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Newspaper Page Textt id-. 4 A 1 C?0RlCiIW1lIB0W -gvryona In Southern OrefOQ ; : K;Adi The mil Tribune" : lybluhtd Dally except Saturday by i 1 North Mr St.. Ph. SP S-6141 POBERT W RUHL. Idltor r - GKIY. AdverUiim Manager i KALD T. LATHAM, Bus. Mgr. iCW. ALXJCN JR.. Mni. Idltor ! .RL H ADAMS, City Editor ' ; -trow 1 LIVE r ARCHER. Woman'! Editor 1 ALE, IrUCKaoN. circuiauon Mr, An Independent Newiptper . gatored u lecond clasi matter at Medford, oral on, under AM 01 j March 3. 1897 , ' e armRrnTPTirtN ratkh ' iBr-Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday-1 year SH.OO ...ualiy ana Bunaay moa. S.00 ?(! and Sundavl IBM 4..S5 J Sunday Only Ona year S4.J0 By ' Carrleiwln Advance Medford ' .Athland, Central Point Eagle ' Point Jacksonville, Oold H1U, -'; phoenix, Shady Cova, Rogue Hiv 1 jr, Talent ana on motor route), Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 v 'Daily and sunaay l mo. i.ou , ..Carrier and Dealert copy 10c au Terma caan in Advance ' "Stntlal Paper of City ef'Medford Official Paper of Jackion County ilted Preai International ., Tuu Leased wire r P.P.I. Telephoto Newaplcturee r!5acJBHR or AUDIT BUREAU or ciki;uiatiuwb y ... .WIST HOLIDAY .CO., IN0, 01- flcae In New rone, cnicato, ue. :v -4t-ntt Sn Tranctaeo. Loa Ana-ales. BwtUa. Portland, St. Loud,. At. la a, Vancouver. B.C.. .... rums Hiit ASSOCIATION IONU fOITORIAl ;!:::.! o' Tims Radford snd Jackson County History from trie tiles of The Ml Tribune .10, 20, 30, 40 ni SO war go. :..' "'. ''" 19 fEARI AGO 7 ''Vyy.,,;;. ' jrjl 12, IBS! (Thursday). " 1 A (light Improvement In th ' ttndar-dry heat wave that has Washington the past week was forecast today by the Medford :weatiir bureau. ... y 'i , f Sixteen copies of a petition Mek'nf completion of an east west atate secondary-highway f nk'r. Roacburg -with Klam i h ails were submitted this eti to the state highway i ' ilon. ' ', 1141 (Saturday) lord High, school's ( ) ulnailon of the 1 n'nya was 1 fcy -"..hills j v t fjrests . . i inei It , j a inoat a wild ' Hi in Uis cities and sub- ' ) YEAK1 AQO . rUlt, 1IS1 (Suadar) ' i There seems to be little In i rest In city bond Issue eleo- t on. to finance the purchase cl property lor the new coun ty courthouse and' new Wash ington school-grounds. lA'. $150,000 Improvement program at the Oregon State penitentiary In Salem Is sched tiled; to start soon. 40 YEARS AGO April 12. 1921 (Tuaiday) ' .Local real estate men met ' here- recently for the purpose of forming a Jackson county organization: ' .Ben C. Sheldon has been elected president of the Med ford Chamber of Commerce. 80 YEARS AGO ... April 12, 1911 (Wednesday) 'The Rogue River Valley Fruit and Produce association has changed Its rules to pro vide for two grades of fruit -extra fancy and choice - In stead of three grades. Fancy fruit was eliminated, v . -A local firm has announced plans to conduct auto sight seeing trips in the valley this summer. , . 1 VYhsl's Your I.Q.? Nfae ar ten correct Is auserior) Sevan ar elht is excellent! five er la is tee'. ;1. Who first proposed the European Recovery Plan? 2. Is a picaroon a type of cdokle, horse, or thief? 3. The u. S. Supreme Court never renders advisory opin ions; true or false? 4. What government agency Issues copyright certificates? :9. In which year did the Boxer Rebellion occur? 8. Name the painter noted for his famous "Blue Boy." i l. In which Government agency is the Bureau of Cen sus? .. , 3. Name the capital of Haiti. V B. A "southpaw" . pitcher throws balls with which arm? JO. Would a fatuous person be- a stout person, or a fool ish person? : -Answers! 1. George, C. Mar- brary of Congxvd, t. 1900. Thomas Gainsborough . 7, Department of Commerce. I. Prt-au-Prinee. 9. Left 10. Feoilsh person. Tot the first time inflatory, margarine production exceed ed that of butter during 1958. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 12, 1961 i4 Le i When the Harold Smith family moved to town 13 months ago, they had a mixed reception. Some people, at first, tried to make life mis erable lor them. Others went out of their way to try to be kind and helpful. The fact that thd Smiths are Negroes account ed ior au tne luss.' : -1 Now, after 13 months, all the fuss and dis turbance and excited talk, seem almost laughable, in retrospect. THEY are leaving town this week, and there QVA WlOnir allXOr vitVi .r!11 vtinn lltnvM ....nic. limiij, ouictjr, WliU, Will IIXIOO UlClli. Mr. Smith's colleatrues at the weather bureau. where he compiled an excellent record, and made many mends, will miss Mrs. Smith's friends in their church, where she was active in the choir, will miss thdm. So will those who worked nuur m me uuiary, in wiucn mrs. cmiui par ticipated. ; . ' bo will the neigbhors, who found the 'Smith M A V -'1 TiJ. lamnv w De eooa ciuzens. line neooie. ana warm friends. Little Robin, aged 4, was herself respon sible .for a lot of this friendly neighborhood AT FIRST,- some of the neighbors ; allowed tt themselves to be scared by the old wives tales about property values declining, and so on and so -on-r-alf the old, familiar, hateful stories that are based on the discredited theory that one man is better than another because of the color of his skin . But they- learned differently. 'And the latter part of the family's stay little more than the calm which is brought about Sianaing. , . . . : t ." --.).. ; The asininities of racial prejudice die, hard, sometimes. But thev do neaos, and hearts. , v . .-, . OUR good wshes go with the Smiths. Thev will soon be arriving in Kingston. Ja maica, British West Indies, Where Mr Smith has been assigned to a highly responsible position as the sole U, S,. weather bureau representative. ' . y He will han'dle some technical training duties, inter-governmental ; liaison, 'administration, and other, chores, with- the imposing title of super- L 1 1 I l1.il.!.. , . ' yiDuiy ineieuiuiugicai muimciaii. ,-; It is a challenging job: he faces,-one he has earned through-his own ability, and we wish him Well. ; , ' r ..',U:-V-V- r:r THUS is a lesson learned. -i-j r TWnlf iis4 rti lrtriii Vt o o ' vaiifofirt oa A 4fTM where Negroes are "not down town, where colored people are "moved Perhaps we are beginning to grow but of this trnte-bellum provincialism. Perhaps -a few more of us xare' ready to accept people for what they are, in heart and soul and mind, rather than by ine coior oi mm or nair. : Let us hope so, at any rate. For. with, the shifting tides of population it is inevitable that people of races and colors other than; Caucasian will become our neighbors over the months and years ahead. ; , ,. ; ' , Let us hope that, in addition to being neigh bors, We can also learn to look on them as friends. . ii. i ,. . i i Simplifying Taxation V " y ' i" -'.-V? : !y:V ,: v i One of the editorial writers on the Eutrene RegisterGuard comes up with an excellent ques tion.' y ' " , Why', he asks, should our property tax liability in mills, when it would be far more understandable to. do so in simple percentages? ' . v;-v- ... ,., ' , A mill, he points out, is one-tenth of a ceftt, but'Dl'obablv fewer than l'-nerson in 10 under stands that a 1-miil change in his property tax is the same as a change of one-tenth of ,1' per cent or that a tax rate of 100 mills is the same thing as a 10 per cent tax oh the assessed value of his property. - j . y. a a ., e . e . : . ;. l- f IT IS confusing, to say the least. 1 (We still remember, with discomfort, one time when a decimal got shifted one digit the wrong way, and a tax story came out 10 per cent off in its figures.) - : y . y . ; I tie uuard writer adds: y - ."Why don't we do here in Orecon as some other states have already done? Why don't we measure our property tax rates in terms of per centage? Why not en a bit further and make these rates applicable against market values rather than some arbitararily selected fraction itne "assessed valuation") of those values? . ;. . . "Adoption of simpler tax computation sys tems would have one important effect, we're sure. Citizens hollering about their taxes would then have a fairly good idea of what they were holler ing about. There might be less hollering, as many of them came to realize that they were paying less, in valid percentage terms, than they thought they were paying under big two-figure or even three-figure millage rates." - , ., THERE may be some valid reason why property tavQtinvi ohmill Yit 1 U J ;M nA-,nllA-lnJ obfuscation, involving millages and assessed val uations instead of simple percentages of time value. But if there are, we don't know what they are. And we join with the Guard in feelinor that anything which makes taxation simpler; less com plex, and easier for all of us to understand, is all to the good. E.A. - 5501 and sometimes venomous him. , ; with the children's story I.! .1 . 