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Newspaper Page Text4 A- MedfordTbibuns "Every ona In Southern Oreloa n A - ih- Mall THhnn." ' Pub!i:htd"5aily except SUvrAmy by S3 Morth Fir St., Ph. SP 2-6141 ' SnnKRT w RUHL. Editor , HFRB GREY. Advertiilnf Manager r.rRAi.n t I.athanl Bus. Mbt. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Mnl. Editor EARL B ADAMS, civy Bailor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor ; OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor riAl.E EH Liuufl. tarcuiauon mar. An IndeDcndent Newspaper Inured second clue matter it Hedlora. weaon, unacr ax .March 3, 1897 mf r-nlPTION RATES By MaU In Advance, Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Dally and Sunday 6 moa. 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moi. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4 0 f.rri.r Tn Aritfanpa -Medford Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hili. V Phoenix, Shady Cove. Roffue ruv- Talent and on motor routes, Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily ana ouncny mu. ; Carrier and Dealers copy 100 All Terms Caan in Aavance "official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International fuu Leasca wire V fl. Telephoto Newsplcturea "itEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU a.a.r.talni. Ranreientative: WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC. Of . ; In Nw Vnrk. Chlcaeo. Do, troit San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St Louis, At- lanta, Vancouver, NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION At E0ITORIAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tht fllei of The Mall Tribune- 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO May t, 1851 (Tuesday) Alf Mekvold, 50, superin tendent of schools at Rogue River, yesterday was appoint ed to fill the unexpired term of the late Charles R. Bow man as county auperlnten dent of schools. - Medford's new statute of liberty, dedicated to the Boy Scouts of America, was un veiled yesterday at ceremo; niei at Hawthorne park. 20 YEARS AGO May M (Thursday) The state highway com mission has awarded a con tract tor widening and resur facing the highway xrom v-en-tral Point to the Jackson Miintv line. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The : Rumor crop hereabouts Is now ...a. than the weed crop, , B , , and no way to nop eiuier or mem. . , SO YEARS AGO May 1931 (Friday) ' The gasoline price war Is continuing here with gas now costing from 12V4 to 14 cents per gallon. The county court has turn ed down a request from the West Side Development asso ciation for a highway along the west side of the valley. 40 YEARS AGO May . (Sunday) Nearly two-thirds of the $7,000 worth of Crater Lake National Park company stock that has been assigned to this area has already been sold. Six auto parties are camped t the city park grounds today. 10 YEARS AGO u.. a. 1811 IMonday) 1 Three persons were Injured yesterday wnen an emu " i - KnifffU rnllirled on norsc ph West Main st. 1 rnnrtfr1 on COn- itruction of a new bridge the Rogue river at Derby. . WkJal'i Year I.Q.7 k,t u auMrlar! even ar el$M l encelknH five er illlMS. 1. How many nieces of sil ver did Judas receive for be traying Jesus? 2. What were the magic words used by All Baba in the "Arabian Nights," to en ter the cave of the forty thieves? 3. Are chinchilla coats gen erally blue-gray, tan or red dish? 4. Is palindrome a dance pavilion, beehive, or sentence that reads the same backward as forward? 5. "Devil's bedposts," is a term applied to which play ing card? , e. Was it Noah, or Daniel, Webster who complied the first American dictionary? 7. Are there approximately 150,000, 200,000 or 250,000 physicians In the U. S.? 8. Epilepsy is a contagious disease; true or false? 9. Docs tablespoon consti tute 13, V4, or Vt fluid ounce? 10. The mule Is t hybrid ani mal; true or false? Aaswersi 1. 90. 2. Open Ses ame. I. Blue-fray. 4. Sentence. (. Four of Clubs. I. Noah, 7. 200,000. I. raise. I. V, fluid unc. 10. True. MONDAY, MAY. . 1161 Self-Censor What? President Kennedy's request for self-restraint and "self -censorship" by trie press in handling matters of national security has brought few un qualified replies from the nation's newsmen. The problem is that military Becrets never come stamped as such. The President has asked us not to tell what it is we don't know about something we haven't seen. It isn't an easy request to follow. eo.ee 0 IT USED to be simple. and self-censorship by 1 L - 1 1 ?l - J aooui wnen snips saiiea Today we wouldn't if we were shot by it. An example of the have in mind: A couple of months ago the city council of a small Florida town suddenly canceled its plan to sell its old municipal airport to a private op erator. The local newspaper asked why and got no answer and said so in print. Then unmarked four-engine transport planes began landing tnere at night. The Air Force, finally cornered by the editor, explained that the USAF was using the field for routine training exercises. The paper printed this. Then a boy, on the edge of the field, skinned, Spanish-speaking