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I SO r-nrriri and Dealers Cony 10c All TermCash lnAdvance uinciai raper oi ciiy w tmlrljjJperlJarlison County United Press International Full leased Wire II P I Telephoto Newsplctures MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU A 4..,l,na nnrntatlve NELSON ROBERTS & ARSQCI- ATES, Ollices In New York, Chi eaao Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. PorUand, Denver NiWSAlt UiUJHUI ASSOCIATION NATIONAL tOITORIAl 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 17, 19S2 (Tuesday) Douglas fir bark beetle, which has infested about 3, 000,000 acres of western Ore gon timberland, including 1, 600,000 acres in Douglas county, declared not a serious problem in Jackson county. The 1952-S3 Medford city budget - like the county's, the largest in history-published for the first time; budget totals $1,007,138 for the first time exceeding the million dollar mark. 20 YEARS AGO June 17. 1942 (Wednesday) Japanese submarine shells Seaside on Oregon coast; no damage or casualties report ed. From Arthur Perry s "Yej1 Smudge Pot" column: "in North Carolina more candi dates than voters showed up at a political meeting. All went home Instead of letting the voters address the candi dates." 30 YEARS AGO June 17. 1932 (Friday) Medford city council cuts salaries of all employees; 10 per cent cut for those making less than $100 a month, 15 per cent for those making more than $100 a month. State highway commission reports that applications for log hauling permits to be used on Crater Lake highway will be refused; highway said not In good enough condition to stand up under heavy trattic. 40 YEARS AGO June 17. 1922 (Saturday) Jackson county club mem bers attending summer agri culture course at Oregon Ag ricultural college include John Bohnert. Ord Reed, Del bert Anderson and Loland Cale. Opening words of song adopted by Northwest Tour ist association are; "Crank your flivver on the Wance river and follow the Glacier trail." SO YEARS AGO June 17, 1912 (Sunday) New potatoes offered for sale at Medford public mar ket for 3 cents a pound. Medford Drivers club starts construction of l' j mile race track to be used for Fourth of July races. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct ll sueeriei; seven ei eight Is escallent; tire ei ill is good. 1. The early French Prot estants were called what? 2. A sworn written state ment Is an t. 3. What European discov ered the St. Lawrence river? 4. Which amendment to the U. S. Constitution authorizes Congress to levy income tax es? 5. Who commanded the U.S. Army forces in the Philippines when (Jorreginor ten? 8. In which South American rountry is Portuguese the offi cial language? 7. Was Egypt ever a part of the Turkish Empire? 8 Correct the following "They will try and be there." 9. Of what big league base ball team was John McGraw once the manager? 10. Name the San Francisco major league baseball team. Answers: 1. Hugenots. 2. Af fidavit. 3. Jacques Cartier. 4. The 18th. 6. Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. W4ewrFt. t. Braill. 7. Yes. m ". . . to be there." t. &im i$acinti. bUi.DAtf. JUflt: 17, lSbJ Canadian Some 8 million of Canada's 9.8 million nuali f ied voters are expected to go to the polls on Mon day to elect 265 members of the House of Com mons, and thereby, under the parliamentary sys tem, to determine which party will control the government for the next five years. Dollars and deficits are key words to the Canadian election, and of the two the more im portant is dollars. Since lar has been neeced at Canadians who remember ed across the border for this distressing. Since 1950 the Canadian dollar had been al lowed to find its own level in foreign exchange markets. But a year ago servative government announced that it would intervene in the exchange market to push the value of the dollar down. This allows Canadian goods to sell for less abroad. By the same token it makes imports, particularly such staples of the diet as citrus fruits and tomatoes, more expensive. THE devaluation was described by Lester B. (Mike) Pearson, the Liberal Party leader, as a "confession of failure." Said Prime Minister John (Dief ) Diefenbak er, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party : "He can use those words, if he wants, to describe an action which will mean more jobs for Canad ians and higher prices for our farmers." Were it not for the dichotomy between the voters of British ancestry and those of French stock, the Canadian election could almost be view- 'ed as a U.S. campaign in microcosm. 