1 t" 7 y. here was marked with and friendly acceptance by f amiliarity, and under- die. if people keen their accepted"; as. a "sun we continue to measure Dennis the Menace t 1.'! f-r? -" i Ati THEM YA UXK UP AT Communications Lettera to the Editor must bear the although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Inllal for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensaton. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters printed In his column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; In fact the contrary Is often the ease. . The Cost of Poetry - To tne Editor: Noted a re cent article, in the Tribune, announcing an adult evening school class teaching poetry, This is a fine hobby, and It is spring when : the rash breaks . out. : But to teach it at the taxpayers' expense lacks pertinence-taking for granted there is a cost. Surely a more important study could, be found, even, for adults bet ter yet, direct this effort to youngsters who need extra in struction, i l Gene Maltby, .-.' ' 4089 Pacific Highway So. ' . Medford.. " . " : ''- : ... ; O '- Editor's note: This Glass Is not taught at taxpayers' ex pense, It is financed by tuition fees charged those taking the course. The same is true of other courses in the adult ed ucation program. If any class lacks enough members to sup port it financially, it is dropped from the curriculum, Speak Out y: .v . .To the Editor: ; U is my opinion that if the press of this nation (including the Mail Tribune) would- speak out against communism ; as vehe mently as it has against such anti-communist groups as the House Un-American Activities Committee and the John Birch Society, the people of the Free World would be more assured of their chances of remaining free. y. ; - ..-y - v .' c Glenn A. Archibald 534 DeBarr ave. ' , Medford, - ' , Proud of Fooilighters To the Editor: Recalling that we did not enjoy the movlp version of '.'Glass Me nagerie" some years ago,- we were 'reluctant to attend the recent Pootlighters - p 1 a y. Then,- overcome by! curiosity as to what a little .theater group could do -with such a psychological drama, we at tended and were unduly Im pressed. Cheryl Bulger's Interpreta tion ' of the shy, : crippled daughter was outstanding. In her scenes with the mother, her voice, glance, twisting hands, all gave that impres sion of half-fear and half-love she felt for this overly domi nant force in her life. The performance wait sensitive to a fine degree. - The monologues, tying the scenes together,' were very ef fectively done by Alvln Reiss. . The taxing role of the mother was well done by Bette Lu Foster. The warmth and outgoing nature of the "gentleman call er" was well expressed by Dr. Laurence Ware. Glen G. Foster, the director, did an excellent job of this and I think the people of this area can be proud of our Foot lighters. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Miller, - Trail,. Ore. , Pear Blossom Parade To the Editor: As the mar shal of the recently staged 1961 Pear Blossom Parade, I would appreciate the use of your letters column to express a word of sincere thanks, not only to the financing bodies that made the parade a possi bility and to the hundreds of participants, but also to the Medford . Police Department for their , assistance and co operation; the members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce who so ably assisted in the lineup and marching progress of the many units; to the vol unteers from the Rogue River Council 1994, Knights of Co lumbus, who patrolled the pa rade route to lend a hand it necessity called, and most especially to the bands. The young people who com prise the bands from Central Point, Medford, Talent and Phoenix deserve the largest round of applause. They ad ded the zest' that every parade requires to make It a parade. MEDFOHD MAIL THE SKY AN'VELL OH.NO!" name and address of the wrirer. I overheard many many com pliments ranging , from com ments on uniforms; costumes for the occasion; their deport ment; their stirring marches and extraordinary perform ances and for .the fact that they took their time on a school holiday to bring that added color to our parade. To their directors and to every young man and young lady in each