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4 A- SUNDAY. StP'JLMuttt 2, lbbi ULUt OtiO MAIL THIBUnt:. MtUt OHO, OHi.COM MEDFOBWWBIBUHI "Everyone in Southern Oregon Read! The Mall Tribune" Subi'iihed Dilly except Saturday by MEDTORD PRINTING CO. SJ North Fir St., Ph. 772-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Iditor KERB GREY Advertlilnf Manarer GERALD T. LATHAM, But. Mir. ERIC W. ALI EN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PM AN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporil Ed tor OLIVE STARCHLR Women Editor DALE ERlCKSON.j:irculUon Mr AnIndependent Newepiper ntered cond tie" ."natter t Medford, Oregon, under Act ot SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bf Mail In Advence. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dally and Sunday 6 moa. 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 mol. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 33.00 Single Copy (Mailed! 30c By Carrier And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year 21.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1 -73 Sunday Only 1 mo. Wc Carrier and Vendora Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford OffklalaperJrtJlackMnCoinity " United Preia International Full Leaaed Wire U. P. I.Telephoto Newaplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Repreaentitlve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Office! In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San Franclico. Loi Angelei. Seattle, Portland, Denver. NEWSPAPEK pUtUSHEM ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight or Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the filet of The Mail Trlbun. 10, 20, 30, 40 nd 50 yaart ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1952 (Tuetdey) Conrad Bruce and com p a n y, investment brokers, submitted the lowest bid and was selected by the city coun cil to purchase a $100,000 bond issue lor construction work at the Medford munici pal airport. Thunderstorm brings at least 12 (orest fires in the mountains. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 2. 1942 (Wednesday) Antelope Creek and Dry Creek rds. are closed to the public as Camp White soldiers prepare to use Antelope ar tillery range for cannon prac tice. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Old cows are being shipped to Portland so fast there will soon be none left on the high ways to be run over by old cars, if there were any old cars left." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 2. 1932 (Friday) Nineteen-year -old Ashland youth, Just out of Jail for liquor violations, is rearrested and returned for marrying and eloping to California with minor Phoenix girl; youth is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Judge William M. Colvig, Medford veteran of the Civil war, notes 88th birthday; makes date with Portland woman for his 100th birthday party. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 2, 1922 (Saturday) City council orders City Superintendent Davis to ob tain lumber and start refloor ing Jackson st. bridge. G. M. Mordoff finds per fectly preserved human Jaw bone; plans to Investigate, hopes to prove It came from prehistoric man. SO YEARS AGO Sepi. 2, 1912 (Monday) Two Klamath Falls men fishing off Wizard island in Crater lake are lost for 38 hours because of a storm; searching parties find them across the lake, where they were driven by the wind. Ranchers, farmers refuse to allow city folk to dance tur key trot, angle-worm wiggle, Texas Tommy, bunny hug or other vulgarly suggestive dnnces at their square donees. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct h superior; seven or eight li atcclUnri five or til ll good. 1. Which of these animals has the most valuable pelt sea linn or sea otter? 2. With what state do you associate Cotton Mather? 3. On what river is Muscle Shoals? 4. What are the names of the four oceans whose names end In 'ic"? 5. Which New England state produces the largest amount of maple sugar and syrup? 8. If you desire to exert greater force with a screw driver, will you use one with a greater length or diameter? 7. Of what c 0 u nt r y is Ottowa the capital? 8. In what sport was Ty Ccbb famous? 9. In what group of Pacific Islands is Saipan? 10. Is the condor a native bird of South America, or of North America? Aniwmi 1. Sai otttr. 2. Massachusetts. 3. Tennessee River. 4. Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic. 5. Vermont. 8, Larger diameier. 7. Canada. 8. Baseball. 9. Marianas. 