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Newspaper Page Text4 A- ; rTC3TlIB01 B rif tarn ,. KEIIhKl biUV except Saturday by js Nona nr at, Ph ipmhi F:B GUI Adnttlilni Manaser -IC W A1XCN I.. Mns Mitat AL H ADAMS. Oar Editor fcARRV CHIPM AN. Telef Mltf OUVI STAKCHKR Wonwn'i Bdltol PALI IIUCKBON ClreuUUea Mar An Independent rWpeper Altered m ateond elw matter at 190 I Ml Belly and Sunday 4 mot IM - unaay wu-w 77 . feint, itetoonvtn. Oflld , Jill '..rhamtc. Shady Cot. RefueWe , at. Talent tai ea uwtoe twrten ' tUy and Sunday 1 war MJ.JJ I ily and Sunday 1 m 1 M . .-. Carrier .and DaaZjta -W 10 All T aa Caah hi Arane T SaaTiTf3TglfiW . WlUI rXft tt iMfaCT CgT ""Bnitod Preea International . - ruU Uaaad Wr BP I Talenhota Kewipleturee "VJtf 6t AttDlf BUftkAlT or cmcoLAtioNS i .ttla. Mrtland it, Lenta. At- a NIWirAPIt , AruiuiKiit ASSOCIATION rTIONAl I0IT0RIAI - - i. i . rii;Mo'Tis! Mad ford and Jackion County History from the flits of Tha Mall Trlbuno 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yan ago.. 10 YEAR! AOO ' April a. mi (Tuesday) An office hai been estab lished' in the Medford hotel for the purpoae of writing let ten to varloui influential na tional figurei In an attempt to eecura the reactlvlation of Camp White. 1 The sixth dot poisoning sere in recent weeka was re ported by state police yester- ft YEAR! AOO -JjrUI. 141 (Thursday) ' The Medford Chamber of Commerce la distributing lit- -ture supporting Ita request 4 .it lru miinlcinil aimort be c iignated wan Army air Vrnni ' Arthur' Perrv'a "Ye Smudge Pot" column; "The Mew Deal has coma out again for the Ever-Normal Granary plan, as a step toward the fuller life. It has appeal, and lead eventually to the Never-Empty gasoline tank." tO YEARS AOO ' . April 0. 1IU (Friday) J The federal bureau of pub lic roads has approved state highway commission plan for a new road to Oregon Caves via Williams creek. Rogue River area residents have submitted a petition to the county court asking that permanent policy be adopt ed of employing the unem ployed for county roadwork. ' 40 YEARS AOO . April 0, 1121 (Sunday) - The Trigonla Oil company, with more . than . 1,000 local stockholders, has yet' to strike oil In Fern valley. A new Standard Oil com pany service station at Sixth at. and Riverside ve., is Hearing completion. 80 YEARS AOO April a, 1111 (Monday) Hill railroad interests are reported surveying the right of way for a proposed Mia ford-Crescent City railroad. Page one headline: "Magic . growth of city proven by great strides made during month." IViiFt Yesr I.Q.? Mbe M ten aarratt la aeaerlaf) earn of olfM Is Mcetlentt five or ant la f4. - 1. On what continent Is Rhodesia? 2. Who was known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park"? a. "Jersey Lightning" is a ' slang name for what alcoholic beverage? 4. Who wrote, "Oh, East is Fait and West is West, and never the twainshall meef'T 5. VandalUm damage to non-business property Is de ductible from Income for tax savings; true or false? 8. Does a carpenter use a rip saw to cut across the grain or in the direction of the grain? ';- 7. In which stadium In Call fornia did Margaret Truman make her debut as a concert sinter? , S. How many male players participate la basketball game? - O, 0. Tha Iris, cornea and pu pil are associated with what organ of the body? 10. Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer heads what German po litical party? ' Aaawam 1. Africa. 2. Thorn a A. Edlsea. a. Applolaek. 4. h vard Klpliaf I. True. t. t. e frala 7. Holly, w. k M. 0. Ten. a. Eye. It. irir ,, D sons erst "Talking" a Depression Stupid. Uninformed. Heartless. Irresponsible, These are four words we would use to describe the reported testimony of Governor Mark Hat field's Dublin utilities fommianinrior .Tnnpl Hill at the recent conference prouiems. . - The conference was for the laudable, nurnnsp and possible cures for this state's sag in business ana employment (wnicn have dipped to levels even lower than the national recession). V k JJill waa nnnteH as savincl ".The tranannrta. tion interests feel that oi a psycnoiogical recession," ? ' He went on to describe it as a "Harvard recession." IT IS shocking that such harebrained wisecracks should come from one of Oregon's top appoin tive officials at a serious public hearing "And Hijl!s testimony was especialy irresponsible at a tittle when Oregon unemployment was running at a rate of 12 per cent nearly double the national average. .