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4 MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1962 HedfordJ8&Tribuni I "Everyone in Southern Oregon- Reada TheMall Tribune'; JPubliihed billy except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J3 North Fir Jit.. Ph.TTl-6141 " ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manaier GERALD T LATHAM. But. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telei Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Bporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALEERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaper Entered lecond elau matter at Mcdford, Oregon, under Act 01 Marrh 3. 189T SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday I year I 00 Dally and Sunday o mof. lo.oo Dallv and Sunday 9 moi. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 9.00 Single Copy (Malledl 30c By Carnal And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year Ml 00 Dally and Sunday I mo. IIS Sunday Only 1 mo. wjc Carrier andVendora Copy 10c 0'tflelir'Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jacknon County United Prea International Full Leaied Wire DPI Telephoto Newiplcturea "MEMBERbr AUDIT BUREAU ur Lini.uLn uui.o Advertising "tl?rJ",,''v,,nr., NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOCI ATES. Ofllcea In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San rrancltco. Lot Angelet. Seattle, Portland. Denver. NIWSPAPII PUIllrlU ASSOCIATION NATION A I tOITOMAl ASCSbCftATION Z7 J ( Flight o' Time Medford ind Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 nd 50 ver oo. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 24. 1952 (Thursday) Continued hot dry weather brings severe lire danger to area; gituation explosive, for esters say. Weight-rrflle fees in Oregon defended by State Rep. Rob ert Root, member of legisla ture's highway interim com mittee, in talk to Mcdford Kiwanians. 20 YEARS AGO Sep!, 24. 1942 (Friday) ' Karl L. Janouch named president of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, re placing Glenn Jackson, who resigned to enter armed forces. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The county Is still without a con stable and getting along as well as.could be expected. No body as yet has showed up willing to make the sacrifice, at the urgent request of friends." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1932 (Sunday) University of Oregon foot ball team wing first game under former high school coach Prink Calllson; End Bill Bowerman, Medford, scores one point after touch down. Jackson county unemploy ment relief council plans county relief clothing shop to provide used garments for un employed residents of this area. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1922 (Monday) Jackson county residents charges state fair board with discrimination in allotment of booths at state fair in Salem. Radio Station KFAY set up at Jackson county fairgrounds to broadcast music three eve nings week. SO YEARS AGO . Sept. 24. 1912 (Wednesday) Bull Moose party opens lo cal campaign with meeting in Boy Scout tent on Barllctl street. Every seat in Mcdford op era house occupied for first performance here of "beauti ful, virile drama" of the Ca nadian northwest, "The Love of the North." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is supanor: seven or eiehl Is eicalUnt; five et sis is good. 1. Is Louisville or Frankfort the capital of Kentucky? 2. Are there deep-sea fish In the Dead Sea In Israel? 3. Cape Hatteras Is off the coast of what state? 4. Which of the Hawaiian Islands if the largest? 5. Name the capital of Mis souri. 6. In which state was Presi dent Rutherford B. Hayes born? 7. Where I London's fa mous Big Ben? 8. Docs Ihe military term casualty refer only to soldiers killed or wounded? 9. Name the last letter of the Greek alphabet. 10. Heat travels by radia tion, convection and what oth er method? Answers) 1. Frankfort. 3. Yes. 3. North Carolina. 4. Ha waii. 5. Jefferson City- Ohio. 7. Clock lower of House of Commons. I. No - unavail able for any cause, t. Omega. 10. Conduction. - ti - awMmiv i a 1 1 ii ' llllllir lie Fluoridation Facts By EDWARD P. MORGAN (This editorial statement on water fluoridation Is from a racant broadcast by Edward P. Morgan, whose, daily program of news and commentary on Iht ABC radio network Is sponsored by Iht AFL-CIO.) A reporter is always learning something new. I was shocked, a few weeks ago, to learn of the denloiable condition U.S. Public Health Service furnished statistics to support the charge that we are rapidly becoming a nation of dental cripples. I reported on this situation on a recent broadcast, and added the comment that fluorida tion of drinking water is the obvious, easy, proved and inexpensive remedy. Fluoridation has the full approval and endorsement of leading dentists, physicians, the American Dental Association, the American Medical Association, the AFL-CIO and public health experts here and