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Newspaper Page Text4 A -f Tjrtfij in Southern Oregon t ii Ir.c Tribune'7 urhd Di'." ixeep'. Saturday by medh'.'H.) ?::sg CO 13 Norwi f.r S-.. i1!.. 77J-6!41 HhntPr W rHLK(H'or HKRR CiHEY 1:. rtlirv Manager " LATH A VI. Bu Mgr. ERIC 'l -C. IS JR Mmk Editor FARl ADAMS Citv tditnr HAHHV lHirMA'1, Telttf Editor RICH a fO JKUFTT SporU Editor Or. IV t & M H HKR Women'a Editor DAr.r I RICK SON. Circulation Mgr. An htdpi-ndtnt Newspaper Entered frond clas matter at Mcitord Oregon, under Act of March 3. ia'i7 SUHSCHII'TION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy .Or Dai'.v and Sunn.iv 1 year $l."Of) Dailv and Sunday fi nun 8 00 Dsilv and Sunday 3 moi. 4 23 Stmd.tv Only One year $4 20 Bv Ciirnor In Advance Medford, AshU-nd, .Ccntrnl Point, Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Mill, Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er 1 aleni imd on motor routes Dailv and Sut.day year JIB 00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo I SO Carnc ;mrt Dealers Copy 0c AH Terms Cash in Advanee OfMria) paper of Dty of Mtdford Othcial ('aper of Jackson County United Pre-iR International Full Leased Wire t! P I I'elpphnto Nrwspicturri ""MEMI'n OF AUDIT rureau" OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising Rr-presfntativc NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC. ATES OlJices in NVw York. Chi capo Demut. San FranciBro. Los Anqeles Scatlle. Portland. Denver NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL wiJ'lii M aiajiii willful Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Hislory from the dies ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yent ano. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 6, 1952 (Wednesday) Jon W. Cooper of Medford was named winner of an hon orable mention award in the senior division of the Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild mod el car competition in Detroit, Mich. Farmers Home adininislra lion will have S60.000 avail able for initial operating, or "production and subsistence" loans to farmers in Jackson and Josephine counties during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1053. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 6, 1942 (Thursday) Building permits In allow construction of 10 new houses on a block in northwest Med ford are issued from the city building inspector's office. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Kii7.it are reported dying like flies on the North Caucasus front while on Ihe kitchen front where the Older Girls are canning and pickling, the flies are dying like Nazis. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 6. 1932 (Saturday) The slale highway commis sion announces it will spend more than $100,000 on south ern highways during the win ter. Wind storm destroys Rogue valley pear crop; losses esti mated from eight to 40 per cent. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 6. 1922 (Sunday) Banks announce Medford payroll this week is the largest in three years. Copco announces thai its employees have purchased $2110,000 ill slocks under the rompany's new plan to keep slock within the company. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 6. 1912 (Tuelday) File Chief Amann orders 1h.il all Mcdlovd residents turn off water when fire siren sounds L F. Homer, a Medford nursci.vman (or many years, is Inlurert and ho.spuah-'ed in Rohuig follouing an auto mobile at I'ldeiil . Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct it lupcrior; even et ciqM it excellent; fiv or lit it qood. 1 Is hror.e a metallic ele- nirii', "t an alloy' 2 What m thulcicil f mure, ii prt -vnii il ;ts hearing (lie (mi t!i on Ins shouldi'is-' a, NHs.ui Kiirki'lVlli-r the $in, nr the hi .mrNnn of the nip ,lnhn V) Itnckcfrllor. Sr." 4 When our eves adjust thi nv-riv, s to a darkened rn.irii, ;m e the pupils expanded or e- n' t hi trd'1 .' Wi.ii treat mountain r,-ir( li be'wren India-Pii:i;'-';.n iinfl Chimt'' ti W i Ci e 1 1 1 1; c Wajihmnltm an n r,K son'1 7 Wiin h of thri- h.i.s hoi'tis -- rhm"( i i s . ir hippopota mus ' R 1 it count!. v it Tel- Aviv 9 How nmy ('i ai" in a statute nnlri in V hen 11 is 3 p 111 Stnnd-. ard Time m New York, what ' tin e is it in S.m Fr.incisio'' I Answers: 1. Alloy. 2. A!-: Uit. 3. Grandson. 4. Expanded. S. HiiTMlayai. 6. No. 7. Rhi nererot. 8. Israel. 9. 3280. 