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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY. APRIL 11. 19E2 "Everyone in Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" rSjblUhed Daily except Saturday b MEDFOKD PRINTING CO 3S North rn St., Ph SP 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Managei CEiiAUl T LATHAM Bus Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Mn Edltoi EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Ed.toi OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $19 00 Dally and Sunday 6 mos 8 Ou Dally and Sunday 3 moi 4 25 Sunday Only One year 4 20 farrier In Advance Medtora Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shaay Cove Rogue fl'v mr TnUnt and nn motor TOUteS. Dally and Sunday 1 vear HBOC Dally and Sunday 1 mo ' .50 Carrlei end Dealers -; copv 10c Alt Terms Cash In Advance "Official Paper of City of Medford Offlrial Paperof Jackson County ITnited' P-ess" International Full Leased Wire O.P.LTeJephoto Newsplctures "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advrrtlilne Representative NF.LSON ROBERTS ASSOCI iTP nirlpea In New York Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles seanie rorimnu ucuvci NEWS PA F E K NATIONAL EDITORIAL S v5 ASlSPCfrATIOlN trmnMUAi Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aoril 11. 1952 (Friday) Pickets went on duty in front of the Medford office of the Western Union company At South Central ave. and Ninth St., this morning. The first cloud - seeding flight of the season for the prevention of hail was made here yesterday. 20 YEARS AGO April 11. 1942 (Saturday) United States government authorizes constru c t i o n of $93,000 USO building in Med ford. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A De troit man claims he can take an auto apart in 30 seconds. A locomotive at a crossing could do no better." 30 YEARS AGO April 11. 1932 (Monday) Members of Jackson county court report that limestone facing on new courthouse building at Main si. and Onk- dalc ave. will be completed toon. Jackson county pays bill of $145 to Oregon National Guard for aid in running down ilayprs of Ashland policeman. 40 YEARS AGO April 11, 1922 (Tuesday) Porter J. Neff, Medford, re ports local residents taking active part in Dunbar Opera company in San Francisco. Butte Falls residents report adverse weather conditions re halting construction of new county roads in that area. SO YEARS AGO April 11. 1912 (Wednesday) tin tori Stlltes forest SITV1CC prepares to print maps nf I Craler lake area and make wiinom for firs, UmPeUl,"C I ciara Burton, founder of the national American Red SASSOCIATION &.J!. hrr h"mc in!ed here as an economical, proven, safe and ef- uiui .uiii, ui. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; live oi six is good. 1. According to the Bible, who was the fat Iter of Me thuselah" 2. Which of these games were not played by children of ancient Greece: jumprope. Jacks, marbles, checkers? 3. a columnar pad would most likely be used by an at - - counlant, mat carpenter" 4. What volatile, inflamma ble, liquid hydrocarbon mix ture is used as a fuel? 5. Are the largest yams grown in South Carolina. Fiji Islands or Texas' 6. Is Pablo Picasso famed as a poet, novelist, painter, or sculptor'' 7. Was tile current small j size U.S. currency first placed j Into circulation in 1921, 1029 j or 1932? 8. How much does it cost ! to send an Air Mail postal ' card" 9. In what stale is the win-' ter resort of Aspen' j 10 Who was President of the U S. when Alaska was pur- j chased from Russia in 1867? Answers: 1. Enoch. 2. Chec-, kets. 3. Accountant. 4. Gaso line. 5. Fiji Islands. 6. Paint- I er and sculptor. 7. 1929. 8. 5 I cents. 9. Colorado. 10. Andrew I Johnson. Reapportionment Petitions Petitions to initiate a constitutional amend ment for reapportionment of the state Legislature are now circulating in Jackson county. It is hoped to obtain some 2,500 signatures here out of about bo.OOO statewide on the general election The proposed constitutional amendment would change in some respects the present method of apportioning the legislators among the various counties of the state. At present, it is done (as nearly as possible) strictly on the basis of sible to design a plan based on county representa' tion which is completely cause of the differences "TTHE proposed plan will retain many of the best features of the present apportionment plan. The Senate would closely as possible on population alone. Judicial review of apportionments would be retained and strengthened. The House would be apportioned according to population, but in addition, a new factor would be iniected that of giving some weight to the needs of rural counties, by the device of assuring each representative district that it would never have less than one representative. It merely provides a no large area of the state of any effective representation whatsoever. IN SOME eastern states, the vote of a rural rest 1 dent can be (and in 50 or 60 times as powerful in electing