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A EvarMina .r. SouthTrrTbreson Hsstfs 'assail frlbune- Kb!ist!t Saiiy xctpt Saturday by jiinynn'.i i-histing co. s.i .vonn nrj'., fh.172-6I41 ROBERT W. RUM.. Editor HKRD CREY, Advertising Manager CKRALD T LATHAM, Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teles. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE 8TARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medtnrd. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday I year S15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point, Eiill Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv. er. Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 year S18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrlei and Dealers Copy 10c All TermsCash inAdvance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire O.P.I Telephoto Newspictures MEMMF.R Of AUDIT BUREAU T....t.ia!ni Rnrentatlve! NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Olfices in New York, Chi. caeo Detroit. San Francisco. Los Anseles Seattle. Portland, Denver. NATIONAL fOITORIAl asoc(mti9n Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 8, 1952 (Saturday) Anti-hail pilots flew a total of 5 hours 27 minutes yester day; seeding took place for about 3's hours. With the Rogue Valley Soap Box derby a little over a month away, testing of the East Main street hill, site of the races, got under way this week. 20 YEARS AGO Juna 8, 1942 (Sunday) Dr. R. E. Green seeking re election as only candidate in Medford city school board election. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Ac cording to the war depart ment, there are 260,000 who have been declared ineligible for the army because they cannot read or write. One would never dream that there were that many citizens in the land who are unable to take an editor apart with a lead pencil through the mails." 30 YEARS AGO Juna 8, 1932" (Tuesday) Medford Mayor E. M. Wil son calls on all civic nd service organizations to send representatives to meeting to discuss help for unemployed. W. W. (Bill) Bates, wins Mail Tribune trapshoot with score of 97 out of 100. 40 YEARS AGO Juna 8. 1922 (Wednesday) Used car being demonstrate ed by Medford dealer catches fire and is "virtually demol ished" while being shown to a prospective customer. Medford announced as headquarters for extensive ge ological studies in southern Oregon and northern Califor nia. 50 YEARS AGO June 8, 1912 (Thursday) Experimental planting of farm and truck crops between tires in Rogue valley or chnrds tried for first time. Grants Pass-Crescent City stage makes first round trip of year; road reported still In poor condition. Yhat's Your I.Q.? Nine oi ten correct is tupenor; seven or eight is excellent; five of six Is good. 1. Who was the first woman (o (lv across the Atlantic? 2. Who wrote "The Pil grim's Progress"? 3. Which of these is larger In area - Mexico or Colombia? 4. Are eels born In salt water or in fresh water? 5. in which New England Slate was President Calvin Coollrlge born? 6. What is known as the "Eternal City"? 7. Where does former Presi dent Harry S. Truman make his home? 8. Do mosquitoes have four, six, or eight legs? 9. According to the Bible, what was placed at the en trance to the Garden of Eden to guard it? 10. In what once - popular game is there talk of winds, flowers and seasons? Answers: I. Amelia Ear hart. 2. John Bunyan. 3. Mexi co. 4. Fresh, S. Vermont, 8. Rome, Italy. 7. Independence, Mo. 8. Six. 9. A flaming sword and cherubim. 10. Mah Jong. ASSOCIATION FRIDAY. JUNE I. 1982 A Reporter Every once in a while we meet someone who, through traits of personality and mind and habit, can truly be affectionately called "a character." Such a man was Wayne Pettit, who died the other day in Salem three years after retirement as Capitol correspondent for the Oregonian. He had served in that post for 40 years, watching generation after generation of younger men come and go. A Eugene Register-Guard editorial writer says of Pettit: "He was the close friend and friendly critic of 14 Oregon governors. He covered 29 executions, first on the old penitentiary gallows, then at the gas chamber. He covered prison breaks, the fire that destroyed the old Capitol, and 28 legislative sessions. . . "He was n fixture around the Capitol, which he regarded as his personal preserve. He'd move secre taries out of their chairs so he could use their type writers. He cheerfully swiped pencils and swapped in sults with a succession of secretaries of state, state treasurers and even governors. "He was a one-man graduate school of journalism, advising 'the kids' who came down to the Capitol. For many years, younger reporters learned to rely on the Instincts of this gruff-voiced old gentleman with the cigar, the bow tie and the funny cardigan sweater. He was helpful. But he worried, too, lest younger men with better legs and college educations might render him obsolete. Of course, they never did. People like Wayne Pettit can't be obsolete, partly because they can't be duplicated." IT WAS our privilege to serve an apprentice- ship with Wayne Pettit in the Capitol press gallery, first as a veiy as a