1MIKE Pearson in what could be Jack Kennedy's own words urges the voters to "Get Canada moving forward again." Dief makes the proud boast: "We have brought about the greatest ad vancement in Canadian history. We have plans for the future." The truth lies somewhere in between. Even though Diefenbaker calls the Liberals "brain trusters, bemoaners, and bureaucrats," there's not a great deal of difference between the two parties except in nomenclature and personalities. One further difference between Canadian and U. S. politics: both major parties in Canada are deeply committed to the welfare state. In deed, they try to outdo each other in promises of pocketDook rewards for the voter. rIEFENBAKER'S so-called Conservatives have run up a deficit of about $3 billion since they took office in 1957. A comparable figure for the United btates would be I 4 V, t rw.si, , rvi, ,1 nllnn rF rlofl.ilc rl ! rl v, 'f llict Vl n rM - 111" at-uiiiuiaiiuii wi wcio it was planned, uencit, balance-of-payments deficiency have had their way with the Canadian dollar. The Canadian working press is reported to be even more anti-Diefenbaker than 'U.S. campaign train reporters in 1960 were anti-Nixon. The penultimate Gallup poll gives the Liberals an 8 per cent null in the nouular vote, but the parli amentary system will render the outcome closer than that. On the eve of the election the price of the dollar remained the belly issue. Devaluation meant an immediate 6 cent per bushel rise in the price of wheat and ple in the extractive industries; its full effect on the consumer probably won't be felt until after the election. Ironically enough, problem is such that whichever party controls the next government will probably have to devalue further. U.K. K. Collisi mon A major diplomatic flap over U.S. tariff in creases on carpets and glass provides discordant background for the start of House debate on President Kennedy's freer trade bill. The higher tariffs go into effect and the House is scheduled to take up the trade measure this week. Kennedy has vigorously defended his March 19 order hiking tariffs, arguing that relief of the domestic woolen carpet and sheet glass industries was demanded because unemployment had as sumed "serious proportions" in both lines. The ministers of the six Common Market nations 1 e - mailied Unconvinced. ,,,, , I, i , , , , . , lhey retaliated on .June 4 by slapping tariff increases on certain American products sold in Europe. They had every right to such reprisal under the rules of the' General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). INT AN effort to head off collision, the U.S. gov ernment's Trade Policy Committee offered Belgium and other affected countries reduction in tariffs on other items. But the Common Market was not so easily placated. Particularly disturbing to them was the knowledge that the President has only limited authority under prevailing law Q ycduce tariffs. From the administration's viewpoint, the carpet-glass dispute points up the need for new trade legislation giving the President a freer hand in negotiating on such problems with other na tions. Hopefully, the President's move also will reassure a wary Congress that the Executive Branch does not intend to use any new authority to open the gates to foreign goods without regard to damage to domestic industries. In fact the President news conlerence, March other areas of domestic industry where similar protective relief would be granted under the broader powers he is ?fiin. E.R.K. I o Election May 2 the Canadian dol 92'. cents U.S. borne when their dollar trad an extra 10 cents find the Progressive Con $42 billion. What s more, - na uiun t jucn, iiaj'uu, iinancing anci a enronic was popular with peo the balance-of-payments Tariffs on even suggested at his zn, mat mere might beiin Oregon about "It Doesn't Hold Annoys Hell V'' . Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE PRESIDENT AT YALE At Yale on Monday the President made a most im portant address for the do mestic econo my the most significant, it seems to me, since he w a s 1 n augurated. In it he de scribed, as he has never be fore done so e x p 1 i citly. l.lnpmann what it is that is new in the New Frontier. Unlike Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, the Kennedy ad ministration is not working for a change in the balance of social forces within the coun try. Roosevelt used the power of the federal government to increase the influence of ag riculture and of labor, as com pared with the influence of business, and of the underde veloped South and West as compared with the Northeast. The battles of the New Deal era were in the classic nal- tern of social struggle, of the naye-nols against the haves. These battles were won bv Roosevelt and a new balance o forces was firmly estab lished. This was proved dur ing the eight years of Presi dent Eisenhower when there was no attempt to repeal and undo the New Deal. fPHE Kennedy administration x begins where Eisenhower left off. It is not seeking an ollier change in the structure of American society but on the contrary, to make more efficient the existing balance of forces. It is confronted, however, with a cultural gap, that Is to say with popular