-; yj:--tM-U-' b More than 60.000 Oreeonians were iobless. kYt Hill described their plight as "psychological'' and shrugged it off with a political wisecrack. , lhe public utilities commissioner should know that his state's basic industry is timber products, and that industry is sick. Its sickness is not psy chological but financialthe direct result of tight money, high interest rates and eight years of Mr. uiocnuuwci o iciuoai tu iccuiiiiiicuu ur accept a realistic federal housing program which would use inis state s lumDer and I TNDOUBTEDLY this w gon's plight is politically unpalatable to Mr. Hill. But it was stupid and irresponsible to blame the third Eisenhower recession on a Democratic President who had just taken office and to sneer at Mr. Kennedy's efforts to recruit the na tion's best brains into government service. ; v And whv. mav we ask. for "the transportation interests"? He's supposed to be regulating them not serving as their spokesman. in defining the duties of the public utilities commissioner, Oregon law says "he shall repre sent the patrons and users of the service and con sumers of the product of any public utility." HEAVEN help the patrons and consumers if .Tnnol T-Ti 11 "a f natimtiMr urn a atmimf fllir flnt4 V WHt 4J.U1 D WOW4lkUlJljr ed and if it reflects the is supposed to represent iranKly, we d preter nedy's Harvard appointees. Oregon' Labor He Had It Coming : " - (In commenting on the Oregon Labor Press EdI- ' ; torlal reprinted above, the Pendleton East Oregonlan ' bsd the following to say.) Jonel Hill had this comine to him. we think. and theh some. Loner before the election of last November many economists were saying that whether the next President was John Kennedy or-Richard Nixon he would find himself dealing with a seri ous recession. They said that the nation had not completely pulled out of the 1958 recession and the causes of that one had worsened. If responsibility for placed, there'B only one place to put it. It has to rest on the shoulders of the Eisenhower Admini stration. The troubles that face the lumber in dustry, the key to economic well-being in Ore gon, nave been with us a long time.. They were here long before President Kennedy announced he would be a candidate THE nation didn't talk itself into this recession and it isn't going to talk its way out of it This requires action action that the Eisenhower Ad ministration of big business did not take. ' r : iir ..I.- i t Tj t Tr i i 11 yv e miiiK r resiueiit us out of it by the end of something he did not create. This isn't the first time Jonel Hill has nut his foot in his mouth. We have wondered -Def ore how he managed to get on the Hatfield team. He doesn't measure up to the ernor has established for members of his team. Pendleton East Oregonian. Strange Bedfellows Few organizations have been under more con sistent attack from the Far Right than the Amer ican Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU has. from time to time, defended Witnesses,' foreigners, labor politicians,. Wallac ites, Socialists, Communists, and those who have taken the fifth. The Dan Smoot crowd has the ACLU high on its list of "un-American." Now look who's come under the wing of the ACLU. That venerable oriranization now oonoses any congressional or legislative investigation of tne controversial John Birch society, a group made up of those who bitterly oppose the ACLU. The John Birch society, wrote ACLU officials to the California governor, is thus far operating within the guarantees of the BUI of Rights. Even ita "allegedly secret" character does not consti tute grounds for an investigation. "As long as its assembly is peaceable," wrote Edson Monroe, executive director of the ACLU for Southern Cali fornia, "any minority has the rieht to conduct its business in private fashion." Eugene Register- uuard. . . . 