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Newspaper Page Textef 4 A ItSDFORDjtJ&rTSIBUNt "iveryono In BouUern Oregon Read! TnMllTrlbune ubliihed Dally except uturuy aj S3 North fit St. Ph.77:i-61ll 'unu i in ... ROBERT W FUrfL. Editor HERB GREY AdverUslna Manafer GERALD T LATHAM, Bue Mix ER1CW ALLEN JR Mnj Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CH1FMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporu Ed o, OLIVE STARCHER Women'e Edltoi PALE ERICKSON. ClrculaMouJJsr "An Independent Newspapel Entered wcond elasa mailer ei Medford. Oregon under Act or 8UBSCRIPTI6N RATES Daily end Sunday-1 rear 118 00 D.ilv end Sunday- mo. 10 00 Dally end Sunday I moe. 5 00 Sunday Only-One year 13.00 Single Copy (Mailed! ioo By Camel -And Motor Route Dally and Sunday-1 year S2100 Dally end Sunday 1 mo. 1-TS Sund Only 1 mo Carrier endVendor Copy 10c official Paper ol City ot efedlor OIIIciall'aperol Jackiun County United Press International full Leaied Wire U P I Telephoto Newsplcturee EMBErTbr AUDIT BUREAU """ofHCU NATIONS Advertising Representative: AN"LSO?r ROBERTS 4ASSOC -ATES Ol'lcee In New York. Chi. ?.go. Detroit. San rranclaco Lo. Angelrt. Seattle. Portland Denver. NATION At EDITOtiAl Memoer Calltornla Newspaper PubUaheri Aieoclatlon Flight o' Time Medford end J.'Wpn County History from th. files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 veers ego. May 1 10 YEARS AGO Fine hall which fell In scat tered areas of the Rogue val ley yesterday apparently caus ed no commercial damage to the area's pear crop. Jackson county paid $217.50 In 'Bounties lor wild animals dv1ng April. . 20 YEARS AGO ' Medlord High school track team rolls up 60 points to take rl!trict title: Medford quali fiers for state meet Include Steve Dippel, Jack Krease, Frank" Clark. Lowell Fleser, Bill Baylls, Chuck Braley, nnrl Marvin Doty. n From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "It now lnnita like there will be a ' shortage of good will among nations In the brave new world after the war.", 30 YEARS AGO Dogs kill 63 sheep In Roxy Ann district. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, fa mous "dry" crusader, to speak in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO Airplane, passing over Med ford, Is "viewed by hun dreds"; craft is on way to Portland for mock attack to show how helpless the city would be in case of enemy attack. Southern Pacific railroad notifies city of Medford It Is opposed to Sixth street cross, ing. 50 YEARS AGO New $30,000 four - story brick warehouse at 12th and Front sts. completed; "to be known as the distributing ccn ter of southern Oregon." What's Your I.Q.? Nine or fen correct II superior; leven or eight li excellent) five or all Is good. 1. On which coast of France it the port of Toulon? 2. Two presidents of the U.S. have been chosen by the House of Representatives be' cause of no candidates having a majority in the electoral college; name them. 3. Where l the port of La Havre? 4. Which is greitcr. the polar or equatorial circunv ferenee? 5. The first representative le&Ulure elected by popular vole to g"v.-n the American rc'.onics was called the House of ? 6. Which Italian city has been called "The Bride of the Sea"? 7. Bees will not sting a per son while he holds his breath; true or false? 8, Doca Hie law require that the Secretary of Defense shall be a civilian? 9. In Dlcken'f novel, "David Copperfield," what was the name of David's child wife? The chemical composi tion of the blood of all races of people Is the aemo; true or lal.te? - Answers! 1, Mediterranean, 2. Jefferson and John Quincy Adams. S, France. 4. Equator ial. S. Burgesses. I, Venice. 7. False. I. No. (. Dora Bpenlow. 10. True. Editor's note: In Monday's IQ feature, a surveyor's chain was said to be 100 feet long. It should have specified engi neer's chain. A surveyor's chain Isfl feet long. V--ASJOeiAIION WEDNESDAY. MAY 1. 1983 The 'Image From mankind's earliest beginnings, he has felt the miracle of creation, the forces of nature, the mysteries of the worlds unseen, and has called them bod. At first this may have been in the form of worship of the sun or moon, or even of a tree or rock, or all of these. Animals, too, figured largely in his concept of the supernatural. As civilizations developed, more formal sys tems of religion evolved or were developed, and the mythologies of the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Norsemen, and the highly developed religions of Asia are still known to "THE concept of a monotheistic religion was rela tively late in torming, notably for our own western heritage, and in others. As the concept of One general, mankind visualized his Creator in s variety of ways. To some he was a great old man, seated on a golden throne in the heavens. In Christianity, the concept be co-existent with that of Unity. But the varying concepts of God are almost as diverse within Christianity itself as they are among other re ligions. To some, still, he is phic God who created man in His own image, a Being of love and terror, who dwells in some vaguely conceived place called Heaven. 