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4 A KEDFORIVWrRIBUKt "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by vrnFfiRn PRINTING CO. 83 North Fir St.. PvJ772-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL,. Editor KERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN, JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor harrv THIPMAN. Teles. Editor RiPHARn .tf.WKTT. Soorti Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An IndeDendent Newspaper Entered ai second claw matter at Medtord, Oregon, unaer aci oi March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moi, 800 Daily and Sunday 3 moi. 4 25 Sunday Only One year 14 20 flv Carrier In Advance Mediord, Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold nm. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor rotitei. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 .00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carriei and Denlen Copy 10c All Terma Caah in Advance Official Paper of City of Medfnrd Official aper of Jackson County United-Press In9rnational Full Leased Wire U P.lTelephoto Ntwsplcttirei "MEMBER OK AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES, Office In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland, Denver. iWSPAPiR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 5551 hs?c8T'gN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 31, 19S2 (Saturday) The Medford city council and the citizens' budget com mittee have completed work on the 1952-53 fiscal budget and have given it tentative approval. An extensive survey of the damage done by Douglas fir beetles In national forests in Jackson county is slated to get under way next week. 20 YEARS AGO May 31, 1942 (Sunday) Medford High school gradu ating class of 104 seniors in cludes six boys in the armed forces. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Citi zens are again soyii .: 'What is so rare as a day In June?' af ter first sizing up the cloud situation in the south and west." .' 30 YEARS AGO ' . May 31, 1932 (Tuesday) Members of Fruit Growers league make first official visit to new Jackson county exper iment farm near Talent. All local records broken when 3.05 inches of- precipi tation fell here during month of May. 40 YEARS AGO May 31, 1922 (Wednesday) Medford baseball team re ports playing "ankle-deep in dust in 60-mile-an-hour gale" while losing to Weed, 11 to 9. Film star Rudolph Valen 1 1 n o released on bigamy charge when complaint is dis missed. 50 YEARS AGO May 31, 1912 (Thursday) A. M. Woodford retires as Medford postmaster; is suc ceeded by his son, Ralph Woodford, assistant postmast er for past B'i years. Medford residents petition city council against changing name of Peach st. to Ireland nve. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Is the chimpanzee a monkey? 2. In aeronautics, what does the symbol CO. indicate 3. What Is the name of the Communist Party's world leader? 4. What two bodies of wat er are connected by the Erie Canal? 5. How many wives did Henry VIII of England have? 6. What was the name of the colony before It was named New York? 7. What is the "Father of Waters"? 8. Is pure tin subject to rusting? 9. What is another name for the flower called Bache lor's Button? 10. Hew do pythons kill their prey? Answers: 1. (anthropoid ape). 2. Center of gravity. 3. Nikita S. Khrushchev. 4. Lake Erie and Hudson River. 5. Six. 6. New Netherlands. 7. Mississippi River. 8. No. 9. Cornflower. 10. By constric tion or quoesing. NICE WEATHER Hamilton, Bermuda - H'ri -The average nual tem perature of Bermuda is 70.7 degrees. The spring runs from 64 to 71 degrees; sum r.Otofrom 74 to 80; autumn from 70 to 75 from 66 to 68. and winter THURSDAY, NY 31, 1962 Wartime Recollections Onhe nictt of Sept. 9. 1942. Wan-ant Offi cer Nobuo Fujita of the tooK oil rrom beside a submarine in a little iloat equipped seaplane. He flew fnland over southern Oregon and dropped a bomb in forested country east of Brookings and south of Mt. Emily. The objective was to start a forest fire. This the bomb did, but it was a small one and was quickly extinguished by forest service crews. Where else did Warrant Officer Fujita fly that night? Only he knows, and perhaps even he doesn't know for sure. A LMOST 20 years after that event the only aerial bombing of continental American soil during World War II Fujita, now a Tsuchiura businessman, returned to southern Oregon, this time as a guest. He was invited by the Brookings Junior Chamber of Commerce, and attended the Azalea festival last week end. The visit was a success, and contributed its bit to international understanding and good will. It also stirred some memories in Jackson county, memories which lead to speculation as to whether the little enemy plane flew further in land than reported before. MR. C. E. Stevenson of Central Point recalls, AVA during those war years, that