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Newspaper Page Text4 A "Everyone In Southern Oregon R..rla Tha Mall Tribune' fubllihed Dally except Saturday b MEDFORD FRINT1NU tu 33 North Fir JSl., Ph.773-tll41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB CIIEY Advertlilng Manner eERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mir. ERIC W ALLEN. JR., Mne. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teles. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OUVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ERlCKSONCJrculatlonMljr. An Independent Newipaper Entered ai second claw matter at Medlnrd. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Dally and Sunday 8 moe. 8 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moi. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Aihlknd. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routea. Dally and Sunday 1 year IB.OO Dallv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.30 Carrlei and Dealer! Copy 100 All Terms Cash lnAdvance Orrlciaf Paper of City of Medford" Official Paper of Jackson County United Preii International ' Full Leased Wire U PI Telephoto Newplcturee "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or UKUULAiiuna Iriiwptiiin. Rpnrexentatlve NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Olflcea In New York. Chi. cago Detroit. San Francisco, Loi Angeiei Seattle. Portland. Denver NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL 5gT UcgTlSN Wmur .i.'J,Al iu Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years afjo. 10 YEARS AGO July 28. 1952 (Saturday) Rogue River valley orchard oH fluid dav scheduled for Aug. 1 by the Jackson County Fruit Growers League. Voters of the proposed Med ford rural fire district sanc tioned Us formation by a ma jority of 246 votes in an elec tion Friday. . 20 YEARS AGO July 26. 1942 (Sunday) Medford and Rogue valley residents purchase $20,000 in war bonds and stamps in pay ment for rides In Army Jeeps during special bond sale drive. From Arthur Perry's "Y e Smudge Pot" column: "The Oregonian editorially calls the Italians 'utter scamps.' War is war, but there is no use being vituperative and vitriolic." 30 YEARS AGO July 26. 1932 (Tuesday) Two Janitors for new Jack son county courthouse at Main St. and Oakdale ave. se lected from 64 applicants for Jobs. Medford man pleads guilty before U.S. Commissioner Vic tor Tengwald to charges of smoking a cigarette while traveling through National Forest lands. 40 YEARS AGO July 26. 1922 (Wadnasday) Oregon assistant attorney general requests all persons having Information on "night riding outrages, in Jackson county" to appear and give testimony. Funds totalling $5,580, con tributed by Rockefeller Foun dation and the State of Ore gon, insure establishment of full time Jackson county health officer. 50 YEARS AGO July 26, 1912 (Friday) "Very good prices" report ed for Rogue valley pears; lo cal products being sold for $2 a box In New York. Pacific and Eastern railroad offers round trips to Butte Falls from Medford and back for $1 to persons desiring to play tennis on Untie Kails courts and listen to free band concerts there each night. What's Your I.Q.? Nina ar ten correct is superior; aven ar sight Is excellent; (Ire at six Is eood. 1. Who were buried In Potter's Fields? 2. With the perfection of what Instrument do you asso ciate the name Sperry? 3. A pint of oil will cover I water surface about 100 square feet, 50 square feet, or one acre? 4. Does the United States Supreme Court hold sessions the year around? 5. Was the Declaration of Independence signed before or after the Boston Tea Party? 6. In which State Is Cape Cod? 7. Is the polar bear a warm blooded, or cold blooded animal? 8. Who was Mary Todd? 9. What bridge do you as sociate with the height of aalesmanshlp? 10. What did Dorothea Dlx bring about in the United States? Answarsi 1. Paupers. 2. Gy roscope. 3. On acre. 4. No. 5. After. 6, Massachusetts. 7. Warmblooded. 8. Wit of Abraham Lincoln. 8. Brook lyn Bridge. 10. Stale Mental Hospitals. THURSDAY. JULY 26. 1962 Tax Cut It is becoming more and more evident that we can look forward to a substantial cut in federal income taxes, and in the not too distant future. Seldom do we recall a major piece of legisla tion such as this that has been so widely heralded and supported. Sen. Harry Byrd of Virginia is about the only one on record against it, and such diverse groups as the U. S. Chamber of Com merce and the AFL-CIO are both on record for it, although with slightly differing approaches. The national columnists are almost unanimous in hailing a coming tax cut, and Sylvia Porter has devoted column after column, not only to explaining the rationale for a cut, but also going into detail as to how it could affect both individ uals and corporations. e e THE principal reason for a tax cut at this time is to give a major shot in the arm to an econ omy