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Newspaper Page TextTUESDAY, MDF0RD2i&TRlBUNK 'EvtfryoneinSouthernbrrgon ReadsThe Mail Tribune" Published bally exccptSaturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Kir Jsl.. Ph. 772-8141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manacer GERALD T LATHAM, Bun. Mur ERIC W ALLEN JR.. MnR. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor 1 RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women' Editor DALE ERlCKSON.Irculatlon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 18!I7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Daily and Sunday I year $18 00 Dailv and Sunday 6 mm 10 00 Datlv and Sunday 3 mot. 3.00 Sunday Only One year $3.00 Single Copy (Mailed! 200 Bv Camel And Motor Route. Daily and bunnay I year .i.' Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Knnriav Only 1 mo. 3flc Carrier and Vendor! Copy 10c hfflrlal Paner of Cttv of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U. P. 1 Telepholo Newsplclurra 'MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Offices In New York. Chi cago Detroit. Snn Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. Denver. N ATI 0 N A I EDITORIAL AS5C0TIN tr NEWSPAPER PUBllSHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medlcd and Jackson County History from tho files of Th Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 13, 1952 (Thursday) Christmas opening of stores in Medford, when a showing of Yuletide wares will be made, will be held the evening of Wednesday, Dee. 3, accord ing to members of the Med ford Retail Trades association. Slightly more than 78 per cent of Jackson county regis tered voters cast ballots in the Nov. 4 general election, the complete canvass of votes shows. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1942 (Friday) Medford Building and Con struction Trade council pre sents vehicle to be used for ambulance and emergency car to local Red Cross chapter. Fmm Arthur Perry's "Ye Knuirioe Pot'1 column: "A number of citizens have start ed using 'shanks mure' to get places, and as yet have run into no phone poles, pioneer trees or fire hydrants." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1932 (Sunday) County budget committee recommends 10 per cent slash in salaries of all county em ployees whose pay is not fixed by law. Medford area police await report from slate attorney general on recent vote' repeal ing prohibition. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1922 (Monday) Final tally of votes for Med ford district constable shows Medford Police Chief George O. Timothy defeated Special Prohibition Enforcement Offi cer S. B. Sandifer by 2 to 1 margin. Jackson coinily receives sil ver trophy given to county winning most first places in land products department of Pacific International show in Portland. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 13, 1912 (Tuesday) Danger of general European war believed ended us Turkey recnicsts cessation of hostili ties Willi Bulgaria; Russia said "overawed" by displays of strength on borders by Aus tria and Ccriiiany. Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct li superior; even or eight it excellent; fivt oi lit it good. 1. Docs a plan c I a r i u m house exotic plant lite or ma rine life? 2. Aniyl aeelale has an odor like which fruit.' 3. In which State of the U.S. did the Whiskey Rebel lion occur? 4. Of I he big-game animal? in the U.S., are there nunc moose, deer, or bear'.' 5. Who whs responsible for the "Massacre of the In nocents' at Bethlehem',' 6. Is the right side of a ship (looking forward) the starboard or the port side'.' 7. "The Three Sisters," "Manier" and "Hood" ore all what'' 8. What did Napoleon say an army marched on? I). Did Leon Trotsky, who was banished from the USSR, die a nalural death, and where did he die" 10. Pickett . Charge oc curred in what decisive bat tle of the War Between the States'" Answers: 1. Neither (model or representation of plane tary system), 2. Bananas, 3. Pennsylvania. 4. Deer, 5, Her od, 6. Starboard. 7. Moun tains. 8. Its stomach. 9. No, he was assassinated in Max Ico. 10. Gettysburg. 4 -ria NOVEMBER 13. 