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Mcdford and Jackson County
History from tha filei of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ego.
10 YEARS AGO
April 22. 1952 (Tuesday)
opinion as to whether the
city could change the work
ing hours of its employees.
Fred E. Robinson, Medford
candidate for the Republican
Mcdford's Mayor Diamond
L. Flynn said this morning
that he has asked for a legal
nomination as Oregon's Treas
urer, with only three weeks
primaries, has stepped up the
to go before the May lfith
Intensity of his campaign, it
is reported.
20 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1942 (Wednesday)
Lela Rogers leaves Rogue
river ranch to appear in mo
tion picture, "The Major and
the Minor," with her daughter
Ginger Rogers.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "To
curb inflation the government
proposes to stagger prices.
Hit 'em a good swat, as they
have been staggering the pur
chasers long enough."
30 YEARS AGO
April 22, 1932 (Friday)
Southern Pacific railroad
announces "cent-a-mile" fares
for persons vacationing be
tween April 28 and May 1.
Mcdford business firms of
fer high school boys oppor
tunity to gain one day of
business experience on Na
tional Boys day.
40 YEARS AGO
April 22. 1922 (Saturday)
Owners of Medlord can
ncry urge local farmers to
plant large acreage to beans
to fill increased demand for
canned brans from this area.
Analysis of "white mule
booze" seized in northern
California shows it contains
portions of creosote, ether
and nicotine sulphate.
SO YEARS AGO
April 22, 1912 (Sunday)
Mcdford clothing store ad
vertises men's high quality
shoes, $2.1!), women's high
quality shoes, $1.49, men's
sweaters 98 cents, and wom
en's skirts $2.79.
What's Your I.Q.?
Nine or ten correct ii luperior;
even or eight ! excellent; five ot
lix It good.
1. Dors an octupus have
six, eight, or twelve legs?
2. What three ingredients
are used in making nylon?
3. Was Will Hays once the
"czar" of baseball, motion
pictures, or the motor car in
dustry? 4. Whal scientist advanced
the Theory of Relativity?
5. What mythical sculptor
fell in love with a stHtue he
had marie, and which came to
life?
6. How ninny men signed
the Declaration of Independ
ence? 7. Name the Secretary of
Stale who negotiated the pur
chase of Alaska.
8. Whal character in "The
Tale of Two Cities" was an
inveterate knitter?
9. What quality In a wine
it described by the adjective
"dry"?
10. In mythology, the fond
of the gods was ambrosia;
what was the drink of the
gods''
Answers: 1. Eight. 2. Air,
water, and coal. 3. Motion
pictures. 4. Albert Eintliin.
5. Pygmalion. 6. Fllty tix. 7
William H. Seward. I. Ma
dama Lefarge. 9. Nol twaal
10. Neclar.
SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 1962
There Are
The other day in this space the discrepancy
between the punishment meted a private soldier
who criticized a superior, and that meted to a
major general who imputed treason to his com
manders in chief, was noted.
Justice, we suggested may be blind, but per
haps not to rank.
Since that time, President Kennedy has
changed the situation.'
the private s sentence six months at hard
labor and called off the court martial sched
uled for another enlisted man accused of a sim
ilar "offense."
CO THE score is evened up a bit.
But we still believe there is a vast difference
between an Army enlisted man's "griping," and
the public statements of officers in which they
appear to be speaking for the government of
the United States, but give a totally erroneous
impression of that policy.
There is a vast difference between a private
complaining about the reserve call-up, ana a ma
jor general telling his troops how to vote.
There is a vast difference between saying a
President made a faulty judgment on a troop
decision, and saying a President does not have
at heart the best interests of his own nation.
THE PRIVATE soldiers,
Constitutional right of
to petition their government for a redress of
grievances.
That is what their "offenses" amounted to,
and the President was right in what he did.
On the other hand, when a commanding gen
eral, or even a public information major making
a public speech, starts accusing government of
ficials, or even mayors, of Communist leanings,
that isn't freedom of speech. It is libel and slan
der, and if performed while in uniform, it comes
mighty close to subversion.
We suggest that the offense of Maj. Gen.
Edwin Walker was far more serious than that
of Pfc. Bernie Owens for which he was sen
tenced to hard labor. And we also suggest that
the offense of Maj. Arch Roberts is far more
serious than that of Pfc. Larry Chidester, for
which he was to have been court niartialed.
