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r'rUUAt, KiCFORDii'WrRIBUNl """ "Everyone in Southern Oregon nua.li The Mall Tribune'7 fubiished Daily except" Saturday by MEUrUKU fKIXM T lINu v. 33 North Fir St., Ptv772-6141 " ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD 1 LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN, JR.. Mng. Editor KARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RirHAnn .iewett SDorta Editor OLIVE S TARCHER. Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSQN. Clrculalton Mgr. An Independent newspaper Entered as second class matter at MedtTd. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4 25 Sunday Only One year $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year f 18.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrie and Dealers Copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of MedTord Official Taper of Jack ton County United Press International r Full Leased Wire DPI TeleDhoto NewsDlctures ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU"" OP CIRCULATIONS Advertising Reprrjientative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Olfices In New York, CM- ; cago Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle, Portland, Denver EWSPAPER BUSH ERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CDITORIAl TXT I AS(sbc(UTIQ)N Flight o' Time Medlord end Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 ind 50 years ago. 10 YEAHS AGO Aug. 10, 1952 (Sunday) District Attorney Paul Hav- Hand refuses comment on rumors that ho may resign about Sept. 1 to enter private practice. Construction of a landing strip in Crater Lake National park will be proposed to the National Park service. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 10, 1942 (Monday) Doyle Cowles, 1817 West Main St., is severely burned when his house catches tire, From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A Sa lem worker has returned to Ills native heath after toiling on the cantonment all summer and finding out what it was like to have dry feet four days in a row. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 10, 1932 (Wednesday) Lowell Zundel, Medford, circulates petitions as an in dependent candidate for sher iff. Civic groups worry about large number; of Californians hired in fruit plants and or chards at the expense of local workmen; also condemn traf fic problem created by tran sient autos. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1922 (Thursday) The Valley garage is badly damaged by a $15,000 fire; seven cars are destroyed. Vice President Calvin Cool idge will pass through Med ford cn route to Portland where he will give an address; he refuses to speak here as he is on vacation. 50 YEARS AGO A 'J. 10, 1912 (Saturday) Contractor begins work on new Main st. bridge over Bear creek; old bridge Is to be mov ed to Jackson st. Local barber shops become "tonsorial parlors" by order of the convention of barbers. What's Your I.Q.? Nine st ten correct Is suptrlori seven or eight Is oicellentt five er sis Is good. 1. is Sortes Blblicac, Intro duecd during the reign of Chalcmagne, a reference for fortune telling, ecclesiastical prayer, or law? 2. Over what country aa the House of Plantagenet once reign? 3. Is the original Riullo in Venice, Wyoming, or London? 4. Do the "horns" referred to ;n the book of Daniel have an historical significance for the future? 5. In which slate are the Carlsbad Caverns? 6. Is the claymore a weap on once used in Scotland or li eland? 7. What is ethnology? 8. In which of Charles Dicken s novel is the heroine called "Little Neil "? 9. Who was called the George Washington of South America? 10. Which German com mander in World War II was nicknamed the "Desert Fox"? Answersi 1. Fortune telling. 2. England. 3. Venice, Italy. 4 Yes. 5. New Mexico. 8. Scot land. 7. Science of the races of man. 8. "Old Curiosity Shoo." 9. Simon Bolivar. 10. Marshal Erwin Rommel. 4 A ao woo i iu, iaoi Satellite We received a note which said this: "Since you published Maurine Neuberger's viewpoint, how about publishing this, too, in your editorial column: The enclosure was Report" of the Chamber It said: Do not be misled by Senate charges of "monopoly" and, "give-away" in reference to President Kennedy's Commu nications Satellite Bill. The Senate legislation, as well as the House-approved version, contains fully adequate pre visions for protecting the public Interest. Under both versions, the contemplated privately owned satellite company will also be subject to the rate-fixing authority of the Federal Communications Commission. The Chamber agrees with the President that the crea tion of a private company is the best way to insure our na tion's supremacy in space communications. As the Chamber put It In a letter earlier this year to the Senate Commerce Committee: "It should be kept in mind that space communications system is only an extension of the existing systems of na tional and international communications, and that the satel lite program will supplement, rather than replace, cable and radio services now in existence. The