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Newspaper Page TextG 4 A "Everyone In Southern Oreeon -riui The Mill Tribune" PubTUhed Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 31 North fir St,, Pn SPJ-HU wrinrnT w RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advelllilnf Manar nffRAi.n t LATHAM Bua. Mrr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRV CHIPMAIJ. Telei I Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women', Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mjr A Tn,tnnrfimt NewIDBDI Entered aa second clam matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year isoo Dally ana Sunday-o mo o.vv Dallv and Sunday 3 mos 4.1B Sunday Only One year 84 20 By Carrier In Advance Med lord Athland. Central Point Ea VMnt .liftbannvllle Gold HI Phoenix, Shady Cova. Roiua Riv mr Talant anrl nn motor mutCI Daily and Sunday 1 year 118.00 ua.iy arm ounuu.v i ..-. Carrier and Denleri copy 10c All Terma Caah In Advancii 'Official Paper of City of "Medford OfflcjajPapar5L?lH.K',0J1 S"MiLv. " United Preia International Full Leaied Wire t D I TjtUnhntn NftWinlCttirea "MeTSbER OF" AUDIT BOTE AtT WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fice! In New York. Chlcaeo. pe. troit. San Francisco. Loa Anfelei Seattle. Portland St. Loula. At. lapla. Vancouver. B C WYCA PUBLISHERS m )jJ.AsoclATON NATIONAL EDITORIAI AsgCTlgr I Flight or Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the tile, of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1950 (Monday) The Oregon Insurance Rat ing bureau has approved a lot at the corner of Eighth and Lincoln sis. as the site for one of Medford's proposed secondary fire stations. Enrollment figures in Med lord's four grade schools and the junior high school jump ed 9.2 per cent over the last year to a new record of 2,927 students. 20 YEARS AGO Spi. 11, 1940 (Wednesday) A total of 241 students en rolled the first day at Gold Hill school, 40 mora than the same first day registration last year. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Work in the high school has started off at a rapid pace,, as did the students with autos, rac ing each other to the ham burger joint for a quick lunch." SO YEARS AGO Sopi. 11, 1930 (Thursday) The local high school will meet its alumni athletes in their first football action of the season. A large crowd attended the opening of the Jackson coun ty fair yesterday despite bad weather. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1920 (Saturday) R e p u b lican presidential nominee Harding plans to make a speech in this city on his way from San Francisco to Portland. Sugar has dropped to 18 cents a pound in mis city. 50 YEARS AGO Seot. 11. 1910 (Sunday. Some 2'i acres of land on Nob hill have been purchased as a site for the proposed $100,000 Sisters of Providence hosnital. Fires last month destroyed more than $700,000 of virgin timber in the Crater Lake Na tlonal forest, according to lo cal forestry officials. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er tan correct it auperiar: aovan er eight ll eicalleitti five ei tie ia good. 1. Is It possible to distin guish race or color by blood type? 2. Is the use of private auto mobiles prohibited In Bermu da? , 3. Did Eden, Chamberlain or Churchill say that "Hitler has missed the bus"? 4. Beaufort's scale indicates the temperature of (he atmos phere, weight of precious loncs, or strength of wind? 5. What Is the name tor the great vein In the neck? 8. What is Thespian slgnifl cant of? 7. How do Manx cats dif fer from other cats? B. Shylock Is a character in which of Shakespeare's plays? 9. What it th plural of eupfull? 10. Is the Amazon river In Africa, South America, Eu rope or Asia? Answerai 1. No, 2. No, 3. Churchil. 4, Strength of wind. 5. Jugular vein, t. Ac tors. 7. They have no tails, t. "The Merchant of Venice." 9. Cupfulls, 10. South America. OIL PRODUCERS More than one-half of the oil wells drilled In the U.S. re etlll producing. School Thoughts School starts in Medford tomorrow, after a three-month vacation. , It hasn't all been vacation, of course. Super visory personnel have been at work planning for tne coming vear unit ovon fnvfw. t, i . Hft aveubeen busy "furbishing schools; addi- u,c ueeii constructed ; many teachers have cone nart tn oVmr.l i. i v DVI1UU, tu uUraue men- own eauca' uons; some teachers and nuito Q Tii,mv.o.. t , i i v ii v v ci iiuiHuri til nLU1 aents a growing number in Medford have "- pot uvijjaung in summer school. cut the tempo of secondary education hs slowed down almost to a stop, and most buile ings were not in active, full-time use. They wer v-VVAUg UUCiC, mi tTATTni r-r, xiwuutiuuT .the nation the tradition three-month vacation h ing criticism. The Cl'lSlS in prlW.afi nil" linn J.I.!