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:1 tfXOFORDt&TRIBUNI "EvervrTne-In-Southern-Orejoia Rca.lt TheMallTribune' PubTlshecMJally except Saturday by MEIJKOllD PRINTING CO 33 Nurth KirJH.. Ph.772-U141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdvertiiinR Manager GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bus. Mr. ERIC W ALLEN. JR.. Mna. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIPMAN. Tcleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women-! Editor DALE ERICKSONCirculatlon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Mcdlord. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. IB'.n SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copv 10c Dsily and Sunday 1 year ll.VUO Dail and Sunday fl moa 8 00 Dailv and SundHy 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. 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Several Congressmen tour timber and mining claims in the Rogue River National for est. 20 YEATS AGO Ang. 9, 1942 (Sunday) District Attorney George V. Neilson reports his office flooded with "defrauding of innkeeper" c o m p laints as Camp White workers depart. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "J. Jerome had a birthday yesler day, the number ot which is nobody's business." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1932 (Tuesday) State police report that marauders are making night raids stealing vegetables from valley gardens and selling them in wholesale lots to can neries and stores; trucks are used in the raids. Rin Tin Tin. canine movie slnr for more than 13 years, dies In Hollywood. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1922 (Wednesday) "Oregon Bond." owned by Scott Woolf of Medford, wins the first race of the North west racing circuit in Grcsh- Soulhern Pacific officials predict the biggest Rogue val ley pear crop in history. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1912 (Friday) John Dequer. national or ganizer for the Socialist party, comes to Medford to help the counlv central rommitlee or ganize a local chapter ot the party. Burglar Is caught leaving the Perl funeral home; he confesses he has been respon sible for wave of burglaries and leads police to loot bid den in the willows along Bear creek where he has been sleeping What's Your I.Q.7 Nine 01 Ice correct It superior; teven or eight il etccllent; five 01 lit it good. 1. Was tlie first Masonic, lodge in America opened (17711) in Boston. Philadelphia, or New York'' 2. Is a pachyderm a gem, a rare tropical plant, an ele phant, or a skin lotion? 3. What is the first ear of Jesus' ministry called'' 4. Do Kskimos oat Pen guins.' 5. Which President was sometimes called the Canal Bov .' li. Is the capital o( Maine Lewiston, Augusta. Portland or Bangor? 7. What dale is Pan-American Day celebrated ' 8 ,;,me the only U S Presi dent who did not reside in the White House. fl. How many stales must ratifv a constitutional amend ment before it becomes a part of the U.S. Constitution? 10. Paul Reveres family came from which country? Antwert: 1. Botton. 2. Ele phant. 3. The "Year ol Ob tcurity." 4. No, Penqulnt are In Antarctic. 5. Jamei A. Garfield. 6. Augutta. 7. April 14. 8. George Washington. 9. Two Thirdt. 10. France. Moie than 70 per cent o the world supply of iodine comes from Chile. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. I9i2 Unanswered Question An editorial in the current issue of The Com monweal asks: "Why is it thai welfare checks to the needy are viola lions of the free enterprise system, but subsidies for giant corporations are not?" It is a question which has often puzzled us, too, as we read tirades against the "welfare state," and declarations about how those receiv ing unemployment compensation or relief checks or aid to dependent children are lazy leeches and robbers of hard-earned tax money. At the same time, however, one hears little complaint about the fact that the taxpayers are subsidizing the U. S. merchant marine, all but a few of the airlines, the barge lines, agriculture in general and huge farm corporations in particular, residential and other construction, mining, fish eries, colleges and universities, medicine ... the list goes on and on. TJERE is an example: For fiscal year 1932, Congress appropriated $69,100,000 for grants to states for maternal and child welfare. During the same year, it appropri ated $182,000,000 for operating subsidies alone for the natior s shipping lines. Or again, another appropriation bill for fiscal 1962 provided $10,000,000 for the railroad un employment insurance account, and $14,700,000 for payment of railroad loan guarantees. Or, in the same bill, $8,200,000 for work on juvenile delinquency and youth offenses, and $150,000,000 for grants-in-aid to airports. t CUCH examples are, of course, plucked at ran i dom from the list of appropriations, and are j not necessarily representative. But the fact is that vast federal expenditures are devoted to assisting business and industry, either directly by subsidy or through indirect as sistance, and very few yell "welfare state." ' But devote a few percentage points of the federal budget to assistance of the elderly, the blind, helpless children, the unemployed, the down-and-out then listen to the roars about rugged individualism and free enterprise. Bah ! ! EA. Search for Self-Knowledge "Ful wys is he that can him-selverr knowe."