10.1 Noon ;PST). I NATIONAL V-e MONDAY, AUGUST ft. 1962 Death and Public Opinion Win Marks of Radio Station KBOY called us Saturday to report on a poll he had taken. The pollees were reminded that LeeRoy San ford McGahuey will die in the gas chamber Aug. 20 two weeks from today unless Gov. Mark Hatfield exercises executive clemency. Then the pollees were asked, "Are you in favor of the death penalty?" Of the 158 responses, 87 were opposed to capital punishment; 71 favored it. yi-IIS kind of poll, of course, is not a scientific sampling of opinion, and cannot be construed as a necessarily accurate reflection of the views of all Jackson county people. But it is revealing, in that it was in the county where McGahuey committed his murders, and where he was tried and convicted by a jury which did not recommend clemency. It is also reminiscent of the fact that the last time Oregon voters cast ballots on capital punish-1 tvirtttf it lima rw1t Kit n fin.. w, i v, r' f 1 1 I mi.ii,,, it aa icaiuuu uiii uy a tiny iiimvji iu.y some 12,000 votes out of more than 540,000 cast. And it is also reminiscent of the fact that for many years Oregon did not have the death penalty. QREGON'S basic laws do call for the death penalty at the present time. But the Constitu tion also gives the Governor the unfettered right to commute a sentence; indeed, the duty to do so, should he feel it is called for. It is too bad he must political climate, during his campaign for re election. This intensifies the pressures on him in a situation already difficult enough for any man. Nonetheless, knowing of the Governor's ab horrence of taking human life, of his sincere and j deep religious feeling, and of the fact that Ore- gonians are nearly divided on trie subject and no one really knows whether, at this moment, a ma jority approves or disapproves capital punish ment, it is our hope the commute McGahuey s sentence. b.A. The Dignity of Life How is it possible to oppose the death penalty, and at the same time favor legalized abortions under certain circumstances? Isn't this inconsist ent and contradictory? At first glance it may seem so. This depart ment has taken both these positions in recent days, and we got to wondering about it. It seems to us that the key to the answer is one of attitude, of a dislike for human suffering, as evidenced in one case by a man facing certain death, and in the other by an easily preventable birth which could well, probably would, result in mental and physical anguish for many people over a long period of time. IN DISCUSSING the Finkbine case, Max Ler- ncr writes: "She (Mrs. Finkbine) cares about children so much Hint she had four and was planning to have a fifth. But she also cares about the dignity and meaning of life, and when she found that a tranquilizer drug she had taken . . . had caused thousands of malformed births in Kuropc, she did not want to inflict on life Ihe indignity of bringing Into the world a limbless, twisted child which, if he lived, would curse his par ents for the monstrous Joke they played on him." "Dignity and meaning of life" that, to us, is the key phrase. Preventing life is not, to us, the same as taking life. And while many sincere, moral and religious people will disagree violent ly, the cold-blooded killing of a man, and permit ting the birth of a monstrous child when it can be easily prevented, both seem wrong to us. E. A. Communication Satellites fr.1 , , . ... f 1 lit: lll'itll'll Uiillll 1U1 I UIHIU1 Ul .'Wlll'l lid a j communication satellite system continues. Sup-j now big a lift- porters of the bill which would give virtual con- , ";l 'i'"" to ! , e . . . . t P rn i . ; have intrigued the editorial trol of the satellite system to A I ST have at-' ,.lf( o( ,,, i.lirliiini o.cgoni tempted to use the recent successful Telstar ex- an. so they got out their slide periments as proof that AT&T should plav the 1 ri,ll's mu1 u",ir computers . . , '. , , , , ir ' went to work on the problem. dominant role m developing and controlling our j,,,,., wnlU tnev come up satellite system. The successful Telstar r 1 . ti l nut iitiiiotiiiiiii, uinuui, it wut iivt. ut-t-t.- SaHlv follow that AT&T Ibonefteiarv of the $170,000,000 public investment 1 :.. . ,i ' : . ! ,m satellite eommunciations. ! ! lelstar was but one of many experimental , nroiects. Tlie National Aeronautics and Snace ! Administration plans to construct and test Uclay. j SyiH'Oin, and hellO Satellites all Wlthlll the next few months. No One is now certain which, if ailV, (if these alternate types of satellites will prove to . . . . 1 . 