1962 Equality of What? One of our regular writers of letters to the editor, and one of our regular critics, is hipped on the inequality of individuals. He maintains that people are different, due to heredity, from birth some excelling in one field, some in another, still others exemplifying inferiority in various ways. Any person with half an eye can see that he's right. There are some superior individuals; some inferior ones. There are some individuals who excell in a specific talent and are deficient in others. There are some (like Leonardo da Vinci) who excell in many fields and some who excell in none. A ND yet there are three areas in which all men are (or should be) equal or else the whole American tradition goes swishing down the pre determinist drain. All men are (or should be) equal in the eyes of the law. All men are (or should be) entitled to equal ity or opportunity. All men are (or should be) equal in the eyes of their Creator. Otherwise a massive all Americans and on Fatherhood of God implies the Brotherhood of Man. X7E do not see how T T heredity has much becomes. Abraham Lincoln, born poor and in circumstances hardly designed to lift him above his backwoods neighbors, must have had the right combination of genes to permit him to grow into one of the giant figures of history. The same is true with all truly great men and women. If they do not have the elemental stuff of greatness within them, the potential for growth, they do not have what greatness needs to build upon. On the other hand, however, how many po tentially great figures in the human drama have been lost simply because the conditions were not right for their development? How many have been barred from adequate food, an opportunity to develop brain capacity, or an environment which would permit their latent genius to flower? THE two must coincide, or greatness cannot mil (ii'irn UI 111,1 Those of us who believe in the humanistic ideal of the improvability of mankind, therefore, insist that we must never cease in our efforts to improve the environment into which we all are born, and to provide an equality of opportunity so that latent genius, jiotential greatness, will have a chance to make itself known. It is true that only a the human race is equipped for greatness. It is also true that only a very small percentage of the human race is inevitably doomed to utter failure. In broadening the opportunity for the one, we also lessen the drawbacks for the other, and for the great mass of us in between the extremes of greatness and failure, the tered, and all benetit. AS FOR those who maintain that the obvious inherent differences among men some big, some little, some great, some small can be applied to whole groups, or social or religious or sheerest balderdash. There is not a race which has not produced greatness, in one field or another. The percentage of those achieving greatness has, of course, varied from time to time, and we are convinced that this variation is a result of environmental factors; that latent greatness and the necessary ambience of opportunity did not exist together, that the potency of one was crushed by the absence of the other. That each individual, no matter what his color or his background, has an equal opportunity to develop his talents to the full, is that for which America has, with some short-sighted exceptions, chosen to stand. It is a good and necessary thing! to stand for, and is the sole hope of the race ot man to grow to maturity. li.A. Mostly Moderates Walter Lippmann, in his column on this page Sunday, pointed out that last week's election was largely a victory for the moderates. This was true in Oregon, as elsewhere. Congresswoman Edith Green and Sen, Wayne Morse are the most liberal of the incumbents returned to office, with practically all other successful candidates solidly in the middle of the political spectrum, and few very far to the right. THE SAME was largely true in California. Two John Birch Society congressmen were defeat-! cd. Gov. Pat Iirown is a moderate. So is Kepub-j lican Senator Tom Kuchel. About the only exception was the election of j Dr. Max l.afferty as superintendent of public in struction. The office is non-partisan, but during the slam-bang campaign, unusual for this type of i office, Dr. Kafferty was frequently identified with right wing causes. His opponent. Dr. Kalph Richardson, was a moderate. It will he interesting to see what happens in California school systems in the coming few veal's. Rafferty has espoused a return to the "basics," indoctrination against Communism,; ind an end to "progressivism" in education. E.A. I joke is being played on all who believe that the anyone can dispute that to do with what a man very small percentage of human condition is bet whether they be ethnic whatever this is the on the face of the globe men and women of true avlEDFOHD "Indeed, Suh! Some Of Mah Kinfolk Are Yankee" ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen na.ue or initial for publication is permissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right io 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 case. Letter Quoted To the Editor: The follow ing letter appeared in the morning Oregonian and I think it should be printed in our paper too, for more peo ple to read and ponder its message. I have been listening to the writer Ruby N. Rether- ford for years and think her ideas the best and that she is, the greatest. She is my mother. Virginia Vaughan 21 South