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Newspaper Page Text4 - ilDFORDv!-TRIBUNB ""'Everyone in Southern Oregon ReadsTheMalITribune'; Published Dully except Saturday by . MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North irSt., Ph;772-til41 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manacer GERALD T LATHAM. Bu. Msr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPM AN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women ! Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Msr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clnas matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March X 18!)7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year JIB 00 Dally and Sunday moi. 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mo. 3 00 Sunday Only One year $5.00 Single Copy (Mailed! 2K Bv Carnei Ai:d Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year 21 .00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1-75 Sunday Only 1 mo. JOc Carrier and Vendor! Copy 10c Ollclaf Paper of City of Medford official Paperof Jackson County United Presi International Full Leased Wire I). P. I Telepholo Newpiclure "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OfCiaCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Offlcet In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Denver.. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL fOITORIAL )gSSSS3ESSSSSJk Flight o' Time Medfcrd end Jackson County History from the files ol The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Ocl. 1, 1952 (Wednesday) George Baker Dunkin was taken to Oregon state prison In Salem this morning by Shertfl Howard Gault to be gin a life sentence lor the June 24 slaying of a state po lice officer. Two more cases of infantile paralysis in Jacksor. county were reported by the health office today. 20 YEARS AGO Ocl. 1, 1942 (Thursday) Mrs. Lcla Rogers, mother of motion picture star Ginger Rogers, named Jackson coun ty war savings chairman. From Arthur Perry's "Yc Smudge Pot" column: "Farm ers are so busy these days they have no time to come to town and tell how busy they .ire. All are behind In their fret ting over the lack of rain for fall plowing." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1932 (Saturday) State and county authori ties state reports of murder in Kane creek are only a hoax. Total of 250 new voter reg- j lstrations expected. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 1, 1922 (Sunday) Court delays decision in Jackson county Ku Klux Klan case; Klan attorneys demand report of grand jury on mat ter. Medford radio station KFAY recommended for mar ket, crop and weather report license: the Mail Tribune prints dully lists of cities from which persons have reported hearing the new radio station. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1912 (Tuesday) Army corps of engineers starts staking out roads in Crater Lake National park for construction work early In spring of 11)13. Leading German business man visits at home of Regi nald Parson here while study ing local orcharding methods. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nine er ten correct it superior; seven or eight it excellent; five of sii la good. 1. "Will you give your O. K. to this"? Is O.K. as used in the sentence a noun, verb or adjective? 2. Is an onrirnlogist one who Interprets bumps on the head, tea leaves, or dreams? 3. Which slate i. nick named "Bayou State"? 4. In freezing, water ex pands about one-fifth, one ninth, or one-clcvcnth in vol ume? 5. In what part of the body Is the femoral artery? 6. Name the capital of Colombia. 7. Is a prawn a chessman, the tine of a fork, caramel candy, or a seafood delicacy? 8. Docs a storage battery de liver direct or alternating current? 0. Which state of the Unit ed States has a capllal named for a mythical bird? 10. In which two months of the year do the equinoxes oc cur? Answers: 1. Noun. 2. One who Interpret! dreams. 3. Mississippi. 4. One-eleventh. S. Leg. 6. Bogala. 7, Seafood delicacy. 8. Direct. 9. Aritona (Phoenix). 10. March and September. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1361! Tax Some weeks ago the Eugene Register-Guard, looking ahead to the state's fiscal problems in the next biennium, "laid it on the line" for candi dates for state office to spell out just how they would close the dollar gap between probable ex penditures and "expectable" revenues. The Pendleton E'.st Oregonian echoed the call, and so did the Medford Mail Tribune. The Statesman suggested that the papers themselves might offer their proposals. At Medford, legis lative candidates have written letters to the edi tor, discussing the problem coming to close grips with it. While these notables are walking all around the financial hole the state faces, come July 1, 1963, the Associated Oregon Industries