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Newspaper Page Text"""Everyone In Southern Oregon Head! fh MaU rrloune" tubliihcd Duly ecept"SaturdajT MEDFOHD PRINTING CO 38 North fir 8l Ph 6P 1:6W1 ROBERT w RtTHL. Editor HERB GHEV Advertnlng Mmuli GERALD T LATHAM But Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mna Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor uadhv ruinuill Tl Flrlltnr RICHARD J EWETT, Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Womtn'l Editor DALE ERICKSUN. circulation wsj An indanandent Newananer Entered at second elaif matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act or March 3. IB97 StlRSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Copv ,0r Dally and Sunday 1 year 11.4 00 nnv anri Bnniliu moi 8 Oil Daily and Sunday 3 moa 4.33 fiimdav Onlv One year 34.30 rrr4i In Advance Medtord Ashland, rntral Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold him Phoenix. Shaay Cove Rogue Riv m T1nt Bnii M motor TOUtea Dally and Sunday 1 veer lid 00 Daily and Sunday I mo ' JO Cerriel end Dealer! copy 10c All Terma CaaH in Advance Official Paper of City of Medfir? Official Paper of Jackeon Connty United Press Internationa full Leaaed Wire TJ J.t Telephoto Newjplcturee "TsTMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS oa iTia rifiB In Npw York. Cm- eaeo. Detroit. San Franclico. Loi Angeiea aeame nii, NiWI'AMI UILISHHJ ASSOCIATION NATION A I I0ITOHIAI Flight o' Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 26. 1952 (Saturday) Lumber retailers in Med ford plan to move their hours one hour earlier to conform with other retail establish ments in the city. The 1952-93 estimated an nual budget for Jackson Coun ty's Aid and Welfare depart ment is $132,500 less than that for the current fiscal year. 20 YEARS AGO April 28, 1942 (Sunday) Total of between 3,500 and 4,000 Jackson county men be tween the ages of 45 and 64 register for draft with local draft boards. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "No mention can be made of the weather under wartime regu lations, but what it lakes to make May flowers fell 30 YEARS AGO April 26, 1932 (Tuesday) Registration figures show that Medford Republicans lead Democrats; total of 17, 302 persons registered in the county. Rogue Valley traffic asso ciation asks city council for patrol of packing house dis trict following $250,000 in cendiary fire. 40 YEARS AGO Aoril 28. 1922 (Wednesday) George Neuner, Douglas county district attorney, ap pears here to assist state at torncys in bootlegging inai. Federal roads department and Oregon slate highway commission appropriate $300, 000 for construction of Crater Lake highway. SO YEARS AGO April 26, 1912 (Thursday) Medford named terminal of Hill system railroad for pro posed Oregon Trunk line con nection with Pacific and East ern railroad. Medford realtor sends 1,000 postal cards throughout mid west in effort to interest peo ple in moving to Rogue val ley. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superieri seven or eight It esctlltnl; five) ei six it good. 1. What country's postage stamps bear the name Helvet ia? 2. Who were the co-discov erers of radium? 3. Does human hair grow fastcr in winter, or in sum- ume?and day"me r 4. Name the building in I Philadelphia where the Dec- laration of Independence was; signed 5, Is water compressible? 6. What was the name of the forest In which Robin Hood's band lived? 7 Does the likeness of Lin coln on the penny face toward the right or the left? 8. It is laid that Monday - child is fair of face; what n Tuesday'! child? D. Dogs bark, horses neigh, elephants trumpet, wha eminri Hnea e elraffe make' io. Name the author of "The Robe." Answers: 1, Switterland. 2. Pierre and Marie Curie. 3. In summer and ntghtime. 4. In dependence Hall. S. No. (. 8herwood Fcrett. 7. Toward the right. I. Full ef grace. 9. None. 10, Lloyd C. Douglas. THURSDAY. APRIL 28, 196J A Woman For President? In Salem, the Oregon Statesman notes that Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, is making noises like a Presidential candidate. Well, why not? the Statesman asks, and adds: ". . . There is nothing in the constitution to bar her from seeking the highest office. What better time can there be for a Republican woman to shatter the brittle precedent which has kept women from the presidential contest? ". . . Her active entry Into the race might provide the very 'shock treatment' the Republican party seems to need. Even without hope of acquiring the nomina tion for herself, she might shame her recalcitrant col leagues into more active political campaigning." It would certainly add a lot of interest to to day b politics if a woman actually did get into Presidential politics. WE HERE in Oregon have had more experi ence with distaff politicians than moststates. Our junior senator, Maurine Neuberger, is one, and so is the representative irom the lnirn Con gressional district, Edith Green. Dorothy McCullough Lee was one of Port land's better mayors. Eve Nye was one of Jackson county's best legislators during her service. Other women have made excellent records in a variety of elected positions. The odds are heavily elected President in any the odds were against a Catholic being elected, until