forest lookouts were also plane-spotters for our defense networks. He also recalls a considerable amount of talk among forest agencies, on that September night 20 years ago, about an unidentified small plane that flew in from the west, and was heard and reported by a number of lookout stations before it turned and flew westward again. Ine night was cloudy son recalls, so the plane recalls that it was said to Other memories, perhaps dimmed by 20 years, are not so certain ot the circumstances. Some of those involved recall that there were many unidentified planes reported from lookouts. Others have vague recollections of the night, but are not willing to state unequivocally that such an event did take place on that specific night, or even that it could have been Fujita's little float plane. CO the incident, if it did happen, must remain in the realm of speculation, and in the memo ries of those, including Fujita, who recall the in cident if such it was 20 long years ago. Such speculation also recalls one of the better-kept secrets of the war in Oregon the Japa nese fire bombs which were sent aloft attached to paper balloons, and allowed to drift with the prevailing winds across the Pacific Many of them arrived, but they did not ac complish their objective of setting the forest afire, and voluntary secrecy on the part of the press (which knew about the balloon-bombs) prevented Japan from knowing whether the bal loons ever reached these coasts. "NE of the bombs did cause casualties, how ever, perhaps the only deaths attributable to enemy action in the continental United States during the war. A church group on found one of the bombs, and, innocently curious, moved it. It exploded, killing several in the party. At the time the press from an unexplained explosion, and it was years later before the true story was printed. A memo rial plaque was erected Jacksonville Museum Month Nearly a half-million Jacksonville Museum since it was opened some years ago. I he number is increasing, year by year, as word gets around about the excellent displays and fine records of by-gone clays of the Rogue valley. In an attempt to further acquaint others with the museum and its contents, the Southern Ore gon Historical Society has named June as "Jack sonville Museum Month," and is encouraging both local residents and tourists to visit the Mu seum during that period. THE building itself, which was the Jackson county courthouse from 18S4 until 192S, is of major historical interest, evoking, as it does, memories of long-past trials and political crises. The displays cover a wide range, from some of the native rocks and minerals which glow in a rainbow variety under fluorescent lights, to old vehicles, guns, furniture, clothing, pictures and many other memorabilia of days gone by. The museum belongs to Jackson county, and is operated for the county by the Historical So ciety. It is financed by a continuing small tax levy, voted by the people. Admission is free. CHOULD you take advantage of the invitation to visit the museum, you would also be doing yourself a favor to inspect many of the other his toric sites in the pioneer community of Jackson ville. The Beekman house, which opened to the public yesterday, is a fine example of a house and furnishings common early in the century. The U. S. hotel, now undergoing rennovation. 'is well worth a look, as arc many of the other old build ings in the community. And for history buffs, a stroll around the Jacksonville Pioneer Cemetery, dating from the lSliOs, is a must. A visit to Jacksonville t'ea-ing the coming month will be a rewarding one to anyone inter ested i this area's colorful past. E. A. Imperial Japanese Navy and foggy, Mr. Steven was never seen, but he sound "like a model T." a picnic near Lakeview reported only the deaths near the spot. b. A. people have visited the "Now, You Were Saying That Hey! Where Are You?" f7Y'1' .Wtf5"?!!'.-' 1 1 r JvH" A Wl if ! I Matter of Fact (e) New York Herald COMMON HORSE SENSE Washington - Before very long, with a minimum of fan fare, the House Ways and Means Com mitee will ap prove the P r e s i d ent's massive, bold ly innovating trade bill. A favorable committee ma jority of no less than 20 AUnp votes to 5 is now predicted. The House should then pass the bill by about the middle of June. In the Senate, where the Finance Committee is a major, distinctly obstinate bottleneck, action may be long delayed. There is also a slight risk that the troubles in the Western Alliance may feed back into the trade bill debate before the Senate acts. But as of now, the bill is known to command a substantial Senate majority. Such, in brief, is the present status of the biggest, most con troversial item of the Ken nedy legislative program, whose primary importance the President has taken much care to underline. UNFORTUNATELY, the ab sence of trouble is seldom treated as noteworthy. Hence