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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY, "'Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mai) Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North irJSl.. PlrJ7a-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising ManHijer GERALD T LATHAM. Bui Mgr ERIC V. ALLEN JR.. Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHll'MAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARI.'HEH Women's Editoi DALE EHICKiiON. CirculaUot. Mgr An Independent Newflpapel Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance .. Daily and Sunday 1 yearJIB OO Daily and Sunday fi mos 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 5 00 Sunday Only One year o 00 Single Copy (Mailcdl c By Itirnei And Motor Route. Jaily and Sunday 1 year $21 00 Pailv and Sunday 1 mo 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo. 500 Carriei and Vcndors Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jacksun County "United Press International 5 nil Leased Wire U. P I Telcphoto Newsplctures "MEMBER "OK AUDIT RURr.AU OPJlRCUl.ATIONS XdverTlKing Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC1 ATES OIHces In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Ance!" Seattle. Portland Don'-er. O1" NEWSPAPII PUIUSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Memner California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tne files ol The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. HI YEARS AGO Dec. Ill, 1953 (Saturday) A lunar rainbow appeared over the western portion of the Hague Valley Saturday night, John R. Russell has been elected chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias for 1954 at election in the Pythian building. 2(1 YEARS AGO Dec. Ill, 1!H3 (Sunday) Dr. A. A. Soule escapes in jury when his car comes to rest on the edge of n 200-foot drop near Sacred Heart Hospi tal after brakes fail. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The coming week will bring the shortest day of the year, the annual reprinling of the famed New York Sun editorial, 'Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus!' and Christmas." .Ill YEARS AGO Dec. HI, Ilt:i:i (Tuesday) Police Chief Clalotis McCredic urges greater consideration of the city's viewpoint in the Ore gon liquor control program. Cast of Medford Junior high school dramatic Christmas pro gram includes George Gates, Don llerried, Kenneth Stim son. J. 15. Garrison, and Harry Stanley. Ill YEARS AGO mi i (W'cilncsilav ) Dec. Mil.-n Vnln'l nod (Ills ScllUCi- daii scheduled to meet at Med lord armory in "world's cham pionship" wrestling match. Gales Auto company adver tises new Ford Tudor Sedan as nn ideal Christmas gilt al $M0. 5(1 YEARS AGO Dec. Ill, l!lia (Friday) Rumor circulated, in Portland that Clarence L. Realties may be named assistant United States attorney general. Metltord City Treasurer Gus Samuels announces he will be candidate for reelection. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or sis is good. 1. What is the standard unit by which the length of yarn is expressed'.' 2. Is an addressee compelled to receive and sign for all reg istered mail directed to him? :i Is iron an element, or an alloy? I Insert Ihe name of Hti in sect mentioned in the Biblical passage' "Go to Ihe llioll sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise." 5. In what profession was Clarence S. Darrow eminent? (i. Supply the next line after "I shot, an arrow into the air . . ." 7. What const ilules the in signia of infantrymen in the V. S. Army? R Who, or whal, is a donee? !l. Athletic teams of what iini v e r s i t y are nicknamed "Tar 1 1 eels"? It). Is a zephyr a musical in strument, a South African deer, or a wind? Answers: t. Hank. 2. No. 3. Element. 4. Anl. 5. Law. 6. "It Irll to earth I know tint where." 7. Crnssrrt rif leu. H. One who re-r-rlvm a gift. 9. Unlvmlty nl North Carotin. Id. Wind. 4 A - DECEMBER ltl, lll(i:! Backstabbing the President Do our foreign aid programs add up to pour ing money down a rat hole? Or do they constitute an enlightened, realistic and vital part of our relationships with the rest of the world? The truth probably lies somewhere between these extreme viewpoints. But on balance it must be said that it lies closer to the latter view than to the former. Military aid helps keep strong the allies who stand with us in the cold war. Economic aid helps the underdeveloped nations in their efforts to join the 20th century. Both are laudable. Both contribute to the security and prosperity of the United States. MILITARY aid is motivated almost entirely by enlightened self-interest. If our allies did not do the job of standing guard around the world, we would have to at what fantastic costs can only be surmised. Economic aid, however, is motivated by other considerations than pure self-interest, although that element is present. It also contributes one of the greatest humanitarian programs in the his tory of the race, and there is no reason why we cannot take great and justifiable pride in it. And that portion of the aid program which gives support to the United