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Newspaper Page TextttoroufrTiiB'jNi "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! Thejtlail Tribune" PuhfishYd Dally except'Saturday by MEDKORD PRINTING CO 33 North rtrjit., Ph. 772-11141 ' ROBERT W RIIHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bui Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR. . Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'l Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An independent Newspaper Entered second dm matter at Medlnrd, Oregon, under Act o( March 3. 18!I7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance. Copy inc Dally and Sunday 1 year SIS. no Daily and Sunday fi moa 8 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa 4 25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medlord. Aahlfnd. Central Point. E g I Point Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Covt. Rogua Riv er Talent and on motor routea Dally and Sunday 1 year $11101) Dailv and Sunday 1 mo, 1.S0 Carrlei and Dealers Copy 10c All TermajCaah lnAdvance Offlclarpaper of Clty'of MedloriT Olllclal Paper or Jarkson County t United Press International Full Leased Wire U P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER of'audit BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS 4: ARSOCI. ATES. Offices Ir. New York. Chi cago Detroit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland. Denver NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL "r miiinini.n.i.i.m Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from th tiles of Th Mail Trlbun 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yrs too. 10 Y.5ARS AGO Aug. i. 19S2 (Tusday) Extensive radio communi cations system are being In stalled by Southern Pacific to facilitate train operations In the Sierra, Cascade and Siski you mountains. Fifteen-year-old Richard Reeves of Grants Pass leaves for National Soap Box Derby at Akron, Ohio. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. S, 1942 (Wednesday) USO receives thousands of coat hangers from local peo ple, but it is reported that the men at Camp White need many more. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Roast ing ears are now big enough to be purloined from fields abutting on the river and be come the main Hem of what was socially intended as a wiener roast." no YEARS AGO Aug. S, 1932 (Friday) The sheriff! office esti mates there are 0,200 licensed automobiles in Jackson court- Mrs. Sidney Richardson of the Jackson county humane society makes calls on several Medford boys, lectures them nn the killing of birds and then returns to her office with slingshols relinquished by the conscience - stricken boys. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. ft. 1922 (Saturday) Weather bureau figures for July show the area had a mean temperature of Bfl; high est temperature was inn de grees. Discussion of a proposed Ashland hotel and sanitarium Is begun: Jrssl Wlnhurn an nounces he will Invest $20,000 In the project. SO YEARS AGO Aug, S. 1912 (Monday) Sophie Tucker schedules sn appearance In Medford tomor row as part of the cast of "Louisiana Lou." The Frldeger orchard nn ih S-T A In P . iBnli.nntillU highway was sold to a Salt j Lake City group headed by nns a. A. Birn. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina r tan correct la superior; even or eltht It estalltnl; live or it la good. life, has been worked until it has grown dull. l The highest military mcd-1 Similarly, the graphic sex scene, so success-whaprdrrtb-vFri,nr'i'"llr,i:fiilly utilixed by Krskme Caldwell, for example, 2. Ail mammals have some in "(toil's Little Acre," has become so routine that hair, true or false- 'the onlv question now with an author is which in',,e mlnr''S1 , chapter he should put it in. sues, is extracted from scrap greases, fats and nils'1 4 What was the nationality of the designer of the Stntue of Liberiy? 5. In mythology who ad judged Venus Ihe fairest of the goddesses? 6. "Eureka" is the motto of which State? 7. Is a practitioner of cul inary art a doctor, painter, conk or writer? R On what continent are the llama, alpaca, gtianarn and vicuna found? 9 In early American his tory, what was Ihe chief whal ing port In New England'' 10 At what limes is the inn, in .