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Newspaper Page Text4 A- I2i7t. u.il Tribune KEfiIhd Daily cept sturdy bjr n Hoftk rifu rhjjw-sm i?SiiriT IV SUHL. Editor ssSiSt11 a assess? KlC ALLEN JR. Un EdiGw EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN, TJWi SOHor richarS jewett, "porta Editor OUVE STARCH ER Women Edlto. DALE CR1CKSON, Circulation M4T independent """"R" ., Enured u wconi di mjiwr t M.rcTl J, 1117 SUBSCRIPTION RATES u.il In Ativan?) Daily nd Sunday I ' 0 Daily and Sunday-f moe 10 00 , Daily and Sunday moe. 00 Sunday Oiuy-Ona jraar S5.00 Stasia Copy IMalladl SOe By Cirriet-And Motor Routa. Dally and Sunday 1 yaar 131.00 Dally and Sunday I mo. !? Carriar and Vendore Copy 10c omciaTrapar of City or ' orllctal riralaili County United Freaa tnurnatlonal full Laaaad Wire O. P I Talaphoto Nawiplcturaa hEMBttOrAUDlT BUREAU man"Sf CIRCULATIONS WEDNESDAY. JUNE 12, IMS MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON AdvertWnf eBreantatlat eaio. Detroit. San Pranclaco. L Anieire SaaUla. Portland Denver. NIWIMHt ruiusHiii ASSOCIATION trim. Himtxr Calllornla Newspaper Publishers Aesocleuon Flight o' Time Madford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO veers ego. 10 YEARS AGO Juno (3. 1153 (Saturday) Elaht Jackson county flu dents will receive degrees to morrow st SUnford univer sity's 62nd commencement ex ercises In Pslo Alto, Calif. Five Jackson county resi dents were Injured in a traf fic accident at Bybee corner on the Jacksonville highway this morning In two-car collision, 20 YEARS AGO June 13. IMS (Sunday) Trial juries selected to hunr condemnation cam in ' volvlng land on Camp White military reservation. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Ru- mors are rife (one of their favorite habits) about enemy submarines snooping sround Coos Bay. Nobody around here aj yet has taken his fish- ing pole on an essential wsr business trip to the cosst and accidentally knocked off I periscope with sn oar." 30 YEARS AGO June 13, 1333 (Tuesday) Aviator snd plsne missing In Cow Creek csnyon coun try on flight from Medford airport. Rogue river high as warm weather starts rapid runoff of mountain snow. The President s Appeal As recently as Monday, President Kennedy was being criticized for not speaking out on civil rights as a moral issue, for not exerting his vast influence and leadership potential in bringing home to the American people the dimensions of the current racial crisis. James Reston of the New York Times wrote : There is something wrong with his (the Presi dent's) leadership on the home front. Something is mining in his speeches, his press conferences, his trips snd his timing. He is not communicating his con victions effectively . . . "The President's appeal, somehow, is to the mind of the nation and not to its heart. He definei the problems of rsce, unemployment and education, but doesn't come to grips with them ... "There is something too cool about it all. He gives the country statistics about the Negro . . . but he doesn't convey the humiliation or the ache in the heart . . . "... Ail will listen if he csrries his civil rights bsttle into the South or the rscial Jungles of Northern cities. But he has done none of these things ..." LIE HAS now. His special television broadcast of Tuesday evening was a magnificent performance, appeal- to heart as well as head. He talked sense decent, moral, courageous sense to the American people. Coming as it did shortly after the disgraceful Wallace episode at Tuscaloosa, and just before the revolting murder of a Negro leader, it car ried with it a special impact one which we are certain will bring strong and positive response from the nation. Reston also said, "This is a just and decent country. It may be confused ... but on human questions ... the vast majority is obviously for equality." The President has asked our help. The" least we can do is answer him with clear heads and whole hearts. E.A. Let the People Decide Four persons, one a younp- woman, are now in the Oregon State Penitentiary waiting to die in the gas chamber. The voters of Oregon in November, 1964, will decide whether to abolish the death penalty. The last time they voted on the question, in November, 1958, capital punishment was re tained but the margin was tiny : only 12,053 votes of more than 540,000 cast. There is good reason to believe that the out come will be reversed next year. "You know, sometimes we get so involved in saving the world, we tend to forget why it's worth ssvingl" Communications Letters to tha Editor must bear tha name and address of tha 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. ' Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tS paper. In fact the contrary Is often the case. Regretabie To the Editor: Thank you for publishing my letter on 7-4-63, which you captioned "Death Is a Fact." However, I do not thank you for the way you edited away some very Important passages, which not only dam aged the structure, but changed some of the signifi cance. I am sorry if the letter was a little long, but I ob served a letter in the same issue by your most well known contributor that was quite a lot longer, which dealt with the race question, wmcn is certainly not more important. Were It possible, I would add but one thing: The man whom the priestly chroniclers have described as Jesus was according to indications not only not physically robust, but sensitive as an artist and possessed of the powers of one. and in QOKMzance 01 mysteries of the Eart and of Egypt of which wa can- f.r.ru- ly be aware, even as was Moses who founded the Jew ish faith, and as were the 40 YEARS AGO June 13, 1123 (Wednesday) - Ben Trowbridge and Allen Perry return from De Molay convention in Portland, Tourists to be limited to three days in free Medford city auto court. 