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4 A THURSDAY. JUNE A. """Everyone In Southern Oregon Rcs.li The Mail Tribune" Published Daily excent Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Xir t-.Jh1772-l ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bu. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mr. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor UARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporti Editor OLIVE S TARCHER. Women'l Editor DALE E R1CKSON. Circulauon Mgr. ' An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medtord. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 snmsruiPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year S1J.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Dairy and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medlord, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Pnlnt JnrlcsnnviMe. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year $1B.OO Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1..10 Carrlei and Dealers Copy 10c All JTerms Cash inAdvance Official Paper of 'city of Medford" Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturea MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS ii ASSOCI. ( ATES. Offices In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland, Denver f' NIWJPAMl rUlLISHttl ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EOUOKIAl Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot Trig Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 28, 1952 (Saturday) The St. Mary's school build ing's 44-year service as a high school and convent is soon to end; permit taken io demolish building. Collision between a horse and trailer on Crater Lake highway causes rider to be hospitalized for minor inju ries. 20 YEARS AGO Juna 28. 1942 (Sunday) Medford School Superin tendent E. H. Hedrlck named to state school group's war emergency committee. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Mer maids and mermen of the city flocking In the Applcgale and lniptiinR themselves therein. 30 YEAR SA GO June 28, 1932 (Tuaiday) Carrie Jacobs Bond, com poser of "The End of a Per fect Day," and "I Love You Truly," visits in Medford. Permits issued by city build ing department valued at $3, 595 during June, up $580 from previous year. 40 YEARS AGO June 28, 1922 (Wednesday) Petitions asking for recall of Jackson county sheriff filed with county clerk along with petitions for the nomination of D. M. Lowe torun for the office. 50 YEARS AGO June 28, 1912 (Friday) . Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company sells plans in Medford, Jacksonville, Cen tral Point, Gold Hill and Rogue River to Home Tele phone company of Medford for undisclosed sum. A. J. Edwards wins fea tured 30-mile, automobile race here with time of 52.44 min utes; description of race run by cur finishing in second place says "His engine gut hot and his radialur went dry but on and on he went, fight ing gamely to hold his place, until he lost a tire. Then a quick change was made and he got back in time to finish in second place." What's Your I.Q.7 ?4ina or ten correct il superior; even or eight is excellent; five or lis. it good. 1. Name the Chairman of the Republican National Com mittee. 2. In a crap game, when the caster's point is 4, what is it called? 3. According to the Biblical account, what sort of wood was used In building Noah's Ark? 4. Docs light travel more slowly throuRh glass than through air? 5. What rank is next below Lieutenant General in Hie United Slates Army Which came first in med - Dractlcc. vaccinatum or ical practice anaesthesia? TO 7. what famous naval ves-jWiii consider American concessions mai go pari sei was nicknamed - old iron.!xv.,y toward meeting the needs of a new United "'d8.S'can a person go longer States-Panamanian relationship. without food or without , ..... ,lrFp? , . . : .u. IPIHAIU and Kennedy, for example, already chandise Mart? 10. What sort of commod ities have a warp and a woof? Answers: 1. Beprntativ William E. Milltr. 2. Little Jo. 3. Gopher wood. 4. No. 5. Major General. 6. Vaccina tion, 7. Th frigl Constitu tion. 8, Food. 9. Chicago. 10. Textiles. Historic Vote In Algeria The vote in Algeria is the most important in the history of the French possession though the outcome has never been in doubt. The ballots come in two colors, white for Oui, or (in Arabic) Kab-el, or (in Kabyle) Kag-lah in any event Yes and rose for Non. Few rose colored bal lots will be cast. About four million voters are expected to turn out at the fioOO polling stations throughout Al geria. The six legally approved parties includ ing Communist and Socialist parties literally ex ported from metropolitan France all call for a Yes vote. On the eve of the election, authorities were having difficulty finding attendants for the 70 voting stations in European Algiers. It seemed possible that there would be no voting in the European section of Oran, and 'virtually all elec toral lists had been destroyed in Bone. The Secret Army Organization (OAS), oddly