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o THURSDJfy) JANUARY 12, 1961 QapflaaD fitVL '&1BUNE, BEDFORD, OREGON MedfordJSvTbibuni "Everyone in Southern Oregon Heads The Mll Trtbune Published Daily except Saturday b: MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir Su Ph SP ML4-1 BOBEiffW SDhl Editor HERB GREV Advmtiilnj Manafar GERA1.D T LATHAM DUB mar ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Editol EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telej Editor DirHinn iFwir'rr Sdotu Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON circulation rai An Independent Newspaper Entered at second clan matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Uy Mall - In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year 118 00 Dally and Sunday moi B on Dally and Sunday 3 moa Sunday Only One year H.20 By Carrier- In Advance Medioro Ashland. Central Point E a ale Point. 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Van Dyke of Medford to the board of higher education Thursday. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 12, 1941 (Sunday) Robert S. Farrcll Jr., a 34-year-old Multnomah county representative, defeated Rep William M. McAllister of Med ford, 33 to 27, in last night's Houbo caucus for speaker of that body. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "Who remembers when the favorite Sunday trick around here, was ' driving out to Eagle Point to get dinner, and their names In the 'Eaglets.'?" 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 12, 1931 (Sunday) Mrs. J. W. Lindsay of this city has reported that a rose is blooming on a bush In her yard. Architects have completed the final plans for the new high school. 40 YEARS AOO Jan. 12, 1921 (Wednesday) Four bootleggers were ar rested in Medford yesterday; one was selling the stuff from a cylinder fastened inside his clothing. A bill to reorganize the state fish and game commis sion has passed the legislative committee. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 12, 1910 (Thursday) The recent snowstorm in the valley has downed tele phone lines in both the city and the surrounding area, but emergency telephone repair men are repairing them ns fnst as they can. City police picked up a man who was lying on a downtown street last night and lodged him in Jail, assuming he was drunk. This morning, how ever, it was learned that the man had been beaten and rob bed and was not drunk at nil. Y!ir 1 0.? Nina ot tan cornel li superior: sevan oi eight It aicallanti 'Ive ai ill is aood. 1. Who was Booker T. Washington? 2. Who was taken to heaven in a fiery chariot? Complete the following, "A word to the wise ." 4. The characteristic o f suckling the young Is common to which kinds of crcHtures? 3, In what country did the buttle of St. Lo occur In World War II? 8. Which President of the U. S. hud a wife of the Roman Catholic faith, prior to the e 1 e c 1 1 o n of President-elect Kennedy? 7. Name the capital of Penn sylvania. 8. Was Jack London an English or an American au thor? 0. Name the English Prime Minister. 10. Which city of South America has the largest popu lation? Answers: oL Nolad Negro educator. 2. Ellaio3. '. . . Is sufficient." 4. Tha mammalia. 5. Franca. 8, John Tylar. 7. Harrliburg. 8. American, 9. Harold Macmlllan. 10, Butnot Aires, Argentina. i 513 "Getting Through " Over the years, newspapermen have a pretty good chance to watch young people in the process of growing up. As parents, and as reporters who chronicle the doings of students, Boy and Girl Scouts, 4H-ers, other youth groups, scholarship winners, athletes, and all the others, they get to see a lot of the positive, constructive activities in which young people engage. Also, as reporters, they get a look at the seamy side the "delinquent activities of boys and girls. And any reporter knows that the good out weighs the bad, by about 95 to 5. IN OBSERVING that 5 per cent which does gfet1 out of line, it is often found that they are in two categories : 1. Youngsters who, because of environmental factors, simply do not get the training, the dis cipline, the moral fiber, the self-control, to meas ure up to society's standards of behavior. 2. Young people with adequate backgrounds, but who, through some lack, some twist, some warping of the soul or defect of character, or by deliberate orneriness, make themselves problems to parents, friends, society at large and themselves. IT WAS the latter type that the editor of the Coos Bay World was addressing the other day, when he wrote an editorial motivated by some young people (presumably) who had shot and killed a number of snow geese placed in a local park some years ago by The editorial said: ' "It would bo a bit silly for us to scold you here. "Perhaps you now realize how cruel and stupid you were. "If you have not had such second thoughts by now, here's a warning for you and your parents: You may be the victim of a dangerous disease: a terrible men tal condition which leads you to destroy things, in