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FRIDAY, MiDFORD!K.TBIBUNI "Evtsryona In Southern Oregoa BedlTheMallTrlbuno ubilsiiVd Daily except Saturday by MEDKOKD PRINTING CO 33 Norm Fir St, Ph.77:!-6141 ROBERTW RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bua Mir ERIC W ALLEN JR., Mn Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRV CH1PMAN. Telej Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporti Ed tor OLIVE SI ARCHER Women's Edltoi DALE EHICKSONCIrcuJatlon Mgr An Independent Newipapei Entered as second claw matter at Mcdford Ort'Kon under Act ol March 3. 1697 SUBSCRIPTION RATES WM.ll I" .AJdv"nc,e ,, u.my ana aN"; Dailv and Sunday 8 moa 10 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa 5.00 Sunday Omy One year IS 00 Single Copy IMalledl M By Ca:nel And Motor Route Dailv and Sunday 1 year tit 00 Pally and Sunda 1 mo lj3 Sunday Only 1 mo. wo Carrlei and Vendor! Copy 10o Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper ol Jackson County United Press International Sull Leased Wire U. P 1 Telepho!o Newsplcturea "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" CIRCULATIONS Advertising, Representative: ANF.I.SON ROBERTS & ASSOCI-atc-c rti,.a in Nrw York. Cm cbso Detroit. San Francisco, Lo acinic, - w Denver. NEWSPAPII PUIltSHERS ASSOCIATION NATION A I EDITORIAL. c6T,3M Memner California Newspaper Publishers Association Flight o' Time Mcdford and Jackson County History from tne files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO Scpl. 1953 (Sunday) Evergreen Bus lines fares for school children will not be in creased at this time, it has been announced. -Mervyn C. Gleason, Central Point, won the Mcdford Mail Tribune Bargain Day contest for being the earliest Tribune car ried who entered. 20 YEARS' AGO Sepl. 13. 1IU3 (Monday) Fire destroys Faber Ware house at Central Point; loss estimated at $5,500. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "People continue In save gasoline out of a four-gallon allotment to go to Hie woods but not to cut nexl winter's fuel, of which a forth-coming shortage is alleg ed." 30 YEARS AGO Sepl. 13, 1933 (Wednesday) Appraisal of valley irrigation projects approved by govern ment. Failure of NRA and Roosevelt recovery schemes predicted by head of Technocrats. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 111. V.I23 (Thursday) Local boy held for cashing forged checks on extensive scale. Ohio flood victims acknowlege Medford gifts. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 13, 1913 (Saturday) Eleven carloads of Bosc pears were shipped out of the valley today by the Rogue River Fruit and Producers association. E. B. Hanley has started con struction of a $3,000 modern storeroom and packing house on his ranch four miles west of Mcdford. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It superior; even er eight is eacellent; five el sit it good. 1. What shell fish is common ly believed to be fit for human consumption only in the months containing the letter "R"? 2. What is the official Russian news agency called? 3. Harriet Beecher Stowe is famous as the author of what book? 4. What was the one word that Poo's raven repeated? 5. If a pen and ink cost BO Cents, and the pen cost 50 cents more than the ink, what did the ink cost? 6. What game is sometimes called barnyard golf? 7. Elephants drink through Oieir trunks; true or false? 8. A contagious disease is the same as an infectious disease; true or false? 9. Warren G. Harding was President of (he U. S.; for what did the initial stand? 10. Does the Pacific Ocean cover about one-four, one-third, or one-half of the earth's sur face'.' Answers: 1. Oysters, t. Tats. 3. "L'nclc Tom's Cabin." 4, "Nevermore." I. Five rents. 6. Horseshoes. 7. False. 8. False, t. Gamaliel. 10. One-third. MATIIIK .SCHEDULED ASHLAND Johnny Mathis, well-known vocal artist, will ap pear under the sponsorship of Southern Oregon college at lied rick Junior High school in Mcd ford, Oct. 22, Jeff Lee, director of field services at the college has announced. 4 SEPTEMBER 13. IW.3 Sales Tax The Legislature's Interim Committee on Tax ation has voted to undertake a study of a sales tax for Oregon. This is a good idea. Such studies have been made before, to no avail. But the time has come for a new consideration We have been more recent months, with the now say they would favor such a tax provided it were coupled with income and property tax relief. It mav even be that the time has arrived when a majority of Oregon voters would approve such a measure despite their repeated rejections in the past. THE last major survey of Oregon's tax program undertaken by an outside expert was six years ago, when Prof. John F. sitv did so. He did not, at that tax. Oregon then still had surpluses left over from the postwar years, and the income and prop erty taxes were sufficient to carry the burdens of state services. But Professor Sly did say that, when the state's general fund budget exceeded