state employee in into every day. He could scare the dickens out of a youngster, iust bv chomoinir his cirzar at him. But, under exterior an odd mixture and the cherubic he had a bis: soft heart. There were many who have benefited from his generosity, which few knew about, lor ne never talked about it. And we recall once his tipping us off on a story, just so we wouldn't be beaten on it by more experienced competitors, ne was a verit able fountamhead of advice, which he gave will ingly when asked, but never volunteered. DERHAPS he wasn't' one of the great reporters of the age. He didn't worry too much about age. He man t the social impact of what he was reporting, or about the rjolitical indications of this or that situation. He was neither nor "opinion moulder." He was a reporter. And according to the lights of a reporter, he was a journeyman and an expert, reporting the doings of government in clear, uncluttered un complicated words. The service which is rendered by a good re porter may be too little appreciated by the public, but they gain most of their insights into the world around them from the jobs the reporters do. For 40 years Wayne Pettit rendered that service, and the people of Oregon are better off for it. E.A. By the Numbers-Dial! The telephone company is taking quite a beating from those who object to the incursions of automation and all number calling and direct distance dialing', Professor S. I. Hayakawa, internationally famous semanticist. is informal leader of a group in the San Francisco Bay area who are protesting the imnersonalitv of the indispensable instrument. The heart is with the rebels, but the head is with the telephone company. Numbers a machine can deal with ; sentiment al words it cannot. And to be served, it will be the DARE is the Medfordite who has yet become used to dialing 77 instead of SP (although the effect is exactly the who remembers automatically to dial 77 (or air) at all, since until recently it wasn t necessary. Seven movements are needed to dial now; eight if your phone is served (as is ours) by a switchboard. Come the middle of next month, and making a long distance call will be an exercise in forefinger durability. rrom our office telephone, to call a Seattle number, we will have to dial thus: 9 (to get past the switchboard) 1 (to get the DDD equipment) 20(5 (to get the western Washington area) and 232-1345 (to get the party we want). That's 912062321345. Or, put another way, nine hun dred twelve billion, sixty two million, three hun dred twenty one thousand, three hundred forty five. A LL this, however, pales into insignificance compared to the telephone company's latest transgression. Here is how our Phoenix correspondent, Mrs. Bertha Hanscom, put it recently (slightly re vised ) : Where Is the hole In the telephone book? If you don't believe me. Just take a look: There are seven digits, as you can sec, And All Number Calling and DDD. There are area codes, maps of the zones. And Information on how to use phones; Pictures of rivers and boats are galore. But who wants to hang his book on the floor? A calendar's printed from way back when, And Mt. McLoughlin has a snow-top again. I wish someone who knows would tell me true: Where did the hole in the phone book go to? Still, what would we tlo without the darned things? E.A. Poor old Charlie Shibbitz didn't graduate last night. Wc understand he flunked his American Problems examination. E.A. youtntui colleague, laier an office Wayne looked of the rough-and-tough 'S worry too mucn aooui pundit nor columnist if telephone users are machines which do it. same). And rare is he "He's Up Again! He' Halfway COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must beer the ntme end address of the writer, Ithouoh under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to sd!t all letters with 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. Unused Talents To ihe Editor: I wish some one would enlighten me as to just why our President Kennedy; usually so excellent and well-versed in the true values of good counsel, has passed up our own fount of Oriental wisdom and knowl edge in relation to the pitiful plight of the Chinese people. San Francisco, Chicago, New York and a few other of our major metropolises boast sizeable Chinese American quarters. Most all of our cities have some citizens of Chinese ancestry. And the majority of the present sons and daugh ters of these citizens of Orien tal origin are well-educated. many Just as culturally con versant and spiritually con cerned with charity as any other ethnic group. And many are keen, capable Intellec tuals who have graduated from our1 best colleges and universities. The recent bringing of a few refugees from China to America and the resultant publicity savors of an unin formed press-agentny. When there Is something wrong with your physical body you seek a doctor, and so with the world body - we need learned counsel and have ignored and passed up our own natural oracles on Oriental affairs. Not one of our own Chinese American men and women have been courteously con sulted or interviewed or given a voice in advising the Administration as to the most excellent