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4 WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1962 ItorosDeiWrHiBUNt I " "Everyone In Southern Oregon - ReadiheailJTrlbuir FubTiihed Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Tit&l.. Ph. 772-6141 " ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB CREV. Advertmna Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. SR1C W ALLEN. JR.. Mng. Editor ARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women! Editor DALE ERICKSON. CIrculatlon Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered aa aecond claw matter at Medtord. Oregon, under Act 01 March 3. 16117 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Dally and Sunday 6 moa. B OO Dally and Sunday 3 moi i 25 Sunday Only One year $420 ,.. rtrrimr In Advance Medford. Aahland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Bill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue mv. er. Talent and on motor roulea. Dally and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Datlv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.30 Carrlei and Dealcri Copy 10c All Terma Caah lnAdyance "Official Paper of'Clty of Medfbrd Official Paper of Jackton County "" United Press International Tull Leaied Wire TJ 1 Tejephoto Newipicturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Renrrsrntatlve: NELSON ROBERTS tc ASSOCI ATES, Offlcea In New York, Chi cago Detroit, San Francisco, Loi Angeles Seattle. Portland, Denver. EWS'APEk BUSHEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the) files of The Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO - i . May 30. 19S2 (Friday) William J. Peters has been appointed chief of police of the City of Rogue River. 20 YEARS AGO May 30, 1942 (Saturday) Johnny Sheffield, known In moving pictures as "Tarzan, Jr.," appears in Medford to aid in sale of war bonds, i From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There was a hint of summer yester day with Old Sol at long last beaming on straw hats drench ed worse than alfalfa cut a fortnight too soon." 30 YEARS AGO May 30, 1932 (Monday) Democratic candidate for Jackson county judge lists campaign expenses of $14.60, including $1 for chicken ac cidentally killed by his car while on a vote seeking trip. Karl Janouch, assistant su pervisor of Crater National forest, receives "minor ankle injury" while engaged in wrestling match with forest ervlce ranger. 40 YEARS AGO May 30, 1922 (Tuesday) First arrest of season for violation of water regulations made by Patrolman George Prescott when man found ir rigating with open hose. Medford delegates to 40 and 8 meeting In Klamath Falls include "Clat" McCredle, Sca ly Hall, George Codding and George Gates. 50 YEARS AGO May 30, 1912 (Wednesday) Medford women out in force to vote for first tune in his tory in election of president of city school board: women to support own candidate. Prices at newly opened Medford public market in clude choice young dressed chickens, 18 cents a pound: fresh ranch eggs, 20 cents a dozen; strawberries, 10 cents a box or 25 cents fur three; lettuce, two hends for five cents, and home-made dairy butter, 80 cents a roll. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or fen correct it luperior; even or eight It eicellentf five ot tlx It good. 1. Who led the Mormon pioneers in their trek from Nauvoo, Illinois to Utah? 2. If you make a notch In a tree trunk two feet above the ground, at what height will it be In ten years? 3. What country has been called "Land of the Midnight Sun"? 4. What State Is nicknamed Magnolia State? 5. In what California city did President Warren G. Harding die? 6. If you were suffering from pyrophobia. of what would you be afraid? 7. Under what President did Charles Gates Dawes serve as Vice President? 8. Doei the French term bourgeoisie refer to the work ing class, middle class, or the very rich? 9. In what game might there be a "round of roodlcs"? 10. With what country do you associate the traditional air "Comln' Through the Rye"? 1. Bringham Young 2. Same height 3, Norway 4. Misiiuip pi S. San Francitco 6. Fire. 7, Calvin Coolldge. 8. Middle Clan. 8. "Poker. 10 Scotland. The Mysterious The inner workings the reasons therefore, have always been a deep dyed mystery to us. Thus, it was with special interest that we read the Page 1 discussion of the current slump written by our financial columnist, Sylvia Porter, who is widely regarded as one of (he most knowl edgeable observers of the economic and financial scene. The stock slump (Miss Porter actually used the awesome word "crash") is only one indication of the state of business in the nation, Miss Porter pointed out, and is perhaps not even the single most important. a CHE cited a number of factors, each of which could have contributed to the massive sell-out on the market, and concluded that it was prob ably a combination of them. But, she also declared, the basic sitution is hardly comparable to the 1929 crash. And even if it were to result in