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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. SmTPAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1960 ' 'Everyone in Southern Oregon R.idi The Mall Tribune" published Dally except SaturdayTTy 83 North Fit St., Ph 8P S-aMl " ShBKBI w" RUHL. Editor RKRB GREY Advertising Manager CiKUAi.L) i LA I HAM DUS mT ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnt Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor iTAnnv phipman Telee Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE EHllKSUN. uircuiawim roar An Inffnenrtent Newsoaner Bntered aa aecond class matter at juedtora, uregon. unner nci oi March 3. 1897 RimRCRTPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $11100 Dally and Sunday moa t 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 4.35 Sunday Only One year SS so f-nt-rl,- T Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv r Talent and an motor rOllteS Dally and Sunday 1 vear IIS 00 uaiiy ano sunaay i mo i-ow Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash lnAdvanci "official Paper of City of MedforJ Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire V P.LJTelephoto Newsplcturee "TrtEMBER OF'TTunfT BirREAtj- OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative! WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York. Chlcego. De troit. San FranolKCO. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAI SfsbCrHTlSW z) J J iniiruiiMiM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ol Tha Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1950 (Monday) A 14-man delegation head ed by Mayor Diamond Flynn is representing Medford today at the 25th annual League of Oregon cities convention In Portland. A large semi-trailer truck overturned near Ashland this morning when It hit a cow on the highway; the cow was killed. . , 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 13, 1940 (Wednesday) Rogue River National for est headquarters will be mov ed tomorrow from the Liberty building to new offices in the remodeled and enlarged fed eral building. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Aux iliary conches of OSC In t,heisc parts have defeated Stanford next Saturday, but both squads and schools will bull licadcdly go ahead and play the game." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 13, 1930 (Thursday) Nineteen hogs were butch ered at the annual commu nity hog-killing day In Pros pect. A public speaking class has been started at the local high school, 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1920 (Friday) A new Hope-Jones pipe or gan has been Installed at the Page theater. The city of Jacksonville Is making plans to celebrate the defeat of the courthouse trans fer proposal at the last elec tion. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1910 (Sunday) Literature will be dlstrib tiled nation-wide from here tjointinir out the fact that Hogue valley apples have captured t h e sweepstake prizes at both the Canadian National Annie show In Van. couver, B.C., and the National Apple Show at Spokane, Wash. The Grenter Medford club will hold an educational art exhibit at the new Natalor- ium Nov. 15 to 17. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct is superior! seven or eight Is excellent) live ei six is good. 1, What is a Gatling gun? 2. What President of the United Stales broke the prece dent forbidding the chief cxe- cutivc to leave the country while in office? 3. Of what two metals is bronze an alloy? 4. Which has the greater number of bones in its skele tal structure, an adult or a child? 5. From what plant is lioroin made? 6. Under what range of mountains is tile Simplon tunnel? 7. What American city was nearly destroyed by natural calamity in 1906? 8. What famous character In literature signed a contract with the devil? 9. What Instrument Is play ed by the "concert master" of a symphony orchestra? 10. What is the English name for Paternoster? .nswrsi 1. Early typt ma chin gun. 2. Woodrow Wll iw. . . Copper and tin. 4. Child. Some adult bones grow iogelher. 5. Opium poppy. 6. Alps; 64,971 it. long. 7. San Francisco. 8. Faust. 9. First violin. 10. Our Father - The Lord's Prayer. NATION A I vSTl Ia Religion and We hope we've heard issue," as it was present paign, for a while or is that President-Elect himself that this ghost will be laid. But religion as such will always be an issue in America, which is divided and sub-divided into hundreds of groups, attitude ana approach. In our view, this is one of the great strengths of the United States, its religion, but in politics of endeavor and thought. AN INTERESTING report last month told of UlVJm7t,10Hlj; no HOtVyU wi lytic tCl book of American Churches for 1961," published by the National Council 1 he lurures are. of course. aDnroximate. since church membership itself is subject to widely varying dennitions. but it indicated that, people are classified thus: Protestants (of about about 62,534,000. Catholics: 40,871,000. Jews: ,550,000. THIS brings those with some formal church a ffiliofiM-i nn f o frvfal