Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1963)
TUE8DAY. ""Everyone In Southern Orelon Beada The Mali Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO SJNorthFlPh7:i-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertislm Manaief GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mir . ERIC W ALLEN JR, Una. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor ' HARRY CHIPMAN, Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport. Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSON, Clrculauon Mir A n nltMnilnl NewiDaDer Entered ai second claw matter at Mediora. urnon. unuw "- v March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' D.f ull In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year 111 00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa 10 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year . 13.00 Slnlla Copy (Mailed! 200 By Camel And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 121 .00 Dally and Sunday l mo. i BiinHiw flnlv 1 BIO. 50 C CarnetjndVendori Cnpf loo Official Paper of City of Medford OHUIaJJaprot Jackjo n County United Preaa International ru 1 ieaied wire U. P I Telepholo Newplcturea MEMBER or AUUI1 BUBMU JP LIKtUUlllunD Arivertlalnl NELSON Representative: nnftERTS a, ASSOCI- a tvr nirlrM In New York. Chl- eaio. Detroit. San rranclaco. Lot Anielri. Seattle. Portland. Danger. NATION A I EDITORIAL lA.f.c8T.'?- NEWSPAPER PUIllSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time . Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fab. 12, 1953 (Tuesday) A cencral Increase in the price of gasoline sold in the Rogue valley appeared to be In the offing today as Stand ard Oil company of L,au fornia announced wholesale price hikes of 1.5 cents a gal- Ion for Jackson and Josephine counties. Medford High today stood only one game away from Its first Southern Oregon corner ence basketball championship since 1946. 20 YEARS AGO Fab. 12. 1943 (Sunday) Thirty-six Medford High school boys enroll in special fire fighting and forest work course. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Farm- en have completed filling out of government questionnaires. They now have time to write letters to the editors opposing a state sales tax, though the family lead pencil has been worked down to a stub." 30 YEARS AGO Ftb. 12. 1933 (Tuesday) Attempt made to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mayor Anton Cer mak of Chicago critically wounded, and Guiscppl Zi v gara arrested. Local citizens urge grand jury to take drastic steps to curb agitators in "plot to seize county government." 40 YEARS AGO Fab. 12. 1923 (Wednesday) Police unable to find trace of driver whose car crashed into herd (if cattle on high' way near Central Point. Oregon house of representa tives passes measure provld Ing for state tax on gasoline. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 12. 1913 (Friday) Train loaded with troops and light artillery pisses through Medford en route from Boise, Idaho, to Mon tcrey, Calif. Lloyd Porter, 12-year-old Butte Falls boy, shoots 10' fool 11-inch cougar near his home. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or fan correct is superior. seven or eight is aicellent; five ar sis is good. 1. Which Canadian city has the largest population? 2. How many cubic Inches are there Is one cubic foot? 3. The microscopic study of living tissue is called whut 4. Do monkeys shed tears? 5. In reference to present tiny fcurope, for what do the Initials E. E. C. stand? 6. The iconoscope is used in what means of communica tion? 7. What is the name for the leucocytes In the blood? 8. Whut was the age of General Douglas MacArthur on Jan. 26, 1963? 9. Do cowi or bulls have the stronger horns? 10. Are winds named for the direction toward which they blow or from which thry blow? Answers: 1, Monlred. 2. 1,728. 3. Biopsy. 4. Yes. 5. European Economic Council (Common Marktl). 8. Tele vision. 7. Whit corpuscles. 8. Eljhly.three. 9. Th same. 10. From which lhay blow. A 4 A. FEBRUARY 12. 1963 A World We Have Never Seen What is automation? nation? How much unemployment will it cause? What can we do to prepare for its effects? Can we make use of its undoubted benefits without at the same time suffering from the massive dis locations it will cause? If so, how? These were some of last week at the Pacific Northwest Assembly, a meeting of some 70 educators, businessmen, edi tors, lawyers, civic leaders and industraiists. The sessions lasted a the discussions went on day and night. All attend ing had their eyes opened to some disturbing and some challenging facts, CIRST of all, automation was defined, for pur poses of the discussions, as. "the commonly accepted name for the new technology. Strictly speaking, it refers to those forms of technological change or mechanization which combine the elements of the computer, transfer devices, auto matic controls, and feedback. One of the most fascinating glimpses of this new world was given by bdwin i. Shelley, vice