John Kennedy proved one could be. And with women's increasing fluence in public affairs, that bar, too, will have Still Far "Only a patient' and informed mind, only a mind which literally never stops growing, is prepared to contribute to modern democratic society. Never has there been so much to learn, unlearn, relearn." , This quotation from thought. : Never has the world Never has the sheer mass of available information been so great. Never have communciations been so fast or so voluminous. And never has the need for a thoughtful, in formed and concerned citizenry been greater. DUTTING it in a slightly different way, Manley T Wall cfiiforl "Rv oYiifli'innfifl an-. r,Koi'va tion, I have satisfied myself that evil is another name for ignorance. Ignorance, in this sense, not only includes lack of knowledge, but ing understanding of people, of their motives, of human relationships and needs, and of the complexities of government and social organiza tions. Mankind's curiousity has led him to conquer ignorance in some fields, but not, oddly, in others. And it not always has been possible to jniss on to others the knowledge that some men have acquired. THE great problem of our clay, it seems, is how to dispell ignorance and increase understand ing among all people. It is problem, and the surlace It is easy to generalize, and say that only education more of it, only true solution. Like much truth to it. Some of the wisest, ' human beings have had Conversely, some of the men have been men of little understanding and human compassion. Rut, other things being equal, an individual who has been exposed to the writings of our great thinkers, philosophers, entists has a better chance of attaining an in formed understanding than one who has not. IT IS a sad anomaly of life today that, where men are pressing on the frontiers of knowl edge, it is in the fields of the physical sciences not in the fields of philosophy or religion or hu man attitudes and relationships. The contributions of a Freud are of a differ ent class and stature than the contributions of an Einstein. We know less about the workings of our own brains and emotions than we know about the in terior arrangements of invisible atoms. a IS formal, organized, and widespread education which is a relatively recent development ! in the climb of mankind nation the answer to this queer emphasis on material, tangible things? This much can be said: If it is not the whole ailSWCl', it is a Step toward it. Rut jt R u, ()ny advanced nations, and only recently, is univer sal education for all children commonly accepted, to say nothing of more advanced education. And m the less-developed and poorer parts ' OI Me WOl'Kl Where OV jthe uinian nu.e resides l . , ., --ru.nl, uui me iuii vve nave a long way to go, even m our own "enlightened" land, before the evils of ignorance succumb to a rising level of literacy, knowledge and understanding. K, And then there was t h e Czechoslovakia!! midget who fled the Communists. Bursting through the iron curtain, he ran to an American soldier and asked him if would please cache a small Czech. Eugene Register-Guard. against a woman being foreseeable future. But participation and in the day may come when been removed. E.A. To Go Elmo Roper merits been so complicated. also lack of understand a fantastically difficult has only been scratched. for more people is the all generalizations it has most understanding of little or no education. most highly educated poets, statesmen and sci from savagery to civili- tar the largest part of i the Columbia are found in education is the ox.ierrtaln parts of the river and not in others. The areas A Dennis the KJr , J V'!. SyvJ L III war Ate THEVU INVITE YAMCKIf I ... Communications ... Letters io 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 permissiDie. The Mail Tribune reserves the right lo edit all letters with a view to clarification ana condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The l""" printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper) In tact ine contrary is often the case. The Peace Movement To the Editor: No one in this counlry has faced the realities of nuclear war. The spiraling weapons race con tinues. As one citizen said, we look at more weapons like insurance that can save our side. But a nuclear war is suicide for both. We believe in the fact that Russia is strong, and deter mined; but do we believe our antagonist is ready to com mit suicide? Dr. Edward Tel ler erroneously and emotion ally predicts this in three Post articles. Such objection came to the editors from across the country in letters that the Post agreed to print An Answer To Teller." This rebuttal was written by eight leaders in Science from Har vard, Cornell and Massachu setts Institute of Technology. Hans Bethe, the scientist advisor of President Eisen hower, also has an Interview published in which he says that the little knowledge that could he gained by further testing is outweighed by the fotir caused around the world in the continuation nf an arms race. President Eisenhower agreed with him. Has Presi dent Kennedy been pressured into more testing, by the mili tary industrial complex and Congress, or by political con siderations? As citizens, we can