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Newspaper Page Text" "Everyone'in "Southern Orefon RcalsJTheMeilTrlbune Publiihid Dully except Saturday bjr MEIH-ORD PRINTING CO. 33 North tirSt., Ph;77a-am itfiRKHT w nUHL, Editor HERB GnEY Advertising Manaser GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bui. Mr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR. Mnj. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor ..nt. ffllinillU T.Ian EHlln- OLIVE ST ARCHER. Wonwn'l Editof DALE ERlCKSOW.JtfcUlluwiir in liiriAnonrient NlWIDIDtr Entered second c1m mitter at Sieaiora, uregan, unuw nu. March 3. 1897 RtmKCR.PTION RATE 9 By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dally and Sunday 6 moi. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moi. 4. 25 Sundav Only One year 4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Aihlnd, Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Roue Riv er Talent and on motor routei Daily and Sunday -1 year 918.0ft Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.30 Came and Deal en Copy 10c Ait Trm. Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Med for IT Official Paper oi Jacmon county United Prus international r.,11 Leased Wire U.P 1 Telephoto Newspicturee Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS It ASSOCI ATE3. Office! In New York, Chi. caeo Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. PorUand, Denver NEWIPAPM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flits of The; Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July IS. 1952 (Friday) Dirt slide near Savage Bap- ids dam covered the railroad tracks and delayed a south' hound train from Portland lor about 4V4 hours. Reward for information IciHinng to the apprehension of Medford man wanted for murder, offered bv local busl' nessmen; $250 collected. ?n YEARS AGO Jt'lv 18, 1947. (Saturday) Franks Roelandt. Jack Brown Bnd Bobby Churchill, who played with the Medford Craters In 1941, are named to f'e slate all-star semi-professional baseball team; all play fo- the Portland Firemen. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Ray mond Fish of Phoenix has a beautiful tan on the top of his head that is the envy of the fair sex who wish it was on their forearms." ?0 YEARS AGO Julv 18, 1932 (Monday) The first forest fire of the season is prevented when the state police discover by acci dent a crude, home made lire bomb near Ashland. The theater interests of George A. Hunt, Grants Pass and Roseburg promoter, are consolidated with those of Walter Leverett, who owns theaters in Medford, Grants Pass and northern California 40 YEARS AGO Julv 18, 1922 (Tuesday) The Citizens' committee for Justice and Economy ex presses regret for the "unscru pulous methods" being used by persons trying to achieve the recall of the sheriff. Evangelist T. L. Theumler preaches thnt the world en tered its last 2,300 years In 1844. 50 YEARS AGO July 18, 1912 (Thursday) A former Medford resident Is arrested and Jailed In Oak land, Calif., for white slavery. Mail Tribune editorial ad vances the pig as the best choice for a symbol for Theo dore Roosevelt's Bull Moose parly. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct is superior seven or eight is excellent five ei six is good. 1. Do most rivers In North America flow northward, or southward? 2. What drug, used In ma laria, is obtained from the dried bark of a South Amer ican evergreen tree? 3. Name the chairman of Ihc U.S. Senate Judiciary committee. 4. How long did President 'Dwiilit Eisenhower serve in the United States Army? 5. After sundown, will a deflort cool off more quickly than a forest? 6. Was Omar Khayyam an Oriental poet of China, Iran, or India? 7. Do seals bray, bleat, bark, or honk? 8. As you look at It, does the eagle's head on a quarter dollar look to the Irft or the right? 9. What bird can kick hard enough to kill a man? 10. Do you connect the name dtiPont, Curie, or Nobel with the discovery of dyna mite? Answers: 1. Southward. 2. Quinine. 3. Jamas Eastland, Miss. 4. Thirlyseren years. 5. Yts, 8. Iran. 7. Bark. 8. Lafl. g. Ostrich. 10. Nobel. 5'ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL lAc8T,gN w"yyWHi.ni.'.n.'.ni.a WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1962 Trade Restrictions The current difficulties of the softwood in dustry in the Pacific Northwest provide a graphic illustration of how an ancient, restrictive practice can threaten the welfare of a large number of people and hamper the governments efforts to exoand international trade. As recently as 1959 of the lumber shipped, largely by water, to the Atlantic Coast came from the states of the Pa cific Northwest with British Columbia supply iner most of the balance. Since then the shares stake is the production board feet of American more than 3,000 jobs. THE difficulties of the attributable to three of the Canadian dollar vantage of the British slightly more favorable adians can purchase government-owned timber; and the shipping cost advantage which the tan adians enjoy. According