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Newspaper Page TextO 4 A MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1960 "Everyone in Soutiiorn Oregon ! Th Mall Trihnno" PutCihed Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD P1UNTIBU IW 33 North Fir St., Ph SP 3-ll HERB GREY Advatlllw Manar GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor tin till I i,nir.iin. RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor PALE EKlUlVaUn. 1.1TCUWMUN An Independent Newipaper Entered ai second clan matter Medford. Oreuon. under Act of March 3. 1897 eitnci.nnyi'TnM D,Tff4 By Mall - In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and aunaay i yea, Dally and Sunday 6 moa 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moi 4JS Bv Cairler In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Belle Pont. Jacksonville uoio nju er isieni anu . " Dally and Sunday 1 year (18 00 Da'.lv and Sunday 1 mo 1.80 Carrier and Dealer! copy 10c All I ermi t-aan innuv"ii-o "Ofrirlal Paner of City of Medford Official Pap.rof Jachson County United" Press International Full Leased Wire 'J P.I. Telephoto Newiplcturei "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU- OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York Chlcaeo De- Troll, oan r rHriuiBwu. uu Seattle. Portland St Loul! At- larta. Vancouver, m: NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI AS&JCTI(OJri iiiiimiimin e Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flies of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 1950 (Saturday) A search by the local draft board for an Ashland youth who failed to show for his pre inductlon physical ended yes terday when it was discovered that the youth had enlisted in the Army in Portland several months ago. The new bridge at Rogue River was dedicated yester day in official ceremonies, but it is still without a name; three names have been sug gested - Joshua Patterson, Woodville and Tallholt - but none has proved acceptable to all concerned and It was de cided to dedicate the bridge anyway. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 1940 (Wednesday) nroimn rtnv. Charles A Cnrodnn tnHav nropri voters to vole against a measure that would permit tne private stue or liquor. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "One of the 1041 models had a run ning board that wasn't there stepped on yesterday by Its driver." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 1930 (Thursday) The state labor convention here yesterday voted to favor a llminr prohibition law. Julius Meier, independent candidate for governor, cam paigned here yesterday, 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1920 (Saturday) An Indian summer followed a light snow at Crater Lake this week. 1 A Medford resident has turned up safely after being lost in Diamond lake country. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1910 (Friday) Partial results of last week's primary election indicate that Republican Jay uowerman and Democrat Oswald West have won their respective party's nomination for Gov ernor. The Ashland Elks club will dedicate their new temple week and have arranged to have a special display of elec tric lights for the occasion. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is suparleri seven or eight Is excellent! five ei la Is good. 1. Wirr Ihe "Soven Wond- ers of the Ancient World" all works of man? 2. Was Cassandra a famed Macedonian general, a Greek city, or an ancient proph etess? 3. Which department did Herbert Hoover hea. in the cabinet of Calvin Coolldge? 4. Is Hypnophobia a dread of breaking a leg, morbid fear of sleep, or desire to be come unconscious? 5. Is whisky, or Is it not, an approved medical antidote for snakebite? 6. Which state Is nick named tiie "Buckeye State"? 7. With equal wind vel ocity, would you say that telegraph wires hum loudest In cold or hot weather? 8. The French engineer, MaJ. Pierre C. L'Enfant, de signed the original plan of which U. S. city? 9. Are dj-agonflles harmful to man? 10. Was "Old Ironsides" a sloop, frigate, or corvette? Answers! 1. Ym, 2. Prophe tess. 3. Department of Com merce. 4 Fear of sleep. 5. Is not. 6. Ohio. 7. Cold weather. 8. Washington. D. C, 9. No 10. Frigate. The Rise of Homo Sapiens We're all famfliar with the old answerless question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" There is another similar question, a bit more complicated, but the answer seems closer. The question can be phrased thus: "Did early man invent tools, or did tools assist in the evo lution of the sub-human creatures which became early man?" CHERWOOD WASHBURN, professor of an thropology at the University of California, leans toward the latter hypothesis. In the Scientific American, he reports: "From rapidly accumulating evidence, it is now possioie to speculate witn some confidence on the manner in which the way of life made possible by tools changed the pressures of natural selection and so changed the structure of man. Recent findings in Africa show that creatures able to