of the bands we give a rousing cheer. My job In this year's festi val did not bring me in con tact with every phase of the operation but we certainly do feel obligated and thankful to each and every one who helped to make 1961 an out standing Pear Blossom Parade year. ' Lastly, to the Mall Tribune, and in the boldest of type.' THANKS for an advertising JOD well done. Bill Dugan Medford. .' Taxes . ' To the Editor: A lady's re marks concerning taxes in Communications a short time ago brought to mind the fol lowing' poem in the scrap book which shows that taxes were a popular topic 50 or so years ago: Tax the people, tax with care, To Kelp the multi-millionaire. Tax the farmer, tax his fowl, Tax the dog and tax his howl. Tax his hen, and tax her egg. And let the bloomin' mudsill beg. Tax his pig and tax his squeal. Tax his boots, run down at neel. , yy - y Tax his horses, lax his lands, Tax the blisters on his hands. Tax his plow, and tax his ' clothes, . Tax the rag that wipes his nose. Tax his house and tax his bed, Tax the bald spot on his head. Tax the ox. and tax the ass. Tax his 'Henry,' tax his gas, Tax the road that he must pass, . And make him travel o'er the grass. - : Tax his cow, and tax his calf, Tax him if he dares to laugh. He is but a common man, so Tax the cuss just all you can. Tax the lab'rer, but be dis creet ,.y .;. ., Tax him for walking on the street. Tax his bread, and tax his meat, Tax the shoes clean off his feet. Tax the payroll, tax the sale. Tax the hard earned paper kale; Tax his pipe, and tax his smoke, Teach him gov'ment is no joke. Tax their coffins, tax their shrouds, . Tax their souls beyond the clouds. Tax all business, tax the shop, Tax their incomes, tax their stocks. Tax the living, tax the dead, Tax the unborn, 'ere they're fed. Tax the water, tax the air, Tax the sunlight If you dare. Tax them all, and tax them well, Tax them to the gates of hell. But close your eyes, so you can't see, The coupon clipper go tax free, y (Don Lupton, Denver Post) Nellie Rose Route 2, Box 103 Jacksonville, Ore. BUYS FAMOUS SIGN New York -lUPO- The nearly 300-year-old signature of But ton Gwlnnett. a Georgia sign- r of the Declaramtion of In dependence, sold for $6,000 Tuesday. The signature, which appeared on a colonial deed dated March 11, 1773, was purchased by the Carnegie book store here. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Laotian Soldier Dislikes Death; Wishes Both Sides Would Take War Elsewhere1 By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst The Laotian soldier has shown a marked distaste for violent death. i In this, he displays a char acteristic com mon to most intelligent men. , But in a na tion wracked '1 'vil war, Bues between two bitterly opposed phi- 1 o s o phies at stake, he also shows no great desire to inflict punishment on or to subdue his enemies. In the administrative capi tal of, Vientiane along : the muddy Mekong River, life goes on as if there were no war less than 40 miles to the north, . - . y, Despite reports of fierce clashes, the war Itself seems a haphazard affair involving a few pieces of artillery, some outmoded airplanes and spor adic clashes over such unlike ly place names as Van Vieng, fhaom and the Plain of Jars. In Vientiane, ''the saffron robes of hundreds of Buddhist monks. mingle with the drab In the Day's News By FRANK UNIONS - From Salem: . y The annual convention of the Oregon Young Democrats, which was held In Salem on Saturday night, 'wti ad dressed by Governor Grant Sawyer, of Nevada. He told his hearers that elected. demo cratic officials who do not support their party should not be permitted to hold posi tions of LEADERSHIP in the party. He added: "Democrats who join with the Republicans to foster a coalition leadership do great damage to the cause of posi tive and progressive leader ship within a state. We should not reward these peo ple for their support of the Republicans." ' f!HE Kalprrt 'Hlsnntrih ronntf. ing the speech closed with tne statement tnat Senator Harry Boivln of Klamath county frowned frequently at Governor Sawver's rcmarka whereas Senator Robert Straub of Lane county, a lib eral, joined the applause. COMMENT? . , , . Well, for the immediate purpose of this discussion it might be well to explain that AS OF NOW conservatives tend to support spending less of the taxpayers' money, so that