president of U. S. Industries Inc., the man who has invented many of marketing others. Among other things, he said : " ... I feel that we arc not really aware of the imminence and the extent of the great technological changes which are about to appear in our economy ... " ..' . . The wide applicability of small production line robots has led me to predict that within 20 years there will be no human beings, other than supervisory and maintenance personnel, engaged in the actual manufacture of the necessities of American life auto- mobiles, television sets, outboard motors, packaged foods, washing machines, ball point pens. "But if the production lines seem headed for a drastic de-population, what about the tremendous re quirement for clerical work which has sparked the growth of the white collar labor force? . . . There are some Interesting developments still in the labora tory which may intrigue you. One of these is the con cept of a small computer to make routine business de cisions which are presently the province of, say, the manager of a liquor store, or the shoe buyer in a de partment store . . . The fact is that a relatively simple special purpose computer can make these decisions, with brilliance, once it has been given the secret of the operating equation. There Is no question that such computers are on the way, and they will cost con siderably less than the decision makers they re place ... "The rise of the modern computer has really been made possible by the development of the transistor . . . But the transistor is Just a way-station on a fan tastic road which leads to . . . molecular electronics. In the world of molecular electronics, both size and cost shrink by factors of thousands, and reliability approaches perfection. Computer elements in this world are not made up of resistors, capacitors, trans istors and inductors, each of which have been separate ly manufactured and then assembled and wired. In stead, computer elements are made by rearranging the molecules of special materials to form the desired circuit patterns, and the entire computer element as sembly may be the size of a plnhead. "The entire computer itself then approaches the ' dimensions of a carton of cigarettes or of the human brain. No moving parti, practically no heat, no per ceptible aging process just cold, solid, low-cost de cision making and control . . ." FACTS such as these pose tremendous prob Inma orrnnmir cnrnal rrnvflrnmoni al anA pei-sonal. It was generally will constitute a true revolution in American life. What happens when people are displaced from a work force of less than 100 million? How are these people to be sup ported? What shall they do? With so many out of productive employment, how can we maintain the economy Where will we tind the consumers to purchase the massive flow of goods possible from the new technology? Many approaches have them with much value management, the public, which serves us all, must work mightily to see that the transition is made with the least pos sible dislocation. IT WAS generally agreed that one of the keys is education not only education as it is thought of today, but a tional program, so each individual man, wonv an and child may attain his full potential. This is necessary for many reasons. It is nec essary to train the scientists and technicians who will operate the automated world of tomorrow It is necessary so that each individual will have the essential tools and understanding to meet the challenges ot the new era. Perhaps most of all, it is necessary if man kind is to fulfill his historic role of explorer, in quirer, experimenter, prober and researcher; the role which has led him always to seek out the answers to the mysteries of the universe. 1HE final conclusion of the assembly was this "The technological revolution which has overtaken our generation cannot be escaped; it must be realis tically faced. It must not only be faced but accepted, advanced, and most urgent and Important of all mastered, for our nation and for humanity. "Technical innovation has nurtured every stage in the development of modern Western Civilization. It is the mark ot our society, and we are proud of It. We will not abandon this tradition simply because of the uncertainties generated by the accelerated rate of advance." We are convinced are aware of the dimensions of the change which is just ahead. We arc necessary to become aware, and to understand that while dislocation and human suffenncr are. perhaps, inevitable, they can be minimized, and the way cleared for the massive changes in a way which will be to the ultimate benefit of all men. Only by common acceptance of the inevita bility of change, only by determined and coop erative planning and thinking ahead, only by a willingness to accept new concepts of education and social adjustments, can we "extract the prom ise from the threat" of a world we have never seen, but winch we soon What will it do to this the questions considered total of three days, and the new devices, and is agreed that they soon some 40 to 50 million been suggested, all of and validity. Labor and and the government vastly enhanced educa that, as yet, few people also convinced that it is will. L.A. "Maybe I Should .. ... - Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald 80ME VERY PECULIAR POINTERS Washington Not long ago, the Minister President of North Rhcin Westphalia made the kind of proud, rumi' natintf t n r '"'fjjk ward - looking CM v3 i" I public speech lA . 