-. aOOUt. and it in t.niTi hoc, Iiaov ..i.i u.. fMnrrc TO... ,.:'" 1" , , 1 "X " ."c 11S1"K tosis oi scnooi systems, and , tuccjuuii as to wneinev ermnntinn in Amo,.i , i , in iiijii,ii- ca coaay is good enono-h. (Tho lottm. i i ,i iuvww o uouaiiy YY Onrinvin-! i, 4-U - l n .i iii me same Dreatn as the progress UJf uic xvussians in science.; Thus education. TiH VtlnilldH Strife ll' ' 11 . . k"""""! v "at:" c'iucized irom Doth sides those who think it. pnato fnn mnVi ,J n, ...i.- Ars ! IL' 1 'L i '"U" "u muse WHO "uii t, UUHK.-11, is ooing a good enough job. IN OUR view, there is some truth in bnth We also believe, however, that the schools die wortn every penny they cost, even thoutrh j t. cuuiu still oe put into effect' and that the quality of education furnished in must cases Is iai Dettei1 tfian H.s (1ptrartnva Dtln rp, .vbwuLc ovale, , 1 he schools are not perfect, and we know of no one wno would be so rash as to claim they are. By the same token, they are far from failing at " os-u-unuiicu tasn ui proviaing an euU' cation for everyone who can henpfit. fvn ft Thus, the current criticism, particularly that uj. a cunHw ucuve nature, snouid De welcomed. ONE of the chronic complaints is the lack of O OllMm'.nl. 1 J! 11 I c ouiiiticnu iiuinuui' ox gooa teacners. Many proposals have been made higher pay, the use of classroom "teaching assistants" Who are not full fledp-e.rl instniftm-s Vinr can handle many of the routine chores ; a more respected position in the community for teachers; higher standards and more incentives to enter tne profession. bach of these have some merit, and, to a de gree, many of them have come about. But teachers, who might better be concen trating on teaching, are still required to perform such non-academic chores as patroling halls and inaygrounas auring noon-nours and recesses, and 'advising'? certain extra curricular activities in which they have little competence and no interest, TOO, there is the debate about what sort of nrlniofinw n Un..U I. C1I 1 -1 ii 6UULOHU11 a tcctuiiei oiiuuiu nave. OI10U1C1 It emphasize the arts of pedagogy, or should it be largely in the teacher's field of instruction? In the primary exades nedap-otrv. nrobahlv. is crucial. But in more advanced grades we do not see how a teacher can be competent as a teacher unless he is truly an expert in his field. The teachers' organizations preach "profes sionalism." We'd like it better if thev defined their terms. A teacher of ohvsics. sav. or lan guage, may be highly skilled at supervising the learning process, and still be a dead loss if not competent m physics or language. AS to other related problems,' a recent report w- A 1,111 11UUI1U UL11UU1 UV LI1K Ml MV. ican Association oi school Administrators stated "Belter utilization of existing facilities and per sonnel through extending the school year or through developing what is frequently called a year-round edu cational program Is a promising hope for achieving a more adequate education." iNote, please, that it said "more adequate education' not less expensive education. For, despite the fact that buildings would be better utilized and wouldn't "just stand there for three months each year, the overall i . 1 1 , ii i-i costs wouia mevitaoiy De higher. CUGGESTIONS have included such as these: " The "four-quarter" plan, where 75 per cent of tne students would be in school at all times, with 25 per cent on vacation. This would utilize the school buildings, but would result i n nprsnnnl. j ?i i :. ... . i iamuy and community adjustments (non-summer vacations, ior one;, and would require more teachers, whose pay represents the lartrest sincrle u :.. t " r ! ; . ii. " ueiii in any scnooi district DUdget. The "48-week school vear." with a four week vacation. This has been proposed as com pulsory, and as voluntary with more determ neH students benefiting. It, too, would cost more. Ihe "ISi-month teacher employment" plan, with teachers assigned during the summer months to additional