50 YEARS AGO June 13, 1113 (Friday) Central Point woman In jured when her horse runs away after being frightened by two racing autos. Will G. Steel, newly ap pointed superintendent ot Crater Lake National park, tells plans for construction oi four-foot trail from rim to lake. THIS combination of circumstances presents Gov. Mark 0. Hatfield with an opportunity. Personally, by conviction, the Governor isL,.n ' nri hiiH..r of the opposed to capital punishment. At the same Tomb of Kufu, or Great pyra time, he has said he will let the "law take its mid, which was worshipped as . . I nnni. n n. ilia "Immftrtnl" rP. nutaa" in tha ahaanrta nT ronaal 1 w ' But the Constitution specif icially gives him the power to grant reprieves. He could postpone the four executions unuJ after the November, 1964, election. At that tune the people will make their decisions. I he Governor s decision then could be made on the basis of the people's will. T'HEREj would be every justification in the world for the Governor to do just his. He would not only be within his legal rights, but he would be on the very soundest moral and ethical grounds. He would obey the Constitution al injunction that the penal laws should be based on the principles of rehabilitation. He would, in the finest sense, "allow the law to take its course." And he would remove from his own con science the inescapable feeling of guilt for the death of four human beings when the will of the neonle is not fullv known. This is the course of decency, of justice and of democracy. We urge him, in the strongest possible terms, to follow this course. None could gainsay him ; lew couia criticize. tu.A. Too Youthful Marriage banning books from the li brary. If the only books avail able in a library are those which are "safe" for children to read, most of us adults wouldn't spend any time read ing. I enjoyed "Little Women" when I was ten years old, but as a steady diet - no, thank you! Shall we give up one of our hard-won freedoms? Of what value is freedom of the press if a small group of people can decide who may read what? The book collection in a li brary is planned to serve the needs of as many people as possible, taking into consider ation literary values and the funds available. We cannot expect all' the books there to please everyone any more than that all music and art have a universal appeal. It is the responsibility of parents and teachers to de velop in children an apprecia tion of the more worthwhile music, art and literature. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Scott Jr. Route 3, Box 240-C Madford. What's Your I.Q.? Nine Of tan correal Is luearieri seven at elM h eicelleatj five at sli Is aeod. 1. Does tha United States produce 23, SO, or 75 per cent of the world s sulpher? 2. Four states border on Lake Erie; name them. 3. What travels approxi mately 186.000 miles per sec ond? 4. The accurate time-keeping device used in navigation on board ships Is called a c ? 5. What well-known song about Kentucky was compos ed by Stephen C. Foster? 6. Does falling barometric pressure indicate the ap proach of stormy or fair weather? 7. Name the woman who was executed for complicity In the plot to assassinate Lin coln. 5. What is the world's larg est desert? S. Was the Hebrew prophet Daniel ual Into the fiery furnace? 10. Is gold weighed by the avoirdupois or troy scale? Answers! 1. 73 per cent. 1. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Michi gan. New York. 3. Light. 4. Chronometer. 5. "My Old Kentucky Home." f. Stormy. 7. Mrs. Mary Surratt. I. Sa hara. . Ne (lie as' den). 10. Troy. , immortal" re mains of the "divine phar aoh": and let It be remem bered the Egyptians, not the Hebrews, were the originators of the concept of life after death, as determined by con science and standards of right and wrong, during a last Judg ment. This idea was incor porated Into the Jewish re ligion during Its evolution, along with their geneology (called the "patriarchs") and the legends and myths origi nating in common with those of most ancient Sumer and Akkadia on the Persian Gulf man's earliest known civili zation. I repeat, I am not happy with the way my letter was published, as it may thusly In fluence some people In ways I did not intend; I must there fore renounce responsibility for it. If It is apropos, it is regretabie if some of us may not fully express our views