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TUESDAY. MEDFORI)Jli&TRIBUNK ""'Everyone-! n Southern Oregon RediThe MLTribune Published billy except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Firt.. Ph. 772-eUl ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertisinf Manaser GERALD T. LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Med tor d, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 10.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 5.00 Sunday Only One year $5.00 Single Copy (Mailed) 20c By Carrier And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year $21.00 Daily and Sunday I mo. 175 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Cairier and Vendors Copy 10c Off trial Paper of City of Medford Official Paper ol Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P. I. Telephoto Newsplctures "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS it ASSOCI ATES. Offices in New York. Chi cago. Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I mm . . Flight o' Time Mcdtord nd Jackson County History from th files of The Mail Tribunt 10, 20, 30, 40 ind 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 4. 1952 (Friday) Summer storm sets fires and causes considerable dam age to pear and peach crops In the Rogue valley. Jackson county Sheriffs Mounted posse to hold first annual amntcur rodeo at posse grounds. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 4, 1942 (Saturday) Capts. William H. Fluhrcr and Floyd Hart graduate from Air Force Officers school. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Au tuniu is almost here with its melancholy days, the saddest of the year, and if they are any more so than some of the natives they will have to go some." 3C YEARS AGO Sept. 4. 1932 (Monday) Jackson county Legionnaires prepare exhibit to be sent to national American Legion convention In Portland next week. The six public schools In Medford oren and Superin tendent E. H. Hcdrick an nounces the official enroll ment is 2,233, 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 4, 1922 (Tuesday) Proposed Medford armory is forum topic for chamber of commerce meeting. Rogue valley pear industry is saluted in Country Gentle man magazine; lend news ar ticle Is entitled "Where I'd Plant My Orchard Oregon's Rogue River Valley Seems Ideal." SO YEARS AGO Sept. 4. 1922 (Thursday) Tcn-hundrotlis inch rainfall yesterday brings total precipi tation for storm to nearly three-fourths inch; most Bnrt letts and llowells harvested so showers doing little harm. Pacific highway officials consider changing highway to eastern Oregon because of in difference and hostility of western Oregonlans; Willam ette valley residents particu larly at fault. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five oi sii is good. 1. The part of a sentence which makes an assertion about the subject is called what? 2. How many times in a minute is the hcarbcat of a normal man? 3. Are Eiberman Pinschcr dogs classed as sporting dogs, or working dogs? 4. Do cashew nuts grow on trees or in the ground? 5. Is Argentina on the east or the west coast of South American? 8. Morroco Is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. Medi terranean Sea, and whnt other famous topographical feature? 7. Roentgen is credited with the discovery of what" 8. Supply the last word of the title of this motion pic ture: "Goodhy Mr " 9. If you had a soiree, would you cat It. attend It, ride it. or keep it? 10. What is the name for the young of bees? Answers; 1. Predicate. 2. 72 times per minute. 3. Working. 4. On trees, i. East coast, 8. Sahara desert. 7. X-ray. I. Chips. 9. Attend it. 10. Nymphs. VASSOCIATION SEPTEMBER 4. 1962 O&C "Showcase There is not a single county who does not benefit from the fact that thousands of acres of 0 & C lands are located here, and that they are well administered and managed for sustained yield. The benef its are many. Most noticeable, perhaps, is the fact that the county has levied no taxes for a number of years, simply because income from the O&C lands, to gether with other income, has made a tax levy for county purposes unnecessary. Another major benefit are the large payrolls dependent on forest products from the O&C lands. CTILL another, more recent in origin but of fast growing importance, is the recreational poten tial of the O&C lands, for hunting, fishing, camp ing, picnicking, hiking, and rock hunting. And the beauty of it all is that this is a per manent, not a transitory, thing. The O&C forests are being managed to provide their benefits in perpetuity. It was not always so. Nearly a half-century ago, when the lands granted to the old O&C railroad were being re turned to federal ownership, the emphasis was on disposal and development, and the pressures were great to sell off the land in small tracts. I ITTLE more than 20 years later, in 1937, the entire thinking had done an about-face. It had become evident that the thousands of acres of for est land were not susceptible to small tract use, and that only a minor portion of the O&C acre age was usable for agriculture. It was then 25 years ago last week that the O&C