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Newspaper Page Text4 A veryone In Southern Oregon Reads fhe MaU Trlbun KEfished Daily eicept Saturday bl MEDFOHD PRINTING CO 83 North fir St.. Ph 8P2-6141. ROBERT W RUHJU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager r.vnii rt t Latham Bua Mar. IRIC W ALLEN JR. Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Ed.tol OLIVE STARCHER. Women Editor riAlj ERICKSON. Circulation Mg An rndnndent Newspaper Entered aa second elais matter at Medford. ureeon, unoer n . March 3. IB97 Btmsr.RIPTION RATES Mall In Advance. Cony lOe Dally and Sunday 1 year 18 00 Dally ana sunaay o rnu. nallv and Sunday 3 moi 4Jfl RnnriMv Onlv One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville uold Hill ' Phrw.nl. Shaav Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routea. Dally and Sunday 1 veal SIB 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo t.M Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms tasn in Aovancw "official Paper of city of Medford. Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire TJJ.l. Telepnoto Newsplctures ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS ASSOCI ' iTH nfftcita in New York. Cm- cngo, Detroit. San Francisco. Los 1 Angeles aeame. rut miiu. ...... NEWSPAPER PUBUSHIH ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight or Time Medford and Jackjon County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 29, 1952 (Tuesday) Medford settled down today to a mostly - uncomplicated routine on Pacific standard tlmc- . California's Gov. Earl War ren will open his campaign for Oregon's Republican pref erential primary election vote for president in Medford on May 5, it was reported today. 20 YEARS AGO April 29, 1942 (Wadnatday) Civilian employees who work throuRh rain storm in effort to keep Camp White construction program on schedule commended by army officers. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A shortage now looms of saw dust for fuel, but breakfast food so far has not been af fected." 30 YEARS AGO April 29. 1932 (Friday) Crater Lake highway open ed up nine miles beyond Un ion Creek; large crowd ex pected to visit area. Uniled Slates secretary of Interior approves plans for promotion of "Sparrow Me morial" park on approach road to Crater Lake National park. 40 YEARS AGO April 29, 1922 (Saturday) Survey shows that average cost per day in Oregon of maintaining a family of five persons is $1.47. Moore Hamilton, Cent r a 1 Point, wins boys Class C 50 yard dash at county track meet. 50 YEARS AGO April 29, 1912 (Sunday) Jackson county court or ders construction of $40,000 bridge across Bear creek on Main St. in Medford; o 1 d Main st. bridge to be moved to Jackson st. Prof. P. J. O'Gara, Jackson county pathologist, opens se ries of experiments here to ascertain effects of electricity on plant life. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct It superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which of these measures denotes the greater linear dis tance: rod, furlong, yard? 2. You are probably pro ti'clod by the F.D.I.C.; what Is it? 3. Was Confucius, the an cient philosopher, Japanese Chinese or Siamese? 4. Of what famous poem Is the beginning: "This is the forest primeval "? 5. Upon the death of Presi dent Abraham Lincoln, who succeeded to the Presidency? 6. In what town Is the Unl versify of Michigan? 7. In t lie nursery rhyme who climbed up the bean stalk? 8. Does an owl see best In bright sunshine, partial light, or complete darkness? 9. From what animal is mo hair obtained? 10. Of what religious body was Brigham Young i famous leader' Answers: 1, Furlong. 2. F d t r a 1 Deposit Insurance Corp. 3. Chinese. 4. Longfel low's Evangelint. 5. Andrew Johnson. 6. Ann Arbor, Mich. 7. Jack, 8. Partial light. 9. Angora goat. 10, The Mormons. Km SUNDAY. APRIL 29. 1962 What A Professor Does A college professor, according to Chancellor Roy Lieuallen, of the state system of higher edu cation, has six jobs. The first, obviously, lecturing, stimulating discussion, and so on. The second, equally lectures or materials he will present to the class. The third is in continuing his own education, through study of publications in his own field, attending meetings of professional societies, and so on. T'HE fourth is to make his own contribution to his field. With the "explosion of knowledge" on all fronts, the tasks of keeping up with it, and contributing to it, take on more weight and mean ing. Fifth, the professor, to be a good teacher, must counsel and advise his students, discussing their projects, advising them on courses of study, and in some cases, listening to their personal problems. Finally, the professor is confronted with evaluating the work of his students, reading their papers and examinations, assessing their con tributions to discussions, and determining his progress and potential, as well as his mastery of the subject matter. CACH of these six jobs is exacting and time-- consuming. Each, to be done well, should re ceive nearly equal emphasis and