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MAIL TPIBUMt MEDFORDeTinSSl "Everyone m Southern OrgoB Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dnily except Saturday JrDJDFOilD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Businesa fr ERIC W AI.I.FN JR. Managing fcditd? " EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women Editor DALE ERICKgQN Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered as sernnd class matter at Medforri Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai I In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday 1 year (15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 not. 8DC Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville, XJold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove TTogue Riv- er. Talent and on motor route. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUzy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance x Official Paper of City of Medford Official 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION EDtTOBI A I Asgc5jLTKN Flight 'o Time Medford aSd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 7. 1949 (Tusjlaf) Sen. Wayne Mors tell fel low Republicans her B will fight his next campaign "on issues, and not personalitiet." The Ashland city council plans to petitionjpov. McKay for decontrol of rent. 20 YEARS AGO Jun 7. 1939 (Wdn9aay) fine Medford Traffic Safety council advises the citjj coun cil that city traffic law n f oreement should be stricter. From Arthu Prry't "Y Smudge Pot" column: "All re ports to the contrary notwitn- standing, the hay that we rained pon, will not ,11 turn cut to be seaweed." 30 YEARS AGO June 7. 1929 (Friday) Commencement for th hifh school 1929 class is held at the Craterian with 102 grad uates the largest total . on record in attendance. Rains raise the .Rogue and ruin early June fishing pros pects. 40 YEARS AGO . June 7. 1M9 (Sarursjt) Fifty-eight per cent of Ore gon's money isjeportedly de posited in Portland banl nounce that Armv plants wiiu land at Gore field within 30 i i j sii ai ? mmT minutes, but spectators wait three hours, with business meanwhile at a standstill, 50 YEARS AGO June 7, 1909 (Monday) Benjamin F. Heidel, federal engineer, arrives to start work on the Crater Lake road. A federal postal inspector Investigates Medford in con nection with possible free carrier service. What's Your I.Q.? o Nine er ten correct is superior; seven er eight is excellent; five or sis is good. 1. In the current Geneva conferences, wha) shape of table, did the Russian delega tion insist upqg? 2. With what countr do yo. associa ti xmf g Kdtfrad AdeQ&iejW 3. Name (rife CfttfUfci chief whose braQg) compls)Iy de stroyed tne comixfjpiw ot Lrn eral Custer. ' 4. Wjtat aj$ tb$ pogs)r names ror tog) two ,a of a coin? 5. Does tl dStfl fpvern ment pay premiuigfe fcr rf,r currency? 6. Laudanum is tinctur oi what drug? 7. How large would $ dry ing be of a field 8 x 12 yrd, if the scale of the drawing were a half inch to the loot? 8. Who lends the money, the mortgagor or the mort gagee? v2 O 9. Who said, "Give me lib 4 NATIONAL erty, or give me death? 10. Which cpiry in South America c o v'e r the largest area? .. Answers: 1. Round. 2. West Germany. 3. Sitting Bull. . Obverse and reverse. 5. No. 6. Opium. 7. 12x18 inches. 8. Mortgagee. 9. Patrick Hnry. 10. BraxiL i Interim The newly-enlarged Medford school district will hold its annual budget election Tuesday. De tails of the election, including polling places, times, etc., appear elsewhere in today's paper. We shall vote to approve the budget. We shall do so for a large number of reasons which need not be detailed here. The point we wish to make, however, is that patrons of the district should read the column of Walter Lippmann which appears elswhere on this page today. THE question, to our are spending TOO question, and it is probably the most important one facing America, today, is a double one: 1. Are we spending ENOUGH? 2. Are we spending it RIGHT? The Killian report enough: that indeed we spend far more. As to whether we are spending it me ngni way, mai is someinmg eacn voier win have to decide for himself. Any budget election is an interim decision, not a long-range one. If you approve, in general terms, the way the schools in this district are be ing operated, you should vote "yes" on the budg et. If you do not approve, you should vote "no." But if you vote "no, you owe it to yourself and to the students and the teachers and the school ad ministrators to make known WHY. E.A. Gold and Finance The realm of government finance, fiscal pol icy, money management and all their ramifica tions are far beyond the understanding of the average citizen this average citizen, anyway. Most of us have to take pretty much on faith ! the word of the "experts" who are versed not only in economics, but also in the political and social aspects of government fiscal management. What, for instance, are the government's rea sons for pegging the price of gold? And how does this affect, say, the miner in southern Oregon, the maneuvers of the cold war, or our relationships with