rP oKr-nf 1 flQ m illjrir. What of the other 71 million or so Americans? Some of them, presumably, are children who have not yet reached the age of confirmation and church activity. Others may adhere to other beliefs Mohammedansim, Buddhism, and oth ers. But even then, the number of those without any religious affiliation, the "unchurched," to use an awkward phrase, comprises the largest single religious minority in America today. What of them? Are tians"? Or are they agnostics, atheists, or unbe lievers of other sorts.' have ho religious orientation at all? No one knows. The include religious beliefs in its list of questions, and from no other source can such information be obtained. A SURVEY of the "unchurched" in America fnrlair itmiili-l malra faapinaHntT anH wo VP- lieve significant, reading. It is the one huge and attitude which is mapped and undefined. America has loner "Christian nation." It undoubtedly is, in the main, and its cultural patterns Judeo-ChriBuan tradition. But how, and whether, and to what extent, some 00 or yu minion this orientation is something that no one can say. E.A. Arbitrary Ruling With two circuit court verdicts against it, the Oregon liquor control commission's controversial "25 per cent" rule is, at least for the time oemg, a dead issue. 'Which is fine. It was a mistake to begin with. Last Sept. 1 , the OLCC ruled that every estab lishment which serves derive a minimum of .25 per cent of its gross receipts from the sale of food. Several taverns were haled up for hearings, and the licenses of some of them were removed when it was shown they were, not adhering to the ruling. DUT in two separate cases which were taken to court, one in Coos county and one in Mult nomah county, the circuit judges ruled that the commission did not have enforce such a ruling. State law specifices that each liquor-by-the-drink establishment must serve food as part of its service which is a good, reasonable require ment. But the law set out no arbitrary percent ages. The legislature, m when the matter was done bv the commission. Its objectives may, perhaps, have been laud- 11. i- i .i A ......1. ! ' ...I..UI. 1 aoie. mil m eneci me creates an unjust situation for a large number of licensees. PRESUMABLY the commission felt that such a ruling would encourage temperance a worthy aim. But consider. In every community there are taverns which cater m Deonle who want a muck beer or drink after .. ....... work, and in which food of their business. If these are put out cent rule, their patrons else, and thus boost the percentage of liquor revenues at other establishments, thus subjecting them, in turn, to the loss of their licenses. We hold no particular brief for liquor licen sees, but as long as they ness, under state license, and m conformity with reasonable regulations, they should not be sub jected to capricious rulings which would make it impossible for them to operate. E.A. . . . Those who had time to look at TV election night tell us the announcers never once mentioned where they were getting all those reports from. And where do you sup pose? Mostly right from the newspapers, whose editors, reporters and thousands of especially-hired supplementary employees provided wire services with the only spot cover age of returns in the entire nation. Oregon Statesman. Non-Religion the last of the "religious in the late election cam forever. (Jur great hope Kennedy will so conduct each with a different diversity not only in and a dozen other fields of Uhurches. roughly, the American 226 different bodies) : they nominal "Chris Or are they people who U.S. census does not area of American belief almost completely, un prided itself as being a stem directly from the or its citizens concur in liquor by the drink must the power to make and fact, refused to do so under debate. Ihis was nue is unwumaum, itnu large part to working sales are a minor part of business by a 25 per simply will go somewhere operate a legitimate busi Dennis the 'Ito Morwaay her ao fa&io. Sue just CALLS m that. Matter of Fact y Joseph A STARTLING ESTIMATE Washington - There are all too many things to be said about the breathless and his- toric moment when the United States chose a new course. For instance there is at least one de cided advan tage in the narrow mar gin by which Senator Kennedy was elected to the presidency. It will strengthen Kennedys long- felt impulse to form a truly national administration. The chances are now very good indeed that at least one high post will be offered to the kind of national-minded Re publican typified by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon. Again, quite aside from this special bonus, one can also predict that the new Kennedy administration will set an ex acting standard of human quality. To be sure, the next sec retary of Defense is unlikely to be president of General Motors. But the most probable candidate, the little known chairman of the Citizens for Kennedy, Byron White, is a man of brilliant intellect, strong judgment, and great moral courage, who has worn his country s uniform with valor. He