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Newspaper Page Text"Everyone In Southern Oregon D.Dra Th. Mail Trihunc" Published Dally except" Saturday by Mburunu rniniuiu 33 North fr J'- Phu-aitl ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertlilnl Manaier GERALD T LATHAM, Bua Mir ERIC w ALLEN JR- Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIHMAN, Telel Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SportI Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women'a Edltoi DALEERICKSONCirculaUonir An Independent Newapapel Entered ai lecond clan matter el Medlord Oregon under Act 01 Mnrch J, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Daily and Sunday-1 year 111 00 Daily and Sunday 8 moi 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moi J 00 Sunday Oniy-One year M TO Single Copy (Mailed! a By Ciir,el-And Motor Rutile. Dally and Sunday-1 year Ml. 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1J3 Sunday Only 1 mo. Carrlui andVendon- Copy 10c omrlal Paper of Clly ot Med ford Odlclai Paper of Jackion County ' United Prew International Sull Leaied Wire U P I Telephofo Newnplcturea "SlEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & .ASSOC! ATES O.mSS rin "New "virkTChi. co Delrnlt 8?n rr.ncUco Lo. Angelt'a ucn.'er NATION A I EDITORIAL .4 Memncr California Newipaper Publliheri Aiaoclatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files of The Mall Tribun 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 28. 1953 (Thursday) Voters of School District 49 have approved a $1,283,952 budget for the Medford public schools by a vote of 383 to 25. A possible Increase In Jack ion county mineral activity was indicated here today on the part of both Standard Oil company of California and the federal government. 20 YEARS AGO May 28, 1943 (Friday) Twenty-two-year-old M c d ford woman acquitted of first degree murder of her 10- wnpk.nlrl son. From Arthur Pony's "Ye Smudiic Pot" column: "Birds are playing havoc with new strawberries. Most of the blmno rests on the California blucjays, who besides being bluejays, are from California." 30 YEARS AGO May 28, 1933 (Sunday) Grants Pass residents asked to oppose construction ot Tiller-Trail cutoff road. Army planes en route to Seattle land at Medford air port. 40 YEARS AGO May 28. 1923 (Monday) Two new auto camps open for business in Medford. R. S. Daniels defeats Eddie Wafus for Copco tennis cham pionship. SO YEARS AGO May 28, 1913 (Wadneiday) First ground broken fur new Medford trolley line Lewis Ulrlch, Jacksonville, appointed grand guardian of Oregon IOOF lodge. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina ot ran correct It lupatiari even oi eight ii excellent! five at ait Is good. 1. Supply the missing word In this saying: "It depends upon whose Is gored.'1 2. Would you guess that Man O' War sired 64, 184 or 284 colls? 3. What Is the zodiacal sign for persons born between Dec. 22 and Jan. 23? 4. Number 1600 Pennsyl vania Avenue is the address of which Important place? 8. Locale these football sta diums - Oranue Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Cotton Bowl? H. In it Jupiter or Salurn Hint Is the largest ol the plan cts? 7. The noted Carlsbad Cav- cms are located in which southwestern state? 8. Wai George Eliot the pen name of a man or woman? B. The first U. S. census was tabulated in 1790, 1800 or 1810? 10. Is bassoon the name of a type of monkey, musical In' ulrumcnl or receptacle? Anawarti 1. Ox. 2. 114. 3. Capricorn. 4. While House. 5 Miami, Naw Orlaans, Dallas, a L.nil.r. 7. Naw Mtxice. I Woman. 8. 1790. 10. Musical lnslrumtnt. fUllllHIII J-ASSOeiATION TUESDAY. MAY 28. 1963 On Book-Burning t tlm fnmmnniVntinnn column todav is a let ter which calls for a book to be removed from the local library on the grounds that it is lewd and sacrilegious. We acknowledge freely the sincerity of the writer. We also agree with her thesis that parents i ill 1 1. lLn!u UIIInH mm vniirlmif snoUla Know Wliai, men Our agreement ends tliot- fVio nhinr-tinns nf nnp t ! orlnmi'.ilo roasnn JJIC 13 BUV4.v thorn nut. nf blUUVVillfc v..-... 1- At tor Otner people wnai, mey can ur caiuiui, irau. THIS IS NOT to argue Wo Viaio nnt vpuA it TIC 111'- ivw " -t . , . in.r n an in vvo vp irnr. ll'bt v . n - in liimfp fimo tn antt piHIOSOpmcai Vei-BlOV Ui UlC me Ul UCBUO. ... ., wnd n Vfiafl it. WP WOUld ob- ject violently to Deing nin "nwn PTinfl " . w " 0 f-it 1'nlin-ii-aiia vnaenne uro of the inquisition. In a religion is a uonstituuonai guarantee, sucn a reason is simply a non sequitur. AS FOR THE other attributes of the book, we are not competent to make answer, al though the passages quoted in the letter would not. we feel, of and by themselves serve to cor rupt anyone. It may be that parents would disapprove of their children reading a book of this type. If so, it is up to them to prevent it, not for the library to succumb to pressure to remove the book. Presumably the decision to purchase the book was made by competent authority, acting on suf- book is controversial is no MAi.rMrn.n!n I UTOPa tUlllI U VCI Dial UUUI0 i UM1.4(v.v awuv would be limited to "Rebecca of Sunnybrook -1 i i it 11.. 