Grovcland ave. Medford. O Peace on Earth' , To the Editor: I was shock ed at the remark I heard on the radio of "Nikita's back down." Why do we not accept with deep gratitude the fact that negotiations toward peace arc being made and not make it appear that someone is "yel low"? Such accusations as this lead only to more hard feelings and strife. Witness the small boys playing in the backyard. If one is called a coward, it only rankles within him until he can find a way Washington Report By William (ci United teaturs Syndicate SUBTLE PROBLEM Washington - A polit i c a 1 problem of extraordinary sub tlety confronts President Ken. nedy in the i ! a f t erlight of i last wee k's .1 ifH c o ngrcssional and stale elec tions. In or der to seek reasonable safety against the now highly probable pres idential chal lenge in 11)04 of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Mr. Kennedy needs to find a means of reconciliation with the insurgent South. Smith west and mountain states. Those areas were difficult enough fur the president in his own election in 1!H0. In deed, they probably would have been hopeless for him hut for the presence on his ticket of tho Texan. Vice President Lyndon Johnson. In hist week's voting tests, they were more difficult still. KLAllOMA elected the first Republican governor in 53 years. Texas Republi cans made the most formida ble challenge for tho gover norship since the reconstruc tion era at the end of the Civil War. One of the ablest Democrats to sit in the Senate in half a century, Liste, Mill of Alabama, was pursued down to a photo finish to win over his Republican ad or- sary. Colorado and Wyoming j lost sitting Democratic sena tors ! N'oarly everywhere from; the Gulf of Mexico to the ap-; proachcs of the Far West i there w as compelling evi-1 donee of a rise of conserva-1 live and in' Republican sen-j timent. In the erstwhile solid South itself, the Republicans moved i the people far clovr than! even before toward a real two-parly system. A in o n g other things, they held nine seats in the Mouse of Koprc-1 scntaltves and picked no five ! more for a total of 14 in the new Congress w HAT happened' There is ' no single answer. Hill ! was hurt in Alabama by spill-1 ed-over resentment at the President's rii-patch of feder- al troops to Mississippi in the I f - f While MAIL TH1BUNE, MEDFORD. tf- Tt twfVM'rttvreeii fSr CO, to get even. Rations consist oi small boys grown up. We have had "Prayer for Peace" days or weeks. Our Christian nation has spent many prayerful hours. We be lieve in the power of prayer. Now, when we see it being answered in God's own way, we tear the other fellow apart, thinking he is afraid. Dear fellow Americans, let's just get down on our knees al this Thanksgiving time and thank the God of all (Rus sians, Cubans, Catholics, Jews or Protestants) that He is still governing all His creation. 1, with thousands of other believers, study the inspired messages in the 23rd, ft 1st and 121sl Psalms daily. That, in my thinking, is the great pana cea for all this world's ail ments, no matter what race or creed. In so doing, we shall all come into the full under standing of the brotherhood of man, and, as is promised "all shall sit under his own fig tree" and the "lion shall lie down with the lamb." Let us now go into our holi day season, the Thanksgiving time, with gratitude to t h e S. White integration crisis at the uni versity. John Connally, in winning the governorship of Texas, was less markedly, but genuinely, damaged thereby. But this sort of issue was in no sense compelling in the Southwest or in the moun tain west. It is clear that a simple attachment to deep conservatism is al work all over these regions. Now, but for Texas, the South, Southwest and moun tain states are not supreme electoral vote prizes-. And in some circumstances their loss can be chanced, though al ways easier by the Republi cans because they have the traditionally G O P. Midwest to fall back upon. But in l!)ti4. Mr. Kennedy is likely to need these cry areas very badly indeed, and most particularly the Soulli. especially if Rockefeller is in fact his antagonist. Ivocko tcller's views on race issues arc so advanced that lie will surely be most likely to suc ceed against the President precisely in those great north ern and eastern urban .states, with powerful and sometimes decisive minority group blocs, which actually elected him in IfitiO. T 'HIS being the cli r prolv ability, Mr. Kennedy's re - quirement vvill be (or a better relationship w ith the South. as a matter of necessity, and with the Southwest and moun tain West, us a nuiticr of high desirability, to ay t!te hast. This forecast expressing tho plain realities in those areas is the more sharpened by the fact that m l!lti4 the big lour urban stales New York. Pennsylvania. Michigan