beliefs about the economy which are a generation out aV In the Day's News By FRANK A statistical report just is sued by United Nations indi cates that the world's popula tion has passed the three bil lion mark for the first time. In mid-1060, the report adds, there were 2.995,000,000 peo ple on this terrestrial globe, and since then its population has been increasing at a rate of 1.8 per cent per year. So. it must be assumed, the world's population, as of now, must be somewhere in excess of three thousand millions. That's a lot of people. According to the U. N. re port, Asia, excluding the So viet Union, has 168 billion nersons. or more than half the : world s population Europe remains the most drnselv populated continent, ;wi,h ,,, 2So persons per i square mile. Australia. Canada and u;cland arf at ,he ,n,h" "V rZZ mite. This may surprise you: During the IflMl-lSKO dec ade. Central America's popu lation was increasing at Ihe highest annual rate in the world -2 75 per cent per year Even out here in the Far West, we sometimes gel to thinking thai our population is increasing too fast for com fort - thai the lime is not too far off when ahoul all we will have left will he standing room. Before jumping to thai con clusion, take a look at these figures: Oregon has roughly 1110.000 square miles of area. Suppose the time should come when the population of Oregon would equal in density the population of the continent of F.urope If that should come lo pass, we would have he:e 25 million Pronlr , VtXZl saturation point. MtDrOrlD MAIL. Him Down, But It Out Of Him" of dale. With rare exceptions the leaders of both parties hold to economic doctrines which have .long since been aban doned as antiquated by all the progressive and advanced countries of the world. Gov. Rockefeller understands mod ern economic doctrine, but men like Gen. Eisenhower and Sen. Byrd talk as if they had never read a book on eco nomic matters which has been written since the Great De pression of 1920. a a F PRESIDENT Kennedy Is to fulfill his promises, if he is to raise the American econ omy from the creeping stag nation which has come upon it in the second half of the Fif ties, if he is to recover the industrial pre-eminence which we once had and have now lost, the administration will have to do a mighty job of public re-education. If our leaders do not learn to under stand modern economics, we shall not be able to operate successfully the modern econ omy. IS this work of re-educa- A ti began at Yale. It was a very good beginning. But, of course, one speech will not do what needs to be done which is to elose the cultural gap and put American public opinion and American politi cal debate in touch with the realities of the modern age. This re-education is not a fight between good men and bad men, between rich men and poor men, between Re publicans and Democrats. It is. like all education, a search for enlightenment in which all who participate bravely will be the winners. JENKINS Let's take a look now at California. California's area Is 158.693 square miles. Its population is somewhere in the neighbor hood of 15,000,000 more one would say, rather than less. Roughly 35 per cent of Cali fornia's total area Is presently used for growing crops and pasturing livestock. So let's look at Japan. Japan's total area is 142,644 square miles some 10 per cent less than the area of California. Only about 15 per cent of Japan's total area is arable. Japan's population, ac cording to a Japanese govern ment estimate in lflfiO, is 92, 000,000. So-- If the time should come when the density of Califor nia's population equals the density of Japan's population, there will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 mil lion people in California. That's a lot of people. Looking at Ihe doughnut in stead of the hole. 100 million people in California will pro vide a market for a lot of things produced in Oregon. Officer Promoted To Sergeant in CP Central Point James F. Corliss, patrolman with the Central Point police depart- ment for the past ,12 vears. has been advanced to ser- c''inl Police chief Edward Zan der announced the advance ment Friday and said that it became effective June 5 Corliss is married and has lived In Central Point since 1347. Prior to moving southern Oiegon he served with the sheriff's department of King county, Washington. 