the same direction, there are fiscal and financial controls which the gov ernment can employ to counter such a trend. As we read the signs, it occurs to us that this stock price break will have a serious effect on a minority of citizens of any real effect on the rest or us. (NE interesting thing about the stock market "Ms that it reacts to psychological attitudes just as readily as it does to actual business and fi nancial conditions. Thus it is possible for a major change to occur without any rhyme or reason. People act as thev do from a variety of moti vations, but once in a while circumstances com bine to create a pattern which reacts on a num ber of people similarly, stimulating similar fears and fancies. It is then that a "panic" can ensue sometimes with real underlying reason, but some times without any cause other than a lack of con fidence. If Miss Porter is correct in finding the stock slump an indication of the end of an inflation economy, there is good news as well as bad con tained in the event. We'll simply have to wait and see. E. A. , Tests for the Far Right The California primary election will be June 5, next Tuesday. It will afford yet another test ot the po litical strength of the radical right-wing in this nation. It flunked its first such test last month in the Texas primary, when Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, a John Birch type, came in sixth in a field of six for the Democratic nomination for governor. In California, it will two races, for the Renublican nomination for governor, and for the Republican nomination for Congress from the 25th THE Republican gubernatorial nominees are fni'mnn 'Ppnuirlm-if T?iolmirl TVT KTivr.ii itrVir. has stated that good Republicans should get out of the John Birch society, and Joseph C. Shell, a militant conservative, who, while not publicly associated with the John Birchers, will certainly receive their support. Shell's campaign has been an ambivalent one, in large part. He claims that Nixon lacks exper ience in state government and issues, yet his cam paign has been similar to the one waged by Gen eral Walker, for conservatism and against Com munism, with few specifics. However, he is a more attractive man, person ally, than the tangle-tongued general. He is a wealthy oil man, a former football star, who pi lots his own plane on his campaign trips. 'J'HE authoritive Congressional Quarterly says: "Shell's agsressivc, underdog campaign tended to . outshine the low-keyed Nixon campaign until early May, when Nixon began to step up his effort . . . Shell has campaigned tirelessly, amassing far more sup port than observers first thought possible. His re pented efforts to draw Nixon into debate, however, have been unsuccessful . . . Shell appears sure to draw the maximum possible right-wing Republican vote in the primary. He claims his support is steadily mount ing but declines to predict flatly he will win the pri mary. His chances of actually defeating Nixon are dis counted by practically all impartail observers. The chief question is whether he will lead his right wing followers back into the Nixon camp following the pri mary. If not, Nixon's already shaky chances of defeat ing (Democratic Gov. Edmund) Drown could evaporate quickly." Another straw in the wind will be 25th dis tict race. Here the Republican incumbent is Rep. John F. Rousselot, 31, a Birch society member, who e.. i i . . i. i ... . ... i .... i . i iciiiscs to repiHiiau' ins iiieimu'isnip, aim instead claims that the Welch-led quasi-secret society is made up of "fine, dedicated, intelligent Americans." His primary election challenger is Thomas V. iViionan, 3S, a Realtor making his first political bid. T"HE two seem to agree that the Birch society is one of the major issues in their race. CQ comments: "Noonan has relatively ample campaign funds and has distributed anli-Rotissolol, anti-Birch literature throughout the district. Rousselot, however, has an ag gressive and well financed campaign organization and is considered a clear favorite. Heilistricting made the district strongly Democratic and Republicans will have difficulty holding it in the general election." Neither of these two election contests will be conclusive, of course, particularly in view of the probability that Democratic candidates will be the ultiillate winners. But they will provide a real indication as to whethft- th radical right is as strong as some peupl hope or fear it is. E;A. Stock Market of the stock market, and the nation, and little if show un most clearlv in District, in Los Angeles. Bamboo ... 