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Newspaper Page TextMONDAY. "Everyone frTSothernOfe eon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North FirSt., Plvjm-6141 ' ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GllEV Advertlslna Manaaer GERALD T LATHAM, Bus Mar. ERIC W ALLEN, JR., Mnij. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIPMAN Telee.. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Eel tor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE E RlCJKSONircuJaUoMjx An Independent Newspaper Entered at aecond clasa matter at Medtnrd, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday J year 1S.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mm 8.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mot 4.2J Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medlord. Ashlhnd. Central Point, till! Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv er Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year J18 00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1 .50 Carrie nd Dealers Copy 10c All Terma Cash In Advance Official Paper of Cltyo'f "Medlord Official J'aper o Jackson County United" Press International Full Leased Wire U P 1 Telephoto Newsplcturea MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Ot CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC! ATES. Otlices In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle, Portland. Denver NIWSPAf II ISH EIS SOCIATION NATIONAL tDITORIAL VV I 1 Ai MSP Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files of Tha Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 20, 1952 (Wednesday) Work expected to start In 10 days on new section of Highway 99 that will, by-pass Gold Hill. Harvest of the Rogue val ley's smallest Bartlett pear crop In the past eight years is reaching a peak this week end. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 20, 1942 (Thursday) A battalion of Camp White soldiers is being trained to aid Rogue River National forest officials in combatting forest fires. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column; "Before America can lake over the management of the world, come peace, as proposed by the better dreamers of the ad ministration, there should be a test with the CfO to deter mine who is running Amer Jca." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 20, 1932 (Saturday) Survey preparatory to re alignment of Siskiyou link of Pacific highway begins today. Lee C. Garlock is nominated as commander of the Medford American Legion chapter. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1922 (Sundayl Construction of Ashland Canyon rd. is scheduled to be gin soon: city and county to cooperate in improvement project. Two Portland men in Suck er Creek canyon are shot on opening day of hunting sea son; both men survive. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1912 (Tuetday) American adventurer killed In Africa by British troops for alleged poaching and il licit ivory trading is identified as husband of former Medford woman living In Oakland, Calif. Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illi nois, former vice president of the U.S., announces he will campaign for the election of Woodrow Wilson as presi dent. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct ti superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five ei lii is fjood. i . u . I 1. In which country is the- Marne River? 2. which planet is more ! like the earth than any oiher ! so tar as we know? 3. The area between the Potomac River and Chesa r itiver and Lhcsa- Bay belongs to which ; IT WAS almost dark by the time the plane ar , , . u , , rived at the Eupene airport, and Oregon's sreel post is what class , ., , 1 , . , , ., peake stale'' 4. rarccl poj of mail? 5 Was Finland once a part of Sweden? ft. Correct the following "The Lieutenant ordered him and I to start on a patrol. 7. One, two, or three solar eclipses is th,e least number that ran occur in a year? 8. What remained in the mythical Pandora's box after it was opened? fl. What American war was called the "terrapin war" 10. The Bureau of the Cen sus is in which federal gov ernment department? Answers: 1. France. 2. Mars. 3, Maryland. 4. Fourth clati. 5. Yet. S. ". . , him and me , ." 7. Two. 8. Hope. 9. The War of 1812. 10. Department of Commerce. AUCiUaf 20. 