sustained yield act was passed by Con gress, placing the O&C forests under the jurisdic tion and active management of the federal gov ernment, and dedicating them to a perpetual yield of forest products. It said the 2.5 million acres ". . . shall be managed for permanent forest production, and the timbor thereon shall be sold, cut, and removed in conformity with the principle of sustained yield for the purpose of providing a permanent source of timber supply, protecting watersheds, regulating stream flow and con tributing to the economic stability of local communities and industries, and providing recreational facilities." ONE OF THE problems in administering the alternate sections scattered throughout 18 west ern Oregon counties. There are a few solid blocks of O&C ownership, resulting from some exchang es with the Forest Service several years ago, but most of the acreage is checkerboarded. Former Gov. Charles A. Sprague, chairman of the O&C advisory board, of which he has been a member for 14 years, made a suggestion at last week's 25th anniversary observance in Salem which will result in much discussion. He proposed that the O&C holdings be form ed into solid blocks through additional exchang es. This, he pointed out, would result in far more efficient management. THERE are formidable t P -itiir oti lit ni'iiTi'iim if j. ciiij 0uv.11 M ui aui. a. lie iauvio c,uiiiiit would have to be of equal value, and not only that equal value within tne is counties, otherwise some count'es would lose a valuable resource while others would gain. The exchanges also ests of relatively equal age istics and similar board-foot inventory, to make the exchanges equitable and the resulting blocks manageable under sustained yield principles. For these reasons, an exchange p r o g r a m would involve a fantastic amount of planning and work and cooperation. Yet, because of its desirability, it might be worth the effort. Certainly Governor Sprague's suggestion will receive serious consideration. DUT WHETHER the O&C lands are formed in-' to solid blocks, or whether they remain in their present checkerboard pattern, they will re main as one of Oregon's greatest resources a source of income to both the counties and the federal government, easing the tax load, provid ing jobs and raw materials, and this for all time. Ve all thus owe much to the foresighted men such as Guy Cordon, David Mason, James Mott, Harold Ickes, Walter Horning and the many others who w ere instrumental in the 1937 bill be coming law. We are also indebted to the dedicated public servants who have coped with the many problems of management and administration over the past 25 years, and who have created from the O&C lands what has been called "a national showcase in the practice of intensive, large-scale public for est land administration." yHE LAST quarter-century has not been long enough to solve all the problems that forest management faces. They have involved, and still involve, fire pro tection, timber sales, land exchanges, grazing, ac cess roads, intensive silvicultural research and improvement, multiple use, recreation, watershed protection, and many more. Hut great strides have been taken and we can look forward to the day when many of these and other problems have been solved. Mav the second quarter century be as success ful as the first. E.A. The Eugene Register-Guard notes a news story reporting there are -13,(528 pleasure boats registered in Oregon. "Yes, and 91 per cent of them are on the highway," the Guard Com mented. E.A. individual in Jackson difficulties in the way TMni 1ivj-1i3 rt i ii rrciA would need to be of for and similar character "Keep A Cloie Watch On Thoe Men Over There They're After Your Money" JfXfcuTlVEff' a J - -l ofuch ,6 ej55 M- (hjww" rT t COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of e 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 tor publication must not exceed 400 words. The tetters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; In fact the contrary Is often he case. In the Forefront To the Editor: Perhaps at no time in his 18 years service as Senator from Oregon has Wayne Morse's foresight and statesmanship been more outstanding than his position regarding the give away of the Federally developed com munications satellite system to the most powerful preda tory corporation in the Unit ed States or possibly in the world. The New York Post says, In part, "We agree with the lib eral holdouts that the pub licly developed and financed technology should not be used to orbit a private monopoly into space. Our earliest convic tions have been reinforced by the report that there is al ready a 'cold war dispute over the assignment of satel lite frequencies." 