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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY. MedfordS8&Tribunk ;Evrvbne1 in-Southern" brVfoo BeadTheMall Tribune' Published Daily except Saturday by MKDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North Flrt., Ph.J72-6Hl ' ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertiilng Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHF.R Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSON. Clrculauon Mgr An Independent Newapaper Entered aa econd claaa matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Daily and Sunday 1 year $111 00 Daily and Sunday II moa. 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa. S.00 Sunday Only One year $5 00 Single Copy (Mailedl JOc Bv Carnei And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday I year (21 Ofl Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Sunday Only I mo. 50c Carrier andVendora Copy loc Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackion County UniYed Press International Full Leaned Wire U. P. I Tclenholo Newaplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT" BUREAU" Advertlning Repreentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS r ASSOCI. ATES Olflcea In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Franciico. Loa Angelea. Seattle. Portland. Denver. NEWSPAPER ISHEIS SOCIATION NATIONAl fOITOiAl Flight o' Time Medloid and Jackson County History from Ihe tllei ot The Mail Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 27. 1952 (Saturday) Escaped convict Gerlad Ma comber continued to evade capture In the Upper Apple gate valley today as about eight men, aided by a dog, continued the search for him. Fourteen new faculty mem bers have joined the staff at Southern Oregon college for the opening of fall term. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 27. 1942 (Sunday) Second day registration at Medford senior high school totals 550; same number en rolled at Junior high school. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "En forcement of the proclaimed 33-milc-an-hour speed limit on the highways and byways pre sents problems. First, the law must catch an autoist going 35 miles an hour. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 27. 1932 (Tuesday) Pioneers from nil sections of Oregon gather In Jackson ville for 57th annual reunion of Southern Oregon Pioneer association. State supreme court upholds life sentence imposed on Al bert W. Reed for his part in murder of Ashland Policeman Victor Knott. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 27. 1922 (Wednesday) Ashland man contributes $.T.000 for use in Walter M. Pierce's campaign for gov ernor. Ten inches of snow fnlls at Crater lake; lodge closed week early. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 27, 1912 (Friday) Medford High school and 10 other schools represented at meeting for formation of Rogue River Valley Athletic association. A. A. Davis, Medford, sells R40 acres of orchard land to California group for $350,000. What's Your I.Q.? Nin or ten correct ft luocrior: even or tight ii xctlltnt; flv or ii it good. 1. Was Ihe "Titanic" sunk by a submarine? 2 Are Iherp three or seven hills of Rome? 3. Is marjoram, native to Smith Amenta and Ihe Medi terranean, a spire or a small monkey? I. Was Edmund Burke born In Ireland or England? 5. Who originated Ihe idea of placing buttons on Ihe ruffs of men's sleeves? 6. What nationality were the soldiers raptured at the Battle of Trenton? 7. In which Stale was Presi dent William Henry Harrison born? B. Was he President before or afler Benjamin Harrison 9. Were ambulances first Introduced in warfare by Eng lish, Frenrh, or Americans? 111. "Walls have tongues and hedges have ears." Is this a rrferenrp to gossip or eaves dropping? Answers! 1. No. Iceberg, 2. Seven, 3. Spice. 4. Ireland. S. Frederick Ihe Great. 8. Hess Ian. 7. Virginia. 8. Before. 9. French, 10. Both. 4 A SEPTEMBER 27. 19S2 Congressional A buses A wide range of political observers, spanning the spectrum from way-out liberals to way-out conservatives, has become more and more con cerned with 'Congressional organization, pro cedures and various foibles in recent years. "T. R. B.," the columnist for the New Repub lic, has long maintained that the seniority sys tem for committee chairmanships has done more to hold the country back than any single thing. James Reston, the New York Times Washing ton bureau chief, had much the same thing to say recently, only he broadened it out to include the abuse of personal power and the flagrant misuse of funds on the part of some members of Con gress. , H E SAID: 'All efforts to get the Congressmen to disclose their out-.. side earnings; to account for the foreign currencies they get out of the counterpart funds in United States embas sies when they go overseas; to save time by adopting the rule of relevancy in Senate debate, or to adopt electric voting in the House, or to hold joint hearings on many bills; to protect witnesses before Congressional committees; to establish a fair system of ethics and fund-raising