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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY. "Everyon" in Southern Orefon Raadl TlMllTrlbune KbilihYd Daily txMPt Saturday by MEDFORD PWNG CO , S3 North rirSt.. PrLj72-Ml ROBERT W. RtJHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertlilnf Manlier GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Tltf Editor Richard" EWETT.sporu Ed; OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSONCirculaUon Ml ArTlrtdependent Newipiptr Intirtd at atcond tlui matter it Medford. Orenon. under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year I JO Dallv and Sunday moa 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mot. son Sunday Only One year U 00 Simla Copy (Mailerll ioc 8v Carriei And Motor B"ulr Dally nd Sunday 1 year U 00 Daily ind Sunday 1 mo. 1 p Sunday Only 1 mo. Carriei andyndori Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medfnrd Ofllclal Paper of Jickion County United Preaa International Full Leased Wire II. P I Telepholo Newplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT RIIREAU Of CIRCULATIONS XdvortVilnl BejrVsentltlve: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOCI ATES Of'icei In New York. Ch. rln Detroit. San rranrlaco. Lot Anelea. Seittle. Portland Denver. o"" NIW1PAPH UlLISHEtS ASSOCIATION NATION A I I0ITOHIAI Flight or Time Mtdford and Jackson County History from tha filti of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yairi ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1952 (Monday) About 400 children in Mcd ford will receive toys for Christmas as result of a joint drive by the city firemen and Lady Lions. The Medford High school band, the only band from out aide of California to he in vited a second time to the East-West football game, will leave at midnight Thursday for San Francisco. 20 YEARS AGO Dae. 23, 1942 (Tuesday) Medford merchants report Christmas trade is biggest in history and almost double that of 1041. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Dear Santa Claus, when you come Friday please don't look so much like Grandpaw of Jerry Jerome as you did last year." 30 YEARSAGO Dtc. 23, 1932 (Thursday) False rumor circulated (hat marriages made In Jackson county are invalid cuts issu ance of marriage licenses here by SO per cent during Decem ber. Meeting of local rcsidcnls recommends levying state wide sales tax. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 23, 1922 (Friday) Large amount of livestock and farm equipment destroy ed when fire burns barn owned by George B. Young In Orchard Home district. Judge F. M. Calkins plans to retire Jan. 1; members nf legal profession schedule banquet In his honor. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 23. 1912 (Sunday) Epidemic of scarletlna causes cancellation nf numer ous Christmas parties planned for Christmas eve In Medford tea. Oregon Agricultural college hand schedules concert al Medford high school audi torium What's Your I.Q.? Nina er tin cornet li lupirlor; ivin or llfht It oicalltntl IWa or ill it gold. 1. Whit was the name of the woman who was railed Trincess Alice' 2. Name the American n man who wat known as "An gel of the Balllefieh' " 3. Who wrote of an episode In her life, concerning alco holism, entitled "I'll Cry To morrow"? 4. Name the famous wo man saloon wrecker of pre prohibition days .V It Is a quarter of leti o'clock; if the mimile and hour hands were reversed, whal time would il he ac cording to (he clock 8. What relation is a riaugh ter of my mother's niece lo me? 7. How many stairs hrsin with Ihe letter "K' ? 8. In what continent are Hie highest mountains of the world" I 9. Whal is Ihe tourer of I lie ! Mississippi River? i 10. Unscramble thr-r pieces ' of common furniture TAP ! TtODREV and MDSROW 1RACM. Aniwari: 1. Allci Lonq worth Rooiivalt. 2. Clara Bar. ton. 3. Lillian Roth. 4. Carrie' Nation. J. Eightfifty. I. Sac-1 ond cousin. 