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4 A- "TEvaryoiw to Southern Oregon Doirii ThM Mull Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by 13 North l-rStPh:7M-614l nnu f n-r"l n'llUI. RHttor HERB GREY Advertising Manaier ERIC VV ALLEN JR.. Mn Editor HAKKY CHll'MAN. Tele Editor RICH AHIJ Jtwerr, sports uniior m in? ci A m MK.H wnmen'a Edltoi DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mar An Independent Newspapel Entered ai second claai matter Medford Oregon under Act 01 March 3, 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 Dally and Sunday moa 10 uanv ana Dummy a Sunday Only One year -.... imllafll 89 By Camel And Motor Route Daily and Sunday 1 year 2 Pally and Sunday I mo Sunday Only 1 mo. 1... VMnAnrm CoDV . . . , i . - fit., - mMmAintA umciai rir , viu -- Official Paper of Jackion Cpunty United Press International Sull Leased Wire U. P 1 Telephoto Newaplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising n-wwcui""'. rf NELSON ROBERTS It ASSOCI ATES Ol'lcea In New York, Chi caso Detroit, San Francisco, Los . Angeles ocsiiw, " - - . Denver. NATIONAL EDITORIAL Member California Newspaper Publlshera Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 31. 1953 (Friday) Numerous state and coun ty officials are scheduled to take part Saturday evening In dedication ceremonies for KBES-TV, first television sta tion In southern Oregon. Miss Elaine Sorum, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Sorum, 1116 Dakota st. Mcd ford, named queen of the 1953 Jacksonville Jubilee. 20 YEARS AGO July 31, 1943 (Saturday) - Ma). Gen. William G. Live say takes command of 91st In fantry division In ceremony at Cbitid White. From Arthur Perry's "Ye SmtiHtrp Pot" column: "Sev eral fathers report they have been fooling their kids by of fering them the new pennies for dimes ana, in many in stances, they were dimes." 30 YEARS AGO July 31, 1933 (Monday) Bonds for new sewer sys tem nppri ved by voters at special clci in. Slab woou shortage faces city. 40 YEARS AGO July 31, 1923 (Tuesday) Six cars of pears shipped east. Survey of highway from Merlin to Port Orford down Rogue River asked. 50 YEARS AGO July 31. 1913 (Thursday) Southern Pacific offers low excursion fares to Colestin, with music by Central Point bund. Local temperature 81 de grees as heat wave leaves many dead in nation. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superler; seven er eight is excellent; live er sis is load. 1. Who proposed the Eu ropean Recovery Plan? 2. Is a picaroon a type of cookie, horse, or thief? 3. The U. S. Supreme Court never renders advisory opinions; true or false? 4. What government ageiv cy Issues copyright certifi cates? 5. In which year did the Boxer Rebellion occur? 6. Name the painter noted for his famous "Blue Boy." 7. In which Government agency Is the Bu.-eau of Cen sus? 8. Name the capital of Hai ti. 9. A "southpaw" throws balls with which arm? 10. Would a fatuous person be a stout person, or a fool ish person? Answers! 1, George C. Mar shall. 2. Thiel. 3. True. 4. Li brary of Congress, 5. 1900. 6. Thomas Gainsborough 7 Department of Commerce. I Port-au-Prince. 9. Left. 10. Foolish person. LOTS OF PRACTICE London - tl'Pl) - Joanna Al nln, the 22-year-old daughter of Paramount Chief Nana Fosu Gyabour II of Ghana, has won a place In an ex clusive London drama school but is not worried about stage fright. "My father practices polyg amy and with so many broth erg and sisters we have to compete to get any notice taken of us at all," she said Tuesday. VjjjiA'MOCIATION WEDNESDAY. JULY 31. 1963 Treaties And the Senate "A treaty entering the Senate," a harassed Secretary of State once declared, "is like a bull going into the arena. No one can say just how or when the final blow will fall. But one thing is certain it will never leave the arena alive." That's why the Kennedy Administration has been sounding out key members of Congress, par ticularly members of the Senate Foreign Rela tions and Armed Services committees and the Joint Atomic Energy Committee. Primary iurisdiction for an atomic test ban treaty of course lies with Committee, which was shown a dealt treaty on July 23. CECRETARY of State Dean Rusk a day earlier J had been reported considering going to the signing ceremony in Moscow accompanied by a bipartisan delegation from Congress. By so doing he would avoid at least partially one of the mis takes made by President Wilson in 1918. -As Prof. George H. Haynes has pointed out: "As a publicist Woodrow Wilson had again and again emphasized the desirability of the close and sympathetic cooperation between the Presi dent and the Senate in treaty-making, and had stressed the President's opportunity and duty to take the initiative in promoting intimate rela tions of mutual confidence. "But at the close of the World War not only did he not place Senators as such liaison officers upon the commission which he took with him to Paris, but he consented to, if he did not personally