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Newspaper Page Text"Everyont In Southern Oregon Beads The Mali Tribune'1 published Dally except Saturday bjr MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St., Plv772-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverlislnS Memeer GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR., Mns Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport. Editor OLIVE SfARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Clrculalion Mir; An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medtord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance, Copy I He Dallv and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Dally and Sunday II moa. BOO Dailv and Sunday 3 moi. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 14 20 Bv Carrier In Advance Medlord, Ashlnnd. Central Point. Eifll Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv. er. Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year glR OO Daliv and Sunday 1 mo. 1 SO Camei and Dealera Copy 10c All Term! Caih InAdvance nTfirlal Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson count jr United Press International Full Leased Wire U P 1 Tejephoto Newjpicturea "MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS A ARSOCI ATES. Olflces In New York. Chi rago Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland, Denver ofr rlWSAl NATION A I EDITORIAL '8,6T'gM niniinH.mi Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from tht files of Tha Mall Trlbunt 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 8, 1952 (Tuesday) More than 15,500 troops have been flown to and from Tokyo by United Air Line since the start of Korean hos tilities, according to local UAL officials. Tryouts for the Footlighl er's melodrama, "Only an Orphan Girl" continues; di rector is Ruth Kilbourn. 20 YEARS AGO July 8, 1942 (Wednesday) Maj. Gen. Charles II. Ger hard! arrives to assume com mand of 91st Infantry divi sion at Camp While; after in spection of the Army camp, he declares that the "site is perfect." A. Z. (Tubby) Dean has a new answer for the old ques tion upon being greeted, "What cha know?" lie replys "It's a government secret." 30 YEARS-AGO July 8. 1932 (Friday) Fifty members of the Chris tian Endeavor slop In Med ford en route lo Crater Lake and Oregon Caves on a spe cial Southern Pacific train from California. Approximately 150 dele gales expected here this week for the annual state conven tion of rural mail carriers. 40 YEARS AGO July 8, 1922 (Saturday) From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "In an other five years there will be nothing left on earth to regulate and reform, and then the solar system will get a long-needed going over so it will run as it should run." Locnl merchants plan to erect a S7.000 home for dis play at Jackson county fair; more carpenters needed al fair grounds. SO YEARS AGO July 8, 1912 (Monday) Distribution of patent medi-j rine samples has resulted in another narrow escape from death in Medford; small girl picked up some medicine samples and, thinking them candy because of their sugar coating, ate most of them, What's Your I.Q.? Nina or Ian correct Is auoarior; coven or aight It otcellcnt; five ot sis is good. 1. Is the diameter o( the sun approximately RR.41, flfl. 410, or 864,000 miles? 2. The saying "Beware Ihe Ides of March" is from which of Shakespeare's plays? 3. What was tin name o( the sword received by King Arthur from Ihe Ladv of the Lake? 4. Do ynti assnriate the word "gerrymander" with fishing, politics, hunting nr astronomy? 5. With what person from the Bible do you connect "a coal of many colors?" fi. Who were the two dsugh Ins of King Henry VIII of England? 7. From what country did the United Stales acquire Florida' 8. What President, In his young manhood, followed the profession of surveying? fl. From what animal does the fur called broadtail eome? 10. For what I a nepho-1 Scope used? Answers: 1. 184,000 miles. 2, "The Tragedy ef Julius Caesar." S. Excalibur. 4. Poli tics, t Joseph. S. Oueen Mary, nd Qa.en Elisabeth. 7. Spain. I Ooorgo Washington. . Babe 'mb. 10. To moaaura vsloelly sf doud moTomonl. V-ASSOCIATION bunUAV, JULY 8, lHbJ An Act What should be a doctor's course of action after he has determined, to the best of his ability, that a patient of his is incurably ill and has only a short time to live? This is probably as serious a decision as any that a physician is called upon to make in his daily practice, and it is an unenviable position to be in. Traditionally, his duty has been thought to be that he should expend every effort to keep the patient alive as long as his skill and medical science will permit. A fractional segment ever, nas argued wan growing insistence in re cent years that euthanasia should be performed, that the patient, upon his considered and rational request, should be painlessly put to death, much as any other organism is extended coup de grace to end its suffering. Now, a prominent doctor, with indisputable credentials to make his statement, has told his colleagues that