free him from a feeling that citizens are not aware of the realities of the atomic ago we can tell him that we dif fer from those who believe In more testing, and that we want to negotiate with Rus sia on a nuclear treaty as a part of a total and general disarmament plan. Information on this subject, as well as the other issues of the peace movement, Gcr- '"""v a,Kl Berlin, strengthen- : ' I 1 1Ui(nJ M nl Inna-' -.AnrA ing the United Nations' peace keeping machinery, and the development of world law and order, is available at the Peace Information Center, 12H East Main st. This material has taken much labor to as semble, and will be dis mantled Friday, April 27, un less a new home is found. Has any citizen or group an offer? Marie M. Bosworth Route 1, Box 62 Jacksonville, Ore. Article Disputed To the Editor: In the Mail Tribune Friday, April 13, an article by Hank DeVoss is in general devoted to urging signatures to petitions for the so-called Coiumbii River Steelhead initiative. The article contains definite misstatements of fact and sev eral very misleading as sertions. The Stale Supreme Court has upheld our claim that this measure is not so much a mea-; sure to regulate steelhead fishing as a measure to ; cripple the Columbia River I commercial salmon fishery bv j depriving it of 50 per cent, or j more, of its usual catches. I Mr. DcV'oss also says, "Any j commercial fisherman who catches steelhead when he is ' li.shing for salmon should not be in the business." 1 do j not know what Mr DeVoss1 knows about commercial fish- ing, but his statement is ridi- j culmis and completely false. He also says, "Steelhead in ; where they are most plenti ful are not the same as where the salmon are." The f:i:t is that all species of jalnion ; are found in certain pints of he river, but in general, well mixed as to time and loi-ation. , so that no prartlral fishing op eration could be earned on to avoid taking any species. j Mr. DeVoss says "The (act I thai steelhead average less than ha'f the i;e of salmon means that the gillnet must j MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORC. OREGON Menace PRWIS6 TO STAY HOME NEXT TIME V be of a mesh size that will hold a fish that small. The same net will not catch a sal monr" The Columbia River steelhead is the biggest of all known steelhead species on the Pacific Coast. They are often larger than many Chi nook salmon and better than 90 per cent of the time, larger than silver, chum, or blueback salmon taken in the river, thus a net that will catch a steelhead will catch a large proportion of salmon, and a net that will catch Chinook salmon will also catch a steelhead. In view of the stale's need for payrolls, jobs, and taxable property, we do not believe this bill makes good sense. We do not feel that the very small group of people who are actively behind this measure have any God-given or other right to be the sole group of Oregon citizens that can enjoy the Columbia Ri ver steelhead resour.ee. At the present time, the cdmmercial catches are less than those taken by the anglers of Ore gon, Washington, and Idaho, .tames H. Cellars Executive Secretary Columbia River Salmon & Tuna Packers Assn., Astoria, Ore. The Steel Dispute To the Editor: As one views the mass quantity of editorial material that has appeared recently In relation to U.S. Steel's abortive $6 per ton price increase, one real izes that many points have been ignored. It was stressed by the ad ministration that this abortive price increase would add to the inflationary spiral in our economy. Indeed, this sounds strange coming from an ad ministration that has succeed ed in spending a record amount of funds, along with over-riding the national debt. How naive docs Mr. Kennedy think the American people are? Had the steel industry been left alone to iron out its own price stability, a true economic balance in the steel industry may well have been achieved. However, with government intervention, new precedent for industry as a whole may have been set Now, will industry have to look with one eye toward gov ernment everytime it consid ers expansion or price move ment? To quote from an editorial from the Toledo, Ohio, Blade: "Before the shouting dies down about what a great tri umph he has scored over Big Steel management, we would like to susgest that this may prove to be the costliest vic tory Mr. Kennedy has ever won. Indirectly, by setting in motion the train of punitive and coercive actions, from grand jury probes to congres sional investigations, the Pres ident moved to assert a pow er to dictate manasement price decisions that he does not legitimately possess." Whether this action on the part of Mr. Kennedy was fa thered by a great desire to protect the American people, or because the move by the steel companies upset the presidential chess board, is a question that remains in the minds of a great number of Americans. And yet, there is still another question: Why hasn't this awesome power been used aqainst the unions and the controlling grip they exercise on the industries of this Hintry? Perhaps if the union.i were punished in like manner industry1, as a whole, would not deem it necessary to increase prices. Robert J. Famous. .WIS North Commercial. Portland 17. Ore. Swede