7. Nona. I. Asia. I I. Lako Itaaca In Minnesota, j 10. Dirinport and Windsor i Chair. I 4 A- TO DECEMBER 23, 1962 Legislative Pay Elsewhere on this page Frank Jenkins comes to the conclusion that the pay rates proposed for the legislature by a joint committee thereof are "reasonable." We would not disagree, but would put it a bit more negatively. We think they are "not un reasonable." Why the double negative? Because, while we agree the proposed salary-expense items are within the hounds of reason, we believe at the same time they are too high, taking all things into consideration. TTHE committee proposal is for $3,000 per year, plus $20 per day expenses when the legisla ture is in session. This would work out to $5,000 for legislative years (assuming a 100-day ses sion) and $3,000 for non-legislative years, or $8,000 per biennium. This does not sound unreasonable when com pared to legislative salaries in other states. But it is a considerable jump from the $600 per year and strictly limited expenses at present which practically everyone agreed was inade quate. WE approve more of the proposal made by a non-legislative committee appointed some months ago by Senate President Harry Boivin. They based their recommendation on two premises:' 1. Salaries must be large enough to permit able neonle to serve, who could not otherwise. 2. Salaries should be low enough so they . would not attract simple job-seekers and oppor tunists. This committee proposed $150 per month (or $1,800 per year) plus $20 per day expenses during a legislative session, limited to 100 days. This works out to $3,800 per year for legislative years, or $5,(i00 per biennium. Jt seems to us this is (a) adequate to permit legislators to serve without undue financial sac rifice, and (b) small enough so it would not at tract free-loaders. IN our view, additionally, the per diem expense should not he limited to any specific number of days. That would put too much pressure on members for a quick adjournment, which often can, and does, make for hurried, unconsidered and bad legislation. Regarding the proponed expenses, Former Gov. Charles A. Spraguc, editor of the Oregon Statesman in Salem, has this to say: ". . . The present (expense) allowance io slate em ployees for in-slate travel is $5 a day for meals and SfiSO for lodging, nr $11. SO. In going from zero it would be holler to stop at SIS a day for legislative expenses. He has a point, but i ,i i i , Llltll. IIIC! U'JlMclUVe IsC'rsMllll IrlMS, LI II I t tUUIIMin Ul longer, not just for a .night or two; legislators must, in effect, maintain two homes, and often feel they must bring their families with them. A IJj in all, we feel that the recommendations of the Boivin committee, with the single ex ception of limiting the number of days of per diem to 100, is the better course of action. In voting the Constitutional amendment which permits them to set their own salaries, the voters reversed a long-standing stinginess in the matter of legislative pay. well with many voters if they now go overboard and set a pay scale for themselves at startling variance with both that at present and that pro posed bv a disinterested It is true that legislative pav is a small item in the overall budget, but coming at a time when pressure for other ex penditures, and for new taxes to pav for them, will be at an all lime high, is uncalled for. E.A. Merry Christmas PRITHEE, why so grim and sad? l.islen. things aren't all lhat had! Sine, Ihe world is in a mess. But isn't il always, more or le.s" Things were plenty tense, M's true, In ni neteen -hundred-six I y-t wo. Life was full of Jolts and shocks. Riots, storms and falling slocks. Trouble hiihhlcd rv cry whoi c. In Cuba. Guam and Rrlgrave Square. In Mississippi and Manila. And Khzaltrih Ta loi s Roman villa. Fvrrylhuig from smog In sex Srcinrd lo grow ever inure complex; Critics deplored our moral drca . But hasn't il always been thai way? The twentieth century s not the first 'I'o rale ilsclf the very worst. Kerry era's had its share Of jangled nerves and bleak despair, And Status Quo has alvvavs been A faiu-v term for the mess we're in. Mankind, since the world began. Has jumped fioin fire lo frying pan. Paleolithic man, no doubt. Found plenty to complain about. The Middle Aces weir grim and daik. And even the Renaissance was no latk Man. tin mighoiit the ccniiitics, Has railed al lilc's anomalies. And groaned inln the midnight blur, 't'h, what is tins world coming In'.'" Vai ih's a i i.kv h.ilulat Thru- in I any iloubt of thai. lull loll the truth now. honestly. Is tlieie anywhere you'd rather be No" Well, m that case, let's rheer up. Anil pas around the wassail cup And. taking a chin up attitude. Shift to a mciry Christmas mooil 1 et to. 1. 