1 . lie tile Ultimate system. What IS certain IS that ' research and deve onment ntii.no U itviwi.oilin.r uc TV4ANV questions relating to the Operation ()f a 'THE news drouth appears to j and kepi. Long has been here AV communications satellite svstem remain un- , be sn Francisco j u years: nog ib , .,, ,i f, .t ' i 'i' i . also. At anv rale, the Chron-1 These are but a few ex- answered, shortly after the successful lelstar ex- nle comes up wilh llus head- amples from this primary neritnent the "New ork Times" reported that the ime s f kohseks a mega- i season winch support ten White House had just initiated a Stlldv of the in- 'rOLIS. The story under i tral point: (hose trying lo , . i 1- ' . ii- headline relates. ' raie Northern bit citv power ternational implications of satellite communica- -.Citv ,,,., nirt tnr i m confess and reduce south- tioilS. first lime Wednesday with a i em power think (hey can do Yet the satellite bill before Congress would nll"""s' commiUee named to 'it by forcing congressional re- five -i iinvile enniiii-iti.Hi dnniiivite.'l he t'l'tT "'U rr,'l",r'' downtown San apportionment. Hut given , I1 "n'l I01p0l.lt 1011, ( omilUtt d 0 AltVl, Krancisc,. (or u, iUv of tnr evp lhr most fKlrcme kmd the right to negotiate directly With fOlelgll COUll- megalopolis. This is Ihe plan-!or reapportionment, they will tries over the construction and use of communica- tion facilities ' . ' .... . . . .Many Senators, including myself and Senators Morse, Hal tlett, Cniening, and KefaUVCr, hav e asked why it is essential that we act immediately , , ', ... . . tO tUI'll satellite Communications Over tO U private monopoly. No satisfactory answer to this qtlOS-' tion has yet been given. Senator Maurine Neu- I .... DClgll. make his decision in a Governor will see lit to . .,1 experiment was indeed ... I 1 should therefore be the: 11 sate ite eommuni- l - .m.llv iw mwiiltln j "Don't Rightly Know Washington Report1 By William (el United Feature Syndicate : seniority Washington - The Southern Democratic primaries are re turning more than familiar x faces for the next Congress. ! i 6 ll whole al- ready - great power - gain ed t h r o u g n t h e congres sional seniori- J ty system plus .n. nign bouinern nersonal political talent - is now beinir still more increas ed through the sheer fact that again they have survived. Dixie, thus far in ils pri maries, is in no mood for much change in ils congres sional delegations. Senior members are being renominat cd with little opposition or none. And in the South, still a one-party region so far as Congress is concerned, renom- ination is equivalent in nearly every case to re-election. For Dixie understands what no other section understands In ihe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What's the big news as this Is written? HERE'S an example: Barbara Fenske, age 16, and Marilyn O'Connor, age 15, of Indianapolis, have laid claim to the ice cube tossing record with a reported 5,599 catches before the cube melt ed. Don't scoff. It gave them something to do. If our teen agers had more to do. they would get Into less mischief. Back in the 1600 s, Isaac Watls, in his Divine Songs, put it this way: "For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." I SUPPOSE you've been reading about the proposal to cut federal income taxes so a.s to leave more money in the people's pockets so that the people can SPEND MORE and UlUS KlVe H till 1" UUMIUM. wilh: "A 10 per cent cut would Kive toe jt.t.iuu-H-.veiii whkc ,,. .. ,,j two children and files joint i I ,vlurn- -H 'r",s m,,,e H weok-! I lie S5.0H0 t'arnor would have : 8l) ronlJ ,mm, a w,,lk to spend, ihe s7.soo one si.64 ! Hnd lhl' si 0.0110 person sa.sst. CM.d5m XnMnVio i per cent reduction. The addi- ll"nal spending money would "a". '""'' " , ; above if Ihe smaller cut were : niadr. The prospei-l of taking ! home ian additional) 14 to 82 1 cellls a week is hardly worth I shouting about.' ,,,b: lo redesign the downtown area for what is i coming No one could say pre- - ciscly when that megalopolis j w"ld be upon us bill they ; ""r crr';'"l c"mm? ! Ihe challenge is stagger- ms and frightening." archi- M-,n" Ciampi told the "",'"' f.',n'p i',"r oVd'i"" ' will affect Ihe whole ares, and , for years lo come." j J . fir If I Can Spare A Nail" S. Whits half so well. To have really potent representation, it is necessary to let your repre sentatives stay in Congress long enough to accumulate real seniority. ss THE meaning of the South's primary mood this year is that the already deep entrenchments of Southern power in Congress are being dug deeper and wider. Thus it is that Southern primaries have a national significance not to be found in any other part of the nation. This is so because no one man's vote automatically equals another man's vote in Congress. The true decision rests in the legislative com mittees - and the kernel of the true decision rests within