s Raply To the Editor: Dear Mr Prime Min Macmillan By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst When Prime Minister Har old Macmillan sits down with President Kennedy to discuss world affairs this week, it Is p o is 1 b 1 e these two as tute politici cians also will touch on a problem Mac millan is hav at home. This will be the fact that Mac- millan's Conservative party, which has ruled Britain for the last 10 and one-half years, has been losing favor stead ily with British voters. In the last seven by-elections, the Conservatives have lost votes, and lost them, sur prisingly enough, to the sud denly resurgent Liberals. Public opinion polls show that Macmillan's popularity has slipped to the point where less than half the voters ap Jackson: This Is my answer to your letter so generously pub lished by the Mail Tribune without checking to see If it was signed by a person actu ally living under that name at the address given. Your one man's opinion let ter shows that possibly you had been tilting the "fiasco" a little too freely to get the golden brew to screw your courage up enough to write a letter of this nature, dripping with so many inaccuracies and with only one intent which is so evident from the tone of the letter. Thank you for using my name so many times in the letter which I have as yet not received, this gives me more reasons for the belief, of its intent. In your letter you not only mixed your information and got your facts wrong, for you couldn't have skipped the din-ner-you weren't even invited but had you been hungry you would have been fed. I wish first of all lo ask who in all this world would have, if they could have, ap pointed you the Emily Post of political discretion and arbiter of social niceties which you so graciously omitted in your letter. Personally I don't think any self respect ing Democrat would have chosen you. Your letter sounds a great! deal like a part of the "hatchet squad system so long used by the opposing political par ty. They dearly love to have strangers sign their names to ghost-written "poison pen" letters to further their politi cal ends. As to my discrediting any one now in political office, may I say that this I have not done, nor will it ever be done by me. I believe the only mention I have thus far made to any one at all is when at the Eagle Point rally I stated, "I filed for County Judge only when I knew that Miller was going lo file", and "I felt that the people of the county shouldn't have to be 'Miller ized or Wentized' for another 4 years". You say you are a regis tered voter. If so, then your nom-de-plume is just that, or a deliberate attempt to mis lead the readers was perpe trated as to just who you are, for a diligent personal search of the registration records fails to show a Charles Jack son residing at 35 Second street in Ashland, Oregon, as a registered voter. The only Charles Jackson in the county registered as a voter lives in the Northern part of the coun ty and I know him to be an honorable man, and he isn't the one who wrote the letter. Eric Allen should be ashamed of himself for letting this one slip up. As to the statement that you know where to put jour vote it should probably be put Ihe same place that your letter should have been. Yours for the DEFEAT of Ihe Home Rule Charter. K. C. (Swede) Wernmark, Democratic Candidate for County Judge, Medford Agriculture Career Day Planned at OSU Corvallis - An Agriculture Career day will be sponsored April 28 by students majoring in agriculture at Oregon State university. The day is designed to ac ouaint Oregon high school students with carrer opportu nities in agriculture. Students can register to attend through their county extension offices or with high school vocational agriculture teachers. ister, President May s Domestic Political prove of him as prime min ister. No very logical explana tion has been advanced for this change in political for- Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann is en vacation. Roicoe Drummond reports from Waihinqton in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. DEMOCRATIC NO-ANSWER Washington The most revealing aspect of the cur rent House debate on HR 570 to correct the extreme im balance in the professional staffing of Congressional com mittees is the failure of the Democrats to answer the arguments for reform. As the debate proceeds, the Democrats remain, for the most part, mute or they care fully skirt the point. Evidently the case for re form is so strong and so un answerable that the only Democratic tactic thus far is to pretend that it doesn't ex ist and to hope that the storm of protest will subside. It won t. It is going on un til the rights of the minority to a fair proportion of pro fessional staff is granted. The injustice of a situation so one sided that the minority party does not have adequate com mittee staff assistance will simply not stand when enough people become aware of the facts. TTR 570 SIMPLY states that whenever a majority of the minority members of a Congressional committee so decide, it must be allowed to employ 40 per cent of the committee's professional staff. When the debate on this reso lution first began, no Demo crat ventured to take the floor. More recently