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SUNDAY. " "Everyone Id Southern Oregon Reads The Mai) Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North FirtPhJia-eiaJL. ROBERT- BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertulnf Manaaer GERALD T LATHAM, Bua Mar ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mna Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor oi.tVB KTARnHF.R Women's Editoi DALE ER1CKSON, Circulation Mgr An independent Newspapel Entered aa second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act ot March 3, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaU In Advance Dally and Sunday l year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 8 moa. 10.00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. SOU Sunday Only One year 15 00 Single Copy (Mailed) KOc By Carrier And Motor Route. Dally and Sunday 1 year Ml .00 rally and Sunday 1 mo. 1'a Sunday Only 1 mo. Mo Carrier and Vendors Copy 10c Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of JasonCounty United Presa International Sull Leased Wire U. P. 1. Telephoto Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" Advertising Representative: NELSON ROBERTS It ASSOCI ATES Of'lcea In New York. Chi cago. Detroit. San rranclsco, Los Angelaa. Seattle. Portland Denver. I PUIUIHEtS ASSOCIATION HATIOHAl EDITOtlAl MemDer California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ego. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 8. 153 (Tuesday) Jackson county's forest fire situation appeared to be under control today, as all known blazes were either out or being mopped up. Today was the opening day of school for a number of commu nities in Jackson county, with some already under way as early as Sept. 1 and some still due to start. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 8. 1043 (Wednesday) Italy unconditionally quits war. From Arthur P e r r y 's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Kap Kubli of Portland is rusticating in the Applegate, a section where he first saw the light of dav. He says he never felt bet ter since he played first base for Jacksonville. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1933 (Friday) Gen. Hugh S. Johnson scents "big business plot" to wreck NRA. Pear shipments from valley to date total 304 cars. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1923 (Saturday) Mass meeting planned to raise Medford quota of Japan relief funds. Dr. R. E. Green and Bill Issacs catch two steelhead near mouth of Little Bulte. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 8. 1913 (Monday) Jackson county fair and pear show opens tomorrow. Burglars ransack two Med ford residences. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or sn Is good. 1. What nickname was given to King Richard the First, of England? 2. Was Silas a companion of Jesus, Peter, or Paul? 3. How many ciphers must he added to the figure one to ex press a qmntillion? 4. Name the husband of Min nehaha. 5. A presently proposed treaty with Canada would increase what Pacific Northwest re source? 6. What is the meaning of the colloquial expression "staff of life"? 7. What was the previous name of Leningrad? 8. Does a viilin have four, five, or six strings? 9. What Is meant by the Fourth Estate? 10. In what city Is there a great fish market known as Billingsgate? Answers: 1. Lion Hearted. 2. Paul. 3. Eighteen. 4. Hiawatha. S. Hydro-electric power. (I. Bread. 7. St. Petersburg (also Petrograd). 8. Four. 9. The Press. 10. London. I niwspami Km SEPTEMBER 8, lWvJ Why Barry Has No Chance It has been said repeatedly in this column that Sen. Barry Goldwater would not have a chance of being elected President of the U.S. Why? Because despite his own attractive personal qualities he is a political troglodyte, whose phi losophy of government is essentially negative. We know pretty much from his speeches and writings what he is AGAINST. But what is he FOR? A MONG other things, he is against federal civil rights legislation, Social Security (he'd make it "voluntary"), the graduated income tax, almost all government spending (except for the military), all farm subsidies, public housing, urban renewal, aid to depressed areas, medical care through social security ... the list goes on and on. What is he for? It's a bit difficult to pin down, for he is "for" a lot of high-sounding but nebulous moral strictures, without becoming spe cific about what he would do to solve this na tion's most pressing problems. Much, of course, he would leave to the states which in the past have shown they cannot han dle them, which is so very often the reason the federal government has had to step in. IN MANY other areas, if his speeches and col- umns are to be believed, he'd pull the govern ment out altogether, with no assurance that cur rently successful programs would or could be continued. Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Consti tution and a nationally-syndicated columnist, re cently ouoted an editorial year-old editor of a weekly newspaper in Cal houn, Ga., who had been reading benator Gold water's writings. Mr. McGinty said: "I just don't want to go backward with Goldwater. I don't want to go back to the 1890s, which may have been the golden age for a handful of Goldwaters but was pretty tough for a few million McGintys, Joneses, Browns, Mac Tavishes, Palewskis and other immigrants working long hours for a wage that provided bare existence. "I don't want to go back with Barry to the time when the people of this country did not have such 'socialistic' schemes as rural mail delivery and rural electrification; when we had 'poor houses' and 'poor farms' and 'pest houses' instead of social security and public welfare, instead of 'so cialistic' city and county hospitals and communicable disease centers. "I don't want to go back, because I have already lived through that period, and, though cherishing many fond memo ries of those days, believe me when I say this is a much better day for a larger percentage of people." THESE are the reasons among others that Senator Goldwater could never be elected President. This is the reason that he is not at all likely to get the Republican nomination. For the leaders of , the ones who are in the veal seats ot power know what would happen to that party of Gold water, by some fluke, were to be elected. It would simply destroy the party. It is even widely speculated that the Republi can kingpins might just might allow Goldwa ter to take the nomination, but only if they were morally certain he would be soundly defeated. Still, we do not expect that to happen. For they know, as do millions of others, that, in the words of the Pendleton East Oregonian, "it would be tragic to have a man in the White House whose philosophy is so completely out of tune with the realities of the second half of the 20th century." E. A. Speak - - Or Stay Silent? Should leaders lead? "neutral" on matters of public importance when a controversy is involved? Gov. Mark Hatfield member of the State Game Commission lor "straddling the fence" on a proposal to close Oregon's inland waters to commercial fishing. This is a matter of "great public interest," he declared. Well, the tax referral is of "great public interest" too, far more so than the fish measure. But we haven't heard a peep out of the Gover nor in criticism of the State Board of Higher Education for refusing to issue a statement advis ing voters not to sign the tax referral petitions. IF THE Board of Higher Education "properly questioned the advisability of such action by a state agency" (in the words of the Oregon Vot er), why is the Game the coals for a similar reticence? What is the essential difference between the two cases? The Governor explosively demands a state ment of position from the Game Commission on a proposed initiative, yet is silent when the. State a propose Board of Higher Education declines to issue a statement of position on Is it, perhaps, a case of whose ox is gored? ASA MATTER of fact, we're inclined to agree with the Governor (in the Game Commission matter) that public officials and agencies DO have a responsibility to make known their views. They, after all, are the ones who know, or should know, best what the issues are, and should make this knowledge available to the voting public. We believe that the State Board of Higher Education should have stated its views on the referral measure as several of its members wish ed to do. We grant that it is risky to stick one's neck out in a controversial matter. But, as HST used to say, "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." E.A. by J. Koy McGinty, ! the Republican party Or should they stay the other day berated a Commission rakeri over a proposed initiative. "Dear Nikita It Was Interesting To See Your Test-Ban Treaty, Which You Can Put Away In The Same Place You Keep Your Missiles" Today & Tomorrow By Walter r lflfl.1. The MR. KENNEDY ON VIET NAM In his television interview with Walter Cronkite, President Ken nedy said, so at least it sounded, that South Viet Nam can w i n the war if the Saigon govern m e n t r e forms. It must recapture the popular support which it has lost in the past two months by "changes in pol- Lippmann icy and perhaps with personnel. This amounted to telling Diem to disentangle himself from the clutches of his family. It is hard to believe the Presi- dent really thinks that this will or can be done, or that he thinks that if it were done, South Viet Nam could proceed to win the war. For the objective of the military operation which we are supporting is not to win the guerrilla war, but to contain it. This is not because President Kennedy and President Eisen hower have not wanted to win, but because it is for all practi cal purposes impossible to win a guerrilla war if there is a privileged sanctuary behind the guerrilla fighters. 