'Shall the profit position of A. T. & T. be a major element in delicate international nego tiations on such problems? The shape of the sky to come is a matter of serious legis lative reflection. The Senate is treating it as if the heavens might vanish during the night. What is the pressure that gives this legislation so high a priority? Is there some fear that the country will begin to glimpse the real nature of the give away?" It seems generally under stood that this communica tions satellite is a global util ity of which only a segment will be operated and con trolled by the United States, thus making it absolutely necessary to negotiate inter na 1 1 o n a 1 agreements with other great nations of the world. The shameful part of these negotiations will be the fact that the United States, as such, will not be there. We, as a nation, will have abrogated our powers and duties in the interest of the most powerful corporation on earth. Whether or not other great nations will be willing to ne gotiate with this private cor poration as a substitute for the representatives of our na tional government is a moot question at this time, and to say this corporation will be government controlled is the sheerest sophistry. We have been trying to control our corporations for the last SO years and we all know such control has never been a suc cess. This little group of Sen ators and Congressmen, under the leadership of Wayne Morse, is clearly in the fore front of the battle to preserve the Integrity of the nation ,ind to maintain whatever degree of international prestige is ten to us. D. Ivan Fritts 794 Fortner Lane Ontario, Ore. Beautify Bear Creek To the Editor: As a visitor to Medford on several occas Ions this summer, I have thor otighly enjoyed the warm hos pitality of its residents and the beauty of the surrounding Rogue country. Signs of civic pride abound In both people's conversations and public works. Yet It seems Incongruous that no effort has been shown to beautify the portion of Hear Creek passing through Medford. While planners may foresee an eventual park along the stream banks, even cur sory attention to the rubbish and Junk in the stream would help the present situation. With the Hearing comple tion of the freeway, might not property owners, civic groups and city crews combine to krep Medford an attractive city for all? Jack Frewing 1015 S. W. Bertha Blvd Portland, Ore. I MEDFORD MAIL i Poisonous Fangs To the Editor: Some who have written of late hold be lief in and dependence upon the Book of Books to be scarcely a necessity; but the writer of this note holds them an unquestioned essential, "the Word of God which liv eth and abideth forever." About its authenticity the Book Itself says, "To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8.20. Jesus said, John 3.19, "Light is come Into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil." This entire communication could be spent in exact quotes each of which would expose and condemn that low sensual walk of life which sponsors and com mends nudism and nudist camps! These nudists agree to gether to tempt the Spirit of the Lord, and to irk the spirits of pure minded humans, by their exalting the flesh, when God says plainly "They that sow to the flesh i .all of the flesh reap corruption." The Bible pronounces Its slncerest condemnations and its severest woes upon those who walk after the flesh. High board fences do not hide shameful and Iniquitous acts from the eyes of God. Those who sin the most and worst, and those who set nefarious examples, will be in exact ac cordance justly punished for their wickedness. In fact Jude In his seventh verse refers to those who in that day lived sensually "are set forth for an example suffering the venge ance of eternal fire. ' Paul said to the Corinthians in his first epistle chapter 3, verse 16, "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy which temple ye are." The nudists devote God's temples to the worst sac rilege it is possible to name. Some of us have taken pledges to expose and resist with might and main the ma chinations of "that old serpent called the Devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world." - Rev. 12.9. When God condemns with no uncer tain and with scathing words the practices of men and wo men young and old who live in sensual sin and wrong, we are justly warranted and only safe In doing the same. Those who think and state that the wickedness of nudism behind high board fences is not in iquitous, and who infer that it Is not a real live Issue to be condemned as publicly and as widely as possible, are either blind or fast losing their sight! No one tolerates live ven omous rattlesnakes inhabiting their gardens or fields, ready at any time to strike their poisonous fangs into your body. H. R. Bulman Route 4, Box 316A Medford Kansas Picnic To the Editor: The Kansas picnic was held Sunday, Aug. 26, 1962 in the park at Grants Pass under the auspices of the president, H. M. Freeman, Talent; vice president, R. L. Isaacs. Central Point; treas urer pro tern, Mrs. Fred L. Ryde. Medford and John S. Duffy, secretary. Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Isaacs helped greet between 125 and 150 loyal "Jnyhawkers" who reg istered from as far away as Klamath Falls and Roseburg. Dinner was served about 1 o'clock. Mr. Freeman returned thanks for the many blessings God has bestowed upon us and for all that His bountiful hand has provided. Kansas is located in the geographical center of the United States and Topeka is TRIBUNE. MEDF'JRD, OREGON Strictly Personal By Sydney (O Field Enterprises, Inc. STRONG NEW WORDS A college teacher of English in Iowa has written me a vig orous note protesting the use of "gimmick" in our daily speech. "Everything is a gim mick," he says, "and we hear this w o r d a fy1"""!! dozen times a a a y. i win readily grant that the word is over - used. But I will not grant, as my correspondent wants me to, that such Hiryu words are an abomination. This is how language grows and develops. Why does one slang word take root in the language, and eventually become Standard English, while another is in vogue for a few years and then utterly disappears from speech and writing? The words thai take zoot are those that are needed, that have no exact synonym or equivalent. "Gimmick" fills a need superbly, which is why it took hold so fast, and will become a perma nent addition to the lan guage. It is worth remembering that even so perspicuous a user of English as Jonathan Swift objected in hit time to such words as "banter," "sham," "mob," "bully" and "bambooile." He attributed to such slang words "the continual corruption of the English tongue." He was, of course, quite wrong. Each of these words supplied some real lack in the language, and each has maintained its vitality to day. There is good slang and Matter of Fact By j0.ePh aim (ci New York Herald Tribune Syndicate ON A HUMAN SCALE Pylos, Greece Even in the bright Greek air, under the golden Greek sun, Sphac- teria seems sullen and un inviting. It is hard to im agine any thing happen ing since hist ory began on this narrow, barren islet which is a Alinp mere contin uation of the coastal cliffs. Yet this rocky islet of Sphacteria, which supports no life, is still peopled by old ghosts who have a tale to tell that is worth hearing, even today. The time was in the first great age of the story of the West, after the Greeks had routed the countless hosts of Persia. Athens, bold, ingen ious, and free, was then the strongest seapower in the world, and the strongest land power was hard, totalitarian Sparta. Thus the first great war of the West began when Athens and Sparta and their allies came to blows. Early in this Peloponnesian War, one of Athen's shrewdest generals, tough, penny-pinching Demosthenes, seized a base here, on the Pylian head land across the narrow strait from Sphacteria. It was a poor enouRh base, very hastily for tified. TO BUILD their walls, the Athenian troops even had to "carry the morta'- on their backs since they had no hods, stooping down so as to carry as much as possible, and clasp ing their hands behind them to prevent It from slipping off." Yet Demosthenes had chosen his base astutely. Pylos is in Messenia; and the Spartans had long since conquered this region and made all the Messenians into Helots rural slaves who worked the land while the ruling Spartans, whose only the capitol and the State is noted for wheat, corn, etc. The centennial was celebrated in 1961 and Kansas was ad mitted to the Union Jan. 29. The State flower is the Sun flower. The University is at Lawrence, Eisenhower Me morial at Abilene, a hand-dug well Greensburg. Dalton gang hideout at Mead, and a cow boy statue of Matt Dillon at Dodge City, where he was reared. The H. M. Freemans' daugh ter and five daughters togeth er with a friend furnished accordion music for the oc casion. Grants Pass officers were elected for next year. I believe, the eldest person, was a gentleman from Grants Pass 87 years of age. The crowd commenced to disperse about 4 o'clock, after a most pleasureable day. Many fond memories re main of my native State, but I'm glad that we located in Southern Oregon "The Gar den Spot of the World." (Name on File) Central Point, Ore. J. Harris there is bad slang, and only a prig would fail to distin guish between the two. (In cidentally, the word "prig" itself is supposed to be de rived from the underworld term for a thief, and has by now become a most respect able part of Standard Eng lishl) Nobody knows, for in stance, how the word "phony" came into the lan guage, although Erie Part ridge has made shrewd guess In his definitive book. "Origin." But 11 took hold almost overnight, and is here to stay - having com pletely driven out the Briti cism "bogus," which it tup planted. Purists also object to the recent usage of "contact" as a verb, as in "I'll contact you tomorrow." But it takes the place oi four words, "get in touch with," and thus gives more compression and econ omy to the language. The his tory of English is replete with words that once were nouns and have been turned into verbs. I do not mean to range my self on the side of the modern ists, who insist that whatever most people say, if they say it often enough, is "right." A language must have standards and values if it is not to de generate. But blindly oppos ing all change - in language as in nolitics - is really to hand ammunition to the revolution aries. One extremism always begets another. Time is the only true test of the integrity of a word, as it is of a work of art. Phony words are just verbal gim micks that soon fade away: the language is enriched and strengthened by slang