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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY. "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mali Tribune" Published DalljTexcept Saturday bjr MEorunu rninjmw 33 North Fir St, Ph 8PJM141 nnnmr w RtTHL. Editor HERB GREY Adveltlilm Manifar GERAIJJ T LATHAM BUI Mir EBIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Edltoi EARL H ADAMS, City Editor nno furoulN ivltf Editor nin inn tirulVTT SnOftS EditOf OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Mto DALE EHUJKaun Jr"'" Bntered aa aecond class matter at . Medtord. ureaon. u"i" rw. ft.. 1 1RA7 ottDCDinrjnN RATES . US'..""1! -.'".A! EfB.'S Dally and Sunday mos B on roll and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 niv nnn wear 14.20 By Carrier-Iri Advance Medford A.hland Central Point Bail e Point. jacKsonvnic n," . 01 fihftrfv ....i .. .nntnr rniltei Lore, ivjhu" S nr.ii nri Rundav 1 vear Slant) Da'.lv and Sunday 1 mo I SO nrf n:, copy 100 All Terms Cash InJWyaiieir T"ffial Paper" iif city of MyatYira Oftirlal Papar ,CJ',", c.un,' , nnlted'PTe'ss International Pull Leased Wire U P.I Telephoto Kewsplcturea iTrarR-oTAOfjjT wnwAiT; OF CIRCULATIONS . Tee? in New York Chlca.o De. trolt. San Prnclco Loa Anele . Seattle. Portland St Louis At " . p"a Vnncuver B n 0" NEWS AM PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION N ATI O N At EDITORIAL flight o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40 and 50 veara ago. ' ::' ' 10 YEARS AGO ! Fob. 12, 19S1 (Monday) : Harry Watson, manager of the Mcdford hotel, today de nied a story printed in a Port land newspaper that the hotel has been sold to eastern lnter- :. Mark O. Hatfield, member of the Oregon house of repre sentatives and professor of political science at Willamette university, will be the speaker at the annual Lincoln day ban quet tomorrow. : 20 YEARS AGO r , ,j; : . Fob. 12, 1941 (Wednesday) '.-'. -: Three white female rabbits, innoculatcd -with hormones tor vnertmental nuTDOsea,' were stolen from their individual pens at the Community hospi tal last night. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudire Pot" column; VThe earthouake felt over a wide area of the county Sunday morn, was genuine. Local sci entists report the .Jar was loo light to have been caused by an: overloaded southbound fish truck, with trailer, hitting a bump In the Pacific highway." 30 YEARS AGO ! Fob'. 12, 1931 (Thursday) r : The lower house of the state legislature has passed "a free school books bill. ." A convicted slayer of an Ashland city policeman was placed in a death cell at the state prison today; he will hang April 3. 40 YEARS AGO Fob.- 12, 1921 (Saturday) ' ' Fire destroyed the former West Side Stables building on South Grape at., last night, and also destroyed 32 autos narked inside. Mcdford and Roseburg High schools battled to a 21 to 21 tie in a basketball g tme at the Natatorium last'night. SO YEARS AGO . , . Fb. 12, 1911 (Sunday) ' An Interstate Commerce commission hearing here on a netitlon by the city of Med- ford for lower rail freight rates to California points was concluded yesterday. : The Southern Oregon Auto Dealers association held meeting here yesterday to complete organization. V-i's Your I Q.7 Nina si tan correct it superior: stvan or eight Is excellent; five 01 tlx is good. 1. Complete the quotation, "Millions for defense, but not a cent for . 2. Did St. Paul ever go to Rome? - 3. Is Copenhagen the capita) of Norway, Denmark, or Swe den? ! 4. Harry S. Truman was the first U. S. President to veto a tax-reduction bill; true or false? 5. Graphology is the study of what? 6. Is coral a plant or animal, or stone? 7. Can salt water be made fresh? , 8. What does "Pan" stand for in Pan-American? 9. In baseball, which base is called the keystone sack? - 10. In what year did the late President Roosevelt declare the bank holiday? Answers: 1. ". . . tribute." 2. Yes. 3. Denmark. 4. True. S. Handwriting. 8. Animal. 7. Yes. 9. All. 9. Second. 10. 1933.- - ' 4. A - FEBRUARY 12. 1961 The Medical Care Plan President John Kennedy's proposal for medi cal care for the aged, tied in with the Social Security system, is being billed as a major advance in the nation's welfare services. ; If viewed in one light, however, it is a very small step indeed. If enacted (and it will face some rough going from the lobbies of American Medical Association, the U.S. Chamber of Com merce, the National Association of Manufactur ers, and others), it will still leave the United States far behind most other western nations in the provision of health services for their people. Canada, Great' Britain, West Germany, the Scandinavian countries all of them have far broader medical services than the U.S. proposal. PRESIDENT KENNEDY says the proposal is not "socialized medicine." This, of course, will be disputed. But he's right. What it is is a government-operated medi cal care insurance program for older folk." It fits in nicely with' Abraham Lincoln's defi nition of the role of government, which, he said, should do for the people what they cannot do, or do as well, for themselves. Only the facilities of the federal government, operating nationwide and