run but not yet to walk on two legs, and with brains no larger than those of apes now living, had already learned to make and use tools. It follows that the structure of modern man must be the result of the change in the terms of natural selection that came with the tool-using way of life." AFTER describing the ha orlrfo "What subsequently evolved was the pattern of life of intelligent, exploratory, playful, vigorous pri mates; the evolving reality was a succession of Social systems based upon the motor abilities, emotions and intelligence of their members. Selection produced new systems of child care, maturation and sex, just as did alterations in the skull and teeth. Tools, hunt ing, fire, complex social life, speech, the human way and the brain evolved together to produce ancient man of the genus Homo about half a million years ago. Then the brain evolved under the pressures of a more complex life until the species Homo sapiens appeared perhaps as recently as 50,000 years ago." Once this was accomplished, Professor Wash burn notes, the stage was rapid advance. The details history are better known than the mistv pre history of the time when ana men going inrougn r 11.. i;- ui lamuy, uiucti, nuiiiauic, agricultural, city ana early national life. THE increasing speed of human development lnll'imioo Pit. f ArnAn "IaTo -.L, L,, !l LAa uiuiigucc iiuicooui rr He says: "Today, in the midst of the latest tool-making revo lution, man has achieved the capacity to adapt his environment to his need and impulse, and his'numbers have begun to crowd the planet. "Thus In ourselves we see a structure, physiology and behavior that is the result of the fact that some populations of apes started to use tools a million years ago. The pebble tools constituted man's princi pal technical adaptation for a period at least 50 times as long as recorded history. "As we contemplate man's present eminence, it is well to remember that, from the point of view of evolution, the events of the last 50,000 years occupy but a moment in time. Ancient man endured at least 10 times as long, and the man-apes for an even longer time." - ALSO, as we "contemplate man's present em- mence, we are faced with a new challenge, one which is only about 15 years old namely, the fact that in his brief span mankind has fi nally achieved the power of self-destruction. He has, for the most part, achieved control of his environment. He has solved the problem of adequate supplies of food (at least for his present numbers). He has solved unbelievably complex technological problems in transporta tion, communication, manufacturing. And yet, despite all these triumphs, man still is not a success. And he will not be a success until he learns, at long last, how to distribute these good things, and, more important, how to get along with himself. The tools are at hand for an idyllic, produc tive, creative, happy life. But we have not yet achieved it. We may never do so. e "THERE is, however, one rule of life which, if universally adopted,- and by their social organisms including nations, would make possible just such a life. The lesson was written many, many years ago, and it occurs in virtually every major re ligion. This rule, phrased remains the same, and is universal rule of conduct. The version we all know best goes: "Do unto others as do unto you. b. A. AWF and UMC Congratulations are United Fund drive, which went over its goal with a whoop and holler in just a few days. This is the kind of civic responsibility and public-spirited response which makes a city a good place to live. It must have made the workers in the United Medford Crusade sit up and take notice, a bit, for, although they're doing fine so far, they can't begin to compare with the speed that the A-T drive succeeded. THERE are arguments against United Fund drives some of them valid; most of them nothing more than "excuses" not to give. But even the valid negative arguments are far overbalanced by the arguments in favor of the UFs, and the many worthwhile things which are accomplished with the donated dollars. The story of the UMC has been told in some detail elsewhere in the Mail Tribune over the months and years. This, then, is simply a re minder that now is the time to do your bit toward making it a success, and maintaining Medford's long-standing reputation as a good place to live. E. A. finds in some detail, set for an even more of mankind's recorded mankind was evolving tne successive periods i ?i - i aoiiMuiu, sj lb naa ua. both by individual men in many different ways, still the only truly basic, you would have others due the Ashland-Talent Dennis the Menace 1 didn't use upjflywa perfume scwe OF ITS -STILL W MV WATER PISTOL." Washington Report By WILLIAM VITAL DIALOGUE Washington - The truly vi tal world dialogue now going on is not the public debate be tween the free west and the Soviet east, for this will not soon come to anything, any how. It , is rather, an ur gent p rivate discussion be tween the west and the so - called neu t r a 1 or un committed na tions. And