'V. .. on Oregon's economic ; . ; called by the governor nf PYnlntHncr tVio naiiaaa the nation is in the grip piywooa. . interpretation of Ore- is Jonel Hill sneakinz TT CAO OWV.U1 abiJT A vVl calibre of the man who and protect them. any one of Mr. Ken the recession must be for the Presidency. ivenneay is going 10 pun of this year pun us out specifications the gov free thinkers, Jehovah's groups that are somehow ' r T Dennis the Wl W I ed 'JF1 WAS VU. A3 yjU.rVE'0 SEE rYHO WENT TO iSOf . Communications Letiars to tha Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although, under certain circumstances the use of a pan name or Initial for publication is permissible. Thm Mall TrUiuna tHiiiH tha risht la edit all letters wiih a view to clarlilcation and condensation. Letters submlited for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this -column do not necessarily represent the views of the paperi In fact the contrary, is often the case. . i! Automation and Jobs . To the Editor: This writer cannot quite understand the active campaign to. hire the handicapped, when more and more able-bodied men are be-, ins displaced by machinery. Fewer men now can produce more goods. The need is for more jobs. ' -. . If private industry cannot supply them, the national gov ernment should embark on a program of huge public works. Otherwise, the rich will get richer and the poor will go on relief. 1 David Frisch ' P.O. Box 292' White City, Ore. Pardon My Dust To the Editor: . Residents along the Medford Corpora tion right-of-way from, Butte Falls to Medford, who are not sure what could result from conversion- of the railroad to a private, extra -heavy log truck route, should take a look at the flowering trees along the Crater Lake highway where traffic is temporarily moving along a gravel stretch. The trees are so covered with dust, It is Impossible to tell their color-ahd this on a wide right-of-way, with roomy shoulders. What would happen to pas tures, homes and gardens along the narrow Medco right-of-way if 100 big trucks trav eled dally from Butte Falls to Medford over the private route? v 1 ' ' 1 AH this, and noise,-speed and danger too! Mrs. K. A. Carroll : Route 1, Box 662 Eagle Point, Ore. Wondering r; V To the Editor: She found out how it was with the Bible when she went to college. It was the first time she had been away from the security of her own home, her own church, her own, friends. It was the first time she 'had known anyone would question the Bible or ever say It was not so, or would scoff. It was an awful shock. She too, began .to wonder. There was science class. One of the professors was an athe ist. There was the general idea that In the beginning every thing started with an explo sion. But she gave much thought to the smallest living organism. . There was too much Intricate structure there for there not to be a God given plan and purpose. When she looked at the heavens at night she felt, despicably small. ' For the first-time in her life she started reading her Bible at night before she went to bed. It was such a comfort. She was numbered among those in church on Easter. "Jane" Jacksonville, Ore. Sag-aclty To the Editor: This knowledge should out judgement crown In seeing fair our brothers: To know we aU are broken down ' But some sag more than others! ' "Gold Hill Billy" Gold Hill, Ore. V Prefers Lincoln's Advice . - To the Editor: In recent weeks I have noticed at least three communications com menting on Bishop J. A. Pike's articles In "Christian Century." I have just noticed an ar ticle written by Kenneth H, Woods of Washington. O.C., which comments on the thir teenth and last article by Bishop Pike enUUed "How My Mind Has Changed." This discloses that he no longer be lieves in the virgin birth of Christ, nor that God will "limit salvation to a select group who happen to have heard the newt and heard it Menace I MEANT KSAUY AS TAU.J well," nor that Christ "ascend ed into heaven" and that He 'sitteth on the right hand of the Father." These statements are "poetic rather than lit eral." , , - He no longer believes in the doctrine of the Trinity. He de clares "This 'three persons in one God' terminology is prob ably the best the philosophers of the early church could do to try to preserve the mono theism of God as against the natural tendency toward poly theism in that day ... I see nothing in the Bible, as crit ically viewed, which supports this particularly weak and un intelligible philosophical or ganization of the nature of God."';' ;- The reaction to Bishop Pike's article was almost in stantaneous. Some readers, even ' ministers, praised his stand as being essentially the same as their own. But in Georgia a group of his fellow churchmen declared that he should be tried for heresy. In his own San Francisco,, dio cese 100 laymen drew up and mailed out 1,000 copies of a statement . that asked, "Is Bishop Pike undermining our Christian - faith?" - They af firmed that the bishop's views, "Instead of making spiritual progress . , . may be retrogressing to ancient heresy."