about $333 million for a biennium, a sales tax should be con sidered, both to raise the added revenues needed by a growing state, and to reduce the burden of income and property taxes. WHAT many people do not realize, or ignore if they do realize it, are these things: Oregon is, and always has been, a "high service" state, with the people asking for, and supporting, good education, good highways, vet erans benefits, forest rehabilitation and protec tion, agricultural research and farmer assistance, efficient police services, good institutional care for those requiring it, and the other things which a state can provide for the people it serves. The proportion of people in the active earn ing and taxpaying years has been decreasing, while the proportion of those in the pre-earning and post-retirement years who require more of the expensive state services than others has increased. THE combination of these factors have served to boost the level of income taxes to a point where many taxpayers are in rebellion. The same factors have boosted property taxes to a point where they are almost stances, particularly in on fixed incomes and on lishing homes and families. Yet, at the same time, there is considerable wealth in Oregon. Also, at the same time, the per capita total taxation in Oregon is actually lower than it is in either Washington or Cali fornia both of them safes tax states. Is it, then, time to put a "third leg" on Ore gon's "two-legged" taxation program? JT MAY BE. And this is tha intnriin fnmmittnn Whether the referral of the income tax law is in protest to it, specifically, or whether it is simply in protest to all is unclear. Probably various people have various motivations. But this much is eminently clear: If Oregon is going to continue its present level of services including good schools, colleges and universities it is going to need more money. If it is going to take care of the huge tide of youngsters who, in another two years, will be seeking college edu cations, it is going to need much more money. If Oregonians can be it is our belief that they will, as in the past, be willing to dig down a little deeper. And it mav be that a property tax program is the best way in which it can be done, fairly and justly. E.A. Hopes for Bear Creek It is gratifying to see that, at long last, some thing is being done to see if Bear creek our stagnant, valley-long community open sewer can be cleaned up. For years it has been a case of everyone talk ing about it but no one doing anything about it. Now, with the Rogue Basin project in the offing, it finally appears that a solution is in sight. The addition of a few cubic feet per second to summertime flow would do worlds of good in making the creek the attractive waterway which it should and could be. rpiIERE are many uses for water. We drink it, bathe in it, do dishes ami laundry in it, use it for livestock and irrigation and power, for fish ing and recreation. Each of these uses is a legitimate one. It can also legitimately be used for the double purpose of increasing the enjoyment of a stream, and eliminating the twin problems of pollution and health danger, both now inherent to the situation along Bear creek. If, for a relatively minor cost, we can change summertime Bear creek from a stinking, scummy sewer, a menace to health ami an offense to the eye, into a stream large enough to carry away the dirt and the filth, to regain its beauty, and nerhaps even to carry fish again this, then will be money well spent. E.A. Another of life's modern annoyances seems to be increasing the use of wire staples on mailed pamphlets, press "re leases" and periodicals. Even some slate departments art? using them on their house organs. Of course, there's a choice either break a fingernail getting them open, find something to pry them open, or toss them into the waste basket. We usually prefer the latter. Oregon Statesman, Salcnj, Study of a sales tax for Oregon and more impressed, in number of people who Sly of Princeton Univer time, recommend a sales confiscatory in many in the case of retired people young people just estab one of the things which milt nnncirlpr taxes, indiscriminately, convinced of these facts, balanced sales-income- r i Lropoui .. 