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Newspaper Page Text4 A "Everyone In southern Oregon r, J - fu- Mall IMkiina" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. 77H-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM, Bui Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mno. Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CH1PMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sport! Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Edlloi DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An tnrienandent NewapaPel Entered ai lecond cla matter it Medford. Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance ., Dilly and Sunday I year 118 00 Dally and Sunday moi 10 00 Dallv ind Sunday 3 moa. 600 Sunday Only One year 85.00 Single Copy (Mailed! J0e By Camel And Motor Route. Dilly and Sunday 1 year 821 .00 Dally ind Sunday 1 mo. 1.75 Sunday Only 1 mo. 50c Cirrlei ind Vendor! opy 10c Official Paper of City of Medforo OfflclllPiperolach!ion County . Unlted'Presi International lull Leaied Wire U P I Telephoto Newnplcturei lMBER-6r AUDIT BUREAU Advertlltnl Representative: NELSON ROBERTS & ASSOC! ATES Ot'icel In New York, Chi cago Detroit. San Francisco, Loi An'.!- Seattle. Portland Denver. tr niws'apii Lit HERS ASSOCIATION H AXIOM A I EDITOaiAl Member California Newspaper Publliheri Association Flight o' lime Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 24. 1953 (Friday) During the next few days, members of the Jackson coun ty court will meet with archi tects to consider preparation of plans for an annex to the county courthouse, Judge J. B. Coleman said today. Washington - A representa tive for Northwest Natural Gas company said yesterday, his firm has not abandoned ef forts to bring natural gas into the Pacific Northwest. 20 YEARS AGO Jul 24. 1943 (Saturday) County Agent Robert G. Towler reports gram tnresn Ins In full swing. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Old timers claim there has been no summer yet. However, a rather heavy thaw has pre vailed for about a week." 30 YEARS AGO July 24. 1933 (Monday) . Price of bread for some grades advanced in Medford. Caravan of Portland busi ness men arrive, guests at banquet. 40 YEARS AGO July 24, 1923 (Tuesday) Mr. and Mrs. Bert Orr re turn from trip to Portland and Seattle. Nine naw planes stop here for night and attract lurgc crowd, SO YEARS AGO July 24, 1913 (Thunday) W, F.- Arant gives up fight to hold Job as Crater Lake park superintendent. Record July rainfall sweeps away bales of hay, What's Your I.Q.? Nlnt or ten correct It superior; even or eight it excellent) live or tli ll teod. 1. From what portion of the carcasses of beef and mill' ton Is suet obtained? , 2. "Great Mogul," "Kohl neer," and "Cullinan" are all well known names for what? 3. During World War II. the U.S. armed forces used homing pigeons for messenger service: true or false? 4. Are there 3. 7, 10, or 12 principal ocean currents? 5. October comes from the Latin word meaning what? 6. "Satchmo" Is a nickname of which noted trumpet player? 7. Which northern city, be cause of lis many scholars and educational institutions, fre quently Is called "Athens of America ? 8. Scurvy lj caused by the lock of what vitamins in the diet? 8. How many major planet are known to revolve around the sun? 10. If an auto travels 30 000 miles, wearing six tires equally, how many miles would each tire travel? Aniwtrst 1, Kidneys and loins. 2. Large diamonds, Tru. 4. Ten. S. Eight. Louis Armstrong. 7. Boston, Mass. 8. Vitamin C. 9. Nin. 10. 20,000 miles. WEDNESDAY. JULY 24. 1963 Shakespeare Time It's that time of year again. Never really drab, Ashland has dressed itself in its summer finery to prepare for the annual influx of visitors from all walks of life, and from all parts of the world. Colorful banners and pennants line the streets. Lithia park never looked greener. There is a special light of pride and welcome in the eyes of the town's residents. From the vine-covered theater on the side of the hill overlooking the park, one can hear, almost any time of day voices declaring some of the sweetest words in the English language. Tonight, the Oregon Shakespearean festival opens its 23rd annual season the longest, and we hope most successful, run in its brilliant his tory. I ONG SINCE, questions about the economic benefit of the festival to this area have been settled. For the next few weeks, a "Vacancy" sign in an Ashland motel will be about as rare as a First Folio. Some reservations have been made a year in advance, and many tourists will be making them again this year before they leave. Dining facilities in the valley will be taxed in the days ahead as chefs and waitresses hurry to serve meals in time for their patrons to make the opening curtain. Other attractions in Oregon Caves and Crater Lake, will be visited by thousands of play-goers who want to spend their day-time hours profitably. The money that will be spent in sporting goods