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. Don't Want the Facts To the Editor: In reply to Mr. Caton and Mr. Cuddy of White City, all I have to say is that Butler said it, not me. and I think he probably knew what he did better than anyone else. So I will take his word for it. If you like to read, I sug gest you read High Treason, Sabotage, The Plot Against the Peace, The Great Con spiracy. They may make you a little unhappy but you will get documented facts. The trouble is that most people do not want the facts. Ray Prichard, 414 South First st., Central Point, Ore. God's Best To the Editor: Lord, give me wisdom to chose thy best And not thy second best. Forbid that I should rest, content, With less of what is thy consent Which I may have, just for the asking, But lose through sloth - or Satan's masking. Mildred Allen Jeffery, 521 Mayette St., Medford Obligated Plenty fo the Editor: Howdy ever body. I promised you I'd be back and I don't aim to disappoint nobody, but I am shore tard today. Yesterday momin' a feller enme by and told me where they was a house bein' tore down. So I hauled stuff away from there all day long. They gimme it all jest for haulin' it away. Of course I had a big fuss with Babe, that's my wife. She come out where I was unloadin' and said I had used up enough of the garden space and why didn't I use up what I had on hand 'stead of pilin' up more. Wal, I got mad and wouldn't eat no supper and went to bed with my clothes on. All nite long them tarna tion cars kept fallin' In them chug holes out in the road and grindin' and smashin' gears gettln' out and then go bumpin' off down the rest of the washboardie road. Plague tnke It, when I moved here that was a plum good road but they's so pesky many more people usin' it now . . . an' who fixes it up? Not no body. Well, I laid there last nite and got madder and madder, when I jest happened to re member that somebody told me afore elections that the county had a obligation to us ioiks out ncre. well, 1 savs to myself, I am jest the guy to see to It that we get obli gated. And that's what I did. In the momin' I phoned the courthouse as soon as I know ed Central was there, and she put me on the line of the county engineer. I told hiin about Ibis road and that It was high time we was obligat ed, and he said. "You are Sir, that's exactly what you are. The road in question is a road dedicated to the use of the public. The County has not accepted this road and tllrrefnro it ic th nhli,.itin of the property owners to:a complaint. Any dogs picked maintain this thoroughfare." Well, I guess I got told. We been obligated plenty. Love to all. Sut Bugyall (Real name on file) Southwest Medford Naturally To the Editor: Some com mentators appeared critical of Scott Carpenter, when they reported he was confused in space. It really does not seem so surprising. To accomplish that condition, most of us need ' only get behind the wheel of our automobile. II. W. Robertson. 103 North Central ave., Medford. o MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Curtain Butler Recollections To the Editor: In re Smed ley Butler, I hold Ray Prich ard is right. I served as a C.P.O. machinist on the U.S.S. California in August 1912, volunteered and was assigned as 'Trainmaster' on the first train which took a load of Marines up the main R.R. line from Corinto, Smedley, then Major, Butler, i n command. He was a fighting man, out spoken, knew what he was fighting for and not afraid to say so. He was capable and the Marines swore by Smed ley. The reason for the war was told in a so-called muckraking magazine, at the time. It went like this: In March 1912 a small group of Boston finan ciers went on a goodwill trip to Central America. They made a stop in Managua and negotiated a deal with the po litical party then in power, by purchasing the Nicaraguan Railroad for $7 million. The R.R. at the ime was supposed to be state property. A rebel party sprang up and rebellion broke out in August. Presi dent Taft then ordered mili tary forces- to protect U. S. owned property, which of course was the logical thing to do. Our forces forced the rebels to lay ,down arms in short order. Smedley Butler may at times have expressed himself somewhat sarcastically in say ing that he was protecting property of the rich, and that was the truth, he did and he did it well. We all well know that there is a material reason causing all wars. That has been going on since the caveman of the stone age. As to Smedley Butler, he was a real man. There were a number of ships in the Pacific fleet and, at the outbreak, volunteers were called for and about 1,500 sailors volunteered and went ashore. They and 1,500 Marines remained ashore for four months when order was restored. A few years later rebellion broke out again: in 1925 and again from 1926 to 1933. How ever, as far as I can judge, the military action of the U.S.A. was a service to Die Nicaraguan people, that is for sure. John E. Ring, 1049 West 11th St., Medford. Law Is for All To the Editor: Many resi dents of Central Point are having a good chuckle over the notice to keep dogs tied through July. The threat of a fine or jail sentence for failure to do so adds much spice for those with dogs wandering the city streets, and an extra goad to those with dogs tied. The humor of those who keep their dogs tied by day and turned loose when the sun goes down is admirable. For those irritated with this open flaunting, a little co-operation with the city po- .lice would helo to clear up the situation. If vou know the owner of a clog at large you I n.n M In Pitv Hall and in ,,,, n tnrnr-H over to .Wekson Countv Control where upon the owner has to post bail for the animal, plus keep charges, and they are automatically cilcrl into court. This law is for all the people and not for just a few. Mrs. R. A Glass 714 East Pine st. Central Point, Ore. The Mope To the Editor: There is a law governing obstructing the free passage of a person on a public street. Why isn't this true on our highways" 1 am refering to the "moric," (encountered by all motorlats. 