a repre sentative or senator as that of a city dweller. This is a gross inequity which recently was recognized by the United States Supreme Court in a precedent-making Under Oregon's present plan, the ideal of one man-one vote is but it comes about as close as any state can, or does, come to the ideal Under the proposed safeguard provision that shall never exceed 4 to 50 or 60 to 1 in some eastern states. THE proposal is a modest one, and (as all such proposals must be) a compromise between those who believe that population-only is tne iaeai apportionment, and those who believe that area, ability to communicate with one's representative, and the unique needs of certain areas, should have recotmition in apportionment, Under the proposal, neither gain nor lose in legislative representation But it would be entitled to additional repre sentatives if its population faster than the rest of the assured that the vast areas of eastern Oregon with which we have many will not be robbed ot www IF YOU acree with the mun.mm vntp" is thf democracy, but that because of practical and geo graphic and economic considerations it should be tempered slightly to be fair, then you will be uistified in surmng the We must contess to a of the proposal, for we ing to draft it. We believe it is sound and fair. E.A Fluoridation T, , am.iv in v, i... plans to sock the fluoridation of the Medtord wjpp supply. U was voted down some years ago, and has not be en seriously proposed since, although there ., ln nf n,ni)l who .... . leclive way ot improving me cienuu neaun oi children. There are also a lot of people who, don't like the idea, for a variety of reasons, ranging from disapproval of "compulsory medication," to ob jections on the economics of the proposal, to vague fears of "rat poison in the water.' nrilliRE hasn't been a lot of talk about the pro- posal since it was defeated. But we suspect there will be more. For one thing, voters in Portland may pass 1 t" a proposal to f luoridatc the Portland municipal ' water supply. Efforts are being made to place maker or on me November election ballot, following a de cision of the Portland citv council this week on a ballot title. Petitions are in circulation. There are other areas in the state where it remains a live issue, and some of the discussion is bound to be heard here. This newspaper supported the fluoridation proposal when it was voted on in Medford, and would most likely do so again if it ever gets on to the ballot again. UOWLiVKR, we cai 1 it is a major issi an't ior issue, other political decisions are major issues. It is, to us, a desirable public health measure, which would be of benefit if adopted. Mut we can live without it. What chiefly i liiithi.iv tin w tl., l,v.:t ,;,.., 1 l,m, I i-.iicn.l ""lot VI.' I.- ,llt II t rtV. IIV III I 1 II V .1111.1 VI t in.-vt against it whenever and wherever it is proposed. We wonder how many years it will take for it to become a universally accepted program to aid in the healthy development of children's teeth. Probably it will be a long time, at least until the cries of "rat poison!" and "Commie plot!" become even more evidently absurd than thev arc todav. E.A. so the proposal can be ballot this fall. population. (It isn't pos based on population, be in county population.) still be apportioned as minimum guarantee that will ever be deprived some, cases is) 30, 40, decision not completely luliilled, modification, there is a the representative ratio 1 as compared to the Jackson county would grows proportionately state. And we are also problems in common, minimum representation proposition that one irlf:il in M rplirpsenative petitions. degree ot bias in iavor had a small role in help in Portland , nrPKonr. would like to see it adont- , , , i , e bring ourself to feel that in the same sense mat Dennis the lf VOU'RE GOO0, HE SIVES YA A 1 AWnUS! oQ ON6 ONCE-' ... 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 tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted tor publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary it often the case. Russian Roulette To the Editor: As a regis tered Democrat I would like to express my views on the recent Democratic Central Committee meeting. Obvious ly, this was not a question of Democratic policy on Home Rule, but used only as a means to "get even," as quoted by one of the sup porters. Of the group voting for this resolution, approximately 12 to 15 were elected committee men and women, Jackson county has 123 precincts, with one man and one wom an committee member allow ed for each. One could hardly call this action the voice of the Democratic party of Jack son county, now around 18, 000 strong. For this group to use these tactics, without regard for the consequences to the party, the ticket, or the candidates thus repudiated, smells of irre sponsibility and poor sports manship. A debate is one thing, but Russian Roulette? Were this an honest effort on the part of these supporters of this resolution, it should have been