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Newspaper Page TextWEDNESDAY. MARCH 13. 19S3 iI)rORD&&wTftIBUNI Beads Tha Mll Tribune" fubllihed Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North 2?t JU.PfciWSMliL. ROBERT W HUHL. "'tor HXRB GREY Advortiilnl Mansaer GERALD T LATHAM. Bus Mfr ERIC ALLEN JR, Mn; Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARK V CHlPMAlJ. Telei I M" RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Ed tot OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERlCKSOjrcjjUUBMg . t i..HMt Nswsnaoer Intered second daw matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance 7DSly and Sunday-l ' " Dally and Sunday mos. 10.00 Dallv end Sunday 3 moa. 8.00 sSday Only-pneye., SS.00 Slnale Copy (Mailed! . By Cirnei-And Motor Route Daily and sunday-l year 3100 Dally and Sunday J mo. 1.TB Sunday Only 1 mo. Carrier jndyendoraj:opy 100 Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper ojajksonounty United Press International , rull Leased Wire O. P 1 Telepholo Newsplctures MEMBEjTbF AUDIT BUREAU OS CIRCULATIONS Advertising KepresenUtlve: NELSOtf ROBERTS 4 ASSOCI ATES Of'lcee In New York, Chi. caio. Detroit, San Francisco. Los Ant-els. Seattle. Portland Denrer. ft ATI ON At fOITOMAl Memher California Newspaper PubUshers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30. and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 13. 1M3 (Friday) Rumors current In Medford that First National Bank of Portland has purchased right-of-way area east of the South ern Pacific railroad tracks in the downtown area for new building. Medford Police Lt. Charles Champlin will be one of two Oregon delegates attending the 51st biannual Federal Bureau of Investigation na tional academy at Washing ton, D.C. 20 YEARS AGO March 13. 153 (Saturday) Twelfth woman from coun tv ioins the armed services. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge.. Pot" column: "A number of the Older Girls with gardens report young onions are up an Inch, and dread the day they will eat them, and have callers." 30 YEARS AGO March 13. 1933 (Monday) Mail Tribune banner head line announces "Beer Coming Within Few Days;" Item from Washington, D.C, expresses the opinion the senate would support the 3.2 per cent beer measure. Oregon state police make 19th arrest in ballot theft case, 1 40 YEARS AGO March 13, 1923 (TuMday) Eleven feet of snow covers ground at Crater lake. Second nightriding trial gets under way in Jackson ville; trouble started, evi dence showed, when the vic tim was accused of "stealing the widow's chickens." SO YEARS AGO March 13. 1913 (Thursday) Moral wave hits city and 40 vagrants told to make themselves scarce. Work to start at once nn Valley Intcrurban line. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ran samel It superior; seven or eliht Is excellent! five i sli Is good. 1. Was Solomon's throne made of gold, Ivory, or silver? 2. Is Louisville or Lexing. ton the capital of Kentucky? S. Name the Indian princess who married John Rolfe. 4. Name the five senses. 5. Is asphalt Insoluble in water, or In gasoline? 6. Rabbits belong to the rodent family; true or false? 7. Genuine Roquefort cheese Is made principally from the milk of cows, ewes, or goats? 8. Which U.S. President is sued the emancipation procla matlon? 9. Name the author of the novel, "Oliver Twist. 10. Name the strings of a violin. Answersi 1. Ivory. 2. Nel ther, Frankfort Is. 3. Pocahon tas, 4. Sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch. S. Water. 8. True 7. Ewes. 8. Abraham Lincoln. 9. Charles Dickens. 10. E. A D.C. EXPANDING CADETS Old Saybrook, Conn.-iUPr-The Junior Naval Cadets of America Tuesday appealed for old Navy uniforms for the rrew of lis ship, the Fulton. The uniforms were needed "Io help meet the needs of the- expanding ship and rapid ly expanding cadets," it Mid. VjJAMOCIATION Billboard A special committee of the Medford city council and planning com mission is now considering what, if anything, to do about regulating billboards along the free way through the city of Medford. A "stop-gap" ordinance has been passed by the council, halting new signs adjacent to the freeway pending enactment of permanent con trols, but at least 11 signs win go up (.unless the council soon acts retroactively) because per mits were obtained before the ordinance was passed some of them only hours before. What are other cities doing about this? We wrote to Mayor Terry Schrunk of Portland to ask, and in reply received a letter from the planning director of the Portland City Planning Commis sion, Lloyd T. Keefe. JJR. KEEFE's letter said, in part: - "Through recommendation of the City Planning ' 'Commission and enactment by the City Council, all existing freeways and those under construction, and all approaches to bridges crossing the Willamette River In the City of Portland, are within 'S' (Sign Control) zones. The 'S' zone is a zone superimposed over the existing zoning pattern to allow more effec tive regulation of outdoor advertising signs and busi ness Identification signs in areas where the Planning Commission and the City Council feel that such con trols are necessary