10. South Amerlct. Let's Get On An open letter to Ray Johnson and Win Marks (of KMED and KBOY respectively) : Dear Ray and Win : All right, lads, now that you've had your fun jabbing at the Mail Tribune via your airwave editorials, let's stop and consider a few things : First of all, let us compliment you on taking an editorial stand, no matter what. We are so used to the bland, innocuous, everything's won derful world of radio and TV that an actual state ment of position is, to say the least, refreshing. Ray, your editorial, when analyzed, said al most precisely the same things the Mail Tribune said in its editorials of laot Sunday and Wednes day. The only difference was that you slapped the M-T for the statements we made, and then went ahead and rephrased a number of them on your own. Win, your editorial (by the way, did you sell a lot of commercials by your ploy to merchants who were, at first blush, irritated at the Mail Tribune for speaking frankly?) was a master piece of misrepresentation. e WHY? We quote: Marks' orlirnvial "These continued attacks on free enterprise by the Mail Tribune are typical of the egghead philosophy that would turn us into a socialistic state." M-T editorial: "Our very economic system is based upon free enterprise and open competition in the market place. Rather than becoming frightened, the downtown mer chants should imaginatively begin looking for ways to attract some customers themselves. "The consumer market in this area is more than ample to support both the shopping center and the downtown district, but if one or the other loses out in the competition, it will have only itself to blame." If the latter quotation is "socialist state" talk. Win Marks is General Sarnoff. TTHERE are few other things that need to be said, and said again, and again. 1. There are in "downtown" some mighty lively stores (we could, names) which do a splendid job of merchandis ing. Every shopper in the area knows them. 2. There are others which refuse to cooperate, and which sutler (although they don t know it) thereby. 3. The ones which are sub-standard in mer chandising ability (and they know which they are or it they don t, they re going to die on the vine anyway) are in trouble. Whose fault is this? The Mail Tribune's? KMED's? KBOY's? No. It is their own fault. Maybe it's too many afternoons at the country club, or maybe it is the lack of courtesy, good merchandise, or proper display. Whatever the reason, these stores not only hurt themselves; they hurt the entire area. . FINALLY, the principal point made by the M-T'a drlitm'lala nf locf Qtiiirl'n, on1 Wrtrlvirto- day was to urge the downtown merchants not to rely on the city administration to solve their problems, and to suggest sharpen their competitive position. Is encouraging self-reliance, self-help, and cooperation "socialistic"? Fiddlesticks. Is constructive criticism, designed to stimulate thinking and action for the benefit of the entire community, "biting the hand that feeds" the Mail Tribune? Baloney. The Mail Tribune's future is inextricably tied to the welfare of Medford Telling the truth as we see it is part of our re sponsibility to the overall welfare, despite shrill broadcasts from outside the city limits. XE HAVE long had a vision of Medford in the fliflii'O Q it loan niHr o f tvanc orii-1 lowiic iii-il homes, of space and air and beauty, a healthy city with fine stores and shops, graceful churches, good schools, green parks. Medlord citizens have ward making this vision come true. But much re mains to be done. And any such vision depends, in no small measure, on the downtown core area. If it is to survive, healthy and prosperous, if the threat of encroaching blight is to be met and mastered, it is going to require courage and vision and confidence not fear and whining. It will require an end to bickering and confusion, and a beginning of cooperation and hard work. It will require an end to carping at city hall and a be ginning of leadership. IT WILL also require an honest facing of facts. 1 The Mail Tribune's editorials of the past week were not, as some declare, "attacks" on downtown. They were offered as honest presen tations ot the situation as Thn iv,niv.l-,.,nta i w nivi vimmo nnu criticisms do not apply whom they do apply. "If it tne lively discussions resu tmir tend to c ear i . . . i . . -.r- . the air and pave the way toward constructive and mutually helpful endeavor, the whole uproar will be of benefit to all concerned. Let's pet on with the job. E.A. and G.H.B. "Beauties" Series To End m , , , 1 011101 1 OW, l.aoor Uay, Will DC tlie Illial (lav of publication of the Mail Hires, i lie beauties ot Scenic Urejion. We're kind of sorry to end this series, for it has brought pleasure to many people. Clippings of the pictures have been sent all over the world. We appreciate the cooperation of the high way department in making the series possible. E.A. if called upon, name ways that they might and southern Oregon. come a loner wav to we see it. I .1 1, tn i U ! uiiiuunuo iu iivmii iiiu i know it; so do those to ! the shoe fits . , .. . . ' Tribune's series of pic "Trouble Growing flair? You Came To Jusl The Right Place" Matter of Fact (e New York Herald By ROBERT DONOVAN (Joseph Alsop is on vaca tion. During his absence his column will be written by reporters expert in national