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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune JPuaushed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PKLNTLNCi CO . 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor SERB GREY Advertising Manager CERALD LATH Ail Business Manages Eju aij.k jk Managing bailor CARL H ADAMS City Editor ' -BARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor SICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation MKT. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Atediord Oregon under Ad of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATXS 77 Mail In Advance Per Coot l6e Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Paily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Throe mo 4-25 Sunday Only One year 8420 Dr Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes- Daily and Sunday One year 818 00 Pally and Sunday One month 1 .50 carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance sfflelal Paper of the City ol MesMor Official Paper ot Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION advertising Representative- WEST-HOLIDAV COMPANY CNC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco Los Angelea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta I ATI ONAl EDITOtlAi as$ocFain rnimrm 10" NEW SPA PER PUBLISH! tS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. IB TEARS AGO. May 19, 1947 (Monday)' H. :'S. Deuel, former mayor, appointed chairman of the local committee to support operation naval reserve. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: An Iowa police vice squad raided a church "bingo" social. The event was a legal fizzle, but at least ,got the police to go to church. TEARS AGO May 19. 1937 (Wednesday): W. E. Boeing; head of Boeing Aircraft - company, -Seattle, and Mrs. Boeing, visit :Medford mu nicipal airport. M. E. Coe, principal of Jack sonville school, receives notice that the school is admitted to Northwest Association of Second ary and Higher schools. - 30 TEARS AGO May 19. 1927 (Thursday) P. S. Woodin, president of Southwestern Mining Bureau, speaks at Copco forum. A total of. 500 more out-of-town automobiles has been reg istered in Medford this year, compared to 1926. . ,40 TEARS AGO May 19, 1917 (Saturday) Woodmen of the World, in response to an appeal from the head consul, will hold a patri otic program at Woodman hall "Wednesday. From Local and Personal col umn: City council holds informal ' conference to .discuss plans for reorganizing the city's finances under the Hansen plan. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; fre or six is good. 1. Did King James ban the establishment of a printing press in the "province" of New York, in 1686 or 1768? 2. Name the noted French ar tist who painted "The Gleaners," "The Angelus" and "The Man With the Hoe." 3. Bible: John I mentions a feast in Jerusalem which Jesus attended. Was it Passover, Tab ernacles, or Purim? 4. Are snowflakes four, six, or eight sided? 5. Name the American Negro ; scientist who was born in slav : ery and who died several years ago, after having achieved world-wide fame among agricul tural scientists. 6. A tangelo is a cross be tween which two citrus fruits? 7. Is the wild horse in the " western United States complete ly extinct? 8. Is former Secretary of Ag riculture Clinton P. Anderson now a member of the House of Representatives? 9. Is it correct to use "noth ing like" in the sense of "not nearly" or "comparable to"? . 10. "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, this is true k e." Thoreau. Answers: I. 1686. 2. Joan Fran cois Millet 3. Which particular one is uncertain. 4. Six. 5. Dr. George Washington Carver. 6. Tangerine and grapefruit. 7. No. reduced numbers still roam re- mote areas in the west. 8. Sen ate. 9. No. ("He is not nearly so spry, or comparable to John.") M. "Knowledge." MAIL TRIBTTOxt Editorial Correspondence New York, N. Y., May 15 Have just returned from luncheon with a friend down on Wall Street. He has practiced law there for over 50 years, being a judge between times. He is (needless to say) an old friend and looks it, but doesn't feel that way, par ticularly since his daughter presented him with twins. That makes his grandchildren total four and he enjoys them tremendously when he has a chance THEY live in St. Louis! Wall Street is typical of New York, only this time a trifle more so. That , is, occupation No. 1 on Manhattan island today is tearing down and then building up bigger and higher if not better. Near the old friend's office the din is terrific, the dust is dense, and the confusion for a country boy from Oregon thrice con founded. It has probably been true for years but on our visits we never noticed it before. They have no traffic rules or regulations in the New York financial district. No stop and go signs, no red, green or yellow lights, and very few motor cars FORTU NATELY! The stock market is still going tip as it has for so many years, but for the visitor prices here are surprisingly low. One can get a shoeshine sitting, in a rocking chair, with red carpet treatment for only 15 cents, a haircut for $1.25, and a newspaper note this, Jerry for