cluding the lives of defenseless animals. This can lead to tragedy for you and those who love you. It is such a disease that leads to the destruction of hu man spirits-and human life ilself-by other men. "The same disease is present in the minds of those who break up a Christmas nativity display, steal the lights, destroy the Scout cabin. This is defiance of au thority and the desire to 'hurt' someone by destroying their property. It's just not quite as shocking as the slaughter of ducks and geese. "Who are you hurting? Yourselves. "These acts are not just signs of youthful high spirits. They are the first step on the road to tragedy. But it's not too late to turn around." e THE real difficulty worst headaches is not young people who are how to get through to them. There is a period in adolescence when the natural rebellions of youth make it almost im possible to communicate; turned to all admonitions; unbelief meets warnings of If, once, you can "get gone wrong; it you can battle is halt won. The attempt a good one to But when he persists course which inenvitably shrugs off advice and t r i -.-.,,. i iasnionea, or siuiiy men irouDie is going 10 ensue. E.A. Our County These columns have of county government over the past several years. So we have no kick coming when the county court "shoots back," as they did yesterday (see story on Page B-7 today). We just wish they'd read the editorial in ques tion before shooting back, however, for the com plaints, in large part, were about things they thought we said, rather than what we did say. We'll see what happens when fishing season opens at Howard Prairie lake. RE THAT as it may, and since the matter has " been brought up, let us say we once hoped that with three pleasant, intelligent, reasonable men on the court, it could be made into an effec tive agency of government. No longer. We now feel that the hope for progress, responsiveness, intelligent planning for the future, and a realistic view of the needs and demands of Jackson county residents lies in a complete overhaul of the county government. The county court, collectively, is a failure. For this we are inclined to blame the system more than the men, although they have compounded the administrative horror of multi-headed govern ment by inattention, loth argy, bickering, fear fullness of change, lack of aggressive leadership, and a marked tendency to delay doing anything until pushed into it, either by overwhelming pub lice pressure, or by afew small pressure groups. THE court lacks vision. It lacks energy. It lacks foresight. It lacks the capacity for leadership so necessary if things are going to get done. It seems to be operating on the theory that this is a sleepy little county off in the boondocks not a growing, vital, surging community of some 73,000 people, many of whom need more than delays, buck-passing and excuses in place of 4vigoroi and responsive and far-sighted, well-thought-out planning for the future. Judging by comments from a variety of sources, we re not the either. E.A. , the U. 6. wilclnre service. the one which causes so much how to treat on the wrong track, but when a deaf ear is when a stony look of consequences to come. through" to a youngster reason with him, the World s editorial is one "get through." in blindly following a will lead to trouble, and counsel as square, old- i 1. 1 ? a "Government ' been increasingly critical only ows that think so, BOX HAVE I GOT A BIS VAY IN FRONT O' MB '. I'M gohhh em xxs cAf3V'izssc&' ... Communications ... Letters to lh Editor must certain circumstances tha uia Tha Mail Tribune reserves lh condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not printed in this column do not contrary is often the case. Support and Faith To the Editor: The other day as I was talking to a high school student whom I know, the conversation got around lo politics, when I referred to the election that they had In their school which elected Nixon and Lodge. I casually asked how he thought the new president would be, and his reply was that he probably wouldn't be very good, be cause his position differed from that of President Eisen hower regarding the Laos sit uation. When I asked why he had such an opinion of a man that isn't even inaugu rated yet, he replied that It was what his teacher had told them in class the other day. This, to me, is alarming, when one takes into account that we live in a democracy based on the two party sys tem, that a person tries to ply his own philosophy on our young minds going to school, that will be the lead ers of our society in the fu ture. After all, Mr. Kennedy was elected by the people, by both the electoral and popu lar votes, no matter how slim the margin, and will be our next president of the United States. To say, therefore, that he is a poor president, or even imply such, before he is even in office, is in my opinion poor judgment, espe cially for a teacher who should be Impartial at least while teaching his students the fundamentals of democ racy. The