- -Geoffrey Chaucer. "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; "The proper study of mankind is man." -Alexander Pope. "La vray science et le vray etude de l'homme, e'est I'honnne." - Pierre Charron. "In many ways the saying 'Know thyself is not well said. 11 were more practical to say 'Know other people'." -Menanrier. "Make it thy business In know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson In the world." i -Miguel de Cervantes. N THE millenia of history and pre-history, man kind has been endeavoring to know himself and his fellow humans. nlfirahlv small nrnnrpss. i j -- i - o - - -' 1 - - - - i 1 tion of philosophers, poets, psychiatrists, anthro nolom'sts. theolnn'i;ins mid nlavwriirhts with this i o ' o subject knowledge of Individuals have had great understanding of other individuals, and even of groups. One of the oualities that makes Shakespeare's plays so en during is his instinctive understanding of the motivations of men and nations. But by and large, man does not know him self, cither individually or en masse. IF MAN did know himself, we would not be plagued by wars and revolutions, by mental illnesses, by juvenile delinquency and crime, by the fears and frustrations we see so prevalent about us. Perhaps universal self-knowledge, both in dividually and socially, is unattainable. Perhaps the inspired insight of some great thinkers can not be conveyed to man-in-the-mass. Rut up i':m till hnnn thai littlp Iw liltln purl over a long period of time, increasing levels of education win maue scu-Kiiowienge iar more universal than it is at. nrpsnnt. New techniques may help some, also. QUR FAVORITE columnist, Sydney J. Harris, suggested the other day that the approach we have thus far used in attempting to analyze and understand broken marriages, juvenile de linquency, and other social ills, has been hind-j side-to. i In seeking to ascertain the causes of delin-i 'quency, he says, we study delinquents, and try to j relate their behavior to their environment. ; Perhaps instead. Harris believes, we should' study youngsters of similar environments who : have NOT fallen into delinquent patterns, who I have resisted the pressures of broken homes, ne 'glectful parents and slum neighborhoods, to grow to decent adulthood. A NT) HF, also suggests that rather than study! " broken marriages in an attempt to find the; causes of divorce, we should instead study sue-' icessful marriages, to see what makes them last. I The same about-face approach is applicable: tt dozens of areas in mankind's eternal search, for knowledge about what makes mankind be ! have as he (Iocs, Perhaps in studying approaches to world . j peace we should devote as much time to obscrv- ; iing peaceful 'nations as warlike ones. Or, in at-. I tempting to assist poor nations, we should seek! ! greater understanding of why rich ones are rich.; Man's history indicates that Cervantes wasi i right in saying that self-knowledge is the most! difficult lesson of all. E. A. , So far he has made de- rlpsnifp tlip nrpnermia- I i o self and of others. I The Shots Heard Round The Outside World i v.' - - Drummond Reports (Wjlter Lip p ma mi ft on vacation. Roicoo Drummond roporti from Washington in hit absence.) (c) 1962 Naw York Htrald Tribuna Inc. THE POISON OF DISTRUST Washington One of the most hurtful sources of dis unity in the United States today is the gathering su'')i cion between liberals and conservatives over the con duct of the cold war. Many liberals are afraid that the conservatives are willing to hurt civil liberty and many conservatives are afraid that the liberals are willing to help communism. The result is that things which the U. S. ought to be urgently doing, if we are go ing to do more than hold our own in this contest-for-keeps with communism, either get lost in the scuffle or get side tracked through mutual dis trust. This isn't Just an abstract controversy. It affects specif ic actions. Take the case of the bill to establish a Free dom Academy designed to train thousands of free world leaders in the arts of successfully waging the cold war against communism in the way the military acade mies train officers for their assignments. Since the con vening of the present Con gress a year aco last January, this hill has been stalled and stymied at every turn de spile wide public support and bi-partisan backing. UfHY? What holds it up? " Is it argument over the need to do what the Freedom Academy would