less and less attention has been paid to the progress of the trade bill, as its passage through the Congressional reefs and shallows has come to look more and more tran quil and secure. For any ser ious student of politics, how ever, tile hopeful present stat us of the Kennedy trade bill is not merely noteworthy. At first glance, it is downright bewildering. After all, this new bill, aimed to allow the President to bargain out a fruitful trad ing relationship with the European Common Market, is a measure that goes vastly further than the old Recipro cal Trade Law ever went. Yet each successive Congressional renewal of the President's au thority under the Reciprocal Trade Law was a bitter, cliff hanging fight, in which the outcome usually seemed to be in doubt until the very last vote was cast. Remembering all this, one of the trade bill's chief pro ponents In the Executive branch, Under Secretary of Slate George Ball, actually op posed presentation of the bill at this session. Ball argued that there was no hope of vic tory, and that a defeat would do much harm abroad. riMIE President overrode Ball, A mainly on the contrary advice of the astute Chairman of the Ways and Means Com mittee, Wilbur Mills. Even so, a major factor in the Presi dent's decision was the argu ment that even if the bill did not pass this year, it was need ful to open the national de bate in order to secure a ma jority next year. What then has happened to produce the present result, which was foreseen by almost no one but Hop. Mills? Among the keys to the mys tery, first place must certain ly lie accorded the President's I exceptional success in giving I the country the sense of hav- j ing reached a moment of ma-1 Jor national choice. In his mes sages to Congress, In his speeches to business organua- j tions. and on every other oc-1 casion, he lias hammered homo this "trade or fade" j choice. Somehow, the electorate in t general and the business com munity in particular have l-een persuaded that the choice w as serious and mi- j avoidable. This is, in truth, tin- President's major success in the a: of political persua- sinn since he 'ook office. If it had not been for this success, the petty protectionist Inter-1 irt-Ain. wow- mt -rt wM..nw ir By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate ests with strong local leverage would have been the people who got the friendliest hear ing on Capitol Hill. Then, too, both Rep. Mills and the President have made special efforts to calm and soothe the opposition. The President has spent much time conciliating the leaders of big industries, such as oil and tex tiles, who might have thrown a heavy weight against the bill. The Textile Manufactur ers Association actually ended by endorsing the measure-a remarkable step. TN THIS respect the progress 1 of the trade bill has been like the Sherlock Holmes story. In which the dog's fail ure to bark was a major clue. Add to this that Rep. Mills's committee management o f this extremely complex and difficult piece of legislation, has been a model for all com mittee chairmen with big jobs on their hands. Add further that the trade bill is just about the only item on the Kennedy program which House Repub lican Leader Charles Halleck has not made a partisan issue. These are the chief tangible reasons why the bill is in good shape. There are also two intangibles. One is de pressing. The country and the Congress alike are over-optimistic, in the sense that they are obviously unprepared for the skinflint bargaining ap proach which the Europeans will surely adopt when the trade bill passes. But the other intangible is cheering. It was well summed up by Wilbur Mills, who had Uiis apophthegm: "Remember to credit the American people with a lot of good, common horse sense." Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although undei cer tain circumstances the use ot a Sen nutiiu ot initial (or publica on is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letten with an eye to clarlltcation and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Today To the Editor: Have you ever stopped to think just how short a day in your life can be? Sometime, just take a mo ment to meditate about the past and see. Time passes so fast in those years between. Where did all the time go that we had? Yesterday you were a child, today a parent, tomorrow ei ther a grandmother or a granddad. Did you take time today to tell a loved one the nice things you had to say? Or did you go about your work and say I'll do it some other day? Did you hurt someone's feelings today, but you just said, "It doesn't matter, as long as they weren't mine?'' And go along life's path with the thought. "I'll straighten it out some other time." Did you have a sick friend today who would have enjoy ed a visit and a cheerj word from you? Or did you put it off till a more convenient time when you weren't so busy with