on some subjects because, though said to be free, the presses are only free to the owners. Ralph D. McKinnis P.O. Box 321 Ashland, Ore. The Mav issue of the Orecon fitntp Tinarri nf Health Bulletin reveals that more than half of the first-time brides being married in Oregon in 19G2 were under 20 years of age. Circuit Judge Jean Lewis of the Multnomah County Department of Domestic Relations, in commenting on this startling statistic, indicates that one of the prime factors in divorce is the too-young marriage. She noted : "I note that of 8)3 wives under the age of 25 seeking a divorce, 613 were married as teenagers. In other words, 72 per cent of the wives seeking divorce wer married as teenagers and divorced within ten years . . . "Out of a total ot 6.000 divorces and annulments In this state during . . . 1962, over 2.000 marriages ended in divorce within five years of marriage and another 3,341 occurred within the first ten years ..." "One cannot help but wonder whether persons entering marriage are prepared to accept the respon sibilities and duties of marriage as well as the pleas ures. Too many people enter marriage with the atti tude, 'Let's try it. If it doesn't work out, we can always get a divorce'." TTHERE are two strikes against a couple which mniTipa too vonntr. They must ace the problems of completing an education, getting a iob, finding a place to live, trying to make ends meet, and, in many cases, adjusting to the care of small children a responsibility too few are ready for. The glamor of "being in love," the powerful attraction of sex, the spirit of adventure all these combine to cause the too-young marriage. But the gloomy statistics will deter all too few from marriages which have a less-than-even chance of being a success. E.A. Recovery, Inc. To the Editor: I first learn ed about an organization call ed Recovery Inc., in the health column of your newspaper. Every community in the world has people in desperate need of such help. I have never heard of one here. Won't some qualified person please start one here? I personally know a number ot persons who need this help very badly and are searching vainly for help. For those who missed rend ing tilts column, Recovery Inc. consists of a group of persons having recovered from all manner of mental distress. meeting with persons present' ly in distress and aiding them to recover. In practice it has been found most effective and resembles Alcoholics Anony mous In theory and success Information may be obtained from a central office at 116 South Michigan Ave., Clnca go. 111., addressed to Recovery lnci There must be many here who could start this organua tion and many others glad to help In it. (Name on file) Medford. Mathematical Approach To the Editor: Referring to your "twister" of June 10, I presume the answer which you would accept as correct is 3'i inches. This is the needle travel along a straight path of swing. However, un less this path of swing is truly straight and further more Is along a radius from the center of the turntable - as Is practically never the case - the travel will be greater than 3 V Inches. How much greater will depend largely on the curvature of the arc along which the pick up - and needle - swings as the pickup arm pivots on its mounting. Many readers will doubt less jump to the conclusion that the problem is to calcu late how far the needle travels In the record grooves. Unless they are versed In calculus they are unlikely to arrive at anything better than an approximation to this. If one assumes that the path ot swing is along a ra dius from the center of the turntable, the exact length of travel In the grooves may be found by using the equation for an Archimedes spiral. This leads to fairly simple definite Integral which is not difficult to evaluate for thoe who have the requisite math ematlcal background. Almus Pruitt 1007 South Holly st. Medford. Books and Freedom To the Editor: Your edito rial in Friday's paper, "We Must Make a Choice," Is the best discussion of the explo sive racial problem that we have read recently. We stand up to be counted with you on the side ot justice. We also agree with you on Peru's President-Elect Has Plans for Large-Scale Alterations and Progress ..a t t. . .!. ha-t I in take office ev LfcsJ By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Fernando Belaunde Terry is a handsome, darkly intent man who as an architect also has large-scale plans for a! t e r 1 n g the map of Peru Now, as Pe ru's newly elected next president, he may have a chance for at least a start WKm on putting those plans into effect. His dream is of a "forest edge" road which would open up the untapped resources of eastern Peru, and benefit Columbia, Ecuador and Bo livia as well. He explained those plans to this correspondent a few weeks ago, spreading maps on the floor of a pleasant room off a sun-filled patio of his home at the edge of Lima. On the walls of the room were mementos of his travels by horseback and canoe along the eastern edges of the Andes which divide Peru into coast, high sierra and jungle. The road Belaunde