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J MONDAY. MedfordJ1&&Tribun "'Everyone In SbutharnOreibn"" ReadjThMi!Tribune2 Published Dally except" Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North irSt.. Ph. 772-SU1 ROBERT W. RUIU.. Editor HERB GREY Advertlnlng Manar GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CHIPMAN. Tileg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DAL EE R I C K SO N . JC I r c u 1 a u o nMgr An Independent Newapaper Entered aa tecond clasa matter It Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 yeargld.OO Daily and Sunday moa. 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moi. 3.00 Sunday Only One year $3.00 Single Copy (Mailed! 300 nu rimi And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year 131.00 Dally and Sunday l mo. i.ia Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrlm and Vendor! Copy 10c hrrtclaf Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leaied Wire O. P I Telepholo Newiplcturei "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising RrnreerntaUve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI. ATES Of'lcel In New York. Chi rago. Detroit, San rranclico. Lot Angelea. Seattle. Portland. Denver. NATIONAL E0ITORIAI VV I ASBOCfrATIcJN imif iia.'.ii.'.i.iiJ Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the fllei of The Mall Tribunt 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 vaan ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 26, 1952 (Tulldly) Dodge bridge across the Rogue river had been com pleted and Hie route is now open to traffic. A total of 534 pints of blood 166 less than the hoped-for quota of 700 was collected by the Bloodmobile during its visit here. 20 YEARS AGO Nor. 26. 1942 (Wednesday) November 1042, precipita tion heaviest in history of local weather bureau for the month; total is 7.33 inches of rainfall. From Arthur Pcrry'i "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The government has directed that tails of men's shirts will be six inches shorter henceforth. The war gets grimmer and grim mer as democracy starts put ting the pressure on the axis.'' 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 26. 1932 (Friday) Jackson county tax levy to be unchanged during coming year despite heavy cuts in budget because of decreases in fees and receipts. Medford Chamber of Com merce invites Jacksonville to take part in local observance of Oregon statehood. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 26, 1922 (Saturday) From Local and Personal column: "The Sexton moun tain section of the Pacific highway is now completed and the bugaboo of travel, the Sexton mountain detour, is a thing of memory only"; new highway is 18 feet wide. Ed Andrews, opera comed ian and former resident of Medford, opens in American Light Opera company per formance of "The Bohemian Girl" in Portland. 50 YEARS AGO Noy. 26, 1912 (Monday) Fire destroys barn contain ing! 30 horsepower 1910 Hayes automobile owned by W. H. Humohrcvs. Medford man reports his milk cow has been stolen, or has untied herself. nneneH two doors, moved two car riages and climbed a fence. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct li superierj liven or eight li ticllltnt; fin six it good. 1. With what branch of ani mal or plant life does an ichthyologist deal? 2. What country In the Western Hemisphere Is the largest in area? 3. Grindstones are kept wet to keep them cool, to retard the crumbling, or to keep the knife cool? 4. Do ordinary constant speed electric motors use more current when starling or when running at top speed? 5. Can an ordinary man lift a 6 inch cube of gold? fl. What color results from mixing yellow and blue? 7. Whose Idea was the wooden horse of Troy? 8. What two rivers meet at Pittsburgh and form another river. 9. In what position do ball sleep? 10. In what garden was Jesus arrested' Answers: 1. Fiih. 2. Braiil, 3, To keep knife cool. 4. Start' ino. 5. Yet (150 lb..). I. Grain. 7. Ulyttti'. I. Alleghany and Monongahala form Ohio. 9 Hinging uptidi down. 10 Gelhsimine. gWiPA77 -A$SOetATION NOvi.Met.ri to. loot East and West Tm4ViarYii-it nn la a nftr In tha forfilo f.nnnaoi- lent rivpr vnllpv nf wpstprn MassHphnsptt.q. If. is - - " - - . . . " " a city whose growth is slow from 29,063 in 1950 t oa nro - 1 n ' n 1 it . -, 10 ou,uoo in lyou oy me it nas Deen li years since uie writer visitea his birthplace; it has been 17 years since he-left. Northampton is a city in which change has been slow, in which the status quo appears to draw more weight than a changing society. e "yUERE have been some changes. Business and small industry have built up along a highway north of town ; a few residential areas have grown in a couple suburban areas; a few changes have been made in the downtown area, but the major ones can be counted on the fingers of one hand; a new wing has been added to the hospital, and new