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Newspaper Page Text4 A- ""vryon la iouihirj Oreex fuMlsbeil &el)y except Saturday by MEDKORD PRINTING CO North Fir tPh77-Ml ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adveili Ins Maneier GERALD T LATHAM. Bus jftr IWC W ALLEN JR.. Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tel Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport. Ed oi OLIVE STARCHER Women Edlto. DMEERICKSON. Circulation Mr Srrindep.nd.nf New.papei Entered u second ! rou,r.," Medford. Oreson under Act ol March 3. 1891 mmscmPTION RATES By Mail In Advance u Daily and Simdajr-i year Dell and SUtway niu. Dallv and Sund.y 3 mo. Sunder Only On. year cini. r-nnv (Mailed) 10 00 5 00 15 00 oc By Carrtei-And Motor Route. Dally .nd Hunday-1 year 2 oo Dally nd Sund.y-1 mo. LII Sunday Only 1 mo " Carrier iftajwwmi:' ' dTfklaTPaper ol City of Mediord Official Pi"' ol Jackson County United Press loUrnatlonal full LeaMd wire O P 1 Telephoto Newsplctures "MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS AdTertTilna RfiJSK.rit,ilv1:snr ! NELSON ROBERTS : ASSOCI ATES Ol'lcee In New York. Chi caso Detroit. Sen Francisco Los Anjele. SMttl.. Portland Denver. NIWIPAPII PUSUIHUI ASSOCIATION NATION! EDIT MemBer CelHornla Newspaper Publlah.r. AseoclaUon Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of Th Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 10. 1953 (Friday) Hcmoval of "dead wood" from the Jackson county list of registered voters nearly complete. Top officers of the Air Force, two government agen cies and three air lines have been Invited to attend a Chamber of Commerce meet ing and airport building open house here soon. 20 YEARS AGO April 10, 1943 (Saturday) Jackson county quota set at $2,480,000 for Becond war loan drive; Eugene Thorndlke chairman of county Victory Fund committee From Arthur Perry's "Vel rX was in the 'dark days of 1933.'" 30 YEARS AOO April 10, 1933 (Sunday) Roads In Crater Lake Na tional park to be opened to traffic Tuesday. County Clerk George R. Carter presented with birth day cake by county em ployees. 40 YEARS AOO April 10, 1923 (Monday) State convention of Chris tian Endeavor scheduled to open in Ashland. June auto races at Jackson county fairgrounds to be re stricted to "local drivers only." SO YEARS AGO April 10. 1913 (Wednesday) Mrs. Cora J. Truax, Gold Hill, first woman in southern Oregon lo be elected to post on city council. Group holding franchise for construction of intcrurban trolley line receives 90-day extension from Medford city council. What's Your I.Q.? N.ne or ten correct ii tuporior; even or eight it oicolUnt; fivo or lit it good. 1. Docs the Governor of a state serve two years or (our years, or does it vary with the states? What right in the Ilill of Rlghls is also the title of a well-known Gilbert and Sul livan operalta? 3. What present-day organi zation incorporated "The Sons of Daniel Boone" and The Woodcraft Indians"? 4. What great Chinese sage lived from 551 to 478 B. C.t 5. A remedy supposedly i ante to cure any ana All (lis-1 cases is known as a n- b. is an artisan a deep well, I a ninoa vessel, a skill, i crafUtnari, or an imitation oil painting? 7. Where would you expect to find stalactites and stalag mites'.' 8. In the Canadian Parlia ment what two languages are official? 9. What Is Ihe literal trans lation of the oft-used Latin abbreviation "I. e."T 10. Tic Wars of the notes were fought In what country1 Amweri: 1. Variei. J. Trial by Jury. 3. Boy Sceula of America. 1. Confucioui. 5. Panacea. . Skilled crafts man. 7. In a cave. t. Engliih and French. 8. That la. England. 10. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10. 11(3 Snip and Patch Won't Do The Oregon legislature, now in its 87th day, is getting to the point where, in the old and slightly vulgar saying, the hair is short. Or, rath er more elegantly, the "moment of truth" is ap proaching rapidly. The first three months of the session have been devoted to organizational matters, followed by the introduction of bills, and their considera tion by committees. Relatively little floor action has taken place. From now until adjournment, we can expect to see more solid results although Monday's ac tion, when the house defeated the proposed cig arette tax, and Tuesday's, when it voted recon sideration and sent the bill back to committee, give one to wonder. 9 WHAT this is going to do to the overall tax program still to be developed by the legisla ture remains to be seen. Surely the cigarette tax indecision shoots a major hole in the fiscal pro gram proposed by the responsible members ot both nouses. The cigarette measure was designed to raise some $18 million during the coming two years a not inconsiderable sum, even in a budget of some $400 million or so. The "one-shot" withholding measure approv ed by the house Monday would bring in some extra money, but only for this biennium. It is, in effect, borrowing money from the ensuing bien nium. And, as such, it is in line with the legisla ture's tendency to avoid facing the fiscal facts of life right up to the last painful moment. . 