way or ways to aid the starving Chinese. While they were born here and know America as do all our children, they also know China and are inherently aware of its native problems. President Kennedy and our diplomatic and state staffs re veal a "blind spot" in our re lation to suffering China. Bret Harte did not miss when he wrote "damn clever, these Chinese" but it surely does not apply to us in our handling of their hungry, somewhat dis tant, countrymen. And where, in these good works our nation Is doing in the love of God and neighbor, is the Voice of our Mlssions the enlightened opinion of our priests and ministers who studied the Orient first-hand until driven out? There Is, as yet, no scientific or technical cure for hunger: no computer capable of classi fying counsel, or directing charity. Let us hear from Charles Ylng Chin of San Francisco, graduate of the University of California, and from Nancy Nam Toy of New York City, graduate of Ford ham University, in our higher councils as regards the Orient from now on. William T. Cuddy V. A. Domiciliary White City, Ore. Widow's View To the Editor: I agree with Mr. Corey we do need a hos pital at Camp White. It won't help my poor husband, he's already dead, but maybe it will help others who need treatments. Why not take part of that money which is being used to brine- those Chinese over here to feed and take our jobs. I sav we need what mnnev Ihore is for our own. If there is too much, raise the veter ans' pay, also the widows. We all want to live loo, and eat. We still get hungry even If we arc old. I know. 1 don't get enough to live on. Oh, well, we aren't supposed to live. I guess. Why don't they pay the widows the veterans' insur ance? There were thosuands that weren't able to keep them up after thry got out ot t Down Again! He't Up" service, so why not pay them what they paid in at least? It was their hard-earned money, not the Government's. Im sure those poor guys who fought overseas earned every penny the government took out for this. So I say why can't we old widows get help without our dear husbands? (Name on file) Medford Write Your Congressman To the Editor: We have writ ten as follows to our congress men: In regard to the King-Anderson medical care program, action at the local level, either voluntary health Insurance such as many now have, or state medical care for the in digent under the Kerr-Mills Law recently passed, would be more effective in helping the ones who really need help. A compulsory plan under social security covering everyone. regardless of need, would take iiuke one out ot our pay checks, which don't look very big now after all the odds and ends are taken off. For every dollar sent to Washington, I reel we are lucky to get back fifty cents in benefits. Some one has to pay the salaries of me experts and supervisors all along the line. It does not make a dollar worth more to pass through a dozen hands to pay a bill! Also I doubt if we would have much to say about the kind of service we would get. As a farmer, I am thor oughly disgusted with the present farm policy. It is caus ing a trend to corporation farming that is putting the iamuy size farm out of busi ness. Ordinarily, for instance when the price of enes droDs feed demand lessens, and feed price arops also; but now, with grain artificially held up by government support, what happens? The feed companies "integrate" the farmer, which means that they supply the chicks, the feed, and allow him a pittance per dozen for use of his labor and equip ment. Naturally, only the big operations that have a lot of automatic equipment and vol ume can continue. The feed companies don't care if eggs or broilers sell below cost. They make their money from feed. The Independent can't compete with that. Sonic argue that the only efficient farm is the big one. If that is so, the big corpora tion farms don't need tax payers' support to survive, so why give it? There should be a top limit on the size of check one farm, or farm cor poration, can collect in sup port money. It should be base on what would be a reasona ble return for a family type farm only, not hundreds of thousands of dollars to one operation. Actually, for the benefit of the taxpayers and the real farmers, possibly the best thing to do would be to get rid of this whole support mess, and balance the budget. Frankly, most farmers we talk to would be happier with lewer handouts and a govern ment out of the red. I doubt that President Kennedy's pro posal to cut income taxes. I while Increasing government ' spending, will be any help to , the economy. What business ""d the stock market need for a "shot in the arm" Is LESS government spending and a balanced budget, so that there will be more confidence, both at home and abroad, in the fis cal policy of the present ad ministration. I urge any readers who agree with me to write your congressmen, now. Lawson Scott Jr., Route 3. Box 240-C. Medford. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Resentment Bitter Against U.S. Laotian Policies; Stability Is Hope By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Vientiane, Laos - OIPD - The government of Laos conducts its business in a high ceilinged b u 1 1 d ing of yellow stucco and brown trim just across the street from the walls of the Royal Pal- y"etl I ace and i I YeM I J a cent aeassam , as asassses nwlct to its ad- Bud dhist temple. Newsom The man in charge during the frequent absences of Premier Prince Boun Oum and his strongman overseer Gen. Phoumi Nosa van is a small, compact man who stabs the air with a fin ger to emphasize his current indignation with the United States. He is Acting Foreign Sec retary Sisouk Na Champas sak. Among his other jobs, Sisouk also is the permanent Laotian representative to the United Nations in New York and has the respect of West ern diplomats here even though now they find them selves on opposite sides. - For, like Phoumi and Boun Oum, Sisouk bitterly resents United States action switch ing its support from the weak but pro-Western Boun Oum government proposed by the once-deposed Prince Souvan na Phouma. He charges that when the United States withdraw its economic support from the r j Medford Physician Replies to Blasts In Medicare Debate To the Editor: We doctors seem to be getting a bloody nose in your newspaper. With in the last two days there have been six separate attacks against the AMA, physicians in general, and in favor oi the King-Anderson Bill. In Sunday's issue there was a light jab by E.A.'s editorial, a left cross by Eric Sevareid, an indirect "Jenny punch" di rected at John Casterline, and Herblock's cartoon presuma bly alluding to the infamous "200 New Jersey .Doctors . Tuesday night there is the headline and a final blast from E.A. in the editorial again. In the face of all the adverse criticism about, and in spite of being a newcomer to this valley, I for one intend to stand up and be counted as being on the opposite side, and I would like to tell a little about the other side of the coin. Firstly, in regard to the above-named articles, the Propaganda Techniques edi-torial-e.g. "glittering gener alities" . . . "The King-Anderson Bill will lead to socialized medicine." E.A. is well versed in all seven of the devices listed, having used them all himself numerous times; I sus pect that E.A. was standing at the lectern, rather than sitting and listening. Eric Sevareid's article is un fortunately true, the respect for our profession is indeed ebbing. He points out that medical students and premeds are not trained in the social sciences, and seem contemptu ous of those who are. It wasn't very long ago that only one out of twenty or thirty applicants eventually as ac cepted in medical school, and once there, the competition to stay there was keen. Al ready medical schools are be ginning to lower their stand ards, and take students with 'C averages rather than A or 'B', because higher quality students do not want to get into a profession that requires long years of training only to ultimately become a gov ernment flunkey. Acceptance to medical school is largely based on maintaining high grades in many technical, sci entific, and admittedly later useless subjects while in the four years of pre-medicine. Later In medical school there are four years of concentra tion on the basic sciences and the ills of the human body and mind. We are admittedly poorly trained in philosophy sociology, and political sci ence. However, if I were ill. 1 would prefer to be cared for by a well trained physi cian, rather than a sociologist or a politician, for I fear that I would receive a transfusion of my own blood: from the right arm to the left with half my blood spilled In between Rennrding the cartoon and the jno New Jersey Doctors, unfortunately the reporting in this case headlined "Refusal to Treat Patients Under King Anderson". That is a fine headline but is improper re porting and a misquote. These men said that they vould treat patients for free rather than under King-Anderson; they did not refuse treatment. This same thing has been done elsewhere, patients have been treated for no charge Boun Oum government, it de prived the government of its greatest bargaining card at the conference table. "Now," he shrugs, "we will go and we will sign. There is nothing else we can do. For this the United States bears a heavy responsibility." Government troops fought well before their rout at Nam Tha, he maintains, until they found the Pathet Lao and Communist Viet Minh troops at their rear as well as in front. U.S. officials here agree that the Royalist forces could hold their own against their fellow-countrymen, the Pathet Lao, but have proved them selves no match for the dis ciplined Viet Minh. As for the bargaining, by which General Phoumi hoped to hold the defense and inte rior ministries for his own right wing forces, allied offi cials point out he had many months in which to negotiate before being forced to do so by lack of U.S. support and on the advice of Thailand. In any event, Western rep resentatives now have their highest hopes in a year that the feuding Laotian princes will reach agreement on a coalition neutral government and that some stability may result. This stability, they believe, could have come about earlier had Phoumi agreed to join his right wing forces to the neutrals of Souvanna