'Wolfhound' Regiment Fit and Ready in Leisurely Yet Busy Thailand Countryside By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Bangkok, Thailand UPD -To reach the first battle group of the American 27th "Wolf hound" regiment you drive an axle-cracking 60 miles north from Bangkok and then turn eastward for nearly 100 miles along Freedom Highway. Along tne way, men, wom en and children in conical straw hats resting high off their heads struggle with bas kets of earth, laboring side by side with great earth-moving machines building a new mili tary road which will bypass Bangkok. Water buffalo graze along side, and in nearby paddies other men and women bend knee-deep in muddy water planting a new rice crop. For other crops it is harvest time and in the tiny village market places farmers squat beside stacks of bananas, pine apples, mangoes and corn. Na ked children stare curiously The meandering "mope" infests our highways and by ways, traveling at a snail's pace, at the expense of thou sands of motorists. Harmless though he may appear, he is nevertheless a menace. Un wittingly he is all too often directly responsible for far more accidents than he is ac credited. The "mope" must be edu cated and motivated if we are to reduce our motor vehicle accident rate. The motives of a "mope" are difficult to understand. Is it because of fear, lack of con fidence, admiring the scenery, desire to be a leader, indif ference to his fellow man? Or merely to display his chariot to his egotistical satis faction? Whatever the reason, he is an evil, equally as dangerous to his fellow travelers on the highways as the "speed de mon" or the "weaver." Please, "mope," give your fellow motorists a break. The next time an endless proces sion of vehicles appears in your rear view mirror, either increase your speed accord ingly, or pull to the side of the road and park, permitting your nerve-wracked followers to pass safely. Then proceed at the rear of the column, like a good fellow. The untold "thanks," and the friendly wave of hands from your fellow motorists, shall be your reward. (Name on file) Medford Officer Praised To the Editor: We would like to use this medium to compliment the efficiency of our local veterans service of ficer, Mr. Donovan, wherein he was able to arrange for hospitalization at a veterans hospital of a veteran in a period of less than one hour. Needless to say this was a dire emergency. Sam Zier, Administrator Crater Osteopathic Hospital Central Point. Ore. Few Like Him To the Editor: I have read the letter of Ray Prichard of Central Point and that of Veteran William T. Cuddy of White City and enjoyed both. Both praised Smedley D. But ler, the former on his honesty and moral integrity, the lat ter on his consideration of his fellow-man and his integrity of purpose. There seems to be no inconsistancy in the gen eral's basic character. The former relates what the gen eral said, the latter what he did. "Consistancy thou art a jewel." There are very few men like Smedley D. Butler. Walter Reece 77 Manzanita st. Ashland, Ore. In Reply To the Editor: In reply to Dr. Blair J. Henningsgaard 1515-62). You state that President Kennedy will speak to "20,- uuu P " senior t-n- ; H-".: cn. ttOW . may 1 aK OO VOU 'Ret 'r advance information i 8 whole week ahead of the! ' r,t ' "'e nation? l slate that doctors have always given the best medical care to the people. With all respect to the thousands of noble doctors, please let me qualify that statement by say ing that I have personally known several cases where pa- tients were refused tre'ment because they did not have the ready money. These cases were w idely separated both in time and localit.. also where cases were turned away from hospitals for the same reason. I am sure that most hcv- pitals and doctors would , somehow find a way, bi.Ore-; from the shadows of thatch- roof shops or tall coconut palms. This is a leisurely land, yet even in the blazing sun few are idle. It is also rich land where almost any crop pushed into the ground grows, and it is easy to see why it is coveted by Red China where millions are hungry. The American - built Free dom Road lies between the sharp ridges of the Done Phva Yen mountains, whose name translated 'means "cool for est. The mountains are cool in the Day's News By FRANK Hats off today to the little city of