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Newspaper Page Text4 A bWON&&wTlUl(S ""-"Everyone Id southern Oregon Readi TIM MU Tribune" Publlihed Dauy except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North rir SU Ph. Tfi-tm ROBERf W RtiHU editor HERB GREY Advrtlilnl Mnift ERIC W ALLEN JR.TMne. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telea Editor RICHARD JEWETT, SporU Ed tor OLIVE STARCHER Women'e Ed I tot DALE ERICKSON. Ctrculitlon MtT An Independent Newapapel Entered ucond claas matter at Medlord. Oregon under Aet of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mali In Advance Dally and Sunday 1 year Iia.OO Dally and Sunday moa 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only One year SJ.OO Single Copy (Mailed! 0e By Carrier And Motor Rou';-, Daily and Sunday 1 year $21.00 rally and Sunday 1 mo. L7 Sunday Only I mo. Me Carrlejndendora C opy loo official Paper of City of Me'dfori Official Paper of Jacaaon County United Presa International SUll ijeaacu U. P I. Telephoto Newipleturee "MEMBER-OP AUDIT BUREAU ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San Francisco Lot Angelea. SeatUe. Portleod,. Denver. U1TIAII11 EOlTOftlAl N Member California Newspaper PubUahara AssociaUoo Flight o' Time Medford nd Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 10, 1933, (Friday) With plana under way for removal of the old airplane h a n g a r at Medford airport, city councllmen consider new airport plans. High snow drifts and diffi culty with suowplow equip ment have delayed opening of the north and east entrances to Crater Lake National park. 20 YEARS AGO July 10, 1943 (Frldayi Chamber of commerce reso lution asks return of two-way traffic on Riverside and Cen- trnl Duel. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Quite number of Juveniles are now running around wearing the shirts their Miners iosi, via taxes." 00 YEARS AGO July 10, 1933 (Sunday) Safe crackers get $300 from Groceteria No. 1. Bill Bates high in trap shoot contest. 40 YEARS AGO July 10. 1923 (Monday) Earwigs threaten entire state. Prohibition enforcement In county during June costs $882.54 and fines collected amounted to $30. B0 YEARS AGO Julv 10. 1913 (Wednesday) Bud Anderson, Medford boxer, operated on for ap ncndlcitia in Los Angeles. War raging between stock men over stock closure law. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine er ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is enellent; fire er si Is good. 1. Which Is higher in rank, an embassy or a legation? 2. New York City Is served by what three principal air ports? 3. Which department of the executive branch of the gov ernment has charge of the issuance of passports and visas? 4. Name the alcoholic mix ed beverage which has a name Identical with that for a mo torcycle attachment? 8. The handle of a sword or dagger is called a h 6. Is Costa Rica north, or south of Panama? 7. How many red stripes are on the American Flag? 8. What Is nom do plume? 9. Live lobsters are red; true or false? 10. Are there 90, ISO, or 365 degrees in a full circle? Answers! 1. Embassy. 2. Idlewlld, LaCuardte, Ne wark. 3, Department of State. 4. Side car. 5. Hilt. 6. North. 7. Seven. 9. A nam assumed by an au thor. 9. False. 10. None UNCOVER TREASURES Montreal - lUPtl - Diggers working near Batiscan, 23 miles east of Three Rivers, Quebec, found arrowheads, tone tools, pottery and cop. per goods dating back to be tween 3,000 and 4.000 B.C They will go on display this summer in a 17th century Presbyterian manor at Batis can. The discovery .provides clues of a hitherto unknown nomadic race, perhaps the most ancient in the country kVjJ-A$IOCIATIOM WEDNESDAY. JULY 10. 1963 Profumo and Britain Queen Victoria, were she alive today, would not be amused by the Profumo scandals. But, in the opinion of an Englishman writing in the New York Times Magazine, were not unknown in the were just handled differently. In such a case, Bernard Hollowood says, "the mandarins of government, ness would have closed mouths." Today, however, scandal-mongers, the sensa tional press, television, public delight in every IT'S not that today's Briton is any looser in his morals than was his grandfather; it's just that he's franker about sex, the writer contends. The old tabus have gone; the sex and scandal of an earlier day was just as prevalent, but was not dis cussed openly. Still, the Profumo affair is, in many quarters, seen as the beginning of Tory government. And 1. . mere is mourning cnssausiacuon iowara me pres ent government. The scandal, revealing moral turpitude in high places, - , T T ,1 1 rsut nonowooa says doxically, under certain Keeler might be the saving ol tne government, HE MAKES his point this way: Mounting dissatisfaction with the govern ment has been based on Despite general prosperity, the government has bumbled and fumbled on such matters as the Common Market, Commonwealth problems, edu cation, unemployment, national security, eco nomic progress, central African affairs, and defense. But the Profumo scandal has obscured all these