-i-ii luiiiiiiiiiip Aniwm 1, Medaille Mill- I milieu 111 WHICH I lie aillSl lives ailfl WOI'KS, ami uirn. 2. Tru. 3. Glycerin. ' since the nation itself is in a stage of total tran 4. rrnch. s. Paris- - Caii-j MtjoH, any nredii tioii on the subject of future art ! form. 7. Cook. R. South: , r ' . , . ,,.',: ,.,n.. ;,. ' Am.rica. 1. Nanluck.l. 10. i NYr. 1 SUNDAY. AUGUST S. 1962 Titans' Voices Stilled In the space of about a year's time, this country has lost its two greatest fiction writers of the 20th century Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. It has been an irreparable loss. Both were Nobel Prize winners, singularly deserving of that highest of all literary honors. Unless by some chance the committee should bestow a Nobel Prize on Robert Frost soon (and we certainly hope it does), it may be a matter of a decade or more before an American writer is again similarly honored. THE period of the literary titans in this country the meistersingers, as one critic called them is over. The great voices of the 20's and 30's, that once compelled the whole world to listen, are stilled, or have lost their vitality. How easily their names come to mind: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Sinclair Lewis, James Branch Cabell, Eugene O'Neill, H. L Mencken, E. A. Robinson, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, and another poet who died this year, Robinson Jeffers. But now try this test: name a half dozen or so major contemporary America who are on the rise or in their prime. Difficult, isn't it? Granted, one can scrounge up a handful of names by drawing liberally from current best seller lists, but we speak of enduring greatness. IT IS a disquieting thought that, though more Vinnko. 9lo hninrr rtiil-ilJcVioz-l unrl mrio nnnnlo are reading them than ever before, the quality of American poetry and prose is at a low ebb. j To be sure, the picture is not entirely bleak, , nor the intellectual climate completely sterile. John Steinbeck's pen still has some authority. James Gould Cozzens has a small but devoted audience. Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth seem to have won a probationary approval from the critics. Herman Wouk continues to turn out good and bad novels with a craftsman's regular- T 1 T T" fa 1 . 1 1 1 I ny. d. u. saunger is currently preoccuping me literati and provoking useful and insightful comment. DUT nonetheless it is apparent and painfully clear there is no one writing in this country now of sufficient genius to attract and hold an international literary audience. Doubtless, dozens of reasons could be offered to explain the paucity of first-class writing talent, and a few decades from now Ph.D. candidates and literary historians, with the advantage of time and perspective, will do just that. In the meantime, we will rashly essay one or two. We would not want to offer them as any thing other than conjecture, and, of course, in several individual cases they wouldn't hold up. ' ENIUS or greatness, if you will seems to have a better chance to develop when society is confronted with some pervasive, all-embracing challenge. It may be viewed as a situation in which the talent is latent and requires only a fertile climate in order to grow and flourish. Such was the case, we decades during the first half of this century. Great upheavals in tradition and thought in all areas social, economic, religious, political were occurring with such force and magnitude that even the most disinterested and uninformed citizens were being affected. A brutal war, after which the peace was Inst, followed shortly by a (' .pression so paralyzing and humiliating that whole generations have nev er recovered from it psychologically, w e r e, of themselves, sufficient impetus to set dozens of our artists raging their protests. CECON'DLY, we think that during a period in which a group of great writers dominate the scene, fledgling authors are motivated, subcon sciously or not, to emulate the successful. Thus, since Hemingway caught on, publish ing houses and American readers have been plagued with rafts of novels about hairy-chested, liard-as-nails, two-fisted heroes who take their women and the worst that out batting an C,V( Skillful imitation mav ly, but it precludes any possibility of develop ing an individual style or technique. This is at least one reason why our present American fiction lacks v itality. The realism form ula, which insists on revealing the seamv side of I AND so because, for whatever reasons, wide . ranging intellectual ferment at all others but the scientific level is nearly non-existent, and be ; cause the younger crop of writers has been too jbusy copying the meistersingers, it is unlikely ; that much literature of significance will be pro duced in this country for some years to come. ' An unspoken conformity in the land result ! ing, to some extent, from an external threat, has also acted stealthily to stifle and inhibit free i Mvinginjr experimentation. I A renaissance in the arts in the United States i is inevitable, but the direction it will take is anybody's guess. i Since art in large measure springs from the ,,, . i'ii , ''" "I iu,iiu. less. li.M.h. writers or poets in submit, in the middle fate can pass out with often pav off financial . I i i i p .u ut. .tii. nit ...mi- j The Best In the Day's News By FRANK The U.S. Department of Commerce has just come up with an Interesting bit of in formation. It says that person al income of the nation's citi zens in June rose to a "sea sonally adjusted" annuel rate of $440.4 billion which means that if Americans go on earning all through the current year at the rale they earned In June the total In come of the whole 180-odd millions of us will total up to nearly half a trillion dollars. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? BUT wait a minute. Thai's what we'll all earn in 1BS2 if we go on earn ing throughout the year at the rale we earned In June. It has nothing to do with what we OWE. And-- Our old Uncle, who runs our business for us, owes a total of ,100 billion dollars. 'THAT'S another wW of say- - ing that if our national debt was paid off at one time it would take a little better than two-thirds of EVERY BODY'S income for 1962 to pay the bill. It's slill another way of saying that If you were as deeply in debt as is your old Uncle, your IOU's would equal about two-thirds of your annual Income. Which is another way of saying that if your outstand ing IOU's equalled two-thirds of your total income, you'd be in a bad way. u NCl.E, of course. Is better off than you would be. He can reach Into your Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann la en vacation. Roicoa Drummond report! from Washington In hit absence.) (el 1962 Ntw York Harald Tribune Inc. ANTI-SEMITISM IN RUSSIA Washington The mounting anti-Semitism, -practiced of ficiallv by the Soviet govern ment against Ihe 1.500.000 orthodox .lews In the U.S S.R , is causing acute anxiety to Jewish leaders in many coun tries. The Rabbinical Council of America has appealed to the religious leaders of all faiths "to arouse and mobilize the peoples and governments of Ihe world In a vigorous cam paign lo reverse the anti Semitic outbursts" In the So viet Union. There is good reason for this appeal. H rests upon the most detailed and documented evidence of Krelmin-sanction-ed and anti-Semitic acts ear ago. nod out in the press and in the courts In many parts of the Soviet Union. These prac tices are directed against Jews individually, also against the Jewish failh. This is what has come out into the open In recent months: 1 A total of 17 Jewish cit izens have been sentenced to death for alleged "economic offense." Others have been sent to jail. 2 - Si Jewish lay religions leaders in Leningrad and Mos cow have been arrested 3 The Jewish congrrKa tional chairmen in Minsk, Riga, Kiev, Vilna, and Tash kent have been deposed by the government 4 Anti-Semitic attn-lrs are appearing in the niaior news papers of the l;ui;c provincial rities often m the s;nne ver sion. 'pilKSE articles Inset hrr vv nh the nnttsnallv detailed ".e ports of tile alleged ' economic cnnics ' and the impi ivedrn' -ed death senieiHes diM-lose a tnainr prop.iK.indit nffniMve directed itu.iint the Jews of the Soviet I'nion by the So Viet government The aiticlrs. which are clearly aimed to foment rub- MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD. OREGON Laid Plant JENKINS pocket and lake what needs to pay off his IOU's. he AND- Besides If worse comes to worst, Uncle can start the printing presses and print whatever amount of money he needs to pay his debt. If you and I tried that, we'd wind up In Alcatraz or some other equally un pleasant place of residence. 1TNCLE has a lot of worries. He owes a lot of short term notes. He can't pay them off in cash because in only six of the past 32 years has the old spendthrift taken in more cash than he has spent. That means that every year he has to go around lo his creditors swapping new notes for his old ones. fS TOP of all that, Uncle " now has to pungle up about NINE AND A HALF BIL LION DOLLARS IN INTER EST on his debt. In 1940, it cost the old gen tleman only $9,063,032,204 to run his whole shebang (mean ing the government of the United States of America!. Now It costs him more for IN TEREST ALONE than his whole operating expense amounted to only 22 years If our old Uncle were a pri vate cili'.cn. it isn't improb able that some of his nieces and nephews would bo asking that he be declared incompe tent and a guardian appoint- lie hostility, appear almost ex clusively in the cities which have large Jewish populations numbering many hundreds of thousands. Most of these cities are lo cated in areas where anti Semitism is ancient, tradition ally widespread, and deeply rooted among the masses of people. The .substance of the ar ticles, many of which I have examined in translation, seek to confirm or bolster all the old anti -Jewish stereotypes; they attack the Jewish reli gion and Jewish religious practitioners; they viciously try to portray Jews as natural ly and almost unanimously I "money grubbers," "thieves." "deceivers," and either poten tially or actually "subver sives." j Willi tfle exception of two short pieces published in a ; Moscow monthly, this anil- i Semitic crusade is kept to the outlying provincial cities and towns. Thus the articles rarely come to the attention of the Western correspond ents in tlie Soviet Union and can tiierehv he confined al- I most exi-lusiv civ for home consumption. 