equally everywhere, are adequate to support an equitable program. ONE of the objections that those now 65 and the backs of the other taxpayers. - In a sense this is true. The . program would be financed bv a modest increase in the amount of the Social Security payroll deduction. But it has to start somewhere. And the 14 plus million neonle who would be covered immedi ately are, by and large, for their own health care protection now. And. looked at another way, the increase in Social Security taxes is for coverage under the plan lor tnose wno win be covered in later years. MOBODY is saying so out loud right now, but ' it must be obvious that, if and when the medi cal care insurance program is enacted, it will be subject to later, broadening and improvement. This, actually, is one of the things the AM A fears and objects, to,, believing that it ultimately will trrow into something resembling . the British National Health Service, horror as "socialized medicine. Well, we too foresee grow and broaden. But ti. Jnnrt wnl- .1 example in Britain or anywhere else. It can De on an entirely auierepMaaia, uspigneu yuiciy w meet American needs and tlE'tL never convince " we think that thev handwriting on the 'wall,' and then adopt the ,1 nIna ttlf irnn rton'f If the medical profession, in a spirit of prog ressservice and cooperation, would work with the government in makine federal health services fit the best possible pattern; both for doctors and patients, they, would be doing the nation, and themselves, a big favor. ... But the present violent, blind, foot-dragging opposition and obstructionism will work to their own detriment in the long run. E.A. Whither Duncan? There could be a variety of reasons for it, but it seems to us that into the news a lot more during this session of the legislature than during the last one. As speaker of the house of representatives, and particularly as one by being elected for a second consecutive term, he is naturally a good source of news." ' ' " r But, .in addition' to the routine kind of news, he's also doing quite a throughout the state, and in entering the dispute between the Governor and Welfare Commission in the role of compromiser, mediator, and hear ing chairman, he took a he is successful, push his rUNCAN,has stated, categorically, that he is not planning to run for governor, or for congress. In this, he undoubtedly is telling the truth at the moment. He's busy trying to do a job in the house, to keep expenses down, and to get necessary legislation through the legislature speedily and in good shape. But the fact that he is "not a candidate" at the moment certainly doesn't bar him from be coming one later on, when he sees which way the wind is blowing. And being much in the news will not hinder the "name familiarity" so import ant to office seekers. SUCCESSFUL politicians (and we use the phrase in its true meaning, not in a derogatory sense) are, by the nature of things, opportunists. Duncan has been badly bitten by the political bug the desire to serve nis state and nation in public office and makes no bones about it. But for him to commit himself, now, to run for anything two years from now would be both silly and useless. Whatever his decision may be, he will be a formidable candidate. He has a rocklike integ rity, a canny Scots attitude of thriftiness in public expenditures, a gift of gab (which he sometimes finds difficult to turn off), keen intelligence, and absolute, tough-minded indepedence. His career will be watched with great inter est by partisans on joth sides of the fence. W A. which will be heard is over will be "riding on unable to afford to pay merely advance payment which they castigate in that the program will how it grows, and how w. Vwl rtrt QTli,' QvK'lf VQII? desires. ; our doctor friends, but ouem to recoe-nize the 1Y1 initl 'niYI Bob Duncan is getting who shattered precedent bit of public speaking bold step which could, if reputation even higher. . Dennis the 1 COULDN'T Si-EEf? SO I Matter of Fact TIDDLY WINKS WITH THE ESTIMATES Washington - The first bad bobble of the Kennedy admin istration has now occurred. In g talK, secretary of Defense Robert McNa mara gave a group of re porters -the Impres sion that the fa mous missile gap was Aliop mere myth. Stories to this effect were pub lished. Whereat the White House condemned the stories as "absolutely wrong." Behind this mystifying epi sode, there are two simple sets of facts. First, the Army and Navy have been pressing on Secretary McNamara all their customary arguments that a second-rate nuclear de terrent will be quite good enough - especially if the money saved on the deterrent is then invested in. the Army and Navy. And the new De fense Secretary has not yet quite decided that the Army Navy arguments are incorrect. Second and far more im portant, one of the last efforts of the outgoing Eisennower administration was yet anoth er game of tiddlywinks with the National Intelligence Esti mate. This favorite pastime produced the usual results. The United States was made to look stronger in compari son with the Soviet Union, by the easy and wonderfully in expensive expedient of down grading the national estimates of Soviet