stores, department stores and supermar kets by tourists who came four days to see four plays is literally incalculable. MO, ALL of that is pretty clear. If anything, we regret that the festival is too often re garded as just a money-making proposition. It is immeasurable, but we think of ultimately greater significance is the vast enrichment that the plays can bring to the lives of the viewers. We are sure this must be one of the most satisfying aspects of his JBowmer, the founder of the festival, a man who has virtually devoted his life to proving that Shakespeare is not just for the intelligentsia. Because he handled the English language better than anyone else has ever done, Shake speare is too often deified or made into some thing "precious" by teachers of lesser under standing. How many students have had his plays and poems forever ruined structor who, misguidedly, adopted too lotty a tone when nvesentAno- them to hia. class? But Professor Bowmer throughout the years has treated the plays as plays, not as exalted ! pieces of literature. And his spirit, his approach, his understanding is clearly evident. . "MO MAN is a prophet in his own country," the saying goes. So it is, probably, that an astounding number of valley residents have nev er seen one of the plays. We tend, as human beings, to undervalue that which is close at hand and easily accessible. There is something in the plays for everyone: low comedy and high drama; ethereal romance and bawdy, blush-rousing humor : violent swash buckling action and deep, vivid fairy land fantasy ealism. The characters are a a single man could hardly encounter in one life time: volatile Hotspur and cold imperious Cae sar; sweet virginal Juliet ra, who fanned the flame she fed; hghtning witted Touchstone and poor dull Francis; charm ing Hal, the playboy prince, and MacBeth, who leaves a trail ol blood in his lust tor power; red haired, man-hating Kate and clever, too-bright Portia, who tested each ALL OF this "live" will nnntimitt fn n. come, to the immense thousands. But we predict there ahead, days when the festival board, which de termines the organization's overall policy, will have some difficult decisions to make. The time was when the festival was unique, when the idea of a repertory company playing Shakespeare's plays on an authentic Elizabethan stage was a totally new and original thing. But success breeds imitators, and now Shake spearean companies and festivals are virtually commonplace in this country, not to mention the ones in Canada and Europe. Perhaps there is more than enough audience to go around for them all. We hope so. LIOWEVER, with its novelty factor rapii disappearing, the Ashland festival may so find ltsel ii in competition theaters which employ hire name professional huge operating budgets or total municipal subsidization. When the Ashland festival first began, local townspeople built the sold tickets and acted is scarcely a one of them who could qualify even "Vo'Wni'w. to "carry a spear m the present company. Ceed those of us not on gov When and if the time comes to raise the emment payrolls. Then we standards again something valuable will be lost. But, some day, the amateur s zest and enthusiasm our own servants, v may have to be replaced by the professional's u, 'cm ne government skill and experience. And that day, perhaps, is K. not too many years away. Ci.H.B. is rapldlv becoming a many I r 1 r or night, strong young the area, such as the creation to Angus L. for them bv some in contemplative thought; and rank ale-stained parade of humanity that and seductive Cleopat of her suitors. theater the festival staff - nsnnf fn. munv vnuva fn benefit and delight of are some crucial times soon ior survival wun otner; the "star" system ami actors, or which enjov'h' "T in ni8 'r,cauT that may include partial sets, sewed the costumes, all the parts. Now, there fia RIGHTS fa "Hold ill We're not doing this for America's image around the world. We're doing it because it's RIGHT and for our own image of America!" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the 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 t?4 paper. In tact the contrary is otten Pro-Hatfield To the Editor: I have sent the following letter to Gov. Hatfield: My dear Mr. Hatfield: In view of the more or less re cent talk of your being a can didate for vice-president of the United States, I'll say now, you have my vote, for either President or vice-president. However, may I suggest, that we find someone named McCoy for your running male. A president named Mc Coy and a vice - president named Hatfield-or vice versa -should be a winning combi nation. Sho 'nuff-'twould be a super - duper publicity gim-mick-al least. However I must say at this time that if Barry Goldwater becomes a candidate I shall not vote for him. It strikes me he is much too conservative. I'll allow-I may be wrong in stating my position. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star rt. Butte Falls, Ore, ' Eclipse To the Editor: Friday, TDBTE (the Day Before the Eclipse) was indeed a remarK- able day! Upon looking at the front page of our favorite newspa per, we were confronted by a UPI sketch of a "Sunscope." Suddenly, we were amazed by the Rube Goldbergian sim plicity of the arlist: Not only did he depict the sun creeping through a pinhole, but he squeezed a boy's big, fat, head through an aperture much too small for his status quo. Question: Who was the in genious head shrinker capable of such a miracle? And, by what strange alchemy did he restore the size of the boy s BFH' after it was lodged in the box? Needless to say, we en joyed the eclipse a la TV and next day read all about it in our slill favorite NP. George Distcll 156 Vashll Way Medford. Tentacled Moniter To the Editor: Congratula tions, Mr. Allen, on your edi torial of July 18, "Uncle Sam -Bralnwashcr." You now see the hand of Uncle Sam as a threat to your business, and quite naturally and most ad mirably you speak out. May I lake it you now real ize the validity of the com plaints of one of our area's largest industries concerning encroachments of government control in the form of bureau "acceptable" practices. Ac ceptable practices which are not merely recommendations but strict rules. Failure to comply results in complete closure of an industry at the whim of a government bu reau employee, in many cases Just out of school with no practical business knowledge, ! but full knowledge of the i power he wields over a vast Industry and gloating that the ! industrialist is at his mercy. The more controls he can m,.k iH,wirv accept, the j more government employees j inr(,cr hc bureai,. the larger the government, the greater the number of government employees to vote additional controls which create more !Ms and on and on ad mfini- MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON SMALL I WW AMU1CMS I m I name and address of the writer. the case. tentacled monster seeking to enslave the taxpayer who nurtures him. I quote Edmund Burke who said, "The only thing neces sary for the triumph of Evil is that good men do nothing." Again congratulations, Mr. Allen, and continue to speak out. L. P. Schafer, . P. O. Box 162, Shady Cove, Ore. Freedom b Patriots To the Editor: I wish re spectfully to disagree with Mrs. Ernest Santo's thinking, as expressed in her letter of 72263, regarding (1) free dom, (2) super-patriots. (1) Freedom is, primarily, a God-given right of all crea tures, human or other. Cur tailment of this gift is inspired, in most cases, by man in his desire to further his own posi tion, ambition or wealth. Cap tivity, slavery or curtailment of freedom of others is rarely found among any forms of life except the human. Freedom, as we use it, Is a relative word with a verv elastic meaning, in that cer tain freedoms of yesterday are impositions today and vice versa. As the population increases, individual Freedom diminishes. One person's free dom rightfully ceases when it infringes upon that of an other. To say, Mrs. Santo, that when the government controls the people they become slaves, Is only partially cor rect since we must have laws and regulations by which to live, since human nature is what it is. Therefore it right fully becomes a function of government to protect their subjects from the greedy and unscrupulous. I only know what I've read of Lincoln but I can person ally remember some of the reactions to Teddy Roosevelt's "trust and busting" actions, based upon the Sherman Anti Trust Act of 1902. The early 1900s saw a lot of legal ac tion against monopolies. In short, the Government was compelled to step in to as sure freedom in business and trade. The 1920s saw a great growth of monopolies under Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, while the depres sion of the 1930s called for further controls in this field, thus pointing up the need of government Intervention to maintain a more nearly equal freedom among its people. (2) As to super-patriots, my reading of the history of our country does not reveal that the Paul Reveres, George Washingtons and Patrick Hen rys reached the status of pa triots until the cause they espoused became victorious, and I hate to think what would have been their lot had they not won. I i.m told, and can well be lieve, that the history of Eng land rates them and many others as rebels and reaction aries, much the same as we rate the Communists of today. They rcbeled against the established government of that time. The Lincolns and Teddy Roosevelts you mention were regarded by many of their time as liberals, radicals, etc., etc. It Is one thing to be a real super-patriot and quite another to be a rabble-rouser, a calamity-crier who looks for wlrardry and witch-craft behind each thing they do not understand or agree with. C. R. Burrill 834 1 j Cherry St. Central Point, Ore. Weekly Editor Predicts Dismal For Zip Mail, But Bonanza for By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Guest