1.1 1 1 i n..,, farm ana otners equany TO SUM UP: A Krlr gnu ltnnl fTL klUUll t 1 1 J "J"" i , , , ... v -J - J " 1 - ' Mmnla if l'a Mln'arl llrtt'fliir fif nill'fihaCil UWI1 1UC11U3. XX lb IB JUlttlX "VlWlJ jjuiviimuv, it should be purchased for the benefit of those wisning to reaa it. Those who disapprove ot it do not nave to read it. And, as parents, it is their privilege rather, their duty to see that their own chil dren do not read what they, as parents, do not ii i i wisn mum iu reau. The Constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion means the freedom to write, and to read, books which others may consider sacrilegious. If obscenity is a consideration, the proper place to go is to the courts. Let us have no vigilante book-burnina- here. E.A. The "Race News coverage of the eral assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. tended to emphasize the decisions which called for complete separation of church and state, and for the end to Bible reading and prayer in public school classrooms if they are "devotional acts." in which cases they tend to ward "indocrination" and Because of this emphasis, other equally im portant decisions of the assembly tended to become obscured. In the eyes of some taken by the assembly on racial matters were even more significant than the church and state issue. ")NE observer said, ". . . that this year's week remembered as 'the Race church." A press release from the church's office of information said: "Dr. Scott (the retiring moderator) Insisted that the crux of America's racial problem Is found not in Birmingham, Alabama but in the type of neigh borhoods where Prcsbyterlanism flourishes. " 'The core of the racial situation In the United States lies In the all-white residential communities that circle our cities,' Scott maintained. "Said he; 'It is exactly In those communities where there Is the loudest talk about freedom and the most shouting about communism that the very fundamen tals of our constitutional system and our Biblical faith are most vigorously violated'." FOLLOWING debate, the assembly then voted to propose a series of changes in the church's constitution which would make integration man datory in all United Presbyterian churches throughout the nation. It also: Petitioned President Kennedy to call a White House Conference on civil rights. Voted to establish a special Commission on Religion and Race and allocated $500,000 to get the program in motion. Agreed to study the possibility of making mortgage monies available to individuals who fail to get such loans elsewhere because of their race. Directed its boards and agencies to make certain that they were not doing business with firms whose practices are not consistent with the church's stand on integration. All in all, we'd say the assembly put in a good week's work. Presbyterians and others can be proud of them. li.A. ) ' ciimu en ate ivaumg. there. We do not believe nr pvpn aiTI'Olin OI 11P.O' for epnsorirnr hnoke - - - trip lihrarv. or decidinir o ...... rl the merits of the book nnrl dn nnt.. at, this writ " - - ..... it il' i ton manv nr.np mint's 10 -------Lr ---o-( a fintinnnl imjKrinatlVP torn we couia not 101 a.'O htlplf in thp TTliflfllt? land where freedom of reason to ban it. If all KunTIDfl mil VHP fl in fT uianu unu juiiucuuub. mnet lip illflrrprl nn its Assembly" recently-concluded gen "meaningless ritual." observers, the actions there was little doubt - long meeting will be Assembly' of the . . . Delinquent! Communications ... Lallan io lha Editor must certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reservei the light to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters lubmitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the viewe of the paper; in fact the contrary ii often the case. Incontrovertible To the Editor: Answering Lydia Burnham's Tribune ar ticle, 5-23-63, about the resur rection of Christ. Since God does not reveal the date of his only begotten Son's birth or the date of his resurrection, those dates should not con cern us. (Dcut. 29:29.) The thing that should concern us is the fact that He was born, lived his sinless life, then gave it a ransom on the cross to pay the penalty God's broken law demands of us. The birth, the life and the crucifixion, Lydia and her Unitarian writer free ly admit. The resurrection they deny with antipathy. Jesus answers tnem as- tie did the Saducccs: "Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God." (Matt. 22:23-33.) From 1910 through 1916 I believed much as Lydia does, I studied the Bible to show how wrong it was, I dis