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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY, MEDF0RDJ&&.TR1BUNE "Everyone in Southern Oregon l ReadsTheMall Tribune" Published Dally exceptSalurriayby MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North lr jt.. Ph. 772-8141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertlilm Minuet GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mjr. ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Tcle Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON, CirculaUon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Zntered as second clasi matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dally and Sunday 8 moa. 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mot. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 83.00 Single Copy (Mailed! 20c Bv Carnei And Motor Route. 'Dally and Sunday 1 year 21 00 Dallv and Sunday 1 mo. L78 Sunday Only 1 mo. 3c Carrier and Vendor! jCopy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackion County United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P. I Tclepholo Newplcturea "MEMBER" OF 'AUDIT " BUREAU' OFCIRCULATIONS Advertising Renresentatlve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCT ATES. Offlcea In New York. Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco. Loa Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Denver. 6 NtWSMPH PUBLISHERS ASSOCIAIION EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medfoid and Jackson County History from th tiles ot The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. S, 1952 (Sunday) Wilhin the past week, two women annoi need their in tention to file for the office of mayor in two Rogue val ley towns: Mrs. Kathryn Stnncliffc, Phoenix, and Mrs. Myrtle Lee, Jacksonville. The 1053 campaign for funds of the Greater Medford Community Chest, which be gins tomorrow, has been named "Operation Human ity" 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 5. 1942 (Monday) Medford city council slant work on curfew law provid ing "stiff penalties'' for par ents of children who are on city streets between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. From Arthur Perry's "Yc Smudge Pot" column: "The wolves back of Trail ai d the curbstone quarterbacks have sturted to howl." 30 YEARS AGO Oel. 5. 1932 (Wedntiday) Secretary of 'ate announc es Jackson county to receive 38,045 from license plate sales. Weather bureau reports September, 1922, was the first September in 22 years without any rainfall. 40 YEARS AGO Oct, 5. 1922 (Thursday) From Central Point items: Moore Hamilton left last week for Corvallis to take up his studies as a freshman at OAC. Five United Stales Army de-llBVihmd airplane, land at Medford en route to San Francisco from Eugene, where they have been on forest patrol duty during the summer. SO YEARS AGO Medford city officials an nounce they will grant 50 voir franchise to persons will ing to construct street rail way service here. Prohibition, Bull Moose and "Standpat" candidates for congress arrive In Medford for series of debates. What's Your I.Q.7 Nint or ten conett la meatier; aeven pr eii ht is excellent; fiva at sii Is good. 1. Name Ihe first Secretary General of the United Na tions. 2. Necrophobia Is the exag gerated fear of what? 3. Arc Trappisls Alaskan hunters, geometrical figures, or an order of monks? 4. In the Bible, why did Testis come from Galilee lo Jordan, unto John? 5. Was Al Capone convicted for hijacking, beer running, murder, or evasion of Income taxes? 6. At the time of the South African Boer War. who was on the British throne? 7. In what Pacific naval ac tion in WW II was Ihe aircraft carrier "Lexington" sunk? 8. In Bible history Ben jamin was the youngest and favorite son of whom? 9. Sir Henry Bessemer is best known for his commer cial development of a pro cess for what? 10. The young of elephants, whales, moose, and hippopo- pot ii mi are all called what? Answers: 1. Trygvt Li. 2. Of death er horror of In dead. 3. Order of monks. 4. To b bapliiad. S. Tax evasion. 6. Quean Victoria. 7. Battle ef th Coral Sea. I. Jacob, 9. Making steal. 10. Calves. 4 A NATIONAL OCTOBER 6. I9bl Final Statement With the publication of the following letter, all eight candidates for the state legislature from Jackson county have presented their views as to the needs of higher education, and their thoughts on problems of paying for them. We express our gratitude to the candidates for providing these timely and important state ments. The one which follows is by Henry F. Padgham Jr., Democratic candidate for state senator. Others have been presented by State Sen. L. W. Newbry, Republican incumbent, and by house candidates Charles Craiy, James Redden and AI Bradford, Democrats, and Al Dumas, Ed Branchfield and John Dellenback, Republicans. Mr. Padgham's letter: To the Editor: "Questions for Candidates," Mail Tribune, July 31, propounded five problems which the Fifty-second Legislative Assembly must resolve. It is obvious the questions are of one category, how to meet the cost of education. Our obligations to our youth and their education cannot be