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MAIL TRIBUNE, MeoW, Or. Sunday, Aufl. 16, 19S9 !UXS "Xveryone Id Southern Oregon Reada The Mall Trttmne Published IWily except Saturday by MJJJFCHD PRINTING CO S3 North Hi St. Ph BP X141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor fTERB GRETr AdvertUtnc Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business MfT ERIC W ALLEN JH-. Managing Kdrtor EARL 0 ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mar An Independent Newspaper Entered a& semnd elasa matter at MediorH Oreeon under Aot ei March S 1(97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mai i In Advance. Copy 10c. DaU- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa. 8-Ot Dail-v aiK Sunday S moa AM Sunday Only One year 9439 B Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point, Eal Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Elv er. Talent and on motor routea . Daily and Sunday 'year f MM . Daily and SunOay 1 tno 1.90 Carrier and Dealara copy 10c All Terms Casr in Advance Official Paper of City 1 Mee'ferd Official Papet or Jaceaon cceasy United Press International Full Leased Wire 3ER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: flees in New York. Chics to. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland St. Louis, At lanta Vancouver B.C. rSfiO NEWSPAPER v PUILISHERS "ASSOCIATION MATIOMAl EDITOIIAt Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of Tht Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 tnd 50 years ago. ,10 YEARS AGO ;Aug. 16, 1949 (Tuesday) ' A man and woman are to Jappear in Medlord municipal , court today to answer the first ;two jay -walking citations in the city's newly - launched Jcrack-down on that offense. . Sixty acres ate burned by "two fires in the Foots creek district said to bethe work "of a firebug. 20 YEARS AGO .Aug. 16, 1939 (Wednesday) The Medford city council 'cotes to abandon the old Jack sonville railroad right-of-way rbetween the Medford and .Jacksonville city limits. From Arthur Perry's "Ye ' Smudge Pot" column (writ by Fletcher T. Fish, of Phoenix): "Twenty-one consecutive days I running concurrently, with . the temperature running above 100 degrees had sweat running down the necks of 'fishermen running for the riv er which is still running to the ocean, though feebly." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1929 (Friday) : The Medford airport is to be ;ready for all planes within 10 days. . The county picnic is to be theld at the Elks grounds Labor "Day. "40 YEARS AGO :Aug. 16, 1919 (Saturday) ' The Medford youths who swiped mileposts on the road to Oregon Caves are forced to put them back. , More workers are needed to harvest the pear crop here. 50 YEARS AGO :Aug. 16, 1909 (Monday) . Jack True with a 16-man crew is improving the road from Central Point to Bybee bridge via Agate. A total of 2,000 persons have visited Crater Lake so "far this year. Yhal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excciiem; trve ea sis is good. 1. Unscramble the following .'names of States - Thadotak- ,ron, Danidroshel. 2 What river ' forms the boundary between Ohio and .Kentucky? - 3. Does an average child, six years old, measure about 34, 44, 54, or 64 inches in height? 4. Name the man recently 'rejected by the U. S. Senate .as Secretary of Commerce? ' 5. Into what body of water "does the Jordan River empty? . 6. What sort of animal is a "Kerry Blue"? : ,7. Which of these is the Jeast used letter of the English Alphabet - z, n, x, or q? 8. Is the Atlantic terminus tf the Panama Canal east, or west of the Pacific terminus? . 9. The Comptroller General "fit the U. S. heads the GA.O.; what is the GA.O.? 10. To what does the term "Fulton's Folly" refer in American history? Answers: 1. North Dakota, .Rhode Island. 2. Ohio river. 3. Afc-oui 44 inches. 4. Lewis L. Strauss. 5. Dead Sea. 6, Dog. 7. s. 8. West. 9. General Accounting Office 10. First sitajnbeat - CMraeau What to Show Khmsh? 1 Upon his arrival in the United States Sept, 15, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev will spend three days in Washington and .another 10 days on a tour of the country." What do we show Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev? To some extent the Soviet Commu nist party boss has answered the question for us: we snow him what he wants to see. It is known he has made certain. definite specifications. He wants to visit Washington, naturally, and New York, Chicago and San Francisco always a fa vorite with foreign visitors. Less specifically, he wants to go to Califor nia, Texas, Florida, and some farm state in the Middle West. And he would like to see some thing of small town life say President Eisen hower's boyhood home of Abilene, Kansas. Other stops on the itinerary will be worked out between the State department and the Soviet embassy in Washington. So many invitations have been tendered that this intrinsically un wanted guest begins to appear a social lion. Foy D. Kohler, the veteran Foreign Service officer given the job of "coordinator" of Khrushchev's tour, is scarcely to be envied. IfHRUSHCHEV'S desire to see an example of American agriculture could