guard. Police refused to file charges, savin? asked them not to. The time, said so. . IN RETROSPECT, this looks like an obvious one. Before the Cuban invasion, however, it looked like hanky-pank at city hall and Gestapoism from Washington. Heavy handed tactics, Questionable policy and failure to take the press into confidence definitely endangered security.' - Put simply, the United States cannot grant use of its shores as a staging area for nefarious plots and retain an uncensored press. The Presi dent shouldn't sidestep the issue. Capital Jour nal, Salem ..;....!: 'Oregon Almanac' A book, which is really a library in itself, has nist come from the presses of Binford & Mort, Portland book publishers. It is "The Oregon Almanac and Book of Facts," with a, dating for 1961-62. And packed full of facts it is, 607 pages in all, with a very complete index. witn this book and the Oregon Blue Book, published by the secretary of state, and Mc- Arthur's "Oregon Geographic Names," publish ed Dy tne uregon Historical Society, and "Who's Who in Oregon." (alas with no edition later than 1948-49) one does have information about Oreeon and Oreeronians . . . I TO SHOW how comprehensive it is we list some of the categories covered : The natural environment, geology, climate; natural resources in forests, water, aericulture. wildlife, minera s: history and government, cultural development, public health; industry and commerce; transpor tation, communications; recreation. The text is rich with maps and pictures and statistical tables. The book is packed with data you can quickly find the suicide rate, the marriage rate, the di vorce rate, how much gold was mined in 1958, champions in basketball, and many more facts. ine oooK win be indispensable for libraries and schools and a valuable addition in home libraries, especially where there are children in school. Busy editors surely will lean on it heavily. now n we would only get a new edition of "Who's Who in Oreeon" our workiner reference books on Oregon would uregon statesman, balem This Isn 't Pertinent When a couple Republican hatchetmen in the United States Senate decided to oppose confirma tion of Howard Morgan eral .Power Commission the national chairman of the Republican Party, Sen. Thruston Morton, said -he didn't see much political mileage in the case they were making. Their case involves the arrest of Mr. Morgan when he was a young man. He was arrested for having intervened in a fight in which a truck driver was administering a beating to his boss, and he was arrested and later released on a charge of having a stolen tire in his possesion, a tire that his employer had given him. As Mr. Morgan said, when he appeared before a senate committee which is investigating his past, "these are old stories in Oregon." They are. Political enemies of Howard Morgan in this state dredged up the stories long ago so long ago that we had forgotten them. TPHE Eugene Register - Guard in writing of Howard Morgan several years ago came up with the best description of him we've heard tough guy in a Brooks Brothers suit. Howard Morgan is a tough guy who is fearless. Because he plays politics the tough way he has made many enemies. But his fiercest enemies must re spect him for his honesty. Howard Morgan wouldn t use against a po litical enemy the type of thing that is being used against him by some Republican members of the Senate. He plays it hard but he doesn't play it that way. There isn't any political mileage in what they are doing, as the leader of their party has saia. If they want to prevent the seating of Mr. Morcan on the FPC thev'd better come un with something pertinent What they are doing now is nou renaieton bast You used self-restraint not publishing stories -1 L or wnen iroops leu. know a military secret type the President may who always had played was wounded by a darK- that federal officials had paper, indignant by this a storehouse of useful be quite complete. as a member of the Fed uregonian Dennis the Menace 'We 4V decided tqmbtya 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 initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not contrary is otten the case. The City's Welfare To the Editor: Thank you so much, Mr. Ladd, for not being content to remain quiet on this issue! 270,000 pounds of solid mud? (or 135,000 tons?). My word, that must be an accumu lation of at least ten years Someone's been a pretty poor housekeeper, I d say. -. In all the letters I nave written I have never, know ingly, hurt any one individual nor any group. I have tried to say only those things which were necessary to say. Some of you, who are on the council and you, Mr- Mayor, may have felt that I had my finger point ed straight at you. I pointed no finger - you pointed it yourself. Then, as if that were not enough, Your Honor, you came out with this inane no tice about cleaning out the reservoir, telling us to store water in case the water must be shut off. Even that -wasn't enough! You had to Invite us, "the writers," to come measure it and report it to the press if we don't believe you. I think you're probably