1 nm. selves in Yuletiile cheer To iny thioiighiuit the coming year And. unaliaid hut eautinii.sl.v, l.f t wrli-nme iiinetrcn-sixlv -Ihirr I ..lane Gondsell, m the Oregon Labor Tiess. it must be remembered i1 h( President s intention - . i , , ,i .,ilike an American action to It would not set too committee. too much of an increase, MEDFOHD "Let 'Em Vote For Congressmen Lonjr Ai We Can Keep The Congressmen From Voting For Them" 1 S 98 Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann (c New York Herald Tribune Syndicate THE AGITATED ALLIANCE The American monopoly of nuclear weapons has become a hot issue In Britain and France be cause of the ("w-kSJ Cuban affair, and it nas De come a n im mediate issue because pf the proposal to abandon Sky bolt. In Cuba American nu- Lippmann clear power was wielded without consult ing our European allies. To have nothing to say while Washington and Moscow go to the brink of nuclear war reduces the Europeans, says M, Raymond Aron of the newspaper Figero, "to the status of protectorate nations." This, he has said in the New Republic, is on the way to being intolerable provocation and humiliation. Coming on top of this, the rirrisinn about Kkvholl looks - however little this is in fact abolish the British nuclear deterrent. Thus, while the Western Alliance is by no means disrupted, It is severe ly shaken up. AFTER hearing Ihe matter argued back and forth and sideways in the capitals of Western Europe, my general feeling is that while in theory (lie problem is insoluable, actual experience will never theless prevent the theoretical conflict from producing dan gerous practical consequences. 1 IH ,.e lonlr al Ihff ll,nrv II is impossible within the same alliance to have one or two nuclear forces which are 'in truth independent of ihe a' ""clear force, in the foreseeable future the Aineri- i i MM can nuclear power will com- I 'a "'' rcsponsiouiiy ior prise well over !)0 per cent j ,he tci"rtx'1 f'owcr wmt ii we of the whole nuclear power I P."'SS(SS' A'"" wi, P" of Ihe Western Alliance. ! '""I"1 '-"HHbcrat ion there .,, ,, , ,., , . ..,! could go technical and eco All that an independen nomic collaboration in the use Hench force could do is to j Bri(ijh s(.irntisls d make a first strike against a nrpri facilities few Soviet cities. 1 have heard .. il said on high authorilv that I . No sllth idrrstandinK is in Ihev might kill 20 million , Russians After lhat. not even I Ihe American nuclear force might he able lo deter Ihe Soviet Union from a devas tating retaliation against Fiance. P, THE American v I e w. therefore, il is Impossible lo concede lo France the right lo initiate a nuclear vsar. We have lo iosisi thai being allies requires thai the French force should not be used inde pendently but only as pari of a unified force of (he alliance, j This American view is re garded as self-serving and is mil acceptable to the French. They soy. first, lhat Ihe t'niled Slate, wants a veto on France although, as was shown in Cuba. France has no velo on Hie United Stales They say. second, lhal our policy means thai we will use nuclear w eapons w lien we regard the i issue as vital to us whereas we will not use llirin when jllie issue is thought vital only ; to France. VNYON'K who has had Hie nalirncr In follow all this i argumentation will perhaps 'agree that lliroielually Ihe problem posed by our mirlc.ir monopoly is insoluble. Nor is the problem likely to be made oluble by some international dex ice such as an "indepcn- j drnt" Fnropean nuclear lorce - 'or an independent" NATO ifotce Thev would P"- the '".line ptoblrins for us tliat lh MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON independent French force poses. Moreover Gen. 1 de Gaulle will have nothing to do with them. They could be used only to mask the prob lem if by some unlikely chance the French were will ing to mask the problem. What then? We may begin by noting that out of 16 coun tries of Western Europe only two, Britain and France, are in fact thinking about nation al nuclear forces. There is however a vast difference be tween the British and the French positions. The British force is fully integrated with the American, and does not, therefore, raise the question of an independent first strike. The British force is in fact under American command just as the American Navy was under British command during the first World War. The continued existence of the British force is threatened by the fact that the British manned bombers are virtually obsolele, that while their use ful life might he prolonged a few years by Skybnll, in re ality (lie British cannot af ford Ihe cost of Ihe modern race of armaments and have no real choice but lo with draw from it. IT WOULD clear the air of many poisonous fumes if Lond.