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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY. MEDFORDJ&&WTRIBUNH MMNorih Fir St.. Ph.J72-lll41 nnlSKRT'W RUHL. Editor IIFRB CREV Atlvcrlising MB rVRAlD T LATHAM. Bus Mr. FRIC W AI.I-F.N JR . Mn. Kdllor tim H ADAMS. City Editor 1AHBY CH PMAN. TelcR Editor iiiVuAHn JFWKTT. Sporti Editor S .,V STARRER wocn'. Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Ml!r rdsp;cn. udf Ac.o. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mnll In Advance. Da IV and Sundav-1 ymr Dailv and Sunday-; moi 10 OT Daily and Sunday-3 mo.. Sunday Only-On Vcar $5 on Sinsle Copy (Mallcdi vc By Carncl-And Motor Rout, a:i;ssiiss:r.,J."',-! .d'nd-convroc Official !"!. ' V',knMc'o. Olllclal Paper of Jackson toumy United press'lnternatlonal Full Leaacd Wire 11 p I Tclcphoto Ncwsplclurea "HIFMBEROF AUDIT BUREAU "B OF CIRCULATIONS . Adenine Br-nrrsr-Mative: NEI.SON ROBERTS fcSSOL ;' ATES Olllcel In New York. Clil ,50 Detroit. San Franci.co l.o Ansclra. Seattle. Portland. Denver. NATION A I fOTSRliL AS(SCfrATl5)N NEWSPAPl PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years too. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 19, 1952 (Sunday) The Hogue River Valley Ir rigation association's board ot directors have gone on rec ord in favor of state legisla tion for the regulation and control of cloud-seeding and weather control experiments. The Army corps of engin eers has scheduled bid calls for the first three phases of constructing a new, stand-by Camp White. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 19. 1942 (Monday) Donald G. Darneille induct ed inio armed services in Portland. from Arthur Perry s e Smudge p"l" column: "A na- ;,i.. rfrivo for tin cans t Hill-w n... - is in the offing. By sending trucks to the rural areas with the bent scenic vir-w ... .. .. ,,r,io Inr this county J 1 1 1 1 Hit Mi." - - could be obtained before noon of the opening nay. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 19, 1932 (Wednesday Central P"inl man k'"0" In hunting accident; second hunting death in week. Jacksonville miner dies when Korest creek mine lun ncl caves in. 40 YEARS AGO Ocl. 19. 1922 (Thursday) Tune extension given six men accused ot Ku Klux Klan night tiding" activities when Circuit Judge V. M. Calkins postpones trials until after .'lection. Jackson counly grand jury rui'linll ot H'liMiMu. iron fence around county Jail in Jacksonville. &0 YEARS AGO Ocl. 19. 1912 (Saturday) Kay Canon, son of Med birds Mayor Canon, serious ly injured' in gas explosion in Sivei inn. Mcdlnrri contractor reports l. will n.nstiuct "fine, large .S.imhi home." just outside Medlnrri city limits. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct ll superior! seven or eight is excellent; five of lis is good. 1. Who was lhe hern of Manila lay dining the Spanish-American War? 2 Should the word "fed eial" lie capitalized i( it is part of a title? 3. In area. Argentina is the second largest country in Smith America; is it one third, nnehalf. or two-thirds lhe si.c of Brazil' 4 In lhe U.S. what is the supreme law of the land 5 Which U. S city is nick named "Quaker City'"' H Does a hexagon h.uc Six. eight, or ten sides' 7. Should the seasons of the year he capitalized'.' 2. Is Iowa located cast, west, or holh sides of lhe Mis sissippi river? 9 The limbs on a tree do, or do not, remain the same height from the ground as the Iree grows' In Is Portland. M alnr further north lhan Portland. Orr-;n'' Answers: 1. Commodiri r - -e D-vrpv. 2. Ye. 3. One J -'. Crr'itt'isn end laws -- -it's pu-stunt to ' '-., 6. Six. 7. ; i. 8. We:l. 9. Do. r r'-1 BEfl r 6K OC'I'UbLH is. iaai Duncan for Congress "Bob Duncan is a tightwad." This assessment, by an upstate editor of our acquaintance, is true, in part. Certainly as a man proud of his Scots ancestry, Duncan has been tight-fisted with the tax dollar during his three terms in the legislature so tight-fisted, indeed, that he has been the despair of some state em ployees and department heads who are dependent on legislative appropriations for their empire building desires. However and it is an important however Duncan is also a man who will spend a dollar if he can be shown that it is necessary to, or bene ficial for, the public welfare; if it will ease human suffering; if it will assist progress; if it will eventually make subsequent and higher spending unnecessary. UNCAN, as is well known, is the Democratic candidate for Congress from the Fourth Con gressional district of southwestern Oregon. His qualifications are remarkable. As a legislator, he was twice chosen by his colleagues to serve as Speaker, an honor never before bestowed on an Oregon legislator, and one not bestowed lightly. He is a skillful lawyer. But he has also worked as a merchant mariner, and as a laborer in mines 'and forests. He