consideration should be given to an alternative between the two extremes. Dr. Edward H. Rynearson, chairman of the endocrinology and metabolic section of the Mayo clinic (Rochester, Minn.), wrote in a recently published article that in the event of a hopele situation, "the kindest thing to do" is simply let the patient die naturally. This step should be allowed to happen, the doctor stipulates, only when all curative treat ment has been exhausted, when the patient is suffering great pain, and when the patient and his family know that no human remedy is avail able. Dr. Rynearson hastened to explain that he was not "trying to play God." Rather, he said, "It's the others who would prolong the inevitable who are playing God. According to wire service accounts, Dr. Ry nearson's rather bold pronouncement is gather ing support from spokesmen from his profession. Dr. George F. Lull, president of the Illinois State Medical society, for one, said in response: "Personally, I believe often we keep cases alive too long when it doesn't do any good. "I don't believe in hastening the end of ter minal cancer patients, but if they were allowed to die in peace everybody would be better off." Another, Dr. John R. Hogle, president of the Vermont Medical society, said, "I've always been very frank with my patients. If you have a hope lessly ill patient and everything has been done, do you just let him coast? "I, personally, am inclined to do just that and 1 have to make the Understandably, the elicited comment from A Protestant spokesman, Dr. Edgar S. Chand ler, executive vice president of the Church Feder ation of Greater Chicago, said: "Allowing a terminal cancer patient to die would be justified with the consent of the pa tient or his family. The doctor is doing some thing abnormal in trying to keep the patient alive." A Roman Catholic bishop from Boston also supported the position, lie said: "We must take the ordinary means to pre serve mo, mil noi me extraordinary means, me ordinary means of saving a patient's life should be exhausted." The only negative church response came from a .lewish rabbi, who said, says that we must attempt prolongation of life it it is at all possible, even under the most diffi cult circumstances." One's nearly instinctive reaction to Dr. Rv- nearson's proposal, particularly if some one near and dear were involved, would be to shout, "No, no, fight to keep him alive. Do everything you can." But that statement would come from a health person to whom hie, for fails, is still indescribably precious. It would not truly reflect the point of view of someone lying in pain in the shallow of death. And in this instance, it is the latter point of view that should have precedence. Isn't it clear that the wishes of the afflicted one should be respected? For to him life might have become an intolerable burden that it would be no kindness to keen him alive. Hut if one grants that point, he is loincallv bound, it would seem, to go one step further and support the concept of euthanasia as well. Dr. Rynearson has had courage to move in that direction, but perhaps he has not gone far enough. If he is now emotionally and intellectu ally committed to letting terminal patients die as soon as they can, the doctor is actually closer to the concept of mercy-killing than he is to the traditional position of keeping all patients alive at all costs. Does it not seem more humane, somehow, that i rather than withholding his skill so that a pa-1 tient may die, a doctor should -at the request Of the patient aild With the Consent of the faill- ily summon all his knowledge and ability to 1 t c I ....... -r. i ., ; perform one final, merciful act of compassion.' G. 11. B, I of Mercy of the profession, how ess to decision. doctor's statement has religious leaders. Jewish tradition V I all its hazards and pit-1 "You're Getting Ts Be At Bad At Those Democrats" Today Cr Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann lei Ne York Herald Tribune Syndlrata THE THREE NEW AFRICAN STATES Three more African slates have just achieved independ ence - Algeria from France, Rwanda and Burundi from Belgium. There are great differ ences among them. Algeria is in North Africa and has been part of the Mediter ranean civili Lippmann zation for centuries. Rwanda and Burundi are primitive central African territory which, except as part of Ger man East Africa before the first World war and then as a Belgian trust territory, has had no important contact with the advance of civiliza tion. Yet the three states have one critical thine in common. Their future prospects of pro gress and prosperity are inti mately bound up with their success in working out a new relationship of cooperation with their former overlords. Algeria cannot hope to pros per without France. Rwanda and Burundi can hardly hope to survive without Beligum. If we pause lo think about this, it is a remarkable thing lo be saying. Only two years ago almost' everyone would have supposed that the liberation of a colony meant an irreparable ' reak between the new slate and the old im perial power. What is more, it seemed probablj that the new state would try to make a decision between the Soviet Union and the United States and that this would rause a world tension and disturb ance. e e VONE of this has happened. 