a little de flated by now since neither of us "writers ' showed up. I think, and I'm certain the majority of the people agree that this was the only "gim mick" you cguld think of to get back at us. As I've said in previous let ters, I love all people, includ ing you, Mr. Mayor, and the city' council and I have no malice toward anyone of you. However, it seems you do not feel likewise. Isn't this sup posed to be a free country? And who was it that called me after my first letter to con gratulate me on it and encour aged me to keep it up? Who was It that said we needed to "stir up" the people of Gold Hill? Hmm? Alright! I "stirred "em up!" I gave them my Ideas of what is wrong in our city- I helped them do some deep thinking about this filtration plant. Mrs. Stewart did a great deal to give our people ' clearer picture of the actual cost,, etc Now, for some reason, you seem to be afraid to have our city stirred up. You refer to Mrs. Stewart and myself as the "writers" - like we had leprosy, maybe. Make up your mind, Your Honor - are you really think ing of the welfare of the city and its people? Mrs. R. P. Corona 904 5th ave Oold Hill, Ore. Asks "No" Vole To the Editor: In regard to the $120,000 filtration plant bond Issue for Gold Hill, I now have in my possession the exact costs of a 25-year Issue paid off in approximate ly equal annual installments. I received these figures from the Portland head office of one of our leading national banks, and I will show them to anybody who wishes to see them. At 6 per cent interest, which the ballot measure authorizes, the total cost would be $235, 660. Even if the bonds sold at 5 per cent, the total cost would still be $212,700. I don't think anyone can truth fully deny the accuracy of these figures. Voters, don't rely on any promises concerning water rates or meters Even If it were possible to keep water rates or meters. Even it it be collected by special assess ments, higher taxes, or prac tically any means the council chooses. The money would have to be raised one way or another. Certainly It Isn't likely we will have the same mayor and councilman for the next 25 years, so any promises tvnw the umbrelia.' necessarily represent the views of the paperi in fact the made now, even If they were sincere, would not be binding on future councils. There isn't a thing in this ballot measure that says wa ter meters won't be installed, or that water rates will only be $4.75 a month. If anybody could have guaranteed this, why didn't they put it in the ballot measure? Of course no body can guarantee such thing! Please don't be misled, and please don't neglect to cast your vote on Tuesday, May 0. Let's have an overwhel ming "No" vote that wlll def- initely settle this question so it won t be brought up again In the near future. Vera Stewart, , . 619 Fifth ave., Gold Hill, Ore. i Red CIA? To the Editor: I Just read another article about the un believable bungling of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Cuban rebel invasion And make no mistake about it, there is proof that Amer ica was 100 per cent responsi ble for its failure. If our C.I.A. is so heavily infiltrated with Communists as to sabotage a simple opera tion of that kind,, what chance would our country have in a real war? - It is time the people de manded that the Communists be cleaned out of all our gov ernment agencies, for they are just as thick in the others. But here is the question -who is there to clean them out? Russia says she will take us by 1974 without firing a shot. Wake up people before It is too late! It is almost too late now. Leila A. Morrow S31 N. Bartlett st. Medford -O- P.S.-As an afterthought -what good does it do to fire the Commies from their gov ernment joos? They just go to the Supreme Court and the court makes the government hire them back. It has done this In 93 per cent of the cases that have come before it. Looks like first we will have to clean house at the Supreme Court. , A Matter of Freedom To the Editor: The problems are still with us. I have been reading articles, editorials, communications, etc., on the Cuban fiasco and its after math Suggestions of volun tary censorship. I think E. A.'s editorial was correct according to later re porters who took advantage of "freedom of the press," His answer to Mildred Engman May 3 is also correct and thought provoking. I pasted the E. A. editorial In my scrap book for posterity. I have 3 great grandchildren, and I am sending in a com munciation I wrote during the depression some years ago, which is pasted in my scrap book. I am conceited, I save my scraps. I have just been reading an article, "Freedom of the press injected into the code for newspapers." It seems to echo the thought of many people today. I quote: In times of great emergency the constitu tion may be suspended ev eryone is called upon to waive, for the time being, his private rights and selfish In terests for the common good. referring to the first amend ment. I wonder if suppression of freedom of press would be for the common good? , Our forefathers gave up prestige, wealth, ease and even safety to