covered the wrong was all in me. There are hundreds of Scriptures that prove the au thenticity of Christ and His word, the Bible. In the great prophecy of Daniel 9:28, Christ was to be cut off Vh years after the time He had begun His public work. By the slaying of the passover lamb, every year on the 14th day of the month, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, (Exodus 12:6, margin). The very year, day, and hour of Christ's death was foreshadowed for 1,500 years before it took place. (1 Cor. 5:7; Malt. 27:45, 46.) I want to point out just one more prophecy. Only a few nours before He was to die a sacri fice on the cross fulfilling the above prophecy to the letter. He said: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." (Matt. 24:14.) As He said these words He stood rejected by the world, yes even by His own people. Soon He was to be re jected, abandoned and be trayed by His own disciples, all foretold by the prophets hundreds of years before, at that time being fulfilled to the very letter. He has made a record tit 11 all in His Book, the Bible, which is found in all the world as a witness. In it He warns us that we are without excuse. Even the Dev il himself cannot controvert such a record. F. E. Beverly 113 Geneva Medford First Prineiplei To the Editor: It would ap pear to have been better to make no comment on my communication letter last week In the MT, for it was strictly a personal letter to the Editor for clarification of Issues between us, not the public, violating as It did the Editor's No. 3 precept, "all in good taste." But. If it's Inclusive mean ing whs a bit of mischievous satire with no retaliatory im plications, then we can settle lor that. For the mere men tioning of the May 27 U.S. News and World Report in the findings of U.S. Federal District Judge Frank M. Scar lett's ruling that point so markedly to the reversal of the Supreme Court's 19M "legislated'' ruling In the forced Integration of Negro pupils Into white schools, plainly against the will and Judgment of so largo a seg ment ot our population, was the all In all to ma For my very best effort had been to phone people to read and con sider the District Court Judge's ruling, as this racial issue Is a pressing moment for people to stand up and be counted. Stand up and be counted, like long ago Jason Lre at old Champoeg where the rov ; MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON tm A JtfiiJ aT rWT bear tha nam and addrass of ered-wagoners had gathered in a 4th of July picnic. Boot heeling a long mark in the white driftsand there, fiery Jason Lee shouted: "You people who have been siding in with the Hud son's Bay and want this a part of the British Empire along with Canada, stand over on that there side of the line. You folks who want this Oregon Territory to be a part of the USA, stand here with me and be counted." That most of them were counted with Jason Lee, and with the plowing and plant ing settlements pioneered by Dr. Whitman, made Oregon with Idaho and Washington part and parcel of the USA, for which we can all be duly thankful. Recognizing that this USA was first taken over from the native tribesmen by a white Protestant people, dedicated to the proposition that all mankind are created in the sovereign right of each in economic survival, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and freedom in choice of religion or none at all, it would seem lo be high time we stand up and be counted on those first principles. This so ably and courageously expressed In the MT Friday editorial, even though the title could well have been In the last four words, "priests, preachers and parents." Like locking the back door, as well as the front door. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. "Vile Book To the Editor: Mothers and fathers, do you know that your most priceless posses sions, your children, have ac cess to a book in our public libraries that is so vile that it could have been conceived only in the depraved mind of one who is obsessed, for truly it is Ihe work of demons. TnrouRh 496 pages, Nikos Kazantzakis. the author of this book, "The Last Tempta tion of Christ," casts our sin less precious Redeemer In the role of a carnal minded, lust ful degenerate of the worst type. The angels In heaven blush when they view the poison that flows from the authors pen and they are shocked and grieved as they behold just how low human beings, God's earthly crea tion, have really fallen into sin and depravity. Following are quotations from the book. It Is embarras sing to write them but how else can I tell you the shock ing but true facts. Page 88 - "Magdalene lay on her back, stark naked . . . wrestling with men on this bed since dawn had tired her out." Page 87 - "Lord O Lord," the son of Mary murmered again, "give me the strength to slay until my turn comes." Page 491-(Judas speaking), "As he faced