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4 A : MEDFORVTRIBUNI " "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi Tha Mall Tribune" Published Dally"except Saturday"bjr MEDPOHD PRINTING CO 33 NorthSt..Ph 8P6U1 ROBERT-W RUHC Editor HERB GREY AdvB-tUlna Manaer GERALD T LATHAM But Mr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnj BMIUM EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHJPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Id.lor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered as iecond class matter at Madford. Oreeon. under Act o March 3. 1807 cimcr'nrnTTfiN RATES Uy Mall In Advance. Cony lOo : Dally -no minaay i Dally and Sunday mos B on - niil and Sunday 8 mos s.aa e. ntv onlv nna year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Med'ord , A.hlonri Central Pont Raffle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. 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Both houses of the Oregon legislature next week will again mix into the contro versy over unrestricted sale of colored oleomargarine in Ore gon. 20 YEARS AGO ; March 3, 1941 (Monday) Claude C. Hockley, 62, PWA northwest administrator from October, 1937, to Sep tember, 1939, died at his home in Portland today. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A Uni versity of Oregon athlete lcip- cd 7 ft., one-inch, stralgnt up, He couldn't have done any better, if jabbed with a hatpin or angered by Roosevelt." 30 YEARS AGO March 3, 1931 (Tuesday) A general construc.ion con tract of $129,000 for the new Medford High school was let yesterday. Optimism over business conditions in the coming year are seen in "prosperity day," to be celebrated here next week. 40 YEARS AGO March 3. 1921 (Thursday) A fire at Gold Hill yester day destroyed a store and apartment building, a law of fice, a merchandise warehouse and the Comus theater. Work has started on the Medford Irrigation district's construction of 41) miles of new ditch and 300 to 400 miles of laterals. SO YEARS AGO March 3. 1911 (Friday) A man was arrested for speeding 35 miles per hour on Main si. yesterday and was uncd $5 despite his plea that his car can't go that fast. More than 5,000 letters and 25,000 pieces of Commercial club literature have been sent out by local residents in sn effort to attract easterners to the Rogue valley. Mat's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct It suaariori liven ot (tight il iceilenti five t lis is good. i; Who Is the United Slates treasurer? 2. In addition to mileage al lowances, U. S. Congressmen also receive extra pay when they attend special, sessions; truo or false? 3. It is, or is not "correct" to cat artichokes with the fingers? 4. How Is the humming sound produced by a bee? 9. According to Paul, what are the abiding virtues? 6. The so-called Century plant blooms only once in every century; true or false? 7. Do stalactites or stalag mites form on the roof of limestone caves? - B. What is the number of the prohibition amendment to the U. S. Constitution? 9. What Is the salary of the President of the United States? 10. What is concrete usual ly reinforced with? Answers: 1. Mrs, Elliabtlh R. Smith. 2. Falsa. 3. li is. 4. Vibration of wings. S. Faith, hop and charily. 6. Falsa. 7. Stalactites. 8. Eigh fo.nlh. 9. $100,000 a year. 10. Slael XMe t FRIDAY, MARCH 3. 1961 Varieties of Education Over the years considerable wordage in this snace has been devoted to education, its prob lems, its successes and levels, elementary, high school, at the college ana university level, and in graduate work. Education, we devoutly believe, is the single most important facet of life today, providing the basis for all our future. We must have a literate, knowledgeable citi zenry, able to make the life and deatn decisions which face us. And it is even more vital to us be cause we live in a country which (thank God) is governed by consent of the governed, with the ultimate and the basic decisions being made by the electorate. NO SINGLE phase of education can be set aside nnd fai'Wi nr mrwa imnni'f out fVmw fVin ftfVlDIC auu ti ujcu juui c iiiiuui iiv bum wit wvivi u. In the early grades, skills reading and writing and figuring, the les sons of social intercourse, and the attitudes and habits which will be with them the rest of then-lives. In the middle grades, school, they expand on out for the backeround successful, worthwhile learn some of the details surroundings, of our society. And in college and these, still further expanding the background skills, knowledge and attitude, and at the same time obtaining more detailed grounding in what Will UK lUCU 11XC S WUlft.. ""THERE is, however, a gap a major one in 1 this continuity which is provided for able young people. It was put in perspective the other day in a United Press International article by Louis Cas sels, one of the very best of UPI's reporters, when he said: "But very little national concern has been expend ed on