1 Why? Because. I would say, we have had the exper ience of the Congo, and we have seen it demonstrated by Ihe UN Inlervet tion that, un believable as II once seemed to so many, a rich, disorder ly, newly liberated territory can be Insulntod from Ihe cold wiir. Two years after Dag Ham marskjnlrt's daring interven tion in the Congo, there are no Russian forces and no American forces there, and the Belgians who fled from Ihe disorders are reluming in large numbers. They are re- uiiiung nccause mere is no other nation which is quali fied as are the Belgians to provide the know-how for running the ("onco. The troubles in the Congo are not over and ther. are tin),. tl,l .1.. ki break down into cn-n and tri- bal war. Yet two years of ex perience w I t h independence have been showing in prac tice that a new relationship between ihe Congolese and the Belgians Is necessary, and that it is possible. Ry losing their privileges as Ihe ruling the "Belgians has ' emerged ,r,,m ,h' "W resentments and i""' hrrn 'vident. IN T1IK liberation of Rwanda and Burundi the lessons of the Congo are being applied The Belgian security ones are not compelled to leave immedialely. II is believed that the kingdom of Burundi may ak them lo leave rather soon. The kin,j w ill do well to go slowly lest he drive out i with Ihe few hundred Belgian i troops the Belgian specialists and technicians who are India-1 pensable. Ihe republic of Rwanda will, it is said, ask Belgians to t- on. in" ritory from the start a rep- resenlative of the Secretary onrrai n ten expert ad- visers are already there Thr u not cojns , bf onf iay hopa Hower acuum as m.4 MLDtOhD in the Congo. If so, the tech nical assistance of the Bel gians should avert an admin, istrative collapse. F u r t h ermore, the Belgian govern ment has offered to continue to support the two budgets which have a combined deficit of 50 per cent, and also to continue to support (S9 mil lion) the extraordinary bud get for economic develop ment. No one can predict a bril liant future for these very poor and very backward states. But it Is some comfort to be able to feel that every body concerned, the great powers and the Belgians and many of the other African govermenls, have learned from experience, and are not making the same mistakes in 1P52 which were made in 1960. e TN ALGERIA after the vote - for independence there is the possibility of a conflict between two factions of the Moslems. This would not be unusual at the end of a suc cessful war cf independence. But it would be an embarras sing nuisance for everybody. The Algerians have won the respect of the whole world by the discipline and fortitude in face of hideous provocation which they have displayed. They sholud not allow them selves to break down now no matter how strained their nerves. They should not let themselves break down just when they have reached their goal. The pressure of circumstan ces will be against a break down into an Algerian civil war. The Algerians themselv es are war-weary. An Alger ian civil war is against the in terests of Tunisia and Moroc co, which must look forward now to an alliance with an in dependent Algeria of the Ma greri, that is, of the western Arabs. II Is also against the interest of Egypt. For the dis sident Algerians could get no support anywhere, except possibly though not certainly from Russia and of course. Just for the hell of it but not much of it, from Red China. It is hardly necessary to say that France and the whole Western alliance will support and give a warm welcome lo the 1 e g 1 1 i mate provisional government of Algeria. Medical Hypnosis Seminar Planned Seattle - il'PP - Doctors, dentists and trial lawyers will attend a five-day seminar here Aug. 12 on hypnosis, truth serum and lie detection. Experts on the subjects from California. Chicago and Washington will teach the visiting professional men and women about the latest find ings in medical hypnosis, un der w hich 3.V000 opi raiiims were pcrformc! lat year without an anaesthetic fatal ity This part of the seminar will be conducled by Dr. William J. Bryan Jr.. l.ns Angeles, founder of the American Institute of Hyp nosis Medical hypnosis was ap proved by the American Medi cal Association in 1958. Medford Youth Wins College Scholarship Robert Mr and G. Wright, son of Mrs Robert C. 0 North Orange St., Wright. Medford, has been awarded a non competitive scholarship to the University of San Fran cisco for the coining year. Wright is a graduate of St. Mary's High school. Only one other Oregon youth received a scholarship. James F. No. a gradual of Sarred Heart Academy in Klamath Falls. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. Washington Report By William (ci United fetur Syndicate SEIZING FOR HIS OWN Washington - In his search for the 1964 Republican presi dential nomination Gov. Nel son HocKeiei 1 e r of New York is n o w openly seizing for his own what has been the most basic of all national Demo cratic campaign stra e g y since Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is an insistent appeal, overriding all other c o n s i d erations, to minority groups and to the big cities which so strongly influence both the nomination and elec tion of any presidential con tender. ROCKEFELLER'S whole ef " fort at the 1962 Governors' conference - a tradi t i o n a 1 place for high politicking -has been In three related di rections: 1. To become the special champion of the urban centers - and more as a bipartisan friend of the city fellow than as a partisan leader. This he has done by charging the Ken nedy administration with fed eral aid policies which "short change the heavily urbanized regions." 2. To become an unrivalled pleader for civil rights. Here he has demanded programs so extreme as almost automatic ally to write off not only all the south but also, in all prob ability, most of the border states as well. (The orthodox R e p u b licans actually don't like this program, either; though ihey rarely say as much in public.) 3. To go far beyond the general Republican position on medical care for the aged. Here he has accepted the Democralic principle, so long resisted by the congressional Republicans, of health insur ance based on the compulsory tax system. llfHAT Rockefeller is doing, " assuming he is able to win the GOP nomination, is to challenge President Kennedy head-on to a 1964 presidential campaign which would amount to a contest as to who could be more "liberal'' among Ihe urban voting blocs. All political conservatism. and indeed all moderation, would be left on a pretty thin diet unless - as odd as this may now sound - Mr. Ken nedy should run in fact if not by admission as the relatively conservative candidate. It is not inconceivable that he might, should the GOP nomi nee turn out to be Rockefeller. For a Democrat lakes a far greater risk than a Republi can in deliberately saying goodbye to the south. Though the old predictably Demo cratic "Solid South" is only a memory, Republican tactics still by and large assume that anything gained in the south in a presidential year is only windfall. Democratic tactics by and large still must and do assume that anything lost in the south is something of a disaster. Moreover, a Democratic president must deal with con gressiona1 committees which, when the Democrats control Congress, are in Ihe hands of powerful southern chairmen. A Democrat, in short, usually must have the consent of at least part of the south to win. STOlt- Juggernaut 'Progress' Destroys By ERIC SEVAREID One way In go quietly in - snne is to think hard about the concept of eternity. An- V1 other way, for 'JJ i ". yone living in a megalop - olis like New j York, is lo think hard ' about "prog- ' ??i gross." The KT ' i eerie sensa flT , 1 tion conies Li--v,Jas m'er one that srarriit true progress reached the end of its cithle some ye;irs aun and is now recoiling upon us. an unstop pable juggernaut smashing masses o human hemes back toward medieval conditions of lite. The streets are littered with cigaret and cigar butts, pa- I per w rappings, particles of food and dog droppings How j long before they become in I distinguishable from Ihe gut ters of medieval towns when slop piiils were emptied from 1 second story w indows1 1 Thuosnnds of New York women no longer attend eve ning services in their church es. They fear assault as thry walk the few sters from bus or subway station to th.ir apai iment houses. Th era of OREGON S. White And always he must have the tacit consent of most of the south really to be able to gov ern. For a Republican neither precondition necessarily pre vails. QF THIS central fact Rocke " feller is clearly aware. But the more his hand has been disclosed the more one sees the orthodox Republicans stirring in unhappiness and -already - in anger. Far more than they fear Kennedy they fear what they call "me-too" Republicanism - the adoption of Republican candidates of essentially Democratic atti tudes, Mr. Rockefeller's prccon vention campaign to date has been professionally brilliant. First he secured his right flank as far as possible by gestures to conservative Re publicans. Now he reaches out to the left for the city crowds which, in both parties, form the hard core of American liberalism. Brilliant as his maneuvers may have been, however, one thing is certain. If he con tinues to identify himself pri marily with urban liberalism, the orthodox Republicans will do their best to try to build an unbrcachable wall of separ ation between him and the presidential nomination. In the Day's News By FRANK At Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where our Dec laration of Independence was adopted and signed 186 years ago, President Kennedy made a great speech last week in which he called for an INTER nalional Declaration of IN-TER-dependence with a united Europe. HE TOLD his hearers: "For 186 years this doc trine of NATIONAL independ ence