and Ohio will be in liepuhliean control down al Ihe state house All save New York : were in friendly Dcmeci atic hands when lust he ran and all save Ohio he earned No politician discounts tho ca pacity ot a governor to help or harm, sometimes erttuallv, a presidential candidate m his own tatc What all this leads to is the conclusion, odd as it may sound at first, that if Rocke- feller is in fact his challenger. President Kennedy m.iv find it wise to run in 1HS4 as the relatively more conserv ativ c candidate, in f.ict if never by acknowledgement OREGON Effect of Momentous Unknown; By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Just what effect the closing days of October will have had on history must be left for future histori ans to decide. But they were epic days and from mis close range it is dif ficult to think of any compa rable surge of events since explosion of mi Newsom the first atom ic bomb over Hiroshima or of events which so affected the interwoven pattern of world relationships. On Oct. 20, the Red Chi nese launched the first of massive attacks against the Indian border, slicing into the mountainous line all the way from Ladakh adjoining Kash mir in the west to the north cast territories adjoining Bur ma. In a broadcast on Monday night, Oct. 22, President Ken nedy announced the quaran tine of Communist Cuba. old God of the far-flung battle-line for being "with us yet." Then into the Christmas season, acknowledging the Prince of Peace and His glori- ous message which is for all generations. Ruby W. Retherford 9554 SW 62nd dr. Portland, Ore. Doe Season To the Editor: I recently re ceived this letter: Dear Mr. Corey: We wish to acknowledge your letter and clipping protesting the antlerless deer seasons. Due to the many requests for a general cither sex open ing, the popular Silver Lake unit was opened to both bucks and does al the beginning of the general dear season in 1959. After the hunt, it was found that a higher percent age of antlerless deer had been shot and left in the woods than during a split season. This seemed to indi cate that many hunters who were successful in killing an antlerless deer on the opening morning left it to take a larger animal. We appreciate your com ments and interest. Your let ter will be considered by the commission prior to the set ting of the 1963 big game regulations. Ira D. Luman, Chief Big Game Oregon State Game Commission Port hind. Ore. Note, a 1 I deer hunters should write the game com mission protesting this special doc season. C. W. Corey Phoenix, Ore. Post Mortem To the Editor: A great deal has been written within the past few days as to why Sena tor Morse won re-election and Sig Unander lost. As Sig Unander's campaign director and with access to the highly accurate Waterhouse Poll. 1 am in a position to an alyze the results of the elec tion on a scientific basis. For the record. Senator Morse was no longer Sig Unander's op ponent alter the Cuban dec lination on Oct. 22 by John F. Kennedy. The Senator neither won nor lost an election, he was merely an inleresled spec tator on the side-lines. The W a t e r h o u s e Poll showed that between Oct. 1 and Oct. 22. Sig Unander gained .2 ol a point and had cu! Senator Morse's lead to l.l per cent For all practical purposes, this was a last horserace which Senator Morse would hav e been h.ird pressed to win. However, al- : t,.,- ,. President's strong ac- ; lion on Cuba, w hich was long ; overdue, the Waterhouse Poll ! completely reversed itself and by Nov. .". Sig was trailing by almost 5 lull points I Although Sig had long ad vocated ex.utlv tho same ac tions tii.it Ihe President event-: ualiy took on Cuba it was un-' possible due to lack of cam- i paign funds to protect Sig's viewpoint hetore the Presi dent ni.uio the Cuban declara tion Thereto! e. the voters louinl it easier m this' slate j to identify Cuban action with a Democratic leader than a Republican, and as a consc-' queiice Senator Morse vv as re-elected. In cllect. wo were 1 "Cub; :ii,-cd " Wes Phillips. Failing liuihiing. Portland. Ore U of O Economics Head Dies of Cancer Vaxk-uc in C. W.ird M.u- , iH'.'