gain the very things this first amendment guarantees us. Shall we give up freedom of speech, press MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON Foreiqn News: Berlin NATO; Subversion By PHIL MEWSOM CPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: NATO Problems The NATO session In Oslo this week undoubtedly will take a fresh look at the long i m m e r ing Berlin prob lem. The Rus sians have w'm siana nave ""f.I done nothing At 1 about Berlin f JK1 for' months. letting it Sit quietly in the back ground while they stirred up Newiora trouble elsewhere in the world. -' But the .West feels that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev won't let that sit uation prevail much longer. He is likely to raise the ques tion of Berlin again soon-per- haps this summer-and set off another serious international crisis. Some of the European NATO members feel the West should have a plan ready to counter any Such move, al- and religion (if we lack vigi lance to preserve any part we wiU soon lose all) for pros perity and ease? What we need in this time of depres sion is discussion, . something to stimulate thought. Cicero said "There are two ways of ending a dispute, by discussion or by force. The latter manner is simply that of brute beasts, the former is proper to beings gifted with reason." . . . Have we lost all our stamina, are we going to let our public schools go too? If so we had just as well come' down off our hind legs and crawl back into the cave and let a "na tion of the people, by the people and for the people" perish from the earth. Charity R. Sander 408 Oak Grove rd., . Medford. ' A Fair Wage To the Editor: People with ideas like F. J. Clifford are the ones who cause countries to fall to communism. v When the working people of a country don t receive a fair share of what a country produces and are kept on a starvation wage, then commu nist or socialist ideas start to grow. '. Does Clifford believe In subsidies? 'He is advocating the workers subsidize the pear grower by accepting less than he earns, that the grower stay out of the red. If there isn't enough de mand for a product and the price high enough, that every one working or involved in that industry cannot have a fair wage or fair return for money invested, let's discon tinue that industry until such demands arise. Why discriminate against the most underpaid group of workers in the West by deny ing them the same privileges enjoyed by other groups? What good would It do to picket at any time other than during harvest seasons? Doesn't Newbry have an in- terest in pears or own an or chard or packing house or something of that sort? Mr. Clifford, I diagnose your case as acute Republi canitls in the last stage and there is no known cure for you,' but as your numbers and kind diminish, the threat of communism will gradually disappear. Johnle Minor P. O. Box 12 Shady Cove, Ore. American Way To the Editor: As the dec ades of the nineties recede further into the past, we real ize its significance as the be ginning of a new age. But few short hours have passed since the occurrence of a spec tacular nineteen minute flight, in which America's first as tronaut soared 115 miles above the earth. Inside a spacecraft appropriately termed Freedom 71. The probe Into space, as well as many other progres sive accomplishments tend to make us stop and ponder, as to how the age we live in is capable of such a tremendous burst ot progress. But in re ality it is plausible. We are living in an age where young and old alike reach out for knowledge. It Is this quest for knowledge that Is leading us to the peak . of our abilities and to the height of luxury. For it Is this very essence of the At.ierican way that will able our nation to excell, In all we strive to achieve. Miss Nancy Breeze 921 Murny ave. Medford. though some diplomats In Washington and London have counseUed a waiting game of letting "sleeping dogs lie." Apparently no new- solution has thus far emerged on the Western side. Nationalist China Informed sources In Taipei say Nationalist China soon will disclose it has evidence ot a widespread Communist plan to spread subversion throughout the entire Middle Washington Report By William S. White (ci United Feature Syndicate ' Washington Though it would be unwise to overstate the thing, at least some prog- r e s s is being made at 1 a s t toward a gen eral hemis phere solution to the Castro menace. What the United States has long sought and White wnat lor I n e first time now seems possible : is a common front of Amer ican republics against the Communist satellite Fidel Cas tro has raised up in Cuba. Two factors have suddenly improved the prospect. One, ironically, arises from the lost invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro patriots which the United States government indirectly supported. Though the patri ots had a bloody setback, and the United States a heavy loss in immediate prestige, the epi sode now turns out to have its useful side. . . . FOR several Latin-American governments, which had pooh-poohed the danger to all the hemisphere from Cuba, are having