which, while far from stagnant, is also not growing and prospering the way it should, result ing in high unemployment, unused plant capacity, and a growth rate far less than that of many other industrialized nations. That, it appears fairly well agreed, is reason enough. . ; . Reasons against also appear impelling, at first glance, although economists argue that the stimulating effect of a tax cut will do much to offset the resulting decrease in income, and that later, when things are booming again, will be the time to make up the deficits. A SIDE from the macro-economics of the case, "for which we have to take the words of the experts, the micro-economics in effect a raise in take-home pay are template. If it comes to pass, and as noted it is appear ing more certain every day, most of us will have an extra fist-full of dollars each pay day. As these are received and spent, they will continue their circulation and re-circulation, creating a total ef fect larger than they are themselves. "' This pleasant prospect, combined with the promise that the economy will benefit overall thereby, make the case for a tax cut, and soon, a compelling one. E. A. Point Reyes And Others The House has given final passage to a bill to create Point Reyes National Seashore. Only Senate concurrence in minor House amendments and the signature of the President remain before it becomes law. The battle for the bill has taken three years, and its approval gives particular pleasure to those of us who believe that now is the time to preserve as much as possible of our heritage of natural beauty, before it is gone for other purposes, and it is too late. Point Reyes will become the third U. S. Na tional Seashore, administered by the National Park Service. The other two are at Cape Hatteras and at Cape Cod. DOINT Reyes is on the Pacific Coast only a few miles north of San Francisco. The Chronicle comments : "(It will be) a magnificent national park in the heart oC a metropolitan area which by the year 2000 will have a population of 12 million. Future generations will cherish the foresight in seizing the opportunity to preserve un spoiled an area of scenic, recreational and biologic interest while there was yet time." There was a special urgency about Point Reyes, in comparison the the Oregon Dunes Na tional Seashore, for instance. California's coast line, in contrast to Oregon s, is largely in private ownership, and "development" (meaning sub divisions, supermarkets, parking lots, and so on) had already begun in the area. THERE are other areas where National Sea- those in Texas and, perhaps, in the Indiana Dunes. Some day, we hope, the Oregon Dunes will receive this soit of national recognition, which can come in no other way. One other aspect of the National Seashore which merits a wider understanding is the fact that they are different, both in character and in purpose, from the great scenic National Parks. The latter are largely preservative in nature, so that Americans may enjoy their beauty and their inspirational values uiiimpaied for genera tions to come. The Seashores will put far more emphasis on active outdoor recreation camping, swimming, hiking, and related uses. THERE is not onlv room for more of all of these, there is a growing need, and not only at the National Park level. ' j Other federal agencies must devote more! time, attention and money to the recreational as- j poets of their lands, and so must the states ami counties and cities, if the needs of the people for! outdoor recreation are to be served. Fortunately, this fact is now recognized as! never before, but it has been quite a long time I coming. In some places and in some situations itj is too late to preserve the best land areas for j optimum public use. In the west, and in Oregon in particular, we ! are lucky. It is not, in most cases, too late. The 1 need has been recognized, and action is being; taken not, perhaps, as strong and quick and effective as we could wish. But we're on our way. i E. A. . Prospect pleasant indeed to con "Put Your Party tcUl 1 M 1,71! K A m '' r- Vfti'.Krf pen. n Letters to the Editor must bear the name Lnd address of the writer, although under certain circumstances tho use of a pen na.ae or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all lctiers with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for .publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Semantic Approach ' To ihe Editor: One of the big obstacles to world peace is a semantic block. We talk about peace when we mean inflicting the ideas of one group on another. Thus, although our object is ; true peace, we are using con-1 trovcrsial methods to obtain ! it. i It should be obvious thai, if i we look for non-controversial I methods of moving toward peace, we can bypass much of i our current difficulty. ' There are many ''peaceful ; peace projects" which arc I compatible with the Ameri can, Russian and pacifist ! viewpoints. To name only a I few,- we have support of the ; UN, cultural interchance, and expansion of world congresses of scientists. j Once we focus our atton- tion on "peaceful peace prot ects" our semantic and real blocks should disappear. J. Srolt 350 Fifth ave.. New York 1, N.Y. Refuge Bill To the Editor: First I wish to thank you and your staff for the excellent coverage on S. 1088, an act to promote, the conservation of the nation's wildlife resources on the Pa cific Flyway in the Tule Lake, Lower Klamath, and Upper Klamath Wildlife Ref uges in Oregon and Califor nia. This bill is in the hands of the Irrigation and Reclama tion Subcommittee of the House Interior and Insular Affairs committee. Walter Rogers of Texas is chairman of the subcommittee and Wayne N. Aspinall is chair man of the full committee. A hearing was held on July 20. The opposition (irrigation ists of tile Klamath Imitation District) proposed an amend ment that provides for the dis posal to private ownership of the Straights Line Unit of the Upper Klamath Refuge. These 6.447 acres along the slate line provide much of the food for the ducks and goose and furnishes the best public hunting grounds in Oregon. Preserving this land as part of the refuge is one of the purposes of S. lHSH. These same individuals have been trying to get title to these lands for many years. Perhaps many of the duek and goose hunters (if this area do not realize the importance of the passage of S. liifia in its present form In case tins land would be sold mueh of then present shonfng grounds in Oregon would In lost. Congressman AI Ullman of the Second district of Oregon should be urized to try In get passage of tins bill without the loss of any of the present refuges. His address is House Office Iluilding. Washington 25, D C. Hy sending copies of Ihe letters to Walter Rogers and Wayne X. Aspinall. same address, your effort will be three times as eftoetive. Paul 11. Weiland (Col. I' S.A. Het ) 2431 Kast Mam st. Medford Hit and Run To ttie Kditor: Hit and run drivers - are thov s.ared. ig norant, stupid or ,tut pl:u:i cruel But tho one Ilia! rail off the road on purpo-e an.! hit a little white poodle is just plain cruet, and of t ie lour-.? form of the human t n e Thi! little dog w.isn t boihei uu; you nod no er had Hy doin : that you killed a ret cv denr to a little girl hea" But you wouldn 1 K".hv that. You ate uist i.'o ;u i n ignorant and s' nu.t . tie deg was s t!i-.. , driveway at In.' t'-.e e: four feet from the t .t. ; road. I don't like to u i;'i body any bad iurk flui I hone MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON On First, Please" something happens to some thing very dear to you. and you will know how my daugh ter fuels. Harold Brerrtlovo !)D!) Sou'h Stage rd. Medlord Doctrine Explained To the Kditor: The Jesus and God oniy doctrine neecis to be explained since so many fail to know or understand it. This doctrine teaehes that there is one person (Jesus or God) who is the Father, Son and Holy Ghost all combined in one. hut the Bible teaches there is the Father God (Lord I God) and Jesus (the Pen of God). The Holy Ghost pro reeds from God. but comes in Christ's name. There is ONE God and ONE mediator be tween God and men. That mediator is Jesus (1 Timothy i 2-5). ' ! It is impossible for Jesus to be God .since no man has ever seen God. and no man cm see him and live. Multitude saw Jesus and lived. So he cannot he God, just ids Sun. Tim Trinity is no mystery since Jesus had a Heavenly Father' and an earthly MnMier. So he is not illegal. Then the Holy Ghost proceeds from God but comes in Christ's name. So how can there be any mystery : about if No mystery about Ian earthly son's origin. The Jesus and God only fail to I see this and try io justify; i themselves and doctrine by i I calling the Trinity a my.si Since the carnal or finite 07 (c) New Y'i k Hnralcl THE RISKIEST BET Washington - The agree ment on Laos, which Secre tary of State Dean Husk has 1 ' "K ju--t signed at i -. G c n c v a , is : t' j cei'l.iiniy the i ... "I r i s kiest b e t ;-''. j tiie United S t a t e s has ; ' "t i made in any ''acre e m e n t wil'n tiie Sov jl .t , i ltcs Mtice tile il,J or;l n Frank Aisi.p" 1 i n R o o s c -volt's wartime negotiations with Josef Stalin. Hence it is well to note, at at the very outset, that this risky bcl lias been made witli the unanimous concurrcnee oi the leaders of both political parties in Congress, ineludmi; lornie 'll'.e Flesa n: F.s-'iiuo", is ::'.it :.v t of 1.:,... x a goei-n:r :e I IK". I-. h e a d c d bv the c m: "neulr.iiist." Prinee S.ue rhetima. and including scnta'.ives of tee (.'emu as well as tl-e tn'o V.'. factions in Lao.- T :e e lie lost if any et li:e loi: things oi cur. I N. THIRST, it wii balance w I be le up gnvcrnniciu oi i T.ur vamia Phou.'.ia s'li'.'ts i emi tii tin' C 'e.'.unu'.i if V. 