| Show marked historical import attached to aid program by teus analyst and commentator service sen ice 1616 eye E e street N W washington D C washington one of 0 the hardest things to recognize is history in the making we often live through moments of catastrophic and cataclysmic significance yet while the vital seconds are ticking aff off our only immediate impression Is the limited effect on ourselves or on our close surroundings we e have all lived through a period wh which ch has been filled with some highly significant N events beginning beg in 4 say with the outbreak ou b of world W orld war I 1 we celebrated the armistice on november 11 1918 we watched the k v progress 0 of f the p peace a a c e conference and then came the train of international events which cul baukhage ln in J V E and V J days and the founding of the united nations natio s all ali this was background for another event which took place as the ides of march 1847 1947 approached I 1 refer to the enunciation of a new american foreign policy which may prove to have far greater historical significance than any of the other happenings I 1 mentioned As one observer put it it if the presidents message urging g aid tor for greece and turkey Is implemented to the full of its implications it may be another monroe doctrine fore for shadowing a pax americana with a hundred years peace such as the pax britannica provided or it may be a declaration of world war ill III either eventuality would make it th the e most important event in modern history if it should establish a hundred years of peace it could easily foreshadow permanent peace it if on the other hand it signalled signal led another world war it would mean the twilight if not the sunset of civilization president truman and his ad VI visors sors felt the policy must be anun dated and farseeing far tar seeing people re real a iced that america must shoulder the major responsibilities that britain had carried so long as the most powerful of the english speaking family of nations and which she no longer is able to carry true we have started to create an organization the united nations which is supposed to make it impossible for any single nation or group of nations to disturb the peace but to carry out its job the united nations must have an international police force until the united nations has the force to back up the will of the I 1 majority that single nation which can muster such power will decide the course of the world we have that power potentially I 1 so has russia the proposed american foreign policy has behind it only one idea that is to keep the power for peace in the hands of what we call democracy mo cracy there has been doubt expressed by some as to whether the program outlined by the administration would serve this objective the majority of leaders in both parties however seem to be convinced that there is no better method presently at hand that it if we are to maintain our democratic way of life until the united nations has become an effective organization we ve have no other course to pursue if we take no action we simply turn the world over to russia that would mean war eventually implementing the truman policy may avoid it I 1 heartily believe in the united nations and I 1 feel positive that it if a major conflict can be put off long enough the united nations eventually can be made strong enough to outlaw aggressive warfare effectively pledging our wealth and sinew to protect communist threatened countries seems our only hope lakes icy str a challenging vista of mt san gorgonio Gorg onlo and the lofty summit of the peak itself and they like to ski there but others prefer a touch of civilization ski tows a highway into the place a hotel resort near by so the california ski association with help from the national ski association and the california state chamber of corn com merce sponsored a proposal to build the highway and mccomm accommodations oda for a big ski resort it looked as if san gorgonio Gorg onlo would be about as primitive as television and cooking with electronics but the forest service was keeping an open mind after all it might tie be better to devote san gorgonio to more primitive skiing so last december the service announced a 90 day intention of changing the areas classification as primitive this cleared the way tor for going ahead with the skiing developments the forest service principle is the greatest good for the greatest number in the long run and most of those who knew about the issue concluded that based on such a thesis this bit of the primitive was gone with the mustache cup and the model T the service called a public hearing in san bernardino which turned somewhat to their surprise into what variety calls a boff performance for mance so many people showed up that the civic auditorium had to be engaged tor for two days instead of one and as in congress the ses lions lapped over until evening supporting the skiers proposal were the california state chamber of commerce the california ski association so and 18 ski clubs that was about as expected it was the determined opposition that raised eyebrows the opposition included the skiers who like their sport in the raw along with church group representatives with summer camps at the edge of the primitive area spokesmen for foi water companies who wanted the area kept in wilderness so as to conserve its watershed values for orange growers down the valley in between were the hikers the sportsmen clubs nature lovers natural science groups the area has six forms of plant life that grow nowhere else and civic clubs then there were the letters pouring in from all parts of the country so many that the forest service both in its california office and in washington had to resort to the mimeograph machines to answer them the letters voted overwhelmingly against civilizing the area via ski tows and hotels now its up to watts we hink now that the primitive area will surely be preserved says howard editor of the magazine the living wilderness and with a victory in this issue we shall certainly be all the better bette r able to muster support for the forest service in guarding other threatened areas in our national wilderness system but we have no quarrel with skiing we want to see it it develop further we hope that san gorgonio will become even more a attractive for wilderness suin g than it Is leaping in front of railroad trains was the favorite form of suicide in japan last year what no harl hari kirl kiri |
