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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY. " Evryone in Southern Oregon D..4 TKa Mill Trihlllll Kbilihed Dally except" Saturday by MEDKORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Kir St Pha-oiai SnnS'P u nfjHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverUslnl ! Manager GERALD T LATHAM, Bue Mir mc iw ALLEN JR, Mn: Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor uaddv cHIUMAN Tele Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporti Editor DALE ERICJNircuUUonMir a i.j.ninriinl Newioeoel Entered as second daia matter it March 3. 18D7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday 1 year f 1I.M Dally and Sunday moa 10.00 Dally and Sunday 3 moa. 5.00 Sunday Only Ona year 15.00 Simla Cony Mailed) 300 .. Anrf Untnf HOUte. Dally and Sunday 1 year 21.JJ Dally and Sunday 1 mo. Ija Sunday Only 1 mo. V Carrier and Vendora Copy 10c Ottldal Paper of City of OfflclalPaperoaclnCoun2 United Preaa International lull Leaied Wire U P I Telephoto Ncwpleturea "MEMBER-bK AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATIONS Advertising RpreientaUve: NELSON ROBERTS 4 ASSOC, a rva i-i(.-.. in Npw York, cm- cifio, Detroit, San Fr?nciiCO. Loi Denver. NIWSfAPil ruiiKHin ASSOCIATION NATION A I I0ITOIIAI H llemner California Newspaper Publlihera Aiioclitlon Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County History from the tiles ot The Mail Tribun. 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1953 (Sunday) Nearly 90 forest fires were started by the recent violent thunderstorm, with storm dam age to pears scattered. About $50,000 worth of fruit was lost. Unemployment in Jackson county is 45 per cent lower than a month ago, but double the total of a year ago. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1943 (Monday) John Cogswell buys Parker store at Gold Hill. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Repub- lican possibilities as presiden tial nominees in 1944 favor one term of six years for White House occupants If they can get it." .10 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 19.13 (Wednesday) Auto accident prevention cam paign launched in state. Diamond lake mecca for many over Labor Day week end. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. I, 1923 (Thursday) Local quota for relief of Japan quake victims placed at (3,500 by Red Cross. Jack Dempscy and Angel Fir po start drills for title bout. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 6. 1913 (Saturday) Two hundred cars of Bartlett pears shipped from valley at fancy prices. Rogue River harvest festival said great success. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It superior; levan or eight is excellent; five er lii it food. 1. What island in the Arctic region is famous for its hot springs? 2. Who is the dictator of Yugo slavia? 3. Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president of the U.S.? 4. If you are served cafe nois, what do you gel? 5. Would a disciple of Izaak Walton be a billiard player, fish erman, racketeer, or boxer? 6. A person suffering from an Ihropophobia has morbid dread of what? 7. During the Crimean War, what English woman became fa mous as a nurse? 8. Edgar Allen Poe attended what well-known academy? 9. Name the treaty which offi cially ended World War 1. 10. Complete the saying: "Fa miliarity breeds "? Answers: 1. Ireland, t. Mar shil Tito, 3. Andrew Johnson, 4. Black coffee. 5. Fisherman. 6. Of meeting people. 7. Florence Nightengale. I. West Point, . Treaty of Versailles. 11). ". . contempt." Tn'-Semosfer Plan Announced at Pacific Forest Grove Pacific uni versity will in all probability adopt tri-semester or some other type of year-round opera tion by 1966 or sooner, It was announced by Dr. M. A. F. Rit chie, Pacific university prcsi dent. Dr. Ritchie made the announ cement in a statement of edu- cational objectives to members of the university faculty. As outlined by Dr. Ritchie, the tri-semester program would in volve three equal semester periods each year instead of the traditional fall and spring terms and short-summer session now in effect. 4 A SEPTEMBER 6, 1963 No Excuse Anolorists for that youth whose misdeeds alarm will oe nara to explain away uie iaDor uay week end noting in Seaside. It was the second consecutive year that teen agers in that resort community have Haunted law enforcement officers and run amock, causing con siderable damage, to private property and injur ing several persons. Using the most charitable construction pos sible, one might be able to forgive last year's rioting as a spontaneous eruption in which re sponsibly for the unfortunate occurrance had to be shared by the youngsters and the town fathers of Seaside who permitted the explosive environment to develop. One eye-witness to the debacle last year told us that the Seaside police and firemen, by the way they mishandled the much to blame for what happened as tne young sters (mostly college students) were. BUT in the aftermath of last September's riots, civic leaders in Seaside, as well as state offi cials, had taken rather thoughtful steps to insure against a repetition of the turbulence, and to han dle it with dispatch should it recur. Citv ordinances were ud. providing for tougher fraction. During the summer an increased num ber of minors were arrested tor possession of alcohol. A new police chief, veteran of 30 years' expe rience with the state police, was hired, and he put out the word over two weeks ago that "If they come, we'll be ready for But all the advance erate as a "come on" to gonian editorial called them "punks"), and over last week end noting broke out again, this time reportedly more vicious and better planned than last year. THE whole fiasco, from any point of view, was inexcusable. But in particular, heavy castiga tion must fall on the youngsters. High spirits in the spring, is expected and course. But open and senseless defiance ci the law, coupled with malicious and wanton destruc tion of private property do physical injury to which cannot be explained away. That no one has been killed or seriously in jured in these riots is a students were hurling sand-filled beer bottles this year. Seaside police and firemen were swinging ax handles. Individually, we're sure, most of them are nice kids, but collectively there's no other word for it they're a mob. The courts and the parents of these youngsters must see to it that such a disgraceful thing never But Cops Share the Blame We agree with G.H.B. 's views expressed above. There is no excuse for such behavior. But we'd like to elaborate just a bit on the point that the authorities in particular the Sea side officers were not wholly blameless. Marge Davenport, a staff writer for the Ore gon Journal, was on hand during the week end, and in part, had this to report: "It seemed safer among the 'Holing teen-agers' at Sea side during the week end than with the almost hysterical, club-wielding, gun-tnting Seaside city police. "In sharp contrast to (he behavior of the Oregon Stale Police special riot squad, which was praised by nearly every one including the teen-agers, was Uie behavior of the local police, its volunteers and the Seaside Fire Department. "The language of many of these men was abusive, wheth er Ihcy were addressing teen-agers or vacationing citizens who happened lo be spending the week end at the resort city. Anyone who got in their way was liable In he 'rapped' regard less of his business and whether he was participating in the riot or just trying to get nut of the way. "Monday, a local law-enforcement truck roared down tho crowd-packed street at open throttle without warning, as small children, teen-agers and other vacationers scurried (or the safety of the curb. No one was rioting then and there had been no sign of violence during the day, although many teen-agers were milling In the crowd . . ." JVI1SS Davenport actually was threatened wiUi if a "rap on the head" when she inquired the ; number of arrests that had been made. A news-! paper photographer was struck on the head, do-! spite the fact that he was clearly identifiable as! tint Koinrr u rintni- ' ! " : selves. Thus, he intimated, not The Seaside mavor at one point supested only would the children be hcip that danca music be 'provided for the kids, to di- 'V", the parents would be vert them to less harmful activities, but this was" ' filiation, countermanded i'iatlv bv the police chief, who1 professor Alien might have told the orchestra leader that he would be jailed; M , if he or his orchestra played for the kids. longer school dav. a longer None of this is in anv wav an excuse for thcl! "h sh""cr .. . . ,ii : ni i.i iji i 'vaialion period might put an youngsters neiiavioi. nicy liccu to oe patKiieo. But it is a fact that the ienorant. arrocant. . ,, . .... , bullying attitude Of the have been a real factor in their inexcusable actions. We Lou ,i-e imv, words as "liberal" and when todav the liberal f tnn uti.iArwt lnitoi- ,.f to the stnetest lettei of ine conservative is ousy trying to pry loose some of the nails on the Fifth Amendment. History . aii -,i . i-..i loves lo piay navoi: wiin holes. Sydney J. Harris. ' for Rioters element of American is a cause of crowing whole matter, were as revised and tightened penalties in case of in them." planning seemed to op the youngsters (an Ore- young, especially in the taken as a matter of and vicious attempts to the olticers, is conduct source of wonder. The happens again. G.H.B. ,, . ' in iw accompanied ine small town Cops must :l,slwr Day week end at Seaside, nrovokinc the kids into! in Oregon, and a somewhat sim- E.A. such 1 unit - uiu nitrtiiiiiK miui "conservative" have, is eHntrinrr tpnariouslv tho f 'mwtiiin imi u Vi ilii the tom-titu ion, while uur neat tune pigeun- "Bad News, Chief Education Is Breaking Out In Another Area" A Tough Policy Is Hard To Swallow By Arthur Hoppe Our State