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 cublication is oermissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Editorials Liked To the Editor: Friends in Medford have recently mailed us a number of good editorials from your paper. Some were reprints from other papers, others signed with the initials E.A. All that we have been privil eged to read exhibit a high degree of creative intelligence and selectivity, or in the vernacular a lot of good com mon horse sense. More than the editorials of number of papers we see, in cluding Western Edition, the New York Times, which are many times most excellent, the editorials in the Mail Tribune give one hope and courage in the fight for a finer and more democratic America. More power to you! Mark A. Chambcrlin, Route 3, Box 1033, Gresham, Ore. School Bible Class To the Editor: Monday, my 4th grader brought home a form from school which 1 was to fill out and return if I wished her to have Bible study lessons at school. I did not return the form (for various reasons, irrelevant herein) and thereby excused her from this class. Tuesday, my child came home and said: 'Well. I mav as well go into Bible studv because they told us those who don't take it just have to sit in the old school room and work." Someone explained to my little girl that "the others will get to go hear lots of nice interest ing stories, and all you'll get to do is sit here and work on as signments," she told me. I believed this sort ol ming settled. When has the school scheduled time for a Bible story class? If such class is ar ranged, why not a class in science, or pnuosopny, lor me students who do not wish lo hear Bible stories? Is this not unfair lo children? Is it not a form of pressure by religious groups to force children beyond parential guid ance? Please withhold my name for my child's sake. A Mother. Central Point, Ore. Soul Searching To the Editor: Perhaps the Medford attorney who suggested that "inactive Democrat com mittee people be replaced but did not know how to do it" can not impress tnem with anything the Democrat party has done in the past two years that would cause the workers to feel proud of their parly or their leader.-! Was the Bay of Pics affair satisfactorily handled? Were the Russians taken out of Cuba as scheduled? Is this whole af fair closed, or is there more fact than fiction that ,i deal with Russia lo get Russian troops out of Cuba before elec tion time in 19M in exchange for up to $10 billion is being offered? Does the so-called treaty with Russia really give any advantage to U.S. security? Does the attorney believe Russia will ever he anything but a threat lo US? Does this Democrat-controlled Legislature's tax bill really give anvone a fair dear If so, why? , ...... .i ... .i... who suggests replacing Demo ... .. ... . , lm' Bn' """7 "thinking about all the millions party representative to Sa e , midlll(M),.,llc. "ZVl , h in .5 ; road Americans who don't have V 7,h, ' ' i , "? committee 1- crat committee people controls the Democrat partv machinery ' J. now. thf , d In Jackson county' 'n,-ro;d American feels these No wonder the' partv wants , llys- ' n Pup his paper to have active workers, there j '" reading where the Rad isn't anvthins lo work (or ev ! ,or 'he Radical Lett iwnt tn islihi f.iilurM When this ! h formed this or that new attorney wonders what hr.Piviv j ed to the majority of the Demo- crat partv of last vear he m.ty think of an answer. It'i protty i obvious that lots of Dmo, r.ils have been doing some oul searching, thinking and have seen the light and changed. h.nr MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON registration. There will be many more doing the same thing in the months to come. Mrs. Catherine Lynch, 139 Kenwood ave., Medford. Unhappy Fishermen To the Editor: There are, at a recent count, 2,500 unhappy fishermen, who are uneasy at the Game Commission's plan to cease stocking Hyatt Lake with trout. These 2,500 unhappy sports men are the ones who have signed a petition at Mrs. Dora Bowman's Hyatt Lake store, begging the commission NOT lo make the lake a warm-water fishery; and urging the com mission to continue to stock the beautiful lake with trout. Two years ago, they tell me, the commission planted a num ber of trout in Hyatt. Today you can catch some of those trout, only they are now 18 and 19 inches long, fat, beautiful. ana they tight like a steelhead. They are delicious eating, also. Doesn't this prove that Hyatt Lake is an ideal trout-rearing oociy ol watery The Oregon trout (especially the BIG ones at Howard Prairie and Hyatt Lake) are so-called glamorous fish, sought by men and women anglers from EV ERY state of the land. Tile registers at the resorts men tioned above attest to this. I doubt very much that these people will ever come back to this area when they find out that Hyatt Lake will be a warm- water fishery only, where the Smells As Good As A Real Committee By Arthur Hoppe We've got a new national com mittee on the national scene. It's called "The National Com mittee Against The Treaty of Moscow," meaning the nuclear test ban. And I'm worried. What worries me is the com- i mittee's headquarters is in the j Madison avenue office of Mar- vin Liebman Associates, Inc.. I a public relations firm. And ; that's alreadv uir uuiiie ui a half dozen Right Wing commit tees. Like "The American Com mittee for Aid to the Katanga Freedom Fighters." '"The Com mittee (or the Monroe Doctrine" and, less specific ally, "The ("One million what'"' I'd like lo know.) But it's not the overcrowding thai worries me, although I bet it worries the building, superin tendent, ("Now look here, Mr. Liebman, you said it was only you and a couple of stenogra phers w hen you rented t h e place . . .") Nor am I criticizing the ef ficiency of this arrangement. After all. if the One Million wish to confer privately with the Freedom Fighters about the Monroe Doctrine, all Mr. Lieb man need do is stick his head in a paper bag. No sir. What worries me is ....