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Newspaper Page Text4 A "Everyone In Southern Oregon Beads TheMail Tribune' published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Xir?'- PhJTa-aUl ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB cnEY Adverti&inB Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CH1PMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporti Editor nt.TVF. RTARCHER Women'l Editor DALE ERICKSONlrculatlon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medlord, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy ine Daily and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year $1B.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.30 Cnrrlei and Dealers Copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Olflrlal Paper of City ot Medfora Official Paper of Jackson County ' United" Press'lnternatlonal Full Leased Wire U P 1 Tejephoto Newsplcturel MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Offices In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland. Denver. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL A WMHHi,HtHBI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 5, 1952 (Thursday) Clyde Bcatty's wild animal circus opened its two -show, one day stand here today. County Engineer Paul Ryn ning has forwarded a piece of the defective concrete from the bridge at Rogue River to the State Highway commis sion laboratories in Salem for complete analysis. 20 YEARS AGO Juno 5, 1942 (Friday) Jackson county budget al lows for salary of $2,000 a year for county commissioners with no mileage fees. tvnm Arthur Perry's Ye Smude Pot" column: It be gins to look like June will irn nut a June day by the middle of June - if June lasts long enough." 30 YEARS AGO t,, s. 1932 (Sunday) First graduation ceremonies held in new Medloro. nigu school; graduates include Jeanne G ranees Fabrlck, Carol Dodge, Rosa Gore, Al bert Gaddis, Bob Colvig and George Harrington. Frank DeSouza, Medford attorney, reelected chairman of Jackson county Demo cratic central committee. 40 YEARS AGO June 5, 1922 (Monday) Local Circuit Judge F. M. Calkins receives threat from Ku Klux Klan; warns against giving new trial to convicted hnnllneeer. Medford High school gradu- nilnn class included Rlnrioric Skeetcrs, Richard Payne, Jack Crump and Alta Knips; 52 re ceive diplomas. 50 YEARS AGO June 5, 1912 (Tuesday) Between 50 and 100 mem. bers of Seattle auto club ex pect to visit Medlord during tour of Pacitic. Medford man narrowly escapes death when his motur cycle collides with a train at Jackson street crossing and he is carried into the depot on the locomotive cowcatcher. TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1962 Handwriting on The Wall One of this year's biggest domestic issues THE biggest issue in the minds of many is that of medical care for the elderly. Everyone including the American Medical Association agrees that it must be provided, in one form or another. The fight is over the means. And quite a fight it is, too. The administration proposal is the King-An derson bill, which would provide a certain mini mum of hospitalization and nursing home care for those over 65, to be financed through the so cial security program. Th s rhe A.M. A. is licrntinp; tootn and toe-nan. It favors instead the Kerr-Mills Act (now in ef fect, in some states) which provides care tor the "medically indigent," plus extension of voluntary pre-paid medical insurance plans. IN ITS FIGHT against the King-Anderson ap proach, the AMA has been guilty of some pret tv wild-eved nronacranda. One of the most con cise and coirent analyses of this we have come across recently was provided by J. Douglas Brown, now dean of the faculty of Princeton Uni versity. . A,, , . I 11-. Dean brown was a memoer or tne sian 01 me Committee on Economic Security which develop ed the Social Security Act back in the 1930s. In a recent letter to tne JNew xorx limes ne saiu: The kindest Judgment one can make of the analysts of the King-Anderson bill by the American Medical Associa tion spokesman on May 20 was that it was confused. Care ful study of the statement, however, shows how clearly it encouraged confusion on the part of the listener.. According to the A.M.A., the King-Anderson bill Is "a cruel hoax and a delusion," yet it will "create an enormous and unpredictable burden on every working taxpayer." This is a precious example of the propaganda technique. The bill is bad because it does too little, and bad because it does too much. According to the A.M.A., the bill "wastefully covers millions who do not need it" and yet "it is not true In surance." It is bad because it averages risks through the methods of insurance, and it is bad because It isn't insur ance. According to the A.M.A., the bill "heartlessly ignores millions who do need coverage." Has the A.M. A. forgotten for the moment the Kerr-Mills Act, which would continue to protect those not covered under the contributory -Social Insurance system? Who Is doing the Ignoring? The A.M. A. exhorts us not to be "blinded by the scare words of propagandists" and goes on to proclaim that the King-Anderson bill would "lower the quality and availabil ity of hospital services throughout our country," "stand