'IM1KSE featured ' educ.ition ( al pieces' carry awesome ; and mystery-laden titles. One i i.s called "Under the Dark : Vaults of Ihe Synagogue"; an other. "Under Ihe Synagogue I Vaults " A central theme is that "Jews are money wor shippers " Rabbis and lay leaders sre portrayed as ex horting money from the faith ful tor ostensibly religious purposes but really to feather their own nests llrunkenness is suggested as a frequent in cident in 'lie sv nagoaues and Jew ish believers are described as devoted to drink, as tipsy su.'rlers who "mix up thfir piavets while under the in fluence of alcohol " i.Mcohol imii is noiahty low among Jews thioustioiit the world) I The Russian Orthodox re Matter of Fact n j.Ph ai.oP (e) Ntw York Herald Tribune Svndtol THE PALLID ISSUES New York City In the slatternly reaches of the tip per Bronx, the red brick cliffs o f Parkches tcr rise like a monument lo humble com fort. This huge lower middle in come com, munily, hous ing thousands o f families, has its own historic interest as one of the first big urban redevelop ments. The job was so well done, moreover, that people who get into Parkchester tend to stay there until the undertak er comes. The result is an ab normally high concentration of elderly and retired people. And it was this feature which attracted this reporter and a member of the staff of Louis Harris and Associates to Park chester. for a long and ardu ous session of doorbell-ringing. We were trying to find out, in fact, whether the issue of medical care for the aged still retain the great political pull that all the pollsters began to report some time ago. The need for such a sounding had been suggested by a day's pavement pounding in subur ban Huntley Estates. a AS ALREADY noted In this space, President Kennedy had made deep inroads among the Huntley Estates people since 1960, when they gave former Vice President Nixon a handsome majority. Yet Kennedy's new support seem ed a bit mushy and unreli able, because there was little fervor and passion among the new Kennedy admirers. One reason for this was that the President clearly had only one major issue going for him in a big way. His handling of foreign and de fense policy commanded strong support. "He's careful, but he's firm too." was a typ ical comment. On the other hand, the people in our Hunt ley Estates sample were downright snappish about medicare, professing active disapproval of the President's bill by a ratio of nearly three to two. Hence, we w e n t lo Park chester to check the Huntley Estates evidence in a quite different community. The re sults of a large number of in terviews were particularly In teresting, because the Park Chester pattern, despite the difference in Income-level, average age-level, and envir onment, was so close to the Huntley Estates pattern. HERE, too, the President had made substantial though not dramatic inrofds ligion is allowed one church per 1,800 believers and one priest per 1,100 believers. Jews In Russia are allowed only one synagogue and one rabbi per 22.000 believers. A Russian-language Bible was reprinted in 1957 for the Orthodox church and for Baptists in 1358 The Koran was published for Moslems the same year. No Hebrew Bible has been permitted for Jews since 1917. Thus another Soviet prom ise to Its own people is torn and tattered the promise of the "Soviet Constitution" that it would guarantee freedom of religious propaganda. Kennedy's By ERIC SEVAREID The President seems to have decided on an across-the-board tax cut. as this is written, and it is ironic that the first major act by a fresh, youth f u 1 adminis trator to "get t h e country mnvlngj again" should ' he a tactic that is old, i orthodox and. indeed, assnci- j ated with conservative, not liberal regimes. It is ironic, atsn, in the ; complete uncertainty of its effect. I say this because among the current crop of : popular illusions is the no tion that with the advent of a new team of brilliantly ar ticulate economic advisors, brilliant new solutions would be found to the problem of governmental management and stimulation of our com plex economy. These men pos sessed the secret keys to Ihe mysteries. To be sure, the new- advi sors themselves never claim ed such Ilelphir powers Ftul their ent nusiastic champions in the press have, in effect, marie the claim for them. They were impatient with the fflta'.is'ic ntd-foeevism of that supreme'y orthodox eco nomic thinker, former Secre Alsnp mi among people who had over whelmingly voted for Presi dent Eisenhower and given Nixon a narrow majority. And the Republicans had lost even more than Kennedy had gained. A small percentage of vot ers had switched decisively from the Nixon column to the Kennedy column. But a somewhat larger percentage of former Nixon voters were now undecided about wheth er they would vote Repub lican again. Thus Kennedy's absolute majority of the de cided voters was large. And when Gov. Nelson D. Rock efeller was paired against the President, the Repub