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Newspaper Page Text4 A """Everyone tn Southern Oregon Readi The Mull Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday b MEOFOKD PRINTING CO 33 North fir St.. Ph SH aUl ROBERT W RUHC'Eiltor HERB GRKY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mgr. EniC W AIiLEN JR., Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporta Edjtoi OLIVE STARCHER. Women'a Edlloi DALE ERICKSON. CtrculaUon Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered aa eecond elaia matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 1O0 Dally and Sunday 1 year 15 00 Dally and Sunday 6 mol. 6 Ou Dally and Sunday 3 moi. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.30 By Carrier In Advance Medford Aihland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shaay Cove. Rogue R'v er Talent and on motor routei. Dally and Sunday 1 vear SIBOO Dally and Sunday 1 mo '.so Carrie and Dealer! copy lOe All Terma Cash In Advance Officii! Paper at City of "Medford " Official Paper of Jackson County United P-eaa International Full Leased Wire O.P.LTelepnoto Newspieturea MEMRER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS ASSOCI ATES. Olflcei In New York. Chi. caKO. Detroit. San Franelico, Loi Anaeles Seattle. Portland. Denver PUBUSHES 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the f Hem of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 14, 1952 (Wednesday) nislrirt Attorney Paul W Havlland defeated in his bid for reelection by Walter Nun- ley, 33-year-old attorney wno campaigned on the issue of cnmhllne. charging Haviland with failure to enforce the anti gambling laws of the state. The Medford city council yesterday unanimously up held Mayor Diamond Flynn's veto of daylight saving time for Medford. 20 YEARS AGO May 14, 1942 (Thursday) Primary election returns show Charles McNary leading Arthur M. Geary, 108,224 to 23,102 in Republican ' sena torial contest: Edward C. Kellv. Medford Democrat, and Earl T. Ncwbry, Talent Re publican, ahead in state sena tor nl contests. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Analy sis of the primary electfolt vote by the heavy thinkers Is now under way. Inexpert ' opinion holds that too many voted for some candidates and not enough for others." 30 YEARS AGO May 14. 1932 (Saturday) David Lowry elected stu dent body president of Med ford high school: Russell Hogue named treasurer. Handbills containing sensa tional charges concerning pri mary election candidates ap pear in rural districts. 40 YEARS AGO May 14, 1922 (Sunday) Self Denial week at Jack son school, during which pu pils gave up candy, ice cream, moving pictures and gum, nets $45 for relief of starving Armenians. Tim Pnsslne Show, stage production starring Willie and Eugene Howard, scheduled for performances In Medford. SO YEARS AGO May 14. 1912 (Monday) Detroit in uproar as Ameri can League President Ben Johnson suspends baseball star Ty Cobb for assaulting spectator; Detroit team goes on strike and break up of major leagues threatened. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct it superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ol six is good. 1. Is a pimpernel a species of fish, flower, or bird? 2. Who Is the author of de tective stories about "Perry Mason"? 3. Ulysses S. Grunt and Jef ferson Davis both served as army officers in the War with MeNico: true or false? 4. The donor of funds for the erection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, was Andrew ? 5. Who tamed "The Sinew"? 0. Is Faneuil Unit, the Cradle of Liberty, in New York, Boston or Albany? 7. Into what did Shadrarh, Meshach and Abednego fall? 8. What is the hardest sub stance known In nature? 0. What ocean lies belween Africa and Australia? 10. What ex-Presldenl of the U. S. wrote la's "Personal Memoirs" while ill of canrer? Answers: 1. Flower. 2. Erie Slanley Gardner. 3. True. 4. Mollon. 5. Petruchio. 6. Bos ton, 7. The midst ol Ihe fiery furnace. 8. Diamond. 9. In dian Ocean. 10. Ulysses S. Grant. J3 NIW.PAFi MONDAY. MAY 14. 1962 More Self-Rule for Counties The degree to which counties are creatures of the state is not well understood. In Oregon, state government prescribes the limits the organization and function of the county governments. Two examples come quickly to mind of such limitations put upon Multnomah County. A few years ago, the district attorney ruled that the county lacked legal authority to join with the City of Portland in financing a metropolitan youth commission. Not until the legislature passed a special bill could this be done. More recently the district attorney expressed doubt that the county could legally join with the city in the development of a stadium. a T"HE idea that counties should have greater powers of "home rule" has been growing, not just in Oregon but throughout the country. Many states have moved toward reform. In Oregon, the way was paved by a county home rule amendment to the constitution passed by the people in 