"Meanest Man
Every once in a while
pops up. A church poor
one steals from a blind
on crutches.
For our money, the. "meanest man" story of
the week was the one about the theft of money
from a restaurant in town including a Lancer
Fund cannister containing $40.
A Cancer Society worker called us to point
out that the $40 was a lot more than would be
collected in a number of home solicitation visits,
and thus representd the
hours of dedicated workers time.
T"HE day is getting closer when cancer will be
conquered, and will no longer be the major
threat to health and life which it is today. That
day, however, has not yet arrived, and a lot of
patient, painstaking work and money to support
the work is going to be
It is for that purpose that the Cancer Society
solicits funds. It is one of several sources of
money for research into the causes and cures of
cancer, but it is a substantial and important one.
The theft of the $40, therefore, represents a
callous disregard for the generosity of many
people, and for the cause which each
has ample reason to support. E.A.
Hope for
The capture of Raoul Salan, the one-time
French general who was a decorated national
hero but who later turned traitor to his own na
tion, should do much to put an end to the bitter
Algerian conflict.
Other former French Army officers have been
involved with Salan in the vicious and horrible
activities of the Secret Army Organization, but
he was the leader, the core and heart of the move
ment. Without him, it is to be hoped, the OAS re-
SlStailce Will COme to an eilCl, and a beginning;
Can be made 011 the peaceful conversion Of Al -
geria from a rebellious province of France into
a 11CW and independent nation.
THE achievement of an agreement to end the
war between the French and the Algerian
rebels was a near-miracle of negotiation and
compromise.
Ihe most surprising
remarkable restraint of the Moslems since the
agreement was signed and the French-Algerian
hostilities were ended. Under the utmost provo
cation by the terrorists and assassins of the OAS,
the Moslems officials and residents alike re
frained from vengeful actions except in one or
two isolated cases.
This alone bodes well for the new nation.
It was conceived in the chaos of w ar, nurtured
in a ghastly civil conflict, and finally was born in
the midst of fratricidal strife.
Perhaps, at long last, peace will be permitted
to return to Algeria. One devoutly hones so.
-E.A.
Differences
He rescinded the rest of J
in this case, believed
freedom of speech and
E.A.
a "meanest man" story
box is rohheri, or some
man, or trips up a man
equivalent of many man-
needed.
of
us
Algeria
thing of all has been the
Dennis the
'Look how much shaving cream thbpe
Matter of Fact
(el
New York Herald
TOO MANY CAN DIE
Hong Kong - There are ra
ther clear indications that the
Chinese Communist leader
ship is consid
e r i n g a
thoroughgoing
purge of the
party's ranks,
on the model
of Josef Stal
in's purges of
the late lD.'iO's.
The chief
Canton news
paper pub
Alanp
lishes a mysterious letter sug
gesting that it is misguided
to pay too much attention to
the opinions and commands
of Canton's First Party Sec
retary, who was both sacro
sanct and omnipotent until
just the other day. The Peking
Peoples' Daily publishes a
less specific but far more om
inous editorial, mentioning
party members who may have
done great things in the past,
but have now committed
grievous errors and there
fore stand in need of stern
correction. Six of the 18 vice
premiers of China are mys
teriously missing from the
National People's Congress.
Such is the nature of the
indicators. As always in such
cases, the advance signs may
be misleading. Or the purge
if there is one, may stop at
big frogs in relatively small
puddles, like the Canton par
ty secretary. Or instead of
shooting the purgecs in the
back of the neck - the fate
of most of Stalin's victims -Mao
may content himself
with sending the fainthearts,
the doubters, and the outright
opponents to "labor reform"
- a slower sentence of death
in China nowadays, but one
that looks better in the news
papers.
AT ANY
of a co
ANY rate, the indicators
oming purge of some
sort make a pattern with an
other process that has been
noticeable in China for at
least a year. Extraordinary ef
forts are being made to in
sure the loyalty and dependa
bility of the army, by all
sorts of measures to enhance
the authority and prestige of
the parly's political commis
sars within the officer corps.
This is all the more re
markable, because the com
misars' authority was already
enormous. It should hardly be
needful, since the army has
been effectively commanded
for nearly three years by the
former secret police chief,
, Gen- Lo Jui-ching.
Such unusual concern about
the army must mean that
the Peking leadership is now
getting ready to go through
a very rough patch indeed,
when the army's loyalty m;iy
be severely tested. The sinus
of an oni'iimiiifi puruc if thcy
are not misleading, point in
just the same direction.