buildings have been added to the vocational school campus. Some changes are worth mentioning. A modern store has replaced a downtown hotel; Smith college has added a new, contemporary-design dormitory; a shopping center, sim ilar to those of the west, occupies property where dairy cattle once fed ; and gogue dominates an area DUT perhaps one of the most startling changes was at the edge of the downtown business district. An attractive, modern, yellow brick church has replaced an old red brick one. It houses the Edwards Congregational church, named in memory of Jonathan Edwards, scholar and theologian who started a New England re ligious revival in 1750 while at Northampton. The new church stands out bright among the surrounding weathered-dull red brick buildings. These are the few notable changes of the past 17 years. DETAIL stores in the downtown area (and in the smaller communities within Northhamp ton) are recognizable by their old fronts, and the interior of many border on being fire hazards; the streets are the same, many of them still bumpy and narrow; tall two and houses with weathered residential streets; and gingerbready homes, most of them well-kept, make up the older residential sections. Northampton is a touch of the present and lhe houses in which buildings in which they themselves. Some of them have changed; many of them have not. Many of them prefer the status quo, and it shows in the things they do, and what they talk about, or don't talk about. They talk about high taxes, about the de plorable school situation, and the location of a new highway. But they apparently only talk. IT TOOK close to five years for the city fathers to decide on a junior high school site, and the high school from which has not changed. Three building which has not than 17 years. Iwo relatively new elementary schools were crowded when they opened. They are built of brick (as most public buildings in the east are), and they have expensive frills, such as a cupola on which a weather vane what changes have been made in Northhamp ton were not as impressive as the lack of change. The visit to Northampton was rewarding. It substantiated our belief "westernized." We have the faster growing, faster Change in the West In contrast to E.H.A.'s observations above about the town of his birth, this writer has fre quently visited his birthplace, Eugene, but not so frequently that the changes are not noticeable. When we left there 21 years ago, it was a sleepy little western town of some 20,000 souls. Today it is a bustling citv of more than 50,000. Our old elementary school long ago vanished. and its name and function junior high school, which ing. Our high school alma mater is now a junior high. Iwo new high schools have been built, and a third is under vay. yilE downtown area boasts a striking new 4 courthouse. A new city hall is under construc tion. The park blocks once the retreat of whit tiers, horse shoe tossers and tale-spinners has lost its hitching-posts, and is circled by bright new store fronts. Traffic, once unhurried and uncrowdeil, now is bustling and often jammed, and confined to one-way grids. New arterial streets criss-cross what once were open marshes, now built over. The hills, once the bailiwick of boys ami .22 rifles and laboriously dug caves ami rousting pits, aie now covered with homes, many of them out standing examples of modern architecture. Hp IE highway, which once meandered almost 1 aimlessly through the heart of town, now speeds by as freeway some miles away. The old airport is now it housing subdivision, and the new one is 10 miles to the north. The University campus, once notable for dig nified, vine covered buildings, now bustles with umbrella-carrying students, many of them from abroad, and bright new brick, concrete and glass buildings and dormitories spread for blocks. We, too, are "westernized" ami acclimated to change. But E.H.A.'s observations about a town, quiet and almost unchanged, have a ring of nostalgia to them. E.A. census cuuiiu a modern Jewish Syna of older homes. three-story crackerbox paint line most of the the same large wooden, city of the past with a little of the future. the people live, and the work, reflect the people the writer was graduated shifts of students use. a had an addition in more is placed. that we have become become accustomed to changing west. E.H. A. given to what was our now is in a new buikl "If You Don't Mind Danger, You Can Serve In One Of Our Citiet At Home" Communications Letters to tin Editor must bear the name and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. Tha Mail Tribune reserves the rtght to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters p.inted in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the oaper; In fact the contrary is often the case. Hurrah for Flogging To the Editor: Hurrah for a long overdue man of cour age, this judge from Delaware! A