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Newspaper Page Text4 A MKDFORDiWTBIBUNI vwyoniin nS oulhe f n"br on Roa.ln The Malt Tribune'1 Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St.. PIr772-6m ""Bnni.'RT W HIIHL. Editor HFHU GllEY Advertiini! Manager GKKALD 1 LATHAM. But. Mgr. EK1C W ALLEN. JR., Mng. Editor EAHL H ADAMS, tiiy touor 'iiaurv PHIPMAN. TeleB. Editor mcHAHn jkwetT. SDorti Editor OLIVE SI'AHCHER, Women'! Editor DALEJRfCKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newtpaper Entered & second clasi matter at Medlnrd. Oregon, under Act 01 March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATE3 By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday--1 year $13.00 Dail7 and Sunday 6 moi. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moi. 4 25 Sunday Only One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashli-nd, Centra Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv mr Tn lent BnH nn motor routei Dolly and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Cnrrin and Dealers Copy 10c All Termg Cath inAdvance Official Paper of City of Medford OHIclal Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full l.pmeii Wire U.pl Telephoto Newsplcturea OF CIRCULATIONS Adverting Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Offices In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco, Loi Angeles Seattle. Portland, Denver NEWSPAPI BlISHERS SOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL - -s WfllMH,'.H.'.lia Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yeari ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 13, 19S2 (Sunday) Richard Reeves, 15, of Grants Pass, wins Rogue Val ley Soap Box derby in Med ford; 82 youths competed. City of Ashland awarded a special citation from the Automotive Safety foundation for its cooperation in the pro tection and convenience of pedestrians. 20 YEARS AGO July 13, 1942 (Monday) The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce asks peo ple with rooms or houses to rent to list them with the chamber so it can accommo date the hundreds of officers and enlisted personnel arriv ing at Camp White. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The cool morns of the past few days have caused the wood and fuel dealers to smile and the older barbers to warm their fingers down the necks of customers. 30 YEARS AGO A delegation of business men asks the county court to provide $1,000 to send two chamber of commerce repre sentatives to Washington, D.C., to lobby for federal funds for the railroad to Crescent City. Mcdford's Red MacDonald Is dcclnred a likely starter at end on the Oregon State foot ball squad. 40 YEARS AGO Friends of Sheriff Terrill announce that they will file an injunction restraining the county clerk from calling a special election. The Ford power exposition passes through Medford en route to Ashland where it will give a series of demonstra tions. 50 YEARS AGO Temperature reaches 94 de grees, the hottest of the year. Prof. P. J. O'Gara, recent ly returned from a visit to Crater lake, announces that cars will be able to reach the lake by the end of the week. WM's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight Is eicellent; five or sii is good. 1. Fill In the letters to -R E E. 2. Is the dangerous quality of an electric shock the volt age or the amperage? 3. How many standard time rimes are spanned by the United States? 4. The caliber of a gun re fers to the muzzle velocity, or that speed at which the bullet loaves the barrel; true or false? P. What Is the most abun dant element In the earth's crust? 0. In mounting a horse, slvtuhl one first place the ripht . or left foot In the stir rup ? 7. What statue Is on Bed loo's Island? 8. Within the boundaries of which three states docs the Cumberland Gnp National Historical park lie' 9. Which book of the Old Testament tells of Solomon and the Shulamlte maid? 10. What American General was nicknamed "Old Fuss and Feathers?" Answers; 1. Finland and Greece. 2. Amperage. 3. Sev en. 4. False (Diam, ol bore.) 5. Aluminum. 6. Left foot. 7. Statu of Liberty. 8. Ky.. Tenn., and Va. 9. Song of Solomon (Canticles). 10. Win field Scott, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1962 A Show of The Russian position be likened to what someone has called a Bikini argument: what it reveals is important; what it conceals is vital. For a number of reasons the World Congress for General Disarmament and Peace being put on in Moscow by the Russians and pacifist ultras from other lands can hardly be viewed as any thing but a show. One Lord Russell The Congress comes to a resumption of the talks at Geneva. If the new and constructive to save it for the international rostrum. The Geneva sessions reopen July 15, show closes. THE West is reported playing down the role inspection and control shchev is not expected to before a new round of hoped that they will find favor with the Geneva neutrals. The neutrals also obviously are being wooed by the demonstrations in Moscow. As one U. S. State Department spokesman puts it, the Con gress