'PHIS legislature, then, the money is coming be needed. And the only two major tax actions, mention ed above, do little to help unless they force the tax committee members into doing something they do not at all want to writing a ma ior new tax tax, instead of tinkering adjustments to the existing tax structure. If they do this they may be worth while after all. For, up to this point, absolutely no indication of any tendency to do more than pass still another stop-gap tax patch up job, and leave any major renovations to the 1965 session. DARTLY because of this hesitancy, this "make- do" attitude, and partly because of the very real needs of the state for are hearing the horrid little words, sales tax, with increasing trequency. TVio PoriMlof rT. liaat O.'nnrr.r.i'jv. Viae rtullorl fni a vote on a sales tax. So Times, which, while a iiscatty, because of its concern for the welfare of Oregon State University, also sees the sales tax J as a probable necessity if higher education is to receive what it needs. I State Sen. Walter Pearson (not one of our favorite legislators, incidentally,) is one of the few who have had the loun, tnat a sales tax for needed. DERHAPS the house's Ql'Afa t Q v I'lirriink to MS. V VKV I, Tlllll.il AO IHIllllll UUV C OQIVO tOA limited to one commodity), and the realization that the withholding measure is not a permanent solution to anything (and in addition imposes substantial aclaitional on many employers) perhaps these will shock members of the legislature into the realization that the time has come to fish or cut bait in the state's fiscal angling program. The Corvallis Gazette-Times says: "What arc the legislators doing about the state tax situation? Well. Instead of facing up to the problem the state must have more money and a big chunk of it if the (unctions of government are to be carried out properly, they are going around hunting up two bits from this group and four-bits from that group and coming up with a patch work which will raise money, all right, but not in the quantity needed and not by the simplest means. They won't let the people of the state decide if they want a sales tax because big labor opposes it, but the people can vote on such things a! capital punishment which is an emotional and and moral Issue." 17E ARE not saying that the sales tax is the answer to Oregon's fiscal program. We are not even saying that the people would necessarily approve it if given a chance to vote. What we are saying is that the legislature is showing an appalling tendency to follow the lead to prior sessions, ami to postpone any mean ingful decision on finances until later. Earlier sessions have gotten away with it be cause, in large part, they have surpluses to tide the state over. Rut no more. The fat's all gone. And, if our understanding of the situation is correct no snip and patch job is going to be adequate to the needs of baps the backing and ,,,, r;,,,,!! Ill in. ii'Ktuy win i.uii nice SO. E.A. Ph enomenon A UPI story recently "People who think television and radio com mercials are too loud arc experiencing a 'subjective and psychological phenomenon' that can't be proved, according to the the National Association of Broad casters." Maybe so. But it is the loudest and noisiest subjective and psychological phenomenon we've ever experienced. E.A. governor and by various has still to from, and r decide where how much will do, which is to consider proposal, such as a sales with relatively minor the legislature has given additional income, we has the Corvallis Gazette- moat conservative paper courage to say, right out educational purposes is reluctance to pass a cig- r rtY i n rr Kut o anlac few burden of bookkeenimr a growing Oregon. Rer- filling ovei the cigarette i. i l.l.i ,i , nit' icj;imuiui ; mis said : M v I x i f i Gie&4ttC) m, 'Sun Anyone visiting our shores for ihe first lima could ally get !h impreision that Easier Week' wis soma tort ot student fertility rite!" ... Communications ... Loiters lo lhe 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 Mall Tribune reserves he right to edit all letleri with a view lo clarification and condensation. L. Iters submitted ior publication mull not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of lhe paper; in fact the contrary la often th. case. Aid Needed To the Editor: Devastating floods and tornadoes robbed thousands of people of their homes and all of their posses sions in the Southern Appaia chian Mountain area within the past three weeks. Save the Children Federation which has been helping peo ple in that area for over 31 years, responded to the emer gency and immediately dis tributed clothing to flood vic tims through our 110 clothing centers. The Honorable Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennes see sent a message to the Fed eration saying: "On behalf of the people of East Tennessee who experi enced losses in the recent storm and flood disaster, may I express my appreciation to Save the Children Federation for Its voluntary aillatance. 