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4 A- MONDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON UUWIU23ktTBlBUNI "Everyone In Southern Ore con ReadijriM MilTribune' ubiUh'!d Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Flrt.. Ph. 773-6141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bu Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Wornen'l Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Intered aa second data matter at Medford. Oregon under Act of Mnrch 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Dally and Sunday I yeartHOO . Dailv and Sunday moa 10 00 Datl and Sunday 3 moa 3 00 Sunday Only One year 5 00 Single Copy iMalledl 300 by Camel And Motor Ruute. Dally and Sunday 1 year 2100 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1-75 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrie andendora Copy 10c Official Paper of "City of Medford Official J"aperof Jackson County United Press" International Full Leased Wire " U. P I Telephoro Newtplctures "member or audit" bureau Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative . NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOCI. ATES Ol'lcea In New York. Cnl can Detroit. San Francisco. Los Angelea Seattle. Portland Den'-er NEWSPAPiR PUBllSHUS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL ASC(eATIG(N ZJ J U twmiiMia.'.u.-.iui Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 1953 (Monday) Medlord wrapped up its first Southern Oregon confer- ' ence basketball title since . 1046 with Friday night vic ' tory over the Grants Pass " Cavemen. Medford Moose lodge was 'presented a large mounted ; moose head by Hie Elks lodge at the second enrollment cere ' mony of the Moose on Feb. 14. : 20 YEARS AGO Fb. 18. 1943 (Saturday) Registration scheduled to ilart at Medford schools for ration book No. 2 lor first purchase of number of ra- tloncd commodities. irrtm a rllinr Pnrrv'a "Flow- 1 o .nnnrl 7:ilfa hUStlCS . lUVVlo iv"" have started to walk off over . night, after carefully spading themselves up. 4 30 YEARS AGO - s.k in 10..13 fMondav) I Local Lions club members request city to provide soup kitchen for city s ncinpiojcu. Local authorities stale that ; arrests arc near In ballot theft ease. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 18, 1923 (Tuesday) Residents of area of Fourth and Peach sis. ask city coun cil to take action to halt "nightly cat concerts" in their neighborhood. West coast aviation experts predict air mail from Chicago to Portland in "R hours. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 18. 1913 (Thursday) Owners Medford trolley franchise report that they plan to start work "within the time limit. " Large crowd attends mass meeting to discuss obtaining Irrigation for entire Rogue valley. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine fti Ian correct ii luporior; seven or eight is eiccllent; five or til it good. 1. You cat Sukiyaki but what would you do with Ka buki? 2. Docs the evaporation of water exert a cooling or heal ing effect? 3. What would you call an Inflamed swelling of the se baceous gland on the eyelid? 4. What is the command for a horse to go to the right? 5. In the nursery talc who kissed the maiden all forlorn? 6. A covey is a flock of part ridges: a gaggle Is a flock of what other fowl? 7. What does 'J4.DU3 miles measure? 8. In what stale is Valley Forge? !). What Greek mythologi cal character was so curious that she unloosed misery and pestilence on man? 10. How i... ly tides are there in a 24 hour period? Answers: 1. Dance it. 2. Cooling. 3. Sty. 4. Goe. 5. Man all faltered and tor s. Geese. 7. Earth circumference at equator. 8. Pennsylvania. 9. Pandora. 10. Two. First Family Spends Week End at Estate Washington -UW- President Kennedy and his family re turned to the While House Sunday night after spending the week end at their estate near Middlebnrg, Va. The First Family had ex pected to stay at Middlebnrg until this morning, but chang ed plans. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said there was no special signifi cance to their early return. m The Seven Ponder The Six The meeting in Geneva today has to be view ed as something more than a get-together of the nations which have been barred from the exclu sive fraternity of the European Common Market The Council of Ministers of the European Free Trade Association on the problem created derclap of Jan. 14. At first it seemed British entiy into the only cement the special ship between Britain and the united btates which the French President scorns. But after the initial shock, Britain looks no less European than it did a month ago that is, just before de Gaulle read Britain off the continent. ment has refused to be panicked. I he British press has offered helpful suggestions for accommodation. COR example, the Manchester Guardian Week- ly stresses the need for an alternative. "The arrangement," it hazards, "would have to be something like an industrial free trade area, covering EFT A and EEC North America. 