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Newspaper Page TextWednesday. 4 )teMONJS&TRlBUNI "Everyone lrTSouthern Oregon H,ed Tho Mll Tribune' Published "Dailv'except Saturday by MtDKORr PRINTING CO 33 North Fir Jit., Ph. 772-6141 ROBKRT W KLHL. Editor HKRU GREY Advertl.inR Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mcr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Mint Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1HMAS. Tcleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporH Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation MRr AnIndependnY Newspaper Entered as second class m;itter at Mcdford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance , Daily and Sunday I year 1S Oil Daily and Sunday fl )" 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 nios. 3 00 Sunday Only One year $5 00 Single Copy (Mailed) 2"c Bv Camel And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year 2l.on Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo. 5c Carrier andVendors Copy 10c Official" Paper of Cltv of Medford Official I'apcr of Jaikson County United" Press International Full Leased Wire 1J. P I Tclcphoto Ncwsplcturea "MEMBER "OF r AUDIT I1I1REAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Offices in New York. Chl r,:o Detroit. San Francisco. Los Anceles Seattle. Portland Denver. NATION A I EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Mcdlcd and Jackson County History from tho tiles ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ego. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1952 (Friday) George A. Coddinft, former Jackson county district attor ney, died in a Mcdfor! hos pital today. The California Oregon Power company has announc ed that it will resume its win tertime cloud seeding pro gram to increase precipitation over portions of the Rogue Umpqua drainage area. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1942 (Saturday) Members of former Med ford National Guard unit re ported serving in Australia. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The autumn leaves were accelerat ed by a fresh wind that blew all the leading directions in cluding up today. Many lawns raked yesterday failed to look it as a result." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1932 (Monday) Football game between Hood River and Mcdfort' High school teams for mythical slate championship called off When Hood River star is ruled ineligible. East Medford residents ap pear before city council to urge widening of East Main t. from Riverside ave. to Almond si. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 14. 1922 (Tuosday) New l'J2a model sedan. 'equipped with starter and j acninuntauic runs m-iis iui $702.80 in Medford. City planning commission receives mum-rims objections to proposed construction of new sawiu))) m uie vim id West Main st. j SO YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1912 (Thursday) Mrs. Mary K. Hrildy. leader! In local suftragc club, an-! liounces she will not tie a can didate for mayor of Meriturd I Harvey Richardson, defeat-1 cd candidate lor Jackson j county coinnusit)iHT, reports J campaign expenses of 50 cents. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ot sis is good. 1. In southern U. S. would a "Yankee Dime" mean a hug ; or a kiss? 2. Baton Rouge is the capi tal of which slate? ; 3. Which word is incoi red ly used: "There were two or! three, or at the most, a dozen people there." 4. Nain Ihe capital of Egypt. 5. In which Stale Is Mir famous St oqualmie waterfall' i H. How many Jacks .showing only one eye are in a standard deck of 52 playing cards'" 1 7. What was the peace im posed on the known world by ' Imperial Rome called'' 8. In Its joui'iiev around the earth, in which direction Hncs Ihe moon travel1 It. How many inches arc in I one mile? ! 10. In w hat language was the Magna t'harla written'' i Answers: 1, Kiss. 2. Louis Una, 3, All are used correct- . ly. although old - Imhioned usage would replace "people" with "persons." 4. Cairo. 5.! Washington, 8. Two. 7. Pax ; Romana. 8. West to East, 9. j 83,360. 10. Latin. j - AS IVI41III II Jl.'li'.t.ll S CwfSV PUBLISHES VaWiat.on November m. 1962 Unusual Weather The weather in the Rogue valley this year ha3 been (with apologies to San Francisco) "un usual." We don't remember all the vagaries distinct ly, but we do recall the slashing rains of early October, the cyclonic winds of the 12th, and other abnormalities during the year sufficient to cause renewed speculation that nuclear bomb tests might have been responsible. We tend to forget earlier extremes in the weather cycle, the floods and blizzards and winds and dry spells and rain 'THE NATIONAL Observer has compiled a few weather records from the United States, some of which were also world records, and these tend to remind us that there al" weather. Here