has, In short, all the qualifications which Charles E. Wilson so conspicuously lacked. YET again, there is the elec tion's proof of the political talent of Kennedy and all his tribe. Consider, for instance, the nationwide registration drive organized by Robert Kennedy. It was modelled on the 1952 registration drive in Massachusetts, also organized by Robert Kennedy at the age of 26. That time, 150,000 new Massachusetts Democrats were put on the rolls, and Kennedy's winning majority was half that number. This time, the new registrants were again essential. Or consider the other great practical factor in Kennedy's victory, his choice of Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate, which was so much criticized at first. In the out come, Lyndon Johnson not only performed magnificently in the campaign. In addition, his presence on the ticket meant the whole difference between triumph and disaster in the South. A truly national approach; a knack for discovering and using very able men; a great political talent - these quali ties of Kennedy's are reveal ed by the foregoing brief, dis connected notes. They are qualities of utmost value for any American President, YET Kennedy's possession of these qualities is only part of the answer to the central question. One still wants to Try and ill 1 1 iw If mm JOSEPH ALSOP -By BENNETT CERF- A WELL-LOVED MINISTER always placed his Sunday morninc sermon in his pulpit a half hour before the congregation assembled. A cna time and removed the last page of the manu script. The minister gave a fine rendering, as usual, of the sermon, till he reached the last page, which concluded, "So Adam said to Eve ..." Turning the page, he was dismayed to discover, of course, that there simply wasn't any more. He fumbled through the script, distractedly re Deatine. "So Adam said to Eve . . .," then added, very angrily and very distinctly, C&JUSWd appear Menace Alsop know what sort of man the American people have now chosen to lead this country and the free half of the world. This reporter's worst mis- judgments have always been on the optimistic side. That must be said as preface, be cause my estimate of the man we have chosen is so supreme ly optimistic. In brief, after nearly 30 years of political handicapping and 15 years of fairly close observation of John Fitzgerald Kennedy believe he is the only new po litical entrant in my time who has shown the promise of becoming a President of the first rank. One of the marks of the true masters of men is com plexity, and Kennedy Is in deed too complex to be neatly summed up, even on the evi dence of a decade and a half, One can only record some other obvious Kennedy quali ties. His mind, then, Is unusually richly furnished, and he has a sense of the moment in his tory that can best be compar ed to Theodore Roosevelt's. He detests cant, whether the fashionable, damp cant of the liberal left or the smug, self- righteous cant of the right. He observes the world, and himself as well, with an odd, detached, sardonic humor, Humorous style means much to him, and he is almost too afraid of anything that corny - this fear prevents him from showing his feelings in public, as a politician some times needs to do. TJE has strong feelings, none- iA theless. The deepest of them, I would guess, is a pas sionate feeling for the great ness of America, an intense sense of the high destiny of this nation. Next to this, there are his ambition, which is fierce, and his competitiveness, which is also fierce. But his priori ties are proven by the gamble he took, when he keyed his presidential cam paign to an honest description of America's real posture in the world, at a time of seem ingly unshakable national complacency. No one who put personal success above every thing else would have taken the gamble of challenging that complacency. In these last years, in truth we in America have reached a condition like the condition of Theodcn, the rich old king of the Mark of Rohan, in Tot kiens' saga of "The Lord of the Rings. As he did, we have grown self-indulgent and timid; and as he did, we have taken too much to hoping for the best without preparing for the worst. But a fresh breeze like the clean air that roused King Theoden is blowing in Amen ca now. And one now remem bers the cry at Theoden's awakening: "Hope there is still, if we can but stand un- conquered." (Copyright I960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Stop Me mischievous junior sneaked in w lea nussingr Communications Letters to in Editor must bear th nam and address of th writer, although under certain circumstances the us of pen nam or initial for publication is permissible. Th Mail Tribune reserves th right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. Th Utters printed in this column do not necessarily represent th views of th paper: in fact th contrary is often th case. Th Only Fair Tax To the Editor: As I have been a reader of the Medford Mail Tribune, yes, even sold it on the streets as a boy, for many, many years, I would like to send you this clipping from the Herald-Bulletin of