KOaS-
oncl' on s '' als0 voiced
"1,s thought.
There is another point in this
connecimn i siuuun uise 10 nuns
up. the Mail Iribune carried a
news story about a proposal by
one or more of our Congressmen
to present a bill granting large
sums of money to Mrs. Kennedy
as an expression of Ihe nation's
love and admiration for her. I
share those feelings. Neverthe
less, it is generally accepted as
fact that John Fitzgerald Ken
nedy was the recipient, from his
father, of sums totalling not less
than ten million dollars ($10.
inxi.mxn. which presumably goes
to his wife and children
Cannot our feeling for Mrs
Kennedy take shape in niher
forms Ihan money which assur
edly she docs nol need and
j equally assuredly, the rank and
file of taxpayers do need
F. C. Foster
Trail, Ore.
O
Editor's note: According to
law-, all Presidents' widows are
entitled to SIO.OOO per year, plus
the franking ifrce mailing)
privilege In addition. Congress
voted s.'sfl.000 for Mrs Ken
nedy's office expenses for one
year only, lo handle Ihe hun
dreds of thousands nf letters and
telegrams she has received
since her husband's death. Also.
Secret Service protection is he
ms provided her and her chil
dren for the period of a scar, i
I.V
-0 o
the Chinese have intensified
their drive in Africa, with the
Soviet Union a major target
and with the difference in the
colors of men's skins noted at
Bandung a major weapon.
At the third Afro-Asian soli
darity conference held in Mo
shi, Tanganyika, in February of
this year the head of the Chi
nese delegation told Soviet rep
resentatives "the whites have
nothing to do here."
At a meeting of journalists in
Jakarta, the Chinese sought to
bar Soviet participation on the
grounds that the Soviet Union
is not an Asian country.
As the Chinese have pressed
their claims to being the only
j true friends of black Africa,
they have referred contempts
nusly to the Russians as
"white" and "European", and
have stressed the solidarity of
yellow and black races against
colonialism.
Clean Right Hand
To the Editor: Referring once
more to the brutal assassination
of President Kennedy, as every
one who is sensitive to Ihe po
1 i t i c a 1 implications nf such
crimes now knows, Oswald
claimed to have been a "Marx
ist" a claim to which, if
guilty, his bloody crime gave
Ihe lie, for true Marxists know
that Marxism and deeds of indi
vidual violence are absolutely
antithetical, mutually repellent.
Nevertheless, malignant minds
among capitalist apologists im
agined they saw an opportunity
for exploiting the tragedy to
denigrate Marxism and to set
off a new witchhunt.
But this is lflBn, not lflOl, when
President McKinley was assassi
nated by the anarchist Czolgosz,
and when "anarchism" and "So
cialism" were mixed in the pub
lic mind. Today the mood of
reasoning Americans is one thai
recoils from whitchhunts.
Today there is one party the
Socialist Labor Party that can
hold up a clean right hand, a
hand with the taint nf no man's
blood on it, and say that murder
is wrong under all circum
stances. The Socialist violates
no principle and does not play
the hypocrite when he enndrmns
the assassination nf President
Kennedy.
I.vdia Rurnham
814 Warne SI.
Prescolt, Ariz.
flieelings From Turkey
To the Editor: How we miss
the Mail Tribune over here in
Turkey. Having the paper sent
air mail is prohibitive, as far as
cost is concerned, and it would
be a month old before we re
ceived it by boat, so we con
tinue to miss it.
Turkey is a land of great con
trasts, modern in some ways
and very backward in others.
Modern cars, oxcarts and little
1 pack burros all travel the cob-
bleslone streets here in Sam-
sun.
Samsun is on the Black Sea
,md has a population of about
90.000 people.
Open markets with many
fruits and vegetables are avail
able, but of course we miss our
supermarkets. Bread is sold un
wrapped, in bread stores, and
has to he carried home uilhout
wrapping unless you supply
your own.
Mmnsl all the Turkish people!
you talk to would like to go In
Ihe Inited Stales to he, espe -
riaiiv tne young people.
We are having a great exper
ience here, teaching under the
ruinrignt program, hut as case.