is an educated and intelligent man. He is also close to and aware of the prob ilems of farmers, loggers, businessmen, of the ' down-and-outer as well as better-off citizens. And he is articulate in presentation and debate. His is a "liberal," but is not a "knee-jerk lib eral" who reacts to challenges by instinct. ! Duncan thinks. IJIS Republican opponent, Carl Fisher of Eu jrene, is Duncan's equal in sincerity and per sonality, and in ability to express his point of view. He is a bit smoother than the rough-hewn Duncan in appearance and presentation. He lacks the breadth of experience that Dun can has, although he too has served in the legis lature. J 1 is contacts as a public servant and radio station manager have not been such that he is fully familiar with the problems and needs of the broad spectrum of people in the Fourth District. Me could be classified as a moderate conser vative, politically, just as Duncan could be classi fied as a moderate liberal. However, these labels don't really mean very much. IF we read the two men correctly, Fisher would use the powers of government as little and as sparingly as possible, while Duncan would judge the uses of governmental power by what they can accomplish in the way of general welfare, de fense, and economic and human progress. We believe that the respective positions of the two men on current issues are actually some what less important than their overall approach to the business of government, for today's issues can be gone tomorrow, issues and new problems. On this basis we support Bob Duncan (a tightwad combined with lul leader of men) for election to Congress from this district. K. A. Tax Base Proposal For several years, Jackson county has levied no nrnnertv taxes for county nurnosos. CA11 nroo- erty taxes paid have been tncts and other taxing units none for the county as such.) This was made possible because other sources of income, notably from () & C timber sales re ceipts paid the county, provided sufficient in come lor it to operate without a tax. i Such income was probably adequate even be-! fore the county stopped levying a tax, but for a I long time a levy was made at least once every I three years. The reason? So the county would not lose its tax base. Thus, some hundreds of: .thousands of dollars were taxed which may not 'have been at all necessary. M FASUKK No. 7 on would eliminate such a situation in the l'u- lure. It provides that a taxing unit can go on indef initely without levying a tax, and still not lose its tax base. Thus counties and other taxing units will no longer levy unnecessary taxes solely for the purpose of saving a tax base. Hut if needed, a tax can still be levied, based on the last three years when a lax was levied. It also provides that taxing units which through economy or other income, will not be j penalized by losing a tax base, as was Jackson county when it rejected a base-saving levy some ' years ago. iTTHK same measure makes two other minor 1 changes - one that elections to establish a new tax base shall be at a regular statew ide pri mary or general election, rather than an election in tile taxing unit only; the other that counties lean incur indebtedness in excess of $5, 000 if re quired or permitted to do so by state law. The latter two changes are not substantive in character, and are more of a "housekeeping" nature, although the election provision would tend to insure that more voters would vote on tax base proposals than they do in elections con fined to a taxing unit. We believe the arguments in favor of the proposal arc persuasive. There is little or no out spoken opposition. We recommend a "yes" vote for measure No. 7. F. A. j to be replaced by new humanitarian, a thought- for cities, school dis-j the Nov. (i election ballot MEDFORD "You See Anything ... Communications ... Letters lo the Editor must bear lhe name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ne or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves lhe 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 often the case. Robinson Replies to Editorial To !ho Editor: The editorial of Oct. 17 by Eric Allen re garding the candidates seek ing the high and honored of fice of Mayor of Medford should have some further con sideration. First I want to make it clear that I don't be lieve you build up one candi date by character assassination of the others. Our esteemed editor is constantly harping on this theory ever since the so called McCarthy days until it appears to him that his is the only method by which he can accomplish his own end results. Now this isn't my first polit ical campaign. Eight years ago Phil Lowry was a very hon orable and worthy opponent. Phil was elected by a close majority and 1 feel I was completely correct in my con victions of Phil, who 1 have known since our high school days. He was one of the best state senators this county has ever had. Now it is obvious I would like to be the next Mayor of Medford, hut both of my op ponents are capable men, f know for f have served with one on (he Counciil for six years and the other for two years and have known both of them for many years. I would highly recommend that no one flee Medford after the election as though Caslro was elected. 