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4 A ""Everyone"firSouthern Oregon Readi ,Che Mail Tribune Published Daily except Saturday bj MKDFOKD PRINTING CO JNorth KJPhSP 28141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM Bu. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR, Mnfl Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIPMAN Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women'i Editoi DALE E RI CKSON, Circulation Mgr An Indeoendcnt Newspaper' Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act or March 3. 1B97 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy Oc Daily and Sunday 1 year iSOO Dally and Sunday 0 mot 8 Ou Dailv and Sunday 3 moi 4-23 Sunday Only One year 4.20 ftv rarrioiwln Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point Ea r 1 e Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shauy Cove. Rogue R'V t Talent and on motor routes, Dally and Sunday 1 vear $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copv 10c A'lTerms Caah in Advance "Official Paper of City of Medford Official Pn p er of J a c k o n Jo u nty United Press International Full Leased Wire U.P.I. Telepiioto Newsptctures "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION S Advertising Rcnresrntative: nci vrtM nnnFRTS Si ASSOCI ATES. Offices In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco, Los AnKeies, oeamc, ruiim, "" NEWS PA PER BLISHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 1, 1952 (Thursday) Several hundred loggers, truckers and other highway users presented their views on present highway legislation to a legislative interim commit tee here yesterday in the county courthouse. The city's experiment in what was called "summer working hours" apparently was at an end today after a poll of downtown merchants revealed that a majority of them plan to return to regu lar hours Monday. 20 YEARS AGO May 1. 1942 (Friday) Sugar rationing starts in Rogue valley; 3.281 Medford residents register for ration books on first day they are available. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Older Girls are cleaning house like mad and are." 30 YEARS AGO May 1. 1932 (Sunday) Medford Chamber of Com merce announces plans to form men's glee club; organ ization to bo patterned after Eugene Glcemen. 40 YEARS AGO May 1. 1922 (Monday) Five-year-old Medford boy saves four-year-old companion from drowning in abandoned well by pulling him out with a board. Medford Mayor C. E. Gates refutes rumor that he and other city officials are mem bers of Ku Klux KUm; slates he burned applications given him by Klan member. SO YEARS AGO May 1. 1912 (Tuesday) Medford residents indicate great interest in Santa Mon ica, Calif., automobile races won by Mercer car driven by John DePalma at an average speed of 69 miles per hour for the 151-mile course. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent,- five or six is good. 1. Is an enlarged, inflamed toe joint known as a corn, callus, or bunion? 2. Manila Uy is in what group of Asiatic Islands? 3. which is larger In area, Greenland, or Australia? 4. Which U.S. President proposed a 14 point program for peace during World War 1? 5. Was it in 1836, 1840 or 1858 that the U.S. declared war against Mexico? 8. Which department of the U.S. government has most to do with conservation of nat ural resources? 7. Arc bats classified as birds, mammals, or crusta ceans? 8. "Whizzcr" Whl c. cx-foot-bal! slar. was recently ap pointed to what office? 9. What body of water, con necting Long Island Sound and New York harbor, bears the name river even though it Is not a river? 10. If you should buy len gallons of gasoline In Canada would you get more. less, or the same, than if you bought It in the U.S.? Answers: 1. Bunion. 2. Phil ippines. 3. Australia. 4. Wood row Wilson, 5. 1846. 6. De partment of Interior. ,. Mam mals. 8, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. 9. The East River. 10. More. TUESDAY. MAY 1. 19B2 Time Mess Time Peace, it's wonderful ! It is most encouracincr to note that it is the same time of day on one ford today as it is on the clocks coincide with the time broadcast by the radio and TV stations. When it's 10 a.m. in the courthouse, it is also 10 a.m. in the schools; and 3 p.m. in the Mail Tribune newsroom is also 3 p.m. in the Mail Tribune business office. Last summer's confusion over time is no more. In Medford, that is. IN OTHER less ertlightened communities the time mess is just as bad as it was last summer, and no amount of pooh-poohing is going to over come it. The Willamette valley is a sea of temporal chaos. The state as a whole is similarly chopped up into bits and pieces. In Lucrene, where the ed the citizens adopt fast time for the summer, the schools decided to open an hour earlier, with out changing the clocks. Petitions with the signa tures of several hundred tained, asking a return threatening to send their unless this is done. And so it goes. yHE MESS, as is well