to the 1920, known as the Jones between Pacific and Atlantic Coast ports must be earned in American This ancient practice serving the coastal trade to American vessels, originated in the reign of Edward III of England (1327-1377.) The British this practice long ago, but laws barring the use of foreign vessels in the American coastal trade have been in force since A S a consequence, the ducers must pay board feet on shipments River ports and Brooklyn, while the Canadians, who are permitted to charter ships in the highly competitive woria marKei, can snip at rates rang ing from $4 to $11. Clearly this is a case in which the welfare of the many is being sacrificed in order to pro tect the interests of the few. . There are now only on the coastal lumber run which employ a total of 455 men. Thus 455 jobs in the maritime in dustry are protected at the cost of more than 3,000 jobs in the softwood industry. ' UE hope the current efforts to repeal or mod ify the restrictive provisions of the Jones Act will succeed and that the recent appeals to establish a "temporary" import quota for Can adian softwood will be rejected. The erection of another trade barrier can only work to the disadvantage and Canadian economies, for such an act would surely touch off a series of retaliations. I he public interest will be better served by permitting the Northwest softwood producers to compete on a more equal footing. Washing ton, D.C., Post. Political Debate Pattern The question of removing the barriers to po litical debates on television and radio is, basic ally, one of using the public air waves for a pub lic purpose. The chief arguments for modification or re peal of Section 315 of the Federal Communica tions Act come from the broadcasting industry. But the primary benefits would go to the candi dates, in terms of free radio and TV time, and to the voters in terms of more complete informa tion about the personalities and the issues in volved in the campaigns. Congress can scarcely avoid the conclusion, therefore, that the lifting of Section 315 for the 1962 campaigns would be a good bargain. IN the past Congress has been reluctant to free broadcasters from the legal requirement of pro viding equal time to all candidates running for an office because it has feared that abuse might develop. Given full discretion in the matter, some bror '"asters might favor one candidate over an otht. and thus exorcise undue influence upon the electorate. Important minority parties might be shut out trom television and radio coverage. It is generally conceded, however, that the Kennedy-Nixon debates in I960 were eminently fair, and the general record of broadcasters for nonpurtisanship in the presentation of candidates is good. IF the necessity of extending "equal time" to 1 fringe candidates is relaxed for the campaigns this fall, political debates will be heard in Cali- . , , , forma, Michigan, Massachusetts and various . other states. The pattern of debate lislied leaves the broadcasters very little chance for favoritism even if they were so disposed. There is also strong precedent for fair treatment of third parties and fringe candidates if this can be done without putting thorn on a par with the major contondei-s. Io our way of thinkinrr. the advantages from relaxation of the present rigid rule are great enough to justify Congress in extending that pol icy and relying upon other moans of coping with abuses when and if they should develop. Wash ington. D.C.. Post. ICE CUBE RECORD Andrrson, Inrt IPP- J. D. I Phelps. 14. and his brother Davi, 11, today claimed a more than 60 per cent have been reversed. At of about a half billion lumber and the loss of softwood industry are factors: the devaluation which works to the ad Columbia lumbermen; the terms on which the Can- Merchant Marine Act of Act, all cargoes shipped flag vessels. of "cabotage," or re have wisely abandoned 1808. American softwood pro about $36 per thousand between the Columbia 13 American flag vessels of both the American that is now well cstab- world record of sorts for tow ing an ire cube back and forth 743 times before It melted. Picket Line ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear lha nam and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances lha use of a Den name or initial for oublicalion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves lha right to adit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for oublication must nai exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not contrary is olien Ine case. Welfare State Arrives To the Editor: Many doc tors number among the rich est men in their communities. Yet they do not deal with in animate objects made of steel, wood or cloth, but instead as everyone knows with human beings in their direct need, sickness and suffering. I for one, have alwayi class ed physicians with clergymen. and have also believed that both groups should have in comes comparable with those of other professional groups. But some people went to be richer than others. The air is filled