be tween the patient and his doctor," and "serve as the fore runner of a different system of medicine for all Ameri cans." If such bald assertions are not intended to scare us, they at least don't "remove the din from our ears." The American Medical Association has every right to oppose the King-Anderson bill. The American people had every right to expect that an organization assuming to rep resent a great profession would not employ the technique of confusion to gain its ends. The American people have reason to be disappointed. SUPPLEMENTING this list of distortions and conflicts, a New York Times editorial adds: The one charge that emerges with clarity is the com mon belief of Its foes that the program Is Intended to open the. door to socialized medicine. If this is the real objection, It would apply with greater force if the plan covered physi cians' fees, Instead of being limited as it is to payments for hospitals and nursing homes. Fifteen million of the country's 17,000,000 aged would be eligible for benefits if the King-Anderson program be came operative at the start of 1064. Its payroll tax system of financing would not Interfere with continued care of the indigent under the present Kerr-Mills Law. The Inade quacy of that measure as a total answer is demonstrated by the fact that It provided benefits for only 86,000 per sons - three-quarters of them in four states - In March, a year and a half after It went Into effect. We see no more reason to believe that the application of Social Security principles to the health needs of the aged will prove a hoax than the same term was applied to it by the opposition in 1930. Here is one final quotation, by James O'Gara, writing in The Commonweal: From a tactical point of view, It seems to me, the A.M. A. has worked itself into an unenviable position. Medical lead ers have cast themselves In the role of being against for as long as anyone can remember, and there comes a time, I think, when people get tired of it. Many of us have the best of relationships with and considerable admiration for individual doctors; the fact remains that when the A.M. A. speaks its pronouncements always seem couched in terms of pious clap-trap or shrill self-interest. If the doctors I know are any fair sample, they deserve better representation than they are getting . ... As the public relations boys might say, the A.M. A. has image trouble, and I think it will get worse, not better. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON "It' A Dirty Capitalist Trick Td Make People So Well Off They Won't Know How Bad Utt They Are" COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name end address of the wrltor, .Ithnnnh under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or Initial for oublication 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 ofton the case. Hospital Needed To the Editor: I have writ ten the following letter to the Hon. Wayne Morse, U.S. Sen ate. Dear Senator: I was sent to Veterans hospital at Port land last October as an emer gency on Mercy flights. Upon arriving there I was turned away, no room. I had to seek aid of the veterans service office to get admitted. I was there near three months. The waiting list at both Portland and Vancouver is long. I saw many emergency cases He on stretchers In the halls until room could be found for them. We are desperately In need of a fully staffed hospital at Camp White. Please fight for It. Gratefully yours, Clarence W. Corey, P.O. Box 144, Phoenix, Ore. Buddy Poppies To the Editor: We of the Crater Lake Post 1833 and auxiliary wish to express our deepest appreciation to the people of Medford and vicin ity for their loyal support for our "Buddy Poppy" sales, May 25 and 28. The donations given are a medium whereby we help our local veterans and their fam ilies and children. A portion is sent to our Children's Homes at Eaton Rapids, Mich., where children of bereft parents are cared for and schooled. Each state supports and has these homes built for these children, with all facilities of city maintained. Each home is supervised by a foster moth er, who may be a veteran's widow. This is our way of letting you the public know just how and why the "Buddy Poppy" sales are held. Mrs. Fred (Frieda) Lawrence, Crater Lake Aux., Veterans of Foreign Wars, Medford Americans Like Matt Kerbac, Working At Grass Roots, Garner New Respect Abroad By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign New Analyst Bangkok, Thailand - Matt Kerbec Is a big, friendly man who has been sweating it out in Bangkok for the last three months. Kerbec, an electrical en gineer from Trenton, N.J., is representa tive of a new breed of American one Newsom meets all over the world these days. Ml As American aid dollars spread through under-developed countries, these tanned, muscular men are as at home at Rabat or Thailand as in New Jersey. They follow closely behind to help install new roads, build dams for electric power and irrigation and communi cation systems. Kerbec, 42, has been in this business since he graduated from Rutgers under the G.I. Bill in 1951. He has mounted unfamiliar skis to climb a mountain-top in Norway to inspect a microwave station, Washington Report By William S. White (cl United Feature Syndicate &'. Vaisp I IS 1 a I uui nfi ' Nine or ten correct l luporiori oven or eight It enccllent; five it Is good. 1. What are adult male seals called? 