known, results from a bit of recent history, here reviewed briefly: Two years ago the people voted to keep the entire state on standard time. But the 1961 legis lature passed a bill which permitted Multnomah and four surrounding counties to adopt DST if they wished. Last summer they did state into two time areas. Whereupon other areas in the standard time zone "voluntarily" changed to DST. (Or, rather,; some merchant groups and others did, throwing everyone into confusion.) Members of the legislature who voted tor the state-splitting bill, and claimed they coulcln t foresee such a result, but some people did, including this newspaper, and warned about it. MEDFORD was bifurcated as badly as any area last year, but this year, praise be, we all had sense enough to stay together. It is our hope that the state aa a whole will have enough sense to stay time next November. At that time there will be a measure calling for uniform, statewide it passes, the whole state (except ior a tiny slice is on Mountain time), and will also be uniform with Washington and California. If it tloes not pass, we will be laced with the possibility of more confusion, for the present law would remain in effect. A THIRD possibility exists. A group is trying tr rrot an inifinrivo rnpusnrp nn flip ViMllnr. fes-u cw. , ... .. which would amend the constitution to provide uniform standard time throughout Oregon. It may or may not get signatures to get on the may not pass. We hope it cloesn t make it, tor the uonstitu-i tion is no place ior Too. like daylight time or not, it is the only answer to getting uniform time throughout the state AND throughout the Pacific Coast. E.A. What Fishermen Endure It's amazing what some people will endure for the sake of sport in this case, fishing. At Howard Prairie Lake last Saturday we saw something we've never gale, snow and hail driving down, and the sun shining palely all at the same time. And. along with it, them with no shelter, bobbing in the icy water. The sports-lovers were clad in every variety of cold weather garb imaginable. I7E WERE assured ' Johnston that the weather was NOT, as someone had alleged, a blizzard. But if it wasn't, it was close enough to it to be a first cousin. The crowds were understandably a bit thin Friday night (it was snowing) and Saturday morning (with six inches on the ground). During the day, a few more hardy souls came along. But on Sunday, when the clouds thinned out and the sun shone, car after car, boat after boat, arrived, and, undaunted by the chill brisk breeze, I set out for fish. RESPITE the fact that parking facilities are grossly and inexcusably inadequate, the com- plaints were few. and the general level of good inatured kidding high. The new restaurant-store building is well de signed and attractive, the attendants attentive and courteous, the fireplace warm, and the food ; adequate. The fish well, the fish are cooperative to some hopeful anglers and wholly uncooperative to others. We know of one boat in which three anglers spent hour after hi .ir on Sunday, hope fully trying every legal wile known to Walton ians single eggs, egg flusters, spinners, worms, even (in desperation) a wet fly. Also some sotto voce cursing. All about them groups were (in the inelegant phrase) "limiting out." Hut they ihkw.!H.ehy threesome were skunked. Oh, well. Maybe next time. E.A. side of the street in Med-1 other side. The city hall's city council recommend mothers have been ob to "legal" time, and children an hour "late" so, thus chopping the the Governor, too, later together, come election daylight saving time. If will be together again oi eastern Oregon which the needed number ot ballot, and if so, may or tnne-setiing legislation. seen before: A howling scores ot boats, many oi by Concessionaire Bob L Dennis the Menace iK'L. 'If. 1 "SHHH! Voh'T YELL AT HIM! HE'S NOTtffJl.'OHO SAYS HE'S QKSUEPUrSKKNgSSr 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. Lc'iers 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. Down-to-Earth Understanding To the Editor: Let's have some down-to-earth under standing on this "Home Rule." Reading over the proposed charter for Jackson county, unless one has a lawyer's mind one can become very confused. Let's bring this out in simple language. As I understand, in chap ter four (administration) of the charter, the seven com missioners would appoint all officers we now elect in our county government, therefore we will no longer be permit ted to vote for sheriff, treas urer, county clerk, surveyor, county engineer, assessor, etc. Also from other sources I understand the chairman of the board on "Home Rule" will have permanent duty at a figure of $22,000.00 per year while the other six on partial duty receive $7,000.00. Now this chairman, being on permanent duty, will learn all the ins and outs of what is on foot. The other six learn from him. and since they are only partly versed on the top ics in discussion at