that serves a need. work was war, passed their davs in military exercises, The base In Pylos therefore threatened Sparta with Messenian guerrilla revolt. So the Spartans mustered strong force to drive Demos thenes and nis men irom meir craggy fort. There was a sharp, hot fight. The ships of Athens ar rived in the nick of time to support Demosthenes from the seaward side. And now the besiegers became the be sieged, for the strong Athen ian fleet trapped and block aded a part of the Spartan force which had been posted on rocky Sphacteria. THIS swift disaster moved the Spartan ephors to send ambassadors to Athens to sue for peace. In truth, the first great war of the West might have ended on rocky Sphac teria if the demagogue, Cleon. had not spurred the men of Athens to raise the price of peace beyond all reason. So the blockade continued, and for a while the Spartans on the Island were part-supplied by underwater swim mers towing skins full of honey and pounded linseed. Yet the men on Sphacteria must have been disheartened by the long blockade. For in the end, Cleon the dema gogue, now promoted to a gen eral of Athens, was able to overwhelm the Spartans by a surprise landing with a heav ily superior force. Thus Cleon the demagogue became the first general in the history of Greece to re ceive the surrender of Spartan heavy infantry, who were trained from childhood to fight to victory or death. "This event," we are told, "caused more surprise among the Hellenes than anything else that happened in the war." It also deeply influ enced the long war's course, by powerfully promoting the fatal overconfidence o f Athens. FOR JUST these reasons, the incomparable Thucydides, already quoted, gave a com plete chapter to Sphacteria in what is still the finest work of history ever written. But what i made Sphacteria memorable I tn Tk.i,iJM.. 1. nn ...ha makes it worth our own recollection. It is worth re membering now because, in this almost-decisive battle, the Spartans originally trap ped on the islet numbered 440 I men, and those who surrend ered numbered 292. How tiny, how all-too-human was the scale of history in those days when the balance between the world's mightiest military powers trembled and tilted towards peace for a moment, for such cause as the events on Sphacteria! How vast, how utterly inhuman is the scale of history' in our bomb-age! The change in scale is what we commonly call progress. But is progress really so per fectly progressive after all? The question. Greece-inspired, is obviously reactionary if not downright subversive. It is time to leave Pylos for Berlin. Drummond Reports .... .. ., , .... -- n J ,. l twiner uppmonn i '". - -, ...... Washington in his absence.) (c 191 Now York Harold Tribune Inc. KENNEDY AND CONGRESS-II Washington - The reasons usually assigned for Presi dent Kennedy's failure to get his bills through bis Demo cratic Congress do not go to the heart of the matter. Some contend that he hasn't done enough to sell his program to the country. Oth ers say he has either put too much pressure on Congress or not enough. Some blame the new Democratic Congression al leadership, Senate Major ity Leader Mike Mansfield and Speaker John McCor mack. I don't see how Mr. Ken nedy could do much- more than he is doing in his speeches, his press confer ences, his personal contacts with Congress, and his skill ful public relations. His trou ble goes much deeper. His trouble is that the po litical center of the Demo cratic party in Congress is so much to the right of the po litical center of President Kennedy's campaign promises and program that the two do not meet-very often or very much. rpHIS condition is not in the - least peculiar to the Ken nedy administration. Except in times of war and of great national emergency-like the depression of the 'thirties every Democratic president in the past quarter-century has had exactly the same diffi culty. The Congresses which have been least productive and least responsive to Presi dential leadership have been Democratic Congresses in of fice with Democratic Presi dents. The difficulty began in 1939 after the depression started to taper off and after the 1938 Congressional elec tions in which the Democrats lost 70 seats in the House-in part as a protest against the Roosevelt Court-packing plan. President Truman fared even worse in attempting to extract from the Democratic Congress of 1949-52 a wide range of controversial domes tic legislative requests which the Republican 80th Congress of 1947-49 had also refused him. Mr. Truman had won his election on a campaign di rected primarily against what he called the do-noth ing" Republican Congress, but the Democratic Congress which he he' .led elect was a "do less" Democratic Con gress as far as Mr. Truman was concerned. It is evident from these facts that of the Congresses In the Day's News By FRANK What's in the news? It's a bit on the weird side. For example: A DISPATCH from Chicago tells us that "machines are performing functions that were suggested only in science fiction a decade ago." A bus inessman in New York City now can ring his office in Los Angeles to set up