so much to do? Dirt you take the time to day to write to your relative or friend, and say we think o( you and iss you so? Or are we just too busy to do the important things in life that mean so much to the ones we know? Did you thank God today tor the wonderful parents and loved ones lie gave us, for they're more precious than gold' So take time each dae to thank Him for oQ many MEDDRD MAIL THjBUfe, MEDFORD, OREGON Stability in HasStorra By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Bangkok, Thailand - In his Office across from the temple of the emerald Buddha, Thai- lanri'a Fnrpiffn Pam T" Mini, t i Thanat K h o- , man shook his head. "There is no satisfac- I tory solution I for Laos," he said. "There is only a less er of evils." It was a situa tion which Thailand had come reluctantly to accept in the last week of drastic shift in the military position in Laos and the new danger to Thai land's own border. LA5U Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (o New York Herald Tribune Syndicate STAGNATION AND THE STOCK MARKET Prices on the stock market have been falling sharply since the middle of March, and it is dif ficult to be lieve that the heavy selling is merely a technical "correct ion1 which will soon end. It is said in offici- a 1 circles l n Lippmann Was hington. and indeed it has been said by the President himself, that the outlook for business is good and does not justify the pessimism of the stock mar ket. But there are reasons for thinking that this is too rosy a view. Others are saying, particu larly in Republican partisan circles, that the slump is due to a loss of confidence by businessmen ever since the President cracked down on Mr. Blough and the increase in the price of steel. The trou ble with this piece of partisan mythology is that the bear market began on March 16 and it was only on April 11 -some 26 days later - that the President had his collision with Mr. Blough. rPHERE can be no doubt, of -- course, that such massive selling as we witnessed Mon day is due to a loss of confi dence by the owners in the future prospects of their se curities. The question is what is causing this loss of confi dence. The most probable answer, it seems to me, is that there is a loss of confidence that the Administration is fulfill ing the promise to bring about something near to the full em ployment of capital and labor and a rising rate of economic growth. What the stock market is saying, I submit, is that while there is a considerable recov ery from the depths of the recession in 1961, the recov ery is already being arrested, although it is a long way from being completed. With unem ployment at 5V4 per cent and with the utilization of steel plants at only 60 per cent, the American economy, although prosperous, is in fact stag nant. It is beginning to look as if the Kennedy administration were repeating the pattern of the Eisenhower administra tion, with its three recessions brought on by the fact that each recovery was throttled down, as the only way to pre vent inflation of prices, be fore the recovery was com pleted. fPHERE is mounting evidence -- that those economists were right who told the Adminis tration last winter that it was making the mistake of trying to balance the budget too soon. It will be said that the budget is not balanced: it shows a deficit in fiscal 1962 of $7 billion. And so indeed docs THAT budget show such a deficit. But the fact of the matter is that what is known as "the budget," namely the Administrative budget, falsi fies the relationship between the Federal government and the American economy. The Administrative budget which shows a S7 billion defi cit deals only with the money appropriated by Congress and spent by the government de partments. It leaves out the trust funds, such as Social Se curity and the highway funds. which run to $25 billion an- j nually. It counts revenues j when taxes are collected, not j while they are accruing and : i blessings, fir He likes to be : told. . Who knows that before ' these nice tliincs could be) done tomorrow, God has call-' cd our loved one home. i So always take the time to day to pass en the nice thoughts and deeds that car, be done by you alone. Clare Faye Purscl l:i94 Beekman Medtord. Laos Now Passed, Or Now the word was "sta bility." Stability in Laos, stability along Thailand's border and stability for all of Southeast Asia. Across the city in the spa cious United States Embassy, Ambassador Kenneth Young speaks of it as a possibility in five years. "I do not expect real sta bility In that time," he said, "but If a major outbreak can be prevepted for that long we can have hope." Bangkok,- a city of calm after the storm, is waiting to see if the storm has really passed or whether this is the storm's eye, with more to come. The urgency is reflected in being withtheld for the pay ment of taxes. FOR the impact of the Fed eral government