Department has come under fire lately for the way the Vietnam situation has been handled. If that's what you call it. But in all fairness and in hopes of reassuring a nervous American public, I feel we should pause today to salute the unsung heroes of our State Department. Like the dedicated little cadre of Policy Toughen- crs. You obviously have read re peated casual statements by high State Department officials about how they plan to "toughen our policy" in this or that part of the world. But have you ever given a moments thought to those who must do the actual work? Of course not. On reflection however, it will come as no surprise to learn that in the bowels of the de partment's vast beehive sit 73 caldrons of brine in which each of our policies is soaked for from one to six days by the busy men and women of the Policy Tightening Section the length of time in the vast dependant, ot course, on deli cate calculations as to just how tough we wish the policy to be. From (here, the dripping pol icy is carried to the Sight Set ters, those highly trained spe cialists who must set our sights neither too high, for the benefit of the Department officials who feel "we must not sot our sights too high," nor too low, for the benefit of the other extreme. Each Sight Setter, of course, sets the sights (neither too high nor loo low) on a rifle, rather than a shotgun, as it is tradi tional department procedure, as you know, to "shoot with a rifle rather than a shotgun. The policy, now riddled with rifle bullets, is rushed to the straighten, mend and acceter Effort Department, where the ate our State Department's pol- Effort Focussers. each w i h graduate degree in optics, skill-1 In the Day's News By FRANK In Modesto the other day Pro- i (essor llwight Allen, of Ihe Stan ford Education faculty, told a meeting of local school officials that schools should run from 8 to 5 like businesses. With a longer school day, he said, students would do their homework at school, where li- nraries and me competent help of librarians, teachers and other stall are available. The addi tional time, he said, would per mit more individual instruction. more lime for parent and staff conferences and more flexible XSg ofs' . .. A Ht, aiMoii n would free nat-ems from n-v ins to help children with mate- rial they never studied them- end to shocking incidents such ! .,?,i.r,?,!??.!h"!.,?r liar rucKus ai ocean rark. in Maryland, clear across Ihe na tion from Seaside. The fact that these incidents .,.nP-j i,r ...... , indicate that the problem is not local lo Seaside, or lo Oregon. ' Thev are apparently a rohlen o -ur mm wwl(i growing bundance of id ; .,..,, h:r..-i H these outbursts of row - ii ism? . a Well, some two rentunes ago, MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, fully focus our efforts as spelled out in the policy. Once theef forts are focused they are im mediately bent by the hard working Effort Benders, diligent men who have been known in a crisis to bend every effort in the department in 47 minutes flat. There has been some justifi able criticism of the procedure on the grounds that bending an effort puts it out of focus. But the department's Administra tive Tighteners (those knowledg able mechanics on whom we rely to tighten administrative procedures) assure us that any effort which is bent in the de partment usually gets straight ened out in hardly any time at all. Depending on its toughness, the policy is then stuffed in one of several pipelines, which are kept constantly free - lowing by the Pipeline Uncloggers (Local 695, Amalg. Plumbers Union, AFL-CIO). A soft policy, for ex ample, would be dispatched to a Tie Mender, whose drudgery it is to mend tics, but only inter national ones. A tough policy, on the other hand, requires "an ac celerated policy line." And is thus forwarded to one of the department's brilliant, but ex plosive, Linear Accelerators. Space forbids saluting I h e hundreds of other behind -the scenes departmental workers, such as the Course Charters, Bot tleneck Breakers, Fat Trimmers and Scope Expanders, to name but a few. But 1 feel sure every Ameri can would sleep sounder if he but knew that these thousands upon thousands of unsung heroes stand ever ready to toughen, riddle, focus, bend, tighten, icy on Vietnam, As soon as we get one. JENKINS Isaac Watts, one ot the great j preaches of his day, put it like tnis: "For Satan finds some mis chief still "For idle hands lo do." 