1962 Religious America? If the supreme court did nothing else in its school prayer decision it certainly started a lot of discussion about the place of religion in America. Prominent among the arguments on both sides was the one about Americans being a "re ligious people." Many have simply assumed that we are and let it go at that. But anarticle in the Catholic magazine Ave Maria, reprinted in the Catholic Sentinel of Port land, challenges this assumption. IN DOING so it reiterates the kind of moral breast-beating heard from so many directions these days from Billy Graham, Loyd Jenkin Jones, and a host of others-about how we are becoming decadent in our frenzied search for pleasure and diversion, in the "pathetic vulgarity" which seems to permeate movies, magazines and books, and in our crass materialism. The Ave Maria article continued: "We suspect that If this were a religious country, the supreme court decision on the New York school room prayer would not have aroused a great deal of comment. It is because we have so little understanding of the real dimensions of man's relationship with God that we cling so ferociously to what, after all, was simply an external ritual. "Regardless, however, of many pros and cons to he considered in finally evaulating this supreme court decision, we can say that it would have accomplished an immense amount of good if it has only awakened us to the fact that by any true standards we are not a religious people." TTHERE is one other approach to this question, too, the statistical one of church membership. In round figures, about 40 per cent of all Americans belong to no church. No one knows how many of them are agnostics or athesists or humanists or deists or even people with re ligious commitments but no affiliation. At any rate, four out of every ten Americans can be said to be non-religious, at least in the orthodox and organizational way. Among the 60 per cent who do maintain a church affiliation, again no one knows how many take their religion seriously; how many are Christmas and Easter church-goers, or for how many their' church membership is purely pro forma. No, neither through ture of American morals through statistics, can it is a genuinely religious Two Out There is a saying among newspapermen that people get more worked up over three relatively minor matters than anything else, to wit, iluoii dation, daylight saving time, and dog control,. If this is true, we ought to have a slam-bang ejection campaign hereabouts. The legislature put the question of daylight saving time on the statewide ballot, and now the city of Medford will vote on fluoridation of water. Dog control, anyone? Evening The plane took off tional airport a few minutes after the sun had vanished behind the west Portland hills. The plane climbed to about 2,000 feet, and headed south. East Portland, stretched below, had the fairy land quality only seen from the air and only near dusk. One could see the tllo sll-ont.llirliia wni-a nn ,. . ill-.. iHMiiiue inue-wmie glow. Over Oregon City the on.l chnno V,.,; I .iiiii.'i i, i-iiiwnv, v( i i ij(iv t.iiiiM niiti it ii- lamette river, and the clouds over the Coast Range were red and pink and blue and purple and gray. TTHE lights of Albany appeared far aheai to the right, and a few moments later the ght, and a few mer ones of Corvallis appeared. Below, seemingly at every little hamlet, night baseball games were under wav, with the green lighted diamonds showinir tin ns snots of slowly-darkening background of the fields. e"1 ' . 1 P . . 1 a I . . l.i columns oi wnue smoKe rose su aigiu up in , the quiet air, at their feet the fierv orange glow of stubble-fires. n,. , , . , , . . ' np plane passed to the east of Salem, but the lighted figure of the Pioneer the "gold man" of our daughters' childhood gleamed from atop the ( apitol. : si-cmid city uieanieo iikp south. Here and there beacons flashed their inter mittent messages. Night had fallen by the time the plane took off again, circled beyond the diadems of lights, and climbed into the darkness to the south. For nearly an hour, only scattered lights at some farmhouse back in the hills, or. auto headlights on the distant freeway were visible. Then there were the new light clusters, as Gold Hill came into sight tial Point below, and finally Medford OUt ahead, with thn hriirhf ornnou cliwli mo.lo ! tho l-.iwlin.v i i:.-u.. i.-i.... ... j :.. r llglll.x uciuw aim 111 I HUH. of the tires at touchdown, lironi'llers. thp ti-nndlimr .u- ,.i;.l. ,!... .u- ... 1.... ...... 1 , 1, nome. a. an overview of the pic and ethics today, nor be argued that America land. E.A. of Three E.A. Flight from Portland Interna houses and the trees, but an, o-.ivo tVio er.nms a I reflected gleam of the ! fW-,,.,-,, o,l lU WW. I id and moments later the dim hnirhtness atrainst the' a mass oi jewels 10 me to the west, then Cen- 'riM . ... ' ,i- r I IICIC was me scieecil . the roar of the braking, mil nf (lip am-nn anil : .1.. ..... ..