abroad. It was then I learned something else : the pas sionate fervor, stubborn potency and staggering misinformation of the anti-fluoridation lobby. FLUORIDE is a deadly cumulative poison, wrote a health food merchant of Portland. Fluoridation is "a pretty serious step away from democracy," said a man from New York. A man in Red Bluff, Calif., declared that the "aluminum trust" is behind the fluoridation rack et" to profit from aluminum byproducts. A lady in Sherman Oaks, Calif., implied that bureaucrats are conspring to silence the critics of fluoridation, so that their views will be unheard. The opinion's of the anti-fluoridationists are not unheard. Though seldom clear, they have come through loud enough to defeat fluoridation in community after community. What about their charges against fluoridation? Do they have any merit? THE ANSWER to that question is that the U.S. government, the University of Michigan, other private and public institutions and individ als have spent large sums of money and incalcul able man-hours in examining the claims of the anti-fluoridationists and have found them, al most without exception, to be baseless or gross ly misleading. We pretend tot be the best informed coun try in the world. But one of the ironic paradox es of the age is that despite the availability of facts to disprove the charges against fluoridation, the public is so ignorant of them that the opposi tion has succeeded in bringing almost to a com plete standstill the expansion of this method as an aid to dental hygiene. ' This is not to say that fluoridation is fault less, that it is the answer to every dental problem. Exaggerated claims have been made. But if one accepts the case of the opposition, then one must believe that the most responsible spokesmen of the medical and dental professions and the leading public health experts of the country are either idiots or criminals or both. This is just a little too sweeping to make sense. FLUORIDE in water can cause mottling of teeth. But this happens where water natural ly contains too much fluoride. It does not happen in city water sytcms where fluoridation is controlled. Fluoride is a noison sodium chloride, table salt, is poisonous if taken to excess. The aluminum industry has not bamboozled or corrupted health officials to provide a mar ket for its slag. The fluoride used in water sys tems does not come from aluminum by-products, and the quantity required is too infinitesimal to make its market important. AND NOW the cause of fluoridation has re ceived impressive support from a new and reliable source the conservative British gov ernment. In a special 50-page pamphlet which the U.S. Public Health Service has just received, tne British Ministry of Health reports that fluorida tion was a complete SUCCeSS When it Was tested I and studied in careful detail for tive years in . three separate areas. As so many U.S. studies have shown pievi-!our ouslv, the British study . I'll lmnrnvomon in p hi r rnn i,i..i wuivm ... -t... nil eiieas wnaiever. uregon L.aoor rress. What to Do A White House Conference on Narcotic: Drue Abuse, opening Thursday. Sent, portant step toward reconsideration of a nation- al policy on drug addiction. At present federal narcotics legislation is csscnuaiiy pumuve in cnar- acter. But support is growing for procedures that will make sharper distinction between the hard ened profiteer and the drug user. The medical approach received a big juish on Sent. 15 when a panel of six experts told the President that drug addicts should not be placed in prison for long periods of time. It reported that rehabilitation measures would cost the public much less than imprisonment of offenders. The prevailing conception of the addict as a menace to society is partially a misconception. If "sc ,f,"ir """ded people ,. , .', . , . ', reversed this decision, taking Police records are said to show that, contrary : n di,i, SHCrificing thousands to popular impression, crimes of violence are rare-, ot human lives, untold sutter ly connected with ding use. But the mandatory I "Is ","d s,'rrmv "nd . I a- i i .i dollars in an unwanted and penalty system makes no distinction between the ! needless civil war. narcotics offender who is primarily a criminal i As to equality of schooling, and the offender who is primarily an addict. I'1 "hrhe'rn What the addict as opposed to the traffick- jojTdZaiVv'whcn'uvo It ed in drugs needs is a chance to obtain treat-1 posing races are coerced into niont nnrl rph:iliilit:it inn nvpra lnmr sti-ietlv simov. i social intimacy of the school- vised period, according to the panel of experts which reported to the President. E.K.R. fS A of American teetn. ine in the same sense that showed (1) substantial lh'"N" 8 f"r ..! i i ir Luiniiic uin wlorv Ol stoPln and f I Hft nrtrni.nu- . . x-, With Addicts ' '. I , IS ail 1111-1 Anchor COMMUNICATIONS Letters to tlie Editor muit bear the mme and address ot the 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 