In campaigns; to give equal professional staff to the Republi can minority; and to modify the seniority system of picking chairman - none of these things ever gets a decent hearing. "Maybe these are not all prudent modifications, but the point ia that men who are supposed to symbolize the demo cratic process do not even give them a democratic chance." Reston cites chapter and verse in regard to some of the abuses he outlines. It does not make a pretty picture. - DERHAPS the time has come, perhaps it is long past time, for Congress to reassess its proce dures, its organization, its responsibilities. It's not a question of not knowing what is I wrong, or or not knowing now to ngnt tne wrong. It is a question of doing it But, with the abuses "hallowed" by tradition, and opposed by the powerful minority of mem bers which benefits from them, Congress will not make the necessary changes worse, will actual ly resist change unless there is sufficient out cry for reform. This outcry can be made use of by responsible leaders only if it is sufficiently loud and clear. It is up to those of us who are sick and tired of abuses, petty empires and obstructionism to make the outcry loud and clear. E. A. Silent Spring "Silent Spring," a should be a runaway best vance indications are valid. As Eric Sevareid pointed out on this page last Sunday, the book, written by a quiet and re tiring woman scientist, is already the center of a massive controversy, based on advance reviews and on three articles from the book which ap peared in The New Yorker magizine. The author, Miss Rachel Carson, has taken the thesis that mankind, by the widespread and often unthinking use of insecticides and other pesticides, "threatens the existence of our birds, fish, farm animals, and, ultimately, ourselves," to quote the Saturday Review. LJERE in Jackson county, we have a special stake in the findings of Miss Carson, and of others who, under orders of President Kennedy, are going to do some much more intensive re search into the by-effects of pesticides. (At his Aug. 20 Press conference, the Presi dent was asked if he has considered asking the Department of Agriculture or the Public Health Service to take a closer look at the dangers in volved.) (The President replied: "Yes, and I know that they already are. I think particularly, of course, since Miss Carson's book, but they are examining the matter.") With the widespread use of sprays in the orchards, both from spray rigs and aircraft, plus the normal and increasing home and farm uses of pesticides, Jackson county people should be particularly interested, not only in Miss Carson's recitation of the dangers, but in what measures are being taken to insure TPHAT users and manufacturers of pesticides 1 should object to her book is only natural. But in reply it should be pointed out that, although she presents a strong case, she does not contend that chemical insecticides must never be used, but that : "... we have put poisonous and hiologirally potent rhemirals indiscriminately inlo the hands of persons large ly or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm. We have subjected enormous numbers of people lo contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge ... "I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals lo be used wilh little or no advance investiga tions ot their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man him self. Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for Ihe integrity of the natural world that supports all life." Her fully documented book leaves little doubt that her contentions are correct. A FAIRLY typical reaction was voiced recently by the New York Times, which said: "Miss Carson will be accused of alarmism ... of show ing only the bad side of pesticides while ignoring their benifits But this, we suspect, is her purpose as well as her method ... II she helps arouse enough public concern to immunic government agencies against the blandishments of the hucksters and enforce adequate controls, Ihe author will he as deserving of Ihe Nobel Prize as was the inventor of DDT.'' Her book, combined with the recent Thali domide scare, may serve to make research anil ire-iesung ot drugs and poisons tar more meucu ous ami careful. And that would be all to the good. E.A. newly-published book, seller this year, if ad safety in their use. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of 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 tor 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 often the care. Lira and Let Live To the Editor: I have been reading Communications for about three years. At times they are very interesting. But what I can't understand is why so many people are so worried about nudists and all those things. My belief is live and let live, each person in his or her belief, religion, and other things In life. As long as you live and believe in your own ideas there isn't any harm. I was raised in a Christian home and was very happy. I love nature and all the ani mals that God created, except snakes, but there are people who even like them, so more power to them. Instead of writing about God condemning people, look around you and be glad you're free and have a chance to wor ship in your own faith. I can be just as close lo God and his beliefs up in the hills, desert or anywhere, as I can be in church. We used to go lo church in housedress cs and men in overalls and be happy. Now you wouldn't dare to do that or you would be classed as a freak. They talk about young folks getting Into trouble. I have worked and been with young people all my life, Scouts, ball teams, swimming parties and all the things they like. How many people take time out to go to the ball park and prac tice with a team? I have had my car loaded till it looked like a sardine can, pitched and batted balls to them until the coach got there, also any boy or girl was welcome to my home (and it was just a house, nothing fancy) any time of day or night. I'm 62 years old now and I could still play ball and do the things they like. When I gel so stiff and stove up that I can't do those things, I will still be young in mind. I raised three boys and a girl, they are all happy, mar ried and we still have fun. Live and let live and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Please don't print my name, just sign: E. P. (Name on file) Rogue River, Ore. Socialised Medicine To the Editor: Re editorial in Monday night's M.T. It ap pears that we will soon be prevailed upon to submit to1, .. .. , ". . .Hrfiti.,.i..nrni,in!..,1'?"l''s' S""P'' because too an additive to our drnking wa ter as fluoride again raises its uglV head in a plea for its health giving merits by den tists and doctors. They back their statements wilh statistics purported lo be conclusive proof of the the merits of fluoridation and their arguments. Let us ex plore statistics and their appli cation lo this issue. First, statistics are defined as (in a broad sense) "Facts pertaining to any given sub ject." This general conception of statistics lends great lavor and authority until study re veals an attempt to bend or construe to fit personal need) or desires, therefor it is well to seek the relation of the I statistic lo those who issue it j and often many flaws will "P!eT.?r'i. .i j mankind and his inclination i to bend facts to more nearly ' achieve the ends desired Now consider fluoridation of our city water. Allow that the water is fluoridated to 3 safe level for drinking, we often use this same tap water to irrtgalp a garden, the vego tables take up a quantity of fluoride, and next we boil these vegetables in tap water. I tr doctor's services, mcili Siving a triple application of ' cine, or professional nursing fluoride which beyond a dmtbl rare rxrept for those patient; exceeds a safe maximum. I actually undergoing treatment MEDFORD MAIL & K rtrs.1' aril Let us further explore. What has become of the horror in which the doctors and dentists held socialized medicine only a few weeks ago? Why the change in attitude since the Medicare bill has been safely disposed of? Fluoridation of a city's wa ter system is socialized medi cine in its most compulsory form. Let those who wish fluoride add it to their water, but let us keep city water at its high state of purity by guarding against this as well as any other form of contam ination, C. R. Burrill 119 Crater Lake ave. Medford. ' Life After Death To the Editor: Many fine sincere people spend much time and effort taking part in politics and being as it were, guardians to warn us of issues, which if put into force might endanger the well being of our populace. I com mend them for their well di rected efforts. Yet it could be while we get so busy promoting anti or pro-fluoridation, anti-Communism, elc, that sinister forces like termites could be eating away at the bulwarks of our faith. There is an eternity ahead for everyone who reads these lines. Where we spend it is up to each of us now. A "name on file" party from White City has written directing kind but disagreeing convictions regarding my communication called "Mod ern Occultism." Another has written me personally in de tail regarding her convictions. Then a Shady Cove man wrote an interesting letter Sept. 14 called "Psychic Phe nomena," He quoted some very revealing thought-provoking Bible texts. Space is not available to treat this subject as I would love to see it handled. But I can detect an intense interest along this line. Why not? Who of us have not lost loved ones? Everyone who reads this has followed some or many funeral proces sions to the cemetery. There are many conflicting opinions regarding our be loved dead. Where are they? In heaven, purgatory, limbo, spirit world, grave, or are they all done for eternity? 