and international affairs.) KENNEDY AND McCORMACK Boston The Kennedy- McCormack debate last week was one of the liveliest politi cal spectacles in a long time. Eddie McCormack wiped up South Boston with Teddy Ken nedy, brother of the President of the United States. Ironical ly, however, he went about it In a way that may clinch vic tory for young Kennedy in the Senate Democratic pri mary election on Sept. 18. Really the only important thing that McCormack has go ing for him in his bitter con test is the anti-Kennedy senti ment which is flourishing in parts of Massachusetts these days. The televised debate, an oc casion of enormous public in terest in the state, gave Mc Cormack a matchless opportu nity to exploit the role of the underdog as against the rich and powerful Kennedy ma chine. Instead, he attacked Kenne dy with a ferocity that is sel dom seen in televised politics. TURNING to Kennedy at the very start McCormack told him: "You never worked for a living. You never held elec tive office . , . You lack the qualifications, the maturity of Judgment ... If you can do more for Massachusetts, it means that the President is not doing enough . . . You have said you would not vote for aid to parofthiai schools , Do you really care about civil rights? You went to the University of Virginia, a se verely segregated school." Then, turning to the audi ence at the end, he said: If his name was Edward Moore, his candidacy would be a joke. Nobody's laughing,. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Residents throughout North ern Utah and Southern Idaho were awakened the other morning by what was de scribed as a fair sized rolling earthquake. There was no major damage in the Utah- Idaho area. Ihc most severe damage appeared to be at least one power failure and some broken windows at Lo gan, Utah. Elsewhere in the area resi dents flooded local law en- j forcement authorities with re- j ports of beds moved out of place and dishes broken. Tall buildings in downtown Salt "o (. ity were shaken by the j tremors The University of California : says the quake had a magm-1 11 I " ..:' .". ..: :. .: , Illl fl n R n.. I in Bl.iri nf en.i magnitude of 8 to quite an earthquake.) A. SEVERE earthquake Jolt-! rd Greece the other day I and send termors all over the j " "imam T. Heftelfinger, Eastern Mediterranean area, j who retired from the Treas Considerable damage was re-1 ry Department this year, has ported in Southern Itaiv. : Sicily. Crete and Malta. j Over on the Northern Cali-i fornla - Southern Oregon coast : a few davs back, there was a . quake that did sever hundred granted permission by Treas thousand dollars damage and ury Secretary Doi:g.as Dil- ll.. I Inn In mnliniin I r 1 1 tia quite a ero THEM BOMBS, maybe? TjiROM Washington: ' The value of all assets In the United farm States By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate Your name is Edward Moore Kennedy." The effect of this rough-and-tumble attack was to blunt the best weapon Mc Cormack has. Ted Kennedy wound up looking the under dog. Like his older and more famous brothers, Kennedy played it cool under fire. He took the blast with composure and dignity. And to complete the irony of the whole affair, the young man whose qualifi cations are justly in question looked more like a Senator than he had ever looked be fore. JUDGING from the com ments that have been ap pearing In the Boston news papers since the debate, wom en voters in particular resent ed McCormack's behavior to ward the President's brother. "You've got to remain a gentleman when you go into people's living rooms," a vet eran politician was quoted in the Boston Globe. "I think Eddie stepped out of character and in four or five days he'll wish he hadn't. He's done him self irreparable harm." There is no question but what McCormack knew in ad vance that his tactics might provoke this reaction. Yet he went for Kennedy's jugular vein anyhow. Why? The best answer one can get here is that McCormack reasoned that the "dirty parlor" crowd con trolled Democratic primaries in Massachusetts and that this crowd would love nothing bet ter than the spectacle of a sen sational public attack on Ted dy Kennedy. McCormack and Kennedy will debate again in Holyoke on Tuesday night, and the out look is for resumption of (he attack by McCormack. He has gone too far now, it seems, to change tactics. He is gambling that the way to defeat Teddy is to clobber him. Those peo ple around here who gamble with money, however, are still betting that it won't work. rose 3.7 per cent to a whop ping record $207.3 billion, the Agriculture Department reports in its balance sheet of agriculture. rHICH is to say: PROPERTY IN THE U.S., in cluding land, buildings, ma chinery, livestock, etc., and NOT including debts (which, j the Agriculture Department : says, amount to $27.7 billion) were sold at the value as signed to it by the Department of Agriculture, the proceeds of