1MORE and more, particularly within the last century, after the startling scientific revolu tion and particularly the writings of Charles Darwin, changed the scene, man's concept of his God has gone through even more variations. Discussion of such highly personal and laden with emotion, has largely been confined to private talks, and with in the churches. Few, indeed, who hold a vision of their God. will ever be often those who bring up the subject are abused simply because they brought it up. The most recent to do John Robinson, Anglican England, who in an article in The London Ob server suggests that the "traditional image of God" as the "man up there" no longer accords with human knowledge. THE reaction to his article was, "on the whole," fnmnorato apnnrrlinrr tn Rrnnlfa Aflrin'cnn writing in the New York Times. He continued: "There was some righteous indignation from tra ditionalists. Dr. Edwin Morris, Archbishop of Wales, retorted that If secular man today does not accept Isaiah's vignette of Cod on a throne CI saw the high and lifted up'), religious people need not conclude ' that Isaiah was wrong. "Some of the others responded accordingly. For dogmatic religion frequently brings out the worst In men, as the crusades and massacres, the hangings and the burnings for heresy attest. Pride is the least of the deadly sins that dogmatic religion can foster. "But other British clergymen and most of the , general readers agreed that the traditional image of God as the supernatural being 'up there' did not sat isfy the understanding of either secularists or all religious people. Speaking as a scientist. Sir Julian Huxley pointed out that Dr. Robinson's thesis was not revolutionary in a century that had been consistently revising our knowledge of man's place in the universe. "What we have learned scientifically, specifically about evolution, docs not eliminate religion. As Sir Julian remarks, 'There remains the fundamental mys tery of existence, notably existence of the mind.' That is the wcllspring of modern religion." 11 ANY people to whom religion is a meaning iV ful concept and this would include most people who have thought about it at all could agree in large part with that final observation, although there will be some who would argue bitterly, and claim that anyone who deviates from orthodoxy their own orthodoxy, of course in any degree, are not, in fact, religious people. That we cannot, personally, accept. Atkinson puts it well when he says : . . Not to be religious today is to be either very ignorant or very arrogant." And one need not adhere to any of the many orthodoxies to have an intensely rcligous outlook on life, which in essence of our dependence on powers beyond our control, and a special attitude v toward and relationship with those powers. IS SUCH a topic a legitimate one for public dis- 1 cussion, among the secular-minded as well as among the orthodox-minded .' Perhaps not. Perhaps it is too personal a mat ter for rational, intelligent discussion. Perhaps emotion is too vitally involved in the concept of one's God to permit quiet public considera tion, let alone argument. But the fact that the Bishop felt impelled to open a public discussion of such a sensitive matter, and the fact that ly temperate, mav indicate that religion as a whole, and the image of necessarily taboo. IF WE are entering an mosities are dying down, and with the recent emphasis on ecumenicism, both in the world of f rotestantism ar.d that of must be more suon public discussion. Without it, how are we to understand the dif ferine beliefs and attitudes of our fellow human beings? And without are we to achieve a greater degree of unity or, lacking unity, at least of tolerance and accept ance? It occurs to us that the Bishop of Woolwich has, really, done us a favor by daring to chal lenge all of us to think about our own "image of God," and about the images held by others. -E.A. ( of God us. see out it aid in Judaism, God became ever more of the Trinity came to the literal anthropomor matters, since they are "argued out of it, and so, however, is Dr. K. Bishop of Woolwich, is an acknowledgement the reaction was large God in particular, is not era when religious ani Catholicism, then there that understanding, how SjfSZlAfin) sa,iA mz met "Instead of Churchill, they shoulda made Khrushchev a citiien. This way, if he starts a war with America, we can shoot him as an insurrectionist!" ... Communications ... Letters to the Editor must bear th. nam. ind uddress of th. writer, a though under certain circumstances th. us. of a pen name or initial for publication is permis-nie. Th. Mail Tribun. nserves th. right to adit all letters with a view to clarification an a condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tne leiiera printed in this column do contrary is oft.n th. cese. Th. View From Th. Right To the Editor; T nee by your Editorial of 425 that you and Governor Hatfield have joined those who, after 20 years, are still beating on the dead body of Hitler and shouting dire warnings about "Fascism" and "Nazism," while seeming ly unperturbed about a live Khrushchev and his Commu nist satellite right on our doorstep. Since you are both so "frightened" about the Fascist" danger from the right may I remind you of the following: It wasn't the right wing who promised aid to the Hun garian Freedom Fighters, then double-crossed and betrayed them - who allowed the So viets to build the Berlin wall - who promoted Wieland and Rubottom after it had been alleged that they had brought Castro to power - who armed Communist Tito with our jet planes and taught his pilots to fly them at Texas air bases. It isn't the right wing who pours foreign aid money into the hands of out and out Com munists - who destroyed anti Communist Katanga - who is selling wheat to Russia at less than cost - who allows U.S. Reds to get away with not registering as required by law and Supreme Court decision who negotiates with the Kremlin butchers over how much more we are going to retreat. It isn't those on the far right who scuttled our Sky-bolt" and are now trying to do away with our B70 bomber and our "anti-missile missile - who are indoctrinat ing our troops with a "no- win policy" - who muzzle our patriotic officers and de moralize our whole arrned forces. And it certainly is not the right wing who are now pro posing to disarm the united States and surrender our en tire armed forces, our nuclear weaponry, and our sovereign ty to the Communist con trolled United Nations. Per sonally, I'm not letting ANY BODY get my eye off of the Communist murderers who have caused the blood to flow in country after country, with already one billion human be ings under their Godless, bru tal rule, enslaved, and in a constant hell of fear. The very cornerstone of Communist propaganda is to label anyone opposing Communism as a Fascist. Like Anna Streod, M.T. 428, I find It beyond comprehension that our gov ernor and our editor as loyal Americans should be found parroting the Communist line. It Is particularly distressing that they should be found in flaming minority group; of the nation with distrust, and fear of the right wi lg. Do they not know that to "di"id and conquer" Is a basic Com munist strategy? Every right wing group in America is demanding a re turn to Constitutional govern, mcnt. And anyone with com mon sense knows that this is the direct opposite to Fascism, Nazism, and Communism. Frank Koch 412 South First si. Central Point, Ore. Always With Us To the Editor: The word Socialism has a different meaning to different persons. The Socialist party formed In the U.S.A. in 1898, with E. V. Debs as Its presidential can didate, stood for government ownership and operation of all Industry. Debs was its can didate in five elections, 1900 1920. In the 1908 election a great many Intellectuals took part, even Jack London made a couple of election speeches for Socialism. There was much flngwavlng ai the elec tion rallies, even the red flag c MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON not necessarily represent th. was waved, and Debs received a vote of 1,100,000 against Taft, 7'i million, Bryan, 6V4 million. After that the So cialist party died off, slowly, never to recover. There are a great many let ter writers in "Communica tions" who advocate a Social ist government. This cannot be done. We live under consti tutional law which guarantees every individual his freedom of choice to make his living in the way he chooses as long as he does not step on the other fellow's toes. The plight of Labor as of now you can blame on Labor itself in its selection of labor leaders. Look at Sweden, It has no labor trouble, no strikes. Its welfare system takes care of the unemployed. In 1909 there was a general strike in Sweden. It lasted a long time. But the Swedish employers formed a union. They appointed a spokesman to hold a confab with the union men. An agreement was reached and the strike ended. Then the Swedish workers got busy and elected their own candidates to, the Swed ish Riksdag. They even got a man named Branting into the Riksdag. He rose to Pre mier and he helped to formu late that welfare law which has now existed for over 50 years. , We could get the same re sults here if the Labor rank and file made a real effort to choose the right men for office. To say that an unemployed but willing worker is entitled to a good living is a false premise, a chimera. So, if the working people want' to get greater security and better working conditions they have to make better ef forts to choose their leaders and their spokesmen to deal with the employers. Naturally they must also engage in poli tics, which some of their leaders now declare tabu. Well, someone said "The poor ye always have with you" and now it can be said "The un employed are always with us." John E. Ring, 1049 West Uth St., Medford What It's About To the Editor: Really, Mr. Alien, I always thought you a well and intelligent man, but with some of the com ments you have made recent ly and the ones 42863 re my letter, some of us arc be ginning to wonder what it is all about. ' I have always been taught our nation was a Christian nation. Imagine my being knocked for a loop when you slid it wasn't. To be Chris tian, it must follow Bible standards. Ever notice our coins say "In God We Trust "? How about our