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Newspaper Page Text4 ZDrORJ2&TUBUNS """Everyone in Southern O'refon Reads Trta Mail Tribune" fubushed Daily except Saturday by ME13FORD PRINTING CO 33 NorlhrirSt, Ph;27a-el4l ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY AdverUslnl Menaaer GERALD T LATHAM, Bue Mr ERIC ALLEN JR.. Mnn Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRV CHIHMAN, Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women'! Edltoi DALEERICKSON. CtrculaUonJtfjrr An Independent Newspepel Entered ei second class matter at Medford Oreion under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaU In Advanca .,. Daily and Sunday 1 year 1 00 DsiW and Sunday moi 10 00 Dailv and Sunday 3 moa 500 Sunday Only One year S 00 Single Copy (Mailedl JOe Bv Carrier And Motor Route. Daily and Sunday 1 year 2J 00 Daily and Sunday mo l.p Sunday Only 1 mo. s Carrlei and Vendors j:opy 10c . r. - . nttti nl Mrffnril Official Paper ol Jackson County United Press International Dull Leated Wire 0. P 1 Telephoto Newiplcturea TlEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU NELSON ROBERTS i ASSOCl ATES Of'lcea In New York, Chi cago Detroit, San rranclaco. Los Aneeln Seattle. Portland Denver. NATION At EDITOIIAl AsftbcftnaM 3 U J Member California Newspaper PubUihera Axoclatlon Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ' Tn Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 15. 1II5J (Thursday) The police committee of the Medford city council met today to consider the report of Port land Attorney Howard I. Bob bin on the city police depart ment. Action must be taken this fall on several suspended school dis tricts in Jackaon county, Alf B. Mckvold, Jackson county super intendent of schools, has de clared. 2(1 YEARS AGO Oil. 15, 1913 (Friday) Klamath Falls defeats Med ford 40 to 7 in football game at Klamath Falls. Wiom Arthur Perm's "Ye ' Smnriop Pot" column: " 'In these days of meat shortages, one feels a ceriain lenuei m-os for an inch -thick beef steak,' agonizes a California scribe. Many feel tiie same way about it. But in variably the steak re gards tenderness as something concrete." 39 YEARS AGO Ocl. 15, lflB (Sunday) Valley Dairymen adopt NRA code and boost price of milk. Boy hunter shoots self in hand as Chinese pheasant season opens. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 15, 1023 (Monday) Three men suspected of being Siskiyou train robbers seen on lower Klamath river; arrests due. Bert Orr and Bob Strang de feat horseshoe pitching experts in game at Edgewood park. 50 YEARS AGO Ocl. 15. 1013 (Wednesday) Syndicate bids $7,782 premium for Jackson county highway bonds. Boosters rally opening devel opment campaign here draws 300 enthusiasts. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is eicellent; five r six Is good. 1. Correct the following "Whom are you talking about." 2. The bite of a tarantula is usually fatal; true or false? 3. What was the name of the "ship" that Commander Alan B. bhepard Jr. rode into space? 4. Would you guess the nor mal life span of a swan to be nearer 5, 25, 50 or 70 years? 5. New York is the most pop ulous city in the u. S.; which is the largest city in area? 6. Name the least populous U. S. state capital. 7. Who in the movie industry has won the most "Oscars"? 8. Would you say that the average world temperature is 42, 59, 65, or 73 degrees? 9. Ordinarily is a life insur ance policy incontestable by the insurance company alter 2, 5 or 10 years? 10 Name the world's largest continent. Answer; 1. About whom are ynu talking? 2. False. 3. Red stone. 4. 50 yean. 5. Los Angel es. I. Carson City, Nev. 7. Walt Disney, s. 59 degrees. (. 2 years. 10. Asia. VSJASIOCIATION lUESUAY. OCIOBhK 1j. 1UW Candidate- Watching On May 1, 1936, we were standing behind a window overlooking Unler den Linden, Berlin's principal thoroughfare. After a protracted wait, Adolf Hitler rode by, standing in an open car. The crowds lining the streets went wild. Their adoration of this inoffensive looking little man was so strong, so wild, that it could almost be felt sensed physically. The very air was charged with uncontained excitement, an unthinking, emotion-laden mob-like feeling. The atmosphere was similarly crackling last Saturday, when U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater ap peared to speak before some 8,500 Republicans in Eugene, most of them admirers. V MOW before we are accused of comparing ' Senator Goldwater and Der Fuehrer, note that we are not; we are comparing the reactions of the crowds surrounding