on the economy, on inflation, and de flation, recession and reepv ery, stagnation and growth, the budget that matters is the Department of Commerce statement of Federal receipts and expenditures as part of the national income accounts - that is to say, what is often called the income and prod ucts accounts budget. Nobody looks at it except the econo mists and one of the greatest services that a public man could perform today would be to make the people under stand the difference between the two budgets. For while the Administrative budget is necessary for administration and is like a man's check book, the income budget tells the real story of the financial condition. The income and product shows that at the end of 1962 the outgo and ingo accounts will be virtually in balance, with a deficit of only about half a billion dollars. Thus, in reality, the Kennedy ad ministration is no longer stimulating the economy, and the economy is stagnating for lack of stimulation. We have one of the lowest rates of growth among the advanced industrial nations of the world. INHERE is as yet no simple remedy open to the Admin istration. It is, so to speak, between Scylla and Charybdis - between the threat of gold withdrawals by our foreign creditors on the one hand and, on the other hand, a fierce popular dogmatism which treats the Administra tive budget as the absolute measure of responsibility, re spectability, and financial de cency. Converging on Mr. Kennedy, the combined influ ence of the two has forced him into a fiscal policy which, as the stock market is saying, does not work. As things are going the stagnation which is overtaking the recovery will be followed by another reces sion. It is safe to predict that if present trends continue, the Administration will have to go into action. It will have to take some of the strong measures which it was advised to take but did not dare to take some seven months or so ago. Among them, I should guess, will be a call for a sharp cut in the direct taxes paid by individuals and cor porations. If this shows up as a considerable deficit in vari ous budgets, but particularly in the income budget, that may be just the strong medi cine that we need. Youngster's Body Found in Old Shaft Ghost Pine Creek, Alta.-d'PD -The body of Kenney Kowola chuk, 4, was found Wednes day night at the 54-foot level of an abandoned coal mine into which he fell near here 36 hours earlier. Rescue workers who discov ered the body said the boy's head was covered with dirt and that he had apparently suffocated. Ills body was brought to the surface in the bucket of a crane, thus ending a tense dramatic tragedy which began at noon Tuesday. The rescue team of 20 men worked feverishlv all day to hoist dirt fill from the nar row shaft, which was aban doned in 1932. Kenny, the second young est of 56-year-old peter Ko walachuk's 12 children, had been playing on a hillside jus: 100 yards from his farm homeV-ith a younger brother when he fell into the abandon ed coal mine. The pit opening had been covered witli grass and dirt through the years so a thin crust camouflaged the trap. Thailand's Is Worse Coming? the daily seaborne arrival of additional suDDlies for the American 27th Regiment (Wolfhounds) at Korat and the Marines at Udorn, near the Laotian border below Vienti ane. It is also reflected in the almost dally conferences among Gen. Paul Harkins and his military advisors as new units arrive from Thailand's SEATO allies. None of this is visible in the quiet pastel and bright red and green elegance of Thanat's office, nor in the at titude of the foreign minister himself when he received this correspondent and UPI's Southeast Asia manager Rob ert Udick. Until the Pathet Lao upset the military balance at Nam Tha and pushed almost to Thailand's border, the Thai government was quietly op posed to Lao neutrality and in favor of the rightwing gov ernment under Prince Boun Oum and Gen. Phoumi Noso- van, who is a close relative to Thailand's Prime Minister Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat. The expensive failure at Nam Tha convinced Thailand that it must accept neutrality, but with no great confidence that it would work. Thanat ticked off other pos sibilities: Communist take over, which would be unac ceptable, or status quo, which was impossible. Thailand is placing what In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What happened to the stock market Monday? In the first two hours, sales volume amounted to 1,890, 000 shares. In the first two hours Tuesday the volume of sales rose to a tremendous 3, 750,000 shares. w HAT started it all? This is a widely held the- ory: The long bull market, one of the longest in history, rest ed on the assumption of con tinued wage and price in creases. In other words, it was widely believed that inflation would keep stock prices going up and up automatically. If that was true, stock spec