Phou ma, which, together, would rather than fill out all the Welfare forms. If you are looking for a cause of in creased medical costs, you might start here, by the way; the paper work is terrific. I can think of several instances where a one dollar procedure has required four dollars of paper work. In answer to Mr. Jenny's attack, he says that the medi care under Social Security is insurance. If he will name one insurance company which pro vides more in benefits than it takes in in premiums, that is, one which is fiscally un sound, I will show him a com pany no longer in business. The Social Security system now has 20 million dollars in the till, but owes about 150 million dollars in ultimate benefits. The only outfit which can run chronically in debt is the Federal Govern ment, if private individuals or companies did this they would be in jail. Now about the Tuesday blasts, I'm not a member of the AMA, but the AMA isn't the only bunch of propa gandists. Kennedy and his welfare boys have been doing pretty well at it, and using the taxpayer's money to try to put across a program that will increase the cost of medi cal care and further subju gate the people of this coun try, making them even more dependent on the Federal Government. Costs of medical care have gone up. so has the cost of every other item, food, housing, and of course most of all, taxes. I think the best argument against King- Anderson, and other compul sory social reforms, is that we can do this cheaper by ourselves. Any time we get the government to do some- tning for us, it is more ex pensive, because they don't do it for free. Somebody has to pay. If an item costs twenty dollars, then having Uncle Sam buy it doesn't make it any cheaper; on the contrary it costs twenty dollars plus tne Washington brokerage fee Would King-Anderson be the first step toward "social ized medicine"? This depends on the definition of socialized medicine. Britain started the 30 s with a similar pro gram lor the aged and pro gressed to their present status. The proponents of this bill nenneay included, say it is not enough. Basically this bill says: "Because you are over 65. and have worked in a job providing Social Security, you are entitled to certain items of medical care". Which of these phrases would be chang ed first? Why age 65. why not 60? 40? 20? Why medical care only, why not shoes, groceries, advice on legal matters, why not everything? Why work? Make no mistake, this bill is but another intrusion of the Federal Government into the free enterprise system. The fight of the medical pro fession and the private insur ance business today is the fight of the lawyers tomor row, the grocers and loggers and maybe even the, news paper editors the day after. It puts the Washington bu reaucracy squarely in your hospital. Charles A McAdams, M D 836 East Main st , Medford easily have outnumbered the pathet Lao. Western hopes for a stable government here depend upon Russia. The argument is that Russia intervened with its air drop support to the pro-Communist rebels to prevent dras tic Red Chinese action which might have set off a (world wide conflict. Washington Report By William (c) United Featurs Syndicate PAUSE NEEDED Washington - Every present major factor in the world sug gests that the time has come for a creative and heal i n g pause in rou tine politics in this country. If this no tion is right, then Congress should q uit picking fret fully at a mounta in of second-priority work on a cal endar which could keep it here until the snow falls. It should simply act on two or three really big disputed mat ters - final approval of the president's low -tariff world trade program and perhaps enactment of some relatively rational farm subsidy plan and then go home. Likewise, President Kenne dy should halt pressures for a good deal of doubtful welfar- ist legislation, including aaai- Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. When most people think of the word "education," they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sau s a g e casing. Into this emp ty casing, the teachers are supposed to stuff "educa tion." But gen- ij ' t u i n ( K Jtion' e educa- as Soc rates knew Harrie more than 2,- 000 years ago, is not inserting the slumngs o: lniormauuii into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge from him; it is the drawing out ot wnai is in the mind. The most important part of education," once- wrote William Ernest Hocking, the distinguished Harvard philos opher, "is this instruction of a man in what he has inside of him." And, as Edith Hamilton has reminded us, Socrates never said, "I know, learn from me." He said, rather, "Look into your own selves and find the spark of truth that God has put into ev ery heart, and that only you can kindle lo a flame." In the dialog called the "Meno," Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy, without a day of schooling, and proves to the amaied ob servers that the boy really "knows" geometry-because the principles and axioms of geometry are already in his mind, wailing to be called out. So many of the discus sions and controversies about the content of educa tion are futile and incon