them. Many of the most vocal Goldwater cheering sections were composed of boys and girls far short of voting age. Their excitement was of a kind often reserved for a champion athlete, or a war hero, and one hardly could suspect them of making Goldwater their hero on the basis of his political philosophy. Some wore silly-looking bands around their heads, carried a variety of banners and placards with the Senator's name or picture, and they were especially vigorous in their attempts to sur round Gov. Nelson Rockefeller with their signs, a gesture which smacked more of youthful, un thinking malice than it did of deliberate dis courtesy. Others wore what is almost a "young conservative" uniform short-collared white shirt, narrow dark tie, three-button suit (with all buttons buttoned) and narrow trousers with cuff at ankle level. fTM-IE "popularity contest" between Rockefeller and Goldwater last Saturday, if judged on the basis of total audience reaction, was a walk away for the Senator. He was cheered more loudly, and more fre quently, during his talk than was the Governor. Both of them scored their best points when they departed from their prepared texts, and ex temporized attacks on the Kennedy administra tion, for which they were roundly applauded by the partisan audience. The crowds were both sizable (with Gold water drawing perhaps 1,000 more, at least in part because he spoke in the evening, while Rockefeller spoke at noon to an audience many of whom had paid $4.50 for a box lunch). FOLLOWING Rockefeller's talk, a number of people came forward to shake his hand, get his autograph, or just look at him up close. Following Golrlwater's talk, there was a surge of young placard - bearing supporters to the speaker's stand, apparently just hoping to get close to him. Both men are fairly good as political speakers, knowing when and how to emphasize a point, when to pause for applause, when to be humor ous and when serious. Both are rather attractive physically, in a masculine way. Each handles himself well both in crowds and under the searching questioning of reporters. On the latter point, Goldwater was somewhat more forthright and responsive in his answers than was Rocke feller, although both tended to equivocate which is not only expectable but olten necessary when one is not an announced candidate. THERE wore no particular surprises in the re niai'ki; fMi'inn m- infnrmyl nf nitripr man They agreed that Richard M. Nixon probably is working for the Republican nomination. Rockefeller invited Goldwater to debate with him during the coming months in efforts to work toward greater unity of purpose and policy within the party. Goldwater, to no one's surprise, declined. Rockefeller acknowledged that the problems facing the United States in the l!H0s are not without their difficulties water tended to view them in terms of black and white, readily soluble by stout hearts. DOTH, of course, were nunciation of the To have expected anything else in such circum stances would be unrealistic. But one gained the impression that Gold water would junk the entire Kennedy program (to say nothing of practicaly all other legislation enacted in the past 30 years), while Rockefeller woud retain many of the social and economic ad vances of recent years, while claiming to be able to administer them better. One also gathers the impression that Gold water is enjoying himself hugely in the vast and sudden popularity which is showered upon him, while Rockefeller, despite a ready grin and oc casional humor, gives the impression of a man who knows he is fighting against odds. "V'E also notes that both men are intense poli ticians, with Goldwater taking an emotional approach, Rockefeller a more intellectual one. Rockefeller offers plans; Goldwater offers slo gans. Both castigate the Democrats, and uphold "principle" as opposed to "expediency." Rockefeller is running, we would judge, be cause he desperately wants to be President of the United States, and thinks he would make a good one. Goldwater is running, we would judge, because he suddenly finds himself, all unexpect edly, at the forefront of a rising tide of protests at today's complexities and uncertainties. At any rate, those are our conclusions after a day of candidate-watching. E.A. and complexities. Gold- unsparing in their de- Kennedy administration "Down, Boy Not That One Down, You Dumb Mutt" STAFF MM8c(5 AGtHCitS n A(tl J ef "BOA P09r Communications Letters to tha Editor must bear tht name and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves tha