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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY. JULY 31. 1962 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON EfyonriirSoutherirOreioi Rcrtijrh?j!!y-5f'b--- )?uilihed Dally except Saturday by nlEUKORD PRINTING CO 33 NorthJirJt.. Ph;7.J iill noRFRT W RUHL. Edl'or HEh3 GREY Adverllilnjj Manafer LiAinAm, dui, mi . bailor GERALD 1 ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mni EARL H ADAMS, City Editor tiiimv rmPMAN. Teles. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Ed tor OLIVE S TARCIiER, Women e Editor DALE ERICKSON. CTrculaUonJrtjn AiiIiTdependert Newapaper Entered ai second clata matter at Medlnrd. Oreffon, under Act oi March 3. 18117 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dully and Sunday 1 year S15.00 r.tl-, .nil Kunrinv A mo. 8.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moj. i.2i Sunday Only One year 30 n. rarrir In Advance Medford, AahlMld. Central Point. Eagle Pntnt JAr-ltKnnvllle. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routea Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.90 Carrie' and Dealers Copy 10c Ail Tirmi fuih In Advance Official" Paper of'Clty of MedfoVcT CMtlclal J"aperojjacKioni.ounvy United Preia International Full Leaieri Wire U.P I Tejephoto Newiiplcturea MEMBER Of" AUDIT BUREAU OfClRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC! ate-c rmifM in New Vnrk. Chi. caeo Detroit. San Franclaco. Lot Angelei Seattle. Portland. Denver NEWSPAPER EtS ASSOCIATION NEWSPA V-ASSOCIAT NATIONAl IDITOKIAl llfimn ii lira Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Tha Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 veart ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 31. 1952 (Thursday) Federal Bureau of Investi gation Jails William K. Rus sell In Portland; suspected of the slaying of two United Motors Service corporation executives at Crater Lake July 19. Chief Justice James T. Brand of the Oregon Supreme Court to open 12th annual Shake spearean Festival In Ashland. 20 YEARS AGO July 31, 1942 (Friday) Richard Hall, Jacksonville, a survivor of the sinking of the carrier Lexington, awaits assignment to a new ship. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A ceil ing on meat prices looms, as . prices threaten to Jump over the moon unaccompanied by the old cow. There is talk of readjusting the celling. Some favor lowering the floor and another school of expert- say the same result can be had by sawing the legs off the meat block." Questions for Candidates Several weeks atro the Eutrene Register-Guard ran an editorial which said bluntly that the state of Oregon is in financial trouble. It suggested that the people of the state should asK tneir legis lators, present and potential, what tney intend 10 do about it. The editorial (which was reprinted in this newspaper and several others) pointed out that the state will have some $33 million less going into the next biennium than it did at the start of this one ; that to maintain state services at their present level will require millions more, and inai some state services notably in education m;ist be stepped up to meet heavier use and de mand. The Pendleton East Oregonian agreed with the Register-Guard's analysis of the coming fis cal crisis. IN SALEM, however, the Oregon Statesman took an unexcited view. It suggested that the cry of "wolf" has been heard before, but that Ore- tronians are nhleernatic about this sort of thing. The Register-Guard retorted by saying that this time it isn't a false alarm. And the Pendleton paper rejoined with a spe cific suggestion that a net receipts tax, a mooi fication of the present state income tax and a broadening of its base, be devised to raise the added new income. Such a tax revision has the support of both Governor Hatfield, and the re cent jjemocrauc party cunveuuun. E NOW ask our candidates for the legisla- ture these Questions: 1. How would you propose to raise the $33 million which was surplus going into this bienni um, but which will not be available next year? z. now do you propose to raise uie auuuiundi $10 million for basic school support called for next biennium in the existing law? 3. How do you propose to raise the additional $21 million which the state system of higher edu cation says it wiil need next biennium to care for the exploding student populations? 4. How do you propose to finance the addi tional needs of the community colleges program now provided for by state law? 5. If you believe that no tax increase should be passed, which state services, including those mentioned above, should be curtailed or eliminated?. IT IS unpleasant to contemplate a tax increase at the state level, but it is either that or cut back on state services. We believe it is important, right now and be fore election, to do some basic thinking about what we want from our state government, and how we're going to pay for it. We believe it is important that we know the attitude of our pros pective lenislators. The Mail Tribune will gladly print any re sponses to the questions above from any or an or the candidates ror the state legislature. E.A. Voice Crying in What' Left Of The Wildernet fliiiti a lii iru i in, ii 111 v.'i mmm W wxewt v 1 a iff 1. a- Prosperous Finland Still Has Economic Worries; Now Biding Time, and Hoping W! COMMUNICATIONS Letters to tha Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, althouah under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters 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 tha paper; In fact the contrary is olton tha case. sufficient to pay for a curb 30 YEARS AGO July 31. 