strength. N PARTICULAR, the esti mates of Soviet long range missile output, which former ly showed a 3-to-l Soviet lead in 1961, were fairly sharply downgraded. This was done on the ground that there was no evidence of "a crash pro gram." Ever since President Eisen hower suspended the U-2 over flights, the entire evidence available to the estimators has been what is public knowl edge; plus what can easily be faked to deceive expected lis teners, like Interceptible com municatlons; plus such data as agents and Intelligence of ficers may run across while ranging through the vast and secret spaces of the Soviet Union. , . Among th'e evidence pro cured by these means, the es timators found nothing to sug gest Intensified Soviet missile output. Furthermore, there was no available proof of ac tive construction of more than two Soviet missile-based com plexes, in Eastern Siberia Hence the forecasts of Soviet missile output were reduced for the second year in succes sion, on the same argument- trom-lnck-of-data that was used Inst time. . 17VEN SO, the revised esti- mates are not overly com- forting. As usual, they offer the defense planners a choice between minimum, medium and maximum figures. If the maximum figure happens to be right, the Soviets will have 600 long range ballistic mis siles with thermo-nuclear war heads In operational readi ness In 19G3. Unless existing programs are incrensed, the V. S. will have about 200 ICBMs in fir ing positions by the end of 1963. Hence the maximum fig ure in the revised estimate still gives the same Soviet 3 to-l lend tn missile power which was so cheerfully pre dicted by former Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy. in his testimony admitting the exist ence of a missile gap. Evident ly Secretary McNamara, in his talk with the reporters, had in mind the more cheering minimum or medium figures. All this needs to be under stood, It must be added, for the bleak reason that the whole system of preparing and using the estimates is close to insane. It is this system which has mouse-trapped Sec retary McNamara. Menace THOUGHT iO P&CTICB By Joseph Alsop The fault does not lie with the estimators, who are head ed by the able C. I. A. Direc tor Allen W. Dulles. They do their best with the data they have in hand. But they too are trapped in the system. Under the existing system, the persons who join in mak ing the estimates are wrong. For viciously partisan repre sentatives of the three armed services, each with their own special interest in each esti mate, are active participants in the process. rpHE character of the esti- mate is also wrong, at least when weapons of total destruction are in question. For in such cases, the pol icy-makers should request es timates of the most that it seems practicable for the So viets to do, rather than asking for guesses, however expert, as to what the Soviets are ac tually doing. And this is doub ly true when these guesses quite heavily depend on the argument - from - lack-of-data; and the place where data has not been obtained is the grim ly secretive Soviet Union. Finally, the use made of the estimate is the wrongest thing of all. For the degree of strength this country , needs should not be wholly deter mined by guesses of the ene my's strength. It should be determined by this country's ability to strengthen itself. An unbearable burden will al ways be placed on the estima tors, as long as guesses about the Soviet defense effort are used as the Eisenhower ad ministration used them, as rig id and absolute yardsticks for the American defense effort. Fortunately, there is signifi cant evidence that President Kennedy and his staff have been aroused to these danger ous defects in the system that mouse-trapped Secretary Mc Namara. The resulting bobble nas in tact produced the first order to study this system with a view to improvement. (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. !n the 'Jay's News ' By FRANK JENKINS Newspaper people are a curious lot. They like to know what Is going on. They NEED to know what is going on, for their job is to tell their readers what is happening in the world-and WHY. So thev tend to bring to their conven tions people who can tell them what they need to know. Among these interesting people is Jorge Zayas, whose Havana newspaper was taken away from him by Castro's henchmen because he refused to print ONLY what he was told to print, and NOTHING more. He told us about it. QUESTION: Will Castro's presently complete physical conquest of Cuba be PERMANENT? Not, Editor Zayns believes, if we make it flat and plain that the Monroe Doctrine means exactly what it says. He thinks that If actual, physi cal occupation of Cuba by communist military forces is prevented the Cuban people will take the situation into their own hands and throw Castro out. Military interven tion on our part, he thinks, would be a mistake. Instead, we should give Castro rope enough to hang himself. He told his hearers: "Every chance should be given Castro to try to prove his claims that he will turn Cuba into a communist para dise. This will give all Cubans and all the peoples of Latin America an opportunity to see for themselves the falsity of his