right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted tor publication must not exceed 400 words. Tha letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent tht views of tr paper, in fact tha contrary is often the case. Differing View To the Editor: I am a sopho more at Medford Senior high. Having failed to see any let ters to the editor concerning the article on the meeting at Hoover school, with Walter Huss and Dr. Kenneth Goff, I believe that I should tell how the action ap peared to me, and (I am sure) to many others. After reading the above men tioned article, in the Oct. 6 issue of the Tribune, it is amazing to me how facts can be so distorted and still be presented as the truth. The article mentions George Winne's attempts to ask ques tions during the question period. After the first few questions the four students' attempts to ask questions were far from orderly, and appeared to be for the pur pose of disturbance. Winnes first question was misstated in the aritcle. The question was "What good do you think you are doing America, by attempting to keep Gus Hall out of the Oregon colleges?" Needless to say this is quite dif ferent from . what the article says. As regarding the statement that Huss cut Winne off and told him that there was only one question per person: f heard no such statement, and it is unrea sonable to think that this state ment was made because Winne was recognized and did ask more than one question. Some of the boys' "questions" were not really questions, but derogatory statements, and they were asked to put them in the form of questions, if they wanted to be recognized. In response to a statement made by Goff, Winne (who was out of order since another man was asking a question) stood up and pointed his finger at Dr. Goff. The article says "Huss or dered him to sit down and the youth complied." It doesn't men tion how long a period elapsed before he sat down. Actually it was only after several people in the audience told him to sit down, that he did so. Space limitations prohibit naming all the discrepancies in the article. It would seem from this arti cle that the only persons inter viewed, were those who ex pressed dislike for Dr. Goff and Freedom Center. If a paper cannot have a re porter at such meetings, it should at least interview persons on both sides of the question: which evidently was not done by this reporter. The title of this article and al most everything in it is entirely one sided, and is evidently aimed at degrading anti-Communist efforts, and I admit, it did a pretty good job of it ! Tom Stiehl llfi Elk st. Medford Pattern To the Editor: Rarely do we pick up a newspaper or maga zine these davs without encoun tering headlines on "scgrega ' tion," "integration," or "dis crimination." There has been a great deal of criticism of churches in this connection. The Methodist Church, for one. has come under severe criticism lor having a Central Jurisdiction made up of Negroes onlv. Many years ago i the church recognized the prob lems involved but did not feel it wise to force integration. Instead they provided legislation enab ling Negro and white congrega tions to merge whenever they decided by democratic ole to do so. Many hae. In other cases Negroes have been just as re luctant to give up close associa tion with people of their own background and understanding as have the whites. Recently a group of Method ists, unfortunately uninformed, asked that the Methodist Pub- MEDFORD .MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDfORD, II c lishing House, a church-operated concern with more than 2,000 employees, "integrate its oper ation by employing Negroes for all categories of employment." The response of Lovick Pierce, president and publisher, is en lightening. He said that for sev eral years the Publishing House has operated under the policy of neither hiring or refusing to hire anyone because of race. Person nel records do not identify em ployees by race. Recently, when it seemed advisable to have that information it had to be ob tained from department heads. They found that more than 12 per cent of all employees were Negroes while the total Negro membership of the Methodist church is approximately 4 per cent. Negro employees are hold ing positions in 55 job categories including editor, associate edi tor, secretary, supervisor, cler ical worker, office manager, business-machine operator, or der clerk, shipping and receiv ing clerk, cook, janitor and maid. Mr. Pierce stated that those holding these positions do so because "they are