the nations of western Europe? NCE upon a time, gold was the standard of exchange. A given amount of the metal was worth so much in labor, or in goods. But today the situation is far more complicat ed. The money supply is managed, most of it is in the form of credit anyway, and the relationship of our gold supplies to the total amount of money in circulation is purely coincidental. Elsewhere on this page today are two commu nications dealing with this general subject. One is from an Ashland resident, who warns of the im plications of a depleted raising the price. The other is a letter addressed to Congressman Charles O. Porter from the assist ant secretary of 'the treasury on the same subject. IN THIS subject, as in others, what may seem like common sense to the ordinary individual may be the sheerest lunacy when eyed in the light or international demands and the requirements of governmental fiscal policies. And these are things which can be understood only after consid erable study, and access readily obtainable, nor Ihis writer, for one lacks the necessary equip ment to understand the vaguest of ways, or to make judgments Tl. - J? 1. . J 1 it is, m iaci, anomer symptom oi one oi to day's illnesses the complexities of modern civil ization, the highly, specialized knowledge needed for a grasp of many of the branches of knowl edge, and the almost impossible task of communi cating, both between these special branches them selves and between the "experts" and the intelli gent citizen who simply lacks the background to receive the message. E.A. Interesting Interest - Speaking of gold (and, indirectly, of commu nications), a woman up in Clackamas county has turned up two "gold certificates" which were pur chased in 1876, and left to her by a relative. They were certificates of deposit with the State Grange of Oregon, in the amount of $2i50 ach, and were to carry 10 per cent interest. She figures that, including interest, they are now worth in the neighborhood of $14,000 from a $5 investment 83 years ago. And she is consult ing an attorney to handle her claim. , . STATE GRANGE officials are a bit worried about them, despite the fact they claim the certificates were issued by a Grange-affiliated cooperative which dissolved in 1886 after paying on all its obligations. They also claim that the statute of limitations would have cancelled out such a debt. But it also is reported that one Grange offi cial privately offered the heir to the certificates their face value, $2.50, for them. Who is right and who wrong will presumably be settled in the courts. . NONETHELESS, it is on such a windfall. Ten per cent interest years u our source oi lniormation is correct this works out to $13,627.10 today, plus interest Oa mis year oi $,ZbZ.Yl. As Frank Jenkms likes to say: Hmmmmmm. Maybe we'd better check those pid trunkg in tae garage Choke mind, is not whether we MUCH on education. The says we are not spending must prepare ourselves to supply of gold, and of to facts which are neither readily understandable. situation, except in the I r f i interesting to speculate on $5, compounded for m m i again. E.A. Dennis the 'OOPS'. YOU 'ALMOST LOST Washington Report By WILLIAM THE OLD GUARD MOVES 'Washington The Old Guard Congressional Republi cans are moving for almost- total inde pendence in the party sense, if not necessarily on all public is- sues both from the Ei senhower Ad- ministra t i o n and the Re publican Na tional Committee. They are striking up an in creasingly sympathetic alli ance, moreover, directly with the most reliable traditional contributors to the GOP. The Congressional Old Guardists believe , they wUl be able to raise more money on their own inintiative than the com bined forces of the National Committee and the Adminis tration would ever raise for them. Parenthetically, inde pendent evidence rather sup ports their judgment: there is already a rising flow of money to the GOP people in Congress while the volume reaching the National Committee is an em barrassing trickle. The Old Guard's conclusion is that the party will be saved in Congress in 1960, if saved at all, almost exclusively by their own efforts. These extraordinary facts and, one other are the real background and inspiration for next Monday's (June 8) un precedented $100-a-plate fund- raising "testimonial dinner for present and former GOP members of Congress. The other extraordinary fact is this: the regular Republicans, particularly in the Senate, are in the most candidly gloomy mood for the. party's future that this correspondent has ever seen among any set of politicians. THE "testimonial dinner," therefore, is actually one of the most significant held in many years by a partisan group. It is all these things: 1. A warning to the Admin istration and the National Committee that the Congres sional Republicans are prepar ing to run their own campaign in 1960 with a degree of sepa rateness from the national and Presidential party organiza tion that has rarely been seen. 2. A frank recognition among the Congressional Old Guardists that the GOP is in deep trouble f ar deeper, they believe, than the Presi dent or his Administration as sociates have sensed. 