their bi monthly meetings, naturally they fall in line. Do you see the danger? Could easily run into "one man rule." Do we want to open one loophole where communism, or any other subversive group, might enter our county government? Perhaps you tmnk you can dispose of "Home Rule" if not satisfac tory. Let s not start the fire in the first place. To vote for whom we want is our American heritage. Let's keep it. Ralph C. Oakes 043 Ross Lane, No. Medford. -O- Edilor's note: The county engineer is now appointive, not elective. Proposed salary for chairman of the board of commissioners is $7,200 per year, not $22,000, and for the other commissioners is $100 per month, or $1,200 per year, not $7,000. Sour on "Bucks" To the Editor: "When it's round up Blossom Bucks in Medford," sounds like the heading of a beautiful song, but my thoughts are in the reverse. Who In the world gave birth to that brainstorm? It couldn't be our Chamber of Commerce, or could it? Well, the reason I'm so sour is because I happen to be of the mill - rim average poor people, honest but poor, and for some reason they seem to go hand in hand, and I'm happy that way. When I feel I'm getting something put over on mc. it's a different story. Now, I stood in the wind and the rain with chattering teeth, because I was freezing, clulchod in my hand were my 235 Blossom Bucks, which 1 fell I worked so hard to get. and with the help of my good neighbor. Because, you sec, I was going to get some little surprise. Oh! I got the sur prise all right, and probably . pneumonia, when the bidding i started at 200 and went way beyond, so 1 was slopped be i fore 1 ever got started, j Well, I didn't expect a TV, i radio, washing machine, iron ; or toaster with my 235 Bios 1 som Bucks, but I d have been , so happy with a ball point pen, and my outlook would ' have been by far better Mrs. lrnia Henderson 7L'l! Dakota ave. Medlord. Steel Price and Dictatorship To the Editor I cannot understand the complacency of the general public as we lose our heritage of free speech and free enterprise system. ",ie President's attack on U.S. Steel was similar to an attack by a dictator in a MLUFORD Communistic economy and similar vicious attacks may be made in a temper tantrum on "the butcher, the baker or candlestick maker" - yea, even on a newspaper. With our free enterprise system throttled, with stock holders deprived of a fair re turn on savings invested, who will pay for the "get-lhe-vote" give away programs he wants in order to maintain and prolong the Kennedy dy nasty? After all the lives lost and billions spent on wars to save us from a dictator - what do we have - and what differ ence if his name is Hitler, Khrushchev or Kennedy. Let's wake up! Mrs. E. W. Heatherington 2055 South Holley Medford Direct Voter Control To the Editor: A recent let ter by Mr. Wilson contained what appears to be a very reasonable objection to the proposed provision in the county charter, that the clerk, assessor, surveyor and sher iff be appointive offices. He has observed that our elective officials have been more thrifty with our tax dollar (O & C dollar). It seems to me the matter of thrift would simply become the responsibility of the elect ed commission. Under the charter one elective form will replace another. The real problem in county government is our ever-increasing need for services as the county grows. Mr. Wil son states we will "trade our priceless heritage to vote for so-called efficiency." Under the charter we would vote ; for seven instead of eight of ficers. We would be trading that one vote for more than just administration efficiency. We would have direct voter con trol of the legislative power as well as the administrative power of our commissioners. Mrs. Susan E. Shivcly 314 Hargadine St. Ashland, Ore. The Veterans' View To tlie Editor: At a meeting of the Veterans Allied Council attended by delegates repre senting American Legion Post 14. American Legion Post 15. VFW Post 1833. VWWI Post 540. MOP1I Post 147, and DAV Post 8, the following letter was fully concurred in, by all in attendance. "Nikita Khrushchev and his crowd, with never a blush, break each and every agree ment they enter into, just as soon as it shows itself to be an inconvenience to them. "They agreed some time ago to discontinue bomb testing in the atmosphere, then with out an apology or an explana tion why they thought it nec essary, and in pure contempt of tlie agreement, cut loose with testing in a bigger way. with, greater numbers and strength than had ever before been exploded in the air. "Now they have the gall to protest, and nuoke threats against TJS for going ahead Willi out testing. They are acting t,,p role of "wronged party ". We would never have broken the promise; they can celled the agreement out of existence when they showed themselves to be the liars they are. by exploding 50 megaton nuclear bombs last ycir. ' We can always count on them Til are dependable people, these