are some of them : Highest temperature 134 degrees in Death Valley, July 10, 1913. Lowest temperature Minus 78 degrees, Ft. Yukon, Alaska, Jan. 14, 1934. Greatest drop in temperature 100 degrees in 24 hours, from plus 44 to minus 56 degrees, Browning, Mont., Jan. 23 Greatest 24-hour rainfall Thrall, Texas, Sept. 29, 1921. Greatest 24-hour snowfall -Lake, Colo., April 14-15, 1921. Greatest seasonal snowfall (83 feet, 4.3 inches), Paradise Ranger Station, Wash., 1955-5(5. Longest period of no rainfall 767 days (over two years), Bagdad, Calif., October 1912 to Nov. 1914. Highest recorded suface wind 231 mph, Mt. Washington, N. H., April 12, 1934. rESPITE this reminder that "unusual" weather is always with us, it should be noted that these extremes all occurred in places where such ex tremes might be expected to occur. . It is in normally-placid areas, such as the Rogue valley, where "unusual" weather really gets noticed such events as the Oct. 12 storm, and the floods of 1955-56. Most of the time we go along happily with the temperature ranging (seasonally) between the 20s and 90s, the rainfall coming at a steady lb to 20 inches a year, a few inches of snow once or twice a year, and, happiest happenstance of all, with four readily discernable seasons, each to be welcomed for its own beneficences and qualities. li.A. Nixon, Again r It appears that Richard Nixon, even in politi cal eclipse, is destined to remain a controversial figure, as he has been for more than a dozen years. Following our brief comment on his defeat in his race for governor of California last week, we received a telephone call at home, during which the caller accused us of "low, low" journal ism. We had, as a matter of fact, thought that our comment was fairly obvious, to the effect that we were glad Nixon is neither President of the U. S., nor Governor of California. Out, somewhat unsettled by the call, we were glad to pick up the Klamath' Falls Herald and News Tuesday and to publisher, I bweetland. NOW BILL is a fine the imagination can He's about as conservative , , . . . , . t ) l.v, and is a long-time, ardent Republican. This was his comment: "I've supported Dick Nixon 1001 per cent in his run at the Presidency, and his masl recent attempt to caplurc the Caliiornia governorship. Hut. from what I hear and rend about his performance at his 'last press ennterence.' denied if I don't have substantial second thoughts about the stability of such a guy. And I'm in clined lo think Ihe nalion is insl as well off th.it he is not the While House occupant " That's about what we said, and the reaction is nearly unanimous among those who saw Nixon's post-election blast. h I7K DIDN'T happen to tune in to that TV ' broadcast of Nixon's final appearance be-, fore the press, but we have read a transcript of it. It is a man not wholly rational speaking. He had been without sleep for IS hours be fore; he was naturally upset by his defeat; he: was under great strain and pressure all these things are true. Rut his self-contradictions, his non sequiturs, his admonitions to reporters and publishers to write as they wished (in one breath) ami to write as he suggested (in the next), his rambling delivery, his repititions (he said "One last thing" three times, the first about halfway through .his remarks, and "The last point," once), all these convinced us that here was a very human person with whom we could sympathize but not one we wanted making life-aml-death decisions for the nation. -- K. A. dcice An old axiom about how to bo a suavss, a fa vorito of Mayor John SniilorV, nuM its ivpoatinu. It jLjors this way : "Find out what you'iv doing wrong, and do loss of it. Find out what yuu'ro doing right, and do nioro of it." Good advioo. K.A. torrents ot earlier years. has always been "unusu - 24, 191b. 38.2 inches, 76 inches, Silver - 1,000.3 inches see the comment by its guy, but bv no stretch of j he be calied a "liberal." as they come, pohtical- MEDFORD "How About 'The Star Spangled Banner'?" WW mm tm ... 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 to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted tor publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters orinted in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Ticket Sale To the Editor: It would be interesting to have a break down of the distribution of the 619 tickets sent to Med ford for last Friday's Grants Pass - Medford game. We know that 278 of them went on sale last Monday morning at 7 o'clock. There are the privileged few, (or is it majority?) that are handed four or six tickets. These are the few who wouldn't stoop so low as to stand in line. Then there are the other class of people that must real ly love the Black Tornado, be cause they got up in the wee small hours of the morning, braved the elements and stood in line for three, four, and