present United States systems have been developed by private Industry. This supplemental system should be developed and oper ated in much the same manner." To turn over the development of a space communica tions system to a government agency, as a small group of "liberals" propose, would only inject the government again into an area where private Industry can do the job more efficiently and effectively. It would also delay a pro gram in which speed is urgently needed. FAIR enough. But are the public bill adequate, as the U. No, Senator Neubererer "transparent," and says the reality of A. T. & 1 . And she adds : "The massive economic concentration represented by the Bell System - owned and controlled by A. T. & T. - is staggering. This $27 billion corporation owns and controls 98 per cent of long distance telephone service in the U. S, and all domestic facilities for overseas commercial tele phone service. i "A. T. & T.'s monoply grasp of communications is now threatened by the advent of communications satellites. The Syncom system, rapidly being perfected by Hughes Air craft as an alternative to the Telstar system, would enable American companies such as Western Union, Hughes, RCA and International Telephone and Telegraph to compete with A. T. & T. for the business of long distance communi cations users. If the commercial development of the Syn com system is permitted, A. T. & T.'s enormous investment in its long lines and cables will be threatened. To thwart competition, every sinew of the A. T. St. T. organization is at this moment straining to Insure that A. T. & T. will con trol the destiny of communications satellites. "No flimsy formula for the allocation of directorships such as that contained in the proposed satellite bill could possibly blunt the naked economic power wielded by A. T. & T. The bill would permit A. T. & T. to purchase as much as SO per cent of the capital stock of the proposed satellite corporation. A. T. & T.'s stockholders and officers would be free to purchase additional blocs of corporation stock ..." "THE U. S. Chamber declares that the rate-fix- ing authority of the FCC would be an ade quate safeguard. Senator Neuberger comments: "Nor can I take comfort in the bill's provision for FCC regulation . . . Since the founding of the FCC in 1034, it has never completed a full formal hearing on telephone rates. Current independent reports by the Budget Bureau, the Hoover Commission, and the Rand Corporation are unanimous in concluding that the FCC has been totally Ineffective in regulating A. T. & T. "As Chairman Cellar of the House Judiciary Committee has said, 'A. T. Sc T. has successfully avoided regulation on earth. Divine guidance will be necessary to regulate A. T. Si T. if it is permitted to expand its domain into space.' " ..... WOULD "private industry" indeed do a better hU Minn imuprnmpni? Pnrhjins Tliit wnnlrl a government-chartered monopoly do a better job than competing private industry? What about ii r: ij :.- uiu many uuiur turns uut-resitm in sjatu i Senator Neuberger points out: "The proposed satellite bill would establish a revolution ary new pattern for commercial exploitation of our natural and scientific resources. For the first time in history, the U. S. government would bo the creator and sponsor of a private, international cartel ..." Talk about private enterprise; talk about rug ged individualism: talk system ; talk about competition ; talk about free dom of opportunity; then answer Senator Neu berger s final question : "Why should the Federal government license the unchecked expansion nomic concentration I The senator's arguments are, to us, far more logical and compelling than those of the Chamber of Commerce of the 0. S. E. A. Abby Abby Green was a people and loved music, bach Christmas tor several veais he nut a tinv. nerkv Christmas tree in his front yard for passers-by to enjoy. Through his music, his friendliness, his eagerness to please, he increased the He did not, himself, and his death yesterday long, painful, crippling Hut Abby Green was will be missed. E. A. Blood The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in town Monday and Tuesday. It is our hope that everyone who is physically able will give serious thought to donating a pint of blood. Stocks of life-giving blood are exceed ingly low, and it is a sad fact that Jackson county has performed its share of the blood-giving chore only once or twice in recent years. This is a situation where the phrase about being one's brother's keeper takes on real mean ing. b.A. Arguments in the mail the other day from the "Washington of Commerce of the U. S. interest provisions in the b. Chamber declares: says. She calls them they "fail to account for about the capitalistic of monopoly and eco Green kindly man who liked happiness of others. have a very happy life, was a release from a and debilitating nines a gentleman, and he Needs "Ho Hum It's Sure COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the nfjht 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 the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. On