'IMUS relationship between mis- -a- fhinf nnri iilft haniit one ; noted even earlier than Watts' dav. Isaac Some 1.8O0 years ago. Dio rhiysostom said in his Tenth Discourse : "Idleness and lack of occupa tion are the best things in the world to ruin the foolish." ll'IIY this dangerous idleness1 Well, it isn't the fault of lhf youngsters 11 the fai fault of the times they live in. IN EARLIER days, there was little idleness for the young sters Throughout the year, there wore CHOKES to do There was wood to be cut and carried in. There wore cows to be milked even in the towns. There was water to be carried. In even' household more or less there were tasks for the children to do especially in the small towns and the farm country That is one reason (or the relative shortness of the school day and the school week and ine scnnoi year. Bin inose flays manv of its institutions and tra-: are gone where the woodbine ditions." May I ask. what insti twineth tutions and what traditions we i The problem of lodav is to "id enough (or tfc. younger ,0 d0 , kfop , r find enough for tfc younger gen- mem-1 trs out of the mischief that i comes wun idleness, ine prort - lem u intensitied by tne shukt- NESS of the school day., the school week and the school yVar. OREGON' Tired Nehru Survives Disillusionment, Shock, During Year; By PHIL NEWSOM UP1 Foreign News Analyst For Jawaharlal Nehru, inher itor of the mantle of Gandhi and the only prime minister In dia nas Known in its IS years of ind e p e n d ence, it has been a year of shock and dis illusionm e n t. First there was the massive at tack on India's Kewiom border by t h e Red Chinese, blowing into smithereens Neh ru's cherished concept of the five principles of co existence 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 ail 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 r?-4 paper. In fact the contrary it often the case. No Humility To the Editor: Thanks to the informative TV presentation, "American Revo lution '63," many of the times, dates, places and incidents were put together. But the absence of any humility of the colored mobs and dem onstrators or of their able lead ers was alarming. Nowhere was much if any thanksgiving shown to any of the responsible persons, peoples or administrations for the chang es and improvements (however small and slow in coming) or that in time they will receive. I hope in its anguished ex uberance the cause does not beget an unbending monster. Neil Jones 233 Lozier lane Medford. Highway Holocaust To the Editor: Another holi day has passed into history and leu a disgraceful blot on our highway record for accidents. More than 500 killed and about 35 times that number injured. Many crippled for life. A record which supposedly civilized peo ple, who sometimes act like savages, should remember with shame. We act as nursemaids and Santa Claus to many countries ot the world while neglecting disgraceful conditions in the good old U.S.A. A few simple remedies would cure 50 to 75 per cent of the highway ailment. A good doctor analyzes the nature, character and cause of a disease before attempting lo apply a remedy. First and foremost of t h e causes is speed. Our legislature increased the accident toll when they raised the limit from 70 to 75 miles on the freeways. Sec ond cause is reckless driving, which often includes speed. Third, drunken driving. Fourth, left turn without a signal. Fifth, following too close. Due to speed faster than con ditions warrant, many drivers lose control, fail to make a curve, skid on wet pavement and car flips over because of a blowout. Ages 16 lo 17 have twice the accidents of any other age group and pay an extra premium for insurance protection because of the extra hazard. Remedies: Make and enforce a speed limit at 55 miles per hour. That would get a driver where he is headed about as soon as an erratic speed of 70 to 75 miles and save many lives. Second, apply a more drastic nenaltv for sneeders reckless and drunken drivers with no sus pended sentences or probation without regard to juvenile or adult drivers. Third make 18 years Ihe minimum age for driver license. It 16 and 17 year old drivers are capable of driving thev should be capable tnat dav j uts of tnis dog, please call of being amenable to the law His answers wer ot satjs. ' . 2-7941 and help , reunite a lone (or infractions of driving regula-1 rar,,.,. , m ,A . r. ly family and their dog. lions to protect themselves and other drivers. Fourth, a major effort on mov - ing violations by law enlnrcc ment officers, ln one year there was more than 100 per cent in crease in parking citations and ' about 10 per cent increase for moving violations. Fifth, cooper- ate with law enforcement off i cers at all limes. Sixth, use the head in place of mechanical safety devices. Seventh, cour-1 tosy and consideration for other j drivers at all times. Ed Black 2573 Camp Joy rd. ' Grants Pass, Ore. Itahblr Housing To the Editor: A reprint in Ihe Eugene Register-Guard of : your editorial "Lady, the Far I Right Was No Misnomer." is an editor's opinion only, and has no fact or truth In it. You write "The radical rightists are not ; conservative because they do I not wish to conserve what good in America, but to destroy ! wish to destroy? And I want spe- cific answers. You write "Thev are suhver- sive both in objectives and in tactics, and radical" in that 1 tactics, ana ramcai in mat , iney wouia mane ninaameniai I changes in American govern- I ment and politics. What Chan? rs and