lican showing was even more melancholy. On the other hand, this Parkchester sample, at least 40 per cent composed of men and women already eligible for medicare's prospective benefits, showed only very moderate enthusiasm for this supposedly sure-fire vote-getter. Only one-half of the per sons in the sample favored medicare. Among these there were also many who merely said "something should be done." but professed doubts about the President's actual bill. One of the big private health insurance schemes had just announced a steep rise in premiums. Otherwise, it is doubtful whether medi care would have had even 50 per cent support. Among the other persons in the Parkchester sample, 40 per cent were opposed to medicare, and most of these, including many elderly peo ple, were quite sharply op posed. Ten per cent did not know how they felt about it. Most of those who favored medicare were also rock-bottom Kennedy supporters. Ov erall, the President seemed to have gained only the barest handful of votes by medicare in this Parkchester commun ity where the scheme ought to have been as hot as a fire cracker. AS FOR the lax cuts to stim ulate business which are now being debated in Wash ington, their political effect may well be the exact oppo site of what Washington ex pects, if the Huntley Estates and Parkchester evidence is not misleading. In both com munitites, a substantial ma jority of the people polled -at least 55 per cent - were positively opposed to tax cuts at this time. "Anvbodv d like a tax cut, but we've got to pay for the government, haven't we?" was a characteristic comment. Others were: "Defending the U.S. costs money, and it's Just politics lo pretend it doesn't." And: "I think we ought to balance the budget instead of cutting taxes." In truth, the sturdiness of these people under a heavy lax burden was exceptional ly impressive, even though I their grasp of Keyncsian econ j omics was plainly inadequate. ; But this means that even gen- crous income t a x cuts, if I eventually voted, may not 1 helo the Dcmocracts in the fall election. Truly, something is always lo be learned by revisiting the grass roots. They are the best way station from Wash ington to anywhere else, in cluding even a short vacation which this reporter is about to take. Dilemma: tary of the Treasury George Humphrey, who once told a Senate committee: "There is no man and probably never has been, and I think prob ably never will be, who can see very far into (he future " This seemed pure nstrichism. a denial of the new knowl edge of economic cause and effect. What went unnoticed was a lecture soon after that, de livered by one of the truly original - minded high priests of economic theorv now advis ing the President, Professor J. Kenneth Galbraith. He en dorsed thai particular affir mation by Humphrey and re marked: "It was once supposed by economists that empirical knowledge might, in effect, narrow the scope . . . by pro viding a better Insight into what the future might hold. This is an idle hope; there is no chance, given the present character and constitution of capitalism, that the tech niques of economic forecast ing will ever provide a basis upon which government ac tion can be pr nicatod " So there we are The ad ministration wishes to try a massive tax cut, not because it knows what the result will be hut because it does not know what else to try within the small area of w-hat is po litically possihle to liy If we are heading for a new fron tier on the economic horizon, POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) GERTRUDE-WHERE ARE YOU? Can it be ? Can Gertrude have sur vived? You remember Gertrude, the boa constrictor who got lost in the cold wilderness atop Mt. Sexton last Christ mas? She was given up for lost after several days because of the cold, snappy mornings. But now . . . A fronl-page story In the Eugene Register - G u a r d re ports that a deputy sheriff at Swisshome on Highway 36 had reported a rumor that a 11 or 12 foot long boa con strictor was running (shouldn't that be crawling?) ioose in the Swisshome area. The deputy, alas, was unable to confirm the rumor. Do you suppose that Ger trude, hardier than she was given credit for being, made it the 150 or so miles from Mt. Sexton to Swisshome? FLYING SAUCERS?i Th sam iisut of the R-G -lh sam story, as a matter of facl-alio reported num erous cases of people sight ing Strang object, or ob jects, in the sky. Now this is of interst be cause th satellit Echo has been visible in our southern Orgon ikies in recant nights. One of our less ex citable staff members says he's watched it for several nighti In a row, and can almost "set my watch by it." Some of lh more excit able Eugeneani opine th objcl ihey taw might have been a flying saucr chas ing Echo around ihe world to s what it is. Others just don't know what they saw, and report it variously as fluorescent green, green and red, brilliant blue - while, having flames and