side stepped. We must, however, carefully evaluate the requests and decide which procedures will give us the greatest benefits in the education field for our tax dollar. An Increase of over 10 per cent in college enroll ment this fall would seem lo justify the $19 million increase in Higher Education requests for operational funds. This increase in attendance and related opera tional and capital outlays should give us cause to contemplate the many tax dollars lost in providing expensive higher education facilities for so many "drop-out" college students. Less than 20 per cent of our college enroliees complete their four year courses. To overcome this vast waste of instructors, facili ties and dollars, adequate planning and programming for junior colleges in Oregon is Indicated and desirable. Our universities should become institutions of learning of the highest caliber. This can be effected by transferring Junior college functions TO Junior colleges, and by further development of regional four- year degree granting colleges as we have in Southern Oregon, Eastern Oregon and Portland State colleges. This program would permit concentration of the university resources on advanced undergraduates, pro fessional and graduate education and on research. The junior college obviously does not provide the social glamour and prestige of the "old line" univer sities but it does serve those students who could not fulfill the requirements of advanced education but who do need and desire education beyond the 12th grade, I believe that orderly changes in our higher educa tion procedures, as outlined above, would effect sub stantial savings in our cost of education and would at the same time provide more realistic training for more of our young people. Several methods and combinations of methods have been proposed by our lax consultants to obtain the increased revenue which obviously will be re quired for the next blennium. Carefully planned adjustments In our stale lax procedures should enable us to hold a greater portion of our lax money in Oregon instead of putting it in the federal coffers. This is desirable and will provide us greater benefits from the taxes we pay. With the probability of a greater tax load facing us next year, I would like to recommend serious consid eration of financing a large portion of our capital expenditures for buildings and equipment by the sale of state bonds. Our present bond obligation is rela tively low and we would have a favorable interest rate. Building now, with borrowed funds, would provide for existing and anticipated needs. This procedure would materially reduce our general fund demands at this time and anticipated Increases in state income, plus normal inflationary trends over Ihe next two decades would go far toward absorbing the interest costs. Henry F. Padgham Jr. 2707 Springbrook rd. Medford. XE HOPE these discussions have proved valu- able, not only to readers and prospective voters, but also to the candidates themselves, who devoted time and thought to their preparation. I he issues of education and finance are not, of course, the only ones of importance in the cam paign, but they are, in our view, the most impor tant, and probably the most difficult of solution. With higher education enrollments running 10 per cent above last year's record-breaking registration, it is obvious that the state of Oregon is going to have to do some scrambling to keep up with them. E.A. UPI Conference San Francisco was quite a place to be the first half of this week. Specifically, the Fairmount hotel was a place of much excitement and inter est, for here were gathered several hundred edi tors and publishers, and a number of the top wire service newsmen in the world, editors and re porters for United Press International. Adding to the general climate of interest were the events in Mississippi, the successful orbiting of our astronaut, and (of overriding importance in the Bay City), the Dodger-Giant playoff. A press room set up at the convention head quarters kept a flow of news and pictures coming for the information of the delegates. iVTANY of the sessions were devoted to matters most particularly of interest to newspaper men, but others were of more general interest. Among the speakers were Admiral Harry I). Felt, commander of all U. S. forces in the Pacific area, whose calm and confident talk and de meanor makes one feel better about our defenses to me west; ur. hciwnrd leiler, who disclaims the title "father of the H-bomb," but whose work, both in theoretical physics ami in public discus sions led to its development; Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy's press secretary, who de clared that his boss is doing better than some people give him credit for, and Capt. Eddie Rick enbacker, an authentic hero who appeared a bit pathetic in that his hour-long talk sounded like a rewrite of the Blue Book of the John Birch Society. The high point of the conference, though, to us, was the much publicized debate between Richard M. Nixon and Edmund Brown, who are contesting the governorship of California. We speak, confessedly, from rank prejudice, but Tricky Dick still sounds like Tricky Dick, the "New Nixon" to the cortrarv notwithstanding. E.A. . . He Took Water and Wahed Hit Hand Before the Multitude . . ." ! e-JSH-CJfcC. 