for the public welfare. An 'S' zone is an area normally measuring 300 feet on each side of the center line of the roadway; however, the area is wider In those areas containing ramps providing ingress to and egress from freeways. "All outdoor advertising sign locations proposed in Commercial (C) and Manufacturing (M) zones, whether or not 'S' zones are superimposed, must be approved by the Variance Committee of the City Planning Commission. Since the adoption in 1959 of the pres ent Planning and Zoning Code, five outdoor advertis ing signs have been approved by the Committee within 'S' zones superimposed on C and M zones. Their ap proval was based on the fact that no part of the signs or structures could be seen from the freeways, and that the locations of the signs would not adversely affect . traffic safety . . ," THERE are certain exceptions provided for irlontifinatinn anrl nfVir t.vnpq nf RIOTIS. hilt they do not destroy the intent nor the effective ness of the ordinance. Also, there is provision for the termination of existing signs, giving a removal. In addition to the exemptions provided in the ordinance, the Variance erection of signs if it first ". . . that tne location or. sucn sign is not aemmeniai -to the public welfare, Is not contrary to other provi sions of this code relating to the zone applicable to the location, will not obstruct a view of scenic interest, will not impede the rapid and free flow of traffic upon a bridge or bridge approach or specially desig nated throughway or highway. Is not primarily de signed to be visible from a bridge or bridge approach or specially designated throughway or highway . . ." JT IS to be hoped the Medford City Council and Planning -Commission will take note of this ordinance, along witn: 1. The traffic hazard larly on an elevated freeway up to tnree times that of non-signed areas, according to some au thorities. : , 2. Their detrimental effect on the view of the city which tourists and other passers-by receive. 3. The fact that public tax money has paid for the freeway, and if billboards are erected, they get, in effect, a .captive audience at public expense. It may be too late to eliminate an DUiDoaras along the freeway in town, but it is not too late to prevent the worst sort of billboard alley from springing up. E. A. Ridiculous The supreme court of the state of Missouri, in a flash of sanity, has ruled that state's Sunday closing law is so "vague, indefinite and incapa ble of rational enforcement," that it has thrown it out. The law had been on the state's law books for 138 years. It prohibited the sale of any com modities except "drugs, medicines, provisions, and other articles of immediate necessity. A concessionaire at the St. Louis Union sta tion got into trouble with the law when he con tended that such items blades, underwear, socks, and other items, are of immediate necessity to travelers. 'J'HE court, in examining the case, said: "This Is but typical of the vexing state of uncer tainty and widespread contusion which for many years attended operations under, and enforcement of, these sections ... . "The statute is now held void." Well and good. This is just another Legislature should turn thumbs down on the pro posed Sunday closing law for Oregon. It is dis criminatory, it is, intentional or not, religious leg islation, it is confusing, and it is, in short, ridicu lous. E. A. Craterian When the Craterian theater reopens this Fri day, theater patrons are going to find it will com pare with any small theater, anywhere, in taste comfort and decor. The seat rows are further apart, the scats are foam-padded, the thick carpets are soft and lux urious, and the severely modern interior is soft ened by a color scheme of soft green and orange brown. Manager Bob Corbin is proud of the job, and sees it as another vote of confidence in the down town core area. W are inclined to agree. Ej A. Ordinance composed of members 10-year period for their committee may permit finds.: billboards pose, particu as tooth paste, razor reason why the Oregon MEDFORD w. "ILsien io this "The first Is death.' How true." how . Communications . . Letters to the Editor must bear tha name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pan nam 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 this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Indians' Shasta To the Editor: My family so enjoyed your recent article concerning Mystical Mount Shasta- Perhaps readers would be interested in the following legend of the Modoc, Kla math, Shasta, and Scott Val ley tribes concerning this mountain. It is from J. Mil ler's "True Bear' Stories," (1900). "The Great Spirit (I-sce) made Mt. Shasta first of all, pushing down snow and ice through a hole He ground In the sky with a grinding stone, then He stepped out of the sky to the mountain top, and by placing His finger here and there. He made tne trees and brush to grow, and made the rivers, and stones. From the small of of His staff He made fish, and after that He made the beasts from the re mainder of His staff, making the great grizzly bear of the very big end of the staff, and made him master