second thoughts. If the invasion produced mili tary defeat, it also forced these governments to recog nize that the United States itself was- most truly . con vinced of that danger. The very fact that we asso ciated ourselves with so des perate a venture has proved to them the actuality of our concern. And, for the second factor, Castro himself has now con vinced all except those who will never be convinced not even by his own words that imperialist Communism has been extended to this hemis phere. This was his open ac knowledgment that Cuba has become a Communist nation and will dispense hereafter with such outmoded affairs as elections. He has gone beyond even his Soviet masters in brutally candid rejection of any claim to democratic proc esses. Even in Russia they run elections" of a sort. TRUE, not even this has been enough to shake those here who continue to assert that Castro Cuba is no men ace to this country not this and not all the military intel ligence and other information available to the President, the Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) General Features Corp. SUCCESS CAN SUFFER How relative a matter is age, how fragile a thing called success. Ever since President K e n n e d y's election, have slunk around feeling ash amed of myself. He and I are exactly the same age, give or take a few weeks. I Harris used to feel I had done fairly well for my self. Now, when my mother comes to visit, she sits read ing the paper and clucking, "My, my, that Kennedy, such a young man and gone so far!" During previous administra tions, she was proud of me. After all, I had been writing my own column since the age of 25, and friends still sent her clippings of my stuff from newspapers all over the coun try. e Then, last November, every thing changed. Here was an other young man of 43, who was suddenly catapulted into the White House. My medals began to look tarnished in deed. There was a silent re proach In her glance what was wrong with me, anyhow, not to have gotten further in the world? I think that every Ameri can male in his early 40s felt much the same way. The Ken nedy victory was a blow to our pride and self - esteem. Whatever little plot of glory we had staked out for our selves began to look small and Inconsequential. The ugly word "failure'' trailed us about. sCsVs-aJI May Again Plague in Middle East. Much of the Information concerning the Red plan comes from a radio operator in the Communist Chinese embassy in Cairo. He defected recently and now is in For mosa, where he has been re ported spilling all he knows for' the past five months. East Germany Communist East Germany is having more economic trou bles. Officials there fear they face another food shortage, secretary of state and the Joint chiefs of staff. But it has been enough to shake this hemisphere's lead ers. And these include some who up to now had flatly refused to see any peril to their own countries or to ac cept any part of their own responsibility. Brazil is an illustration. Un til Castro had said in words of few-syllables that Cuba had become "a socialist republic" the precise term used by the Russians for their own "republic" Brazil had shared a happy delusion. Castro was only demanding "self-determination" for his people. SINCE he himself now plain ly declares that his people will do no more voting to de termine anything whatever, there has been a big turn. Messages from Brazilian Pres ident Janio Quadros to Castro now take a chill tone. And almost in one voice the Bra zilian press now calls for a conference of all the Ameri can republics to consider the Castro problem. Only such a conference could open the way for hemis phere action against Castro. And its very "meeting would affirm what has heretofore been denied by many in Latin America: That Castroism is not just a matter for t h e United States but rather for all in this hemisphere. This is exactly what we have always urged. And this some influential Latin-American diplomats now accept In private conversations here. ' THUS there is a slow growth of awareness that the old policy of "non-intervention" so dear to the Latins is no longer any good. It used to mean no interference in one American republic's internal affairs by another specifi cally and mainly by the United States. But Cuba now is by no possible definition an "inter nal affair." Here is a bald ex port Into this hemisphere of a very external thing, indeed the Soviet system backed by Soviet power. Thus, in the words of PresI: dent Mario Echandi of Costa Rica, non-intervention is an "outdated obstruction to inter American unity." And it is also an outdated obstruction to inter-American safety. (Copyright. 