-I K..a committee lo stamp out that or j sve An" u,es ne 1,01 j committee to his name. No status. No prestige. It's enough to make him a radical. j So in order to secure peace, preserve the domestic tranquil-1 ity and make money, I've be-1 Close U.S. Policy; Negotiations . -.j t Bv PHIL NEWSOM UP1 Foreign News Analyst MADRID, Spain (UPI)-Span-ish officials emphasize that maintaining close relations with the United States is a key stone of Spanish foreign p o licy They say this will continue to be true regard less of the cur rent outcome of Washington ne- si.wsom gotiations for the renewal of the U. S. Spanish base agree ment. The agreement, concluded in 1953 and - due to expire this Sept. 26, covers U. S. Strategic Air Command bases at Torre- jon outside Madrid, Moron out side Seville and Zaragoza mid way between Madrid and Bar celona, and the Mediterranean naval base at Rota. Other, smaller, installations also are involved. Generalissimo Francisco Fran- catfish, perch and bass are its only fish quarry. It is generally known that the most successful way to fish Hyatt is with a boat. Doesn't that mean then that these an glers will have to acquire first, a car; then a boat and boat trailer; and an outboard motor, along with cushions, anchor, and all the other numerous paraphernalia; plus a good rod and reel? Therefore, dealers in these items also have something to gain if Hyatt is kept up as a first-class trout fishing body of water. But aside from the financial aspect of this fishery to South ern Oregon, is the fact that these 2,500 Oregon voters are unhappy with the commission's plan for this lake, although they are petitioning for a redress. Does anyone remember that quotation, "of, by and for the people?" Jim Santich, 937 NE Croxton, Grants Pass, Ore. Tax Election Day To Be State Holiday SALEM (UPI) - Oct. 15, the day of the tax referendum elec tion, will be a state holiday. State and county offices will close, and no alcoholic bever - ages can be served until the polls close at 8 p.m. Banks and business firms are expected to remain open. gun market research on a new product. It's called: "Instant Committee." Instant Committee will come in three designs: Emergency, Standing, and for the quality trade. Ad Hoc Packaged attractively in red white and blue bunting, the kit will consist of a disposable gav- ei. wail Diaaue savine "Insi - lor All," a list of 100 D i s linguished Sponsors, one letter head, 500 petitions of Congress men beginning, "We deplore . . ." and a Certificate of Grate ful Appreciation to Our Chair man with a space for the pur chaser to fill in his name. Instant Committee, like any new committee, folds easily, it stores, however, in a cardboard box requiring only two square feet of shelf space, thus saving hundreds of dollars in office rent alone. All titles and dec larations of principle are, of course, easily erasable so the product may be re-used over and over again. And when final ly worn out, the cardboard box : itself may be boiled for seven minutes to create "Instant Com mittee Dinner." I With mass production, we i ,rom wc" 'shers. Venezuela s hope to be able to market In-! President Romulo Betancourt slant Committee at $3 98 each w,rp1 congratulations, lor $37. Hi a dozen. In return for, "he Venezuelan government 100 unwinding bands, we plan as-suri tne Prietos of its pro I to offer as a special bonus an i t,'c,",n and told them not to I Instant Sociotv or for 11X1). an ' orr' Tn Venezuelan organiza : Instant Movement. i ,lon: Friends of I niversily Hos- The onlv flaw in Instant Com- mittec so 'far is that due to mass niwwii. ,ir.m..i, ih, names of the 100 distinguished sponsors are the same m every package And who d buv the idea of a half dozen committees, j If Mr. and Mrs. de Prieto all composed of the same poo-! can get awav with all that and pie1 icome out smiling and happv, I Take your head out of t h a 1 1 reckon we can wangle through paper bag. Mr. Liebman We've j somehow or other up here in the got i question we want lo asklU. S. A. you. . j The government w ill profit, Relations co s government called for a re examination of tne treaty terms on the grounds that after 10 years changing conditions justi fied certain changes. Government officials here are wary of describing the exact changes sought or the progress of the negotiations, which they describe as being in a "deli cate" stage. But they say that since 1953 the Soviet Union has achieved Matter of Fact a jp" ai.oP (O New York Herald Tribune Syndicitt THE LUNATIC COMPROMISE VIENTIANE, Laos For the present the aifairs of this charming but endlessly troubled little country are governed