has shaken the globe and it remains the most powerful force anywhere in the world today ... If there is a single issue that DI VIDES the world today, it is INDEPENDENCE inde pendence of Berlin, of Laos, of Vict Nam , . . the longing for independence behind the Iron Curtain . . . the peace ful transition to independ ence in those newly emerging areas whose troubles some people hope to exploit." Africa, for example where everybody wants to be independent and able to thumb his nose at everybody else. WHICH is to say: ' Independence is a great thing. But In this modern world If we're to have INDE PENDENCE of thought and aclion among individuals who have a common concept of liberty, we must first have IN TERDEPENDENCE among nations and peoples whose ideals are similar. IN UNION, President Kenne dy was suggesting yester day, there is STRENGTH but in LACK of union there is weakness. He was further suggesting that unless nations with like ideals can learn to work togelher there can be no such thing as individual liberty. TN HIS call for an interna tional declaration of in terdependence. JFK was speaking directly to the na tions included in Western Europe's much - talked - of Common Market. The Com mon Market is an example the medieval footpad has re- 1 turned, and, as in the dark i ages, the cry for help brings : no assistance, for even grown men know they would be cut down before the police could ; arrive. A thousand years ago in Europe acres of houses and 1 shops were demolished and their Inhabitants forced else- j where so that great cathedrals ; could be built. For decades I the building process soaked up all available skilled la-1 bor: for decades the towns people stepped around pits in j j the streets, clambered over ropes and piles of timber, breathed mortar dust and slept and woke to the crash-. inq noise of construction. The I cathedrals, when finished. stood half alf - empty six days! bumper with automobiles a i abandoned hope Their autor but most of them at ; long as locomotives carrying j ities may listen, but thev d beauty. Today, the an average of k.-,mi t- v,.,. i,... .u: a week. , ... , I ugly office skyscrapers go up. - " ..... uir ' imi.tuii iii.iiii-. an- obliterated, their inhabitants forced away, and year af'er year New Yorkers step around the pits, slunible through the wooden catwalks, breathes the fine mist of dust, absorb the hammering noise nigni ann nay, ana leiepnone in vain for carpenter or plumber And the skyscrapers Sand empty to dai andj OTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Dear Potluck Editor: You asked to be kept post ed on the progress of my cam paign to win the heart of Pop py LaTour, so I thought I'd drop you a few lines and bring you up to date. She's a wonderful girl and if anything, I'm more smit ten than ever, but I can't in all honesty say tha we make a perfectly matched pair. Our interests, unhappily, seem to diverge a bit. I asked her at dinner one night last week, for exam ple, if she liked music. She said, "Why sure, hon ey, watcha think I am?" So the next night I called for her and took her lo a con cert of the San Francisco symphony orchestra. It was really a splendid affsir and I guess all the elite of the city were there. Anyway, I've nev er seen so many diamonds and furs. Well, when the music be gan I noticed that Poppy was sitting there with a frown on her face as though she wasn't really sure what was coming off. But after the orchestra was about half way through the program, they began to play a Beethoven symphony, and Poppy, to my acute embar rassment, really came alive. JENKINS of independence. These na tions want to stand on their own feet. They want to be able to resist aggression. But the Common Market is also an example of INTER dependence. Belgium, for ex ample, can't be independent all by itself. It is INTER-de-pendent with the other na tions of the Common Mar ket. President Kennedy was say ing to the nations of Western Europe that if THEY want lo remain independent and if WE want to remain independ ent we must recognize that our interests are INTER-de-pendent. He hit upon a good idea. Crater Inn Mofel Sale Is Announced Sale of the Crater Inn mo lel, 841 South Riverside ave., Medford. was announced last week by Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Schei, owners. The 45-unit motel has been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schmall of Madera, Calif. The sale was effective July 3. The Schmalls will move here this month. They plan to operate t h e motel themselves. The new owners do not plan any major changes in the motel at this time, Schei said. The personnel will re main the same. Mr. and Mrs. Shei, who plan to continue living in the valley, will remain at the mo tel a few more weeks. Schei, in announcing the sale, ex pressed his appreciation and gratitude for the support lo cal residents have given him and his wife since they built the motel in 1948. The Schmalls have been fruit growers in the Madera and Fresno areas in Califor nia for many years. They have two sons. Dennis, who will enter