enough, disdained to form a political party. There is no all-European party, which De Gaulle has said he regrets. TPHE outlook in Algeria is not completely pre- dictable, although certain guidelines have been set out. A declaration of independence will follow the referendum, probably in five days. Full authority will not be assumed until the election of an Algerian assembly and the forma tion of a government, sometime after July. Meantime, the country will be governed by a transitional executive council. This is no collec tion of Moslem Beni-Oui-Oui's (yes men). It is dominated by the Front de la Liberation Na tional (FLN). Only three of its 12 members are Europeans. The French army will stay in Algeria, in spite of what the OAS has been telling the Europeans. (There has, however, been an unseemly anxiety to escape on the part of the European police.) Within a year's time the army will be phased down to the level of 80,000 provided in the Evian agreements of March 18.' MEANTIME, the heavily fortified frontiers with Tunisia and Morocco will be opened. And the guerrilla FLN army, intact in its willayas or regional commands, will gradually be brought into the country. A great outburst of from the Moslems. But there could be recrimina tions and revenge. Already Moslem soldiers who served in the French army harkis have been tortured and killed. More than half of Algeria s Jews have left the country. Inasmuch as many of these were deeply in volved in OAS terrorism, their departure is at tributed to panic. The official Moslem attitude i toward Europeans who ment of June l.i: "Jnrlay the Algerian people hold out their hand to you and offer you, without passion, association with The OAb, or part of earth program. Europeans leaving Algeria are offered 20 litres (5 gallons) of gasoline to burn all their furniture and possessions. THE outlook in France is even more specula- tive. OAS is telling the departing Europeans to continue "the real revolution in the homeland. France is receiving the pieds noirs (black feet, or Europeans born in Algeria) at the rate of 9,000 a day. It is providing housing and allowances for them, but metropolitan France is not everywhere well disposed toward them. The absorption of the ex-settlers into the French community will be at the very least a chancy process. E.R.R. Canal Zone Negotiations 1'erscverance is more prevailing than vio lence; and many things come when they are together, yield themselves im iulii.il t-jl-on little. Kv littln " " 1 n . , ' . i t nis ooservauon oy me uitok moralist t m tarch is being applied to good purpose by the United States and Panama in trying to iron out "points of dissatisfaction" in provisions of the Panama Canal treaty. Talks between representa tives of the two countries are scheduled to start soon, based on an agreement reached by Presi dent Kennedy and Panamanian President Rober to F. Chiari, during Chiari's visit to Washington. THEIR joint commimioue acknowledged that the "two friendly nations are provisions wn.cn are noi limy sausiactory in one of the parties in this case Panama. What Panama wanted was renegotiation of the 1955 Panama Canal treaty, which actually , . . - , . . ' 1-1. was me second revision the United States "in construct, operate, and canal, plus jurisdiction Canal one. Immediate revision of the 1!),"),") treaty is out of the question; revision can hardly be under- ! t;,(in mUj ,,lans for ;, .... , . ' , i tinner siiuiy are compioieti. mu me negotiators have found a basis standing problems: the flying of Panamanian flags in the Zone; encouragement of greater Panamanian sales to the Zone ; equal labor oppor tunities and wages for Panamanians employed by the U.S. canal company; withholding of in come taxes of non-American workers on behalf of Panama. E.R.R. jubilation is expected set forth in the Y LN state their effort to rebuild. it, continues its scorched which cannot be over , i ' -. i ,. , n1 bound by treaty ... ,i , . , oi a iim.t accord giving perpetuity" the right to maintain over the the isthmian 10-mile-wide new sca-lfVCl canal 11 OW . , , ., ... for solution of four out' "You Don't Understand What Is Right And Matter of Fact to New York Herald THE ODDS IN THE STRAIT Washington The Presi dent is keeping his own coun sel about the threatened cri sis in the For mosa Strait. But il is now clear that his highest advis o r s in the State and De fense Depart ments favor the most vig o r o u s re sponse, even AUnp including the use of Ameri can military power, to any Communist attack on the off shore islands. After greatly strengthening their forces in the Formosa Strait coastal areas, the Chi nese Communists have now made their first public com ment on the threatened crisis. This long article, disseminat ed by the official news agen cy, contains nothing but a rather shrill warning against an attempted return to the mainland by Chiang Kai-shek. Thus it reinforces the argu ment that the Communist troop movements have a de fensive motive. No light what ever is cast, unhappily, on the much more imporlanl ques tion, whether ihe