is a propaganda mechanism to demonstrate that "the Soviets are on the side of the angels in fostering world peace." However, more may trals. Russian scientists themselves are reported to be perturbed by the Soviet resumption of nu clear testing in the atmosphere last autumn. They are supposed to be particularly suspicious of gov ernment explanations of the necessity for setting off 25-megaton and 57-megaton devices. lHRUSHCHEV has ed a reputation for consistency. Nevertheless, the Congress in Moscow poses a problem in re gard to another round of nuclear tests that must have even the Soviet Premier slightly flummoxed. Washington Sovietologists find it hard to understand why the Russians haven't already re sumed testing in the atmosphere. If they open another round in the near future, any postures of peace and goodwill made at the Moscow Con gress will be heavily discounted. (There is also, of course, the possibility however remote that the Soviets would renounce future testing in re sponse to an appeal from the Congress.) AS FOR Geneva, it would appear that the min imum Vinno ia a horror nnrlprerunrlino amnno the neutrals of the West's ament; the maximum, real steps toward agree ment. The common sense point of view has been stated by Prof. Seymour Melman of Columbia university: "The greatest safety for mankind is to be obtained from the earliest, even if partial, disarmament agreements which would serve to reduce international tensions. Such effects would facilitate, in turn, the extension of the scope and workability of disarmament agreements, and their approprite inspection methods." E.R.R. Communism, Unionism Marx saw trade unions as "schools of com munism" in which proletarians would be trained to exercise their promised dictatorship. Lenin later noted that the development of the prole tariat "did not, and could not, proceed anywhere in the world otherwise than through the trade unions, through their interaction with the party of the working class." It is too bad that neither Marx nor Lenin is alive to contemplate the meaning of the seventh world congress of the International Confedera tion of r roe Trade Unions, which meet in V est Berlin. This anti-Communist confederation con sisted of labor organizations in 106 nations with 56 million members in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. A 20-nicmber delegation repre sented the AFL-CIO. ftTARX and Lenin would be shocked to see working class leaders meeting in West Ber lin in order to demonstrate their "solidarity with the persecuted peoples behind this wall and be hind the Iron Curtain." The two revolutionaries conceded, of course, that not all trade unions, at all times and in all countries, were good schools of communism. Lenin even penned a diatribe against certain western trade unions, which he described as "craft-union, narrow-minded, selfish, unfeeling, covetous, petty-bourgeois, labor aristocracy, im-perialLxtieally-minded, and bribed, and corrupted by imperialism." But neither man could have foreseen that the world trade union movement some day would de velop such a broad and fervently anti-Communist bent. E.R.R. About Fallout "There is no health hazard here in this coun try, nor will there be from our tests." Thus said President Kennedy in his press conference recent- I ly in response to a question on fallout contamina tion from nuclear weapon U.ting. E.R.R. Disarmament on disarmament might of the ultras is Britain s really as a curtain-raiser 17-nation disarmament Russians have anything oner, surely they will the day after the Moscow to be preparing new con- of the United States in of disarmament. Khru buy these certainly not nuclear tests but it is be involved than the neu never noticeably cultivat- sincerity about disarm "Quick Boil Loti Of Water" Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald THE MORAL BALANCE SHEET Washington -The latest in formation about the recent, major redeployment of the Chinese Com munist army c o m p letes a strikingly in teresting and t e 1 1 ing pat tern. In the first phase, large numbers of additional troops were moved into 8 1 - AlinD the areas along the Formosa Strait from which an attack on the Nationalist-garrisoned offshore islands might be launched. The question promptly arose whether the intention was offensive, or whether this was really a de fensive movement, caused by Chiang Kai-shek's frequent public threats to attempt a landing on the mainland this year. Now, however, additional troops have been moved into much larger area, extending from northeast Kwangtung province, up the coast to the northern part of Fukien prov ince. The inland boundary of the reinforced area is a rough arc. And this arc in turn bounds the area within which It would be practical for Chiang Kal shek to give air cover to a force being para chuted into China. ONE must always keep one's fincers crossed in such cases. But the new evidence makes the redeployment of the Communist army appear even more strictly defensive than was at first supposed. Apparently this huge and costly troop movement has really