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t 4 Frifay, September 12, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. MEDFORDtiWrRIBUNi; "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune- Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager otKALD LAi ham. iiusiness Mgr. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Soorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 uany and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 .uany ana Sunday 1 mo. J. 50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c fluierms asn in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford urnciai Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO. INC Of. fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. tSaOV NEWSPAPER . PUBLISHERS -ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassochtiQn sJ U Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 12. 1948 (Sunday) Alf Dyrnes, young Norwe gian tenor and vocal teacher has arrived in the valley and will offer local voice pupils lessons. ' Medford city councilmen convene at noon tomorrow to discuss calling for bids on the Camp White trunk sewer. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 12. 1938 (Monday) A good crop of Newtown apples is expected this year. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot'.' column: "One school of economists holds there will be an autumn busi ness upturn. Another school figures there will be an aut- tumn business upcurl. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1928 (Wednesday) Thanks to rain showers, the ban on deer hunting has been lifted. The city council has agreed to sell surplus Medford water to the Berrydale area. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1918 (Thursday) Three patriotic songs are to be featured in the Mothers' day "procession of song" on Sept. 21. From 2,200 to 2,400 men of Jackson county between 18 and 45 years of age began reg istering for the draft today. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Who wrote, "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"? 2. Which is colder, zero de grees Fahrenheit, or zero de grees Centigrade? 3. Who was mon's mother? King Solo- 4. In England, a faucet or spigot is called a ? 5. A famous Notre Dame football coach lost his life in an airplane crash in 1941; who was he? 6. Which is heavier, copper or steel? 7. The tail of a decapitated snake will continue to wiggle until sunset; true or false? 8. According to legend, who rode horseback naked through the streets of Coven try, England? ' 9. What is the name of the hard rubber disk which is used in playing ice hockey? 10. Who is called, "The Fa ther of Medicine"? Answers: 1. Benjamin Franklin. 2. Fahrenheit. 3. Baihsheba. 4. Tap. 5. Knute Rockne. 6. Copper. 7. False. 8. Lady Godiva. 9. Puck. 10. Hippocrates. PLANS U.N. APPEAL Cairo - (UPD -The National Liberation Front, a leading Algerian rebel organization, said Thursday night it would "appeal once again to the United Nations General As sembly to condemn the colonial war and conquest that, France is waging against Algeria and appeal for recog nition of the right of the Al gerian people to independence- End Capital Punishment Elsewhere in today's Mail Tribune appears the last in a series of three articles concerning capital punishment. The subject is of special interest to Oregon voters this year, for at the general election on Nov. 4 they will vote on a proposal to abolish the death penalty in Oregon. Murder is the only crime for which the death penalty is prescribed in the state constitution. The proposal is a simple one, to amend the constitution by repealing Sections 37 and 38 of Article I of the Oregon constitution. gECTION37says: "The penalty for murder in the first degree shall be death, except when the trial jury shall in its verdict recommend life imprisonment, in which case the pen alty shall be life imprisonment." Section 38 simply revived provisions of laws repealed when the death penalty was reinstituted in 1920, after having been abolished in 1914. The repeal of these two sections would have the effect of leaving it up to the legislature to de termine what penalties should be provided for murder and other major crimes. . DUT, if the two are repealed, the legislature would have two things to consider, the first that the people of Oregon voted against the death penalty, and the second that another section of the constitution, Section 15 of Article I, says : .Laws tor the punishment of crime shall be found ed on the principles of reformation, and not of . vin dictive justice." The death penalty, surely comes under the heading of vindictive justice, and by no stretch of the imagination can be considered reforma tion. Thus a vote in the fall election against the death penalty would in effect be just that: a vir tual end to capital punishment in Oregon. AS we see it, those who favor the death pen o If it Ar an -Prw rn a i-i-P fin vno ovn o nv o nevm. ciXLy ou lui vug ui li. ii V i wauviijj vi a, win bmation : 1. The Old Testament rule of "an eye for an eye" -that is, for revenge or vindictiveness. 