Ti
the main-
V iand indicate las one
wmllfl cxpectl that many
1Z"TZ
atizrd by the grim years since
Mao's "meat leap fotwnrri'
began. To get through an even
Ztl t
drastically burdened and
touchciicd. Naked lerror is a
pre - tested hardening and
tounhening device, us Mao
Tse-tung has undoubtedly no
ticed in the course of his Stal
. inist studies.
j If all this sounds a bit lurid.
: it must be remembered that
the present situation in China
I is more than a bit lurid. The
Chinese masses were first
i condemned to acute under
! nourishment in order to pay
for forced industrialiation,
IVspitc a good start on the
industrial (root, acute, nidus-
trial breakdown then follow
ed And although (lie nidus
; trial breakdown was tolrf
iflted and Ihe new slogan. All
'Aid lo Agriculture." was pro-
Menace
is m one of those utile cams;'
By Joseph Alsop
Tribune Syndicate
claimed, the last harvest
brought no relief.
As already conlended In
this space, the facts therefore
suggest that China is now in
the grip of a remorselessly
descending spiral. The most
obvious was the spiral can be
broken - massive, immediate
Russian aid - can be ruled
out with confidence.
A NOTHER way the spiral
can be broken is for real
ly enormous numbers of Chi
nese to die. The numbers
would have to be enormous
- say a quarter of the Chinese
population or about 150,000,
000 people. Much less would
not adequately adjust the
troublesome land - to - popu
lation balance.
There is some evidence
that a reversal of the former
upward trend of Chinese pop
ulation has already occurred.
Refugee testimony is full of
mentions of hunger - induced
menstural difficulties among
women, sharp drops in vil
lage populations, and the like.
But what has happened so far
is a trickle, at best, compared
to the flood of mortality that
has to be expected eventual
ly, if the present organized
undernourishment of the Chi
nese masses is much further
prolonged.
Meanwhile, the Peking lead
ership, ruthless and unflich
ing, is proclaiming its deter
mination to forge ahead under
"the three Red banners, the
general line, the great leap,
and the farm communies."
Even if this year produces a
good harvest, which is unlike
ly, forging ahead "under the
three Red banners" means a
rough patch ahead for Chi
na such as no nation in re
cent history has experienced,
In these circumstances, the
question arises whether too
many can die, even in an
iron police state, ft is well to
note, in fact, that the -third
and only remaining way Chi
na's descending spiral can be
broken is by an internal ex
plosion. Such an explosion
would not necessarily pro
duce a non - Communist Chi
na. But even If it only pro
duced new leaders taking a
wholly new direction, the ex
plosions would he heard
around the world.
Sevareid
By ERIC SEVAREID
Seventy - five years ago
James Russell Lowell said,
"In a world of daily nay,
almost hourly journalism,
every clever
m a n. every
man u.- h n
thinks himself
'-5t ' I or whom anv
il o (I y else
thinks clever,
is called upon
to deliver his
.1 u ri g n e n t:
point blank
and at the
j word of command on every
.conceivable subject of human
i Aon r j..,. and
; politicians (who are in much
tne same profitable fix) have
now delivered their judg
ments on the pricing back
down of the steel industry,
and the country has boon told:
ill that the hack of the in
flationary spiral has now been
broken, and i'J that there
wasn't any inflationary spiral
io break because living costs
have risen only about one per
cent a year over the last four
years.
In any case, we now seem
to be heading into a period of
relative price stability for the
first tune in a full generation.
It is extremely hard for most
of lis to cet UM-d to tins idea,
and we are bound lo witness
tile dc elopinrn! of two op
posing bodies (if theory, one
maintaining that when and if
the period of stability breaks
It will break toward further
i i t
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
Drummond Reports
(Walter Lippman is in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from
Washington in his absence.) (c( 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc.
STEEL CRISIS LESSONS
Washington - The nation
can't afford to have the Pres
ident "go to war" every
time he feels a decision by Big
Business or Big Labor im
pairs the national interest.
Once perhaps twice a
President can pull levers of
government at once, sound the
sirens, and call "Fire!" in or
der to deal with an emergen
cy. But as a steady diet, this
won't work. It is too indis
criminate, too disorderly to
hair-raising.
At this stage nobody has
all the answers, or even one
sure, all purpose answer, to
how labor's interest, indus
try's interest, and the public
interest (government and con
sumer) can be properly safe
guarded at the collective bar
gaining table. It is possible
to look at some of the unan
swered questions growing out
of the steel crisis in which Mr.
