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Newspaper Page Text4 A """Everyone-In Southern Oregoo Beada flu MU Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday b) MEDKOKD PRINTING CO 33 North fir 81, Ph 6P2-em ROBERT W RUHU Editor TTKRB GREY, Advertising Manager r.KRALD t Latham bu Mr. ERIC W AU-EN JR, Hn Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telee Editor RICHARD JEWETT. S porta Editor OUVI STARCHES, Women'! Edltoi DALE ER1CKSUH. circulation war An Indenendent Newapaper Entered as second data matter at Mediord, oreron. under aci oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy lOc Dally and Sunday 1 year lou Dally and Sunday moe. Ou Dally and Sunday 3 moa 2S Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Mediord Aihland. I'entral Point Bella Point Jacksonville Cold Hill Phrwniv Shaav Cove Rofue fliv er Talent and on motor routei. Dally and Sunday I vear 118 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo too Carrier and Dealere copy lOe All Terma Caan in Aovance "official Paper of City of Madfiiro" OfflclaPaper of Jackaon County United P-eaa International Full Leased Wire O.P.l. TelepiiotoJJewfptcturea """"MEMRKR OF AUDIT BITREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NFI.SON ROBERTS & ASSOC1 itvq nfrlcM In New York. Chi- caco. Detroit, San rrandaco. Lot Anrelea Seattle. Portland, Denver NIWSPAM rutin Hiii ASSOCIATION NATIONAl EDITORIAl Flight o' Time Medford and Jackaon County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 30, 1952 (Wednesday) Gov. Adlal Stevenson of Illinois was scheduled to be a Medford visitor briefly to day; he has reservations on the southbound United Air lines plane leaving here at 5:25 p. m. Dale Newton, who operates a printing establishment on Pacific highway, today Iden tified himself as the one who sponsored the "How Do You Like the Smudge?" advertise ment which appeared in the Mail Tribune last week. 20 YEARS AGO April 30, 1942 (Thursday) Medford city otticials re port start of construction of Camo White has brought cilv's nomilation to more than 1B.00O. compared with 1940 census of 11,281. From Arthur Perryy's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "GasO' line is being rationed In these parts but there is still enough for lively wrecks and fender hustings." 30 YEARS AGO April 30, 1932 (Saturday) Woman claiming to be se cret service Operative SMS 36 creates bedlam In county jail by throwing chairs at the walls and screaming. Final tabulation of Literary Digest's "Prohibition Poll" shows residents of 46 slates favor repeal; Kansas and North Carolina only slates voting "dry." 40 YEARS AGO April 30. 1922 (Sunday) Final Jackson county voter registration figures for 1922 show 7,948 Republicans, 2. 874 Democrats, 133 Socialists and 94 Prohibitionists. Five members of Medford American Legion post resign when organization fails to condemn "law violations" by Ku Klux Klan. SO YEARS AGO April 30. 1912 (Monday) Members of Medford Suff rage cluh banned from using city library for meetings; wo man plan to fight library board decision. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct li auptrier; seven or eight is excellent; five er six ll good. 1. Moonlight is only reflect ed sunlight, true or false? 2. The prehistoric mam moth most nearly resembles the present-day bear, lion, or elephant? 3. Was burning at the stake, or hanging, the usual mode of punishment for the witches of Salem, Mass.? 4. Would a geriatrician most likely specialize In diseases of children, or aged persons? 5. Would you expect tn ob tain malic, cilric, or suphur. ic acid in lemon juice? 6 Is it the lion, or the ti ger, that is called the king of beasts? 7 correct the following, "Neither of the girls prac liced their lessons." 8. Helena is the capital of which state? 9. When women use a hen na rinse, does it give blond, brunette, or reddish hair tint? in. Are U S. destroyers named for cities, states or naval heroes? Answers: 1. True, 2 Ele phant. 3. Hanging. 4. Aged parsons. S. Citric. 8. Lion. 7. " . . . practiced her lesson." I. Montana, 9. Reddish. 10. Nival heroes. ' MONDAY. APRIL 30. 1IB2 Laws Equal Liberty (Editor's note: The following editorial, which first appeared in Crater Comments, of Crater High school, was first place winner in the local Bar Association's Law Day editorial contest for high school students. It written by Mary Clare Stuart, at senior at Crater, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Stuart, 2650 Beall Lane, Central Point.) Without law we would have more personal and political libery. This is the sound of voices raised against our laws. It's true without laws we would have the liberty to sit in our houses and pray that no one would steal from us, assault us, or murder us. We would have the liberty to drive our cars any where, at any speed, and anyway we wanted. We could walk on the grass, pick all the flowers in the park and do exactly as