a NICKEL! We had luncheon at a club on Pine street, including cherry stone clams, and it did not cost US a cent! a One fine sporting event, the afternoon baseball game, Is rap idly disappearing in this neck of the woods at least. Only on the weekend do they appear, and not always then. The reason? Well, in a word MONEY. Day games except on Saturday and Sunday seldom pay. Also there is "TV." It is not easy to sell "TV" base ball during the day, it is much easier at night. So Time Marches on, and with it, the afternoon baseball game! ' However, we intend to take in an afternoon game before we leave if we have to cut out church to do it. Let us all sing: "Auld Lang Sine." The weatherman continues to misbehave. Had a cloudburst and a real ding-dong thunder storm last night, being caught en route to dinner by the former but were safely in our hotel for the latter. At times it did not appear so safe, with chain lightning flashes all around and about half of them too close for comfort. A hotel not far away was struck, starting a fire in the coffee shop which was put out before any great damage was done. One of the skyscrapers on. Broadway was hit, a cornice knocked off which clipped a young school boy on the shoulder he was rushed to a hospital, but the report is he will be released today. He was en route home from a movie. He will probably give up night movies for a time and pay more attention to his home work. The weatherman behaved much better in the "good old days." We lived here for three years as a cub reporter and May never behaved like this. In fact, we wrote a story once after an inter view with the-city weather bureau and the theme was "It's the climate, New York boosted as .a summer resort." Unless we are mistaken the article made a hit with the N. Y. City Chamber of Commerce. Note for E.T.: The Wall Street odds are three to one AGAINST the Dodgers winning the National league pennant THIS year. .' o a One great improvement in New York over four years ago. Today the streets are kept clean. On our last visit uptown New York was filthy. If Mayor Wagner is responsible, he should be given a medal of merit by the city Board of Health. R.W.R. New York City, N.Y., May 16th It is impossible to keep up with the N.'Y. Weather man. He is always six steps ahead of your correspondent. Yesterday was so hot and humid that even the baby hippo over at Central Park stayed under water, and the pigeons allsamee as Union Square did not have enough gumption to chase a peanut. But today as this is written there is a leaden sky, a wind straight from the Newfoundland icebergs, and ye editor wishes he had brought his overcoat. However, there is no complaint from this department. We came here in May to escape the heat, and any cooperation from the Weather Man is deeply appreciated. -. Saw the "Damned Yankees" play the Kansas City Athletics yesterday afternoon before a small crowd mostly school chil dren and as usual the Damned Yankees won. We were terribly bored both by the. game and the result. The Athletics belied their title, as they seemed to be suffering both from the humidity and hook worm. The Yankees were not much better but were lucky as usual. They made all their runs in the first inning, a total ot three, but only one was earned, the others being the result of er rors by a shortstop named DeMaestro, who let a grounder escape him and threw over the head of the first baseman to let in anoth er run. It is a mystery to us how the Yankees pay expenses, but the answer is probably local pride. They win with deadly monotony, and when they have a day off and lose, your correspondent never attends. It is the same or about the same in the world series the D.Y.'s always come through when the chips are down and they have to. We should think they would be bored too, winning all the time, but they don't seem to be. We can't speak for the local fans, but we are sure the visiting firemen would go more often to see the Yanks play if they would announce in advance that their opponents will win. Mickey Mantle is hitting over .300 but is below his average of a year ago and far behind the average of Babe Ruth's record year. He is a good-looking muscular lad, with a cherubic face, and still in his 20s, so it would be foolish to sell him short. But this sports expert will-be surprised if he ever comes close to Ruth's home run achievement. We have seen him play several times and to us seems, to lack the killer instinct. He is good natured and somewhat phlegmatic, too much so to reach the tippety top. (Note to E.T.: if you wish to file a modest wager we are wrong, OK, pro vided you don't overlook the result in your next income tax.) a a Had luncheon today with a classmate they are getting scarce but those left impress us as choice. This one was an editorial writer on the N.Y. Herald-Tribune for many years but is now retired and lives on a small farm near Plainfield, N.J. He keeps fit by chopping trees, cutting hay (with a scythe) watering and cutting the grass and drinking a pint of Bass ale for breakfast. He could Upass for 20 years younger than he Co. will advertise the reason. Bill is of that rare and refreshing species, a liberal Republican, who "likes