the sale would pay off only two-thirds of our national debt. tlMPVTI vj I ' How's this: It's high time to quit put ting more debt on the cuff. ,r "asmngton: taken a FRINGE BENEFIT i with him. Hcffclfinger, who now works for the America.n Bankers Association, has been treasury Department s Dark- ing jot. fPHE LUCKY stitf Tn tht Hav a nUr-n place to park is one of American mankind's mot precious possessions. Drummond (Walter Llppmsnn b on vac Washington tn hit absent.) (c FAVORITISM TO BILLIE SOL ESTES Washington. The crucial and heretofore unanswered question in the Billie Sol Es tes scandal has, from the start, been this: was there or was there not favoritism extended to the Texas manipulator by the Department of Agricul ture favoritism which help ed him make huge profits from his illegal cotton-allotment racket? Secretary of Agriculture Or ville Freeman has been will ing to admit that in handling the Estes matter there has been administrative laxity, looseness, bungling, bad judg ment, and what-have-you. But favoritism to Estes' Mr. Free man has said no. Deliberate, intentional, potentially cor rupt favoritism to Estes? Mr. Freeman has said absolutely' not. But now the sworn testi mony of high officials of the Department of Agriculture who were closest to the oper ation demonstrates that there was Departmental favoritism shown to Billie Sol Estes. De liberate, intentional, and po tentially corrupt favoritism to Estes. e e THIS is not a matter of opin ion. It is the evidence. Admittedly, there is con flicting evidence. But it is not CONTRADICTORY evidence on the central point of wheth er or not there has been fa voritism. Thomas H. Miller, South west Area Director of the Ag ricultural Stabilization Serv ice, has testified that he was instructed by his immediate superior, Emery E. Jacobs, to go to Texas and come back with a report allowing Billie Sol to continue his cotton deal ing. Mr. Jacobs, subsequently asked to resign from the De partment, has testified that he did not instruct Mr. Miller to prepare a slanted, pro-Estcs report. The significant part of the sworn testimony which stands unchallenged is that a high Department of Agriculture of ficial namely, Thomas Mil ler prepared a one-sided analysis of the Billie Sol Es tes operation deliberately de signed to help him retain his illegal cotton allotments. Either Mr. Miller did what he did because he was ordered to do it (as he has testified) or he did it himself without being ordered. fjiHE conflicting testi m o n y -- leaves in doubt who com mitted the offense. It does not contradict the evidence that the offense of favoritism to Estes was committed. The Immediate effect of this testimony has been to center attention on the conflict be tween the two witnesses and to overlook the significant part of the evidence which remains unchallenged. Democratic Sen. John L. McClellan, chairman of the Senate investigating commit tee, instantly put his finger on the conflict when, as be tween what Miller and Jacobs were swearing to, he said: Pandora's By ERIC SEVAREID Aspen, Colo. In this serene valley it's still sum mertime, fish are jumpin' and "' j the thmkin is :? v4 Kew hnilri. iA." ines of harsh 4hfct Tj cinder block V -'vi. i exterior and subdued, aca demic interior rise from the sagebrush t o expand the ca pacity of this hidden Shangri La to accom modate even more seminnrs and conferences of general and specific ponderers. If the expense account society has produced more Nevada gam bling dens and Florida hotels of Wall Street Renaissance design, it has also produced more deductibe opportunities for serious group-thought Plato must have had some thing like the Aspen existence in mind when he talked about the good life. One leaves here with a slimmer waistline, browner skin, better appetite and the visceral conviction that he is a little wiser even if he can't demonstrate the fact by word or deed. Anyone who can't learn something from exposure to such men as Walt Rostow, Crane Brinton of Harvard. John Blum of Yale, Charles Bohlcn, Jan de Hartog, the poet Jonathan " "t.-u - lists is a dull dog indeed, and i I'm in their debt even if I can't calculate the figure on j that side of the ledger. We have hoard newly com- i posed music by Milhaud and umcrs. nave wara m- i "K un- iuic of the artist in society: meas-lof jured worrts about the capac-i i!in nt !h ItmtH Xatinn' ; passionate words from nark-; ktnncd alien i n tellcctuals about the evils of the great j Reports t ion. Rotco Drummond reports from 1962 Now York Horaid Tribuno Inc. "One statement is true and the other U not." But I wish to point out that the conflict in evidence only concerns who practised the fa voritism, not whether favor itism was shown to Estes. Mr. Miller says he was or dered by Mr. Jacobs to pre pare a slanted, pro-Estes re port. Mr. Jacobs says he did not order Mr. Miller to prepare a slanted, pro-Estes report. This leaves the responsibil ity