energy. Chancellor Lieuallen said : "All these elements of the professor's work have a very direct bearing on his performance as a teacher, and if any one of them is neglected long, the quality of Instruction deteriorates." Dr. Lieuallen's remarks were prepared for the state board of higher education, in connection with a report on how the colleges and univer sities of the state coped with this year's shortage of operating funds. The shortage resulted from enrollments that were higher than predicted by 1 . i 1 ..il. . i t . . . I -.1 Jl J.1. educational auinoruies, iar nigner man me gov ernor's estimates, and way higher than the leg islature guessed. THE overcrowded institutions made as much nca aa nnccil-ilo. nf nmpViiinir'nl rlovippa .enph n ll.lt CIO J,U,1I)1U1 VJ 1 .1,1. Wlt.ll...... UUTlbvuj .".v-'. TV; they limited enrollment in certain classes; they eliminated some courses or postponed offer ing them; they called on part-time temporary help; and they overloaded the faculty. The last is the most significant, and wrought the worst results. Say a professor is teaching an English class of 40 students, which suddenly becomes 60 stu dents. If each does one takes a half-hour of the professor s time to read and grade each one, his weekly work-load sud denly goes up 10 hours. If he has three such classes, it goes up 30 hours. This example is hypo thetical, but it gives the general idea. And this is why the legislature must next year make good for its mistake of last year. Mean while, students are not getting the best possible education. E.A. The Right To Bear Arms Before Congress is a bill which would require that all firearms be registered with the FBI. Sponsored by Rep. Victor Anfuso (D-N.Y.), it is intended as a measure quency and to combat tne big cities. According to Drew ing fire from the "extremist lunatic fringe" groups. I he Minutenien, who train with firearms, Dan Snioot, and others have assailed the bill as iinAmerican and dangerous to our freedoms. Rather to our surprise, we linn oursclt in agreement with them on this one issue. RANT, first, that firearms are perhaps too casy to come by, particularly those who would use them for illegal purposes. (rant, too, that registration of firearms would make the job of police and FBI somewhat easier to do. (Irani, also, that firearms are dangerous, and that registration would provide a measure of con trol and regulation now not possible. Grant all these premises, and we still cannot support such a bill, not as long as the U. S. Con stitution says: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the serurily of a free stale, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Many states (including Oregon) require that when a weapon is carried "concealed" the bearer must have a permit issued for that purpose. In Oregon, the sheriff is the permit - issuing authority. IT HAS always seemed to us that the permit re- qtiirenient does, indeed, "infringe" on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, but it has been judicially interpreted otherwise. Still, registration of ail firearms .122s, hunt ing guns, marksmanship rifles, and all is not in the American tradition, no matter how much it would help combat crime. If registration is necessary, a law is not the way to do it. The way to do it would be to amend the Constitution to nullify the Second Amend ment. But it seems to us that the case for registration is not strong enough to is teaching his class obvious, is preparing the graduate assistants or paper a week, and it against iiivenile delin the increasing crime in Pearson, the bill is draw merit that. E.A. Dennis the w mis I - VUIf - I III ' But, s. Hakris,xi phomisipto siTwrn) Dennis; What? bu mttanofWftttWiOH.ioiKMW Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald WHAT THE RADARS SAW Saigon, South Viet Nam At the time of the full moon in March, the A m e r ic a n watching ra dars in this c o u n try ob served anight para chute drop in a wild area of the South Victna m e s e high lands near Pleiku. The Alsnp planes em ployed appeared to be three Ilyushin transports of the slow type the Soviets have passed on to their satellites, with escort by the Yak propeller-driven fighters of the same hand-me-down sort. Monitoring stations further more heard the Diane crews speaking both Chinese and Vietnamese. The parachute drop, though small in scale, was a warning, as the first known episode of this type. It was also signifi cant for two other reasons. On the one hand, it under lined the increasing Chinese participation in the aggres sive enterprises of the North Vietnamese Communists. This is also evident in Laos. On the other hand, this parachute drop, obviously occasioned by some sort of special emergen cy, also pointed up the larger problem of concealed inva sion. IjVDR a great many months, men and supplies have been moving from North Viet Nam into South Viet Nam by the slower overland route through Laos. The movement of supplies, by truck or air nlane to the Laotian town of Tchepone and then by coolie across the border, is not