2. The idea that the death penalty serves as a deter rent to murder. 3. That death to a murderer is the only sure pro tection of society from a repetition of the crime. Much as one may disagree with the firs" point, it is difficult to argue with, for it is an emo tional, not a rational, position. And one can argue until blue m the face with an opinion based on emotion, and never get anywhere. .. THEREFORE, the death penalty is to be argued V on a reasoned basis, one must consider the second and third points, of deterrence and pro tection. If, in fact capital punishment does discourage murders, then there is something to be said for it, But does it? We have nowhere seen any statistics which show that it does. The statistics we have seen, in fact, are inconclusive. Some states which have capital punishment have a relatively low homi cide rate : others have a high rate. And vice versa In states where it has been abolished, there has been no surge of the homicide rate. SINCE the evidence is inconclusive, it follows f V of fVia A oof Vi nflnolhr moVoc Tiff la rli-f-f tornn ro as to the homicide rate in any particular state, and that other factors social, sociological, and environmental must be the deciding ones. As to the third point protection death wil. of course prevent a murderer from striking again But there are other ways. "Stand-by" laws en acted last year by the legislature to take effect if the amendment passes provide that a man con victed of first degree murder would serve a life term, and not be eligible for parole for 15 years, instead of the 7' years as at present. (The law also provides an exception to the death penalty ban m the case of a man serving a lite term who commits a murder) . There is the added fact that in Oregon, no one convicted of murder and released on parole has ever been returned to prison for a crime of violence. Prison and parole authorities have found that murderers actually are among the best parole risks. THOSE who oppose capital punishment do so laigdjr uu live jltcioo 1. It serves as no effective deterrent to murder. 2. There is always the horrible possibility (one that has been proven in many instances) that an innocent person will be punished irrevokably. 3. Administration of the penalty is inequal-poor men cannot put up a long and costly legal battle. 4. Juries and judges vary, some sentencing mur derers to life imprisonment, others to death, and this non uniform administration defeats the whole purpose of the death penalty. (Over the years, Oregon has executed fewer than 1 per cent of its convicted murderers.) 5. It is as morally wrong for the state to take a life as it is for an individual. GRANTING point 1 (and on the evidence we believe it valid) , then the second point is the strongest m our mind. Innocent men HAVE died. AncLas long as death is the supreme penalty un der our inexact system of justice, they will con tinue to do so. Close behind are the two points dealing with inequality. And under our system, inequality is injustice. One man should not die for a crime while another, equally guilty lives, no matter what the reason. As for morality, this point is asrain unargu able, as is the opposing "eye-f or-an-eye" position. Ihe weight of the tangible evidence that capital punishment is no effective deterrent, that here is always the possibility of an innocent man being executed, and that the death penalty is not always applied with eaualitv convince us the state of Oregon should end its use. E.A. , Dennis the Menace &yciiiutidid ,vly wain jears In Fall Election, Wilson Says T vt trr .... - . . . 'IMAGNg SQHggOO WAJIfflNlO TAKg AH AfTeMOOH HAP?' Washington Report By William S. White MEMO FOR MR. MUSKIE Washington This column might be called a memo for Mr. Muskie. Gov. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine has be- come that state's first p o p u 1 arly elected Demo cratic Serfator in history with his over whelming vic tory over a sit ting Republic an S e n a t or, William S. White Fredrick G. Payne. All present portents suggest that this loss of a seat on the Republican side in the first of this year's Senate and Con gressional elections will be followed by several others. If the Democrats are . on the march even in Maine of all places it must be assumed that they are on the march elsewhere. Thus, a good many new faces mainly Democratic faces may be seen when the Senate reconvenes in January. At all events, there will cer tainly be one, that of Edmund S. Muskie Mr. Muskie, therefore, might find it helpful to know some things about the