-m and Washington agreed that the experiment with an independent British nuclear force is finished, that no more money and nervous energy will be wasted on it, and that together the two countries vyill work out the high policy and high strategy of Ihe American deterrent. It would be a verv good thing if we could share with our leading allies, beginning with Great Britain, the moral "ow, P"f'ble with Gen. Gaulle. He cannot be argued oul nf his purposes, and certainly he cannot be .bought off by anything lhat Britain and Ihe United States could have to offer him. AVE SHALL have to let our " dilferences with Gen. cle Gaulle be arbitrated by events while in the meantime we try lo keep in decent humor. There is no crisis in Franco- American relations and there j is no hurry about ihe issue '"," " '' la" niany ."" iii-iiiie nance can mane ilsclf a serious nuclear power and '.he fact that we stand aside passively while she works at u a;lr realises the gigantic cos's will constitute notice that wne she to lake nuclear action outside Ihe al liance, the United Slates gov- .....,., ., . .,, .',... ) and legally obligated In follow her Xeveilheless. it is obvious, as we all know in our hearts, thai we shall under no cir cunistaiucs abandon France, even if we think siie is wrong. Believing as I oV that the American view nf nuclear power is right, 1 would he hap- pier if. on our pari, w e do not allow the discus-ion with our allies to ricgeneiate inio a debating wrangle conducted with lhat moral self righteous, j "ess which is ihe besetting temptation of those who on intellectual grounda believe, perl-ant e en know , that Wy are right. ' Matter of Fact ,Pu ai,op (ei Ntw York Herald Tribune Syndicate BIGGER THAN A MAN'S HAND Paris-On the Far Eastern horizon, a cloud considerably bigger than a man's hand has now appeared, as a direct con sequence of the deepen ing split be tween the So viets and the Chinese Com munists. North Korea is the only Commu nist state .limp which as yet deserves to be called the satellite of Peking. Albania, tiny and isolated, is more a pretext than a satel lite. North Viet Nam is quile probably becoming a Chinese satellite: but thus far Hanoi has rather desperately tried to keep two lines open, to Moscow as well as lo Peking. Hence what the North Ko reans say at this juncture is particularly meaningful, since it is said, one may be certain, under orders from the Chinese Communists. Needless to say, the Chinese position in the Sino-Soviet row received en thusiastic support in the just published communique of the Fifth Plenum of the North Ko rean "Workers Party." But the significant passage runs as follows: "Only when our defense capacity is fortified and steel like and we are always in a posture of mobilization, will the enemy not dare to pounce upon us and if he launches a reckless adventure, can we decisively smash it and win the victory . . . (To this end) our military potential must he reinforced at all costs, even if this slows down the growth of the national economy." ONE reason for this bleak warning of harder times ahead for Ihe Korean people may well be the abrupt inter ruption of Soviet arms de liveries. The Koreans, like the Chinese, have always got the bulk of their heavier and more complex military equipment from the Soviet Union. If the source of supply has been cut off, they may well embark on an attempt to provide at least a part of their own heavi er arms. If this interpretation is cor rect, the consequences for China will be vastly more grave I nan for North Korea. Some things the Koreans can not conceivably attempt-such as Ihe construction of a seri ous aircraft industry. The Chi nese, on the other hand, will have tq do all these things, and on a scale to supply their Asian satellite as well as themselves. If arms deliveries from Ihe Soviets have indeed been slopped, as seems highly like ly, and oil deliveries have been hailed at Ihe same time, as also seems likely. Nikita S. Khrushchev is really hitting Mao Tse-tung where it will hurt the most. In the present desperate condition of ihe economy, it is hard to see how the Chinese system can with stand the enormous increase of strain lhat must result from increased fuel stringency plus an immensely increased arma ment effort. Confirmation bv i n t e 1 1 1- gence must be awaited fori there are no solid proofs as yet that Khrushchev is