1 he term tree trade area is dis liked in Europe, but that is what it would have to be because of GATT's (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) rules. advantage of eliminating contentious agricultural questions and of leaving Britain poised for full membership of Europe after de Gaulle's departure." A SIMILAR sort of arrangement has been ad "vocated elsewhere, most recently in Cologne on Feb. 10 by the Danish Premier, Jens Otto Krag. "The seven EFTA nations will be well disposed to an association request from the Com mon Market," Krag said. "But the Common Mar ket nations naturally would have to take the in itiative in this matter." Despite overtures from dc Gaulle, Krag said that Denmark would not consider association with EEC without Britain. Similar solidarity has other EFTA members mark, Switzerland, and Jan. 2!) said it did not sociation with the market had deteriorated be cause of the bar to Britain. DRITAIN is not without strong support within " the Common Market Six. Italy, Bcligum, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg have reaffirmed their desire to see Britain admitted, and with Britain, presumably, the remainder of LI'TA. Roger dc Stacrckc, president of the Belgian Federation of Industries, is reported in a govern ment economic letter reaffirming that Belgium industrial circles are very much in favor of Brit ish membership. West and foreign minister have been much more un equivocally in favor of admitting Britain to the Common Market Six than has Chancellor Ad enauer. Belgium, for one, already is well pleased with progress under the Common Market. Exports of the Belgian - Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU) for the first 11 running 10 per cent ahead of the 11 rate. Ad mission of Britain would open a vaster market to Belgian industrialists. It would also add sweepingly to reductions of U.S. duties on Euro pean goods under the principal supplier clause of the 19(52 Trade Expansion Act. E.R.R. Col. Glenn's Orbit A year ago Wednesday John II. Glenn, Jr., took what James Ueslon oi' the New York Times described as "the greatest American ride since Paul Revere." The whole nation watched or lis tened from lift off to pick up as the astronaut orbited three limes around the earth to become the first American to make an orbital flight. The Soviet Union's Gagarin and Titov had done it earlier, of course, but not in front of the kleig lights. Later Project Mercurv flights bv Malcolm Scott Carpenter (three orbits on May 21) and Walter Schirra (six orbits on Oct. 15) were so much icing on the cake. That the United States still trails in the man ned flight field was made clear last August. Two Soviet cosmonauts, Maj, Andrian Nikoktycv and Ll. Col. Pavel Popovieh, orbited simultaneously, circling the earth (i I and -IS times, respectively, in separate spaceships, and were able to man euver their ships within a few miles of each others. MEXT on the agenda for America's space pro . gram is the 22-orbit flight of L. Gordon Coop er, Jr., originally scheduled for next April 2. Troubles with the electrical sy.-tem of the Atlas rocket vehicle have delayed the flight until at least mid-May. After that comes Project Gemini a rende. ous in space between two spacecraft as a prelude to the nioonshot. Glenn, meanwhile, has been assigned to serve as over-all leader and supervisor for the Apollo Project, as the nioonshot is known. A big space craft will be flown to the vicinity of the moon and a small spacecraft will be launched from it to make the actual moon landing. The assignment does not imply that Glenn himself will pilot the spacecraft 'involved. In deed, the timetable seems to decree that Glenn, now II, has made his last trip into outer space. E.R.R. 1 is taking a fresh reading by Gen. de Gaulle s thinv that de Gaulle's veto of Common Market would "Anglo-Saxon" relation The Macmillan govern and perhaps eventually It would have the great been demonstrated by Sweden, Norway, Den Portugal. But Austria on think its chances of ac- German's vice chancellor months of 12 were "That' The Way ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addrest 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. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in thii column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Two Prime Instincts To the Editor: Man pos sesses two prime instincts. First, the instinct of self pres ervation, providing food, clothing and shelter for him self and dependents. Second, the instinct for procreation, libido" in the language of science. From prehistoric time on, until our present atomic stale mate which, for the time be ing, is causing a lull in the war games, the growth of the worlds population has been slowed down by war between the nations. And, up to around 100 years ago Ihc-in-fantile death rate was tre mendous and deaths from pestilence and infectious di seases was also large and held down the population growth. But now with the great ad vance in the science of med icine 'he average span of life among the leading nations of the world has risen at a tre mendous rate. It is said that in 1850. the average span of life in the U.S.A. was 40 years. As of now il is belter than 70 years. Quite a difference from the Stone Age. Anthropologists believe that the Stone Age man had an average span of life of around 20 to 25 years. Of course there are no rec ords to show this. Bui il is said that records show for India, that between 1041 and 1950 the life span was only 32 years. And in a bonk "Man Against Aging" by Robert Dc Ropp "an effort was made" to determine the average span of life in certain districts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the year 1789, and it gave a figure of 35. 5 years. So that, as of now, with the doctors saving the babies and preventing disease every where, the increa c in the world's population goes on at a very high rale and with t missionaries going out saving souls, they also spread the while mail's knowledge of medicine. But nature is cruel, re lentless, H knows no mercy and its law will prevail un less man uses the wit and sense nature's God has given him. In this case there is only one remedy against the pre dieted explosion, tha' is a uni- versa! adopt inn ot hirth con- I trol, by legal sterilization if J necessary, should other means fail. John K. Ring 104!l West 11th st. Medford Ralher Myopic To the Editor: The editorial in the paper, wnlten by G.H.B. - whoever he might be in regard to the new sign along the freeway, struck me as being ralher mvopic somewhat akin to a situation in which a man smoking a strong cigar, with garlic on his breath , ,.M. 01 .-M.iin- nut ii, in,- mi iMiiiti in in. room having eaten onions This was on a Thursday Thursday, the ri.iy when we search through ,i three turn j normal Mail Tribune lo (mil where little pieces of news j might be sen tied along the margins, above, undct ncalii. between, or a a border around, page alter nai:e ol advertisim; That sign just might Ket . 1m ' l'r Government, drop a few people to turn off the 1 P'K all pretentions of anti freeway and come to dow n-' Communist concern, are hap tow n Medlord and brow.-e "ig events and situations right : around Thev could w indovv shop m tl'.e heart ol the town there air so many of the j stores lh.it hav e he uitiliil win- : dovvs, ilisplav nig lor Lease, " '"For Kent." and "Now l.o- I cated Soincvv ni l e l.ise stalls G II II. stated "Coiktiv a- 1 of John Hopkins, has ricom- bly, the touiist. at some point mended that a plan of gradu- in the near future, will notial surrender to the Comnni - It Goes, Cap'n" even be able to see down town Medford." Now, by gol ly, that might be just what it takes to arouse their curiosi ty! Like a visiting mother-in-law pecking under the rug. they might just get curious as to whether there really is anything to Medford. Newspaper advertising is good for local use, but, don't you agree, that billboards arc a good way to inform tour ists? I know that I use them when I go to an unfamiliar territory. I think that I en joy looking at an attractive sign more than the back-side of a laundry or clay-brick old buildings. Keep the bill boards away from the scen ery, but use them freely in the cities. Meanwhile: Let's all put our shoulders to the wheel, our noses to the grindstone and one ear to the ground. (Those are sage old sayings Grandma taught me. We may not get any where, but, we will be more round shoul dered, have shorter noses and longer cars than the average.) Tim J. Horn Box 116 White City, Ore. Most Will Besist To the Editor: Sen. Strom Thurmond is about to blow the lid off of the fact that President Kennedy's "great victory" did not stop the So viet military build up in Cuba. At the same lime De fense Secretary McNamara and Secretary of Stale Dean Itusk are frantically silting on the lid trying to keep this information bottled up with newscasts and even television appearances in which they pooh pooh Thurmond's re ports of the rapidly mush rooming danger in the Car ribean. But these two worthies are wasting their breath as far as the entire Right Wing is con cerned. Like Ihurmoud. we know tlilt moti jj nol ;,, of the original Soviet nuclear weapons are still in Cuba; and that the number of highly trained Russian troops there has grown close to 40.01111 in stead of the 17.0(10 admitted by our Defense Department, a danger now far beyond what it was when President Kennedy scared the wits out of the American people about j hat.k j,, .November. l!)l2 Our source of information is the unimpeachable Cuban Underground, with detailed maps of storage depots and much other information on this being printed in Capsule News 357 and 358. also in Dec , '1)2 Independent Amer ican Seemingly the present U.S. I'dministralion has no ob.icc - tion to the growing Soviet fortress ill Cuba. Its only ob jection is to the American people finding out about it. The fact that our Defense Department is trying desper ately to keep this grisly i.cws M,H ,-.,. CI,,,M -Oril. .1,4 tenor into the heart of ev ery American. The Cuban "turning point'' is now being revealed in its true colors Respect tor the desires of the American peo ple is rapidly being discard ed. Consideration for U S na tional interests is being al- ' ' i1 bru.