we please. lhere is only problem: 11 we did all these things so would all the rest of the people. Soon there would be no more grass or flowers in the parks; there would be car wrecks blocking the streets; there would be murders, and all decent people would be afraid to leave their homes, or stay in them. The law is a protective shield and once in a while, if it treads on our toes, just think what the world would be like without it! M.S. Fiasco Recently we reported on the fiasco of the Kerr-Mills medical assistance plan in West Vir ginia, where doctors turned the program into a costly shambles by profiteering on specialist fees and prescriptions. faced with financial thorities had to cut benefits to a point where they are almost meaningless to the indigent and ailing older citizens who were supposed to be aided by the program. What is the record program in Oregon? It has been in effect the first report has been made public. There are no indications of profiteering or abuses by doc tors but that's about program's success. IN FIVE months, administrative costs of the Ol'flrrnn npnrrroin 1-i.nm linan 190 ftHft ttrliila benefits paid out in $112,000. And less than 4,000 rolled in this program administer than it has paid t his is the program hailed by the American Medical Association as a "superior substitute" for the King-Anderson bill health care for the aged under the Social Security system. THERE are two things wrong with the Kerr Mills program, enacted by the Eisenhower Ad ministration in an effort to stave off the Social Security approach to medical care : 1 Its benefits are only given as charity to those who are willing to take a degrading "pauper's oath." 2 It doesn't work. If you want health care in your retirement years as a matter of right (not charity) under social security, write to senators and tell them aerson dhi. Recent news reports passing the King-Anderson bill in this session of Congress look brighter every day. Your letters can help make it a reality. Oregon Labor Press. Let Them Strike Some strikes harm only the conuianies and workers directly involved. convenience to the public and often result in a holdup of the poor unorganized consumer. It assessing strikes, we try to keep hands off the former kind. And we ti-v to renrpsent the public interest in the latter. But we almost never point to a strike situation and cheer. In Britain, however, a strike has been threat ened that we heartily endorse. We hope the work ers waiK on the job lorever u their penny-pinching employers refuse to triple the wage. And we hope the employers hold out forever to prevent their grasping workers from bankrupting the business. Yes, we favor the threatened strike of the television wrestlers. Salem Capital .Journal. Bottles The roadside beauty crowd, may their tribe increase, express concern about a relatively new development in beer the "no deposit, no re fund'' bottle. This, the anti-litterbugs say, is an open invitation to beer drinkers to litter the land scape with their empties. And bottles, the few that don't break, can lie around hundreds of years, just waiting for tires and bare feet. A country as wonderful as this, a country that talks seriously about luittinir a man on the moon. ought to think of something. The Salem Capital Journal wondei-s about a plastic that will remain firm as long as it's moist on the inside, but will Ishrivel and blow away when it dries. E ALREADY have the forerunner of the ideal TT beer bottle. It's the plastic milk carton, so handy for starting fires. Perhaps this is the line along which researchers should work, (let that carton tight enough to keep the fizz in beer anil cheap enough, too, and the problem is solved. The industry could advertise, "Dead soldiers start fine campfires."- Eugene Kegistcr-Guard. ruin. West Virginia au of the same Kerr-Mills here for five months, and all you can say for the the same period were Orecon citizens are en which has cost more to in benefits. your concxessman and you want the King-An- sav that the chances of Others are of exeat in Dennis the Menace 1 A j 'SoMesopYm to puy in our wrd! wui i-tNU: it wejvtf" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper: in fact the contrary Is often the case. Political Participation To the Editor: Reference is often made in news stories, concerning political meetings to the small attendance of such events. Even though it is often embarrassing to us can didates to have the public know how small our political meetings usually are, it is in the public interest that they should know this fact. The people have, in Oregon, an excellent record in show ing themselves to be intelli gent and concerned voters. But they leave too many po litical decisions in the hands of a very few persons who are interested in the activities of parties and committees. The strength and wisdom of De mocracy lies in the active po litical involvement of a large proportion of