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Newspaper Page Text4 A (UrOflDv&&TMBUNS m,t myoM Id Southern Oregon gatit Tin Mail Tribune" f ubluheSTJSily except Saturday by MEDfORD fRlNTLNG CO. 13 North fit St. fa. na-aui ROBERT W rSOKL. Editor KERB GREY AdverUltW Manages GERALD T LATHAM. Bus Vgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mm IdUot EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIHMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Edltoi PALE ER1CK80N, CIrcuUUon tigr An tndaDendent NewsDaoel Entered aa aecond elaas matter at Jdedxord. uregon. unoer a m March 3, 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Kt Mali In Advance. Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dally and Sunday mos 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 mot. 5.00 Sunday Only One year 13.00 Simla Copy (Mailed) 20a By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year 121.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 1.79 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Carrier and Vendora Copy 100 Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International full Leaied Wire ULf. I. Telephoto Newaplcturea member ur auuh nuna.Au Ot CIRCULATIONS ln NELSON ROBERTS St ASSOCI ATES OMlcee In New York. Chi eago. Detroit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, oeeiue, rorwana. Denver. NATION At (DITOIIAl N gHIIIWilll.Kin Mtmbr California Newspaper Publlihtra AHOciation Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha fifes of The Mill Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Mar 21. 1953 (Thursday) More than 100 laundrymen throughout Oregon are regis tered (or the 31st annual con vention of the Oregon State Laundry Owners association here. Searchers work on a 'hot new lead" In attempts to find a plane missing since last Monday In a flight from Gold Beach to Grants Pass. 20 YEARS AGO May 21. 1943 (Friday) Mai. Bruce Guthrie, former Medford resident, dies of wounds suffered during fight ins In Tunisia. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Juvenile element mourns the closing of school June 4. 30 YEARS AGO Mar 21, 1933 (Sunday) New Pacific highway be tween Medford and Central Point slated for opening in near future. Southern Oregon hotelmen hold convention in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO May 21. 1923 (Monday) Many people reported using tennis courts at Willow Springs. Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Meyers leave Medford for trip to Willamette valley. SO YEARS AGO May 21. 1913 (Wednesday) J. J. Houser, mayor of Med ford In 1900, visits friends here. Preliminary hearing held in Judge Taylor's court for man accused of burning down Rogue River church. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er tan carract Is suaetlet; even er eight Is excellent! thro er sis h feed. 1. Would the vibrassae of a cat be Ha feet, meows, or whiskers? 2. In labor relations par lance, forcing an employer to hire and pay more men than he needs is called what? 3. Elephants can, or cannot, swim? 4. Drake is the name of the male of which swimming bird? 8. Madame Marie Curie was the co-discovered of what? 0. How many Innings In a regulation Softball gome? T. Name the smallest Cen tral American republic. 8. . Nov. 8 is the anniversary of the discovery of the Guy Fawkes' gunpowder plot to blow up what government building In London, England; 9. When an aulo la travel Ing forward, do the passengers lunge forward or backward on acceleration? 10. Is the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty" based on facts. or purely fictional? Answerst I. Whiskers. 1 Feather bedding. 3. Can. 4, Duck. t. Radium, t. Seven. 7. El Salvador. 9. Parliament 9. Backward. 10. Facts. EAR BITER GUILTY San Diego, Calif. John Ira Baylea, 48, was placed on three years probation Monday for biting off his former wife's left ear In an argument over money. Bayles, who pleaded guilty to a charge of mayhem, also must pay restitution to the victim, Mrs. Helen Jenks, when the amount is deter mined. I I WfajflW fUllllHIII TUESDAY. MAY 21. 1983 To End the With the legislature gles, and due to adjourn early next week, we can islation calling for a vote of the people on the question of capital punishment in November of The question, of course, has been widely de bated over 'many years, and will be again in Ore gon as election time grows near. Most people probably have their minds al ready made up, but there may be some who are undecided, or willing to discus the matter. It is even possible tnat some could change their minds. AS previously stated, " punishment. There are, as we see it, only three possible excuses for it: 1. To get the offender out of the way for the protection 01 society. 2. Retribution against the offender. 