- 11,1 "o.i.. i:),nrw and met Mr and Mrs "Let' Say It Wa.n't Exactly A 'Tight Money Policy" COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necessarily represent the views of tha paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Too Much Sympathy To the fSditor: To me, there is no more basis for the state ment or assumption by op ponents of capital punish ment that all those who op pose their views are motivat ed by a spirit of revenge, than for those who voted in favor of it to declare that all op ponents of such punishment do so through a spirit of maudlin sentimentality. I refer particularly to the item on page 1 of the August 17 copy of the Medford Mail Tribune. Admittedly, there is often inequity in application of the death sentence as be tween a wealthy and a poor offender. However, as we are confronted all too frequently by reports of lax, or even ap parently gross unconcern, ac tion by hoards and individu als in granting parole to con victed criminals before their full sentence has been served, and who again begin preying on the public (as often hap pens), so long will there be people who consider the wel fare and safety ot their fam ilies and of all law abiding citizens of much greater im portance than what happens to those offenders who have already shown how little they respect law and the lives of others by having already been convicted of such violation. This is no argument cither for or against capital punish ment. But there are those who believe that entirely too much misplaced sympathy is given convicted criminals and too little consideration given to the victims of the crime. And not sufficient effort made to prevent it ever happening again. A. E. Hutchinson, B12 South Holly si., Medford Price Tags To the Editor: The unex pected has happened again. Lillle should one expect that a just condemnation of the shameful nudist camps would spur someone to answer IN riiK.lR DEr'ENSK! The man said he lives near one. He also Sllid 11,111 "somp ot nur b,sl citizens belong to such organ- izalions." He owes a public apology to our best citizens fur such a statement; for according to God's standard as voiced in Job 28.28. "Unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding," and the best citizens do have both wisdom and understand- i'lg. If a petition were cireulat- en among the truly best cm rens of this nr nnv ntlipr rpnn table community asking if thev d sanction, or would like to live near, a camp of indi viduals who disrobe and go about among each other, male and female, young and older, stark naked; unless I am bad ly mistaken 100 per cent would sign it gladly saving. OH. S H A M F.: SHAME! S11AMK! NO! NO' NOV And we'll furl her venture the as sertion that the large ma jority of those who live near that shame wish they could move away from those "best citizens'' to be near some good citizens The man said he doubled if 1 had ever heen In a nudisl camp. He Is exactly right Nellhcr have I been in an In cinerator, nor a burning fierv furnace. Nesides. we wouldn't want to know who those "best citizens" are' Isaiah says in the :trd chapter and 9th verse. "The shew of their counte nance doth witness against Ihem; and they declare thcr sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul: for thl.v ,,avf reused evil unto themselves " r s a I m 97.in says. Ye that love the Lord.' hate evil. and I think if I Nudist-camp-member. I could McUtUhU MAIL 'Irilxiun,. McutOnu, GHbCiOt hardly refrain from "looking daggers" of righteous indigna tion at them daring to parade as "best citizens," not in pos session of enough modesty to keep their nakedness covered always and everywhere! A great and good man named King David looked at a wom an as she took a bath at a one-woman nudist camp atop a house. Result-he fell head long into adultery, and a cover-up murder! Are the "best citizens" immune from the possibility of such a fall? Even good citizens wouldn't do the shameful thine. We think Mr. Stauffer has his price tags mixed. H. R. Bulman, Route 4. Box 316A, Medford Loltories To the Editor: Recently one of my friends informed me that he thought that lottery was against the law of our land. Perhaps we all feel that way, since it has never been in practice in our day. Back in 1792 congress pass ed an act giving the commis sioners of the District of Col umbia authority to promote a lottery for necessary proj ects, when local revenues were insufficient. Congress also started a one million dollar lottery so as to help finance the American Revolution. Both were a suc cess. If the lottery was to make its reappearance, I'm sure that all the old timers, with their low income benefits, would greatly appreciate a little ex tra help in his or her time of need, along with other per sons in the low income brack et. A slale non-profit lottery to help promote a hospital benefit fund, would be most welcome to a great many Am ericans. Howard H. Rrown 907 Gilman rd. Medford. - O Editor's note: Article XV. Section 4, of the Constitution of the slale of Oregon reads: "Lotteries, and the sale of lot tery tickets, for any purpose whatsoever, arc prohibited, and the legislative assembly shHll prevent the same by pe nal laws." in the Day's News By FRANK Some three we.