1932 (Sunday) Jacksonville c 1 1 1 zens an nounce gigantic celebration this month; plan to recreate the town as it was 50 years ago, in 1882. Plans for the dedication of the new Jackson county court house pre announced. British MDs Hit Back Litter Hurts To the Editor: "Every Litter Bit Hurts." Ana Imagine this hurt in two ways, pride and purse. The Wisconsin state con servation department said Thursday, Floyd N. Johnson, 35, Red Wing, Minn., had a habit of throwing beer cans out of the window of his car, over a 30 mile stretch of high way. Judge Paul A. Magdanz has ordered Johnson to clean up part of the road or forfeit $75. Johnson has pleaded guilty to two counts in the case. He paid a $10 fine for posses sion of beer in a moving car, and $25 for depositing debris on a public highway. The judge ordered Johnson to pick up beer cans and debris from both sides of the highway No. 10 for 7Vi miles. The Judge ordered $75 of the fine to be refunded, when Johnson had cleaned up the highway. Johnson was arrested by a warden who testified Johnson made the trip from Red Wing to Ellsworth about four times a week, drank beer along the route and threw empty cans on the highway. How about trying this on our offenders? The above was taken from the Red Wing Republican Dally Eagle, Red Wing, Minn. A. E. Smith, 1032 Winchester, Medford and gutter paving. Newtown is one street. There are many others. Curb and gutter paving is being successfully promoted with the beautiful sounding words, "the demo cratic way." How long, O Lord, how long will the people sleep, while justice weeps? Mrs. Alice I. Black, 812 Newtown it., Medford By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foraign Newt Analyst Helsinki - Finland is a na tion of full employment and a steadily rising income. She wants 10 Keep it that way. Emotional 1 y, culturally and economical 1 y the Finns ar 0 r i ented to w a r d the West. They want to keep it that way, too. Finland, a nation of 4.5 million, lies in the shadow of the Soviet Union and its population of more than 200 million. The realistic Finns know that their relations with the Rus sians must remain cordial. Even so, the Finns have managed to retain both their political and economic inde pendence at a time when mf ny another among Russia's neighbors simply has disap peared inside the Soviet bloc. Finland's trade with Russia accounts for less than 18 per cent of her total. In recent years, Finland's gross nationai product has moved steadily ahead at an annual rate of better than 6 per cent, better than the United States and Great Brit ain, the equal of any country in the world except perhaps those in the European Com mon Market and Japan. Her income per capita is around $1,000. Less than Swe den's, better than any country in South America. All this has been accom plished without the Marshall Plan aid which benefited other European nations out side the Iron Curtain and despite back-breaking war reparations exacted by the Soviet Union. But despite this obvious economic success, Finland has nagging economic worries. Pulp and paper account for 79 per cent of her foreign ex ports. But Finland already is is exploiting her forests at a rate slightly above the time In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS required for regrowth and Is at the limit of expansion. While she has full employ ment now, the next few years will see 100,000 war babies come into the labor market. For these, jobs must be found. Finland s hopes lie in its expanding metal-working in dustry, which ranges from manufacture of e 1 e c t r leal cable to heavy-duty ice breakers. But to do it, she must main tain her trade with the West. Here two conditions will be decisive. First she must have an as sociation with the common market in which France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are the present members and which Great Britain is at tempting to Join. Britain is Finland's best customer and she dare not take the risk of restrictive tariffs closing her products out of the European market. Second is the att'tude of tha Soviet Union and the punitive action the Soviets might take if their present hostile atti tude toward the common mar ket persists. At the moment, Finland is biding its time and hoping. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop (el New York Herald Tribune Ryndlcata 40 YEARS AGO Julv 31. 1922 (Monday) Arthur Barr, a bootblack, Is tlie first witness in the grand Jury probe of Ku Klux Klnn activities; Klans men blame current misfortunes on a black cat that crossed the path of two of their night raiders. SO YEARS AGO July 31. 