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 .