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Newspaper Page Text4 A TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1962 MedfordJ&&Tribune ''Everyone in Southern Oregon , Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir SU Ph.772-ei4l ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager CERALU T LATHAM, BUS. Mir, ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telea Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women' Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medtord. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Duly and Sunday I year $18 W Duly and Sunday 6 mos. 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. .100 Sunday Only One year S 00 Sinsle Copy (Mailed) zoc By Carrier And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday I year $21.01 Daily and Sunday I mo. 1.73 Sunday Only 1 mo. Mlc Carrier andVendor-Copy 10c Official' Paper of City ot Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P. I. Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES. Offices in New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco, Loi Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Denver. EWSPAPIK ruaiiSHEis ASSOCIATION E0ITORIAI TITtW.H.'.IHl Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History' from the files ol Th Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 11. 1952 (Friday) Plans announced for expan sion of facilitiea at St. Mary's school; over 70 registrations recorded for first grade. Injured man removed from Medco rooftop by fire depart ment aerial ladder truck. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1342 (Saturday) Chester Hubbard, Medford, leaves here to start three months air training course at Mather Field, Sacramento, Calif. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The New Deal now proposes 'forc ed savings' for the public to aid the war effort. This is okay by the public who feel it is about time the New Deal tried its own medicine." 30 YEARS AGO sepi. U1M2 (Monday) ' -, i vandnis steal American flag owned by Medford American! Legion post and valued at I more than $300. Enrollment at Medford schools after first week of classes totals 534 at senior high school, 653 at Junior high school, 281 at Jackson school, 250 at Lincoln school, 322 at Roosevelt school, and 3(i5 at Washington school. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 11. 1922 (Tuesday) Ken Williams, Grants Pass Ore., baseball outfielder play ing for St. Louis Browns leads Babe Ruth six home runs In race for American league championship. Jackson county authorities announce that automobiles will not be allowed to pass on Pacific highway south of Med ford during county fair. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1312 (Thursday) Medford chapter of Wo. men's Christian Temperance uniun passes resolution favor ing equal suffrage and "de claring an intention of making a fight for the passage of the amendment granting votes to women In Oregon at the No vember election." Medford hunter returns from Elk creek area with four deer; could have gotten more if he had more time. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct Is superior; even er eight is eacelltnt; fie ei it Is food. 1. Which Biblical character symbolizes old age? 2. Does a starfish have five or six points? 3. Will sound travel faster In air, water, or Iron? 4. Which country Is our closest Latin American neigh bor? 5. What sort of work Is per formed by cooper? 8. Butte is the capital of Montana; true or false? 7. Is Mexico larger, smaller, or about the same site of Great Britain and Ireland combined? 8. In what political party In the United States was Norman Thomas a well-known leader? 9. Does a fathom measure 6, 18, or 80 feet? 10. In what part of the world it Laos? Answers: 1, Methuselah. 2. ne. 3. Iron. 4. Mexico. S. Makes barrels, (. Fab (Hel ena). 7. Much larger. I. So cialist party. (. Six. 10. South east Asia. Km - NATIONAL I a Watch for Her! Yesteday was the first day of school in Med ford, and a lot of little people started out on the great adventure. Since it is timely, we are printing, at the re quest of a Jacksonville reader, an editorial which first appeared in The News of Daingerfield, Tex as, It is entitled "Watch for Her!" Today, my daughter, who is seven years old, started to school as usual. She wore a dark blue dress with a white collar. She had on black shoes and wore blue socks. Her cocker spaniel, whose name is "Scoot," sat on the front porch and whined his canine belief in the folly of educa tion and she waved "goodbye" and started off to the halls of learning. Tonight we talked about school. She told me about the girl who sits in front of her ... the girl with yellow curls . . . and the boy across the aisle who makes funny faces. She told me about her teacher, who has eyes in the back of her head, and about the trees on the school yard, and about the big girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus. We talked about a lot of things . , . tremendously vital, unimportant things . . . and then we studied spelling, reading and arith metic, and then to bed. She's