the chairmen. These chairmanships do not fall mostly to Southerners through dark conspiracy. They fall (hat way because seniority of service is the route to chairmanship, and the Southern fellows have a way of coming back and back here to become incredibly "senior." Thus, little Arkansas, in re electing Sen. J. W. Fulbright -except for the formalities of the November election - has seni back a man whose voice in the great affairs of the world will easily surpass those of all the six senators from our three biggest states -New York, California and Pennsylvania. FOR FULBRIGHT Is chair man of the Senate Foreign relations committee. As such, his views on the proper conduct of foreign pol icy are more nearly deci sive in the vital, inside stages than (hose, say, of Senators Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javils of New York. Thomas Ktichel and Clare Engle of California and Hugh Scott and Joseph Clark of Pennsyl vania all put together. Similiarly, in re-electing Rep. Wilbur Mills again - ex cept for the November for malities - an even smaller number of Arkansas voters has returned a man whose in fluence over the economic af fairs of this nation is greater than that of all the junior congressmen from several slates. For Mills is chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means. Apart from largely deter mining who shall pay what lax and what tariff and what welfare payroll deductions. ?nd mean has one other ll a funMinn II hn i. Ho nr. litlle function. It helps deter mine what new congressmen shall have what assignment lo any other committee of the House. i gain, look at Louisiana. aX Tp thumping return there ot two moderale veterans. fZ- Zw XcTi P.' M'le liok.., is pri .venlert as a Vlrlnlv over right-wing chal- "-users, mn 11 is someining else. (oo. Again it shows dial Dixie savvies how congres sional nower i urriveH hi -. sun confront a basic (act The urbamtes will never: make it unless (hev ran per- I suade Congress lo abandon! the seniority system (which Is j "" ""icssi or icam , let . their congressional people, stay there long enough to! learn what it is all about and! 10 s',,,,rr '""b,uy to be ahicj to do something about what it is all about. MLLFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON COMMUNICATIONS World Common Language To the Editor: I read, with much interest, your article by Don Dillon (UPI) of 7-26, about international language. We have 2700 languages in the world. Obviously we can not teach or learn any appre ciable part of them, go we pick out three of four of the 2700 and ignore the balance (not the most important, ei ther), certainly not a policy to make friends or influence people, and most unbusiness like to the point of plain stu pidity. If we would spend a fraction of the money we spend on our foreign lan guage program on a world common language like Es peranto, we could really ac complish something. I almost lost, not only my shirt, but all my laundry, in Mexico City because I thought nearly every one in Mexico understood English. Mexico borders us for hundreds of miles, with practically no bar rier, they teach our language for three years in their schools, and we teach theirs, but that maid certah.ly didn't know it, though she nodded her head when I asked if I could have my laundry done. Of course the British didn't try to teach English to the na tives. They didn't try to teach them manufacturing, either They want to keep the natives down and build England up. I have no trouble with the small difference of pronun ciation between Maine and Georgia, Don't worry about that. If you want further infor mation about Esperanto, the world common language, ask your library, or write to us. The Esperanto Club, H. E. Dillinger, Box 792, Placerville, Calif. Knows Ha Is Innocent To the Editor: Will you al low our side of the story, con cerning the Claude Chase ar rest, to be put in the paper in the next couple days? I would like to see It hit the front page like my husband's arrest did, but I know I will be lucky if it even makes the communications column. If I sound a little bitter, I don't intend to. I'm .just a little saddened that in this society of ours, it is no longer true that "a man is innocent until he is proven guilty," but after all the publicity, "a man is guilty until he proves him self innocent." But I'm not bitter. I know your staff is just doing their job and writ ing the exciting, sensational news the public likes to read, although I would have liked to have seen the whole story in print. Did you know that Claude went willingly, when he was called in for questioning? And that Tuesday night when