'ItUbUNE. MLUrOHD. OrtEGON Matter of Fact bv jo.ePh Aiep (el New York Herald Tribune Syndicate 1962 AND 1958 Washington The atmos phere of this overly excitable capital is beginning to resem ble the Wash ington atmos phere in the winter slump of 1958. Very few people seem to re member that glum moment in the Eisen hower admin- Aii.ip lsiraiion. in deep fear of the political con sequences of the 1958 decline in business, Vice President Richard M. Nixon was then moving heaven and earth to secure an immediate tax cut of at least $4 billion and without being widely accused of creeping socialism, either. President Eisenhower and the Treasury Department re sisted the Nixon tax-cut argu ments. Yet large, economy stimulating appropria t i o n s were tolerated, if not exactly approved by the White House. The result, in 1959, was the largest budget deficit in Amer ican peace time history. WHAT now recalls this dis turbed moment in the past is the-alarm that has been spreading through the ranks of the Democrats, ever since the stock market panic a fortnight ago. Like Nixon and his numerous Republican allies in 1958, increasing num bers of leading Democrats are intensely fearful of the de cline In business, not just because hard times are hard on everyone, but more partic ularly because hard times are extra-hard on the party in power. There Is no doubt at all that this reasoning is valid. The throws of the economic dice this summer will heavily weight the throw of the po litical dice next November. In California, for instance, former Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon is now rated the underdog in his race against Gov. Pat Brown, be cause of his seemingly insolu able problems on the extreme right wing of his own parly. But if business and employ ment go down markedly be fore the autumn, the prospects will vastly improve for Nix on, and for every other Re publican candidate all over the country. As yet the Democrats who fear this sort of result are concentrated on Capitol Hill. The White House and the eco nomic agencies of the execu tive branch show no signs of apprehension. But in the House and particularly in the Senate, the apprehension is rising very markedly. THE Senate's fears were communicated to the Pres ident on Tuesday, when Ma jority Leader Mike Mansfield, Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklaho ma, and Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia met with him to talk about ways and means of getting the existing tax bMl out of the log jam in the Sen ate Finance committee. The three Senators took this opportunity to tell the President that alarm was ris ing and that calls for strong action were being increasing ly heard. Adding to the tax bill immediate tax cuts to stimulate the economy was mentioned as one action that might be taken. According to report, it could have been Nixon-in-1958 all over again, minus the emotional edge the Vice President then showed. In the present situation, however, there is a complex cross-current that was absent in 1958. Sen. Hubert Humph rey of Minnesota, who is an Spanish Silence Beginning To By ERIC SEVARE1D A strike, a student demon stration, a small bomb ex plosion amount to minor news when they happen in most c o u n tries. When they happen in Spain they makepage one a 1 1 over the world. Without any doubt at all. Spain and its passionless Caudillo. Francis co Franco, are going to ap pear on page one more and more often until something gives in Spain. Then - briefly, one can only hope - they will be in the biggest headlines on page one. In all the years under Franco nothing so significant as this clustered series of strikes, bombings and new de ctccs has occurred to break the Spanish Silence. These rvrms are connected, and Ithev are nrnhahlv rw,-nrr,no j not because of. but in spite j of. the fact that Suain as a ! whole is feeling Ihe first real 1 stirrings of economic revival and growth. No more than oilier men. can Spaniards live on bread alone not even on bread and bullfights. i It is 17 vrars since the .pirilual silence rlo-ed over j the Germany which Carlo j other advocate of tax-cuts now, has no motive beyond the Nixon-in-1958 motive the desire to stimulate the economy and thus to forestall a business decline. But the same cannot be said for Sen. Kerr and many of his more conservative allies. THE point is that the Presi dent's present plan is to ask for rather massive tax cuts as of Jan. 1, next year, but to ask also for a fairly drastic loophole-closing oper ation, which will recapture about half the revenue sac rificed by the tax cuts. The pressure on the Congressional defenders of loopholes will then be very great. They will be trying to save their loop holes at the expense of deny ing a generous tax reduction to every income tax payer in the U. S. Sen. Kerr, who might be described as Mr. Oil and Gas Depiction Allowance, is just about the shrewdest member of the Senate. He is quite sharp enough to see the kind of bind he will be in, if con fronted wUh a package com bining effective loophole-closing with big tax cuts for al most all voters. But if tax-cuts-now are de cided upon, Sen. Kerr will not be in a bind next year. With out the pressure generated by tax cuts for everyone, a tax reform bill can be buried in committee far deeper than Pompeii and Herculaneum aft er the eruption of Vesuvius. Hence there is another motive for the tax-cuts-now pressure, and a very strong motive, quite different from Senator Humphrey's wish to give the economy a shot in the arm. In the end. it can be pre dicted, the President will choose between the courses now open to him on the basis of a cool-headed judgment of the real state of the economy. MOTORISTS TRIPPED Salem - (UPD - The Oregon basic rule tripped up 1,910 motorists in April, the month ly report of the Oregon State Police showed Friday. As usual, there were no hearings issued on this violation, just citations. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF IROM THE NOTEBOOKS of philosopher Robert Camp bell: The chief problem of the modern family is having too much month left over at the end of the money . . . There's nothing wrong with hav ing a one-track mind . . provided that you're on the right track . . . Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it . . . Always forget the past No man ever backed into prosperity . . . The most underdeveloped territory in the world lies under your own hat . . . News papermen often use the editorial "we" so the reader will think there are too many of them to lick . . . American motor ists take good car of their rars. And they keep the pedes trians in good running condition, too. Joey Bishop admits that when it comcR to golf, he Is not ex actly another Snead or Palmer. "Only last week." he told one audience, "I barely missed a hole in one by six strokes. My handicap is an honest caddie." Bishop goes on to explain that in his youth he was far loo poor to think of golf. "When it snowed," he recalls, "I didn't even have a sled. 1 had to come downhill on my cousin who wasn't bad." A Democratic candidate in New Englp.nd was making a cam paign speech in what he realized was hostile territory. "My friends," he orated defiantly, "I was bom a Democrat, always have been a Democrat, and expect to die a Democrat." A man In the crowd jeered, "Not very ambitious, are you?" C 1963. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Levi now says, "is sleeping, ..M-r uv ,,s I..MU.C- which has the illusorv an. (Jt maim, hi a U'uutii, i u nut; I today knows what is being prepared in its millions of homes. Will it arise new and more human? Will it awaken more savagely? Or will it pro long its sleep?" But for Spain it has been a sleep of 23 years, a full generalion in terms of individ ual man's maturity, and it looks very much as if the sleep is over, even though the sleeper is not fully awake and on his feet. New faces in Spain have required a full generation, for they have been obliged to wait for the manhood of those who were children or unborn during the Civil War - the only males whose names, words and deeds are not on record in the multitudinous offices of the Guardia Civil. There is far from enough evidence to ent'tle anyone to predict now that the new pressures inside Spain will re sult in revolution, civil war. genera! slnkes or any other form of massive and dramatic aclion. This writer h.is spent only a few months in Spain in recent sears, tnil even lite most thoroughly informed ob- servers refrain from drawing gimes sooner or later reach, a blueprint for either the im-1 At bottom. hi n'ght-long rnn mediate or the distant future ferences In the Fardo Palace COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must beat the rwme and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted tor publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views ot the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Physicians for K-A Bill To the Editor: Recent writ ings of opponents of medi care under Social Security, from letters in the MT to the June Reader's Digest, have tried, among other things, to convey the impression that the medical profession is al most solidly arrayed against the administration program. As a matter of fact, that is far from the case. Moreover, evidence multi plies that many among the opposition have not read the King-Anderson bill for them selves but are merely par- roting the AMA's shopworn propaganda, much of which is highly inaccurate and mis leading. "One hundred and forty physicians associated with the Faculty of Medicine at Co lumbia University have split with the American Medical Association's stand on pro viding health care for the aged through Social Secur ity," reported the New York Times on May 13. The Times article further stated that these 140 physicians, who are on the staffs -of medical schools affiliated with the Co-lumbia-Presbytcria:i Medical Center, were among 500 Co lumbia faculty members who formed a committee to sup port the King-Anderson bill. Dr. Sidney S. Lee, general director, Beth Israel hospital, Boston, declared in a letter to the Times, 514: "Organ ized medicine, regrettably, does not feel responsive to what is in the public inter est .. . Fortunately, many of the real leaders of the pro fession the teachers, key medical planners, as well as many physicians who have no voice