1 wanted you to know that I am personally aware of the acns yZ '4n5;' ing program reported from the scene, "Never in the 31 year history of the Federation have we encountered a situa tion so acute. We have used our reserves to meet this emergency and now need all possible additional clothing to alleviate the situation." And still the reports come in from the flood areas of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia telling of children without shoes or clothing, and the rising rate of sickness. We are hopeful that indi viduals, schools, business firms and clubs will respond to this plea for help from the Southern Appalachians and send clothing packages freight prepaid to Save the Children Federation, Knoxvillc, Ten nessee. Contributions of mon ey to aid the flood victims can be sent to Save the Chil dren Federation, Norwalk. Connecticut. When the emergency is over and the needs for imme diate relief have been met, the Federation will remain on the scene indefinitely to help the Southern Mountain people to help themselves lo a better future. Glen Leet. Kxecutive Director, Save the Children Federation, Inc., Bos'.on Post Road, Norwalk, Conn. Industrial Democracy To the Editor: I wish to make .sonic comment on the. letter of Mr. Robert A. Free man, "On More Democracy,' on its bearings on our pro posed constitutional amend menus, most of winch deserves our hearty congratulations. But 1 would take issue with hlm to some exicni that "more democracy" would not be the .solution of evils he mentions. II is not necessarily the tion of democracy; but the: right kmd o( democracy. What we need most now is lo sup plement our political democ racy with industrial democ racy, together with the pro duction and distribution and ownership m the means ol life, publicly owned and dem ocratically managed, especial ly those means of or on a large and a social scale. This plan could be intro duced without profit, and for the benefit of all the people. After all. one cannot control what he does not own. but if the public owned these means it would and could be pro duced at cost, and the cost would be governed by law democratically managed from lop to bottom. But so long an we allow the unlimited pn-: vate ownership ol the moans of production, by the good or I - DFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. lhe smartest, so long will the most ambitious ones acquire lhe ascendency and run the industries and regulate the prices, and the strongest would smother the weakest, so there you have it. And so long as we allow this private enterprise, you don't need to be surprised that crooks and their henchmen will also con trol the government, even though we elect them through our political method of de mocracy. And if the proposed consti tution docsn t contain the initiative and the recall, and industrial democracy, I don't see much use to change our old one for a worse one. John P. Wirth, 3022 Butte st., Klamath Falls, Ore. Minors and Drinking To the Editor: I was amused by the 50 year's ago notice in tile paper of March 28 rela tive to minors visiting saloons ("City agitated by report thai saloons ot city were visited by minors.") Times have changed very little in 50 years excepl that there are no longer "saloons", just night clubs. I am sure that if you make an unannounced visit at any number of the night spots in the area about 1:30 or 2 a.m. you will find that the places are packed with teenagers, a good number of them 18 or under. Two particularly ap parently cater to "kids." I have been at both places in recent weeks, and at one we were unable to get a table or even a stool at the bar be cause of the "kids" who were there. They were not all drinking cokes or pepsi, either. In fact, we did not sec any soft drinks being served. I do not know the solution lo the problem, nor exactly wnosc problem it is. but I do know that if I had a teenager i I would make sure where lie 1 he was at that hour of the morning. This situation cannot be swept under the nil. us . h !(,,! I VOlvlng the lesser clement of Medford and Rogue Valle nor can it be shrugged of! with the "greasing of palms" in the proper areas. (Name on file) Medford Facl and Opinion 10 uic caitnr: ucar George Bell, your editorial of April 8, on the Jackson county Dein Oeratic Central Committee,' was an amazing piece of work, I've been wondering how it is possible to sit in an ivory tower, look down upon the throngs ol active people, be able to distinguish between the elite and the rab ble, and by using pure hear say, pass judgment and casti- Se6pler" r 0ne thing is conspicuously ' bscn, in r quet-lthlno is "FArr" rn, mi, iha ImmmwImi a j an editor has the prcrogalivc lo give his fifty or sixty thou- and readers an OPINION of what happened, without due regard (or the facta. The picture you have paint ed has too much angry red in it. The strokes are bold and -strong but the perspective is terrible. In fact, this is not a work of art at all but belongs in the school for beginners What is the central commit tee? It is the majority, even if it is only a majority of one. In the meeting ol last Tuesday night, on important matter the voting was roughly two to one This is a change from the I nearly