conductor and also subject of today's essay will be Ernest F. Lyons, who should be the envyof every press associa tion and news paper work ing stiff who m a n e u v ers this piece to ward print or into the waste basket. Lyons WlllOD yiuuau.y uoo 1 UI.. u .. the best job in journalism. He is editor of the Stuart, la News which means that he works and goes fishing in the Stuart-Jensen Beach area of east coast Florida The News is a weekly, fat with local news, advertising and pictures each Thursday It easily would rate among the 10 best weeklies in tne United States. The combina tion of an exceptionally good newspaper in the exceptional ly delightful Stuart-Jensen Beach area is what makes Lyons' job, maybe, the best in journalism. Lyons is a friendly man slow to anger. The Post Of fice Department's new zip code, however, is too much for Editor Lyons. He says it will be a flop and he fears it will be the most expensive burden on business and indus try since taxes. In the News, Lyons wrote: "The U.S. printing indus try should chip in for a solid gold monument to Postmas ter General F. Edward Day. "His new zip-code numbers, coming as they do ahead of dog days, will be a shot-in-tne arm to the printers -in tn otherwise dull period and will cost American business untold Strictly Personal By Sydney (ci Field Enterprises, inc. IMPOSSIBLE DEMAND Those who are looking for a distillation of wisdom, for a quick and easy magic formula to lead tnem to the truth, should be told an ancient Arab fable. translated 1 n ISllbfTn forms n a tole France, M a u- OV - J i"'ce Kues and Charles - B a - , 1 Barrla douin: Long ago, a certain Sultan asked the sages and dervishes of his land to provide him with wis dom. The learned men imme diately began collecting the books whose contents they considered most valuable. Fi nally, a long caravan appear ed before the Sultan - a hun dred camels laden with thou sands of books. "This is too much," said the Sultan, "I could not read all that. It is for you wise men to extract for me a judicious se lection of the very best books, the only essential ones. Go and do this!" The sages set to work againj they re-read the books, argued and calcu lated, discarded this, re tained that. At last a small party of sages appeared be fore the Sultan with a sin gle camel laden with books. Again he said. "You have done a good job - but there are still far too many books. Distill them into one vol ume, so that it will be enough for me to read this single book in order to pos sess all that the wisest men of all the centuries have de duced and thought." A few more months went by. during which the wise men labored and did their utmost to extract the quin tessence of wisdom. At last the Grand Dervish appear Quotes From By UNITED PRESS Washington - HW - Sen. pealing for the passage of a "To be always at the the first to get the pink slip: room attendant and never manager - this is the shameful the 1 per cent oi our population whost skin is not white." Miami Beach - Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, ad dressing the National Governors' Conference: "For the first time since there are omens of change in West. Profound changes are members of the Communist ' bloc. New altitudes toward dealing with the West are being manifested by the prin cipal nation in the Communist bloc.'' Los Angeles - Superior Judge Burnett Wolfson. when told that a real estate salesman wants to change his name to Peter Lorie because so many people have told him he looks like actor PettT Lorre. "1 don't question this man's right ta change hit name. Bui why cut of 111 million Why does a man look tor trouble?" Harrison, N. J. - Patrolman Dennis Dacey. describing the condition of passengers on a commuter train shortly after It rammed a switch engine. "Thty didn't know what in shock. Everyone seemed to millions of dollars "Indeed, if we were in the printing business (the News has no job shop), we would call in our salesmen and jive them a pep talk. 'Get out there boys and sell! Every letterhead and envelope in the U.S.A. is out-of-date. They got no zip!' "And there would be a sense of urgency in our at tempt to get this business, the sweetest printing plum since the phone companies changed over to the dial sys tem. "For" common sense would tell us that zip is going to be a dismal flop and we'd better make hay while the sun shines. Human beings just aren't made like computers and it would take a comput ing system to remember all of the zip numbers of all the correspondence in which the average person engages. The general idea that Postmaster General Day is trying to sell is that, if you send it by zip it will go by fast U.S. mail; if not by zip it will go by slow U.S. mule. "There is only one cure for it, another mammoth printing job listing the zip numbers of every post office in the Unit ed States, a copy to be fur nished every person using the U.S. mails. And even the firm that prints the Sears Roebuck catalogs