foresees would run 3,000 miles along trails which, in Peru, Be launde himself has travelled. life, you must work for, and once you get it - keep it. It isn't hard work to shake a hand, to be a good listener, to show interest in things around you and to help where possible. When trou ble comes - as it will - keep your chin up and I don't mean 'stick your necK out. Bones come with the meat, storms with the sunshine, and death 'midst the living -but God won't shoulder you with a load you can't handle. Keeping one's mouth closed will help - and everything comes to an end - just as heat gets cooler and chill gets wftrmer. If you are friendly you'll find friendly faces all around you and you'll all help each other. That's art of living. Pearl Spackman Jacksonville, Ore. the Magazines for People To the Editor: Americans discard about 30 million mag azines a week and millions of people throughout the world hunger for these magazines not available in their country. For example: In Indonesia, all periodicals from the Unit ed States are bought up by Soviet agents the moment they appear for sale. Also, government edict makes it il- legal to have "Life" and "Time" in one's possession. Thousands of Americans are sending used magazines to persons in India, Indonesia, East Pakistan, South Americ.i, etc. Many more are needed. Your readers may join in this enriching "people-to-people" program by sending a self-addressed, stamped enve lope to me at the address be low. A personal letter from a person abroad requesting magazines will be sent by re turn mail. There is no charge of any kind, ever, for this service. Requests for used maga zines come from professors, teachers, students, profession al and businessmen, house wives and secretaries. If the reader will send a brief outline of their Interests, hobbies, vocation, age, etc., we can usually place them in touch with persons of like in terests. Gene Stewart 915 Arnold Way Menlo Park, Calif. He estimates its total cost at $216 million, with Perus share amounting to $81 million. The Droiect already has been partly surveyed and Belaunde hopes the Job can be finished under the Alliance tor Progress. Peru. Belaunde says, has only about one half acre of arable land per person at present. He estimates mat every mile of the new toid would open up more than 3.000 acres of land, doubling the amount now available. It would open up access to the Amazon, Orinico and Rio Del Plata, three of South America's greatest rivers, thus extending its benefits to Ar gentina and Brazil as well. And it would mane avail able vast new resources of oil, gasi manganese and jungle products. Along with his opponents in last Sunday's general elec tions, Belaunde considers Peru's six million poverty- stricken Indians as the na tion's greatest problem. The road, he believes, would go far toward improving their lot and bringing them into the national economy. For them he also would es tablish 200 pools of farm machinery and tools to help modernize present primitive farming methods. The Popular Action Party which Belaunde heads is con sidered moderately left, be tween the leftwing APRA Party headed by Victor Raul Haya de la Torre ano tne rightwing Odria Union of former President Manuel Odria, the other two major candidates whom Belaunde defeated. The winning party is na tionalistic but, Belaunde ex plained, nationalistic within a framework of continental co operation. Belaunde specifically re jected Communist support and called for encouragement ot private industry and invest ment and for coordination of Peruvian and United States efforts. Belaunde ran second to Haya de la Torre in last year's elections which an army take over annulled on grounds of ,M In thi. -lection there I to take office even had he remained doubt that the army won. The armed forces ap would have permitted Haya I prove of Belaunde. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (el flel4 Entarpriaea Inc. PERSONAL PREJUDICES Nobody is more exasperat ing and frustrating to deal with, over the long pull, than the person with high intelli gence and very little sense -especially since the two so often go together. The human animal is so peculiarly constituted that, for example, a father would willingly give up his life to save his child from burning building, but not his afternoon of golf to vis it the soo - yet it is the small sacrifices, multiplied many times, that give love more meaning than the he roic gesture in a crisis. The miserable poor drink to forget what they are not; and the miserable rich drink to forget what they are. Pressing one's advantage too strongly in a quarrel when one is right, tends, oddly enough, to make one wrong - for the smugness and self-satisfaction that usually accompany light ness are often worse sins than the error of being wrong. The stale metaphor of the "ladder" has always seemed to me quite inappropriate for describing the ascent to suc cess - which is much more like mountain climbing, and consists of many lateral move ments, some drop-backs, and more falling boulders than anyone is told of. Why is it that the same