51 that might be rf 1 expected from . j f 1 II Ki u ' f I l,,c .l!ltl CA- V" , J J ecutive of the i. C. g greatest com i I mercial-indus- . . . trial lnnrf In "np Germany. Trade, he said, nnrl i..ni. ally trade with the rest of the World, was the lifnhlnnH nf North Rheln Westphalia. For trade, he went on. foreign lan. guages were needed; and therefore there was a ns for better language teaching in the schools. Why not re organize the high school cur riculum, he concluded, to con centrate the last year of schooling on an intensive study of English? borne days passe d lust enough time, in fact, for a message to reach the French Foreign Ministry and for in structions to be sent back. The French consul.ifpni.i-nl then called upon the totally astonished Minister President to enter a formal protest against the shocking proposal to concentrate on English in the last year of the hlBh school. It was, said the consul-general, a clear violation of the new Franco-German treaty. IT IS always most unwise to take the behavior of other people lightly, just because it seems to us eccentric, irra tional, or even slightly comic. A good many of the occasion, al maladroitnesses of Presi dent Kennedy and his policy makers flow from their opti mistic habit of expecting all foreigners to be rational, or at least to see reason as the President sees it. By the same token, the cnl- sode of the French consul-gen eral s solemn Drotest mav sound as though it were snatched straight out of the pages of Evelyn Waugh; yet It is in fact a pointer that should not be ignored. The things President de Gaulle did not get from Chancellor Adenauer point in the same direction. In the negotiations for the Franco-German treaty, the French are now known tn have pushed very hard for a formal German commitment to make French the German school system's first foreign lancua&e. thus renlacinf? End. lish as the one always taken to meet the foreign language requirement for aspirants to higher education. Thcv also demanded tierman accep tance of French as the com mon language of their mili tary staff talks. IN both cases, the French pressure was resisted, al though it was agreed that French would be the German school system's preferred sec ond language. In the matter of the staff talks the Germans caused some annoyance by re minding their French Inter locutors that, besides their mother tongue, almost no German officer spoke any language but English which wnlilrf make staff talks In French just a mile difficult. More imnortant bv far. but also painting in the same di rection. ttTw the other diffi culties encountered by the ne gotiators of the military clauses of the treaty. As draft ed In Paris, these would have tied the Germans to giving the French arms industry automatic preference when ever they wished to buy mili tary equipment abroad. In this Instance, once again, the German negotiators suc cessfully resisted strong French pressure for a commit ment. But like the French ronsul-gencral in North Rhein Westphalia, the French Em Try To Cut Down" By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate bassy in Bonn is already try ing to get by other meana what de Gaulle did not secure from Adenauer. 1 German arms purchases in France are being strongly pushed, as being "in the spirit" of the treaty. And as Gen. de Gaulle undoubtedly understands quite clearly, this attempt to gain a French monopoly of German arms purchases abroad is very far from being a simple commer cial proposal. AMONG the Kennedy ad ministration's efforts to solve the American balance of payments problem, the big gest single success was the so-called offset agreement ne gotiated in Bonn by Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric. Under this agree ment the Germans are buying $750 million of U.S. military hardware. German arms purchases in the U.S. thus give us the dcutschmarks which cover our military expenditures in Germany; and this in turn pcrvents our forces in Ger many from becoming a bur den on the payments-balance. But under cover of the de Gaulle-Adenauer treaty, the French are now seeking to up set this German-American off set agreement. . It can hardly have escaped the French government's no tice that success in this enter prise would cause an abrupt deterioration in the already unsatisfactory American payments-balance, of a sort that might make it very difficult to maintain the existing U.S. forces in Germany. Add this fairly sinister pointer of the attack on the offset agreement to the fairly hilarious language - pointer. They clearly seem to point to a French intention to get the intruding Anglo-Saxons out of Germany (and therefore out of Europe) with all their bag and baggage, ultimately Including even the American divisions in NATO. In the Day's News By FRANK From Salem: Proposed cigarette taxes and the governor's net re ceipts tax reform plan were outlined to the house tax committee the other day by Representative Victor Atiych, The session marked the last of five days of hearings by the committee on the major revenue producing bills intro duced this session. The com mittee will now begin work to determine which bill, or com bination of bills, will be sub mitted to the legislature. THE cigarette and net re ceipts bills both pro posed by Governor Mark Hat field to balance his $405 mil lion general fund budget were sponsored by Represent ative Atiych. The plan to tax cigarettes four cents a pack was approv ed by Cecil Posey of the Ore gon Education association. Urging a five-cent tax, with one cent to go to cities, were Astoria Councilman Arnold Swansun, president of the League of Oregon Cities, Port land Mayor Shrunk, and Eu gene City Manager Hugh Mo Kinloy. The cities, of course, could use the extra cent per pack income. All governmental bod ies, in these days, arc scarp ing the barrel for tax money enough to keep them going. Not unexpectedly, the rep resentative of the Tobacco Distributors association term ed the tax discriminatory. REPRESENTATIVE Atiych said the cigarette tax. modeled alter the California law, would raise $18 million per bicnniuni. That brings into focus this bit of Incidental information from Washington: MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON Kassem's Of Bloody By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst In Baghdad, in early March 1959, sand hung in layers in the air. The U.S. em bassy was un der virtual state of siege by members of the Iraqi army encamped upon its lawn. In the streets, loudspeakers 4r U5 blared the praises of Pre Karim Kassem, mier Abdel and mobs carried out the will Washington Report By William . (c) United feature Syndicate SNIPING Washington-The most viru lent sniping campaign against Vice-President Johnson since he agreed to take second place in 1980 -thus making p o s s ible the e 1 e c t i on of the Kennedy- Johnson ' k et by holding the moderate White o o u i n - lias now been opened by ultra liberals in both parties. The occasion for this new get-Johnson drive is the fail ure once again of ultra-liberal reformers to persuade the Senate to compromise the right of free debate which has historically been the greatest protection in this gov ernment for political minori ties. BALKED as so many times before by the Senate itself in attempting to harden the gag rule, they have turned upon the Vice-President as the villain of the piece. As the Senate's constitutional presiding officer required to be an umpire and not a par tisan, he chose to interpret the Senate rules as they are. The pro-gag forces unsuccessfully demanded, however, that he abandon impartiality and is sue novel rulings, in their favor, which would have amounted to a repeal of the rules of debale by a single man not even a member of the Senate. . The two party leaders, Senators Mike Mansfield of Montana for the Democrats and Everett Dirksen of Illinois for the Republicans, wholly supported Mr. Johnson in this right and inevitable conduct - inevitable if he was to con tinue to be a presiding officer over the Sente and not a partisan in its internal con troversy. So did a great ma jority of the members in both parlies. Indeed, Senator Mansfield had repeatedly warned that this was the business solely of the Senate and not of the ex ecutive department, of which Mr. Johnson is, of course, a part. He went farther. Just in case, he also repeatedly JENKINS The Commerce Department reports that cigarette smoking declined by an average of TWO CIGARETTES per per son last year the first drop since 1954. Average consump tion was 199.2 packs per per son in 1962, compared with 199.3 packs in 1961. The decrease will be revers ed this year, the Commerce Department predicted, witii average use of the weeds ris ing to 200 packs in 1963. IHAT checks rather accu- rately with Representative Aliyeh's estimate as to the amount of money Oregon could expect to take in from a sales tax of five cents per package on cigarettes. Oregon's population is as sumed to be about 1,800,000. A tax of five cents per pack on the average 200 packs each person is espected to smoke during 1963 would come to $10 per person. At that rate, 1,800.000 per sons would pay a tax of $18,000,000. IEEP this in mind: If you are a cigarette smoker, it is going to cost you more than ten dollars a year. The 200 packs per person per year estimated by the Com merce Department is an AV ERAGE. It includes infants and all other non-smokers. The average smoker will ob viously punglc up more than $10 'n the course of a year. 4 ND A 1 Of course If you arc a smoker and