1958 after referral from the legislature. The 1959 legislature established procedures by which counties could adopt home rule charters that would give counties authority over matters of county concern and permit them to set up their own organizational structures. Seven counties, Benton, Hood River, Jackson, Lane, Marion, Washington and Sherman, have engaged in home rule charter studies. Three of them, Benton, Jackson May 18 on charter measures. DENTON'S charter proposal is the result of a two-year study by a nine-member committee It has become a hot political issue. Benton's approach is perhaps unique in that the vote this time will not decide the issue of whether the elected three be replaced by a single posal leaves the elective court intact but provides that the people in 1964 will vote on whether they want a change. It so, an elected council will ap point the administrator. Meanwhile, the new charter would make all other county offices appointive instead of elec tive, and it would spell out the county's powers to deal with its own problems. a THE county home rule movement requires no llnifM'tYiIttr !s m-rranWat irvi Qmnnff nnnnfloc Charters may or may not upset present county courts. But experiences in Multnomah County and most others have proved the soundness of making lesser ottices appointive. As proor, we have only to recall the sad affair in our surveyor's office or our dilemma now in trying to pick a qualified sheriff from 28 candidates. But the real urgency for home rule comes in the need for more powers to deal with metro politan area problems, which now lie in a sort of governmental no-man s land. Benton, Jackson and Sherman counties are Oretron pioneers in a development that is certain ultimately to sweep the state. We shall be watch ing with great interest what their people do. Oregon Journal, Portland. Liberal, Conservative, Progressive The following are the concluding paragraphs of a speech delivered before the Women's National Press Club in Washington recently by Walter Lippmann, dis tinguished columnist, and twice winner of the Pulit zer prize for reporting international affairs. I do not agree with order to defend ourselves and to survive we must put a ston to progressive movement which has gone on throughout this century. This movement began in the administration of Theodore Roose velt. Its purpose was to reform and advance our own social order, and at the same time to recog nize that we must live in the world beyond our frontiers. We shall lose all our power to cope with our problems if we come a stagnant, neurotic, frightened, and sus. picious people. Let us denying ourselves the hope, by depriving our selves of the oldest American dream, which is that we are making a better society on this earth than has ever been made before. Is all this conservative? Is all this liberal? Is it all progressive? It is, I say, all of these. There is no irreconcilable contradiction among these noble objectives. Do not Republicans believe in democracy, ami do not Democrats believe in a republic? Such labels may 'describe political parties in England ; they tlo not describe political attitudes in the United States. PVERY truly civilized conservative and liberal and progressive. A civilized man is conservative in that his deepest loyalty is to the Western heritage of ideas which originated on the shores of the Mediter ranean Sea. Because of that loyalty he is the in defatigable defender of our own constitutional doctrine, which is that all power, that all gov ernment, that all officials, that all parties, and all majorities are under the law and that none of them is sovereign and omnipotent. The civilized man is a liberal because the writing and the administration of the laws should be done with enlightenment and compassion, with tolerance and charity, and with affection. And the civilized man is progressive because the times change and the social order evolves and new things are invented and changes occu. This conservative who is a liberal is a progressive be cause he must work and live, he must govern and debate in the world as it is in his own time and as it is going to become. (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. and bheirnan, will vote - man county court shall administration. 