1 urgently request my supporters lo support me on my qualifications and not hy running down my opponents. Eric Allen furiher stated 1 resigned as Council President referring to the press of bus iness. This is correct as at that lime 1 was in lhe process of putting in the Park and Shop lot next to Penney's and also enlarging the lot behind my store. 1 have an artificial limb and some of the time my leg ! must you resort to open and got so tired that I missed the I malicious slander in order to council meeting when the! support your choice of can agenda was more or less rou- didates? tine business. This is not only j Your descriptions of Wil true this year but last, which 1 1 in in Singlcr and James Dun was mentioned, hut if he j levy arc, without question, would be honest and check mv honest and fair appraisals, but eight years of service he ' would find I have had years j in which 1 have had almost I perfect attendance, hut I have ! kept myself informed at all times on mailers that have 1 come before the council and I I am sure my fellow mem- j has had in many years, hers will verify this. There is! Medford voters are aware also a poinl of ethics in- of the Mail Tribune's political volved in holding the Council j policies, as arc they aware of Presidency that is chosen by j the rigid conservative com ic your fellow members and is i lions of Fred Robinson. I be the highest position in the , licve you are presuming too Council under the Mayor, and j much on the slight edge in running for Mayor at the same ! registered Democrats and are time some of the other mem-j overlooking the manv who hers are running that helped I will forget "party" when they in selecting you as their choose the man who has done President. the most for Medford. Now the religious issue If you were to run a paral hruught out leaves me abso- lei column, listing the count lutcly cold relative to the less labors and effort of liquor question bin if Eric Robinson, as well as the pros Allen had tin' problem with tige and slate and national wine hollies and the alcoholic stature this man has ob 1 have had for the past (ti tallied, it would be much big years and would nave spent cor than your accumulation as much tune and thousands of unfair criticisms, of dollars as 1 have m the Let's not forget the man Medford Gospel Mission in do- who has come the closest to nig ever tinny possible to re- unseating Wayne Morse in the habilitate and correct t i s ; U . S Senate Let s not under problem, 1 am sun- lie would estimate the man who has led feel as I have felt that in ah- the ficht to save the down solute fairness I should ah- town businessmen from the stain front voting and let the fatal effects of urban pro other seven members nive a grcssion. fair and impartial decision. I ; Your criticisms of Robin am not the only member thai son's record on the city coun abstains when they feel a mat- cil are unfair, lo say the least, let- before the Council has a He has purposely abstained direct effect on their decision, from voting on liquor issues this w as done by ano'iier when he has known his vote member at our Oct 4 meeting. ; must be a no. and at such also this issue is less than 1 times left the verdicts to those per cent of lhe matters that with less stringent religious come before the Council for convictions Why not tell the consideration voters the whole story" The shotgun approach to Where was Robinson during tax cutting referred to by Erie these council meetings'' Tell Allen seems ridiculous unless (hem' he feels eight years is a snot- The Medford voters will gun acquaintance. 1 opposed not elect their next mayor ' the ordinance six e.us ago in lor his abilities as a "mixer". : which an attempt was made an 'entertainer" or a sales-j MAIL TRlBUMfc. MbLlrUML). Real Plain Yet?" to exceed the 6 per cent limi tation. I opposed this year the 7 mill increase levied because the attorney general said it was legal without giving the voters a chance to decide if they wanted their taxes in creased for these so called city services or if they preferred to continue on a planned priority basis as the rest of us must plan on our homes and bus iness. He said he hesitated to men lion personality and speaking ability and I can understand why as our Mayor has sent me a number of times to fill such engagements for him, the last just a few weeks ago at which convention Dr. Elmo Steven son was one of the speakers and after