our' present staggering debt may be kept from get ting bigger and more, stagger ing with the hope that eventually the debt may be reduced, so that the burden of It Will not be so oppressive. As of now, the liberals pro pose to spend whatever may be necessary to BRING ABOUT THEIR OBJEC TIVES one of their objec tives, of course, being to re main in power, so that 'they will be in a position-to do what they conceive to be the right thing to do. , T ET'S put it this way: Our political parties are presently split two ways up-and-down and crosswise. There are conservatives and there are "liberal" Republi cans. There are conservative Democrats and there are "lib eral" Democrats. Obviously, in such a situa tion, there can be little SIN CERITY in politics. Conserva tive Republicans feel much closer to conservative Demo crats than to liberal- Republi cans. Conservative Democrats feel much closer to conserva tive Republicans than to lib eral Democrats. WHOSE of us who call our selves conservatives "be lieve it's getting to be high time for our two major par ties to get back to a two-way split instead of the present four-way split.' , When that happens, IF EVER, there can-again be In tellectual honesty and sin cerity in our politics. In the present situation, our .politics tends to degenerate into a mere STRUGGLE FOR POWER among factions. Feeling that way about It, I think that if I had been sit ting beside Senator Boivln on Saturday night, I would have joined in his frowns at what Governor Sawyer of Nevada was saying. PEEKING TOM' CAUGHT Colchester, England - (UP0 Mrs. Rubv Jarnan hooted at her frlpnrls' rpnnrls nf a "peeking Tom with staring eyes invading their privacy. sue caugnt a tawny owl nest ins in the npiffhhorhond. and the complaints ceased. QUITE A TITLE London-IUPJ-The Daily Mail today published John Dooley's latest song hit titled "Who Put Out the Light that Lit the Candle that Started the Fire that Started the Flames Deep Down In My Heart" uniforms of Laotian soldiers, i Along the banks of the Me kong, meandering now. among sandbags in the dry season, Chinese merchants pull back their metal grills just after dawn to draw customers be fore - the city dozes again in the hot midday sun. -' There is no confusion, no soaring prices, no .black market.-- In this there seem' signifi cance. ' Except for a minority on either side, neither the Wes tern democracies nor the Com munist have been able to ex port their opposing philos Pol I of G.O.P. De legates Fi n ds Majority Against School Aid By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -WPD- There is a long and fact-filled letter in Republican National Commit tee files that would help Repub lic a n members of C o n gress make up their minds on party policy toward Presi dent Ken nedy's school aid bill. : Tt would helD them make up their, minds that the Re- nublican , Darty is agamsi u, The letter was written to Sen, Thruston.B. Morton, R-Ky., in his .capacity as partyy chair man.. The autnor was ur, Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of Utah's Brigham Young Uni versity. Dr. Wilkinson was vice chairman of a resolutions sub committee which cqnsidered federal aid to schools during the Republican national con tention last July. Sen. Gordon Allott, R-Colo., was chairman of the subcommittee. . . Wilkinson, reminded Mor-. ton that the subcommittee voted 7-4 against any federal aid. He implied that the sub committee's point of view was denied ia fair hearing- before the full resolutions committee and by the convention itself. , Moreover,. Dr. Wilkinson, himself an educator, holds that federal aid to schools is dangerous and useless non sense. He offers facts and figures in support of his point of view. These seem to De sufficiently solid to warrant discussion, refutation or proof by interested members of Congress. . .