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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.
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It To Happen
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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
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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.
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