well be satisfied by an invitation to the Coon Rapids, Iowa, farm of Roswell Garst, who has twice visited Soviet Russia and says of Khrushchev, "It's his turn to come to our house." The Soviet Premier will see America's farms at their booming best, despite the brakes of government controls. He will see lush fields of high-yielding corn, cattle at a rec ord peak in numbers, hog production at a peace time high, bins crammed full of surplus corn, the most highly mechanized grain harvest in the world. Khrushchev also wants to see U.S. industry, and the State department is considering two of the nation's heaviest industrial complexes, the Pittsburgh and Detroit areas. Here again he will see capitalism booming, with industrial produc tion at a new peak at mid-year 65 per cent greater than the average of the three years im mediately prior to the.Korean war. A settlement of the steel strike would make a welcome addi tion to the picture of overall prosperity. What might, indeed, shchev would be a flight over one of our great industrial areas, with thousands and thousands of automobiles workers automobiles packed tightly inside plant parking lots. Secretary of Defense on Aug. 6 that he was eager to show the Soviet premier some U.S. bomber bases and missile test centers to inform" him of the nation's military capabilities. But Khrushchev already has indi cated that he has no interest in visiting bases. INVITATIONS continue lets, from villages, and from counties as well as from cities, many of Commerce inspired bv plea has been made by Sen. Richard L. Neu berger (D-Ore.) that Khrushchev be shown tne gentler, more compassionate, and more hu man side of America." Neuberger says he leader would be more moved by American school children or by an American seeking an answer to the grim riddle of cancer than by a "pano rama of American weapons and factories." To those suggestions could be added many other kinds of individuals and groups who make up j; it xi . uur inverse society iaDor unions in uie meeting hall, Granges, PTA's, college students in the healthy frenzy of a football rally. The list is end less; only the brevity of Khrushchev's time here imposes the discipline of selectivity. E.R.R. Tito and National Communism The 10th anniversary today of the diplomatic break between Yugoslavia and the USSR finds Tito still very much the Fallen Angel of a Com munist "Paradise Lost." Tito's initial crime was dissent from Stalin ism, but Titoism quickly became the heresy of national communism. For a time after Stalin died it looked as if Tito might be brought back into liie fold. Thai was during, the halcyon "separate roads to socialism" days of 1955-56. Then came the Poznan riots and the Hungarian slaughter, and Tito once again was consigned to outer dark ness. , - MOW the process may than a month ago, during a visit to Poland, Premier Khrushchev told the Plawace Collective near Poznan : "Every nation has the right to act according to its national characteristics, customs and social peculiarities." In Red China, too, there appears to be a sec- uu cuiiening up m prospect, in June, rao unu, Communist leader in Kwangtung province, swung back toward the discredited "hundred flowers" doctrine, saying: "We should allow everyone to air his views freely as long as the views are based on the spirit of promoting Social ist construction." Yugoslav and Hungarian experience, .how ever, suggest that the bloom of tolerance withers with the first frost There is still no reason for discarding Joseph Schumpeter's incisive obser vation, in "Capitalism, Socialism and Democra cy," that "The religious qua'dty of Marxism . . . explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any be- ucve. m a miw, uie opponeni is not merely, in error but in sin." E.R.R. . most impress Khru Neil H. McElrov said to come in from ham them from Chambers of local Dride. At least one believes the Communist be repeating itself. Less Dennis the Airmail! W He wasn't 6vbm NURBW? Today & Tomorrow By Walter The President's Adventure In less than two weeks the President will be off to Eu rope, on the first stage of an extraordi nary adven ture in person al diplomacy. We have seen no such dis play of energy and initiative since the ear ly days of his first adminis tration. For Walter Lippmann years the present Eisenhower has been quiescent, as it were submerged. But what we see now is not a new Eisenhower. This is the old authentic Ei senhower with his liking for large gestures which sweep aside the concrete details that more worldly statesmen and professional diplomats worry about. This authentic Eisenhower has for years been throttled down by diffidence, by a lack of confidence in his own polit ical know-how, by his illness es with their aftermath in a kind of regulated invalidism, and by the authority of his advisors. The worid has been surprised now because he looks so well, because he is so active, and because he so much enjoys being on his own. No doubt he is himself as agreeably surprised as are the rest of us. But this is by far the most difficult task he has ever un dertaken. At Gettysburg yes terday he did his best to play it down and make it