1 "''' jajsgjflfr ... Communications ... Letters lo th Editor must bear iht nam and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ua or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves th right to adit all leliors with a view lo clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Th letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent th views of th paper; in fact th contrary it often th case. Fluorid Facts To the Editor: Soon the peo ple of Medford will have the opportunity of expressing their choice on whether or not to fortify their water by the addition of ideal amounts of fluoridation. The number of letters appearing lately in this column in opposition to the proposed measure makes it clear that the people need factual Information on several points: 1) Yes, this is the same pro posed program of adding fluorides to our fluoride-deficient water which, after adop tion by nearly 2000 cities in the United States, has result ed in reduction in tooth de cay by approximately 65 per cent. 2) Yes, the 1900 towns with naturally fluoridated water have 23 fewer cavities and the adults have lost one-fifth the teeth of those in fluoride deficient communities. 3) No, there is absolutely no difference in naturally fluoridated water and that which has been fortified by addition of fluorides, except that It can be delicately con trolled when added. 4) Yes, the American Den tal Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Ped iatrics, the American Public Health Association, the Na tional Research Council, the Association of State and Ter ritorial Health Officers, the United States Public Health Service, etc., etc., all still do endorse fluoridation and, so far as we do know, none ot these reputable organizations are suspected of communist infiltration, of profiting in some unscrupulous way, or of conspiring to undermine our social structure. We believe their only motives are to al low the people to profit from the proved benefits of the re sults of 30 years of scientific research and survey. The re sults are absolutely free of adverse effects. 5) No, there will be no change in the taste of Med ford s marvelous spring water. 8) Yes, Ihe next weeks we will be deluged with scare talk of rat poison, aluminum sludge deposits, rusty radiator pipes, communist plots, and rambling pseudo scientific I bio-chemical discourses. Wc will attempt to present 111 factual background for t lie confident assurance that this measure Is in the best inter ests of the people of Mediord Committee for Better Dental Health David P. Engleson, D.D.S. 24 Crater Lake avc., Medford Politics To the Editor: II seems lo me that Ralph James must be a pretty good man, if the only thing that Earl Miller could use to try and discredit him ,,11, , ll,A i,n,,t..., a..,-.,, of the Food Surplus "store s supplies for needy families. """if 'm 5J"U' When the Food Surplus This had the effect of incrcas- Program was first announced, 'ng income taxes by millions Miller slated that he did notof dollars particularly at the think It was necessary to expense of those families w,th make the food available to fveral children who often J.rka.m mnntv re.lrient.. ,oimd themselves facing a sur- whleh was a "mistake" on his part rectified by other mem bers of the county court. Miller's comments on Ihe Food Surplus operation proved nothing except ihe fact that Miller is scraping the bottom of the political mud slinging barrel to try and hold on to his job. V. H. Walker P. O. Box 283 Jacksonville, Ore. To the Editor: To me Mr Schausten's leiler to the HHT 9-27-82, makes a poor defense for Sig L'nander s policy on the medicare bill. I agrre with Mr. Schausten that the KA Willi lllAlb bill is inadequate, still its pas sage would have been a step in the right direction. While the GOP in both houses made the same ex cuse, that it wasn't broad enough, they could have put a few amendments on it to make a good workable bill, one at least as good as the one that is now giving Senator Dirkson hospitalization for free. Mr. Schaustcn says that there would be 2V4 million ek'erly that would not be elig ible for medical aid. An amendment would have taken care of that situation and there would now be 20,000,- 000 who would be eligible for medical care which they should have as a matter of right. While Mr. Unander agrees that a medical care bill is a must, he says it must also have a voluntary feature. Now just what does he mean by voluntary feature? If Mr. Unander is so concerned with the problems of the aged, why did he run over lo Bend and blast the KA bill to the Tri County Medical and Bar asso ciations convention? Yes, I read some but I have failed to read of any speech that Mr. Unander made to any Senior Citizens club, and I am sure that they would have been glad to hear him outline any good plan that he lias in mind for a good workable medical plan. They would have been more than pleased to know that one lone Repub lican had something good