good public flogging for these beginners in crime is the best way to make them remember and think twice. In this day when parents no longer use the wood shed or otherwise try to control their young, someone has to take over the task and your "bleed ing heart" approach has only made young folks more defi ant of the law they know can't touch them. Parents take the rap, pay the bills and the kids go scott free, and it is time someone brought them up short with a good whaling. Sadistic? I should think not! Did you think your parents were sadistic when you got a well placed hand or did you grow up ruling the roost like youngsters of today? In the same paper was the report of an official badly beaten. Who would dare to do this if there was respect for authority'.1 I, for one, highly recom mend more of this kind of law enforcement and hope it spreads out west so it will be safe to walk the street or even live in your own home without barricades. Mrs. Ray Doran Central Point, Ore. P.S.: How do Medforditcs like the way chlorine is being put in the water against pub lic vote? Pretty clever, but then what has a voter got to say? o Editor's note: Chlorine isn't fluoride. Why Fewer Deer To the Editor: I see where the Central Point sportsmen are going to find out why the deer herds are getting extinct. Well, if the game commission would extend a few more hunts they could soon get 'cm all. Why in 11 can't peo ple hunt in the rcgulr season instead of killing a doe in the late hunt? And it's usually three they kill, as the docs arc nearly all with fawn or fawns then. It doesn't take a New York attorney to figure this out. 1 for one am with Mr. G. Brown of I'rospect. we will soon be priced out of our rights. Mr. li a m e Commissioner, how about SI for a pheasant tag. have you forgot that? Or will it come up next season'.' We the sportsmen should put a stop to this (but how?). The hunters 1 have talked to said. well, no more hunting for me, if we would all stick together, and not buy a li cense for just one season, we would have bettor hunting and fishing, and maybe no in crease in tecs. Let's all stick together. I suppose lhe game com mission needs more money to dud out why a stream has to he a certain temperature for a fish to spawn. The poor things years ago sure had a hard time, wailing tor game commission man to squeeze lhe eggs out of them. Or do they need more money lo put a lew more cars clic king on the highways, only four cars and two pickups south of Diamond lake last year. Why couldn't two men do the same thing" Oh yes. they have to spend a tew thousand emitt ing the deer, whtcn is really necessary. Why can't they leave the license as it is' Have a season of one riccr starting and shipping all the same j tunc ' Nope we g,t to have a few late seasons to kill more does and figure out why the herds are k'Ottmg smaller I Name on file) Gold Hill, Ore. Slow Learners To the Editor: That a pu pil's low learning capacity is a dcterming factor in a school's scholastic standing is a must in its study. But it surely is not a determining equation of any 100 per cent. For the great Naturalist Dar win was a teacher's despair more often than a joy. Ever a doubter of book theorizing, he found his dependables in nature's often obscure laws. Denounced though he was, especially by the clergy, his ever ailing remains rest now with England's greatest of greats in old Westminister abbey. Thomas Edison and plant wizard Burbank were slow learners lo the point of being despaired of. Blue-eyed Dr. Carver was much the same, who was most cmbarassed when found carrying home a gunny-sack of horse drop pings. But from those humble cast-offs, he evolved one of our artist's most prized brown-amber pigments. So. we must not discount the slow-learner too drastical ly, for the guideposts of his tory warn that it is not the whiz-kids who lead us to our great goal, happiness. It is much more often the slow en during plodder who clears away the debris of loose-think ing to disclose sure-footing to our cherished objectives. So like the hunter's cold-trailer, muzzle down lo the quarry's scent on ground, rock and bush, often to overtake the speedy black specked Walk ers or such like in confused frustrated yelping and get them back on the trail. All of which warns us to depend more on old proven dependables like the test of a puddin' is, er, on the vest, that even the dlind, deaf and dumb can know. My "puddin' on the vest" is our National Educatiomil Association's Ranking of the States, Research Report 1962 Rl, thai with Congressman Durno's prodding was finally sent me. As has been reported here, it gives positive evidence that our Northwest schools do lead the rest of the nation in scholastic standing. Seems like lhe why of this could and should be a part in the wealth of educational news so prom inent in the press of laic. Could it be that the NEA Re port referred to is not avail able in our libraries or the reference files of the MT? If there's no public appreciation of our school standings, how can there be appreciation of a -.. S V ..