1 am convinced that God's word holds the only answer. Then why so many conflicting many take preconceived ideas or lack faith to take God at His word. Could I suggest two or three little volumes as valu able aids in studying this sub jecf "The Other Side of Death." and "Modern Spirit ualism," also ' Planet in Re bellion." These books are available at low cost from Ihe Oregon Bonk and Bible House, h'05 S.E. 39th, Portand. Henry Johnson ,lr. 2315 Highway 88 Ashland. Ore. Sig's Beliefs To the Editor: A few days auo your newspaper published a letter by Mr. John R. Schumpf. in which he attack ed Sig Unander's position on certain Administration wel- farf nrnifraiiK I In his letter. Mr. Schumpf first blasts the I'nander con viction that the so-called "Medicare" program, em bodied in Ihe King-Anderson Bill, is non - comprehensive and economically indefensible. Anyone who has studied the bill, as Mr. Unander has, re alizes that it provides only about 25 per cent of the total medual needs of our ai:ed. and that it does NOT nrnvide TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Pie - in - the - Not Being By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst For years the people of the Soviet Union have been torn between the pie - in - the - sky prom tses of Soviet leaders and the hard realities of a life short on every thing but Sputniks. - Anotherofl those hard I I B I realities h 1 1 aWaal th.- Ihl. Mawaoaa week with the announcement that promised income tax cuts had been post poned "until further notice." These cuts, first announced in May, 1960, were to have been carried out over a five year period until all personal income tax was to have been abolished. Matter of Fact By Joseph le) New York Herald KENNEDY'S OFF-YEAR CAMPAIGN . Washington Before the President's return from New port, the White house staff had the as signment of working out a detailed, semi final schedule for his pre election cam paigning. Pre sumably the schedule pro posed by the Aimp White House staff is now being gone over by the President himself. According to report, he is in a mood to increase rather than pare the program of stump,-speaking his subordin ates have laid out. In that case, the country will witness an off-year campaign by a President of the United States without any real precedent in our recent political history. Appearances in 12 to IS states are under active consid eration; and this is talked about as a rock-bottom mini mum effort. The President will not take the stump in the Eisenhower style, either, heli coptering in, and nimbly heli coptering out again, IN PENNSYLVANIA, for in instance, many hours of motorcading through the coal towns are now planned, at the special request of the Pennsylvania Democrats' gub ernatorial nominee, Mayor Richard Dilworth of Phila delphia. And while President Kennedy is motorcading through t h e Pennsylvania coal towns and bushwhacking for votes in other ways. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in government - selected hos pitals or nursing institutions. Nearly 2 1 2 millions of today's senior citizens would not be eligible for medical care. It is this feature of the pro posed programs that Mr. Unander especially opposes. While he is the first to agree that the problem of medical needs of our aged is a real one and one which must be met, he feels that any such program must retain a volun tary feature. Mr. Unander docs not think, as Mr. Schumpf de clares, that "Doctors have a God given right to the proper ly, money or other valuable articles that the elderly may have accumulated." On the other hand, Mr. Unander dis agrees violently with the philosophy that says that the federal government has this God given right, and that the creeping encroachment of Big Government into our local af fairs and personal lives can lead anywhere but to the ul timate erosion of our eco nomic and social order. In speaking of the situa tion in Vietnam. Mr. Schumpf displays a shocking unfamil iarity with the issues at stake there. Sig Unander, who visit ed this embattled country only six weeks ago, realizes, as does our government, that the struggle there is not one of internal revolt against the Diem government, but an at tempted takeover by an ex ternal power. Red China. If Mr. Schumpf would morely read the daily newspapers and magazines, he would know that the Vietnamese army has been fighting well, and that it has scored many victories in recent weeks. He would also know that lite "aid and com fort" given to the rebels by the people in Vietnamese vil lages arc given at the point of a bayonet. Mr. Schumpf s letter sums up rather nicely the false philosophies which Sig Unander and his support ers seek to defeat - the philosophies which say that Americans best interests can be served by socialistic take over here at home and by Communist takeover of the rest of the world. Dan W. Schausten Manager. Publicity Services Unander for Senator Committee Failing Building Portland 4, Ore. n Sky Promises to Russians Fulfilled by Soviet Leaders In July, 1961, the Commu nist party newspaper Pravda published a new program. It promised: "In the current decade (1961-70) the Soviet Union will surpass the strongest and richest capitalist country, the United States, in production per head of population; the people's standard of living and their cultural and tech- nical standards will improve substantially: everyone will live in easy circumstances; all collective and state farms will become highly productive and profitable