Kennedy turned back price
increases with a lash of Pres
idential power.
UNDOUBTEDLY President
Kennedy and Secretary of
Labor Goldberg exerted a re
straining influence on the
steelworkcrs' union, and
management got a moderate
contract which did not in it
self justify a steel price in
crease. This time it was in
dustry which jumped the
traces and in doing so ran
headlong into the stone wall
of the White House.
Other major wage contracts
with large unions must soon
be negotiated. Aluminum and
aircraft.s are next. What if
the union demands an infla
tionary wage-raise? What if
the union is unresponsive to
White House "guidelines
and refuses to go along with
what the President deems the
national intrest? Does Mr
Kennedy have the means to
bring to bear upon labor the
same weight he brought to
bear on steel? Does Mr. Ken
nedy have the disposition to
talk as tough to a possibly re
calcitrant labor union as he
did to the steel industry?
Right now we don't know.
The time will probably not
be long delayed when we will
find out.
WHAT
rise?
alternative to price
se? Part of the justifi
cation for the steel price rise
was that industry needed in
creased profits in order to
provide the funds for large
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
GEORGE KIRGO, making a survey of new circus acts in
Europe, came across one troupe that features a man
diving 200 feet into a sofa pillow. "Of course," amplifies
rurgo, they use a dif
ferent man every night."
Two extremely Intoxi
cated celebrants at a col
lege reunion sought still
another bottle to imbibe
and found one in the garage
ot the motel where they
were registered. One took
a long swig and gulped,
"This is powei-ful stuff,"
and passed it to the other,
saying, "Maybe you'll know
what it Is." The other
sampled the liquid, and
gasped, "Holy mackerel!
You've been drinking
GASOLINE." "I know that. Stupid," grumbled the first, "but
what kind: regular or high test?"
On top of the pie list on the menu of a Madison, Wis., chop
house is printed the reminder: "Remember the Alamode."
1962. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features SyndlMts
Probes Inflation vs. Deflation
inflation, the other maintain
ing the direction will be to
ward deflation.
This reporter admits at once
to complete uncertainty. I
took formal leave of advanced
economic theory in graduate
school with Chamberlain's
Theory of Monopolistic Com
petition, and that was a long
time ago; in any case, eco
nomics remains one of the
most unscientific as well as
one of ihe most ' dismal" of
the sciences. But if fundamen
tal predictions are perilous,
it remains true that certain
fundamental historical forces
have been, and are. at work,
and can he seen. They seem
to be opposing forces, and
which set of forces will dom
inate over tne next years is
the whole question before us.
Those who have arcucd the
inevitability of continued in
flation for tliis century have
said that our belief in the pos
sibility of a return to the
"sound dollar" was bacd on
the illusory experience of the
19th century, the only period
in 500 years during which
prices settled downward over
a long stretch. This school of
; thought has argued that gen-
oral inflation in the Western
world is permanent for these only means that the more eas
' reasons, among others: the ily employable get hired first,
shift of virtually all demo- but there may be long run
crane Kovcrnmrnts towards implications
the political left: the move
mem away from the gold
standard, the crowing power
of labor unions; Ihe great
growth of social srr ices, the
, almost universal and perhaps
new capital investment to
modernize plants and equip
ment. This in itself is essen
tial to economic growth and
high employment.
Since the government "per
suaded" steel to rescind the
price increase, what does the
government intend to do to
help provide enough capital
investment which is so vital
to the President's own plans
for stimulating economic
growth? It can't afford to
close off one large source of
! investment funital withnut
providing another.
To this end the administra
tion has proposed a modest
tax incentive program
It is
having a hard time in Con
gress were some liberal Demo
crats oppose it as too generous
to business, and others oppose
it as woefully inadequate.
Governor Rockefeller is
now adding his voice to those
who feel the proposed tax
credits for plant moderniza
tion and expansion are not
equal to the need. His view
is that instead of propping up
non-competitive industries, as
Mr. Kennedy is proposing un
der his new trade program,
the government ought to use
tax incentives to enable suc
cessful industry to compete
more effectively in the world
markets.
