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4 A "I-rtryone In Southern, Oreioo Reads The Mall Tribune" tubluhed Dally except Saturday by r MEDFORD CO. to North rir St., Ph. SPa-8141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertillng Manager GERALD T. LATHAM. Bin. Mgr. IWcTw ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor KARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAri. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHBR, Women's Editor DALE EBICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter At : Medford, Oregon, under .Act of , 'I. March 3, 1887 , '- SUBSCRIPTION RATES V By Mall In Advance, Copy loo . f Dally and Sunday I year 15.00 i Dally and Sunday mos. - 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 mos. 4.28 ". Sunday Only-One year 84.S0 By Carrier In Advance Medford .vAshland, Central Point Eagle -Point., Jacksonville, Gold Hill, ,;. 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The new city water pipe line was cut into, the old rin take at Big Butte springs to day and water was atfaln flow ing normally. -30 YEARS AGO . '..,',,., April 19, 1941 Saturday) The Medford High school band won top rank in its class in state contest at From Arthur Perry' "Y if Tiudlt rev column: -jwery t ling U growing like weed, Knt nnt a wall as a weed V.0 aiiaU la up as high u : the yellow mustard in vacant lots and rural lieiai. , 10 YEARS AGO April 19, 1931 (Sunday) Miss Helen Bullls has been named head of the Medford committee of the Jackson County Health association. The Bagley Canning com pany of Ashland plans to pack Rogue valley tomatoes t year. 49 YIARS AGO AptU 19. 1911 (Tuesday) The Medford Chamber of Commerce with a ' current membership of 385, is seek ing to up that figure to 450. Ball has been set at 12.900 each for two men accused of the attempted robbery, of Gold Hill bank. SO YEARS AGO .April II, 1111 (Wednesday) City Attorney Porter J. Neff has ruled that Medford resi dents need not pay rent on electric meter boxes that are installed by the Rogue River Electric company, Gov. Oswald West Is visit ing Medford on a southern Oregon Inspection trip. Whal't Your I.Q.7 Nina ran correct Is superior; Sevan or eight Is excellent; (We or ix h seed. 1. The whorls and ridges on human fingers do, of do not, change with age? 2. In liquid -measure how many gills are m a pint? 3. Seven letters In the al phabet are used in Roman Numerals; how many can you name? 4. A portion of Laos bor ders on China; true or false? 5. Name the Federal agency which prints U.S. currency.' 6. Which Jewish organiza tion has the Initials Y.M.H.A.? 7. If you suffered from chrematophobia, would you fear wealth, burning or being burled alive? , 8. How many children con stitute a pair of twins? 9. At a wedding, are the bride's relatives seated on the left, or right side of the church? 10. Usually, in Homer and In later writers, ambrosia , is the food of the gods; what is the drink of the gods? 1. Do not. 2. 4 gills. 3. C,D.I,L,M.V.X. 4. True. 5. Bu reau of Engraving and Print ing. 9. Young Men's Hebrew Association. 7. Wealth. 9. Twp, 9. Left. 10. HecUr. J WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19. 1961 Seashore vs. Shorelands 1 The Oregon Dunes National Seashore pro posal, first made by the late Sen. Richard Neu berger, and more recently by his widow, the present junior senator from Oregon, would, if followed, be a major boon to the state of Oregon, in many different ways. :. , We have supported it from its inception, and Congressman Durno's opposition to it was one of the reasons we did not support him for election last fall. -..'. '.;;. His thinking has changed somewhat regard ing the Dunes area, and last week he introduced his own bill for development and protection of the, Oregon Dunes area, as "Shorelands." , ' 1X7E HAVE not commented on it before 'this " because we did not know exactly what he proposed, but we now have a copy of the bill. 5 Congressman , Durno's bill has some merit. There is a valid question whether the Dunes area is in quite the same class as the great national parks such as Crater, Yosemite, Yellowstone and Olympic. : ". -v At Cape Hatteras, where the only existing National Seashore is located, the regulations and philosophy governing it are somewhat different, both in approach and in application, from those of the scenic parks. . There is more emphasis on active recreation, for one thing, and less on scenic values. , ' .'