enterprises; the demand of Soviet people for well-appointed housing will, in the main, be satisfied; hard physical work will disappear; the USSR will become the country with t h e shortest work days." Within the same 10 years, Alsop Trlbuna Syndicate will also be carrying an equal ly heavy campaigning sched ule. The experiment is interest ing, simply because there has been no comparable Presiden tial attempt to influence the voting in Congressional and Senatorial elections. Accord ing to our political folklore, American voters pay very lit tle attention to Presidents un less their names are on the ballot. The odds are that the folklore is dead right, but one must wait and sec. In these special circumstan ces, the kind of stump-speaking the President proposes to do is also a matter of consid erable interest. What he will say will not, to be sure, repre sent his balanced judgment of the mood of the country. He is known to have a theory that in Congressional elections good old-fashioned pork-chop issues are ten times more im portant than in Presidential elections. A LL THE SAME, it is sig nificant that, as of now. Kennedy plans to stress pork chop issues to the virtual ex clusion of the great and deep ly disturbing issues of foreign policy which most people re gard as fundamental at the moment. The sort of thing that is planned can be seen in the recent Harrisburg speech, opening the Pennsyl vania campaign. In this speech, Kennedy de voted 15 paragraphs to domes tic problems and legislation, covering just about every thing from his depressed areas act to the medical care bill. Whereas an unkind reminder that the Castro regime was installed in Cuba during the Eisenhower administra tion was the most impor tant foreign policy statement. Cuba is. of course, the prob lem that makes- it needful to qualify the President's inten tion to stress the pork-chop is sues with an "as of now." The Republicans are plainly hov ering on the brink of a major attack on the President, on the ground that he has not retak en Cuba from Fidel Castro. The most likely Republican standard-bearer in 1964. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, report edly favors an extremely ag gressive Cuban policy. President Kennedy is plain ly a bit apprehensive about the power of the Cuban issue to poll votes for the Repub licans. He is now taking one of his private soundings of public opinion, to get a bet ter measure of the potential danger. He has already taken steps to force the Republicans to advocate an actual armed attack on Cuba, if they advo cate anything at all. IN ADDITION, there is a sleeper in the Cuban prob lem in the form of the book that will soon be published by President Eisenhower's former Ambassador to Hav ana, Earl E. T. Smith, whom President Kennedy sought to send as Ambassador to Switz erland. The Smith book will reportedly stress the fact that when Castro came to power during the Eisenhower ad ministration, he got a great deal of aid from various U.S. sources which the government in Washington could well have cut off. For the Republicans. In fact, Cuba could prove to be a two-edged sword, cutting both ways. In any case, it is difficult to believe that Gov. Rockefeller, even if he fav ors military measures to drive out Castro, will advocate those measures while cam paigning for re-election in New York state with a good lead over his opponent. No other Republican, with the possible exception of for mer Vice President Richard M. Nixoi., is likely to be able to force the President to stop talking about pork-chops and start talking about Cuba The private Kennedy polls may have this effect, to he sure Otherwise, the outlook is for strong stress on the Demo crats' love and care for the common man. and equal stress nn the Republicans' heartless hostility. Ihe program promised in creases of ISO per cent in both industry and agriculture. To achieve the highest liv ing standard in the world, the Soviet planners not only promised to abolish income taxes but to lower retail prices as well. Not even a year later, in June, 1962, the government hiked meat and butter prices 25 to 30 per cent. Both were in short supply Strictly Personal By Sydney (ci Field Enterprlsea, Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Bank employees who em bezzle funds usually win my secret sympathyif not my approval-when it turns out that they were outrageously underpaid and expected to handle large sums of money every day; a person put in a position of high trust should have a commensurate salary. Doctors, aa any candid nurse will confess, make the crankiest and most appre hensive of patients when they fall ill; perhaps be cause they know how much guess-work there still is in the practice of medicine. Although I have conscien tiously tried to enjoy it sum mer after summer, I am final ly forced to agree with Sam uel Johnson that "Angling consists of a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other." Speaking of summer pas limes, I'd like io see a re vival of that noble old Eng lish game of lawn croquet, which is one of the pleasani est (and most challenging) ways