3. As a deterrent to others. None of these, in our eyes, constitute a suf ficient reason to continue the practice, which puts the state in the position of deliberately taking a life a process as cold blooded, calcu lating, and evil as murder itself, and in some ways worse. THE first end mentioned above can be taken care of by imprisonment. For those who say that the state should not waste money" by keep inrr convicted murderers alive, it should be noint- ed out that in virtually j . . .. .. .. execute a man than it does to keep him in prison all his life. One recent study found that the cost of keep ing a man in prison for 30 years is about $45,000, but that the costs of a capital trial and appeals, special detention handling in jail, and an execu tion itself, costs in excess of $60,000. In such notorious cases as that of Caryl Chess man, executed some months ago in California after years of appeals and other litigation, the cost to the state was far had been kept in prison THE second reason retribution is an emo f irtMn 1 etna ofomm ?m t -f -w tVa nlA iiatex VIVliai Vlll 01 I It I 111 l 1 VI II ti5 V1U VJC 1UI , eye" belief. It is, to our mind, a barbaric attitude. Imprisonment, in some ways, is as much "punish ment" as death, and serves to protect society from further depredations. Vindictive justice can hardly be justified on moral, ethical or religious erounds. and certain ly should be beneath the sovereign state. If we can agree that imprisonment is cheaper and just as effective a way of protecting society from a criminal, and that vindictive justice is in compatible with civilized standards, only in the deterrent argument remains. THERE is no evidence ishment serves as a murderers. First of all, a vast majority of murders are either crimes of passion, committed in a highly emotional state when no thought of any penalty would have any effect, or else they are so planned that the murderer believes he'll never be caught. In either case the deterrent aspect of the death penalty is ineffective. S Akl 11... .... Auuub uic uniy uue uieaaut emetic ui me ue- terrence of capital punishment on potential mur derers Is statistical. And the statistics show that states which have capital punishment have, on the average, murder rates just as high, and in some cases higher, than those states which have abolished the death penalty. IN AN excellent little booklet entitled "The 1 Unexamined Death," the author, Hans W. Mattick, sets forth the conclusions of long study of capital punishment. They are far more detail ed than space permits to reproduce in full here. (The booklet is available in single copies from the John Howard Association, 608 South Dearborn St., Chicago 5, 111.) Here are his final paragraphs: "On the basis of the evidence presented above, and In many other studies, there Is no reason to be lieve that capital punishment serves any rational pur pose for society. "On the contrary, the evidence Indicates that those who favor capital punishment are sentimental ists, pure and simple. The hardheaded and practical people who say, 'let us examine the evidence,1 find that the evidence cannot support the arguments as serted with strong conviction, and embellished by special-pleading anecdotes, by th proponents of capi tal punishment. "The means and ends of this public policy are not related, and, therefore, the death penalty does not deal with the homicide problem. The venerable Socrates, who was executed In 399 B. C, maintained to the bit ter end that 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' Our examination of capital punishment has led to the conclusion that the unexamined death is not worth dying. "Jesus Christ, who was executed at the beginning of our era, said, at the end, Father, forgive them, (or they know not what they do. We are still executing ' people .... and there is still no evidence that we know what we are doing when we Inflict the death penalty. "Every rational Inquiry Into the relation between the death penalty and murder has demonstrated that capital punishment is Irrelevant to the homicide rate. It is, however, a cruel, expensive, and demoralising Irrelevancy to maintain. Since capital punishment Is indefensible on any rational grounds, and since tha only purpose It can serve is that of an irrational ven geance that Is no better than the original homicide to which It answers In kind, it Is high time that the death penalty be abolished ..." Let us hone that the just that in the 1964 election. E. A. J Death Penalty now in its final strug' either this week end or still expect it to pass leg' we are opposed to capita! all cases it costs more to .. higher than if Chessman all his life. dignity and order of a to show that capital pun- deterrent to potential ... . iU - ,1 voters of Oreeron will do 1 "Those Alabama Stories Are Sickening. Why Can't They Be Like Us And Find Some Nice, Refined Way To Keep The Negroes Out?" Communications Letters to tha Editor