back there now . . . back in the nursery , , . sound asleep, with "Princess Elizabeth" (that's a doll) cuddled in her right arm. You guya wouldn't hurt her, would you? You see, I'm Her daddy. When her doll is broken or her finger is cut, or her head gets bumped, I can fix it, but when she starts to school, when she walks across the street, then she's in your hands. She's a nice kid. She runs like a deer and darts like a chipmunk. She likes to ride horses and sw'm and hike with me on Sunday afternoons. But I can't be with her all the time ... I have to work to pay for her clothes, and her education. So, please help me look out for her. Please drive carefully. Please drive slowly past the schools and inter sections. And, please remember that children run from behind parked cars. PLEASE DON'T RUN OVER MY LITTLE GIRL. IT IS particularly important' to be careful the ' first few weeks, for the fiirt and second graders need time for their traffic safety lessons to sink in; Drivers have to think for the young sters as well as for themselves. It is not only on behalf of the youngsters that we plead caution on the horror of striking, perhaps killing, a child would live with a driver the rest of his life. E.A. Education's Future Schools are big business these days. In the Medford district alone, the 8,547 stu dents who were registered yesterday are equiva lent to about one-fourth of the entire population of Medford. Most of the local property tax revenues go to the schools (and where A substantial portion goes for education, at all levels. And the federal government contributes billions of dollars each year to education, in one program or another. THIS massive experiment in education is match nA nniurioi'fl nlcn in tVin u-ni'lrl nnt ovpn in V, IIUII llVlb ..! ,1. VI, U , , S, J , llJV Russia, which we hear touted so highly. 1 ul AineuLa, uy aim the proposition that Ji Vbjlix child should be pro- vided with an education , , ;,. ao 1 c iijiil i;ty, forded by costs and abilities beyond high school And even at the college level, loan and tui tion payment plans and scholarships and work opportunities have made it possible for virtually every able and determined child to continue, with or without help from home. A LONG with -this extension upward of the ed ucational ladder, it is broadening out, too, with more emphasis on community colleges, junior colleges, vocational schools, adult education op portunities. How much good is this massive attack on illiteracy doing? Perhaps the answer is a great deal but not enough. Despite almost-universal education at ele mentary levels, there are still vast areas where that education is sub-standard. Despite widening opportunities for well-educated youngsters, there are still vast numbers who drop out of school, ting for themselves a limit on their future earning capacity, and capacity for a well-rounded life. Despite dawning recognition of the fact that gifted children should receive special attention, in far too many instances they are still held back by inferior or mediocre classmates. rESPIT E dawning recognition that "slow learn- ers" and less able students can be helped by special techniques, not enough has been done. And, despite the fact that the "average" stu dents, who make up the vast bulk of them all, are the ones most curricula are designed to serve, much still remains to be done to make their ed ucation challenging and productive. We have much to be proud of, as Americans, for our attention to the educational needs of our young people. Rut we still have a long way to go before we attain anything approaching a' sys tem that will provide an optimum educational opportunity for all. JOHN Fischer, editor of Harper's, in a blunt and provocative editorial in the current issue, points out that our new technological civilization is going to require a far different degree of ed ucational effort than in the past. The drawers of water and the hewers of wood simply will have no place to go any more, he says, and the answer is in providing two things an educational system that will put a premium on development of skill and competence at all levels, and a recognition that not all our people not, perhaps, even most of them will be able to find meaningful and productive employment in an electronic and automated age. It will challenge the best abilities of teachers, parents, voters, taxpayers, politicians everyone to design new patterns that will meet our fu ture educational and social needs. E.A. streets near schools. The better could it be spent?) of the state s budget laigu, is i-uiiiiiiuii-u iu and as much education ,.,:n, K i;,;ff: .,t vvim wic iiiunciuun ai- Huts automatically set "Our Quarter Are Satisfactory, And Soon We Will Look For Something More Permanent" Matter of Fact lei New York Herald LOOKING HARD AT THE FACTS Berlin One of the lurk ing dangers to this threatened city is the kind of reasoning i that was the real cause of the Pearl Har bor disaster. Before Pearl Harbor, it must be re membered, the U.S. high com mand had a whole series o f unshake- able convictions about things the Japanese would never do. The possibility