Ike" but does not believe that the U.S.A. would suffer a fatal wound if a Democrat should occupy the White House. We had a nice and amusing talk which we HOPE he enjoyed as much as we did. Of course to come from the coast to New York and not see a I show would be foolish. But we have no desire to make the circuit, and to date so many big "hits" are reported that we are pretty much at sea as to the one we will honor first. It is easier to figure those we will skip No. 1 on- that list is the prize-winning (Pulit zer and Critics) "Long Days Journey" by the late Eugene O'Neill, starring Mr. and Mrs. Fredric March. No doubt it IS tops from a critical standpoint, but we simply couldn't take three and one half hours of soul searching in an attempt to reach the essence of real ity. We decline the honor of being placed in the "T.B.M." class but we do seek something fairly wholesome and lighthearted. R.W.R. Editorial Comment IT SURE WONT Note: In Editor Bud Forrest er's editorial column of the Pendleton East Oregonian "Ac cording to latest figures released by the Oregon Liquor Control Commissin, Oregon leads all the 48 states in per capita expendi ture for liquor. That's one piece of information that win not, we're sure. aDtear in any cham ber of commerce brochures." We're- sure it won't either. Sunday, Mar l' 19S7 is, but I doubt if he or Bass & But it makes us wonder if states east of the Mississippi include that little bombshell, the mar tini, in the category of liquor. Eugene Register-Guard. OLDEST DOCTOR? Waunakee, Wis. (HI Dr. Austin M. Blake, 93, has prac ticed here for 69 years. It's be lieved here he's the oldest prac ticing physician in the country. Blake said he made inquiries himself, a few years ago and found nrtne older. Dwr ZAT Ml Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsep GHOSTS IN DAMASCUS Damascus This is a city with the strange charm of an oasis, set in a rich green garden amid the sur round i n g dusty br o w n of the desert hills. One can understand the irritat ion of an c i e n t Da mascene, when the Hebrew prophet gave Joseph Aisop preference to his own beloved , rivers, Abana and Pharpar. But all the same, for any mod ern American observer, Da mascus at the moment is a city haunted by warning ghosts. Spe cifically it is-, haunted by the peevish ghosts of the small minded French policy makers who took such offense because their British opposite number failed to consult them about the Baghdad Pact. - The British, they said, were insolently taking over. The Bri tish, they charged, were flag rantly ignoring France's historic connection with the Levant. In point of fact, that connection no longer consisted of much of any thing, beyond the underground wiring of the French Secret Service left, over from the time when France had real power and responsibility in this country ant.', in Lebanon. a a a BUT that did not matter. The wiring was used. Funds were lavishly transmitted. France's bitterest enemies in Syria were aided, abetted and subsidized in order to increase opposition to the Baghdad Pact and to make sure that Syria would not adhere to it. So far, indeed, did wounded national vanity go. What the French did then, has a lot to do now with Syria's increasing subjugation by pow erfully anti-Western forces. And for any sensible American, the ghosts of this past French folly, gibber a shrill warning because the American policy makers are now exactly imitating the Bri tish mistake which provoked the French Folly. We are now, in brief, engaged in replacing the vanished Bri tish influence with a new Ameri can influence as the necessary safeguard of the vital Western interests in this part of the world. As the Jordanian drama showed, the process has already gone startingly far.. It was to President Eisenhow er that Lebanon's wise President Camille Chamoun sent a person al message that the curtain could be. definitely rung down on all the Arab lands if Jordan fell into anti-Western hands. Again, it was to - President Eisenhower that Jordan's young King Hussein turned for a guar antee against Israeli attack which would free his hands for action. Here again, it was President Eisenhower who sent the Sixth Fleet as a stern warning to "Is rael arid a strong hint to the Kremlin. And it was American influence too, apparently, which somewhat excitably . and impru dently seceured the simultaneous movement of the Turkish Army towards the Syrian border. .a OTHER evidence might also be cited to show how our long, inane condition of non-policy in this same area is belatedly being cured. But enough has been said to prove the point. Any other American course would certainly be fatal. But as this reporter learned in London, we have reached no prior de tailed agreement with our Brit ish allies about 'this new course of ours. Bermuda was the great opportunity, and the opportun ity was missed. That means in fact that we have launched upon this immensely tricky, danger ous and delicate new course without taking the smallest pre cautions against sparking the old but extensive British wiring throughout the Middle East in just the same way that the Brit ish sparked- the French wiring in Syria. It does ' not matter that