1 he pro those who think that in allow oui-selves to be not punish ourselves by and enlightened man is Dennis the Menace K . TTTTTI sir Ai THAT TrWUBtf, AND THE Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of tha 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 tor publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tha oaper: in fact the contrary is often Why Mora? To the Editor: Should our slogan for county government be "The More the Merrier"? We have enough inefficiency in our county offices now, why add seven more men to worry about? Loran Fowler Route 1, Box 332 Talent, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The always interesting Sa lem Statesman remarked the other day that if it weren't for the fact that Sentaor Mar garet Chase Smith of Maine is a woman she might well be accused of being bitten by the Presidential bug. The Salem paper went on to say: "A few weeks ago she took her Republican male col leagues to task for backing away from an all-out political fight with President Kennedy in 1964. In effect, she called them all political cowards. She then turned her not in considerable tongue - lashing talents on the President him self. IndicaUng his actions on the foreign scene have been vaccilating, she went on to ac cuse him of ignoring his cam paign pledges in the area of national defense. Again she prodded her fellow Republi cans for not taking up the lance and jousting with Ken nedy." 1M4E Statesman then added: 'If Spnntnr Smith is going to sound like a poten tial Presidential candidate, whv shouldn't she act like one, also? T here is nothing in the constitution to bar her from seeking the highest of fice. What better time can there be for a Republican woman to shatter the Brittle precedent which has kept women from the Presidential contest?" WELL, WHY NOT? Victoria was one of the greatest rulers in English his tory - perhaps THE greatest. The Victorian Era, named for her, included the greater part of the laoo's. It was an era in which Great Britain reach ed the HEIGHT of its power. The Victorian Age was one of great industrial expansion at home and imperial expansion abroad. Under her rule, the English people became high-minded, modest, self-righteous and en terprising. Victoria ruled for 63 years, the longest reign of any British monarch. She be came queen at a time when the British people neither liked nor respected the throne. But by being above reproach she raised the throne to a position of respect and vener ation. She was a wise and capable monarch. She came to be re garded as the symbol of Great Britain's greatness, and was even regarded as personally responsible for much of it. Such is the verdict of history. rpilE Statesman says in its piece: "No one could believe seriously that a woman can be elected President at this time, but some woman, some day, must be the first to try. Senator Smith has good quali fications. She is known and respected nationally." tl'HY NOT TRY IT? Why not try It NOW? At this moment in our his tory, we seriously need a budget balancer. As a budget balancer, I'll bet the average woman would beat the aver age man. Imagine a good housekeeper, as Margaret Chase Smith must be, letting her household run THREE HUNDRED BILLION DOL LARS Into '.he red! MEDFORD MAIL. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON COOKIE JAR WAS EMPTY! the case. Alarming Thoughts To the Editor: Alarming thoughts grip us, and red lights suddenly appear at times, and we'd like to tell friends and neighbors about them. A lot of folks are thinking cautionary and precautionary thoughts about the socialistic scheme of County "Home R u 1 e." Benjamin Franklin said, "Experience is a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." A lot of folks are thinking of how foolish and slumbering sleepy they were when they failed to vote, and vote against the repeal ing of the 18th amendment; and let the alcohol factories, the profiteers, and the gulli ble drinkers vote the monster traffic in! Happily the commie-inspir ed aluminum - trust sponsored scheme to contaminate our wonderful Medford spring wa ter with "fluoridation" to "save the children's teeth" was detected and voted down by our cautious citizens. Now let's be wise enough and cautious enough in time enough to vote down this so cialist inspired commie back ed dictatorial scheme to put our county Into a jam by home rule" in the undemo cratic hands of a few. A word to the wise is sufficient. A neighbor recently told us that in his own district a cer tain "interim zoning" scheme mushroomed, and was about to be put over, when one woman suddenly became duly alerted as to its true intent, and suddenly got "on her toes' and on here telephone, and let the neighbors far and near know about the proposed voting time, and so instead of a few "putting it over" by their votes, people came en masse and voted it down flat. About "home rule," let's not jump to unwise conclusions and vote in a proven blood sucking octopus others have had a whale of a time to rid themselves of! Say, friends and neighbors, be sure to vote, and vote NO on "home rule!" You, will, won't you. Well, thank you, we had hoped you would. H. R. Bulman, Route 4, Box 3I6A, Medford Community Pride To the Editor: It will prove a source of great community pride as well as a tremendous asset, if Robert Duncan is elected to represent t h e Fourth District in Congress. I have known Bob Duncan and his lovely wife, Marijane, for a number of years. They and their six children are a part of this community. They've grown up, worked hard, and contributed much to the life and spirit and bet terment of their home area. They are extremely charit able In their reactions to their fellowmen. With Bob's