Nations is our con tribution a major one to the hopes and the efforts to achieve a lasting peace. v !. I ET IT be plainly understood that the program " is not a perfect one. There have been no table instances of waste. There have been in stances where the uses to which aid funds have been put were, at best, Uestionable. But, on balance, any thoughtful and informed observer must come to the conclusion that great good hits come from the foreign aid program, and that without it, our present standing in the world community would be far less than it now is. In past years, a majority of the Congress and very possibly a majority of the people of the United States have understood these truths, and have carried the burden without undue pro test, knowing that the good achieved far out weighed the bad, r w nPHIS YEAR, however, the Congress, and more 1 especially the House plus an oddly assorted segment of the Senate, have chosen to subject the foreign aid program to the "economy" ax. It is false economy. (Sen. Wayne L- Morse, long a self-proclaimed liberal and a staunch supporter of foreign aid, in one of the most puzzling and distressing turns of a long career full of puzzling turns, led the anti foreign aid fight in the Senate. In doing so, he allied himself with such Senators as (loldwater, Russell, Eastland, Thurmond and Tower.) The House, not content with aiding and abet ting the Senate in whittling down the authoriza tion bill, followed the leadership of Rep. Otto Passman of Louisiana and chopped away at the appropriation bill, until it was barely more than half of what President Kennedy had requested. rpHE ISSUE here is more than money. It is the conduct of the foreign policy of the United Sttttes, which is the responsibility of the Presi dent of the United States. By cutting funds, and by putting in amenda tory provisions which severely limit the ability of the President to conduct the policy as he sees the need, the Congress has undercut his author ity and his ability to do the job he believes needs to be done. A week before his assassination, President Kennedy said, "I'm asking the Congress of the United States to give me the means of conduct ing the foreign policy of the United Sttttes, (If they do not,) they're severely limiting my ability to protect the national interest. That's how im portant 1 think this program is.'' -TMIE ACTION of the Congress undercut and - repudiated President Johnson. It reversed the direction of a historic program. It swerved from support of the United Nations. It repudiated our responsibilities and hamstrung the President in the -conduct of the co.ld war. The San Francisco Chronicle pul it this way: "The pel term. nice of Ihe House was hv poeritical to Ihe point of being almost Inghlening. This congregation of poli ticians of both parlies was taking its stand for the opposite of everything that the late John K. Kennedy and Lyndon U. Johnson had urged with such emphasis and sincerity. , . . The memory of what Mr Kennedy stootl for was being mocked, not mourned, anil the President of the United States was given what can only he called a slab in Ihe back as he went oft to New York to make his bow to Ihe United Nations." It has been a shameful performance. It is one more item in ihe growing list of evidence that the Congtess is incapable, as now consti tuted, of governing responsibility. E. A. Don't Want The man who is one heart-beat away from the Presidency ol the I'nited States John W. McCorniaek, 72, Speaker of the House of Rep resentatives was asked the tit her dav whether he had given any thought to the possibility that ! he might have to serve as Prc.-ideni. He replied : "Well, you ask mi' it I have thought about it We think about many Ihings We are jusl human. Bui thai is not a complete answer to your question. Because I don't want it to happen, and so I don't want to Hunk about it because then you develop a stale of mind that 1 don't want lo develop, and I tlon't want to see anyone else develop" Quick, let's change the line of succession. Aild long life to President Johnson. E. A. o o It To Happen MEDFORD "Well, Time To Communications Letters to the Editor must bear Ihe 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 wi'h a view lo clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of ?4 paper. In fact the contrary is oftn th case. Beasls To Ihe Editor: As KDOV is in capacitated, hence no "Public Opinions," may I use this col umn to rcnly to an inquiry con cerning Revelation's leonard like beast? 