Christmas approaches we are
just a little lonely (or friends TJOW did thev come lo do it?
anfl family. ! 11 As (njs is writte-n, it hasn't
'I here is no observance nf con 0a
Thanksgiving and Christmas in! But it 'scems ,0 h(, anothr.r
his Islam land (except on the ' 0, misspcnt lives-fooling
L. S. military bases) and w e around with evj, or good.(or.
cannot so much as purchase a nolhinR characlcrs inslead of
Ihnsimas card. I traveling the straight and nar
We would like to lake this on-: " r...n..
porluni.y to wish all our friend
of the Rocue River Vallev a
wonderful Christmas and a New
Year filled with happiness. That
is. if this Idler makes the com
munications column.
Victor W. Hay and family
Maarif Koleii
Samsun, Turkey
Promotions Announced
By Company Officer
Capl Donald W, Johnson.
Granls Pass, commander. Com
pany E. has announced several
promotions in the unit.
They are: to SSgt. iE-f) Jerry
E Hull. Giants Pass: to Sgt.
(E-5) Donald G. D i m m i c k.
Grants Tass, Paul D. Lofland.
Adrian E. Slanfield, Norman G.
M.sek. Central Toml. Robert .1
James. Talent, and Gary W.
Smith. Mcdford.
('apt Robert D. M u r p h y,
Central Point, commander,
Company F, announced Ihe pro
motion nf Dary M,
Mcdford, lo Sgt. (E-5)
Johnson,
as Major Target
I Pressing the Chinese case in
Africa with personal visits this
week are Chinese Premier Chou
En-lai and Foreign Minister
Chen Yi, first stop the flag
decked streets of Cairo.
One objective is an attempt
to undermine Soviet influence in
personal conferences.
Another is to press for an
other Bandung-type conference.
Red Chinese newspapers have
been stressing the need for
"solidarity and mutual suoDort
- """
spirit."
There could he no solace for
the free world if either the com-
'munism of revisionist Russia or
orthodox China should take root
in Africa.
But tragic consequences of an
entirely different sort would be
the result if the Chinese were
to be successful in their at
tempts to divide the world be
tween while and colored.
At least the early stages of
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
(c) Field EnterpriFM. Ina,
LOOKING AHEAD
One nf the men most often
named as a great prophet of the
twentieth century was H. G.
Wells. In his numerous hooks
around the turn of the century,
he quite accurately predicted
many nf the latest develop
mets in science and technol
ogy. Yet il is interesting that even
so imaginative and speculative
a thinker as Wells, who so clear
ly saw the shapes of things to
come in manyareas, had his
own gigantic blind spots.
In his book, "Anticipations,"
wrilten in 1901 and giving pre
dictions of things to happen be
fore the year 2000, Wells wrote:
"I have said nothing in this
chapter, devoted to locomotion,
of the coming invention of flying
. . . I do not think it at all prob
able that aeronautics will ever
come in many areas, had his
modification nf transport and
communication . . ."
And. little further along
In the same chapter, he
wrote: "I must confess that
my Imagination . . . refuses
to see any sort of submarine
doing anything hut suffocate
Its crew and founder at sea."
This, mind you, was not
some rigid traditionalist, hut
(he most daring rxtra-pnlatnr
nf his times, much of whose
brilliant "science - fiction"
turned into fact before his
own rleath.
If so prescient a man as
Wells himself could not antici
In the Day's News
By FRANK
As this is written, the FBI,
working swiftly and secreUy,
has broken the Sinatra kidnap
case six days after it happened.
Three men have been arrested
and most of the $240,000 of ran
som money had been recovered.
That's quick work.
V7HO did it?
' ' Well, the arrested ones are
a 42-year-old house painter with
a long record of minor offenses,
including drunk and disorderly
conduct and assault and battery.
A 23-year-old salesman and
fnrmer classmate of young
' Frank Sinatras sister Nancy.
A former hnxer with three pre
vious arrests, one including tres
passing and i minor alcohol
: Z Z "3 r
somewhere worth getting to
It didn't pay off. Under the
Lindbergh kidnaping act, they
face life imprisonment. If they
had harmed their victim, they
could have faced the death pen
alty, which a jury may recom
mend if the victim of a kidnap
ping is harmed.
rVHK moral of it?