-ks ago Ma- jjor Boo wmic. returning irom a flight in the X15 rocket ship, reported seeing what jlookc ri to him "like a piece of paper I hp size of his hand GO jlNG ALONG WITH THE SHIP al an altitude of 270,000 feel more than Ml miles ' high." IT MIGHT, presumably, have been an illusion. Even with their feet on solid ground, people see strange things sometimes. Things that just 'COULDN'T have happened. Hut Major White had support ing testimony. The X1S had a movie camera in its lail, and it was in operation. The films were sent lo the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, whose scientists studied them with meticulous care They report that the films "captured shots of an object flitting past the "'ar of the supersonic craft 1 he object or objects - were of undetermined sue, because wr don't know the distance they were from the ship The scientists' report con eludes: It is impossible to ex plain the object presence a this time Foreign News: Common Market Moves; Aid Lacks Pinches; Cosmonauts To Talk By MURRAY J. BROWN United Press International Notes from the foreign news ca'-ic: Market Maneuvaisi Look for top lev..-! behind- Washington Report By William (el United Feature Syndicate BAD CASE Washington - The Demo cratic liberals' extremist fili buster attack on the admin istration's bipartisan space c o m m u n i cations bill ends in fore doomed defeat in the Senate, but its bitter c o nsequences will linger on and on. This episode, which involved an wsll eiiun u, w.. liberals to force government ownership of the space com munication system and a freeze - out of private in dustry capital, has had reper cussions which its initiators could never have foreseen. In the heat of debate, poli ticians can sometimes say many things and get away with them. But in this case, the leaders of this small band of filibusterers, Sens. Wayne Morse of Oregon and Estcs Kefauver of Tennessee, have made "giveaway" accusations against President Kennedy and Congress itself so extrava gant and repealed as to raise a serious question whether they have not read themselves out of the Democratic party. IF THE. violence of their at tack on the President and Congress has not torn that party apart in the country, it has certainly done so in the Senate, from top to bottom. What they have said, unlike what may be said and later unsaid on some- political stump, is in the books for keeps in the Congressional Record. Their assault on a Presi dent of their own parly and on immense bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress has been the most savage within the memory of old Washington hands. If they have not alienafed themselves from the White House, beyond question they have deeply alienated them selves from the United States Senate, and from every fac tion save their own. The 73 to 27 vote by which the Son-' ale for the first time in 37 years and for the fifth lice in all history clamped down the Rag rule to silence them is incomparably more than some dusty procedural action. It amounts to a ver- diet from the most tolerant of all American institutions that the behavior of these filibust erers has been unpardonable, even there. IT MEANS that the profes sional liberals have at last overreached themselves. Whatever influence the Dem ocratic left wing may con tinue to exercise at the White House, its practical influence upon legislation has fallen to an all-time low. For not mere ly Kennedy was under assault in this long demonstration on the Senate floor. Many others including the Democratic and Republican leaderships of the Senate were assaulted, loo, if usually by innuendo. And they will not forget. And, ironically, it also means that the one constant goal of the professional lib- JENKINS i'PHE scientists may be piu- will nod their heads and say: "I knew it all the time. There ARE flying saucers." AIORE gadget news: The Navy has just tested its new Polaris missile -j which, it reports, will have an j eventual range of 2.8R0 miles : more than a thousand miles I , longer th in the current Polar- i ! is model. The report adds: ' "Submerged U S submarin- : es will be able to lob a nu- clear bomb ON ANY TAR- ! GET ON EARTH when the new Polaris becomes opera- ! tional in about two years ' ' l'HY is that important' ' The answer is t h a t when that time comes we can abandon all these bases around the earth whose main tenance has been giving us so much trouble, JOTORISTS in j a c k s o n . Term., ignored parkins meters the other day, with the blessing of city officials The city commission declared a PARKING METER HOLI DAY to celebrate a national health award presented to the city for having g.me a year without a pedestrian death. the-scene moves in Western European capitals ar Wash ington to pave the way for Britain's entry into the Euro pean Common Market. Prime Minister Harold S. White erals a change in the rues to make the gag more easily applicable to people the lib erals do not like has been gravely if not fatally hurt. For many of these same lib erals. Morse and Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois notable among them, for years have called the filibuster immoral and intolerable when the Southerners and others use it. IN TAKING up the weapon they have so long denounc ed, they have only proved what has always been the simple truth, which is that there is no need to change the rule. When any bill is a good bill and has heavy sup port it can always prevail, filibuster or no filibuster and rule or no rule. It is not im possible to apply the gag; it is only difficult. And is not even difficult when a true ma jority of the Senate truly wants something done. What has long thwarted lib eral designs is not that the rules are wrong but rather that liberal bills are usually wrong wrong because they are extremist and intolerant, as was the proposal here to so cialize communications, the one area in which we are ahead of the Russians in the race for space. Bad rules are not their trou ble. Rather, it is their bad case. And this the liberals have now managed to prove out of their own mouths. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris tc Field Enterprise Inc. ANTICS WITH SEMANTICS I am calm: you are stolid; he is insensitive. When I am in the ascend ancy, I preach the law of "survival of the fittest;" but when I am the underdog, I accuse the overdogs of "rul ing by tooth and claw." "You only live once" is the traditional philosophy of those who haven't learned how to live at all. I miscalculated; you blundered; he goofed. At the dance. I flirted wilh I another man's wife; you made advances to her; he proposi tioned her. When a neighbor says. "My. but your little chil dren are independent," it commonly means "Why do you let them run so wild?" "You can't trust anybody" is the secret slogan of all un trustworthy people: and "If I didn't, somebody else would," is the motto of all prostitutes, no matter in what iine of work. A "clip joint" is just a "smart supper club" where you're not known. A man who deserts our party for the other is a "ren egade." but one who comes over to our side from the oth er is a "convert." "Not to change the sub ject" invariably meant that the speaker intends to change the subject; while "Of course, I'm not an au thority" means that the speaker would like hit words lo be accepted as au thoritative. What we customarily call st" is simply a person who believes that ex treme measures must be taken to rectify an extreme evil: the only thing wrong with ex trcmism as a program is that in many cases, the cure is worse than the disease. I am a hearty eater: you I are quite a trencherman; he it a glutton. The difference between a 'prudent" marnase and a "mercenary" one depends wholly upon whose daughter married whose son. A woman who it termed "tcatterbrained" in the low- er economic strata it deto nated at "delightfully fey" in the upper economic tlra ta; jutt at a "loafer" in the former it called a "iporit man" in the latter. "You'll he sorry after I'm dead" is the sclf-consolatory s refrain murmured continually j to themselves by persons who : make their relatives sorry j thev are alive. ' I belong to a church; you hare a denomination; he it a member of a cult. j My teen-age daughter is vi-' vacious. yours is flighty; th -irs is boy -era ry I am solidly built; you are ttockyi he is full of j blubber. I Macmillan is expected to ap peal informally to West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer to persuade French President Charles de Gaulle to stop rocking the boat. Sim ilar appeals also are expected to be made t the other com mo market members. In ad dition, London is hopeful that the United States will inter vene discreetly with the Eu ropean leaders in favor of Britain's admission. Communist Crackdown The Big Three Western Al lies are considering measures to curtail Communist police activities on the Communist-run elevated railway in West Berlin at the request of the city gove-nmcni. West Berlin officials say the ele vated installations pose the greatest internal security threat in the event of trouble. Drummond Reports (Walter Lippmann It on vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) (c) 1962 New York Herald Tribune lnc BRAZIL'S SWIRLING VACUUM Rio de Janeiro Brazil is today a grim and painful ex ample of the difficulty this country's fragile democracy has in putting its roots down in the quicksand of economic distress. A newspaper correspondent, recently returned from Spain, put il graphically: "In Ma drid you can't get away from the government and in Rio de Janeiro you can't find the government." The reason is that right now Brazil is politically a swirling vacuum. Its leaders, its political parties, its make shift presidency, and its ex piring congress are ominous ly chasing each other in cir cles. Result: frantic immobility. The Brazilian "government" is nearly invisible because it isn't governing. ' PRESIDENT Joao Goulart isn't governing because he's devoting himself to a campaign to recapture t h e powers which were taken from him. They were taken from him as the only condi tion under which the military would allow him to become president after Quadros re signed a year ago, not expect ing that his resignation would be accepted. The Brazilian congress isn't governing because it is at the tail end of its term. It refuses lo cooperate with the Goulart government which