training. Jt would cost more. e JN MEDFORD, the nine-month school year has been retained. But, in common with many other progressive school districts which are seeking tvtva to increase educational opportunities with out raising costs too much, more emphasis has been placed here on the summer education pro gramfor students needing remedial work, for those wishing to speed their progress or supple ment their regular classes, and for adults, l This is the one approach to this problem which offers the most for the least. Meanwhile, we must encourage, rather than discourage, experimentation.' with new te c h niques, new ideas, new approaches. Education is probably America's most important business to day. It deserves the best from all of us. E.A. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. O o SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER u, Dennis the MerCkce toll BOrS CERTAINLY SET YOUR MQNEYtS mtOHOW Of A WADING POOL1 Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann if Walter i-IODtnana outside of MR. V AT THE U.N. mere may will be sneci i reasons which we do not now Know, for Mr. Khrush chev's d e c i- sion to attend the General Assembly in New York out tnere is a broad reas. son which in Itself would explain the decision. It is that western Knrnne and North America there has very recently and verv suri. uemy Deen a aramatic ex pansion of Soviet influencB. At the General Assembly of me u.N. 15 new African na. tions are about to be admit- and by the end of this year there will probably be sun more, in the main, the Soviet Union has the inside track in dealing with these new nations. Moreover, it has DroKen into tne Western Hem' lspnere. Inside the U.N. the influence of the Soviet Union which for years was In a tiny minority, has increased great ly, ana Mr. Khrushchev will be in New York to make the most of it. Our own influence has de clined seriously. In the first General Assembly after the end of World War II the American nations, which then voted together, had 43 per cent of the votes. This was a base on which to build an easy majority with the West ern Europeans and in itself is quite sufficient to exercise a veto. Now, the American states-even apart from Cuba's aeiection-are less than a ouar- ter of the total. TN THE General Assembly, A as in the world which it represents, a preponderant majority of the countries are very poor, have a primitive economy, and are highly dis contented with their condi tion. The great masses of the people are illiterate, and the country is fortunate if it has even a small class of edu cated men and trained civil servants. There is no mystery as to why the Soviet Union and even the Chinese have the inside track. They do not stand for democracy, which is impossible in most of these countries, or for free and pri vate enterprise, which is also impossible, They stand for dictatorships using technicians. The handful of educated leaders in the backward countries, and also in coun tries not so backward, can imagine themselves followine me suviei, pattern. But tney cannot imagine themselves following the political Dattern oi aisennower ana Nixon and Kennedy and Johnson, of General Motors and U.S. Steel. ' All this poses for us the grave problem of how, despite the Soviet initial advantage, the Western powers can exert enough influence to maintain their vital interests. Anyone, in my opinion, is a fool who thinks that there is an ob vious and easy solution to this problem. What is certain is that the solution, if there is one, will not be found by thrashing around wildly, look ing for scapegoats, and try ing to find someone in the foreign service to blame for the fact that Castro and Lu mumba exist. In the DaysHews Br FRANK JENKINS Modern economics note: The Inter-American Eco nomic Conference, meeting at Bogota, in the South Ameri can, republic of Colombia, reaches virtual agreement ap proving a U.S. backed drive for economic and social .de velopment of Latin America. The drive would start off with a $500 million appropriation by the United States, with promise of added economic assistance when the program really gets going. Cuba's minister of econom ics, a gentleman named Re- gino Boti, didn't think much of the idea. He proposed a $30 BILLION program. "Let's not be pikers," he said, in effect. (Especially when Un cle Sam is paying the bill,) Try