for them In mind and is very much interested in their prob lems. No, Mr. Schaustcn, the' el derly are not buying the few sweet words that Mr. Unan der is throwing rthem over his left shoulder. The elderly are fully aware of the fact that Mr. Unander Is bought and paid for by big business and the AMA in particular. John R. Schumpf Route l. Box 312 Central Point, Ore. Branchfield Corrected To the Editor: My attention has just been directed to a letter appearing in your issue of Sept. 10, written bv Ed- ward Branchfield. wherein he plays fast and loose with the facts concerning Oregon's in come lax history from 1955 to 1958. Mr. Branchfield staled that the 1955 Republican legisla ture was faced with a finan cial crisis. He might have add ed thai Ibis crisis was one created by a Republican gov ernor and his politically cci Irolled tax commission. He stated that Ihe 1955 legisla ture "solved" the problem by passing the unwelcome 45 per cent surtax. He should have added that in addition to the infamous surtax, the 1955 leg islature also reduced personal jmPi 8 " l.ricPcnd:f tax of several hundred per cent. In 1957, Governor Holmes, upon convening of the Demo cratically controlled legisla ture, took immediate steps to repeal the surtax and restore personal exemption and de pendency credits to $800. This was done, but unfortunately the governor did not immedi ately replace the Republican lax commission with a new one. The legislature was told j bv the tax commission that wci stilt faced a financial crisis. For this reason income tax rates were not reduced at the '.957 regular session as much as they might have been i i OlUUllUi illbLfi tfUVi OlllttasSlI Algeria Owes Much to Soviets, Nasser, But Also Plans To Retain Ties With West By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst When, within the next few days, Premier Ahmed Ben Bella leads a newly Independ- e n t Algeria into the Unit ed Nations as its I09th member, h e will do so as a man owing a large debt o f gratitude both to the Soviet Union Newsum and the Unit- cd Arab Republic. The Soviets equipped his "liberation" army and Presi dent Abdel Gamal Nasser's U.A.R. supplied the Algerian exile government both with hospitality and money. But Ben Bella also is a man heavily dependent on con tinued close tics with France. From these conflicting in terests have developed other seeming conflicts, including Ben Bella's promises that he would: In the summer of 1957, aft er the legislature had adjourn ed and the 1958 income tax returns were all tallied, the tax commission discovered that the 1955 rates had pro duced revenues far beyond their former expectations. They also discovered that if the rates established by the 1957 regular session contin ued, a greater surplus would result in the summer of 1958 after the 1957 returns were filed and tallied. They even discovered a $12,000,000 cash balance item that they had previously overlooked. Governor Holmes, upon be ing informed of this situation, called a special session of the legislature to further reduce the take from the income tax and thus avoid further un called for surpluses. The 1957 special session by its action REDUCED income taxes in Oregon by roughly 20 per cent. Mr. Branchfield's statement to the effect that under the rates established by the 1957 special session, "Most people paid, and now pay, more taxes than under the 1955 rates, even including the surtax," is at complete vari ance with the facts. Clarence Barton Stale Representative, Coos County Coquille, Ore. He That Endureth To the Editor: Thanks for the fine editorial, "Headline Indigestion." The front and editorial pages of 21 news papers and most all bad news. I read them too. Bradwood, Ore., a town of 250 people killed with lumber imports. A law-defying governor and general bring blood and death to our streets. Juvenile delin quency, what else can we ex pect with such leadership? These are only symbols of things to come. I read 78 per cent of the criminals appear ing before Ihe French courts are there because of alcohol. More than 65 per cent of the inmates of the French asylums are victims of alcoholism. Last year alcoholism killed twice the people that died in traffic accidents, and over 50 per cent of the traffic deaths were caused by alcohol. The cost of treating alcoholics in hos pitals and asylums was four times the amount raised by liquor taxes. Vienna, with its 1,700,000 people, has four times as many alcoholics as New York with its 8,000.000, but we are gaining ffist. Ques tion: Why will a nation, a city or a person permit anything so deadly to come into their lives, while we are teetering on a missile with an H-bomb tip, as we look at starvation famine and strife every where? Truly what is the use? The salt of the earth can always see through the black est cloud. Love for God and our fellow man will not al low hope and faith to be quenched utterly. Harold J. Reith gave the answer in M.T. of 930 when he said: "Let us look to Him who gave his life for you and me. Today He stands with outstretched nail pierced hands pleading to all." "Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth." dsa. 