students later in life will choose or adopt his or her own political philoso phy, according to circum stance or conditions. It also seems that we arc finding out that we are faced with a lot more serious condi tions than we were led to believe before the election by the opposition. It is unjust that a man who isn't even in office be subjected to criticism by some people when he is faced with overwhelming problems which he is trying to correct and do his best. It is also too bad that Mr. Kennedy will have all of these problems thrust upon him, that have built up over tne past few years, when he takes office. There fore, regardless of which party we belong to, we need as Americans to give this administration our full hearted support and faith, be cause never before In history has our groat country faced such troublesome times. E. L. Nelson Box 43, Klamath River, Calif. Tree Lift To the Editor: A great big "Thanks" lo the wonderful nimnln of Medford for their response lo the eighth annual Moose Christmas Tree Lift. You, the people of Medford, proved what most of us were aunt nf Hint von want to KEF.P SACRED HEART HOSPITAL OPEN. Your gen erosity made our lift the most successful of its history. In addition to thanking those who gave, I am wonder inn If nm nnnnlp who Had already taken down their trees, would like to give. Let s not slop now. Send your con tribution lo the Sacred Heart hospital - now. Donald W. Carlon Governor Medford Moose Lodge Flood To the Editor: The day of the big flood In Plncerville, I didn't climb into the attic with my arms loaded with piVs and pans, step on the lath, fnll through the plaster, roll down the stairway and fall i;0-suf?- down In a pile of po tatoes in a Super-Miirkct yust to answer the telephone. The telouhone wuzn'l downstairs, it . upstairs. 1 passed It on bear tha nam and address of of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible. right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the the way down. I went up into the attic to try to stop some of the leaks in the roof. I didn't stop the leaks In the roof, but Aye sure stopped der sqveaks in der shoes. Von dey told me that Trout Lake dam vent busted, Aye left der shoes in der potatoes und run like hell for der hills. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Inform the People To the Editor: Although many people do not realize it, we are, and have for many years been, engaged in a strange but nevertheless dead ly war in which the survival of our republic and the civili zation of the world are at stake. This was not our choos ing but we cannot escape it. Over one hundred years ago Karl Marx wrote the commu nist manifesto which is the heart of the communist creed. "Communists every where scorn to hide their views and aims. They openly declare that their purposes can only be achieved by the forcible over throw of the whole extant so cial order. Let the ruling classes tremble at the prospect of a communist revolution. Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, they have a world to win. Proleta rians of the world unite." Very little headway In car rying out this plan was made until 1017, when a small group of communists under Lenin and Trotsky seized con trol of Russia. Since then com munism with the backing of red Russia has spread until over 40 per cent of the world's population is under commu nist rule, and the remaining countries have been Infiltrated by the communists. The weapons used by our enemy are many and varied but probably the most success ful is the conquest of the minds of our youth. They pro duce a state of mind among many of our students where they are ready to defend com munist activities and Infiltra tion and are bitter toward tho agencies In our country that are exposing it. We face tho almost unbelievable situation where treason Is popular and patriotism is belittled and villlfied. The fact that the vast ma jority of those giving aid and comfort to the enemy are un witting dupes makes not the slightest difference as to the results. We have spent vast sums of money for defense but have neglected one of our most im portant defenses. Inform all our people of the communist plans and methods of conquest, which only work when we are unaware of what Is happening until it Is too late. Lyle Hartzcll Box 35 Florence, Ore, Sr. Foreign Aid To the Editor: I would like to call attention to an editorial in the M.T. of Jim. 6 by E. A. This editorial is in reply lo an editorial by a writer in another paper. The title Is. "It Docs Not Work." The topic is foreign aid. He has written a good edi torial, and if that is enough we would stop here, but to the layman there seems to be something lacking, and that is WHAT is the shooting about? The topic hinges on a conflict between the Haves and the Have Not peoples and nations throughout tho world. The Haves wish to retain what they' have and acquire more, and the Have Nots are not happy with that setup. Thereby hangs the bone of contention between "East" and "West." Tho East or Com munist powers are determined to have Iheir way about how the world is mnn-infd, andlhe Matter offacf yj..k$ YET ANOTHER PROBLEM Cambridge, Mass.