seem un important. But he cannot make the exchange of visits unimportant in fact. They mark a new phase of the cold war, and he is the central figure of the drama. He will not have an easy time. AS SUPREME Commander during thi World War ht had to work with a coalition of. allies and their strong-mind ed generals. But it was war time and his bosses were Churchill and Roosevelt. Now, he is the leading figure in a coalition composed of .nations which have many, often di vergent, purposes besides wanting to win the cold war. However, he is not dealing with a suicidal maniac like Hitler but with a practical politician of great resourceful ness who is operating from a powerful ideological and an enormous material base. The problems which the President has now undertaken to discuss with our allies and with our adversary arise out of confrontation of vital in terests. There could be no greater illusion than to sup pose that these problems can be solved by the techniques of public relations, of advertis ing, of propaganda, or of elec tioneering, yet it is discon certing to see how many there are among us who think that if only Khrushchev sees with his own eyes our skyscrapers, and how many automobiles there are to make traffic jams in our streets, and all the things that can be bought in shops, and what large factories we have, he will be so im pressed that he wUl give in to us on West Berlin, German reunification, Formosa, Korea, and what not. v e NOR SHOULD we imagine that Mr. K. does not know about the military power of the United States, that he does not know that if he seized Berlin, there would be a war. Mr. K. has no doubt many il lusions atout who pulls tne strings inside the United Stat es. But his illusions do not ob scure the fact that the United States is a great military pow er and that it is quite capable of being provoked into be coming fighting mad. Soviet foreign policy is not, I believe, based on the notion I that if we art threatened with Menace C5rd Uppmann war, we will give in and give up. Soviet policy is based, as I understand it, on the calcu lations of what is possible by measures that are short of war-on measures that, while they are politically effective, need not be imposed by war and cannot be resisted by war. VlfHAT we need in West Ber " " lin is a new agreement which guarantees the security of West Berlin. But we do not know whether such an agree ment can be obtained and, if so, at what price. There is no public evidence that Mr. Gro myko ever answered these questions at Geneva. What we do know is that if a new agreement can be had, the price will surely capitalize up on the obvious strategic in feriority of the West in rela tion to West Berlin. The price will, therefore, be higher than Dr. Adenauer, who has thus far controlled Western policy about Germany, has ever been willing to agree to. The President will be in Bonn for a day and that is much too short a time to work out with Dr. Adenauer a ne gotiable position on Germany. This will make it difficult for the President to enter into se rious talks about Germany when Mr. K. comes to Wash ington. If the President has to talk from the same brief that Secretary Herter had at Geneva, the German problem will remain frozen. ' (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Washington Report By WILLIAM TICKING PACKAGE Washington - Nikita Khru shchev's forthcoming journey here is being approached by most elected p o 1 iticians as though it were a ticking pack age arriving in the mail with foreign writ ing on the wrapper. True, some powerful men WwwS' " in both the Senate and House have un hesitatingly welcomed this new cold, war diplomacy. These for the most part, how ever, have been in two cate gories: (1) Those who felt that their positions, or sense of public responsibility, simply required them to back Presi dent Eisenhower in this enter prise. (2) Those whose consti tuents include no overwhelm ing numbers of the nationality groups, primarily the Poles, which have most suffered from Soviet tyranny. It is true, too, that Vice President Richard Nixon's part in arranging the Soviet Premier's exchange, of visits with Mr Eisenhower is look ed upon as a brilliant political strike, certainly for the short run. As of now he has meas urably improved his chances for the 1960 Presidential nomination. But the real con sensus among the pros has another and a little-known side. This that Mr. Nixon has taken the greatest risk ever run by a Presidential aspirant in tying himself so closely to high-level cold war conversa tions he can never for a mo ment shape or control. THE Vice President himself, this correspondent can tes tify, was aware of at least a great element of risk before he went to Moscow. The ' real responsibility, of course, is the President's. But Mr. Eisenhower is leaving of fice. If things go wrong it will be the man nominated to succeed ' him who must bear Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop More on the Khrushchev Visit Washington-The President's invitation to Nikita S. Khrush chev is such a great event that every ex planatory de tail has true historic inter e s t. Here, then, is anoth