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4 A "Everyone In SoutrflrnOreioii RedlThtMlT.rlb,,n,' Kbliihni Daily except Saturday by K1F.DFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Fir Jl.. Ph;772-614I ROBERT W. BUHL, EOltor HERB GREY. Adverting Manajer GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mir. ERIC W ALLEN, JR.. Mn. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor UARRV rmPMAN. Teles. Editor nirUAnn JEWETT. SDOrts Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspsper Entered ai second clau matter at Medtora. uregon, unuei ui March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $1.1.00 Dailv and Sunday fi moi. 11.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year M 20 v rirrlpiw In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. telle Point. Jacksonville, uoin run, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dally and Sunday I mo. 1.10 Carrier and Dealers Copy 10c All Terms uasn in Advancs Tjfflrlaf Paper of City of Mrdford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press International Full Leased Wire TJ.P.1 Telephoto Newspiclurea MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Trfvrtfmin Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES, Offices In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. Denver. IWlFAMt UlLISHlif ASSOCIATION NATIONAL cDITOMAl Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from tht tiles of Tht Mail Tribunt 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 veart ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 29. 1952 (Thursday) Medford city Superintend ent Robert Duff today re- ouestcd that Medford resl- dents observe regulations which will conserve water. A contract for transport Hon of Star route mail be tween Grants Pass and Duns- m u I r, succeeding railroad service, has been let. 20 YEARS AGO May 29, 1942 (Friday) Stale civil defense head warns of Japanese raid on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, indi cating Oregon civil defense workers must be on a 24-hour alert. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The it as rationing will become more stringent next winter, reports tell. This will stop In dignant citizens from march ing to stale legislatures in limousines." 30 YEARS AGO May 29. 1932 (Sunday) Plans discussed to disenn flnue Oregon state fair "in the Interest of economy." Logging hailed In Rogue valley by heavy rains and wet forest conditions. 40 YEARS AGO May 29. 1922 (Monday) Plans announced for three pear packing plants to be erected In Medford; 1022 crops expected to be slightly below normal. From Local and Personal column: Pickwick stages from San Diego to Portland have commenced operation on a regular schedule, and Tom Merriman, local blacksmith, has contracted with the com pany for the repair ot all broken springs and similar work. SO YEARS-AGO-May 29, 1912 (Tuesday) Medford baseball team He. feats Grants Pass, 20 to 15, and for second time in month players have to walk most of way home when bus repeat edly breaks down and tires blow out. What's Your I.Q.? Hint or tan correct It superior; seven or tight it txcellent; flvt or sii It good. 1. The U.S. recently as signed a number of what "weapons" to N ATO ? 2. During the administra tion of which President was Ihe pay-as-you-go Income tax law enacted? 3. How do the constitution al qualifications for vice pres ident and president differ? 4. What Viennese writer popuiarizcd surh terms asifornia licenses. We also liniaHon?''''''"510" 'nd ,,,b'jherta. Connecticut. Minnesota, New York, Illinois 5. Complete (he following: an(l Florida. "A soft answer . . . ." j 6. is an astute person dull, rTMlK trip home, bv wav of Jedediah Smith Red "hr7PVkAd"biva.vey?, ,n intake w"'ls State Paik and up the Smith river, over of a submarine; true or false? j Oregon mountain, through the Illinois Valley and 8. who was President of "Grants Pass, is alwavs pleasant. s,oodUfeSiiing"in'' ,h' " Er" 'l Maj changes noted this time included a n. Does the Hudson River j several-mile stretch of new four-lane highway be have its source in Hudson tween Wilderville and Grants Pass, and, of BTo. Could a naturalized'001"' lhp f,WWa' f,'m (5"la 10 tlle American citizen hold the of. 'already-open section at Rogue River. flee of secretary of state' i Intending to go to Rogue River via the river mu.u.W'.ub..,i. yr,o..,!a'1, WP Sa- a" l,on .ill,c'ess ' "ad loading to the 1943. 3. Qualifications freeway, with no barrier, and with a sign point art iha stmt. 4. sigmund ing to Jledford, so we got onto the Freeway and rh,.7hr"v!whizze,, honi in 15 or - ft. J.m.i Monro., i. are io.';.v l11'"'- t' 'P- The freeway will be. opened "of-, Yes. TUESDAY. MAY 29. 