the paper; in fact the contrary is otten h care. What Friends? To the Editor: The Cub Scout Quarterly carries the following suggestions for Oc tober: "October 24 is United Nations Day when we are en couraged to fly the American and the UN flags together." The UN "represents the hope for peace with justice. At the 3rd den meeting spend some time discussing the UN and the countries cooperating." Have "each cub scout's moth er serve a United Nations Day dinner menu for the family. Table decorations might be planned to remind them of in teresting friends among the United Nations." What friends? The African blacks who have been turned against us? Our NATO allies who trade with Red China and ship Russian war materials to Cuba? The "neutrals" who al ways side In with Russia? Or maybe the writer of the above was thinking of Tito and Go mulko, the human butchers of, Yugoslavia and Poland. Or of Comrade Khrushchev, who once did so much for the small children of Kiev. He provided grassy plots where they could play by covering over huge mass graves where thousands of bodies of their parents whom he had murdered were piled. The "peace with justice" statement above sticks in my Ihroat like a fish bone. Doer Ihe writer mean the "peace" Ihe UN has created In the Con go and the murderous "Just ice" it is meeting out to the anti-Communist Kalangans? Or is he thinking of the "peace and justice" in the bloody "lib eration'' of, and the total tyr anny over, Tibet by the Red Chinese, or maybe the butch ery of the Hungarian freedom fighters by the Russians to which the UN offered no protest. Just how low can this UN crowd stoop? Many of these children are barely out of Kindergarten. Every Den Mother in America should re fuse to be tricked into brain washing them with this anti American UN One-Worldism. "e should be teaching our children to love OUR flg, and OUR country. And we should he teaching them to pray (or Ihe day when the Godless '""-. Z '' , ' ny is lifted from our necks and it is no longer possible for enemies to land on our our iinii, ana lur cursing our pco pip- 1720 S.W. Bridge si.. Grants Pass, Ore. Mixed Schools I To the Editor: Surely. E.A. is takin way too much for granted if he means that most ot us nn "i-ccpi the premise, j "n.d'nsunco!,;" insist that equality of svhooi- ing cannot be achieved through sepnrate schooling." This from the Sept. 20 load editorial of the MT. Actually, common sense and Supreme Court ruling do not go hand in hand. Tragic proof of this is in the 18,14 Supreme Court ruling that a Negro slave, though gaining sanctu ary in a free slate, is still a slave ol liis owner and re turnable as such. Common room? Vrs. it can bc tolerated, hut is it rvrr enjoyable? Docs it raise the scholastic stand MEDFORD MAIL Away ing of schools so mixed? The consistently higher scholastic standing of our Northwest schools over other USA re gions give a positive no. When questioned, a nearby top j school authority replied, "Your question finds me un prepared, as it has not oc curred to me. But you do raise a point, a most vital one. Off hand, I will say that a con trolling factor, is the good old white American stock here in our Northwest schools, less in filtrated by Negro enrollment than other USA regions."' Also, it is to wonder what the mixed - race advocates thing of the New Jersey and New York school happenings, where court ruling under the Kennedy administration pro hibits Negro children from at tending their nearby schools, but must walk up to two miles, crossing busy streets, to be integrated into white schools. White schools are co erced into doing same into black schools. On this, Dr. James B. Co nant, former president of Har vard university, said in a re port on U. S. schools that "the school should serve the neigh borhood," and that "the peo ple attending that school should come from the imme diate geographic area," This, from the U. S. News & World Report, Sept. 24, re sults from the militant, insist ent prodding of the Negro NAACP. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. Objectivity To the Editor: Objectivity indeed. I just got around to an editorial of Sept. 16, "The Struggle for Objectivity." I was surprised to note in this editorial that you named the Republican party by name. I am surprised that you didn't state that the reporter or speaker, might be a Democrat or of some other party. When a newspaper slurs the Repub licans with cartoons, on the front page, as I have seen yours do, you could say that he is lop-sided, to the extent I of bring eccentric. You said that the reporter might be a I Republican. Do you have any on your staff? If you do. I'll brt that they can t even recog- I nizc their articles when you get through with it. 1 would say that the policies of your paper and this editorial brand you as a hypocrite. You are obviously either a far left Democrat or a Socialist. I Jim Bolding I 18a Merrill pi (.osla Mesa. Calif. Hog and Deer To the Editor: The "wild" hog saga in communications of MT. 9-20 by Mr. F. J. Clifford, reminds me of the years prior to World War One. when we hunted wild game in tlie Rogue river mountains. The old time bear hunters would inform me how to still hunt for better results, that is. to take a few steps forward then remain quiet for a min ute or two. Well, it worked just as suggested, but just a buck doer jumped up, also a "wild" hog jumped, snorted ard both ran in opposite di - rections We froze in our own tracks for vc! Never had such an experience before or since. We never knew w hich was the most flabbergasted, Tlie hog and buck wore both fast ridge runners as both were feeding on acorn.