3. A notice that the Con gressional Republicans will no longer a'ceept the old fi nancing method by which the National Committee has doled out to Congressional candi dates a percentage of the committee's total intake from contributors. "A percentage of nothing," Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona observes with a wry grin "is still nothing." Gold water, as chairman of the Sen ate Republican Campaign Committee, has the responsi bility for trying to save the 11 GOP-held Senate seats that will be at stake next year. Of course, he talks publicly of GOP gains. But it can be stated responsibly that his realistic goal is simply to avoid further GOP losses and this is a Senate where Re publicans presently are out numbered by Democrats, 64 to 34. PERHAPS the best measure of the critical nature of the situation, as the Republican Congressional people see it, is this: They feel it would be foolishly optimistic to assume even that four of these seats in the very heartland of Re publicanism in Nebraska, in Iowa, in Kansas, in South Da kota will all be retained in 1860. WUllam S. White Menaco tT DOWN THAT HOLE S. WHITE Thus, they are really open ing now, a year and a half ahead of the showdown, the Congressional campaign of 1960. It is Goldwater's con viction that it would be im possible to start too early. And thus, they are reaching out now for campaign money, not from the national party organization, with which in this regard they are thorough ly disenchanted, but from their old-line businessman friends. ' They are competing just short of openly , with the Na tional Committee for Republi can money. The committee never wanted to approve their dinner project in the first place. Committee leaders re luctantly assented only after Congressional Old Guardists had told them in substance: "You wUl go along with this, or we wiU go out in the country and publicly race with you for money. We will aU then see how much will go to the National Committee and how much to us." The National Committee did not care to see the issue drawn quite that fine. In the Day's News By PRANK JENKINS ' This screwbaU world note: A Florida segregation lead er leveled a blast the other day at the children's story classic "The Three Little Pigs," asserting that clever "integrationists" have taken over the tale and are trying to "brain wash American youngsters with a version of it that pictures a black pig as superior to a white pig." He wants the Three Little Pigs books taken off all the shelves. LET'S see. The story concerns three little pigs that started out in the world to make their for tunes. Their first task was to build houses that would shel ter them from the storms and fend off the big bad wolf. The first little pig built his house of straw . . . and . . . in the course of time . . . along came the big bad wolf and demanded to be let in. The little pig responded: "No, no, by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin." Whereupon the big bad wolf huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in . . . and ate the little pig aU up. And so with the second lit tle pig. He built his house of sticks . . . and along came the big bad wolff and he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in . . . and ate the little pig all up. . . THE third little pig was the WISP, on TTP. hnilt his house of BRICKS ... all tight and strong. And when the big bad wolf came along and got the word that the wise' little pig wouldn't let him in he huffed and he puff ed hut he COULDN'T blow the house in. It had been too stoutly and wisely built by the third little pig. The upshot of it was that he tried to come down the chim ney, but, the third little pig . . . the wise and smart one . . . out-thought him and boil ed a kettle of water over the fire and the big bad wolf feU into it and was COOKED, and the third little pig ate the WOLF all up. BUT now -In these screwball days Along comes a PROPA GANDIST and seeks to turn this charming little folk tale that has put millions upon millions of little children peacefully and happily to sleep into a vile and poison ous propaganda weapon de signed to turn human beings against each other. How silly can the world fet? . Communications Letten to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although "nder cer tain circumstances tne 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 nnt exceed 400 words Gold Restrictions Editor's note: The following letter was addressed to Con gressman Charles O. Porter of Oregon's fourth district. He forwarded it to the Mail Trib une for publication, in view of the interest here in the subject. See comment in edi torial column. Dear Mr. Porter: You ask why th United. States maintains an artificial price on gold and silver. The policy of the government in purchasing and selling gold at $35 per fine troy ounce (minus or plus handling charges), was set in 1934, pur suant to the authority con tained in Sections 8 and 9 of the Gold Reserve Act of 1934. It has been affirmed by the Congress. For example, Con gress in the