been undertaken be cause the Peking leaders are afraid - afraid of a landing by Chiang, but even more afraid of their own people, and maybe even afraid of some units of their own army, without whose help no Na tionalist landing could suc ceed. The Peking leaders do well to be afraid. If this year's Chinese harvest is as bad as the last three, which now seems quite possible, China will be almost in the position of the Soviet Union in 1921. In 1920, the tax collectors of the new Soviet Commu nist state had even seized the seed grain of the Russian peasantry. In 1921, the weath er was also unkind. Famine stalked the whole Russian land. And the Soviet commis sars were driven to appeal for help to the capitalist world, through Maxim Gorky, the great writer. ITERUERT HOOVER and his America Relief Organiza tion responded to the appeacl. They worked in the Soviet Union for over two years. In the end, they got official credit from the Kremlin for saving no less than many mil lions of Russian lives. The wiser students of Soviet his tory also credit Herbert Hoo ver and his American grain with saving the Russian revo lution; for the entire struc ture of Soviet Communism was falling apart under the strain of hunger when Hoover came to the rescue. It is exasperating, nowa days, to recall this long for gotten exercise in misplaced humanitarianism. For Imagine the consequences if Hoover had not hurried to the rescue. The 17.000,000 persons mas sacred by Josef Stalin in the ten years between 1929 and 1939 would not have been massacred. Hie countless mil lions of others who languish ed and died In the Sovie labor camps would hav boon saved. Poland, Hungary, and the rest of Eastern Europe would not be in chains China might be a free, rather than a slave, state. Russia too would have built her nation al power on a less ugly foundation. I L: MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate THOUGH exasperating, how ever, it is needful nowa days to recall Hoover's res cue mission, for two excellent reasons. On the one hand, some leading officials of the Kennedy administration lean towards sending a similar food mission to Communist China, if the Peking leader ship asks for it. Indeed, a: shown in the last report in this space, the government is in a measure publicly com mitted to do just this. On the other hand, it is silly to suppose that we can make this kind of quasi-com- mitment with complete safety, looking generous before the world with no risk of having to meet our commitment. If worst comes to worst in Peking, as it may well do this autumn if the harvest is bad, the Chinese Communist lead ers are perfectly capable of following the example set in 1921. Lenin swallowed his pride and controlled his hos tile suspicions under dire pressure of necessity. So may Mao Tse-tung. Lenin allowed U.S. supervision of Hoover's grain distribution. So may Mao Tse-tung. TTENCE the quite likely nrnsnert of pnnthpr bad harvest in already-starving China demands an immediate new look at this half-or-three-quarters committed posture the government has partly accidentally got Itself into. The moral balance sheet needs casting up. Last time, millions of lives were saved; everyone involv ed felt big and generous and humane; but Soviet Commu nism was saved too, with in calculably evil results. The lives immediately saved weigh very light in the bal ance, in fact, against the lives subsequently lost, or warped, or spent in darkness because the Soviet Communist system was saved. Do we really want to do the same thing all over again, when there will be a better than even chance of the en tire structure of Chinese com munism falling apart if we hold our hands? For if the food request is made, it will only be made because the odds have turned heavily against Mao, and because Mao under stands the odds. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field FntprprlKM Inc. EDUCATIONAL PROBLEM If you visit a first-grade class, as I did recently, you will find that the children are bright eyed and eager, warm and re sponsive, di rect and spon taneous. Then, if you visit a sixth- grade class, you will feel a distinct difference in the emotional turn and intellectual atmosphere. The students are wary; their reactions are calculated; their answers are based on what they think the teacher and society generally wants to hear, not on what they them selves think. One of the real needs for educational research today and one of the main objec tives of a bill now in Con- gross for discover that purpose is to ! how the teaching i process actually works best, arj how wc can prevent it Crom freezing and formaliz ing pupils so that their nat ural curiosity and enthusi ami is not dampened and ex tinguished. The whole process of communicating knowledge in the most effective way it 11111 largely a closed I Franco's Nomination Cabinet Makeup Noted as Significant By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Francisco Franco's nomina tion of his successor and the makeup of the Spanish cabi net have been described as the most sig nificant politi cal move