- I II A "From now on wi re doing abstract designs on stamps it I safer. Like some modern paintings, it won't make any difference if they're printed upside down or not . . . I" Mt.Ur'OHD MAIL 'iniouiic. Mt-DrOHD, OREGON Foreign News: Nuclear Test Ban Pact Sought by Tl ttflf I T t life AaT . By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foriign Niws Analyst Notes from the foreign news cable: Nuclear Test Ban Treaty The United States and Brit ain are going to spare no ef fort to get a nuclear test ban treaty before Christmas at the Disarma ment Confer ence recon vening In Ge n e v a today. But the still unres o 1 v e d dispute over on-site inspec- r L-X4! Newsom tion of s u s pected underground tests still Drum mo nd Reports (Walter Lippmann is in Europe. Roicoe Drummond reports from Washington in his absence.) (t) 1962 New York Herald Tribune Inc. NEEDED-BERLIN SUPREME COMMANDER Berlin - The danger to West Berlin is not past. It will soon be greater than ever if two things are not done: 1- The buildup of Western conventional forces by the European countries - princi pally France, Britain, and 11-aly-which have fallen far be hind their NATO commit ments. 2- The appointment of a su preme commander of the Al lied forces in Berlin lo permit prompt decisionmaking in or der to deal with the Soviet "salami tactics" of eating away at Western rights in ways which in past months have brought futile protests, not firm counter-action. That road-the road of hard words and soft action-leads to the steady decay of West ern rights and the loss of Ber lin itself. The danger today is that in light of Cuba we are better prepared to defend Berlin from the attack most likely to occur-the continued Soviet el bowing and harassing of West ern rights against which we are either too slow or too di vided lo reply. That is the danger and if the divided Allied councils in Berlin are not soon united, we face the prospect of yielding by default what we are pledged to preserve. TT CAN be done. Obviously, the best way to do it is for Britain, France, and the United States to agree on a supreme commander of the Allied forces here with adequate authority to act. The best candidate for the job is Gen. Lucius Clay, who has earned the confidence of the Allies, the trust of the Ber- liners, and the respect of the Soviets. He could do it. His presence and his authority would even be a deterrent to Soviet harassment. The failure to concert Al lied forces in the three sectors of West Berlin is the most in viting weakness in the Allied position here today. Military decision-making by committee means dilatory decision-mak ing. Such delay almost always means abandoning any course of action. It means inaction by default because, unless the Wesl can reply instantly to Soviet intrusion, then the ac tion is cither too late or doub ly dangerous and doubly dif ficult. Remember the opportunity we lost lo use the right ol Western access to East Berlin when we allowed an East Ger man youth, shot by the East Zone police attempting to es cape over the wall, to lie for hours bleeding to death a few vards from the sector line. A our worth as a nation? We do seem to appreciate our football winnings to the point of rioting. F. J. Clifford Route 2. Box 200F Central Point. Ore. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT STAMP DESIGN DIVISION Christmas; Doubts t a I . I .. has to be cleared up. And. at the present time, this looks like the main barrier to any agreement, unless one or the other side makes a major con cession. The United States is cool lo the Russian idea of "black boxes" whicn would contain instruments and be planted in each country to monitor sus pected blasts and then be examined later by neutral scientists. The idea of the "black box" is likely to be presented shortly as a formal proposal by the Russians. The instruments are not foolproof and easily could be tampered with, and, furthermore, West ern observers point out that British ambulance helplessly stood by, hesitant and, in the end, acquiescent in this denial of the Western right of access even on such an errand of mercy. TT CAN be said with knowl- edge thrt a Soviet offi cial has admitted that, if a U. S. ambulance accompanied by U. S. force had asserted the right of access, the East Zone police were not authorized to resist. The American government has already informed the city of Berlin that if there is a So viet attack on its security, we will defend it-unilatcrally, if necessary. But Berlin can be lost by failing to reply promptly to the other kind of attack-the "salami"-style ero sion of Western rights. I suggest that if we cannot get agreement for the appoint ment of a supreme Allied com mander in Berlin, we must act unilaterally against "salami" attacks or we will end up by losing the war without fight ing the battle. And for the defense of Ber-lin-to which all NATO is com mitted - NATO conventional forces urgently need to be brought up to the agreed levels. The failure to do so not only endangers Berlin but risks a nuclear war in Europe, because NATO does not have the conventional forces to counter a major conventional attack anywhere on its bor ders. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On the home front, the death toll on highways dur ing the 30-hour Thanksgiving holiday period that started at 6 p.m. on Wednesday and end ed at midnight on Thursay reached a total of 182 - aver aging our at six deaths per hour. The dispatches tell us that California "led the carnage" with 19 deaths, followed by Texas with 16, and in third place New York with 12. OES that mean that Cali- u to rnia drivers are MOST reckless, with Texas drivers next in order and New York drivers in third place from the standpoint of reckless dis regard of life and limb? Not necessarily, as you may note from the following fig ures showing number of cars licensed in the three states: California 7,799,051 cars Texas 4.456.662 cars New York 5.067.012 cars 1M1ESE three states lead all the rest of the states in number of cars, so it is logical that they should lead the roster of lhe stales in number of people killed on the high ways during the holiday per iod. The lesson seems to be that the more cars the more fatal accidents. This conclusion ap pears to be challenged by the fact that this year Texas, with fewer registered cars than New York, falls into second place in number of fatalities. That, however, is accounted for by the fact that during the Thanksgiving holiday this year, the nation's worst crash occurred in Texas, when five persons were killed in a HEAD-ON collision. That upset the normal aver age Always - in Texas, or in California, or in New York -or anywhere else. DEATH LURKS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CENTER LINE. QUESTION ViH ow can we cut dow n the toll of death on our highways? 0 is BETTER DRIVING Another answer is bv pro viding MORE HIGHWAY POLICE. I think we must all agree that WHEN A COP IS IN SIGHT, we drive more care fully - far more carefully When people drive more care fully, there are fewer accidents. they are no substitute for first - hand inspection. But they expect the American and British negotiators to listen to the Russian proposal with care to see if it can be amend ed to meet Western desires. Yellow Peril Perhaps the most startling statement made by Red Chi nese leader Chou En-lai at a banquet he hosted in Peking recently for a visiting group of Japanese Conservative party politicians was a re mark about the venerable Western fear of a "yellow peril" - that is, the grouping of all non - white peoples against the whites. A mem ber of the mission said the essence of Chou's remarks was that the Japanese and Chinese should consider them selves "brothers" and think in Washington Report By William (ci United Feature Syndicate CASTRO'S HELPFULNESS Washington - There are the soundest grounds to hope that Fidel Castro goes right on re- , fusing to per mit United Na tions verifica tion of the re moval of a 1 1 types of Sovi- jSjf et of fen s i v e weapons from Cuba. The plain fact is that the longer his ob stinacy endures the better off the United States will be. For in the absence of Castro's as sent to this U. S.-verification part of the bargain struck be tween President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, the Unit ed States will be able to con tinue, without valid criticism from anyone, its own highly efficient surveillance of any and all weapons systems in Cuba. pEw tra ade this kind of surveil- lance-which is intense and constant and will so remain so long as Castro continues to paint himself into his own corner-for anything the U.N. itself could possibly provide, or one illustration, the storied U-2 reconnaissance plane, which has been notably able to penetrate even the fast nesses of the Soviet Union, has not found Cuba much of a problem-any way one looks at it. Indeed, some here have long felt that the weakest link in the whole chain of Ameri can victory over Khrushchev in this matter has lain in the very fact that the Kennedy Khrushchev arrangement pro vided for U.N. inspection as the principal asurance to us that the missiles and the like were really going to be taken out-and kept out-of Cuba. This does not imply some dark conspiracy within the U.N. to give only a lick and a promise lo the job of inspect ing and verifying in Cuba. Nor does it impute to the U.N. any desire to push the thing under the rug. Strictly Personal By Sydney e field Enterprises. Inc. MEMORY Speaking of those "How To'' books, as I was the other day. a publisher recently sent me a copy of a rUaeSfw new book call- ,fa "..! jv J cd "How to Improve Your - H Memory in i ' 'in n a v ' nr . guilt:,, J what it was roller! I Harris wouldn't mind so much if my memory were merely bad. But it is trivial, irrelevant and mischievous. 