Burley, Idaho. It is on the question of taxes, and I believe it to an swer some of the writers who have been writing in your Communications. Thank you and keep up the GOOD work of printing the news as you see it. Jean H. Neimoyer Jr., 736 West Lennox, Yreka, Calif. Editor's note: The clipping, from a communication in the Burley paper, follows: "After due consideration and much thought, I have at last decided that the type of taxation we need to solve our monetary problems, both per sonal and federal, is real sim ple. "Sales tax is the answer, everyone pays, and only on the money they spend. But- we have a small business, we would have to collect the taxes, keep books on it, and be responsible to the state for it. And we really spend a lot of money, maybe that isn't such a good Idea. "Property tax must be the one. Farmers have lots of land and almost everyone has prop. erty, and that way the cost would be spread over every one. But we own a business in town, ad our taxes are too high now, and any more along that line will really hurt us. So I guess I don't like that either. "Income tax, now there is a fair way to tax, our help takes more money home than we do, and they don't have the investment or the head ache that we do. We just hold the money out of their pay checks, and they never miss it. Of course, we do keep rec ords, pay Social Security on their wages, send records to the state every three months, and just generally it's a nui sance. And, besides, my hus band is a salesman and his in come would be taxed, and that isn't fair to us. "I guess that the only fair lax method Is the kind that taxes everyone but us, and I'm going to vote for the party that come up with a promise like that.') Mrs. Charles Twitchell Further "Musings" To the Editor: Your editori al "Musings" of Nov. 10 pretty well express my own reac tion to the election results, es pecially with regard to your three points on the Kennedy victory and the Puerto Rican voters' repudiation of "their bishops' ill-advised entry into politics." It would appear that many of my fellow-Protestants who followed the equally ill-advised counsel of their pastors could learn something of true Americanism from our fellow citizens of Puerto Rico. Let us hope that this lesson may be well learned - by those pas tors as well - by the time an other election rolls around. The actual performance in of fice which we can expect of President-elect Kennedy should go a long way to set at rest the ungrounded fears of SevareicTs By ERIC SEVAREID Tuesday n i g h t's drama wrung out the spectators as well as the principals. In the greyearly hours of Wed nesday, when these words are being writ ten, the spirit can hardly match the size of the event. So these words may be poor companions in the general parade. But all professional observers imag ine thcmslvcs addressing a new leader in person, and my own communication, in its bits and pieces, goes about like this: You have done an astound ing thing, considering that your face and name were ob scure until one night in the Chicago stockyards four years ago. But perhaps this is astounding only in traditional terms. Communication is in stant, now; instant reputations can meet the times. Anyway, the country has not responded to what you were, did or did not do in the past. In your case the country considered the past "a bucket of ashes." Your past record was no more than the record of a hundred oth ers. You were neither hero nor sage. The people have taken you at face value, voice value, first value; that is, those Protestants who voted against him on religious grounds. One further musing I should like to add to-yours. The de feat of Congressman Charles O. Porter is, in my opinion, a grievous loss to the nation as well as to the people of Ore gon. Throughout his two terms in Congress he proved him self an uncommonly able, courageous and devoted public servant . Although evidently highly respected here as physician and neighbor and not with out honor as a public servant himself, Dr. D u r n o-I felt stooped to some very unfortu nate mccarthyite slanders against Mr. Porter, quite un worthy of one aspiring to that high office. None of the false accusations leveled against Mr. Porter would stand up in any objective and honest re view of his record in Congress. Talk of "Mr. Porter's pre empting the duties of the ex ecutive branch of .govern ment" (an obvious reference to foreign affairs) is really rather silly. If he doesn't know it already (though surely he must be well aware of it), I would like to remind the good doctor that a Congressman's responsibilities are not re stricted to domestic affairs but very definitely embrace our foreign relations as well - in short, all that has to do with our country's welfare and se curity and peace and freedom for the whole world. We may count ourselves fortunate if our Congressman- elect will perform anywhere near as well on all counts dur ing his term in Washington as has our distinguished member from Eugene. Incidentally, how about our Republican Governor's pres ent trip to Argentina and Bra zil? I'm for it! Foreign af fairs are very much the con cern of everyone of us, in or out of public office. Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford Lest W Forget To the Editor: Since the election is now over, I would like to quote from Kipling's "Recessional," written at the height of England's fame and power,. (There is not a living man so perfect that he cannot be benefited.) "The tumult and the shout ing dics The captains and the kings depart Still stands thine ancient Sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet Lest we forget lest we forget." So in this spirit I wish to speak of a purely nonpolitical subject. Although the citizens of Jackson county now have the splendid new Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital, soon to be even larger, I believe that we will be doing our selves a sad disservice if we let the old Sacred Heart hos pital, operated by those de voted Sisters, "fade away", This is all aside from mere ly appreciation of their 50 years of splendid service. I am considering the fact that people of a free democracy Letter to the New Leader present value. We are the most contemporary of peo ples. Our youth is our oldest tradition, as Oscar Wilde said, and in that perfectly valid sense you are traditional and well rooted In the American soil and story. Like most political writers, I am a romantic at heart; be lief in heroes Is my secret vice. It has been bad form in recent years to reveal this particular vice. I hope you turn out to be a great man in the book sense, in the his tory professor's sense. But you have to arrange about that, yourself. Tuesday's vote didn't prove it. I hope you discour age press agents and quick book biographers who try to prove it a priori. They will make things harder for you in the long run. e e On lis face, the vote seems to say that half the country is against you. I don't think it is. You have too much thrust to be intimidated by the sta tistical result, anyway. A house divided statistically can stand. But it can't move un less you move it. On its face, the divided vote gives you no mandate. Forget about that. Lincoln was a minority president; so was Truman. What the statistical stalemate gives you is the wonderful chance to write your own mandate, and a whole Congress of your party persuasion is there to witness and endorse your signature. I roiriucsc (By M-T Staff Richard Todd, sixth grade reporter at Roosevelt school, gives us a hunting story. Here it is: We started up a ridge about 12:30 p.m. and about 2:30 p.m. we figured we were lost. We walked down hill awhile then we came to a creek with a trail leading up from it so we followed it for about a mile and it didn't go any where so we turned back. Then we followed the creek for quite a way. At last we came to a cave high in the rocks. We went up and spent the night. We were quite hungry but we lasted and we kept warm enough because we built a fire. About 8 a.m. we got up and started off again. We were headed for a logging road but at the bottom of the hill was another road and when we got to it we followed the road to a house and had a good breakfast. A man came and picked us up. I learned from my experi ence to always go down hill, don't think you're lost, and don't be sure of what direc tion you're going and to carry matches and food. The thing I didn't like about being lost is that I ended up with a bad case of poison oak and we didn t get a deer. . W hav received enve lopes addressed to th "Do- realize that ALL human in stitutions are benefited by competition. I hope and pray that means may be found so that both hospitals, each under its own management, can continue to serve our con stantly growing population. Horace W. Thompson 3642 Hilsinger rd. Medford. Phtttl . To the Editor: Ven ve vas driving der old Chalmer's taxicab around der Rogue River valley, dere vasn't any vhite stripes painted on der pavement. Ven ve seen a vhite 'stripe, it was alvays vun yenuine Svedish Pole-cat valking down der highvay in der moonlight, und ve tried to miss der skunk. Ven ve vould miss him too close, und he vould catch us vith der side-curtains down, den ve got someting to vorry about, und we vould telephone ve vould- not be home for a veek. Did you efer see vun vhite stripe go phttt, phttt, phttt und stink up der whole car? Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Th Right Man To the Editor: Politicians will long be talking about the closeness of the election, and trying to figure out where they might have done better. Most Republicans did not believe that Kennedy could win. If Nixon had won by the same close margin, the out come would have been con sidered a moral victory for Kennedy. The latter had to overcome Eisenhower's huge plurality in the previous ele tion, and his strenuous last- minute efforts on behalf of Nixon. The American electorate has always had the knack of electing the right man at a crucial time in our history. One feels proud to be an American. David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore. On the face of the divided vote, half the country wants to "move forward", as