1962 Coastal A business trip to Eugene Friday, plus a day of vacation still unused on Saturday, provided the opportunity. An out-of-state visitor provided the excuse. And thus it was that early Saturday morning we were driving along Route F in Lane county, headed for the coast. Too often, in jaunts to that magnificent stretch of country and coastline, we have been in a hurry to get somewhere. This time we had no agenda, no plans, no timetable. So, arriving at Florence, we took the little road that runs to a park overlooking the mouth of the Siuslaw river, something we'd never seen. "THE mouth of the Siuslaw river isn't terribly exciting, but the drive to it was superb, for the rhododendrons were in full flower. So was the scotch broom. And the two of them the bright yellow and dark green of the latter and the varying shades of pink and light green of the former, alternating along the side of the road provided a seldom-seen feast for the eyes. Traffic was fairly heavy both Saturday and Sunday, all the way down the coast. Motel and service station people told us that many of the travelers are en route to or from the fair in Seat tle, as expected. The highway, however, is constantly being improved, and only in a few spots does it leave convenience and safety factors to be desired. And these are being corrected. THE best part of the trip, from our viewpoint, is from Port Orford south. It is here that the sandy beaches and dunes give way to massive headlands, sharp cliffs, and rocks studding the offshore waters; to tiny sand-beach coves; to rolling open grassy uplands, and to forests, tall and green and occasionally scarred by logging or fires. We spent the late afternoon and evening in Gold Beach hiking along the beach in a brisk and chilly wind, and driving for a distance up the Rogue River from its mouth. The number of homes some small and shacky, others quite comfortable and neat-looking that are tucked into crannies in the nearby hills was amazing. Many of them, we guessed, belong to employees of a big lumber mili on the south side of the river, and the number of boats drawn up on the bank by it suggested that many of the workers "commute" to work by boat. THE most spectacular fmm ln1,1 D.,V, liwin VJU1U UCCtt.ll III 1J1 UUft.1115, anu UlC UCSI part of that is the magnificent brand-new section, open only a few months, north of Brookings. The old road ran inland, so the new road, slicing along the crests and slopes of the hills on the seaward side, opens up coastal vistas seen by very few in the past. Superlatives fail in attempting to exnress the beauties of that portion of the coast. To our mind it is far and away the most beautiful of any coast line we have ever seen, personally or in picture, and we do not exempt either the Riviera or the Big Sur country in California. Our companion compared it favorably to the coast of Maine. e ""THE highway department has put its best foot forward here. The engineering work on the highway is a splendid massive cuts and fills to the Thomas Creek bridge, highest in the state, which spans a gorge more than 300 feet deep. We felt that in locating and constructing some of the "viewpoint" turn-outs, the depart ment was a little less than imaginative and help ful to travelers, and we deplored some of the great bare spots sliced into the scenery by the engineering necessities. However, it makes up for these in the location and planning ot other viewpoints one of which has a road leading to a parking area near the top of a hill, right above the ocean, with a sweep ing view in both directions. 'T'YVO new state parks, for picnickers only, have been laid out and equipped in delightful spots. And, we understand, most of the land be tween the highway and the ocean has been ac quired by purchase or gift, thus creating a miles long state nark, always to be protected from com mercial "development." The principal camping parks in the area have been here for some time, one of them tucked down in the little valley just north of Humbug mountain, the other at 'Harris beach just north of Brookings. Only one camping party was in evidence at Humbug, but Harris Beach' park ap peared to be almost full on Sunday. Perhaps half the cars on the road bore Cali- finally" on m r rid ay. h.A. I Trip part of the whole trip is 15. .!.: 1 11.. 1 L achievement, from the spotted them from Al- Berlin COMMUNICATIONS Letters to tht Editor must bear tht namt and address ot tht writer, although under ctrtain circumstances the ust of a pen namt or initial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with t view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted tor publication must not exceed 400 words. Tht tetters orinted in this column do not necessarily represent tht views of tht caper; in fact tht contrary it ofttn tht case. Connally Amtndmtnt To the Editor: "Tiger In The Senate" (Editorial 52462) fits Senator Wayne Morse in more ways than one. The tiger is one of the most dangerous animals in the jungle, and Mr. Morse has proven himself ex ceedingly dangerous, in my estimation, ever since 1945. For in that year he introduced to the Senate a resolution which would put our nation under complete and compul sory jurisdiction of the UN World Court. This "Supreme Court" of the United Nations, answer able only to the UN, consists of one American and 14 Com munist and foreign justices, all appointed by the UN, with out approval by the U. S. The UN Charter states that this court is to have jurisdiction over international affairs only. But it also states that the World Court, itself, shall decide which is international and which is domestic. And there shall be NO appeal from its