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4 A MEDF01 RIBUNB "Everyone In Southarn Oregon nBHa Tha Mall IVIhun." Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North rir St.. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor LHERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM, Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor ZAHL li. ADAMS, city Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. TeW. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'! Editor dale ERICK8QN, circuiauon Mgr. An Independent NewiDlnar Entered aa second clasa matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act ox March 3, 1897 '. SiraSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance, Copy 10c li&iiy ana sunaey i year aio.uu Dally and Sunday 6 mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford j Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. jacKsonvine, uoio urn, : Phoenix. Shady Cove. Roaue Rlv. er. Talent and on motor routes, Daily and Sunday 1 vcBr S18.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. l.so , Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms cash in Advance ' Official Paper of Cltv of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International ' Ftiu Leasea wire ' 7 TJ.P.1, Telephoto Newspictures OP CIRCULATIONS . AH,rnWlatn nenreientjittva: i WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC, Of- ! fn Mew York. Chloaeo. De irnit fun Vranotieo. Loa Anaeles. ' Seattle. Portland, St Louli, At- lanta, Vancouver, n.u. NtW.PAPlr) ru (Lis Him ASSOCIATION NATION A EDITORIAL Flight p' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the) files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20J 30,.'4p and 50 yean ago. r v ; 10 YEARS AGO April 17, 1951 (Tuesday) ,.' ' A hearing on the proposed . ordinance to rezone the city of Medford will be held by .the city council at 7:30 p.m. today. - Eleven fines were meted out yesterday to as many Jackson .county youths on cnarges or acquiring ana pos sessing alcoholic liquor; all were arretted Saturday night in a local ball room., 20 YEAR! AOO April 17, 1141 (Friday) : xne mg x super Mantei, 1 . 1 n 1 .1 V. I ..U wiy, will obierve the comple tion of ita tint year of success . tul operation tomorrow. I rom Arthur Perry'fi"Ye Smudge Pot" column: "One , gloomy military expert pre- ' diets the war, will last 'to near exhaustion,1 or approximately as long as the Oregon fish bill ' fight." - , 0 YEARS AQO April 17, 1(31 (Friday) A delegation of U.S. Con gressmen will visit Crater lake in July. The city of Ashland plans to protest a decision by South am Pacific to cut rail service to that city. 40 YEARS AGO .'" April 17, 1M1 (Monday) The scenic preservation so ciety here declares it deplores the destruction of scenery along the Siskiyou stretch of highway 88. The high cost of living dropped two percentage points on the West Coast dur ing March. (0 YEARS AOO April 17, 1911 (Monday) xne danger to. fruit or chards from frost is now thought to be over. The county road engineer has proposed that an oil ma cadam road be built between Medford and Central Point. What's Your I.Q.? Nine ot ten' correct' Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five er aia ii good. 1. What is the C. At P.? 2. What, according to the proverb, is the "mother of In vention"? , . 3. Name the Qoneral who was George Washington's ri val for command of the Con tinental Army. ' 4. Who was Slgmund Frued? 5. What Is the source of the name, "The Netherlands?" 6. From what is agar de rived? , 7. Flatbush Is a section In one of New York City's bor oughs; which one? 7 8. The name of which day of the week has the most letters? ' , 9. Shlntolsm It the principal native religion of which coun try? 10. Was the message, "What hath God wrought?", the first to be sent by telephone, tele graph, or radio transmission? Answers! 1. Civil Air Patrol. 2. "Ne cessity." 3. Horatio Gates. 4, German psychologist. S. Much of it is below the sea level. 6. Seaweed. 7. Brooklyn. 8. Wednesday. 9. Japan. 10. Tele. nash. k MONDAY. APRIL 17. 1961 Judges and Their Critics In James Main and Edward Kelly, Jackson county has two of the finest'eircuit judges in the siaie. . v, : - . . We make that statement without qualifica tion, based on years of observing their work They have the confidence and respect of the legal profession, and of others who have had an op portunity to see the kind of job they do in their exceedingly aimcuits and exacting positions on the bench. 