over all the others, so great, in fact, that he feared him Himself, and would have to go up on top of Mt. Shasta, out of the for. est to sleep at night lest the grizzly should assail Him in the night. Afterwards, I-see, the Great Spirit, wishing to remain on earth and make the seas and more lands, convert ed Mt. Shasta, by a great deal of labor. Into a wigwam, and builded a fire in the cen ter of it. Then His family came down to live with Him and they have lived there ever since. "Late one spring a severe windstorm blew about Mt. Shasta, and I-see sent His youngest and fairest daughter to the hole on top, that she should speak to the wind and tell it to be more gentle, lie bade her do this swiftly, and not stick her head out lest the wind catch in her long hair and blow her away. The child hurried to the top and obeyed. but as she had never seen the ocean where the stormwlnds made their home, she put her head out to look that way and lo, the wind caught in her hair and blew her from the hole and she slid on the hard ice down to the dark belt of firs below. The grizzly bears posses sed all the land at that time, but then they were not all bear; they walked on two feet and warred with clubs as men do now. "A family of grizzlies lived close by, and the father found the daughter of I-sce. red skinned as Shasta fire. He took her home and she grew up with his family. "And so the eldest bear-son married the little red crea ture, daughter of 1-see, and they were very happy, and many children were born to them, but being part of the Great Spirit and part of the grizzly, the children did not look much like either parent but partook of the mother's red skin and the father's dark hair; thus the red men were created and these children were the first Indians. "All the other grizzlies were very proud and kind, and they met together and builded for the little red prln cess a wigwam clo.se to her father's, and this Is what is now called 'Little Mount Shasta' . . . (Muir's peak; the cinder cone). Mrs. V. Card v Jacksonville, Ore. Annexation Law To the Editor: H.B. 1263 is a proposed slate law which will allow all cities in Oregon to annex areas by council ac tion, without a vote of the city citizens or the people In the areas to be annexed. This type of legislation has been sweeping across the United States in the past (ew years. In my opinions it reflects MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. condition of immortality trual" the thinking and action of technicians, planners, city managers and some officials who are either ignorant of, or impatient with, our represen tative form of democracy and our freedom of choice. It is also the result of apathy and the reluctance of the general public to do any thing about it until at such time it affects them personal ly, then lt is too late. - This type of legislation af fects only a small group of people at any one time, or by the time it affects the larger group, the city, they are in a bad taxation situation. The details of this bill, H.B. 1263, and it's full implica tions, make for a long expla nation. If enough people are interested, and you should be, perhaps a public meeting can be arranged and the matter discussed by the proponents and others. William Doernbach 143 Mace rd. Medford. A Law To Ignore To the Editor: In regard to this Sunday closing law: It is just another law that will be ignored, as the one they had in Oregon, about 1915 or 1916 or thereabouts. I lived in a country neigh borhood and the people there beat a trail from the church to the back door of our neigh borhood store, most every Sunday after church. When the law was repealed, the first Sunday after repeal our storekeeper locked up the store and went fishing. I have read a lot of letters to the Editor on which day to keep for the Sabbath. If the Sabbath is so Import ant why was it that it wasn't mentioned in the sermon on the Mount, while murder and adultery were? I have my own theory about this, but it would take too much space to tell it. W. R. White, Box 209, White City, Ore. Thanks To the Editor: To the volun teer - Fire Department of Shady Cove: We express our sincerest thinks, and to all the people standing by to help. Thank you, too, Mr. and Mrs. H. Failing, for standing by all evening. And thank you, tors, too, the telephone opera- Mr. and Mrs. H. Wcrrlein, Route 1, Box SS4, Eagle Point, Ore. Any Comments? To the Editor: After listen ing to the groans emanating from Salem, I was under the impression our loyal represen tatives were laboring mightily to cut expenses. The Voter's Pamphlet Bill seemed one easy way to do this. Of course, the money saved would only build two or three badly needed class rooms. Why, it might even pay the salaries of some of our most partisan legislators. Any comments, you well informed, happy, tax-paying voters? R. K. Hammona, Star Route. Box 540, Shady Cove, Ore. Where Is the Truth? To the Editor: I'm standing solidly behind Franc1! Koch and Dan Smoot In 'hi; Preji- dent Kennedy-Romulo Bctan- court hassle. Yo 2 28 edi torial in defense of Betaa court is ridiculous, consider ing the amount of document ed evidence against him