'I Loving Finns Arc Determinedly N'sisfral, But Emotionally With West By PHIL. NEWSOM UPI Foreign TJcws Analyst HeMnki - Thre U a sly, popular joke which Finns ; sometimes tell in the privacy of their homes. "V'hiit do you think of that sjrerit Russian inventor, Pro fessor Reg lit patoff?" The American vis itor i asked. r-r- When the vis Kwom itor CXprcSSc5 his puzzlement, the .uugliiny Finn translates it for him. The translations: Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Thereby he expresses- his own opinion of Russian claims to have invented everything from the bicycle to wireless, By law and in recognition of the fads of life, the Finn is determinedly neutral. But emotionally he is pro-Western, sometimes violently so. mind is contrary to God and' not subect to him they fail to ; know this. The Holy Ghost i gi es us a sound mind. So if ; i we are still confused we lack ' j the Spirit of God.- For this j spirit will suiide us into all t 'truth, and teach us all things' to such an extent that we! ' need no man teach us (St. t John 14-1 . Chap. 15-26, Chap, i 16 - 7 to 14, I John 2 - 20-27.) j jand wilt reveal the deep tilings of God. So we arc sup posed to know and understand the Trinity. If not we will be deceived by false doctrine. If all churches and minis ters are of God. where are the many false prophets .and Christs tha! Jesu.s commanded us to beware of? If we have no rigid to judge, why did Jesus command us to judge righteous ud:;ment and to be ware of them'.' Since the Jesus and God only believe in. all three, peo ple think Ihcy teach the Trinity. But it. is how they leach it thai counts. For they s.'.v find became man. there- by heenmin;: toe antichrists, deeeivers and liars and trans- Instead of our misunder ing Biliy Graham's state ments, they just fail to know his "God t doctrine. For he teaches it more than once in the papers. Too many reject the Bible for churches and pre ach'.n-s. Mrs. G. C. Cunningam I Maple st. Central Point. O.'e By Joseph Alson itiime Fvnrttrata Ti istic odds against winning the het are at least ihree-to-one. Many persons hold that the odds are c en more unfavor able, s i m p 1 y because the North Vie.namese cannot af iord to let t.ie U.S. win this bet in Laes. voir Til Vie: Nam. as now constituted, is not a vi s'aie by any possible abl. st. 1:. the le.e.l production, even old days, was never auyw ',, re ncariy sufficient to teed its population. Since tiie Conmumisls took over, its al ready inadequate rice output has drooped s'uirply. In addi tion, this denied area lias been i p to en I' the 'V nu form i and hi new Cannnnn.i t reau- ..eons. Xorth on:y satellite '. . C.MiimuniU r..uts of oireet f loans, from i lYkui .:lv t h ::i Yitt s.ibiv i .is en t; ! N.en, : and Moscow. I- or e same reasons, Nam is almost ir rivett to cet its e w t .dlh of South with its rich rice No L:: h Vietnamese, s die only of ek on e it is SU'P Nam. m. An I rou'e e . and p. v:te b. ' L It is also remarked in Fin ! land that one can select one's 1 friends, but he cannot select j his neighbors. . i In this far northeastern por tion of Europe, the Finns often feel terribly alone. Two recent wars against Russia have proven to them the futility of expecting anything but sym pathy from their friends. Sym- 1 pathy is a poor return for blood. ' In the winter war against Russia, which lasted for three and a half months just after 'the start of World War II, 'they lost Karelia and were (faced with the task of reset tling 400,000 persons. In tile war which began in j 1941 and lasted until 1944, jthey lost the all - weather I Arctic port of Petsamo and 1 4.5 million Finns paid repara tions of S370 million, i The Finns know they can not tweak the tail of the Rus Uian bear too hard. They also know that of all the free nations which emerg ed after World War I, they alone remain free. But it has dimmed neither their humor nor their deter mination to retain their inde pendence. In the last national elec tions, some 450,000 Finns vot ed Communist. Many of these the Finns regard simply as protest votes. Guesses as to the number of hard-core Com munists in the country run to about 35,000 to 40.000. This correspondent asked one Finn what this hard core would do in the case of an other war with Russia. It wouldn't much matter, he shrugged. They'd all be dead in the first five minutes. In Ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Explanaiory note in the news: The busts of the heads of i President Washington, Presi- dent Jefferson, President Lin i coin and President Theodore i Roosevelt - which are carved on Mount Rushmore, in the I -Mount Rushmore Memorial in I the Black Hills of South Da j kota and which were shown ' in (he American part of the i Telstar world-wide television i snow ine oiner aay i porttonate to men are pro 40'5 feet tall lyiilCH is to say: ' The carved head of George Washington, from chin to top, reaches as high on the Mount Rushmore cliff as a five-story building, or about 60 feet. The