7 7 Why. then, have we icisms or tnem criticisms which we, ourself, be lieve to be unfounded? : - WE HAVE done this because we feel that any miTilfp nfftniol aotnnniT in onir nnni nlir rwno W.VjWlW M W A I XI I C4.11JT SC VslUJT f WW CO his ultimate responsibility to the people, and snouia not oe immune cere and honest. But, in Sunday's Mail Tribune, there was a letter in "Communications" which should not have been printed, despite the fact that it was written in good iaith. - , For one thing, it was based on a Mail Tribune story which was in error. For another, it was written without a full understanding of some of the judicial procedures and saieguards employed by the courts. THe letter was directed at Judge Main, for re portedly suspending imposition . of sentence on three confessed felons. It, was based on a Wednesday Mail Tribune story, which incorrectly stated they had appeared before Judge Main when, in fact, Judge Kelly was presiding. Thus the criticism, if valid, rected at Judge Main. The error was corrected in a story Friday, but also should have been caught before the letter was printed Sunday. To Judce Main. then, we offer our heartfelt apologies tor any embarrassment it' may have caused him. 7 -,. . Was the criticism of valid in the first place? : : On that, each will have to decide for himself. But it should be nointed out that a nreaidino- judge has before him; far more information on any case than can possbily be printed in a news paper story. 7 HE HAS seen the individual. He knows his VQnrwA TTa In n a Qri AnnAt4tiiM Irw rir mni- A V-a VAe AJLC HUG li JjJJJL uUilllJT ID Al.UVV) -liUlV only of the circumstances of the crime and of any possible extenuating n many cases he has reports S It is on these he bases on any snap judgement automatically muBt be locked up. Too; he has at his disposal some very nower- ful judicial tools in the he can impose, and enforce, before a man is per- milieu 10 go iree. The judge, under oath, is bound to uphold that portion of the' Oregon Constitution which savs. "Laws for the Dunisnment of crime shall be founded on the principles of reformation, and not of vindictive justice." JUDGES of course, being human beings, some- times differ in their approach to the solemn task of 'sentencing a man for a crime. There are legitimate on leniency and severity, and on the relative merits of imprisonment, sentence suspension, or pronation. -. These, plus the facts judge has before him. are iie hiubi wreeue, witnin me umiis 01 tne iaw, ac cording to the dictates of his conscience, and under his duty to seek justice. '7 His is an awesome responsibility. We know both Judge Kelly and Judge Main take this responsibility with grave seriousness, and thus we are truly sorry that we printed a letter, written in good faith but without full un derstanding, which tended to question unfairly the competence of our courts. The integrity, ability and moral strength of Judges Main and Kelly is. unchallengeable. In their differing ways, they are a great credit to the Oregon judiciary, and Jackson county is for tunate to have them for public servants.E. A. Teachers and Books Some people seem to be more afraid that their children might collide with an idea than they are that they might collide with a truck. We're for the collision of ideas, whether the ideas are put in the paths of students by books or by teachers. ' We're happy to say that most of the hitrh school students we know aren't likely to accept any adult teacher or parent as an idol and accept blindly his opinions. They delight in sharp ening their intellectual fangs on positions an adult may adopt. And they toss aside as unworthy 01 tne game those who blandly insist on being neuter. ' . yiE KNOW a teacher whose classroom vibrates T with arguments. This teacher often takes out rageous positions and defends them against the onslaught as if his life depended on it. His class has a name in the curriculum, but what he says is "I'm teaching them thinking." So far he hasn't got in trouble. If he does he'll be in good company. Socrates made it To the people whose concern with education seems to be, "Don't let them out of the cocoon," we say, thank God, they're already out. Port land Reporter. sometimes printed crit irom criticism 11 it is sin should not have been di . T-- Judere Kelly's decisions circumstances, but also medical and psychiatric ' 7. "J',;7 his decisions, and not that a confessed felon form of conditions which differences of opinion . . in the case which the the things with which Dennis the Menace 3 'I GOT TRED OF PtAYINO. Sol DECIDED TO CO SCWE WORK? Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Inllal for publication Is permissible. Tha Mall 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 tact tne contrary is orien EDITOR'S .NOTE . . , In yesterday's communi cations column, a letter was printed which crliicised, without foundation. Circuit Judge Main. The Utter was based on an Incorrect Mall Tribune story, and should not hate been printed at written, . For this, we extend our apologies to Judge Main. Please see further discus sion in editorial column. Cougars and God To the Editor: This is in reference to Mr. Bert Kissing er's letters on the subject: Do cougars really scream? In the Umpqua Mountains, in my teens, I heard several weird cries of the type Mr. Kissinger reports. They were indeed blood-curdling, sound ing to me like the wall of a demented human mother for her lost children. ; 7 - , But was it a cougar? I can only say that older men in our party all thought it was and that, at the time, was thorouehly convinced they were right. Since that time, however, I have grown older and, I nope, a hit wiser. I have learn ed something of the require ments placed upon evidence that is to stand up in court. Obviously my Own '"evidence" in this case is merely hearsay and supposition, and anyone who has ever heard a lawsuit knows