a telephone circuit linking two computers a continent apart. Within minutes, the dis patch adds, the electronic brains can exchange their data without human help other than the dialing of the connection in the first place. The machines are described in the dispitch as "computers that chat by telephone." THEN there's the robot on our spacecraft Mariner-2 that is heading out into the yonder for a look at the planet Venus, to find out, if pos sible, what makes it tick. It is reported to be a little off course (a mere matter of 250.000 miles) but at a certain point we'll flash a message to Ex-Grange Master Named Group Head Portland - (VPD - Former Oregon Grange Master Elmer McClure of Milwaukie today was named chairman of a committee that wants to keep legislative apportionment in Oregon on a population basis. McClure was named head of the Oregon Farmers com mittee to Retain Equal Repre sentation. The group is fight ing a proposal to hand out legislative seats on the basis of area at well as population. "It makes no more sense to apportion on the basil of area than to apportion on the basis of cattle, timber, mineral depositt or Jeckrabbits," the farm leader said. He said farmers as well as city dwellers should unite in opposing such a change. FRINGE BENEFIT Montgomery, Ala. -ATI1- A classified ad in Monday's Montgomery Journal read: "4 room apartment and shower, water and garbage furnished." from 1939 through 1962, those which have been least produc tive and least responsive to Presidential leadership have been the 12-year period of Democratic Congresses hold ing office with Democratic Presidents in the White House. This suggests that the blame is not particularly President Kennedy's. BUT if the blame Isn't Presi dent Kennedy's, then what accounts for this 12- year span of substantial non- cooperation between the Dem ocratic Presidents and the Democratic Congresses? The best answer I can of fer, with tome over-simplification, is that the big cities which usually want the gov ernment to do more and more and spend more and more-do most to elect a Democratic President, while the country side does most to elect the Congress. The countryside, favored by the apportionment of districts which gives it special political power, elects a "conservative Congress whether Democratic or Republican-while the big-city vote can succeed in electing a "liberal" Democratic Presi dent. This creates an automatic gulf between a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President. . VOU can put it another way. - The political power com-plexes-the labor vote, the big city vote, and the minority group vote-must be won in order for a Democrat to win the Presidency. This requires that the Democratic nominee commit himself to a legisla tive program which the Con gress, dominantly elected by the small-city and rural vote, apparently will not legislate. This puts Congress, even those with large Democratic majorities, well to the right of any Democratic President's legislative program. It is this situation, not the personality or the tactics of President Kennedy, which creates the stalemate. Theoretically Mr. Kennedy could adapt his legislative re quests more to the views of Congress and thus quite pos sibly make more headway on several fronts. But this course Is not realistically open to him because the President must, for the most part, live by and hold to the campaign promises he made to get elected-even If he can't get a Democratic Congress to enact very many of them. JENKINS it and it will change Its course in accordance with the orders it receives. THAT brings up the XI 5, our rocket plane that flies at 4,000 miles per hour and gets clear out beyond the nor mal density of our atmos phere and then comes back. It carries a pilot, bi.t the job of piloting it back into the denser air whose friction heats its outer skin to un believable temperatures is so complicated that a robot is added to help with the job of getting back. There have been reports lately that the robot is acting up, refusing to take orders from the pilot. So the pilot has to take over. WHICH is to say: These robots GET RE BELLIOUS and threaten to STRIKE. MORE trouble: In Washington, the Labor Department has a robot that automatically tells the reporters all the news of the day when they dial a certain number. But, every now and then, it goes off its trolley and touches off a telephone snarl that ties everything up in a hard knot. ALL THIS suggests a grim thought: Suppose In the not too dis tant future when we get everything under robot con trol, so that we can sit back comfortably in our arm chairs and let the robots run every thing while we tip cool drinks and watch TV our commu nist enemies learn how to corrupt these electronic mer cenaries and turn them against us. What will we do then? LETS turn, for a change, to Kenlch Horie. the Japan ese youth who sailed alone across the Pacific in i 19-foot boat, doing all his own work. No electronic Jiggers to help. just nil own two nands. He's the guest of honor at the California state fair in Sacramento and is being hon ored at an International Day luncheon. More power to him! i