1 will refrain inten tionally from commenting di rectly on this narlicul.tr beast but a comparative, careful studv of Dan. 2 and 7 may furnish some illumination. Dan. 2 describes a golden headed image with silver breast and arms, brass belly and thighs, iron legs, deteriorating into ten iron and clav toes. It designates the first of these as Babylon which was a universal kingdom. Hence logic prompts the same for the three other image-divisions which historically were Medo-Persia, Greece and the Eastern and Western divi sions of Home. Today the na tions may properly be grouped into ten languages as follows: Ilispanian, English, Germanic, French, Greek. Turkish, Slavic, Magyar, Scandinavian, Italian. (An eleventh is given in Zee. 8:211). Let each be persuaded in his own mind as to the reason ableness of ihe above and as In whether Ihe ten language groups are representatively the ten loes of Daniel's image. As to the beast-like animals (Dan. 7), Ihe following is sug gested: the lion-like heasl lo he Babylon; the bear-like beast, Medo-Persia (its rising on its side, the more prominent Persia which, under Cyrus, gained greater prominence than that under Darius; Ihe three ribs in its mouth, Sardis's kingdom un der Croesus; t h e Medes who, conquered by Cyrus, joined him; and Babylon) ; Ihe ieopartl-like beast in its four heads, Ihe Grecian empire which, after Alexander the Great's death, was quartered under his four generals Ptolemy in Egypt, Se leuciis in Syria and upper Asia, l.vsimacbus in Thrace and Asia Minor as far Cassaniler in fourth beast, as Taurus, and Macedonia; the Ihe Human Em- pue. Apparently Ihe image and 1 beasl-like animals refer to Ihe same but trom somewhat dif ' ferent standpoinls; since, among jollier things, all are said to be I destroyed ami followed by an everlasting kingdom. If the foregoing has whetted an apetite for more, also much on Hevelation's leopard -like beast, this may be found in "The Divine Plan of the Ages" (in Ihe Medford Public Library). "The Time Is at Hand" and "Thy Kingdom Come" which three books may be purchased ($1 each) from The Laymen's Home Misionary Movement, 2101-1:! S. Illh St.,' Philadelphia 48, Pa., or borrowed from the move ment's lending library. (Mrs.) Irene Moreland :tl4t. Ilanlev Hd., Medford i .( u f --.' l ' y r rr r i r - "Why Irll 'em mi support Johnson's whral tlr-tl.' We might want In stuck II in si. II rutii.il. but that tJatlncN.'Q MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Close Up Shop' Unfair Competition To the Editor: With further reference to the discussions con cerning the county farm home, Mail Tribune, Nov. 27, and to my letter, Dec. 0, Mail Tribune, one of Ihe most important points ov erlooked hy the county officials is the fact that there are many privately operated nursing homes in the county which have a substantial investment upon which they pay taxes and cer tain fees for the privilege of op erating these homes. Is it fair and proper to operate the coun ty farm home in competition with them? Remember, the farm home belongs lo the tax payers, which includes the priv ate home operators who pay taxes. Therefore, when you do this you are using their own tax money lo provide competi tion against them. This is made more unreasonable when you consider Ihe fact that that is also their tax dollars which help to provide the budget under which the farm home is oper ated. If the county officials consid er such competition fair and jusl, why limit it to nursing homes only? Why nol cover oth er lines of business? Is it con ceivable that the lumber in dustry, the fruit industry, or any other basic industry, would permit the county officials to use county funds, county equip ment, or other county resour ces, in competition with them and ai the same time under cut them in price, as has been practiced where private nursing homes were concerned? Phis question requires no answer. 1 know what Ibis competition means at first hand. We oper ated the Park View Nursing Home. We found that we could not help provide funds for the. budget under which the farm home operates, pay our prop erly taxes and other fees re quired, then turn around and compete with the (arm home which pays no taxes or fees, in fact contributes nothing to the support of the county govern ment, only to have, them undcr- i cut us in price and take our patients, and at Ihe same time I realize a prolit on our invosi- ment. As a result we were lorc i ed lo close our home. If the present practice of unfair com ' petition is allowed to continue. " it is possible that others may have to do the same thing. Therefore. I repeat the sug gestion made in my 'etter of Dec. '.), place Ihe issue on Ihe ballot and let Ihe taxpayers sav who shall or shall nol be admitted to Ihe (arm home. Then i( they want this unfair competition, they would only have themselves to blame, in stead of having it crammed down their throats by the coun ty officials. A J Curry. not; West Main St , Metltord. 53 v.'T t 'v OREGON Despite Stagnant Economy, Korea Shows Promise of Improvement; Election Helps By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In Seoul, South Korea, lines of tattered, hungry men form I (or a morning handout of food i from a Catholic missionary re- j lief kitchen. Factories stand half com pleted. In the last year the price of. i rice has doubled. Rents and i consumer goods prices have! risen steadily. It is estimated: that about one-fourth of the j country's labor force is unem-j ployed. This is some measure of the economic crisis facing the new Third Republic of Korea which came into being on Dec. 17 when Gen. Park Chung Hee, leader of Korea's ruling mili UNANSWERED QUESTIONS WASHINGTON One major question has at any rate been answered by the Soviet Central Central