Well, if all criminals could
be caught lhat quickly, there
would be less crime. For two
reasons The number of evil
doers would be rapidly reduced
and new recruits wouiri be pre
vented from entering the crime
business.
It's preltv well agreed that
CERTAINTY OF P U N I S H
MENT is the most dependable
rrime deterrent
U'HAT of Ihe FBI"
" How did il get started1
HMtE Federal Bureau of Invest-
1
igation (FBI) is on of the
branches of the U.S. Department
of Justice. Its agents track down
violators ot ait tederal laws v-
: Chois tour were less success-
ful than he might have hoped.
President Nasser who was to
have greeted him, was away in
Tunisia.
The Cairo newspaper Al Gum
houria noted that one of Chou'J
aims would be to try to end the
"virtual international isolation"
growing out of Sino-Indian bor
der fighting "which showed
China as the aggressor."
Nor are the new African na
tions quite so unsophisticated
as the Chinese seem to hope.
Last February's Tanganyika
conference left many deleu i-
tlons anSn at the thought lhat
j the Red Chinese had used Ihem
i simply as a cover for an allack
upon the United States and an
aitempt to present these at
tacks as representing the vnicn
of Africa.
It led to this cold conclusion
by Tanganyika Minister of
Home Affairs Oscar Kamhona:
"We are not going to accept
the enemies chosen for us by
i others.'
pate (in a book called "Antici
pations"!) the tremrnrintis
Impact nf the airplane or the
devastating power of the suit
marine, how ran we ordinary
mortals have any conception
nf what the next decade may
bring us?
And, since his time, the rale
of acceleration has increased a '
hundredfold: not only is there
more change today, but the rain
of change has been speeded up
to a dizzying degree. It is start
ling to realize the fact that !io ,
per cent of all scientists who ;
ever existed are alive today.
What is frightening ahnul a
future war, and what makes it '
so unfeasible from every point '
of view except the suicidal, is
that gi-.-rnments have become
the sorcerer's apprentices. Sci-
ence is the sorcerer, which moi o
or less knows what it is doing "
and can control ils experiments;
but governments use science for
their own purposes, and are not
wise or disciplined enouch In i
be able to control all the possi
ble results.
We cannot know what I lie next ;
decade will bring in terms i f
mass destruction, any m n 1 u
than Wells could know how i' -cisive
the airplane would tic i
modern transport and warfare. .
All we can know is that the in
tcnlialities for annihilation of liin
human race far outrun our ca
pacity for survival, and lhat lh
sorcercr is becoming Ihe vic
tim of his power-mad appren- '
tices.
JENKINS
cept those which are enforced hy
other departments, such as the
Treasury and the Post Office. '
The Bureau searches for en-:
emy fgents and others who;
threaten the nation's security, !
It also tracks down kidnapers, :
automobile thieves and other
criminals who violate federal
laws. Its agents are given
courses in law enforcement,:
crime detection and similar mat
ters when they enter the depart
ment. r1HE FBI has a laboratory in
-- Washington with complete
modern equipment for analyzing '
clues scientifically. It also has '
fingerprint files lhat rnnlain
more than 100 million sets nf "
fingerprints. Its work is rallied t
on through 52 field divisions in :
the U.S. ;
It has a dedicated leader J. '
Edgar Hoover, who was named ;
its director in 1924 four decades ,
ago. He has developed the FBI
into one of the world s most .
efficient law enforcement agrn-:;
cies. When he came on the job,
he replaced untrained men wilh
lawyers and experienced ac
countants, established new de
partments for training, scl up a
central fingerprint file and he.
gan studies of scientific crime
detection methods
He made the FBI inln an in
stitution that is respr-rled and
admired all over the wmld
4 THOUGHT in conclusion.
1 The federal government in
these days seems often to bo
reaching for authority over mni o
and more of the affairs lhat (or
merely were reserved (or th
states and the counties and ihe
cities and the villiages. The
schools, for example, which it
is seeking increasingly to (i.
nance knowing that where th
money comes from the authority
will reside.
Might it not he heller if we
kept the federal government out
nf schools but invited it In lake
n INCREASING share in ih
detection and prevention of
crime?
Crime is getting to be nnr n(
our big problems. We could usi
some help in preventing ij
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