what the legal profes sion would do with that kind of evidence. Unfortunately, so far as I can see, Mr. Kissinger's evi dence to date is no better. It reminds me of the Bible-par-tisaus who make a case for the existence ot superhuman visdom in the universe and then triumphantly sit back and assume that they have also Identified this wisdom with the Biblical God. They forget that there are far more Mohammedans, B u d d h lsts, atheists, and other non-Christians in the world than Chris tians and that it is hardly reasonable to expect non Christians to be converted by such a feeble argument. I suggest that what Mr. Kis tenger must do to make a case It to find reliable wit nesses who not only heard these screams but who were able to ascertain unmistakably tnat they came from a cougar. Personally, I am still of the opinion that cougars DO scream. . But we need solid evidence. Almus Prultt, 119 North Central ave., Medford. Arraignments To the Editor: I commended a valley grocer because he re fused to sell beer and wine. "No," he laid, "I don't sell Intoxicants because of what they do to my neighbors. I hate the stuff! And yet let me tell you something, (Ar raignment No. 1) the profess ing Christians and church peo ple will go right by my door to the market below me. where they do sell intoxi cants, to buy their groceries." Another market nearer us. to which we gave our trade, refrained for long from the sale of Intoxicants, but final ly put in beer. I remonstrated with the manager, and quoted the scripture Which says, "Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him." (Arraign ment No. 2.) He said, "I didn't want to put it In, but the church people - no, I don't mean you, for you have traded with us - but others, the church people wouldn't stand by ut, and we were forced to put It In." Of course I didn't agree with him as to their being "forced to put it in," but I lamented that he must say, "The church peo ple wouldn't stand by us." A market that was former ly clean without beer and wine, now sellt both. I re monstrated with the woman. MEDFORD MAIL ine case. , (Arraignment No. 3.) "Well, the said, "I have three preach ers who are regular custom ers here." "Preachers?!' I ask ed, "Yes, three preachers are my regular customers." She didn't say they bought beer or wine, but that they-were regular customers. Why didn't those preachers preach tern- pereance by going to non-al cohol markets? Arraignments summarized in questions: Aren't .church peopie temperance people? Aren't church people their brother's keepers? Don't church people stand by mar kets principled . enough in their policies not to sell in toxicants? Don't church peo ple patronize non-beer and non-wine markets? If not, why not? Who are and where are the men and women of unmis takeable and unquestionable Christian nrincinles. ' who re fuse to do the things that cause others to offend? Why aren't Christian people more Christian and more . Christ like? Fancy Christ in a beer- selling, or a beer and wine selling market buying . gro ceries or meatsl There are six' markets or more In Medford and vicinity, and. the same number or more in Ashland, where neither beer nor wine are sold. Most of these have a very good stock of meats and groceries, H, R. Bulman, Route 4, Box 316A, Medford. Do Your Best To the Editor: Many people seem to feel that people who write letters to this column, expressing' their opinions and views and feelings, are either trying to show how smart they are or howl stupid they can be, when , in reality they are merely ' jealous because they can't writ or havent' the nerve to. Or else they find from reading these letters that "the shoe fits them perfectly." I will agree that some peo ple do write just to try to impress on others that they are good Christian people or that they're more patriotic than others, etc. However, It is my conten tion (and I might be wrong) that those who profess to be good Christians or patriots or what-have-you aren't quite as good as they say because very, very few of us are good Christians all the time - we all slide back at some time. Besides, anyone who TELLS you he's a good person usually isn't. Others can tell if he's good by the things he says and through his actions. ' ' I can't tell you that I'm a good person. I can only tell you that I TRY to be, for I am no judge. Anyway, I'll know when Judgment day rolls around whether the good things I've done outweight the bad and vice versa. All any of us can do Is TRY to always do our very best. No matter If the thing you do is very small or very great do it the best you can and if your neighbor Is doing the same kind of thing you arc and doing it in what . you might feel is a haphazard way, remember it may be the very best he knows how. Or if your neighbor happens to do It better than you, don't become jealous because of his talent for ding it better be cause there are some things that you probably have the talent for doing better than be.. Your best Is your best. Your neighbor'3 is his. Don't con tinually struggle through life trying to do as well aa your neighbor but DO be consci entious in trying to improve a little each day in the things you have the talent for. One mistake many parents make (mine did) Is to set their minds on what their children shall be and how they are to do certain things. Set goals that a child CAN measure up to. - : Gold Hill Lilly Gold Hill, Ore. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Foreign News: A-Bombs for Red China; Dissatisfaction Among Europe's Satellites By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from news cables: the foreign Red Atoms Communist East German diplomats report privately Red China Is pressing Russia again to give It tactical nu clear w e a p ons. This is not the first time Pelplng has turned on the heat for nuclear arms. In the past, the Soviets have resisted and they will again this time, say the diplomats. Iron Curtain Crackt Lesser Red functionaries in Drummond Reports (Walter Llppmanit Is In lurepe. Koieoe Drummond reports 'rem Washington In his absence.) MAN IN SPACE Washington - There should be no minimizing of the So viet Union's fabulous feat of putting a man In orbit and bringing him safely back to earth - the first human con quest of "near space." ' The slcy is no longer the limit. . It it a heroic and mighty deed. But if. we do not under rate it, as many did the first Sputnik, .' neither need we overrate it. The experts in Soviet af fairs are predicting that Mos cow's new apace achievement will toughen and stiffen So viet dlolomacv on the ground that Premier Khrushchev will feel that his hand has been strengthened. They are prob ably right. e e BUT Mr. Khrushchev's "feel- " ing" , stronger does not make him any stronger. Sov iet leadership Will be stronger only If Western leadership feels weaker. There is nothing in. the man-ln-space achieve ment, worthy though it is, which alters the substance of the balance of military power between the Soviet Union and the West. Therefore, it should not be allowed to alter the balance of diplomatic power. The Soviets lead the world in outer-space "spactaculars" -the first Sputnik, the first moon probe, the first human to leave the earth's atmos phere and return - and they deserve unstinted respect. On the other hand the U. S. space flights have been far more numerous and, in the words of Wernher von Braun, one not easily satisfied with our space progress, America's total 'sci entific achievement in outer space "has been more solid." Competition' between the Soviet Union and the United States is all to the good and the difference between Rus sia's putting a man in .space in April and America's put ting a man in space in Novem ber is primarily psychologic al, not scientific. From our standpoint,, it would be better to be first In more things than we now are. But if Mr. Khrushchev thinks that he can play the "man in space" on the conference ta ble and thereby have his way -either in Berlin or in Laos -he is miscalculating. e AT his press conference this week President Kennedy was asked whether the Soviet man in space would weaken the position of the West. He said that he thought the achievement would impress many people in many parts of the world but he did not believe it would "disadvan tage" us at any significant point. It will disadvantage us if we are in any way tempted to ac cept the Soviet suggestion that the Russians' position is now stronger and thereby en titles Moscow to have its way. It will not disadvantage us if we in the West ourselves and our allies - retain our res olution, our stamina, and our self-confidence. . The wording of the Soviet announcement hints that the Kremlin Intends to use the man-in-space achievement as a new weapon of diplomatic blackmail. The feat is Itself so superb that there was no call for boasting. But the Moscow report proclaimed that It puts the Soviet people in a differ ent light "before the eyes of the whole world," IVE need to differentiate " sharply between the im pact of this splendid accom plishment upon people in Asia and Africa and its Im pact upon the balance of act ual strength in the heart and center of the West, the Atlan tic community. The power of the Atlantic community to resist Commu nist pressure or aggression and to aid the underdevelop ed nations remains strong. We are not weaker militarily and we do not need to be weaker diplomatically-unless we em brace the idea ourselves. But the shifting balance of world opinion in Asia and Af rica, especially impressed by 4 Eastern Europe, factd with al most Impossible production quotas and a series of farm failures, are getting restless. They want more freedom to make their own decisions, and note the way Yugosalvia, Poland and Stalinist Albania have talked back successfully to Moscow. Look for con tinued discontent, but for no lessening In the basic Com munist beliefs of these Iron Curtain functionaries. Dutch Crisis A cabinet crisis is in the wind in Holland, and a gov ernment collapse may come in three months or so, accord ing to political observers. Is sues are similar to ' those which caused the recent Bel gian government downfall. Parties are re-allgnlng, par ticularly the leftist labor party and the Catholic party the resolution and vigor ot the Soviet dictatorship, may again move against us at it did after Sputnik I. But the shift should be tem porary because our