Committee to consider the grim problem of agricul ture. Al the last comparable meeting, in the winter of 1961, the Soviet bosses hopefully de cided lo try more bureaucrats as a substitute for more ferti lizer. This time, the need for more fertilizer was squarely faced. The huge sum of S4t billion is to be invested, in the years just ahead, to increase output of chemical fertilizer, to provide more pesticides, and even to make more truck tires so that the fertilizers and pesticides can be delivered to the Soviet farms. As presented by Nikita S. Khrushchev, the fertilizer pro gram has a lot of very ragged edges. For one thing, Soviet technical training is so narrowly specialized that you do not grad uate as a mining engineer, but as a coal engineer, or an iron mining engineer, or the like. Thus technicians trained to handle such a vast expansion of the Soviet chemical industry will be extremely scarce before more men can be trained. 4 rpHEN TOO, the record shows that the basic vice of all East bloc agriculture is its or ganization in collectives. In Poland alone farming is not collectivized: and even Poland's decidedly old-fashioned peasant farms are far more productive than Ihe incentive-killing Soviet collectives. Ideology forbade an attack on this basic organiza tional vice of Russian farming. Yet the Soviet have clearly decided lo make a Herculean effort lo increase farm output. The specialists in Soviet affairs were still asking until the last moment whether this painful decision would again he ducked, liven with this uncertainty re moved, however, many linked questions of equal importance remain unanswered. The first group of these ques tions of course concerns how the Soviets arc going to pay for the huge new investment to improve farm output, and how this heavy new drain on their total resources will affect the Soviet economy and the Soviet defense program. e j tS THE specialists now see Ihe facts, it seems more I probable that Khrushchev hopes lo get a lerge share of the need led resourtes by putting up a semi-stop on new capital invest : ment in the steel and other heavy industries. These have always been Ihe favorites, until now, of the Soviet economic planners. Downgrading them is close to heresy, in fact. A bite will also he taken out of Ihe consumers, no doubt, par ticularly by slowing down con struction of the new housing that is still so desperately need ed. And in these and other ways, general economic growth, which has already strikingly decelerated, is lo be partly sac rificed, in order lo obtain fast growth in the sector helpful to I agriculture. j Then too. credits and lech- meal skills will certainly he I sought in the West. At Presi dent Kennedy's funeral. Anastas Mikoyan pointedly told the Brit : ih Prime Minister. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, that Soviet pur i chases m Rrilam tv o it 1 d he ci eatly increased if better lerms could be obtained. , 'rill; PHIMK Minister replied. I 1 a hit frostily, that British "racliee was to consider each individual loan application "on its merit s." But the Soviet pressure for Western credits is till going to be a major prob cm for President Johnson, per haps requiring bold action Finally, the biggest qucstijHj tary junta, switched hats and became the nation's freely elec ted president. The junta had ruled South Ko rea for a little more than two arid a half years and the eco nomic problems it passed along to the new Third Republic were being inherited by the same men who helped create them. Park ran as the candidate of the junta - backed Democratic Republican party, and he was accompanied into his new office by many another military man who hastily shucked his army uniform to campaign as a civil ian. But there was an important difference. Even Park's politi cal opponents agreed that Ko rea's elections had been the most orderly and honest in Ko rean history, and, politically, a good start had been made to ward democracy. Economically, the future must depend on whether Park and his associates have learned from past mistakes. For the last two years Korea has been on a spending spree. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop io) New York Herald Tribune Syndtwlc I of all is exactly what Khru- shchev meant, in his last speech at the recent meeting, when he said that the effort lo bolster Soviet agriculture would also be accompanied by "some reduc tions" in the manpower of the armed forces. Here again, the specialists are only guessing, as yet. But the guesses, based on much infor mation and long practice, are interesting enough to be worth recording. To begin with, it is still by no means excluded that Ihe present, highly conservative Minister of Defense, Marshal Hodion Malinovsky, will be re placed by the more modern minded Chief of Staff, Marshal S. S. Biryuzov, at tbe forthcom ing session of the Supreme So viet. If this happens, Biryuzov will then be charged with gen eral modernization of the Soviet defense design, including shrinking the army's swollen manpower. TN WEAPONRY, the deploy- ment of additional Soviet intercontinental ballistic mis siles, which began last