ancf Stop Me By BENNETT CERF rFHE MODERN idea seems to be that you can do any thing with money. One wonders. We've spent lot of money for foreign id, , and we don't seem to have bought very many for eign friends. to problems LET'S TURN closer home. In Pompano Beach, down in Florida, there is a modern residential suburban develop ment' that has a problem. It is located three-quarters of a mile from the nearest school. The parents want a school bus - but there is a slate reg ulation in Florida that for bids providing school bus service for children who live within two miles of a school. So the mothers have orca- ized a protest. Yesterday 14 them escorted their 20 children down the middle of a busy street, causing no end of grief to the trafiic. They say they'll go on doing it un til they get bus service. DROOKS ATKINSON, retiring drama critic of the Nevsr J- Ynrk Times, and one of the best lovedlnen In the his tory of the theater, has named the 15 musical ihowi a the) past three decades he con siders the very best. They are, in chronological or der, Shottf. Boot, O) Thee J Sing, Music In the Air, Porgu and Bess, Lady in the Dark,Oklahoma,Car rouse, Annie Get Your Gun, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, WoiieleruiToum, My Fair, Lady, West Side Story, and The Music Man. I believe a good reper tory company could keep a big New York theater filled to capacity for years by simply alternating these IS superlative productions. An Israeli transatlantic jet plane had to turn back to Tel Aviv airport after being two hours out over the ocean, A quick witted stewardess soon calmed the passengers, however. "It'a nothing to worry about," she told them. "We forgot the pickles." C 1960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kine Featurea Syndicate BROOKS ATKINSON) "1 of Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop A BSURD? No, they have a good argument on their side. They say the traffic is so heavy that it is DANGEROUS for the children to walk. Which, of course, is true. They're facing a REAL mod ern problem. pARL Proebstel and I were v chewing over modern problems the other day. and we got around to this same situation. It reminded Carl of a conversation he'd had with an ancient resident of a dis trict over on the other side of the mountains. While they were talking, a school bus came past. The-oldster (Carl says he waa about 90) surveyed the T IS clear enough, I think, that on the whole and in creasingly we shall have to deal through international in stitutions in Asia, Africa, and tne Americas. Throughout these vast ter- ritories there is underwav an historic revolution against poverty and against social and political inferioritv to the Western white man. We cannot act successfully when we act alone, because we are unable to divest ourselves of the suspicion that we are the great counter - revolutionary power. Within international institutions, the U. N., the O. A. S the World Bank, and the like, we can have a certain immunity, and can have influence because we have so much to contribute. The first item. then, in a solution of the problem of our relationship with the more or less revolutionary countries of Asia, Africa, and America, is to turn from uni lateral action to action through the international in stitutions. . . THE second item is, I, be- lieve, to take the leader- snip of the highly developed countries in persuading them to accept the principle that it is the duty of the haves to finance the have-nots in order that they may break the vicious circle of their backwardness. It is highly im portant, in my view, that this should be done as a duty and not as a favor or as charity. The duty of the haves to the have-nots is a new and great idea, often advanced by individuals but never as yet adopted by governments. It is the kind of idea which might, which could, restore to us and to our Western al lies the initiative which we no longer possess, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. THE OHIO PORTENTS Cleveland - Here in north eastern Ohio, the portents are favorable to Sen. John F. Kennedy. I f not mislead ing, moreover, these Ohio portents have national meanings; for there is no state in the Union that is nearer to be- Joseph alsop ing nationally indicative. On one point, the portents leave no room for doubt. In Ohio, as of today, Senator Kennedy is running several