-V ' j So distressed were Dr. Wil kinson and some other mem bers of his subcommittee by the maneuvers of Allott and others to commit the Republi can party to federal aid, that they decided to poll all con vention delegates. Dr. Wilkin son reported to Morton the poll results. Of the 1,331 delegates to the Republican national conven tion, 840 responded to the poll, more than .83 per cent. Dr. Wilkinson wrote to Mor ton:' .V- ' - "These (840) replies show that only 3 per cent favored and 96 per cent were against federal aid to school teachers' salaries (1 per cent not vot ing); that only 18 per cent op posed federal aid for school construction (1 per cent not voting). Of even greater sig nificance is the fact that the majority of responding dele- College Aid Bill Hearings Continue Washington-IUPD - A House education subcommittee con tinued work behind closed doors today on President Ken nedy's $2.4 billion college aid biU, with some big changes in the making. The changes apparently had the blessings of the White House. Committee Chairman Edith Green (D-Ore.) said the most important one had already been discussed with the ad ministration. It would provide for college construction grants in addition to loans. - - Another change under con sideration was to add a spec ial category of 1,000 "presi dential scholarships" to the scholarship section of the bill. Rep. Green said they would differ from the 25,000 federal scholarships Kennedy pro posed by placing more em phasis on academic merit than on financial need. - April Frolic Planned For Jackson School The annual "April Frolic" at Jackson Elementary school will be held Friday, April 14, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Special prizes will be awarded during the evening. Concessions will include a carnival coffee shop, gift shop, doll rack, plant booth, ring-a-pig games, bean bag throw, dart throw, fish ponds and re freshment booths. Everyone interested is Invited. ophies successfully .to. Laos. The Communists would take it by conquest, using as their instrument the hard-core na tive Pathet Lao. ' United States' aid to Laos over the last few years now hovers around the billion dol lar mark, yy- yyy 4 Its purpose has been . two fold: First, to supply-arms and training to the Laotians to permit them to defend them selves against aggressive com munism; second, to bujld a free society which' of its own accord would choose to align itself with the democracies. But to build a free,' self- gates in every state voted de cisively against both' federal aid for teachers', salaries and school construction." 1 , Dr.-Wilkinson said the bal lots were intact and were available for inspection '.and audit. He alleged two basic ob jections to the Kehnedy ad Editorial Comment A FEARFUL CREW, ! THE BIRCH SOCIETY We have , been trying 'to work up a proper degree of conoern and Indignation about the .John Birch Society, and have : not so -far mnrlo the grade.: .".' ' .. ; . y-'-.,; y The Society may well" be the menace it is hpinv niilnfarf to be. We rempmhr n follnur who laughed at Joe McCarthy. : aui tne itepubllc has stood off the Soviet . Union, since 1945 and ' with ' pnnHiripraMn help, whipped two sets of fascists plus Mussolini's Le sions more rtr -Ipse slmultnn- eouly in the period immedi ately preceding. .. ... , y ; :.-. It lived throuch the TC nnw- Nothinss. the TCIan the Cll.r Shirts and the aforementioned McCarthy, and will, from all indications, also survive - the Citizens Councils. - -v-y-- .; We are exDerienced ' as a nation, with crackpots-and authoritarians. If the :- John Birch Knnietv is tint ahnut the nearest to impotent of the lot we are,' as a; newspaper, a good way wide of the mark. ; It has been alleged that the John Birch Society- is a hate group, hence dangerous. Cer tainly it is made up of people who know how to hate, and who enjoy the sport. But they are also, and more profound ly, people shaken to their being by fear. - . - Whether the founder (who girded for his present large responsibilities in his broth er's candy factory) knows it or not, the John Birch Society is built upon the proposition that mankind is doomed, and tnat there is now time only for a desperate rear-guard ac tion. -' The Society is convinced that all forces of change, are exclusively in the service of the Kremlin,' andi that they threaten the civilized world at every point of contact. y . What we have here is a fel lowship of fear. In its articles of faith, the Society resembles nothing so much as 'one of those sects which have from time to time taken to the base ment- and sealed up the cracks around the door in the conviction that the ' world would end at 5:27 a.m. a week from Thursday. Consider the men and things which the John Birch ers or their founder have al ready conceded to the Com munists: They include the President and his predecessor; the Supreme Court; the na tion's city managers; the