one or two have briefly raised their voices. Here is what they have been saying: DEMOCRATIC ARGU MENT Some Republicans have over-stated the imbal ance between majority and minority committee staffs. The imbalance is not as bad as they say. REPUBLICAN ANSWER The latest figures prepared by the sponsors of HR 570 show that the Democrats have con trol of a total staff on all House committees, subcom mittees, and joint committees of 531 while the minority party has 45. Maybe the ma jority party has only 5'27 and the minority has as many as 49. Maybe the imbalance is 12-to-l against the minority party or maybe it is only 10-to-1. It is still an intolerable imbalance. D E M O C R ATIC ARGU ment There are several House committees like the Foreign Affairs committee and the Un-American Activi ties committee where the balance and personnel of the professional staff are satisfac tory to the minority members. Why do the Republicans want to upset what is so satisfac tory? REPUBLICAN ANSWER We don't. HR 570 provides no change of any committee staff when a majority of the minor ity members are satisfied. But there are many committees whose staffs are so lop-sided and unresponsive to minority needs that reform is urgent. Take the House Labor and Education Committee. When Republicans were in charge, it was a 10 majority staff, 2 minority staff. That was bad enough. Now it is 40 majority staff and 2 minority staff. D E M O C R ATIC ARGU MENT It is unfair to label the experts on the committee staffs as Republican or Demo cratic. They are non-partisan, professional people, many car ried over from the Republican Congress of 1953-54. REPUBLICAN ANSWER So long as the experts on the committee staffs, theoretically assigned to the minority, are named by the committee chairman and the continuance of their jobs conditional upon his approval, the minority party is rarely well served. The professional staff serving the minority should continue to be professional but should be named by and under the direction of the minority mem bers. IT IS welcome that the lead which Rep. Thomas Curtis of Missouri and Rep. Fred Schwenwl of Iowa have taken in behalf of HR 570 has now won the Influential support of former Speaker Joseph Martin and the Republican National Chairman. Rep. Wil 1 liam Miller of New York. ! That's good. But I suspect , that the 174 Republicans in the House are wondering whether the voices of their ; elected leaders Reps. Charles ! Halleck of Indiana, John Byrnes of Wisconsin. Leslie Arends of Illinois, Charles Hoeven of Iowa - are going to be heard in their behalf and in behalf nf correcting this offense atainst the two party stem of government. tunes except that the British voters are perhaps tired of the old faces and are equally un- enthusiastic about the Labor party, whose ranks are iihot through with pacifists and Communist sympathizers and which has been unabe to come up with a solid political pro gram. Therefore the swing has Matter of Fact uy Joseph aiop to New York Herald Tribune Syndicate LET IT SEGASHUATE Vientiane, Laos-Unless the American policy in unhappy little Laos is soon reviewed, the next stage is easy to fore see. Gen. Pho umi Nosavan and the other Laotian a n t i C o m m u nist leaders are going to be strangled b y the exis t i n g cut -off of Alinp American financial aid, or by an additional cutoff of mili tary aid, or by both methods combined. The political corpse of Laotian anti-Communism, garroted "for its own good," of course, will then be added to a new coali tion government in which the local Communists will be the strongest element. And this coalition will then be relied upon to enforce the strict neu trality which is the avowed American aim for Laos. These proceedings will be excused on the ground that an all -party government pledged to Laotian neutrality was the best bet for Laos, when Gen. Phoumi first re fused to enter such a govern ment last summer. It may well be true that Phoumi then missed a good bet. But the question now is not what would have been the best bet last summer. The question now is what is the best bet today; and this question must not be obscured by the re markably intemperate feel ings aroused in some U.S. quarters by Gen. Phoumi's obstinate refusal to do the bidding of the Americans who pay the bills. llflTHOUT regard-to person ' ' alities, then, what are the current factors in this obscure but dangerous situation? In the first place, the odds on a neutral, coalition governed Laos were perhaps reasonable last summer. But the odds to day are astronomically against anything remotely resembling Laotian neutrality, if a coali tion government is now cre ated by forcible prior strangu lation of the anti-Communists. This difficulty is pooh poohed, on the ground that the Soviet negotiators at Ge neva gave the strictest pledges of Laotian neutrality to Gov. Averell Harriman. But sup pose the local Communists or the Communist North Viet namese or the Chinese Com munists are not prepared to honor these Soviet pledges. Or just suppose - perish the thought!