Damascus, Oregon. Its population is about 200. It is located about two whoops and a holler from downtown Port land. ATTRACTIONS? To compete with Seat tle's Space Needle,, it will have a horse-drawn merry-go-round restaurant-guaranteed to make nobody dizzy. There will be Can-Can girls on a boardwalk.The highlight will be the lighting of a tall Peace Candle. And so on. Damascus, holding its ton gue in its cheek and keeping a weather eye open for the headlines, pledges that when Century 19 World's Fair closes its gates there will have been nothing quite like it in history. npHE Exposition business is A old. One of the first is supposed to have ben held some 2,000 years ago when European merchants landed on the coast of West Africa, unpacked their wares, spread them out on the shore and went back to their sailing vessels. Natives crept out from the forests, Oh'd and Ah d about the new products. took what they wanted and left their own goods on the ground in payment. BACK in 1851, London held its Crystal Palace Exposi tion. It was planned and pro moted by Prince Albert, Vic toria's consort. Parliament ob jected to it, fearing that Brii ish trade might suffer if Brit ish inventions and scientific secrets were unveiled to pos sible competitors. Its big at traction was a fabulous green house of glass and iron that still stands and is still quite a tourist attraction. The Eiffel Tower was the big showpiece of the Paris Exposition of 1889. It was the Space Needle of its day. It still does a good business. TN OUR own U.S.A. the World's Columbian Exposi tion, held in Chicago in 1893 on the shores of Lake Michi- fan, was one of the BIGS Electricity was its Big Theme and the Ferris Wheel was its member you said all and al ways. You asked if the American people want the expense of medical care to fall most heav ily on the low income group, those with $5,000 or less in come. Dear doctor, who picks up the tab for most public expense? This King-Anderson bill, which you speak strong ly against, is GROUP INSUR ANCE. Surely you have no objection to that. As president of the Oregon State Medical Society, you did not advance any thing better in your letter. Do you refer to the Kerr-Mills bill? I have an article published under the name of Robert W. Straub, Oregon State Senator, stating that under the Kerr Mills plan it took $121,000 to administer $113,000 in benefits. Is that what you want? If this statement is not true something is surely wrong. Under the Kerr-Mills plan the required coverage is not met, the plan unwieldy to ap ply and unsatisfactory, for some states are reported to be too poor to properly match the Government funds, there by making little or no bene fits available. While the King-Anderson is not all that is desired, it is a step In the right direction, it avoids duplication in ad ministration, operates for I about one fourth the cost of the matching fund plans, and can be expanded to include all wage earners under Social Se- curity, which has proven itself j to be reliable in its capacity by 25 years of succeseful man-1 agement. It seems to me, doctor, that . ii ;ou auu uuitM. iw" this move would revise your thinking and exert as much time and effort to a realistic, Christian-like program, you could easily prove that in this, the richest country in the world, we arc not lagging be-! hind the rest of the civili.-fj worm in mis respect. C. R Burnll i 119 Crater Lake ave. Medford, only in name. Their jungle cover is ideal training ground for this generation of Wolf hounds who are tired of lis tening to tales of the 27th's heroism in Korea and who are confident they are capable of an equal showing now should k. tjj r-ui n r the Red Chinese or Pathet Lao make a move against Thai land across the Mekong River border. Chaplain Robert J. Wood of Bridgeport, Conn., a bluff, hearty man who served in many divisions, says none was better trained than these young men from many states. They have been in field ex ercises for four months of the JENKINS Big Sight. New Inventions shown included the linotype and the Pullman sleeping car. Its Big Success was its gay- way where people went from all over our nation to be shocked, and went home to tell about the shocking things that went on there-thus lead ing thousands of others to go to Chicago to be shocked, so that they too could come home and tell about it. The song "Ta-ra-ra-Boom- de-Ay" was big stuff at the World's Columbian Exposi tion. People came home hum ming it-a little shame-facedly, for it was then regarded as QUITE WICKED. AND so on down through the long years in which World Fairs have been held. Why have they been so suc cessful? Why do they go on and on and on? ' Here's one reason: They provide people with an excuse to PICK AND GO SOMEWHERE. ANYWAY Here's hoping the people of Damascus much luck with their Century 19. And many tourists. Humble To Drill Near Silverlon Portland -IUPH- Humble Oil and Refining Co. Tuesday an nounced plans to drill an oil and gas test well near Silver ton as soon as a