published over their names, if they are self- respecting citizens, rather than the cover of the Demo cratic party. Had the Democratic Cen tral committee, with adequate representation from the pre cincts, honestly felt it should go on record as favoring a resolution such as this, it should have been done open ly, and prior to filing, saving embarrassment of candidates being forced out because of their convictions on progres sive government, and losing valuable support for the par ly. Or was this the intent? Had they spent as much energy helping to formulate this charter as they expended in frenzied glee on "getting even," the provisions might have well been more to their liking. This Charter is flexible, amply providing for any changes deemed necessary for good management of county affairs, at the option of the majority of the people. Do we want Home Rule, or Legisla tive Rule as we now have it? Each candidate should be free to campaign on this as he sees fit, as each voter is free to make up his own mind. This one act has probably done more FOR the Charter, than any one act so far. Wake up, committee men and women. Attend your meetings, taking your rightful place as representative of the people that elected you. And VOTERS - go to the polls and vote as you want, but VOTE. Margaritc I'ote Star Route, Box 620 Precinct 25 Shady Cove, Ore. Road Debate To the Editor: The follow ing is a copy of a letter to Mr. Robert Carstcnson, coun ty engineer: Hello Hob: Hy golly that curve on the Butte Falls high way, to which 1 have referred, both in a lalk at Eagle Point and in the Communication column of the Medford Mail Tribune, is awful hard to straighten out-on paper, any how The curve in question is bm" onr-half mile more or less, east of the Midway Coun try store on the Butte Falls highway, right next to a bridge across the creek and lust west of ihe home of Mr. Calvin Ainswnrth This should pinpoint with a reasonable de gree of accuracy the location of the curve mentioned. ll was and has been my understanding, and 1 did MEDFORD MAIL Menace SUCKER. bring out, both in my talk at Eagle Point and in my let ter to the Editor of the Mail Tribune, that it was my un derstanding that the Dark Hollow road near Phoenix had been widened. Neverthe less, I did mention these two instances as examples of dan gerous conditions (both pres ent and past) on Jackson coun ty roads. You know-when a feller goes looking for trouble-financial, political, religious, or any other kind, including roads-he can usually find it. Regardless of what you may think-I have a high regard for you personally, subject to change, same as with every one else in this old world. I have no desire to quarrel with you. Of course, I do en joy a battle of words, not necessarily with malice, and am willing to take on almost anybody, engineer, doctor of medicine, attorney at law, preacher or what have you, in a battle of words. Some people might call it a bate." I sincerely hope this "de will clear up the controversy Floyd R. McCabe, Ml. Pill Star rt., Butte Falls, Ore. Mercy, Not Justice To the Editor: Love thai ed itorial in Sunday's Tribune on tobacco., Few men have the courage to show such honesty, including editors. Most of us want to justify ourselves, yes, even at the expense of others, regardless of age. The Bible is far from silent on tobacco. In the civil laws of Moses were listed many for bidden things, abominations to God. To serve them, was to have your name blotted out by the Lord. Tobacco is in cluded, being one of the most poisonful herbs known. Too many people think these laws w 're nailed to the cross. When they stand before the Judg ment of Christ, then will they know, only those tilings con cerning Christ were nailed to his cross. The rest of these laws existed 2,5(10 years be fore Moses and they are still in force today, the clean and the unclean, idol worship and poisons of all kinds -re for bidden. You are not your own. you are bought with a price, the sinless life blood of God's own Son. Whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God. These New Testament Scrip tures provide the same pen alty as those of the old. God's law is like himself immutable. We may kid ourselves to our fellow man, but to God, never. He has set one law that never fails. Whatsoever we sow, that shall we also reap. If we as a people believe that tobacco and alcohol in any per eei t is good, then why not rise up and demand it be served to our children in the schools and at home? Any food or drink that is good for par ents, should be good for school children. God has promised He will withhold no good thing. Should we? We know that tobacco and alcohol arc not good for our children or ourselves, but we are trapped by fad and fallacy as well as enslavement to the poison which ruins the nerve system, from heart to brain May the Lord show mercy, and not justice. F. E. Beverly. 1 12 Geneva st . Medford. The Devil Hates Tobacco To the Editor: Strange a. it seems when one comes to think of it. of all the people who have died belore oi.r time, not one ea.