it distrusts or to yield the powers it fears he will abuse. This means that Brazil is at a perilous stalemate at a time when its economy is go ing down and inflation is go ing up. How did this mess come about? Well, in Brazil vice presi dential candidates run separ ately from presidential can didates and the candidate with the highest vote, however small, wins. Goularl got about one-third of the total vote. His election was roughly what it would be like if Sen. Wayne Morse, running against Lyn don Johnson on a Kennedy-reactionary ticket, became Mr. Kennedy's Vice President. Then how would the U. S. Congress like it if Kennedy resigned and Mr. Morse be came President? flMIUS C - itv vii Goulart was a minor- ice president whom the military reluctantly ac cepted as Quadros successor rather than violate the con stitution. They accepted him Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF CMMETT KELLY recalls the most irritable elephant that L' ever hooked up with the Ringling Circus. This pachy derm was begging for peanuts before one matinee perform ance wncn a harmless flea settled on the tip of his trunk. "Hey," grum bled the elephant, "quit crowding, will ya?" Emest Gruening trlls how one prominent Alas kan, Dr. Walter W. Coun cil, once tliot three bears with a amgle bullet. Word came to the Doctor that a whale had been stranded on a nearby beach. When he reached the acenf, he spied A large brown bear feeding on the whale car cass. This provided an op- potttinity no true Alaskan could tci',. Dr. Council ran back to his cabin, returned with )i,a n';, took careful aim at the bear's heail, and (.red. When he can-.a up to the dead bruin he found that two curs aad bean feritu-J on the other side of their mother. The 'auliei. that killed h-r passed tnroHgh both of them also! (Don t O'l !v badly abe .t these brownies. Mean ones have reangied many an unwar Alaskan citizen:) e Mrs Howard was d'conc!e' vfcn her beiivM offspring hroujrr.t home a report caud ir,mr t'Kiur.e bjt -D'a". Mr. Howard, however, alwi i an ori.rjua cenaote.! lur with, "Or. thing, at leas:: It proves ha not aiatun " C 1X3. by Bennett Cert. Disfribuiel br Kuif futures SrnJI;a:e Reports reaching Hong Kong say Communist China is feeling the pinch of being deprived of Soviet aid. Pei ping's leaders are said to ba making a point of telling tha people about the lack of Rus sian aid to goad them into greater domestic production efforts. Cosmonaut Closeup A news conference that will provide the first oppor tunity of Western corespond ents to speak to and see Cos monauts Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich close up is expected in Moscow early next week, possibly Tuesday. The conference probably will not be held sooner because the cosmonauts want a couple of quiet days with their fami lies in the wake of the big Ret' Square celebration. only after Congress amended the constitution and hastily created a parliamentary form of government, thus taking to -itself some of the presi dent's powers. On the surface Goulart ac quiesced in his diminished role but soon proclaimed he wasn't going to stand still long and function "like tha Queen of England." He has been devoting every waking moment to making it impossible for the new parlia mentary system to work. It is evident he doesn't want it to work. President Goulart has been so busy arguing that he has not sufficient powers lo gov ern that he has neglected to use the large powers he still", possesses to deal seriously with the nation's economic, financial, and social prob' lems. He hasn't even had timo to fulfill the commitments he made to President Kennedy when he was in Washington this spring. What we are witnessing here now is a cold war con ducted by an aspiring presi dent against an expiring con gress. rOULART has been demand " ing that Congress give him two things: exceptional pow ers for six months to run the country without congressional interference and an early pie bescite. From this plebiscite he expects to gel popular sup port to compel congress to re store his partially shorn pres idential powers. Congress doesn't want a plebiscite until after the con gressional elections in Octo ber and. like the United States Congress, isn't disposed to give blank-check powers to one president, particularly one it doesn't trust. Thus Brazil's political pic ture comes full-circle back lo its swirling vacuum. Every thing's in motion and getting nowhere unless it be near er combustion. Combustion can't be ruled out since the menace of a general strike is now threatened unless Con gress yields to President Gou larl. The unions are pretty much in the pocket of the gov. eminent Goulart was a longtime Secretary of Labor and are a handy instrument of poltical pressure. Goulart is trying to make a scapegoat out of congress for whatever goes wrong and Congress is trying to make a scapegoat out of Goulart. Until the new elections this fall, the least bad thing that can happen here is nothinc. J SCOOT.' 9 e