-hed aside. The forces of International' hctorc our eyes w hich tu ne- 'fit "!' the Communist World Conspiracv llovv far has our bctraval, t g o n c" Quoting February, j j 1963 American Opinion, "Mil- I ton t isenhovvcr. as prcsic.cnl Foreign News: Franco-German Treaty To j Be Signed After Committee Groundwork L By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Franco-German Treaty The Franco-German treaty will be ratified by the West German parliament sometime ajaaaaaaa! in April or in April way, but only after a lot of prelimin a r y groundwo r k in committee. Politicians of I I opinion are aaaaaaaVHaaaaal deman ding Vewsom so,nc sort Of a p p e ndix to the basic treaty, making il clear that the pact in no way can be interpreted as the basis for an exclusive Paris -Bonn axis. But French President Charles dc Gaulle, who sign ed the treaty with West Ger man Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer, is opposed to any formal addition. So, the West German parliament probably will go along with an ex- nists be prepared. One has been." By whom? By our De fense Department! This shock ing fact was uncovered by Congressman Donald Jack son. Gentle reader, do you un derstand what such surrender means? Eugene Dennis, a top Communist party member has stated, "Sixty million Ameri cans must be wiped out after we take over the U.S.A." This is about the number of properly owners in America. You see, when a country goes Communist (like Cuba) all the people are ordered by the Red Government to turn over the deed to their property. Also their bank account, sav ings bonds, insurance poli cies, automobile titles, every thing. Resist and you face ex ecution, or slow death in a slave labor camp. And you may be sure most of us will resist. L. C. Powell 316 S. East. Eighth st. Grants Pass, Ore. Cause for Concern To the Editor: In regard to your recent editorial under the heading "Two Story Lit ter." If we disregard the undo note of hysteria and the ob vious exaggerations, we nev ertheless must agree that there is cause for concern. This problem effects, not only the freeway overpass, but the city also. Not unique to our area, this situation is widely recognized across the nation. The need for signs is fact, and no amount of hysteria will convince the local mer chant that he does not have the right to tell people what he has to otfer. There must and will be signs. The problem seems to be how can we, within fair ness and reason, effect a real istic control of this method of advertising. The problems behind the mis-use of outdoor and elec trical advertising arc many and varied, not all the fault of tlie sign companies involv ed and not easily resolved in many cases. In mind of this, I still feel that wiih intelligence and compromise we can have a beautiful city and allow our merchants this vital adver tising medium. The sign industry has long maintained a position of hos tility and defense against any efforts to regulate their pro duct. This is not hard to un derstand when we realize that if the extremes of the ma jority of various anti-sign groups became law the sign coinpanys would shortly be out of business. I believe that vvc in this iiv dustry have matured enough ' to appreciate the concern of iall persons interested in the 'prosperity and coordinated : grow Ih of our city. ; We would like, very much. ! to work Willi these responsi ble people in effecting some .-ense of order and good taste. Frankly vvc have never to my i know ledue been asked and bc I cause of lorn: standing hostili ties on all sides we have been reluctant to volunteer. The problem exists Part ot tl-e blame vvc accept. The rest should bo accepted by people like yourself, who cri ticize bitterly, but make no i suggestions other than the 'complete elimination of signs. This .situation will not di mimsh as our city grows m size and competitive spirit. E E C.upenier Allied Nio-t Suns i 1J4-' North Central av e .Medford ; . Punicd Over Need j To the Editor. 