steps up with its contribution to a solution. This tax-conscious body might be expected to recommend budget-slashing, cutting costs to the Procrustean bed of income. It doesn't do that. Its program, outlined by Robert Oslund, tax agent for Georgia Pacific Corporation, before the Chamber of Com merce Monday is much more realistic. A LSO one might expect the business group to call for a sales tax rather than imposing any increase in the income tax rates, and of course avoiding any reimposition of a state property tax. Again, the AOI is realistic. It knows the voting record of Oregonians on a sales tax. Also it fig ures that a sizable income tax would still be re quired even if a general sales tax were imposed. What the AOI board recommends is this: 1. Levy a cigarette tax. That is a selective sales tax and has frequently been rejected by the voters. However, now that 47 states tax cig arettes, it is argued that it is time for Oregon to fall in line. 2. Enact a broad-based income tax. This would do away with current deductions, except in business operations; but would permit a lower rate schedule. The effect of this no-deduction plan would be to increase the state income tax one pays and reduce his federal income tax since payments for state taxes are all deductible on the federal returns. There would be a one per cent minimum tax on all; and a tax credit of $20 for each dependent. A 20 per cent surtax would be added to the regular tax. MOW we have a program, at least. ' This one conies with certain advantages: the ice has been broken for it in previous sessions of the Legislature. Gov. Hatfield has supported what he calls a net receipts tax, which the pro posal employs. The income tax structure is fa miliar; the machinery for collecting it is in oper ation. This will not satisfy those who want to roll more of the cost of government on consumers via the sales lax. With, no sign that that alley is open now any more than in the past, sales tax advo cates do well to consider alternatives. "TMiL mathematics of the dollar gap can he arrived at rather closely. This biennium will end with over $80 million less in the treasury than when it began. The Basic school support law has built-in requirements that insure a substantial in crease in appropriations. Higher Education will cost considerably more. The estimate of added revenues required runs from $10 to $-15 million. The Associated Industries of Oregon offers its plan, Let others with other plans come for ward. The business of selection falls to the Legis lature, with reservation to the people of the power of rejection through the referendum, if they are unhappy with the choice. Charles A. Sprague in The Oregon Statesman. Time to Register These "evervbodv-rcgister-evcrvbodv-vote" drives are not in the public interest. They turn the ( big decisions of government over to those who don't really care enough to inform themselves on j the candidates and issues. For those who do care, j there is little excuse for not registering and vot-; ing. Oregon has no property requirement, no poll ! tax, only a moderate literacy tost. j And registering is so easy. All this is bv wav of pointing out that the registration deadline for voting in the Nov. (5 pri mary is 8 p.m., Oct. (. a a a fiiTL'ii :r u l t wir.i 1 1 1 1 1 t Rj,iMfr n ut nits iiim-i i t-j; i- tered, if he has moved since the last election, ' if in that time he has chanued address or name, or if he failed to vote in either the 10(52 primary , election or the I'.UiO general election. He need not! have voted in both of those. Rut he must have ! voted in one or the other if he is to vote this time without re-registering. ! A person who will turn 21 between Oct. 6 and election day may register now. ' And then, let us pray, the registered voter will , cast a vote that is sincere, intelligent, and backed up by a study of the important matters on the ballot. Eugene Register-Guard. Director of Patrols Visiting in Medford Martin Holmes, Oregon state director ot school sate ty patrols, will be in Mcd lurd this week, visiting area school to discuss the state plan for school patrols. Capt, Civile Fichtner of the Medford police depart ment will accompany Holmes on his .school visitations Today, Holmes and Kiel per visited Lone I'ine, Wtl con, Roosevelt and Lincoln school. Tuesday, they will vis- Plans It Hoover, Jefferson, Wash ington and Jackson schools. On Wednesday, Howard, West Side and St. Mary's scheols will be visited. Thursday, Ruch, Jacksonville and Grif tin Creek schools are sched uled, and on Friday, they will visit Oak Grove school. Holmes and Fichtner will spend about an hour at eacli school talking with the school patrol numbers. MUDFORD "Fellow in Mississippi Is Determined To Enroll Here Shall We Let Him In?" ilJiiB ."V'A Matter of Fact fci New York Herald Nixon's Uphill Task Log Angeles - Out