you have ' put in a manner that makes even the emptiest cliehes seem bursting with meaning, and the other half wants to sit where it is. This isn't quite true, eilher. Actually, the eounlry wants to, go somewhere, it lust doesn't know the adt'res; It has in mind. It knows it wnls something different b'lt doesn't know how to label it. You are in the position of the advertising man-you can "cre ate wants." A trial offer is all a President can give us, anyways - returnable after four years if not fully satis factory. I am persuaded that you are one of the men in politics, one of those who want posi tion in order to do something with power. Not one of the boys who want position in order to be something with title. So the place ought to be jumping for months to come. Covering Washington in re cent years has been a bit like covering an endless conven tion of certified public ac countants. Most of us have been turning out noiseless copy from our noiseless type writers. The exclamation mark key is rusty. Most of us will love to bang on it. praying the finger for that key hasn't totally atrophied. This isn't just our problem; and Contributors) It-Yourself" editor, in th past. They usually contain a publicity blurb about a book on "How To . . ." do this or that. But we were a bit punled th other day to receive an envelop ad dressed to th "Do-It Edi tor." Do what? e County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt was a half-hour late for a session of the county court not long ago. When he finally arrived to meet with his waiting col leagues, he was asked why he was late, and he said he'd been pheasant hunting. He re ported that he hiked all over the fields of his farm near Medford, and couldn't find a single bird. Giving up, he came into the house, and as the screen door slammed, two pheasants flew up out of the nearby shrubs. There was a paragraph In on of our school newt columns recently which we liked so wall we can't re sist repeating it her. It said, "Linda Casper brought a large sugar beat so that we could see how sugar looks before it is ' really sugar." e Back to Commissioner Wendt for a minute. What with all the fuss over bats with rabies, the county court, in a jocular mood, heard Chet reporting on the difficulty he has had getting rid of the bats in his barn. Whereupon they immediate ly appointed him Bat Control Officer for the county. Well, with dog control be ing voted down, we see no reason why we shouldn't have bat control, even though Com missioner Wendt attempted to decline the appointment. There is some talk of ask ing the district attorney's of fice for an opinion on wheth. er or not Chet can turn down an appointment duly made for the betterment of the com munity by the court, acting officially. When John Ragsdala re cently resumed operation of his cigar, candy and snack stand near th switchboard in the courthouse, wa heard it on good report that the switchboard operator was forced to give up her diet, because th didn't hav th will-power to swear off candy bars when they were so readily available. The election, as everyone knows, is now over, and every one is glad. Political bruises usually heal without too much fuss. There's one bruise, though, that we're not so sure about. Congressman Elect Durnd had a few brittle comments to make about the Mail Trib une on television the night before election, and we have wondered whether they were, in part, motivated by this: Our newest staff member, John Stafford, arrived at work during the heat of the campaign. He'd been here about two days when his tele phone rang, and a voice said "We have a 500 word state ment by Dr. Durno and won dered if you would use it in the Mail Tribune." Stafford, in all innocence, replied, "Who's Dr. Durno?" The woman promptly hung up. We can hardly blame her. But we can hardly blame John, either. unless you stir our glands, you aren't likely to stir the glands of the nation. Still, while you seem very young yourself, many of us are getting along and with age comes inconsistency as well as caution. So we want you to be impatient with many of the hideous, haggard problems still cluttering up the place; but we are also cT-aid of your impatience wlicn It comes to the explo sive problems like Berlin or China or Cuba. When we were a kid coun try we could blunder around. Now America has large feet and the yard is full of land mines. Hire at least a few scared worriers to help guard your mind, if not your body. It's strange how the world's image of America always be comes the Image of the single individual who sits in the White House. So you can't create a new image of Amer ica until your own image is completed. All we've got so far is the outline sketch. Be lieve me, a lot of us want to fill it in and we're reaching for our strongest, brightest colors. Water colors, right now, that will wash; but we're hoping we can switch to oils, worthy of being hung, one day, in all the best galleries at home and abroad, includ ing the Hall of Heroes. (Distributed 1960. by Th Hall Syndicate, Inc.) 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