- and both were out of sight before we had time to mull over the paradox and draw a bead. Hon Kisinger .122 South Riverside ae Medlord. TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. OREGON Foreign News: De Gaulle Is Key Man For Britain's Common Market Chances By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from t h foreign news cables: De Gaulle Key Man Look to French President Charles de Gaulle as the key to t h e prob- lem of Brit ain's entry or non-entry into Europe. With the common wealth prime ministers con ference out of the way, the scene shifts Newiom back to Brus sels where a new round of negotiations is to start shortly Washington Report By William (ei United Feature Syndicate A SHADE OF DIFFERENCE I Washington - IUPD - Not of ten docs any book become an issue in public policy, raising qucstitons profound to become self both part and a symbol of na tional affairs and of nation al debate. When such a book does arise, it is high political news. And such is Allen Drury's new novel, "A Shade of Difference." It is a moving and agonizing study of a tragic domestic problem which has become also a great ly and sometimes cynical ly exploited problem in the United Nations. This is the problem of race relations in our country. "A Shade of Difference" ap pears just as the U.N. General Assemblv is in Its l (in ses sion in New York. And this gaunt, shining building on the East river is Drury s princi pal scene. MANY critics, notably a cer tain kind of liberal crit ic denounced Drury's first book, "Advise and Consent," though it won a not trifling honor, the Pulitzer Prize in letters, and though it became one of the best sellers of all time. No doubt there were many faults in the novel. Still, it was difficult to understand how its detractors could be so wise and its horde of de fenders, including the Pulit zer committee, so unwise. In deed, the more one examined the matter the more it ap peared that, to the liberal critics, Drury's real sin has not been that of artistic fail ure but rather that of think ing wrong political thoughts. He had depicted some of his most attractive characters as conservative and some of his least attractive as liberal again, a certain kind of liberal, that kind who will tolerate no dissent from his own views, not even in a work of fiction. ALREADY, now that Drury's No. 2, "A Shade of Dif ference." has appeared in print, and fretful distaste for No. 1 from this certain kind of liberal has been transform ed into implacable hostility toward No. 2. (I say a "cer tain kind of liberal," for many authentic liberals read and review books just for what I they are and not to support their own private political i views.) For if Drury was guil ty of grave error in present I ing civilized conservatives in "Advise and Consent." he has I committed unpardonable sin i in "A Shade of Difference." I "A Shade of Difference" ! goes so far as strongly to sug ' gest. over and over, that there are two sines to our color Droblcm. It suggests that1 while there has been old and nanifest unfairness to our Ne- gro minority, it is false to say as it is said over and over in the united nations mat that mis country mu uuuc :'" real to resolve this ancient tragedy in decency and in jll,,lcc , ., It even suggests that there is riemagoguery on more than one side; that the Southern Bourbon anti-Negro extremist lias his counterpart in tne no- eral extremists outside and inside tlie U.N. who often wish more to inflame and profit from this sad division than to seek a sensible, fair solution lor It. TT MAY be that Drury, from previous years as a con - ! gressional c o r r e j pondent, j learned what many another; j has learned. The true friends s I of racial fairness here never , I have been the liberal extrem-1 ists They have been the cour-! h toons and moderate men some of them Southerners. I for that matter - who have; patiently moved this country forward. No one interested in this nation's future, or in our tra dition o( giving fair hear- I ing, should mis this book. 9 VOTIII on Britain's application for entry into the common mar ket. The key to the solution of the problem lies chiefly with De Gaulle who has shown little enthusiasm for British entry while he still hopes for leadership. He is not likely to say an outright "no" to Britain, but he might delay a