1 a:n puzzled lwhy there is i need of a hange of letters between the wo governments which would clarify the conditions. Oddly enough, the pact must be ratified by the parliament in Bonn, but docs not have to have a parliamentary okay in Paris. Pro-Americanism Newly . elected British La bor Party leader Harold Wil son, often described as a left wing intellectual, will : :ss no opportunity in coming weeks to stress the pro-Americanism he started underscor ing on the very day of his victory. Insiders in London say Wilson is quite worried Washington Report By William (ci United Feature Syndicate HAM-HANDED ACTION Washington This coun try's problem in dealing with Castro Cuba has now been fur t h e r be- deviled by an exiraoramari- . " .U'" 'y ham-hand- e u a c i i u n within the 9it United Na tions. A UN sub organiza tion called the special fund Whit. na5 c n o 5 e ii this untimely hour in history to award a $1,500,000 United Nations agricultural aid proj ect to Castro. The United States of America provides 40 per cent of the total finan cial support of this fund, of which tlie managing director, Paul F. Hoffman, is himself an American. This economic assistance to Castro, though no doubt small in the great scheme of things, comes precisely at the mo ment when tho highest Amer ican policy is directed to the economic destruction of Cuba, as an open Soviet military base and lodgement for So viet Communist penetration in this hemisphere. IT ALSO comes precisely at the moment when Ameri can efforts are directed lo explaining lo oilier nations in Latin America thai Castro is an outlaw and that anti Americanism is not a useful line to take up in this hemis phere. In short, this project could nol possibly have been approved at a time more em barrassing to the United Stales and more suitable lo Castro's book. Hoffman is quoted in the separate department lo catch stray cats. We called the dog pound a short time ago abuut some stray cats. And Ihcy came right out after them. The cats were so untamed that we en ticed them into Hie enclosed porch, and the man had lo catch them in a snare, one by one and carry them out the front door. There were four of them, and it was quite a job. And he wouldn't take any money for his trouble. A few days after that I was calling at a house in town. While there the dog catchers came there. This lady had a 7 month old female which unexpectedly was the cause of the trouble. These fellows took her away, and would care for her for a small board ing fee, until she could be brought home, if one slill wants to keep the clog. All these young men were very nice and courteous. I sec no need for another department to take care of this issue. It only makes more county and city employees, and another excuse to raise taxes some more. Just give more support to the present Humane Society and dog pound. On the whole, they are doing a thankless job. Mary E. Atkins 1634 Orchard Home dr. Medford. . '"-trlts i. r I ' M0m mt mm "I believe the missiles are gone from Cuba. Anybody who says different is undermining my faith in my gov ernment and had better step outside!" that his "image" in the United States is more lcf'st and anti - nuclear deterrent than he likes. While the mood of the British electorate might be to vote Labor at the next election, most obrervers agree that the country would not be too happy to choose a man it thought might en danger the Anglo - American alliance. And if labor should win, Wilson would be the next prime minister and be in a position to affect that al liance. But the manin-the-street knows where the big punch lies if another war should conic, and he wants it on his side - even if he is S. White curious argument that any how the money which will go to Castro will not come "di rectly' from American con tributions. But this absurd and tasteless affair mocks our whole position that Castro Cuba is a consistent threat to what the UN is supposed to be, an organization opposed to both open and covert ag gression. rpiIE very note of our Slate department "regretling" this action calls attention to Cuba's "persistent policy of hostility towards its neigh bors." It declares, moreover, that Cuba's "support of sub version throughout the hem isphere precludes the estab lishment there of the normal cooperative relations neces sary to the implementation of a United Nations project." Nevertheless, the thing has been "implemented" all the same, and with nothing more than a timid "objection" tiled back in 1 QUI by the United States delegation lo the Unit ed Nations. State department informants privately concede that there was nothing in UN procedure to have prevented the United States from having demanded, in 1961 or now. that this grant to Castro be set aside. They add that it was "ap parently our conclusion" meaning the conclusion of our UN delegation in New York that we could not marshal the required two-thirds vote with in the governing council which is supposed to direct the policies of t h e special fund. But il is conceded that we never at any point so much as asked for a roll call or lob bied to raise up the necessary majority. 