things. If an election were to be held today, the votes might well be cast with it in mind more than the matters of greater import. And, Hollowood argues, this might work to the advantage of the government. HE CITES the hypothetical thinking of a hypo friofipal vntm- tVino "A nasty business, that. But human nature's human nature. We're none of us perfect, eh? Well I know I'm not, There but for the grace of God . . . anyway, It's not Mac's fault. Can't expect him to go around blowing the noses of his Ministers, can you? There's nothing seriously wrong with P. having his bit of fluff. Mistake was getting caught. Rotten liar, though; don't hold with that. Still, I'm not going to be a sanctimonious scally wag and blame Mac. Knowing what I do, it would be Hypocritical to vote lor Wilson merely because . . . Right then, I'll prove that I'm broad-minded and generous. I'll give the Tories another chance.'' Does this speak for the theory that Britain is becoming degenerate Wot necessarily, Hollo wood says: "The proof, surely, of Britain's underlying decency Is that it has been deeply shocked and wounded by the Profumo revelations. The time to start worrying about a nation's decline and fall is when the public conscience has been anesthetized Into apathy by re peated doses of scandal. One Profumo would not have inspired Gibbon." True, perhaps. But it doesn't inspire admira tion, either. E.A. Medical Investigators When Dr. Russell C. Henry assumed his du ties as chief medical investigator for the state of Oregon last month, the state went full-scale on to the medical investigator system the onlv one west of the Mississippi, and one of the less tnan iu in the nation. Elsewhere, the coroner system still is in use. Oregon, again, is one of the nioneers in adopting a method of public service which prom- r.. .. 1 . , 1 1 ItM -1 ' 1 loea iar ueuer results, vvnne tne coroner system is almost as old as civilization itself, it has be come outmoded. Now men trained in both medi cine and criminal law investigating non-natural deaths, rather than men elected and often without adequate training, THE medical investigator is a practitioner of "forensic pathology" forensic meaninc per taining to judicial administration or discussion, patnoiogy meaning the cal conditions. Among other things, it will be the duty of the medical investigators to distinguish between the cause of death what a person died from, such as drowning, bullet wound, etc. and the manner of death accident or suicide, natural or unnatural, murder or disease. And, as Dr. Henry pointed out in a recent interview, it will be just as much the job of the investigator to protect the innocent as to find the guilty. JUEDICAL investigators thus will work closely T with both the courts and the police agencies. He will bring his training in medicine, his knowledge of the law and of police techniques, into play in each case of death he is called upon to investigate. There have been many good and sincere men who have served their communities as coroners. At one time it was an office of great trust and responsibility and prestige. But it seems simple common sense to employ a man with technical and specialized training to do a specialized and technical job. E.A. equally nasty scandals time of Victoria they press, church and busi their ranks and shut their columnists and an avid dirty facet of the affair the end of Macmillan's this could well be, for J. 1 Xl could De tne nnai straw, I L 1 L i it is xns view iiiat, para circumstances Christine a variety of matters.. will be responsible for study of abnormal physi "It's encouraging to take an interest Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end 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. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper. In feet the contrary Is often the case. Look Unto Ma To the Editor: I read Lydia Burnham'a two Tribune let ters on man's use of God's Atomic Fire, and the futility of man trying to escape it. She and the Governr - are so right, there is only c.ie de fense, "peace", peace with God and our fellow man, or destruction is sure and with atomic fire. Nine-hundred years before Christ, Elijah asked God to manifest His divine power be fore ancient Israel. His pray er was answered by fire that burned not only the sacrifice and the fuel, but the altar of stone and the soil around it, water-soaked though it was. The wicked king sent 103 sol diers to seize Elijah, they were consumed by a like fire. The Creator of the atom is the source and origin of divine energy. He who laid the cornerstone of matter (the lowly atom) gave it its power. "Our God is a consuming fire." (Heb. 12:39.) Sodom and Gomorrah and the wicked cities near them were destroy. ed by God's atomic fire. To day the waters of the Dead Sea wash the burnt earth where these wicked cities once lay in the lush, fertile valley that supported their thousands of people. God's word tells us: Angry nations will be engaged in the destruc tion of the earth, when God brings to a halt the conflict of the ages, revealing