Communist defense includes a spoiling attack on the exposed Nation alist positions on Quemny Is land, only five miles off the coast. see AS THIS question is still entirely open, the practi cal factors of the new prob lem in the Formosa Strait de serve careful thought. The political factors can be brief ly summarized. On the one hand. Ihe President voted in the Senate against inclusion of the off shore islands in the Formosa defense treaty, and question ed tile military need to hold these islands during the cam paign. On the other hand -and fiir more important the general political situation in Asia is still exceedingly frag ile. Passive U. S. toleration of a successful Communist aggression in the Formosa Strait will therefore spread dismay and demoralization in every friendly and uncommit ted Asian nation. The Asian repercussions .win he exceedingly dangcr- i"s - Bl the feedback into the Berlin crisis will he even more dangerous, if anything. For an argument is plainly going on in Moscow about the degree of U. S. resolution to defend Berlin. If we are not ready to stand up and he counted on the offshore is-1 lands, where the situation is ' favorable to us. Russian lead-1 lis like Marshal Malinovsky will automatically infer lhat '. we cannot possibly be ready to stand up and he counted ! nl Berlin, where the local situation is most unfavorable.' ,,.,. mihl ,iU.tors whrn : 1 .im-fuiiy studied, are seen j to he more complex than thej 1 i'"1;''' ';' The- situation- ! in the Strait is favorable to us. hut it is hy no means Ihe same as in 19!S8, when thej last Communist attack on Quemny was successfully re pulsed To liemn with, a quite dif ferent kind of Communist at tack has to be anticipated, if such an attack indeed devel ops In 19S8. Peking expected Quemoy In fall at the first trumpet blast, like the walls of Jericho When litis did not happen, an attempt was made to sir;ini:le Quemoy by feeble air action and an ineffieent. ill-prepared artillery block ade We cannot hope for thiii much luck again What must now he antici pated is far more grave The best bet is a mHssivc. inten sive artillery and air prep aration, followed by an at tempted landing as soon as air supremacy allows 'he Communists to outflank the Quemoy defenses with air dropped troops The Nation- That tfe Akrte Can SJ What Is Wrong!" By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate alist defensive positions on Quemoy are much stronger now than in 1958; but this improvement will quickly prove unavailing if and when air supremacy passes to the Communists. The air, in fact, appears to be the critical point, and there is a difficulty. In 1958, the Nationalists, flying F-86s, beat the living daylights out of the Communists, who flew somewhat superior Mig-17s. The sidewinder missiles, used at. the very end of the fight ing, contributed only margin ally to the Nationalist air tri umph. The real cause was the Nationalist pilots' superior proficiency and fighting spir it. TUD J til U DOING by the intcrroga- ion of a recent Commu nist pilot-defector, the Com munist Air Force is still very inadequately trained. It is now equipped, however, with Big-19s. These are superson ic planes so widey superior to the Nationalists' sub-sonic F-86s that no reliance can any longer be placed on the Nationalists' pilot superiority. Using large numbers of Mig l!)s. Ihe Communists might in tad allain air supremacy rather early in Ihe halllo. This means in turn that if the President wishes to stand up and be counted, he must at least be ready to use Amer ican air power to support the Nationalists if the need arises; and he must be ready to do so without a moment's delay. But unlike Korea, the situa tion in the Formosa Strait is such that we can be ab solutely certain air and naval 'ill he rnni the job. Unlike all previous com parable crises, moreover, this one finds the U. S. military leaders satisfied with the men and weapons they have in hand. Adm. Harry D. Felt has already reported that his forces in the Pacific are suf ficient to meet any emergen cy an almost miraculous new departure. Quite prob ably, the Communists will be deterred by this very fact. We can only wait and see. Brazil Congress Rejects Premier Brasilia -ilTIi- Congress re jected President Joao Goul art's appointment of Foreign Minister San Thiagn Dantas as Brazil's new premier early today by a vole of 174 to llii. Dantas was opposed by the Socialists and the Demo crats, who between them have a majority of t scats in the 32K-member ch: mher of de puties. The Labor party, to which both the president and the prospectie premier be long, holds only Ri seals in the chamber. G o ii I a r t has two more j chances to appoint a premier. If all three of hi.s choices are rejected, the Senate will ! choose ii man for ilic job Premier Tnncredo Neves resigned Tuesday In run for Congress. Probation Revoked By Circuit Court The proh.it ton of T;n lo 262 IVHa rrt . Medtord. was this werk in .liH'ksoi nmrt Ho va svn a tir in the count v Otm T Waters revoked county need to Taylor wa. accused n( vio