miles ahead of Adlai E. Stev enson, and Vice President Richard M. Nixon is running several miles behind Presi dent Eisenhower. But in Ohio in 1956, Eisen hower got no less than 2,262 000 votes against 1,438,000 for Stevenson. The Eisenhower lead, in other words, was real ly immense. Thus Kennedy is not assured of victory because he is far ahead of the previ ous Democratic nominees, and Nixon is not doomed to de feat because he commands so much less support than the President. nPO LEARN more, it is need - ful to analyze the evi dence collected here by doorbell-ringing team compos ed of Ray Dorsey and Bill Williams, of "The Cleveland Plain Dealer," and this re porter. As we took large sam pies, polling over 300 people in all, we had no doubt that our results gave a correct pic ture of the neighborhoods polled. But did these neigh- ous wun a scornful eye. These modern farm kids!" he said wryly. "They don't have any chores to do now So they get up late. Too late to walk to school. So the dis trict has to buy a $45,000 bus to haul 'em to school and get em tnere in time. as a result, tney get no exercise. So the district has to build a $200,000 gymnasi um for em to exercise in What's the world coming to? T'S A STRANGE world. Full of problems. But I doubt if any of us would want to go back to the older world-whose problems were ailferent, but just as numerous. Russia Moves Fast Into African Vacuum Sevareid By ERIC 8EVAREID As this is written Niklta Khrushchev, by dispatching troop transport planes to Lu mm mumba, has thrown an other burning brand over the heads of the weary in ternat i o n a 1 firemen. H e pre pares to storm into the United Na tions in New York as champion of the fif teen segments of Africa's an cient, soiled acreage now known aa "new nations." And he may detour into Cuba where the prospects for polit ical arson are by no means exhausted. A conversation of this sum mer comes rudely to mind. A Soviet diplomat In a Euro pean capital listened to a puz zled Westerner protest that Russia's official behavior and speech this summer hat been totally inconsistent with her peaceful protestations, almost unprecedented between great nations far from the brink of war. The Russian broke in im patiently. "Listen," he said, "there won't be war. But let me tell you something as plainly aa I can. We tried the nice, polite way. It got ua no where, on Berlin or anything else. All right - now we're trying the nasty way. Maybe this will wake you up. And I'll tell you something else- you win iind that from now on you are not going to be able to settle anything, any where in the world, without us. ' It is as simple as that: but the consequences of this im mense physical and propa ganda strength, powered by a deep-seated inferiority com plex are bound to be baffling ly complicated and dangerous, an endless drain upon our en ergies and resources, and re peatedly disruptive to normal assumptions. The Soviet Un ion, already rooted in Central Europe, is penetrating the Arab lands, Latin America and Central Africa, not to speak of outer space, and in the mind of Moscow, the game has just begun. In Europe the risks are too great for any sudden advance of Soviet influence; In the Mid-East conditions for fur ther Russian steps ripen only slowly; in Latin America cul tural and religious bulwarks oblige the Russians to pick their spots with extreme caution. But Central Africa is now a broken field, devoid, save in the Moslem sectors, of re ligious, cultural or political defenses of any consequence. It had no history with which to oppose the white settler, missionary or soldier; It 1 in easy mark now for any stran ger professing friendship, be cause, while it now possesses modern aspirations, it has no clear idea how to achieve them. And what makes, the new African an even easier target is his almost total spir itual disorientation. w The new class in Black Af rica is a lost genetation. The bulk of its members went to mission or public schools, ac quired a mattering of mo dern knowledge, drifted in into the shantylown life sur rounding the big cities. They became clerks, working with in sight but not reach of the bright, full life. They learned to despise their own tribal culture and to envy and re sent the while man's culture. They now belong to neither the one nor the other. It is heart-breaking to hear their oratory - passionate, bit