instigate, an interweaving of the Treaty and Covenant of the League (of Nations), which he had every reason to know would be obnoxious to a majority of the Foreign Relations Commit tee and to a portion of the Senate large enough to reject the Treaty." PRESIDENT Truman avoided a repetition of tha first of Wilsnn's orrni's in 1 Sfi4 hv nnnnint- iner to the U.S. delegation Nations Charter Sen. Tom chairman of the P'oreign and his Republican opposite number, Arthur H. Vandenberg (Mich.). The clause of the Constitution which regu lates the making of treaties provides simply that the President "shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators pres ent concur. This treaty-making to President Wilson that power." AN ominous note was sounded on July 23 by Sonata Minnritv I .piirlpi Kvprptt. Dirkspn CTll.V who said he would "guess a good many reserva tions would be presented on the Senate floor to a test ban treaty. In neither of the other nations parties to the treaty will it have to be for ratification. Indeed, the restraints on a U.S. President's treaty power are virtually unique. One may hope Ray. Stannard Baker was not prophetic when he wrote more than 40 years ago: r --'I'nr t Doiwccn me txecuuve ana me acn ate every time we face a really critical foreign problm i. .i.j.v.uoic. it not only disgraces us before the nations, but in some future world crisis may ruin us. E.R.R. NATO's Tank Troubles At the outset of the fighting in Korea in 1950, the United States had no capable of engaging the obsolescent Russian T-34. South Korean units, in any description because determined to show the in Korea were nonaggressive. The heavily-armored rean invaders smashed through the ROK lines. Soon what the Germans call "panzer fever" seized the defenders. Whatever chance the nu merically superior ROK the invasion without help was ended. Armor could hardly European ground war. Even so, more than usual significance attaches to of tanks by I1 ranee and Germany. I1 lve years ago, the two nations joined to develop a "Europa" tank capable of facing the Russian T-54. Experts from each country worked on their own models separately. But when the time came to combine the best features of the two, the dis agreement on its specifications became irrecon cilable. France recently displayed its model, call ed the AMX, a 32.5-ton model capable of 43 mile-an-hour speed. MOW the Germans are preparing to unveil, probably early in August, their 40-ton, 40-mile-an-hour model, called the Standard Panzer. Bonn is expected to put the tank into production no later than September. German industrialists are happy at the prospect of a $500 million order necessary to replace, at $250,000 apiece, the 2,000 outmoded U.S.-made M-47s and M-4Ss the Ger mans now have. Meanwhile, the United States is in the process of equipping its forces in Europe with the 50-ton M-60 tank. But the New York Herald Tribune directs attention to reports that West Germany may provide the United States with Standard Panzers to be turned over to other NATO allies. Almost lost in the turmoil over Franco-German manufacturing rivalries and the possible impact of the tank competition on U.S. balance of pay ments is the question of which tank of the three is best capable of halting Communist armor. -E.R.R. the Foreign Relations to draw up the United Connally, the powerful Relations Committee, power of the Senate was body's "treaty-marring presented to a legislature tank in the Far East fact, had no tanks of the United States was world that its intentions fist of the North Ko army had of handling from American troops prove decisive in any the current development f I I SENATE II I U K0OM "I love attending committee hearings in the summer. It's hot. tempers flare, there's a healed exchange and then there's a beautiful 'cop-out' when explanations arn model" Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of tre paper. In fact the contrary is often the case. Meat of Protest To the Editor: Raise your wig to cool off, here it comes. I would like to find out Just "what are you trying to prove," about Zlppo, Bimbo and Mumbo Jumbo? Have you good reason for panning the local PO depart ment or are you just having "thum fun" with words when you have nothing better to do or write about. The PO can be wrong in trying to improve service since they have been 25 years behind the times machine wise and will be for several years more to come, so please be a little bit tolerant of their mistakes until the new sys tem is Ingrained Just a little bit willya huh? The Medford PO has no "in-scrvlce" training program so all schemes, new systems and changes must be learned on an employee's own time with no pay. To learn the distribution scheme for Medford and the surrounding area takes hun dreds of hours of memorizing and to "case" for the pro ficiency exam is really some thing. So let's give the employees a faint bit of praise for in telligence enough to mem orize 40,000 names and 15 thousand places as