decision! Can't you just see Khru shchev and his wolf rack of Communist and "neutral" judges slobbering to get a crack at us with that kind of unlimited power? Senator Tom Connally saw it. He took time to study the UN Charier and Morse's resolution and saw in them the complete surrender of the U. S. to the UN via the future "decisions" of the UN's World Court. And we can thank our lucky stars that he bowed his neck and went in slugging till he convinced the Senate, and they added to the Morse "resolution" the Con nally Amendment, which spe cifically stipulates that it is the United State of America which shall decide what dis putes are "domestic" and which are "international." God bless Tom Connally's heart. I am told that Senator Morse fought like a wounded tiger to keep Connally's Amendment out of his reso lution; and that he has been licking his wounds ever since, biding his time. Letters I've received from him in recent years bear this out, showing that after over 15 years he is more determined than ever to repeal the Connally Amend ment. And make no mistake about it. If this Amendment is repealed or bypassed, it will mean the end of our Consti tution, our Bill of Rights, and our Declaration of Indcpond-ence-the end of a free United States and a free American people. For this reason we should give Senator Wayne Morse all the respect we would give a Bengal Tiger crouching in our midst with tail twitching. Don t ever underestimate him. or foolishly class him as a "braying jackass." Oppose him, vote against him, if you feel you should. But respect him. I.. C. Powell. 318 S.E. Eighth St., Grants Pass, Ore. Doftat Socialism To the Editor: Before Con gress is the largest single piece of welfare legislation in history - the King-Anderson Bill. The first year's cost alone has been estimated to be front one to (our billion dollars. Two things are sine: (1) the cost will be enormous: (21 the money will come from our pocketbooks. Let us examine this gigantic piece of legislation. First, is there a need for a bill of this size? Fifty-three I The 8:trd infantry division, per rent of the people over , the famed Thunderbolt divis tiS have some kind of health ion of World War II, is con- insurance, and by tP-ti.V "3 per cent will. The elderly are buying health Insurance fast er than any othvjr age group. We see. then, that the need is not great. Now let us examine the plan 1 First e ran see that it is woefully inadequate It is, ' of course, the self-sufficient people who participate 111 the MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD Wall Social Security system. There fore, under the King-Anderson bill, it would be those people, not the less fortunate who need it most, receiving the services! Let me also note that this is not Insurance, although the advocates of the bill would have it so. Social Security is not insurance. This bill will cost too much and is financially unsound. If the bill is passed and goes as planned, by 1068, a person with a $4000 income would pay $380 Social Security tax and at least $245 income tax. In 1961, President Kennedy asked the Social Security Ad ministration to examine the financial aspects of the pro gram. The committee came forth with a startling conclu sion: It .won't work. Still, the president has tried to push the bill. He says that he will raise the tax, yet Secretary Ribicnff has said when the Social Security tax approaches the 10 per cent level, which it will under the bill, it reaches the saturation level. The bill will cost more than expected. The insurance com panies of the United States re cently took a survey. They found it will cost 150 per cent more than expected. This bill will overcrowd hospitals; they will become hospitals; they will become jumping-off place for nursing homes. Under the bill, a com mittee of non-medical men will be running the hos pitals. And. under the King Anderson bill, the patient may not have free choice of hos pital! Anyone can see the hand writing on the wall. The King Anderson bill is a long stride toward socialized medicine. I do not believe the U.S. wants to take such a radical step, when there are other means to solve the need. We can ex tend federal loans to hospitals, use the Kerr-Mills bill to its fullest extent, and have great er income tax deduction for the care of our elderly people. Socialized medicine is not the answer. This will lead us to social ism. First socialized hospital care for the aged, next social ized medicine, then full social ism. I don't think any of us want socialism - I know I don't. Let's defeat the King Anderson hill and what it stands for. Write your U.S. Senators and Congressman. Let's defeat socialism in the U.S. John Caslerline, Ninth Grade, Heririck Junior High School, Medford Appreciation To the Editor: I would ap preciate very much the oppor tunity through your columns of thanking my constituents and the people of the State of Oregon who worked for me and who expressed their confidence in me at the polls. I trust that I have in a small way alerted the people of the state to their problems as they exist in the Nation's Capitol. To the newspapers I appre-1 ciate the news coverage of my j activities and philosophies of government. j Edwin R. Durno, M.C. Washington. D. C. Members of Division Sought for Reunion ducting an extensive search (or 30.000 former members. The persons are wanted in connection with the ltith an nual reunion of Ihe di isinn to be lii-ld Aug 16 'e rough 13 in Atlantic City, N. J. All former members of the the 8.1rd division are asked in rl1HF senate passes a com contact latrv Redmond. 