.:. J)R. DURNO'S bill is reminiscent; of earlier pro posals that some agency of government be made responsible for recreation at a level below that of the great scenic parks, yand above that of the Forest Service camps. , (This is an area now being explored by the Outdoor Recreational Resources Review commit tee, and in our view merits serious consideration.) The Dunes, beautiful and spectacular as they are, still are of a different type of beauty than Crater lake, or than the mid-Cascades between Diamond Peak and Mt. ously believe merits National Tark status. : And popular usage of the Dunes would be different from that in a wilderness type park. ; , : , DUT at that point, we'll have to part company " with Congressman Durno's proposal. We ob ject to it, and for three 1. A Shorelands area ausnices simolv would not Seashore under the National Park Seryice would. The latter would ''put it pn the map"; the former wouldn't. 2.- The Durno hill nrovirlps that. "In earrv- ing out this act,' the Secretary of Agriculture shall recognize that the enjoyment by the public and conservation of the recreation ana scenic values are major purposes of the Shorelands, EXCEPT that he, shall place no unnecessary re strictions on the MULTIPLE purposes to which lands within the, Shorelands may be put." (Em phasis ours.) 1 . v-VH ' , yHAT exception cuts the heart out of the Shore- lands proposal, and would permit it to be administered virtually the same as any other segment of national forest. . Our third objection is related to the second. 8. The Forest Service is devoted to the prin ciple of "multiple use"; an excellent philosophy. very nature, must be restricted to its primary uses recreation primarily, with ecological, con servation, and preservations close behind. , ' By its very nature, the forest service has be come oriented to consumptive use of forest re sourced logging, grazing, and so on. And con sumptive use cannot be justified in such an area. Unless the forest service begins to show evi dence of a greater appreciation of non-consumptive use for areas primarily suited for them; un less it demonstrates a greater belief in the im portance of preservation and recreational values, we cannot believe it would be the proper agency to administer such an area. 17E HAVE other Jesser objections to the con f gressman's proposal. The area is somewhat smaller than the Neuberger plan calls for, and is distributed differently (although it includes some dunes not included in the other) ; and it excludes the state parks, which should be included if the whole area is to be integrated and effectively and efficiently managed. But the objections listed are the main ones. ; So we continue to believe that the Oregon Dunes National Seashore would be one. of the state's major assets and attractions. On an economic basis alone, it would do more for the state's well-being than if the entire area were devoted to forest products industries. Tourists are a "crop" renewable annully; lumber is a crop renewable in 60 to 100 years. The Seashore plan merits the strong support of all Oregonians who hope for both beauty and prosperity in the state's future. E.A. Academy Award? . Some days we feel very, very old. Monday night was such an occasion, as we watched televised portions of the Academy Awards ceremonies in Hollywood. We reacted as follows : 1 They seemed vulgar, unimaginative, cornv. interminable; the choices were atrocious and made with very little regard to real excellence, and the entire performance revealed shockingly not what is right about Hollywood, but what is wrong. ' ..' .. ,. t , ' Movies may be "better than ever." We some times think so. But this tasteless performance was the best argument we've seen to the con trary. KA, - - Jefferson, which we seri principal reasons : under Forest Service be of national note. A of its resources. This is But a Seashore, by its Dennis the Menace 'He used to have a Lime bell but AfoM took it out 'CAUSE I SAID 'HEUO' EVERY TIMS We RINSED IT. 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. The 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 the contrary Is orten th Everybody's Problem ' To the Editor: Regarding the proposed wrecking yard Just out of Talent: Mrs. Flynn and her unhap py neighbors Indeed have our sympathy and understanding. How well we know that sink ing feeling of disbelief that comes .when you hear that your own property is about to be shoved out of its value bracket and plunked into the category of undesirables through no fault of your own. We, too, have pruned and preened, painted and schemed, to make our homes attractive and livable. And we, too, have staring at us an ominous cloud that won't contaminate our landscape as much as it will the air we breathe. Namely, Medco's private log road. Most of us honestly didn't give a lot of thought to some one else's problems. Sort of felt as long as it didn't affect us, there was not much point In fretting. But in seeking a solution to our own problem of the log road, the inadequa cy of protection of . all un zoned Jackson county proper ty has hit home. ; A dusty log road