efficient, capable, and interested in the success of our efforts to serve the church. We cannot afford employees, regardless of race, who do not bring these qualities to the service they perform." Here are policies that could well serve as a pattern for both Negroes and whites. They are all the more significant when it is realized that the headquarters of this publishing business is in Nashville, Tcnn. A. Ray Neptune Rogue Valley Manor Medford All God's Chillun To the Editor: A Yale profes sor once referred to the extra ordinary capacity of the human mind to withstand the introduc tion of knowledge. So, too. the impact of a new idea beats in vain against the strong wall of prejudice. What some people mistake for thinking is really only a rearrangement of their prejudices. That seems to be the diffi culty of Ralph McKinnis and Lewis Perry, among others: un able or unwilling to learn any thing from the eminent authori ties on the race problem whom I have quoted in these columns from time to time; e.g., the dec laration of 192 anthropologists, and that of 80 white clergymen in Atlanta, Ga, (mv letter of 9-29). Mr. McKinnis again exposed his extreme racism (10-6) with more of his absurd claims of racial superiority, and Mr. Per ry asserted gratuitously ( 10-7) that 1 "seemed to know very little about (the subject)." To be sure. I make no claim to superior knowledge in the field, although I have given years to study of it, lived in the south for more than a decade, supervised Negro employees, organized the first Negro Hi-Y Club (YMCA organization (or high school students) in a south ern city and served as adviser to student leaders starling a YMCA for their Negro college in the same city. Moreover, 1 always have been eager to learn from acknow ledged authorities, white or Neg ro, and have been proud also to count among my friends Negro clergymen, business men. arti sans, larmers. YMCA Secre taries, and at least one distin guished sociologist Or need I remind our mis guided correspondents of the achievements of such Negroes as the following'' The great scientist. Dr. George Washington Carver: Harvard professor and world siatesman. Dr. Ralph Bunche; singers Marian Anderson and Roland Hayes, among many; Nobel prize-winner, Albert John Luthuli, President of South Af- OREGON Adenauer Germany; PHIL NEWSOM L'Pl Foreisn News Analyst "Adenauer may well be deemed the west German statesman since Bismarck." It was a compliment from one great man to another. For the man who made the remark was Sir Winston Churchill, he who led Great Britain through the perilous World War II years rica's African Nationalist Con gress? Or, these leaders of emerg ing African nations: Julius Ny ercre, LL.D. (Duquesene Uni versity), Prime Minister of Tan ganyika, perhaps most highly re garded of all the African leader; Charles Dunbar Sherman, Doc tor of Public Laws (Springfield college), distinguished econo mist and educator of West Af rica and President of the World Alliance of Young Men's Chris tian Associations; Michael I. Okpara, MD., eminent Christian churchman and Prime Minister of Eastern Nigeria; Dr. Hast ings Kamuzu Banda (University of Chicago), Prime Minister of Nyasaland; or our recent visitor to these shores, the "Lion of Judah" and Emperor of Ethi opia to name only a few? "All God's chillun", too! Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford Socialism the Solution To the Editor: What are the causes of juvenile delinquency? The Socialist Labor Party has listed several causes and every one of these is directly attribut able to capitalism. Among the factors which are necessarily disturbing the younger generation is the per sistence of international ten sions. For example, the teen agerlike everyone else lives under the threat of instant an nihilation but this prospect may be harder to accept at 15 or 20 than at 40 or 50. A frank state ment regarding the connection between world strife and de linquency comes from Bertram Beck, director of the Children's Bureau Special Juvenile De linquency Projects, who says, in part: "... The graph of delin quency shows an undeniable correlation between war or threat of war and the inci dence of delinquency . . ." Another important faevtor is today's general uncertainty about what lies ahead for it is most demoralizing to the young because for them the military draft adds complications. This draft makes it impossible for both boys and girls to plan realistically for peaceful, pro ductive lives. It encourages a devil-may-care attitude and heightens anti-social feelings. Being