even voting of the past 1 few meetings, which indicates , that quite a number of mem- bcrs arc changing their think- ing on these matters That puts you in the position of MEDFORD. OREGON Conviction Is Growing That Khrushchev Seeking To Ease Burdens of His Office .... - hoaw nressures on i to have called for the c By K. C. Thaler United Press International Paris - On - Despite claims from Moscow that all is well in the Kremlin, there is growing conviction that Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev's leadership role is under re view. The belief in some of West ern Europe's best informed diplomatic circles is he is seriously considering giving up some of his control, per j haps by surrendering the pre miership while retaining me office of first secretary of the Communist party - the office that really counts in the So viet Union and wields the most power. As parly secretary. Khrush chev still could direct foreign affairs as well as continue running the internal Commu nist scene. Stalin did it in his lime. There is nothing in this thinking that denies Khrush chev's hold on the Kremlin leadership. It is his hand calling the central committee "an clement" or "faction" and other uncomplimentary slams. The fact is the business in this meeting proceeded in an orderly manner. The only dis order (statements that were out of order) came from a small minority. Nearly all gatherings of any size have this problem. Mr. Duncan reserved the right to appoint whomever he pleased to temporary postmas ter. I would think the Central Committee would have the right to express their displeas ure when it is in contrast to their own recommendation. Mr. Duncan admits that he was sharply critical of a top appointment by Governor Hatfield. This was within their rights, just as I am being critical of your reporting. If you are getting your in formation from the same "un impeachable source" as the other editor, then it's about time he or she was indicted for "flagrant disregard for facts" and brought before an impeachment board. Hazel McMahan 578 North Sixth si. Central Point, Ore. Include Him Out To the Editor: Beware the obvious, delve the obscure, these are long established guidc-posls for me in the un certain grounds of semantic study. It certainly is boggy ground for personal view points that E.A. chose for his March 31st editorial that he segregates (pardon that "aw ful word E.A.) into various categories of varied worth, that we do enjoy, occasional ly profitably. For his brand of semantics do tend to the mcliorationed uplift, even if some are perjorationed down to the untouchable level, as in Paraaranl, 7 Very well. So from his fooling around with words : we lift the lowly, obscure, un- Cqua1' ,af, " ls lh,c very ant- , . j in ui nit vqudiiidrian r,. a. happens or appears to be. Now, "everyone to their own liking," as the old lady is said to have observed when kiss ing her cow. and which is a part of Our Way of Life, pro viding she does not insist others do same, go to her par ticular church, which she might hold to be the one and only, for others may not wish to go to any church, other than that of' the Great Blue Sky. spiritual solace for all can be had. Howsomcver. all such hum ble observation may well raise the equalitarian's baltle cry "all men are created equal." which was written bv certain of our forefathers, but mind you, only in the Declar ation of Independence, the in ference being that all men are created equal in rights of ln d e p c n dencc, sovereignty of the individual no matter how lowly born Yes. as was Lin. coin who promised to sacrifice his life if need be. that all men shall be free, and did do ! just that. Quite the same as Jesus of Nazareth on the com tnon cross of the condemned No equalitarian was the j great emancipator and hu manitarian, holding as he did that to equalize with the un eQUal was sure oblivion for I the cultural best The very earth is deeply scarred with I the pitiful results of such su,rrv -f cfl thinking As there must bo separation of state in opposing religions. so must there be separation in opposing racial lines For th. very Being of Nature is found ed in opposing thought and ac tion, from which the great picked team that is running things and tne repeaieu ex pressions of loyalty from its top-most members must be taken at face value. Talk of a Kremlin minor it.," an, "inainritv" tusslinc inr i nntrol is discounted in most confidential diplomatic advices from Moscow. Nevertheless there are new Today & Tomorrow Bv Walter let 19K3. The REFORM AND REVOLUTION As we look at the revolu tions in Argentina, Peru and Guatemala, the elections in Chile, the ten- sion in Ven- zuela and the enormous problems o f Brazil, we come face lo face with a very disturb ing question. Can orderly Lippmann and reason ably progressive governments' endure through Ihe long peri od of lime which must elapse before the promises of the Al liance for Progress bear fruit? The alliance is committed to a radical reform in the social order of Latin Amer ica. We musl not underesti mate how difficult and how unusual is such a commit