must bear tha name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tha views of tSe paper. In fact the contrary is often Aquarian Age To the Editor: There is no stronger defense against truth than a closed mind. As truth i. eternal, changeless ana in finite, how can any of us be so egotistic as to assume that we know It all - mere isn i nv more? My cnosen sudjcci inmv concerns the Aquarian ab and events pertinent to it. While it is a controversial subject, It is Imperative for all who are interested ana wUIlng to learn more about it tn Ho n In order that they may be somewhat prepared for It. There will be many fheno-Mi. and unless we are sufficiently spiritually forti fied, our ohyslcal venicies will be unable to withstand the higher vibrational fre quency of the sign Aquarius into which Earth is presently passing with ever-accelerating speed. It is not and never has been my purpose to convince any- nni nr anvimna. nor 10 one. anyone s pre - conceivea thouaht oatterns. It is regret uhle if mv letters have the effect of riling anyone, for anger Is not a healthy emo tion. While I can assume re sponsibility for the words, i certainly cannot for any in dividual reaction to them. As we have only our own thoughts to contend with, we are each responsible for our own actions and reactions. Therefore, to persons adverse ly affected, I can only suggest that they refrain from read ing my letters, for they win all relate to the afore-mentioned subject. There is much concrete evi dence of space visitors and various types of space craft In our atmosphere and on oc casion, landing. The father of modern rocketry, Prof. Her mann Oberth, says, "I believe that 'flvlni saucers are pilot ed by supernatural forms of life who have observed Earth for a long time." Rear Ad miral George Dutek, USN says, "I think it s very stupid for human beings to believe that no one else in the uni verse is as intelligent as we are." Frank Edwards, TV and radio commentator and author says, "It you believe in flying saucers you're In good com pany." Mr. Edwards has com piled a list of world-famed astronomers, rocket experts and military authorities -even the former head of our Central Intelligence Agency - who are convinced of the existence of UFO's (unidentl died flying objects). As requested, (or perhaps "dared"?), in a future letter I will list some instances of Biblical accounts of what we now refer to as "flying sau cers" and their occupants. Space will not allow for It this time. Louise Wopschall Route 1, Box 408 Eagle Point, Ore. Birthday To the Editor: May 19th. 1963 - I'm 80 years old today and going strong for a bor rowed timer. Just pick up a dish cloth or broom and ting-a-llng: "Happy birthday to you," comes over the phone in tune, outta tune and - we won't gn into the betwixters. but all sounded very sincere and I said "Thank you" lust as though that was the first time I'd ever heard It. I know over 400 people In and around Medford, and I believe - well, I wish I had counted 'em. Thanks folks, and I will write oftcner to Communications if E.A. doesn't kick ma out. I would not blame him. I can't write many personal letters. J am allergic to licking five cent stamps. The four centers didn't bother so much. I am trying to live ungraciously on Social Security and dragging MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON the cese. my feel, but my feet work to fast dance-music pretty well at the Security Benefit club Wednesdays from 11 till 4. That is - we only dance from two till four. Bet you'd like to visit us, eh wot? Come as you are. It's potluck or 50 cents. Only thing you'll get on the cuff is gravy, but it's worth it. Mr. Clifford and Nevah were over to see me this P.M and we are planning a June picnic for Michiganders. Since I went to school there for over a term, I could be counted. If any of you are interested (I hope you are) send me your address and days you aren't booked for something else, on a postcard. If you have horse shoes, baseball, etc., bring il along. Any old gals going fishing? have my license, sleeping bag and air mattress. I went out to dig some worms, but the low lifers heard my foot steps and plowed themselves deep under. I found only three. If, and when, it rains again I'll show them who is holding spades. eye now. Pearl Spackman Jacksonville, Ore, Holding Gold To the Editor: Why the secrecy? For some strange reason the press has been very reluctant to print what many would consider startling news. A recent Federal Court de cision legalizes the private ownership of gold In any form or quantity. Therefore, for the first time in 33 years, Ameri can citizens have the same right as citizens of most other nations - the right to hold gold by the ounce, pound or ton if they can afford it. M. J. Olson Route 4, Box 325 Medford. Editor's note: This is the first we'd heard of any such ruling, and we