yes, even five hours to get tickets. Then there were the hundred or so that ar rived about 5 a.m.. to stand in line, only to be turned away, disappointed, as the tickets were all gone. The group who really de serve tickets, the players, are entitled to two apiece. But then we saw the star quarter back's father sitting on the 15 yard line, and it was pretty obvious who the people were sitting in the 40 yard line seats. And by the way, not many of them were standing ill line on Monday morning. I have always heard that Grants Pass has a reputation for playing a dirty game of football. At least their way of distributing football tick ets was fair, and should set an example for other cities. A tolal of 1200 tickets went on .sale in Grants Pass last Monday morning. After the players got their two allotted tickets, it was first come, first served and no favorites. Well this is how I feel about the way the "ticket sale" was handled. I watch ed the game with a clear con science. 1 was one of Ihe "Poor Peons" that stood in line to get tickets. Mary Shaw 1K05 Crown ave. Medford. Ciol T To i J,11"1" Got Together Ihe Editor: May I con- lie two Rogue Valley lowns on one of the finest displays ot sportsmanlike competition I have seen in many year . . . referring of course to the football came at Grants Pass between thai ! city's high school team and Medford's tciun. I Wc have lived in Med font only since April of this ear. but any mention of leavuig I Ins v alley brings storms of protest front my fatmly and , I can't say I disagree at all. j Sure, there are many things ; w hich need to be done, but j in all my travels I have nev-1 cr seen any city without prob-! i,.,,,.- u- -, r.. ..,......!. i that our problems are minor ! as compared to those in count- less other cities. 1 think my j taxes on the home I just pur- ( iiM'd arc too luuh, hut whon compnnnn notrs with my fnmds in other Hrtis my taxes are just as hinh, hut look what 1 am Hi'ttmi; in return. Krotn where I stand, as a new (.ouier without previous knowledge of eonditioi and other pertunnt intonnation, I would like to make one mijj-liesti-mi . . . let's tie I together as a team to keep breast of the ehaimuin tunes tnMead of hukennn between our- .-elves about minor problem. And now, like all admen I nuil sneak in the eommereial I need a job so 1 tan slay m Medlord. ("huek Met'orkle P O Ho ti!4 Medtord Self -Inflicted Dutast To tiie Editor: 1 have read many aitieles by doetors. lay men and by several interested people making inquir iej re uardmtf Kmptnj-eina and what Id do lor someone in iheir immediate fanuh, but I have et to read of anyone who is the victim of this die,ide,1 dis eao, the result of ciatettc smokinp. MAIL THIBUNE. MEDFORD, It was my sad experience lo smoke cigarettes for many years and to develop a ciga rette cough. I tried for several years lo find a doctor who could diagnose my trouble, but to no avail; however, one specialist after treating me for about eight months with shots and medication, came up with the idea that if I stopped smoking I would stop coughing. I immediately stopped sin' king and also stopped coughing, but the cigarette had found its mark and I have been a victim of Emphysema since. I am writing this to help others who are addicted, so let us look at it from the Spiritual angle, also. I would suggest that you read I Co rinthians 3:16,17 which states that we "are the temple of God," along with I Corinthi ans 10:31. These scriptures are proof that when we will fully and deliberately go against God's word, some thing sooner or later with the help of Satan and his aids will result. And to the beau tiful youth of our land, the habit of smoking cigarettes isn't at all like shown on T.V. They are paid for what they do and some people would do anything for a dollar. Please don't be moulded by Satanic scenes, you will be troubled enough by coming events and think for yourself, keep youi mind clear of any dope habit. I was in business in Port land for many years, and through the terrible harm cigarettes have caused me, my doctor advised that 1 be relieved of all responsibility, so in 1950 I was forced to follow his instructions. 1 have conic in contact with hundreds who are developing the same dreadful affliction for which there is no cure. My activities and activities of a great percentage of peo ple will be definitely ham pered by acquiring this dread ed disease, which Is by far more prevalent than cancer of the lungs and just as dead ly: however, it may take just a little longer. I will say this, that from the spiritual stand point, God has been merciful to me so that I have been able to live this long and am still able to relate my story. I am the victim of cigarettes and the future hold- nothing else for me. Me .ical science has I iio cure for my case and only ! God could bring healing to my self-inflicted disease. II is my sincere desire lo warn my fellow men. lest they too find themselves in the same predicament that has come to me through the I use of cigarettes. I 1 5l"'c 1 can lf -Vinl arc d''' ' n"Hj Al J. Hucnergardt. Jj.' ox 451, 1 lU'Vlll.X, VM I Lumber Industry ! Dilemma To the Editor: A few more references to consider in the tycoon lumbermen's dilemma, or plot. Remember the 54 men who met in Chicago, Jan. 2 $22, and formed the Izaak Walton I.eaKue of America, to help safeguard America's nat ural resources from private special interests' exploitation, destruction. William Greeley's answer to the Congressional Inquiry Hoard's question. Dec. 12-Ki. l!l.t!t, when a.