jerked out of school or from a good job by an omnipo tent Uncle Sam is bad for youth. For he realizes, even be fore he is well launched into high school, that federal govern ment power transcends that of his parents. Consequently, there is a premature disregard of pa rental authority. He knows they are powerless over him, or at least soon will be. There are at least three oth er significant factors under capitalism that contribute to the rising delinquency rate. These are the commercial ex ploitation of crime and vio lence; the slum environment and capitalism's emphasis on materialism. .lust as the causes of juvenile delinquency are clearly attrib utable to capitalism, so are they ineradicable from it! This outworm way of life can never rid itself of war, uncertainty, an unheeding lust lor profits, slums and the material empha sis of capitalism. The Socialist Labor Party charges that capitalism is ut terly beyond hope of reform and that it must inevitably breed an ever greater measure of evils. Juvenile delinquency is simply one more problem the solution of which awaits the advent of Socialism. Speed the Day! Ilenrv R. Korman Box 541 Longview. Wash. Trash? TskTtsK! To the Editor: A letter to the editor, published Thursday, Oct. 10. was well worth read ing. Get a copy of the Tribune if you missed it. The woman with the loud "soap box" ora tions and quiet anonymity was absolutely right! "Beach Party." which re ceived a good rating from PTA groups, etc., DID scm to have physically over-developed fe males in it . . . BUT, for that matter "Cheetah." in the Med ford Mail Tribune's comic strip, Steve Canyon, is quite t dish for the little kiddies to view. Suggested sex and all! She was right again when she told of our inferior second feature. "The Choppers." lit w"hs a real dog). It did depict the strip ping of cars. But ... the teen age villians were apprehended Retires After Job of Remaking Erhard Becomes Chancellor to final victory over Adolf Hit ler. And the man of whom he was speaking was Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer, who rebuilt a war-wrecked Germany into one of the world's greatest financial and political powers, and which today provides the North Atlan tic Treaty Organization (NATO) with every second soldier avail able for defense of the West. This is the day that Aden auer's resignation from 14 years of rule becomes effec tive. Wednesday, Ludwig (Uncle Ludy) Erhard becomes the new chancellor of the West German republic. It has been described as the by the long arm of the law, except for a miscellaneous few who were shot to death. Our well scrubbed, crewcut Med ford youth knew what a "corn-ball" movie this was, and I could hear their laughter. My point it this ... Everything we see . . . or hear ... or smell ... or taste ...or touch . . . DOES influ ence us! Why, in the Sunday S.F. Examiner I read an article about the best place to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. If, at any time in the future I wish to commit suicide ... I'll try to remember that article. I have read stories, books, watched TV and movies on narcotics, alco hol, wild women, thefts, etc . . . yet, somehow. I still consider myself to be an average Ameri can husband with a beautiful wife and three well-adjusted daughters. I'm certain we all have been "exposed," at one time or another, to something contrary to our principles. Don't knock this attitude. If we cleaned up the front page of our local newspaper, we would clean-out our freedoms. Maybe Mrs. Soapbox doesn't want to know how our young sters live ... It is evident she knows nothing of our youngsters when she says, I am well aware of the perversity of youth." Now. really! That is a bad choice of words. I've only lived here a few months and I am aware of our Medford youth . . . and it's not a gang of so-called Teenagers . they are merely young adults . . . who are a lot more aware of the difference between right and wrong than we give them credit tor. We cannot please everyone, for each motion picture has its own "personality. As Mrs Soapbox says, "Maybe it would be a good idea, in the future, if we parents got out of our comfortable "TV" chairs and went along with our chil dren to the trash, made excit ing and glamorous to them." Maybe so . . . for then she would be writing about motion pictures such as Spencer's Mountain. 