Bretton Woods Agreements Act authorized participation by the United States in the International Monetary Fund. The United States has an obligation under the Articles of Agreement of the Fund not to purchase gold at more or sell gold at less than $35 plus ,or minus the margin prescribed " by the Fund so long as the par value of the dollar declared to the Fund by the United States re mains unchanged. Congress further provided in the Bret ton Woods Agreements Act that a change in the par val ue of the Unite States dollar declared to the Fund shall not be opposed or agreed to with out authorization by Congress by law. We have made it clear on many occasions that the fact that the value of the dollar is firmly linked to gold is im portant to the soundness of our economy. Some persons believe that the gold price of $35 per ounce is too low, particularly miners who find it dificult to operate at that price. We realize the plight of many gold miners; but just as a great many mines were un profitable when the price was fixed at $20.6? an ounce, so a-e many mines unprofitable at the price of $35 an ounce, and so would many mines be unprofitable at a higher price for gold. To help submarginal mines by raising the price of gold would be to hurt our economy as a whole by rais ing the level of government expenditures, needlessly in creasing the basis for credit expansion, and reducing con fidence in the value of the doUar. Gold production in the United States amounts to on ly about $65 mUlion annuaUy. Total free world gold stocks are estimated at $39.5 billion, of which the United States has about 51 per cent. If the price of gold were raised as an aid to our domestic indus try, it would also affect the large existing monetary stocks and current world production outside the United States. Any increase in the price of gold would give Russian-held gold greater command over free world goods and services In view of the above, we have firmly resisted any in crease or decrease in the gov ernment's gold price. Purchases of gold by the Treasury at the official price do not involve a budgetary expenditure. As the Treasury buys gold, it generaUy replen ishes its dollar balances by issuing gold certificates to the Federal Reserve banks which credit the Treasury's deposit account with a corre sponding amount. Laurence B. Robbins Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Russian Gold Strategy To the Editor: Frank Jen kins' column in Wednesday's paper, and others expressing similar sentiments in national magazines and syndicated col umns, prove how far wrong most "experts" are in then appraisal of Communist gains. If present trends continue, the Reds will take the West on schedule without firing a shot, just as planned 40 years ago. It wiU be done by control of international trade, which will bankrupt the West. Today there is not enough gold in Ft. Knox to back American currency at present reserve requirements, if aU European nations having a claim on American gold should demand it, as many now are doing. Rumors are being planted in Europe that the U. S. plans to raise the price of gold from $35 per ounce. This encourages Euro pean nations to hoard gold, anticipating a price rise, giv ing more dollar credits or making American goods cheaper. Russia is offering rubles backed by gold in world trade deals. She has the gold to back them. Suppose America raises the price of gold to $50 per ounce. The official rates of exchange ar 4 rubles to 1 dollar (black Matter of Fact "BOGUSLAW SENT ME" Warsaw - The approach to the speakeasy is through a rubble-strewn courtyard, un- .der a rickety .scaffolding, and then up -flighfaf ter .flight of un--swept stairs. If one of your .party is known, you .are admitted with no ques- 4Db umi uons asKea: otherwise a friend's name must be mentioned. But it is enough to murmur "Boguslaw sent me," and you are welcomed to the tiny two room apartment. Nothing quite like this ap artment exists anywhere else in the world. No single piece of furniture ' has not been gravely' maimed or wounded at some time in its past. But this hardly matters; most of the many visitors, whether young or old, blue-jeaned or bourgeois, arc content to sit on the floor. THE wares the speakeasy of fers are at least hinted by the apartment's decoration. Abstract paintings, strange and menacing construcions of wire and masking tape, great numbers of fragments of Pol- market rates are much higher) and a British pound is worth $2.80 American. This makes an ounce of gold worth 200 rubles or 17.86 British pounds (use Francs or Marks here or whatever you like). Suppose Russia offers gold to Britain for 15 pounds per ounce. Who controls world trade? What currency is the world standard? Who wants American high-priced goods at official exchange rates? This is . Red strategy. Ge neva is only a sideshow. West ern diplomats either are mor ons or don't much care about the outcome. The Bible is God's word, it is the only hope how. Parker Bailey, 542VS A St., Ashland, Ore. ; Reminiscences - To the Editor: I toyed with my baUpoint pen for quite some time before I could bring myself around to this point. It was late Spring of 1941. 