be created to do or something else? Democratic Sen Thomas .1. Docid of Connecticut, who knows more lhan most about What 2O0S On in Coneres: gives this answer in his new book, "Freedom and Foreign Policy." "Last year this bill passed the Senate but failed in the House because of suspicions by hard anti - Communists there that Ihe Freedom Acad emy would be infiltrated and taken over by pro-Comnui-nisls or liberals who ,-rr. soft on communism. "This year the bill has been buried In the Senate, largely. I am inclined to be lieve, because of (he fear of liberals that the Freedom Academy would become a sort of fortress of militant anti-communism, manned by conservative thinkers. "This is the price we pay for suspicion and division be tween liberals and conserva tives." rMlERE is plenty of evidence to support Senator Dodd's appraisal. When the Freedom Academy hill came before Congress, most of the liberal weeklies look up arms against it principally on the ground that it would become a tool of the extreme conservatives and a toy of Ihe John Birch socicly. Now the John Birch soci ety is opposing il for exactly the same reason in reverse that it would become "just another means, and a very powerful one. or brainwash ing our vouni: American pa Iriols and pulling the wool over the eves of the Ameri can people." The foregoing appears in the July Issue of Robert Welch's Birch Society Bulle tin, which, after sarcastically suggesting (sayinc it is only "kidding") an improbable jind tor the most part illy equip ped staff, advised its mem bers that Ihe Freedoni Acade my "could easily become one of the steps leading to our loss of freedom." 'PUIS kind of nehMoM. lih--l eriil-ronsorvat ive diMruM -certainly ns far as thr grit body of Hip American people is concerned -- is a poison eominii I mm (he extremists on both sides and from which vr ought to innocuh.te our minds. At lht moment. Sen. Wil liam Fulbnsht, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, and Rep. Francis Walter, chairman of the House Committee on Un American Activities, are pre venting the Freedom Acade my bill from having public hearings. Shouldn't these two distinguished Congress men be acting to dissolve the sus picions between liberals and conservatives in the common cause of waging the cold war more effectively rather than lending themselves to this distrust? "On the question of com munism and how to deal with it," Senator Dodd wisely re marks, "neither Republicans nor Democrats, neither lib erals nor conservatives, have had a monopoly on wisdom or on folly." It seems to me we ought to ignore the extremists of both left and right and get on with the job, however much it takes, however long it takes, to work for the world-wide triumph of free dom. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris ic Field Enterprises Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Some people take the in junction "Know thyself" sole ly as a means of exploring the worser parts of their na ture; they rarely use it as a means of discovering the bet ter parts. Any man who complains that a woman, wife or otherwise, has "robbad" him of his manhood, never really possessed it in the first place. The one way to make abso lutely sure that children will not love their parents is to remind them continually of the tremendous debt they owe to their parents; gratitude that is ordered inevitably turns to resentment. Nobody with an opinion actually "listens" to both sides of the question in the tame way - our receiving mechanism is set for "accep tance" on the side we agree with, and for "rejection" on the other side; and, to be fair, we must learn the painful task of making com pensation for loudness and clearness, as we do with a j hi-fi set. There is no more useless j occupation than studying j without the desire to learn, I merely to get through an ex lamination or a course; and the fundamental job of edu cation is to stimulate the de sire to learn, without which all the rest is meaningless formalilv. J . . Most people will agree I with the old saying that "beauty is in the eye of the ; beholder" - but what the Puritan cannot understand i is that "obscenity" is also ; in the eye of the beholder. ! The best advice to cive graduates about to make their way in the world was ottered two centuries Mgo by Rous ' scan when he observed: ' Keep tlus truth ever before you -ignorance never did anyone any harm, error alone is fatal, and we d not lose our way through ignorance but through misplaced self-confidence." It is a mistake to divide I marriages into those that ; are "happy" and those that I are "unhappy"; a much more useful working di vision would be between those in which the parties ; adjusted their anticipations 1 to the reality, and those in which the parlies kept tor- MtUI OHU MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON De Gaulle's Odd-Man Role Doesn't Seem To Bother Him; Stubborness Continues