2. What Insect Is the par ticular enemy of cotton? 3. Which President of the United States was nicknamed "The Great Engineer"? 4. What was the name of the Scottish economist, author of "Wealth of Nations"? 5. What three little animals lo t their mittens? 8. Pelican State Is a nick name for which State of the Union? 7. Would you say that Co lumbus, Akron, or Youngs- town Is the Industrial center of the nation's rubber Indus try? 8. Give the proper name of the so-called Dies Committee started In 1938. 0. Which disciple baptised Jesus? 10. Is a mauscr a spotted dog, gun, or undertaker? Answers: 1. Built. 2. Boll weevil, 3. Herbert Hoover. 4. Adam Smith. 5. Kittens. 6. Louisiana. 7, Akron. 8. 9. House Committee to Investigate Un-American Ac tivities. 9. None. (John the Baptist was not a disciple.) 10. Gun. TO REPEAT: There is no outspoken opposition to a health care nlan (or nlans) for the elderly. It is a major issue this year; the question is not whether, but when, and in what form. On one side there is the clear-cut program of King-Anderson prepaid medical aid as a right, not a charity supplemented by the still-limited but potentially helpful benefits of the Kerr-Mills Law for the '"medically indigent", plus welfare assistance for those needing it. On the other side there is welfare, plus Kerr Mills, plus a wide and confusing variety of pri vate insurance plans, many of them too expen sive, or too limited in benefits, to solve the prob lem. The handwriting is on the wall. It would be to the A.M.A.'s own benefit to recognize it, and thus salvage what reputation for integrity and humanity it has left. E.A. Mining Claim Abuses Abuse of the mining claim law that is, us ing the excuse of a mining claim to establish a summer home, a private camp ground, or a timber show is an abuse to everyone. It puts the legitimate mining industry in bad odor; takes potential recreational land away from the public, and robs that much timber from the rest of the lumber industry. The forests belong to all Americans. Who steals them steals from us all. E.A. Think For Yourself To the Editor: My compli ments to John Casterline for his interesting letter of 526. Recent comments in this col umn seem to doubt that you were the author John, but don't be intimidated by those of your elders who think that the average citizen is too much a product of his up bringing to think for himself. My compliments to you John, for standing up to voice your opinion. I also compliment you on your interest in the future of your country, especially along the lines of government. The recent liberal trend is for big government to take care of everybody, but we both know that this was not the type of attitude which made our coun try free or the attitude that will keep it free. You're not alone in thinking for your self John, as the recent elec tion proves. There are plenty of citizens who still think for themselves, despite all the propaganda that one of the issues got. Keep thinking for yourself John, and remember there are still people who doubt the au thorship of the Bible-desplte all the evidence. Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the be lievers, in conversation. In charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity." 1 Tim. 4:12. James K. Shafer, 270 West Glcnwood rd., Medford. letter pertains to a petition that Is being circulated for a curb and gutter pavement for Newtown st. between Belmont and Catherine. This Is the third petition that the same person has started, the other two were in I960. I have been the monkey wrench in petitions for a curb and gutter paving for this street, my reason, there are elderly people on the street whose income is social secur ity and welfare (the council can check with the Social se curity and Welfare offices for verification) who cannot af ford a curb and gutter paving and who stand to lose their homes if one is forced upon them. Mr. Duff, city manager, and Mr. Hansen, councilman in this ward, know the condi tions on this street, for I told them. They told me the demo cratic way in which curb and gutter paving is being han dled, namely, by means of a petition with signatures of property owners whose front age adds up to 51 per cent of the frontage on the street in volved, the petition is then presented to the City Council and If they act favorably upon it, and they usually do, the street is paved, and (these are Mr. Hansen's words) "If there is someone on the street who cannot afford it, they can sell their home and buy another." I say, when old people can be forced to sell their modest homes to satisfy the selfish ness of a few, then this is not America. I tried to get a low cost paving for our street but I could not use the demo cratic rule that is used for curb and gutter paving so my efforts ended in failure. While canvassing my street for low cost paving, I learned that one resident did not like the trees in front of her house and was very anxious to have them removed. I also learned that a curb and gutter paving would remove the trees and the people on the