the State Police came to the house and said they wanted to see Claude that he was at work and when he came home from work and Itold him they wanted to see him, he said to call (hem and tell them he would be down in one-half Drummond Reports (Wjjlrcr Lipoma nn It on vacation. Roscoe Drummond raoorti from Washington in hii bit net.) (c) HOW TO GET A FARM PROGRAM Washington - The Kennedy administration should not feel too distressed because it has not been able to get from Con gress the kind of farm bill it wanted. This is nothing new. The Eisenhower administra tion couldn't either. Secretary Ezra Taf't Benson wanted a freer market for farm products, but Congress would never permit sufficient flexibility of price supports to bring it about. Secretary Orville Freeman wants a less free market for farm products and greater controls over production, but Congress refuses to vole him the needed powers. Throughout this ten-year period U.S. farm policy has been half right, which means that it has been half wrong -and overwhelmingly unwork able. Mr. Bcnsnn wanted to reduce government controls over farm production but was never allowed by law to re duce price supports sufficient ly to keep surpluses from go ing up and up. Mr. Freeman wants to maintain high price supports, but is not being al lowed by Congress to exercise the control over production to keep surpluses from going up and up because of high price supports. This half-right, half-wrong, almost wholly unworkable farm policy has been going on a long time. Isn't it about time to draw a logical conclusion from this long and costly fail ure of the politicians to devise a farm program which will serve the whole nation and ar rest the growing gap between farm and non-farm earnings? It seems to me the logical conclusion is thai the develop ment of a farm program ought to be Ukrn out of partisan politics I believe there 11 a way to do it. hour. And he was, because I drove him down myself. And did you know that Claude, in all nil 41 years, has never been in any kind of trouble, not even traffic violations? So he went willingly be cause he is innocent. Some might say, you're his wife, you're prejudiced in his fav or. Well, if loving a man and having faith in him, after 18 happy years of marriage, to know he would never "will fully and maliciously" start a fire anywhere, then I am prejudiced. And If our seven children can hear and read what is being said about their father, and not let it affect their lives, because they know their father would never do such a thing, then they too are prejudiced. And also in this time of trouble to feel so proud of the man that has caused my phone to ring constantly in the last two days, from neighbors, friends and people that he has worked with in the last eight years, since we have come to the valley, assuring me that it is absurd and anyone that knows Claude, knows he would never do this thing. So I, his wife, know he is innocent, his children know he is innocent, his friends know he is innocent, and above all our dear Lord knows he is innocent. With the Lord's guidance and the many prayers that have gone out in Claude's be half, we know that justice will be done and his inno cence will be proved. Thank you for your time and space. Mrs. Claude Chase Route 2, Box 668-B Cen'.ral Point, Ore. Movies Taken Seriously To the Editor: I would like to give my view on the ques tion of movies. I certainly do not agree with the statement which Kathy Bevls put forth, "that TV and movies are our great est outlet of feelings Sure ly Kathy cannot believe that watching a television movie could possibly surpass the peace of taking our prob lems to God in prayer. Cer tainly this is our "greatest outlet of feelings." I do agree with Kathy, how ever, on the point that all actors are not bad. I don't think that a person can take a group of people and say that they are ALL bad. Cer tainly some, and I might ven ture to say, most of our enter tainers are at least headed down the road of immorality. ' I do believe that many of our youth do take movies seriously. I doubt that it is a conscious act, but if you stop and think about it, you will find that those movies are leaving their mark, particu larly the romances. I don't think we can say that movies aren't taken se-riously-they are. Terry Birman, 243 Beatty St., Medford. 1962 New York Htrald Tribunt Inc. NORMALLY, the partisan political process is the best method of obtaining a national consensus on national policy. But there are two cir cumstances when political ap proach to determine policy should be suspended. 