1:1:2 ple and controversial Rockwood dr., Haverlown. i yrm bill carrying mar of Ta. line stiff production controls a ft OREGON Secretary Next April; Thant May Be Named Again By PHIL NEWSOM UP1 Foreign Ntwt Analyst U Thant soon must make up his mind whether he wants to be secretary general of the United Na tions for a full term. Some friends of the mild - spoken, Bud dhist express doubts that he wants the job beyond next Newsooi April 10 - the end of the late Dag Hammar skjold's term to which the General Assembly appointed him last November. Despite the lame-duck na ture of his appointment, Thant's six month conduct in Matter of Fact a joPh auop (e) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE SLEEPER AWAKES Washington - The agricul ture bill, which has always been the sleeper in the Kenne dy legislative awakening in . ina the Senate last week. As the result of a single vote cast against the Adminis tratlon by Proxmire of Wisconsin, the bill had been gutted in committce-which is usually the end of any bill's story. But the Senate put back the bill's guts by a sub stantial majority on Thurs day, and passed the bill itself by a majority of 42-to-38 on Friday. The guts of the provision is designed to put limits on the formerly limitless expansion of farm surpluses. This part of the bill extends to wheat and feed grains the same system of strict production controls plus solid price supports which is already working well for other crops like cotton, to bacco, and peanuts. Wheat and feed grains now account for two-thirds of $9 billion surplus of farm products cur rently held by the U. S. gov ernment. ItHE Southern states are a deficit area in feed grains, and therefore have a strong Interest In low feed grain prices. Hence the Southern votes were the ones to watch. All the bellwethers - Sens. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia and Richard Russell and Her man Talmadge of Georgia supported the administration. This is a good augury for the House of Representatives, which is expected to pass the bill by a better majority than the Senate, but only after a rough fight. One reason the fight will be rough in the House can be dis cerned in the famous Billie Sol Estcs case. The endlessly increasing farm surpluses have created a requirement for more and more crop storage space, such as Estes rented to the Federal govern ment for large sums. In many parts of the coun try, building storage space for Federally-held farm surpluses has in fact become a favorite speculative investment. The companies and individuals who entered the business in the era of endlessly increasing surpluses are already bar raging House members with cries of protest, because they fear the surpluses, and there fore their incomes, may begin to shrink. rpHE fact that no one really - expected anything to be done about the surplus prob-lcm-the general acceptance of the problem as a kind of cost ly but wholly incurable disease-can also be read in the ttsqjjg Alsnp Sen. William In the Day's News By FRANK Political note: The Morse campaign com mittee reports that it spent $18,843 in the Oregon pri mary election campaign. The committee adds in its report that it received $20,367. The committee for Repre- sentative Edith Green, of Portland, who won renomina - linn ronnrt that it snent S310 he primary election cam- I paign. 'ra.Jss t cam paign contributions: 1. It doesn't matter so much HOW MI CH IS SPENT as WHERE IT COMES FROM. Candidates should be re- quired to disclose their spend - ing. including where me money came from. BEFORE THE ELECTION so that be fore voting the voters may have the opportunity to know where the money came from and whether in their opinion it was TOO MUCH. General's Term Will Expire the office has not looked like that of a man treading care fully to avoid anything that could wreck his election to a full term. He has been sharp, in a quiet diplomatic way, with East and West alike on occa sion. British Prime Minister Har old MacMillan, visiting here last month, was reported to have given Thant his govern ment's backing for a five-year term in his own right. Washington has been care ful to steer clear of official endorsement lest it prove a cold war kiss of death that could bring Russia's veto if only because he was support ed by the United States. But last Sunday, U. S. Am bassador Adlai E. Stevenson, storage space story. Secre tary of Agriculture Orville Freeman announced his in tention to get the surplus ' problem under control at all program, hadi?.sts' " f,n ane t00k ol' an impressive But Freeman s announce- l nient was aisniisscu as non sensical, and large invest ments were made in addition al storage space during last year. It is ironical that almost everyone should be aston ished, and a good many hard headed businessmen