with argu ments against the welfare state, when the whole trend of civilization is to raise the standard of living of the many submerged human be ings. There is bound to bo an equalization of wealth, as more and more people become better educated, better train ed and better organized. De nounce it as you wish the welfare state has arrived. David Frisch P. O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Living by Excuses To the Editor: Still living by excuses, religious minded people say television is cause of sin. Cigarettes cause can cer and alcohol and beer is death of man. Then I shall add another excuse of evil ness and a cause for stomach In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Federal spending for re search and development is ex pected to rise in 1863 to about $12.4 billion - up from $10.2 billion In 1962 and about $3 billion In 1956. Of the $12.4 billion total, more than three-fourths (or about $9.3 billion) will go for national defense research and the remainder for other purposes, including space ex ploration research. I WISH we could nick our rich old Uncle for a few millions for silvachemlcal re search, Including the lignin molecule and how to break it down and ninke It useful. There Is little doubt in this part ot the country that the lumber industry needs some help. Cracking the lignin mys tery would help a lot. It will take research to do the Job. IET'S get back to Klamath 1 Lake and the fascinating possibility that the algae thnt have been marring Its beauty in recent years may be on the way out. In a previous installment of these sketches, it was noted that where daphnia (water fleas) are present in large numbers the green water plants known as algae lend to disappear. This fact first came to uriu in i.iii,M. ui project to grow aigae as fcrtiliier fell on Its face be- c,l"cot"" daPhni'- riMUS situation was described by Japanese scientists, and their findings came to the at tention of the North Coast Water Pollution Control Board of the state of Cali fornia, which came to the con clusion that this might be the solution of the algae problem in the Klamath area and the lakes of California's Lake county. Daphnia had been noted In sewage lagoons in California, especially at Santa Rosa. So an inoculation from the Santa Rosa lagoons was made. It was first tried In Klamath lake in 1958. The next year, about the middle of July, there was i sudden die-off of m u if necessarily represent lha ulcers and certain death. One which has been proven to take away life, automobiles. Automobiles are every where, On the road, in the field, in someone's yard, even causing death setting in your own garage. The exhaust fumes can kill you. I say survival comes from sitting In ones house watch ing TV, relaxed, enjoying a cigarette and cool glass of beer. Anyone who dares go outside where automobiles are needs a stiff drink indeed. As religious minded people go their way from day to day they sing beautiful songs with beautiful meanings. In church they sing "Lord I can t get there by myself," meaning they are passing a little basket your way for a $1 bill. Riding in the auto they sing, "I can not bear my burden alone," meaning "Help me Lord to get my Cadillac across River Jordan." Also speeding down the highway another popular song is "Lord if I can just make it home." Their faces light up like they were com ing into the promised land. If relaxed, one will live longer and be more healthy. And as mentioned in last par agraph they seem to strain every nerve. Mother Nature has done her best to help us relax. Worked hard to perfect our finest tobacco, to grow the finest grapes for our wine, to yield the hops for our beer the algae. It was estimated at about 50 per cent. In 1960, the die-off of algae in July was probably in the neighborhood of 75 per cent. In 1961, it was higher still. This year, the algae die-off started several weeks earlier, and it is presently estimated that It may run as high as 95 per cent. No odor from the dead and rotting algae has bee noted, and the water of the lake is far clearer than it has been at this season at any time in re cent years. KEN McLEOD points out thnt while the thinking was based on daphnia it wasn't daphnia that did the actual job. What did the job was the inoculation from the Santa Rosa sewage lagoons. Ken thinks the killing agent is either a bacterium or a virus. But he doesn't know yet. Nor, of course, docs anyone know yet whether the present practical disappearance of the upcr-abundant algae that in the past have so messed up the waters of our lovely and historic lake will be perma nent. UR hopes are bolstered. owevcr, by the midge and spider Infestation of the early 1930s. The midge plague resulted from a low water condition that prevent ed the minnows from reaching and eating the larvae of the midges. So they multiplied fantastically, filling the air around the lower end of the lake. The spiders came along to eat the midgos that were trapped in the nets the spiders spun to catch them. These webs were so numerous that they ruined the beauty of the lakes shores. When the midges were Ml eaten, the sptoers aisappearea ann ine shores of the lake were re stored to their natural beauty. In that case, the balance of nature was restored and tl-e midge nuisance was end ed. We have reason to hope that the same will be true in the case of the algae. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON Changes May Be in Works in Communist Czechoslovakia, According to Reports By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst Some changes may be in the works in Communist Czechoslovakia, beginning at the top A recent Prague dispatch reported that President and First Party Secretary An tonin Novot- ny has been rebuffed b y his party Po litburo and managed t o remain in of- Newiom fice 0nly af ter a warning from Moscow that his removal might touch off an upheaval. If Novotny goes, It will provide an apt illustration of the dog-eat-dog nature of Communist politics and an example of a man impaled on his own sword Anion: Communist satel lite leaders Novotny has been among the most reluctant to I accept the de-Stallnizatlon Ml viewa of the paper; in fact tha and trickling down mountain ous terrain comes the spark ling cool water that makes the beer good. We should sup port Mother Nature, for her sturdiest hard efforts and not let her work herself to death for nothing. Let us all partake our share of her perfection. Cigarettest are most desir able for peace of mind and re laxing among all things, not just one good thing among many. The greatest injustice one can do about this great gift of God is speak ill of it. We gained all our knowl edge from Adam and Eve. Mother Eve, whe nshe had finished eating her apple, reached out for a tobacco leaf and it was good. The apple is a sinful fruit, it made her do it, that is if cigarettes are sin ful. In our modern fast mov ing world, our women find little time for apples. So they take a diet pill and then grab their cigarette. And so like mother like daughter. E. Dykes, Box 58, Eagle Point, Ore. Breaking A Habit To the Editor: I have been interested in a couple of let ters to Communciations by Mr. Williams, who told of how one can be broken of the cigarette habit. I know what he is talking about. My father, who died when I was just a girl, had smoked a pipe from the time he was 10 years old. After becoming a man, he realized the filthy stinking weed was of no bene fit to his health and was ob noxious to others. But try as he would, he could not break the habit. We lived in a small country town and there was a special meeting being held in the little community church one winter. One night my father went forward for prayer and dedicated himself to the Lord. He came home feeling he real ly had a new spiritual birth. It had always been his habit to smoke just before retiring at night, then laying his pipe under the edeg of the heating stove and again smok ing the first thing in the morn ing. The next morning mother noticed his pipe was still un der the stove after he had gone to work. When he came home that evening, she asked him if he had forgotten it. I can remember well his spy ing no, he hadn't forgotten it, he had started to pick it up that morning and the sight of it made him sick, and he laid it back down. He had felt no desire for it all day, but was feeling so happy with a clean heart. He picked it up and put It away never to use it again. Yes Mr. Williams you ere so right. I know It works. Mrs. Ernest Santo 204 Lozicr lane Medford. Mispellcd Words To the Editor: I believe my poem Episode was the only local entry in the Poet's Cor ner Sunday. July 18. Though truly grateful for the outlet, as well as the editor's in terest and endeavor, I was most unhappy with the print ed result: three mispellcd words snowy, labored, and mysterious didn't help much ' n't eaten for five days," to glamorize a sincere, if am- he confessed. "What hap ateur. poetic composition. This 1 pened to the 50 bucks I is not very encouraging, and gave you?" demanded his may be one reason why there , friend, are so few local poems print-; "Well," said Al, "when "d. ' T showed it in ShmilHn'1 b nn! nt JxiHa for artMlc 1Ucr(irv " ii i . have a little extra considera tion in the printing room? Thelma Carson Prospect, Ore. Juvenile Crime Remedy To the Editor: Many today are alarmed at the very rapid increase in juvenile crime in concept first announced by Nikita Khrushchev at the twentieth P'rty congress in 1956 and reinforced at the 22nd congress last year. Matter of Fact Jo..Ph ai.op (c) New York Herald Tribune Syndicate OLD MAID'S CACTI Washington - Among the new men -in the Kennedy Cabinet, none has won more applause than Secretary o f Defense Rob ert McNam- ara. Nonethe less, McNam ara is now the target of what looks very like the first ranging shots Aisop in a major barrage. The ranging shots are being fired from Uncle carl Vinsons House Armwl Services committee, where re sentment still smolders be. cause of McNamara's sturdy refusal to increase spending on the B-70 long-range bomb er. But there are plenty of omer people, all the way from the National Guard to the Navy, who may be tempted to Join the attack on McNamara later on. In these circumstances, It is worth trying to understand what McNamara Is trying to do in the Defense Depart ment, and to see why this effect is bound to make great numbers of highly placed ene mies for the formidable De fense Secretary. . 