Russians. If they tell you something you can surely believe it (believe it to be a damned lie) if you know what we mean. "As Christian people with a respect and regaid for all hu manity we should strive tor disarmament among nations, but ve do not believe thai wc arc rallrd upon, as a Christian nation, to play up naively to MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDfORD, Argentina In New President Economics By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst For a month Argentina has drifted dangerously in crisis, caught in the cross-currents between re. surgent Peron ism and mil itary leaders bitterly op posed to any thing resem- I tma4 I bling a return I Jml I t0 the Plicies Xlaj of the ex-dictator. In t h e N.wiom midst of ,his has been President Jose Ma ria Guido, placed in office by the military after the fall of President Arturo Frondizi. This past week end Guido was forming his second cabi net in four weeks. Lack of Plan Multiplying Guido's diffi culties was an apparent lack of plan by the men who put him in office and who also the ego of the godlessness of a lying nation like the Soviet, that has never yet given us a reason to believe they would ever live up to any kind of a disarmament agreement. "So we are asking WHY TRY? Just call off this dis armament talk and tell them what fie Free World will do if they try to pull a sneaker on us, and of course, be pre pared to carry out what we say we'll do. "They intend to bury us eventually, and we are help ing them spar for time by talking with them. You can count on them to continue building up militarily, no mat ter what kind of agreement they enter into." Pat Graham, Secretary Veterans Allied Council Medford Pocketbooks and the Charter To the Editor: Yesterday's front page story, and the eight pages of delinquent personal property taxes recently pub lished in, the Medford Mall Tribune, should convince the most skeptical voter that Jack son county needs the Home Rule Charter. That list is a testimonial to the inefficiency, lack of cor ordination, lack of authority and gross waste that is built in to our present form of county government. For over ten years this half million dollar delinquency list has been allowed to de velop. Much of it is now lost forever, yet this is the first time the list has been publish ed. Perhaps specific officials have been to blame for this $500,000 accumulation. But rather it appears that the SYSTEM has been to blame. Sincere men have had to work under a badly organized gov ernment structure. Authority has been divided. Responsi bility is ill-defined. The Charter is designed to grant authority, pinpoint re sponsibility and assure the citizens of effective control over their county affairs. As your article pointed out, the ordinary voters and tax payers of Jackson county have had to pay EXTRA taxes to make up for these uncol lected delinquencies. This waste this failure of county government has cost us money every year, every tax bill. This is not bungling by some distant government. This is not far off Washing ton, nv on-shots or foreign aid. This is waste right here in Jackson county. We need a change in our county government. We can- not afford NOT to change. I The voters of Jackson county should look into their pocket- books and then look into the I opportunities for economy mi lder the Home Rule Charter. I R. E. Collins ' 235 South Oakdale Medford I Biggest Farce To the Editor: Our Pear I Blossom affair, as far as the : auction is concerned, was the biggest farce in history. What i happened to the average joe. I with maybe 10 to 100 Blos som Bucks.' He might as well have stayed home! Unless he had recently purchased a new car. farm equipment, or an I article worth thousands, and I received "Bucks ", he was out of the running, far before the ; auction even began. Who ever I heard of a $20 coffee pot worth over 10.000 "bucks", oi ! a $2 to $5 value going for 1 up to 5.000 bucks? I In my humble opinion, if; , Medford wishes to keep up I community spirit, think in terms of the average guy j even though he ir. '. worth a mint in Blossom Rucks! I Sarah Tlioreson. I Talent, Ore. I OREGON Drifting, suffered a lack of unity among themselves. In contrast were the Peron istas, who at least kne- what they wanted. They demanded an end to the austerity which had be gun to restore international confidence in the Argentine peso and a return to national ism which would be felt by foreign investors. Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald THE HELICOPTERS Can Tho, South Viet Nam At this season, when peasants burn the rice stubble to re store their fields, the bright air is acrid with smoke, even at 6,000 feet. The compet ing noises of the big hclicp ter's rotors the b i g heli copters rotors Alsnp deadening, downright painful The sense of being trapped in an aerial cement mixer is just beginning to be a bit op pressive when suddenly the little delta town of Rach Gia comes into sight, lying on a river among palm gardens, with an airport on its flank. Swiftly the helicopter de scends. Swiftly 12 wiry little Vietnamese Rangers clamber aboard. Soon the air loses its sharp smokcy tang, for now the helicopter is traversing wild country, swampy and uncul tivated. Somewhere ahead, in this empty quarter of the Ca mau delta, there is a little patch that is farmed-a little patch isolated and normally impossible to reach except by the narrow waterways that criss-cross the whole deua. Here, in this remote refuge, the commander of the Com munist guerrillas in this prov ince has set up his command post, safe against all but one sort of surprise attack, rpO SURPRISE, to envelop. to catch the Communist leader and his troops, are now the missions of the heli copters of the 57lh Transpor tation Squadron and the two companies of Vietnamese sol diers whom they are carry ing. ' For one passenger, at least, it is a new way of going into a fight. What will it be like? one asks oneself. And then, quite suddenly, a patch of brighter green shows up ahead. The helicopter all but plummets downwards. The soldiers fan out rapidly, run ning hunched over, through a dry rice field. And our heli copter and all the others take the air again, looking for all the world like a covey of giant mantises. From somewhere comes the quick snick-sniek of a sniper's fire. As though on signal, troops to the left pour round after round into a palm hut standing by a little canal. Off to the right appears one of the American advisory offi cers, red-haired Capt. Jack Cantrell. "I think we landed just a scosh off target," says the captain a bit glumly, as Capt. Nghe, the tough Viet namese Rangtr commander puts out men on the flanks and prepares, to sweep for ward. TT IS a long, hot, toilsome 1 sweep. The Rangers are on the right bank of the main canal, and a company of the Civil Guard are on the left bank. The untended canal boats, loaded to the gunwales with tiie pineapple harvest, show that there was a busy Try and Stop By BENNETT CERF- "nOR HIS INFORMATIVE book, "Actors Talk About Act A ing," Author Lewis Funke asked top'-star Paul Muni what he thought of. the "Method School" of acting. "I have my own meinoa, replica Muni, "It's something like the method my ir.uihcr used to make app'! pie. A friend told mama one day, 'Your apple pie is out of this world. Break down and tell me the recipe.' Mama thought for a minute, then replied, 'Well, I wash my hands, comb my hair, put on a clean apron and then I make apple pie.' " According to the ahvavs- reliable Jack Lemmcn. a. lobster strolled into a restaurant and t down at a tat$j by the window. -What would you like, sir?" asked a waiter, and the lobster answered, "A little mayonnaise." Rueful meditation from D. E. Twigj; Doc said he d have me on my feet. The lat time I w ill. And that he did ... I sold my car .o So I could pay his bill. Bob Campbell, the Westwood Sophocles, mvs that the troubli with being a parent i that by the time you're experienced you're unemployable. C 19M by Stnne'.t Cert f utributed br Kim I"t:um Syndicate But Some From his comfortable Span ish exile in Madrid, Juan D. Peron was pulling the party strings and seeing what might prove to be his best chance for a return to power. Not asked but giving their enthusiastically received sup port were the Argentine Com munists. For those who still held hope for Argentina, President By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate life here not long ago; but at first there seems to be no life now. The sun is broiling. The feeder cinals, just too wide to jump, are slimey work to ford. Then the toilsome monoto ny is broken by another quick snick-snick and another burst of fire. This time an excited soldier races in from the flank with a pitiful bundle of Chinese medicine, politi cal tracts, and carefully writ ten notebooks. The soldier has found and killed the medical officer on the staff of the Communist provincial com mander. This little success is followed by another. Five black-clad Viet Cong troops are discovered huddled, neck deep in water, under the over hanging bank of a feeder canal So the sweep goes forward, slowly and methodically, for a long, hot couple of hours. The bag is meager enough-the medical officer killed; a con siderable cache' of ammuni tion simultaneously revealed and destroyed by ils own ex plosion when a palm hut is burned because Viet Cong flags arc found in it; and nine prisoners taken. The main body of the enemy plain ly slipped out of the way in the nick of time. 