-ked why such destruction of Americas for ests: "Fiecmise the owners of that timber have no faith thai it will be worth anything 20 years hence. And hetnj; bui nessmcn tec! no other course but to cul it and Ret the stuff off their hands be lore it de teriorates any more." Cireeley was secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumberman's as sociation The Hiimo. Lake Michi gan, meeting of some lumber- men m July. Hi4t, passed re so- lut ions to present to the Amer- lean roresters Congress m Oc- tober, one that thr federal j OREGON Potential In Yemen By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst As wars go, the current struggle for Yemen, legendary land of the queen of Sheba, isn t much. But its poten tial for much greater trou b 1 e through out the Mid dle East is enough to cause appre hension in Washing- Newiom ton and Lon. don. President Gamal Abdel Nasser sees his best chance for ser sees his best chance for expanding his United Arab Republic since Syria's defec tion in September 1961 and his own break with the Ye men monarchy a year ago. This new opportunity came government should block out 11 million Michigan acres, plant to forest trees and care for till big enough to cut. An other resolution that govern ment lands should be turned over to the slates as custodi ans, as it is easier for private industry to get the lands from the states than from the fed eral government. Chief Forester Lyle Walts' warning to lumbermen, Oct. 9, 1946 at the American For esters' Congress in Washing ton, D. C as to where their practices were leading. The utter disregard by lum bermen to all pleas and warn ings. And this one: The USCC, et al, open threat to destroy, bit by bit, all federally owned Na tional Forests, parks, grazing lands, etc. While on a speak ing lour one Richard Smith, USCC secretary, at the pub lic meeting in Medford, Ore gon. 12 1652. told an audi ence of seven, of which 1 was one, of the plan and how it would be done. Smith said big lumber industry will flood the schools, the public, with prop aganda to do these things. A most ominous threat. John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave., Medford. Straight Lines To the Editor: Yes. folks, years before the colonies be came the USA, there occurred a nasty little war between New Jersey and New York. Probably seven were killed and seven times five wounded. Hurriedly a joint commission was selected, which settled the things we call boundary lines. For almost the first lime in history a straight-line boun dary was determined upon. In this case they surveyed a line from the Hudson river at the 41st degree parallel to the Tri stale rock at the big bend of the Delaware River. That line exists today and raids made (feudlike) to snatch the choicest valleys are looked upon as barbarian. From then on the USA used straight lines frequently; through the Mason-Dixon line, then on lo the Mid Wcsl. Look al the map. See all the linear boundaries. Wyoming und Col orado are totally oblong. From our maps we can prove to all Ihe hostile world thai we have been a nalion readv for negotiation and are civil mstead of war-like in our in- ner nature. Well might India settle its strife with China; Katanga with Congo: Yemen with Saudi, and West with East Germany. Straight lines may be surveyed wilh instruments other than bomb throwers. Even in the New Jersey fracas the raulers came out ot that i "ST? ,.""",C,J, . range, especially the "newer" type like the Himalayas and the Rockies, make boundaries that are not practical and stable. To follow the ridges is too hazardous for the survey- j to follow the valleys just what brings on the feuds. Lakes and deep, wide rivers make good boundaries, bo- I cause the center-lines may be 1 easily determined, as on Lake Eric and the Detroit river. To cite our successful boundary , with Canada-every one knows of that' So. t lie re IS a way out of the almost accepted dilemma as to the walled barrier in mid liciiin. Negotiation, more negotiation is the thing. There i no room for ra.