There is enough unimpeach able evidence in any one ol five different entries into our Congrlonal Record on this man to hang him, if bents a Communist was a capital crime in Venezuela. Jore OREGON Khrushchev, Target Sets Out To Prove Communist Toughness By K. C. THALER United Press International Lindon - IUPD - Premier Ni kita Khrushchev, under mounting fire from Red Chinav apparently is out to set his Marxist record straight. The Soviet leader's latest strategy emerged in a series of recent moves, all pointing strongly to a calculated tight ening of the Kremlin's line over a wide field of Soviet activity. Whether in readiness for some form of truce with Pe king or for a public show down with his ally, Khrush chev is to all appearances trying, to prove that he is a tough Communist. The most striking of moves has been his surprise week end attempt to softpedel his at tacks on Stalin and his no tice to tighten the reins in the sphere of ideological co existence in the arts. The hardening of the So- damning evidence is the fact thai he appointed his old time card-packing Co munist comrades to key positions in government, including such "lovelies as Roul Leoni, Ri- cardo Montilla and Carlos D'ascoli. You wonder, in ycur edi torial, diatribe against the right wing, what kind of a mind is capable of believing our President is a liar and a coddler of Communists. Why, E. A., one of his own White House spokesmen, As sistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester, stated pub licly the federal government "has the inherent right to lie" and that "m naging" and "manipulating" the news was a practice during the Cuba crisis. Why wouldn t we be lieve it? As for coddling Com munists, every responsible citizen in America is aware that the law-of-the-land re quiring Communists to regis ter, as, such, has not been enforced. We are in the deadliest war of all history, with a merci less, implacable enemy who intends to destroy every ves tige of our Christian civiliza tion. Unbelievably alien and un-American things are hap pening in our government. Yet neither Mr. Koch nor Mr. Smoot said that they believed President Kennedy was a traitor, as you unethically in ferred. However, they may and probably DO believe, as most of the right wing, that Kennedy is a helpless "cap tive" of our "invisible gov ernment." What else could explain In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's talk today about cat tle and cattlemen. The occa sion is the Oregon Angus As sociation's High Country An gus Sale held at the Klamath County Fair Grounds the oth er day and the Rotary Club's luncheon for the visiting cat tlemen. The luncheon was a fasci nating affair. It brought to gether not only members of the -Angus Association but cattlemen specializing in oth er breeds from all over the Klamath Basin. The striking part of It ' : s that here was a group of men who had come together to talk not about the PROB LEMS of their industry but about their industry's PROG RESS. There was -. talk about SURPLUSES and what to do with them. I) lead, the talk was all about how to produce more and better beef so that people may have more and better meat to eat. In these days, that is most unusual. fkUESTION: Why are there no beef surpluses to worry about? There could be beef sur pluses. Since 1930. the num ber of cattle in the United States has increased by 55 per cent. In this same period, the number of people has lncrt-s-ed by only 47 per cent. So - In a period when the cattle total has been increasing fast er than the population total and when other staple oocls have been piling up and piling up until the surpluses are bursting the wall- of ihc warehouses all over the coun try, why is there no surplus of beef? 'VUE answer. I think, is this: The cattlemen have brrn I wise enough to keep th nose of the government camel out from under the rattle tent. That must be about the long and the short of it. jt viet line has become increas ingly noticable over the past few weeks. It showed clearly at the current Geneva talks for a nuclear test ban and Today & Tomorrow By Walter ( 1963. The CHEATING AND ESPIONAGE Senator Dodd has said that there is one supreme ques tion which the Senate must ask about any test ban trea ty; does it provide rea sonable pro tection against any cheating by the Sovi ets?" This is an important question, and Uppmaan the hearings now being held before the Joint Atomic Energy Commit tee are focused on it. But it is not the supreme question. The supreme question is whether the U. S. A. and the U. S. S. R. can agree not to do any more testing in the hope of changing the existing bal ance of power in nuclear wea pons. This would mean, it is agreed on both sides, an ac ceptance of the fact that while both sides are now capable of inflicting devastating damage, the American arsenal is big ger and more versatile than the Soviet's. The purpose of the treaty would be to slow the refinement of the nuclear the Bay of Pigs fiasco-or Ken nedy's "Declaration of Inter dependence" in Independence Hall last 4th of July - or such acts as the sale, on his order, and for 10 cents on the dollar, our finest jet bomb ers