'FHE little liaison plane end--- lessly making its turns overhead reports the enemy's main body-about a hundred men-tn flight across the fields about two kilometers away. An air strike is called for; and before long fighter planes are overhead. Again and again, they make their vici ous dives, their rockets thun dering, their machine guns furiously chattering. Another sweep, in the direction of the fighters' target area, is wear ily decided on. Once more the wiry little troops fan out on the flanks. The march is .across rice fields, black from the stubble burning, and through thick ets of high grass and reeds, which the liaison plane searches for ambushed men, flying perilously low. There are more feeder canals. There is another main canal with more abandoned boats and more palm huts from which women and children silently peer. But the sun is westering. Quite suddenly, as if from no where, a helicopter returns to pick up a couple of higher ranking American staff offi cers who had "come along to get a feel of this kind of show." Captain Nghe and his Rangers, Captain Cantrell, and the men of the Civil Guard company all turn to wave as the helicopter as cends again and sets its course for the delta's capital here in Can Tho. "We catch a few of them every time, and a lot of them every third or fourth time," says the helicopter pilot philo sophically, after he hears the day's score. "Anyway I guess that Communist provincial commander will have to find himself a new command post after this day's work; and when he does we'll go get him there." School" of rf7- l Hope Seen Minister Guido himself provided slight, encouraging ray. He had shown unexpected strength in dealing witn the various military factions. For economics minister in his sec ond cabinet he had selected Alvaro Carlos Alsogaray. Alsogaray, who has been described as looking like a small-town banker or school principal, directed Argenti na's austerity and stabiliza tion program for nearly two years under Frondizi. It was Alsogaray who late in 1959 arranged nearly $30 million in loans and credits to help stabilize the Argen tine economy. The peso ..eadied on the international monetary ex change. Foreign investments and private enterprise wera encouraged. As part of his vision of a "new Argentina" of econom ic plenty, Alsogaray sought to build a prosperous middle class as a bulwark against Communism. A year ago, Alsogaray lost his post in the Frondizi cab inet. In the ensuing months, four economic ministers came and went. A poor wheat crop led to a drastic cut in exports and in 1961 the country's trado deficit amounted to $450 mil lion, double that of the year before. b 18 per cent. The cost of living mounted The announcement of Also garay's return to government led to an immediate strength ening of the peso in interna- But the way ahead will ba tional exchange rates, rouh and possibly of short duration. Labor leaders received news of his appointment un enthusiastically. He still must face the problems of the enor mous deficits piled up annual ly by government - operated services such as the railroads. And among the Argentine people there is no sure sign of a determination to carry out the sacrifices Alsogaray will demand. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (cl Field Enterprises Inc. "Acquaintances" are friends who have recently done some thing with which we don't care to be associated. You and I appreciate each other's good points; but those two have formed a "m u I u a 1 admiration so ciety." 1 am agreeable: you aro easily swayed; he is just a piece of putty. My stories are a touch off-color, yours are risque; his are filthy. . I took a leave of absence because of "nervous exhaus tion" from overwork; you did the same because of an "emo tional disturbance"; he did the same because of a "men tal breakdown." I believe in planning so cial events with "cere mony," but you invest yours with "pomp." When a man insists that "life is a matter of dog-eal-dog," you may be sure that he regards his fellow men as dogs. (Besides, dogs don't eat dogs: men are the only crea tures who commonly prey on their own kind.) What I call "conversion" in myself, I call "apostasy" in others. Whenever I hear a 6 a.m. riser intone proudly that "It's the early bird that gets tho worm," I think of Moran S reply to Mack: "And what about the early worm?" The purest definition of the provincial person is the one who, when abroad, re fers to the inhabitants either s "natives" or as "foreign ers." When a man begins a sen tence wilh "History proves . ." it is a better than even bet lhat he is going to con elude with some profoundly unhistorical generalization. The semantic differences between "leisure." "loaf ing." and "bumming." can be precisely calibrated on . the scale of annual income. Speaking of calibration, ev erybody measures manners by his own degree of etiquette: we call "well - mannered'' those who observe the same degree of amenities wc do but those who observe more, wc call over-polite or prissy. I made a technical error; you goofed: he rr.ide an inexcusable blunder. The full f-irce of human aggression is borne upon us only when v,e stop to realire that "pacifist" has become a dirty word in every nation 011 the globe: all governments, no matter how they may dis agree among themselves, acrce in finding him their common foe.