1VHAT McNamara is trying to do has only been at tempted twice before, in thp whole course of modern his tory. After the Boer War, Lord Haldane reformed the British Army. At about the same time Ellhu Root re formed the U.S. Army. Without the Haldane and Root reforms, the British and American Armies would never have survived the test of the first World War. But both armies were then minis cule, easily manageable or ganizations, by modern stand ards. These, moreover, are the only armed forces that have ever been reformed in modern times, except by that great root-and-branch reformer, de feat in war. Yet McNamara has now set out to reform all three of the U.S. armed services at once. The nature of the task, as well as its magnitude, is best con- our country, and are wonder ing what the remedy might be. The following facts taken from POWER, July 8, 1962, (Wheaton, 111.), will suggest the answer. Judge Sam Tatum of Nash ville, .Tenn., has been juven ile judge for about 20 years, during which time about 43, 000 youngsters under 17 have been brought before him. Of the 43,000, only 122 were going to church and Sunday school regula-ly. In only n cases had the parents been regular attend ants. And not one of the 43, 000 came from a home where there was a family altar - i.e., where they read the Bible and prayed together daily. these figures indicate: The boy or girl who is sent to church and Sunday school regularly has a chance of 350 to 1 that he will keep out of juvenile court. The boy or girl whose par ents take him and go regular ly has the chance of about 4000 to 1 of keeping out of trouble. And if, in addition to this. the parents have farrily wor ship, the children are not likely to ever be accused of crime. John C . Stille Shady Cove, Ore. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- A RT BUCHWALD tells of two old friends who met for l- the first time in years. One obviouslv had prospered the other looked terrible. Proposed the prosperous one- "Al' you've got to come to ' work for me. I've got a good job for you. Now cheer up and here's $50 on account. Get some food for your family and have a jolly weekend." Al turned up for work Monday morning looking worse than ever. "I have- i i . .... .. i v ana xias inrv a i umi pd tnr ihn s0- smce we alj Jerked happv photographer's and had our picture taken!' Joe Consolino, famous book salesman, rot a seat on one of those 'economy" railroad diners recently. "Do you like split pea soup?" a.ked the waiter. "No." said Joe. "Chicken croquettes?" "No." "Prune pie?" "No." The waiter took the paper r.apkm off the tAble. "Good day," he said. "You is had your lunch." C tr Seaaatt Cert. Distributed, if Kuut reauiru Syndicate In Czechoslovakia, streets named for Stalin and statues In his honor have remained unchanged, and as late as February of this year the veyed by an image. ARMED services, like a 1 1 long-enduring bureaucratic organisms, have their own habits of growth, like plants. The history of the American armed services long ago im posed on them the habit of growth of desert plants, which die down to dry roots for years on end, and then put forth enormously lush growth when the rains come. For desert plants, this lusti ness is a necessity. The sur vival of their race depends on making as many seeds as pos sible, so that a few at least will germinate For the U.S. armed services in the old days the same rule held true. A service cannot grow, almost overnight, from a couple of hundred thousand men to several million, with out growing lushly and even in some measure wastefully. And this was what the U.S. services were traditionally re quired to do in war time. THIS formerly useful lush habit of growth is highly unsuitable for a cold war, in which large forces in being must be permanently main tained. As a result, the Amer ican services today rather re semble an old maid's cacti, which always tend to be puffy and off-color because they are overwatered. McNamara is out to banish lustiness, and to impose a new habit of growth that will be more spare, tough, and wiry. As no bureaucratic organ ism can ever reform itself, the job must be done from with out, by the Secretary of De fense. The job cannot be done at all without a sharp cen tralization of authority in the Secretary's own hands, which is one thing McNamara s crit ics are complaining about. Three huge problems have to be solved if the job is to be done successfully. First, the Pentagon ma chinery must be tightened up, and forced to do its work, in the sense of producing clear decisions. This McNamara has accomplished. CJECOND, the armed serv- U ices' ingrained habit of adding new weapons systems, without