street would pay for them. A low cost paving on New town would solve this street problem for the lifetime of those on the street who cannot afford a curb and gutter pav ing, no one would be put out of their homes and every one would be satisfied, I believe, except one resident, she would still have her trees. The City Council without delay should adopt a plan that would provide relief to those property owners who cannot pay for high cost paving. Mrs. Alice I. BiacK, 812 Newton St., Medford. MISCALCULATIONS Washington-The long-common assumption here that Bri tain's entry into the low- tariff Euro pean Common Market was practa c a 1 1 y f o reordained was always dangerou sly pre m at u r e. Now it looks not only that the B r i t i s h wmt. are a long way off in time from going in but actually may not oe able to go in at all without intolerable cost to their ancient ties with British Com monwealth nations like Aus tralia and Canada. There have been great and avoidable political miscalcu lations on both sides of the ocean. Six months ago the British tended-when in this country at least-to suggest, that the real question was not whether Britain could make a reasonable deal with the European Common Mar ket countries, headed by France and West Germany. ward, with a quiet mixture of power and persuasion, to the point where there is not much reason to fear that the House will reject any of its principal features. The Brit ish want the United States to have that legislation; and the United States wants Bri tain in the Common Market. British estimates of the al leged unreadiness of Congress to act were wrong because Britons asked the wrong peo ple. Representative Mills is outwardly, but only outward ly, a "country boy." The British got their information mostly from young city slick ers who made the fairly com mon mistake of Ivy League state department types of sup posing they knew more about Mills' committee than Mills did. seen a king's kitchen Installed in Morocco and is on nana here awaiting the start of a vital new communications system between Bangkok and Saigon. This piece is written in the belief that in a world of cross currents and astronomical budgets, too little credit is given these Americans who work with their hands at the grass roots level among peo ple who will form their own concept of the American image and whether the demo cratic way of life is worth while. They sell the United States to people where diplomats cannot reach. I asked Kerbec if he had any rule for getting along with people of strange lands. I thought the answer might give him some trouble, but it came quickly. The golden rule," he said, "is to treat them the way I like to be treated." The United States will have to spend more than $300 mil lion in Thailand at the end of this year and both Thai and American representatives be lieve the results will be good. This is partly the result of men like Kerbec. On the personal side was a new type of "American, go home" letter received by American advisers who asked not to be identified. The letter, from a Thai school teacher, paid tribute to American aid, "the love of freedom must be very strong in Americans to have you do this for us" and concluded: "Go back home to Amer ica with a good idea of our people. Tell them we like Americans, too. And it is true, sir, partly because of you." Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate 0 N THE American side, the THE real question, they in timated, was whether the American Congress would ever approve the broad tariff cutting authority required if the United States itself is to be able to bargain usefully with the Common Market. The history of this tariff bill in the House Ways and Means committee shows how very wrong was this idea. The committee's chairman, Representative Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, has done just about what those who knew him always thought he would He has brought the bill for- Paving Problem To the Editor: What is hap pening on my street can hap pen on someone else s street Copy of letter to the city council: To the City Council: This Writer Defended To the Editor: This is di rected to Mr. Arnold Eugene Jenny: In regard to your letter to the Editor of June 3, 1962 you indicate you have consider able faith in the Medford School system. However, you attack one of the finest stu dents in the Freshman class without checking his grades, his composition assignments, or asking any of his teachers about his abilities as a writer. Your letter was a direct re flection on John and the rest of the Casterline family. I wonder if mayhap you would still doubt his integrity if you were in favor of the King Anderson bill? I note that you make no criticism of Angus or Nancy Duncan's commentaries print ed at earlier dates which were equally well written. If you had bothered to check on John you would know that he Is capable of writing many such communciations with equal skill. I suggest that you write a full apology to John and his family as soon as possible. Not only did you offend alt of tne Casterlines but you have of fended every teacher in this school system by making your remarks about one of their most canable students! If snace permitted you would find the name of