1 went to work for Maj. Charles Cox of the Salvation Army as caretaker at the Lake of the Woods. The camp opened on the Fourth of July, and was opened for seven weeks dur ing the summer months for the underprivileged children One week for boys and one week for girls. I worked with the children, and also worked on the boats and had taught the children how to swim and gave a lot of good advice to a lot of young people and old alike. I was the mailman at the Salvation Army camp. The children were trained for boat ing, fishing and swimming. There were three strict rules: No. 1 "Don't s t a n d up in the boat." No. 2 "Don't fish from slippery rocks or logs." No. 3 "Don't wade in strange waters." i The children were taught, if you get caught in a wind storm and can't get ashore, lie down in the bottom in the cen ter if you can. In that position you can ride out any storm. While the camp was opened I was up early and I would have the stove hot for the cook and I would make the morning coffee and have a cup or two. After supper there was al ways some activity around the campfire for the children. They would put on some little pranks or sing songs. The camp was full every week for the seven weeks. The camp would comfortably hold between 75 and 100 each week. The children would come to camp from different cities or towns by the bus loads. They came from Med ford, Grants Pass, Ashland, Klamath Falls, Jacksonville and Phoenix. It was June 9, 1898. At that date I arrived in San Fran cisco from Chicago on the Santa Fe train, then in Octo ber 189? I arrived in Ashland, Ore., and then I headed for Jacksonville. There I looked around for a place and I found it and started me a lunch counter and lived in that set tlement that had been estab lished as that of Jackson coun ty seat. I wish to thank all my good friends. D. E. Rogers 525 North Riverside ave. Medford. Water Problem To the Editor: This letter is intended for the eyes of the citizens of Talent. I have been a member of this community for a compar atively few years, but am finding that every summer we are faced with a water shortage. This year is worse than the past due to the fact that we are not only restrict ed to watering two days a week but also have to pay ish baroque church-sculpture, two damaged but still magi cal Polish-Byzantin icon, the remnants of a beautifully tender late Gothic altar pic - all these and many other objects are hung or strewn about. And indeed the speak easy's patrons do not com for vodka but in search of pt, or culture, or a new esthetic insight, call it what you wiU. For this is th apartment of Myron Bialoszewski, th most hermetic, the most ex perimental, and among th youths the most admired of the newer Polish poets. Even before the Stalinist times enfi ed, Bialoszewski began to of fer clandestine readings of hi poetry and performances of his satiric plays at an earlier apartment-theater. It was il legal, then. It is legal now. Yet the speakeasy atmosphere survives from the early times. Nor is this atmosphere whoUy false, since the fruit con sumed, though not forbidden, so to say, is at least strongly disapproved. THE performance itself is a minor marvel of style and ingenuity. Sacking and black paper make the backdrop, de signed by a leading Polish abstract painter. The curtain is sacking, too. The menac ing constructions of wire and masking tape turn up as quite wonderful mask-headdresses that transform the actors in to faceless bureaucrats for a Karka-touched dramatic po em. Bert Brecht, Kafka, Dada in its first day, Jean Cocteau when he was young - these are the reminiscences one feels. According to my earn estly intellectual university friends, Alex and Marious, who call themselves "meta physical existentialists," Bial oszewski is also "obsessed by suburbs," so perhaps there is also a touch of John Betje- man. .- Young Bialoszewski him self and a pretty artist-engin eer-actress, Ludmilla Muran- ska, are the chief mimes. Both have great talent. The whole performance is quite plainly marked by a strange mixture of wry near-lunatic wit, deep world-sadness, and Alexandri an hospitality to all. imagin able cultural influences. So much is legible in the general style. But of course one can not read the true meaning of highly experimental work in another language. TN ANY cas. th Important -I point about this semi- speakeasy oi culture i not the literal meaning of th plays and poems that r mimed there twice a week to a tiny but full house. Th im portant point is simply that such an institution should - ist on this side of the grim line that divides the verlff, here in Communist-ruled fo land. As Bialoszewski' poeti and dramatic writing is whol ly a-political, the existence of his apartment-theater J per haps less surprising than th existence of th "Stodolt This is another theater, sup ported by th Warsaw Poly technic students, of all peo ple, erected by another bril liant younger poet, Choinski, and housed in a barn that de fiantly faces Stalin's mon strous gift to Warsaw, the Palace of Culture. Here, in the frightful