place to which he is coming certain unwritten rules in the club he is joining. These, while not exactly top secret, are per haps not universally known Possibly interested, too, might be the thus-far .unknown num ber of other freshman Sena tors who will arrive, with him, in the chamber on the northwest side of the Capitol HPHE extraordinary nature of his feat in Maine and it is all of that will do him no harm in the Senate. But, to be honest, it will do him no par ticular good either. There are a dozen ex-governors already in residence, so to speak, in this club, not to mention an ex-cabinet officer and an ex- ambassador. Any new member what ever his distinction and what ever his future prospects, even if these prospects should seem to involve a chance at the Presidency itself-will run in to certain unvarying realities. In the Senate he is auite definitely "a new boy," even though he may have been a very powerful and very rug ged old boy in the state from which he comes. Officially, he holds all the rights and priv ileges held by the old mem bers. Officially and actually. his rights are much more re stricted. TIE IS entitled theoretical-' "ly to talk as often and as long as the senior mem bers. He will, however, he quiet for at least two years while the Senate is taking his measure. If he is not quiet, nothing will happen to him openly, but subtly unpleasant things will be transpiring all the time. A man breaking the un spoken code by pressing him-' self too far and too soon will discover, for example, that the Senate is strangely inatten tive to any of his speeches and oddly cool to most anything he proposes. There will be many occa sions when he will greatly need the help of his older col leagues especially when he wants to get through more or less local or special legislatio: for his people. This kind of assistance is not readily ob tained by a new Senator un less he has behaved in what the Senate thinks is the way proper to a newcomer. If OREOVER. the new Sena "later is expected to adopt in his committee work much the same unaggressive atti tude that he is expected to show on the Senate floor. He must not be too ready to ask questions or to make any sort of demands. His is to reason why; but not to act, ever, as though, it were do or die. No where on earth is the advice "take it easy" more applica ble. For this place, the Senate, is a very strange place. Men' power there usually is not really related either to where they seem to be going politi cally or where they have al ready been. Far more simply, it iis based upon what they are and, above all, how they fit in. A man can be a halting speaker, from a little state with practically no national importance politically, and still be a Senate powerhouse. He can be a striking orator, from a large and critically im portant state which he may hold in the palm of his hand. and still not be too significant in the Senatorial forum. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington-(UPD-Byi rule of thumb based on last Monday's state of Maine election, the Democratic party should gain at least 21 seats in the House of Rep resentatives in next Novem ber's polling. The Demo crats g a i ned one seat Mon day in Maine's 1st District Lyle C. Wilson " " - " been represented by Republi can Rep. Robert Hale since Jan. 3, 1943. Hale was defeat ed by Democrat James C. Oli ver by nearly 8,000 votes of approximately 106,000 cast. Of all the Republican seats in the present House, Hale's was won two years ago by the least margin. His bulge over Oliver in 1956, as determined by a House committee, was 111 votes. Maine's 1st, there fore, was notable after 1956 among what politicians call marginal districts. A marginal district is one in which the winner obtains 55 per cent or less of the total vote. Thirty-eight Republi cans, including Hale, from 21 states hold such marginal seats in the present House. Fifty one Democrats from 28 states won marginal district elec tions two years ago. It is among the marginal seats of the opposition that each party always expects to make its principal gains, if any. Shifts in the balance of the political substructure are felt first and most forcibly in these see-saw districts. Movement Underway The difference b e t w e e Hale's margin of 111 votes in 1956 and Oliver's bulge of 8,000 last Monday suggests that a movement is underway in the basic political substruc ture of the United States. It is a movement in the direction of a big Democratic victory next November, the Demo crats having already gained one marginal Republican dis trict with 20 to 59 States in which Republican representatives hold marginal seats are widely scattered ex eluding, of course, the South ih addition to Maine, they are: Arizona, California, Colo rado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,, Kan