of an attack on Pearl Harbor was absolutely ruled out by the War and Navy Departments. This pos sibility of an attack on the Philippines was absolutely ruled out by Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Behind all this lay the be lief that the Japanese would think like Americans. They were expected to know, in fact, that the U.S. would never go to war unless direct ly attacked. Hence they were expected to leave our Pacific positions untouched on their flank, and to proceed directly, in perfect confidence, to an attack on thj Netherlands Indies. AS THIS reporter learned the day before Pearl Har bor, even the brilliant Mac Arthur was blinded by the foregoing line of reasoning. There was no plot. The hard facts on the other side of the ledger were simply ignored, because the kind of thing they indicated was thought to be incredible. The result was Pearl Harbor. The reappearance of Pearl Harbor-style reasoning in the Berlin crisis is revealed by the often parroted slogans: "The SoviPts will never risk a big war for Berlin!" and "Khrush chev will never give Ulbricht the power to start a big war!" and "The Russians will never use the East German army; their morale is too poor!" i All these slogans may well j be 10D per cent true. One ! must pray that they arc. But ' their truth depends on the , Soviets' thinking about Berlin j as we dn; and therefore it is prudent to take a hard look at the hard facts accumulating on the other side of the led ger. These facts largely con cern the Intensive military preparations of the Soviets and East Germans, and partic ularly the East Germans. flMIE KIND of action that Is l seemingly being prepared Try and Alinn By BENNETT CERF N ARTHRITIC MOUNTAINEER came into a small and totally unexpected inheritance and decided to buy a second-hand jalopy to ease the burden of his declining years. The cheapest he could find in all Missouri was $235, but the dealer re minded him, "You get five good tires thrown in free; they haven't gone more'n 40,000 miles." "Forget the tires." said the mountaineer. "I don't want any on my car. When I'm auto riding I want to know It." A slick college spnlor, out with his steady In his roadster, hca.lod for the Me of the turnpike the minute they were beyond the city limits. "But, Jerry," she pro teatevt, "why atop here where everybody will see us? There are so many nicer placea down the road m way." "Here we stay," said the swain firmly. "I believe In love at first site." OVERHEARD: At a b:g cocktail party: ''Even' time I turned around, he was kissing my wife. So I stopped turning around." In a barber shop: '"Just give me a shave. I haven't got time to listen to a haircut." At the Athletic Club: "I guess Uie honeymoon la over. Now the dog brings my sltppersand the wife barks at me." O tMl, by Beanett Cert. Dtetrttrated fcy Klnf Feature Syndicate MEDFORD MAIL By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate . has already been suggested in a previous report. In brief, the Soviets seem to be pre- paring to sign their famous peace treaty, and then to leave the East Germans to de- fend those "sovereign rights" Khrushchev is always saying the treaty will confer on East Germany. If this is correct, the West ern will to defend Berlin will be initially tested by East Germans, just as American resolution was tested by North Koreans- in Korea and by Communist Chinese at Quemoy. Even such a limited test will be breathlessly dan gerous, but it will still leave the Kremlin free to go to the U.N., or to go to war in earnest, or to do many other things, depending on the test's results. How, then, do the above-listed slogans apply? taking them in reverse order, the morale of the East German army is quite prob ably fragile enough to be broken by one bad beating. But the wisest observers here believe the Soviets can count on the East German divisions to put up a good show in the first round, until they have been beaten at least once. By then, it must be noted, the Western will to defend Ber lin will be rather fully tested. S FOR slogan number two, about Khrushchev's fear of the irresponsible Ulbricht, no leader in the whole Soviet bloc is such a total puppet as Ulbricht. Furthermore, if the new doctrine of Secretary of Defense MacNamara means anything, the initial Western r.cnnncn In L' ... , . attempt to take control of the ; Berlin access routes will be a ' conventional response. So we come to the most of ten repeated slogan, that the Soviets will not risk a big war for Berlin. Quite .iside from the fact that Khrushchev keeps saying precisely the same thing about the United States, what is really meant by this slogan? Does it mean the Soviets will not accept 1 per cent of risk, or 5 per cent of risk, or even 10 per cent of risk? If you think the odds are 9 to l in your favor, is not a gamble to win the world rather tempting? If the Soviet plan is any thing like that outlined above, they certainly wish to mini mize the risks. But It is also pretty certain that they are under grave pressure to take some sort of risk to win an early victory. This problem and their calculation of risks must both