mas sive as yet. The human move ment is variously estimated to be 500 to 1,000 men per month which may not seem verv Important until you add up the total for the past 24 months. It would seem to be a con servative estimate that at least 12.000 North Vietnamese have entered South Vietnam in the last two years. Of these, be tween one-half and two-thirds have fanned out into the prov inces, to serve as leaders in the unending guerrilla war. The rest, amounting to at least 4,000 men, have moved Into the Annamile chain the almost trackless spine of mountains which divides the highland plateau on the Laos border from the fertile sea side strip of South Viet Nam. In their refuges in the Anna mite chain, the men of this latter group are almost cer tainly being used to form the skeletons of regular regiments of guerrillas with light b u t powerful weapons. rilE units being formed in the Annainite chain m a y soon constitute a very serious threat, especially to the high- Try and By BENNETT CERF- IX HOLLYWOOD, Herb Stein nothing to get excited about darling. It simply means she Herb also tells about the producer who, when ho was a very, very poor lad In Brooklyn, vowed that If he ever made good, he would remember his childhood. Nowhc'swrit ten, directed, and pro duced a picture that cost ten zillion dollars and true to his vow, it's a very, very poor picture. e An advertising man sud denly noticed that the kids In his nelKhborhood were treating him with a defer ence that bordered on reverence. Boya ""'l Str' bessn coming from blocks away to ga at him in awo a he fumtleU for hia The explanation came when one little girl, bolder than the rest, tugged at hia coat and denuuiJevL "Are you really and tru- a space aalesraaa ?" MLUr OHU MAIL Menace By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate land plateau provinces. The seizure of Kontum, for in stance, would give the Com munists both a bridgehead on this side of the border for their Ho Chih Minh trail through Laos, and a chance to proclaim the formation of a "people's government" on the soil of South Viet Nam. But the real point to note about this concealed invasion of South Viet Nam is that what has happened to date is down right trifling compared to what may come later on. Suppose, for instance, that the U. S. policy in Laos pro duces the result that seems so sadly likely, the precise oppo site of the "neutral" Laos that U. S. policy is designed to produce. Suppose that in this extremely un - neutral Laos the Communists can car ry their supply road down from Tchepone to Saravane and Attopeu. Attopeu is only two days' march from Kon tum and only four days' march from the Annamite chain. A single coolie can carry 60 pounds on his back plus enough rice around his mid dle to sustain him for a 10 day round trip. After allow ing for rest and replacement, a mere 500 coolies based on Attopeu could lay down a ton of supplies a day in the An namite chain. That Is more than enough for a North Viet namese division. Full Communist organiza tion of the supply routes through Laos would therefore have two quite automatic con sequences. First fo all, even while coolie-power was still used exclusively, the shorter distances to be covered would allow a really major move ment of supplies. Second, the supplies being available, the movement of men could also be greatly increased. This, one may be reasonably sure, is why the Communists con tinue to expect to win the war in South Vict Nam, despite the powerful intensification of the American effort, IN REALITY, however, this A intensification of the Amer ican effort amounts to a com mitment, final and irrevoca ble, not to permit a Commu nist victory here. Hence any one who has studied the situ ation in both Laos and this country is obsessed by a com parison of risks. The risk of a change of the present American policy in Laos may be considerable. But this risk is still far smaller than the risk of bombing Ha noi or doing the other things that may have to be done if the situation in South Viet Nam gets out of hand as a result of Communist success in Laos. I In sum, our Laos policy and J out South Vietnamese policy i appear lo be flatly contrariic- lory; and as the latter cannot J he re-examined, the Laos pol I icy clearly needs to be. Stop WVe pauses to remind you there's when a pretty girl calls you can't remember jour name. ub nn '1H1BUNL. McutOttU. OHCUON Drummond Reports (Walter Liapman Is in Europe. Washington in his absence.) e) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. WHY NEUTRALS PROTEST Washington There is no reason why we should be pained or impatient or even exasperated because many sin cere people in many nations are more critical of the Unit ed States when we test nu clear weapons in the air than they are of the Soviets when they test. The extremes of this criti cism, which take the form of hurling rocks at U. S. em bassies and breaking windows of USIA libraries, are organ ized by Communists. But much of it is earnest and honest. There is an understandable psychological reason. The reason, I