sas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ore gon, Pennsylvania, Washing ton and West Virginia There are 233 Democrats, 198 Republicans and four va cancies in the present House A 21-district loss would re duce the Republicans to 177 seats and increase Democratic seats to 254, excluding the members returned from the current vacancies. The Low Point That would not be a low point for Republicans in the House. Democrats held 322 seats, Republicans 102 after the 1934 congressional elec tions in which the GOP first felt the impact of FDR's New Deal coalition of Democrats and leftwingers. The remain- In this place it is personal character and personal atti tudes that make personal in fluence. And, right or wrong as it may be, there is no pos sible way successfully to buck the system. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. MAY VISIT U.S. Tokyo (UPD Phibun Song- gram, former Thai prime minister who has been living in exile in Japan, may leave for the United States Sunday, informed sources said today Portland 0JPD The Legisla tive Interim Committee on Mental Retardation has called most unwise if he proceeds on a meeting here for Saturday any sucn assumption. In prac- at 1 p.m. to investigate recent nee ne will be expected to be ! criticisni of Fairview Home Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- PIERCE HARRIS tells about a kindly country parson who "had lust man-im? a vauikt Mnnl. 1 3 . j . j "unc auu iiau a. pmung wuru ior me groom: uiess you, my son. trouble." A year later, the groom reiurnea to moan. What a year I've gone through! And you're the one who told me I was at the end of my trouble." "So I did, Son," soothed the parson, "I just didn't tell you which end." You're at the end of all your One of the masterpieces of literature is Gibbon's volumi nous "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." And what did England's dike of Glou cester (brother of Kine Georee HI) say when, to 1781, author Gibbon presented him with the just-published work? Here, according to Gibbon's diary, were the good Duke's words: "What? More of those damned, fat, square, thick books? Always scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbon?" Q 19 by Scone tt Cert retributed by Kins Features Syndicate. Scientists Warn of Radioactive Waste By DARRELL GARWOOD United Press International Geneva r- (UPD - Scientists at the world atoms-for-peace conference warned today dis posal of deadly radioactive waste materials was becom ing one of the major problems of the nuclear age. U. S. Scientist C. E. Ste venson of the Argonne Na tional Laboratory told the 69 nation gathering the United States alone had more than 60 million gallons of highly radio-active liquid wastes pil ing up in underground storage tanks. ... . ... ' Stevenson said another 10 million gallons would be buried in tanks before an other year goes by. He gave no locations, how ever. Give Impetus The claims gave impetus to Treasury Expects $12 Billion in Red This Year Washington (UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower's budget di rector, admitting to a "sense of discouragement," Thursday night revealed the Treasury expects to wind up more than $12 billion in the red this fiscal year. Budget Chief Maurice H, Stans also indicated the ad ministration may seek high er federal gasoline taxes and another round of postal rate increases next year to avoid adding to the record peace time deficit. Stans said the deficit would be $12,000,000,000 for the fiscal year which began last July 1 and ends next June 30 Must Decide Soon He told his news confer ence Thursday the President and his advisers must decide within 60 days about raising federal gasoline taxes by close to SI billion next year because the federal highway trust fund used to finance in terstate 'highways will be ex hausted next fiscal year. Stans declinded to forecast Eisenhower's ultimate deci sion. But he made clear he personally was shooting for a return to a balanced budget in fiscal 1961 and would pre fer hiking the "user"-type tax on gasoline to bigger red ink spending. Postal Deficit Seen Congress recently added one cent to the cost of first class and air mail, but Stans estimated the Post Office De partment will hav a deficit of $73 o million this year, partly because of new postal pay in-. creases. He said that if the adminis tration took a" consistent" position, the White House would ask Congress for an other postal rate increase next session. Stans' review estimated the government would take in $67,000,000,000 and spend $79,200,000,000 in the 12 months ending next June 30, leaving a deficit of $12,200,- 000,000. This would push the public debt to $283,000,000, 000. " the disposal question, which raced into the spotlight Thurs day when Britain and Amer ica admitted here they had been dumping radio-active waste products into the