clusive because lhey are concerned with what should "go into" the student rather than with what should be taken out, and how this can best be done. The college student who once said to me, after a lecture. "I spend so much time studying that I don't have a chance to learn any thing," was succinctly ex pressing his dissatisfaction with the sausage-c a s i n g view of education. He was being so stuffed with miscellaneous facts, with such an indigestible mass of material, that he had no time (and was given no encourage ment) to draw on his own resources, to use his own mind for analyzing and syn thesizing and evaluating this material. Education, to have anv meaning beyond the purpose of creating well - informed dunces, must elicit from the pupil what is latent in every human being-the rules of rea son, the inner knowledge of what is proper for men to be and do, the ability to sift evidence and come to conclu sions that can generally be assented to by all open minds and warm hearts. Pupils are more like oysters than sausages. The job 0 teaching is not to stuff them and then seal them up. but to help them opei and reveal the riches within. There are pearls in each of us, if only we knew how to cultivate them with ardor and per sistence. Q i Over They argue, further, that if Russia fails to enforce Com munist agreement to a neu tral government in Laos, it loses all hope of agreement on other issues, including Ber lin. To this, Sisouk replies with an expressive, unbelieving shrug of the shoulders. S. White tional medical care for tha aged. He should thus content himself with a congressional record which would be long on quality, if not on quantity, THIS would be a "do-nothing" course only to those who believe that unless Presi dent and Congress are forever "doing something," however dubious that something might be, they are somehow not "providing national leader ship." In some circumstances na tional leadership can best ba fulfilled by taking the long, calm view; by concentrating on the essential and skipping the secondary and overly ar gumentative. Such circum stances, one suggests, now surely exist. ITEM: Business anxiety at what much of business be lieves is a hostile climate within the administration is an undoubted reality. Justi fied or not-and this columnist personally believes it to be based more on the academic rhetoric of lower-placed func tionaries than on any action or purpose of the president the fear is there. The best way to relieve the fever is to get Congress out of town and to let up on admin istrative clamors for more welfare legislation. (Most of it wouldn't pass anyhow if Congress remained until Christmas; but that is neither here nor there.) ITEM: The pre-conditions for a mafisiVf Ipsn fnriuarrl in the American economy do, in plain fact, exist. First, there is tne approval of the House Ways and Means committee by vote of 20 to 5 of the bill tp give broad and flexible tariff cutting authority to the Pres ident so he may bargain use fully with the powerful Euro pean common market. It is not in the least fanciful lo say that once Congress as a whole has said "yea" to this bill, American business will find a world market vastly richer than it has ever known. The only thing that could now beat the bill would be a pro gressive embitterment of rela tions between business and the administration. ; And, second, there is tha promise of a "top-to-bottom" income tax cut for next year. This could be an immense spur to expansion; it could not be otherwise unless the sensi tive factor of business "confi dence" should intervene. t TTEM: Every reliable lndicat - or points to the gravest of economic trouble in Red China and to hidden unrests within the Soviet Union. Though this is good news for the West in a way, it is dan gerous news, too. For dictator ships are far more likely to strike out when times are bad at home, if only to divert tha people. This being so, the most or dinary prudence counsels ua on this side to two things most of all: (1) steadily to im prove our economic-and our deeply interrelated military posture; and (2) carefully to avoid all avoidable divisions and anxieties and cross-purposes within the nation. Indeed, the hour of the acid test for Mr. Kennedy's presi dency may be approaching the test of his capacity to gov ern, as distinguished from merely to stay ahead in im mediate popular favor, in times when vague fears and discontents and intimations of emerging and imminent changes walk this land and the world. Gets Promotion Klamath Supervisor Yrcka - Charles A. Yates, supervisor of Klamath Na tional Forest, Yreka, has been promoted to assistant re gional forester in Denver. Colo., according to Regional Forester Charles A. Con naughlun. Yates, whose new assign ment started last week, will be in charge of fire control and state and private forestry. Born in San Francisco, Calif., Yates received his for estry degree from the Oregon , State college school of for estry. During his 25 years with the U.S. forest service, Yates served as fire control officer on the Goosenest, dis trict ranger. Orleans, on the Six Rivers Forest and fire control staff officer on the 'San Bernardino Forest. t O