By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Prats International Paris-lUPIi-French President Charles De Gaulle has proved once again that the odd-man role docs not bother him in the least. If anything, he thrives on it. It was shown again in the abortive Brussels talks last week end on Great Britain's request for acceptance into Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald By DON COOK (Joseph Alsop is on va cation. During his absence his column will be written by reporters expert in na tional and international af fairs.. THE WIDENING GAP Paris Tn the brief month since President Kenn edy's Fourth of July "Declaration of Interdependence" with Eu rope, the gap of understand ing and purpose in tne ai lnntin Allianrp has instead widened more dangerously than at any other period of post-war history. Every other crisis through which NATO has periodically passed has been a tactical or marginal nature, and in the end it has been United States policy, power, influence, and diplomacy which could pret ty much carry the day and the decisions. But the emerg ence of Europe, now in the most amazing period of eco nomic expansion in its long history, has created a wholly new balance of power situa tion within the Alliance. The widening gap today Is strategic rather than tactical - and therefore far more tal. difficult, and dangerous. It boils down to the question of whether the Anglo-Saxon powers and the continental powers of Europe are going to find some new unity in this new balance of power situation inside NATO, or co their separate ways and hope for the best. THIS is the great central is sue for Britain in the Brussels negotiations for en try into the Common Market - whatever the arguments about preferential tariffs, ag ricultural levies, and semanti cal differences between "pledge" and "assure." It is political strategy and not economics which is al. slake. For -without British entry Regulations May i Curb Algeria Vote Algiers - IUPII - The pro vincial executive today an nounced stiff regulations that may prevent many Europeans from voting the coming elec tions for independent Al geria's first parliament. The election ordi nance, published in the official jour nal, requires Europeans to have lived in Algeria for 10 years on a regular basis in order toj vote for the con stituent assembly on Sept. 2. This requirement could dis enfranchise many Frenchmen who look upon Algeria as their homeland although they have not lived here regularly for the specified time. Only men and women 23 years and older and possess ing the required citizenship qualifications will be allowed to choose the assembly that will make a provisional gov ernment, write a new consti tution, and legislate in the name of the Algerian people. Haines Man Gets Life Prison Term Baker -lUPH- John E. Hoff man, 41. Haines, was sen tenced lo life imprisonment Wednesday. Circuit Judge Lvlc R. Wolff sentenced lloff- I man under the Oregon en- hanccd penally statute. 1 He was com icted by a jury last month of contributing to the delinquency of his 1 1-ycar-j old step daughter. Earlier, a ' charge ot criminal assault i against him was dismissed. Hoffman pleaded guilty in Yamhill county tn 1957 to a 'charge of contributing to the j delinquency of a minor. I His attorney. Harold Banta , of Baker, indicated he would appeal to the Oregon Supreme (."ourl. 1 turing reality to meet their anticipationt. The most corrupt of maxims, unless it is quite properly understood, is that 'honesty is the best policy." for to be honest because il is the best policy is the worst reason; as Chuang-Tse pro foundly said, three centuries before Christ. "There is no 1 greater injury lo one's char jactcr than practicing virtue I with motivation " When wt are young, we look upon the world as ladder; when we get older, j we learn th! il it a tet- I taw. the six-nation European com mon market. After an all-night session, with all seven delegations al ready punch-drunk with fa tigue, French Foreign Minis ter Maurice Couve de Mur ville suddenly handed Bri tain's Edward Heath a long, highly complicated financial document and told him he must sign it on the spot if he wanted agreement then. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate there is no vehicle by which the United States can then move down the path of inter dependence and no frame work within which the politi cal, military, and economic problems of the Atlantic Community as a whole can be discussed with common pur pose and resolved. Knowing that the issues are so great for the Anglo Saxon powers, knowing that the future of the Alliance is really at stake, and led by France with its intensely na tionalistic sense of power pol ities, the continental powers are confidently pushing a very hard bargain with Brit ain. France, moreover, is the least concerned of any nation involved as to whether Brus sels eventually fails or suc ceeds, and this gives a partic ular cutting