45:22) It was He who created this earth in perfection, and it is He alone that can save it from utter destruction. (Acts 4:12: Rev. 11:18). His book, the Bible, is a perfect book. It opens with a new heaven and a new earth with perfection everywhere and it closes the same way. As we study it, we know we are "ear the end. Jesus said: "He that endureth unlo the end. shall be saved." F. E. Beverly 112 Geneva st. Medford Turn Algeria into a social ist state in the United Nations. Institute agrarian reform in the style of Fidel Castro, a favorite pin-up boy in libera tion army barracks. But he also: Assured President Charles de Gaulle that he heartily sup ports the Evian agreements which led first to an Algerian cease-fire in the war with France and finally to "inde pendence in cooperation with France." Assured the European busi ness community in Algeria that there is "room in Algeria for a free and capitalist econ omy" alongside the socialism he plans. Socialism, he said, is the "liquidation of privil eges" and he has no intention of nationalizing all private business. For the moment at least, it would seem that the realities of his situation will dictate that he maintain both his agreements with France and his ties with the West. France retains for at least 15 years the air and naval base at Mers-el-Kebir, as well as rocket and nuclear testing installations in the Sahara for five years. She retains the right to maintain armed forces in Algeria for three years. Her mining rights remain untouched and France and Al geria will share on a 50-50 basis the exploitation of Sahara resources. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c Field Enterprises Inc. HUMAN NATURE Mentioning seat belts on cars, as I did the other day, reminded me of an incident a few months ago, when I was picked up at an airport on my way to a lecture. The man who picked me up fastened his seat belt as soon as he Ham, slipped be hind the wheel, and I prompt ly did the same. He iooked at me with some gratification when I remarked that I had belts on my car. too (I failed to add that I hardly ever used them). "I'm glad you feel that way," he said. "You know, it's a funny thing about these belts - a lot of people don't want to drive with me after they see them." "Why is that?" I asked. "Well, it puzzled me for a while." he said, "but af ter I asked a few people, and got evasive answers, I figured out the reason. They think I must be a bad driver, or a dangerous one, to need the belts." "Thai's a curious alti tude." I observed. "Thy could understand It." h said, "if I didn't use th belts around town, and t only fastened them when taking a long trip on the highway. This is what most belt-owners do. The rest of th tim th bells ar just a sort of St. Christopher's me dal, to protect lhm by ma gic." "I know it," I confessed. "That's th way I foel about mine - once I had them in stalled, it didn't seem neces sary to us them. They're sort of a good luck amulet, a way of placating the gods." ' H nodded. "Actually, of cours. most auto accidents occur not more than a doi en blocks from th driver's hous. and at speads less than 35 miles an hour. And most fatal accidents, too. tak place on ordinary streets, not on superhigh ways." "I'm aware of that," I nod ded, "but it seems a little prissy for me to fasten my belt when I'm jus' tootling down lo the drug store." "It docs at first." he said, "and that's what bothers peo ple about my invariable habit of fastening them. They seem lo think I'm inviting disaster, or else that I'm such a bad or nervous driver that 1 need them. Oddly enough, they think the belts have potency only when they're not being used - as soon as you fasten them, they ask for trouble"' "You're right." I agreed. I "It's like patients getting mc idicine from a doctor and keeping it on the medicine shelf; its presence reassures them, but they won't take it regularly for fear" it might make them sick." "We can t even give our friends lifts home from par ties." he shook his head sadly. "They'd rather go with some reckless driver than with me. Safety, it seems, makes them nervous. 1 guess it reminds them of what might happen -and nobody wants lo think about that." Algeria also must depend Drimarily on France for des perately needed technicians and capital, trance already has an investment in excess of Washington Report By William (ci Untied Feature Syndicate BARNETT'S MISTAKE Washington - Amid all the many possible political impli cations of the tragedy in Mis sissippi, two certainties and . one strong , probability ? nnw aland I out. The first certainty i s that the life j43f of the mod ern SOUinern p o 1 i t i cians has been made immens ely more dif- tirult bv Gov. Rosa Barnett's defiance of the courts in the integration crisis at the Uni versity of Mississippi. The second certainty is that Governor Barnett has isolated himself from the nationally responsible politicians of the south as no other man has done in modern times. And the strong probability is that if, as many southern ers suspect, he plans to use the incident at Oxford to reach the United States sen ate, he will never