ment. The governments of Latin America are in the midst of these difficulties. If they improve the stand ard of living too slowly, they are threatened from the left; if they proceed rapidly, they are threatened from the right. If the radical reform is to succeed, it means that in each country there must be a government which holds the confidence of the masses on the left and does nol arouse the irreconcilable opposition of the upper classes on the right. a THE CRUX of the problem is that progressive reform is in its very nature a long and slow process, a matter of long ycrs with meager re sults to show in the begin ning. The main talking point of the revolutionists of the Castro type is the disappoint ing and uninspiring gradual ism of reform. And at the same lime, lhe main talking point of the big landlords, the rich conservatives and the military dictators of the re bellious right is that the re formers will be captured by the revolutionists. To many of the most benighted among Ihem, all reformers are rev olutionists. While it is possible to speed up reform somewhat, it is unavoidably a slow and prosaic business. It takes more than 10 years to edu cate and train a professional and managerial class. II takes a good many years to reform agriculture so as to liberate the country from dc pendance on one or two crops. Industrialization requires a capital investment not only in particular plants, but in the communications system of the country and its power facilities. Furthermore, the develop ment of Latin America will require the negotiation of complex world-wide commod ity agreements and trading opportunities. It will require, also, big measures to relieve the pressure upon the world's 1 monetary reserves and so to 1 overcome the deflationary j lack of liquidity which is to- day so big a cause of insta bility in the non-Communist world. SPEAKING slowness roughly, t h e ind complexity Darwin obtained his survival of the fittest. But these arc men not content with survival alone, their 10,000 years of striving for something bigger and better that other races ignored but now would take over, attests to that. So, in any such phony world of yes-men equalites, thinking - cqualitcs, acting - equalites. risc-and sil equalitcs. genuflect ing-equal-iles. please include me out. F J Clifford Route 2, Box 200f Central Point. Ore. Bunch of Nuts To the Editor: Now the New Frontiah is going to save South Aniehica with money. The same way we saved Cu bah. The way the New Deal and the New Frontiah W'tiz saving Countries, we'll be lucky to save Flohida. It's going to take some dahned good Teddy Roosevelt English backed by a big suck to stop the Communists. If we ahe go ing to build supah highways and aihpohts all ovah South Amchica and let the Commu- msts move in. then wc ahe a bunch of nuts. Everett Acklin. Ashland. Ore. KP'aa. eaaKeCd and heavy pressures on i Khrushchev, not the least ot j them the Sino-Soviet ideolog ical conflict. The differences between the Chinese "hard line" of international commu nism and Khrushchev's peace- ; ful coexistence policy have continued to worsen, I It is only a few weeks ago I that Red China was disclosed lippmann Washington Post of reform is the real problem in Latin America. Castro did not create tne problem, and the problem would still be there, would still as a matter of fact be there in Cuba itself, if Castro took up residence in Russia, There would be no Castro if Castro's predecessors had j solved the problem of reform. There would be no Castro if his predecessors had even tried to solve the problem of reform. The problem that has to be solved is how orderly and progressive governments can earn the patience of the mas ses by instituting installments of the necessary reforms, and yet not be denounced as Com munists and ousted by the re actionaries. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fC' Field Enterprises. Inc. SUPPLY AND DEMAND The constant theme of the hucksters in the field of en tertainment - which today means mostly television - is they are "giv ing the people what they want." Those of us who de plore the trior onic offerings in mass enter tainment ire uarri" sneered at as eggheads who are out of touch with reality. The hucksters insist that not only are they giving the public what it wants, but the public loves it. Both these propositions are demonstrably false. As a glaring example of tneir falsity, I cite a recent syndi cated television column out of Hollywood with the head line: "40 Nighttime Shows Destined for TV Ax." The siory said: "Al least 40 of the network TV's cur rent crop of weekly night lime shows will be dropped by summer. About half of this number were series which made their debuts last fall." If the hucksters know what the people want, and are giving it to them, how does it happen that the ma jority of TV programs lead ao brief a life and undergo so suddenly tragic a death? Why is programming in such a constant state of chaos and confusion? Why is the search so desperate for "new" material - which usually turns out to be as ghastly and unimaginative as the old material? I submit - on the over whelming evidence itself -that not only do the pro ducers and networks nol know what the public wants, but the public itself does not know until it gets it. It is a false assumption to hold that the demand creates the supply; in the arts and en tertainment, it is the supply that creates a demand. There was. for instance, no "effect ive demand" for off-Broadway theater; but the supply continued until the habits of theater-goers were changed, and today off-Broadway thea ter is the most vital and fruit ful aspect in American drama. There is never a demand for anything that is good until it comes along and takes hold of people. This it cannot do unless it is given a chance, unless time and care and mon ey and energy and patience tiT' UP,nhU' Ac!vcr- users well know this - there is no demand for a new prod- ret.ron' and 5PakinR- ! repetition and exposure over ; a niut din diiu tor a COnSlO- erable time generate such a demand. It is nothing less than a downright lie to suggest that tne lv producers arc giving j the people what they want - 1 and the frantic activity in changing program formats every few months exposes this lie. And it is equally mendacious to suggest - as one recent book does - that the viewers on the whole are "satisfied" with their TV . fare. If they were, television , would not be the program- matie lunatic asylum it has become. I to nave canea ior tne ouster ol tne present Kremlin lead- ers, presumably including Khrushchev. Since then Pe king has fostered the idea that Khrushchev's days in power are numbered. Without necessarily accept ing that Peking will succeed in its drive to get the new leadership in the Kremlin, Western diplomatic reports do say that Khrushchev is more fully preoccupied and more deeply concerned by the pressures from Peking than is conceded by Moscow. It is for this reason credence is given to the possibility he may want to free himself nt some of his burdens of state, to give more attention to the dispute with Mao Tze-tung without abandoning his major powers at home. Diplomats who have seen Khrushchev recently have re ported to their governments that he is looking weary. He is 69 years old. Even sonio Communist diplomats think Khrushchev may be looking for some surcease from his present load. They say in fact he already has begun to dele gate work much more than ever before to younger aides. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The news as this is writ? ten? li s a little on the wierd side. This new "hot" phone be tween Washington and Mos cow, for example. IT IS designated to prevent Jt a nuclear war from getting started by mistake. But You may ask How COULD a nuclear war get started by mistake? rkDDLY enough it ISN'T impossible. A nuclear missile MIGHT go hog-wild. We hear of re peated missile mishaps at our launching pads. Something goes wrong, and the missila doesn't perform as it was ex pected to perform. So wa push the button, and the mis sile destroys itself. But Suppose something else went wrong and the missila FAILED to destroy itself. Suppose it went roaring and spitting out into space and eventually headed straight for Moscow. Suppose it was picked up by the Russian tracing devices and that the Russians leaped to the nol too unreasonable, conclusion that we wero springing a SURPRISE at-' tack on them. Suppose they then unleashed ALL their missiles at us. (R VICE versa. " Suppose a Russian expert mental missile went out of control and WE JUMPED TO THE CONCLUSION that this was IT and turned our mis siles loose. In either event, a nuclear war might be started. IT IS with supposed to take -existing communica tions systems - somewhere between 6 and 12 hours to get a message from President Kennedy to Premier Khru shchev, or from Premier Khrushchev to President Ken nedy. It was out of this possibility that the "hot line'' proposal arose. It was first imagined as a telephone line. But there are DANGERS in a telephone line. Imagine President Kennedy getting called out of bed at an un earthly hour of the night. Time zones, you know, maka such a thing quile possible. Al the other end of the Una somebody would be sputter ing in Russian. Even Presi dent Kennedy, talented as he is, would be incapable of getting all the shades ol meaning involved in what Mr. Kroosh would be saying. Suppose it happened the other way around. At the other end of the line, Mr. Kroosh might easily misun derstand President Kennedy 3 Harvard-accented English. AND- All the while the missile -without a warhead, to be sure, but still a missile capa ble of being picked up by our wart-linn rliM-im, J u. speeding loward us. The natural thing would bo fnr T,m,. ?,,. Sic. SILES LOOSE Th e fat won Id ' then be in the fire. eo- The "hot line" won't be a phone line. It will be a tele type line. It will rielivpr its message in TEXT, which can be translated by capable IDs tcrpreters. So Presumably The start nf a n. -!. mmp by mistake may be prevented, Amnan ika. behind the present ororJosals for a private line to prevent the start of a nuclear war by mistake It is indeed a strange world we re living in. isn t it?