decision long enough to set off second thoughts in London. Togetherness The Soviet Union still Is pressing for better relations with Yugoslavia, despite President Tito's obvious de termination to pursue his own course toward Communism and the new proposed Yugo slav constitution which per S. White Nor should any delegate in the U.N., assuming it is still good form there to listen to two sides of an argument. For this book is going to have a tremendous impact on this country. And Allen Drury, as a fierce literary - political tempest swirls about him, can now bid reluctant goodbye to the shy, writer's isolation. in which he has lived. He has become an issue and a bad guy, indeed. And if he has not within weeks been denounced in po litical meetings, as well as on a 'good many book review pages, I will turn in my card in the Seers Union. In the Day's News By FRANK From Washington: The administration looks to the Senate to reverse House action that would CUT $1.1 billion from President Ken nedy's foreign aid bill. The House ignored appeals from the President to restore funds cut by its appropriations com mittee, and approved a $3.6 billion foreign aid money bill by a vote of 249-144. The House rejected all at tempts to either restore or in crease the cuts made by the appropriations com m 1 1 1 e e. The committee slash repre sented a 23 per cent REDUC TION in Kennedy's $4.7 bil lion foreign aid request. VfORE from Washington: ilk -j1e compromise college Editorial Comment Fees vs. Taxes A question that arises every year when school starts is this, "I (or my parents) pay taxes, so why a $20 registration fee?" The question has several answers. In the first place, the gener al answer is that taxes pro vide those things which are fundamental in maintaining a basic education for everyone, while the student body fee provides those things that the law specifically forbids tax revenues to supply, (like high school textbooks) or those which experience has shown that students invariably buy anyhow but which can be fur nished much more reasonably in one lump sum. For example, taxes pay for the construction of buildings, buses to transport students, upkeep of buildings and grounds, and most important of all, instructors' salaries. At the same time, the $20 regis I tration fee covers textbook . rental, insurance, admission to an home athletic events is a cut rate for those out of town, towel service, a yearbook and newspaper subscription, and laboratory equipment, to name a few. Textbooks alone make the I case pretty well. Schools in wnjch studems purchase their own textbooks report that per pupii cos(s for books alone Hv eraged between $16 and $20 ! Iaf, vcar equivaIcnt val. ucs for mHteriaIs and scr. I vices provided for the student bo(lv oe are , bc found on pa(,c , , of (he Parents. Hand. I book which the parenls of a studcnls receiVed this sum- mcr For ,.ose who nave ,or. j gotton, the actual total value , received is $44.50 per student. N-ow to Hi-Times it would i ,com unfair for these fees to: : be collected as taxes, for the i tavnnvpr with nn rhil1r-..n j should not be expected to pay I for little Johnny Doe s admis-1 !sion to a football game or for' i Ellsworth Horn's subscription to Hi-Times. On the other hand, taxes should be used to equip and operate the public schools in order to educate and thereby strengthen our country. Such are the obliga- tions of all citizens. Personal benefits and ad- vantages, however, should be paid for by those individuals who enjoy those advantages nd not by the general public. Medford Hi-Times ol Med ford High School. mits private ownership ol land. U.S.S.R. President Leo nid Brezhnev is visiting Yugo slavia this week. The Soviet press is hailing the visit as one which win strengtnen government, cultural and economic exchanges. One likely result Is that newly arrived U.S. Ambassa dor Foy D. Kohler will not be able to present his credentials until Brezhnev returns some 10 days hence. Meanwhile, Western diplomats expect the present lull in Berlin to con- Strictly Personal By Sydney to Field Enterprlsei, inc. SELF-SATISFACTION "When I go abroad," said a friend recently, "I'm almost ashamed of being known as an American. Most American tourists behave so bad ly in Europe that I don't H .1 I J . n I I firH - A w i t h them." Si Certainly, this W ' i ,s "e: out ?W j just as ccr- am ar-a.uai tainly, it has Harrta always been true of the dominant, and wealthiest, nation in any age. We do not behave badly abroad because we are Amer icans because of some in nate national characteristic but because we are rich, fat and sassy. JENKINS aid bill was in a deep con gressional coma. Senate Re publican Leader Everett M. Dirksen pronounced it "as dead as a dodo." The $2.3 billion measure, last vestige of President Ken nedy's education program, was rejected by the House, 214-186. The House instructed its ne gotiators to return to a Sen ate-House conference and se cure ELIMINATION of a pro posed $600 million