to Communist Yugoslavia, while training Red Yugoslav fliers at our Army Air Force bases to fly them? What else can explain his approval of the disarmament treaty? Think of it! Suppose General George Washington had sold American arms to the British for a fraction of their cost. during the Revolutionary War! Suppose, after becom ing President, he had set his approval on a treaty that would have totally disarmed our young nation and put it under compulsory jurisdic tion of a World Court with foreign troops stationed on our soil to police us! Or sup pose Washington had sponsor ed the socialization of -11 Latin America with billions of American tax dollars! Are Frank Koch and Dan Smoot therefore become your enemies, because they tell you the truth? L. C. Powell, 316 S.E. Eighth St., Grants Pass, Ore. WHAT suggests another ques- tion: WHY have the cattle men been wise enough to keep the nose of the govern ment camel out from under the cattle tent? The only answer I can think of is that they arc just THAT KIND OF PEOPLE. rpHIS answer was confirmed at the Klamaih Rotary club's cattlemen's luncheon by Lyle Hoyt, sales manager of the Oregon Angus Association and managing editor of the Western States Angus News, when in a lively and interest ing talk he gave this version of the Cattlemen s Creed: "I. DO NOT choose to be common man. It is my right to be uncommon if can. I seek OPPORTUNITY not security. "I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take a calcu lated risk to dream and to build, to fail or succeed. "I refuse lo barter Incen tive for the dole. I prefer the challenge of life to the a u a r a n t ced existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of Utopia. I will not trade my independence for beneficences nor my dignity for a hand-out. "I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and un afraid: to think and act for myself; to enjoy the benefits of my creations and to face the world boldly and say THIS I HAVE DONE. WHAT isn't, he said, the for mI creed of the Oregon Angus Association. So far .is he knows, he added, It isn't the FORMAL creed of any cattleman's association. He doesn't even know the a ithor of It, he told his hearers But, he added, it is the informal creed of the rugged individu alists who make up the catUe business of the United ates. of Red Chinese, disarmament. On both issues Russia has been tougher than for some time past, with no apparent desire to negotiate at present. 1 The Kremlin also has been lippmann Washington Post art, refraining from further testing in the hope of achiev ing an absolute superiority. THE HOPE of achieving an absolute superiority exists among some scientists and some military men in Doin countries. It does not exist by any means among all sci entists or all military men. If either country, could, for ex ample, achieve a perfectly ei fective anti missile missile, it would thereby wipe out the menace of the other side s whole nuclear armament. Or if either side could make a bomb so powerful that it could destroy the whole pow er of the other side to retali ate, it would have absolute superiority. Such hopes ol aosoiuie su periority, which neither side will avow publicly, explain why the public surface argu ment against the proposed treaty is what it is-the Amer icans talking about cheating and the Russians talking about espionage. The truth is that the Kus- sians do not really mean that two or three on-stte inspec tions are all right while siev en or eight would be espion age, which would undermine the security of tne soviei Union. What the Russians mean is that if they offer few er inspections than Mr. Ken nedy thinks he can accept ana still net the treaty raiuieci they will have proved that they want to stop testing, and they will still be able to test, Beside the ingrained Rus sian reluctance to open their country, there is the mucli more matter of fact feeling that, if they test, they may achieve absolute superiority, On our side, the truth is that Senator Dodd and his mentor, Dr. Teller, are not primarily concerned with cheating. Dr. Teller, at least. If I have read his oublic statements correct ly, is primarily concerned with avoiding any treaty which will slow down the de velopment of nuclear wea pons. The most vocal critics at the moment in this country may say they want a fool proof treaty. What they real ly want is not to stop testing. POR MYSELF, I do not take A the view that they are nec essarily wrong. If they would quit talking as if they had some kind of superior patriot ism, the perfectly arguable is sue which is not fully re solved could be discussed. I think that the real issue should be broughH up to the surface and that we should have a full debate on wheth er, for the sake of peace and of our own national interests, it is better to slow down nu clear development by banning tests or to stimulate develop ment by continuing the tests. This is the real question both in this country and in the Soviet Union; Our fear of cheating and their fear of espionage are cover argu ments used by men who in their hearts believe that they must find a way to continue to test without outraging world