-ut of thr Vnivot sity of Ore o n oivntitmrs depr! nu-n t suno l;i.i0, du d of ivuvor hciv i Swnri.w n.jchi Ho H.t. Split in Red Ranks Half a world apart, the two nonetheless were inter-lock- ing. Overlooking for the mo- ment the profound effect the Cuban action had on U. S. prestige among its allies and sympathizers, let us look at the Communist world. Soviet Premier Khrush chev's quick move to with draw his rockets from Cuba in the face of the U. S. ulti matum not only was a clear demonstration of Kremlin con tempt for the bearded Fidel Castro. Far from being a Kremlin darling when the chips were down, Soviet failure even to consult Castro on withdrawal Matter of Fact fel New York Herald CHINESE PUZZLE Washington-Thus far, the Chinese invasion of India has caused far less world wide commo tion than it should have done, because the Cuban cri sis held the limelight at the critical moment. In a sense, this was probably aisoo by design. The Chinese Communists most certainly did not expect the Cuban crisis to follow the course it finally took; but it seems probable that they timed their Indian operation to coincide with Niksita S. Khrushchev's scheme for a political-strategic Pearl Har bor in Cuba. The Chinese certainly had no warning of the Cuba scheme from Khrushchev himself or from other offi cial Russian sources, but they could easily have been warned unofficially by their important Cuban contacts or perhaps by their sympathizers in the Soviet general staff. It is hard to believe, at any rale, that it was just pure chance which caused the Chi nese to push off their major attack on the Indians only a fortnight or so before Khru shchev's Cuban scheme for upsetting the world nuclear balance was due to have been completed, if all had gone well. ' YET if a leak to the Chinese explains the coincidence of timing, everything else re mains to be explained. The point about this Chinese ven ture which is so puzzling and also all-important is simply its staggering cost. Here is a government close to founder ing in economic ruin, which is nonetheless mounting an operation against the Indians that would tax the resources of any government in the world except the very richest. The cost items begin with something like 100.000 troops in the units attacking India in Ladakh and the Northeast Frontier agency, and in the back-up and occupation units in Tibet. On the roof of the world, these units are spar ing nothing to gain ground; and they are supported by tanks and by heavy artillery, or at least by very long-range, very heavy mortars. The cost of supplying these troops is minisculc. however, compared to the cost of the supply line that carries the combat tonnage to the troops. The main road, from railhead in Kansu province, in north west China, to the areas where the troops are operat- ing. runs through 2.000 miles of cruelly difficult highland and mountain terrain, with not wIht pini of fcitsohne alonn t ho way. ii trucks must be used to fuel trucks, which fuel trucks, winch again fuel trucks, j which actually carry troop supplies. Some 9.000 vehicles. . or close to one-sixth of all I the trucks in transport-short j China, have had to be as signed to this taxing etforl. i The tonnage of gasoline Ted Kennedy Hosts Campaign Helpers j Ilyannis Port. Mass. 1TI Edward M iTedi Kennedy, who showed Tuesday that he knows how to win elections. ' proved Monday thai he can give big victory parties About 1.300 Democratic workers w ho helped him vv in I a Senate seat came to Cape Cod to celebrate witii the President's brother. They a;e 4tl0 pounds of roast beet. 730 pounds of turkey. ;Hi0 pounds ' of ham. 300 pounds ot potnlo salad. ilOO pounds of cole slaw. 400 meat balls and 200 pound of chicken salad Some guests steed in tine three hours to shake haif s with Kennedy, his wile. Joan, and Kennedy s victorious run ning mates on the Democratic: 'nkct 1 Vi t i em aeaj October Days Still i of the missiles gave him standing even lower than the puppets who follow Kremlin orders In the East European satellites. Together, the Cuban and the Indian crises widened rather than healed the already exist ing breach in the Communist world. Red China assailed Khrush chev as an appeaserand prom ised Castro all the moral and material help it could muster. From Roger Hilsman Jr., director of the U. S. State Department's bureau of intel ligence and research, came the hint that U. S. policy now would take into greater con sideration the undeniable By Joseph AIsop Tribune Syndicate consumed on the road is also ! f!?" , li?., 'l.'" plies used by the troops. And in China, petroleum products are even scarcer than food. The shortage is so great, in fact, that the Soviets, who are the only major Chinese sup plier of petroleum products, are able to force their dear brothers to pay twice for gasoline. First, the Chinese pay in the normal way. And second, they pay by continuing to service their heavy debts to the Soviet Union on which Peking would surely declare a moratorium if Moscow did not hold the petroleum-product lever. rpHIS great cost of the Chi nese effort against India is the main factor to weigh, for a rather simple reason. The huge price the Chinese are paying Is the only logi cal measure to use when one tries to determine the prizes the Chinese hope to win. If you use this measuring stick, it quickly becomes clear that the Chinese aim is not to explode Nehru's hol low prestige, or to break up the Soviet-Indian mutual ad miration society, or to take a few remote frontier posts. All these