the boys and girls who don't go to college not because they lack money, not because they can't find room, but simply because they aren't blessed with the academic ability necessary to do college work." There are more of these young people in this nation than there are those who are able to bene fit by college work. And in them lies a vast po tential for good good for themselves and their families, good for their communities, good for the state and nation and world. "TOO often this potential good is ignored, or, at best, merely nodded at. In some cases, active, aggressive steps are being taken to give these young people the sort of training from which they, ana the larger com munity, can benefit. , But the effort is neither widespread enough, nor in sufficient depth. A start has been made in some areas to provide adequate vocational training, adequate counseling, work-study pro grams and the like. But more must be done to focus the attention of society itself, and of those charged with educational responsibility, on the potential. THERE is, of course, 1 IClly VV 111 lb WOlf iU JLJ John Gardner, president of the Carnegie Cor poration, who has made a study of this problem and who is quoted in this : "It would be an added expense to the schools, but not necessarily to society as a whole. Young people who fall to get Jobs or who become juvenile delin quents arc a costly burden on the whole community, and every boy or girl whose abilities arc not developed is a loss to society. "II is better to spend money preventing such out comes than to spend it later picking up the pieces." IT BOILS down to this question: "Shall we spend our and guiding young people into worthwhile, wholesome, productive lives? Or shall we spend : ... ,l i i : i j ....? it, uu juveinit! uuiA-iiuun iiumusg jaiis ana prisons, police forces, and welfare relief?" There is, in each human born on earth, a po- nnli'..1 J. .. ... . ,1 .. 1 i .' . 1 t 1 HTl 1. iLMHuu iui j;uuti auu u juiciumi mi oaci. vvnicn potential will triumph is a matter of utmost con cern lor us all. Gardner adds: "The root of the difficulty Is our bid habit of assum. Ing that the only meaningful life is the 'successful' life, defining success in terms of high personal attain ment in the world's eyes , . . Human dignity and worth should be assessed only In terms of those quali ties of mind and spirit that are within tht reach of every human being." QUR nation was founded on the premise that "'each person should have an equal opportun ity- . . This is denied in our day in many ways. One of the most sitrnificant is in the denial of opportunity for those worth as a human beirg is just as great as any one else's, despite color or race or educational background, or social milieu, or academic ability. In erasing this denial we need to pay far more attention than we do at present to the oppor tunities which society can provide to those vounir Eeople who may not meet the requirements to econie doctors or lawyers or scientists, but who do have the potential to good workers, productive and constructive mem bers of society in a hundred different ways. eV I its failures, and at all youngsters get the basic junior and senior high these and begin to reach of knowledge needed bv citizens. They begin to of our heritage, of our university, they build on the age-old question OUV.ll IUU I the Cassels article, says money buildincr schools. social framework to- citizens whose essential become eood citizens. Dennis the Menace 'SOME OWNER! THrJEB TWNSS THAT ARE (3000 FOR US. AN' ONLY CN THINS WB REAlLyM ...Communications ... Latleri lo lht Editor must btar in nam and addrest of tha writar, although under ctrlain circumstances tha use of a pan nam or initial for publication is parmissibl. Tha Mail Trlbuna reserves tha right lo adit all laltars with a viaw to clariilcaiion and condensation. Laltars submitted for publication must not axcaad 400 words. Tha Utters printed in this column do not nacassarily rapraitnt the views of tha piparj in fact tha contrary ts c-tten tha cat. "Operation Abolition" To the Editor: It may be well to call attention of your over-zealous s u p e r-patriots who have written you in de fense of the House Un-Amer ican Activities Committee's un-American film, "Operation Abolition" that an investiga tor for the H.U.A.C. has ad mitted that this film contains inaccuracies and distortions, as evidenced by the following quotation from an editorial in the Feb. 1 issue of the coun try's most outstanding unde nominational weekly, "The Christian Century:" "The brief, monthly publi cation of the Illinois division of the American Civil Lib erties Union, reports in its January issue an interesting conversation between Burton White of the University of California faculty and Wil liam Wheeler, an investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee. In a TV debate White tried to point out some of the distortions in the film 'Operation Abolition.' Wheeler said, 'What