here in California, the new job Rich ard M. Nixon has taken on looks even harder than it appears from a distance. When he de cided to run for the Calif ornia Gover norship, the former Vice President see me d a beat the genial, sure rather bumbling incumbent, Pat Brown. But with election day only a few weeks away, the careful Field poll of Cal ifornia shows Brown with 48 per cent of the vole, Nixon witli 42 per cent, and 10 per cent undecided, If the Field poll is right, in fact, Brown has a close-lo-cominanding lead. At Nixon headquarters, they cite their own poll.". These show Brown with a lead of only one or two percentage points. Even at Nixon headquarters, there fore, the fact that Brown is now in Ihe lead is bravely but glumly admillod. rIMIIS turn of events has - clearly taken Nixon and his managers by surprise; but this Is perhaps their fault, for It is now clear that they made a fundamental miscalculation at the very outlet. They too thought that it would be easy for Nixon, the major nation al figure who had carried California against John F. Kennedy, to beat the wretched Brown, who had made such a public ass of himself at the Democratic Convention in 19(il). In the first place, however, It is never easy for a Repub lican to carry this state, and in the second place, there are two quite different Pat Drowns, and when he chose to sock the Governorship, Nixon necessarily took on the wrong Brown. The Brown Nixon hoped to take on was the man who sounds like the cave of the winds when he tries to dis cuss International problems and who looks so strangely inept when he is caught up in the grim cross-currents of high political strategy. But the Brown Nixon actually took on was the Governor of California, who is quite an other person. 'PHIS oilier Brown has spent - a large part of his life as a California stale official. lie knows the stale, its people, and Hp problems from A to Z. He has clear, decided views about how the prob-1 lems ought to he solved. And! although the problems grow more difficult by the day, be cause of California's stagger ing growth, he has made a pretty good Governor, as most local Republicans grudgingly admit. Nixon, whose ambitions have always been national, nhvlou-lv failed to under stand this oilier Brown, whose strength at home derives from Ihe same quality that makes Brown a weak national fig-, tire - namely, his total lack of interest hi anything much beyond the state lines of Cal ifornia. In addition. Nixon had a piece of extremely j rough luck in the person of the local John Birch Society j hero. ,loeph Shell, who ran ; against the former Vice-Pros-1 ident in the Republican Gub ernatorial primary and rolled up no Ic-s than 30 per cent of the vote. Nixon's struggles with Shell and the extreme right-wing Republicans h;id the effect, as one of the Nixon managers 1 told this reporter, "of taking awav a lot of Dick's national international glanmr and making him look like a state politician again." The need to nring m:oii s richt-winc following bark into t.te fold has also rather adversly Alsnp bet to MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate fected Nixon's campaigning, at least to date. "lyE'RE going to clean up ' the mess in Sacramen to," he said at his campaign opening press conference. But the "mess in Sacramento" has not had the advance adver tising that the "mess in Wash ington" had had in 1952. In the same fashion, when Nix on sonorously promises not lo re-appoint this or that fair ly faceless, uncontroversial state official, it does not sound at all the same as when he used to proclaim: "I can tell you this: if Dwight D. Eisenhower is elec ted, Dean Achcson won't be Secretary of State." To complete the semi-parody of 1952, Nixon is once again using the anti-Communist bugle. But instead of Al ger Hiss, he must now talk about the dire danger of al lowing subversive persons to speak on the campuses of state universities. The respon sibility for what happens on the campuses actually belongs to the highly conservative Stale Board of Regents. In addition, the constitution guarantees the sinister sub versives the right of utter ance anywhere else. Yet Nix on himself has confided lo California reporters that this is the "issue" which gets "the best response." T M1E question remains, how- ever, whether Nixon can n wav In nsrnnp frnm hie find a way to escape from hi: undoubted difficulties in the weeks that remain to him. As yet, the state has not really concentrated its attention on the Gubernatorial campaign. The campaign will only move to the center of the stage when the World Series is over, in fact. Nixon still has his good sense of timing. He is just as formidably hard-working and just as much a man of many devices as he ever was. When the World Series ends, he may find a device that will rev olutionize the outlook. He plainly needs