the people, yet the number of those interest ed seems to be growing small er each year. If this state of affairs continues, it is possible that our freedom of political choice may someday be jeop ardized. , I urge the people of our Dis trict to inform themselves continually about activities of political candidates and about their points of view on all is sues. I further urge them to lake part in the many commit tee meetings, party gatherings and discussions where de cisions of great importance to our government are made. Po litical activity is the only means by which the citizens can translate their views into positive action. Robert W. Straub State Senator, Lane County Eugene, Ore. Power Lawn Mowers To the Editor: Yesterday afternoon I visited with My Little Guy. He is 5 years old and a very special friend. Last Monday night, he got mixed up with a power lawn mower in a neighbor's yard. It all happened so fast, no one really knows what hap pened, but. My Little Guy had to have surgery and skin grafting and now he has two toes missing on his right foot. Children have such keen minds and inquisitive ones, that adults have to be on their toes every minute, when they are around. Not only power lawn mow ers but all power tools are dangerous for small children. You can't be too careful. This little boy only got his feet mixed up this time, but what about next time? Every family that has child ren should have a special in surance to take care of acci dents oilier titan their own. ll happened once. It could happen again. Next time, it might tie your child. Who knows1 A word to the wise should be sufficient. Lillian Green 2411 Sunset Court Medford. MacLaren School To the Editor: If you know nothing of V.acLaron School don't knock it. They have Ihc j best teachers in the state" , Thry have to he, for they arc ! dealing with boys who need understanding, guidance and learning, and encouraging In it. I was surprised, delighted , ami depressed upon seeing j and visiting MacLaren school Surprised at how home like they try to make it and at li s in crcrnw dodness. An exam ple !ili hoys m a building built to house "5 and at Ihc two bright new buildings being creeled, and at the many young children there. Pclighlrd at how well lhc manage tn do, also wllh a limited budget. They hae a MEDFORD full athletic program includ ing a year round swim pool, excellent guidance counselors, a modern clinic for medical care. To some boys MacLaren is their first real home in the sense of security. I was especially depressed that our son was here, it is a blow akin to losing a loved one in death. It wasn't only for him though, but the thought that In this bright and promising land we must have such places for our youth. There are two camps on the Oregon Coast (forestry), an extension of this school, one a full work camp - that is, the boys at this camp work a full schedule, they are paid a small wage, which is put in to their account, they are al lowed a dollar a week to spend. The other is sent to them upon their release. The other forestry camp is a half day work, half day school arrangement. I've no idea the ratio of rehabilita tion, but, I do know this, most of these boys can and will be good citizens, given help and encouragement at the proper time. I believe firmly that the county should give deep and profound thought to the estab lishment of a camp here in our county. Let's not let these youngsters down, a strong helping and guiding hand is needed, or can you measure Ihe value of human life in dol lars and cents? And remem ber, busy hands are one of the best corrective measures. Please, delete my name and address. I do hope that peo ple will know or learn a little more about these agencies. (Name on File) Central Point, Ore. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris c) Field Enterprise. Inc. DOES MAN DESERVE? The biggest problem fac ing the human race has noth ing to do with Communism or the atom bomb or the pop ulation explosion or any of the other popular forum top ics. It is a problem that has always been with us only today, its consequences are more threatening than ever before. We can see it more sharply; but we are no nearer a solution. And the problem is this: that intellectual knowledge is additive. while moral knowledge is not. What this means is that each genera tion knows more than the last, but acts no better. Man is Ihe only learning animal. Man's brain permits him to store and transmit knowledge through history. My six-year-old boy knows more about space than the wisest man in the world did 500 years ago; whereas no beaver or lion or horse knows more than his grandfather did. Bui in terms of moral knowledge the kind thai j elfcetively makes our will' turn toward the good -- we are no further advanced than men at the dawn of history. What Jesus taught, or Lao- Tsc. or Socrates, is still some- w hat beyond our grasp; we . may accept it in principle, but