ter, idealistic. Because, as it pours out in unquenchable torrents, the listener slowly understands that the talk is wind to fill an aching spiri tual vacuum, concealing the awful fact that, except as sep arate individuals, they have no meaning; for they cannot relate their own lives to a greater, a general collective meaning, as all men must if they are to know who they are In the world. They do not know where they are goifes because they do not know where they have been. They have repudiated the tribe; yet mere is nothing else. So, in that "pan-African preparatory conference" in Leopoldville they have sought, with the gossamer of woras, to spin a reality for themselves. They have talked oi me "African personality1 in tne world's congeries of lorces; they have talked of an AirtcSn neutralist bloc The talk Is a hangover from the old assumptions - that with1 colonialism gone. nme. thing new would arise, some- tning strong and fresh, Iden tifiably African, and upon this they would build. t But, apart from the old and impossible tribal life, there had been only .negativism -protest and resentment. Now that the hated alien authority is gone, so are the ties that bound them together and gave them a sense of common meaning and purpose. They can escape reality no longer; they are gazing with wild and frightened surmise at the vast void before them. In their own homes they are homeless. This the Russians surely understand and watch with calculating eye. Rarely be fore, if ever, has Communist imperialism been presented with a vacuum. Little wonder that Khrushchev is moving fast. (Distributed, I960, by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Referred) borhoods correctly represent Ohio as a whole, or only this northeastern corner? To begin with our first re sults, we found a massive po litical turn-over in the two farm townships of Dorset and Denmark, in Ashtabula Coun ly. The same people who had given President Eisenhower a 2Vi to 1 majority in 1956, now gave a modest majority to Senator Kennedy. But like all the northeastern Ohio farm area except the lake front, these townships are economi cally depressed. Hard times for the dairy farmer and heavy industrial lay-offs among the half-farm ers half-factory-workers put the so-called religious issue in the shade in Denmark and Dorset. So much discontent ana such forgetfulness of the religious issue are not likely to be found in the richer Ohio farm regions, especially in the south. Some drop in Ohio's traditionally Republican farm vote must be expected, but not such a violent turn-over as we found in Ashtabula County. N CLEVELAND, too, there were few signs that the re ligious issue was having much miiuence; and there were im portant signs of Democratic revival in the three Cleveland precincts we visited. Their turn-over, from close to two to one for Eisenhower to more than six to five for Kennedy. seemed to forecast an old-style Democratic majority in Cuya hoga County. But Cleveland may also be a special case. since the economic slow-down has been especially trouble some here. Finally, in three Drecinets in Akron, we found a sham ferment of religious prejudice. The ferment did not prevent a considerable fall-off of the Republican votes since 1956, but it was strong enough to give Nixon a hair-line major ity in our Akron samDle. Its importance may be gauged by tne iact mat about a auarter of Nixon's total support was owed to anti-Catholic Demo crats, mostly industrial work. ers including a good share of tormer Stevenson voters. Checks that have been made in Toledo and Spring- neia suggest that the kind of ferment found in Akron is al so strong in these cities, and quite probably throughout wesiern unio. Add that even in Cleveland, Kennedy got a few votes less than Gov. Mike DiSalle's 1958 total; and that Kennedy ran rather far h.. hind DiSalle in Akron. 1115 POTLUCK (y M-T Staff 0nd Contributors) Possibly motivated k. piece on this page . v-J D.r WiSrj. one of our reader, w" ' red to memory, and .. " it with us, .. follow,, Uti V-J day reminded m, . an incident on THE V-.T a 15 yeari ago. "'i Signing of the treaty w expected any minute ,n u . deverybody When the siren, Muid(4' the stores were onli-n,. ened and emptied of cuIt Where we wen tu. ing crowd crossed the ,,Z at Sixth and Central i. ford. All wer. noisy ,nd- Well, almost everybody. . At Newberry's com. tie, middle-aged woman '.'