are you trying to prove by this? White replied, 'That the film has inaccuracies and distor tions. Wheeler then said, 'I've admitted that.' "For what purpose does H.U.A.C. circulate a film which one of its own investi gators admits has been doc tored? Toward what end it is sacrificing truth for propa ganda? The film's thesis is that all efforts to abolish H.U.A.C. are communist-Inspired. This, then, must be the end for which the committee is willing to distort the facts and misrepresent as communist-influenced the students who last May in San Fran cisco disapproved of the com mittce and its works. . "American citizens have the right to criticize their gov ernment and to protest any of its actions; no officer, branch or committee of government from the President and the Supreme Court on down to the sacrosanct. Before this de ceptive film was produced, the methods used by the H.U.A.C. to perpetuate its ex istence had convinced the 'Washington Post,' the 'New York Times,' the 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch,' the American Civil Liberties Union and this paper that the committee should be abolished. The clr dilation of 'Operation Aboli' tion,' which is now reported to exceed 2,000 copies, con firms our opinion." To which this writer would add an emphatic Ditto and a fervent Amen. Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford Editor's note: Hopes to abol Ish the committee, or even to curtail its activities, have come to naught, at least for this session of Congress. The committee was reinstated, and its requested appropriation of $331,000 was approved by the House yesterday, with only a handful of Representa tives voting no. Th Musa Strlkts Gold Hill Again To the Editor: Willi apolo gies to Gold Hill Billy 1 sub mit these few verses (?): Here's a silly little dittv All about our Cold Hill City; Not as clever as Gold Hill Billy So I'll sign it Gold Hill Lilly. There is beauty all around. Up above and on the around. The hills are dressed In lovely nucs With the sky of different blues. But we have our problems, too, Just as other peoples do. And we want the people here To wake tipl Stand up! Give a Our city is among the old, Once named for a hill of gold, So why not start in findln' clues To help it lose the civic bluet? We have air pollution now, This is nothing new some how, But the big-wigs like to claim There is somethin' else to blame. This white stuff both high 'n' low Cannot be God's own true snow. And we've learned with much disgust We're not to blame the ce ment dust. Then there's the odor on a day When the wind comes down our way. Ohl Hold yer nose and dare not breathe, Or you'll find there's no re prieve. In the autumn, eatin' turkey, We find the water awful murky, Ugh! We can't stand chlorine's taste, And the settlin' that is waste. There are many people here, Some of them enjoy their beer, Others play a different game, But I won't tell you it's name. All the people here are good, They'd be better if they could, But their need is not a chair, But start in lettin' down their hair. Some of them are in a rut Cause they never leave their hut. They should get into the groove To see what they can help improve. Now this little ditty's ended You know I could not have pretended . To be as clever as Gold Hill Billy, So now I'll stop this beln' . silly. This is to be sung "more or less" to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". I may never be able to write another poem such as this and I imagine some are hoping I never will. It's my first attempt but it Just rolled right off this pen so i can't be blamed. Gold Hill Lilly Gold Hill, Ore. "Winama"-Yes To the Editor: Truly a good name for the new National Forest from the Klamath In dian Reservation and adjacent lands, memoralizlng a good and noble character. Protect ing and conserving forests sacred to American Indians should please the Klamath and Modoc people. Wlnema's life was Indeed romantic, -.stinctivc, historic. Every high school student should read A. B. Meacham's book, "Wigwam and War path." He was the man whose scalp and life Winema saved at the Modoc massacre. Meacham devoted the rest of his life to promoting better understanding and humMne treatment of American In dians by palefaces. Needless cruelty, bloodshed and hate would have been avoided and white man's standing now on all this planet far better had Winema s counsel been heed ed. Winema. also called "To- bey" - "Woman-Chief-of-the- Bravc-Heart," and Captain Jack. Kirntcpoos, young son of the slaughtered Chief In the V right massacre on Lost River, were cousins - full- blooded Modoca, who still wanted to live in beace. They showed a real spirit of intent tor "free enterprise, co existence, as compared with white man's greed and gloat " stUuutex h th mod MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Red China Into Economics; Famine Aid Said Lacking By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Red China's irritation