1 store up odd scraps of literary information, d i s c o n t i n ucd phone numbers, names of mythological creatures, coup lets of bad verse - but can't remember three items on a shopping list or the address of a doctor I have to sec to morrow. The best chess players (like the best bridge players) are endowed with spectacular memories. It was no feat for a man like Alekhinc to piny a dozen games simultaneously j while blindfolded; and the top entice masters can rccon- struct all four hands of Board 28 which they played in a tournament seven years ago. ' Pillsbury. the American chest champion for many years, was once subjected to an amaiing memory test by two professors at Lehigh university. They read to him a list of 30 words, which he had to repeat Im i mediately afterwards. Here Expressed long . range terms of uniting against the "whites" because the "whites" will never give up their efforts to keep down the "yellows" they fear. In effect, what Chou was propos ing was a sort of greater East Asia coprosperity sphere headed by Red China, with Russia clearly lumped with the "whites" of the West. Nationalist Commando Raids Sources in Tokyo in a po sition to know say stepped-up Nationalist Chinese comman do raids against the Commu nist - controlled China main land can be expected soon. A3 in the past, such raids will not be publicized. But they will be staged to give tha Peking regime as much trou ble as possible through tha use of guerrilla tactics - .i favorite of the Reds them selves. S. White THE basic fact nevertheless remains that this part of the bargain with the Soviet Union tended to leave vital na tional security largely in tha hands of an international body which, whatever its intentions, has had very little experience in the kind of hard, acute sur veillance that clearly is neces sary here. To put the point plainly, what American would prefer U.N. assurances here to tha assurances provided by our own armed services and relat ed intelligence agencies oper ating under their own surveil lance arrangements? And if Castro has stepped on his own feet in the matter of inspection and verification, he has in other ways uninten tionally served our interests. It will be recalled that when Khrushchev agreed to remove all offensive weapons from Cuba we on our side agreed that "once adequate arrange ments for verification had been established we would re move our naval quarantine and give asuranccs against an invasion of Cuba." m rpHE quoted passage, from President Kennedy's pre thanksgiving press conference has great significance. For though we have now lifted the naval quarantine, on re ceipt of Russian promises to withdraw Soviet bombers as well as misiles, we have not yet "given assurances against an invasion of Cuba." This capital point should not for a moment be over-looked-even though it is the kind of point about which this government rightly follows a suggestion once made by Win ston Churchill in a wartime crisis: "Think of it always, speak of it never." In short, Castro has lost his Soviet missiles, is losing his Soviet bombers, has pointless ly annoyed his Soviet masters, and has, thus far, managed to free us even from our condi tional promise not to invada him. If he ever was considered by any considerably number of Latin Americans to be the wave of the future, there has been a remarkable lapse ol tenses. His future is now strictly in the past. J. Harris is the lormidable list: Aniiphlogiitine, perios teum, lakadiastese, p 1 a i mon, ambrosia, Threlkeld. streptococcus, staphylo coc cus. Plasmodium, Mississip pi, Freiheit, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, athletics, war, Etchenberg, American, Rus sian, philosophy, Piet Pol gelter'i Rost, Salamagundi. Oomisillecootsi. Bangm a m vale, Schlechtar's Nek, M a n s i n y ama. theosophy. catechism, and Madjesooma lops. Pills bury promptly re peated the wordi in the or der given - and then gave them in the reverse orderl He also repeated them flaw lessly the next day. Symphony conductors are another group who seem to have special photographic equipment imbedded in their cortex. Once, when Toscanini was directing at La Scala. a young and untalentcd com poser submitted the minu script of an opera which Tos canini rejected. Many years later, the com- poser met Toscanini in New ,;ork and a.-ked the maestro i whv he had rejected the opera "I didn't like it." said Toscanini. The composed in sinuated that the conductor hadn't even read the score. "I remember it perfectly.'' Tos canini replied. "It s no good." And he sat down at the piano and played several pas sages from the opera he had rejected a dozen years ago. Now what in the world did t do w ith that shopping list? -1