the crosa this f.ike Messiah went dizzy and fainled. Then the ladies got hold nf him and installed him to manufacture children for them ... Is thai the y to conquer death by making children?" Mothers and fathers, God holds you accountable for your children until they be come of legal age. Do you want them absorbing such Sodom and Gomorrah poison from your public libraries? We have Just commemor ated the death and resurrec tion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He proved his love for u by death on a cruel cross. Now and here Is our opportunity to prove our love for him, our love for our children and our love for our country. Our libraries are being sup ported by our tax dollars U.Ns Successes in Countering Red Policies Cited; Finances New Tactic By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foraign Naws Analyst Had the United Nations, un der the prodding of the United States, not intervened in Korea it is a reasonable as sumption that Korea today would be to tally occupied by the Com munists. Similarly, without United Nations action it also is rea s w turn sonably certain that today there would be no unified Congo. And, going back to the earliest days of the world or ganization, it also is a safe bet that Soviet Russia would be occupying part of northern Iran had not the pressure of world opinion been brought against it through the United Nations. Each of these actions rep resented an extension of U. S. tha writer, although under We have a right to know how our money is being spent. Our library board and librarian select the books that go on the shelves. Demand that they re move this vile book from our libraries for all time. Alice I. Black 812 Newtown Medford. O Editor's note: See comment in editorial column. Varieties of Truth To the Editor: "There is no stronger defense against truth than a closed mind," says the authoress of "Aquarian Age," M. T., May 21, in reference to the reader's serious reflec tion upon matter contained in her presentation of evi dence in favor of "possibly super - naturally piloted UFOs." In defense of her theory, she says, "truth is eternal,, changeless and infi nite ... so how can anyone expect to know the whole of it?" Before proceeding further, let us take a closer look at this orthodox definition of truth. Eternal, and infinite, are material conceptions of unlimited time and space. In actuality, perhaps the situa tion may be not quite like this. Too, there is something awry about the definition changeless which implies several meanings though the one intended is likely, staid or dependable. But a changeless or even slow to change quality is vulnerable to eventual complete scientif ic analysis, while the chang ing one is the elusive one. Rather, let us think of truth as something more than this a paradox, perhaps, and many faceted. To the arcane science of astrology, let us concede a possible facet of truth. To the probable existence of UFO's solar, galatic or universal let us also concede a possi ble facet. But, to the piloting of these flying objects by su pernatural forms of life, how can we concede, at the most, more than a possible super natural facet? But in order to make this concession, we must first en dow truth with a dual nature: One applicable to the physi cal realm, and the other, to the supernatural. We will as sume this step a permissible one since if it isn't we cannot seriously discuss the issue at all. For when dealing In ar cane sciences, it inevitably becomes imperative to sub stitute a different, often op posing, set of truths. Now If we can be satisfied with the foregoing elastic de scription for truth, (and there just might be a facet of truth in it.) we may proceed to equip material UFO's with supernatural pilots and em bark upon some fascinating astro - philosophical adven tures. Otherwise, we must for feit our supernatural facet for a more staid and changeless one and then I fear our exciting theories and defenses will never get off the ground. Thclma Carson Star Route Box 60, Prospect, Ore. Sale Success To the Editor: I wish to thank all of the people of Medford, for the success the V.F.W. had on their annual Buddy Poppy sale. The radio and T.V. stations, and Mail Tribune, thanks for the fine service you did toward the publicity for Buddy Poppy Days. All members of the Auxiliary, Post, and Boy Scouts, thanks for your help in selling Buddy Poppies this year. Frank L. Otley Commander Crater Lake Tost 1833, VFW Medford I foreign policy and help to ex plain why, through both Democratic and Republican administrations, the United States has been willing to shoulder more than its share of the financial burden of U. N. undertakings. Similarly, each of the above ran directly counter to Soviet policy. Despite persistent efforts to reshape the U. N. to its own advantage, the Soviet Union never yet has won a major victory in U. N. debates. They