Him self In atomic fire. "The heav ens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat"; The streams shall be turned into pitch, and the dust into brimstone, the land shall be come burning pitch." When this earth is engulf ed with God's atomic fire what will it be like? "A lake of fire burning with brim stone." (Rev. 19:20.) The only people wno will escape this fire are those who have made their peace with God, their names are recorded in the Lamb's book of life. All oth ers, even death and hell (the grave) were cast Into the lake of fire. "Thev shall be as though they had not been "This is the second death." Yes, Lydia, your letters are wonderful as far as they go, you point out the ailments in detail, even part of the reme dy. Millions have accepted Him, the real remedy, who stands today m the Heavenly sanctuary with outstretched. nan-pierced hands plcadlns. "Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth. F. E. Beverly, 112 Geneva st., Medford Zip Cede To the Editor: After read ing your editorial on "Zip Code Fallacies". I felt It ne cessary to relate to you my experience with the new system. I am employed by a Med ford firm, and before send ing out my statements this month. I called the Medford Post Office to learn the zip codes for the outlying areas of our county, Central Point, Jacksonville, Eagle Point, etc., so I could .nclude them on my statements. The wom an to whom I talked, al though she was very polite, seemed to consider me some kind of a crack-pot for hav. ing such an Idea. She told me "it really wasn't necessary to go to all that trouble, as the numbers are read by a ma chine and we don't have one of these machines here any way." She advised me to Just put the Medford code on our envelopes and then copy each of the other numbers from the payments as they come In. During the whole conver sation she continued to laugh MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON see young people in world affairs!" and appeared to be very amused by the whole thing. If this is to be the attitude of the Post Office Deparment itself, I feel I must agree with you as to the probability of the"Zip Code System" be coming a dreary failure. They certainly don't seem to mind spending the taxpayers' money to advertise in the newspapers and on televis'.n, so I wonder if it might i.jt be wise for them to spend a lit tle time educating their em ployees on telephone eti quette regarding this matter. By the way, I never did get the list of codes. (Name on File). Medford. Old Time Dances To the Editor: In Sunday's Mail Tribune, announcing the 100th anniversary of Henrv ford, it is stated: "The mind of Henry Ford is going down zu tracKs at a time. ' One of these tracks which isn't gen erally known by the public today is his organizing of an Old rime Dance orchestra to re-popularize the "clas sics" of dancing which have been handed down through the years and perhaps will never die out. After World War I the dance fad was the Charles, ton, the Black Bottom, the Turkey Trot and others When that fad died out, pub lic dancing died out. too. e- cause the younger generation had not learned the old dances like the Waltz, One step, Two-step, Three-step and many other folk dances, and not many orchestras knew how to play for these dances. Now, again, the fad for the Twist" and "Swing" is dy, ing out and our public dance halls are closing up or play ing to small crowds and the younger folks do not know how to dance waltzes and two-steps, etc., because they haven't had a chance to learn. Older people can't stomach the "Tom-Tim, To vTom' music and loud singing now blared at them in this valley and our dance halls no longer attract dancers. To my knowledge, there is only one orchestra in this valley that is playing real ance music ana tney are playing to benefit dances at Central Point on Saturday nights and on Wednesday auernoons from 2 until o'clock at the Knights of Pythias hall In Medford. Ford also made phono graph recordings of theso old time dances so people could dance to them in their homes or grange halls, etc. I, per sonally, have some of these records. Henry Corbin, Box 195, Rogue River. Ore. Takes Issue To the Editor: 1, like many others, probably, read the Com munications column of the Mail Tribune with a toler ant smile and then forget the whole matter. Your paper of 7-8-63 presented, how ever, two letters with which I must take issue. In reply to Ralph McKinnis' letter I say that the American Negro is not free. He is not free to live where he chooses, not free from prejudice, not free to vote in many cases. He is making an effort of his own to become free. He is avoiding violence and asking only that he be granted the privileges already enjoyed by other members of his race - the hu man race. If we, the majority, continue to deny him his rights history will Judge us harshly. In reply to Herman Wood I say this: Please, sir, do not In sult the memory of Calvin Coolidge, Robert Taft, and Kennedy's But Doubts About U.b. Persist i By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst It was inevitable that com parisons be drawn between the Kennedy and De Gaulle visits to West G e r m a n y esp e c i a 1 1 y among the West Germans as the people most direct 1 y ksl I American 1 tl I President him eBmaeai u u.j j ben iitiu mouv no mention of De Gaulle during his trip and De Gaulle had gone to some lengths to avoid making it appear a popularity contest. But in the end there was no doubt that Kennedy had made by far the greatest impact and that De Gaulle's visit had been a disappointment both Today & Tomorrow Bv Walter t) 1963. The A DOOR IS OPENED On July 2 in East Berlin, Mr. Khrushchev took a posi tion on the nuclear test ban w h 1 c h is of very special interest. For it agrees with p roposals made by Pres ident E i s e n hower on Apr. 13, 1959, and b y President Kennedy and Llnomann Prime Minis ter Macmillan on Aug. 27, 1962. The essence of the U. K. - U. S. A. proposal was stated by President Eisenhower in a letter to Chairman Khrush chev: "Could we not. Mr. Chairman, put the agreement into effect in phases begin ning with a prohibition of nu clear tests in the atmosphere?" The U. K.- U. S. A. proposal arose from the fact that on- site inspection, which the So viets object to, is unnecessary to detect nuclear explosions in the atmosphere. The pur pose of inspection is entirely that of distinguishing under ground explosions from natur al earthquakes. As long as four years ago, therefore, the Americans and the British began urging the Soviets to agree to a partial teat ban, one which would for bid explosions anywhere ex, cept underground. For a long time, the Soviet government rejected the Anglo-American proposal and insisted that un derground testing should also be prohibited by a gentle- mans agreement. There the negotiations were deadlocked until Chairman Khushchev spoke a week ago in East Ber- lin. e THIS speech reflected a ma, jor decision made in Mos, cow. There is reason for think ing that it had been made more than a month ago - be fore Mr. Harold Wilson's visit to Moscow and before the President's remarkable speech at American University on June 10. Speaking that same day to the newspaper report ers after he had seen Mr Khrushchev, Mr. Wilson drop ped the hint that an agree ment banning tests that can be detected without inspec tions within the Soviet Union was possible. At the same time, I thought this was too good to be true and too sens ible to be practical. Presum ably, when the President made his daring speech at American University, he had had better information. The reason for doubting that the Soviets would sign a par tial agreement was that Mr. Khrushchev, as anyone who has talked to him knows, re, gards underground testing for small nuclear weapons as ex pensive and of little military interest. other responsible Americans who have borne the honored title of conservative. And never call the extreme right wing fearless. It is afraid of its own shadow! It spies a Communist under every bed and a subversive plot at every turn. What the extreme right fails to realize is that if this country were in half as bad a shape as the right wing claims, America would have gone Communist 15 years ago. No, we are not faced with any subversive plot in our own government to betray us. We ARE faced with a world wide challenge by commu nism. As long as we believe in those old simple things: the equality of all men, the inate worth of a single human being as opposed to all the powers of the state, the right of all men to believe as they wish providing they do not attempt to force their beliefs on others, we shall be forced to oppose both the tyranny and mind control of communism and the bigotry. Ignorance, fear, and attempted mind con trol of the American far right Glenn Gratsinger Route 1. Box 395 Eagle Point, Ore. German Visit Tops De Gaulle's, to Bonn and Paris. In Bonn, both Vice Chancel lor Ludwig Erhard and For eign Minister Gerhard Schroe der expressed frank disap pointment at failure to make any progress with De Gaulle toward a common agricultural policy for the European Com mon Market. There also was disappoint ment over De Gaulle's con tinued adamant refusal to con sider any place for Great Britain within the European community. In Paris it was conceded that Kennedy had rekindled West German faith in U.S. leadership in an Atlantic al liance as opposed to De Gaulle's "third force" theory for a Europe militarily and economically independent of the United States sometime in the distant future. Lippmann Washington Pt It is almost certain that So viet military men and nuclear scientists think that their only hope of catching up with and overcoming American nuclear superiority is by some tech nological breakthrough which would require the explosion of big bombs m the atmos phere. But now Mr. K. has offered to forego such tests and, therefore, to forego the attempt to achieve nuclear superiority over the Ameri cans. ALTHOUGH this is a mo- mentous turn of events, we must not make the mistake of regarding it as a Soviet surrender. It means, primar ily, I would say, a conviction