Matter of Fact In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The news today? There's quite a lot of it. But let's skip the English scandals and Monday's stock market skid and the proposed ban on A-bomb testing and talk about chickens. A Santa Rosa poultryman has come up with an invention that just might have REVO LUTIONARY results. Act oi Living To the Editor: And you Gals who didn't find friends in Oregon. I must whip up a quick lunch for a group of my Ore gon friends who phoned that they are coming out to get acquainted with this ol' gal. They read Communications. Don't let anybody con vince you that Oreonians are cold and unfriendly. When I look In a mirror. I wonder that any person could choose me for a friend. I'm not only plain now, I always have been. But for my Irish grin. I haven't one redeem ing feature. People do not like me tor my money. I haven t much But 1 like people, so they can't find it in their hearts to dislike me - and we just sort of becomes buddies. It isn't hard to like folk if you look tor the good instead of their faults. If you do .-ee their faults, don't let 'em know it. and tor goodness sake, Girls, don't publish your findings to the rest of the world. By belittling the peo ple you meet and the com munity where you are living you label yourself as a poor spo-t. What ever you get out of Ecumenical Persuasion To the Editor: Vivid red, the tie that binds together The honest souls ot con verts to the Christ, Each thirsting, throbbing note, seems to tether And to Him tie. with cord that He has spliced. Deals no more with so cal ed Churchly order But with the single, open, ardent heart. Remnant standing now upon the border Shall go forwarding His message, to impart. Sealed are the honest with the Seal of God. Repenting of Laodicean blindness, Accepting God's counsel, escape the rod. Accepting His mercies and His kindness. Remember now, the true Church is above She is the Living Mother of us all. Zion. New Jerusalem, God's own Love Is waiting, waiting, wait ing, for our call. "Behold I stand at the door and knock It any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come In and sup with him and he with me." James Williams, P. O. Box 441. Jacksonville, Ore. TJIS name is Schriner, and the A other day he demonstrat ed his startling new device at a press conference at the St. Francis hotel in San Fran Cisco. In its basic concept, it is simple-consisting merely of ROSE- COLORED contact lenses. Chickens, he explained to his audience, are pretty much like people. With all the stresses and strains of modern life, they have emotional prob lems. They eat too much.- They stop laying eggs. And often they become so belligerent that thev PECK EACH OTH ER TO DEATH. But, he claimed, his lenses, which his new vision - control research firm will soon put into mass production, will end all that. rPO DEMONSTRATE, he in- troduced a pair of red eyed gamecocks-both wearing the lenses. They paid no at tention to each other. In fact, those present at the demon stration agree, they were downright friendly. But When he removed the con tact lenses, the birds TORE INTO EACH OTHER, and had to be pulled apart to stop the fight. He then got similar re sults with other chickens, proving that the original pair weren't merely trained actors. HE way it works, he said. THE is make It hard for the chickens to recognize blood, which ex cites them. The lenses also dis tort their vision so that they can't recognize strangers. 1TMMMMMMMM. AA Wouldn't it be wonder ful if it worked the tame way with PEOPLE? It might be worth while to shanghai Old Kroosh and Old Mao and some ot the other prime trouble-makers of this planet and equip tbem witn Mr. Schriner's lenses. If it worked, it could revo lutionize the world. MEETS WITH JFK Washington -Alt- President Kennedy held a brief meeting with Sen. Barry Goldwater, (R-Ariz.) Wednesday to discuss reappointment of Philip Ray Rodgers to the National Labor Relations Board. woman who loved to walk bare-headed in the rain with us during the carefree court ship days won't walk a half block to the car in fair weather after the marriage? When reading obscene liter ature is considered merely weak, and not wicked, only then will it lose its appeal; for the psychological fact is that obscenity is created for the under-sexed, just as the Peeping Tom is always a man who cannot achieve gratifica tion in a normal masculine manner. Everybody is part physi cian, just as everybody is part lawyer: health and jus tice are two subjects thai nobody ever thinks himself disqualified to pontificate about. (And perhaps part of the high fees charged by doctors and lawyers is un consciously exacted as pun ishment for this lay inso lence.) The people, said James Har rington, "are deceived by names, but not by things"; and perhaps this is why Con fucius declared that calling things by their right names was the first and fundamental task for a well-ordered so ciety. Bitterness shows in a woman's eyes much mora than a man's; he reveals his discontents more by his ac tions, she by her expression at rest when she believes