shadow of the old tyrant's ghost, as it were, plays, are off ered that briskly mingle the most experimental writing with sharp political satire. The "Stodola" in turn is still less surprising than the recent enormously successful publication of the book on Spinoza called "Antinomies of Freedom," by the leading Po lish philosopher, Leszek Ko lakowski. Around his study of his mighty predecessor, Kola kowski has woven a bold dia logue on freedom, morality, and government. His book, re portedly, is a seminal and in novating masterwor k. The West will soon be able to test ! this judgment, since French translation and publication of the book have already been arranged. THIS is not to say that the intellectual life of Gom ulka's Poland is wholly free. The poet, Adam Vazyk, has been denied a passport to the unreasonable price of $1 per thousand gallons over five thousand gallons. It doesn't require very much imagination to see that the average person cannot af ford to water gardens, flow ers or lawn under these rates. I feel that this problem should be brought to the at tention of the city "council. I would appreciate considera ble support in this matter... For all who are interested the Talent city council, is meeting Tuesday, June 9, at 8 p.m. at the Talent city hall. Allen Adams 107 Valley View st. Talent, Or. POTLUCK (By fl-T Staff and Contributors) Ou Kioenix friend, the ' Typographical - Error - Hunter im till t it, after his un ex pis, in t absence of some (IncidentaUy, this was writ tan bfors he had a chance to check ove? Friday's paper. TH1RE was a fertile field of ndetv for a TEH.) ; " ; Anyway, last week's mai" from Phoenix brought this digPfcd headline: "Meany Urges House (Approval -of. Striped-Down Union Reform Measure." Our friend's comment was, "This is decidedly incongru ous. HORIZONTAL stripes r universaUy associated with the type of reform need ed in the labor racket" Th fellow who nevsr ad vertises, w ar told, is lik ' th man who winks at a girl in a dark room. H knows what h's doing, but sh doesn't. Headline writers ate sup posed to keep their opinions and emotions out of the head line-writing they do, but once m a while they tend to creep in. , This thought is a result of a headline we spotted in the Ashland Tidings last week, ov er a story about Elvis You-. Know-Who and the postpone ment of his tonsil operation. it said: Won't Slice Elvis' Throat Until Later We may not (necesarily) joi in the unspoken thought, Dut we can, at least, under stand it. - . Employees of th stai de partment of forestry ar x -nosed io various hazftrfa in th court of their werk,- bui ihav hardlv mv a b. attacked by grouse. It happened, though, to How- t ard Brock and Paul Matte son. Ii aeiuallv r-hacaii ftiatm for 100 feet as they retreat, d down th road. mere nave oeen news stor ies in recent days about the number of marriages in Ore gon as compared to the num ber of divorces. The latter have been numerous. Anyway, it may not be a subconscious reaction to these stories, but a couple of clerks in th courthouse have had lBss which indicate other Vis. On, for iif2ance, found nrself) entering the names of th couple applying for a marriage license, and then adding the word "Inc.'o(We always thought marriage was more of a partnership than a osporation.) Another one may have been acting, too, when she put lofn "vs." between the name of the prospective cou gl0. That's the way divorce groceedings are entitled. Th 4-H wagon xrk to Corvallis from Medford is attracting considerable at tention thes days, as th big day nears. And our staff member who has been clos. st to this project sine its beginning has furnished us with som anecdotes con cerning it. For instance, the boys who are going decided that, since there was no women's suf frage 100 years ago, the girls shouldn't be permitted any leadership positions. They compromised with lat ter-day democracy, however, when they finally decided to allow them to VOTE for lead ers. travel abroad, and so have two or three other writers. The censor sometimes wields a heavy hand, especially on writing that is judged "too sad." Moreover, the party au thorities, whose taste in the rts must rather closely re- semble the taste of Presidents Eisenhower and Truman, are quite visibly bewildered and horrified by Poland's rich in tellectual and creative life. But it must be admitted that the Minister of Culture him self strongly recommended a visit to the "Stodola." By the same token, the Rus sian intellectuals who come here are either shocked and frightened out of their wits or totally intoxicated. Many Russians have learned Polish, in order to reach such writers as Kafka and Joyce who have only been published in Polish in the Communist world. Vis iting Russians continuously sweep Warsaw clean of the reproductions of modern Western painters that are pro duced here. As for the Poles, one wonders whether their in tellectual and creative lifeis not so rich and vivid preefse lybecause they are stimulat ed by "fear of the great des ert on the edge of which we live," as one of them put it to me. (7) (c) 1959 tffr York Herald Tribune Inc. O