edge to French diplomacy. Apart from the problem of British entry into Europe, the gap between the Anglo Saxon powers and the contin ent is widening on another front - the nuclear issue and the concept of defense. Here the Kennedy administration is caught up in a paradox, in which its theories, actions, and pronouncements of pol icy are producing exactly the opposite effect to that which is intended. PVERY time Defense Sec- retary MacNamara speaks of sparing cities and hitting only military targets with nu clear weapons, it simply con firms President de Gaulle and the French military the oreticians in their belief that nuclear defense of Europe cannot be left to the Amer icans - that Europe too must be able to make the choice of targets. When Washington deprecates French thinking as naive and unsophisticated, the French stiffen in wound ed pride and determination lo achieve their nuclear inde pendence of Washington at any price. The departures from Paris of Ambassador James M. Ga vin and Gen. Lauris Norstad are part of the widening gap. Ambassador Gavin favored a policy of cooperation be tween the United Slates and France in the nuclear field -not the whole way yet to re vision of the MacMahon act, but at least some positive ex ploration to find out if the gap could be bridged and a nuclear partnership worked out similar lo that with the British. He was lurncd down. General Norstad recom mended that a new genera tion of American medium range guided missiles be de ployed on the continent of Eurone to replace the tacti cal aircraft whose usefulness will be at an end in four or five years. The Administra tion has decided to rely en tirely on sea-based Polaris missiles, and General Nor stad is departing more abruptly lhan he had expect ed. 'THESE two men, who in a -- sense were urging greater I interdependence than Pres ident Kennedy was prepared to accept, are to be replaced by experienced and solid non-p o 1 1 1 i c a I careerists -Charles E. Bohlen and Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer. But the abilities and skills which they will bring to their jobs will certainly not be directed to urging President Kennedy to change his nuclear poi- , icies. I There now lies ahead a period of pause. The Brussels talks have been suspended for I two months while the British ! go off and reflect on the grouse moors of Scotland and i the French bask in thr Riv. iera sunshine. President Ken nedy and Washington turn their attention! inward to the fall elections, and the guard changes at the American Em- bassy in Paris and Supreme ; Allied Headquarters, j A pause can be a period of i positive reflection and the ' fathering of new decisions. But it also ran allow a gap to solidify One diplomatic venture which President , Kennedy has nol yet tried is a "Western summit." with ; Presidrnl de Gaulle. Prime Minister Macnullan and Chancellor Adenauer, at which the whole feature of 'the Alliance with all of its c o n f li c t s and difficulties could be candidly faced and explored. It might he no had , time to p r e p a r e for such a i meeting - before the can wid ens further and while all are ; I still friends. The result was that the talks were recessed until October and Britain's entry into the common market was delayed by several more months at least. Although de Gaulle was not present in the Brussels con ference room he was in fact vacationing at his country home Couve de Murville's tactics bore the hallmark of De Gaulle's inspiration. Couve de Murville is a com pletely faithful agent and in terpreter of De Gaulle's for eign policy. He went to the Brussels talks with written instructions to be as tough and uncompromising as possible. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington, President Ladd Plumley of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says congress will be taking a "calculated risk" if it waits until next January lo cut in come taxes. The time- to cut taxes, he says in a speech to the Wash ington Advertising club, is RIGHT NOW. He added: "The best time to initiate a tax cut is when the econ omy is peaking out and be ginning a down-slide, but be fore recessionary forces have clearly gained the upper hand." IN HIS speech in Washing ton, he renews the pro posals he made on June 29 that individual rates be cut across the board and the cor porate rate be lowered from 52 per cent to 47 per cent. In his June 29 speech he added that the top individual levy of 91 per cent should be slashed to 65 per cent, and the lowest rate-20 per cent on the first $2,000 ot taxable income - should be chopped to 15 per cent on the first $1,000. In-between rates, he recommended, should be lowered proportionately. CRITICISM, if any? Let's put it. this way: HE STOPPED TOO SOON. fpAXES, goodness knows, are high enough. They need to be cut. But if we cut taxes without CUTTING SPENDING we'll be heading down the road that leads to national bank ruptcy. We