here, wrecking yard there. Some clay perhaps a glue factory over, that-a-way, sf. chemical plant this-a-way. And poor dreaming Mr, What-hls-name will come back from oblivion and find HIS home surround ed by, a fish cannery, a bongo colony and a munitions plant. Of course, he'll have that old sinking' feeling and ' it will' THEN dawn on him that the arrangement of our beautiful little valley really WAS ev erybody's problem. Jackson County . Home Owners Protective Association Route 1, Box 285 Eagle Point, Ore. Pool Protection To the Editor: If my mem ory serves me correctly, there is a City Ordinance which compels residents to protect all fish ponds or pools In their yards. This could save the life of a small child and we think it a very good law. The City of Medford has an open pool In its park on West Main street with only a cement guard around it. Dur ing the summer many people like to sit on the benches there and talk with their friends. Last summer two of these, men who are blind, accidently stepped into this wading pool. They should be entitled to as much consider ation and protection as our children. Summer Is coming fast so how about putting a high rail around this pool to prevent this . happening again? (The waders could duck under). Madge Frederick . 124 King St., , ' Medford. Duck (Not Fish) Story To the Editor: Presence of mind is the soul of manly deeds. Believe me, presence of mind during the early SO's came to me as a necessity. Thus I once chanced to find on a hunting trip an inland lake where several dozen wild ducks were swimming so far apart that ' I could scarcely hope to kill more than one with a single shot. I hnd only one shot left. I wanted to got them all because I expected quite a number of friends for dinner. . . . ; . I remembered a small piece of bacon, the only thing in my hunting bag left over from all the provisions I had taken with me. I fastened it to a long lensh which I in creased In length many times by unraveling it. Then I hid myself In the bulrushes at the shore, threw out my bacon for bait and was very pleased to see the nearest duck swim for It and swallow it. , The rest of the ducks soon MEDFORD MAIL case. there they were, sitting-like pearls on a string. I drew them delightedly ashore wound the string half a dozen times around my chest and proceeded on my homeward way. Their weight became. so great that 1 almost regretted having caught so many. The ducks were all alive and no sooner had ' they; recovered from their shock' than they started to flutter their wings vehemently and. to lift me with them high up Into the air. (The ducks' achievement almost put a man into space.) Many a man would not have known what to do, but I took advantage of it and steered with ' the tails of my coat through the air. When I ar rived above my house, and all depended on my descending without Irijury, I crushed the head of one duck after , an other and thus sank gradually and gently straight through the chimney of my house, and landed, to the surprise-of the cook, right in the center of the kitchen stove.' where for tunately the fire was not yet kindled. :i;;: Should there be people among you who j doubt my veracity, I cannot help but pity their lack of faith, ; '- Grady Conner i' ' 723 W. Jackson st. . ' Medford.:-, ' . Later Than You Think ' ! . To the - Editor: This is an open letter to our state and national legislators: Our Gasoline Dealers Asso ciation has discussed the prob lem of Gasoline price wars many times with our state and national legislators and so far we have had no help. At the present time we seem to be in the biggest gasoline price war I have participated in for the eighteen years I have been in the service sta tion business. The present war extends from Seattle to San Diego. I realize that the major oil company monopolies want no legislation to control their ac tivities, but it seems they have a tiger by the tail with their subsidy plan. (Subsidy plan is where the majors and the service station operators both absorb part of the loss on the sale of gasoline during a price war, which the operators can not afford, and is usually done at the suggestion of the majors. This would probably account for the 40 turn-over of leased station operators.) We have a case In bur area -when our price war started of three leased station oper ators of different .brands In the same locality collaborat ing in taking the selling price way below the anticipated selling price by simultaneous ly postlne curb siens and therefore advising their com pany representatives that they were only meeting , competi tion. ' They did this because they were angry and frus trated, realizing that it would hurt themselves, but hoping mat it would hurt their sup pliers more and helD force thfe major monopolies to start a price