in the inner councils of the American Medical Asso ciation - understand the needs and are actively en deavoring to support con structive action." And Dr. Lee went on to say: "The Federal Adminis tration's program in this mat UNDEVELOPED AREA i of that arid, poor, and until recently at least, tight-lipped land' All one can say is that the Generalissimo's system of rule cannot continue as it has. This hardly surprising, for his advent to power was funda - menially an interruption of a gathering sea-change in Spanish social and intellectual life. Franco has presided over a truce, not over a peace or a contest. If he has ruled essentially by fear it has not been just fear of his police, but fear on all political sides of another blood bath. This climate of passion not spent but restrain ed by an act of will soaks through the pores even of the foreigner residing in any Spanish town. It explained why a man almost as unpopu lar as the Communists could remain in power-that and the fact that "Franco lives at the division line between the par ties." For a long time it has seemed to nuny people that when the day came that Army. Church and Falanee united. Franco would be through. J-'.wn if that day has not yet come. Franco has now arrived at a well known cross roads that most autocratic re- ter is on the side of the an gels: it is directed at en abling people t obtain med ical care in their latter years by paying for it during their earning years . . . without dictating the choice of phy sician or how the physician will treat his prtient." The eminent medical au thority and author, Dr. How ard A. Rusk, also stated in a Times article, 527: "The wide spread recognition of the inadequacy of the Kerr Mills program . . . has prompt ed a plethora of proposals on medical tre for the aged. Many : jalth and welfare or ganizations such as the Amer ican Nurses association, ths American Public Welfare as sociation, National Associ ation of Social Workers, Am erican Public Health associ ation and Group Health asso ciation of America favor the Social Security approach ad vocated by President Ken nedy." Many other physicians throughout the country, in dividually and in groups, ara rallying in support of the) King-Anderson bill as the best medicare program offered. Arnold Eugene Jenny, Rogue Valley " lanor, Medford. Submits Poem To The Editor: I am sub mitting this poem, hoping you will find it worthy of spaed in your Communications col umn. "An American Prayar" Lord help me in this world of sin, And please God, help my fel low men. Show us the way, oh Lord above, With your eternal light of love. Your guiding light, so wt may see And know, this animosity That rankles deep within our souls. Is seed that grow into death tolls. And agonizing screams of pain, Of the boys, who have lain Immersed in their own life blood. Scarlet mingled wilh the mud Of battlefields, where bullets rain, Where precious lives are lose in vain. Bewildered, eyes; bewildered youth; Who dies, ere he learns the truth . . . Where there is war, no peace can be. He gave his life so futilcy. Help us to know, Oh Lord above. Eternal peace will come with love. Help us, Oh God, this peace to win, America's Prayer tonight. Amen. Gertrude H. McLean, Eastwood Village, Cave Junction, Ore. Will Need Aid To The Editor: I hope Mr. Kennedy gets his medical aid bill in a hurry. BROTHER, is he going to need it. He's go ing lo need it for 180 million Americans. He is going to need all the doctors, nurses, hospitals and money in Am erica to cure a sick Govern ment, a sick business and a very tired and sick New Deal in 1964, if the first half of hi" administration is a sample oi what we are going to get. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Break i must be facing the question: to get tougher or more len- lent. Which posture will lead to order and Dolilical lone- j evily? Right now he seems to be trying the tactics of a combination of both. This is la fine art, but not necessarily lasting one. Last week President d Gaulle proposed constitution al changes to help ensure a stable succession when his own reign ended in France. Franco has not done this be cause he is himself the Span ish constitution. Future sta bility in Spain can hardly be guaranteed merely by capping what would be left of Franco's system with -a crown on the handsome head of Prince Juan Carlos. This is why not all Spanish liberals are thirsting for a quick end to the Cauriillo's regime. Many fear a vacuum more than they fear Franco, and their most fearful thought is that, whatever his air of assurance. Franco himself doesn't know how a vacuum would be filled, how the tran sition would be made But some kind of re birth lies ahead for Spain, and any one who respects its people, so astonishingly free of self pity, can only pray it will he an easy delivery. (Distributed 1962. by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) O