think, is that neutralist leaders have come to realize that they cannot influence one iota the actions and attitudes of the Kremlin; hence, they turn by necessity to a one-sided effort to in fluence the United States where they know that public opinion is viewed with re spect. When the neutralists see that they cannot influence the country they most fear, which is Russia, they center their hopes and their pressure upon the country they most trust, the U. S. Very few of them would want America militari ly weak and Russia militarily strong. What they vaguely and wishfully hope Is that, if the flexible United States will concede a little more to the inflexible Soviet Union, some how the arms race can be brought to an end. I am not suggesting that this neutralist opinion is right. It is perilously misguided. I believe we should ignore it -completely. But there is nn reason to ignore it impatient ly or with any animus. WHILE the U. S. tests in the Pacific are in progress, it will be well for the whole world to keep the Soviet rec ord in view: 1 For years the Soviet propaganda apparatus pro claimed to the world that if only the U. S. would stop testing, then the Soviets could do the same and there would be no more hazard from radio active fallout. We did, on Oct. 31, 1958. Last fall the Soviet Union exploded in the at mosphere a massive megaton bomb equivalent to 55,000, 000 tons of TNT with all the consequent radioactive fall out. 2 On the eve of the Geneva test ban talks in late 1958 the Soviet government said it would abide by a three power test moratorium during the negotiations. They stated they would never resume test ing if the U. S. and Britain did not resume. We now know that while we were negotiat ing at Geneva, the Soviets were secretly preparing to test. On Sept. 1, 1961, they broke the moratorium, which we were observing, to conduct more than 50 tests in the at mosphere. 3 In the wake of this action they sought to trap the United States into another un inspected test moratorium which they knew from expe rience we would observe and which we knew from experi ence they were willing to violate. PRESIDENT Kennedy said no. There was no other prudent or safe decision which he could take. We do not welcome the ne cessity of resuming testing. But when the President, the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the 'American By ERIC SEVAREID Get ready, self-conscious America, to bleed from yet another self-inflicted wound. Fvit S?A most PerccP- jj-ajr- r-i-i live of con- V.. m. t e m p o r ary F r e n c hmcn has said of the United States. "A n y writer who bitterly denounces the ilk ices of this sevarrid country is lis tened to with sspecial care and sorrowful appreciation, though he hurts . . . and the writer who admires and prais es this country has the nice qualities of a gratifying friend, to be sure, but is con sidered softheaded." So we sorrowfully accepted the notion that affluence has fastened the spirit of material ism upon us. failing to notice that in no other country do riches alone produce so little respect, that no other people shows such a compulsion to give their riches away. i We accepted the notion of the "orcanization man." as if a new stylized personality cs-1 s-ence had come into being, a concept as false as that of , "economic man" or "socialist ' man." We accepted the notion , of the brutishly ignorant i "ugly American" abroad, un-1 aware that no other foreign emissaries, in the round, show the same degree of humble Roscoa Drummond reports from Chairman of the Atomic En ergy Commission conclude that It is vital maintaining the balance or military power with the Soviets, I cannot see how any American can knowl edgeably say that it isn't. Nothing would be more wel come to the American gov ernment and to the American people than to have the So viet Union accept an inspect able test ban as a beginning toward ending the arms race. It is no inspection if the Soviets alone are to certify whether or not they are ob serving the agreement. That is the only kind of "inspec tion" they say they will ac cept. If the Soviet Union could get repeated extensions of a test moratorium without in spection, there is no incentive for them to accept a test ban with inspection. Therefore, the prospect of a test ban with inspection may even be improved by the U S. tests which are now going forward. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What of our nuclear tests? This seems to be the pic ture: THE world outside the com--- munist bloc reacted with a minimum of anger. The Rusians, of course, ac cused us of "bringing man kind nearer to the abyss of nu clear war." Soviet Delegate Zorin told the 17-nation dis armament conference in Ge neva that the U. S. is challeng ing the whole world with its explosion of a nuclear device over the Pacific. "The U.S.," he said, "has thrown away its mask. It is unleashing a fresh arms race, and is bringing the world nearer to the abyss of nuclear war." Red China muttered angrily that "these tests herald a new phase in U.S. nuclear arms ex pansion." BUT much of the rest of the world took the news of the testing calmly, with little violence, few demonstrations and restrained comment. Newspaper comment in Brit ain, West Germany, Denmark, Holland, and Italy generally backed the U. S. resumption of testing. Even in Japan, the only na tion in the world that has know the horrors of nuclear bombing, expected demonstra tions by extreme left-wing, communist-leaning students in Tokyo failed to materialize in the size that had been ex pected. F a. II JAPAN, when the U.S. intention to resume nuclear testing was first announced, there was an interesting reac tion from the English-language newspaper Japan Times, published in Tokyo. It said: "The Japanese people re gret as much as anyone the imminent resumption of nu clear tests by the United States, but it is dificult for sensible men here, as else where, to say that this de cision is unwarranted by cir cumstances . . . While the present international tensions exist, it is not safe for the United States, as the leader of the free world, to fall behind the Russians in this matter of the potentialities of nuclear warfare." LET'S put it this way: Communist Russia's un - Image1 Talk Is Nonsense defference to tne views and values of "the natives'' that most of our agents exhibit. Now we are told in a new book, "The Image, or What Happened to the American Dream," that we are becom ing walking zombies, lost to reality, living a mirror-life of pseudo-experience. We are indulging in "tourism," not travel, replacing fame with mere celebrity, treating pseudo-events as news, preferring reprints to originals, the cor porate "image" to the corpo rate function - fabricating facsimiles of life, that is. even to the artifice of trying to project a "national image'' in the world and appointing commissions to re-conjure the "national purpose" which sup posedly faded away when we weren't looking. This indictment, brilliantly stated within its limits by Daniel Boorstin. is likely to be accepted as another bright coin in the common currency of upper-middlebrow dinner party talk. Some will agree with all of It; all will asree with some of it. (I suspect I contributed to the concept my self with a widely reprinted piece some years ai;o auout pseudo-news and tne "pub licity saints.") The theme it self will become part of the "conventional wisdom" for a time. Then it will be put aside because, even were it true, it is. like pure pain, in supportable to the nervous system. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributprs) Dear Potluck Editor: Pier Tiiree, never a quiet place at best, has been in an uproar all this week-again. The trouble -maker this time is Bla '(jack Hibbard. I've not mentioned him in my letters before, but he is a very big man along the pier. People say he is absolutely loaded. Blackjack (he picked up that nickname because in the old days he used to have the deplorable habit of bludgeon ing anyone who got in his way) Hibbard owns a fleet of garbage scows and barges which tie up at the pier. He encountered some prob lems lately because he has been expanding his fleet (there is lots of garbage in San Francisco) and he has run out of room along the pier lo tie up his barges. But Blackjack has a very adulterated buncombe and baldcrbash about U. S. re sumption of nuclear testing can be expected to have con siderable effect on the ignor ant, the prejudiced and the RADICAL. We can't hope to avoid that. But all the SENSI BLE people in the world, no matter where they live, must be quite aware that it was COMMUNIST RUSSIA that first resumed nuclear tcsting with BIGGER bombs than had been imagined before. That fact just simply CAN'T be concealed. It stands in the rec ord. My personal conviction is that there are more reason able, sensible people in the world than we are sometimes inclined to think. Let's go even farther than that. EVEN IN RUSSIA, there must be sensible, reasonable people who know that all the fault in this resumption of testing bus iness doesn't lie with the Unit ed States. Russians of the higher type have pretty good minds. They must know who started the testing again. The cranks and the radicals SOUND OFF. The wiser, sounder ones keep still. ANYWAY We know we were right in our resumption of nuclear testing. If you lived out in the for est wilderness, among savage beasts and perhaps even more savage men who were bent on your destruction- And if your only protection in such a world was a gun you had fired only ONCE, and that many years ago, and if you didn't know whether your am munition would even GO OFF when put in the gun WHAT WOULD YOU DO? You know what you would do. You would test your gun and your ammunition. You would be a fool if you didn't. Mt. Shasta Firm Buys Klamath Forest Timber Yreka - Ralph L. Smith, Di vision of Kimberly Clark Cor poration, Mt. Shasta, submit ted the only bid on 3.500,000 board feet of pine and cedar timber in the Hebron Summit unit of the Goosenest working circle. Total advertised value and the bid value were the same, 1 S20.475.00. It