Life and Death To the Editor: When the state, fulfilling its responsi bility of protecting society and attempting to balance the scales of outraged justice (in as far as it is possible), by in flicting the severe punishment of death on a convicted mur derer, it is written off by you as merely "cold-blooded kill ing. And the unjust, prema ture expulsion of a nonviable fetus because of the possibility oi malformation, if carried full term, is a good and mer ciful act (the end justifying me means), in short Mr. Al len, you find yourself Insisting guilty murderer must be spared and the innocent child must be punished. Apparently, the dignity of life (MT 8-6-62) for you must be measured by the perfection of the body. Presumably, if society can eventually deter mine if the unborn child will be perfect, it may be born naturally; but if there is the possibility of deformity, the child must be destroyed. Thereby we can develop a perfect race of people - full of dignity, of course. Shades of a depraved Austrian cor poral. But when we wipe awav all this sentimental slush, we find Mr. Allen in the case of the unborn child (Finkbine) you are advocating the direct killing of the baby. According to law this Is murder, even if you spell it euthanasia. The distortion rising from the discussion about the pos sible malformation of the child (Finkbine) and the prob lems and heartache and ef fects on the other members of the family was cleared up a bit when other couples, par ents, offered to adopt and love the unborn child. This is dig nified. This is making mani fest the true Christian spirit. This is demonstrating perfect trust, in tno Divine Plan. Let the child be bom, for deformed or not, there arc always sufferings and prob lems in raising children; but there is also the compensating joy of doing God's will. There is no such compensating joy in wilful murder. Robert J. Howard, 702 Beekman, Medford. Breath of Life To the Editor: It is a fallacy to contuse the "life force with personality or soul. "Life force'' is a term given to the power underlying the mechan ics of nature. This power-the thrust of life-though vital and persistent, Is totally imper sonal. Among many other defini tions, Webster's Third New In ternational Dictionary defines "soul" as "The Immortal part or man having permanent ex istence'' . . . "Sometimes dis tinguished from spirit." But even if It did Include, "a life force," the definition signifies that more than one force is in volved In the life process. A letter in the communications column Aug. 7 stated a dic tionary employed this defini tion, and so the writer con cluded soul was part of the body "in the beginning." Nature's vast assembly line turns out products by the bil lions a minute in an unending stream - fruits, flowers, birds, bodies. When, due to the law of change, a product has com pleied its natural cycle, it ter minates. Where a human me chanism is concerned, the per sonality or soul departs but the life force remains to carry on the process of disintegra tion, and eventual transition. It soul actually exists, and this is a moot question, it would probably be added with the intake of air at birth. Per-1 mit me to quote the Chris- tian's Bible: "And the Lord j God formed man of the dust j of the ground, and breathed j Dull Around Here" into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Gen. 2:7). Until birth then, the body Is still on nature's assembly line. Nature's industry, though highly efficient, is not com pletely fool-proof - accidents do occur. It is plain that meas ures to counteract this defi ciency or elasticity-a biologi cal necessity stemming from the law of mutants-have been provided for in the institution of human intelligence. Man is obligated to handle bungle some or tragic situations re sulting from accidents on the production line through utili zation of the intelligence with which he has been provided. There is no excuse for a soul being confined to a de formed or monstrous mechan ism if such catastrophe can be prevented by man by any method whatever. And if that soul is destined to a material existence we may be confident that the Al mighty will find another time to execute the destiny. Thelma Carson, Star Route Box 60, Prospect, Ore. Our Brother's Keeper To the Editor: M.M.T., Aug. 8, '62, in one of its captions: Mrs. Duncan, Cohorts Exe cuted at San Quentin." I had no feeling of elation as I read those words, only a horror, to think a society that calls itself modern can appar ently so blithely put to death three humans. As a friend remarked the other day, "Man in all his so called intelligence, has never found the true answer of how to reprimand the human de linquent." Although many people would close their eyes to the facts, we all have the blood of those who are executed on our hands, for allowing such laws to exist. We need to search for an other answer to this problem, and until that answer is found, life Imprisonment is our best solution. We are our brother's keep er, and whatever society in flicts on one person, Inadvert ently affects the others. Mrs. Delbert Casey Koute 