well as a couple of thousand streets, alleys, and unlabeled country roads and unfindabie hidden lanes to which mall has to be delivered after It is cased. Your ribbing and needling is unkind and the PO em ployees feci it. The unkindest thrust of all was the inclu sion that the employees were discourteous to people calling about the ZIP numbers. You could have deleted that refer ence and been on safe ground because I bet you that none of them are ever anything but courteous under any circum stance. Now let's get down to the meat of this protest which is to discuss errors, inefficien cies, deletions, mlspclllngs, proof reading, headlines, de liveries and all the things that concern the M-T you head up as managing editor. Are all these things at all limes as they should be or should many of us readers loll you of the shortcomings? If you can answer in the affir mative then you had a very good right to use your sling shot to throw that stone. Please have RLH of 5701 tell you If he ever had mis directed mail prior to ZIP numbers. If he did have, then some today isn't unusual is It? K. C. (Swede) Wern- mark 2.12 West Fifth st. Medford, Ore. Ten Remarkable Books To the Editor: The late Dr. Gerald B. Winrod, the former publisher of The Defender Magazine of Wichita, Nans. was also the author of ten remarkable books, shedding light on the devastating atomic bomb. A prelude to I hp discovery of the death dealing force Mr. Winrod, in a prophetical lecture In Austin, Minn., fore told the splitting of the atom; that was on Nov. 18. 1024. nearly 21 years before the as sembly and actually was man ifested in war time and first used in August, 1945. In a 78-page paper-bound book is a controversial sub ject called "Anti-Christ and the Atomic Boom " Once you start to read this revealing book, you will also want to read more of the same auth or's other books, especially one entitled, "The Great Re ligions of the World." Only on rare Instances do books like that become avail able, as when the need arises. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON the wants are supplied. The author was a profound schol ar of ancient history. Bert Kissinger 322 South Riverside , - ave. Medford ' Look for Spots ' To the Editor: The new free way between Medford and Ashland ain't been finished a week and already the highway crews wuz looking for some good spots to chop holes in the pavement. Everett Aeklin, Ashland, Ore. Take Lonely Road To the Editor: The biogra phy of Friedrich Wletzsche re veals that this lonely philoso pher went mad In 1889-at the age of 45. I am thinking of another philosopher, of ancient times, known to us through the writ ings of followers of a later generation, who also went mad about the same age, whose teaching Nietzsche crit icized severely, and whose malady Ralph Waldo Emerson called "The True Madness." I am speaking, of course, if my deductions are correct, of the founder of laissez-faire democ racy on the one hand, and Christianity on the other. The one is the philosophy of strength, the other the philos ophy of weakness. The one ex alts the "will to power," the other negates life altogether and exalts the "spirit-imprisoned" (consciousness or fixed Idea). The founder of Christianity went mad at a tin.e when being mad meant that one was "pos sessed" either by God or the Opposite. It is no wonder then he came to be worshipped as "The God" in after genera tions, and especially since he was martyred while In that mad state (his "mission" on earth) by his enemies, his countrymen the Jews, because of his blasphemy and unpatri otism, who have ever after ward regarded him as "The Devil." Although a n 1 1 Christian, Nietzsche was not anti-Semitic, as all honest Christians have been till this present day; his friend the musician Richard Wagner, who was his elder, was so. Wagner was, of course, to become the idol of Adolph Hitler, the half-Jew who was the arch-master of anti-Semitism. The exceedingly vain Wag ner broke with Nietzsche over supcrnationalism o f Prussia and anti-Semitism, which the philosopher regarded as a cul tural menace-thus It is re markable how Nietzsche also became the idol of the swash buckling, short -lived Nazi State. Culturally speaking, the Nazis became the allies of the Christians and the Democra-cies-which makes good sense, as they styled themselves the "Third Roman Empire." But the p n 1 1 o s o p h y of strength which Nietzsche es poused was as much the strength of the mind as of the body-and the Jews were ever free thinkers, always eschew ed "book-burning" in which activity both Nazis and Chris tians have indulged. Slgmund Freud also went i mad, it is recalled, late in his life, even though he was him self a master-doctor of mental Ill-health, and It is of inter est to note how many of the greatest minds have lost their way after taking the lonely road among the gods over head. Ralph McKinnis, P. O. Box 321, Ashland, Ore. Question Bound by By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International