severely testing his policy of neutrality and non-alignment. Then there was the motion of censure which his opponents in the Indian parliament were able to muster for the first time in all the 16 years. In the early weeks of the Chinese aggression, the Indian people rallied behind Nehru as never before. Indian women contributed their jewelry to the fund to build India's military strength. Then came the defeat of the Indian army and the revelation of its true state of unprepared ness. The disgrace and ultimate ouster of V. K. Krishna Menon, are we who you call radicals making? Since you specifically men tioned the John Birchers, may I give their fundamental beliefs. We believe in the Constitution of the United States and do not want to change our capitalistic, free enterprise form of govern ment. We believe in the two party system of politics and the rights of the individual to belong to the party of his choice. We know that the supreme court has usurped its power and Earl Warren has handed down 20 de cisions which are pro-Communist and anti-Constitution. This is a matter of record. We know that the radical uprisings in our country are due to the infiltra tion of Communism, and anyone can look up the records of the leaders of the horrible crusade. We are supposed to be the last bulwark of freedom, and a uni versity professor, if you please, leads a march for Freedom. Irony? To be well informed is educa tion. This is the first requisite of being a member of the J.B.'s. If anyone thinks freedom is do ing exactly as they please when they please, without any thought of those we may injure in doing so, then, they lack education, in Americanism, and freedom. There is so much perversion of the truth in your editorial, that it is in itself radical and rabble-rousing. Edith Phetteplace 3939 Hilyard St. Eugene, Ore. Counterfeit Offering To the Editor. Some years ago, a minister bradcasting from a Hollywood church took for a subject the Fourth chap er of Genesis, the 3rd verse, "And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord." The minister's reasoning proved beyond ques tion that this offering was not acceptable to the Lord (Gen. 4:5). It was brought at the end of the days (Heb., or the Sab bath) but was the effort of his hands and did not point to the sacrifice of the innocent one to come (The Lord, Jesus Christ). He gave the text found in Hebrews 9:22 "And with out shedding of blood is no re mission." "The work of hands is a counterfeit, offering," he said, and is a poor substitute for the heart and mind of man; "man proves his love by obedi ence to God." My curiositv led me to ask tne mims,er Dv lt'tte'" our rea- son for having a counterfeit sab bath, and why it was moved up from the last day of the week to the first day of the week. I reasoned i God had rested on the first day we would have had no light for that is what he created 1 rorm ln scripture. i He said we worshin on the ; first day because Christ arose on that day, but he gave no Bibical proof for such a stand. God help us to have Scripture always, for answers to the ques tioning of those seeking f o r light. James Williams P. O. Box 441 Jacksonville, Ore. Picnic To the Editor: The Demo crats very kindly let our So cial Security Benefit club horn in on their big Sunday picnic in TouVelle park and 90 of us turned out. The day was be-u-ti-ful and the eats scrimptious and fun was there in all sorts of ways. I like to pitch quoits but I forgot my horseshoes and he people used the ones there, so I played ball instead. 1 hap pened to pitch a low one to quite a tall J'ville man and when he dove to grab it, he became the most prominent per son in our locality. His trousers' back-seam went flooey all the wav nw ripmivrnts utnallv j '. rarrv nin in nirr.ir but there must have been some Rfirtiihlti-'ane thor fnr thncf (pants soon sot pinned togeth.'v i and the game went. ... I didn't r i and the game went. . . . I didn 1 1 write "on because I had done j left that place, for I joined, the I Jackson Creek Fifty-Niner and No Successor Seen Nehru's riehthand man and de fense minister, followed. But perhaps worst of all for Nehru was the fact that for help he had to turn to the United States and Britain, the very powers of whose world policies he had been most critical. Nehru still clung to non-alignment because if he gave up that, he gave up the cornerstone of his whole philosophy. But his tried voice as he de fended himself in parliament reflected both his shock and disappointment and the weari ness that went with it. All these also were evident as he defended himself against his critics in the debate over the motion of censure. It was a political hodge podge arrayed against him, and against the heavy majority of Nehru's Congress party it had no chance of success. But it gave voice to the rising discontent against him and it was given further expression by demonstrators outside the par liament gates, shouting "Nehru get out!" Among Nehru's opponents an