-hness or im patience as the papers head line toda . al'.er Gabriel, 51 Jamo st . Newark, N, J. Equality i'o the Editor Everett Ack hn s letter was very good. The ', cry. "Den l change horses m the middle of the stream." worked m the past and it Money has vv e hear on I worked again spoken, By Die way Trouble From 'Little' Involves Many World on Sept. 19 when Yemenite rebels under Brig. Gen. Ab- colony, its port at the tip of dullah Sallal shelled the pew the Arabian peninsula, and Imen off his throne in the the adjoining Southern Ara medieval capital of Sanaa and bian Federation of sheikdoms proclaimed a republic which j and sultanates which Britain would be closely aligned with is pledged to protect. Nasser's U. A. R. j On the Saudi Arabian side, The Iman, at first thought ; the struggle is developing into dead in the debris of the pal-! a clear contest between Nas ace, turned up in neighboring ! ser and King Saud. Saudi Arabia, and thus the Nasser has poured men and stage was set for the current supplies into Yemen which in conflict involving the U.A.R. ! turn has threatened to carry and the rebel Yemen regime the war into Saudi Arabia, on the one hand and Saudi Working for Nasser is a Arabia and Jordan on the 'deep split within the Saudi other. There was no special mourning for the fall of the Yemen monarchy. But neither the Jordanian nor the Saudi Arabian royal governments fancied a revo lutionary government on the flank. The United States and Britain were concerned not only over the stability of the Middle East but for the rich : oil fields as well. Britain worried also about I In the Day's News By FRANK Over the past week end, Lakeview was one of Oregon's busiest spots. It was host to the Oregon Cattlemen's Asso ciation. From all over the state and from the fringes of the ad joining states of Idaho, Nev ada and California, they were gathered al the historic capi tal of the early cattle country - and if you just happened lo drop into town without a res ervation you were out of luck. Afler bracing all the motels in town and learning that on this particular week end rooms were scarcer than ici cles along the equator, you wished fervently that you had brought your sleeping bag along. But nobody slept in the streets. When the hotels and the motels ran out of rooms, the hospitable people of Lake view rallied around and took the conventioneers into their1 GETTING back to the cattle homes. I VJT nien wno were gatherec Over the past three quar- in Lakeview. over the past ters of a century, Lakeview : week end, they are changing has changed in manv ways but the hospitality of its peo ple hasn't changed by so much as a hair's breadth. T AKEVIEW, of course, has " seen many changes. First it saw the cattle busi ness recede enough to make way for a burgeoning lumber industry: Then both lumber and cattle stepped aside enough to make room for a uranium boom. Now it is oecomlng a tourist capital. Highway 395 is an in- creasingly popular tourist ! crease. His sport jacket is apt route. During the summer, j lo be the envy of all the col tens of thousands or Californ-1 lege boys in sight of it. ians Dour over it on their wav . to the Pacific Northwest and C-1 -Canada. And now the Winnc- H mucca to the Sea Highway has been added. It crosses 395 at Lakeview. The result is an important every side more and more -the Bible says "thai all men are created equal." Now I'm asking some of these quotcrs to give us book, chapter and verse - no quotes from any thing but a King James Bible. All others are man's creation, every reprint means a hun dred other changes. Now book, chapter and verse, please. Boy. we've got Cuba hem med in tighter than a drum! Any ship we can't board we'll sink! There's one! There! We sure got her picture. Yours for America. Ella Powell Box ti2l Central Point, Ore. - o - FHil.tf'c .-.,.( UM,..i i I. I BjbIc ma'v 8ilv abm ' Hv .) i ".- ' , ', mereI . ' Dcclara.ton of Independence ! equal," and that the U.S. Con stitution says that no person I shall be denied "equal pro I tection of the laws," Truth' Duality? To the Editor: Some say two truths there cannot be -that four is ever one and three or one and one and one and one or two times two This do I own; That one may cize. regarding four, i potentialities galore -J and fractionwisr or subtrahending. truths of four are never-ending Which equals w Inch and which is fact -gauge or integer intact' Can four or standard bear subsidence sans a state of coexistence" Thelma Carson Star Route. Box fcO Prospect. Ore a possible threat to Aden Arabian royal family, five of whom have renounced their titles and citizenship and pledged to work witll Nasser. King Saud has reorganized his government and has named his half-brother. Crown Prince Faisal, to head it. Fai sal has launched a scries of internal reforms to channel j more of the nation's oil wealth into social and economic de velopments. The royal family and Ihe JENKINS addition to Lakeview's tourist industry. New motels are be ing