1912 (Wednesday). Medford enjoys the best health in its history, with birth rate up and death and disease rates down, says Health Physician Dr. R. W. Stearns. City council announces its Intention to force secondhand dealers and Junk dealers to report all property they buy. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct H tueerier; seven or eight it excellent; five of six it good. 1. Do moles eat earth worms? 2. Which has the larger population - Alaska or Hawaii? 3. The ocean area near the Equator where the trade winds meet and neutralize each other Is known to sailors as what? 4. Do calories measure heat moisture, or nutritive value? 5. Which of these is lenewn as the Fourth BstMte - royal ty, clergy, leiM ewacssien or press? 6. Sunwlv e wawM iii "The tuU. n ?." 7. ' a. j M' Invets raineaa. er seaej e ? Equalor? fl. Whil lree-i aaval hero Ip famous for saying. 'S.rike my colors. I have Just begun tu fight"? 10. Columbus and Cabot both died believing the) had visited Asia; true or false? Answers: 1. Yea. 2. Hawaii. 3. Doldrums. 4. Heal. S. Tha prats. . Thoutand. 7. Dai Molnei. 1. North. (. John Paul Jones. 10. True. The American Medical Association, in its Ion running battle against the evils of "socialized medicine," has frequently held up Britain's Na tional Health Service as a horrible example. It has pictured British physicians as unhappy, and leaving the country in droves; it has de scribed the level of medical service as inade quate; it has assailed the costs as too high and the administration as inefficient. The British, by and large, have either ignored this type of propaganda, or politely said nothing. Now, however, it appears they are beginning to talk back. A NEWS story from Washington, printed in the Oregon Labor Press, declares that the "staid, mild and well-mannered British Medical Society" is "exploding with righteous indigna tion." The story continued : "The British Medical Journal, oinciai puoiicauon of the British doctors, has finally had enough. In an editorial it bluntly charged that the AMA's attack on the British health program whs 'vulgar, cheap and nonsense." " 'We watched with some dismay the mushroom growth of the AMA's public relalinns activities and the colossal sums spent by it to defeat what our American colleagues call "socialized medicine",' the Journal said. 'This dismay is at the probably inherent weakness of American medical services if such a vast effort has to be expended on misrepresentation of what is happen ing here in Britain.' "The editor of the British Journal acknowledged that there arc certain weaknesses in the English med ical piogram. But he Is certain, he continued vigorous ly that 'a great many doctors In the U S A. deplore as we do the vulgarity and cheapness of its (the AMA's) past and present attacks on the National Health Serv ice.' " 'The AMA,' lie said, 'should understand that they have a lot to learn from Britain ami Europe about methods of providing medical services - from our suc cesses as well as our failures.' " IT IS THli AMA's attitude that it and it alone is cmtAifkevl to tell the American people how tKtf.r should pay their doctors' bills that is so Tlw AM.., at first, was against health insur- tm pWra, but finally accepted them when it saw U w;a ffoinj to have' to. It was against social se rvrit.? hen.it was first adopted. Most recently, of courv, it has worked diligently to defeat a plan for the expansion of social security to in clude certain hospital and nursing home services after the age of 5i. It has assailed these modest social ami eco nomic measures as steps toward socialized medi cine, and then distorted the British health service plan to prove now horrible sociali.cd medicine is. One wonders how long they're going to get away with it. E.A. Dog Days news: As this is written, the weather bureau has just come up with its forecast for the next few days-which, it says, will be without precipitation and VERY warm under cloud less skies. Daytime tempera tures will be in the vicinity of 90 degrees, with night-time lows around 50 degrees. This prediction is for the high country. The forecast in timates that down at the low er levels the mercury may climb well over the 100 mark. Thor, the ancient god of thunder. That raises a question: Who was the cynic who first conceived the idea of calling destructive hurricanes by women's names? WHY 11 How Lonq? To the Editor: I enjoyed your good editorial, "Amer ica the Ambivalent," M.M.T. July 25. Will you permit me to add a few thoughts of my own? You say, "we moan about the high and rising crime rate, and Increases in juve nile delinquency." I add, while we support with our tax dollars the conditions In our government that produce the delinquents. J. Edgar Hoo ver recently said that crime is increasing five times faster than the population. You say, "we brag about being the first 'affluent so ciety', where all are now able to reap benefits from the new industrial and technical age: yet somewhere between 30 and 50 million of our neigh bors do not earn enough to provide decent housing, food and clothing. You say, "we pay lip serv ice to our democratic ideals and equnlity of opportunity for all; yet deny one-tenth of our people the right to equal housing and equal employ ment chances." 