"It is most unfortunate,"
Gov. Rockefeller told the De
troit Economic club this week,
"that, having articulated the
proper objectives, the Kenne
dy administration could not
present a plan which would
be adequate to do the job
. . . and which businessmen
could enthusiastically sup
port." NOW that the President has
won the steel price bat
tle, shouldn't the administra
tion take another look at its
tax incentive program to see
if Mr. Rockefeller may not
be right?
Mr. Kennedy has taken
two steps to mellow the post
steel crisis atmosphere. He
invit,ed the head of U.S. Steel
to the White House for a
"cordial" talk. At his press
conference he underlined that
government and business can
not afford to remain at odds.
Goodwill is best promoted
by deeds. A review of the
administration's tax incentive
program, in light of the need
for expanding capital invest
ment, might be a good deed.
irreversible subsidization of
agriculture; the relative ex
pansion of the middle classes
with their sharper awareness
of education and the good
things of life; the constant
state of war in terms of de
fense expenditures; the shift
from the welfare state to the
"welfare world" as interna
tional aid programs become
a fixed pattern of world pol
itics, and the general rise in
population with its pressures
on the supply of goods and
space.
For this country, at least,
) it is harder to isolate the op-
posing, deflationary forces, be
cause so many of them are
relatively new phenomena
and we have not yet taken
the measure of their practi
cal effects. One seems to be
recent growth, not just of the
unemployed, but of the un
employable. Perhaps the im
portant fact, the sleeper, in
the March figures issued by
the Labor Department, is not
that unemployment was down
by a million compared with
last year but that more of
those who remain uncmploy
ed have been in that unhappy
condition for six months or
more. For the short run this
It wouid seem to this lay.
man that the key to the fu
ture in terms of inflaiion or
deflation may lie in the net
effect of the rapid spread of
automation and the rapid
POTLUCEC
(By M-T Staff and Contributors)
This is, to coin a phrase,
quite s week end.
Today is Easter-symbol of
joy and rebirth and promise
for many.
Yesterday was the opening
of fishing season, the opening
of the extravaganza in Seat
tle, and the birthday of two
charming young ladies of our
acquaintance.
We have also been inform
ed by an eminent historian
friend of ours that yesterday
was the anniversary of the
founding of Rome.
So you can see n was an
event-filled period.
But wait!!
The coming week is full of
splendid opportunities, too. It
is National Garden Week,
Free Worla Friendship Week,
National Secretaries Week,
Good Human Relations Week,
Honey For Breakfast Week,
Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week,
National YWCA Week, Na
tional Retail Credit Week,
and American Comedy Week.
The week will come to a
crashing climax oh next Sat
urday and Sunday, April 28
and 29, with American Come
riy Day and Mother-in-Law
Day, respectively.
Mark Savage, age 10. 1
a student in Mrs. Alma
Austin's fourth grade class
at Griffin Creek school. Re
cently he was inspired to
wrile a poem entitled "Oh,
Oregon, My Country." And
here it is:
Oh, Oregon is beautiful,
Oh, Oregon is free.
You would like Oregon
Just like me.
Oregon with its flowers,
Oregon with its trees,
You would like Oregon
Just like me.
Polluck reader No. 2 (or
No. 6, as the case may be)
sent us a clipping from lha
Mail Tribune. It went like
this:
The two-button suit for
males is gaining many ad
herents. Many of these suits
are straight and slim with
square shoulders, broader
chest, and
And that was all.
Our reader friend com
mented, "They are available
with a pair of pants, too. (I
HOPE!)"
We hope so too. Which re
minds us of the fact that there
will be a nudist convention
in Jackson county this sum
mer, which caused one of the
office wits to remark that
there will be a lot of people
wearing one-button suits this
summer.
Speaking of typographi
cal orors (as we sometimes
are forced to do), a letter
in today's Communications
column points out that her
copy of last Monday's paper
had an April 22, 1962 date
on it. She's right-it did say
that on hers, even if it
didn't on yours.
It happened this way:
The datelines which go on
the namoplafe on Page 1 are
set. for a full week all at the
same time. So when the print
er picked up a line for last
Monday's paper, he merely
picked up the wrong one and
dropped it in.
It was discovered shortly
after the paper came off the
growth of the population. It is
a sufficiently s t a g g e r ing
thought that our population
is likely to bound upwards
by 35 million in this decade
of the '60s. The total effect
of population "explosion" is
supposed to be inflationary.
But consider the age and ra
cial pattern of this explosion.