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea. David and Lisa, Thrill of it All, Incredible Journey, and many, many more. She would enjoy the excitement and glamour of a good movie. I admire her for speaking for herself ... but I do not admire her (or being presumptuous enough to speak for over 6,000 people who saw Beach Party ... in the Medford area alone. The Cralerian is Medford's entertainment center. If anyone has any views or suggestions please feel free to contact me. Robert Retzer District Manager Oregon-California Theatres Medford Symphony Concert To the Editor: May we take this opportunity to ' capitalize upon the keen interest in this section of your daily newspaper, especially these past few days, to seek the support of the valley residents in a much less contro versial issue that of the forth coming concert of the Portland Symphony Orchestra at Hedrick Junior High School in Medford on Wednesday afternoon and evening, the 16th of October. The Associated Commuters of Southern Oregon College, the group sponsoring this cultural attraction, is bringing this 70 piece Symphony to the valley at a considerable expense because we believe we need an event of this kind to provide a new kind of experience that of seeing and hearing a "live" Symphony. We are indeed eager to fill the hall for both of the scheduled performances. We appreciate the fine work of Mr. Alfred S. V. Carpenter in securing the support of the Medford Branches :of the First National Bank, The I Oregon Bank, and The United States National Bank, as well as the Pacific Power and Light 'Company; however, we believe : that Jacques Singer, the inter nationally noted conductor of the orchestra and the orchestra it self deserve an audience worthy of the tremendous program S planred Mr. Singer has built the I Portland Symphony into a highly I polished group which is chal lenging the standards of the na i lion's most highly ranked en sembles. We are grateful to the valley residents who have become pa trons of this event and to the Britt Music Festival Board for its sponsoring the reception for the orchestra at the Rogue Val ley Country Club following the end of an era, an ending that came sooner than Adenauer himself wished, not as soon as Erhard and others in A d e n auer's increasingly rebellious Christian Democratic party have wished. Churchill's comparison of Ad enauer to Bismarck was not just a complimentary phrase. For Adenauer, like Bismarck, had been called upon to lead a fledgling German state and both had led it to wholly unex pected peaks of power and in fluence. Adenauer overcame doubts that the German people had re jected their Nazi past and won for them acceptance in the Western family of nations. evening performance. May we seek your support and may you share with us the feeling of great satisfaction that can come from making the Portland Sym phony's visit to Medford the most memorable of its current concert season. Tickets are still available at Mann's and Purucker's in Med ford, the Melody House in Grants Pass and at SOC. I hey may also be purchased at the door. Randy Clark, President SOC Associated Commuters Harold Friend, Chairman Portland Symphony Orchestra Ashland, Ore. Prayers Answered To the Editor: We want to thank you so much for putting our letter in your paper. Our prayers were answered. We got our Siamese kitty, Buni, back. So many nice people called our grandmother and aunt, and they all cared whether or not we found our lost kitty. We arc so happy. Grandmother and auntie sent her home on a big plane and Daddy and Mommy and us met her. We are so happy. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Louise. Linda and Bobby 7637 Hillside Oakland, Calif. Strictly Personal By Sidney J. Harris (c) Field Enterprise!. Inc. SQUARE I.N REVERSE A man I know who prides himself on being "hip" was having coffee with me when an other man entered the restau rant and nodded at my compan ion. The man I was with barely acknowledged his greeting. "What's the matter, don't you like him?" I asked. The man shrugged. "I hardly know him," he said, "but he looks awfully square to me the way that he dresses and parts his hair, and those rimless eyeglasses. Man!" "That's a strange attitude for you to take." I commented. "It seems to me that you're behav ing just like the squares you detest." "What do you mean?" he looked at me suspiciously. "How come?" "Well." I said, "what you people most dislike about the squares is the fact that they pigeon-hole life, they com partmentalize even-thing, and have smug easy answers to difficult questions. Right? "Right." he admitted, still gazing at me mistrustfully. "If a square." I went on. sees a man with a beard, he immediately classifies him as a 'beatnik.' If a square