to occur in Spain since Franco's rise to power nearly 25 years ago. In this case the i ml New.om e x t r avagant phraseology probably is justi fied. In one strike Franco elim inated the question "after Franco, what?" and at the same time eliminated a po tentially dangerous split with in his own government. It was a victory for those National Republican Citizens Committee Points Clarified By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington-ll'Pli- To put the new National Republicans Cit izens Committee (NRCC) in j focus, it is nec- essary i o know: -NRCC was not formed, as advertised, at the June 30 all - Republi can co n f e r ence which assembled at the Eisenhow Wilson er farm in Gettysburg. -NRCC is, for the time be ing, a headless horseman of sorts. U w ,t;j Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann lc) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate BUYING AND BETTING The trouble with foreign aid to countries like Yugo slavia, Poland, and India is that the rea. sons for giv- i n g it are rather hard to under stand and are even harder to ex plain. Having .fol lowed the de bate for many years I have Lippmann been asking myself what it is that has really divided the ob jectors in Congress from both the Eisenhower and Ken nedy administrations. Why is it that the two Presidents who have conducted foreign pol icy have both wanted to have the right to give aid to coun tries which are avowedly Communist or to neutral countries which so often dis- book to us. All we can be sure of is that something happens to pupils between their kindergarten experi ences and their emergenc into high school and what happens is too frequently a loss of intellectual tone, a cramping of Imagination, a resistance to ideas. I am absolutely convinced that this is not a natural development, but comes from some perversion in the leaching process. All youngsters are normally interested In painting and music; they are fascinated with words and with num bers; they enjoy hearing about strange countries and ancient times. Indeed, the whole curriculum of educa tion is a matter of delight to the inquiring young mind. The most important thing in the whole learning pro cess, it seems to me, it an emotional component: the continuing respontivenest of the child. And what it it precisely that lurnt a child irom a eager receptor of knowledge to a dull-eyed reciter of factt he neither cares about nor will bother to remember after the class it over? This is by no means an academic problem, but an in creasingly vital one for mod ern society. For as knowledge becomes greater, and as the utilization of knowledge be comes more Imperative in our national life, we find at the same time that more and more pupils look upon edu cation as merely a tedious preamble to "real life." which moans earning a living in the world. The number of school drop-outs is alarmingly high, and rising. More than that. the number of st'icients who are graduated front hifch school and even from college without a rudimentary educa ca- j gh tion is dooressingly hig it. Modern civilization, if it is :o j rest on the fact that countries survive at all, calls exactly hke Yugoslavia. Poland, and f,ir those traits of imagina-' India are, like most countries, tion. creativity, and curiosity made up of many contending which the schools seem to parties, sects, and persona!-di-ain out of their studen's at j itics. No one who has ever an early age. I been to these countries can liberals Inside the regime who overcame years of leth argy and complacency to push through Spain's stabilization program in 1959 and who now seek Spain's association with the European Common Mar ket. The new lineup still further reduces the influences of old line Falangists, Spain's only legal party, who feared the changes inevitable through close association with a liberal Europe. Toward Reunion As it has moved cautiously but steadily toward a reunion with the Western family of nations, Spain has become a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank and the International Mone tary Fund. It is not a member of The committee was organ ized before the June 30 meet ing with the blessing of for mer president Eisenhower The organizing energy and brains were contributed by Walter N. Thayer, president of the New York Herald Tri bune. The Herald Tribune is self-styled independent Re publican. It is coming to be the accepted Eastern news paper voice of the Republican Party. Especially it is so ac cepted since its voice became so sharp that President Ken nedy couldn't take it and can celled all 22 White House sub scriptions. A party voice could not be more highly hon ored. agree with us so much? This is no issue between Democrats and Republicans. It is between factions within both parties. Only a loose talk er would say that the two Presidents have been less anti-Communist than the objec tors. There is, however, one clear difference between the two Presidents on the one hand and the objectors on the other. The two Presidents have been on the inside where they have had to choose be