with the Soviet Union now is re- Dorted to have extended from jSfSBs the political SM iieia 10 me iM econom 1 have t two been openly at odds over interpre tation of Com m u n i s t doc trine since the Red "summit' Newsom meeting in Moscow last fall. That was the meeting at which Niklta Khrushchev's "co-existence" theme won out over Red China's demands for a hard line against the West. Reports from behind the Iron Curtain insist that time has not healed the breach despite demonstrations of friendship Now the Chinese are re ported irritated because of So viet failure to offer more aid to help them overcome near powerful, still whiteman's am bition. Many American Indian wo man, like Pocahontas, Sara Wlnnemucca, Sacajawea, Wi- nema were uncrowned Queens. Chiefs Sequoia, Os ceola, Little Turtle (mutual close friend of George Wash ington's), Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Captain Jack, et al showed superior human qual ities in many ways, and out generaled white big brass time and again. Only by far greater numbers and more powerful war machinery did white man crush a weaker, home-loving, courageous people-in their own "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave." Ever consider what a dif ferent land this Continent might be now-what a differ ent world if white invaders had absorbed and been ab sorbed by the American In dians .nd the good in both aeveloped, instead of white savages trying to exterminate the Redman and exploiting, wasting and destroying Amer ica s God-given abundances? Think 11 over. John E. Cribble , 139 Kenwood ave. Medford Ont Down . . To the Editor: One down and 1,799,999 to go. What sort of unthinking, sniveling person is this Mr. Sandwick that would hand out an ulti matum, "give us help or give us Communism." If he is an American citizen, he is cer tainly unworthy of any of its vast privileges. He reminds me of another who sold his birthright for a mess of pot tage. Now look, Mr. Sandwick, why don't you Just catch the next ship for Russia? There Is always an opening in the salt mines. .We pay about 50c ior the garbage truck to pick up our garbage. I am in favor of letting my garbage go for a week and starting a fund Yes sir, if others would do this over the state we could pay this man's fare to Russia. I have been out of work a couple of months without un employment benefits and If I end up in a lean-to on a moun tain side, this is my country, my flag and my responsibil ity, and I prefer America without any qualifications to communism. There are still millions who have not bowed their knee to Baal. We may not be as noisy as the commies but we are here and determined to stay free. Andrew Slack Route 2, Box 671 Central Point, Ore. Stupendous Fraud To the Editor: The so-called "three-way workmen's com pensation bill" presently be fore the upper house of the Oregon Legislature is one of the most stupendous frauds ever attempted on the people of the state. In Oregon, the cost of In dustrial Accident compensa tion is paid by the employers of labor and from the record of 1947 to 1957 there was paid Into the fund $161 million. Of this sum 93 cents of each dol lar was prid out in compensa tion or medical care, 7 cents being the cost of administra tion. Ninety-six private stock companies filed insurance ex pense exhibits in 1959 with the New York Insurance de partment. Their losses, ac cording to their reports, amounted to 65.7 per cent of premium dollars, leaving 34.3 per cent for the cost of administration. Mr. Gerald Mendl, lobbyist for the Associated Oregon In dustries, said, among other things, that the "key objec tive" of the three-way plan is not to compensate injured marli -, hut 1 eravanl in - Russian Split Now Extending famine conditions brought on by last summer's severe drought. No Soviet Cash There is no sign that Rus sia it helping to foot the high dollar bill for Peiping's vast grain purchases in the capital ist West. Nor it there any sign that Russia it sending any more supplies to Red China beyond those agreed upon un der mutual trade arrange ments. Red China hat placed or ders abroad for more than two million tons of wheat, chiefly from Australia and Canada. Grain orders also have been placed with France Political Genius Needed In Handling NAACP's Demands By LYLE C. WILSON Washington IUPD - President Kennedy's genius for politict will find a major test just around the corner. If he listens carefully, the the President can hear some thunder o n the left. This thunder orlg inates among Negroes and the leaders of organized lab or. They are p r o t e s t Ing what they re gard as the Kennedy admin istration's failure to do do enough fast enough A National Association for the Advancement of Colored People official sounded off this week in Baltimore. Clar ence Mitchell, director of the NAACP Washington ollice, said: "To date the new adminis tration, which made so many promises in the party plat- dustrial accidents, which seems