l.ilint: Ins pronation by leav mic Hie -tatr without permis sion (io:n his pronation offi cer and failit'.c to ohtnin sain ful employment Taylor originally way placed on probation for three cars and a onc-vcar county .'ail sentence suspended lor obtaining propertv vi n d e r tiilse pic'ense? StTOOWD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OftEGOB dependence Comes Sunday for Twa More African Nations, Ready or By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst Ready or not, independence comes on Sunday to Ruanda and Urundi. Two more un- UJTj less prepared candi dates scarcely can be imagined. There are many ironies in the story of these little known former Cerman East Ncwsom African terri tories lying along the slopes of the Mountains of the Moon. In the rush toward inde pendence and Afro-Asian de termination to wipe a u t colonialism, whether these new nations can exist in har mony and prosperity becomes secondary to the issue of in dependence itself. Western nations, including the United States, anxious to avoid a charge of perpetuating colo nialism, remain silent. How Much Blood? So, in the closing hours of United Nations debate, the question only was one, in the nature of the Congo two years ago, of how much blood would be shed. Nor was it determined how the nations, poor, over-populated, based on a tribal social structure and not yet emerged from feudalism, would exist. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The New York Stock Ex change reports that the share. holding population of the United States (meaning the number of persons owning shares in American business corporations) reached a new high of 17,010,000 in 1962 - a 250 per cent INCREASE since the first stockholder census issued in 1952, a decade ago. TT ISN'T an exact head count -which is to say, repre sentatives of the New York Stock Exchange didn't call on every family in the United States, as do the takers of the population census, and ask them how many members of the family own shares of stock in American corpora tions. The count of shareholders was arrived at hy what Ihe statisticians call "proved sam pling techniques." It covered 6.278 public corporations meaning corporations whose stock is held by the public. What it boils down to is that in the United States of America approximately one person in each 11 persons of our population owns shares in America's business corpora tions. r1ELL that to Mr. Kroosh who is reported to b gravely worried because com munist Russia appears to be unable to produce enough military hardware to protect herself against her alleged enemies and at the same time to provide her people with the necessities and the comforts and the conveniences that the AMERICAN people and the people of free enterprise Western Europe enjoy. From time to time he beats his chest and shouts that eventually communist Russia will BURY free private enter prise America under the mass of communist production, but in the next breath he reveals that he is badly scared that what he is predicting so con fidently won't come to pass. WE MIGHT advise him to " quit kidding himself-and quit trying to kid his people- anrl Hn Hwav with rnmmitnism and adopt the free way of life. But LET'S NOT do it It will be much better for us to let him go his com munist wav and TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES. JETTING back to the census v of shareholders, these 6. 27ft public corporations that are owned by some 17 mil - lion Americans have outstand - ing at this present moment in history some 14 4 BILLION shares. These 14 4 billion shares had a market value at the end of lflfil of $531 BILLION a shade more than half a TRIL LION dollars. News dispatch es disclose the number nf shareholders and the esti mated value of the 14 4 bil lion shares they own adds cautioii!y that ' the recent actions in the stock exchanges have probably shrunk this fig ure subtantiallv." Hut As this is written, a sharp RALLY is under way on the New York Stock Kxehange. Hlue chips are "pacing a fur ious rally on the exchange floor." with the high speed tickers falling behind in re porting the transactions We have confidence in nnr svs tern. Let's stick to tree enter n the prise, confident thai i long run it will be FAR better for us than the communist sv1cm is for the Russians r m Together, Ruanda and Ur undi, about twice the size of Maryland, have a population of five million. In Russia, there are nine persons per square kilometer, in the United States, 22. In Ruanda - Urundi the figure is 86. The area is three- Communications Letters tj the Editor must beat ihe name and address of the writer although undei rer lain circumstances the use ot e pen P-nnvs ul initial foi oubllca tlnn is Dtirmissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica. Uon must not exceed 400 words A Matter of Time To the Editor: It i. a joy to know lhat there is in Wash ington that good friend of the veterans. Senator Maurine B. Ncuberger. Her letter speaks volumes. David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City. Ore. Dear Mr. Frisch: Thank you very much for your letter of June 19. I am appreciative of your kindly remarks in your letter to the editor regarding the need for a Veterans Administration hospital at White City. I have heard Dr. Middle ton's statement before on the difficulty of recruiting profes sional personnel. The VA ten years ago conducted a sur vey, and while that may have been the case in 1952 the ra pid population growth and development of Medford, Jo sephine and Jackson counties, and adjacent areas in north ern California would certain ly preclude this at present. Some years ago difficulty was experienced in the staffing of the VA hospital at Rose burg, but this problem has been overcome there, as I am sure it would be at Medford. I believe that it is only a matter of time until a hospi tal is established to serve the veterans 1 i v i n g in southern Oregon and northern Califor nia. Maurine B. Neubcrger United States Senator Washington, D C. No Economic Need To the Editor: If a billion aire invested all of his wealth in 5 per cent municipal bonds, his net yearly income would he S13B thousand a day, $50 million a year, tax free. America has a few billion aires, and several hundred other very rich people who do not have quite so much. Joe Kennedy, the President's father, reportedly is worth $400 million. His net 5 per cent return would be $20 mil lion a year, or $54 thousand a day. There is no economic need or social necessity for the ex istence of such immense for tunes. Their unhealthy effect on our type of government should be obvious. Neither is there any excuse or justifica tion for the fashion in which some of these fortunes were acquired. O. L. Brannaman 3970 Sierra Vista ave. Sacramento 20, Calif. More Heat Than Light To the Editor: I am not an attorney nor an expert on Constitutional Jurisprudence, but I have read the old docu ment a time or two. The uproar caused by the recent decision of the U. S. Supreme Court concerning prayer in the public schools seems to be generating more heat than light. None of the Court's critics apparently has grasped the idea that Amend ment number one has nothing to say about state rights or Privileges. Note the reading: "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of reiigion." What did Congress have to I do with the New York prayer I deal? Nothing at all. 1 Has the Supreme Court j ever declared the religious I rulings of the Mormon Church 1 in the State of ! stitutional by Utah uncon the First Amendment or any other? If i that article of the Constitution I applies to New York or any other state, why not apply to i Utah? This is not a condemnation of Utah or the Mormons. It is merely an effort to portray the inconsistancy of our pres sent Supreme Court. In my opinion the Court is trying to stretch the Constitution to make it mean what the social ist minded Mr. Warren & Co. want it to mean, as apparent ly they ha'e done before. The danger that portends is not the threat of religion in the schools but the drift of the Supreme Court toward usurping the powers of the legislative and executive de partments of our government 11 is the business of the Court to interpret the Constitution, not to rebuild it American citizens are right ly against a dictatorship of the executive. Would a dictator ship of distorted Court mlinss be any less desirable? L. G Weaver 3il Haven si O.dford quarters mountainous, has no I industry and few raw ma terials. Coffee is its only ex port, about 36,000 tons per year to supply the import needs of all its people. Those who have administer ed it under League of Nations and U.N. mandate since World War I, are anxious to get out. African neighbors are equal ly uninterested. Civil War Likely In an area noted for con flict, the chances of bloodshed in Ruanda are especially good. In the area are three ethnic groups: the Watutsi Batutsi of Ethiopian origin, the Bahutu who are related to the Bantus of the Congo, and the Batwa pygmoids, related to the pyg mies of the Congo. For at least 400 years, the giant Watutsi, about 6 feet, 6 inches in height, have held the Bahutus and the pygmies in virtual slavery, even though the Watutsi comprised only about 15 per cent of the popu lation. Only the Watutsi could own cattle, the basis of wealth and prestige. In 1959, the Bahutus, with at least the silent blessings of the Belgians, rose up against the giants, threw out King Mwami Kigeri V and sent 200,000 Watutsi fleeing with him to refugee camps in Tan ganyika, Uganda and the Con go. Today they carry out guer- XI5 Rocket Ship Unexpectedly Sets Speed Mark Edwards AFB, Calif. -tUPD Ihe X15 rocket ship unex pectedly collected a bonus world aircraft speed record of 4,159 miles an hour Wednes day while flying its highest angle of a tricky maneuver linked to re-entry from space. Five seconds of extra burn ing time by the X15's power ful 57,000-pound thrust rock et engine in a flashing flight at the fringe of space, cata pulted the ship fio miles per second. The X15, with veteran spare agency test pilot .Ine Walker at the control?, had i been scheduled to