-e in history w here any one died of smok ing Now if people were like unto cigarettes, there would be less trouble in the world TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Argentina Wake of Military Take-Over of By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst On Martin Garcia Island in the River Plate, ousted Presi dent Arturo Frondizi of Ar- nrsr l reported s u f- .. h nan I ferine an ill- it. ness generally ttribut able shock and h;.'f 1 strain. Also 1'?. .'3 8u"er'n8 I hyvry ". i shock and strain but with the Ntwiom symptoms more clearly defined was Ar gentina itself. What to do about them con stituted a problem under study in capitals from Wash ington to Buenos Aires. It was clear that democracy in Latin America, which the United States is pledged to support, suffered a blow when A r g e n tine military leaders elected to interrupt demo cratic processes on March 29 and depose Frondizi by force. Even the move which in- and they would be liked more. A good name is like unto good tobacco. It is known all around and not easily done away with, for the sweet odor lingers like unto the smell of fresh cut flowers. Cigarettes may be a lust of the flesh, but those who would condemn lust of the flesh also must remember rid ing in an automobile is lust and not a necessity as Jesus was our example. He walked to and fro on earth. Never did he glide a Cadillac with white side walls across the land. For scriptures, read, "There is nothing from without a man that entereth into him that can defile a man." Read, "Unto the pure, all things are pure, cut unto them that are defiled and unbelieving, is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is de filed." Tobacco filthy? Heavens no. God never made filthiness. He is pure himself and without blemish. How could you say God would cause filthiness to grow? I believe all men have faults, all things have bad points. First 1 shall see the good points of man before I search out his bad points. And in things we take tobacco for instance. It is excellent for smoking. That's a good point, because it relaxes nerves. And it kills worms. That's a good point. A bad point is it takes so long to become excel lent. Ill health, whether of mind or body, is man's defeat. Good tobacco is victory over both. Let all mankind strive to stay healthy. While I relax with a cig arette I shall not yield to the voice of a hyena, nor the tears of a crocodile. Such peace of mind should be enjoyed by all. Cigarettes at all cost. Cig arettes in spite of terror. For without cigarettes our destiny would surely be to perish with disease. When I die I have requested my family lay me down by a tobacco plant, the only monument for my grave for I have a fear of being eaten by worms. The Devil himself hates to bacco for it was made of God. E. Dykes Box 58 Engle Point, Ore. Rain, Si; Smoke, Nol To the Editor: You have noticed with the rest of us the very widespread concern in England about the cancer pro ducing effects of cigarette smoking, and the number there who are quitting the use of the debasing, disease-producing weed. Many of those who have never smoked or used tobacco in any form real ly pity their friends who have been deceived by the alluring enticements and promises held forth if you use tobacco! Quite honest admissions have been made by some of the users of tile cigarettes who have said they would give their eye-teeth to be rid of the habit. Those who never use them need not suffer the loss of eye-teeth nor tobacco money, nor need they admit they arc tobacco slaves. A poem written by a musi cian who never used tobacco in any form recently came before our eyes, and I think you w ill appreciate it. Its au thor was Phil Kerr TOBACCO SMOKE I e.tn stand the wind and rain and hail and snow- and ice ami dust. But 1 resent the clouds of smoke on every Greyhound bus' I've walked in summer mead ows when sunbeams flashed and broke Rut I never saw the cattle or the sheep or horses smoke I've fished in many a river Suffers Shock, Strain, In stalled Senate President Jose Maria Guido in office as the man next constitutionally in line did not disguise the fact that military men were mak ing the final decisions. In only a little more than six months, military forces in South America's two largest countries, Argentina and Bra zil, had stepped in to effect drastically the course of con stitutional government. In Argentina, the military traditionally have expected to be consulted in government affairs, and since the fall of the Peron dictatorship in 1955 have been especially watchful that there should be no return of the Peronistas to power. Almost from the start, Fron dizi has been under their sus picion. While denying any obliga tion to them, Frondizi was elected with the help of Peron- when the sucker crop was ripe; But I never saw a catfish sucking on a briar pipe. I've watched the birds in won der when the earth with dew was wet; But I never saw a robin puff ing on a cigarette. Man's