are making further inquiries to find out about it. The head of the U.S. Secret Service office In Port land knows of no change in the Gold Reserve Act, either through legislation or court ruling. Tha Queen To the Editor: "To the Queen." This is the title of an ed itorial which appeared in the Medford Mail Tribune Sun day, May 19, referring to an approaching birthday of Queen Elizabeth II-"by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Common wealth, and Defender of the Filth . . . The British affec tion for monarchs grows with the passing of time . , ." Strange, how free men, praising Democracy, Obsequiously laud stale Monarchyl "Elizabeth Second-by the grace of God . . ." Rules o'er an "Empire" that heeds not her nod . . . With useless crown on head and wave of writs, Victorla-or Elizabeth-would Insist 'Tis thus a sovereign rules an "Empire" Without a horde of troops who serve for hire! It's time that Father Time al last rang down , The tyrant's scepler held by showy clown Who charged huge taxes empty show lo see By slavish subjects chatter ing they were free! That Nation's blessed with freedoms God-like flower, That's free from sovereign's whim-or prison Tower' Kenneth Ostlumer 3761 South Pacific Hwy. Medford Conflicting Appraisals Given of Man Who Will Lead Independent Kenya Soon . ill at,;L, - V a..., eat tea 'as By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Naws Analyst As the British crown colony and protectorate of Kenya passes into African hands this week, one of the most contro versial of all African lead ers is the man tagged the most likely to become its Lmj premier. He is J o m o (Burn Nswsom ing Spear) Kenyatte, who spent nine years under imprisonment and house detention a chief organizer of Kenya's white hating Mau Mau. Said his convicting judge in 1953: "It is my belief that . . , you started to organize Mau Mau, the object of which was to drive all Europeans from Kenya, and in doing so to kill them if necessary. I am satis fied the master mind behind this plan was yours . . . You' have turned the clock back many years." Former Kenya Gov. Sir Pat rick Renison called him "the African leader to darkness and death." A man long acquuainted with Kenya politics said of him: "He is the only wholly evil man I have ever known . . . a Communist ... a true re trogressive who wants to drive out the whites and browns and return to the ter rorist Africa of old." To all of which Kenyatla retorted: "My leadership has not been to darkness and death Strictly Personal By Sydney (cl Field Enterprises. Inc. FOND BELIEFS In my recent piece on "left- handed thinking," which dealt with our resistance to changes of thought, I mentioned the hard time giv en to new ideas .in sci ence, from Harvey on the circulation of the blood to Freud on the role of the un- Hartia conscious. We might expect that Freud would be bitterly opposed. because he, after all, dragged into the light the repressed sexual conflicts of people, and outraged the social conven tions as well as the 'medical convictions of his age. But why should people - and the medical profession as as much as anyone - have objected to William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood? His investiga tions did not embarrass "mor ality," nor did his theory have any theological or philo sophical consequences, as Dar win s did a few centuries later. Nevertheless, Harvey could hardly find tha cour age to publish his results, even alter many years of dissecting no fewer than 80 species of animals, in cluding reptiles, crustace ans and insects. Whan he finally published, he dedi cated tha book to King Charles, hoping it would re ceive a more sympathetic hearing - and in the dedi cation compared tha King and tha realm lo tha heart and the body. It seems almost Incredi ble, but Harvey confided in a letter to a colleague that his theory on the quan tity and the source of blood: ". . . is of so novel and unheard-of character that I not only fear injury to my self from the envy of a few. but I tremble lest I hare mankind al large for my enemies - so much do habit and custom, that become as another nature, and doc trine once sown and that hath struck deep root, and respect tor antiquity. Inllu ence all men; still tha die is cast, and my trust Is in love of truth, and tha can dour that inheres in culti vated minds." As Prof. W. I. B. Beveridse remarks: "His fears were well founded for he was sub jected to derision and abuse and his practice suffered bad ly. Only after a struggle of 20 years did the circulation of the blood become generally accepted." NOT GENTLEMEN WashinBton-OTM3cntlemen may prefer blondes but a grand jury has indicted three men here on charges they pre ferred blondes, brunettes and red heads. An Indictment Mon day accused the three men of grand larceny for the theft of the three shades of wigs from a high fashion shop which