.7 ed slowly, guiding a soldier in winter uniform. walked slowly, oblivious I everything about him - Z seeming to hear r ' thing. " My 'What price glory companion remark?' There are a few incidmu In everyone', life which irt o firmly Imprinted that they never will fade, ,v,r when all other m.momi set blurry and mixed-ua with one another. We itill distinctly ram ber the smell of the hot chocn. late and the taste of the iui ar-doughnuts at bn.aW,i :. a little cafe in Modesto, Calif one Sunday in n.nmk' 1941, when the radio blared the news that Japanese nlan.. were bombing Pearl Harbor, We remember the gathered around a hue ranrk fireplace in Central Oregon when the news came that thi uuueu otates naa dropped an "atomic bomb" on Japan. No one, except one science fiction fan among us, even knew what an atom hnh might be. We remember a nurse uv.' ing "It's a girl-a fine health : We remember another e casion when a doctor told u to line up blood donors, and said solemnly, "In this kM of case, we usually try to save the mother first." And we remember our- tears 4 gratitude when both lived. - We remember when an air; plane was overdue-six hour eight hours; twelve hours and when the search found the four crumpled bodies ei friends and associates, and the good man who was out boss. , . These are the. memories some poignant, some joyful, some sorrowful - which stay with one, and are sometiraei tenderly reviewed. They say that reminh- cence is a sign of encroach ing old age. It must be true, ' too. For, according to the old saw, "Life Begin," fer the Potluck editor next week. VOU THEN get a picture of 1 a much closer race than might be suggested by our lo cal figures. With a state-wide majority just above 450.0(10 votes, DiSalle got 56.7 per oi me unio vote in 1958. On the face of our figures, rveuneuy, running behind Di Salle in the urban centera may have a present mainrllv of 150,000. This would give him a precariously narrow percentage lead. Furthermore even this lead may be dimin- isnea still further, if the VinH oi terment we found in Akron is extra-strong elsewhere. In addition, verv few nf the pcopie we polled, except the religiously Influenced had as yet develoned strnnff' feelings about the elenllnn Whether they chose Kennedy or Nixon, most of them did not appear to be iy auacnea to the candidate of their choice. All of this large central group seemed capable of chaniri n0 sirinB In fact, because of the Kennedy Nixon television debates or ume otner important devel opment of the campaign. In Ohio, to sum up, Nixon has his work cut out for him, but so does Kennedy. And if renneoy nas a slight lead, which seems likely, It is cer-' talnly not the sort of lead he can depend on. (c) 19S0 New York Herald Tribune Int. One of the doggondest hassles of the generation ii over -i temporarily, we are sure, upstate. It is the battle between the "traditionalists" and the "modernists" in art. It raged during the Cen tennial celebration last year, when abstract murals, im pressionistic paintings, and other varieties of non-photo-'! graphic art were chosen for : display. : It raged again this summer in the offices of the Oregon State Fair commission, which j backed and filled, compro mised, ducked, dodged, wesv- ed and temporized, as it wai assailed by artists of all per suasions and temperaments, individually and in groups. The "modernists" (which is really a misnomer) declare : that the true artist is not sat isfied with exact photo-like' fidelity to the subject, but must go beyond that and put something of himself and; what he feels and sees Into the painting if it is, indeed",, to be called "art." - ; The "traditionalist" (an other misnomer) however, be lieves that what is painted, should be recognizable , something-a tree, a dog, ! hill, a housc-and oreferably' an exact reproduction of , As a result of the battle.-. two art superintendents have; come and gone with bitter ness, the fair commission' looka like a bunch of weak-' kneed tools, and the varioui- artistic factions have acquit-: ted themselves with ambig uity and verbosity, and have achieved something lea than. glory. ' '. Which remind, us of the ' quotation attributed, if we ' recall correctly, to Will Roger,, to the effect that it', very aafe thing te : claim you're an artist, be : eaute no one can prove that . feu un'L 0 i .