winter, will almost certainly continue as before; and so will the expen sive hardening of the ICBM sites. But the fertilizer decision makes it more unlikelv than ever that the early model of the Soviet anli-missille-missille will be deployed in large numbers; that no constitutional amend and the same holds true for the ment is needed. Since none is low level anti-aircraft missile. I needed, it should be avoided as the SAM-3 The armed forces will like none of this, Rnd great strains will surely result. Comparable strains will also result from giv ing second priority to general economic growth. All the unanswered questions mean, in sum, that this is only the beginning of a major drama, and a drama, more - over, with the utmost political as well as economic meaning. Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harrij (c) Field Enterprises. Inc. Pl'HLLY PERSONAL PREJUDICES Our understanding of the nature of "law" has sunk so low in this country that Dallas lawyers icnse oi uswaici lor icar mat careers a pathetic commentary on the ignorance and prejudice so deeply imbedded in this presumably "civilized" nation. Anitlher illuminating aspect of the recent tragedy was the way in which people spoke of "history" in the sense of "I thought such Ihings happened only in history" without any consciousness that today is history, also, and that each in dividual act performed in lite present is an integral part of the closelv-woven fabric of historv. Speaking of this short-sighted attitude, we ought to keep in j If there is no obvious and gbr mind the remarkably apt saying of Thomas Arnold a century ing reason why he should not, ago: "Two things we should learn from history one, that we 1 the President's own word should are not in ourselves superior lo our fathers: another, that wejbe final. are shamefullv and mnnlrously advance beyond them " Ami the final twisi of bony is Itir general agreement thai ttrcn s.tler parading down Ihe uillOtt ., nnn nuimit,,! hm - il Manv people are willing lo In h ,,,wl Ikon- unomllv it withholding justice when it suits (heir purpose. For all Ihe furor about "edut alion" in this country, ask a dnen persons what. In their ciimattnn, the proper end of rtbuaiiiin is, and vott will receive a diuen different anwers: until wc can agree on the goal, how can we evolve any ra tional program or rrn know whal we are talking about when we use the wortl "rchiealion"'.' A marriage will flourish when il is composed of two persons who will nurse each oiher. U may even survive when one ts a nurse and Ihe other an invalid, it consists oi iwo tnvaiiiis. earn if citing a nurse Those who inoithn.ilMy rnnv Manlt Oras and stti h nt.i'-ki'd frvlivals must ferl extremely repressed when itrosfif tn civilian clothes with their faces showing; for it is only when they are costumed and masked thai they feel Iree lo express themselves a curious psychological reversal, when conceal ment becomes a form of disclosure. W'e succeed best in those enterprises which not merely call upon our virtues and talents, hut which also in some way arr able to make use of our detects: as. (or instance, the neurotic. psychoanalyst who employs his U. S. aid money intended to produce goods for export went' instead into a government-; owned television station and im-1 ported television receivers, into j a government-built automobile! assembly plant and into lipstick, j stocking and other factories producing luxury goods strictly; tor the home market. ! The result has been inflation ; I and a serious depletion of Ko-. Irea's foreign exchange. 1 ! This has been in spite of the ' fact that in the last 10 years, j j U. S. economic and military aid j to South Korea has totaled ! more than $4 billion, j U. S. current aid is running at around S165 million annually. Despite U. S. insistence on economic reforms and the pros 1 pect of a decline in U. S. spend ing and despite many promises, the Korean government has been slow to mend its ways. (C) THE PROBLEM OF A DISABLED PRESIDENT Congress has a duty laid up on it by the Constitution to deal with Ihe situation in which we now find ourselves: we are without a qualified man next in line of succession to the Presi dent. I mean no attack on Speaker McCormack, who is, like the rest of us, the acci dental and unexpected victim of Ihe confused legislation of 1947. There are some who profess to be reassured bv the fact that ihn snnakni- nf th'p Hnnsp is an elected official. But have they considered the situation which the act of 1047 has created in the case of the illness of a President? How could the speaker "act" as President 'without resigning his scat and the speakership? And then, if the President re covered, as did President Eisen- hower, what would happen to the speaker who had lost his seat? It is quite clear, it seems lo me. that the problem of a dis abled President when there is no Vice President is insoluble without a workable solution of the problem of the succession. For tbe officer who acts in time of the President's "inabil ity" this is the word of the Constitution has to be the same man who would succeed the President if the President