by a lunatic c o m p romise, h a 1 f w a y be tween partition and neutraliza tion. You would say partition straight out if it were not for Aisnn the map. tne map, showing the probable lo cation of the six main kinds of military forces now operating in Laos, looks like nothing so much as an attack of measles in six different colors. In order of their current im portance, these forces are: first, the anti-Communist army of Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, number ing just under 60,000; second, the 25.000 plus of the indigen ous Communist Pathet Lao; third, the 7,000 or so neutralists under Gen. Kong Le; fourth, the armed Meo tribesmen, who are also anti-Communist; fifth, the seven or eight North Vietna mese Communist battalions which have remained in Laos in violation of the Geneva agree ment; and sixth and finally, about a thousand Chinese Com munist troops disguised as "roadbuilders," also here in violation of the Geneva accord. IHESE multitudinous forces are partly localized, to be sure. The anti-Communist army uuius uie crucial meKong valley, for instance, whereas the North Vietnamese are mostly on the line of the infiltration route into South Viet Nam, and the Chi nese "roadbuilders" are all in Phong Saly province, on the Chinese border. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As you may have gathered from reading the papers, listen ing to the radio and watching the TV screens, the world is full of problems. There's the mess in Saicon and what to do about it. And the ' nuclear test ban treaty. Is it 1 good or pad; is hroosh mellow j ing as he grows older? Or has he got something ui) his sleeve that hasn t yet met the eye? TN OUR country, taxing less, A spending more, putting the difference on the cuff and leav ing the bill to be paid bv future generations while we LIVE IT UP as we go. Is that good or bad? Here in Oregon, shall we vote the tax bill down come the 15th of October and trust to luck that we can get a better one later? And so on. frilERE are problems evcry- - where. In Maracaibo. down in Vene zuela, for example. pRIMARILYthe Maricaibo 1 problem concerns Mr. and Mrs. De Prieto who had a happy event in their family the i other day. A dispatch from Ven iezuela says: With gifts beginning to arrive. tne proua parents of QUIN TUPLET boys pondered today how they will support five new sons in their one-bedroom home on Mr. de Prieto's $10 a day in come. 'IMIE mother, Mrs7 Ines Marie - Cuervo de Prieto, age 34, got out of bed to take a brief iook at her problems or. it ap pears, to count her blessings. She and her husband are blessed not only with the newly arrived quints, but with 15 other chil dren by previous marriages. She told visitors: "With only one bedroom, it's going to be a little crowded at our house, but mv husband and I are VERY PROUD." 4 LL is going well. The mnlh I ne mother s room is filled with flowers. Her husband was busy all day answering a constant flow of telephone calls i W" ciotmng lor tne i ',ve, mf?n.ls ?nd, sfnt alon8 five basketsful of diapers. . Everything appears to be love- i '' Wllh 'he gxse hanging high t roxci.t-sii-iv Keystone for Bases i ;h th. ItniioH Stale in parity with the United States in nuclear wanare ana uiai a cover of fighter planes is no longer sufficient for Spain's de fenses. Therefore, they say that Spain is taking an even greater risk now than before in permit ting the bases on her soil. Such an argument lends weight to reports that, among other things, Spain believes that further U. S. military aid should be given in the form of But this localization is very incomplete, to put it mildly. Every outfit has its men behind the lines of almost every other outfit. The Meos, the neutralists, and the anti-Communists are now cooperating, but the Chi nese alone are to be found in only one spot. All the other forces make an interpenetrating pattern of spots almost past counting. If this were anywhere but Laos, you would therefore pre dict a kind of general donny- brook at an early date. In fact, comparative peace now reigns. In the last dry season, the Com munists tried to destroy the neu tralists and failed. They had a whack at the anti-Communists and were beaten off. They at tempted to liquidate the Meos with no success. And after these additional flagrant violations of the Geneva accord, they sat back to lick their wounds. AS if today, indeed, the Com munist position is at least marginally weaker than the po sition of the Meo-neutraiist-anti-Communist coalition. The road from Viet Nam, which brings supplies to the main Pathet Lao forces in the Plaine des Jarres, has been cut for a long time, and they are even short of rice. If the neutralist Prime Minister, Prince Souvanna Phouma, would give the order, the neu tralists and anti-Communists could probably clear the Plaine des Jarres of all Pathet Lao forces. He is highly unlikely to give such an order, however. In stead, he has lately been nego tiating with his