ur ban renewal advocates; the proponents of fluoridation; the United Nations. These people don't . need Try and -By BENNETT CERF- ZSA ZSA GABOR, the maverick of the TV circuit, was"; asked if it was the proper thing for a girl to return tha ring after she broke an engagement. "Definitely," pro j nouncect.zsa zsa without hesitation. "She should return the ring imme diately, but keep the dia mond, of course." . -1 Goody Ace, probably the highest paid script writer in TV (something like , ?8500 a week), once tolled for peanuts in a network's radio department and was overpaid at that, because they seldom accepted a line he had written. "If ever an atom bomb falls on this town," he blurted suddenly, "It's me for the 18th floor of that outfit That's one place there's never any radioactivity!" t Goody, who likes horse racing, once named the warm weather months as June, July, August and Aqueduct Persuaded to bet j one day on a hopeless long shot he told his wife Jane later, "I got a tip this nag would walk in, and I must say he tried to." , m m Joe B. Lewis ran into an old punch-drunk fighter pal who's struck it rich. He now can afford to wash his ears with Hollan. daise sauce. . . C 1961. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate governed and ordered so ciety takes time, and- that time, In Laos and many other of the world's underdeveloped lands, is not yet here. i ': The Communist n a tl o n-s realized . years ago the value of propaganda and infiltration among peoples whose freedom still was far in the 'future. That is why, When the -free dom did come to nations of Asia and Africa, trained, na tive Communist leaders were ready for their assignments. " As for the native of Laos, he ' just Wishes - both sides would take their ' war- elsei where. ::- ' "V...-:".-.-. . ministration program: " " -Neither schools hbr teach ers need federal aid because local communities can deal with the diminishing -problems. '' t - ::'';-.-y ' ' " -The federal- treasury can not afford the proposed spend ing.' . . :.' x. condemnation. They - 'n e e d help. ; - - v ;;'y,.' . ' '.:,; They peed.-each of them; a quick course in-American-history, a heart-to-heart talk with a trustworthy friend and 'then perhaps, avgood long- rest: -T,,T1iS evid?P?e is that' John Birchism is incurable, but wet can try. . y y." , Nor -does -John-: Birchism seem to us -to be contagious. The. presumption on whictf the.-.'OrB-anizatlnn . has i . . nag , ucCl viewed so . -generally with, alarm is that It la .m . . - -u a viiua live ly to -Infect innocent people. All of the evidence we've seen indicates that the "people alreadv hail, the 1 ..Auo, auu nave pimply gotten together . '.- ; ,. y r ' -:. We SUDOO.l'e -'tK'at theo 'moj be people in meaningful num bers willing to take the oath': of allegiance to .ahS outfit which is willing to forfeit the; Americari system of gpverri ment for something the John Birchers call, auitp orainU tously, "the American way ot inc. . But weAdoubt that there are many men of sound mind: willing to accept the. collater al dictum that Dwight Elsen-! hower is a Communist.', V : K To the extent that -thev have done anything-except to each other-and-to themselves the John Birchers seem' to us: to have performed a substan tial public service. . -i Thev have elertpd their fol low Americans to the yexisU) ence on tne jar, tar Tight of the political spectrum of peo pie .every bit as confused,; troubled and wilHna in he lerl around by the nose as their; opposite numbers on the far.' far left.; j The Society also has nro-t vided . an interestint litmus5' test for some of our noisier politicians. Senator Eastland, -for example, has justf sppken well of them. . Until they move beyond their present activities, which appear to, consist pretty ex clusively of whipping up each' others' . hysteria and of occa sionally . slandering men so' eminent as to be substantially invulnerable to' such attacks.. we think the John Birchers; more a nuisance than a peril.' If we must have people willing . to believe in . thei things the Society stands tot,' we may as well have the So" ciety. The existence of such a group is abound to cut down. on the number of Birchists" running . around . unencum-y bered by the label, and thus, likely to be mistaken for re sponsible citizens.-Pine Bluff; (Ark.), Commercial. ..... ;t Stop Me fJO DIAMOND . . . j it