'FHIS proposition was demon--1 strated vividly in another nig guerrilla war in which we have intervened. That was the war in Greece. That war was won by the non-Communist Greeks, but and the but is crucial only after Tito closed the Yugoslav frontier against the Communist Greeks. When the guerrilla fighters could no longer retire into Yugoslavia to be re-equipped and rested, they were defeated. It is reasonably certain lhat the Communist guerrillas, the Viet Cong, cannot be defeated in South Viet-Nam as long as they have an open line to North Viet-Nam. The key question about WINNING the war is whether the Viet Cong can he cut off from its base of supplies in the north. If it cannot be, a military solution is most im probable. WE can he sure that II is quite beyond the capacity of Diem's government, or of any other Saigon government, to cut the supply lines to the north. Only the United States could do that, and then only if we were willing to pay the price. If we decided on a military Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF COLONEL DUFFY reports that on Route 66, near Bloom ington, Illinois, a motorist pulled into a fiUing station and slipped the attendant a note and a dollar bill. The note read, "My wife is in the bade scat, concealing un der the car rug, a chair leg with n bent nail in the end. Whenever I go over 50 miles an hour, she wallops mo over the head with the club." The attendant called the state police, who flagged down the car end confiscated the weapon. Duffy's caption for this story Is "Wife Begins at Fifty." In Westchester, iui earn est young miss was mighty nnhappy over her report card. "But ; canv cancerous country can be lapse in 1940, but there is some my dear" consoled her mother, "you've gotten aa 'A' In every- withdrawn from the big power cause of his feeling that Bri thing. 'What .man could you poesiMy mj struggle, neutralized and. mi-, tain will never wholeheartedly Bniarung ock a war, loe oras gm poimeu 10 : n laerranc Hon lino jurt under her name demanded. "In Sex they guv me an JT and I didn't even know we were todylng it." Hank Meyer took hU enchanting' little thre e-renr-otd daughter with him into a voting booth. After he had pulled down a num ber of lovers, ho naked her, "See how lf done?" "Yes, Daddy, X awe," she replied, her eyea shining. "Now Where's the gum?" O Wt, hr Bennett Cart Platrftuted by Klnf features 8 judicata MEDrORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Lippmann Washington Pout solution, we should have to op erate directly against North Viet-Nam, presumably by oc cupying its capital of Hanoi in order to cut the supply lines to the guerrillas. But we should have to expect and be prepared for a Red Chi nese retort in the form of in vasions anywhere along the frontier of what used to be called Indo-China. For us, this would almost certainly mean a war of the type and on the scale of the Korean war. If we then escalated the war by using nuclear weapons, nobody can predict the end of it all. 'THE price of a military victory -1 in the Viet-Namese war is higher than American vital in terests can justify. The Chinese, of course, know this and fortun ately they know, too, that the price of a military victory for them is prohibitive. Sneaking for ourselves, we have made it manifest that Indo- China is not a paramount in terest of the United States by keeping our intervention in Indo-China limited and more or less undeclared. We are, as the President has just said, trying to help the South Viet-Namese to win THEIR, not our, war. In terms of power politics, this amounts to saving that South Viet-Nam is an important sec ondary interest, but that it is not a primary vital interest of the United States. Our intervention in Indo-China is to prevent Red China from absorbing the great natural re sources of Southeast Asia. In this we are not alone. This is also the interest of Britain and of Australia and of the Com monwealth. IT IS. 1 has i as General De Gaulle nas lust reminded us. an in terest of France that the coun tries of Indo-China should be independent and unconouered it is a vital interest ot India, which would be dangerously out flanked if Red China swept down through Burma and Indo China to Singapore. Last but not least, it Is a very great interest of the Soviet Union to limit the espansion of Red China during its present aggressive phase. Assuming that no dramatic collapse of the present position in Saigon is imminent, we shall have time to begin talking about these larger considerations. on the report card. "Look," he Matter of Fact bv joS.Ph aip ici New York Herald Tribune Syndicate IF THE ANALYSTS ARE WRONG NEW DELHI, India If you ask the great but tired and dis appointed man who leads India whether he ex- pects a n other Chinese attack this autumn, he replies that he supposes t h e odds are about even "I think some thing. Prime Minister Nehru says in a tone of resignation. "But I am not sure. Nowadays, I have a bad half hour to get through every morning when I must read me report of our charge' d af fairs in Peking." You get the impression that the last Chinese attack has all but broken some vital spring or other in the complex charac ter ot tnis remarkable world figure. And this is another rea son, along with the increasing venom of Peking's dealings with Delhi, for being worried by the obvious possibilities of a re newed Chinese offensive on the Indian frontier. rpHE more practical reasons for being worried were given in the previous report in this space. Recapitulating briefly, the Chinese have made all the necessary preparations for an offensive on a rather major scale. The Indians, meanwhile, being as yet unprepared for mountain fighting, have lett a large part of the eastern fron tier the Northeast Frontier