oceans for as long as eight years. The U. S. and British dele gates insisted the amounts of radioactive material put into the sea were too small to be harmful. But the disclosures were ex pected to trigger a new round of controversy about how to exploit the peaceful benefits of the atom without increas ing radioactivity dangers. Peaceful Explosions Although radioactive waste disposal so far has been problem in such installations as nuclear power plants and research centers, U. S. dele gation leaders Thursday point ed out there was a new entry on the list-that of peaceful nuclear explosions. The U. S. scientists, in formal press conference, stressed the possible benefits of peaceful nuclear explosions for such projects . as blasting harbors and tunnels. But they admitted that even among U. S. scientific leaders there was disagreement as to whether the possible advan tages of such explosions out weighed the possible, radiation dangers. Fir Lumber Demand Claimed Subsiding Portland -(UPD-Crow's Lum ber Market Service reported today that the demand for fir lumber from consuming areas has subsided in the past week. Crow's said, however, that mill prices have risisted the downward trend. Utility and economy dimension have sag ged a little in price. Mills are still forced to turn down or ders for kiln-dried standard and better dimension. California demand for wa ter shipment has been very strong and prices have moved up in the past two weeks, Crow's reported. Eastern prices appear to have leveled off but at a strong level. Sand ed fir plywood is at an $80 market for the quarter-inch grade. Sheathing is strong at $110-112. Research Center Said Due Portland Portland -(UPD-Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said here today that He has re ceived renewed assurances that the University of Ore gon Medical School would re ceive a Federal grant of $1,- 250,000 later this month for construction of a medical re search center in Portland. The state would be required to match the grant on an equal basis. Neuberger said he had been assured by Chancellor John Richards of the State System of Higher Education that the state's share of the project "will have a very high pri ority listing." ing seats were held by left- wing splinter parties. Worse was awaiting the Re publicans, however. They were able in 1936 to elect only 88 U.S. representatives. That was the year in which FDR won the electoral votes of 46 states against Alf. M. Landon of Kansas. It enabled James A. Farley to wisecrack: "As goes Maine, so goes Vermont." The Republican party has not achieved a solid political success in 30 years, not since 1928 when Herbert Hoover was elected President and Congress was maintained in Republican control. FDR's po litical magic hexed the Re publicans. He made of the GOP a minority party and so it remains, as will be demon strated By the polling Nov. 4. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. From State Fair To the Editor: The Oregon State Fair commission and management wish to express, through this medium, their very sincere gratitude and ap preciation to the people of this area who participated as exhibitors, workers and pa trons of the 1958 Greater Ore gon State Fair. . It is our deep conviction that the Oregon State Fair belongs to the people of Ore eon and that its success or failure depends upon each citizen's efforts. This year the State Fair commission, tried t(5 present a bigger and better State Fair than ever before with reorganization and "new look." The response to our efforts has been gratify ing and we hope that you too have liked what you saw. The next step is to do even better in 1959. In order to accomplish this we need the help and support of all of you and we shall be pleased to receive any suggestions for improVement. Oregon State Fair Commission By Marguerite E Berg, Chairman Salem, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written. Red China has backed off from her warlike attitude in the Formosa straits area. The guns that have been batter ing Quemoy Island have been silent for hours and Red Chi nese Premier Chou En Lai has called on the United States to resume talks on the embassador level to keep the peace. We welcome the idea of talking instead of shooting and the White House issues a statement in which it says the American ambassador in War saw (Warsaw is in Poland and Poland is a Russiaa com munist satellite) "stands ready to meet the Chinese Com munist ambassador there promptly" to resume talks on the Formosa dispute. On Capital Punishment To the Editor: As many of our voters know, there is to be a measure on our ballots in November to provide for abolition of capital punish ment in Oregon. Now, I will not dwell on whether or net a guilty person should be ex ecuted or whether the state or, shall we say, the people. have a