Medford High school this fall as a senior, and Darryf, a senior in so ciology and public adminis tration at Peppcrdine college In Los Angeles. seven nights a week. This is progress. At the rush hour, men out run old women for the avail able cab; the strong bodily crush hack the weak for a place to sland in suffocating bus or subway car. no less destructive of human dignity than a cattle wagon in the time of Peter the Greal. When the buses and subway cars began, they represented progress. ' t.rcai parking garages are , built, immediately filled wilh cars: the traffic remains as he fore, and that is progress The renowned New York construc tionist, Robert Moses, builds ! nunnreds of miles of access highways, and they are at I once crammed bumper to -n uithsp ni ann I Tvi-n nil. i - man beings apiece. Parkin- i Snn s general law applies here too. tor vehicles will always ; The secret, terrible fact increase in direct proportion, i? that progress, in all meas to the increase in spaces to urablr terms of human effort, hold them. So skyscrapers and grace, and self - respect end-o hoxlike apartment houses will ed some years ato in the great uiirese as me money 10 oui.n then increases So fnolpads win increase tne number of possible victims increases Put it s precress 1 am not surpi isr d that e She began to pop her gum and snap her fingers in timet with the music. On top of that, she began to wiggle in her seat in an absolutely scan, dalous manner. Gosh, I didn't know what to do. People were craning their necks .to stare at her, and even the conductor turn ed around to look searchingly in our direction a couple of limes. I just slunk down in my scat, closed my eyes and held on. It was the longe. . 20 min utes of my life. When the conductor finally lowered his baton at the end of the symphony, there was a little space of silence befora the audience began to ap plaud. Right in the middle of it -you could have heard a pin drop - Poppy spun around to me ecstatically and burst out, "Man, wasn't that the craziest thing you've ever heard?" I could have died! I had sufficier 'y recovered a few nights later so that when I discovered there was a new art exhibit uptown in one of the galleries I asked her if she would like to go. She got kind of a wary look in her eye, but she finally said she would. It was an absolute catastro phe. The exhibit was a collection of abstract and expressionis ts modern paintings done by a group of artists in the bay area. There wasn't a represenla. tional picture in the whole bunch. I could see that Poppy was getting more and more con fused as we wp'ked through the gallery looking at tha paintings. She didn't say anything, but she kept tilting her head from side to side as though she were sure there was some thing there to see if she could only get the right perspective on it. Once I thought thai she was going to throw her neck out of joint when she tried to look at a particular painting upside down. There was a little crowd gathered in front of Ihe last painting in the show when we walked up to it. It was a big gaudy thing, done in darn near every col or in the rainbow. People were all standing there wilh various expres sions of deep concentration on their faces looki g at it. Suddenly, alter she had puzzled over it for a minute, Poppy began to giggle. I tried to shush her up, but I couldn't. The giggle got loud er and louder until finally she couldn't control herself any longer and she burst out laughing as hard as she could. Everyone was looking at her with open r-ouths. She clutched my arm for support, she was laughing so hard. "You know what?" she said, choking on every syllable. "No, what Poppy?" I said weakly. "That thing looks just like you did Ihe da, I spilled the blue-plate special on you . . . only . . . only . . . you looked better!" she gasped out. Then she just screa.ned with laugh ter louder than before. Somehow I managed In get us out of the gallery be fore the lynch mob formed. One thing about it, Mr. Edi tor, I certainly am exper iencing more things since I met Poppy. But at times I slill think I should have gone to sea. Sincerely. Earnest M. Canlwright Cities English writer. Mcrvyn Jones, concludes after traveling throughout Russia and the United States that ordinary Americans and ordinary Rus sians are remarkably alike in at least two respects in ! the sheer nhvsical misery 1 they are forced In endure in ! their cities and in the sheer j ugliness of jumhled signs and ; billboards being spread across their once fair countryside, j ! They are alike in a third respect. As Jones writes in "Horizon" magazine, both peoples complain remarkably little. Russians don't complain because they don't expect gov ernment authorities to listen. I American dwellers in our megalopolises don't complain i because they have long since irnnt,. th. ....ut, iiitM aui nui lea Hiw helpless. A citv like New York ; is ungovernable. ant-hill cities The juggernaut of time and effort has turned around and is now destroying the recent progressive past, (Distributed 1962. by ' Tha Hall Syndicate. Ine.)