were boycotting the U. N. at the time of Korean intervention. They failed conspicuously in 1 980 to impose a three headed Troika system on the secretary general's office which would have torpedoed U. N. action in the Congo. In 1963 they are attempt ing to impose a "financial veto." This means that they have refused to pay the more than $46 million they owe in back installments on U. N. peace keeping operations in the Congo and Middle East and have announced that hence forth they will pay nothing on any U. N. operation with which they disagree. Altogether, some 40 U. N. members, including France, Belgium, and Nationalist China, have paid nothing on either or both the Congo and Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fc- Field Enterprises, Inc. INCOMPREHENSIBLE The day I arrived in New York last month, I heard noth ing but the scream of fire en- g i n e 3 from morning until well past mid night. As you may have seen in the papers, the five bor oughs of New York together turned in 1,000 alarms on that Satur d a y in April. The fire departments were taxed to their limits, and in some cases beyond. A grave water shortage developed late in the day. A wave of fires on southern Slatcn Island in volved more than half of New York City's Fire Department alone. In our muted discussions of atomic attack, we think most ly of the cataclysmic impact of the bomb. But, according lo physicists I have read and lis tened to, the consequences of fire from such an attack are equally appalling. And the 1,000 alarms on this Saturday would be infinitesimal com pared with the conflagration begun by a single H-bomb. How can we begin to imagine the unimaginable? This question. I think, is the clue io most of the passivity and fatalism of the public toward atomic warfare. Just as no finite and mortal per son can really comprehend infinity or eternity, so none of us can actually grasp the apocalyptic quality of the next war. Some things are too small to grasp - nobody, for in stance, can really visualise the world of sub-atomic matter - and some things are too large. Man is a crea ture of the middle distance, and hii vision is limited io objecti in the middle ground. It is no accident that the few philosophers of science in our time have pointed out the quite remarkable fact that the human species ii. with almost mathematical exactitude, midway be tween the largest order and tha smallest order of magni tude in the universe. We stand in relation to the proton as the universe stands in relation to us. Such a con cept is nearly Inconceivable, except in a scientific formula, which robs It of all concrete ness and existential meaning. But what a wonder, and a baf flement, that a creature so equidistance from both mag nitudes should be able to un derstand and (partly) control both of them. There is no doubt in my mind that the human race is approaching lis ultimate mor al crisis. We have gone too far to turn back, we have opened too many doors that will not close again, and perhaps re leased too many demons that will refuse to be put back into their bottles. The 1.000 fires in a day were extinguished by heroic efforts; but we now have the capacity to start 1.000.000 fires simultaneously, with no capacity to extinguish them. Perhaps the most crushing paradox of our time is that never before has mankind been so powerful-and men so powerless. This is what we do not want to think of. i the Middle-East operations. Under U. N. rules, all are subject to losing their vote after falling two years behind in their payments. Some are hardship cases and may be forgiven on grounds that they are behind due to circumstances beyond their control. As a matter of pride, the Soviets scarcely could afford to plead that they are too poor to pay. France and Belgium, both of which strongly opposed the U. N. Congo action, are ex pected to find some device by which arrearages can be met without admitting a change of heart. The main problem Is the Soviet Union. Matter of Fact (c) New York Herald GROTESQUE MESS Washinptnn In the ehillv aftermath of the wheat refer endum, everyone seems to be having second thoughts; Farm state Rep ublicans and their al lies of the Farm Bureau are belatedly but vi si b 1 y worried about having "free d" the AJinp wheat farmers at a probable cost of $1.10 to $1.20 wheat and severe disruption ot tne markets in some other agri cultural products as well. The Kennedy aaminis i r - linn meanwhile. IS Visibly worried about being too cold ly negative. The rresiaeni will certainly veto any bail nnt hill returning to the old. thoroughly vicious system of high price supports viuium production controls. Nonethe less, it is a bit too coldly logical to say nothing to the wheat farmers except: "Vnn'vp made vour bed: now lie in it, even if it means $1.10 wheat. HENCE consideration is be ing given to more positive snnmnrhM The one most