should be caught short, because the pas sage of this serious farm bill suddenly seems likely. It is even more ironical that con servative persons are not at all pleased by this prospect. Evidently continued reck less spending is widely thought to be less dangerous than extending government controls. For the point in the farm story, heavily under lined by the hapless record of former Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra Taft Benson, is that the choice lies squarely be tween extending controls or wasting more and more mon strous sums of public money. BENSON'S theoretical third choice was abolishing price supports lor farm prod ucts. But this was never po litically feasible, as was proven by the Eisenhower ad ministration's flat failure to carry Benson's programs, even in the first Republican controlled Eisenhower Con gress. High price supports combined with inadequate production controls inevitably lead to increasing Federal costs and increasing stored surpluses. For this reason, the cost of the Federal farm program rose from about $2.5 billion a year at the end of the Truman administration to the stagger ing total of $9 billion a year at the end of the Eisenhower administration, with no less than $1 billion a year going for mere storage costs of sur plus crops. Such was the sit uation that Secretary of Agri culture Freeman tackled head-on, with remarkably in dustry and considerably po litical courage. It has been touch-and-go all the way. The most arduous work by Freeman and the astute Chairman of the House Agrbulture Committee, Rep. Harold D. Cooley, was needed to secure a one-vote margin to report the bill lo the House. The Senate Commit tee, as noted, went against the Administration, also by one vote. Curiously enough, the farm bill has lately gained support from the Estes case, which has highlighted the scandal of the unreformcd farm program. In such strange ways, with hardly anyone paying the smallest attention, one of the most intractable, long - established national problems seems to be on the way to solution. JENKINS and penalties asked by Pres ident Kennedy. The senate vote was 42-38. The measure now goes to the house, where a similar bill is already await ing floor action. The principal features of the hill are HIGHER PRICE : bUJ'fOK 1 S and substantially ! reduced PRODUCTION Inot acreage) quotas for wheat. corn, grain sorghum and bar ley. If approved by both houses of the congress and signed by the President, it will be put to a vote of the farmers, with a two-thirds ma jority needed for adoption. If the bill, when submitted to the farmers, is rejected, 1 production would be unlimit - ed, but price quotas would be substantially lower and the secretary of agriculture would be authorized to DUMP SOME OF THE PRES ENT SURPLUS STOCKS ON THE MARKET for what they would bring, thus further de pressing prices. 'PHK hill is afnittrdly rii as - - tic. Rut the farm program in a nationwide television in terview, waxed enthusiastic about Thant. "The United Nations was fortunate, I think, to find such a distinguished diplomat to fill this demanding post," Ste vensen said. "His ability and his equanimity are universal ly recognized and he has served well in his first months of office." Washington Report By William (ci United Featuri Syndicate THE ISSUES CHOICE Washington - Increasingly it looks that this year's true congressional election cam- S paigns will be fought far more on the floors of the senate and house than in the states and c ongressional districts. Tra d i t io n ally, congress quits WMt aooui juiy in such years so members may go home and mount the elec tioneering stumps. This time, because of a heavy work load, there is no real prospect of any final adjournment either in July or August, and prob ably not in September, either. The probability is that the best that can be managed will be a fairly short recess, so that for all practical purposes the senate and house them selves will be and remain the electioneering stumps. INCREASINGLY, too, It looks as if the great ques tions of our time - the cold war, the slate of Western al liance, and our national pol icy toward neutral nations will be far less talked about than will be two or three homely and relatively minor domestic issues. We are unlikely to have anything like a great debate between the Democratic and Republican parties on the state of the world. We are likely, instead, to have a se ries of small debates on such matters as the administra tion's relationship to business and what sort of medical care we should provide for the aged. No doubt, too, we shall hear a deal about the scan dals raised by that big-time operator in the farm subsidy program, Billie Sol Estes. If this forecast turns out to be correct, then the whole attention of the country will be turned from what is infin itely urgent and incomparably vital - foreign policy - to what is reasonably important but by no means historically urgent - domestic politics. ALL this is well within the American tradition and no one should question the coun try's right so to preoccupy It self, if it chooses. Still, the probable choice of priorities seems a great pity. It is as though