clearing effort. We will never have a solu tion to price wars on a wide area basis until the subsidy plan is eliminated. This would be extremely easy to do by repealing the justifica tion clause in the Robinson Patman Act, which would force the major monopolies to do all of their fighting at wholesale. This would force them to have a realistic whole sale, or tank wagon price on gasoline and would benefit all the buying public. If our state wanted to lead the way, all that would have to be done is legisIate-"The wholesale price shall be the same to all retailers, with the exception of freight differ ential and quantity discounts' nftflmrtng that j s BUlfiSi! TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Nixon's Neglect of Neqro Vote Campaign - ' By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPB A press release from News Alliance of New York got less attention last week than it deserved. The release was legiti mate ballyhoo for an article in Ebony mag azine, a peri odical devoted to the inter ests of Amer. ican Negroes, The author was E. Frederick Morrow who was described as the first Negro-ever appoint ed as a White House aide. And who appointed Mor row? Not Franklin D. Roose velt who mined 24 carat po litical gold from the . votes of American Negroes. Nor was Harry S. Truman the ap pointing president although Truman, like FDR, was a vol uble political champion of the Negro and beneficiary of his vote. Morrow was appointed by Dwlght D. Eisenhower. The Republicans never chal lenged FDR or HST on the issue of first class jobs for Negroes, especially in or around the White House. It sometimes occurred to politi cal commentators hereabouts to wonder why. Perhaps the Bills Approved By Legislature Salem - (UPD - Measures ap proved Tuesday: By the Senate ' . SB178-Elevator installation and operation. SB324-Local budget law. - B510-Facilities on a right of way., HB1185-Raising salaries of governor arid top state offi cials. - -. ' HB1186-Frozen desserts. HB1215 - Commercial ani mal feeds. HB12ia-School district elec tions: HB128L-Board of Control scholarship program. HB1339-Planning gifts and grants. HB1362-Cemetery in Clack amas county. :. HB1457-Astpria - M e g 1 e r bridge ' '.' ',;' HB147I rUiem plbyment compensation. " HB1476-X,etting women use guns. . : HB1494-Relating to water carriers. ' HB1499 -Relating to ports and joint contracts. . HBI523-Effective date for annexations. -HB1559-Relating to vehi cles, v v HB1603-Rural school dis tricts. ." . v . HB1613 J- County mainte nance districts.- HB1614 - Domestic water supply corporations. HBI647-Farm labor crews. HBl658-Corrimercial fisher ies. ' v HB1684-Nursing home ad ministrators, i. HB1699-Penitentiary - cor rectional institution revolving fund. '-. HBI718-Food fish or shell fish retail dealers' licenses. HB1723-Investment of state funds. . , HB1734-Dispositlon of game fines. HB1735-Dispositlon of com mercial fishing law fines. -By the House HB1568- Requirements for oil and gas well drilling. HBI700-Rights of blind pe destrians. HB1253-Frozen desserts. HB1531, 1532-Offshore oil exploration. Georgia-Pacific Trial Dates Set Portland ' (UPD - Federal Judge Gus Solomon Tuesday set dates of May 16 and July 19 for trials of suits against the Georgia-Pacific corpora tion brought by a stockholder. The suits were brought by Robert S; Gaynor of New York, who owns 70 shares of G-P stock., The May 16 case alleges improper granting of stock options last year to Jack Brandis, then a G-P vice presi dent and now a director, and the July 19 case alleges over payment for purchase of Ply wood Products company, Cor- vallis. Fight To End Gas Price War Said Lost Portland - (UPD - The presi dent of the Oregon Gasoline Dealers association said Tues day the battle to end the cur rent price war had been lost. Virgil Rukke told dealers that as long as there were price signs there will be a price war. The OGDA last week had asked dealers to re move the price signs. Prices remained at 21.9 and 22.9 cents at most stations for regular gasoline. t later than you think for 40 per cent of us. Roy Copping 112 East 11th ave. Bugnna. Ors May Have Republicans were afraid of offending their potential white, conservative support ers in the southern states. The implication of Mor row's article is that Nixon's campaign attitude toward Ne groe voters probably cost him the presidency. Morrow was trying to upgrade Republi cans with Negro voters, the release explains, and adds: "Morrow made a futile ef fort to convince Vice Presi dent Nixon of the need to ac tively campaign among Ne groes. His advice was un heeded and he found himself shunted aside while traveling with the Nixon party. Morrow told Ebony reporters that he tried to reach Nixon to get him to Intervene in behalf of Rev. Martin Luther