actually sit in that body, even if the vot ers of Mississippi should send him there. rPHE judgment of senate - sources of utmost relia bility is that a heavy major ity there would deny Barnett a seat in any case. Tbe senate has the exclusive power to judge its own membership. It is a power most recently ex ercised in barring its doors in 1947 to another Mississippian, Sen. Theodore Bilbo, even though he had already served there and was, this time, merely returning as a re-elected member. Speaking for a bipartisan majority, the great conservative and pro-southern Republican senator, Robert A. Taft of Ohio, successfully de manded that Bilbo "stand aside." It is not necessary to find an applicant guilty of crime. It is only necessary to find him unfit to serve. The next senate vacancy in Mississippi will fall in 1964, when Sen. John C. Slennis comes up for re-election. Even should Barnett engage and defeat Stennis, he would un doubtedly be challenged with in the senate itself. Its south ern members could not save him, if they would. For a mas sive northern majority would be arrayed against him. AlOREOVER, any genuine southern effort in his be half could not be counted up on for a moment. For nearly all of these men, while whol ly opposed lo the direction taken by the courts in Missis sippi are also wholly commit ted that public officials can not in the end disobey the decrees of the courts, agree with them or not. This can be seen even in their current reactions to events in Mississippi, in an hour of passion and crisis. As southern politicians, some have felt compelled to offer, in public, some indirect and generalized defense of Bar-nett-though some have not even done this. But as sena tors of the United States, they strongly disapprove his course in private. And as men, they bitterly resent the harm he has done to the reputation of the south as a law-abiding re gion and Ihe enormous em barrassment he has brought to them personally. The southern delegation in the senate privately stands in overwhelming majority against his defiance of the courts. This columnist per sonally can so testify, on evi , j .e. tN- -T"W "Comrade, as a 'technical adviser' you're a disgrae Olympus to th historical fore of dlaltcttcal ma terialism . , ,1" $20 billion in Algeria and has promised more at the rate of nearly $1 billion per year. But the help depends on Ben Bella staying in linp. S. White dence that is neither guess nor hearsay. pOR these men have, for the most part, long since made those painful personal adjust ments looking toward an ac ceptance of inevitable inte gration; they only hope It can be held to a slow and gradual pace. For the most part, they have long been bound in an unspoken gentlemen's agree ment not to traffic in demago- guery among or against each other on an issue which they know they cannot control. Thus they feel that Gover nor Barnett has let them down-not for opposing inte gration, as they do, but for defying the courts, as they do not and cannot do. After all, half a dozen southern states already have accepted the very gradual integration in volved in Mississippi. Their leaders have not been cow ards, but rather the reverse. They are not happy at Gover nor Barnett's implication that only he still values states' rights. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There is stark tragedy in the news as this is written. In Oxford, Miss., two men are dead, and at least 75 oth ers are wounded. The beauti ful campus of the University of Mississippi, where classes should be starting for another school year, is an armed camp. At this moment, no one knows what might happen next - for tension is high and tempers are hot. In our nation, an ancient wound has been opened up at a time when we are facing a grim foreign enemy who is bent upon our destruction. At a time when we should pre sent a united front, we are torn by the dramatic revival of an ancient schism. TT IS HARD lo escape the conclusion that too much haste on the part of the Su preme Court is at fault for what has happened in Missis sippi over this tragic period. Tolerance had moved a long way in the course of the near ly a century since the end of the War Between the States. There is reason to believe that if given TIME ENOUGH the growing tolerance on both sides of the Mason and Dixon line would have brought wholly peaceful settlement of the color issue in tyie South. Time is a great healer. rrTTE ORIGINAL mistake, of - course, was when the first shipload of slaves was brouht to Free America. That set the stage for ev erything that has happened yHO is wrong now? ' ' It is hard to say. The issue was crowded by the governor of Mississippi. There can be no doubt as lo that. He FORCED THE IS SUE at a time when it should not have been forced. He cre ated AN INCIDENT, at a time when true patriotism called for the AVOIDANCE of inci dents. This is no time for the stir ring up of ancient antagon isms and ancient intolerances. What has happened in Missis sippi has given our nation a bad IMAGE throughout much of the world. AND Of course There may have been too much haste and too little tol erance in Washington.