clis- cussed is an indication of will ingness to take a wheat bill based on the principle of Sen. Herman Talmadge's cotton bill. Whether this will be the final decision remains lo be seen. But it is certainly worm examining the Talmadge bill principles. There are two of them: First, that those wno ncca hrln nucht to get it, but no one else ought to get it. And second, tnai mo neip ought to be given in a way ii... uonc tho ti s. covtrn- mcnt out of the commodity management business. If there is any excuse at u fnr anui.mir.ent aid to Amer ica's immensely over-produc tive agriculture, tne excuse is en,.iai sinH hioloical. Farmers able to make the very large capital invest menti necoea for mechanized, large -scaie farminff on eht either to accept the prices of the market place or take their capital some where else. But minions oi tarmArs art not in this happy position; and they constitute the social-biologicai prooicm. T'E people who want to get id of production controls and abandon farm price sup port really want to drive this huge group of under-capitalized, small scale farmers off the farms. This was the pio gram of former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, in whose pious ministry the grotesque farm mess nearly quadrupled both in size and in cost. The worst criticism of Benson is that he never had the guts to say that he wanted the smaller, less ef ficient farmers to go to the wall. Meanwhile, there are strong special and biological argu ments AGAINST letting mil lions of the smaller American farmers go to the wall. The AVI, M awejx fees The Ugly .We "hate y If the Soviets could reduce the U. N. to an impotent de bating society simply by with holding funds there is little doubt that such would ba their course. On the other hand, it is not believed that the Communists are ready yet to abandon their place in the U. N.'s world forum, leading to a conclusion that their present maneuvers are to establish a bargaining position. But, meanwhile, the U. N. is approximately $130 million in the red. And the prospects are that, so long as the U. S. considers the United Nations an important arm of foreign policy, it will continue to pay a disproportionate share of the world organization's costs. By Joseph Alsop Tribune Syndicate old pattern of our rural life has its own value. Further more, it is an unexplained fact of history - but an undoubted fact despite its mystery - that great nations have always tended to decline when inde pendent farmers were driven out by industrial farming. Thus the Talmadge cotton bill defines the under-capitalized small scale producers as those who need help. It gives this group of farmers fairly generous help, in the form of high production payments. It provides much lower produc tion payments to the larga producers - although h e r a Sen. Talmadge has unwisely compromised by removing his former $25,000 ceiling on tha payment permissible to any individual cotton producer. THE justification for this kind of selectivity in help ing the cotton farmers ought to be glaringly obvious. Over 600,000 cotton farmers were in the cotton program last year, but just a little mora than 31,000 cotton farmers produced over half the crop -and therefore got over half the Federal aid. The meaning of these fig ures is difficult to credit. But consider: the cotton program, cost the taxpayers S600 mil lion in subsidies, plus $400 million in administrative costs for the storage, marketing, transport, and export of cot ton. The entire cost of $1 bil lion is of course chargeabla to aid to the cotton farmers. Thus a few more than 31, 000 Americans got aid from over $500 million. This is like giving half a billion dollars of urban renewal money to a very small and extremely prosperous suburban commu nity. Grotesque is a mild word for it. Yet this is not the worst of it. This particular Federal venture in commodity man agement not only has a prica tag of $400 million for ad ministrative charges alone. It also has the effect of main taining an artificially hign domestic cotton price, while we all but give cottor. away abroad. HENCE the American cotton textile manufacturers are beginning to be driven out of business. For this season, the Tal madge bill, while aiding those farmers who really need aid by high, though carefully lim ited production payments, also gets the government out of commodity manace m p n t, at least for cotton. Broadly speaking, it allows the domes tic cotton price to be set by the market place. If these principles are not adopted, it will still be cheap er and more effective to help those who really need help by junking the exisiting cotton program. If every cotton farm er still in business is simply given an annual Federal check for $600, with no questions asked, the majority will get more than they now receive. And the taxpayer will save rather more than $600 million per annum. American!