resent being nicked for ten dollars a year to help balance Oregon's budget, you can al ways QUIT. In the case of other taxes, you don't have much choice. . ESI Death Brings Recollections Start of His Early Regime of the people" against hapless victims who met death at the end of a rope attached to a ca reening truck or automobile. - At night, in the Hotel Khyam, news correspondents banned from the streets by a curfew-closed their windows against the street sounds and the howls of roaming dog packs, and' watched television. Star of the show always was Col. Fadil El Mahdawy, a cousin of Kassem and head of the Baghdad People's Court. Mahdawy, a grim, heavy-set man, ruled over a court with a unique sense of justice. Guilt was assumed, evi- S. Whit warned the White House that no intervention was wanted from even the top member of that department, the Presi dent himself-though the Pres ident in fact had never meant to interfere. FIQR thus vindicating the in- - tegrity oi tne senate as an independent institution, Mans field himself came in for glancing blows from the re formists, and will come in for yet more. So has and will Dirksen. In truth, it remains to be seen whether in their anger they will not gravely weaken Mansfield's capacity to lead a reasonably rnited party the Senate for the Kennedy administration. What is in no doubt at all however, is that Vice-Presi dent Johnson is in for the full treatment. Senator Jacob K. Javits (R, N.Y.) is already openly accusing the Vice President of "improper1' con- duct. Several Democratic senators who lack his virtue of candor in their approach are doing the same thing in private. In part, they are going after Mr. Johnson because they dare not attack President Kennedy himself for the same refusal to interfere in their behalf. But they are going after him primarily for a sim ple - and profoundly sad -reason of mere geography. His parents made the mistake of bringing him into this world in Texas, a part of the South. ffiHUS a statement from the small but noisy Americans for Democratic Action: "Vice President Johnson has dem onstrated once again that his first loyalty is to the southern racists." This is said of a man who as Senate Majority Leader in 1957 brought to passage the first substantial civil rights bill in the eight decades since the Reconstruction era. This is said of a man who as chairman of the President's committee on job equality has undeniably done more for fair employment practices for Ne groes than any other such official in history. What remains to be said? Only this. So long as the civil rights issue is bedeviled by bitter professional agita tors capable of so treating a public record, just so long will this issue never be set tled in decency, in justice, or in peace. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter, submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tJ-e paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Supports Cat Bill To the Editor: When I first heard about Rep. John Dellen back's cat control bill, I felt that it wasn't needed1 and even cruel. Since I own a cat 1 looked into the matter and found out that the bill is a humane one. It seems well written and would provide that starving stray cats could be picked tip the same way dogs are. The cats would be held for a period of time so their owners, if any, could claim them and if no one did they would be painlessly put to sleep. It seems to me this would be more of a kindness than let ting them run loose to starve or get killed by a car. How many times have you seen the mangled remains of a little kitty on the highway? One thing that really im pressed me is that with this bill in effect cats would be come personal property, not for tax purposes, but to pro tect their owners from theft. I didn't even know that it wasn't a crime to steal a cat! It's true though. Present laws or lack of them do not protect cat owners from theft. I am attached to our cat. which is a valuable Siamese, and want the protection of the police if someone steals her. If you feel about this like I do. why not drop a line to Rep. John Dellenback, House ofj dence usually by hearsay and its presentation frequently in terrupted for long diatribes by Mahdawy against imperial ism, the United States and the United Arab Republic (Presi dent Nasser). In many hours of watching, this correspondent never saw an acquittal. In jail, awaiting execution of the death sentence, was Kassem's one-time partner in revolution, Brig. Abdul Salam Mohammed Aref. Aref had ad vocated close ties with Nasser. These were the days immed iately following the abortive Mosul revolt in the north of Iraq and there Kassem's Com munist supporters were con tinuing their blood bath against reported or suspected Nasser sympathizers. In Baghdad, the mobs were thirsty, too. UPI correspond ent Zaki Salama, a towering Egyptian, was there then, and he risked death from the mobs every time he ventured to the cable office to file a dispatch. MISSILE DEVELOPMENT CENTER "It's