promises." lDITOR Zayas hazarded an Interesting prediction -that when Castro finds he Is no longer able to control the growing resistance to him in Cuba he may attempt to seize the U.S. naval base at Ouan- MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Today & Tomorrow By Walter SOME DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS With notable exceptions the Kennedy diplomatic appoint ments have seemed to experi enced observ ers more con ventional and less ' distin guished than the domestic a p pointments There must be a number of i n t e r e sting reasons for this, not least among them that the field of choice has been much narrow er. Our foreign service has not yet recovered fully from the devastation of the McCar thy era and from the sacrific es imposed upon it and the fears engendered among it by the appeasement In the Dulles period of the radical extrem ists of the right. Furthermore, it has been quite normal and possible for the leading domestic appoint ees to have fruitful public careers outside the govern ment service. But there is not much, except to do some teaching and writing and to work for a foundation, which a man interested in foreign affairs can do when his party Is out of power. The President has been able to go into the law schools and the depart ments of government and eco nomics to find men with ex perience in public affairs who have enriched their . knowl edge while being out of office. Nevertheless, it must be said, that there are no fat cats selected for the big posts. mere are, nowever, one or more cases of personal favor itism, there are several cases of men chosen for one job to get them out of a more critical job.. But we do not yet know the full story of the Kennedy diplomatic appointments. For what is going to be done to staff the embassies at the sec ond and third levels will make very big difference in the end. fTHIS IS especially important in France. There is no dis guising the fact that in view of General de Gaulle's known distaste for the company of Generals, the choice of Gen eral Gavin is a strange one. But having just read the rele vant portions of General Ga vin's book, I can see why this appointment, unpromising at first glance, could possibly turn out to have been a good one. This is because the most critical issue in Franco-American affairs is to reach an un derstanding about how to modernize and reform the largely obsolescent strategical doctrine of NATO. General Gavin does not, I am told, speak much French, certainly not the kind of French which would enable him to negotiate in French with General de Gaulle. What is more, General de Gaulle, who can be amiable in Eng lish, is the kind of French tanamo as a last desperate ef fort to create an international incident that might enable him to blame Yankee "im perialism" for his failure to bring to the Cuban people the communist heaven on earth he had promised them. But Zayas thinks by that timeCuban disillusion withhis promises will have proceeded too far and U.S. defense of Guantanamo will not be mis understood. WHAT do we need most to do? Well, he thinks we need to REGAIN the confidence of Latin America. We once had it, he says. But it has been Suffering By ERIC SEVAREID An American felled in New York by Uie Asian flu brought from England, and obliged to afesstss-sssiiB write on a new and sul len typewrit er of Teutonic origin while semi - recum b e n t on a strange bed. is not possessed of the Power of P o s 1 tive Thinking. He nerareid is alien lo the new spirit in Washington, too weak to re treat across an Old Frontier, and ought to be made to post bond for ever paragraph as he goes along. This puts me. as accessory before the fact in this brash demonstration of "caveat emp tor," in a worse position than my broadcast colleague Win ston Burdett, who frowned deeply over his script just be fore he began an electronic emission. Asked the trouble, he replied, "It's just that I don't think I agree with any thing I've written." My trou ble is that I'm not sure I agree with anything I haven't even written yet. So consider yourself fro to switch your attention to$Mr. Lippmann lippmann man, the kind of literary Frenchman, who feels that the truth is best stated, perhaps can be stated only, with the precision and the elegance of the French language. Nevertheless, these two Generals have a common lan guage in that both possess what is so rare In the armed services, truly inquiring and original minds. Both are in siders in the military profes sion with brilliant military ex perience. But they are not conventional and conformists, and they are not over impress ed by the big brass. It is not impossible that between them they may work out for NATO that new military doctrine which it so sorely needs. But if General Gavin is to do what he is especially quali fied to do in Paris, the Em bassy will have to be greatly strengthened to handle other business. . PRE-EMINENT among the notably good appointments are those of Mr. David Bruce to London and Mr. George K e n n o n .to Belgrade. Mr. Bruce has been Ambassador to France, to Germany, and to the Coal and Steel Commu nity, and there is no other American with a comparable knowledge of the