national an them, the salute of our flag, America, etc.? So many called eta who feel the same as 1 do, I felt I must write. God gives each individual a choice, either serve God or ijatan. That can apply to a murderer. Either kill and pay the penalty, or not kill and be free. Although your com ments had no connections with the subject (you broke your own rule), thank you for mentioning minor matters as fluoridation. A can of fluoride is marked "poison". Again, it gives one a choice, to buy it at a drug store or not. But no one has the right to force it on someone else. Because ot past iiiness it would be detriment to some as well as those who are allergic. Those who promote It arc committing a crime against his fellow man, and eventual ly have to pay the penalty for that crime. It has never yet been proven it is benefi Haitian Dictator's Regime Nearing End; U.S. Faces Dilemma on Course To Take By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst President Francois Duvalier of Haiti is a physician-turned- dictator who keeps himsell in office with the aid of a pis tol - packing force called "tonton mat oute." Trans lated from the Creole, (on ion macoute means "bogey men" and it dewsom is a fair de scription of the bully boys who swagger in blue jeans and sports shirtji and who re portedly are adept at all forms of persuasion and "vol untary" contributions for Du valier's personal projects to torture for his enimies. Altogether, they total about 10,000 as compared to Haiti's regular army of 5,000 a force which livelier system atically has stripped of its views ot me pop n cial to even children. If so why has not someone claimed the awards that have been offered for proof? Also, what is so wrong in being right? You smear the rightist every chance you get, but never a word against the leftist. I think you will have to admit, the rightist are working for "love of God and country" and trying to keep what freedom we have left. Surely you don't want us to think you are one of the in ternationalist who say "Con stitution be damned." I would like to refer to Matt. 25:31 through 46, espe cially verses 32,33. "Arid be fore Him shall be gathered all nations; and He shall separate them one from an other, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Mrs. Ernest Santo, 204 Lozier Lane, Medford Rejoice . To the Editor: Oregon should rejoice because it looks as though our third largest industry will receive a major boost with the creation of the Oregon Dunes National Sea shore. At the same time we should take pride in the fact that one of the most beautiful stretches of shoreline in the nation will be preserved for our children and their chil dren to enjoy, just as we have enjoyed it. A vote of thanks is due our public officials, both state and federal, who have essentially agreed to a compromise bill that la air in all respects. It preserves the rights of private home owners and, at the same time, protects the undeveloped land from the ugly commer cial exploitation that is blight Strictly Personal By Sydney (c) Field Enterprises. Inc. OPPOSITES We speak about the "attrac tion of opposites" in marriage and other relationships, but I have never seen anything written about the same kind of attraction in the literary and artistic field. It has fascinated me for years that so many of Barn the men who become "experts" on a cer tain writer are diametrically opposed to the writer, in tem perament and taste and out iook. This may explain seme of their wierd interpretations. ! have met men who are ex perts on such literary figures as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce and Dylan Thomas. Al most without exception, these men would not have been giv en the right time of day by the writers they have chosen to "interpret" to the world. e Th. Thomas expert is I pritsy soul, a! whose pre tensions Thomas would have hooted in derision. The Joyce export would not hare been looked at twic. by Joyce. Th. D. H. Lew. renc. .xpert would have been dulled off by Law rence in f.w moments of conversation. What attracts such dry, dreary and pompous schol ars to such vital and irides cent writers is th. familiar moth-and-flam. syndrom, so common in lov. and in letters. These drab Hill, lit erary Insects lov. to sin. best officers since he took office on Oct. 22, 1957. Duvalier currently is ob serving a "month of grate fulness" for a bit of political sleight of hand which he ex ecuted two years ago and by which he declared himself re elected for a new six-year term two years before his old term was to have f xpired. The old term would have expired this May 15. Mounting violence in Port au Prince, Haiti's capital, has accompanied the approach of that date. An outfit calling itself the United Revolutionary Forces has announced that on May 15 it will carry out a "dry cleaning" operation against the "tyrant-voodooist" Duval ier. Haiti has charged the Dom inican Republic with an assas sination plot against Duva lier which failed but led to the deaths of a chruffer and two bodyguards watching over Duvalier's children. The U. S. embassy officially has warned some 1,500 Ameri cans to store up food and water