-You might suppose that President-elect Kennedy's existing'collection of grave prob lems would content him. Most men would be sat- isfled, if not frighteped in to fits, by the early prospect of having to deal with Laos, Cuba, Aliop the Congo, the gold drain, and other such weighty matters. But Kennedy, it appears, is different. , At any rate, by his own whim and act, he has now created a new problem of ex treme gravity. Furthermore, this problem of protocol creat ed by Kennedy's decision to remain an active member of Harvard's Board of Over seers is in the toughest cate gory. It is the kind of prob lem you just have to live with, however difficult this may be. because only time is likely to provide a solution. The point is that whenever Kennedy goes to an Overseers the writer, although under exceed 400 words. Tha letters West or Capitalist powers are honor bound to retain the status quo, or things as they are. I may over simplify the matter but space counts, There is no right or wrong in the affair, it is a matter of desires. Ethics and morals have little consequence in the affair of nations because Might is Right and the victor takes the spoils and writes history. But as a rule an old horse or an old car is at a disadvan tage in a race. And the ship that sails with the tide of time and the winds of destiny will make better time than the ship or ships that are bucking the tide and tacking against the breeze. But to say that foreign aid "Does Not Work" is not telling the whole truth. The question is: Docs it work good enough to have a lasting effect in the affairs of nations and the march of change and pro gress? In the long haul, does our foreign aid help or hinder the Communists? Foreign- aid In China was a great help to the Red Chinese. While for eign aid does work for some one, the question arises: Are we Included in the deal? Does it work for us as a nation? Does it help our Capitalist system in this country? Does the flight of capital from the U. S. to foreign lands help this country? Does aid to in dustry in Japan, England, France, West Germany and all points cast build payrolls here at home? Foreign aid may work, but does it work for us? It is that thought that dis turbs the American taxpayer. Does not our foreign aid boomerang and damage us at home? Dan Smoot tells us that foreign aid is a Com munist gimmick. Everett Ack lin seems to have much the same idea. Walter Recce Galice rd. Merlin, Ore. Don't Delay To the Editor: Despite the fact that a cigarette tax was voted down, the state wants to put one on. So write your pro tests to the legislators right away before they do. Thirty cents a carton is too much. Don't delay, folks. B. M. Harper Route 3 Medford Appreciated Editorial To the Editor: Without doubt, your editorial of Jan 8 All Sorts of Tragedy is one of the finest articles ever written, at such a time on such a delicate subject. I hope your readers appreciated it. From the first it was my desire to write, but I knew so little of the true circum- stances. I felt I could not write intelligently. "The man suc cumbed to unnatural desires." Don't we all? Not on this same sin, but there are many other sins or unnatural de sires. "Affected the innocent families." How true, and how sorrowful we all, as neighbors, should be. Only by the grace of God, it might have been our family. It would seem to me the judge acted very wise ly. I see no place for criti cism. And your summation is excellent. I am clipping the whole article, It contains much valuable admonition which we all need in these trying times "Let him that thinketh he standcth take heed lest he fall" (1 Cor. 10:12). If we will study God's holy law, the ten commandments, the base of all our laws, we will find many places that we can succumb to unnatural de sires, and no doubt many places that e have succumb ed in the past. All sin is un natural to a child of God. All sin must he repented nf, firm- rl Ws wa . turn s Ml meeting after Inauguration day, there are going to be, not Just one, nor even just two, but three living, breath ing, ranking Presidents all toeether in the same hand some old room in Harvard's University Hall. And the Pres idency of the Board of Over seers and the Presidency of Harvard, having endured for more than three centuries, are both decidedly senior to the Presidency of the United States. N ALL such cases, as every one knows, seniority is al- way a weighty consideration. In - the Harvard case, local custom also has to be con sidered. Its nature is indicated by the story of the friend who asked for an appointment wun Abbott Lawrence Lowell, in the forgotten era when Lowell ruled Cambridge as President of Harvard and William How art Taft reigned, but did not exactly rule, as President of the United States. "I'm terribly sorry, sir, Lowell's secretary sadly told his friend, "President Lowell has gone to