crucial prob lem of Europe. That problem is the schism of Western Eu rope between the Inner Six and the Outer Seven. The closing of that schism is a primary American interest in Europe, fully as important as, perhaps even more important than, the rejuvenation of NATO. The return of George Ken non brings back into govern ment service a most percep tive, learned, and distinguish ed mind.. It was a brilliant idea in the State Department to send Mr. Kennon to Yugo slavia. For there is no better place, not even in Moscow it self, to ' observe what is so very important and so little known - the foreign policy of the Soviet Union within the Communist orbit, with China of course, but also with the smaller Communist states. The choice of Kenneth Gal braith for India is excellent, provided he can be spared in Washington. And so too, it seems to me, is the choice of Ellsworth Bunker for Brazil. In Italy and in India, where he has served, he has been ex tremely sucessful in his quiet, old-fashioned, American way. Then, very high marks are deserved for the choice of Prof. Reischauer for Japan. For with his knowledge not only of the Japanese language but of Japanese history and culture, he should be able to make a kind of contact with the Japanese which has not been achieved by any of his predecessors. TVHE decision to keep Llewel lyn Thompson in Moscow and Walter Dowling in Bonn is, in view of all that is pend ing, a wise one. We have no more competent diplomat than shaken. It has been shaken, he thinks, by our preoccupa tion during the past several decades with the REST of the world and our relative neglect of our neighbors in the West ern Hemisphere. It is as if, he says, you suddenly lost inter est in your neighbors in your own biock, or your own town, and began to devote all your interest to PEOPLE ELSE WHERE. TT IS an interesting thought. In recent decades, we HAVE been paying a lot of attention to the rest of the world and comparatively lit tle attention to our close neighbors. Sevareid Warns About N.Y.C. Roscoe Drummond, whose single-minded conviction it is that there are two sides to every proposition except that one; or to Mr. Joseph Alsop, who now has precisely !' r kind of President, personnel and policies he has clamored for, but who will react soon er or later, I suspect, like the celebrated searcher for a shaggy dog. ("Not so DAMN shaggy.") Another First: I have just taken longer to say that I really don't have much to say than any man in recent news paper history, so 1 may as well say it, whatever it is. One thing is that the new effort to encourage foreign tourists to visit America should be geared up at once, and not only to help redress the dollar imbalance. The more I have investigated anti Americanism In Europe the clearer it has become that those who are most virulently anti-American are nearly al ways people who have never seen America, and 'that the most pro-American Europeans arc those who have visited or lived in America. By all means let us drop the visa requirements for nation als of those countries that do not require visas of us; let us drop the insulting qiiestion- IPOTLUClX " (By M-T Staff and Contributors) The other day there was an editorial on this page entitled "Who Represents Who?" This construction, frowned on by grammatical purists, drew a reproof from an old friend, L.G.W., as follows: Who Represents Who? I would not know. Would you? "To-whit, to-whit, to whoo," calls the owl from the old oak tree. Though he looks so wise, he knows no better; He speaks the lan guage of an owl. Who rep resents who? Maybe him represents he. When the editor drops that letter "m," Is he playing like an owl? O, tut, tut, why make a fuss? We ought to be ashamed of us. The chiding verse (?) was addressed lo the Potluck editor, who turned it over to the fellow that put the . headline on that editorial. . He looked at it for awhile, drew out an old-fashioned fountain pen, and scribbled furiously for a few mo ments. This is what he wrote: Who? Or Whom? The ques tions rise Like pall of doom before my eyes. , Whom or Who? The welkin rings With cries from outraged grammar-ings. . We search the rule books, high and low, Consult with references, also. We meet confusion twice compounded. Who or whom? is thrice dumbfounded. Some will give an iron rule, And he who misses is a fool. 1 Others say with expert grace, It doesn't matter, not a trace. ; The one I like above the rest - Gives each a choice; its one behest Is, "Follow usage," and be sure The one you use will never blur. Thompson, none more expert in the art of quiet diplomacy which the President and Sec retary Rusk believe in. The time will come, of course. when Thompson will be en titled to a change. Moscow is a hard post for an American, as Washington, no doubt, is a hard post for a Russian. The trouble with such an inventory as this one is that, in limiting it to the critical posts, it seems to cast a shad ow on all the others. That is not my intention. Moreover, there are a lot of appoint ments still to be made, and many of them will prove to be very Important. One of these, for example, could be that of William Attwood to Guinea. In making this choice the De partment of