tween what would happen if they gave the aid and what would happen if they did not. The objectors have been on the outside, not responsible for the choice and therefore free to indulge their feelings. BUT why, I have been ask ing myself, have the two Presidents found it so hard to convey their own convictions to the objectors In Congress and to the wider public which supports them? I wonder whether the crux of the diffi culty of explaining the policy does not lie in the difference between buying a horse and betting on a horse race. As I read the speeches of the objectors they seem to be saying that unless Yugoslav ia, Poland, and India adopt the American ideology and follow American policy, we are not getting for our for eign aid what we are paying. They do not object to grants and loans as such. What sticks in their throats is that while we pay the piper we cannot call the tune. This, as the ob jectors see it, is not only a waste of money but it is a foolish underwriting of an un American way of life and an un-American line of interna tional policy. IiHE two Presidents and their advisors and support ters know that while it may be possible, and occasionally necessary, to buy corrupt and weak little governments, countries like Yugoslavia and Poland and India have proud national traditions and are in a state of revolutionary pa triotism which makes them quite unpurchasable. The mere suggestion that the ob ject of American foreign aid is to buy them would provoke a violent nationalist reaction. Therefore, the two Presi dents had not said, cannot say. and must not say that they are attempting to buy influence with t lie American aid. This however weakens their case with the American objectors who cannot understand giving out money without getting an immediate tangible return. The position of the two Pros- idonts is that they need the ! right to make well-placed bots, which might be lost, but, if won, would pay off hand somely in the general inter est of peace and security. ll'HAT is the nature of those " bets" At bottom the bets of Successor, NATO, but, through its agree, mei.t with the United States provides invaluable air and naval bases for Western de fense. Mid-1959 found Spain al most at the end of its financial rope. Its foreign exchange was down to less than $60 million. Then it devalued the peseta, restricted credits, went after a balanced budget and laid on new taxes. The result was a howl of protest that the engineers of the new economic look had plunged Spain into her most serious economic crisis in 20 years. It split the cabinet. But its advocates held on, and today Spain's reserves total more than $1 billion. Liberal Victory Chief among the opponents were the ministers of labor, NRCC is a headless horse man of sorts because it lacks a candidate, a headman. Citi zens committees need heroes for whom to shout, parade and contribute money. They are organized for that pur pose. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) was quick to protest that the Republican Party had no need for an adjunct such as NRCC; that citizens committees were for campaign years when there was a presi dent to be elected. . The organizers of NRCC for the most part are from the party fringe far removed from party discipline, such as that is. The committee is suspect by such as Goldwater and the Congressional Republican leadership on grounds that it may have a candidate in se clusion somewhere and one whom the old line Republican partymen will not want. There is uneasiness, also, lest NRCC dabble in party policy. The Republican Congressional leaders consider themselves the policy-making, working chiefs of the Republican Par ty. They are making Republi can policy in Congress and they expect the party to con form to the policy they make. At that point, he Congres sional Republican leadership and the new NRCC are likely to draw apart, assume aggres sive postures of defense and. shortly, to engage in a puDiic political brawl. That will de light the Democrats. NRCC Formation The new NRCC was not formed or organized at Ike's farmyard all-Republican con ference. It just looked that way. The six-page NRCC me morandum appealing for funds and naming the organ izers was dated June 30, the day of the conference, and postmarked in the afternoon of July 1 at Gettysburg. It contained a covering letter from Eisenhower to Thayer dated June 28. There was an implication in the news stories from Gettys burg on June 30 and on Sun day, July 1, that the all-Republican conference had cre ated the National Republican Citizens Committee. If so, then NRCC would have been partly the creature of various regular party leaders there as sembled, including House and Senate leaders Charles A. Halleck and Everett M. Dirk sen. It did not come about that way. It any pariy resuiais were organizers of NRCC, their names do not show in the committee's literature; not, that is, unless Ike can be counted among the old guard. have any doubt that they are evolving or that tneir status and their destiny are not fix ed. All of them must have aid from the more