would be glad to get that order. We predict that it will be a flop." The beauty of Lyons' job is that he can do something af firmative about his frustra tions. When, for example, he is overcome by some such enormity as Postmaster Gen eral Day's zip-code, Lyons can rig a eel skin on a line and take a 30-pound snooK irom the St. Lucie River. J. Harris ed alone before the Sultan, with a single book, bound in the finest Cordova lea ther. The Sultan was on his way to the harem, and hardly stopped. "This is very good." he said, "but it is too much: from this volume extract for me a single phrase which contains all that is needful to know, at the grain of incense contains all the perfume and releases it when it is burnt in the censer." ' ' ' The Grand Dervish set to work and finally presented to the Sultan this sentence on a sumptuous parchment: "Man is born feeble and naked. He increases in strength and de sire. He obtains less by his strength then he covets by his desire; then he declines and dies." The Sullan, setting out on a new war, was furious. "I know this!" he exclaimed. "You are all pretentious ras cals!" And the moral to be drawn from this tale was given by Alain, when he wrote: "Cul ture is not transmitted, and cannot be summarized." But the Sultans of today are still asking, and the Dervishes are still trying to meet this im possible demand. AicCone Asks Better Retirement System Washington - IUPI) - Central Intelligence Agency Director John A. McCone asked a House armed service subcom mittee Tuesday for a better retirement system for U. S. agents. McCone said the system should be similar to that of the foreign service. He did not reveal any more details of his proposal in public session and after he announced it the subcommittee went into clos ed session. the News INTERNATIONAL Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.), ap fair employment practices bill end of the hiring linei always always the sweeper or wash. the machine operator or sales role in which w have cast the beginning of the cold war. the climate between East and developing In relations among names did he choose this one? they were doing. They were have bathed In heeds. Today & Tomorrow By Walter fiz) 1963, The THE DEFENSE OF THE DOLLAR The administration program for dealing with the deficit in our balance of payments is quite evident ly provisional. Som e t h i n g had to be done, because the deficit has not really been reduced in the past year. But only p r o visional 1i uppmann measures were judged to be practical in the present climate of inter national finance. The most serious proposal is to check the outflow of dollars for foreign investment. This is to be done by taxing the sale to Americans by foreign ers of long-term foreign se curities. This tax is to last for two years, ending on Aug. 16, 1965. It would make it more expensive for foreigners to raise money in the United States' capital market. Direct investment abroad bv American companies in plant and equipment would not be affected. N' O ONE can be certain that these measures and the underlying situation will bring American payments in to balance in two years. How ever, even if they do, as the President allowed, As we close our payments gap, we will cut down on our provi sion of dollars to the rest of the world." This will put serious diffi culties in the way of an ex pansion of world trade and economic development. If de flationary pressures develop, as is probable, there will be needed big reforms in the in ternational monetary system. It is perhaps fair to say that while the administration has been in the past opposed to such reforms, they have been favored by the British, who share with us the burdensome honor and privilege of provid ing the world with a reserve currency. There are many American experts within the administration and outside it who favor major reforms. And the President himself has recently shown concern and interest. BUT the Treasury has been taking the position that the open discussion of any major change in the world monetary system would shake confidence in the soundness of the dollar. The only re forms and remedies that nre safe and sound are those which can be arranged pri vately and carried out with a minimum of publicity by ar rangements with foreign fi nance ministers and central bankers. The Treasury is hop ing to maintain confidence in the dollar by the time-hon ored banking rule of not al lowing anything to let the dollar be questioned. While measures may be nec essary to enlarge the reserves at the base of the internation al monetary system, these measures must not be talked about publicly or treated as important, but must be made to appear as an unalterable, rock - like monetary system. The rule of our conduct must be, therefore, that the reform of the monetary system must come after, and not before, we have closed our own payments gap. Proceeding according t o this austere principle, the Treasury has been active in devising