er w e 1 1-a u thenticated in stallment o f the back ground story. loi-pb Alsop f res laeni Eisenhower himself, it can now be stated, was the first to think favorably of a visit by .the Soviet leader. He had of course known for many months that Khrushchev want ed a personal meeting with him. He seems to have become inclined to give Khrushchev what he wanted rather early in the Berlin "crisis. The idea of a Khrushchev visit was very much in the President's mind, at any rate, long before the tragic death of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. After Dul les had retired from the State Department, but when he was stiU well enough to give ad vice and counsel, the Presi dent talked to him more than once about the desirability of inviting Khrushchev. Dulles was properly con scious that final responsibility had passed to Secretary of State Christian A. Herter. He refrained from taking an ex treme position. Yet he always disliked summit meetings of any sort, and he particularly disliked the kind of two-man summit that is now to occur. The plain truth Is that he thought the President alto gether too good and high minded for face-to-face nego tiations with the crafty and unscrupulous Khrus hchev. Hence Dulles gently but rath er firmly discouraged 1 the President from asking Khrush chev to visit this country. PERHAPS Khrushchev would not now be coming to America if Dulles were still here to function as the Presi dent's special advisor. Yet it seems more probable that Dul les would have responded, as Secretary Herter responded, to the subsequent develop ment of the problem. Herter had concurred with Dulles' ad vice to the President, when this advice was given. He was forced to change his mind by events. - To be specific, H e r t e rs mind was changed by the in terminable first round of the Foreign Ministers' meeting at Geneva. As will be recalled, this was advertised as the pre lude to the larger, more for mal type of summit meeting that -was held in 1954. But Dulles, and Herter after him, had repeatedly laid down the rigid condition that the For eign Ministers must provide "justification," before the President could take the sum mit road. And instead of of S. WHITE the heat. And if this nominee is Richard Nixon he will be wholly unable to avoid the consequences. He is associated both with the decision to deal with Mr. Khrushchev and the arrangements that brought the visit about. Even those politicians who believe we simply had to break . the ice with the Rus sians are just as happy that they were not the ones to break it. For they remember two facts of life. One is that the public may first strongly cry support for a bold and dangerous foreign policy and in a moment turn bitterly upon the leaders who did what the public first wanted. ANOTHER is that no real or alleged political sin has been punished so savagely as the sin of being "wrong" in world affairs. No one could have believed it after the op position had turned its guns upon "Truman's war." But Congress almost unanimously approved when President Tru man first sent forces into Ko rea. So did the public, as the Congressional mail of that pe riod made plain. But later, when the casualty lists began to mount and the war to widen, all this changed. The Democratic' party itself was then repudiated. So, too, of course, was Mr. Truman who was leaving office then, as Mr. Eisenhower is now'. But so, too, was ! Mr. Truman's nominated successor, Adlai E. Stevenson. Again, Franklin Roosevelt's Yalta meeting with Josef Stalin was not widely de nounced at the time. But in that meeting-and it, too, was an effort to "get along with the Soviets"-some nationality groups became convinced that they had been betrayed. Pri marily, it was, again, the Poles, whose gallantry in the war was exceeded only by their incredible sufferings as a people. ?OREIGN policy is a thou- gind times trickier for fering "justifying" concessions at Geneva, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko stonewalled from start to fin ish. . a MACMILLAN had always insisted that the Western nations could not proceed to the final, terrible test of will and strength over Berlin, with out one last attempt to find a way out at the summit. Ber lin could not go along, he had said, if war was to be risked without first trying what talk could achieve. Therefore Sec retary Herter, having little hope of further progress by the Foreign Ministers, was forced to make one of three choices: First, he could prepare to go it alone on Berlin, defying Khrushchev on Berlin without the support of Britain. Second, he could prepare to eat his own words about the need for "justification," and then satisfy Macmillan and Khrushchev too, by consent ing to a ; 1954-style summit conference. Or third, he could find an other way out, which escaped the danger of the first choice and the humiliation of the sec ond. Since an informal, two- man summit had not been considered except by the President, it had not been hedged about with require ments for "justification." It could even be presented as a kind of joUy week end party. It was the best way out, and the President, already inclin ed to invite