the only living creature that parades this vale of tears, Like a locomotive engine blowing smoke from nose and ears. If our Maker had intended when He first created man, That we'd smoke He would have made us on a very different plan. He'd have fixed us with a damper, and a stove-pipe, and a grate, And a fancy smoke-consumer that was strictly up to date, You can barbecue YOUR T-zone if you wish, okay by me; But I'll never be a customer of LSMFT. Thanks, Phil Kerr, your re solve and determination is most basic and wise, and we are hoping many, many will follow your example, especial ly the moUiers who have fall en into the slavish habit, and who must often look down at their to-be-pitied children, one or two of which too often are anemic and pa Hied look ing. H. R. Bulman, Route 4, Box 316A, Medford Smudge Smoke To the Editor: I'll start it: . "The frost is on the pear, The smudge is in the air . ." How about you finishing it? B. Sam Taylor 3404 Chicory Lane Medford -O- Editor's note: Let's see How about this: The dirt is on the curtains And in the baby's hair. The orchard heating pot Is lighted and gets hot, The smoke boils up and out And scatters all about. The headlights on the cars Resemble men from Mars. The smudge gets in the nose And on the bright clean clothes. We're wailing for the day When all of us can say: The orchardists are right To turn day into night Communism vs. Capitalism To the Editor: This letlcr is in reply to one by R. G. Sand wick which appeared in com munications on March 1. In this letter Mr. Sandwick left a definite impression that he dislikes the present American methods of business and our way of life. He then, along with several more rash and cc tradictory statements, pro ceeds to tell us that the only way to save ourselves is to turn to Communism. This is. of course, just so much hog wash. The American system is one of free enterprise and open competition, which allows each person, according to his or her abilities, to rise as high in their chosen field as they may desire. The Constitution of the United States says that all men are created equal. But men do not develop equally and therefore, because money is nothing but a system of bar ter, will not have an equal economic status. Wealth is, for the most part, a measure of a person's business abilities. In no part of it does the Con- stitution assure us of economic equality. I Mr. Sandwick makes a i statement in which he equates I the ideals of Communism with j the teachings of Christ. But, 'alas-, at no place in the New ! Testament have I been able to find, nor have I heard of, j where Christians have been told to strike down their ene mies, real or imagined, with little or no provocation. , This is true of Communism ' though. It came to life with the shedding of blood and ; wanton disregard for human life continued for many years i afterward Is this what Mr. Sandwick wants this country I to go through? I He also states that "Capital istas acting upon the orders of Juan D. Peron in exile. In June 1959, the Peronistas made public a document - denied by Frondizi - in which Frondizi allegedly promised to annul all anti - Peronist measures taken by the pro visional government which re placed Peron. Frondizi was not alone in believing Peronistas should be returned to the national po litical scene. It was held that so long as they remained out lawed, they constituted a "cor In the Day's News By FRANK In Japan, the traffic lights follow the same sequence as in the USA - green for go, amber for caution and red for stop. But instead of being arranged in a vertical pattern, as in America, they are ar ranged in a horizontal pat tern, with the green at the left, the amber in the cen ter and the red at the right. If there are any walk and wait signs for pedestrians, we haven't seen them. You walk on the green and wait on the red. Traffic signals, inciden tally, are far less numerous in Japan than at home. At the intersections with out lights, the pedestrian takes his life in his hands and wades ,in. Traffic, how ever, moves much more slow ly than in the United States, and Japanese drivers tend to be reasonably tolerant of pe destrian rights. JAPANESE highways are as yet far behind America standards. They are narrow and winding. Near the big cities, at least, the traffic runs bumper to bumper, with a fairly high percentage of trucks. As a result, it takes a long time to get from where you start to where you are going. The trains are fast and ef ficient, so the Japanese tend to use the trains when going any considerable distance. The reason is obvious. From To kyo to Yokohama, the trains make it in an hour and a half. It may take as much as three or four hours to make it by car. THE trains are electric - for which there is a good rea son. Japan has no oil of its own. It must all be imported. And Japan must watch her bal ance of international pay ments with an eagle eye be cause she is obliged to im port a VERY large proportion of her essential raw materi als. ism is a prolific