intentionally confusing and contradictory since the three-way law would, in all probability, bring more than 100 companies into Oregon to share in the profits, and in so doing would make a unified rehabilitation program virtu ally impossible. Mr. S. Bruce Black, chair man of the Board of Liberty Mutual, speaking on the sub ject of rehabilitation of in jured workers, said in port- land on Sept. 13, 1960, A good case in point is the State Industrial Accident Commis sion of Oregon, which among its activities-, operates its own rehabilitation center, a re spected institution, and one of the few of its kind under tne administration of State Insur ance funds". Obviously the "key objec tive" of the so-called three- way bill is the profits of the private insurance companies without regard to who is in jured thereby. It is not al ways that the interests of the employers and the employees are identical, but this seems to be a case in point. If this bill becomes law the indus trial accident program will either pay the injured work men less, or cost the employ ers of Oregon more. Now is the time to protest this impo sition before it passes eithe house of the Legislature. D. Ivan Frltts 794 Fortner Lane Ontario, Ore. In Pure Desparatlon To the Editor: I really don't know if this will help any, but in pure desperation 1 must again appeal to those people who share our 10-party telephone line, please, for hu manity s sake, to use a little consideration for the other nine of us. When you tie up this line in long gab-sessions, or al low your teenagers to do so, you are seriously hindering the rest of us from making necessary calls or from re ceiving long distance calls. For instance, my husband was on his way home from a Far East post, and tried to make an emergency call here. from Guam, from Honolulu, from San Francisco, and in between. He was in Weed Calif., before he got the call mrougn, because of the "yack- Ing people" on this 10-party Talbot line. I gues you know his feelings toward the people who would use so little consideration. To day I have been trying for 2Vj hours to make a business call, and as yet cannot get the line free of talkers. As much as I, myself, like to visit with friends, I seldom ever use my phone except for business reasons, out of con sideration for the other nine subscribers, and I do appeal to you people in "desperate sincerity" to use the same amount of consideration, so that we may all use the privi leges that we pay for-a line to use when we most need It. Whether you people realize it or not, we are privileged and lucky even to have our phones, and we could very easily lose that privilege by abusing it, as there are a goodly number of people In In vftiiiat for these phones. and negotiations are under way to buy 180,000 tons of corn from Argentina. All these put a severe strain on Peiping's limited dollar and sterling reserves. Coupled with these difficul ties is the fact that Red China it continuing the struggle to hold her allies in the ideologi cal struggle with the Soviet Union and to win new friends, notably in Africa. Regardless of hunger at home, she is helping some of the African nations and Al bania financially and econom ically. She also will try to meet barter commitments call ing for shipment of large form and during the cam paign, has not issued a single executive order protesting civil rights and has not pro posed a single civil rights bill as part of its 'must' pro grams." Action in the Works There is reason to believe that the President is hearing some of that thunder on the left. At any rate, he told his news conference Wednesday that he hopes "in the next few days" to issue an executive order aimed at breaking down racial discrimination in em ployment. He said his admin istration also is studying how it might strengthen safe guards for civil rights in other fields, such as housing and education. The AFL-CIO high com mand has complained that the administration was not doing enough to employ the jobless and to' boost the nation's economy. Labor recognizes consider able right wing resistance in Congress to Kennedy pro grams on their own and other Washington Report By WILLIAM DEAD STEREOTYPES Washington - One hardy stereotype - the cliche that "the wild-eyed professors would surely be the first to embarrass President Kennedy -is dead be fore the ad ministration is two months in office. Jt just has not been so. Another equally hardy stereotype was that, anyhow White tne rresiaem would be saved from profes sorial folly by the profession al politicians in his shop. The pros on the whole have done well. But there Is one glaring exception-though this corre spondent, as a pro-politician writer who has held the live liest suspicion of . academics in public life, regrets he must report it. The one official of the Ken nedy administration who has thus ftr plainly embarrassed it is t professional politician former Gov. G. Mennen Wil liams of Michigan. Williams' behavior