built all over the place, and the tourisl dollar is grow ing in importance in Lake view's economy. INCIDENTALLY, the Win nemucca to the Sea high way is an important addition to Oregon's tourist business. Highway 40, one of the big East-West Main Streets, turns sharply to the south at Winne mucca, and in the past that has resulted in draining a heavy share of lis west-bound tourists down into Central California. ft is now possible for these tourists to continue on across Southern Oregon to the Ore gon beaches by a short and pleasant route. In increasing numbers, they are doing just that. Lakeview is a natural for their first slop in Oregon. too. It has always been possible to spot a cattleman at least a block away. It still is. But the distinguishing marks are changing. There was a lime, for example, when one noted a tendency to a bow in the lower limbs, acquired by long and close association with a cow pony. No more. In these days, the cattle man's well-tailored trousers hang straight from the belt to the shoe, with a Derfect in these later days you want to locate a cattleman, just look for the best-dressed man in sight. The modern cat tleman looks more like a big city banker than anybody else. The world is changing, and the cattle business is changing along with it. But it is still big business in Oregon, and wc love it. We love it all the more because the cattlemen have resisted stubbornly the efforts of Big Government to get its nose under the edge of the cattle lent. More power to these stub born free enterprisers. Zurich, Switzerland - i:PP -The International Press Insti tute published Tuesday a cable to Ghana President Kkame "shuck Nkmmah expressing and dismay" al his government s takeover of the ate predecessors lived their country's o n 1 y independent j professional lives on the open newspaper. The message said seas: like the buffalo and the the 1.400 members of the in- j whooping crane, thev are a stitute hoped that the "eman-1 vanishing species on tho cipation of Africa" would be American scene. The oreani marked by "the growth ol a ; zation man is now grazing thriving and indigenous ! peacefully even in the groves Press" I of Academe. "Never mind about ralim many G.I. i who remember War Capitals government believe the Saud is will rally ta their side. Nas ser's actions indicate he u fomenting and expects a rev olution. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Karris (c Field Enterprises Inc. LAST OF THE BREED I When John Steinbeck waj awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, his award prob- rVffrrl ably marked the end of an era in Ameri c a n writing. Steinbeck is about the last of the "self made" wri ters. After be ing graduated from h i e h Harris scnooi in Salinas, Calif., Stein beck spent a year or so at Stanford and then left to go into newspaper work. With the exception of Sinclair Lewis, who received a degree from Yale (and then also join ed a newspaper staff), most of the older generation of wri ters did not have the dubious benefits of a college educa tion. Ernest Hemingway left school to become a cub re porter; he had no college training al all. William Faulk ner spent less than two years at the University of Mississip pi, and then quit. Eugene O'Neill took a year at Prince ton, and left hastily. All these men were Nobel Prize win ners. In ihe generation of lha 1920s and 30s. such pre eminent writers as Sher wood' Anderson; H. L. Mencken. Carl Sandburg and Ring Lardner were ut terly divorced from the aca demic community indeed, much of their literary satire and scorn were heaped upon the American colleges and universities in those decades. Today, all this hai changed. Not only do ihe bulk of writers take their degrees (and often go on Jo graduate work), but most of them continue to be associ ated with colleges as lec turers, instructors, or "poets-in-residence." From year to' year, they travel the academic circuit, gen erously subsidized for the prestige of Ihe university. It is still too early to tell how this new relationship will affect the output and the quality of their creative work. The old class of pro fessional writers was inde pendent, irreverent, and sometimes militarily anti- intellectual. Heresy their stock-in-trade. was The new breed has been quietly domesticated: they lecture, they preside at sem inars, they patiently partici pate in writers' "workshops." They lunch with the Dean, dine with the President, and parade before the trustees on ceremonial occasions. Creative writers should, of course, be the critics of their society; when they become a part of the Establishment, it is moot whether they have gained more than they have lost. Certainly, a university should harbor talents; but does a talent do best in a harbor or on the open seas? ' Steinbeck and his immerii. after 17 yean, then aren I what it really wai like . .