breeder of corruption, crime, greed, wars, unemployment, juvenile de linquency and indifference to human suffering." The over all impression that he leaves is that the capitalist system is a black, towering monster from some nightmare, while communism is like a young child happily tripping through the green fields and forests without a care in the world. For a sympathizer of these ideals this is a beautiful dream. Communism is corrupt. Communism does have crime. Any society does. Communism is the ultimate in greed be cause they wish to possess men's minds. Communism is breeding wars, and millions are starving in1 Red China at this moment. This leaves one more thing. I would like to ask Mr. Sand wick who is the owner of the black book and what exactly is the "day of reckoning" that he mentioned in his letter. Russell M. Johnson, ET2 OC Division, USS Bexar (APA 237) c o FPO, San Francisco, Calif. Try and Stop Nio By BENNETT CERF TR. PULLMAN, society dentist, once forgot to take a L' large cotton roll from a patient's mouth. She phoned an hour later to complain that she couldn't swallow proper ly, and was getting pretty tired of holding the wad in place. "You've always helped me before, Doc tor," she reminded him. "Help me again now." Dr. Pullman was equal to the emergency. "Hold the cotton wad there just ten minutes more," he told her graciously. "Then you can take it out" a a The fellow who makes exaggerated statements a movie press agent, for ex ampleIs rarely taken seriously by anybody. Dean Levs, ot Roosevelt University, cites the case, for Instance, of a chronic exapgerator who lost his girt with this Ill-advised note: "My Ir replaceable and Indispensable Treasure: I would climb the high est mountain for you. swim the widest river, batUe the wildest animal bare-handed. Nothing will ever keep me from your side. (Signed) Your adoring Charlie. P.S. I'll be over Saturday night If it doesn't rain." O 1M3. by Betuttt Cert. Cisuibuteti by King Features Snlloau Power rupting" element without re sponsibility. In October .1961, the ban on Peronistas in politics was lifted. It and contributing factors proved Fror.dizi's undoing. In last month's elections Peron istas won sweeping victories in 10 out of 14 provinces. Con tributing factors had been a new and unpopular austerity program, a mounting cost of living and Frondizi's own over-confidence in his ability to handle the military. JENKINS Electricity, on the other hand, is abundant and is ca pable of almost indefinite ex pansion. Japan is a mountain ous land. Her mountains cov er three fourths of her area. They are high. They are snow covered in the winter. Japan's rainfall is quite abundant. So a lot of water runs down her mountains. It is put to work making hydroelectric power. They make it work hard. As it comes through each power plant, it goes into another pool behind another dam and thence another pow er plant. And so on - from the tops of the mountains to the sea level valleys far below. The result is a LOT of electricity, which comes in very handy indeed in a land that must depend heavily on manufac turing to find employment for its congested population. HHAT of the trains? There are three kinds - what in the U.S. we call the locals; the commuter trains; and the fast limited trains that stop only at the major cities. The locals stop everywhere-at the big towns, at the smaller towns, at tho villages and at the crossroads. They seem to be full all the time. The commuter trains provide the same service in Japan that is provided by com muter trains everywhere. In the morning they haul the workers in from where they live to where they work and in the evening they haul them back home again. They ara crowded beyond all possibili ty of belief. The seats are full. and riders are jammed in tha aisles like sardines in a can. The' walls actually seem to bulge. The fast limited trains stop only at the big cities. They provide all kinds of service from first - come - first-served cars where you get a seat if a seat is available and stand up if all the scats are oc cupied - to first class cars where seats are reserved. THE best known of thesi fast limited trains is tha Hato - meaning The Pigeon. It runs from Kobe, one of Japan's major industrial cities to Tokyo, with only one or two stops to take on and dis charge passengers. Not only does it have re served seat cars. It has a diner and a bar car. The diner fol lows very closely the pattern of dining cars on American railroads. The tables seat four people, and a quite exten sive menu is offered. Tha meals are prepared on the car, as in the U.S., and the food is quite good. rpHE bar car has no resem- blance whatever to the cars in which similar refresh ments are served on American railroads. The bar itself is on one side of the car. The cus tomers stand up. Standing space is provided both on the side where the bartenders work, and on the other side. The side across from the bar tenders has a narrow ledge about six inches wide where you can set your glass.