just a crude model, but it could become our most elfectivi weapon in competition with Russial" Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises, Inc. WIVES AND DRIVERS - While driving up to a ski resort for a week end recent ly, I was reminded of a ques- tion put to Emily Post some years ago by a per plexed reader: "How should two married c o u p 1 e s be seated in an a u tomobile?" Mrs. Post re- Harrii plied that it is customary for the wives to sit together on the back seat and the two men together on the front seat. Then, with a wild disregard for the melancholy truth, she added: "On a long tour, however, the wife of the driver usually sits beside her husband, because he is used to counting on her for road map directions." That rude noise you hear is the grim laughter bursting from the throats of a million motorists who have, at one Representative, State Capitol Blrig., Salem, Ore. Tell him you support his bill for cat control. R. D. Watson, P O. Box 263, Jacksonville, Ore. Morgan Praised To the Editor: The follow ing is a letter that has been sent to Howard Morgan of the Federal Power Commission as was requested by the Jackson County Democratic Central Committee. O Dear Mr. Morgan: Newspa per stories have recently re ported some lack of harmony between yourself and other members of the Federal Pow er Commission, particularly Mr. Swidler the chairman. Our knowledge of the trouble is limited to newspaper ac count of it but your reputation for being honest, fearless and incorruptible is such that we nae no ncsuancy in coming to your defense. We are sure that if you feel it necessary to criticue other members of the Commission there is good rea- son for it. We admire your courage in facing up to the opposition there as bravely as you have. We derive much satisfaction from having a man from Ore gon on that Commission. You are eminently qualified to serve on it. We believe as wc think you do. that the water Over this, sublimely aloof, ruled Kassem. Once each day he rode 'in his station wagon through crowded Rashid Street and then the mobs would ease their bloodletting to clap and cheer. It didn't stay that way, for Kassem even then was walk ing a tightrope. He had prom ised much, delivered little. If there was a central factor in his rule, it was his hatred for Nasser. In any event, at the end, he had lost affection from all sides. When, in 1961, Syria broke from the U.A.R. and it seemed the threat from Nasser had lessened, Kassem refeas e d from jail and reinstated him in the army. He earlier had reduced Aref's death sentence to a prison term. But,, for Kassem, it .'was a fatal mistake. For today Aref is in the driver's scat and Kas sem reportedly is dead. So it Mahdawy, television star, spokesman for communism and Kassem's cousin. . . J. Harris time early In their martial careers, entrusted the reading of the road map to the volun teer navigator on their right. Admirable as women are in many ways, they an notoriously deficient in a sense of direction, combin ing the minimum of. ob servation with the maxi-. mum of optimism. A wom an reading a road map is as hopelessly lost as a man involved in tatting instruc lions; and, moreover, she is' basically hostile to the; established axiom that a; straight line is iha shortest distance between - two. points. ' Even when a map is eschewed (a fine old word; that requires constant; watering), and she is asked' to keep her little pink eye. peeled for road signs, th doughty travelers fare no! better. The feminine mind; tends to wander in the di rection of cute farmhouse! curtains, spotted cows, fruit, stands purveying homa made jellies, and some mys sterious cerebration that; closely resembles an hyp notic trance. When she really shines, however, is as an ex post facto navigator. Once let the man get lost, and she knows exact ly how he went wrong: they should have turned at. the old red barn and gone two miles cast, then cut over past tha memorial park. Any foo.l would have known that. And doggone is she isn't right, more or less, much lb the discomfiture of the su perior male, who has been so preoccupied with route num bers, directional signs, and short cuts, that he has missed the obvious path. Mrs. Post was wrong when she said that the husband counts on his wife for road map directions. What he counts on her for is a much more f u n d a mental task: placidly- setting him right after she has let him make a fool of himself. Do you sup pose she does it on purpose? resources of ttir country are too necessary, too vital to the well being of the people to al low private interests to devel op them for their own gain. Next to the Congress the Fed eral Power Commission is tho main battleground in the fiuht for public versus private paw cr. We wish there were more members of your strength and : stature on the Commis.sinn. c are prompted to suggest that you reconsider any no tion you may have of resign ing and stay on to fight it out. Jackson County Demo cratic Central Committee, Medford. i i .