arrangements to pro tect the dollar against bear raids by speculators. And in this it has had admirable co operation from foreign cen tral banks and finance minis ters, including notably the French. But these arrange ments were not designed to solve the underlying balance of payments problem. With regard to that, as Secretary Dillon told the Joint Econom ic Committee on July 12, progress has been "disappoint ingly slow and uneven over the past 12 months." TWAT is why the President has just sent his long mes sage to Congress which in cludes among other things the proposal for a two-year emer gency tax to cut down Ameri can foreign investments. De spite all the efforts at home and abroad to close the gap. the "hard core of our deficit" is greater by well over a bil lion dollars than the appar ent deficit. For the accounts include a number of what Secretary Dillon calls "special transac tions," which cannot be re peated very often. Thus there has been prepayment on old debts. There have been ad vanced payments on military purchases which will soon be completed. Not counting these special transactions, the deficit is still Failure Printers Lippmann Washington Post at the 1962 level, which is much too high. This leaves the administration with the task of trying to increase our dollar receipts by increasing our exports and encouraging investment by foreigners in the United States, and of re ducing our dollar outflow by (1) cutting military expendi tures abroad, which are $2.4 billion, (2) cutting foreign aid, which is $3.5 billion, (3) cut ting down on private foreign investment, , which is $2.5 billion. ALTHOUGH the President and the Secretary of the Treasury are trying to sound confident, it is a hard task which they have set them selves. A big expansion of ex port trade is not going to be had easily in this time of sharpening commercial com petition. The military expenditures cannot prudently be red.ieed until and unless there is a much greater accommodation, with the Soviet Union than is yet in prospect. Foreign. aid, which looks like the easiest mark, turns- out on examina tion to consist increasingly of "tied loans" which call for the export of goods, but not of dollars. That leaves foreign investment, which in a ginger ly way the tdministration pro poses to tax. It is a plausible guess that within the two years of the emergency tax, the Treasury will become increasingly in terested in international mon etary reform. It will be real ized generally that the bur den of providing a reserve currency for the world Cannot be solely an American and British task, but is in fact a world obligation. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The news this week is rath er heavily loaded with meet ings of one sort or another, what has been happening at them and what the conse quences are likely to be. piRST in importance, of x course, is the big commu nist pow-wow at Moscow. It seems to have ended in an agreement to disagree. As this is written, the Chinese are picking up their toys and heading for home muttering threats into what in China passes for beards. MfE'D a lot rather have the " communists muttering in their beards about what they are going to do to each other than GETTING TOGETHER and talking happily about about what they're going to do to Us. WHAT about the Russians? " A dispatch from Moscow tells us that Premier Krush chev and U.S. Undersecretary of State Harriman held a sur prise hour-long meeting amid strong indications that the U.S., Britain and Russia are on the verge of initialing a limited test-ban agreement. Russia's Mr. Krooch and our Mr. Harriman had gone to Lenin Stadium to watch Russian and American ath letes compete in a track meet. After the meet was over, Mr. K invited Harriman and U.S. Ambassador Kohler to a little reception room in the stadium behind his box. WHAT happened there? The dispatch adds: There were no immediate de tails on what took place at the meeting, but the atmosphere was outwardly friendly, as it has been since the test ban talks got under way s week ago. Reports have come from both Washington and Moscow that a treaty to ban nuclear tests in the atmosphere, under water and in space is ready except for some re-phrasing. WELL TT In any event We'd rather have the com munists thumbing their noses at each other than getting to gether and thumbing their noses at us. fS THIS side of the big " water, one of the interest ing stories comes from Mi ami Beach, Florida, where the governors of our American states are gathered for their 55th annual conference. What are the governors do ing? As this is written, two prin cipal activities are apparent: 1. The governors, more or less without exception, ;ire assuming postures that might lead the lightning to hit THEM when the big political conventions come along next year. 2. Most of them are tak ing pot shots at Senator Gold water thus indicating that among the hopefuls. Goldwa ter is universally regarded as the-man to beat.