the kernel of this frank talk is that the west, through its top leaders, is now telling the neutralists that their free ride at last is over. They must now decide whether any sort of order is to be left in this world, through the United Nations, or whether they wish to remain so very nobly "un committed" as to help the Soviet Union destroy that last hope and agency for peace. For a decade now the neu tralists have been the canon ized saints of international knee-jerk liberalism, the one set of really good guys on all this earth, They would join neither west nor east. Instead they pointed accusing fingers at both, though mainly at the west, while scooping up all they could get in aid money from each-though, again, mainly from the west. THIS policy in itself has in evitably appealed to knee jerk liberalism . - herein de fined as the kind of liberalism which favorably reacts to the pompous self-righteousness of neutralism as automatically as a knee tapped by a physician's rubber hammer, - The international knee-Jerk-ers, though never pro-Soviet, have always refused real al legiance to the west. After all, the west includes the bad old "colonial powers," like Brit ain and France. And there is another country, the United States, which has thus far re fused to throw away its nucle ar safeguards just because the neutralists-and the Soviet Union-thought it ought to do so. The knee-jerk mind, like the very similar neutralist mind, has remained proudly untouched by all the massive evidence against . its happy theories. Some of the saintly lands of neutralism - notably the country of the neutralist archangel, Prime Minister Nehru of India, and Sukarno's Indonesia-are manifestly rath er shorter on civil liberties for most of the people than were the nasty old "colonial" re gimes they succeeded A GAIN, Nehru himself can make at the United Na tions a speech of interminable length and breadth and all that, but one which has a small fault: It is difficult even for the experts to determine for sure whose side he is on and when. Any western statesmen so curiously unburdening Mm- self would be Instantly de nounced as a straddler and trimmer, at best. But not Nehru, of course; his address is only another illustration of the profound sensitivity and "intellectualism" of the best neutralist minds. - All the same, time and cir cumstances now seem to be running on the side of those forces of common sense which are urging ttr9 neutrals to leove their angelic sphere and come down Into the rude cock pit of the rude world of today. For one illustration, the left wing of the labor party in England now proposes dis armament" schemes so horrj fyingly irresponsible tastically suicidal as to give pause to the knee-jerk liberals outside Britain, and to some extent even inside it. , T TIIE same time, the anti- knee Jerk leaders prime William I. rhit S. WHITE ministers Harold Macmillan of Britain and Robert Gordon Menzies of Australia, along with our own people In the U.N. are putting in some heavy licks. This is about what they are saying to the neutralists: "You think military alli ances for safety against Com munist imperialism are evil. You take pride in the 'inde pendence' of your neutralism. Whatever you may think to be wrong with the west, we at any rate cannot possibly be called the people who are try ing to break up the United Na tions. "And "since you don't be lieve in alliances, and are for ever howling about 'disarma ment' at every cost, where In the world will you have any voice, any protection, if you now help Khrushchev to smash this one place where you can practice your orecious 'neutralism' in safety?" (Copyright, 1960, By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ...Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. False Issues To the Editor: Facts remain, as even the Republican big wigs well know, that private enterprise, like Hoover rug ged individualism, cannot ever again be self - sustained, or even survive without Gov ernment credit, often referred to as priming the pump. The Republican big wigs will allow the pump to be primed too little and much too late, and only after reach ing their desired quota of mil lions unemployed, and then only when recession gets deep enough to threaten Big Busi ness. That has ever been the Republican creed, it remains their veiled policy notwith standing their lean toward Democratic ideology at elec tion time. Basically they are now, as before, a party of Dog eat Dog, with special paternalism to the biggest ones. Consider what the candi dates stand for. Mr. Nixon, with a strong aversion toward his humble past, has with consuming passion pursued a course to fortune that may lead as the winds of fortune blow. The obstacles must fall, fair or foul, Nixon is for Nixon. In deep contrast, Kennedy is a man with vision of na tional purpose, who has the moral fortitude to understand that in priming the pump, it must be done in time to fore stall sinking spells into re cessions before disastrous un employment develops, before the little fellow s mortgage