the dinner he told me he thought I made the delegates feel the welcome, we all extend lo the visitors of Medford in about the warmest welcome he had ever heard. Do please let's continue with this campaign with hon or, dignity and respect as 1 don't propose to keep answer ing this type of gutter tactics. Fred E. Robinson Candidate for Mayor and Councilman for Ward 1, Medford Editor's note: The usual 400-word limit on commun ications is waived in this case, inasmuch as Mr. Robinson is replying lo an editorial in which he was said to be un qualified for the office he seeks. The Best Man To the Editor: Your editor ial of Wednesday, Oct. 17, was a disgraceful display of political acrimony! Is it the policy of the Mail Tribune to justly report the facts, or your bitter attack upon Fred E. Robinson is shameful and obviously an underhanded "slap in the face'' for the man who is in my opinon. and in the opinion of many, the best qualified candidate Medford OrlfcliON Alliance for Progress Disappoi So Far; Opposed by By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Last March 13, observing lhe first anniversary of his S20 billion Alliance for Progress program, President Kennedy declared that the goal of welfare and equality for peoples and nations is "within our grasp." But for those Latin Ameri cans who might oppose his program for reasons of priv ilege, the President had a warning. "Those," he said, "who make peaceful revolution im possible, will make violent revolution inevitable." This week in Mexico City, United States and Latin econ omists have been studying re sults to date. The results were disappointing. The economists found (hat not only had most Latin American nations failed to achieve the 2.5 per cent in crease in per capita income sought annually by the Alli ance, a number either had man. They will elect him for his integrity and self-sacrifice. After all, Mr. Editor, there is much more in being a mayor than entertaining at the country club - making flowery speeches, or meeting dignitaries at the airport. For this reason, the voters of Med ford will elect the best of three fine candidates. That man is unquestionably Fred E. Robinson. Eugene L. Parker 2326 Sunnyview Lane Medford Bad Game Laws To the Editor: I am not in favor of what is being done in the Game Commission! I am specifically concerned with the killing of doe deer and cow elk and the S3 tag for the unit hunt. Also with the Game Commission's requiring each hunter of antelope to ap ply individually for a tag in stead of applying for them in groups of two lo four the way it has been done in the past. The present system almost eliminates the wage earner or anyone needing lo pool re sources from going. I am in favor of replacing the five men on lhe Game Commis sion. All of you who are dissat isfied with the present Game Commission or the game laws, write a letter. Have all of your friends and relations write one too. Write lo Gov ernor Hatfield or candidate for governor Thornton, our Attorney General. If we all do this, they will know be fore they are elected or re elected, just how the people stand on this issue. Remember!!! Write to Gov ernor Hatfield or Attorney General Thornton. Mark E. Norton P. O. Box 85 Phoenix, Ore. Living Proxy To the Editor: All Granges are supporting a "get out the vote" campaign, and I thought maybe you'd like to share this quote I found with your readers. MY SACRED BALLOT "The blood of free men, shed since the founding of my country, stains my ballot sheet. What ever others may do, I will not carelessly mak." my mark. Those who died for Ibis, my voice in my govern ment, had a right to expect that I would prepare with every faculty to use it w isely, honestly and courageously. They did not die 1'iat blind partisans or reckless men might make a game of free elections. "1 will not be confused or deceived by propaganda, slo gans, or histronics, I shield my eyes to the glitter of person alities, purge my mind of pas sion and prejudice and search diligently fur the hidden truth. I must be free of all in fluence save Conscience and Justice. "I vote as if my ballot alone decided the contest. I may lose my preference, but I will not throw away my sacred vole. For within the booth I hold in my humble hand the living proxy of all my country's hon ored dead " By Ralph Bushncll Potts Thank you for assisting us in this most important civic service. Mrs. George V. Michels Jr. Hornbrook Grange 391 Box 14 Hornbrook. Calif. Ontario Semi-Weekly Newspaper Sale Told Ontario, Ore - ITi Th semi-weekly Ontario Argus Observer newspaper has been purchased by two Idaho men The paper was bought hv William MacKnight of Jer ome. Idaho, and Larry Robin son of Salmon. Idaho. Iron. Mrs. Agnes Lynch of Ontario and J Don Lynch of Portland stood still or actually had suf fered an economic decline. Many had