fine legal and legislative background (three terms in the Oregon legisla ture, twice elected Speaker of the House), his exceptional speaking ability, his imagina tion, his sound judgment and ability to get along with col leagues - he can best repre sent this area. I sincerely believe that Bob has all the qualities that com bine to make up the neces sary ingredients of a t o p notch congressman: and I hope that you, as I intend to do, will cast your vote for Robert B. Duncan for Con gress. Mrs. Hugh Fricl 2784 Valley View rd. Ashland, Ore. Foreign News: Macmillan-De Gaulfe To Meet; Pakistan's Attitude; Car Prices By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Gloves Off When British Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan meets French President Charles de Gaulle near Paris June 2-3 there probab 1 y will be some gloves off infighting. The sessions ...in i . , will uc pan ui I yVrrl la country JLJ week end at Ntwiom Chat eau de Champs, with the two leaders talking mostly in private. The conference could prove deci sive in whether Britain gets into the European Common Market. It could be equally decisive on whether France eases off its policy of indifference to Washington's efforts to nego tiate a settlement with Russia over Berlin and nuclear test ing. Officials in London deny that Britain 'will offer de Gaulle easier access to nu clear information in return for support of its common market bid. Pakistan Business American Embassy officials in Karachi are keeping a wary eye on the Pakistan gov ernment's attitude towards foreign businessmen and in vestments. Even though Pak istan has worked consistently to attract foreign capital, there are some signs that the atmosphere may be changing. What the embassy people are wondering about is what Washington Report By William (cl United Feature Syndicate THE CAPTAIN Washington-President Ken nedy has given notice to the whole allied world that a new American doc i trine is emerg ing amid the e n a l ess per p 1 e x ities of the cold war. Its substance is that the United States simply does not propose to Wbii go on carry ing the burden of responsibil ity for all the West without adequate authority to - dis charge that respon,vility. This Is not remotely a threat to go it alone. It is, however, plain warning that while we will continue to give every respect to the wishes of our associates, there will be at the Allied council table of ultimate decision no nonsense about precisely equal votes for manifestly unequal part ners. Cold war policy is not go ing to be run on some inter national Gallup poll. The president, in fact, has now in troduced into this troubled area the principle of repre sentative government. Fate and circumstances have given the United States the most power and the most to lose, and the other Western nations have thankfully elected us the leader. 11HESE unalterable facta having given it leadership, this country proposes to dis charge the duties of that lead ership. Happily, this will be with the full consent of our associates. If, unhappily, that consent is not fully given, we shall go on with our duties of leadership all the same. This is the sense of Mr. Kennedy's historic statement of purpose, at his recent press conference, in our current probing negotiations with the Russians over Berlin. It was made specifically in reply to questions as to disagreements on approach between us and the West Germans. But it applied equally strongly to France, where President Charles De Gaulle has been so critical of our dip lomacy. And it could apply quite as well to Britain, which has also often been a some what querulous back seat driver. lVER since he came to of fice. Mr. Kennedy has spent endless concern in try ing to keep everything tidy as between us and the Germans, us and the French and us and the British. The British have almost constantly urged him to deal more readily with the Russians than he has thought wise. The Germans and French have almost constant ly urged him to act as though there were no chance at all of making any decent accommo dation over Berlin. The Germans and French may well turn out right, as the president has no hesita tion in conceding Conceiv ably, the British, too, may be right though this, even aca demically, is a much more du changes may come when the new National Assembly meets for the first time next month and the 3V4-year period of martial law comes to an end. Iberian Headache Despite the spreading strikes and student unrest in Spain and Portugal, experi enced Iberian experts do not expect either the French or Salazar regimes to be threat ened seriously. It was pointed out that both men have weath ered worse storms in the past without any loss of power. Authorative reports reaching London from Madrid and Lis bon indicate the situation in both countries is worrisome but not considered dangerous to the continued rule of both leaders. Car Prices All signs Indicate that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will