Khrushchev, took this way out as soon as Sec retary Herter advised it. TJERTER further decided to make an empty .exercise of the second round at Geneva, by sending the President's in vitation to Moscow before the Foreign Ministers reassem bled. The purpose was to avoid the appearance of inviting Khrushchev in panic and un der duress, when the second round was breaking up in failure. This decision was shortly justified, when Prime Minister Macmillan began pressing Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to sponsor an "interim agreement" on Ber lin that was as full of holes as a colander. It was only at this point, finally, that Herter told the other allies that -Khrushchev would probably be coming to Washington. Contrary to pre vious report, they had not been consulted in advance; but they approved the action taken with varying measures of good grace. Like Herter, they had no better alternative. ' (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initiat for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tt edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for oublication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of "the paper; in tact the contrary is often On Saving Time To the Editor: I note in your editorial for this evening that we the people must vote on "Daylight Saving Time" (better expressed as Confusion Time or Fools Time). - It seems the proponents of said "Daylight Saving Time" haven't the intelligence to understand from the ballot count of past elections that the majority of us prefer to leave things as they are. I've been told by some pro ponents that by using "Day light Saving Time" that they get more daylight. Of all the idiotic nonsense! There are exactly 24 hours in one day, no more, no less. If the lazy so and so's want more day light they need only turn the alarm back and forget about that extra "40 winks." Personally I intend to leave the clock alone. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star Route Butte Falls, Ore. American politicians than any and all domestic issues. For in this melting-pot country the wishes of go-called "minority groups" are properly heard and necessarily heard, too, if only for strictly political rea sons, by those at the top. This is not to suggest that this should not be so; on the contrary. A moving personal wartime memory is of friends in an all-Polish armored divi sion attached to the Canadian First Army. The Poles fought with incomparable , courage and with incomparable lack of reason even to go on living. Among them were men who had had no single word in five years of those they had loved and forever lost in Poland. So it is that the large and general public is stirred at the approach to these shores of Nikita Khrushchev. This is understandable and perhaps, it is hoped, well-founded. But this new road of diplomacy is a road of immense danger -not solely of immense oppor tunity, should all go well-to every politician whose foot is Dlaced unon it. (Copyright, 1959, by United m If a. V Feature Syndicate, IncJ (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Piano playing has its ups and downs in places other than the score sheet. Last week a tunesmith at one of the nicer liquid librar ies in town got up and left his piano-bar to the two sports fans whose chatter about base ball finally drowned out his music. - He returned shortly and sat down but once again his songs couldn't be heard over the, conversation about who'U win the pennant, so he got up a second time. The next time he sat down be laid it on the line. "Look, gentlemen," he said. "One of us wUl "have to stop making noise. Can't I enter tain you with a request?" "Sure!" came the inspired answer. "Can you play 'Take Me Out to the BaU Game?' ' Whoops, there he goes again. : A local theater by gro tesque coincidence last week was showing a move that began with a gigantic, big ger - than - life, technicolor forest fire. . We left after the first scene, partly because the movie gave promise of be coming a cinemonstrosity (as Time magasine would say) but mainly because we had the real thing just down the road a piece. .. Or, as we heard someone remark, "Now you know why they call it Ash-land." . A local attorney, we're told, was chatting with an incorrigible punster. After a lengthy exposi tion by the attorney, said punster asked, "I notice you used both the words "un lawful and 'illegal What's the difference?" "Oh. there 'is none" the attorney said. "I was using them to mean the , same thing' "That's funny." said the punster. "I always thought that 'unlawful meant 'against the law' but that an illegal was a sick bird. And we always thought that a sick bird was a tern for the worse. And turning to verse, we present a poem with a mor al (with apologies to Joyce . Kilmer): the name and address of. the writer mt cae. Disgusting Habit To the Editor: We were glad to see an expression from some one come out against the disgusting and dangerous habit of some of our curiosity strickened citizens, as voiced in Mr.. von der Hellen's let ter of Aug. 11. His letter concerning the re cent disastrous fire in the Ashland vicinity, and the trouble