Strictly Personal By Sydney te) Field Entarprisee. Inc. INCENTIVES Have you ever noticed that it is generally the same people who talk about the need for incentive" to m a k e a man work success fully, who re sent the idea of "incentive" to make a man think success fully? If inren- v ".. tive is impor k"a t a n t in the Barns world of ac t i o n, it is equally important in the world of thought. The human animal resists thinking helped make musical noises. I didn't join any of the contests not even throwing rolling pins. I just might have hit a Re publican, accidentally of course, tho' some of 'em hit us once in a while or, oflener "ver baly" of course, but it ain't no accident, I bet you. Now Everett, don't mind not having car windows when a pretty little skunk meets you more'n half way. After a mid night show in Texas, I helped wash a brand new Chevy at 3 o'clock one morning. It was driven back to College next day still odoriferous. Windows wouldn't have helped, and if E.A. passes on all this informa tion it's proof that he sizes us Democrats up as worse than skunks and if he had publicized our picnic more I wouldn't be thinking what you think I'm thinking about what we'd do if we were skunks cr looks as tho' we're in for rainy weath er soon. Ahem! I ain't signing my real name. Mehetable, Jacksonville, Ore. Lost Dog To the Editor: This letter is written for help in finding our lost black Labrador dog named Jet. He became frightened dur ing the thunderstorm last Fri day night and ran away. The dog is all black except little white hairs around his mouth. He is 6 years old and has been , my husband's constant compan ion, and my husband is lonely for his dog. We contacted the Humane So ciety, dog pound and also ad vertised in your paper, but there has been no word about our Jet. If anvone knows the where. Mrs. M R. Archibald 2451 Roberts rd. Medford. ' ( "Hollywood stars, opera singrrs. creative people li s right they get depressed But houewf. h. no not supposed to get drpreated" immediate source of dissatisfac tion were the new taxes imposed after the Chinese aggression and the lack of tangible evidence that the country was in much better shape than before. There were other challenges. There was the poverty which after 16 years of independenca remained India's greatest inter nal problem. There were charges of corruption and now also the failure of a policy which had given Nehru voice as the world's greatest neutral. Nehru touched briefly on them all. The country, he said, was losing its vision and the govern ment was tied up with humdrum affairs. In the end the debate settled nothing. General elections are not nec essary until 1967 but Nehru al ready is sending Congress party leaders into the field in an at tempt to revitalize support. Nehru will be 74 this year. Hn is tired and out of fresh ideas. But if the censure debate dem onstrated anything it was that there is no one now to take his place. J. Hair if unless it is made uncomfort able, just as we resist working if the challenge of survival i taken away from us. The men who would scorn a game of golf if the cups wern three feet wide, and who de light in the difficult task of overcoming a tricky course, at the same time demand that tho books they read, the music they listen to, and the paintings they look at be as simple and effortless as tit-tat-toe. When 1 hear people com plaining abiiui me "obscur iiy" oi a poem or the "nam iicss" oi u uook, ii seems u me thai uu-y are making a confession in weakness mil nicy wuuiu ue a s n a nic d lo admii in tneir worn or in Incir piay. 11 we waul suiiplicily, tluro Is noining simpler uiau uc uig a aidve. iae eusiavcd tvussian peupie are loiu wuai to iiiuiK aim wuai iu 0 e 1 1 e v e in a-o-u lan guage, ami uieir iiuuucciual jiiouiems are solved uciuio tiny are even siaiuu. democracy uues noi mean lliai evojuiie siuks iu uiu lowest iesci. ine luuiuitia ,ii uie iitpuunc ciiwsiuiit-u d na tion oi educated men and women who naa auuvaud tile mental agility tu graouio with uiincuU proolcms on a high plane of thought. mere is a misconception in inuuern society mat uie wri ter, or arust of any Kind, is ooiigaieu lo drop Mis worn into tne puulic s mouih. ac tually, every work oi art is an act of collaboration he tween the arusi aim ine au dience; and wiicn Uie laucr reitise to coilaooralc, ine arusi petulantly nicks mo door of his ivory lower. As Randall Jarrell remarks in nis excellent uook, "focuy anu ihe Age," we couiu re spect inose who call modun poetry nard" ti they read old er poetry Shakespeare or Mil ton or Shelley. But they read nothing of tho sort, and use the "obscurity"' of the modern idiom as an excusa for intellectual sloth. Literature, like society, must be based on incentives: if you resent the "welfare state" which gives people something for nothing, you should resent "welfare art" which no lazy mind is entitled to accept. Freedom both of the body and of the mind depends on our willingness to work for it.