State acted with the kind of freshness of mind that is expected of the Ken nedy administration. For Mr. Attwood and his wife, who are entirely fluent in French, are young enough, adventurous enough, and yet from his wide journalistic ex perience is quite seasoned enough, to take a very inter esting gamble. The gamble is to see whether Sekou Toure, who is much involved with the Communists, is not at heart, if he is befriended and under stood, in the end and after all, an African nationalist, (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. naire provisions of the Mc Carren Act about the visitor's person-1! V'e. But lo avoid spoiling a good t ' ' -. g, the Sevareid Plan would go much further. It would use al Hhe new psycho logical arts, including sublim al motivation, to persuade foreign tourists that they don't really want to visit New York City. The hard core that re sist would then have to pass a means test proving that they possess oh, say, a hundred dollars a day in pocket money, and a psychiatric test to es tablish their level of resistance to noise, crowding, filth, in efficiency and insults. As these hardy Pilgrims em bark on plane or ship, charm ing stewardesses flashing Pep sodent smiles will hand each voyager an illustrated para phrase of Kipling. The Seva reid Plan hasn't perfected it yet, let alone submitted it to Harvard for official editing, but it will go something like this: - If you can stand, twenty pounds of traveler's clutter in your arms For forty-five overheated minutes in a line for passport check. Enjoy another hour in fruit less wait for the bag that nev er left London through htenan And so, friend L.G.W., You candid critic, tried and true, Be satisfied with Whom OR ' Who -And PLEASE don't lei it bother you. Modernistic, abstract art has baffled many people, who find they cannot see anything recognizable in such paintings. But not one young man we heard about recently. When confronted with an abstract painting, he looks at it searchingly, carefully turns it on its side, and declares, "It's God." There are hazards in all oc cupations, and even avoca tions. One of our news sources sent in a story about an or ganizational election the other day, and- told about the indi vidual who was elected direc tor for "the two year germ on the divisional board." And one of those bright young men who read the news on television reported the other day about a man who was "charged with illegal fishing in district court." Judge Sawyer should taka a dim view of this in light of the fact that he tries to run his court without getting things all slopped up. One would think that working in a library would be one of the least hazard ous of occupations. But there's a certain menial and emotional wear and tear there, too. Like the true story which came out of the Spokane library the other day. A call cams to the refer ence librarian. "W h e n is Roosevelt's birthday?" was the question. "Which Roosevelt?" ask ed the helpful librarian, "Franklin or Teddy?" "Yes," came the reply. "They are two different people." the librarian ex plained patiently. "Which one do you mean?" Came the answer: "The one that was President." Oh, well. Speaking of hazards inher ent in occupations, one of our young men declares that the squeek in the city editor's chair is driving him to dis traction. - . "It makes your cotton-pick-in' teeth feel as if they're pickin' cotton," he mopes. . Today is Abraham Lin-. coin's birthday, and we pay tribute to that great man. Today is also Race Rela tions Sunday, St. Valen tine's day is Tuesday, and Wednesday is Ash Wednes day. Friday is World Day of Prayer. We approve all of these. But it is also our duty to report that today is the open ing of National Beauty Salon Week, National Crime Preven tion Week, Negro History Week, National Defense Week and National Pimiento Week. (The latter two, incidental ly, run from Feb. 12 to 22 which is cheating. That's a week-and-a-half.) Nationally Advertised Brands Week starts the 15th (and runs until the 28th -What's the matter with those people - can't they count?), and Pickle Ways for Meatless Days runs from the 15th to April 2. So does It's Fish'n Seafood Time. Somehow, we find it a bit difficult to get terribly worked up about any of them. error. Relish zero weather while the swearing cop at the curb Lets empty cabs go and waits for new ones to form in line, If you can stumble into the butt-littered taxi that wel comes your frozen bones and laugh as the leering driver says, 'Gonna make it worth my while, Mac?' Pay a Manhattan messenger four dollars to go four blocks. A barber two dollars with tip for a ten minute, ragged trim, If you can slip into the first sweet sleep of night unmind ful of the siren's screech, Rise joyful to the pleasant sounds of trip hammer and hydraulic drill Having paid Western Union a dollar and some to wake you on the phone; If you can do and pay all this and not go screaming home, Why, welcome stranger, join our huddled masses yearning to be sane and sol vent; Little ol' New York is all for you - you've got what it takes, And New York will take it, never fear. (Distributed 1961 by The Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Reserved"