using this kind of sanction against Mao. The North Korean com munique is the first piece of important evidence seeming to point in that direction. is! After a Jump, a Double Check By ERIC SEVAREID Americans rush in where angels fear lo tread, an occa sionally endearing (rail which has probably J$AF-i t d 0 n e more ;',A2 Rood than t harm in a be- fi 1 world. But we t are also Ihe. -sr ':iI people who ''"3 invented the phrase, "check and double Rf varf id cher k," al- though we require an aslon- is'hingly long time lo practice whal vye preach. After a dozen years of fab ulous expenditure of money, efforts and repulalions, we are finally to have a severe douhle-ciieck of our foreign aid programs by disinterested inspectors, presided over by Ihe sharp if not loflv mind of Lucius Clay, whose instincts . well as his face bear re- semblance lo Ihe hawk thai sees and pounces quicklv and never lets go unless dragged abroad, from his quarry. As a carefree j gesture. I would predict lhat I Of course, il is a success by his major exercise in blame-1 the criteria so far employed: laving will not question Ihe young men and women flock competence of administrators lo join it. foreign governments or field workers s- much as welcome it (they should, it t lie capacity of many societies comes postpaid! and Commit lo be developed, in our lime nisls attack it. I would go fur and by our methods ther and say lhal giving frus- Hated American youth a To say that Ihe initial en. thusiasin over foreign aid has gone yellow in the leaf is Ihe ; understatement of the policy sca-on. Rut while this ma.-sive double-check is put in motion, we i einain in Ihe stage of ' in- htial enthusiasm'' about or-1 11IEANWHILE the other "l aspect of the North Kore an communique cannot be prudently ignored. The langu age is defensive but the tone is offensive, even aggressive. In the present state of the Sino-Soviet relationship, it cannot even be excluded that the Chinese Communists are planning a renewed push in Korea. Anything can happen. What is more likely to hap pen, however, is that Peking will increase its influence in Hanoi, and will encourage the North Vietnamese Commu nists to take stronger meas ures in Laos and South Viet Nam. The North Vietnamese need little encouragement. Without the rich land to the south. North Viet Nam is really not a viable national entity. The North Vietnamese leaders therefore have the choice of winning South Viet Nam at all costs and risks, or allow ing their non-viability to catch up to them in the end. Hence aggressive advice is accept able. Curiously enough, more over, the two different ways of interpreting the North Ko rean communique are not necessarily contradictory. The near despair induced by a great intensification of eco nomic difficulties can quile easily bring the Chinese Com munist leadership lo proclaim ing, "Let the skies fall if we do not win." In the Day's News By FRANK When the 52nd session of the Oregon legislative assem bly convenes in Salem about a month hence, one of the first measures lo be intro duced will be a bill to pay legislators $3,000 a year, plus S20 a day for expenses during the time when the legislature is in session. The bill will be drawn by a bi partisan com mittee and introduced in the legislature, the same as any other bill - which means that it will be subject to debate and amendment. The news system of fixing the compensation of legislators is made possible by a consti tutional amendment submitted to popular vole by the last legislature and approved by the people last May. The amendment provides that the salaries of logisialors shall be set by law (the legislature makes ihe laws) Ihe same as all other state salaries are set. QUESTION: Assuming thai the bill is passed as agreed upon by the committee, how will the salo ries (including expense ac counts) of Oregon legislators compare with those of tneigh boring states? The S3,000 a-year will be $6,000 per biennium, plus S20 per day while Ihe legislature is in session. Washington leg islators get $2400 a biennium (a biennium is two years), plus $25 a day expenses dur ing regular sessions and an additional S10 a day during special sessions. California legislators get $12,000 a biennium, plus S19 day while in session. The California legislature meets every year, and normally re mains in session during a rather long period. In Oregon and Washington, the legisla tures meet every Iwo years. I rign aio s eager Helper, I