sparks, and not having flames and sparks. Anyway, whatever it was happened, or flaw by. or No Really we are starting the march along a well-worn detour. The final "image" of a Presi dent consists of two elements - his personality and "style." and the substance of what he accomplishes. To date, Mr. Kennedy s image has consist ed almost exclusively of the first element. As the two ele ments begin to fuse, judging j by the score to date, it seems j probable, though not certain, i that t h e Kennedy image a ! year from now will he very i different from the one pro- jectcd and accepted today. And this tax move, with its air of frustration, increases , the tempo of the change. Various writers have ana lyzed the spectacle of a vig- orous, aggressive President ' unable to move a sluggish j Congress, of the hard young fist hitting into a massive j sponge. I cannot add to their ; comments save to say that I doubt that the prime cause is ! his "failure to educate the people." There is a nearer blockage. The truth is that in spite of Ihe fresh greenery in which they are now dress ed, these matters of housing, health, education, farming and so on are, especially m Congress, worn and weary matters They have been ar gued for at least 15 years In dividual and group positions nn each of them were taken long ago; it would require a . social upheaval, reflected n saucered by, or something, 1 about 10:45 p.m. last Tuesday. And th usually staid and reliable Associat ed Prss reported to lh R-G that at about that time -thr were barometric prai sur changes recorded at weather bureau stations in Seattle, Olympil tr.6 To ledo. Wash. The Register-Guard also re ports the fears of a housewife about the possibility of an in flux of wild alligators, should little ones, now being sold as pets, ever escape and grow up. An R-G editorial writer re calls a for-real alligator scare back in 1929, when some cheerful University of Oregon football players, just back from a game with the Uni. vcrsily of Florida, staked out a live alligator behind the Sigma Nu house. The beast bit off ils leash and swam up the millrace, only to climb out on the lawn of a startled housewife. Let's turn from wild 1 things to more mundane af fairs, like th tribulations of driving across town and back these busy days. Th wife of on of our staff members went to visit a friend th oiher day, and: 1. Had lo detour around a paving project on Stew art ave., and almost got loli. 2. Had to detour from Eighth St., which was blocked because of freeway work, 3. Had to detour from Riverside ave. b c a u s heavy equipment was block ing the roadway. 4. Had to detour from Jackson st. because of a paving project. Oh, yes-about that Stewart ave. paving job. One of our spies reported that no sooner was it finished than anolher crew started digging it up again. Presumably that is Ihe sig nal for the street patching crews to get to work covering up the new parking and lane marking paint stripes. To conclude our rport on a week of portents, disas ters, and Strang sights and toundi, ws should tell about when th power went off Wednesday juit at press time. In th back shop, th lino typs sal idler, thir mtal pots slowly congealing. In th nswsroom. th lights went off, and the chatter of the teletypes want lileni. Th clocks stoppd. When th power returned we xplaind our plight lo th UPI bureau in Portland, which sent us th top stories we would have missed, and then followed with this: Your unrelenting mechani cal jinx Yet may driv us all to drinks. It's grown so epidemic w By now Just offer sympa thy .. . And plead with you la mend your ways By adding this apprt,hn- siv phrasa: We'll hang our headi in horror and sorrow If you do it again tomor row! Regards and condolancas. New Issues elections. In change them sub stantially. Mr. Kennedy's "frontiers" are new in the j sense that we have not reach ed them, but old In the sense ! that everyone has looked at them, as at a familiar moun tain range, every day of hu lite. Some observers now pri vately worry about how the quick- tempered, intensely ambitious President will he have as and if his frustrations grow. It is not only that there : is no such word as failure in I the bright lexicon of youth. This President's personal problem is compounded, be ;cause intellectuality, not j youth, is his really distln , guishing characteristic. I ' ' ! He is not a "natural man" ; as was. say Mr. Truman. He is an intellectual which means 1 that he both enjoys and suf i fers from the "double vision." I seeing himself constantly from the sidelines as a figure i in history Not to be one of 1 the great Presidents would be intolerable to him. On present readings, through no fault of his own, he cannot achieve this historical niche short of the traditional setting of our "great" Presidents - some truly terrible domestic or foreign crisis, which he. no more than others, would wish to see (Distributed 1962 by Th Hall Syndic!. Inc.) (All Rights Rirvd)