1, Box 3S8 Central Point, Ore. For All Citisens To the Editor: A little over 3,000 years ago that extraor dinary man, Moses, gave his people a code of ethics that has been honored ever since and respected by millions of people all over the world. This included the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." Then he also prescribed that the penalty of death be Imposed by the state for the violation of this commandment. He was strengthening the command ment, not repealing it. Later the great prophets and finally Christ, built on that foundation and added even loftier ethical require ments. Christ strongly empha sized that we must consider all others, that we must love our neighbors as ourselves, that it was the good intent 1 of our hearts, not Just the letter of the law that he val ued most. Consequently the question is not merely, "Shall the State of Oregon impose the death penalty for first degree mur der?" But rather. "How best can Oregon foster the welfare of all our citizens"" Mr. Hoover, the head of the FBI, claims that the death penally docs deler men from committing murder. So it seems reasonable that it is the uncertainty of the punish- mcnt that partially nullifies the deterring effects. England. where the execution of the penalty is much more certain. has a much lower rate of murder than the U. S. A. Life tnttUSKJnO MAIL TttittUMt., MfcDr'ORD, OREGON Red China's Attitude Indissolubly Linked By ARTHUR J. DOMMEN United Press International Hong Kong - HIPD - Marshal Chen Yl, Communist China's foreign minister, recently sur prised Western correspond ents in Geneva by engaging them in an informal give-and-take that is rare with any Chinese Communist diplomat anywhere. Among other things, he spoke of Sino-American rela tions and of Formosa. Pei ping's thinking on these two Strictly Personal By Sydney c Field Enterprises, Inc. ROCKING THE BOAT If you happen to be look ing for some summertime reading that is diverting with out being asi- n 1 n e, and though tf ul without being pre tentious, may I recom mend the new book, "Rock ing the Boat," by Gore Vi dal, which I Haru have been en joying for the last week. As Philip Rahv, editor of the "Partisan Review," enthu siastically remarks in the jacket-blurb: "This collection of essays contains some of the most courageous, liveliest and wittiest comment on litera ture, the theater, and social life that has lately been written in America." Vidal's honesty, directness and easiness Of style come through in everything he writes - whether he is inter viewing Barry Goldwater, an atomizing the art of social climbing In America, or dis cussing the form and fate of his own plays. An idea of his candor may be gained from Vidal's dis cussion of his "visit to a Small Planet," and why it did not turn out to be the play he originally had in mind. The play became a hit, he confessed, because its teeth were drawn during the out-of-town tryout-and then he explains, succinctly and with devastating frankness, what is wrong with the mod ern commercial American theater: "I was obliged to protect an eighty thousand dollar investment, and I confess freely X obscured meanings, softened blows, and hum bly turned wrath aside, emerging with a successful play which represented me very little. It was not that what was fashioned was bad or corrupt . . . but the play that might have been. State Board Agenda Includes Local Items Salem The State Board of Education meets here Monday and Tuesday under a new chairman, Ronald E. Jones of Brooks. Jones began his one-year term Aug. 1. He replaces Francis I. Smith of Portland, who will remain on the board. Included on next week's board agenda is a petition re questing that an area within Medford be removed from Phoenix School District 4 and placed In Medford District 549C, which has been submit ted by Rural School Board of Jackson county. Approximate ly 104 children are involved and enrollment in Phoenix would be reduced accordingly. The school site is owned by the Phoenix school district. Also proposed is making Rogue River school District 33 an administrative district. It would consist of all terri tory within the existing boun daries of Unified School Dis trict No. 35 Rogue River. The plan was previously re jected by the state board, but at their last meeting they agreed to reconsider it. MORE REFUGEES FLEE Bad Hersfeld, Germany -CTD - There was a slight in crease in East German refu gees escaping along the Hes sian - ihurtngtan border last month despite stepped up Communist border controls. West German customs sources said today. The sources said 30 refugees escaped from Communist East Germany in July compared to 22 the pre vious month. imprisonment might be the better way, but how often the criminal Is pardoned or pa rolled long before his term has expired and again free to commit even the same crime while the "underworld" can laugh! My greater sympa- i thy is for the murdered per- 1 son and his family, and the possible future victims. Horace W. Thompson 3642 Hilsingcr rd. Medford subjects is indissolubly linked together. Peiping's statements on For mosa