- ., , ., "The real Issue is this: Bish op Pike, like many other con temporary theologians (among them Paul TiUlch, , Reinhold Nlebuhr and Rudolf Bultman), believe. that the Bible is a myth . . . Among Bible stories considered 'myths' by today's form critics are Creation, Man's Fall in .the Garden of Eden, the Flood, the, Trinity, the virgin birth, the resurrec tion of Christ, His second ad vent and the general resurrec tion ..." In Jeremiah 23:1 (R.S.V.) we read: "Woe to the shep herd who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture." Abraham Lincoln said of the Bible: "Take all of this Book you can on reason and the balance on faith and you will live and die a better man." I'm glad there are many who still believe that the ad vice of "honest Abe" Is more dependable' than that of so called "higher criticism" in matters of Bible interpreta tion and Christian conduct. Harold J. Reith 113 Brlggs Bldg. -: : y, Shady Cove, Ore. Talking to Himself To the Editor: WeU folks, when a person talks to himself they say that Is the first stage. nui tney say when a person starts answering himself it is tne last and final stase. So here is what I can't un derstand: All of the articles I have written which have been published in the Mail Tribune, has anyone written une wore or protest tor or against anyone of them? After all, with accusations I made against J. Edgar Hoover and his stooges, as I called them, I should think that someone would have the courage to either make me put up or shut up. I don t mean by rubbing me out, as I happen to know that Mr. Hoover would be per fectly satisfied if they did. I nave neard that Mr. Hoover wrote a book. I wouldn't swear that he did as I have never seen or read his book. I know that Webster wrote a book called the dictionary. I also know there is a pro gram on T.V. called camou flage. So you see I only write from experience, not hoarsay. You see folks, I am a person who believes to getting to the point and laying the cards right faceup on the table. I would like to know what Dan Smoot meant when he said on T.V "I know you have tried" whom wasAhe MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOrORD. ORE Foreian Noys: Red China Admission; Gromyko 1 Br PHIL NEWSOM DPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: - Kennedy-Macmillan In his meeting with Presi dent Kennedy this week, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is e x p e c ted to to press the British vie w that the way now should be paved for Red China's admis mlsslon to the United Na tions. Macmil lan I. expect- to warn ,. Kennedy- that Britain mav be unable to sup port any new U.S. Initiative to bar the Red Chinese when the U.N.? General Assfcnbly reconvenes next fall. t-,' . However, Macmillan almost certainly will compromise If Kennedy Insists he must have more time. Britain then either referring to? "The little old wine maker, me?" Or me? - ' Please, folks, no. more reli gious letters or letters want ing me to join some organ ized aroup. I have heard from more groups now than Heinz has pickles. I have . received two cards of acknowledge ment from . the Washington Post at Washington, D.C., tell ing me that they are sorry they couldn't print the arti cles I sent them at this time. But that they hoped I would try, them again. .Why? Are they' gathering informa tion' for Khrushchev, or are they trying to keep President Kennedy from finding out? Maybe I am hitting too close to home, or could it be that they don't want the public to knOW? :.v.:--v.v-w i-.-a- - Leo J. Townsend, ; Route 1, Box 620, Eagle Point, Ore. ' P.S.-As Jerry Colonna would say, VWhatl Are you, crazy or something?" All in vestigating investigators wel come, ... -,v- : ' .. Falling Behind '; .;. ' ;,', To the Editor: As you know, the American Association of Uni- erslty- Professors, through its Chapters in the institutions . of the Oregon State System of Higher Edu cation, undertakes a periodic analysis and review of faculty salaries in these institutions. This year, the results of that analysis have lea us to en dorse the salary request of the State Board of Higher Ed ucation. On Thursday, Feb. 23, we presented a statement in support of that position to the Joint Ways and Means Com mittee of the Legislative As sembly. ; --. .