permit is received from the State De partment of Geology and Min eral Industries. The 7,500-foot test well will be Humble's third test in the state. The other two were near Lakeview in south cen tral Oregon. Humble holds oil exploration leases on more than 100,000 acres in the Wil lamette Valley. Humble officials said they would file for a permit soon. They have no drilling contrac tor yet, but drilling could start as soon as two weeks after the permit is issued. The well will be the second sunk in the Willamette Val ley this spring. Drilling is now underway east of Leba non on land leased by Reserve Oil and Gas Co. of San Fran cisco. Market Exchanges Closed for Holiday New York uVPU Major se curities and commodity ex changes in the United States were closed today in observ ance of Memorial Day. For eign exchanges operated as usual. No business will be trans acted Thursday in Paris Frankfurt, Brussels, The Hague, and Zurich because of the Ascension holiday. In France, banks will close at noon today and will not re-open until Friday in ob servance of Ascension Day. London markets do not ob serve the holiday and will operate as usual. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF 4 "TRY-AND-STOP-ME" undercover man reports that a f- door in a government building in Washington is labeled "General Services Administration, National Buildings Man agement Division, Utility Room, Strictly Private." Ignoring the sign, our man opened the door, and peered within. It was a broom closet! The author of one of Broadway's reigning hits ta investing his royalties In Wyoming cattle Asked why. he explained, "There are two reasons: one, it's a favorable tax aet-up, and - - i two, cows don't ask forfree tickets." Mrs. Goldsmith was re minded for the ninth time that It was time to have her teeth checked by dentist PullmaTi. Finally ahe phoned, but was told that the dentis was out learning how to dance the Twist. wonderful,' she exclaimed out again?" ; A complete biography in CRASH, NURSE, HKARSrJ.j O 1X1. by Bennett Cerf. DiiiMbuft by King Futures IraaUate last six and now are thinned down and expert jungle fight ers. They won't take any jazz from the Chinese," says Fa ther Wood. Despite the rigors of Jungle ,,, ,.. f ," 1 training, only nine men were ,; j j , , , tha 11. V ailUCU WUb I, A IDS, in month, which is less than under normal conditions. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field Enterprises Inc. DIFFERENT KIND OF WAR Mankind has known all kinds of wars in the past -land wars, sea wars, air wars, wars of ag gression, of independence, of defense, of retaliation, of attrition. Now j we are taced 1 with the pos i s sibility of an ArtJ utterly new kind - the Harm anonym'o n war. It will soon be no longer possible to know who is at- lacKing us. How are we going to cope with THAT kind ot warfare? This is no soft-hearipH fan tasy of my own. The conceot was expressed not long ago by luugn-mmaed defense analyst Hermin Kahn, in his keynote address at the annual honors dinner of the Institute of Aerospace Sripneoc (r, New York. Kahn told tin- technically sophisticated group: "Anonymous w a r f a r would certainly complicate the problem of deference. For example, with different nations deploying subma rines with. Polaris-type missiles, it might be impos sible . to., determine . who fired any particular missile. The same uncertainty can exist even for missiles fired from land or outer space." With three, four, of a half-dozen nations owning atomic submarines, capable of firing at either Coast from the ocean, how would we retaliate? Who would we hit back? Where would our bombers fly to? What war would we declare? These are real and im minent questions, not hazy peculations. And this is why, in past columns, t have stressed the import ance of our realising that the next . war., will . be qualitativey different than all others-and not just big ger and louder. The possibility of anony mous attack is another reason that war is no longer feasible as an instrument of national policy. There are no longer two enemies drawn up on either side of a clearly mark ed line. It is no longer a chess game, but more like a bomb tossed into a crowded theater. Such old fashioned concepts as "tactics" and "strategy" mean little when we do not know who hit us, and where to hit back. Today we are worried about the Russians. Tomorrow it may be the Chinese or three other countries that have mastered atomic fission and built the fatal weapons. In the light of such developments, all our traditional notions ot defense and counter-attack and security have suddenly become obsolescent. What we desperately need, as I have said before, is a re volution in our thinking to match the revolution in our scientific and technical lives. Future wars are unfeasible because they cannot be won, only lost. If we can persuade ourselves of that truth, per haps we can begin to persuada the rest of the world of it, too. gratefully. "When will he be six words: GIN, SPIN, DASH, 6'"' ;",v