1- When the partisan politi cians agree so subs(an(ially (hat partisan controversy no longer exists - as in foreign policy today. 2- Whcn the partisan politi cians disagree so substantially as to prevent agreement on a consistent and workable course of action. Because for at least a dec ade the partisan politicians have been unable to agree on a consistent and workable farm program. i( is impera (ive to tiy a non-political ap proach. Since the politicians have been unable to produce any solution to mounting surpluses and declining income, why not give the non-politicians a chance? aMIE praclical step would be for (he President and the Congress to join in creating a Hoover-type commission on agriculture which would draw upon the most objective tal ent and report within six months its findings on a farm program. I Such a commisison would 1 need a respected and trusted f" figure who understands acn 1 culture but is not beholden to j the pressure groups - such a man as Judge Marvin Jones, a former member of Congress. a student of agriculture, an ! experienced public official 'with a judicial state of mind. The commission would need j fresh brains and fresh faces - and ought not to be packed) j with the battle-scarred veter- ans of the farm lobbies j j 1 believe that such a step: as this is vital for the nation. j The American farmers' politi-j ;cal power is steadily waning.! land their legitimate Interests Matter of Fact By j0sePh ai,op (CI New Yor Kereid Tribune Syndlcete By ROBERT J. DONOVAN (Joseph Alsop is on va eatiCi. During this period hit column will be written by reporleri expert in na tional and international af fairs.) - MID-TERM: FDR. JFK Washington - Everyone re members how mightily Frank lin D. Roosevelt swept over Alf Landon to win a second term. What we forget and what Is interesting to recall at this time of political trou ble for John F. Kennedy is how things stood for Roose velt when he was at that point in his first term that Kenne dy is approaching in his. One - fifth of the labor force was still unemployed. The national income was near ly $40 billion below 1929. Some 389 cases involving challenges to New Deal laws were pending in the courts. The NRA and the AAA, twin pillars of Roosevelt's recov ery program, were not only in turmoil but were in the shadow of death. Many voters were annoyed by Roosevelt's family. Worst of all, Roose velt was already in trouble with Congress (how familiar!), which Democrats controlled by a greater majority than they enjoy under President Kennedy. The Republicans, then as now, had begun to recover from their defeat in a presi dential election and were uniting against Roosevelt's legislation. Southern Demo crats were marching off the reservation, which has a fa miliar ring too. V IT IS a fascinating exercise to read "The Politics of Upheavel," the excellent his tory of that period by Arthur M. Sehlesinger, Jr., and make believe that the man he is writing about is not Franklin Roosevelt in 1934-'35, but John F. Kennedy in August, 19R2. For example: "These were hard days for (he President. He knew that things were going badly. On every side he was assailed with demands for action." "The outlook . . . was in creasingly troubling. The country already seemed in a condition of economic stale mate. A political stalemate was threatening in the new Congress." "The latent discontent pre sented a challenge to the President. He too sensed Ihe national mood: worse, he evi dently shared the national bafflement." "As Congress reconvened, it appeared that the President had no bold new proposals to send to the Hill." "The new session had bare ly begun when Roosevelt found himself in trouble." (Wi(hin two week ihe. Prct. dent suffered the humiliation of seeing his World Court bill defeated in the Senate.) "Iekes reported Roosevelt about this time as 'distinctly dispirited. I have never seen him in quite such a state of mind. He looked tired and he seemed to lack fighting vigor or the buoyancy that Strictly Personal By Sydney lei field Enterprises, Inc. NEGATIVE CASE What is called in some cir cles the "negative case" method is finally beginning to receive the attention i t has long de served. Per haps it was too simple for academic i AS" ! i minds to both- Sf . - . . r ...1,1. tsiiK J How d we try lo deter Hr,is mine the "causes" of juvenile delin quency? Well, we do a statis tical survey of 50 or 100 or 500 delinquents. We compare their educational back grounds, their family life, (heir intelligent quotients, their personality structures. Then we try to identify and isolate tnose traits and ten dencies thai are common (n most of (hem - broken homes or drunken fathers, or some such