the THE MBATl LBAVE Western bacon the United States is trying to save in the Middle East is primarily British. It does not matter, either, that the Brit ish no longer have the influence and power to save their own ba- BRITAIN vanity can also be wounded, British suspicions, (of American designs on their oil holdings for instance) can also be too easily aroused. The Brit ish also are capable of commit ting follies for these reasons, One could see the danger signals in the reactions of British public men, the British press and the British officials out here to the American role in the Jordan crisis. There .are plenty of future sparking points. Iraq is one. The obscure oasis of Buraimi, where the British are squabbling with the Saudi Arabians, is another, And the sooner the American policy makers take the rather easy steps needed to avoid trou ble, the more prudent they will be. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Religion and Science To the Editor: I would like to register my friendly reaction to Mr. Kraus' letter in the Mail Tribune of May 9, in which he says "many people think reli gion has given us our civiliza tion Science has founded the true religion." As I see it, science and true religion have always worked to gether to improve our lives and conditions here on earth, but fundamentally they are two dif ferent propositions. All indica tions both in and outside the Bible point to the fact that there is a Supreme Being and Power we call God behind true relig ion. Certainly science did not give this earth the laws it is obeying. The seasons come and go in their due time; a farmer must obey the law of nature to be successful. After science had found the law that electricity obeys and functions in, they were able to invent the many things we have that help to make life so much more pleas ant. What liftlA T Vnnw artniit his tory it seems to me religion and civilization have alwayi gone hand in hand. There is abundant proof that American Indians have once been a highly relig ious and civilized people. Arti cles of tempered copper have been found which indicate that they were further advanced in science than we are today. Why then, did science stop its good work among them? Could it have been for any other reason than that they had drifted away from God and religion so they lost the inspiration science has to have to do its work? - Why is it South America is so backward compared to us? Can you find any better reason than the Spaniards came there to seek gold and the pilgrims came here primarily to have the priv ilege of worshiping God accord ing to their desire? The Bible has proven itself true in every thing it teaches. The spirit of the inscription on our coins has much to do with the fact that we are the most irfiranriiri and blessed Nation in the world because, "In God We Trust' John F. Peterson Box 71 Talent, Ore. School Taxes Too High? Tn th Frlitor: On Monday, May 20, in the rural school dis tricts an election wm De neia iu armrov the budget over the 6 per cent limitation. Anyone in terested in keeping their taxes from being raised should be and By Walter THE CASE FOR FOREIGN AID In arguing the case for the foreign aid appropriation, it will be best to admit at the outset that there can be no such thing as an ex act estimate of the amount that is neces sary. Thus, be tween January when he sub mitted the budget and Walter Lippmann mia - April, when he wrote his letter to Speaker Rayburn, the President had reduced his own estimate by a half billion dollars. Or by more than 10 per cent. The re duction is in military aid. Yet apart from the uproar all over the country about the size of the budget, had anything been happening in the outer world during those three months to explain such a big reduction in the military estimates? Nothing had happened to make it more probable or less probable that either the old esti mate or the new estimate is too big -or too small. The old esti mate was an educated guess, in the last analysis, by the Penta gon, as to how much arms and how much subsidy are needed from us for NATO, for Korea, Formosa and South Vietnam, and for those other allies or clients with whom we have mili tary pacts. The new and reduced estimate is simply a re-educated guess as to what our military allies can get along with. Be tween January and April, ac cording to the President's letter of April 18 to Speaker Rayburn, it became possible to save $500, 000,000 mainly because of "new management techniques through which lead-time financing has been reduced." All this goes a long way to explain why Congress is not pro foundly impressed by one esti mate rather than by another, or prepared to accept the view that the estimate in April is more final and authoritative than the estimate in January. TTAVING admitted the diffi- XM- culty of "making estimates, we must ask ourselves what we are trying to estimate. It is the cost oi carrying what are, in fact, two related but essentially distmct policies. One is the poli cy of support and subsidizing our huge network of military alli ances. At least three-quarters of all the money devoted to foreign aid is earmarked for this pur pose. Here there are two kinds of