own space program has been moving ahead and steadily. The choice between Communism and Western democracy it ' not which society can produce more goods tor the state but which system can produce more goods for the people -plus .freedom tor the individ ual. It la ironic - and tragic -that in tpace science Russia should be In the very van guard of the twentieth cen tury but that in political sci ence Russia hat not moved out of the despotism of the eighteenth century! Ask the Hungarians, the East Germans and the other peoples in the Soviet empire, (c) 1961 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (o) General Featuree Corp. FEAR, POOR BASIS FOR MORALITY ' Not long ago, I flew down to Dallas to take part In a symposium sponsored by the U. S. Depart--v e n t of .ealth, Educa tion and Wel fare. The sub ject was "Youth and the Society We Live In," and the audi e n c e was made up of Harris public health officers, social workers, educators, and the like. This was part of a three-day conference on the growing venereal disease problem in the United States. Not only is the rate of VD increasing (despite a simple and inexpen sive cure), but it is increasing mostly In the teen-age brack et. About one-fourth of all cases involve persons under 20 years old. When, a few years ago, it was discovered that VD could be promptly and effectively cured, young people were ho longer restrained by fear of infection. What had been a frightful ' killer became "no worse than a bad cold," and the net result ot this medical advance was to create an at titude of sexual nonchalance toward promiscuity. I think the same thing will happen with the new oral con traceptive. When the fear of pregnancy is removed, girls will tend to engage even more freely in pre-martial experi mentation. Each scientific ad vance relaxes the moral code further. Now I happen to think that fear Is not a good motive for morality. The boy who does not steal because he is afraid of getting caught will steal when he feels he will not be caught. The only morality which is deep and permanent is based on love and intelli gence, which are distinctly hu man traits, and not on fear, a trait we share with all the animals. - e Our problem with young people, as I see it, is not to frighten them or to condemn them as wicked, but to make them see that sex is a part of the whole personality, and not just a physical act. It is to make them understand that EMOTIONAL and SOCIAL reasons make pre-martial sex Imprudent. Sex as a whole, I think, should be shifted from the moral to the psychic realm. What Is "bad" about promis cuity is that it is always a sign of some deeper disturb ance in the personality. Most promiscuous women are frig id, just as most promiscuous men are immature. Thus, they are unable to achieve any last ing happiness in life, because they are driven by uncon which It leaning toward co operation with the leftwlng. The rightwlng parties now In control have failed to estab lish a stable government. La bor commands roughly one third of the votes in Holland. The Catholic party It the big gest in the country. An alli ance or working agreement between them would be too much for the rlght-of-center parties. Washington Report By William S. White (oi United Feature Syndicate RESPONSIBLE REACTION Washington Official Washington The White House and both parties in Congress : has respond ed with ma turity and common-sense to the world shaking feat of the Rus sians in hurl ing a man in a . spaceship around the it worried at this undoubted evidence that the Soviet Union is ahead in the race' for the conquest ot tpace. Happily, however, ev erybody of . importance is keeping his head, In aware ness that rushing about fran tically howling and moaning would do no good and might do much harm. The watch word among the top people is this: the tougher the going the greater the need for play ing it coolly. One of the most reassuring things possible in the olrcum stances Is that neither party is trying to make two-bit par tisan capital but of the fact that the Russians have hit us a very heavy one right in the eye, and no mistake. . THERE is a general accept ance that this Is a black scious needs. Like the alco holic, they are not free. The old moral restraints have almost given away en tirely, and our young people are living In what I call a "value vacuum." That vacuum must be filled by a realistic program 'of mental v ' health. Venereal disease is not basic ally a physical or a medical problem, but a symptom of our psychic distress in a world of changing values. . In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There Is a new word in our language this morning COS MONAUT. We can't define it, because it Isn't in the diction ary. It hat just been created. But an AERONAUT is one who travels through the air. So we can assume that a COSMONAUT is one who travels through the cosmos. So Greet Cosmonaut Gagarin. COSMONAUT seems to be Gagarin i charmine person. He's slight In build, and shorter even than Mr. Kroosh, who barely tops five feet. He is described as calm and self-possessed, and pleas antly spoken. As described by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, he told at his reception in Moscow of all the things he saw out there in the Cosmos. The earth, the sky and the stars. The plowed fields and the meadows which he could differentiate from each other, even at the distance of 200 miles. The shores of con tinents, islands, big rivers and large reservoirs. How the night and the day side of the earth looked from out there in space. How the sun looked, and the remote planets and stars. It was a fascinating recital. 