The red hot question about the test ban is not whether such an agreement is urgent ly desirable now but whether the Soviet I Union can be k ' 1 bound to a test ban that would reason- '-2 ablv and orop- S e r ly protect U.S. interests. The U. S. in terest is the interest of the Wilson men, women and children of the United States to live their lives equal ly safe from nuclear holocaust and crippling fall out. Nobody could be against that. It seems, however, that to question even gently whether the proposed test ban proper ly protects U. S. interests is a shady business. To so ques tion is like questioning the sanctity of motherhood, the worth of libraries, the merit of good works. To question instead of to cheer is almost to endorse sin. The questions are beginning to come, how ever, and some of them will have to be answered. The U. S. Senate is build ing up to the kind of donny brook that accompanied the consideration nearly 45 years n ' hi I VA LfJ Today & Tomorrow By Walter (c) 1963, The THE FIRST STEP AND THE SECOND While the firs'; step does not take Us all the way or in deed very far, it is crucial. For it shows which way we have decided to go. And so, while it is quite true that the poli tical test ban does not mean that there is peace and no Upomann further dan ger of war, it does mean that the two great nuclear powers have agreed that neither will go all out in the effort to achieve absolute nuclear su periority and with it total world supremacy. This agreement does not end the race of armaments. But it changes radically the race of armaments - its pur pose and its pace. As long as there is no limit on testing, particularly in the atmo sphere, there is a high premi um on the effort to search for an absolute weapon - say an anti-missile missile which could destroy the deterrent of the adversary or some kind of super-bomb which, launch ed without notice, could an nihilate the adversary. While the proposed test ban does not prohibit entirely the search for the absolute wea pon, it slows up that search sufficiently to make it most impossible that either country will produce the absolute wea pon. For while the search can continue in the laboratories and underground, there is no present scientific prospect that this will produce the absolute weapon. CO i'ar - reaching an agree J mcnt would not have been arrived at, we must assume, if both countries had not learn ed from their experiments and their studies that even with unlimited testing in the atmosphere there was no rea sonable chance of a break through to the absolute wea pon. If there were a good chance, the prize would be so dnzzlingly great and the pen alty so horrible that neither country would have accepted the ban because they have learned that the search Is so dangerous, so costly and so useless. In renouncing the search for the absolute weapon, the Soviet Union and the United States are accepting as un changeable, but tolerable, the existance of an effective bat ance of nuclear forces be tween them. We are mutually deterred from striking at each other, and the nuclear stale mate prevents cither of us from demanding an uncondi tional surrender from the other. We are compelled to co exist, however uncomfortably and unamiably, since neither of us has absolute power and both of us would be irrepar ably hurt if cither of us acted as If he had absolute power. AFTER everything useful, cautionary and prudential has been said about how this treaty is only a first step there is no doubt that it is a ". iiiii"i mm sicp, What about the second steo? Here we can move with de- liberation. For we may re - mind ourselves that there is a considerable difference be-, tween first steps and second i steps. The first step sets the j general direction. If hat dt-j rectum Is west, then the di-. rectlon is not east, south or! north. Once the direction has SswjHfjt Rises Whether Russia Can Be Nuclear Test Ban Agreement ago of the Treaty of Versail les and the League of Nations. The Treaty and the League were defeated. This compari son does not, however, imply that the test ban will lose. Young President Kennedy is a master politician in contrast to Woodrow Wilson or almost anyone you might name. The test ban will have Kennedy going for it as well as the people's prayerful hope that agreement may be had to end the nuclear arms race. The people's prayerful hope will make it just so much more difficult for those who question the test ban to ob tain popular consideration of legitimate related questions. Rep. Craig Hosmer, (R-Calif.) is a congressional Republican spokesman on test ban policy. He has begun to ask some questions, one of them about the Soviet Union's good faith. The Soviets violated a test moratorium I n September, 1961, having prepared in se cret for a series of in-the-air blasts. On March 2, 1962, Kennedy announced that the United States would resume tests. But there had been no secret U. S. preparation, therefore there was a substantial