other heads are of simi lar size. w HENCE came the idea of Memorial? It came from the brain of I Gulzon Borglum, who design ed the memorial and super ' vised most of its work. Mount Rushmore is in the Black Hills, 22 miles from Rapid City, South Dakota. It rises 6200 feet above sea level and I more than 500 feet above the narrow valley at its base, i Gutzon Borglum died in early 1941. when the memor ial was nearly finished. His ' son, Lincoln, who had helped ' him with the work, completed I the task. T THINK everyone who watched the Telstar pro gram yesterday will agree that inclusion of these figures of four great American Presi dents was an inspired thought. Nothing could have been more appropriate. President called in all the Re publican and Democratic Con gressional leaders and pre scn'.td the stark alternatives to Ihem in stark language. Tiie alternatives, then as la ter, w ere to seek Laotian neu trality by some such contrap tion as has now been agreed upon at Geneva, or to send American troops to fight in : Laos. The vote was unani mous and vociferous against sending troops. At other stages in the Lao- ; tian aflair. the Congressional leaders of both parties have pitain been consulted, with ' precisely similar results. Li .nidi'.ion. when US. troops were .sent into Thailand. Pres ident Eisenhower's advice a ss sought en one of the oc t s ens when CIA Director John McCone flew to Gettys hur'. to gie Eisenhower a frank briefing on all world de elonmcnts - which is now a ta bular pr.ietiee The Fisen u iwcr ad ice was, "Avoid en t mu'emcnt. at almost any In the f, n.ininious ee of this kind of onpe riot ition. has a In aneiupt my military eas. beeause other aiter to American iet m Laos is 'ie forcgoinc y i, iie de- tinlf t'itrc- n e'ieiue;y th ova r lers tiie i nskv If tee I e end. ' Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann . c New York Herald Tbune Syndicate TROUBLED CONTINENTS From Peru U) Algeria, from the Congo to South,. Vietnam, we are being reminded how long and com plicated is the great revolu tion of our age, the awak ening of the backward peo ples. In Asia and Africa the o 1 d empires have fallen re cently: they Lippmann fell more than a century ago in the Americas. But to achieve acceptable self-government is enormously diffi cult, as witness our own Civil War. -;''.- In Latin America we are engaged in a unique experi ment. We have realized- that without a rise in the standard of life of the mass of the peo ple, there can be no enduring stability. But we have real ized also that social progress is unlikely as long as the gov ernment is in the hands of a small and corrupt ruling class. So we find ourselves trying to induce a peaceable and a very gradual internaUsocial and political revolution in or der that there may be gov ernments capable of using productively the capital funds we are willing to lend them. AS we know from Peru and Argentina and elsewhere, It is not going to be easy to reap the results of a -revolution without having a., revo lution. The privileged- ruling classes with their connections in the military establishments do not surrender voluntarily to the Alliance for Progress. While we have to keep on trying the best we- can where we can, we must not delude ourselves. The power and in fluence of the United States in this hemisphere has de clined sharply since the early years of this century. Be tween the two World Wars we renounced solemnly and repeatedly the right of mili tary intervention in this hem isphere, and while we can still make a discreet show of force in Caribbean waters, in all of Latin America we have influence only as we earn it. Insofar as the Alliance for Progress depends on political and social change inside the Latin American countries, it has no power behind it and only some influence. Tr progress is difficult in much of Latin America, which has so long been self governing, it is much more difficult in Africa and Asia. In Africa it is so difficult that it is no exaggeration to say that the critical factor is the attitude of the great powers. The Congo illustrates this vividly. There have been two main chapters in the Congo story. In the first chapter, which began with the precipi tate Belgian withdrawal, the problem was to insulate the Congo and seal it off from the cold war. This was done successfully by Dag Hammar skjold's daring use of the United Nations, and now, a year later, we are able to say that the Soviet Union and the NATO powers are not en gaged in a military struggle within the Congo. The second chapter, which is not concluded, has been the effort to induce the Congolese under Adoula in Leopoldville and under Tshombc in Katan ga to unite. But the Congo lese leaders alone arc capa ble of doing this only if the 1 of all is youth whose impa-non-African powers on whom ; tience is sullen, and old age they depend push them into some kind ot union. Behind Adoula the main power is the United