lose his fight to get German car-makers to rescind their recent price boosts. The German auto-makers have shown and are show ing no sign they will back down, even though Bonn threatens to revise import du ties on foreign cars. As a mat ter of fact, such an import duty reduction now appears questionable. The Free Demo cratic party which has five members in Adenauer's Cab inet has come out in oppo sition to such action. Chines Population Red China, the world's most populous nation, may be thinking of trying a birth control program again. The Peiping regime began such a program in the mid-1950s but it dropped it quietly during S. White bious proposition. But the big point is that both sets of view, the British view and the French-German view, cannot possibly be right, all at once. The President to now has leaned as far as he could without appeasement toward the British opinion, in the notion that talking, after all, costs nothing and ought to be tried to the last mile. Equal ly, he has totally accepted the bedrock French - German po sition against any surrender of any vital Western interest. INEVITABLY, neither the British side nor the French German side has been really satisfied. Still, there does come a time when somebody has got to be captain of the team and when the captain has got to call signals if any kind of sensible game is go ing to be played. It is this time that the Pres ident has now reached. This is not to say simply that "his Irish is up;" the position can not be described in juvenile cliches. But it is to say that he knows absolutely who the captain is and must be, and has no slightest intention of allowing the signals to become so confused that the only pos sible winner would be the Russian team. In this determination he will undoubtedly be support ed by all the United States of America, no matter how many of us may disagree with him on one or a dozen merely do mestic issues. No foreign friend of ours should make any mistake about this. BEATS DRIVING Leicester, England - (UPI) -Ron Barlow, 22, has solved his commuting problem by running the seven miles to work every morning in less than 45 minutes. He said it takes a bus-riding neighbor just under an hour. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- T) ESSIE MOORE tells of the Little Rock father who told his 7-year-old son, "Floyd, I have a surprise for you. The stork flew in last night and left a littlebrother for you. wny aon't you write your sister the good news?" The boy wrote as follows: "Dear Sis: You owe me two bucks. It's a boy." a a Herb Stein tells about a parent with a sly sense of humor who put a sign on the back of his young hope ful just learning to toddle off by himself to kinder garten. The sign read: "Caution: Student Pedes trian." Stein also offer a new definition for alimony: bounty Flying high above the Rockies one moming. an American Air- ' line Jet pilot got a laugh with this announcement over the loud speaker: "We are flying at an temperature outside is 41 degree you suy Inside." o " "Middle age," opines Orson Falk, "is wh?n your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places." O 1U, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed br Knt Features Syndicate the days of the so-called crease of 15 million i year, "great leap forward" and the Analysts say this and other start of the people's com- signs indicate a birth control munes later in that decade, plan may at least be in the The Peiping regime gives its thinking stage for the Chinese population figure as 6C0 mil- Reds, wth a national food lion persons. But United Na-shortage a probably deten tions estimates put it at about mining factor as to whether 720 million with an in- it will be implemented. Drummond Reports (Walter Lippman is in Europe. Roscoe Drummond reports frem Washington In his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. KHRUSCHEV SAYS IT AGAIN Washington - It would be well if every American could read the full text of the inter view which Nikita Khrush chev recently gave to Gardner Cowles, editor of Look maga zine, in his 40-foot, half paneled office in the Kremlin. It is worth reading not be cause Mr, K. breaks new ground, but because he ploughs all the old ground so unyieldingly. He makes it clear that if there is to be any easing, any accommodation, on any aspect of any tension anywhere in the cold war-the concessions will have to come from the West. It was a three-hour inter view, too lengthy to be pub lished generally. Therefore, I am going to extract Premier Khrushchev's own words on the crucial issue, the issues which divide the world. Mr. K.'s words usually have to be translated a second time; that is, after being put into Eng lish, they have to be trans lated into meaning. This is be cause on such matters as self determination, non - interfer ence in other countries, "just and unjust" wars, etc., he masks his intentions. MR. K. ON WAR - "Corn- victory not through war be tween states ... we are against aggressive