lag in the U. S. effort to catch up with the Soviets. Hosmer's strategy has been to quote Lippmann Washincton Post been set, say in Chicago, to go west, there are many goals and paths that can be taken all in the direction of the Pacific Ocean. Khrushchev is asking' that the second step be a non - aggression pact. But he has not made the test ban conditional upon any specific non - aggression pact. This was reassuring, and it was wise in that it recognizes how much more important is the test ban itself than is any political agreement that could come after it. For if, as I have been arguing, the test ban is a virtual renunciation of the search for an absolute weapon and for political supremacy, then the draft proposal is it self a great non - agression pact. As regards West Germany, which the Russians fear so much, Moscow should remem ber that there has existed for nearly nine years as complete a commitment to non - agres sion as the lawyers could de vise. Before West Germany was admitted to NATO, it is sued a declaration that "the German Federal Republic un dertakes never to have re course to force to achieve the reunification or the modifica tion of the present boundaries of the German Federal Re public and to resolve by peaceful means any disputes which may arise between the Federal Republic and other states." There is no reason why this same declaration, redrafted to commit all the NATO states, should not be made parallel with a comparable declaration by the Soviet government and its European allies. THE point which troubles the West Germans is not that they wish to weaken the solemn commitment to their own allies. It is that in some indirect way the non - agres sion agreement which Mr. K. is asking for would, as Dr. Von Brentano has just put it, "lead to a freezing of the un satisfactory political situation in the world, particularly in Europe." In my view, this freezing will not be prevented by dip lomatic nit picking about how much recognition of East Germany is involved in every agreement between Eastern and Western Europe. The fact is that the partition of Germany is now frozen and has been frozen for years, and the West German rule of re fusing to accept any measure, however limited, to increase Inlprrnnrsi hr-twc..n th iwn Germany is the reason whv the West has never had any policy realistically designed to unfreeze the partition. What we should be doing now. I believe, is to lake a positive instead of a negative line. Instead of the nit-picking to avoid any indirect recogni tion of the division of Ger many, we should open up the lona. difficult, but not neces- 5nrily hopeless, discussion of ' the terms of German rcunifi - j cation. If the Germans are to Dccomc reuniiiect, tney are bound to pay a price for it. Sometime in the not too de ' tant future there will be Ger- mans who are more interested in reunification than in the small business about the de gree of diplomatic recogni tion. Then we shall begin to find out whether Mr. Khrush chev will and can prevent the reunification of Germanv. from Kennedys March 2 statement: "We know enough now about broken negotiations, secret preparations and the advantages gained from a long test series never to offer again an uninspected moratorium. Some may urge us to try it again, keeping our prepara tions to test in constant readi ness. But in actual practice, particularly in a society of free choice, we cannot keep top - flight scientists concen trating on the preparation of an experiment which may or may not take place on an un certain date in the future. Can't Maintain Alert "Nor can large technical laboratories be kept fully alert on a standby basis wait ing for some other nation to break an agreement. This is not merely difficult or incon venient. We have explored this alternative thoroughly and found it impossible of ex ecution." The President was question ed at his Feb., 7 press confer ence and said: "We will support an effec tive treaty which provides for In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Moscow: A Big Three (U. S., Britain, Russia) meeting expected to take place this week in Mos cow may set the stage for further moves to ease the cold war and for a possible summit conference, according to diplo matic observers here. Secretary of State Dean Rusk will represent the Unit ed States and British Foreign Secretary Lord Home will represent the West at the meeting called to sign a par tial nuclear test ban treaty which was initialed last Thursday, and has given rise to outspoken optimism that a NEW ERA in East-West re lations may -have opened. Individual Russians who come in contact with West erners are showing great opti mism that the world may at last have reached a turning point after 18 years of cold war struggle. SOUNDS wonderful, doesn't it? But there's a fly in the oint ment. The fly is President Charles de Gaulle of France. As this is written, he hasn't yet said yes and he hasn't yet said no. What he will say is as yet