lie Peace Corps. Here again, the cycle will repeat ilsclf, though we shall all. ourselves, be much yellower in the leaf before a realistic appraisal of the Corps comes about, let alone reappraisal. There is nothing so irresistible as pure intent ions backed by pure publicity, and I am aware lhat in the current atmosphere of euphoric reverence an ex- pressed doubt about the Peace Corps will receive the same treatment as a doubl ex prcscd about virginity. Amid ail Ihe false starts and semi-failures of our manifold world missions, the Peace Corps, al least, is a solid suc cess so we tell ourselves in vast relief. Senator Hum- phrey, one of its sponsors, has ! sat in judgment on his own I handiwork and finds that the ' Corns has done "an oulst.md - ing job." even though Us first i wave of recruits have barely had time to gel Ihe led and grip ol llieir various lasKs sense of mission and adding lo our supply of comprhension of oilier sorieties (alien the credit side of the ledger. i Important as are these re - ! turns on our investment (tiit j million Ibis (isxal yean they remain fnnze henrfi'.s In the Washington Report By William (ei United ruturi Syndicate YEMEN AND NASSER Washington-It is hard to put down the troubling sus- picion that much of the Slate Trjvflrjws, rj Department Is n n e ratine on r..r i, i . a ine sni n i u g H e v e d convic tion that all t r a d i tional i g o vernments are necessar ily bad guys. Sometimes it -... seems that one win.. sure wax lo assure official American sym pathy to any uprising any where is for the rebels solemn ly to tell Washington straight away that they are the liberal reformers and their opponents the evil "reactionaries." The latest instance in this melancholy tale is this gov ernment's decision to grant of ficial recognition to the in surgent regime in Yemen, in the Middle East. rpHIS "revolution" Is not A really comparable to that conducted by George Wash ington and others in colonial United States. Though it was indeed begun by a local lead er called Abdullah Al-Sallal, it was in fact very quickly taken over by Colonel Nas ser's Egypt. Nasser sent in 12,000 Soviet-trained Egypti an troops, supplied with So- JENKINS YOU may ask: How about this expenses business? Well, it is reasonable enough. During the time when state legislatures are in ses sion, their members must live away from home. Washington legislators get S25 a day for living expenses. It is proposed to pay the same amount in Oregon. In California, the ex pense account is $19 a day. The California legislature meets oflener than the legis lature of Oregon and Wash ington, and lends to remain in session longer. The smaller expense ac count in California may be accounted for on the theory lhat since (hey remain in Sacramento longer they may be able to arrange for less expensive living quarters. rpHE big question: -- Under tllP nnw svclpni in Oregon, will legislators be ; paid TOO MUCH? The answer to thai, I think is lhat the laborer is worthy of his hire. If Ihe Oregon leg islature does a good job of running the slate of Oregon, the proposed salaries will be very reasonable indeed. ALONG that line, let's take another look at a shock ing figure. According lo a careful study made recently by the Wash ington Bureau of the Louis ville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal, Ihe cost of keeping a member of Ihe Congress of Ihe United States in Washing ton for a year comes to the rather staggering total of $275,000! That's whal happens when nr,t-,-n,nt TV-,", III- 'and is too far from home. iti.-i (jm,i. iiik SVIUIS I'l lilt" I Pftl-nc liat ,-ru little n.nra trt I do with producing peace in this world than with produc ing war. The long history of peoples, heavily interpene trated culturally, frequently waging war on one another, undercuts the whole nolion of peace preserved by "folks gelting to know one another. " More importantly, while the Corps has something to do I f across the vast, unmeas with spot benefits in a few urable human swamps of Asia isolated places, whether in and Lalin America. Some sanitizing drinking water orawareness of Ihe world s siza building culverts, its work might aid nur assessments, has, and can have, very little i to do with the fundamental in vestments, reorganizations and reforms upon which ihe true and long-lcrm economic de velopment of backward coun tries depends. Perhaps (he most fruitful field is in the teaching nf skills lo future ! agronomisi and