- v , The statement attempts to establish the following three sets of facts: (1) In our competition with other institutions, for avail able academic staff members, we have been falling steadily behind. Thus, our average sal ary, which was only $66 be hind the competition In 1997, is now $712 behind. (2) The relative economic status of the academic profess slon, which had fallen behind other occupations and profes sions between 1939 and the early 1950's, has failed to show the significant improve ment necessary to attract and retain the qualified people needed to meet rising enroll ments in our coUeges and uni versities. - - ' (3) The State Board request for a -17.8 per cent salary Im provement fund for the next two years, which we endorse, will probably do little more than maintain ; the present $712 differential between Ore- son and its competition. . Beginning in 1957, Oregon chose to have its public col leges and universities ' corn pet . In the "major leagues." We feel that the results to date have justified that choice. But our relative .position is slowly slipping. If this trend continues we will nave -to ad just back to "minor league" status. We feel that the State's rel ative income position and the traditional value placed on education in . Oregon point both to the possibility and to the desirability of retaining the high standing to which we cling. Robert Campbell, University of - Oregon, AAUP, Eugene, Ore. Call of the WUd To the Editor: Since our last missive written to the M. T. communications, con cerning "a mountain lion screamed," I was given more information by two long-time residents of southern Oregon including the Coos Bay area. The couple, Mr, and Mrs. A. W. Ellison, both heard the sound of "the caU of tha wUcr Envoy?; Uranium Lessening ' .;'... MiniaiM- An-1 Uranium For Atoms might go along with the Unit ed States "just one more time," or abstain in the U.N. In any case, the .China issue will be high on Macmillan's agdenda for the Washington talks. - Ambassador Gromykot Soviet diplomats in' Berlin Try and -By BENNETT CERF- J K. GALBRArrH, witty professor of economics at Har . vard, explains in hi. book. "The Affluent Sode"The ri . w,-t has an engaging flexibility.nln ordinary intercourse it is an improper advantage . enjoyed by a political minority to which the speaker does not himself belong. When the speak er enjoys it, it ceases to be a- vested interest and becomes a hard-won re ward. When a vested in terest is enjoyed not by a minority but by a ma jority, it , is a human right" , ay he's stingy-It's just that hla pocketa are Unad In tootty pine." . ' . . ; ' W. C. Fields always defined a light drinker as one who doestft start drinking until it's light ' , C by Bennett. Cert JJtatrlbntea- by King features Syndicate -. Washington Report By WIIUAM THE VANISHED ISLAND . Washington - The last nonl combat area in all. the Ameri can political terrain is no longer an open city-no longer a neutral bil let to which the embattled troops may re tire sometimes on rest -leave from the cam paign in g at i j n . . of the quite lesser but still poignant meanings of the fact that the required 38 states have now ratified a constitu tional amendment to permit citizens of the District of Co lumbia' to vote for President and vice presidents ' For 161 years the people of this federal city have sat on the sidelines, non-voting non- participants in the process of choosing the national leader ship. But now, by grace of the 23rd amendment, they will go to the voting booths In 1964 along with all other Ameri cans. BEYOND doubt this is sound and historic progress. And It is understandable that the welkin now rings with glad cries from local press and pub lic that the bad old days of when each was young, one liv ing in tne Butte : Falls area and Coos Bay country during the early nineties, s v Another instance of bands of coyotes attacking bounty hunters on horse-back some 50 years ago In the Butte Falls district has also been told me. My informer related that a pioneer woman, once a resident of Jacksonville, hunted down and shot ravag ing coyotes for the bounty on scalps, paid by Jackson coun ty court. The woman was a crack marksman with two six shooters from a trained sad dle horse. - . Bert Kissinger - .