almost ev ery student in the Medford schools signed beneath this letter of protest to "your al most cruel words. David Smith Sophomore MHS 4 Glen Oak, Medford Eichmann To the Editor: I see from Friday's paper that Eichmann has been hanged and cremat ed, and that his ashes have been committed to the Medi terranean sea. (Also see that his soul has been "committed" to hell by preachers and others.) The nations of the world have allowed a dangerous precedent to be established. Eichmann was kidnapped by Jewish secret police in South America in violation of international law and spirited away to Palestine, a land hostile to him. He was "tried" by his enemies, without jury, for a crime which had never been committed. And when his friends wanted to testify in his favor they were not permitted to do so, but were warned that they would be arrested if they set foot on Israeli soil. All this establishes a most dangerous precedent. No one will be safe in any land I read the other day that Ben-Gurion is building (or is going to build) what he calls a "World Court." Why world court unless they plan to repeat the Eichmann inci dent on a large scale? As to whether this mans soul went to hell or not, I do not know. If our salvation de pends upon how good or how bad our lives have been I would rather take my chances with Eichmann than with his enemies. But fortunately our salva tion does not depend upon our goodness, or we would all be in hell. "All have sin ned." the Bible says and the only escape from hell is by accepting Jcmu Christ. The vilest sinner may accept Him and be saved. The "best" per son that because British entry in to the Common Market was sensible economically, it was also inevitable. This notion underestimated the latent opposition in Eng land within the ruling Con servative Party, not to mention the Labor party. And it miss ed the apparently implacable resolve of Charles de Gaulle of France not to let Britain into the Common Market on terms preserving British self respect and Britain's old posi tion as the politically dom inant power in Europe. The misunderstanding was not helped by British official visitors here. Instead of deal ing candidly and in time with the realities of British poli tics at home, they often left the impression here that con servative opposition was largely confined to a handful of "ultra-conservative" Colo nel Blimps grumbling in Lon don's clubs. SO THE position now is that Briiish negotiations with the Common Market and notably with France, which clearly expects to be head boss of it all-are in no way promising. Still, the Unit ed States continues Daaiy 10 need British membership. We ourselves must and will deal with the Common Market, but our dealings will be much harder if Britain is out rather than in. Moreover, a Britain exclud ed would mean not only a Britain facing the possibility of economic catastrophe. It would also bring an insup portable irony. The nation that caused the war, Cer- many, and the nation that performed so poorly in fight ing k, France, would soon become both the economic and political masters of more than half of the free world. GUNS AND BUTTER Washington - Reports from Moscow announce that the butter price there has been raised almost $2 a pound and that, even at this high price, butter is not always obtain able. Very little has been said, however, about the root - cause of the butter Alsop shortage, which is the massively in creased Soviet investment in guns. The guns - before - butter choice was formally made last winter. The Central Com mittee of the Soviet Commu nist Party met in full session. to discuss the crisis in agri culture. The farm crisis was publicly admitted and frankly documented. Yet the princi pal decision taken was to swell the ranks of Soviet agricultural officialdom - to use bureaucrats, in fact, as a novel substitute for fertilizer. Almost simultaneously, the Soviet government also an nounced that its defense bud get had been increased by a staggering 45 per cent, which is about double the Kennedy increase of the Eisenhower defense budget. Except in de- monological circles, almost no attention was paid to this announcement concerning the defense budget, but if the an nouncement was not mislead ing, it constitutes a new fact of the utmost world-wide importance. . - - SINCE the Kremlin an nouncement was made, this reporter has tried to get at the truth, both here and in Europe. The truth is not easy to ascertain, and even when data are obtainable, you at once discover there is much dispute about the data. Here, however, is the best brief summary that can be of fered: First of all, there is no doubt at all that the Soviet defense effort has been great ly intensified. The first open symptom was the abrupt re versal of Nikita S. Khrush chev's shrink-the-armed-forces program in the summer of 1961. Special call-ups and holdovers in service brought the number of men in uni form up to the level that had existed before Khrushchev gave his order for a reduc tion. This meant an over-all Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprises, Inc. ULTIMATE TRIBUTE This spring, in England, three different books were published-all with the same title. "On a tA 4 J know titles Darkling P 1 a i n." The