States government. Behind Tshombc the main power consists of large pri vate interests in Great Brit ain and Belgium. The keys to peace in the Congo are in Lon don, Brussels, and Washing ton. IN Algeria we see once more how wide is the gap be tween liberation and self-government. At the moment the prospects are not too bad be- i cause there is no evidence j that any of Ihe great powers I is intervening seriously in the Algerian dispute. If interven- j tion can be avoided, the vital i interests of the Algerians will work for a close connection with France. As for Southeast Asia, my own view is that the region cannot be stabilized locally. ; The future depends on the powers and in the last analy- sis on Ihe two great powers. I the Soviet Union and the I United States. Neither of them to be sure, is all-powerful. 'For both Russia and Amer-1 ' ica. the region is on the outer I edges of their two spheres i of influence and jviwer The Soviet Union his much influ ence in North Vietnam, as we . I have in South Vietnam. But neither is all-powerful. Mora importantly the Soviet Union probably has decisive influ ence in preventing Red China from starting a great war by trying to overrun Southeast Asia. And we of course, have the power to decide that the action in Vietnam shall re main limited. So the keys to peace, or, shall we say, to not much war, in South Vietnam are in Moscow and in Washington. rjiHE World Court has now -"- delivered i t s advisory opinion on the legal right ot the UN to assess its members for peace-keeping operations, as in the Gaza Strip and in the Congo. Assuming, as is likely, that the General As sembly will accept the advis ory opinion, the question will be whether deliberate non payers, particularly the Soviet Union and France, will rec ognize the law and obey it. If they do not, it will be a serious blow to the UN, not only to its solvency but its status as a universal society to keep the peace. The United States has a powerful inter est in saving the UN. For while the UN is unable to deal with all the world's trou-" bles, it has shown that it can deal with some of its troubles, when they are critical and im portant. If Russia and France refuse to pay up, the right course for us will be, it seems to me, to say that the UN is at least as important as a Laotian prince, to resist the destruction of the UN by rallying its supporters to meet the deficit, and then to call for a UN constitution al convention to reappraise and revise the charter. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprises Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Ninety per cent of what passes for "conversation" is not communication as much as medication - it is used to make the speaker feel better, either by depreciating others or by inflating one's self. A century ago, Frederick Amiel observed that "There, is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health" and this is even truer of . those sick in mind than sick in body. When a person makes a promise that goes against the grain of his nature, we would be wiser to rely on his nature than on his promise. It is ridiculously inaccur ate to call racing drivers "daredevils," for they are scrupulously cautious about their equipment, driving conditions, and all safety measures; it is the ordinary motorist who is a foolish daredevil, driving too fast in an over-powered car un der bad conditions, and tur roundedby thousands of lunatics like himself. . No other we. a so perfectly expresses the emotion it des ignates, as "flabbergasted." Loye is a form of under standing, mora than an emotion; and mora damaga is done in the world by love without understand ing, than by hate. Y'outh is most attractive when its basic mood is humor ous impatience; and old age is most attractive when its basic mood is humorous resig nation; while least attractive : whose resignation is bitter. A man will do mora to preserve his image of him self no matter how dis torted than for his coun try, religion, or his family. The secret slogan of all re formers is really "Let's find out w hat people unlike rne are doing, and stop them!" A celebrity is comfortable only when he ii in tha com pany of other celebrities, so that they can relax and pretend to be non-celebrities together; this is why a hostess who invite a "lion" to her party generally finds it an unsuccessful venture, for no lion likes to be trap ped in a den of Daniels. The ultimate in tact is the ability to be efficient without being offensive, and not one efficient person In a thousand has this tact. Efficiency, some has this tact. Efficiency, somehow, is usually accom paried by an aura of self, righteousness, combined with the uneasy feeling that the in- efficient are more charming. and hnuld be punished for it. Fatigue always brings on regression; as N I I t . sche shrewdly knew, lon9 before Freud: "When w 're tird, wa are attacks by i d a a t wa ciiquereJ long ago."