repudiate it in fact Hut if intellectual knowl-1 edge increases at a startling ratio, and moral knowledge remains at its antique lcel. ! it is evident that the more control we achieve oer na ture, the more capable we be-; come of annihilating our selves . Who would hand a j MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFORD. Foreign News: Red Propaganda French Strikes Expected; May Day Plans By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Propaganda Campaign The Bonn government main tains that the Soviet Union and East Germany soon will launch a mas sive hate-prop-g a n d a cam paign against the Western powers de spite present i-wj-i I la ' I 1 8 n s to tne I rl 1 contrary. The I I campaign will have three Newtom main objec tives, according to the West Germans. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A JUDGE OUT WEST shot a puzzled look at a stout lady being sworn in before him and asked, "Haven't you appeared as a witness in this suit before?" "I have not," icwiiea mtr stout jaay indignantly. "Last time I had on my grey, pin striped gabardine." And in another court room a district attorney dropped charges when the attorney for the defense inarched his troupe of witnesses into view. "You won't catch me trying to win against that bunch of witnesses," said the D. A. "I've used them my self from time to time and they're the best!" When Wood row Wilson was President, he often, complimented Author Oliver Herford, and, in fact, like to repeat Herford'a better quips in his political speeches. This didn't please Herford at all, because he considered Wilson a. political accident and a piece of bad luck visited on a helpless populace. So the dedica tion of Harford's next book, "This Giddy Globe," ran: "To Presi dent Wilson: with all his faults he quotes me still." "As soon as I finished acting In The Honeymoon Machine'," confided rising starlet Brigid Bazlen, "I flew off on a vacation to forget things and when I opened my suitcase, J discovered that I had." O 1962, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Drummond Reports (Walter Lippman is in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his abience.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. KENNEDY AND CONGRESS Washington - Congress is at its mid-point. Much of the time this has looked like a do little Congress. The appear ance is deceptive. More has been happening than meets the eye. Important legislation will be forthcoming in the next two - and-a-half months. The outlook is as follows: Although President Ken nedy will get only a small pro portion of what he has asked, he will get a large part of what lie expects. II will be a significant legis lative record. From the stand point of the Administration, in the fall elections it will be a politically valuable record. Legislation cannot be meas ured by the yard or by the number of bills passed. It can only be measured by its quality and its importance. Only one piece of legisla- machine-gun to a moral idiot? There is more hate and fear and rivalry in the world to day than there were during Biblical days or during the Greek and Roman eras. Along with this, there is a far great er capacity for destruction. Wars used to be fairly local; now every local war contains the seeds of global disaster. Can mankind he trusted with its vast intellectual knowledge? The answer would seem to be "no." We have not learned how to live together, and we are not ex ploring the means for doing so. Instead, we are spending most of our money and ener gy on "defending" ourselves and mutual fear and sus picion keep both sides gear erf for imminent war. If Marx had never existed, if Communism had never swept over Russia, there would he some other creed, some other dogma, some oth er eneniv. It is the iamn ni.t confict, with different names; and slogans. Moral knowledge does not seem to increase from gener ation to generation. All we learn from the past is to com-! nut the same mistakes in I greater volume and with more permanent consequent j es The final question may well he does man deserve a world" i ADA NAMESCH AIRMAN ! Washington 4ft - Amen- can for Democratic Action! i a n , c I.... .... I ........ uiiuh, riccieo jonn r Roche, chairman of the de partment of polities at Bran dels university, as Its national chairman. Mrs. Eleanor Roo sevelt was named ADA honor ary chairman. OREGON inese win De to "prove the Western powers have bro ken the Yalta and Potsdam agreements, to "prove" that West Germany has treated the judgments of the Nurenberg military tribunals as being without legal validity, and to "prove" that West Germany leans towara lascism French Strikes A rash of strikes on various French labor fronts may be confidently predicted for the summer. New Premier Geor ges Pompidou introduced his government last week with nice words about the worker getting a better share in the higher standard of living. He also promised a general talk on wages and salaries at the Stop Me tion has been enacted into law since January - the Manpower Retraining Act designed to help the unemployed acquire new skills. To some this has looked as though both House and Senate were standing still. Congress has thus far been relatively quiet on the floor. Where bills are passed, but busy in its committees where legislation Is shaped. From the standpoint of its ability to lead and persuade the Congress, the Kennedy ad ministration will stand or fall this year on the fate of the President's "Big Three" bills: the trade expansion program, medical care for the aged, and tax reform. The prospects for all three are favorable. Trade Bill - The objective is to give the President au thority to negotiate reciprocal trade arrangements so that the U. S. will be in a better position to compete in the European Common Market. Unexpectedly wide support and little opposition have de veloped. Organized protec tionist sentiment has not been strongly apparent. Most busi nessmen and most Congress men appear convinced that a sound working relationship with the Common Market is desirable. Health Bill - The objective is to provide financial assist ance through Social Security to help elderly citizens get medical care. This looked wishful last January when 15 of the 25-man House Ways and Means Committee were opposed. But the White House has been winning some Demo cratic and Republican re cruits. There is now a better than even chance that it will pass, perhaps along the lines of a measure fashioned by Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. This would re move the element of compul sion; that is, if the recipient did not wish medical care, he could take the money instead. This would be money con tributed through a ' of 1 per cent increase in the Social Se curity tax. Tax Bill - The objective is to provide a t?x incentive to enable American industry to carry out a modernization of plant and equipment in order to compete more effectively in world markets and thus pro vide more jobs. The proposal by the Kennedy administra tion is a 7 per cent tax credit to business for this kind of capital investment. Most busi nessmen would prefer a dif ferent method - a liberalized depreciation allowance - but many conservatives in Con gress w ill support the Admin istration bill if no hettcr al ternative is attainable. If the Republicans are alert, they can earn and claim a (air part of the credit for much of this legislation. They re-shaped the Manpower Retraining end of the summer. But the labor unions are not likely to wait that long. Moscow Capers The Soviet Union will cele brate May Day Tuesday with the usual Red Square mili tary parade in Moscow, but observers are betting the gen eral emphasis will be on in ternal affairs and foreign pol icy. The usual statements from Soviet leaders are expected to be relatively mild, reflect ing what appears to be cur rent Kremlin tactics to place an aura of hope around the prospects for a Berlin settle ment and perhaps an eventual summit. Vietnameie War Observers in Saigon are Washington Report By William (cl United Feature Syndicate PROFOUND MEANING Washington - Operation commonsense has succeeded operation hope-and-maybe at 1 the present heart and cen ter of Amer ican foreign and military policy. This is the profound, cen tral meaning o f President Kennedy's re sumption o f nuclear testing, with total Re publican support, so as to maintain intact the free world's one ultimate shield- American superiority in atom ic weapons. But there are other and less obvious meanings as well. Item: This country has de cided to put its last faith in honest realism rather than in "image-making" to please world opinion." Item: This country has decided that prop aganda should follow but not control policy itself. Item: This country has decided that while we wish other peoples to continue to like us, we can not longer risk the safety of this nation - and the safety of other peoples, including some now "protesting" our ac tion - by a so-called morator ium on testing already long since broken by the Soviet Union. UE HAVE waited and wait " ed and appealed and ne gotiated, in the face of more than 40 Russian blasts after the armistice they dishonored. At long last, we have acted. The effect here is bracing, to all but those pacifists and half-pacifists who have con vinced themselves that be cause fallout from tests is bad we can somehow just for get the infinitely worse al ternative of an earth over shadowed by predominant So viet atomic power. They have warned of all sorts of dreadful political con sequences to our "image" abroad, and so on, but this curious fact remains: men who ought really to know something about political con sequences, the politicians themselves, have been at the forefront in urging the presi In the Day's News By FRANK Hodgepodge in the news: British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan, speaking last week in New York to about 1800 persons at the annual dinner of the Bureau of Ad vertising of the American Newspaper Publishers as sociation, put it this way: "President Kennedy's de cision to resume nuclear tests in the atmosphere is a TRAG EDY." But He then added "The world must realize that the responsibility for the tragedy is not President Ken nedy's. IT IS KHHUSH CHEV'S." Not a bad crack. It's the plain truth. ll'HAT to do about it? " Prime Minister Macmil lan offered this advice to the West: "Be firm, but patient. Nev er YIELD, and never give ground But never take PRO VOCATIVE action ourselves. If the Free World follows Act and helped pass it. Re publican votes will be essen tial to pass the trade expan sion bill and the tax bill. Mr. Kennedy has showered upon Congress a veritable rainstorm of requests-24 mes-1 sages and more than 40 legis-1 lativc proposals, some of them I to furbish his "liberal image." But the President continues to keep his eye on the politi cal renter where his three big bills, trade, medical care, and tax reform, are at stake. If he j wins these three, he w ill have done W'ell. j Campaign; convinced from on-the-scene inspection and from Commu nist pronouncements that the battle against the Reds in South Viet Nam will be a long, bitter and expensive one. It appears unlikely that Red North Viet Nam and Commu nist China will willingly sac rifice the Communist rebel movement. In fact, there are indications that the rebels are getting even more foreign help than before. Diplomatic Machinery Look for President Kenne dy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to set up diplomatic machinery for con tinuous negotiations with the Russians over the next few months. Macmillan is the driv. ing force behind this idea. S. White dent to go back to testing. CTRONG support for his de- cision has, of course, coma from the military in the Pent agon. But it has come in no degree less from the elected politicians in congress, In both parties. The Republican leaders have been at the president's ear for more than a year urging just such a course. So have r Democrats of high and low station, fhe joint congr-ssion-al committee on atomic en ergy - every man of it a pol itician from way back - has said repeatedly to Mr. Ken nedy only one thing: "Go on with it." Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington, for one, said just that to him on the very day of his inaugura tion as president. Among those who said "don't do it" was United Na tions ambassador Adlai Stev enson - though Stevenson's superior. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, was on the side of test resumption. Another was the president's chief sci entific adviser, Jerome Wies ner, OUT, even putting aside the " basic and mortal matter of this country's security, are such men wiser, on political questions, than the whole mas sive rank of professional poli ticians who advised the presi dent to go ahead, "image" or no "image?" This correspond ent, recognizing the complete decency if extraordinary logic - of the "don't do it" people, thinks that even in political terms they will turn out wrong. For a favorable "image," if "image" we simply must have, cannot long last unless it has one ingredient even more priceless than the world's liking. This is the world's respect This being so, the greatest hope of all from our renewal of testing - somber though, thac necessity is - is the hope that as : nation we are done for good with any idea that we can kiss off any of our manifest responsibilities on this world simply because those responsibilities will in evitably carry pains and per ils. JENKINS this policy, trie Russians - in maybe one, maybe two gen erations, maybe MORE - will be ready for a better peace than the one preserved by MUTUAL FEAR." He's probably not far from right. FROM New York: The nation's two largest steel producers. United States Steel and Bethlehem, were indicted last week along with two smaller firms on federal charges of RIGGING BIDS and FIXING PRICES on steel forgings. IHfAT is to say: The government says these units of the steel industry have fixed prices and rigged bids. It adds that they MUST NOT fix prices and rig bids. Fixing prices and rigging bids, when done by business concerns, are AGAINST THE LAW because they amount to MONOPOLY, and a monop oly of business is illegal. But The unions with which the steel manufacturers must deal in arriving at the price they must pay for labor - their largest item of cost - also fix prices and rig bids. The government says they CAN do it. because a monop oly of labor IS LEGAL. IN OTHER words: The law permits monopoly of labor but forbids monop oly of business. In these mod ern days, that doesn t seem to make sense. One can't escape the conclusion that if monop oly is wrong on one side of the fence it is also wrong on the other side of the fence.