Agency as a military vacuum. The American official analysts nonetheless reportedly believe that the Chinese will not resume the offensive. The test of this judgment will come soon, when the monsoon ends and the favor able campaigning season begins in mid or late September. The analysts apparently base their judgment on two main sets of lines of reasoning. First of all, they use an astonishingly high figure for the tonnage of supplies consumed by a Chinese division in combat. On this basis, they dubiously argue that the Chinese cannot support a se rious offensive effort on such a distant front. SECOND, the analysts also argue, or so it is said, that the Chinese have much to lose and very little to gain, at least for the long run, by renewing their attack on India at this time. At this moment, one must add, a contrary judgment is even more easy to reach. In brief, the Chinese certainly must consider the long range problem of hanging on to any territory they may seize from the Indians. But the gains now to be won by inflicting another smashing defeat on the govern ment of Jawaharlal Nehru are infinitely larger than the con siderable gains from last year's attack. This is because the Soviet Union is now quite openly sell ing arms to India, and India is now getting American aid on a considerable scale. Botn U. a. and Soviet prestige are in fact committed here now, which was not the case before. And another successful Chinese attack will not just be a body blow to the standing in Asia of the. two na tions which are Peking's most hated enemies. In these circumstances, when the Chinese temptation must be so strong and the stakes in the game have heen so vastly in creased, you would expect to see much insurance being taken out against the possibility that Hie analysts will prove wrong. Maybe this is happening in se cret. One must pray that it is. But one must also note that no 13 France Can Talk, But Cannot Yet Act Bv ERIC SEVAREID "The facts may prove me I of the General that "he has a wrong, but history will prove me tightrope walker's love for the right," President deGaulle is i vertigo of vast heights ... it is supposed to have slid in justi- j ... the impossible, the unheard cation of his effort to re-orient of enterprise, the seemingly un- ' the whole post - war "Grand; Design for a unified Europe ,'iin close assnci- sf'.'I. i ation with the ,2. united States, Now DeGaulle launched has anot her o n e - I man interven- i SFv.rnii Hon, the sheer : audacity of which has again un i strung the nerves of overburd : ened American policy planners, i History may indeed prove that , the United States cannot sue I cessfully act as military midwife ; to the rebirth of a secure and independent South Vietnam, but . present facts do not provide the slightest encouragement for the L'l VldUlie Vll "W Ulttl tlldl yUlll I- , u, . . ,., m(icfjmtev secured against Communist China I But all Western miscalcula- rope, limited as it has been. NATO and at the Common Mar- and resources to back it up. That ' tions of DeGaulle for the last hut there is some rause (or his ket and the first is now par-; has always been the fatal dif , 20 years spring from underesti-; feeling that we will eventually alyzed, the second reduced In its j ficulty with DeGaulle's visions i mating his belief in the politi-; reduce our commitment there, ! vision and tending towards a , of new roles for his country to i cal miracle and in himself, and and thnt Europeans miRht he j mechanism for economic pro-1 play. France can speak greatly, ! his personal assumption that thp i able belter to negotiate with j tectionism. j but it cannot as yet act greatly I two are synonymous. Curtis ! R u s s i a over Germany than! Now there Is some evidence j and until it can, the speech con ICate, writing in" the "Atlantic Americans. He has resented that he sees stalemate in the founds us all. insurance policy can be discov ered by normal inquiries. IT IS widely supposed in Washington, for instance, that the Chinese will be deterred i from attacking oy tne prospect ! of Indian Air Force bombing of their exposed Tibetan supply lines. A joint Indian-American air exercise is scheduled for I November (too late, in any case, ' to be effective this fighting thev may do!season)' Tnls 18 supposedly de- signed to test the possibility of American air defense for In dian cities, which would then release the Indian Air Force for more aggressive action. As a practical fact, however, India's few socres of Canberra bombers would have about as much efect as so many gnats or flies on the Chinese roads through Tibet. Keeping roads out of use by an enemy demands round-the-clock bombing at low levels unless nuclear weap ons are employed, of course. The Canberras cannot go in low on the Himalayan heights in daytime, much less by night. Other such points might be made, and none of them would be encouraging. To be sure, if Prime Minister Nehru's esti mate of the odds is correct, there is one chance in two that the event will justify the opti mism of the American analysts. Yet one cannot help but feel that we should have done bet ter with less of the reckless, virtuous enthusiasm which so often seems to prevail in the U. S. Embassy in Delhi, and with more hard-headed calculation of risks and advance planning to meet potential dangers. For if the analysts are wrong, the damage done to the U. S. will be just as grave as the damage to India. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Mishmash of the news: London's Big Ben clock, which every tourist has seen, stopped for 52 minutes the oth er day and for eight minutes less than an hour Londoners in the area of the Parliament building were left with an un easy feeling that something ter rible was about to happen. Without Big Ben's booming voice, that part of London just isn't quite itself. What happened.' Later investigation revealed that a workman who had been tinkering with the big clock had gone off and left a paint brush in its innards. BIG BEN is the great bell in the great clock in the clock tower of the Parliament build ing. It weighs 13'2 tons, and was cast in 1858, a little more than a century ago. The big clock that strikes the hours on Big Ben has four dials, each 22V4 feet in diame ter. The minute hands are 14 feet long and the hour hands are 9 feet long. The numbers around the dial are two feet high, and the minute spaces are a foot square. The big clock got of its rou tine once before and boomed forth 13 strokes at midnight which upset Londoners no end. There's an old saying to the effect that every dog is entitled to one bite, so one supposes that Big Ben ought to be en titled to two mechanical upsets in 106 years fVUESTION- Why does a rat purr? Did you that one? ever ask yourself WELL, West Germany's big Max Planck Research Insti tute has spent ten years trying to find the answer. The other Monthly." put it well in saying ! obtainable objective which have always haunted his imagina- : Hon. i Depending upon what h e thinks France can offer Viet Nam in tangible form, DeGaulle i is in a nositinn to exert a cpr- i tain amount of blackmail upon ! the United Stales in our rela- tion ship to Viet Nam, just as he is in a positon to exert black- mail on Britain in her relation - ship to Europe and the Common j say nothing of the current mood ; wring, their hands. But if a De Market. One way or another, he j of the Chinese leaders, argues j Gaulle gesture toward the Latin is determined to play a great I against the idea. j land amounts to no more than role, and where it cannot be pos- j . , political theatrics, it will prob- Hive in nature he does not at all mind its being negative. Once again, irrational emo- tions of resentment are mixed with realistic appraisals. He in 'tensely resented Britain's role ' HUE IJIhj; dUU HI Ifl ritlll.ll iur;n milian wmniva oilU commit herself to Eurooe. He has intensely resented the post- j and ended up having to give j a vision becomes only a distrac war American hegemony in Eu-1 that country' sway. He leaped at i tion when there is not the power GREAT IDEAS... ill SEXUAL ABNORMALITY Dear Dr. Adler: Homosex uality is a topic thai writers have only recently dared ex plore in our popular maga zines and journals. It seems, from what I have read, that very little is really known about It. What do the writers and thinkers of the Great Books have to say about ho mosexuality? Is it considered a sickness, a community prob lem, or an abnormality that if given socially acceptable outlets is really no problem at all? Should it be subject to legal punishment or not? Robert B. Fox 1459 North 400 West Bountiful, Utah Dear Mr. Fox: Sexual attrac tion between persons of the same sex has occurred in practically all times, places, and cultures. The numerous refer ences to homosexuality in the Bible indicate that it was one of the facts of life in the ancient Near East. In the Old Testa ment, male homosexuality is condemned as an abomination meriting the death penalty, and there are several admonitions against male homosexual pros titution, which was a feature of some ancient pagan cults. The story of the men of Sodom in Genesis has traditionally been understood to refer to homosex ual practices. In the New Testament, Paul condemns the "unnatural" rela tions between men and between women as the consequence of their turning away from God, and he proclaims that the "ef feminate" shall not enter the Kingdom of God. Similarly, the Church Fathers inveighed against "the sins of Sodom," and homosexuality was declared a grave offense in church law. And Thomas Aquinas declared that homosexuality is wrong be cause it is contrary to "right reason" and to "the natural or der of the sexual act proper to mankind." Among the ancient Greeks, on the other hand, homosexuality day it said it thinks it has it. Dr. Paul Leyhausen, chief of the Institute's animal psycho logy department, says cats purr for the same reason human be ings smile they are happy or they are mixed up- He says the feline world has a strict class system. Some cats, he adds, are status seek ers. A cat that wants to hob nob with higher class cats will use the snob or diplomatic purr to curry favor. There is also an anti-snob or democratic purr. An aristocratic cat will purr in such a way to gain the companionship of low caste cats. OLD cats that purr often, he says, are having a bad time. Purring during their advanced stage of life is a