in doubt. But it does not leave the offense itself in doubt. MRoa MILLER said under oath that he was sent to Texas by Mr. Jacobs with these instructions: "I want you to send me a report containing every justification you can find to permit retention of these allotments" the Billie Sol Estes cotton allotments. Mr. Jacobs said under oath: "I did not do it." Mr. Miller also testified that Mr. Jacobs "left me with the definite impression that Mr. Murphy (Undersecretary of Agriculture) would be amen able, agreeable, even desirous of obtaining information per mitting retention of the dis puted cotton allotments by Estes." Mr. Murphy has stated that "no pressures or improper in fluences had any effect" on his decisions in the Estes case. The conflicting testimony muddies the question of who was responsible for initiating the slanted, pro-Estes report. But the uncontradicted facts are that, whether he was di rected by Jacobs, by somebody else, or by himself, Miller went to Texas, wrote the one sided report, and thus provid ed the basis for the last De partmental action favorable to Estes before the whole thing burst into the open. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF DISTRICT ATTORNEY Frank Ho.san of Manhattan obvi ously read The Jester when he attended Columbia Uni versity. The D.A. told a dinner assemblage about a Dublin jeweler who was arraign ed for selling phony dia monds to a trusting dow ager. "I sentence you to ten years in jail," thun dered the judge (also Irish) "for selling sham rocks." . Peter Llnd Hayes met an old gaffer at the Winged Foot Golf Club who boast ed, "My wife and I were married 55 years ago today and we still hold hands." Then he added, "If we didn't we'd kill each other!" OVERHEARD: At Baylor University in Waco: "In my calculus exam this morning I was mighty close to the right answers, They were ! only two seats away." At Mike Romanoff's in Beverly Hills: "He says he's got a big part in that new TV series, but I noticed that when he drove Into the studio parking lot, he didn't turn off the motor." At the University of Hawaii: "Presidents of universities never die; they just lose their faculties." In the dugout of the Milwaukee Braves: "I was so bad out1 there on the mound yesterday I was afraid Gillette was going to ask for its razor back." j Box Open; world powers; baffling words about the properties of a new type of helium; words both ambitious and skeptical about the role of Americans as world redeemers; trim and elegant words, edged with acid, about the uglification of our physical environment; stodgy words about big gov. eminent and big business, the evils and virtues thereof. Man is a thinking breed, descendent though he be of a risen ape and not a fallen angel, "nature's first brief ex periment in self-awareness, trapped between earth and a glimpse of heaven." He tried. So the premise of this place and this process n.ust be that nature is going to give homo sapiens another chance, whether he deserves it or not. Man seems unshakably con vinced that his soul is unique and Americans remain at least half persuaded that nature has some special interest in their own survival. So these discussions have been es sentially exercises In morality the luxury always enjoyable wher survival is assumed. We have been living on intellec tual dessert all month. The only rebuttal is the oc- casional sound of a military jet from the Air Academy, high above even this altitude that Shangri La must look, to the pilot, quite fat and un exceptional. nen you minx about the jet, its sound is waspish Bronx cheer, and moral concepts seem embar rassingly pointless. The group thinking here has been wide and top lofty. We have gossiped about the nauire 01 man, jucgiea pm los opmcs, empires ana eras, am us exhibited 20-2fl hind. sight and made it perfectly nlnaf tvhal iho ns, nf U nr battled religion, the age of exploration, the age of the industrial revolution had done POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Here it i September, al- ( ready. September, as you all undoubtedly know, is Nation al Better Breakfast Month, American Wool Month, Youth Month, American Home Light ing Fixture Month, Protein Bread Month, and Lamb Time U.S.A. And among the events to which we can look forward during the month are Lessons In Truth Week, International Tuna Week, National Slacks Week and National Dog Week. Are we not truly blessed? Sandy, the cub reporter, went down town Thursday during the sidewalk sale. Mostly she was well-pleased at the display of merchan dise on the sidewalks and the crowds hovering around them. But she reported one major disappointment. The banks didn't have their money on the side walk, e The English language is phenomenal. A call came to the news room the other day, and was answered by one of our young men. The lady said she wanted to report some births. "Birds?!" the young man asked. "Yes, births," the nice lady said. He covered