phrase is from Mathew Arn nold's popular poem, "Dover Beach." Peo ple like to w where s come Harm from - and most of them come from tra ditional sources; the Bible, Shakespeare, favorite poetry. "Dover Beach" has been the origin of dozens of book titles. For instance, this year Rupert Croft Cooke's new book is called "Clash by Night," which is the last line of the poem-and the same title as a play by Clifford Odcts a dozen years ago. When my second book of collected columns. "Majority of One." was published, it was followed a few months later by the play bearing the same title. Both the play wright and I had gone to an n the world who reiOts i essay of Thoreau in which Him is lost We have only his enemies' word for what Eichmann did in his last hours. John C. Stille. Shady Cove, Ore. he said. "Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one." It it not commonly known that titles cannot be copyrighted. I could write a novel end call it "Gone With the Wind," if I liked, so long as it did not use the lame story or charac ters as Miss Mitchell's best seller. Her book, by the way, was called something en tirely different when it was submitted to publishers. The title was changed by Macmillan's. from a line in Dowson's sentimental poem, "Cynara," which is a prime favorite of people just learning to like poetry. "The Rubiyat" is also a great source of titles for books and plays. So are the poems of Keatt and Shelley, Blake and Wordsworth, But Shakespeare remains pre eminent as the fount of titles, year alter year, with the Bible running a close second. One English researcher di9 covered that Macbeth' speech, beginning "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow . . ." had a bock title in every line. "This Petty Pace," "All Our Yesterdays," "Dust y Death." "Brief CanrHe," "Walking Shadows," "Told By an Idiot," "Sound and Fury"-these are some of the increase of several hundred thousand men. Secondly, the intensifica tion of the Soviet defense ef fort is by no means limited to this increase of men in uni form. In itself the increase must be a heavy strain, since Russia is now passing through a period of extreme scarcity of young manpower, caused by the low birthrate and poor infant-survival rate in war time. Yet the strain on the economy of the increased in vestments in military hard ware must be greater still. N THE field of missile hardware alone, the cur rent Soviet investments are downright astonishing. On the one hand, a second-generation Soviet intercontinental missile, comparable to the American liquid-fueled Titan, is now in quantity production. Large numbers of launch ing sites are also being built ; for these missiles, not "hard ened" like the American ICBM launching , sites, but ! still fairly costly. The pro gram is being pushed for- ward with such speed that within 12 months the Soviets ' may add as many as 200 new ICBMs to their operational arsenal. On the other hand - and ' even more costly-the Soviets are also pushing forward with great speed a truly vast program of surface-to-air mis- ' siles like the American Nike. The Soviet industrial centers are thickly surrounded by new SA II's, as the Defense Department calls the missile comparable to our Nike-Hercules. But the SA II's, highly effective against aircraft at tacking at high altitudes, are of little use against planes coming in on the deck, in ac cordance with the new tactics of the U. S. Strategic Air Command. Hence the thousands of SA ' II's are now being supple mented, apparently without regard to cost, by huge addi tional numbers of SA Ill's -surface-to-air missiles de signed to knock down attack ing planes at low altitudes. JIHE cost of installing this -- elaborate point defense of all the major Soviet industrial centers is so great that it is now thought to absorb up to 35 per cent of the entire So viet defense budget. Yet the whole system will be obsolete in the near future, when SAC phases out its aircraft and places its main reliance on long-range ballistic missiles. Finally, further large but indeterminate amounts are also being invested in a ma jor Soviet effort to produce an anti-missile missile. Even, so, the majority of demonolo gists hold that the announced increase in Soviet military spending is in part a fraud. They argue it was partly achieved by openly including in me defense budget expen ditures formerly concealed in such mysterious items in the Soviet national budget as "financing the national econ omy." This item and others like it have indeed been somewhat reduced, making the case for partial fraud rather convincing. Yet the degree of fraud if fraud there be-is very much less significant than the undoubted fact that the So viet national policy is aeain rather emphatically putting guns before butter. widely known novels taken from that short speech. An when Proust's great book. "A la recherche du temps perdu." was magnifi cently translated into English, it was decided to change the title to "Remembrance of Things Past," a line from one of Shakespeare's finest son nets. This is perhaps the ultimate tribute to an ai.nor-not mere ly that his work is quoted and remembered, but that it provides an ever-f lowing fountain of titles for new works of literature.