wrought by curious onlookers blocking traffic and hindering those combating the fire, voiced my opinion exact ly: and my ire had raised to a very unhealthy pitch while listening to officials and news men pleading earnestly for on lookers to stay back; the mere fact that grown up peo ple had to be told was bad enough. . My grandson was driving a lowboy loaded with fire fight ing equipment to the scene of the fire, and said he had never experienced more difficulty getting through traffic, and only because curious people would not stay out of the way. My husband remarked it was too bad mere couian i have been a bill, among the 600 the legislature recently passed, that could force the curious, following fires, to help combat the fires or be placed under arrest. This might do some good. Mrs. O. T. Wilson 431 North Second st. Central Point, Ore. No Valid Excuse , To the Editor: It may be, as Potpourri suggests in her Tuesday column, that some still find solace for guilty consciences by offering as an excuse for dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima the fact that we were at war- with Japan. To such individuals war, whenever it exists, ai- ford a valid excuse for every species - of savagery, but to many : thinking people, there is no valid excuse for war. As old-time Quakers phras ed it, (it is) our unshaken persuasion that all war is utterly incompatible with the Dlain nrecepts of our Divine Tjirfi anrl L,aweiver. and with I the whole spirit and tenor of J I think that I shell never gaze Upon a sight like Ash land's blase; It burned up all the trees it could And left a bunch of blackened wood. Poems are made by fools, you see; But what is he who'd burn a tree? A couple of exuberant boys hooked a trout from a bridge over the Rogue up on the Crater Lake highway. I got one! I got one! the boy with the pole cried. rll net him! Don't lose him!" shouted the other, and he took off down the river bank. Bring him in closer!" he yelled when he got down. "Do you have him yet?" the one on top screamed. Reel in some more! I can't reach him!" "DO YOU HAVE HIM?" VI CAN'T REACH HIM!" After five minutes of noise like only ten - year - olds can make, the trout was flipping weakly in the net. Our theory is that the trout wasn't caught. We think it was screamed to death. And speaking of young boys, don't think we would n't like to be one again. Last week a sack of wheat fell off a truck driving down Fir St., just under our news room windows. The sack split and the wheat spilled out. There were a handful of carrier boys on the sidewalk and we watched them watching the spilled wheat. One finally walked out in the street and picked up a handful of it. Then the seeond en did the same. Then they all. made a dash and in a minute the wheat was gone from the street and was distributed in a number of small clench : ed fists. And then came the big problem: what were they going to do with it? They couldn't throw it away after all the fuss they went to getting it. ' And they certainly had no use for it. So mothers, if a handful of wheat spilled out of your son's jeans when you went to wash them, there really : IS an explanation for it. Boys will be noisy; boys will be curious. But most of all, boys will be boys. We suppose a sick bird could also be a blue jay. Camera To Probe Depths of Ocean Boston - (Science Service) -An automatic underwater camera that can withstand pressures of eight tons per square inch and take photo graphs at depths up to six miles has been developed by the scientific instrument firm of Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Inc., here. Housed in a tempered steel casing, the camera can take up to 500 photographs at 10-second in tervals and record the time at each exposure directly on the 35mm film. His Gospel, and that no plea of necessity or policy, how ever urgent or peculiar, can avail to release either indi viduals or nations from the paramount allegiance which they owe unto Him who hath said 'Love your enemies'." It was disturbing to discover in the .current issue of Read er's Digest that Pearl Buck should have been willing to lend the prestige of her name to the perpetuating of the military myth of the necessity for dropping "the bomb," and of the alleged fact that it shortened the war and thus saved many lives. Even this recently after the deed, contemporary history has established the contrary and all our efforts at ration alization are futile. Grace N. Pearson, Route 2, Box 50, Jacksonville, Ore.' Praises Department T . To the Editor: The Prospect fire department truck, driven by Billie Grieves, is certainly due a lot of praise and con gratulations for the way the fire at our mill camp was handled this past week. The fire had gained such headway before it was dis covered, and the mill cabins of such dry lumber, crowded together as they are, made the job look like almost an im possible one to save a one of the cabins. Yet the fire de partment's Billie Grieves got here and held the fire to the one cabin. I wish people could drive out here and look at this, they would surely realize what a fire department is worth. Mrs. Paul Struck, Molston Mill, rrospect, ore,