the mouthpiece and said, "Who wants to take some bird information?" No one answered, although one cynic was heard to mutter "Only if It's the blue bird of happiness." Finally our man persuaded The Fun to and for the human race. We plucked but feebly at the age of science, the present age, while the military jet with its hypothetical load of impatient atoms uttered its little jeer overhead Even to a jump-seat philos opher it seems clear that this age of science has to be, in the history writing sense, man's final epoch or era. We are now taking apart and put ting to use the basic stuff of nature, and that's the end of the line. The embattled relig ions were controlled by one force or another, political or geographical. There were nat ural limits to surface explora tion or invasion. In these cases a limited portion of the human race was involved; the effects were partial. This age of science has no natural limits we know of, and what is dawning on us now is that it is also uncon trollable. Science simply does not know what it is doing or where it is going, in any uni versal sense; and if the good it does is fundamental, the damage it does is absolutely unrepairable. We stand Just at the faint beginning of both the good and the evil, and man's big brain in exist ence for only an instant of time, a blind, groping veg etable in the scheme of na ture hasn't the foggiest no tion whether the good or the evil will take command. Science can't control what it will produce, because that is the nature of science, and since there is no control over frightened governments and very little over eager in dustry, there is no real con trol over the uses to which the products are put. By any measure it stuns reason that we permitted hydrogen blasts to form a new radiation belt one of his more gullible col leagues to answer the call, and it came out all right in the births column. BIRDS?! Another horrible exam ple of English in action is this sentence: "A rough cough and a hiccough plough me through." All those "oughs" are pronounced differently. If English were logical the sentence might read: "A ruff cuff and a hicuff pluff me ihruff." Or "A roff coff and a hiccoff ploff me throff." Or "A rup cup and a hiccup plup me ihrup." Or "A row cow and a hiccow plow me throw." Or "A roo coo and a hiccoo ploo me throo." The Salem Capital Journal, commenting on this English inconsistency, says: A teacher we had used to play games with these awful words to ease the burden. The kids would see how many they could string together. There were such sentences as "flough floughting like eider doughn on the sluff." That's "Fluff floating like eiderdown on the slough." The English English, by the way, call a backwater a "sluff," but spell it "slough." Then there was dewdrop, spelled "doughdroghp." But the best example of phonetic confusion occurred in the news not long ago during the fuss in the steel industry. Steelman Roger Blough. wasn't sure what his name was when it was all over. We heard radio and TV peo ple call him "Bluff," "Blog," "Blah," "Blew," "Blow," and even "Blouch." One of the family finally tipped the press services that it was pronounced as in the word scow, meaning a slow, blunt-nosed boat. Or is that a scough, mean ing a slough, bloughnt-nough-sed bought? Has Begun when even a few eminent scientists pleaded that tha chance not be taken. Only an essential anarchy could hava permitted a situation in which two and a half million thalid omide tablets never cer tified for sales were given to twelve hundred American doctors for "tests on patients." Anybody still sure that man is in control of his fate on this earth has only to look at the new facts and figures on the massive use of pure poison on our fruits and vegetables, on the increasing pollution of our air, soil and waters. He has only to consider that doc tors have but the haziest no tions as to the ultimate ef fect of the indiscriminate usa of antibiotics in altering body chemistry, in creating new diseases still unimagined. Wa aren't fruit flies; a generation requires 33 years. Pandora's box has Just been opened; the fun has just be gun. It is an ingrained human and particularly American il lusion that we will always win in the ninth inning be cause we always have we're still here, aren't we, after a couple of million years of catastrophes? What is so hard to grasp is that we aren't playing baseball anymore. Up to now everything, including wars, plagues and tidal waves, was a game compared to the business now at hand. Well, maybe it's the Aspen altitude, physical and intel lectual. Gravity is weaker up here and thoughts have a way of floating out of reach. At sea level, the Birch society, desegregation, Jackie and the stockpile controversy will no doubt assume form and sub stance again, but from here you couldn't make them out with a telescope. (Distributed 1962. br The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved)