America has passed a water
shed - for the first time in
our history the number of
months to be fed is increasing
faster than the working hands
to feed them. The greatest
population growth is among
jthe very young and the very
old; the number of new work
ers applying to the job mar
; ket will triple in the '60s over
the '50s. Furthermore, the
Negro population "last to
be hired, first to be fired,"
if prenidicc persists in
creases at a far faster rate
than the white population. In
this technological age. we can
go badly out of joint if the
supply of the unskilled in
creases faster than that of
the skilled
If some master of the be
wildering new set of econom
ic, demographic and techno
logical factors will now ap
pear amongst us to synthesize
all t!us in terms of a defla
tionary or inflationary future,
this writer will stand in line
alone wiib all other Oliver
Twists of lournallsm, empty
cup in grateful hand
(Distributed 1962. by The Hall
Syndicate. Inc.)
(All Rights Reserved)
press, and most of the copies
which were delivered had the
right date, but quite a few
had the wrong one.
This happens with other
mistakes, too, sometimes, If
you find a paper with a mis
take in it, and a friend has
a copy which lacks the error,
you'll know that's what hap.
pened.
There are other changes be
tween the two editions, too,
and sometimes your paper
will have a story that tha
earlier edition didn't have,
and vice versa.
This it frustrating to such
friends as That Man In
Phoenix, who sends in mis
takes. We just clip the cor.
reeled version and mail il
back to him.
Jock McPherson was pour
ing his friend Sandy Me
Tavish a drink. "Say when "
said Jock.
There was a long silence.
Jock kept pouring. And pour
ing. "Did you hear about th
big fire at Scotty's?" McPher
son finally asked In despera
tion. "When?" said McTavish.
"Whew!" said McPherson
in relief, putting down tha
bottle.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Reading the headlines thi m
days, one could easily jump
to the conclusion that the
world is going to hell in a
hand-basket and there doesn't
seem to be much that any of
us can do about it.
Do you reckon that could
be true? I doubt it. If we get
that impression, it is prob-
aoiy oecause we are reading
tne wrong kind of news. Bad
news, as every well-balanced
editor knows, gets the biggest
headlines - and we tend to
read the big headlines first.
II you look for it in the
right places - which are often
on the inside pages - there is
really a LOT of good news
in these modern days.
TOR example:
Dr. David J. Sayles, a San
Diego radiologist, tells the an.
nual meeting of the California
Medical Association nf ,
X-ray diagnosis for hreat
cancer. It can detect many
tiny tumors, he told his hear
ers - tumors often no bigger
than a BB shot - tumors that
would escape detection by any
method hitherto known.
This can mean, he explain
ed, earlier detection, earlier
surgery and a lowered death
rate. Breast cancer, he added,
is the worst killer among
tumors in women today.
AND-
At
An assistant professor of
orthopedic surgery at the Uni
versity of California at Los
Angeles describes how intri
cate operations on the swol
len, deformed hands nt rheu
matoid arthritis victims havs
given their lives new strength
and dignity.
The surgical program h
described "offers no mira
cles," he said, but does con
fer vast benefits on those who
are willing to work intensive
ly to conquer their own crip
pling disabilities. He told ot
one patient whose hands,
ONCE COMPLETELY STIFF
AND USELESS, can now be
used to feed himself.
A similarly deformed young
woman can now play the
piano. Another victim of
rheumatoid arthritis, former
ly crippled in all his limbs,
can now maneuver an elec
tric wheel chair. A young in
surance salesman can now
shake hands with his clients
-for him a major achieve
ment. rPHESE operations, he ex-
plained, are relatively sim
ple for skilled surgeons, who
straighten tendons, remove
the swollen tissue that lines
the joints nf knuckles, and
even build NEW joints. Dr.
Marmour (the assistant pro
fessor at UCLA who described
these methods to the assem
bled practicinc physicians)
says he has operated on pa
tients as young as 20 and as
old as 68.
He concluded
"We can give those patients
a tremendous lift They can
i sa' ,0 us: 'Look whal I can
, d now:' Surgery like tins
1 can change the lives of pa-
tients wno roily want to get
well.'
I) EADING
the
grim head-
iv lines that tell
of a world
seemingly bent on its- own
destruction, we get a distorted
view of what is going on. We
come to think nf it. perhaps,
as a world that is pavine the
way to its own destruction
It micht pay us to turn
over oftrnrr to the insids
pages and pav a little more
attention to the bnchirr and
more hopeful news that ;s so
often tn be found thnp
Il ISN'T mch a bad world,
after all.
TT