no one is observing her. By Joseph Alsop (cl New York Herald Tribune Syndicate jl j THE NEW DIPLOMACY Washington-The President's major speech on Monday was different things at once, all of them ex tremely inter esting and im p o r t a n t. It was, first of all, an an noun cement of two very big decisions: to renew nego tiations about AUnp a nuclear test ban at a high level and in Moscow; and to make no U.S. nuclear tests in the atmos phere pending the result of these negotiations. It is imaginable that the high-level negotiator will be someone like the President's closest staff specialist on for eign affairs, McGeorge Bun dy, which will be a striking new development. At any rate, the American negotia tor, as yec not finally selected, will certainly be someone en joying the President's inti mate confidence. (A v e r e 1 1 Harriman was named negotia tor after this column was written. - Editor.) The Brit ish negotiator, incidentally, will be Lord Hailsham. Secondly, the speech at American University was also kind of public Presidential "hi, there" or "yoo-hoo" to Nikita S. Khrushchev. And third and finally, the speech was a direct by-product of the new, more intimate diplo macy whose most significant feature is a more or less con tinuous, quite private Ken nedy-Khrushchev dialogue by mail and message. 'FAKING these three aspects A in reverse order, it can be stated on high authority thai further personal exchanges between the President and Khrushchev were in the back ground of the speech. Author ity for the statement is hard ly needed, however, since its truth is almost self-evident, After an earlier round of personal exchanges, Khru shchev made his famous "con cession" of three annual in spections per annum on So viet territory. The Kremlin, it is now known, thought that this concession would pro duce immediate agreement on a nuclear test ban, rather than resume negotiations on the old lines. When there was no Immedi ate agreement on the basis of the Khrushchev "concession," the Soviets gave many unmis takable signs of genuine, rath er self-righteous anger. They apparently felt they had been deceived; and they let every one know that they were ex ceedingly put out. For a time, therefore, retaliatory Soviet resumption of atmos pheric nuclear tests were generally expected. AFTER a period of serious embitterment, how ever, the atmosphere cleared again. Some kind of admission was evidently obtained from Mos cow that something might perhaps be achieved by fur ther discussion of the prob lem. There must have been such a Soviet admission, be cause we would hardly have resumed negotiations if the Soviets were still talking in their earlier take-it-or-leave-it manner. So agreement was reached to proceed. As an influence on the in- ternal politics of the Soviet bloc, this agreement is an event of great potential im- portance. rnis is the Kennedv speech's "hi, there" or "von. hoo" aspect. The President has made a peaceable gesture, implying eagerness to coma to terms on a major question. at the very moment when Khrushchev's argument with the Chinese and their Russian sympathizers is coming to an other crisis. The gesture must s t r e n g t h en Khrushchev's hand. Finally, the decision thus taken is not so earthshaking as some of the more excitable Republicans are already try ing to suggest. The President has merely committed himself to making no more nuclear tests in the atmosphere while the negotiations continue, if the Soviets likewise refrain from atmospheric testing. Secretary of Defense Rob ert McNamara and the Chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Maxwell D. Tay lor, gave their opinion that they could easily "live with" this kind of temporary and c o n d i 1 1 onal suspension of American atmospheric test ing. Being temporary and conditional, moreover, the sacrifice made is as nothing to the imaginable gain. rpHE imaginable gain from these renewed negotiations is of course a nuclear test ban reinforced by a modest but adequate Inspection sys tem. Those who want to con tinue nuclear tests without limit, and therefore dislike the idea of a test ban, appear to have forgotten altogether where we now stand and . what our real interests are. An adequately policed ban will leave the U.S. and Soviet programs of nuclear weapons development where they are now. Neither side will gain or lose, reia'ive to the other. But both sides will gain enor mously, as Should be obvious even to the most simple-minded, from any kind of ben which will strongly tend to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons to other powers. The explosive Middle East ern situation is one vivid case in point, here. Another, even more vital case is Com munist China. The Chinese are still working on nuclear weapons. But a test ban, com bined with worsening Sino Soviet relations, will open all sorts of possibilities of action which do not now exist. The real thing to grumble about, in fact, is not this re newed attempt to get a test ban. The grumbling should be directed it the odds against the attempt's succeed ing, which are still considerable.