highly devel oped nations if they are to imorove their own conditions. The Elsenhower-Kennedy pol icy has been to give these countries the option of getting aid from the West. This will strengthen the hand of those Poles and Yugoslavs who want greater national inde pendence and wider interna tional connections. It will also strengthen the hand of those Indians who, though wishing to remain unaligned, want to work with the Western dem ocracies If those bets pay off It will be profoundly in our interest They are excellent bets. If we win them, we win much. If we lose them, the money wo lose will be a trifling part of the larger tragedy. F WE lose the bet on India, great free democratic Asian state is unable to make a go of it. it will be an historic cat astrophe. Let us not, there fore, give way to our irrita tions. It will be no consola tion if India breaks down into anarchy to be able to tell ourselves that we do not like Krishna Menon and that he got what was coming to him. industry and information and tourism. They departed in tha recent shakeup and have been replaced by "Europeans," those who favor increased li beralization of economic poli cies and entry into the com mon market. Taking over as Franco's designated successor is Gen. Agustin Munoz Grandes, a friend of the United States. As vice premier he is expect ed to ease the way in negotia tions for a renewal of U. S. bases agreements this fall. Free elections is a require ment for entry into the Euro pean Common Market and this could provide a bar to Spain. It also could provide a lever for political evolu tion. Communications Some Quettiont To the Editor: I read in tha paper it was not legal" to charge $3.50 on water and put it on the footage. Why not $2 to pay off a debt the Jackson ville council made on a sewer we haven't got and can't until the debt for water is paid and get nothing back. Just like putting a gun to your head and saying "open tha cash register," put $2 on tha water, and say pay or we turn off the life blood of your body. What is the difference? They say when the bonds are sold there won't be so much tax this. way. They have a bond issue of $250,000. What insurance do we have that they won't sell them all just the same. Some 36,000 gallons of water on the Britt proper ty free and an old pensioner can't afford enough for a pot of flowers. If they knew they wouldn't want it destroyed, they were the kind to help others. I was on the board when they voted Medford water. I was ridiculed well. She is gone, just a fly-by-night, but God only knows how many she helped put there. When I was a kid, the latch string was always out. Now it's money. Money is everything, even looking ahead to see what they can gain by what they plan to do. Don't matter who they hurt, fight or go under. Where are the beautiful flow ers and the green lawns; gone, never to return. I didn't think the women should vote, now I don't think the men should either. Turn it over to tha kids, they will do better. What is the use of voting it they can do as they choose without the people's say? So we will have to get the old foggies back to set us straight so we can get out of debt and live in peace. Can we live two more years like this, or will we dry up and blow away? Old Ghost Town, the home ot their hallowed youth. Will the ghost like the Arab fold their tents and silently fade away? I suppose you could call me an old foggie. My father's mother was Daniel Boone's sister. My mother was born at old Ft. Lane during an Indian siege. Bernice Janosky, P.O. Box 143, Jacksonville. Offsetting Hospital Bills To the Editor: A few days ago I sent a letter to the edi tor of the Medford Mail Trib une to be published in tha communications section; he did. Thanks. The context of this letter was a suggestion to start a state lottery to offset the hos pital bills of which we all dread-also a step to offset so cialized medicine, of which our neighbor, Canada, is ex periencing at present. Personally, I do not believe in socialized medicine. Some 900,000 people in Saskatche wan alone, are without a doc tor. This is not good reading material as I see it. Eventu ally this will happen here also. Too many of our fellow Americans who have stooped to a weak outlook in life. would nod to anything that would be socialistic. Work a little and loaf for 20 weeks, their leisure time is spent-, either drinking beer at their favorite tavern or hunting or fishing in season, with one slogan in mind: for today wa live, tomorrow may never come. I'd say that this minority group is inn per cent social- istic. Tnis same group would nod in favor of socialized med icine, of which we sincere thinkers do not want any part. I would appreciate hearing from any ol you politician, regardless of party, in this rrw.iter. In the past at voting time we all have had a chance to express our views with a yes or a no on various sub jects. There's still time for this subject to be placed on the coming elections ballot. Do you. the peopie. favor a state lottery to offset hospital bills? Howard H. Brown, 807 Gilman rd., Medford.