right, morally, to exe cute a condemned person. My only purpose in opposi tion to the theory of capital punishment is to insure that an innocent person is not executed. There have been many cases of persons exe cuted for crimes they did not commit, only to have evi dence crop up, perhaps many years later, which indicated their innocence. - Most newspaper readers have read, over a period of several years, of the efforts of; Caryl Chessman, con demned to die in the Cali fornia San Quentin prison gas chamber more than nine years ago, to escape the death pen alty. Some evidence, whether admissable in court or not, has been cited to indicate that Chessman was not guilty of the crime for which he was convicted. There is a lot of evidence, however, which clearly showf him to have committed many robberies, and clearly it would be a very poor policy to permit a man of his type to go free. How ever, I do not believe that he, or anyone else, should be executed for a crime that he did not do. , Of course, I am in no bet ter position than any other person in Oregon, or else where, to say whether or not he is guilty. But to return to the situa tion m Oregon, I intend to vote for abolition of capital punishment in Oregon in the November election. Perhaps in that way I can help to in sure that no one will be exe cuted for a crime of which they are innocent. In the case of Billy Jumor Nunn, I feel that he definitely is guilty, but recognize the very slender possibility that he could be innocent, in spite of his confession and trial and conviction. , ' " I expect I'll raise a stink over my ideas in the matter, but I think it better to have person serve time in prison than to execute them. You can always turn a person loose from -prison but no one has devised a means of bringing them back from the grave. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star Route, Butte Falls. IVTHY in Warsaw? Well, we don't have di rect diplomatic relations with the Chinese communist gov ernment. But we have an am bassador in Warsaw and the Chinese communist govern ment has an ambassador in Warsaw, so it is diplomatical ly possible for the two to get together and talk things over. We emphasize only that in the talks we will not be a party to any arrangement that would prejudice the rights of our ally, the Chinese Nation alist government. The reason for that reservation is that we mustn't let our ally lose face. That would be equiva lent to losing face ourselves.' In this ruckus with Red China, keeping face for every body is tremendously import ant. ' WHAT is Red China gun ning for? Red China wants to be CHINA so far as world af fairs - including the United Nations - are concerned. . What are we gunning for? That is simple. We are gun ning to get the shooting stop ped. , AT will we do? expect that over the long pull we will come around to recognition of the fact that as a world power Red China IS CHINA. After all, facts are facts. We might as well face them and learn to live with them. If we try to insist that the island of Formosa (which is about the size of Vancou ver Island) IS CHINA and that all of the vast Chinese mainland that has been con quered by the reds IS NOT CHINA we will be flying in the face of history. China has been repeatedly conquered, and history tells us that In the long run the conquerors have come around to be ac cepted by the world as CHINA. " TETANY of our troubles-now that we have risen to be the world's No. 1 power-arise out of our general unwilling ness to face facts in the world at large. There is DEMOCRACY, for example. We think everybody should have a democratic gov ernment JUST LIKE OURS. The plain fact is that a whale of a lot of people over the world don't want a govern ment just like ours. And a whale of a lot more people over the world aren't capable of handling a government like ours. Over most of the world- the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the enlightened nations of Western Europe being about the only exceptions - people are accustomed to being TOLD what to do and more or less PREFER to be told what to do. They aren't ready yet for a form of government like ours and probably won't be ready for centuries. IS LONG as we hold that naive idea we'll probably be in for trouble. In World War I, for example, we in sisted that the world must be made safe for democracy meaning our particular brand of democracy. Instead it lifted the curtain on a series of ideological despotisms that brought on World War II Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, etc. I find it hard to escape the notion that it's high time for us to begin to learn to live and let live in the world. Otherwise we will run the risk of burning up our en ergies and our resources in an effort to make the world over according to our particu lar pattern. Daily's U-Drjve Medford Airport