sees a person dressed a certain way, he allows that surface impression In influence his opinion and attitude, and doesn't even try to know what the individual himself is like. Right again?" "Check." he said. "And so what?" In the Day's News By FRANK From Washington: The threat of a new Berlin crisis SUBSIDED almost as quickly as it began when a So viet blockage of American mili tary traffic was withdrawn on the highway lifeline to West Berlin. U'HAT happened? ' Let's recapitulate. First, we signed the nuclear test ban treaty which, for rea sons of their own. whatever their reasons were, the Kremlin Russians wanted. Then We agreed to sell them wheat which they wanted and NEEDED. CO- Being communists The Kremlin leaders jumped to a typical communist conclu sion. Their conclusion was this: "These Americans are SOFT. "We can BLUFF THEM." C THEY tried the Berlin autcv bahn bluff. Adenauer fought for a united Germany integrated with a united Europe. He tied West Gemany's fate with the United States and his constant goal was the elimina tion of the old enmity between Germany and France. Not all these goals were ac complished, and in later years he became increasingly suspicious that accord between the United States and the Soviet Union might be reached at tha expense of a permap- uciy di- video: oermany. This and his continuing de sire for close ties with Franca led him last January to sign his accord with President Charles De Gaulle which he described as a crowning moment of his life. But within his own party there was criticisn that he had be come subservient to De Gaulla and that for French - German accord he had sacrificed some of his own earlier goals, includ ing a united Europe and his close ties with the United States. It hardened the determina tion that it was time for Adenauer to quit. Part of Adenauer's reluc tance to shed his robes of of fice arose from his doubts about the abilities of the man named to succeed him. Adenauer, whose own interest in economics is minor, recog nized the Erhard genius which had made the Germany of to day the world's third largest trading nation, the second largest industrial producer and the possessor of the iargesf currency reserves in Europe. But an economist, he believed did not make a politician and in many sarcastic references ha questioned that Erhard had the strength of character to stand against the pressures which fall upon the chancellor, Actually, under Erhard, there probably will be a few changes in Germany policy. But he opposes De Gaulle's concept of a Europe which would bar Britain. And this may provide one of his early tests. "And sn this," I continued. "You're doing the very same thing, only with a reversed image. You see a man dressed a certain way and you imme diately think of him as a 'button-down jerk.' You think in broad categories, too. rather than in terms of individuals. To you. anybody is a square who doesn't resemble you in dress, habits and mannerisms even though such people may be only superficially con forming." "That's bad enough, isn't it?" he asked. "I don't think so," I said. "Some people don't want to waste their energy in rebelling about non-essentials. But if you get to know them, you may find that their minds are sharp and their characters are well devel oped. The whole point is you can't really tell what anyone is like until you give him a chance, until you get to know him." "But the percentage is against it." he muttered. "The percentage is always against sharp minds and devel oped characters," I suggested. "This is true in any group, in cluding the so-called hipsters, many of whom reject conven tional society for weak, childish and neurotic reasons." "I'll give you that," he con ceded. "Give me more," I asked. "Don't let yourself become a square - in - reverse. Keep open tow ard people, or you're no bet ter than he is." JENKINS It didn't work. We stood pat and told them to bring on their bears. So they called off the bluff. That appears to be about the long and short of it. lHIS incident should teach us a lesson on how to handla communists. They must be han dled as one handles nettles if one wishes to come off unscath ed and unstung. How does one handle a nettle without getting stung? Aaron Hill, in his Verses Writ ten on a Window in Scotland, gave us the recipe some three centuries ago. He put it this way : fender-handed stroke a nettle And it stings you for your pains: Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; Be as rough as nut-meg grat ers And the rogues obey you welL O O O I'; to O GiiO O CI L'e )