would then be in the position of an individual who has spent himself head over heels into debt and then gets a cut in his salary. If he goes on spending at his previous reckless rate, he's a goner. rpHE same will hold true of - our spendthrift old uncle. If he cuts his income (by re ducing taxes) but GOES ON SPENDING at the same reck less rate thai has resulted in the accumulation of our pres ent national debt of nearly a third of a TRILLION dollars, he will find himself event ually in very hot water. And His 180 million-odd nieces and nephews will find them selves in hot water along with him. rPHINGS are coming to a - pretty pass when the President of the Chamber of Commerce of the ' United States stands before an audi ence in the nation's capital and recommends cutting taxes without at the same time cut ting expenditures. Try and By BENNETT CERF- IEONARD SPIEGELGASS, J One," had a much - sought - ace scenarist in Hollywood. He utner writers would lashion the beginning and middle of a script, and then, when they bogged down, would im plore Spiegelgass to give it a clever conclusion. He rarely let them down. Spiegelgass remembers one film star who flatiy disapproved of one of his ingenious endings. Her name was Grace Kelly. Spiegelgass asked her why. Back came Ihe regal reply, "Grace Kel ly doesn't have to have a reason" A lecturpr was instructing- a ladies' club gatjieru-.g ea "What 1 Wrong With the Movies Today." "The one I aaw last night," he concluded, ": the wetst vet. It includes murder, rape, arson, caruiibai.sm. and perversion" If anything will justify censorship, this vile picture will do it. Xo then, ladies, have you any questions 7" Yes." cned thr ladies in the audience sinmi'aneou'h". "Where s It playing:" 3 OVKKHKARD: Father to son asking for money: "Junior, have vcj ever con sidered being a professional fund raiser?" Comedian Gene Baylos to non-laughing night club audiences "You've been so good to me that now we re going to oren the) street doore and let you watch an accident." On the fourth hole at the Century Coif Club: "How do yea like tha.ll I come out here for exercise ajid tuste&d I get a hola in one:- C Utf. by Suutctt Cerf. Distributed fer Kuuj future Sj-odkte This put France consider ably out of step with the oth er market members, most of whom would like to see Bri tain join as soon as possible. Not that De Gaulle appar ently wants to keep the Bri tish out of the common mar ket forever. But he consid ers that they are the askers and that there is no reason to make things easy for them, regardless of what the other member nations may think. This was a typical De Gaulle stance. He was the odd-man in the Atlantic alliance last winter when he alone flatly opposed Berlin peace talks or even diplomatic "probing" with the Russians. He was the odd-man again when he refused flatly to send a French delegation to the Geneva disarmament con ference. He set himself at odds with his common market partners when he rejected their ideas for a closely integrated poli tical union of western Europa and refused to go for any thing stronger than a loose federation of sovereign states. De Gaulle is pushing 72 an age when many men mellow. But there is noNiing to show any disposition on his part to make himself less stubborn or difficult to deal with. Communications Letters to the Editor must hear the njme and address ol the writer although undei cer tain circumstances the use ol pen name oi initial for oublica lion is oermissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to claritication and condensation Letters submitted tor publica Uon must not exceed 400 words Decision Time To the Editor: Jesus Christ: "The gates of hell shall not prevail against My Church" today. Nikita Khrushchev: "There is no hell; as for tha Church it shall be dona away!" Now who is telling us the truth? Who babbles as he please? The one who grasps tha dagger's hill. Or He who holds the keys? Mildred Jeffery 521 Mayette st. Medford Former Resident Writes To the Editor: It is again time for me to renew my sub scription to the M.T., which we all enjoy very much. Being a former resident of Medford, and with a daugh ter, Mrs. Glen E. Wilson, liv ing in Williams, it is wonder ful to read of old friends and places. I enjoy your communica tions column and was happy to see the letter, "Litter Hurts." by A. E. Smith, M.T. July 31. We are proud of our Wisconsin law and just pen ally on littering, and received praise from other states on our neat highways. If every man, woman and child would think before throwing out that trash, tha beauty God created would ba restored one hundred fold. May your Stale of Oregon remain as beautiful as I re member it on our last trip out in 1958, as we hope lo visit it again in the near future. Mrs. Keith Hammond Route 2 De Soto. Wise. Stop Me author of "A Majority of after talent when he was an specialized in slick endings. THIS fNDINfiJ v is no pen aY