to. Algeria To Back Red China in UN Algiers, Algeria - IRU - Al geria mixed right into the cold war today with an an nouncement that it will sup port Red China's efforts to become a member of the Unit ed Nations. Algerian Foreign Minister Arar Kheinisti made the pledge to Communist Chinese officials Sinulav night at a party celebrating the 1.1th an- niversary of Red China's "People's Republic." With Premier Abmed Ben Bella standing hy. Kheinisti said FViping's membership in the United Nations is "neces sary " "Algeria will do her duly by supporting Red China in that aim," lie said. Algeria itself is not yet a UN member hut is expected to be admitted shortly. Kennedy Accused Of Appeasement Indianapolis, ine. ,l?P -Sen. Harry Goidw .tier i.R Afi addressing a:. Indiana GOP fund-raising spectacular by telephone, has accused President K niuiy of ap peasement in Cuba. "President Kennedy has no purpose in Cuba except 10 appease the said Gotdw.ite Commuiusls," hit was un able lo attend S.it"tilay nigiit because of injuries suffered in a Mil At the same t'.-ne Go!. (wa ter praised Indiana Sen. H:n er h. i apen.i rt tor otiSpiiXcn statements about the current at-'military build up in Cuba. OREGON Foreign News Notes: Chips Are Down As Britain Resumes Market Discussion By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: Common Market The chips will be down this month when Britain re sumes negotia tions in Brus sels on condi tions for her entry into the European Common Mar ket. British ef forts are aim- Ntwiom ed at getting stronger support from the three Benelux countries and West Germany. These moves have arous ed suspicions in Paris that Britain is trying to isolate Hoover's ecome By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington-iBPD-Dear Gen, Eisenhower: You should be first in line to buy J. Edgar Hoov ers new book and be first to read it, too, if if only to pro tect yourself against anoth er embarrass ment in de- V TO aiiit-t kemtsai 5 . Vt llsun fending the American way against the Communist sys tem. In one of your early presi dential news conferences you told us about an incident when you were commanding NATO and were having a Letlors to the Editor must bear the although under certain circumstances fii for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted lor oubltcation 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 case. Nine Steps To the Editor: Considering the importance of the issue of reapportionment, more people snould be aware that Measure No. 9 proposes a radical change in our Constitution. Our present Constitution provides that representation is distributed among the counties aeccwtfuia to population. No cnlntive coud COnstitu- lionally represent as much as four times the number of voters as any other representa tive, and the maximum now is two and one-tenth to one. Our present reapportion ment adopted in 19U0 con forms with both the State and Federal constitutions and has been rated first in the Nation in terms of being the most representative. In Oregon it is almost impossible for a minor ity to control Oregon's legis lature. Measure No. !), which prob ably violates the U. S. Con stitution, would have thirty of Oregon's 65 members of Ore gon's House distributed ac cording lo area, without re gard lo population. District lines would be frozen. A mi nority of the voters could eas ily control Oregon's Legis lature!! Voter ratios could vary by as much as 1000 to llf The Housed Representatives probably would increase in membership each 10 years and we might end up with 1001) members of the House. Oregon would no longer be first in the nation, but would drop down to about 10th or 12th place, behind boss ridden Massachusetts and Southern Democrat dominated Vir ginia!! In 1!)52. witli the adoption of our present constitutional t provision, Oregon took 10 1 giant strides forward in rc 1 apportionment, and ended up lo. tiling the slates!! Ballot Measure No. 9 would take j Oregon 9 steps backwards!! Is that the kind of progress the 1 citizens of Oregon are entitled lo? ; Vernon Cook i State Senator Multnomah County Gresham, Ore. Ho King Makers i To the Fdi'.or: In a recent letter to editors circulated by Senator C'oek he state: "Meas ure No. 9 which probably vui-1 laics the US. Constitution I would h:ive 30 of tlie ti," mem bers of Oregon s House dis- iniuitect accoramc to area, w ithout regard to population.'1 I wonder whether attorney Coek would now fuvor us with ano'.her "legal" opinion on the cons'itiition.ility of 'he following "The Senate of the Untied, States shall be com-.. posed of two Senator:: from c.h h St ile, elected by t''o people thereof, for six years; ..nd each Senator shall have one vote. ' Does this portion of article t i 1 ' France in the European align - mcnt. The signs are that Presi dent Charles de Gaulle might consequently harden