Washington today to call on Mr. Taft." One can argue, too, that President Devereux Josephs of the Board of Overseers has a claim to rank equally with President Nathan Pusey of Harvard. This is underlined whenever the Fellows of Har vard, who elect the President of Harvard, seek the permis sion of the Overseers before taking this fateful step. The Fellow deputed for the task, having been admitted to the Overseers' presence and hav ing bowed formally to the company, then addresses the President of the Board of Overseers as follows: "Mr.. President, the Fellows of Harvard request permission to proceed to the election of a President of Harvard." Tn MAKE matters worse, proper Boston and proper Cambridge have always been very title-conscious, and Wash ington has lately become title- conscious. The Excellency of the Governor of the Com monwealth of Massachusetts is by law established, although this Excellence is sometimes less discernible in practice. And the members of Harvard's Board of Overseers are always "honorable and reverend," al though a couple of centuries have passed since all Over seers were either reverend clergy or honorable members of the Great and General Court of the Bay Colony. Washington has not yet tak en to bandying "excellencies" about, but no doubt the time will come soon. Certainly the "honorable" has been gaining on us in a frightful way in these last decades. This was not always so. Even within the span of this reporter's memory, there was a time when due respect was paid to the resounding defeat of John Adams's titles-of-honor bill in the first Congress. Republican simplicity used to be the note. Twenty-five years ago, even members of the Cabinet were still "Mis ter." Some Congressmen al ready liked to be described as "honorable," at least on envelopes, but they were thought to be behaving - well, like Congressmen. riiODAY, on contrast, every--- body with the smallest of fice has become "honorable." American diplomats, once very fearful of undue claims to grandeur, are regularly ad dressed, nowadays, as "Am bassador Brown," "Ambassa dor Jones," or "Ambassador Robinson," as the case may be. And there is only one sur viving house in all of Wash ington where Senators con tinue to be plain "Mister" at the dinner table, as they al ways were for this Republic's first century and more of life. If this trend continues, Ad ams's titles-of-honor bill will perhaps be revived. If so, Har vard's problem will be solved. On Monday, to be sure, the Droblem was rather weakly ducked. When President Pu sey greeted President - elect Kennedy, each merely said to the other. "Glad to sec you. or used another feeble for mula of the same sort. But the problem cannot be ducked indefinitely; and if the Adams bill is successfully revived. Harvard s Overseers meetincs will be simpler af fairs. There will be only two Presidents, plus one "Supreme Mightiness'' - which was the title Adams proposed for the junior, While House-occupying member of the present trio. (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribuna Inc. fessed and overcome, "for the wages of sin is death" (Rom. 8:23.). In closing your editorial you say: "And sorriest of all that we live in a still-imperfect so ciety where such tragedies can still happen." To this I would like to say Amen. And may the Lord bless yoUcand your paper, you arc doing a good work. Such editorials arc in valu:le to your readers. F. E. BcviWly 634B Crater Lake ave. Medford i 'Colons' Realise Thev Are Now Alone By PHIL NEWSOM . UP Foreign News Analyst Algiers - (UPD - Slowly, but surely, it Is being borne in upon Algeria's rebellious "col ons" that now they stand alone. The week end referen dum giving P r e s 1 d cnt Charles de Gaulle a free hand to guide A 1 g e r i a to- Newsom wara eveniuai independence provided one proof. The French army here provided the final crushing proof. In mainland France, the ma jority of Frenchmen served notice on Algeria's European settlers that they were tired of the enormous cost of the Algerian war and wanted it settled on whatever terms De Gaulle arranged. Soldier Was Key Here in Algeria it was the French soldier who for more than six years had fought to keep Algeria French - who now reduced the angry set tlers to seething but helpless ... Today & Tomorrow By Walter QUIET DIPLOMACY There have been, as every one knows, some feelers from Moscow looking towards a re- sump tion of diplomatic in tercourse. For all practical purposes there has been none since last May. Mr. Khru shchev ap pears to want it to be thought here that the Lippmann break after the U-2 affair was a personal quarrel with Presi dent Eisenhower; this quarrel would automatically be laid aside with the inauguration of Mr. Kennedy. The U-2 quarrel can be laid aside. But it does not follow that President Eisen hower's venture in personal dinlomacy can be resumed. The question now is not how soon a personal meeting at the summit can be brought about. The fiasco last year, which ended in Paris but did not