approaches the terrible indictment of D. H. Lawrence, who "w o n d e r e d whether America really was the great death-continent, the great No! to the European and Asiatic and even African Yes! , , and all its people the agents of the mystic destruction! Plucking at the created soul in a man, till at last it plucked out the growing germ and left him a creature of mechanism and automatic reaction, with only one inspiration, the desire to pluck the quick out of every living spontaneous creature." But the "image" theme is essentially untrue. There is something deeply superficial about it that is not a total non-scquitur even though it is not as spiritually profound a profanation as the curse of Lawrence. The "graphic revolution" to which Boorstin attributes many of his evils is wave action, not a sea change. The anxious, relentless search for spiritual certainties reflected in American literature belies tlic rc.ilty of tiie image life. So docs the massive hunger revealed in the public turn toward pamtine. toward the theater, toward the museums of antiquities. So docs the stumbling turn toward organ ized religion, the dedd seri ousness of much of the new college generation, the rise so astounding to Europeans in the quality of American clever (I might even say crafty) mind, and he figured out a plan to solve his park ing problem. He observed that there was some space under the pier it self that wasn't being used for anything. He made tome calculations and concluded that for about $35,000 ha could have the pier remodeled so that his barges would fit comfortably under it. So far so good. But Black jack had no intention of pay ing for the project himself. Not him! He began spreading tha word around that the pier was in a terrible run-down condition. He joined forces with old Otto Phrumpmeicr, whose troubles I have told you about before, and the two of them began screaming to anyone who would listen that creeping blight was absolute- ly ruining the pier. Now I'd have to admit that the pier isn't in first-class condition, Mr. Editor, but gosh-all-hcmlock, it isn't as bad as those two were able to make it sound. After they had everybody all alarmed and excited, Hib bard grandly came forward with a plan which he said would solve everything. hat we all needed lo do, he said, was to raise Pier Three about six f. it so that it would accommodate about 1..0 barges, scovs and small craft underne "-. That would cure the blight, he told us. Several of us thought it over, including Captain Blyc, and we were hanged if ,a could see how Blackjack's "Resoration of Pier Three Plan," as he called it, would solve a darn thing. But ha was such a big man that no one wanted to argue with him. Maybe they remembered the old days. He shored up his argu ments by pointing out that the installation of barge park ing spaces was the only na tural and logical use of all that area under the pier. Well, he sure had us there. We all got down and looked under the pier, and we had to admit it didn't seem to ba much good for anything else. When he suggested, how ever, that all the users of the pier be assessed to pay for tha project, some of the thriftier souls, among them Captain Blye, began to balk. The recalcitrants met and formed a commission to call on Blackjack and tell him they resented having to pay for something that only ha would benefit from. Would you believe it, the entire commission was found floating BELLY-UP in San Francisco bay the next morn, ing? That did it, I tell you, Mr. Editor. Everybody clammed up and kicked in. Work on the restoration of Pier Three starts next week. Please give my best re gards to all those fine folk in Medford. At times like these, I sometimes wish I were back in a town where cooperation really meant something. Sincerely, Earnest M. Cantwright science and general scholar ship, in the immense increa.s in the reading of books. This book itself, and the furious argument it inspires, belie its own theme of a widely per vasive fake-life in America. So does the very attempt to restate the "American pur pose," however embarassing on one level this is. It could, in fact, be argued that what happened to tha intrinsic American purpose or ideal is simply that so many Americans have been so busy living it, realizing it. that it has not occurred to them that it needed fresh categorizing. The author himself misses the central reality of America amidst the appearances that he believes have become our realities. What is the central reality of contemporary America? It was stated by the foremen tioned Frenchman, Jacques Maritain. a few years ago:. "... The people who lived and toiled under this struc ture or ritual of civilization were keeping their ow n souls apart from it . . they were I lreedom-loving and mankind loving people, people clinging I to the importance of ethical standards, anxious to save the world, the most humane and the least materialistic among modern peoples which had reached the industrial stage " (Distributed 1962. by tht Hall Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Referred)