have been consistant from the beginning in 1949, when the Communists came to power on the Chinese main land and the island became Chaing Kai-shek's last bas tion. Peiping's announced objec tive of extending its rule to Formosa, as distinct from the military or political tactics necessary to accomplish this, J. Harris though hardly earthshak ing, was far more interest ing and true. "Like loo many others," he goes on, "I played the game stolidly according to rules I abhorred, realising ing that the theater and its writers are seriously, per haps fatally, hampered by economic pressure. Because it costs too much to put on play, one works in a state of hysteria. Everything Is geared to success. Yet art is mostly failure. It is only from ft succession of dar ing, flawed works that the occasional mtsterwork comes. "But in the Broadway theater, to fail is death," he continues. "Only ,the honest hacks have a good lime of it. Cannily, they run up a banners 'It's Just us again, kids, trying to make a buck.' And they are lei off with genial contempt ... Is there a solution? I see none; unless it be the decentralisation of the the ater to the smaller cities and to the universities, where the means of pro duction will be less than good but the freedom greater, particularly the luxurious freedom to fail." Vidal rocks the boat on every page; and the spray is most refreshing. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Modern world news note: Actor Hugh O'Bryan (al ready in the chips) plays che min de fer at Monte Carlo and wins $22,400 at one sit ting. "Normally," he tells the reporters, "I don't gamble. This time I started off with a few pennies, and after some body showed me how to play I Just couldn't go wrong." HMMMMMMMM This gambling is funny business. Them as has gits. CHEMIN DE FER is the French term for railroad. Its literal meaning is "road of iron." It is also a Monte Carlo gambling game. Question: Does anbody in our State of Jefferson know how chemin de fer is played? MORE modern world news: At the Optimist night club in East Orange, New Jer sey, a stripper named Llbby Jones tells her audience that she is a graduate of the Uni versity of Washington and produces her diploma to prove It. Why her present profes sion? She explains it thus: "A mediocre stripper will make more money than a graduate physicist and more than some state governors. I make from $1,000 to $1,200 a week-and I can see no threat to society in a little girl tak ing off her clothes to music." WITH Labor Day just over the horizon, a piece on the teletype starts off like this: "It's time now to make some resolutions for the com ing school year. Home assign ments are an integral part of the education process. If you are a good parent, you should be able to help guide your child with homework. "But- "Don't do it for him. "In total, parents can help most effectively by GUIDING rather than DOING." WHICH is to say: ' If you are an average par ent, and you try doing his homework for your voungster. YOU WILL PROBABLY DO IT WRONG. Which will humiliate both you and your child. QNE E more modern news note: In Washington. President Kennedy signs a bill to pro vide the money to run the Treasury, the Post Office and the White House executive of fice. The appropriation pro vided by the bill totals $5, 489.781.000. Nostalgic thought: Back In 1932. only 30 years ago, it cost only $5,181,973. 000 to RUN THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT. Toward America to Formosa Question has never been in doubt The Communists are serious about this. When they talk of "the Americans occupying China's territory of Formosa," their viewpoint is one of chasing foreisners from their country, not of attacking a foreign government. "We can wait 10 or 20 years," Chen Yl told his lis teners. He meant it. Hong Kong diplomatic observers believe. In the past, the Chinese Communists have made it clear they would be willing to settle the Formosa "question" by political means instead of by armed force. This might mean offering some form of local autonomy to the Nation alists under the Communist flag. For instance, Chou En-lai said in a speech July 30, 19SS, Washington Report By William (e United faatur Syndicate DANGEROUS BLOW Washington Our govern ment is earnestly accentuating the positive and the British government is patiently spreading the .OfiJ balm 01 calm an over me place. Neve r t h e less, an un happy fact will not down. The abrupt suspension for two months of all negotia tions to let Britain into the European common market on livable terms has hit a dan gerous blow to this whole great enterprise to strengthen the western world. Nor has it left the United States untouched. We do not intend actually to go into the common market. But we do intend to associate closely with it, if only because we must, considering the vast new community of trade it has raised. We would not nec essarily be out of it even if the British were frozen out. But we should find such a sit uation awkward, to say the least, TllOREOVER, the exclusion "- of Britain might compli cate, or even require some re