brother, Prince Souphanouvong, the Laotian Communist front man. After bounding out in a huff, Souplv anouvong wants to rejoin the government. Furthermore, there are no signs whatever of Com munist military buildup. Hence the forecast is that the lunatic compromise will creak along for a while longer. Yet there are two points that must still be noted. Whatever Washington may think, the Rus sians have almost certainly lost all power and authority here in Laos. While they were the chief suppliers of the Pathet Lao, as they were until the Geneva ac cord, the Soviets remained able to call the tune. They lost that ability when they the sole Com munist faithful to Geneva cut off their supply-airlift and gave the planes to Prince Souvanna Phouma's government. THE Soviet embassy does not even have representatives at Khang Khay, where Prince Souphanouvong has his head quarters. Both the Chinese Com munists and the North Vietna mese meanwhile have more im portant representation at Khang Khay than here in Vientiane, the official capital. Between them, the North Vietnamese and Chi nese now absolutely control the Pathet Lao. Futhermore, there is every reason to believe that the Chi nese rather than the Russians now control the North Vietna mese. Peking, in other words, is now calling the tune here. The absence of any buildup for fu ture action rather clearly means that for the present the tune is not going to be aggressive. But there is one more point to note. The whole uneasy bal ance here could be instantly up set, and most of Laos could be rolled up like a carpet, by the mere incursion of another five or ten thousand North Vietna mese and-or Chinese troops. That is a fact well worth remembering. mStNAHf II AN INFORMED CITIZEN GIT ACTIVE IN POLITICS WHIU O0IN THE YOUNG REPUBLICANS ON CAMI l s a i i rA.f l i 2 rtvT-v; ausjs t,v of Spanish Continue . modern weamns anA n... modern weapons and thai u should be free. The U. S. position, according to these reports, is that further modernization of Spanish armed forces should be Spanish ex pense. Under terms of the agree ment, negotiations for renewal may continue six months after the expiration date and if no agreement is possible then the bases should be vacated by the end of the year. No one expects this to happen Although Spain is known to be lieve she should have member ship in NATO, Spanish officials deny vehemently that NATO membership also is a condition of further use of the bases. Strictly Personal By Sydney J. Harris (o Field Enterprises, Inc. CRACKPOT SOLUTIONS It is pitifully easy, of course, to laugh at crackpots and no where more so than in a news r. paper office, ft 1 wnicn is beseig- ed d a l . y by crackDnlK nf o. TpK" 47 ery description i'.' ii as well as hu those defy i n g StsS , ! all description, f Jfcai,'- O When we stnn WlrS. mA deriding or de spising, these Harris obsessed crea tures, and try to analyze their motives, I think we find the same basic drive in all of them: the deep desire to bring order out of chaos. A crackpot is a person who is looking for a guiding principle in life. He wants to be able to put his finger on one wheel in the machinery of life, and say "This is what makes everything turn around." He may think "the answer" is to be found in the pyramids. " nr in rilflnrv hnhltc In - new kind nf rurrpnpv U'hal. - ever it mav be. he thinks the world is all of a piece, and -that he has found the key to it. It is commendable that he ' looks for a guiding principle ' in life; most of us are too lazy -or too pleasure-and-orofit-bcnt to spend even a few moments thinking about ultimate qucs-, uons. in one sense, we are ' not good enough or serious enough to become crackpots. A fanatic," it has been . saio, "is mere v a nerson who seriously practices what we only preach." Society, in one respect, is indebted to its fa natics for achieving what "reasonable" people never thought possible. Where the crackpot goes wrong, it seems to me, is in failing to recognize the diver sity of the wond. One of the wonders of God is His infinite originality. The universe (as scientists are only now beginning to discover) is not a cold, mechanical opera tion, but an organism of tre mendous variety. When we get into the heart of an atom, we find that it has more freedom than scientists of the past ever imagined. Fundamentally, the crackpot is looking for a religion, being unsatisfied with the traditional Now, it is better to look for a religion than to be unconcerned about the questions it tries to answer; out a religion cannot be something smaller than man and all the crackpot "solu tions" solve only a fraction of man's problems. "In my Father's house are many mansions" a certain book tells US. as an enrlnrintr rpminrl er wai aiversuy ana not uniform ity, makes for goodness. Nobody has exclusive possession of the an ot living well otherwise, the Potter would have seen to it that all His pots were cracked in the same way. JOIN THl YOUNG DEMDCRATS