1 say, shame on the leaders of a nation that claims to be Christian and the richest na tion on earth, and more shame on the people whose lethargy has permitted such a condition to develop and whose tax dol lars are supporting such a system. Two and one-half months ago the voters In Jackson county voted down, three to one, a county manager form of government while they support with their tax dollars a city manager form of gov ernment which is molded by the same pattern and which operates in the same dicta torial manner. A radio newscast July 2S j announced that Congress has boosted welfare spending to $3 billion for I0H3. Welfare is supported with taxpayers' dollars. If the taxpayers in Jackson county could know how many people in their county have been and still are being forced onto welfare by having expensive curb and gutter pavings forced upon them. I wonder If those tax payer would awake. The council at their last meeting approved a curb and gutter paving for Newtown street between Belmont and Catherine. This block contains ten property owners, thre are on fljed low incomes, in- One Brief Moment To the Editor: In recent years the thirst of man is something supernatural. Al ways drinking to one thing or another, man is seldom seen with out a glass in his hand. He is uncomfortable unless he drinks before meals, with meals and after meals. He drinks to his friends when they arrive, and to their health when they leave. He needs a drink when he reads or writes, a drink when he is thinking and a drink for re laxing at bedtime for sleep inducer. If there s any tning left in the bottle he'll drink to your mother and mine. Some drink so they can drive an automobile, others to drown their sorrow or mad dening thoughts. People drink to stay healthy, others to for get the illness they have, or the doctor's bill for their ill ness. Another group drinks after their day's work is done, when it's time to go home to the wife and kids. The last group are men who actually crawl into the bottle and soak, men who drag along year in year out never getting any where, living In a crowded, noisy house where there are bawl ing, screaming children fight ing. He is met at the door of his heaven on eartn by an angel wife, cursing, nagging and reaching for his money. In the mercy of God, let this man soak himself liquor. Let him funnel the maddening fire down his parched throat. Let him in the name of a merciful God be able once more to go into his mansion feeling he is the king. Let this drink give him cour age, to trample over his sor rows, to soothe his sweating brow. This one time be able to know they have lived for one brief moment before they die. E. Dykes Box 5R Eagle Point. Ore. call it "Dog Days' news? The answer is that we are now at the season that for somewhere in the neighbor hood of 20 centuries has been known as Dog Days. The term comes down to us from the ancient Romans, who called the half dozen hottest weeks of the summer CANICU- LARIS DIES which, as you will recall if any of your high school Latin has stayed with you, means Days of the Dog. Strictly Personal By Sydney i. Harris (c- Field Enterprises Inc. NATIONAL CHARACTER A note in the New York Times advertising column recently mentioned that "na tional charac teristics have been playing a growing V, part in adver- tising lately." Alsop THE NEW PHASE Washington-In the modern world, the economists have re placed the theologians of less enlightened ages. With infin ite certitude but little certain ty of accurate p r e d i c Hon, they speculate upon the first things and last things of our industrial- 1 c 0 m m e rcial the same tok en, Sovietolo gists have now replaced astrologers. They read Pravda and Izves tia as their predecessors read the stars, and from these drab perusals, they cast the horos cope of this troubled world for the next months and years. These reflections are in spired by the memory of a recent informal encounter be tween eminent practitioners of these two specialties or (in the old sense of the world) mysteries. The point that emerged from their talk, though it is not exactly news, is at least well worth record fn THE one hand, the econ- " omists were worried, as llfrA ii The new cam- ts pa,gn f0? 