writing, of current American legislation to grant President Kennedy wide tariff-reducing powers in order to deal with the common market. One re sponsible legislator in the field, Rep. Henry Reuss, Dem ocrat of Wisconsin, already had suggested that the Kenne dy administration should move for stand-by revisions to cover the possibility of an ex cluded Britain. The postponement of all real discussions between the French and German-led com mon market and Britain, on how Britain could enter and still give indispensable pro tection to the food imports from her oldest common wealth associates, by no means implies a final collapse of negotiations. Within its own realities it is a setback -but nothing more. No one seriously supposed that this meeting alone could resolve all the complications of what from th very start has been the or.e true British Try and mm it -By BENNETT CERF- OCTOGENAEIAN playwright and novelist P. G. 'Wocle" house has jotted down some of his memories in a little) book called "Author! Author!" He recalls, for instance, the time he went to South ern California for the winter - and found it. And the time he asked Thurber how his new play was coming along. "It has only one fault," answered Thurber slow ly. "It's kind of lousy." "Wbdehouse became a writer because, he says, after starting out as a hank clerk, he quickly decided that his true fu ture lay in cashing rath er than filing checks. Bernard Shaw was no favorite of P. G. Wodehouse. He) quotes, with relish, a remark made by Sir Arthur Wing Pincro when Shaw resigned in a huff from the Dramatists Club. "Mr. Shaw's resignation,' said Sir Arthur, "is as nothing compared with ours." At a Westchester country club, a member told the owner of a big metropolitan newspaper, "Say, I owe you a vote of thanks. Your paper proved Just the thing to stop my two kids from rais ing the devil this morning." Obviously pleased, the newspaper owner inquired, "What particular article did the trick?" "No article at all," explained the father. "I just rolled up your paper and whacked them with it." Riddle Department: 1. CJ. What's the difference between a school teacher and a railroad train? A. The teacher says, "Take that gum out of your mouth) the train says, "Choo! Choo!" 3. Q. What has eight legs, wears feathers, and says, "Ba-a-a, ba-a-a, ba-a-a?" A. An Iroquois Indian quartette singing The Whiff en pool Bong." C J6S3. by Seaaett Cert Distribute by XJas restores ladiceu "if possible, the Chinese gov ernment Is willing to enter into negotiations with re sponsible local authorities 'of Formosa to map out concrete steps for its peaceful Itera tion." So far as it is known here, this offer still stands. "The people in Pieping are waiting for the day when they will be dealing with a leader on Formosa who will ask the Americans to withdraw from his country," one observer in Hong Kong said. "No self-respecting Chinese -Communist or Nationalist -will admit that the present situation can be perpetuated. No Chinese wants an inde pendent Formosa. Nor does he want two Chinese govern ments. He thinks of 'Mother China' as being one, and only one." - S. White problem. This Is how to go into the common market on such terms as not to break the old trade ties-and the deeper political ties - with Canada, Australia and New Zealand. rpHE true harm that has been -- done here is not so much to the substance of the nego tiations as to their appear ance. The harm, in a word, is more political than economic. The French have been al lowing, if not actually promot ing, Interpretations of the cur rent negotiations so extreme as to feed the conclusion that something approaching disas ter has befallen the British at tempt to enter without nation al humiliation and without breaking up the common wealth. Any such view, on the plain facts of the case, is nonsense. This was only one inning in a long ball game, even though admittedly a bad inning for Britain. Wholly reliable Brit ish information to this col umnist in no way supports any notion of any irreparable reverse. All the same, British leaders fear-and soundly fear -that in England itself these scare accounts may enlarge and embolden the already bit ter opposition to the common market from among the more tradition-minded members of Prime Minister Macmillan's own party. e THESE leaders are concern ed that the British public itself may be led to believe that "the Frogs and the Huns" -the vulgar terms in pub and street for the French and Ger. mans-are determined to do Britain in. Given any such emotional national climate, the British people will say to hell with the common market, economics or no economics. And it is extremely doubt ful that in such a state of pub lic feeling Macmillan could ever put through British en try, even assuming the French should become more generous in their terms for her joining the club. Already Macmillan has been asking his people to accept a new European lead ership from the country that started the last war, Germany, and from the country that fought it so briefly and so poorly, France. Already, he I has had troubles enough. Stop Me i