is foreclosed, before recession ridden, and depression-motivated crimes may be commit ted. In Kennedy lies the hope of the future, to rise above the big wigs' abject surrender to the evils of our time. With respect to economy in Government, a -stitch in time saves nine, but the economy minded Republican bosses do not ever comprehend. With characteristic lethargy and willful procrastination, they walked, stumbled or bungled into the 1958 recession. There they economized the treasury Into a $12 billion deficit. There they economized the people they threw out of work into a $40 billion loss of wages, and the nation a $100 DrrQbillion loss of commerce, in fair nn. vear. It seems this money wise gang can afford anything that is expensive to you, not to improve your lot, but to pur sue their primary purpose, to subdue and control labor and small business, to advance the Tito Feels Cold War By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The' man-of-the-w e e k: President Tito of Yugosla via. The place: New York. The quote: "We have done, together with our friends, everything that was in our power to nar row the gap and reduce tension between East and West and to enable the As sembly to work in a con structive way. But the re sults achieved in this re spect so far are less than modest. What is more, I feel that the atmosphere of the cold war has been in tensified and this is what causes concern." Saying that, Jesip Broz- Tito, Marshal of Yugoslavia, independent Communist and one of the world's most 1 n f 1 u e ntial neutrals, sail ed for home after two weeks of poll ticking and m a neuvering at the current United Na- phil newsom Hons ueneral Assembly. The stocky Com munist boss of the small Balkan nation did his best to warm up the atmosphere of the cold war while he was in New York. He took the initiative in calling together other leading neutralists and proposing another meeting between President Ensenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev. At its end, they came up with a formal resolution which they dropped into the Assembly hopper. It first made a "request" for Eisen hower and Khrushchev to meet in the interests of eas ing tensions. Then it was modified to "express hope" the two would meet. Eisenhower and Khrushchev both rejected the suggestion before it got through the General Assembly. But they didn't say positively. Tito and his neutralist cohorts presidents Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Kwame Nkrumah of powers of monopoly. I Since this outfit cannot hope to be reelected on their dark brown record, they must devise other ways to turn the trick, so they will allow in jection of false issues to grow and fester in their behalf. Sulen Drangen 417 Lane st. Yreka, Calif. U.N. Rat's Nest To the Editor: Does Khru shchev really want to destroy the U. N. as he seems to? Does he even want to remove it out of the United States? 10 inose wno are wen in formed the answer is a big loud "No . The plan is (American Mer cury, July, 1959,) to hand over to Harry Dexter White's U. N. World Bank control of the United States economy, and all our gold. The plan is for a U.N. pool, situated in neutral Geneva, or Jerusa lem, to hold all our hydrogen and atomic bombs, and guid ed missiles, and to place all our forces under the control of the U. N. The military department of the U. N. has always been headed by a representative of the Soviet bloc. Its present head is Anatoly F. Dobryin of the U.S.S.R. When the fi nal transfer takes place, Comrade Dobrynin will have charge of the U. S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force and the U. S. Marines. Fantastic? Not at all. At this very moment the United States cannot even defend it self without first getting per mission from the U. N. Before the American peo ple can be talked into all this before they will be willing to surrender thir sovereignty, and liberties, and freedoms to this monstrous, anti-American Tower of Babel t hey have to be resold on the "wonders" and "glories" of the U. N. And the best way to resell them is to make them think that Khrushchev is de termined to destroy it or move it while in themean time the suddenly verP"pow erful" and "heroic" U. N. thwarts him on every turn. Don't letQhis master propa gandist deceive you. The last thing in the world he wants is to destroy or move this vast base for Russian espion age so beautifully established nere on ine American uonu nent, where his espionage agents can operate under dip lomatic immunity. The U.N. charter, which , Ate U.N. Conclave Intensified ils in Ghana, Sukarno of Indonesia and Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic had made the opening gambit. Tito sailed for home, and Nasser left by air. Nehru stayed and pushed the neu trals' proposal at the United Nations. It won't be for lack of try ing that the American presi dent and the Soviet premier won't meet. Rise to Power For Tito, the initiative in this case was quite in char acter. He has risen to the top Both Candidates Leave Door Open For