'gfriFm i KLM Royal . Dutch Air- CCORDING to their theory the Dog Star, or sinus. rising with the sun, added to the sun's heat and so in the Dog Days (about July 3 to August 11) sweltering human ity had to bear up under the combined heat of the Dog Star and the sun. Their theory wasn't too un reasonable. Sirlus is the brightest star in the heavens. It radiates 30 times as much light as the sun, but it is so far away that its light (travel ing at 186,284 miles per sec ond) takes nine years to reach the earth. AT TIMES during these long centuries, the mistaken belief has prevailed that dogs were likely to "go mad" from rabies during hot weather. As a matter of fact, the scientists tell us now, fewer dogs go mad in hot weather than in cold. So this particular super stition about the Dog Days has largely disappeared. In the newspaper business we have a superstition that in hot weather there isn't much news but the weather. Whence comes that heresy? One suspects that it arose out of the reluctance of human beings to get out in swelter ing weather and do the things that make news. Anyway. Dog Days news is apt to be news that doesn't carry much punch. edi- HIK: What's Wrong? To the Editor: Your torial on public forests lumber was very interesting. Why don't we take a look at the farm problem, unemploy ment, juvenile delinquency, the crime wave, and take a look at business in general? We have had moonlight sales, sidewalk sales, man ager's sales. Blossom bucks, buy a new car and go to the World's Flr on us, and many, nianv more too numerous to mention. There must be some thing wrong somewhere. Why don't we Just blame the Com munists? Thov seem to be causing all of our trouble. ! And again, after I think about it, there could be some- j thing wrong with our econ omy. Now I should have never I said that, because we are the only country in the world with a surplus of everything and at least 50 per cent of our people on the fringes of pov erty. Eric Scvareld laid it on the line in the Sunday. July 22. M T. Poor Eric, he should not think that way. he will be accused of being a pinko. Any way. Eric gets my vote. Fay Prirhard 414 South First st. Central Fomt, Ore. HERE in the midst of Dog Davs, here's a dog story from St. Louis: Duke, a handsome German Police dog. is a member of the St. Louis police canine corps. Not only that, he is a member of the narcotics squad. His iob is to spot nar cotics - either when cached away or carried on the per sons of narcotics venders. Carrving out his assigned task. Duke is calif4 upon to investigate a refrigt ator in a restaurant whose proprietor was suspected of narcotics dealings. When the refrigera tor door was opened, an in viting display of frankfurters was exposed to view. Did Duke warie into thorn hungrily? He did not. With his nose, he pushed aside the tantalizing heap of meat and exposed to view beneath it EIGHT PACKAGES OF MARIJUANA! Harla "ncs. for in- stance, stresses the "sturdy reliability" of the Dutch peo ple. And the new joint ad vertising campaign conducted by British Overseas Airways Corp. and Cunard Steamship Co. will emphasize the British national character as being "generous, impeccable, unob trusive." These traits are true enough as far as they go. But every nation has a public face and a private face - not hypo critically, but simply as matter of historical fact. In one way or another, every country is slightly schizo phrenic. To tourists, iha French give the impression of be ing debonair and romantic and sensual. Yet, privately, the French are immensely shrewd, practical, realistic and hold cool intelligence in higher esteem than the emotions. To the French, stupidity is the cardinal sin. Likewise, the British are stolid, well-mannered and unobtrusive in their social relations - but not in the privacy of their clubs and pubs. There is a wonderful vein of whimsicality and lunacy that runs through the Brit ish character. Lear's limer icks, and the veneration of "Alice in Wonderland." are possible only in England; the rest of Europe finds them incomprehensible. The starched shirt-front and the striped trousers are strictly for public consump tion. In the private cor ners of his life, the English man easily gives way to eccentricity and even a lit tle madness. The most ex travagant and ambitious practical jokes have been perpetrated by Englishmen -along with the greatest tolerance of tha idiotyncra ciet of others. all economists are nowadays. One of them had begun to suspect that the Western na tions, with the U. S. in the lead, were entering one of the deflationary periods which have been characteris tic second phases after great wars. These occur, he said, when the fuel of demand banked up in wartime at last burns out, and the post-war inflationary surge therefore comes to an end. His colleague was less grim, but he too was alarmed, because he considered that the Western economies have now reached a stage where national economic policies must be, above all, extremely flexible and ruthlessly prac tical. And he saw a contrary tendency towards rigidity and impractical rubber stamp -thinking. On the other hand, the Sovietologists were positively merry and bright, despite the Berlin crisis, the ferment In South America, the risky bet in Laos, and many another cause for apprehension. Their good cheer was based on their conviction that the troubles of the Communist part ot the world were much worse than any current Western troubles. riiHE picture the Sovietolo--- gists painted appeared to sustain their judgment. Czechoslovakia, the former showpiece, in deep disarray; East Germany, a hideous na tional slum, presided over by an obscene, universally do ing as well from a seemingly incurable moral disaffection that was how their story be gan. In the Soviet Union, too, they saw a disturbing failure. The