student loan program. STILL more from Washing ton: Senator William Proxmire, D-Wis., said a proposed $10 million national aquarium here in the nation's capital would be "the most extrava gant, gold-plated fish bowl in, world history." He said that to spend money on a pure luxury when we have an enormous budget deficit and critical national needs is as foolish as Marie Antoinette's saying: "L e t them eat cake" when she was told that her people had no bread. OENATOR Proxmire is - or " at least WAS until very recently - a pronounced lib eral, but at the present mo ment he thinks a $10 million gold-plated fish bowl in Wash ington would be TOO LIBER AL with t h e taxpayers' money. WHAT'S in the wind? ' Why this sudden enthu siasm for ECONOMY in Washington - where for some time in the past the prevail ing theory has appeared to be that the more money we can throw down the drain the RICHER WE LL BE? rpHIS may be the answer: If you'll gel out your Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF FIRST CITIZEN: Say, Herb, how did that ruckus with your wife come out last night? The whole neighborhood could hear you two giving each other what-for! Second citizen: Aw, there was nothing to it. Inside of five minutes I had her coming to me on her. hands and knees. First citizen: I never knew you had it in you! What did she say? Sec ond citizen: She said, "Come out from under that bed, you contempt ible coward. I ("Try and Stop Me" reprints this story in self defense. Four contribu tors from different parts i nt th pnnntrv Kav uh- I mitted it within the past three weeks which goes to show ho w a good joke makes the Mil Appltby had talked Florida for a winter vacation, and here they were after dinner in Miami Beach one evening, looking up at a full moon, hidden from other tourists by a big potted palm. A young man and his girl sat down near them, and not realiz ing they were being observed, fell Into each other's arms. Whis pered Mrs. Appleby to her husband. Oh, Luther, he doesn t know we're here, and he going to propose. Shouldn't you whistle and warn him?" "Why ehould I?" objected Mr. Appleby gnmly. "Nobodj . whistled to warn ME"' Manuel Siwek define marnages today as a 40-60 proposition. If a man makes 40 a week his wife spends 60. O 1M3. bf Beuetl Cert Dmnbultd b Hmf J7taur Ijmdicale at least through the The U2 Communist, but non - Chi nese, diplomats in New Delhi are saying that the Nationalist Chinese U2 reconnaissance plane lost over China Sept. 9 was brought down by engine trouble, not rockets. These diplomats insist that the Chi nese have no missiles capable of knocking a U2 out of the sky because the Russians have never given them any. J. Harris Until the decline of t h e British Empire as a. first class power, Englishman was often accused of the same con duct. Only the pound sterling was "real money" to him; he would enter a Viennese coffee-house and demand tea; he would treat a foreign hotel with casual contempt because it was not an English hostel. In Switzerland, he even built his own hotels and gave them regally British names. Today, we demand ham burgers in Hamburg (which never heard of them), and Cokes in the Champagne country of France; we wear flowered sport shirts to ihe Paris Opera when we condescend to go and would wear shorts to visit the Vatican, if the guards permitted us such a bar barism. Bui none of this is dis tinctively "American" be havior. It is, rather, the be havior of a people who feel it is their century, that the Americanization of 1 he whole world is inevitable, and we are merely speeding up Ihe process for the back ward natives. It is a prime example' of what Proust called "the unconscious ar rogance of the conscious rich." The American at home is a decent, retiring chap; his instincts are generous, and his sense of fairness is keen. But give him a passport, a camera and a wad of Amer ican Express Cheques, and Dr. Jekyl Square promptly turns into Mr. Hyde Park. We are admired, envied and resented throughout the world not for what we are, but for what we have. And what we have an incom parable affluence tends to make us feel superior to those whose standard of living is lower. We are willing to help them, with gifts and loans, in the abstract; but face to face we behave exactly as every dominant people have always behaved abroad. Good manners are not an export commodity, when the balance of trade is favorable to us. But we would do well to remember that while it may not be true that "whom the gods would destroy they first make mad," it is .an in disputable historical fact that whom the gods would destroy they first make self-satisfied. calendar and count up the days on your fingers, you will discover that ELECTION DAY is only about TWO MONTHS AWAY. It just might be that the thought has hit Capitol Hill that the voters may be feeling pretty poor by that time and so may be inclined to listen thoughtfully to a little econ omy talk. rounds') her husband Into Uklng her to tinue week. f