1961. by United Features Syndicate Inc.) That boyish grin, that re fractory lock of hair, that lithe athletic frame the whole image of our President is a constantly disturbing re minder that those others of us in his age group have been falsely preening ourselves with our tiny triumphs. We have been shown up for the hollow men we really are, headpieces filled with straw. "Care to look at today's column?" I asked my mother with a bright and hopeful smile. '.'Column, shmolumn," she shrugged, "I see where President Kennedy's really cracking down on the Laos situation such a blrlliant and energetic man, and would you believe it, only 43, your own age!" I crawled Into my study, tore the cover off my type writer, and batted out a red hot letter addressed to The White House, accusing the administration of gross stu pidity in its handling of the Laotian crisis. What else could a self-respecting man of 43 do? Occasionally, at lunch with other members of my peer group, an uneasy silence falls over the table. In the midst of our talcs of victory, In the market-place or on other fronts, the name "Kennedy" is wafted into our conscious ness and we half-heartedly settle the bill, murmur fare wells, and slouch back to our offices, feeling as heavy and lost as Willy Loman lugging those two suitcases across New England. I know one anti Kennedy bloc that can't wait until '64, that's all. cast been and consequently many shops are selling butter only to their regular customers. Pork also is short. And East Ger many's industrial production is so weak and hamstrung by Red fumbling that steel im ports from West Germany are playing a big role In keeping some of it in operation at all. An East German radio com mentator admitted recently that steel delivery delays from West Germany caused serious trouble. China Wheat ' The Red Chinese have been pretty unhappy with Canada over all the publicity given their huge wheat purchases. Sources say the Communists made mild threats that they would not conclude the latest $362 million wheat deal with Canada unless they got assur ances it would.be kept quiet. They got no such promises from Canada and went ahead with the deal anyway be cause they needed the wheat, regardless of the publicity. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is written on a Sunday evening. We have just come from tea. As illustrating the smallness of this modern world, our tea companion was Bishop Dagwell, of Portland. He has been in Europe for several months, and is leaving 'in a day or two for home. We ran into him casually in. the hotel lobby yesterday. He came to London from Rome. THE tea hour in England is an ancient institution, and a very pleasant one. Four o'clock comes, life relaxes. You drop whatever you are doing and head for your fav orite tea place, if it happens to be within reach. If it isn't within reach, you head for the nearest tea place. Preferably, you join friends for somewhere in the neigh borhood of a half hour of companionship. You do not merely drink a cup of tea and go on your way. With your tea, you have sandwiches, andor cakes or biscuits. , The tea hour isn't a mascu line institution or a feminine Institution. Men and women mingle. In the tea room, whether it is big or little, ' there is a steady buzz of con versation. It is really an in between afternoon meal, and as a result the English are apt to have their dinners quite late. As the tea hour approached the other day, we were walk ing along Piccadilly and paused before the establish ment of Fortnum & Mason Ltd., a very old and very dis tinguished London food store. So we went in, not to buy food but to look. What we saw was interesting. For example: The salesmen . . . and there were many of them . . . were attired in formal morning wear - cut away, coats and striped trous ers, except for top hats the same garments in which Pres ident Kennedy was inaugu rated. They weren't just re ceiving the customers. Nor were they merely looking on and seeing to it that all went well. They were making sales to customers. To American eyes, It was an unusual sight - illustrative of the fact business is done in different ways in different places. Imagine working clothes like that in an American-cash and carry food em porium! The customers obviously liked it, and expected it - and that's the important part. AT THE rear of the store, down a flight of steps, was the tea room. One needed no direction to find it. The pleas ant hum of conversation was guide enough. , As we entered, the room was already nearly filled. At one table was there a vacancy. It was a table for four, with only one occupant, an English woman. The maid asked it we might be seated there and received a smiling answer in the affirmative. We dropped immediately into conversa tion, and it developed that our table companion has a daugh ter who is teaching at Mills College. She hopes to visit her In the not too distant future. ANOTHER indication that the modern world is shrinking in size. There was a time when it would have taken weeks to get from Lon don to San Francisco. As of now, this pleasant English mother could leave her Lon don home this morning and by tomorrow evening she could be with her daughter In the Bay Area. e OVER on this side It is un mistakably obvious that Americans are on the move. The hotels are full of them. The streets are full of them. The tour busses are filled with them. But one needs only to listen to learn that the English are Just as much interested in travel as are the Americans. All over the world, people's feet are Itching.