valued the hair pieces at $64 each, but to light and prosperity . . "I am a true African na tionalist .... "Anyone who says I am or was a Communist is a liar. I went to Russia for an edu cation. I also lived in England for a long time but that does not mean I became an Eng lishman." Kcnyatta did live In Eng land for 15 years. There he shared a flat with American Negro singer Paul Robeson and later married a white English woman whom he abandoned to return to Africa. During his imprisonment. there were reports that Ken yatta had become an alco holic degenerate with a mind hopelessly clouded. But visitors found him in top mental and physical con' dilion, apparently deeply in' tercsted in Buddhist philoso phy and the non-violence teachings of Ghandi. He has declared he would like to stay clear of both East and West and added: "When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. If East and West fight over Africa, only Africans will suffer." Such was the conflicting word pictures of the man now expected to become the first premier of an autonomous government which within year is to lead Kenya to full independence. Kenyatta is a member of the Kikuyu tribe whose one million members made it by far the largest among Ken ya's more than eight million people. His political party is the Kenya Africa National Un ion which has promised that J. Harris (I highly recommend, by the way, Beveridge's book, "The Art of Scientific Inves tigation," now available in a Vintage paperbook for $1.25) The human race, it seems, oannot be reminded too often and too forcibly that our thought processes tend to grow mechanical and habit forming; that anyone who dares to challenge these proc esses becomes abused, ridi culed, feared and finally hated. It is worth suffering a thousand crack-pots rather than close our ears to one true genius who calls into question our fondest beliefs. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Major Gordon Cooper goes 22.7 times around the earth, a distance of slightly more than half a million miles, and comes down only 7,000 yards (about four miles) from the rescue ship that was waiting U pick him up. And ... he may have landed deliberate ly wide of the mark to make sure that the ship hadn't changed its position. ??????? I reckon we can hit with a bomb just about any spot on earth. It gives one a slight attack of the shivers, doesn't it? fjiHE distance he traveled In his 22 and a fraction trips around the earth was just un der 600,000 miles. The round trip to the moon is a little less than 500.000 miles. His time was a little less than a day and a half. So It appears The time may come when a round trip to the moon will be merely a week-end jaunt. T ISTEN to this: " In New York a reporter was interviewing people gath ered in the huge Grand Cen tral Station, where the com muter trains leave for the suburbs. One of those Inter viewed was 10-year-old Chris tine Lewis. Asked what she thought about it all, she re plied: "I feel so happy! I'd LIKE TO VISIT THE MOON MY SELF, SOME TIME." 4 MONG those questioned at New York's Grand Central was a University of Utah geologist. Dr. William Hewit. He replied: "It was a most amazing achievement for all the world. Fifty years from now. Major Cooper's flight will look as cumbersome tn us as the Wright Brothers' airplane does today." 0N V 18 903. only 60 years ago. when Orville and Wilbur Wright made the world's first flight In a power-driven air plane at Kitty Hawk. North Carolina, it Is probable that no one who saw It or read of it could have imagined the Jet airliners of today which make it possible to have an early lunch In Paris and late dinner in San Francisco. whites, Indians, Arabs and blacks all will be accorded equal treatment in a new gov ernment. What Kenya's 66,000 white Matter of Fact y -? e Nw York Hrld Tribune Syndlcat DOLLAR WHEAT? Washington - Last weeks Senate passage of the feed grains bill was a hardly no ticed major Congressional success for the a d m i nistra tion. It means that the Ken nedy legisla tive program is going better than most people sup- Aim. pose, a aiso set the stage for this week's wheat referendum. This wheat referendum also deserves more notice, as an event with really convulsive possibilities. The Agriculture Department, which expect', the wheat farmers to approve its proposals, is forecasting a record vote of more than a million wheat growers and their wives. If the Department is right, stricter production controls will be approved, designed to hold next year's wheat crop to about 1.1 billion bushels: but in compensation, the farm ers will get high price sup ports for their wheat. But if barely more than one-third of the farmers vote "no" in the referendum, production controls and effective price supports will both go out the window. - THIS is the feature that mnlrpa thA i-AfprenHitm nn. t e n t i a 1 1 y