in the Soviet government that for practical purposes there is, in spite of American nuclear superiority, an effective nu clear stalemate. The U. S. A superior in the sense that if the Soviet Union made the first strike, we would still have the nuclear power left to devastate the Soviet Union, But, at the same time, not only are we sworn not to strike first ourselves, but also we are effectively deterred. For an American first strike would not be able to disarm the Soviet Union enough to prevent it from destroying Western Europe and a good deal of the United States. And so, neither for the So viet Union nor for the United Stales is there a vital risk in agreement to what is substan tially a suspension of impor tant testing. For both the nu clear powers, the risk of nu clear war is infinitely more serious than the risk of not being able to break the stale mate. e N HIS speech, Mr. Khrush chev said that of course an agreement on, the ending of nuclear tests, notwithstanding the importance of this major act, cannot stop the arms race, cannot avert or even substan tially weaken the danger of thermonuclear war. That is why the Soviet government believes that already, at the conclusion of a test-ban agree ment, it is necessary to take also another big step toward easing international tension and strengthening confidence between states: to sign a non aggression pact between the two main military groups of states - the NATO countries and the Warsaw Treaty states. I read this as a request that: "At the conclusion of a test-ban agreement," there there should be serious nego tiation about the stabilization of the central European re gion where NATO and the Warsaw Pact allies confront each other. There is need for more than a simple nonaggres sion pact. For the United States, the other NATO coun tries and the Federal Republic have repeatedly sworn that, while they do not approve the partition of Germany, they will not use force to alter the status quo. If this is what Mr. Khrush chev wants, there should be no trouble in making the declar ation again, and in most sol emn form. But he wants more than that. He wants to remove what he calls the "hot-beds of tension" in Berlin and along the frontier line. That can only be done by a new East West agreement which recog nizes and approves the even tual reunification of the two Germanys and in the mean time guarantees the status quo in West Berlin and its access to the outer world. TMIE real question here is whether the Western al lies on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other have already reached the point where such a great ne gotiation could take place. Perhaps not. But what we can say is that such a large provisional agreement is nec essary, that it is in the inter est of all, and that is more likely to come sooner than later if now - having agreed on the substance of a test ban -we proceed to sign it. In fact, some said that the French-German accord which De Gaulle had seen as the foundation stone for his own grand design for Europe, now had been reduced to a state ment of good intentions. West Berliners' cheers tor Kennedy were echoed in German newspapers. "Neither we nor the world can auibble or doubt the de termination of the American President," said Die Welt ol Hamburg. Said the Rhein-Zeitung ot Coblentz: "This week the course was unmistakably set for the At lantic route. It can no longer be set back to that of a small Europe ... It is plain that freedom and the future will emerge not from a French Europe, but from a united Europe." But amid the chorus of praise there also were notes of doubt. It was noted that the U.S. President strives to consult his allies on major moves, especially as they deal with Anglo-Saxon Words Are Un-American By Arthur Hoppe "Stamp out dash, dash, dash, dash!" It was my good friend, Miss Amanda, National Com mander of "!", the superpatri otic stamping-out society. And she looked in fine fettle. "Dash, dash, dash, dash?" I inquired blankly. "Right!" snapped Miss Amanda, stomping a tennis shoed foot. "It stands for a four letter word I am too much of a lady to utter. We patriots must stamp out all four-letter words! They're a Commie plot to subvert our youth!" They are? "Right!" she said. "Our loyal youth read these words in books or on men's room walls and they join the Commie Party! Everybody knows that! Be a real Amer ican! Burn a book tonight." And tear down cur men's room walls? "Absolu . . ." Miss Amanda stopped in mid-ges ture, consternation welling be hind her bi-focals.l"Holy Betsy Ross" she said. "We've got a problem! . I said it certainly seemed that way. But perhaps it wasn't insoluble. Let's ask ourselves, I said, why we are offended by a four-letter word liKe . . . "Don't say it!" cried Miss Amanda, clapping her lace-gloved hands over her ears. "I don't want to be sub verted!" Well, I said, I figure one reason we're offended is that we know what these words mean. Now a Hottentot or an Eskimo, I said, wouldn't blush if I shouted . . . "Don't shout it! said Miss Amanda, blush ing. "I know what