opinion. For more on site Inspec tions than the Soviet Union has already offered will not reveal much of anything which this country does not already know about the So viet military establishment, But those few extra inspec tions might enable the Presi dent to get a treaty ratified and that is precisely what those who want to go on test ing in the Soviet Union do not want to see. Nor is there any serious dispute that, with our present improved meth ods of detection Including a few on site inspections, the chances of perfectly safe and undetectable cheating on a profitable scale are close to zero. THE strongest argument for continuing to test is that our nuclear scientists will lan guish and disperse if they can not put their theories to the test of experiment. For it is still not possible to make the conclusive tests in laborator ies. It is true, therefore, that the proposed treaty is the first formal attempt In mod ern times to inhibit the growth of scientific know ledge. The argument in favor of such a treaty is that, as re gards world peace, an agree ment on so vital a matter would be a breakthrough which could open the way to other agreements. And. as re gards the American national interest and the interest of the Western Alliance, our se curity will be enhanced if the Soviet Union will accept the existing balance of nuclear forces. dragging its feet on imple menting its pledges for a withdrawal from Cuba. It was Khrushchev's withdrawal of rockets, from Cuba which drew the sharpest attacks from Peking against the So viet leader for his "adventur ism and cowardice." Tough talk has come froin Khrushchev's military chiefs, who have once again started calling for a Soviet belt-tight ening in the interest of a con tinued strong Russian mili tary posture. Moscow has iurwermore begun soft pedeling on tha supply of jet MIG fighters for India which tt had promised earlier against Red Chinese protests. Four MIG 21s have been delivered, but latest re ports suggest that the re maining eight which have been promised apparently will not be supplied for an- other 18 months. Khrushchev further has re vived the old demand for an immediate settlement of tha German problem. This appar ently is a shift of priorities, with disarmament coming second after an East-West ar rangement on Germany is reached. At the week end Moscow released a Khrushchev speech, which surprisingly had some kind words to say about Stalin whose image he had sought to destroy. He gave him the benefit of tha doubt of being a good Com munist after all and excused his crimes with the explana tion that the dictator had been a "deeply sick person." Strictly Personal - By Sydney J. Harris (e- Field Enterprises, Inc. ORIGINAL SIN" "It seems so ob ious that we're going to blow up the world if we keep on this way," said tha man at lunch. "I can't un derstand why the leaders of powerful states can't sit down togeth er and work out a sensible plan for sur- Hsrri. vival of the species." Speaking of the hu man race's seeming inability to "learn from living," as I was yesterday, it strikes me that such, a proposal is too simple, too sane, too practi cal, too realistic. It is not the way things have ever been done, by states or by indi viduals. In one of his books written after the First World War, George Santayana made ihe following bleak and trep tant observation on the history ol humanity: "Each generation breaks its egg-shell with tha same haste and assurance as tha last, pecks at tha same indi gestible ptbblts, dreamt tha same dreams, er others just at absurd, and if it heart anything of what for mer men have learned by experience, it corracit their maxima by its first impres sions, and rushes down any untrodden path which it finds alluring, to die in its Own way, or become wis too lata and to no purpose." What tha theologians call "original sin" may vary well be the persistent and fateful tendency to learn nothing from tha past, to repeat the same mistakes in different ways, to commit tha same eld errors undar new names with improved techniques and even mora disastrous consequences. "Tha only thing wa learn from history," said Hegel, "is that wt learn nothing from history." Statesmen today behave in exactly tha same way as tha statesmen who wrecked the civilised world in the war between Athens and Sparta 2,500 years ago. The same rival ries, enmities, fears, pas sions and superstitions are loose in the world iod.y at in the era of the Persians and ihe Babylonians; and what happened to them does not deter us from pur suing a similar course. The world has always been run by iu "practical" men -and its practical men have almost always turned out to be tragically wr g. For what the world has always desperately needed has been more idealism and less practicality, more belief that men CAN sit down together and map their own survival, and less reliance on treaties and alliances ard arms and strategics - which fall apart at the first ar-sault of unrea son. We are pecking at the same indigestible pebble to day - but this pebble at last, is different: it contains its own ultimate destroying agent, and the end of all dreams, absurd or otheruve.