hit 4.000 miles an hour. 11 also surpass ed its expected altitude of 107,000 feet by hurtling up to 120.000 feet. After the flight. Walker said the record performance was "a real snap." Walker, 41, indicated the burning time of the engine -89 seronds instead of the scheduled 84 - might have been triggered by a "shallow" start after the X15 was launched for its 10 minute flight from a B52 bomber over Nevada. Delicate Maneuvers While streaking faster than six times the speed of sound - or 6.100 feel per second - the X15 also reached its highest angle of attack at 23 degrees in Iwo delicate maneuvers during which it tilted its nose higher than its tail in a level flight. II previously had hit 22 degrees. The angle of attack is the maneuver used by the X15 during re-entry when it flat tens out its bottom side against the earth's densening atmosphere in "a belly flop" to slow descent. ( Wednesday's attack angles were to test the maximum at tack angle that can be risked in future altitude flighus this year reaching possibly to a height of 75 miles. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A KOTED psychiatrist was mildly surprised In see a lot sitting in his waiting room, listlessly thumbing throuah. a copy cf Aesop's Fables. "What,'' inquired the psj ehiitriit a bit nervously, "can I do lor you?" "Doctor," barked t,r fox, "you've got to help jne. I'm not crazy like I'm supposed to be." . A man from Texas, visit Ins in Alaska, was the butt of considerable humor about, the fart that Txas was now only the second larceft, state in the I'mon. "True, true," conceded the Texan, "but wouldn't von half- frozen (raloots up here hk have some of our herris of cattle? Even-where ynu look In Texas, you see the finest, healthiest, most expensive cattle ever bred." "Okay." joshrrt an A'tsknn. ' Vftti'v rnt 3 f,v ad of maiic-y ratti?. Bui you've Rot nothing like our macestic, towering, snow clad mountains down there '' "Not now." shot bark the Tvan. ''but. '. e ritl -ae, son. Xt had 'embefor our cattle trampled m c."n:" Two Boy Scouts were campint in the wvd, and hid'tir undr he bi.inkets to waM off a swarm of moscr.oes. One of tr.e kic spotted a ronple of li;r.tiuns bt ssl m: ! to h.s cemp.ui.on. "We might as well give up, Terry. Those nosquitoe a: ojl MArehun for us with lanterns." hy Betun'.t Cert, rutritatril hjp Kmg 1'Mtural Synlit Nof rilla attacks against the Bahu- tus and with independence. could pose the threat of civil war. Urundi's King Mwambutsa V is anti-Belgian but he has asked his people to treat the Belgians as "friends." Mean while, he plans to add a swim ming pool to the grounds of the governor - general s man sion which he expects to oc cupy soon. Strictly rsosial By Sydney J. Harris ic- Field Enterprises Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Some people warn us of their insincerity by their at tempts at candor; such phra ses as "to tell you the truth," or "I'll be honest with you," or "to be perfectly frank," in dicate that the speaker is not normally truthful, honest or frank. Those who are fond of quoting lhat "a little know ledge it a dangerous thing" don't even have enough knowledge to realize that they arc misquoting (and thus misunderstanding) Pope's line. After men finish fighting furiously for freedom, they begin just as furiously enact ing laws to take it away from themselves. Love is a kind of homeo pathic disease: the only wav to get over the ill effects of an unsuccessful love affair is by finding another. The obstinate person thinks of himself as "firm," while the weak one thinks of himself as "flexible": perhaps the most prevalent trait in the human race is turning our vices inside out so that they resemble vir tues for our moments of self-inspection. Political groups ought to be moderate in their claims; for. as Dwight Morrow once ob served pungently, "Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought." When a man occupies a place he cannot fill, he creates turbulence simply by striking out at empty air around him. A women who tells a suitor she doesn't feel she is "good enough" for him is not giving him a compliment - she is exercising feminine tact in informing him that she doesn't care for him, and is obliquely calling him a prig. Those who resent the social order as confining or oppres sive should keep in mind Seneca"; definition: "Human society is like an arch, kepi from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts." For the majority, truth cannot be ingested in its pure form any more than medicine can; it must be flavored and watered-down to be palatable - and it lakes so long for truth to prevail precisely because its curative powers are so diluted in general consump tion. The most harmful thing a parent can do to a child is to set him up as a good ex ample for the other children in the family. The gods are more or less just in their dispensation of bounties - for instance. beautiful women are rarely endowed with a sense of humor, and thus make botches of their lives by their inability to handle men lightly and effective ly. SIS