1UT D There's a fly in the oint ment. One hates to mention It. It sounds like sour grapes Still ... the fly is there. TT SO happens that in Flor 1 ence (Italy) a space science symposium is in progress. Among those in attendance at the symposium is Mr. A. A. Blagonravov, of the Soviet Academy of Science. Mr. B was interviewed In Flot-ence by a n Associated Press reporter. He told enthu siastically of the' fascinating views of earth and the cosmos obtained by Cosmonaut Gag arin, as quoted by Tass. The reporter listened . . . and jotted down notes. Then, at the end of the recital of what Comrade Gagarin had seen (as officially described by Tass) he asked a question. Hit question was this: "How was Cosmonaut Gagarin able to see all this so clearly? Were there any OPENINGS in the tpace ship through WMte outer earth. Everybody Arms Trad A decision is in the works on American demands that West Germany increase its arms purchases to $400 mil lion a year from the present $250 mUlion to help ease the drain on U.S. dollars abroad. Bonn has offered to increase purchases to $325 million, Washington has been holding out for the higher figure. A compromise is likely. eye for the United States of America - not merely for the old Eisenhower Administra tion and the new Kennedy Administration. The Republic cans deserve credit for not taking the occasion for am bush shooting at the Demo crats. The Democrats deserve credit for not shouting around that their chief, Mr. Kennedy, hat had only three months to direct tpace work whereas Mr. Eisenhower had ' eight years. To be sure, no matter how long Mr. Eisenhower was here, he is here no longer and the .burden falls on Mr. Ken nedy. But though all this is perfectly true, so far as it goes, it all means nothing whatever now against the one mortal question: When and how will we catch up with the Soviet Union? v ; The great, recognized ne cessity, of course, is to get on with the job. And In the mean time, the first necessltly, as teen by top leaders in both parties, it to lead this coun try into a responsible reac tion to the Soviet triumph. '' ;. ."' ' WE cannot afford simply to deny that it was a tri umph; fooling ourselves is not the indicated course. Nor is there any doubt that the Soviet Union's hand has been greatly strengthened, among the neutral and new nations, to whom - nothing succeeds like success. ' . But, having said this it Is necessary also to say that we shall make a great mistake if we' act as though we were flapping in panic. The news is bad; but it is far from hope less. It Is not being unduly opti mistic to point out that in the whole history of major Bcien-tific-mllitary discoveries the second-starter has very often won the race in the end. For a small example, the British in "the First World War had in the new tank an unan swerable weapon - until the Germans developed an anti tank gun that became better than the tank. Again, the United States only a few years ago had an absolute atomic monopoly and tried in vain to share it sensibly with the world. To day, the Russians are heavily competing there. It is not nec essary to dust off the fable of the tortoise and the hare to suggest that nearly every real race has more than one lap. A GOOD many nations even including some o f our friends - are enjoying our discomfort at the moment, as anyone can find with only a little moving about In the for eign community here. The big, rich fellow always evokes a certain malicious pleasure when he stumbles, even .from those who really like him. But all this will pass; and there also is a point of an honestly . solid satisfaction. What the Russians have done has greatly improved the Washington . climate in one way. The whole thrust of po litical effort in both parties will now be turned more and more to the grand issue of our time, the cold war, and less and less to the comparl tively trivial domestic issues which otherwise would be en gaging both parties far too much. which he could SEE?" Scientist Balgonravov re plied: "THERE WERE NONE." The reporter: "How then could Mr. Gagarin see all this?": - Mr. Blagonravov: "BY RADIO." TJMMMMMMM The Soviets may have radios by which one can see. We othert haven't. Or ... . Blagonravov may have meant to say BY TV. But he didn't say that. And he is a scientist. Scientists are supposed to speak with ac curacy when they speak. 'THERE may, of course, have been a TV set in the space ship. There may have been a screen before the eyes of Cosmonaut Gagarin, and h e may have been describing what he saw on the screen. But the story, as told by Tass, certainly conveys the impres sion that he saw it all with hit naked eye. ' And how could he have seen it all with his naked eye if thee had been no opening In the spaceship? .'.-.' r 4