By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-fflPD-The presi dential candidates have left themselves plenty of room for lush spending, w h ic h e v er takes office on Jan. 20, 1961. Both have just answered up to a ques tion from Scripps - How ard Newspap- lh. c wuiof ers, wnicn, in the common tongue, would read like this: "Are you gonna balance the budget and begin paying off the national debt, or ain't you?" "Yes, maybe ," responded the candidates. Candidate Nixon said the government should try to reduce the debt but that spending for nation al security takes priority over all else. Also, he said, the fed eral government must spend for essential things the states, local governments and non government resources cannot accomplish. However, he said to do this federal spending by deficit financing would fan inflation and, ultimately, bring bankruptcy. . Two Fence-Sitters The late James E. Watson, of Indiana, would have de fined the foregoing as taking a firm position on both sides our Congressmen signed without even reading, is STILL "the machine-gun that looks like a baby carriage. exactly as Senator Jenner said it was in 1954. It is STILL the rats' nest for the promotion of World Commu nism and slavery" that Gen. Mark Clark said it was. It is STILL "the trapdoor to Sta lin's jail, baited with the Dove of Peace" just as the famous lawyer, Glenn O. Young, described it. Except that now Khrushchev is the jailor. And don't you forget it. L. C. Powell 316 SE Eighth st. Grants Pass, Ore. Thanks, Bill To the Editor: The follow-. ing letter is being sent to Bill Williams, of Pacific Tele phone, Northwest, and it would be appreciated if you would publish it, so the peo ple may know: Greetings, Bill: The state police, the sher iff's office, and the coroner's office wish to thank you, and through you, Pacific Tele phone, Northwest, for the use of the emergency truck, and for the hard work you put in yourself on Sunday, your day off, assisting in the recovery of the bodies of the two Cali fornia couples from the plane wreck on Dutchman's Peak. In that rough country, without your assistance, and your winch-equipped vehicle, this very difficult job would have been much more diffi cult, if not well-nigh impos sible. Again, many thanks, Bill, for a job well done. Oregon State Police, Jackson County Siieriff's office, Jackson County Coroner's office, Medford. Hammer It Tongs To the Editor: I see by your letters column, Sept. 29, 1960, that Bill Tugman, my old friend, is going after me ham mer and tongs on behalf of my Republican opponent. He says he doesn't, however, question my patriotism and for that I suppose I should be duly grateful- Bill says Criticism is all right but a pox on my "mis chievous meddling," such as suing the Secretary of State to permit me to go to China, an action that now awaits the Reconciliation Try by acting on his own many times in the past. The peasant son of peasant parents, he became a lock smith and then a professional Communist worker. He took a poor nation of 17 mililon persons and made the world think it is im portant. He fought the Germans in World War II and at its end emerged the victor in the in tramural war with General Mikhailovich. The latter was shot, and Tito became un disputed boss of Yugoslavia. He was anathema to the Deficit Financing of the question. Candidate Kennedy, re sponding to the national debt budget question, said it was extremely important to main tain a balanced budget-if pos sible! Kennedy said a great emergency of national secur ity or serious unemployment would warrant an unbalanced budget. It is the consensus, how ever, of those who have read the Democratic platform-not many, probably-that a great deal of unbalanced deficit spending is written into that platform's numerous prom ises. Candidate Kennedy stands four-square on the Democratic platform. So, how much promise is there from the Democrats or Republicans that inflation-breeding deficit spending will cease? Not mnch, is a reasonable answer to that question. Neither candidate came up to the question with a simple, unqualified answer. Neither, evidently, has any plan to re duce the national debt and to maintain a balanced budg et, else the possessor of such a plan would have mentioned it in response to a direct ques tion. People Don't Complain Candidate Nixon is an able and experienced politician. When he says that deficit spending would fan inflation consideration of the Supreme Court. Bill doesn't discuss my widely stated belief that a Member of Congress has a duty to inform himself first hand where . possible so that his decisions .can . be based firmly on the best facts, as well as other reasons for a different China policy. Bill's partisanship " causes him to lose whatever object ivity he did once possess with respect to politics. I did say that some (not all) American investors in Cuba did not de serve reparations because they greedily exploited the Cuban people, hand in hand with dictators like Batista, and had received many times their investment back in profits. Bill says he