questions which Congress can ask. First, is it a vital American interest that we should maintain our various military alliances, which extend from NATO in Europe to Korea in Eastern Asia? Could we do without all or even without some of these alli ances? . And second, could we maintain them effectively at less cost? If so, on whose judgment' as to how to do this should we rely? x On the whole, Congress sup ports overwhelmingly the alli ances, and is not disposed to run the risks of any drastic re duction in military aid. It is the second of the two policies, that of earmarking money for civil ian economic development, which needs to be explained and justified. This policy is address ed not so much to the problem of preventing or winning a war with the Soviet Union but to the epoch-making problem of the relationship between the indus trially developed countries of the West and the under-developed countries of Asia and of Africa. a a a THE argument which I find .J ICUUI.CU iU Xl9 element as follows. There have come into existence since the end of World War H some 19 new nations in Asia and Africa. They contain about 700,000,000 peo ple, ana tnere is among them a mounting demand that, having won their political independ ence, they shall proceed rapidly to raise their standard of life. This cannot be done without the investment of capital in the basic productive capacity of each there and vote against it. We cannot go on with this taxation. We will be assessed on 30 per cent of appraised value the coming year instead of 25 per cent as of this year, a raise of five per cent on the already inflated valuation. This alone should take care of any added school needs. Our school tax is already out of reason. If there is such a dire emergency, put our schools on a 12-month basis. This will furnish schooling for one-third more children, with one-third less teachers and build ings. Our teachers are already paid on a 12-month basis. Any business will go broke paying their employees on a 12-month basis and only operating nine. Our school buses should be run to transport children to school only, nothing else. In Klamath county the parents haul their children to athletic events and entertainment. Too much tax money is being spent on athletics, and too few receive benefit from it. If you think your taxes are too high, go vote Mon day. Earl and Dorris Scheble Route 1, Box 413 - Medford, Ore. Today Tomorrow Lippmann country in roads, ports, trans portation, machinery and the like. The under-developed coun tries have virtually no capital of their own. There are two main ways in which capital can be raised in an under-developed country. One is by loans on very easy terms from North America and from Western Europe. The. other is by forced savings at home, which is the way that the Soviet Union developed its in dustrial economy. It is often said that the capital should be provided by private investors. For a number of rea sons they are not likely to pro vide enough capital in the places where it is most needed. Thus American private investment abroad has been averaging about $2,000,000,000 a year during the past two years. But most of this money has gone to Canada, to Europe and to other "developed" areas. About $400,000,000 has on the average gone to Latin Amer ica. Asia, Africa and the Mid dle East have averaged $200, 000,000 a year. But of this the bulk has been invested in the countries of the Middle East where there is oil. a a rpHERE are a number of rea-- sons why there is a shortage of Western private capital avail able for investment abroad. One is that the political risks in the under-developed countries are so considerable. Another is that owing to the unprecedented and revolutionary policy of full em ployment, which now prevails in Western Europe and in North America, there is high demand and great business activity. As a result,, there is, on the one hand, a big demand for the in vestment of capital at home. In Western Europe at least there is, on the other hand, owing to tne much wider distribution of income which is available for consumption, a drying up of sav ings for investment. Thus the managing director of the International Monetary runa, Mr. Fer Jacobsson, said recently that "practically no Eu ropean country has at the mo ment any surplus funds avail able for new foreign loans. Even in Switzerland with its ample flow of savings, the amounts be coming available on the capital markets seem at present to be invested altogether within the country, with the result that in the second half of 1956, there were no foreign loans issued on the Swiss market." "CTAILING adequate private in- vestment m the under-de veloped countries, there are two ways left to them. One is to copy tne boviet Union, as China is doing, and to raise capital by extracting it forcibly from the people, particularly from the peasants. The other way is to provide a fund of public money in tne western world from which capital can be borrowed on terms that are politically accept- aDie, ana are not too hard eco nomically for countries that are very poor. Such a fund is needed, and this country will have to be the main, though by no means the sole, supplier of capital. We can not in fact stand aside. We can not refuse to be concerned with the needs of these newly created nations. We cannot say that we do not care whether or how they meet the demand of their people for relief from , their grinding poverty. Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK Important news: Prime Minister Macmillan tells the house of commons that first reports of the british hydro gen bomb test in the Christmas islands in the Pacific yesterday indicate that the FALL-OUT FROM THE BLAST WILL BE ALMOST' NEGLIGIBLE. WHY IS that so important? This is the answer: British atomic scientists have been working on a bomb that would have tremendous explos ive power AT THE SPOT but yery little radioactive fall-out to kill or maim people hundreds of miles away. This is- the BIG issue: How can such a bomb be de veloped without EXPERIMEN TAL TESTING of the principles involved? PUT IT this way: Suppose you are trying to mix a bug poison that will kill noxious insects without fail but won't hurt people. How are you going to develop such a formula if you are not allowed "to try experiments as you go? OPPOSITION TO the testing of nuclear weapons is perfectly understandable. Atom and hy drogen bombs are grisly and horrible things. I'm sure we'd all be DELIRIOUSLY happy if ev erything pertaining to them including the secret of making them work could be taken out and sunk in the deepest deep of the deepest sea and FORGOT POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) t This is a true story. A youngster of about four years was listening to the radio, over which the announcer was extolling the virtues of a certain brand of "ladies toiletries," which phrase he repeated sev eral times. Finally the youngster turned to his mother and remarked, "Momma, I thought only dogs had that kind of trees." a One of the nicest things about the kind of jobs those of us here in the news room, do is the fact that we come into contact with all sorts of nice people, with all sorts of problems. Sometimes we can help: sometimes we can't. But nine times out of ten we have a pleasant chat with our callers or correspondents. Sometimes the correspond ence itself (and we receive three heaping armloads of mail every day) brings with it en joyable tidbits of humanity. We received a letter the other day from a reporter for a 4-H club (we'd guess him to be aged between 10 and 13). On the front of the envelope, in youthful but very plain handwriting, was w r it t e n "Please Hurry." On the back of the envelope appeared: Thank you. S i ' C e e ' I T- a a a Ever see people as tax-conscious as they are these days? Even last November, when prop erty taxes came due, we don't recall as much fuss about taxes as there is these days. WelL something of the moral of the story is mailed to us by our Illinois Valley correspondent, Helen Bottel, who tells about the owner of a grocery store in Kerby, who, in 1944, bought the store. That year his personal prop erty taxes, on equipment and stock, came to $7.97. This year his personal property taxes, on about the same number and quality of items, totaled $136. It sort of sounds as though he either wasn't paying enough in 1944, or was paying too much in 1957. '-. Once in a while we feel" -trong enough to tell our read ers, in this space, about typo graphical errors in the paper. (At other times, we just can't bring ourselves to do it.) Anyway. Be tie Hoskins spotted one in last Sunday's paper. The story was about the Jacksonville School ban quet and prom recently, and it mentioned the "outer space" theme "with a large' rocket ship in the center of the flood." Something ' to do with a modern Noah, Belte thinks. If we didn't know by the calendar that it was May. we'd know by the kind of weather we've had the last three weeks. One day it's hot and sunny; the next if s cold and rainy: the next it's warm and overcast. There have been hail and thundershow ers, as well as bright, clear days with a brassy sun. A few flies have shown up In our part of town, but no mos quitoes yet, anyway." JENKINS TEN FOREVER. But this cannot be. When the atom and the hydro gen bomb came into the world, they CAME TO STAY. We have to learn to live with them. T ET"S GLANCE for a moment J at gunpowder. When it came into the world, it was a grisly and horrible thing. Befort the advent of gun powder men who died in battle died by the comparitively clean thrust of a sword or a spear or an arrow. Bullets and shells, when they came along, TORE AND SHATTERED AND SPLIN TERED. 1ITE MUST remember this: , " Gunpowder "has its USE IN PEACE as well as in war. Dyna mite followed powder. Dynamite immensely increased man's abil ity to get useful things done. Atom and hydrogen bombs hold the same promise. TlfHEN WE object to experi " mental study of atom energy in ALL of its forms, useful as well as destructive we put ourselves in the position of the ostrich that supposedly, when something unpleasant or danger ous appears on the horizon, hides its head in the sand. Atom and hydrogen bombs can't be disposed of by hiding our heads in . the sand. Their possibilities are terrible, but we have to recognize they are here. We HAVE to learn to live with them.