lo spend a week end afternoon iri nice weather. Nearly all the conscien tious objectors I have met have been, in their personal convictions and conduct, as close to the Christian ideal as human beings can come; they are just lamentably ahead of their time. Wives who tend to blame "the other woman" for lead In the Day's News By FRANK Question: What is the most oflen mis spelled or misused word in the English language-as writ ten by Americans of all de grees of education and prac tice in the use of words? H,1Y VOTE? Ill ! think the palm should go to "princiPAL and "princiPLE." Which is which? Let's quote Mr. Webster: Prin It rinciPAL: meaning, as follows: 1. A leader, chief or head. 2. A capital sum placed at interest, due as a debt, or used as a fund distinguished from interest or profit. 3. A fundamental point now confused with principle. 4. The construction which gives shape and strength to a roof. 5. A presiding or chief of ficer of a college or of a school or academy. 6. One who employs an other lo act for him. One pri marily liable on an obligation. The chief actor in a crime, or an abettor present at it. 7. In English (music) organs, the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. Princ It 1 inciPLE: also has seven shades of meaning, as follows: 1. A source, or origin: pri mordial substance; ultimate Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF 7ICTOR BORGE once bet an acquaintance that he could tell the exact time by playing the piano. To prove his point he sat down and crashed into a few bars of Sousa'S rousing "Stars and Stripes Forever." Imme diately there was a vio lent pounding on the . hotel room wall and an Irate voice hollered. "Stop that noise, you idiot. It's 1:40 in the morning:" "Willie." said a disturbed mother to her young eon, "this ia the fourth time I've caught you lying this week. Do you know what happens to liars? A big green dragon with fire coming out of his nostrils nicks them up in the middle of the night and makes them slave on his forest for fifty years without res'ing. Now. you'll stop telling; lies, won t you. Willie ?" "You bet I will, Mom," promised Willie. "You tell much better ones than I can!" Mrs. Axelrod. reading the evening newspaper, called out tm her husband in the TV room. "They found an old hen in Ardslev today with two hearts." "I know." called back Mr. Axelrod. "I piayed bridge with her Sunday night." 45 11. by Buuiau Cert. Distributed by Kins return Sjudltste and one way to cut down on the grumbling lines was to price them out of reach. Agriculture, far from stag ing a great leap forward, hai suffered a series of reverses and the prospects for this year appear not much better than in 1961. The truth of the matter seemed to be, as Khrushchev has indirectly admitted, Urn Soviet Union cannot afford both guns and butler. J. Harris ing their husbends astray overlook the truth of Joseph Wood Krutch's shrewd ob servation: "There is no such thing as a dangerous wo man; there are only sus ceptible men." It is a curious fact that men who wear their hats straight, without a tilt, are) the worst motorists; when I following such a driver, I know he will be pokey and indecisive and a potential source of trouble until I pass him. Our scientific age is mov ing so fast that it's hard to believe that the very word "scientist" was not in the. language much over a hun dred years agoi in 1840. the Rev. William Whewell wrote: "We need very much a name to describe a culti vator of sciences in generali I should incline to call him a 'scientist'." In the realm of sentiments, we seem to be a people of no moderation; looking through birthday cards tha other day, I could find only two types-either the stickily sentimental, or the sickly humorous. None was simply tasteful, without an excess of either sweetness or sourness. The master himself would have been proud of the Goldwynism I heard recent ly, when a man said scorn fully to his friend: "There's nothing lo all that talk about telepathy-it's all in the mind!" JENKINS basis or cau&e. 2. An original faculty or endowment. 3. A fundamental truth: a primary or basic law, doctrine or the like. 4. A settled rule of action! a governing law of conduct; also such principles, or loyalty to them; as, a man of no prin ciple. 5. Essential or characteris tic constituent; that which gives a subject its essential properties, as the active prin ciple of a drug. 6. The actual or mechanical law applied, as in a mechan ical contrivance, or at work, as in a natural phenomenon, as: all these devices are based on the same principle. 7. Divine Principle a syn onym for God. Everything considered It is not surprising that princiPAL and princiPLE should be quite often con fused. There is plenty of op--portunity for Ihcir misuse. , WHY bother about it? " Well, an educated person is one who uses the right word in the right place and in the right context to convey the meaning intended. So you see, learning alt the shades of meaning of words in common usage in our language IS important. It en ables us to say exactly what we mean which is highly important.