be examined in an other report. Stop Me f TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Commonwealth vs. Common Market Diefenbaker's Hopes By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Canada's tall, gray-haired Prime Minister John Diefen- baker is a prairie lawyer who has been described a s having an al most mystics belief in an al almost mysti cal institution. That insti tution is the Common- Newsom wealth of Nations, formerly known as the British Com- Strictly Personal By Sydney c) Field Enterprises, Inc. CONCERT ETIQUETTE We were avoidably late for a concert at Ravina (Illinois) a few weeks ago, and as we were standing in back wait ing for the pause be tween move ments to take our seats, I thought of the time that Leo pold Stokow- ski taught Philadelphia concert-goers a severe but badly needed lesson. Many years ago, when he was first conducting the Phil adelphia Symphony Orches tra, he became increasingly annoyed at the rudeness of the audiences throughout the season - and especially the nonchalant latecomers. So, at the last concert of the season, Stokowski ' decided to pay them back in kind. Those who arrived at the auditorium early were sur prised to see that none of the customary arrangements had been made. Most of the ushers were absent, the stage was dark and bare, and some of the audience began to wonder if they had come on the right evening. Ten minutes after the scheduled time to begin, a janitor strolled across the stage and tossed the music stands around, loudly and casually, A few musicians seated themselves on the stage and began to play the first few bars of the open ing piece. The rest of the orchestra clumped in by twos and threes, and joined the rag ged performance with COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the although under certain "circumstances 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 the paper; in fact the contrary Is oiten Is It Legal? To the Editor: Is it legal to add something to our water, which we are forced to use, but do not have a chance to vote on it? If fluoride is added to Medford's water and those outside of the city have no chance to vote on it, seems to b-; a crime. As we understand it, the city is under contract to furnish us pure water, (which Medford does have and is an attraction to the Valley,) and should not add anything to degrade its purity. Many people under doctor's care are forbidden to use sodium flu oride and will have to move away. Testimony of Dr. F. B. Ex ner before the House Commit tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce a few years ago stated "Willful adulteration of public water supplies is a crime, and you are morally guilty of that crime when you vote .r put fluoride in the city water. . . Each inhabitant has equal stake in its purity . . . Each has a riaht to get water from his tap, not medicine." Fluoride may be had in tab lets, capsules or liquid and at the right proportion for those who wish it. One child may drink one glass of water a day while another eight glasses. Then it is not proportioned to their needs. Dr. Jonathan Forman who edited the Ohio State Medi cal Journal for 22 years and National Chairman of the Medical Denial Ad-Hoc com mittee said, "The real problem is not how to get enough flu oridalion into our diet, but how to prevent us from get ting too much." A lciter of Dr. A. R. Gould to the San Francisco water de- partment. May 5, 1953, stated. I do not have to imastne the plight of several families who have written to tell me that they are obliged to buy pure water at an avcrase cost of S250 a vear (one woman for a family of 17i because of out- breaks ot mouth rash, derma- titis, stiffness of joints which disappeared completely after changing to pure water and re-appeared when they went back to fluoridated city sup- monwealth, whose 13 inde pendent member nations rep resent more than half a billion people on nearly every conti nent of the globe. As a champion of this fam ily of nations bound by no legal ties but only by past association with Britain, it was natural then that Diefei. baker should take over lead ership of those who fear its imminent dissolution. His target as Commonwealth prime ministers assembled in London was Britain's effort to join the European Common Market, a six-nation super- J. Harris much coughing, shuffling of feet, and rattling of instru ments. It was a half-hour before the entire orchestra was playing together, with style and verve. The concert continued in ih conventional manner, until the concluding num ber. Then the musicians re versed the process, and put away their instruments by twos and threes, banging their way off the stage un til Stokowski was left alone with the irate audience. Needless to say, he took no bows that night. But de spile a panning for these high-handed tactics, his dra matic object-lesson paid off. At the first concert of the new season, there were no va cant seats, everyone was prompt in arriving, silent dur ing the performance, and stay ed until the final note had died into oblivion. Sometimes there seems to be no other way to deal with bad-mannered