civil enei. 1 neers and the like, because ! nn riev elnnmrni sir,ir-t,,,-- , stand without such underpin - Hint of knowledge. But the end results of such efforts lie far beyond t lie mistiest hor izons: il is impossible, as well as ridiculous to start proclaim, ing them now. If fringe benefits were all that the Corp? originators had in mind, then this should be made dear to ihe country. If they truly believe in solid practical, measurable results then we ought to have a pre- ( limmary accounting one day 1 soon, always bearing in mind two thing- the cost to the tax- t payer and the propoi tiona'e g vd lo the country involved S. Whir viet-made bombers and tanks, against the barefoot tribesmen wn0 remained loyal to th ryal Yemenite government of "le lr,u"' monammad . fvi-odui . In the meantime, Saudi Arabia and Jordan gave some assistance - but of a far mors ragged scale and kind - to the old regime of Al-Badr. In State Department defini tion, of course, a king is mors or less automatically a "reac tionary," even in a remote area like this which is living in roughly the 16th century and where any serious talk of "democracy" is an absurd jet. I'iHE American action in giv. ing recognition to the. Egyptian-led insurgents puts us in the company of, among others, the Soviet bloc. But it does not put us in tha company of, say, Britain, which is in no great hurry to celebrate this supposed great movement toward lib eral reform. Our motives are quile cor rect. We wish to see an end of fighting in the Middle East and the disengagement of all hostile forces, in fear that otherwise the thing might blow up into major war and give the Russians some oppor tunity to intervene. It is easy to go along with the objective. But it is not easy to see why - since tha disengagement of the contend ing forces is our central aim -we did not at least withhold recognition until Nasser had actually withdrawn his troopi and Soviet-made weapons. We have had only a somewhat vague "indication" that he will do so. WHAT, therefore, is really left? We have given the great boon of American rec ognition to a "revolution" which was only nominally homemade and actually re sults in a victory for Nasser Egypt. If Colonel Nasser can rush into Yemen upon tha "invitation" of some force seeking to overthrow the ex isting authority, why cannot he rush into other Arab conn tries on other "invitations" -or other pretexts? The United States is righllv Irying to bring about his total detachment from the Soviet Union, which in the past was close to him and which, in deed, built up his present mili tary force. But is the pattern of Yemen a good way to do thai? Surely not. For Nasser in Yemen show ed an alarming capacity for military amphibious opera tions on a considerable scale. After all. he hurled what amounts lo a full division across the Red Sea. It would hardly seem wise lo encourage him in such an adventure until we know, and do not merely hope, lhat he has really turned away from the Soviet Union and toward the West, as he has sometimes seemed to do. Distinguished Sarvica To the Editor: Are you thinking 'bout giving Santa, His annual reward-' Then, let's all chip In and hand him A big smile-trimmed credit card. George Distell 156 Vashti Way Medford Is Needed So far, any taxpayer is em titled to wonder how much, if at all. a country like Brazil, for example, can be changed for the betler by the presence of a handful of American youngsters, in the face of an advancing sea of inflation, population tides and hunger among its lens of millions of people. The corpsmcn now run about 85 or 90 to a conn- On the argument that Ihe Peace Corps has proved a suc cess, ihe government now p proaches the idea of a domes lie corps for service in our own slums nri blighted re. ! s'on;! ' wont argue that w i should have started there in ' "ie '"'st P'ace -this would ivt 1 have happened, given the alv ! scnce of Kal'"r"'. Bui here at home, in the Harlems. South Chicagos and Kentucky coal regions, momentum will not be maintained by publicity, every constituency concerned will soon teach its congress man the difference between fringe and measurable re turns, and the double check will run from the beginning concurrently with (he check. It won't require a dozen years and a General Clay to show tile stockholders rxaclltf , what has happened lo their in vestment. So maybe it should I tried. (Diilributid 1962. by Th Hill ; Syndics!!. Inc.) (All Bighli Bnerved) I ' t