his terms for British entry Into Europe. Inside France At home, the De Gaulle governent is bracing for a new eruption of strikes in na tionalized industries. First government offers of wage boosts of only a little over 4 per cent have stirred up anger among the labor un ions. More trouble also is ex pected from larmers in Brit tany indignant over increased railroad freight charges for their produce. . Meanwhile, the busy De Gaulle is expected to put in a personal appearance when the French army stages its biggest maneuvers s i n r e World War II early this New Book on dish of tea or something with one of those Russian gener als who also was a political commisrar and very handy with word, to boot. Remember? This Russian Joe gave you a big sales talk on the Communist system and challenged you to reply in behalf of the American way. You told us that you couldn't do it or, anyway, that you felt that your argument was inadequate. That is not sur prising because a Commie political commisrar must be thoroughly schooled in the basic arguments of his trade, as a West Point cadet com mits to memory the dreary passages of the IDR (Infan try Drill Regulations). Mighty few Americans could stand up to a Kremlin nme and address of the writer, the use of a pen name or initial XVII of the U.S. Constitution which provides that the entire Senate shall be distributed ac cording lo area, without re gard to population, meet the test of constitutionality while ballot proposition number 9, which proposes to divide less than half of one Oregon House in a similar manner, fail be cause it docs not go far enough in this direction? Or could it be that the U.S. Con stitution is itself unconstitu tional? The purpose of law is to achieve justice and this can only be hoped for when all interests, viewpoints, and problems ate given a hearing. To require citizens of many counties in Oregon to look lo a delegate 100 miles or more away, who lives in an entirely different type of area with dif ferent problems, to represent them in Salem, is to deny to those people an effective voice in state government. Our state legislature should not be thought ot as a lynch mob wherein issues are to be fought out on the basis of rel ative mass of numbers, but it should be considered as a de liberating body wherein all interests and viewpoints are given consideration There are among the opon ents of Proposition No. 9 Ihose who seek not only to place the entire state under the control of a few small areas but they seek further to replace the di rect primary election by party conventions. This arrange ment would make it an easy matter for an aggressive mi nority to seize control of cither or both party conven tions in the strategic popula tion centers and hence dom inate the state. Let's take nine steps away from these wnniH kn : makers m-. fr. n, .i . of machine politics and boss ism. Let s adopt ballot propo sition No. 9. Karl Glidewell 1090 North First st. Hermiston, Ore. Pro Baseball I To the Editor: The Medford ! Lions Club w ishes to thank jyou and the members of vour staff for the time and effort j expended in bringing our jsponsorshin of t lie professiut' al basebaii names of Anc and 27 before the public. It is true that monetary re , '.urns on these games were not what we had hoped for and i m.kih conservation anr. other community benefits will j be dependent upon other proj- 1 cts. However, the games S played by the Eugene Emer alds w ith the Salem Dodeers ' and the Tn-City Braves were good and we hope that, with your assistance, those people of the Medford area who are interested in this type of en tertainment were able t.i learn of and attend these game? Clyde Webb President ' month He will use the oc- casion to boost his plans for l French nuclear striking force. Cuba vi. Berlin In Berlin there Is specula tion that any serious Russian attempt to end Western rights in Berlin or to interfere with access to it "will end the Cu ban Problem." The theory is that any aggressive action against Berlin would draw United States retaliation not only to protect American rights in Berlin but also against Soviet influence in Cu ba. Beefing Up Look for Japan to beef up her self-defense forces in an effort to become less depend ent on American military pro tection. Observers in Tokyo say the move is linked to So- Suited to commissar and refute, point ia"d 1 am still a mass of ten by point, the Russian Joe's derness and soreness. If I had arguments in behalf of Com-jbeen going five miles an hour munism and in derogation of j faster, I am sure some bones the United States. Oh, ourjwould have been broken, or guy would know right : some internal organs severely enough that ours was the best system, but his argument would not be organized. Neither would our boy be likely to have the skill in de bate and logic to detect and destroy the Russian