audiences, who feel they are doing the per formers a favor by attending at all. They need reminding that to be a patron of the arts it is not necessary to be pat ronizing. Great performers and com posers used to be let in at the kitchen doors of the nobles who supported them, and were forced to eat with the servants; but while they were playing they were listened to with respect and silence. To day we treat them with ac claim in their personal lives. but regard their professional appearances as simply social occasions for our own diver- sion-which is worse for them, for us, and for the arts. ncme and address ot the writer, the use of a pen name or initial the case. ply (just to make sure).'1 A city official of Canton, Ohio, put in a new water heat ing system which corroded in a year. The manufacturers re fused to replace it, saying that they did not guarantee any of their furnaces where the wa ter was fluoridated. If it does ! bat to the pipes, what will it do :o you? Is it legal? Mrs. Ernest Santo, 204 Lozier Lane, Medford. Times Have Changed To the Editor: When I wuz about three years old, I heard a man say: "A cow jumped over the moon." Some years later, I heard a man say: "A monkey will fly around the moon," and I think they wuz both nuts, but they wuzn't. They wuz scientists wot could see into the future. Cows fi nally give up the idea, but monkeys didn't, get discour aged, they wuz still trying and it looks like they would suc ceed. Today, I wouldn't be sur prised if a billion dollar rock et barrel full of monkeys land ed on the moon. I wouldn't even be surprised if we beat the monkeys to the moon. I've heard the expression many times: "It's out of this world." or "he's out of this world." but I never thought "HE" would ever make it. It's easy to get out of this I world today. All you need is a billion dollars, a barrel, some gunpowder and a match. That'll get you started one way. You can make the rest of the payments in 36 months, one million dollars a day. People used to think 50 miles wuz top speed, that's , D(,fore rockets wuz invented. iToday, you strike a match and ,-vou wul on million miles up, i before you can blow out the malrn ' YEP! Times have changed 1 since someone invented the old Brush four wheeled wheel - Darrow. vt hoever invented it : wuzn't a scientist, he wuzn't 'even an engineer. He yust put j w heels on wheelbarrows, Everett Acklln Ashland. Ore. Probably Futile market at present composed of France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. The ultimate goal of "The Six" is European political unity as well as economic. Those who oppose British entry do so on both counts. They fear the end of the Commonwealth as a force for world stability and they fear for the effect on their own economies should Britain dis appear behind a common Eu ropean tariff wall. In Diefenbaker's mind there also undoubtedly was more than the question of the Com monwealth as a powerful, al though somewhat intanglible, world force. Most Commonwealth food stuffs, raw materials and man ufactures enter Britain free ot duty. Canada exports $1 bil lion worth of goods a year to the United Kingdom and un der the present system enjoys Drummond Reports iw.lt., Linnininn it en vacation. Roscoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) (cl 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. THE QUESTION PERIOD Washington Sen. Hubert Humphrey, the assistant ma jority leader, suggests tl" " t the time has come when congress ought to adopt, in part, the British House of Commons "question period" and invite the Secretary of State to ap pear periodically before the House and Senate for ques tioning. Is this just a nice conversa tional idea or is it an innova tion worth serious considera tion? I would like to examine some of the questions which would have to be answered if it is to get anywhere. QUESTION S i n c e the President, not Congress, is charged with the responsibil ity for the conduct of foreign policy, would it violate the di vision of powers for Congress to invite the Secretary of State to appear for question ing? ANSWER Congress also has authority which bears di rectly upon the conduct of foreign policy. It holds the purse strings. The Senate must approve treaties and execu tive agreements. The Presi dent can "talk" foreign policy, but he can do very little with out the approval of Congress. At a time when the safety of the whole free world rests in large part, on the leadership of the U.S., the President and the Congress must act to gether, or the President can not act at all. Any tendency to minimize the authority of Congress over foreign policy is fatal. riUESTION How serious is the lack of communica tion, the lack of mutual un derstanding, between the State Department and Con gress? ANSWER Every Secre tary of State since the U S. assumed the leadership of the free world Stettinius, Byrnes, Marshall, Acheson, Dulles, Herter, Rusk has acutely felt the lack of com munication and the frustra tion which conies from it. Congress has felt it in reverse, convinced that the State De partment has not provided it In the Day's News By FRANK On the