-that it proves to be unwise to place our sole reli ance on Soviet good faith. What happens then? The answer is too simple. The U.S. will then be des perately but quite fruitlessly longing for the considerable assets in Laos which will be automatically flushed down the drain by a coalition cre ated by main force. S a symbol of these assets, consider Col. Vang Phao, the Meo officer of the Royal Laotian army whose regional command embraces the most important territory now held by the Communists. In the last year, he has successfully created scores of guerrilla companies composed of his Meo fellow tribesmen. And in the key area of Laos, the Meo guerrillas are now giving the Communists some of their own medicine, reducing them, in fact, to the position of the French in the Inriochinese war. In other words, the Com munists now hold only the roads and the strong points in this area, and in some parts of the area not this much. The Meo guerrillas can lay down, and have laid down, mortar fire on the main Communist supply base, Xicng Khouang, with its air field where the Soviet trans ports land. They have already interdicted the key road for ward from Xicng khouang to Vang Vicng. so that all sup plies for this main forward base threatening Vientiana are now carried in by air. They are tested by a y ear in 1 combat. They have far great er potentialities in Laos. Best of all, the Meo guer- i rilla movement can be car- ! ried into the enemv's home grounds, the Men-Black Thai I area in the mountains of North Vietnam, IA PD that annihr-r evieert- lngly promising guerrilla j'T' jert In- JZji M Discuss Problems been to the Liberals who have not been in power since 1915 and who today hold only 8 of 630 seats in the House of Commons. Macmillan Is a seasoned campaigner unlikely to panic at the first of danger, but it is ottvjnB that he needs some successful and dramatic stroke to restore his position. movement is under way in southern Laos. Add that tha Americans who train the Roy al Laotian army and go into combat with the army units are unanimous that just one year of serious training has already worked wonders with this force of 60,000 men. Add that these same Americans be lieve that far more can be ac complished. It can be seen that our as sets in Laos are not to be lightly flushed down the drain. And this is another great change in the equation, for all these assets either have been created or have gained their present value in the last year. But if these changes in the equation demand a change in the U.S. policy, what should it be? Somewhere in "Uncla Remus" there is a wonderful word, "segashuate," meaning lo allow things to simmer along or lo develop naturally without undue interference. The thing to do would seem to be lo let Laos segashuate, continuing to work for a reas onable coalition but holding no further Mad Hatter's tea parties to enforce an unequal coalition. And if anyone asks, "But what if the North Vietnamese Communists then invade Laos in great force?" the answer is: "Have you heard about the irrevocable commitment the U.S. has now made in Soulli Vietnam?" Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (ci General Feature! Corp. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Ninety per cent of tha world's problems would be solved if the people with tha proper goals had the practical judgment nerWsary to reach those goals, aRl if the people, with practical judgment could be persuaded to adopt the proper goals. The difference between an adolescent boy's "es capade" and his "delin quency" lies in the social status of his parents. Speaking of boys, the surest way to ruin two children is lo hold up one as a "good example" to the othcr-which only succeeds in turning tha first into a rebel and the sec ond into a prig. The chief benefit confer red by always telling the truth is lhat one can afford the luxury of having a bad memory. The best and briefest slate ment of our modern predica ment, and the only rational attitude toward it, was madn recently by Stuart Chase when he said: "We need to realize that just as a soldier formerly could defend his nation, so now it is only by defending mankind that wa can save our own country." Men are those Inconsist ent creatures who want to violate every attractive woman they can - and then become indignant when the attractive woman they mar ry turns out not to have been inviolable. The really intolerable thin about poverty is that It Is so frightfully expensive. I don't mind people who merely dislike modern art. in any form; but I do mind those who compare it un favorably with traditional or classical art, which they don't really understand, ap preciate or cultivate - and would have disliked just as intensely if lhey had lived during the period it was created. When a woman announce." that she's going to dress "in formally," it means that her husband has only a 45-minuta wait for her to achieve tha effect of calculated careless ness. Virtuous people have no right to preach) If all the Pulpits were filled with re formed sinners, the congre gations would sit up and take more notice. The best deflating comment on the subject of ancestor worship I've heard is Herbert Agar's; -Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own an cestors" Those sects in which piety is allied with penuriousness have always struck me as quite alien lo the genuinely magnanimous spirit lhat mu' be at the root of all true religious feeling.