symbolic act a retrogression to kitten-like behavior. Thus a grown-up cat purrs to pretend it is a little kitten again. It does this to ward off potential danger as if to say: "you mustn't hurt me I'm just a tiny little kitten." Dr. Leyhausen says purring is good in kittens. A kitten purrs to show it is happy, just as some babies gurgle. HMMMMMMMMMM. Aren't scientists wonderful? How could we get along with out them? I A m e r i c a ' s replacement of France in what was lndo-China, but there is some cause for his feeling that a clear victory over the Viet Cong is not possible. But whatever merit there may be in his long range vision of a Russia joining Europe in the face of the "yellow peril", it j seems impossible to find merit his current assumption that in ' communist China would loin France or the United States or! any western combination in re specting a neutralized and re- ; unified Viet Nam or a South Vietnam alone. All practical ex- 1 penence in Korea and Laos, to j Wherever he sees a stalemate in great and critical attairs, De Gaulle seems to feel that he must act, and in a vaulting leap. But the result is rarely as he an- j ticipates. In one leap he freed inereDy neipea set oil tne tra- grams, nowever Badly they are gic explosion and anarchy in the going, without the provision of a Belgian Congo. He leaped at a j workable alternative rail. An al settlement ot the Algerian war i tentative in terms of an idea or From the Great Books By Mortimer J. Adler (c) 1963, Publishers Newspaper Syndicate was permitted and even ap proved in many communities. The body of a young man was regarded as the peak of human beauty, and it was regarded as normal and proper for an older man to be smitten with the charms of a youth. Even Socra tes, the Greek epitome of wis dom and virtue, was susceptible to such attractions, according to Plato and Xenophon. Homosexuality in Greece was a fact as well as a cultural ideal. The law of Athens recognized it as an actual practice and pro vided against certain abuses. However, in theory at least, the emphasis was on "platonic" love between men, expressed mainly in noble deeds and man ly character. It was an accept ed thing for an older man to become the mentor of a favor ite youth in the development of the male virtues. Sensual indulg ence and effeminacy w e r frowned upon. Of course, female homosexual ity also occurred in ancient Greece. Indeed, the term "les bian" comes from Lesbos, the island where the Greek poetess Sappho lived with her girl friends. However, the center of interest in ancient Athens and Sparta was on male virtue, beauty, and friendship. Even to day, when we discuss homosex uality, we usually have male homosexuality in mind perhaps because we still think that men are more important than wom en, or because male homosexu ality is a more widespread and serious social problem. Our present attitudes to this subject have been influenced largely by psychoanalysis and by social studies showing the universal prevalence of homo sexuality. Freud made us aware that the sexual impulse in the earlier stages of human growth is a many-sided thing with a va riety of objects. Homosexuality in adults, in this view, is the re sult of a failure to attain the normal, exclusive erotic inter est in the other sex at the time of maturity. Other commentators see ho mosexual impulses as latently present at all stages of life. They become manifest under certain social conditions in prison, in our society, or in or dinary circumstances in soci eties where homosexuality is permitted or approved. D. J. West, the author of a recent study of the problem, even con tends that "exclusive preference for the opposite sex is an ac quired trait, and involves the re pression of a certain amount of homosexual feeling which is nat ural to the human being." This view completely reverses tba traditional Christian position that homosexuality is unnatural and perverse, as well as the view of some medical men that homosexuality is the result of a constitutional abnormality. Whatever the view of homo sexuality, there is a growing consensus among those who have considered the problem that public censure and legal punishment are not the proper means of handling it. The offi cial British committee which studied the problem issued a report in 1957 recommending that homosexual acts in private between consenting adults no longer be actionable as criminal offenses. British churchmen, who take the traditional Chris tian view that homosexuality is a grave sin, have indicated qualified agreement with these recommendations. American effort to save Latin America from hunger, anarchy and Communism, and we should not be too suprised if he leaps once again perhaps making a grand tour of South America, emphasizing the common Latin heritage and culture of their j opte and the French. If he is prepared to lead a combined European foray Into Latin America in the form of a ser ious and generous economic aid program, closely co-ordinated with the Alianza, many Americans would clap not ; ably do more harm than good. lt may be somewhat unfair and oversimple to say so, but the sum total of Gaullism out- i side of France seems to amount , uli aimtg w guillg pi W- o