wars. We recognize the lawfulness of national-liberation wars . . . A national-liberation war is a war waged when a nation, which is oppressed by. the colonists, takes up arms to achieve iiberation." HIS MEANING - To Mos cow any non-Communist gov ernment, which pursues poli cies unsatisfactory to the Kremlin, is automatically dominated by "colonists" and therefore any Communist managed war against it is "lawful." Examples: the Com munist invasion of South Viet nam, the Communist attack on South Korea, the Com munist war against Greece in the late 'forties. Mr. Khrush chev stands firmly against war except when waged by Communists. MR. K. ON. INSPECTION "Scientists have proved that nuclear shots anywhere in the world can be pinpointed by the instruments we already have. This is why those who insisted on inspections un wittingly expose themselves." HIS MEANING - The truth is that scientists have proved no such thing. Instruments disclose when there is an un explained earth tremor. Only on-site inspection can deter mine whether it is nuclear or natural. M R. K. ON SELF-DETER- for non - interference in the affairs of others. The people of each country must decide these questions" - that is, the kind of economy and the kind of government they want. HIS MEANING - He means just the opposite, because Mos cow has practised just the op posite. Wherever the Red A-my was in control after the war, the Kremlin imposed Communist governments with out permitting "the people to decide these questions." Mr. K. favors our non-interference and his total interference. on tha mutiny. altitude of 32.000 feet and the below lero. We suggest that MR. K. ON BERLIN - "It is the presence of Western forces in West Berlin to which we cannot agree." HIS MEANING - No trans lation needed. That's what he means: we should get out of West Berlin and leave the city free for Communist con quest. Mr. Cowles who, when he tries, can be as bland as Mr. Khrushchev, asked a beauti ful question toward the end of the interview. He said: "Mr. Chairman, earlier in our con versation you spoke of the desirability of wars of libera tion for the liberation ot colonial peoples.- But cannot a situation arise where it would be necessary to wage a liberative war for the lib eration of the territory ot some Communist country?" Mr. K.'s reply to this unex pected query can fairly be summarized in five words: "Mr. Cowles, yoii are con fused." ' . Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harrii . (c- Field Enterprises Inc. THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. In his fascinating new book, "Dialogues With Mothers," (and with some fathers, too), the author sums up in a sentence a les son it takes many of us a 1 i f e ti me to learn. The book is about cniid rearing j am. parent- idling ana Hams the author is Bruno Bettelheim, head of the Orthogenic School at the Uni versity of Chicago, who prob ably knows as much about disturbed children (and dis turbed parents) as anyone in the country. At the close of one of the dialogues, a mother "remarks, "I'm getting to the point where all I have to consider is that I'm going to ask you a question and I immediately know the answer." And Dr. Bettelheim replies, "That's right! Because the answer is obvious once you've learned how to analyze the problem that is, to ask the right questions." To ask the right questions. This profoundly simple, and yet immensely elusive, task is the main stumbling-block: not merely in handling our children, our wives and our husbands, our business and social relations but it is also the chief obstacle to solv ing any of the global prob lems that are overwhelming: us. In all such matters, most of us ask non-questions, and we get non-answers. I call them "non-questions" because they really admit of no valid answer. In child-rearing, for instance, as Dr. Bettelheim makes plain, ''How much dis cipline should a child have? is a non-question. There is no satisfactory answer to it, be cause the question itself hides other and more basic . ques tions beneath it. It is interesting to see, in the book, how the mothers and fathers slowly change from asking non-questions to asking questions and as soon as the right questions are propounded, the answers immediately offer themselves UP- When we stop asking, for example, "How much disci pline should I give my child?,' and ask instead, "What sort of person do I wan. my child to be?" then the answer to that question will determine the answers to all the subsi diary questions. Broadening the field from the family to the world, it be comes obvious that such non questions as "How can we win the next war?" have .no satisfactory answer. What we must first ask ourselves is "What kind of human society do we want to have, and what kind of persons do we want to develop and encour- ! age in that society?" Unlike these dialogues with mothers, our dialogues wh each other, land with the rest of the world, 1 never come to fips with the I basic questions of human des- tiny.