isn't going to question my patriotism but he goes right ahead to accuse me of appeasement and apolo gizing "for what we are" and of not having a "positive faith Jn American principles." He offers no evidence for such slurs, but I believe that it should be plain to any fair minded reader that Bill is working hard for the Repub lican candidate and with no concern for facts or the real issues. I suggest that he, as public relations man for my oppon ent, might do him more good if he helped him produce that "positive program" which he promised the voters earlier this year but which somehow has never been presented. Charles O. Porter, Member of Congress, Eugene, Ore. Summer's Dreams To the Editor: Beside my .chair outside the door So many little creatures pass, The lizards scuttle quickly by. They all go plop! upon the grass. A rotund squirrel ambles in. Though fat, he wiggles 'twixt my feet. Startled, both, we look sur prised; His cheek-pouch holds a winter's treat. A gentling shining hum mingbird Sits on a cactus by my arm. He rests from sucking pol len in, I gaze, amazed, at all his charm. , A croaking sound from out a tree. The frogs' noise comes from everywhere. Are they talking back and forth? Saying Winter's coming here? When the rain comes, I'll Kremlin for years, but was reconciled to an extent when Khrushchev came to nower There have been hot and cold moments in that relationship ever since, but to this day Tito remains more national, istic than any other Commu nist leader. The United States alone has poured .more than $2 bit. lion into Yugoslavia to keep Tito as a burr under the Moscow saddle. Tito has smiled, been charming and accepted everything giving little. and, ultimately, cause nation al bankruptcy, he means just that. Mdreover, he Is correct in his judgment, That should be ehough to alarm citizens, to send them milling into the streets shout' ing in protest against deficit spenders; shouting, like the Cuban mobs, "To the wall." If the citizens were sharp and alert, they would yearn to clobber candidate Nixon be cause he didn't say yes and he didn't say no to a question which, in his own judgment, relates directly to the nation al solvency. Sharp and alert citizens would yearn to clobber can didate Kennedy, also. He likes the big spending Democratic platform. He still is talking about unbalancing the budget to correct serious unemploy ment despite a years-long demonstration by Franklin D. Roosevelt that it won't work. What ended unemployment in the Roosevelt administration was World War II. There will be plenty of spending in the next admin istration, whoever wins. The big time spender would be a bolder, better patriot if he i would accompany his plat form and other promises to the welfare state pressure groups with a promise to lay on taxes to pay the bill. be missing Watching, listening, In my chair; Though it's empty through the winter, Summer's dream will still be there. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 2, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. Nominee's Humility To the Editor: An open let ter to all Democrats, and to all of the thinking, open minded people who will vote for our Democratic nominee this November: In your zeal and admira tion for our great Democratic standard bearer for President, John Kennedy, have you ever searched your mind and ask ed yourself what there is about this vital, outstanding young man that arouses the admiration and loyalty of all who meet or study him? In searching and asking my own mind these questions I came up with the word "hu mility." JAin Kennedy's hu mility is to me what lifts him head and shoulders above all the rest, and if he keeps this great characteristic, which I believe he will, it will always raise him above the average man.. I liked some of the other Democratic candidates before our Democratic convention, but they paled and had some thing lacking when one heard John Kennedy speak. When some of the senior Democratic advisers hurled charges of youth and inexperience ai him, did he stick his chin in j his collar and become in- j suited? He did not.' He replied, "I j would be glad to 'ask' him (or : her) for their help and advice in my campaign for presi dent." And after his triumph ant nomination for Democrat ic President, he has not once expected our senior advisers to come to him to give him their advice. He. has taken time out from his busy sched ule to go to them. And, I ven ture to say, that with all of the humility that is a part of his great nature, he has "asked" our senior advisers for their help and advice, and has had his mind open at all times to listen and learn from others' experience. So, without our necessarily being of any religious faith, let us as staunch loyal Demo crats pause a moment as we contemplate this fine young nominee of ours, and send out a thought of hope and faith that however far in this world his fate may send John Kennedy, no matter how great he may become, that he may always keep his greatest asset -his 'humility.' Pansy Hallock, Box 24, Takilma, Or.