it means!" Therefore, I said, what we need is a whole new set of Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (cl Field Enterprise!. Inc. WEAPONS AND MORALITY In a periodical called "Hogg's Weekly Instructor," published in Edinburgh, Scot land, o n e of the issues in March 1 8 4 5, contained an article on "Steam - Its Influence on Society." Re flecting the widespr e a d view held at turn the time of the introduction of steam power, the article proclaimed: "It is not difficult to see how railroads and steam navi gation will promote the peace of the world. Soverigns will avail themselves of it, as well as the people. The rulers and ruled of different nations will meet face to face: and instead of believing, as hitherto, that they are natural enemies, they will soon discover that they are sworn friends. But for steam, it is not likely these visits would be made! "But there is another way." the article continued, "in Which steam power will pro mote peace. We know that the more destructive the weapons of warfare, the less likely will the nations be to proclaim war, and the more speedily will their disputes be settled when they do. Consider the changes necessarily produced in the art of war by use of steamships! Think of their fa cility of access to any shore! Think of their fearful accur acy of aim and their destruc tive power, and we shall have fewer national quarrels . : ." - This Is the illusion thai has, falsely, nourished man kind since the invention of eCSaC, tal nere relations between East and West, but that he does not al ways do so. It was not lost upon the Germans that it was in Ger many that the news leaked that the United States would at least postpone its plan for a multi-nation nuclear navy. This in turn was followed within a few days by a Khru shchev proposal linking a nu clear test ban agreement with a non aggression pact to be signed between the rival War saw Pact Communist nations and the members of NATO. German doubts spring from a' fear that is with them al ways - that their future may be determined by agreements in which they do not partici pate. Said the Westf a e 1 i s c h Rundschau of Dortmund: "Perhaps it will soon be come evident what is demand ed of us, not only in regard to economic and financial sac rifices, but perhaps we will be asked to dump overboard many of the political concepts of which we have grown so fond." four-letter words. "We do?" said Miss Amanda suspicious ly- Right, I said. Now take good. solid four letter words like "bnxt" or "smrl" or even "gnph." Would they be offen sive? "Hmmm," said Miss Amanda, eyeing me querul ously. "What do they mean?" I said I couldn't tell her that because the value of these new four letter words depends en tirely on nobody knowing what they meant. Thus no body would be offended by them. Right? , "What's so good about that?" asked Miss Amanda, tapping her walking stick on my shoulder impatiently. Well, I said, warming to the subject, if we had 10 or 12 four letter words of this nature, we could print them in our books and scratch them on our men's room walls. This would satisfy those who enjoy four letter words. But at the same time people like Miss Amanda wouldn't hava to go around patriotically tear ing down our men's room walls. "And our youth won't be subverted!" cried Miss Aman da happily. "I shall start a crusade to spread the word!" Great, I said. And I helped out by giving her a new plac ard to carry. It said: "Build Superpatriots - Use Bnxt!" She took one look at the sign, whacked me with her reticule, shouted, "You're a dirty old man!" and stomped out. Which just proves that it isn't the word, it's the thought that counts. Or, to put it an other way, obscenity's all in your head. the catapult and the long bow. Each new military de vice, each new instrument of destruction, has been hailed as an and io future wars. The devastation would be "too terrible io contemplate," and nations would be forced to make peace in the future. Such voices are still strong among us today. Yet everything in history proves them wrong. In the century following the hymn to steam in 1845, the world ex perienced its most horrible conflicts, generation after generation. The weapons be . came more wicked, and the casualties more widespread. "Air power only added dimension io mass murder. There is no record of a na tion piling up arms and not using them; indeed, the very existence of arms acts as an incentive to hostile action. The physical fear of retaliation by enemies with equally formid able arms has never been a deterrent for very long. To say that armaments "prevent" conflict is to say that germs prevent disease. Toward the end of his life, Napoleon himself admitted that "The more I study the world, the more I am con vinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable." Moral power is the only force that can prevent war, not physical power. The pro found appeal of a man like Pope John XXIII is worth more than a hundred divisions of fighting men-if we but per mit his wisdom and compas sion to awaken our stunned consciences.