ulation was a sure road to riches. THERE were danger signs in the wind. The relation of stock prices to annual cor porate earnings for example was getting badly out of bal ance. Back in 1948, slocks were selling at about 7.2 times their annual earnings. Just before the big break Monday, they were selling at nearly 20 TIMES their annual earnings. But They were still going up. ' Good old inflation was still at work. rpHEN There came the steel inci dent. The lesson of the steel in cident seemed to be that prices might not be PERMIT TED to keep on going up and up. There was a hint in the steel incident that wages might be permitted to go on rising. In that event profits would vanish. If profits vanished, the house of cards would fall. CO- It seems to have occurred to a lot of people at the same time that it might be a good idea to SELL before all that came to pass. That seems to be about the long and the short of what be gan to happen. Try and By BENNETT CERF- JULIUS PRETZFELD, inveterate newspaper reader, usual ly perused two of them, from front page to last, at the breakfast table, thereby '.horoughly annoying Mrs. Pretz feld. One evening she asked him casually, "Ju lius, did you notice any thing unusual about me at the breakfast table this morning?" "Why, no, my dear," replied Mr. Pretzfeld. "Ah ha." cackled Mrs. Pretzfeld, "I wasn't there'" Rudolph Valentino has been dead and gone for 3(5 years, but there is one deep secret that his closest friend, one time screen vampire Pola NpetI. never, never will disclose. "Till the day I die." Miss Negri solemnly vows, "I will never share with anyone the secret of Rudolph's meat sauce." "My Fair Ls.,ly." that incomparable musical, has no- been played In over 30 different translations in as many different countries. Or.e of the most intriguing is its tmnslation Into Papiamento. the polyglot language of the Aruba. In those parts It gix-s by the name of ' Lano Porko Sushi." a literal translation of which, any hep Aniban will te'.l jxu, is "Liza Dirty Pig." G ISO, by Btnnett Crf. Distributed br Hint returns Syndic! Aim; little hope it has in a neutral Ls in guarantees worked out by Moscow and Washing ton. "First we must be sure." said Thanat, "that not only do the foreign and defense ministries not fall into Com munist hands, but also -that there will not be a Commu nist prime minister. "Russia should guarantee the withdrawal of North Viet namese forces from Laos." Meanwhile, Communist in filtration across the Thai border was on the increase and the government was an nouncing new arrests daily. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Children should not ba urged, or pressured, to "love" their parents; for if the love doesn't grow naturally, no prodding will stir it and it is worth remembering that even the Ten Commandments order us simly to "honor" our par ents, for love cannot ba ordered. The literary bore is the worst of bores, for it is only he who insists on boring future generations with his worlr. . It is one of Nature's In. evitable laws of compensation that when she withheld wis dom from fools, she gave them good luck instead. There comes a time in life when we have to retreat in order to advance; when wa have to retract part of our path in order io find the right turning we missed and those who cannot go back are doomed to travel in circles. Most of the so-called "in compatability" in marriage springs from the fact that to most men, sex is an act; while to all women, it is an emotion. And this difference in atti tude can be bridged only by love. If we look all the hum bug out of the world, as we wring all tha water out of a sponge, our daily activities could be conclud ed in an hour. To young people who write for "professional" advice, I can only recommend the re ply given by Mozart to a young man wno once asKea him how to write a symphony. "You're still young," Mozart said, "why not begin with bal lads?" "But you composed symphonies when you were 10 years old," the lad insisted. "True," admitted Mozart, "but I didn't ask how." Nobody is harder to pity than the self-pitier which is something he never learns his whole life long. When a man needs to re capitulate his ideas by saying, "In other words . . ." we gen erally find that his explana tion requires an explanation. The road to Hell is paved with inattentions; surely more sins are committed through neglect than through calculated purpose. The first rule for writing a truly effective letter of recom mendation is not to know the person very well, so that one's imagination is uncon fined by harsh reality. What the paransid calls a "lie" is any painful truth and who is to say we are not all a little paranoid in that direction? We make positive judge ments about men, and nega tive judgements about wom en, in the sense that a good man is known by what he does, but a good woman is known by what she doesn't do. Stop Me - O o