died. ASSUMING, then, that the line of succession is to be i straightened out, the first point on which to fix our minds is likely to introduce into our sys tem another rigidity. The text of the Constitution is perfectly clear in imposing on Congress the right, the power and there fore the duty of dealing with the I organically-related problems of the succession and ol inability Article 11, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution says that "... the Congress may by law 1 provide for the case of removal. , death, resignation or inability ' both of Ihe President and Vice were afraid to accept Ihe dc - ptiniic disapproval would rum meiriact. inferior to them, if we do not! in the wttntr inac-tbrr episotte President Kennedy would hae streets of Moscow than he was - i be generous who are nol willing lhn m-i.-o thov snnwnhlf sir fi- hit! il is sure lo collapse vvhen detect in the services ol his craft. There have been oilier sources of irritation between Ihe two governments. One such came when Ihe Ko rean government secretly nego tiated to purchase more than si; million worth of AustraPan food grains. The United States held that Korea suffered from no such grain shortage. Another arose over the late President Kennedy's failure to congratulate General Park on his election to the presidency. But there remains hope. The fact that Park now heads a strong government has led lo predictions that Korea and .la pan may be able soon to settle their long dispute and bury the. ill-feeling left by 35 years f Japanese occupation. U. S. ulfi cials long have been convinced that cooperation between ths two is essential to a healthy Korea. Today an By Walter lippmann 1943 The Washington Post President, declaring what of ficer shall then act as Presi dent, and such officer shall art accordingly, until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected," Within a period of some NO years, there have hecn threa Presidents who became inca pacitated for a considerable, time. Garfield lingered along quite helplessly for 11 weeks un til he died. Wilson made only a partial recovery. And Eisen hower was an invalid for sev- I erai montns. oi m no easo 1 was the Vice President, who i was nexl " line. called upon lo ?ac'- The issue of calling upon him was avoided bv a benevo lent conspiracy of Ihe Presi dent's doctors, his family and his Cabinet to cany on in his name and in his place. Few people today would, t think, regard it as sate in this dangerous world to let the awful : P'crs of the President be c ercised by an anonymous and self-appointed committee. rI1HE history of the three Presi dential illnesses shows that there have been two prime questions which caused the circle around the President lo avoid summoning an acting President. One is: who shall have the power to determine that the President is unable lo exercise the functions of his ol fice? The second is: bow can a President, if he has recovered from his illness, regain the pow ers of the Presidency? The answer to the first ques tion is in the clause of the Con stitution which I have quoted above. If Congress has the power of "declaring what of ficer shall . . . act as Presi dent." it must have tbe power to determine whether Ihe exit ing President is able lo dis charge his powers and duties. The question of tbe Presi dent's inability is. to be sure, a medical question which Cong ress is not immediately qual ified to answer? What Congress is competent to do is to make a judgment on the credibility of the evidence of the President's ; doctors The logical and orderly way to do this is for Congress I o ap point a disability commission consisting of high officials and of some physicians who arc not involved in the President's case. This commission should exam ine judicially the evidence of the President's doctors, and it should report to Congress Un true state of the President's health and the prospects ol iin speedy recovery. On the basis of this report, the Congir.-s should decide whether the ikm ; in the line of Ihe succession 1 should be given mandate lo fl1HE second queslmn, which h how Ihe President, if he re covers, can regain his powers, can be dealt with bv the re covered President himself. He can notify the Congress that he is ready to resume his powers mere is a conlmgcnr-v wl- has never occurrc'l. but vv hi, !i we cannot ignore This would (, Ihe case of a deranged l'i,-.i. denl, as in Ihe case nf Mmi. sicur Descbanri v. ho unif ni,,.j hilc he was president of rirfllie. Monsieur neschanel w.s in duced io resign In Ihe exlreir," case of a mentally . sick m.n who refused to resign. Cong ress, acting on a report oi i.s disability commission, umA summon the next m ime m sin cession to ac as ITcdrni. 1 repeal lhal it i, ihe i (,) .(.. ultnnai duly of Coni:ie. h, .,! s .,nnl(j j. lll'ill Willi ii .. roM"ms of siieei'-,,no ;,,j ... .ihilily 1 dn not me e. ; ourse. that tli.-:e is one. ,,., esl way to rie.d uiih i iroblems. But I think t'it i).., lrepondci ant weight ol exp ience and relict, lion is tn s ound in favor o the s-i'iijiy ; vhich I have been desenh ;,, his and in the pi a ,,!, r"-,' . tide. O o O O o O (o)