- Boardman st. ; Medford The Reason Why ' To the Editor: Several neo- ple have asked me: "Why did I sit on top of a cash regis ter full of $5 gold nieces." I had several reasons. In the first place we didn't have any piper money. I had better reasons than a person sitting on top of a chimney, a flag pole or a cottonwood tree. I couldn't sit in a bathtub like you do today and answer the telephone. 1 couldn't get the darn telephone, off the chim ney. Of course, I could have put the bathtub under the telephone, but it wasn't high enough. I could have put a sack of potatoes on top of the bathtub and reached the tele phone. I wuz only 13 years o)d and I couldn't pad- a hundred pounds of potatoes, so I dunntt the easy way. The cash register wus here, so why not use it? I could stand on top of the counter and reach the telephone. I could lean over with my right hand on tha chimney and pick up the receiver with my left hand, then sit down on the cash register. I'm glad I did it. If I did it today, I'd be the only Republican sitting in Alcatraz with Al Ci-pone. I had one other reason for sitting on top of the cash register. The . reason wuz, "DYNAMITE." To be contin ued. Everett Acklln. iv ' Ashland, Ore." ..... . 1 ... ... . ... ... - say -that Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko may be named ambassador to Washington. It's all up to' President Ken nedy. If Kennedy indicates he would like to have Gro myko in Washington for ne gotiations, tha Kremlin will Oblige. ..1: . ; Stop Mo S. WHITI "second-class citizenship" 1 ending forever. This correspondent, howev er, is not wholly able to share the common rejoicing. He sees it as not absolutely an unmix ed blessing. It is yet another proof that the most wholesome possible reforms for the many are apt to bring a certain pain to the few. For as a -political writer here, since -the shooting war overseas ended - in 1946, he and many of his coUeagues and many national politicians, too-have always found .Wash ington a happy thing to keep in mind during the months of cannonading out on the active political fronts. When the thing became . altogether too much, one could always, com fort himself with this realiza tion: . ' SOONER or later he could slip back into Washington for a few days of Compassion ate leave. Much as officers in Normany could once see the vision of illegal but wonderful trips in civvies to neutral Dub lin, via London, for a short holiday from the shooting. To come back to Washing ton from national congression al election campaigns falling every two years, or from the big . presidential wars every four, -was a salutary experi ence, indeed. You, had been long on the hustings In Indi ana, in California, in New York, all over. All your days and nights had been filled with endless campaign ora tory; with endless cardboard ham sandwiches and very cold and very tired fried chicken dinners; with endless foul-ups at this or that air field; with clack and clack and clack. . You got onto a plane or train and first thing you knew here was Washington, calm as a country lane in the summer time, and quiet, quiet, quiet. YOU did not find the people here uninterested in how the batUe was going in the far places. But, because of their long apartness from it they could take it or leave It alone. And this attitude, in all the circumstances was surely not unwelcome to the fellow re turning on furlough. It used to be said that if Geneva in perpetually neutral Switzerland had not existed, the world's warriors , would hsve had to Invent It, If only because a breathing-place, as well as a breathing-space, sim ply hM to be available some time. ?' . This Is what Washington so long has been in the nation's political wars, a breathing place and a breathing-space to which aU committed to the action could return, in time and season, to repair the per sonal ravages 01 the conflict. As John Donne once put it, no man Is an Island to himself. And now that Washington is falling into the theatre of con flict, Washington, the last is land, will be an island no more. (Copyright 1911. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) TRUST MATCHMAKERS ' , Seoul -(CPD A poll of this year's graduates of Seoul's E w h a Women's university showed the coeds prefer mar riage arranged by matchmak ers rather than love. The re sults of the poU released Sun day said 73.4 per cent of the girls desire to have match makers find ' their husbands Instead of selecting them themselves. . , Uranium For Atoms , ' Uranium deposits in the Erzgebirga Mountains in East Germany near the Czech bor der are near the exhaustion point, Reliable v sources - say only, a few pits sun are open and these are expected to close shortly. Last, year, the East Germans shipped about 2,000 tons of uranium ore to the Soviet Union, compared to 4,000 tons in 1989. Commun ist iesoers now are ousy snip ping' 1 about -160 . thousands workers from the site to new mines -in Saxony and Thur- ingla-. ':;:. ; V ' 1 1 . .: v German tJ-Boati ' . . ,. , West German? will commis sion the world's most modern conventionally, powered sub marine some time late this year, r The Germans quietly have been ; designing a new type , submarine of 390 tons displacement over , the past years.. Construction was but off several times to incorpor ate latest technical features but. finally was begun some months ago. Present plans are to build 12 of the new subs but the number may be in creased. '?'-:. Norway has seen the secret designs and has said she wants to buy two or more. The U boats will operate at speeds hitherto unattalned . by con ventional .submarines. '.They -are ' designed to guard , the Baltic's western approaches through which Soviet subma rines ad surface vessels must go to reach the Atlantic.! i Asia Spy Ring vj'i -j Word from Taipei is that Nationalist Chinese security aLents .may announce soon the cracking of a big Communist spy ring on Formosa. The Taiwan Garrison command al ready has announced the ar rest of a young couple in con nection, with espionage activi ties. But that is said to be only the beginning, with sub sequent! arrests, making' . the roundup one of the biggest in years. ''- . ., '.'..'?'..';?'' In the Day's News ; PRANK JINKINS ' J; - As this Is written, the Laos situation appears to be getting less inflammatory. The word from Washington was that U.S. officials are awaiting the Soviet reply to the British-U.S. call for a cease fire, but are coming 'to the belief that when it is received it will be neither a YES nor a NO but a "hedged acceptance" that will require careful study for hidden quail-, fications and pltfalls-whlch la official language for what in private conversation we term jokers. . '. . . .. - Our state department offi cials say the-, .shooting must stop before any International conferences can be held to "neutralize" Laos, but' it' I said to be understood in Wash ington that an INFORMAL TRUCE would be sufficient to set the negotiation machinery in motion. A LSO-1 XV A meeting of what is term ed the Warsaw pact nations (meaning Russia's Eastern Eu ropean satellites) has come to an end and a communique has been issued. It is described as "the most moderate document of its kind since the Warsaw pact was signed in 1955." It is said to 'leave the door open" for East-West negotiations and a further easing of world ten sions. Diplomats ' noted its brevity and the absence of threats and rocket rattling. . 0???????;'T T Well, maybe neither side Is spoiling for a fight ,1 ANYWAY, let's hope so. I'm pretty sure most of us will agree that the last thing in the world we want is to get embroiled In another shooting war In Asia. , - . THIS, of course, we have to admit: ; ; - ." We mustn't run. If we run, the communists will all take Out after us. Then the fat will be In the fire., - PROM Washington: " After 100 years, residents of the District of Columbia hive the right to vote for their President. President Kennedy has hailed it a "step in the right direction." But, he add ed, the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution by no means gives District dwellers home rule-that Is, direct control ov er their own governing body. He added: v. "I am hopeful the congress . .'. will act favorably on leg islative proposals to be recom mended by the admllstratlon providing the District with tha right of home rule." WHY did the Founding Fa " thers deny residents of the District of Columbia the right to vote for President?. The an swer is rather simple. They were afraid the capital city of Washington, with its aura of politics and politicians, would come' In time to RUN THE COUNTRY. There are times when we wonder if the Founding Fa thers weren't as wise in that respect as they were in nearly all others.