argu ments, based as they are on a series of false and phony premises. Well, General, that's where J. Edgar Hoover's book comes in. It is written for Amer icans just like you and me and your neighbors and mine. More than that, Hoover has written a book ideally suited to become the text for teach ing American high school and college students what Com munism is about and where and how and why it is infer ior to the American way. Important Attribute That is the most important attribute of Hoover's book. "A Study Of Communism," that it can explain to young America why they should be willing to fight and to die to keep Communism out. It is more important that young America understand all about that' than that you or I un derstand it, General. You and I are too old to fight. But, the way things are going with the Commies swarming all over Cuba and likely to be collecting some mainland Lat in American nations before long, the young American of the present may have some j fighting and dying to do. You would have licked that Russian Joe, General, if you had slugged him witli the facts contained in Hoover's book. Of course it wasn't written then and you couldn't have been expect ed to know about it. But the book is published now, by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 203 pages, $3.93. VT Perhaps the Pentagon's War College, West Point and other institutions of learning in support of national defense should adopt "A Study of Communism" as a text. lucre will be some ecg head nit-picking of Hoover's book because he rnntnnri. j hitl Communism is an inter - nal as well as external men ace to the United States. The egghead lefties scoff at that and tend to make fun of Hoo ver. That sels them apart in the United States, far apart. UNDERGOES SURGERY Santa Monica, Calif. -ilTt- Musician Meredith Willson was reported in "excellent I condition" today following j emergency surgery to remove an intestinal obstruction. At- , tendants at St. John's hospi- tal said the operation Sunday was a complete success. FOR CONGRESS 1 1 I ELECT I WcM jack I r, ftem 13. dwight , JACK DWIGHT M 1 hut Fi7j!p& 'i're e2''c s i z i rq y-u- strciq p:irts tecsusa cf t-e v':i Ccr;-. Lc:;s - Tea ts ,e;y p-i-:ry victories. T-e voters ere byyir.j fc.-c-d r.c-rss...:" viet threats that Japan would become a prime target in a nuclear war because of tha presence of U. S. bases on Japanese soil. Strictly Persons By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. FOREWARD AND BACKWARD I was only traveling at about 10 miles an hour, when the car ahead of me suddenly stopped for a f-Mf"" ""S light, and I , j rammed u from the rear. ' T n e children i sitting in the hack seat of ' ! my car did not suffer a i b u m p scratch. It i3 llama a week later, injured. And this was tha mildest possible crash - noth ing like a head-on collision. This shocking and shaking experience brings home to ono more forcibly than all tivi words of warning in the world how close we are to death or permanent injury in our auto mobiles. The accident occured in a fraction of a second: I was stunned and bruised be fore I even knew what had happened. Wa ordinarily think of fatal auto accidents as tak ing place at a high rale of speed, while passing or turning on a highway. Ac tually, however, most fatal accidents take place at speeds under 35 miles an hour, on ordinary city streets or country lanes, when the vigilance is re laxed and danger seems a gross improbability. The human body Is not designed to withstand sud den impact, even at a low velocity. Traveling at present-day auto speeds, we are a perpetual invitation to disaster. No wild animal in primitive limes was so much a threat to man's survival as his own automobile to day; this is a truth we find it hard lo believe - until thai moment of involve ment. Beyond the banal facts of my little crack-up, there is a wider moral for the hu man race that we do not learn until it is too late, that proverbs do not leach us as much as pain does, that warnings are abstract symbols unless they reach the nerve and bone and muscle. "The whole trouble with life," Kierkegaard once said, "is that it must be lived for ward, but can only be under stood backward." The futility of wars can be seen only after both sides are bleeding and prostrate: the consequences o? ! carelessness, or selfishness, or ! cruelty, or greed, can ho i KrasPccl ""'V af,cr tne torical event. We learn (he hard way -in our public and social, as well as ill our private, lives. Even those of us who buy seat belts, as I did, do not wear them when we should; we usu them as magical tokens, hop ing that their mere prcsenca will protect us from disaster. The essence of disaster H that it strikes when we least expect it, when we are least prepared. We are peering hopefully into the future. -when we should be learnin? our lessons from the past.