known only to himself. He has so far thrown two monkey wrenches into the machinery -once when he said NO to British entry into the Euro pe a n Common Market and again when he said NO to the U. S. offer to provide Polaris missiles for France if France would back away from build ing a nuclear force of her own and join up with NATO. He is a strange and mystic character. No one ever knows just what he may do next. Presumably, we shall soon find out. INCIDENTALLY . . . Who knows offhand the origin of the simile of the fly in the ointment? TT IS FROM Eecelsiastes, and with its context it reads: "The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. "Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sin ner destroyeth much good. "Dead flics cause the oint ment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savor; so dothe a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor." AT THIS moment in history, these words from Eecel siastes are to be highly recom mended to President Charles de Gaulle of France. Try and Stop Me Ey BENNETT CERF A YOUNG Polish lad came over to the U. S. A. in tha steerage in 1923. Now, forty years later, he was living in great luxury in Miami Beach. "Only in America could a thing like this happen," he exulted to a new ac- I quaintancc. "Forty years ago I didn't have a penny to my name. Today I'm a partner of the firm of Horowitz and McCarthy. And this is the most wonderful part of all: i'm McCarthy!" Caskie Stinnett reports that the proprietor, of ' hri.rtat n!n .hnn had a visit recently from a veiy young doctor, who had Just hung out his shingle, and who waa In search of a pile of magazines "at least five years old." Asked if he wanted any par ticular periodical, the doctor explained, "I Just want something suitable for my waiting room. Look: if you had Just started prac lice, would YOU want all your patienta to know It?" Robert Q. Lewis explained what's eating a frequently sozz;fd Broadway actor: he has the bourbonic plague. Robert Q. alao te fines a pessimist as a noodruk who, when opportunity knocks, complains about the noise. - o.. c,rt Distribute! by Klnf Tutures Syndicate effective inspection, but we cannot take less. It takes many months to prepare for tests in the atmosphere. Tha Soviet Union prepares in sec ret." Hosmer has suggested an area for close scrutiny when the test treaty reaches tha Senate. Many prayerful advo cates of a test ban probably would want the Senate to ex plore that area thoroughly be fore giving its advice and con sent. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris fc Field Enterprises, Inc. THE CHANGING AGE Just as children are getting older faster, grown-ups are staying younger longer. The age-categories of even tha recent past scarcely apply f to the present lime. I was think ing this when reading about the dispute between an Harn airline jom p a n y and its stewardesses. The company wanted to, drop its stewardesses at age 32; the union protested; and a com promise of sorts was worked out. What interested me was not the labor aspect of the quar rel, but the outmoded assump tion by the airline that 32 is somehow "old" for a steward ess. Actually, most women of 32 today look (and presuma bly feel) 10 years younger. A generation or so ago, a woman of 40 had nearly had it. She was settled into middle-age, and usually looked it. Today's women are incredibly y o u n g in appearance and vitality-that is, if they aren't trying too hard to look young. Nothing ages a woman faster than that. Much the same, of course, is true of men. Men in their 40s and 50s are still young and vigorous, whereas their fathers and grandfathers were often sloping toward senescence in those decades. It may have something to do with diet, with changing patterns of social life, with attitudes toward one's self. Somehow, past generations became prematurely stodgy: they not only wore heavier clothes and ate heavier meals, but also settled heav ily into old age long before it was called for. If you look at a picture of a woman of 40 at tha turn of the century, or even two decades after that, and one of today, the difference is striking - not merely in the costumes, but in the ex pression, in the posture, in the whole psychic atmos phere. Although it is true that American civilization today may put too much emphasis on "youth" as a virtue, it is equally true that our ances tors committed the opposite mistake - they grew old too fast, and often passed from youth to senility without ever grasping the fact that matur ity is a time for delight, and not just for duty. It is easy to be critical of our contemporary culture; yet to remain young in spirit (without remaining green in judgment) is surely a positive value that past generations neglected or scorned. To see a woman of 60 striding across the golf links, lithe and tanned, is to realize that 32, in our time, is barely the threshold of womanhood. No matter what the airline offi cials may think to the con trary. I'M MAC