prizes, already gained, no doubt give Peking much pleasure. Furthermore, the Chinese have a genuine, quite urgent strategic need for the road they have boldly built through Indian territory, across part of the Himalayan state of Ladakh. Yet a bigger Chinese objec tive must still be sought. It may be, as some think, that the Chinese had to attack In dia in order to maintain their ruthless hold in Tibet. Much to Peking's displeasure, the Tibetans' adored leader, the Dalai Lama, has found refuge in India. Within Tibet, resis tance to the Chinese reported ly continues brave and strong. The best way to kill the re sistance, by killing all hope, is to give a bloody nose to the Dalai Lama's Indian host. VET even when this Tibetan factor is cranked into the equation, the answer still does not come out right. The plain truth seems to be that the Chinese have territorial ambitions of a major kind. In this phase, if the In dians do not stop them, the Chinese may be content with gaining enough strong points in the Himalayas to dominate the border states of Ladakh, Sikkim, Bhutan, and Nepal. "He who holds the Himalayan passes gains India in the end.'' an old rule runs. Or in this phase the Chinese may be even bolder, seeking to seize the Brahmaputra v a I 1 c v. where they will find the oil i they need so badly, In any case, if the Chinese are not stopped in this nhase. it seems plain they intend to dig in and prepare for a fur ther advance. The prospect of a further advance later on. possibly in India or more probably into rich Burma, which they will soon out flank, is the only reward that would justify the effort the Chinese are now making. RECRUITS CENTER M THE ARMY -XEHrTU "1 bliev in Gandhi's 'passive resistance Amillmri VAll Viav In f,Ut Possibility proof of the deterioration of relations between the two bij Communist allies. There was a growing convic tion that the diametrically op posed positions taken by the two on the issues of Cuba and India, had made the split ir reparable so long as Khrush chev and Red China's Muo Tse-Tung remain in power. There are even those bold enough to predict that t h a world now has seen commu nism reach its peak, and that the future course only can ba downward. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (c- Field Enterprises Inc. NO OTHER WAY OUT I picked up a paperbounrl book at the airport last weeK that occupied my attention all the wav to r!rff:i North Caro- lina and hack. It is called nreaK , through to Peace," and t -V , recommend it f - to an Amen i cans who aro nii77lrrl n n n. Harris fused and con cerned about the present state of the world. Edited with an introduction by Thomas Merton, the widely-known Trappist priest, this book presents 12 views on tho threat of thermonuclear ex termination. It contains soma of the most clear, reasonable and humane commentaries I have yet read on our global predicament. The book's epigraph is a prophetic statement made by Einstein more than a do:en years ago: "The splitting ot the atom has changed every thing except our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastro phe." All the 12 men who con tribute toward this volun'.o - historians, editors, scien tists, psychiatrists, theolo gians, sociologists - have rr,3ds a breakthrough in their modes of thinking about war and peace, have recognized that the world of the 1960's is in a funda mental sense different fro.n the world of 20 years ago. "Breakthrough to Peace" discusses such central prob lems as "The Morals of Ex termination" by Lewis Mumford; "Shelters, Survi val and Common Sense" by Norman Cousins; "Can War Be Cured?" bv Dr. Joost Moerloo; and "Human Na ture and the Dominion of Fear" by Prof. Herbert But terfield, the distinguished profesor of modern history at Cambridge. In his intorduction. Fath er Merton-points out that "in this situation, where the issues are loo enormous for the mind of the average man to grasp, when tho threat is too appalling for his political habits and in stincts to instruct him ade quately, the tendency is to lake refuge in fanaticism or in passive desperation." There are no slogans of easy answers given by the contrib utors to this book: there is, however, general agreement that old modes of thinking and calcified ways of feeling must be abandoned - that only a revolution in thought en avert terrible consequences of our physical revolution m the release of atomic '.norgy. And yet, such revolutionary thinking, as Father Morton reminds us. is traditional and humanistic in the deeoesl and must spiritual sense. It is "faithful to the Judaeo Chris tian tradition on which our civilization was built. There i.i no hope for us if wc lose sight of these perspectives. Thera is no other human way out." fi&r.T rck)CUk cooWYU fc-.so but t ,l. . tscak Tar1.- La M If "" me rignt io oeneve in passive resistance ."