begin there, has taught us a lesson. If the kind of under standing which the world so badly needs is to become pos sible, it cannot be had with out far deeper study and preparation than have as yet been given to the problem. We know now that had Eisen hower and Khrushchev met at the summit in May, they would have been grossly un prepared to go beyond gen eraiities. THIS labor of study and preparation makes it nec essary to resort to quiet di plomacy and to slay away from spectacular actions. Thus last week Mr. Kennedy de nied the report that he was planning to send a special envoy, presumably Mr. Aver ell Harrimann, to Moscow to talk with Mr. Khrushchev. Obviously, he is quite aware that this would have messed up everything. It would have confirmed Mr. Khrushchev in his predilection for abnormal diplomatic procedure and in a most spectacular way it would have downgraded our Ambassador in Moscow. What the Kennedy admin istration needs if it is to have time for study and prepara tion Is to upgrade the American ambassador in Mos cow and the Soviet Ambassa dor in Washington. It is neces sary to resume the diplomatic intercourse which was sus pended last May. But it is Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF FORMER PRESIDENT Harry Truman likes to tell of the day, a year or so afler he left the White House, that ht went calling on a friend in New York and inadvertently rang the wrong door bell. The man who answered accepted his apology gra ciously enough, then did a double take, and ex claimed, "Say, did any body ever tell you you're the spitting Image of that oldblankety blank Harry Truman?" t A Carthage, Tex., candi date for constabls diatrib uted campaign circulara listing his qualifications ill this comparatively modest fashion: "Vote for Turk Charmless the bank rcter cati'et crsutaale i tha U.43Ju and the ftghtin'est, pound 'or goiaast, '. ar dry, (Fraswat yeagUyt 105 pounds)." They had to fir fine eld llghthoi:fc ktafctr th ar. yr He kent dousing tha lftit to watch TV. fury as he stood guard at tt voting booths to insure an or derly first step in De Gaulle's plan for an Algerian Algeria. The violence Is not over in Algeria. There will be other clashes between European and Moslem as Algeria, under the guidance of De Gaulle, grad ually loosens its ties with France and the settlers fight their desperate rear-guard ac tion to maintain things as they are. Climax in December Perhaps the election day quiet was not only because of the French troops. - In retro spect, it seems likely now that a climax was reached in De cember. Rioting European youths poured into the streets then in protest against De Gaulle's referendum call, and Moslems poured out of the Casbah to meet them. With' grim impartiality, tough French paratroops and others of the armed forces broke up the demonstrations and for the settlers the causa was lost. The first hurdle is past and as one young French adminis trator said; "Now we can get to work." Lippmann undesirable and impossible lo go back to Eisenhower's sum mitry. It follows that the two coun tries must cultivate the habit of talking to each other through their Embassies. These can, of course, be sup plemented by unofficial meet ings of experts like the ones held recently at Dartmouth and in Moscow. THE great task of quiet di plomacy is to work out ways and means of keeping the critical questions - Laos, The Congo, Algeria, Cuba -from reaching the point of irreparable decision. In these critical places we are particu larly involved in Laos and in Cuba, and in both places our immediate objective must be to avoid a sudden showdown. It sounds brave and dashing to say that we must take the lead and act decisively to solve the problems of Laos and of Cuba. But the fact is that these problems are, in the present state of the world, insoluble. There is no conceivable way in which Laos, which has two Communist states on its frontiers, which is a country of trackless jungles, can be made finally secure against infiltration and guerrilla fight ing. We cannot seal off Laos from the Communist states which it touches. And there is no conceivable way in which we can deal with Cas tro except lo contain him gradually with the growing collaboration of the other American states. We cannot exorcise the revolutionary spirit of Fidelism. 1)Y OPEN diplomacy, which " only too often means loud mouthed diplomacy, we can do little to assuage, indeed much lo exacerbate these crises. For then one side or the other has to back down if there is to be any accom modation. But in quiet diplo macy, there is no loss of face if a country backs away from an extreme position which has proved lo be untenable. For this reason, quiet diplo macy Is for the time being the hope of the world. Copyright 1961, New York Herald Tribune Inc. MORE OPEN London -(UPD- A news and cigarette stand undergoing re modeling, posted this sign on Its front door: "More open than usual." ' C l!t. by S.-nn'tt C"f- riKlriV'JlcJ by Kins rfatvjSjnikatf o ' 'o o o o 0 O 0 V