pattern. Unfortunalely. this kind of survey doesn't get us ery far. The statistics are loo easily manipulated and too glibly inlerpreted. In most cases, we are left pretty much were we started - for everyone already knows that certain general types of environment are more like ly to breed delinquency than other types. What the "negative case" method does is to try to find out wny certain boys don't became delinquents. mav well be run over by im patient city voters who are (ed up with paying $7 billion a ear for a non-solution lo the (arm problem. The need i to set non-partisan (a,m program before it is too late hat always characterized him." For the first time sinca he had come to Washington, Congress was defying him and getting away with it." fDRNEST Gruening, Direc- J-i tor of the Division of Territories and Island Posses sions in the Department of In terior, expressed to Harold Ickes his concern over the de cline in the popularity of the President . . . Gruening learn ed from Col. House that Cor dell Hull, the Secretary of State, Homer Cummings, tha Attorney General, and Dan iel Roper, the Secretary of Commerce . . . had already waited on him (Col. House) with similar worries." "The expert consensus was that the administration 'was drifting and losing popular strength.' " "Oscar Chapman, the polit ically astute Assistant Secre tary of Interior, declared that the tide was running strong ly against the administration and that 'unless the President did something to change the current during the next 30 days,' he could not be reelect ed in 1938." "Vice President Garner said in Cabinet that he had not seen so much trouble since he had been in Con gress: no sooner did he put out one fire than another broke out somewhere else." "The despondency w a s spreading fast from Washing ton to the country. Thomas Amlie, the Progressive from Wisconsin, reported 'a very distinct change' in his letters from home: 'The people who write to me express the most profound discouragement about Ihe national administra tion.' " CEN. Key Pittman thought that "the fault is a lack of confidence in the success of the administration." Obviously, in the light of the Landon debacle, the situa tion was deceptive then. What we do not know for sure is whether Ihe situation now is equally deceptive. Quite prob ably this is the case. It was one thing when FDR was struggling in Washington with a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. It was altogether another when, backed by the very different kind of coalition that tha Democratic party can assem ble in a presidential election, he went into the ring asainst a particular Republican can didate. When (he conservative co alition was harassing Roose velt after only two years in office, he appeared even to the experts to be weaker than he was when he had been elected. In reality, as we were to learn, he was much strong er. In a lesser degree the same may be true of Kennedy today, though he has some very treacherous ground to tread. Between mid-term and the 1936 election Roosevelt had to act boldlv lo eel nut of the doldrums he was in. Ihe same challenge now con fronts the President, and ha will have to meet it in his own way. J. Harrit even when all the faetort seem to be predisposing them toward it. Hundreds of studies have been made of delinquent boys who come from brok en homes. wt,oi.e father are drunks, and whose mothers work - but scarce ly any research has gone into the non-delinquent boy with this backgrounds. Why has he not succumb ed to his environment? What factor went into hit make-up, or his early train ing, that prevented him from becoming a delin quent? What are the posi live attributes that enabled him to resist the pull of hit environment, what secret source of strength did he draw upon? The answers to such i questions are hound to be ! much more fruitful than the j present method. And. of I course, the technique applies j to many more areas than de linquency. For instance, why ; don't the majority of cisaret ! smokers acouire lung cancer? j Why do certain marriages, I that seem doomed at the start. turn into good and permanent, relationships' Why do some children soem relatively im mune to virus diseases Instead of being so concern ed with pathology, the social sciences should turn more of their attention to health. rt a rigorous examination of i those who have successfully resisted infection, even when heavily exposed to it. We can all see the multiple causes '.hat result in the fail ure of a marriage: w..ai s hard to detect is the cohesive factor that enables one to hold together. Only this kind jof research can help us.