King-to no avail." " King, chief spokesman for southern Negroes, experienced Feared and Hated Leader of Africans Holds Key By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Jpmo Kenyatta, a bearded, aged--African-who stands at the center of the fear and un rest torment ing Kenya, met newsmen for the first time in eight years the oth er day and denied the British de scription that he is the "Af rican leader to mm Newsom darkness and death." , Eight years ago Kenyatta was convicted as the leader of the -Mau-Mau, a terrorist or ganization with rites so de grading they have not been publicly described to this day. ; Before the end of the emer gency, 93 Europeans had died in various forms of butchery. Also dead in the fighting were nearly 2,500 African civilian and military person nel and more than 10,000 ter rorists. V: In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ' In . Washington the other day two government agencies - the Weather Bureau and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - con firmed what most of us have known for a long time ... that tnere is little you can do about the weather. except talk about it.".:-.. .,. . . .- Thus . . . after manv lona years . and many millions of dollars . ; . we get back to little Tommv Jinks and his sapient observation that "no body knows what the wevver finks." - Which, perhaps, is just as Well.- If SOMEBODY ELSE could do something about the weather, he d be pretty sure to do something WE wouldn't like. MAJOR Gagarin, the Rus sian cosmonaut, explained the other day when he got back from his trip around the world in 89 minutes (it took Phlneas Fogg, Jules Verne's fanciful science fiction hero, 80 days to do-it some three quarters of a century ago) that in some ways it's really easier to do your work in the state of weightlessness that prevails out in space, away from the pull of gravity. I think we can all agree that It would at least be easier to climb stairs. One could just FLOAT up. BUT There would be problems. Your cup of coffee, for ex ample. Would it sail up to ward the ceiling - and then TURN OVER just at the wrong time? Little things like that could make a mess of the coffee break. SPEAKING of speed -. The progress-in-transporta-tion reporters- tell, us that a 2,000 mph air bus that could whisk you to Europe, or the South Pacific Islands - or, for that matter, to the South Pole if you were foolish enough to want- to -.go there - in 1V5 hours is on the s drawing boards. When it comes, they say, It will have no luxuries. No fancy meals. No drinks. May be no windows to look out of. No more seating space per passenger than in a automo bile with six passengers in it. But, if you get there in an hour and a half, you can stand some crowding. Besides, the fares, in such a speed bus might be as much as a THIRD less than presently prevailing fares. A WORD of advice: Don't get too much excited. . , If work began NOW on such a project, the reporters ex plain, it just MIGHT be ready for use in ten years. The mills of the modern aed sUU grind titbax slowly. Been Election Factor jM(A..!tu . pprn was evidenced v n,.u some minor police difficulty during the campaign. L-anoi-date John F. Kennedy instant ly was on the long distance telephone in behalf of King. Nixon made no move, al though Kennedy's telephone call was nationally publicized. Persons other than Morrow associated with the vice pres ident's campaign remarked his avoidance of Negro con tacts. In so close an election, the Negro vote could be de cisive. , Probably Too Late It probably is too late for Nixon or any other Republi can to regain the Negro vote until the present generations of Negro voters have passed on. President Kennedy is see ing to that. Not a week passes without some evidence of Kennedy administration con cern for Negroes. Last week, for example, this con The . Mau Mau were the sworn enemies of the white man, and before Me ena oi the terror women carried pis tols in their handbags even in the capital city of Nairobi. Said one authority on Kenya politics, "Jomo is the only wholly evil man I have ever known." S a i d .another, "Kenyatta was and is a fanatic and a Communist or as good as one." But it was a different Ken yatta who turned his face to newsmen in the little town of Marlal, Kenya, where the British have him confined some 200 miles from Nairobi. "Forgive them for they know not what they do," he intoned. His leadership, he said, "has not been to darkness and death but to light and prosperity." Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) General Features Corp. INTERVIEWING IS AN ART In his book of stage remi niscences, "A Victorian in Or bit," which I mentioned yes- terd ay, sir Cedric Hard w 1 c k e mis c h ievously gets back at the interview ers who have plagued him with pointed and pointless questions over the last 50 Harris years. Appended to the text is a droll "Handbook for Inter viewers," in which Hardwicke gives some terse and irrever ent answers to the same ques tions he has heard over and over again - and to which, until now, he had dutifully given solemn and pretentious answers, as befits a Knight of the Empire. "What is your advice to young actresses?" is one fre quent question. His admirably succinct, and quite sensible, reply: "Watch cats." How many movies has he made? "To many." How many plays has he appeared in? "Too few." What is an actor's greatest asset? "An audience." How does he choose a part? "I read the contract first." To the most common ques tion, "What do you think of Hollywood?" he answers with almost tender irony, "I be lieve that God felt sorry for actors, so He created Holly wood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent." " In my various travels around the country, imperson ating a lecturer, I am often Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF A NEW JERSEY DELINQUENT was being tried for Hie theft of an automobile. The case was flubbed by the prosecution, however, and the judge was compelled to in- in a verdict of "not guilty." The foreman of the jury thereupon announced du tifully, "Your Honor, we find the crook that stole that car not guilty.' A young man tapped Mr. Wimpfheuner on the back and announced, Td like to apeak to- you about your daughter's hand." "Sit right down, my boy, and tell me more," beamed Mr. Wimp- theyoung man. 'Td like the Jewelry on your daughter's hand ' Screen Writer Philip Dunne wilt never forget the first word spoken by his baby daughter. The Dunnes' black, huge, ferocious dog stared down at the baby In her crib. The baby stared straight back and said very clearly, "Daddy!" C ISO. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Feature Syndicat I in Fall cern was evidenced by news stories reporting that the ad ministration was conducting a drive to recruit Negro col lege graduates for federal jobs. Cecil F. Poole, a Nero, soon afterward was chosen to be U. S. Attorney for the northern district of Cali. fornia. At least one desirable diplomatic post has gone to a Negro. Andrew Hatcher, a Negro,, is No. 2 White House press secretary. The Justice Department Is active on the civil rights front. The President risks offense to Negro voters only in his de cision to postpone until next year any request for further civil rights legislation. Mean time, his administration con centrates on enforcement c2 existing voting rights laws. If Republicans want Negro votes they must prove it. to Future He also denied that he had organized the Mau Mau. " "If I had my way, I would put it In the fire," he said. - Be that as it may, even in confinement, Kenyatta re mains to Kenya's principal native political parties the symbol of their future inde pendence and to the worried European settlers all that is violent and savage. They fear that if Kenyatta returns to leadership not only their property but their lives as well will be endangered. .' As for the African political parties, they have made Ken yatta's immediate release the price of their , cooperation with British efforts to guide Kenya toward independence within two or three years. They demand Kenyatta's immediate release and ind&; pendence now. subjected . to so-called inter views, usually by cub report ers or by radio and TV people with their microphones and tapes. . , In not one interview out of 50 does the interviewer know what questions to ask, or how to ask them. They are always the same tired and unthinking queries, to which we inter viewees soon make stock re plies. If I were awakened out of a sound sleep at 4 a.m. by a strange voice asking, "Where do you get the ideas for your columns," I would mumble, "I steal them," and fall right back to sleep without a break in my dream. The apparent flippancy and brusqueness of Hardwicke's answers are an inevitable re action to the same trite ques tions asked year after year. He knows that the interviewer really cares little about the theater, and knows less; that tomorrow he will be asking idiotic questions of a vivisecy tlonist or a volley-ball player; and that the interview, as it appears in print, will make him sound like a fool, a knave or a dullard, or all three. . The art of interviewing is one of the greatest and rarest talents in communications. In. the hands of a master, like Boswell, we get the "Life of Johnson" - for what is that but an extended interview by. an incredibly tenacious re porter? In the customary hands, what we get is "Sir Cedric, have you become an American citizen?" And who can blame him if he replies: " "No. I doubt whether Eng land could afford to lose India and myself In the same gen? eratlon." 4