and stay off downtown streets. And Haiti and the Domin ican Republic came close to armed blows. The Haitian government has pressed a hate campaign against both the Dominican Republic and the United States and has threatened that any uprising against Duvalier would produce a "Himalaya of corpses." U. S. aid to Haiti since 1946 has amounted to around $100 million and the most to show for it is a small dam, some road repair and progress in eliminating the tropical yaws. While cutting off aid, the United States until this week ing so much of our beautiful Oregon coast. With the Oregon Dunes Na tional Seashore almost certain to be established by Congress this year, our major concern should be that it is the best possible park we can have. This is better accomplished by Senator Neuberger's bill, for it protects both sides of the highway and the western shores of the lakes. This would create a national recreational unit with maximum beauty and recreational opportunity. I hope that our Governor, who has worked hard to strengthen Oregon, will take the lead in urging Congress to establish the finest possible Oregon Dunes National Sea shore. William A. Luse Tioga Hotel Coos Bay, Ore. Log Missed To the Editor: We miss the Channel 2 TV log that you had been printing. We get Channel 2 among a few others up here and we would like to see it back in the paper again. Mrs. James B. Moore P.O. Box 173 Butte Falls, Ore. Editor's note: Sorry. The station failed to send up-to-date corrections for the log. Too, there appears to be insufficient demand from enough readers to justify the space. J. Harris their wings around a glow they can never possess. It is also possible, if w. may dip into th. Freudian armory for reinforcements, that a lusty, gusty and un conventional author appeals to the repressed parts of their own nature. They se cretly yearn to be as icono clastic as Joyce, as uninhib ited as Thomas, as pre-emptive as Lawrence - but trie only way they can achieve such postures Is in th. vi carious thrill of writing about thes. men. Someone of the stature of T. S. Eliot, whatever his other -'.ll;ii, never falls into this psychological error when he is writing about other au thors. In discussing Shako peare, for instance, he has said bluntly at the start: "I do not Imagine for a moment that Shakespeare was any thing at all like me." Most commentators on Shakespeare go so far off the (rack because they do assume, implicily or openly, that Shakespeare was very like them, and that therefore they have a special insight into his nature. Ninety per cent that is written about him is nonsense - and ( nonsense precisely because it begins at a false psychological angle. So much literary biography and cruicism consists of the meek writing about the bold, the bland writing about the sharp, the smug writing about the vulnerable, the ineffcclual writing about the Ineffable -tittle wonder that our great artists remain mysteries for hundreds of years afler they have bared their minds and hearts. 1 continued a 55-man Marine training mission In Port au Prince, partly on the theory that some of the best and most responsible men in Haiti were in its armed forces. The U.S. remains In a di lemma in Haiti. But tliere also Today & Tomorrow By Walter (c) 19S3. The LUNCH IN PARIS In Mr. Khrushchev's re sponse to our call to check the Communists in Laos and to uphold the Geneva ac cord of 1961, we shall have a measure of his power and influence in southern Asia. Two years ago, wnen he met the Pres ident in Vien na and agreed with him that Laos should be neutral and uninvolved in the cold war, Mr. Khrushchev was still the leader and big boss of com munism in Asia. Is he still the big boss and the leader? Much has happen ed in the past two years. The biggest event was the Chinese attack on India. There is rea son for thinking that the dis turbance in Laos as well as the mounting pressure of the guerrillas in South Viet-Nam are part of the same Chinese thrust to the south. TOES Mr. Krushchev still " have the power and influ ence to overrule the Chinese? Presumably - for we can only speculate-the controlling fact is mat tne Kussians and the Chinese, though they have conflicting interests and theo ries, cannot break with each other. This prabably means that the Chinese can go some way, but not a very long way, ?3?'n? India and Southeast Asia and, beyond that, against Indonesia. The Chinese can not force the issue in Asia to a point where not only they, but the Soviet Union as well would be brought into a major nuclear confrontation with the United States. On the other hand, the Rus sians cannot afford to exert the kind of economic and mil itary pressure on China which will be needed to prevent the Chinese from nibbling their way forward into southern Asia. TN THE short view, there is the possibility of a Datch ed-up arrangement which will put off a showdown. Laos is still too far from everybody, from the Soviet Union, from tlppmann Close Air Support f . ji So Who Needs 11? By Arthur Hoppe JjkJjj Frankly, I haven't cared much for those ads our weap ons makers are always run ning. On our money. You know: "Guardian of Our Shores - The Mighty Mam moth Missile!" With a picture and a message about how good Mighty Mammoth Mis siles are for us. To tell the truth, I've found the copy pretty dull and impersonal. Kind of like public service messages. So hats off today to the folks at Lockheed. For their new personal advertising campaign. Pitched right at you and me. Personally. I mean those current full-page ads headlined: "Need Close Air Support? Consider the Formidable New F-104." Now that hit me smack between the eyes! With a shock I rralized I'd never once asked myself if I needed close air support. And rignt away I considered the For midable New F-104. There was its picture, dropping a bomb. And the copy read better than an ad for a '63 station wagon. "Look at the load it will carry. Bombs, rockets, na palm, air-to-ground missiles, frag dispensers, special weap ons - any mix the mission calls for." And best of all, says the ad, "The F-104 Star fighter has already proven it self in limited var situations." Which are even more gruel ing, I'm sure, than the Mobil Economy Run. Suddenly, L cou' see my self behind the stick of this 1963 Sarfighier. Zooooom . . . BOOM! Oh, tne death and destruction I could wreak with the bombs, rockets and missiles in the roomy luggage compartment. I Just hoped I'd be the first on my block tb have one. What a status sym bol! "Of course, some of the ac cessories seem questionable. Like napalm. I know it can't is the belief that eventually Duvalier must fall. The di rection of that fall would de termine the U. S. position -intervention if Communist, support If there seems a chance for a new democratic-rule. llppmenn Wanhinfton Post the United States, and even from China, to make it a good place for a showdown. Although Mr. Khrushchev is losing control of revolution' ary communism in Asia, the Chinese are probably not able to move precipitately. That seemed to be the lesson of their behavior when they in vaded India and then stopped. In the long run, the Chinese will surely keep on moving. With their birth rate and their poverty, they are sure to push outward. Assam, East Paki stan, Burma, Southeast Asia and Indonesia are rich, poorly defended, highly susceptibla and very tempting. The Sov iet Union will at the same time become increasingly concerned about its long frontier with China and about the security of the territories which were once under Chi nese suzerainty. HTHILE these great develop. ments are taking place in the Communist world, we and our allies have got ourselves into such a mess that France and the United States ara seriously estranged. We ought both to be ashamed of our selves. We hsvc let our rela tions degenerate to a point where the President of tha United States is planning to visit Italy, Germany and Ire land and to avoid London, lest a visit there would annoy the French, and to avoid Paris, because the general does not want to invite him. There are a number of of ficial explanations for this absurd predicament. One is that the American President was in Paris last year, and now it is the French Presi dent's turn to visit Washing ton, only he does not want to visit Washington. Another ex planation is that the two Pres idents cannot meet without making the whole world ex pect an agreement, which as a matter of fact is not now possible. , So far as I know, no one has ever explained why the two Presidents have to behave like two monuments rather than like two men. As men, it would be quite normal, since Mr. Kennedy will ba within an hour of Paris, for the President of France to invite the President of tha United States to lunch. be beat for setting fire to thatched huts. Like in Viet nam, where I assume Lock heed means my F-104 has proven itself. But we don't have many thatched huts on my block. Nor am I sure what Lock heed means by "special weap ons." Probably those defoli ants we've been using on tha Vietnamese crops. To starva the peasants. But none of my neighbors is growing any thing edible. And is killing flowers worth the added cosi? One must watch the pennies. So if you'll excuse me, I'm off to my friendly neigh borhood Lockheed dealer. To kick the tires. But will he allow me Blue Book on my old '53 Hillman Husky? I doubt it. For while it's proved itself In limited collisions, I'm afraid 't's nver killed a ! noul. But I'm grateful to Lock heed for getting personal. Be cause I think the whole busi ness is personal. I thi.ik that every time t ne of our F-104S -yours and mine-burns down a village or poisons crops, wa are personally responsible. You and I. Personally. I just hope this trend In weapons advertising spreads. After all, you and I are pay ing the weapons makers to build our weapons. And it's our money tbr.y're using to convince us these weapons are ("id for us. So I think ,'hcy ought to put the whole thing o.i a personal basis. Honesty lr, advertising, I say. Oh. t can see the socko copy now: "Need to Burn Up People Better? Consider Net son's Nifty Napalm!" or: "For the Starvation that Lingers-Ricky-Ticky Rice Killer!" Or, best uf all: "Want to Inciner ate Humanity? Support Your Arms Race." Now that's a message I'd consider a real public serv ice. r..