failed to submit detailed plans for projects under the alliance. A "committee of nine" set up last February to keep tabs on progress found a lack of understanding of Alliance goals among the general pub lic and strong opposition to it by "powerful political and economic interests," from the Castro-Communist left to the extrenched wealth of the right. In short, the Alliance for Progress program-designed to lift the living standard of 200 million Latin Americans-was in a state of "crisis." Colombia and Venezuela had gone the farthest toward carrying out the self-help de Washington Report By William (ci United Featur Syndicate CHICKENS ROOSTING Washington The chick ens have come home to roost. They are roosting all over that good de gree of bipar tisan national unity on for e i g n affairs which had been the one true distinc 1 1 o n of the 3 ivcnneay a a - trtin m l n lstration and which had helped pro tect this country in a world of danger. What has befallen is the in evitable consequence of an unnecessarily partisan-minded congressional campaign from the White House over com paratively two-bit stakes. Angered at criticism by President Kennedy of his own foreign policy record, former president Eisenhower has now replied in kind. So the long armistice maintained between them on perils beyond the wa ter's edge is now broken. TTOWEVER they had dis- agreed on domestic mat- ters, they thus far had been together in common consent thai this country simply could not afford harsh partisan di visions on affairs like Berlin and Cuba. They are together no longer - and the whole world knows it. General Eisenhower, in deed, had been a tower of strength to President Ken nedy in all those foreign prob lems which beset all Ameri cans - Democrats and Repub licans. But on Monday in Bos ton, for the first time in this campaign, he attacked the Kennedy administration not only for its domestic policies but for its conduct of foreign affairs as well. He did so, he frankly said, because a short time before, in his home state ot Pennsylvania. President Kennedy had thrown barbs at his own previous conduct of those affairs. This columnist has been one of those long alarmed that a mere campaign lo decide who should go to Congress was taking on the tone of an all out contest between two men not now running for any of fice. President Kennedy and General Eisenhower. Five days before the Eisenhower speech in Boston, after recall ing that on the mortal foreign issues the President and for mer president had fully co-operated, this correspondent had predicted: j "The kind of campaigning i in which they are now engag ed could tear apart this rcluc i tant but incomparably impor i tanl Kenned y-Eisenhower i comradeship on this vital se I curity concept." IF THE comradeship has not now been torn apart, it is, I to say the least, in extreme j danger. And for what has this I extreme danger been risked? For a bare hope by President I Kennedy that he m.ght, just I might, bring to Congress a j few more Democrats who would favor those domestic I welfare programs that were denied by the old Congress. Put aside the fact that this old Congress was already I heavily Democratic - though ; it is true it did not give him every single welfare plan he wanted. Put aside that it me morably supported him. with i Republican participation, in , the things that were really important, the issues of na tional survival. Grant, for argument's sake, that "medi cal care for the aged" and "urban renewal" and all that are desirable. But how do these things compare with Berlin, with Cuba'' What kind of a sense of national priorities is involved here? Are medicare and slum clearance more important than keeping this nation to gether for what may be the gravest national peril of our lifetime1 T T IS VERY late now But elementary national inter- ; est demands that President , Kennedy seek reconciliation.' en the one vital point of na Far Right manded by the alliance and in pressing agricultural and edu cational reforms. But it was especially ironic that Venezuela also was in deep trouble. Under the determined lead ership of President Romulo Betancourt, Venezuela had distributed more than 3.5 mil lion acres of land to 55,000 families. New schools enabled the country to cut drastically its illiteracy rate. Opposition to Bctancourt's determined program of econ omic and social reform fol lowed the classic pattern. On the far right were those who saw a threat to privileged positions. On the left were those who opposed U. S. par ticipation in Latin American development and presented S. White tional security, with former president Eisenhower. The rupture simply must now be allowed to endure. For when all this charging about in the Congressional campaign is long over. Presi dent Kennedy must make fateful foreign policy 'decis ions in the loneliness of the White House. The howling partisans who have cried him on to exces sive partisanship for such as medicare will not help him -or the country - much then. He must have high Republi can help. And circumstances make Dwight Eisenhower the only Republican who could really give him help here. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The news was full of sad ness Wednesday. In San Fran cisco, for example, where the Chronicle's Ron Fimrite slarls off his End of the World (Scr ies) with this lugubrious para graph: "There was a rising scream in Candlestick Park, a sudden silence, a stunned pause . . . Then the 43,000 who had hooked their dreams to the Giants' crazy star picked up what marbles they had left after two weeks of pennant and Scries madness and head ed home, the mocking strains of 'Bye, Bye Baby' still ring ing in their ears." From Ron's slory, one gath ers that Candlestick Park and the Field of Armageddon were one and the same on the black day of Oct. IB, 1962. H. ME! 'Twas a tragic day. BUT THERE have been other tragic days. "But there is no joy in Mud ville, mighty Casey has struck out." SO, SAN Francisco, TAKE HEART. You aren't lhe first lo see the world come lo an end. rpHEN - There is Portland, where the Oregonian's Gerry Pratt, wiring from Chicago, leads off his dirge in this manner: "Portland was the brides maid in Chicago Tuesday as the United States Olympic Committee nominated Detroit the American candidate for the 1968 Olympic Games." LWAYS a bridesmaid, but NEVER A BRIDE? No. it isn't that bad. Gerry goes on to say: "But the bride's bouquet, the flowers that could mean WE ARE NEXT went square ly lo Portland, and even as the announcement was made the City of Roses was laying plans for a bid for the 1972 Olympics." That's the spirit It may be long but it won't be never. I SI if'" - . "You'd be surprised how meny colieqe kids are inter ested in politics . . . and most of 'm hive earl out here . , .1" nting and Left the Alliance for Progress at a U. S. political maneuver. From both sides came vio-lcnce-a bomb attack on Car acas' Tamanaco hotel, street riots, assassination attempts and guerrillla raids on small villages. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris ic Field Enterprises Inc. LARGER THAN LIFE As a corollary to my recent piece about people not want ing to become human beings, and using ev ery device to reject the es sential hu manity, thern is a contrary process that we continual- ;r ' ly use with jjt public figures. ni a lunch "! con recently, two men I know were arguing bitterly about Franklin D. Roosevelt. One of them was an implacable Roosevelt-hater; the other was a passionate Roosevelt-idolator. Despite their diametrically opposed positions, what these two men had in common was a refusal to admit that Roose velt was a human being -both viewed him as much larger than life, as something approaching a saint or as something close to the Devil incarnate. Actually, of course, Roose velt (like most of us) was a man of mixed motives and conflicting tendencies. He was both idealistic and tricky, honest and devious, determined and irresolute, amb i t i o u s and magnani mous, clear-eyed and fuzzy minded. But we will not permit him and other figures of his type - to be the check ered human being he really was. After his death, we carve him in monolithic marble to suit the portrait in our minds; and we place flowers at the foot of this, statue, or splatter it with rotten eggs. We ourselves retreat from our humanity by mak ing ourselves smaller than life - by subordinating our selves to one passion, one appetite, one narrow band of the spectrum of human possibilities. But, turning lo our pub lic figures, we distort their humanity by making them bigger than life - by glori fying or debasing them all out of proportion to their actual merits and defects. This, apparently, makes us feel more emotionally com fortable; it gives us a deity or a devil to use as a rigid frame of reference for our own be liefs and prejudices; and, of course, it obviates our need to do any further thinking or re valuating on the subjccl. The chief value of history, of course, is that it rectifies such contemporary distor tions, and places such figures in their proper proportions. It often takes a century or more for society to arrive at a just and reasonable estimate of im portant public men; it is as hard to achieve a good per spective on the public figures of our time as on the art of our time. The political aspects - even the political truths - of the Roosevelt regime do not inter est me here; what interests mc is the need we have for a mythology, lhe psychologi cal drive to turn mere men into gods or devils, and to credit them for all the rains or blame them for all tha droughts. When will we ac cept the humanity of ourselv es, and of our leaders?