U. S. S. R.'s rate of growth, they pointed out, had failed to do what Nikita S. Khrushchev once hoped that it would do-namely, provida enough resources to meet the competing requirements of a great military effort, a mas sive industrial effort, and an increasingly demanding popu lation of consumers. They even suggested that the re sulting problem of investment priorities might later turn into a political problem. Finally, looking further eastward, they pictured Com munist China in the grip of an economic-political-agricul tural crisis so terrible and un precedented that its outcome was unforeseeable. With de creasing hope of rescue by a good crop this year, China, they remarked, was a country where almost anything might happen, but nothing good. The point that emerged from these exchanges is sim ple but startling. The cold war, in brief, seems to be pass ing into a quite new phase, different in basic character from the long, stern postwar phase. 11HE transition has been marked by the persistence, in this new phase, of the man euvers and challenges typical of the former phase, such as the challenge at Berlin. But this continuing political-military competition seems to ba losing Importance, compared to another kind of competi tion. This is the competition between the performances of the Communist and Western forms of society on their home grounds. This is true mainly because the Communist form of so ciety has lately begun to per form very badly indeed. A breakdown or blow-up in Communist China, for in stance, will become a clear possibility if the new harvest is as bad as now forecast. Ana whatever its other results; such a breakdown or blow-up would be a staggering cold war setback for the Commu nist cause. Other developments which now seem possible or prob able in the Communist part of the world, though less dra matic than a Chinese break down, would also be severe setbacks. But the trouble is that at the very moment when the Communist form of society has begun to perform so badly, the vigor and econ omic health of the Western oerformance is also beginning o be called into question. Maybe that flexibility and practicality the second econ- tested puppet; all the rest of omist hankered for should be Eastern Europe stagnant in regarded as necessary cold varying degrees, and suffer-' war weapons. ONE nion er tale Even in the realms of poll tics and diplomacy, the Brit ish display a note of levity, where the representatives of other nations would not per mit themselves to unbend. No American statesman, for ex ample, would dare to behave as rirolly as Lord Halifax, Great Brilain's former For eign Secretary. Halifax was traveling to Portsmouth one day, and shared a railway compart ment wiiii two very prim and militant-looking ladies. As the train passed through a tunnel. ore Dog Days wenth- I Halifax took advantage of the i darkness and noisly Kissed nis Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- THAT'S single-minded and devoted dedication to duty. If we humans could, and would, do as well, think what a world this could be. The V S Weather Bureau at Jacksonville. Florida an nounces that the first official hurricane or tropical storm of the 1 Pr2 season will be named Alma - which, it says, is Latin for "snirit." Later storms will be named Becky, Celia. Paiy and Thora. Thora. the weather sharps explain is the feminine version of deed. own hand a couple of times. When the train drew into the station, he rose, raised his I hat. and asked gallantly: "To which cf you two charming i ladies am 1 indebted for the .delightful incident in the tunnel?" And he strode away, 1 leaving them glaring at each other. "Unobtrustively" in- CRITIC Brooks Atkinson confesses that when he wants to ' add some very unusual words to his vocabulary, he con sults the works of S. J. Perelman. It was from this prolific source, for instance, that he borrowed, "a firkin of butter and a hectare of gherkins" to describe the fare served at a picnic. Mr. P. shingled his country house, Atkinson discovered, with "second hand watUes," and he "taps the dottle from his pipe" by "knocking it against the hob." He also frequently "muckles fib re towels" from airplanes that carry him hither and yon. e A fond mother, on the eve of her daughter's mi. . ,..,o,i her husband anxiously. "Do you reaJly Wiink our Uuie girl is) ready for the battle of life?" "If she isn't," snapped the husband unfeelingly, "she never will be. Remember, we've seen her through six engagements and htaven only knows how many close-range akinruahea:" e English author Evelyn Waugh is no great admirer of th maater minda out Hollywood way. To a London Journalist he jeered, "Each book percha. for motion pictures has some in dividual quality, good or bad, that haa made It remarkable. It ta the work of a greit array of Jilghly paid and Incompatible writ era to distinguish this quv, separate It, and obliterate It-" In the lobby of "How to Succeed in flualnesa Without Really Trying", a grateful patron presented Abe Burrows with a Itna ham. thua giving- Mr. B. tha opportunity to.rejr.ark, 'aTlians: 1 11 smoke It later." 4 .