4 TN SHORT, it is perfectly obvious, on the basis of Slate department information, that the 18 nations supposedly running this fund are not run ning it at all but are leaving it to t ho managing director, Paul Hoffman. It is no less obvious that a mere salaried bureaucracy in the UN is able, in tliis instance, to flout the central foreign policy designs of the very country that is carrying tlie bulk of all the financial load for the agency this bureaucracy administers. Finally, it is also perfectly plain that senior people in the State department itself arc chagrined by this almost incredible episode. How long before tile U. S. delegation to the UN under Ambassador Adlai Stevenson is made a part of the United States gov ernment? How soon will it cease having a foreign policy of its own? And how long before I he UN riaht-or-wrongers. w h o presently will tolerate no criticism of il at any point for any reason, will realize that the good in this institu tion will not in the end sur vive by mere passionate re fusals to sec the follies that arc perverting it out of all rational shape? 7 vi t 4 'TV I i i i K i l' V !.Al l)Tt ,' i' n n';vji . v V not too happy about being dependent on Washington for it. Common Market Talks President de Gaulle's gov ernment is casting around for ways and means to get Com mon Market talks started again with Britain. Even though he vetoed British en try at Brussels in January, de Gaulle strongly favors asso ciate membership as an ii. terim solution and believes West Germany might act as mediator. But he wants to make sure that Common Mar ket agricultural policy is firmly nailed down before any new talks start. Agricul ture was one of the main stumbling blocks last time. Tokyo Troubles Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikcda recently can celed a get-together of lead ers of his Conservative Party, ostensibly on the grounds that it would look bad for any kind of a deal on his succes sor to be made in a smoke filled room. Those on the guest list included Ikeda, his biggest rival Eisaku Sato, and former Prime Minister Shig. eru Yoshida. Since Yoshirla is the grand old man of the parly, his word carries con siderable weight in party councils. And since Sato is his current favorite lo suc ceed Ikeda next year, it is felt that the prime minister real ly did not even want to hear of any deal that would grease the way into the job for Sato. Strictly Persona! By Sydney J. Harris (c, Field Enterprises. Inc. HEATHENISH WAYS The Chinese community in Chicago - and in New York and San Francisco, and oilier cities that rUC "1 have one - i celebrated il3 iii New Year on , Jan. 27. A lid . what a bust it .j was. The Chi ncsc New . York feslivi- Jlies included Harris introdu c i n 3 the year of the rabbit, 4660. But it wasn't anything liko the way in which we cele brate the Christian 'era in 1963. I guess the Chinese just don't know any ' jtter. There were no wild parties, no drunkenness, no automo bile collisions at high and er ratic speed, '-stead, t h e heathens had a parade, fol lowed by special r'ovies and a Chinese opera. The men didn't put on silly hats and slobber all over a night club lable. Instead, following an o l d pagan tradition, they paid off their outstanding debts lo rr.;et the new year with a clean slate. And the om.j didn't even have sense enough to get loaded on champagn and ruin their new parly gowns. Instead, they made their homes spotless, pre paring to greet the new year by turning a new domestic leaf. There were also absolute ly no reports of Chinese juvenile delinquents hitting the beer bottles, filching their parents' cars, or simi larly celebrating the Chr tian era's welcome to the year 1963. For a lonq time now, fhe Chinese community has teen a blot on the civic records of Arr,?riran com munities. They just don't seem fo want lo participate in our national folkways. , They refuse lo accept their rightful share of our alcoholics, our reliefers, our prostitutes, our delinquents. our deadbeats, our crimi nals, our reckless drivers, our fraudulent insurance claimants, our whole re splendent tapestry of urban living. They won't even cclcbia'e j the new year in llie American I Wav and in what has come to he the ac pled Christian spirit. The police blotter oil ! any holiday - Chinese or j Western - is almost totally ' drv oid of their names. And ! the family eour'- and welfare) j agencies arc shamefully snub- bed by them. j 1 think vvc have a sacred ohligaiion to send more mi--, sioiiarus to these jcnighlfl People True, they seem to be I backward in picking up our iciv ili.-ed pract'-.-s. but vv it;i I a little guidance and good j vvill, I ain -:v we can got i them lo take part in our com I r.iunal activities. And. when thev have for saken their old - fashioned heathenish vvavs. maybe next ear. or the vear afu r, ll'.ev will jinn of us in nioctanni' i lie Chris'.i.m new vear i-s : , cent, forward-lookir.s prop i 'hould - hats, h, Til.-. hOOiH, j homicide and all. We can but I hope. tt A K