we were decid ing to yawn our way through those questions which could mean life or death in favor of spirited national discussion on such things as these: how iritany hospital bills the gov ernment should pay and for whom; how right or wrong business is in its view of John F. Kennedy; and the exact character and associations of Billie Sol Estes. This is not to imply that these three things are only trifling. Obviously, all three are meaningful; and the mat ter of business confidence in the present American govern ment is meaningful, indeed. Still, the republic will sur vive even if "medicare" is not enacted in any form. It will go on even if the ideal partnership between business, labor and government eludes us all. And assuredly the tem ple will not fall no matter how many curious transac tions Billie Sol Estes may be found to have made and no matter how many politicians, of whatever party, may be discovered to have been in volved. 4 LL these are not urgent " subjects in point of time, have been built up under it are fantastic. We can't even give the surpluses away as rapidly as they build up. So the feeling in Washington is that something drastic has to he done about it. That raises this question W hy is it regarded as po litically safe to propose a I drastic cure for the evils that have arisen under a farm pro gram that has subsidized over ! productipn lo the point where we no longer know what to do with the immense sur pluses that have resulted from the subsidies? TMIE answer is simple. 1 In these days when ,,'ie BIG CITY vote jecides our elections, it is regarded as Doliticallv safe to tell the , farmers WHAT THEY MUST DO OR ELSE for the good of the country i a whole. The answer to whether tha "acting" will be removed from Thant's secretary gen eral title probably will come late this summer, when ha visits Moscow. The Russians are not likely to announce any endorsement. But the reception the slightly built Burmese gets In the So iet capital will signal the Kremlin's attitude. S. White whereas foreign affairs sure ly are. The country has a need to hear much about foreign policy and the administration and its critics have a right to say much. The President is entitled lo an attentive national audience for what seems to this basic ally unpartisan correspond ent to have been his signal strength in maintaining a firm but prudent line about Ber lin and against communist ag gression in southeast Asia and in resuming our nuclear test ing. The President's critics have a right to an equally atten tive national audience fully to ventilate their objections and anxieties at what seems to this same correspondent tm be the weakness of the ad ministration's undue defer ence to the neutral nations both outside and inside the United Nations. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. SHRINKING WORLD We speak glibly of the "shrinking" world of today but do we actually realize how much the world h a .1 shrunk since our nation was founded? When the o r i gi n al 13 c o 1 o nies de cided to feder- - J ate, they were ' miifh "Inroar" Harris than the whole world is today. In 1776, the fastest courier re quired 24 days to take a copy of the Declaration of Indepen dence from Philadelphia lo South Carolina. This was about 575 hours to travel a distance of 350 miles as the crow flies: an average rate of about .61 miles an hour. A commercial jet today can easily go 610 miles an hour, or 1,000 as fast. Since tht world is about 24,000 miles around, if we divide i by 1,000 (tha num btr of limes greater than our ipttd of travtl ia now), this represents a world only 24 milts in circumference compartd to tht world of 1776. Coniidtr a world that if only 24 miles around-about the distanct from lht north tnd of Chicago to tht south tnd. And, of courst, if we computed tht lamt way for wire or ttlephont commu nication, tht wholt world would shrink to tht lilt of a pta. But this It the world we livt in. Vittnam .a no fur thtr than a drive out to tht picnic grounds. Paris is a brief spin to a drivt-in movit. Moscow ii ltsi than half a length of tha city away. With a globt only 24 miles in circumfertnee, compartd to 1776. what validity is there in Washing ton's words warning us ts btwara of "entangling alli ances. " We are entangled righl up to our eyeballs, like it or not. The world has become one city, in time and space. Wb cannot avoid being entangled with our neighbors, because the whole concept of distance has been so radically changed that a global war can now be I declared, waged and lost in 1 15 minutes, j psycholoKically much les, nn,itirav A i11 , , .... u,,u up to these facts. We are not prepared for such proximity; we can barely endure our neighbors across the street, and now we are asked to cope with those across the world. It is almost too much lo bear in too short a time. Tech nology has plunged us into a tiny goldfish bowl together, and we are all swimming around furiously, wondering what happened to the spacious pond we used to live in It is the most severe test of hu- manitv thai nnA an imQn:n I If the world goes to war. it may be more out of fnmra. IP"! jtion than out of hostility. A a mrw. The ju.Oujfs that. 0 O o e