in his current Afri can tour, as assistant secretary of state for African affairs has been almost incredibly ir responsible. TN h THAT tragically cm- broiled continent, where any official has the plainest duty to walk with care, he has gone about on a dema gogues holiday. It is as though he saw the whole prob lem as crudely simple as try ing to catch negro votes in Detroit. He has offended our maior allies, notably Britain, by passing harsh, off-the-cuff judgments on matters neither who will appreciate them. and avoid abusing such a con venience. Please use discretion, and don't tie up the line. There is a definite 5-minute limit on calls, and If you will re member that, it would cer tainly be appreciated by the other subscribers, who arc waiting to make or receive a necessary call. Thank you. Mary Williams Central Point, Ore. Talented Mankind To the Editor: The crickets chirp with their hind legs. Men do as well: For though their legs refuse to chirp, Their feet can smell! Jack Find 3710 Hllslnger rd. Medford Thanks tor Blood To the Editor: I wish to thank everyone who donated blood in my name on Feb. 14. Ora Mevlg Box 223 Eatle Point, Ort. amounts of ricr to Ceylon and Cuba. Policy Pressure In the meantime, Red China continues to press Khrushchev for a tougher policy line. The hardened Russian stand on Laos is believed, at least in part, to be the result ot Chinese pressure. Similarly, the Chinese appear to be try ing to force Khrushchev's hand in the Congo. Without waiting for Mos cow, Pelping formally recog nlzed the pro-Lumumba re gime of Antoine Gizenga In Stanleyville and followed it up within 24 hours with an exchange of ambassadors. fronts. Labor leaders evi dently believe they can help overcome that resistance by pressuring the administration to go further and faster to ward labor's goals. Tough Problem Presented The NAACP's Mitchell indi cated that Negroes are more agitated by Kennedy's actions or inactions than are labor's leaders. This presents a tough problem. Negroes are im portant among the minority groups that put Kennedy In the White House. There are many urgent reasons for Ken nedy to avoid offendin? Ivegro voters. There is an equally urgent reason for delaying proposals for new civil rights legisla tion. The Senate's rule 22 to protect Senate minorities is in force. It permits filibuster tactics. To bring civil rights legis lation before the Senate now would arouse instant filibust er. That would mousetrap all other Kennedy legislative pro grams. The problem posed de mands political genius. S. WHITE his business nor remotely within his competence. His warmest friends could hardly say that he has made tha smallest contribution to any solution of African difficul ties. He has only rubbed up more ill-feeling between white and black. ' This sort of conduct in his case was perhaps predictable. For he is a special, and hap pily rare, kind of politician an automatic reactor to pres sure group interests. Still, it is a great disservice to his fellow professional politicians within the administration. But for him their side would have, to this point, a perfect score in responsible service. TT IS just such a perfect score, however surprising this may seem, that "the wild eyed professors" have thus far run up. They have turned out to be not wild-eyed, after all. Instead, they show as quiet and competent and, above all, responsible men fully aware of the gravity of the problems before this country. And they are-to this corre spondent, at any rate-une.f pectedly tolerant of disagree ment from the non-academic types around here. Indeed, one begins to sus pect that though they were brought here primarily as "idea men" their ideas do not stop with glitterinc visions. They are actually pretty prac- iicany ienows not given to the either-or approach. And though mostly political liber als they are, in my judgment, true llbcrals-not so doctrin aire by half as one mieht hava feared. VV ELL representative o t " them is Prof. Walt Ros tow, late of Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, and he win illustrate the point. As a White House adviser, Rostow has much on his plate -Including the Cona-rv the North Atlantic Treaty organi zation, the foreign aid pro gram. But when you talk to him you find no knee-jerk professional ".liberalism," no eager, dogmatic saver of this world by tomorrow morning at 10:32. You find a man who -hir. fully aCCCDlS Iwn onlornm. One is that when you art not in power you can afford much grand rhetoric, but when you are in power you must cut your talk to fit the coat of reality. The other is that while reformers can do many things they can t do them all at once, and shouldn't. Ymi can't, so to speak, raise the minimum wage and "fret Tom Mooney" all at once. miooney, while Imprisoned in California half .,,,. Hon ago as a laborlte bomber, ws a special martyr to the professional lihpraiic, ' that period.) (Copyright. 1981, by United Feature Syndics!., IncJ