ever junking old weapons systems, has got to be broken at all cost. In or der to pay for the best new weapons system, the older systems replaced simply have to be abandoned, thereby causing all the pangs among big bomber-generals, for in stance, that were formerly felt by battleship -admirals and cavalry-generals. McNam ara has made a bold start here, and this has largely sparked the present attack. Third, super fluous ele ments, like the more political elements of the National Guard, have got to be sacri ficed. And more difficult still, it is urgent to correct the civilianizatlon of the perma nent armed services, by the proliferation of huge head quarters, by the PX life, and by other such post-war phe nomena. McNamara is only beginning to tackle these cul minating tasks. The job he has undertaken to do appeared to be utterly impossible to do, until Mc Namara s u d denly emerged from the depths of the Ford Motor Co. He has got far fur ther forward with the job already than anyone could have imagined possible. It is to be hoped that he will be allowed to finish the job, de spite the bitter opposition that he must increasingly ex pect. .. .. iiui nine iii lw u pars. fire j- And for a chance, u. wo, t i 1 Czech radio still was men tioning the "Stalin mine." Part of Novotny's reluc tance to abolish the Stalin personality cult or to relax his harsh repressive measures came from fears that Czech minds might turn back to the happier days of a free Czech oslovakia under Thomas Mas aryk and Edouard Benes. In any event, his current difficulties began with an at tempt to kill two birds with one stone. To this end he would pay lip service to de-Stalinization and at the same time elimin ate a dangerous rival. The rival was Rudolf Bar ak, 48, former deputy prime minister and minister of the interior, whose charm and elastic approach to party doctrine had gained him wide popularity in party ranks. On April 20, Czech broad casts disclosed that a military court sitting secretly had sen tenced Barak to 15 years in prison on charges of anti-party and Illegal activity. Then Novotny's plan mis fired. Indignant politburo mem bers demanded that Barak be given a public trial. Novotny in turn offered to resign and for a time his fate remained up in the air. His hold on his office may be temporary because in pres ent day communism martyrs sometimes have a way of re turning. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris tc- Field Enterprises Ine. MOST STUPID PEOPLE Next to congential liars who are easily found out the habitual flatterers are til Fpl V lha KttPPfH! 1 most stunid W- tV of people. For .21: E-'-'.v T ' &, 4j t h e flatterer r f c o m m o n 1 y 'ij overlooks the x' -fi most import V'C tant element -H8i ' in successf"l (uxA ar-- truly beau, Harris tiful women that she is beautiful, and you bore her. She knows she is beautiful; she has heard it a number of times, and be lieves it. She takes her beauty for granted, and wants to be admired or de sired for other attributes. Likewise, tell a brilliant man that he is brilliant, and he thinks you a fool for making so obvious a remark. He is fully aware perhaps too fully aware-of his intel lectual powers. There ara other things about himself, however, that he is not so sure of; and these are what he wants to be flattered about. As Lord Chesterfield ob served to his son, "Persons are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish io excel, and yet are doubtful whether they do or not." He mentioned Cardinal Richelieu, the ablest statesmen of his time, who wanted lo be thought the bast poet, too. Flattery of his statesman ship was met with a shrugt but flattery of his verse would always turn his head. Even so great a man as Goethe thought more of his "theories of color" than he did of his literary works although the latter ara im mortal, and the former have been mercifully for gotten. And Isaac Newion was less interested in his pro found scientific discoveries than he was in lha com mentaries he wrole on the Bible. Ha was aware that his scientific work was monumental, but he secret ly doubled the validity of his Biblical research, and needed reassurance on this point. Actors, I have found over the years, find little stratifi cation in being told that they are tremendous performers; what they really want to hear is that they are as bright as directors or playwrights, or that their personal charms are as extensive off the stage as on. I hey are unsure of themselves as people, not as professionals. Among tycoons and execu tives, it is only the small ones who are flattered by as sent, by obsequious yes-men. Most of them need the kind of flattery provided by no men; that is, they need to be reassured, not that they are right, but that they are "big enough" to tolerate criticism. They do not doubt that they are crack executives; what they may secretly doubt is whether they are broad and fair-minded persons. Flattery, on the whole, is a despicable talent; and it is just as well that so few really understand its emo tional dynamics.