subject of Nikita S. Khrushchev and what he's up to and what he wants and what to do about it, we've list ened to just about everybody else. So Today Let's listen to a poet. WHO'S the poet? He's Robert Frost four time winner of the Pulitzer prize for a distinguished vol ume of verse by an American author. He won it in 1924 for his New Hampshire; in 1931 for his Collected Poems; in 1937 for his A Further Range; in 1943 for his A Witness Tree. He is known as the dean of American letters. ONE M Ho MORE question: ow did Poet Robert Frost come to be talking to Nikita Khrushchev? It came about like this: His visit to Russia to talk to Mr. Kroosh was arranged under the Soviet-American cultural exchange program. He arrived in Moscow on Aug ust 2R. He found that Mr. Kroosh was at his vacation re treat on the Black Sea. Ar ransements then had to be made for a meeting there. The meeting was held day before yesterday. FROST is 88 years old, so he was a little bushed when he arrived at Mr. Kroosh's villa. He was reclin ! , ing on the bed when his host rnved for the planned con- ference. Of the meeting, he says: "I sat on the edge of the! bed Khrushchev sat on I chair near the bed. We went at It, and had a good talk, 1 a highly favorable trade balance. Diefenbaker lost no time over the week end in launch ing his campaign. He suggested the prime ministers' conference find a plan to vastly increase Com monwealth trade and thus pro vide Britain with an "alter native" to the common mar ket. But actually there were few who believed Diefenbaker could change Britain's course. Britain has said that if she is forced to choose between the Commonwealth and the common market, she will de cide for the Commonwealth. But there was also" the uncom fortable conclusion that Brit ain neither could provide the growing outlet that Common wealth producers need, nor were Commonwealth markets growing fast enough to absorb all the goods that Britain must export. with continuous and candid information and explanation. State Department officials, appear in person before com mittees comprising about 23 per cent of the membership of Congress. This means that 77 per cent of the membership of the House and Senate have no opportunity to hear and to question in person the Secre tary of State and his aides. I have talked with many members of Congress who feel that they are called upon to vote in a near vacuum because they have so little opportunity to get first-hand information. Theoretically the facts and opinions which are given to Congressional committees in testimony are provided to the rest of Congress in reports and in debate on the floor. This is a pallid carbon-copy compared with first-hand questioning of top officials. It urgently needs to be sup plemented by a "question per iod" for all of Congress. QUESTION Would the ap pearance of the Secretary of State put too powerful a tool in the hands of the execu tive to influence Congress? Would the opportunity to cross-examine the Secretary of State put too powerful a tool in the hands of Congress to influence the executive? ANSWER My judgment is that the proposed question period would be of equal ad vantage to both the executive and Congress. It would enable the Secretary of State to put his views more effectively be fore all of Congress. It would enable Congressmen to put their views more effectively before the Secretary of State. Both sides would be better off. QUESTION Would such a question period be a radical innovation in our system of divided powers? ANSWER A modest and a constructive innovation, not a radical one. It would simply be an extension of the pres ent committee system by means of which periodically the Secretary of State would testify before Congress as a committee of the whole. JENKINS Berlin was one of the things we talked about. I said I hate it. I hate it that a small thin:; like the Berlin business could decide the fate of the world. I told him the fate of the world for the next hundred years or so lies between the United States and Russia. "I told him there might be something we have that he wants and there might be something we they have that we want. I told him we could trade and settle it Just like a horse trade. I said to him: 'You don't know this, but the reason I came here was to talk politics.' Our talk was very free and congenial." yHAT came of it? " Well, as to that you will have to draw your own conclusions. He offers none of his own. As an experienced horse trader, he obviously knows that a trade is never a trade until everything is signed., sealed and delivered. But Back 1n Moscow, after his talk down on the shores of the Black sea, the reporters asked him what he thought ot Khrushchev. He replied: "He's a ruffian. He's readv for a fight. He's not afraid of us. and we're not afraid of him." OF POET Robert Frost. Wil. liam Rose Benet, in his Reader's Encyclopedia, says: "His style is simple, plain and colloquial." It certainly is. It is about as far as can be imagined from the gobbledygook in which our statesmen and politicians normally sneak. Thank you, Mr. Frost I think you may have don ynur country some good.