convulsive. The Farm Bureau Federation, which has been leading the opposition to the wheat plan, has been grossly misleading the farmers on this point. For example, Farm Bureau Presi dent Charles Schumann has publicly promised the wheat growers that Congress will quickly "bail them out"" if they vote no. In reality, the odds are bet ter than ten-to-one against any bailing out operation. It would again have to take the familiar, pernicious form of bill subsidizing over one- half production at vast cost, by offering high price sup ports combined with lax pro duction controls. But the mood has shifted, both in Con gress and in the executive branch. THAT historic day at Kitty Hawk. Orville Wright piloted the little con traption that by courtesy and with great pride they called an AIRPLANE. He flew 120 feet and re mained in the air for 12 sec onds. Only five' persons were interested enough to watch the flight, and few newspa pers wrote anything about it. Most persons thought the Wright brothers were crazy. But they weren't dismayed by what happened at Kitty Hawk. They continued to work on their crazy contrap tion, and in 1905, two years later, they flew 24 miles In 39 minutes. T'HE next year they received a patent for their inven tion.They tried to interest peo ple in their flying machine, but on one listened to them. The U.S. government thought it impractical and dangerous. That was only an average lifetime ago. And look what has happened since! So who can predict what will come of space travel? "... and 1 say to this columnist, 'You're a dirty, linking, opinionated rat, and you haven't got the courage of your convictions.' Signed Anonymous . . .!" settlers think of Kenyatta s promises is of small moment, of less moment than a dust devil stirred by Africa's "winds of change." Of course the Republicans from the farm states will of fer the kind of bill above-ouU lined if the wheat plan is voted down; and of course they will try to make political capital out of it.- But only Farm Bureau President Schu. mann thinks the Congress can be persuaded to pass such at bill. And in the most unlikely event that such a bill is pass ed, It will be vetoed by th President. a CONVULSIVE is therefore mild word to describe the consequences of a heavy "no" vote in the wheat referendum. With no controls, wheat out put is expected to rise to 1.5 billion bushels, or 400 million bushels more than the reason able current requirement. With no effective price sup ports, the wheat price will almost certainly drop from the present $2 level to around $1 a bushel. Great numbers of wheat farmers will then face ruin or near-ruin. The wheat-growing areas will be economically disrupted. The wheat markets will become chaotic. And the effects will ramify outwards into the markets for other farm products. This does not necessarily mean, however, that the strict control - high - price - support combination is the only way out of the farm problem. At least for the long run, a much simpler, much less costly ap proach is advocated by Sen. Herman Talmadge of Georgia, and both the President and Secretary of Agriculture Or ville Freeman are now show ing signs of increasing inter est in the Talmadge approach. Cotton, which Is Senator Talmadge's special interest, is In a super-mess. The cotton program is immensely expen sive, yet only 3 per cent ol the 650,000 cotton farmers get 56 per cent of the Federal payments. A single producer, Russell Giffen of California, gets $2,000,000 per annum from the Treasury, and the five largest producers receive as much as the combined total payment to the 250,000 small est producers. Meanwhile the artificially high domestic cot ton price is ruining the Amer ican cotton-textile manufac turers. ALL this, says Senator Tal mariffe with sntinrl Inffip. is vicious nonsense, without economic or moral justifica tion. But he adds that there is a moral, social, and even biological justification for helping the smaller higher cost farm producer to stay on the farm with his family. Hence the Senator has of fered a cotton bill, now before the Senate Agriculture com mittee, which will do two things. It will pay direct sub sidies to cotton growers, in reverse proportion to their output - high to small pro ducers, very low indeed to larger producers. And it will return cotton to the market place, getting the U. S. gov ernment out of the costly busi ness of "buying, storing, trans porting, selling, and giving away cotton." Incidentally, the Talmadge bill is also estimated to save the taxpayer $500 million an nually. But the main attrac tion of the Talmadge approach is Its logic. It avoids the deci mation of the farm popula tion which the anti-control ideologists seem to want, with out admitting it. It helps those who need help and no one else. It cleans up an ugly mess. In fact, it ought to per suade everyone but the ideolo gists.